Chinese There is a local custom in Haishan, that is, during the period from the second day of February to the Qingming Festival of the lunar calendar every year, the mountain is worshipped and the tombs are worshipped.

On the night of "February 2nd", when the people in the restaurant got together for the holiday, the Amei sisters raised the issue of worshipping the mountain and sweeping the tomb, saying that they would go back to the countryside to worship the mountain and sweep the tomb in a few days, and asked He Xiaojun for two days off.

Worshipping the mountain and sweeping the tomb to worship the ancestors is the most valued thing in Haishan, that is, after 2,000 years in He Xiaojun's previous life, this unwritten habit has not changed, and many people who work in other places, and even people in foreign countries, come back to their hometowns to worship their ancestors on this day, so no matter how busy He Xiaojun is here, of course, there is no reason to stop Ah Mei and them.

After talking about this, the old man Chen Chi became thoughtful.

Later, it wasn't until the old man's sister-in-law, Aunt Mei, asked the old man when their parents chose to sweep the grave that he woke up from his contemplation.

The old man Chen Chi, who was awakened, did not answer Aunt Mei, but told a story to the people present with a regretful face.

Old man Chen Chi said that when he was in Jinshan, he and his wife went to eat at a restaurant owned by the Tang people, and on that day, they ordered the siu mei that is found in almost all the Chinese restaurants in the "Jinshan" Chinatown.

When the wife of the old man Chen Chi was eating siumei, she didn't know if it was because of homesickness, although a sentence came out, saying: My father has never eaten siumei.

The old man Ah Chi said that the Tang people on the side of the "Golden Mountain" worshiped their ancestors, and the most high-end sacrifice was roasted meat, so his wife said this that day. It's a pity that there is no such siu-mei here, otherwise, he would have been able to use this thing to worship his parents-in-law and fulfill his wife's wish to let her parents eat siu-mei.

After listening to the old man's words, He Xiaojun couldn't help but move in his heart, and faintly smelled a hint of business opportunities.

After confirming to the old man the proportion of overseas Chinese in Haishan in "Jinshan" who have the habit of worshiping their ancestors, and then learning about the overseas Chinese who came back from "Jinshan" to worship their ancestors this year from Xu Technician at the railway station, He Xiaojun finally made up his mind to make siu-mei.

Siu mei, in fact, is the abbreviation of Haishan people's barbecue food, and the representative works include roast pig, roast goose, barbecued pork and so on.

Siu-mei is made on a dedicated barbecue stove. This kind of stove for making roast flavor was commonly known as "roast goose stove" or "roast pig stove" in He Xiaojun's previous life, and as the name suggests, it was used to barbecue geese or pigs.

In He Xiaojun's previous life, the barbecue stove used to make siu-mei was divided into sizes and materials.

Small barbecue stoves are generally made into a pot type, with a diameter of more than one meter and a height of more than two meters, made of stainless steel, as long as the bottom of the stove is lit with charcoal, and then the pickled food is hung into the oven, and then the lid is covered for a certain period of time, and the food is cooked and roasted.

Large barbecue stoves are generally made into "hearths".

"Stove", as the name suggests, is to use the ground as a furnace, that is, dig a large pit in the ground, build a secret room with refractory bricks, and then cook the food by heating with electric heating wire or charcoal. This kind of person in He Xiaojun's previous life, I don't know if I don't know whether to describe the red stove during the barbecue, so I gave these barbecue foods a loud name, all called "open stove xx". For example, "roast goose in an open oven".

It is precisely because in He Xiaojun's previous life, in the customs of Haishan, roast goose, roast pig and other roasted meat are used to worship ancestors when worshipping the mountain and sweeping the tomb, so there are many workshops in his hometown used to process roast geese and roast pigs.

The barbecue stove He Xiaojun prepared was, of course, a small stove. Because, in the contemporary era, siu-mei has not yet been put on the market, once the overseas Chinese who return to their hometowns to worship their ancestors do not accept it, there is only one way to supply restaurants and takeaways. If the market accepts that a small stove is not enough, it is not too late to build another stove.

Even making a small stove is enough for He Xiaojun to have a headache, just because the raw materials for making stoves are not so easy to find in contemporary times.

In that contemporary era when there is not much iron, where does stainless steel come from? Moreover, even refractory bricks are not available in contemporary times, so to make a furnace, we must first solve the problem of raw materials.

After some contemplation, He Xiaojun got inspiration from the delicatessen stall he worked with Chen Cun during the Spring Festival.

Isn't the "baked sweet potato" in the cooked food stall a kind of barbecue food? It's just that the way of grilling is different, one is directly grilled and the other is indirectly grilled.

The production method of "baked sweet potato" is changed from the "baking kiln" baking method in the countryside. Isn't the "baking kiln" method an extra-small oven?

After He Xiaojun was inspired by the "baking kiln" method, he was ready to learn from the practice of that "kiln" and use clay to replace the refractory bricks that are not available in the contemporary era and he does not know how to make them, to make the barbecue stove.

The furnace in He Xiaojun's idea is still ready to be a "hearth". Because the "hearth" is not only well insulated, but also does not take up space, and more importantly, in the contemporary era where cement has to be imported, making the "hearth" can minimize the consumption of cement.

He Xiaojun plans to make a "hearth" by digging a pit in the ground first, and then using "raw mud bricks" instead of refractory bricks to build the furnace.

"Raw mud bricks" are mud bricks that have not been burned. Such mud bricks can not only be fire-resistant, but also keep warm, but also allow the smell to absorb the fragrance of the earth, which should be the best raw material to replace refractory bricks.

Perhaps the magistrates will ask, isn't the pit dug out of the ground surrounded by dirt? What other mud bricks are used?

Of course, it is different, that is, the soil, and the soil quality will be different in different places. Just like the "baking kiln", you must use the soil from the rice field to make the baked things delicious, so He Xiaojun is ready to use the soil in the field to make mud bricks.

There is also a need to prevent moisture, otherwise, if the water in the pit accumulates, it will not be like a well, how to barbecue? He Xiaojun was ready to make the raw materials for the stove between the mud bricks and the pit, and He Xiaojun immediately got busy making the stove. Strike while the iron is hot, after this peak season of worshipping the mountain and sweeping the tomb, you will have to wait for another year.

The barbecue stove He Xiaojun was going to make was also made into a round tank like the same barbecue stove in his previous life.

It must be much easier to build a square building with bricks than to build a round tank type, why does He Xiaojun want to abandon the easy choice?

Because after thinking about it, He Xiaojun thinks that the fire in the round can-shaped stove will burn more evenly than other shapes, so that the baked food will be heated evenly, and the finished product and efficiency will be increased.

To make a round tank type furnace, it is necessary to use special-shaped bricks to build it, so the first thing He Xiaojun has to do is to try to make these special-shaped mud bricks used to build a round tank type furnace.

While busy with the special-shaped mud bricks, He Xiaojun has already asked Da Niu to start the preliminary work of furnace production, which is to dig a pit. He asked Da Niu to dig a pit two meters in diameter and two meters deep in a corner of the courtyard of the small building.

He Xiaojun is going to use this pit to make a barbecue "hearth".

The outer wall of the round tank type is annular, and the ring-shaped shape should be made of bricks, and the special-shaped mud bricks should be made into a fan shape.

He Xiaojun used the sheet metal lofting technology he had been exposed to in the machinery industry in his previous life, drew the inner and outer diameters of the furnace, divided the size of each mud brick equally, and then cut out a sample of the shape of the mud brick that needed to be made with cardboard, and then made a wooden mold for making mud bricks according to the paper pattern.

After the wooden mold was made, He Xiaojun found a craftsman who made mud bricks and asked them to make several mud bricks according to the mold.

Da Niu is really a super laborer, and when He Xiaojun spent a day doing the mud brick mold and contacting the mud brick business, he had already dug the pit.

In the pit dug by the big cow, He Xiaojun studied another project, that is, the project of collecting roasted oil.

The fat that spills out when cooking food is a good ingredient for some dishes. For example, roasted goose fat and boiled taro is a good delicacy. Because the roast goose is marinated for a period of time with various spices and flavors before it is cooked, the oil overflowing from the roast goose also contains spices and flavors, which is of course a good ingredient.

In this era when there are not many seasonings, how could He Xiaojun let go of such a good thing, of course he had to find a way to collect this kind of good thing.

He Xiaojun's plan for collecting grease was to use the "red wool mud" imported by Chen Chi from abroad to repair the grave of his parents-in-law at the bottom of the pit to form a large funnel, so that the grease dripped down the funnel and flowed into a clay pot set up at the bottom of the pit.

The mud bricks need to be dried after they are made, so the mud bricks ordered by He Xiaojun were handed over to him on the third day after he ordered.

After the mud bricks were brought back, He Xiaojun immediately entered the construction of the furnace. Because the shape of the mud bricks was properly done, it only took a few to build the furnace body, He Xiaojun entered the furnace, first along the bottom of the furnace body, built a circular trough, used to put the charcoal for barbecue, and then according to his own ideas, to make the bottom of the furnace that can collect grease.

On the fifth day after the "second day of February", a "hearth" with an inner diameter of about 1.5 meters and a height of about 1.5 meters was completed. With a stove of this volume, there is no problem with roasting two large pigs at a time.

After making the stove, He Xiaojun spent a lot of time making the lid of the stove.

The "hearth" should be heat-resistant, but not too heavy, of course, it is most suitable to use iron sheets. But in that contemporary era when iron raw materials are scarce, where can you find such a large piece of iron sheet?

In desperation, He Xiaojun had no choice but to find a technician Xu at the railway station and ask him to help cut out good iron sheets from some broken fire cars in the train station, and the two of them spent a lot of effort to piece together these train car skins into furnace covers.

The fly in the ointment of the lid made of the leather of the train car is that the iron sheet is too thin. If the lid is thin, it will dissipate heat quickly, which not only wastes energy, but also wastes time and cannot ensure the color of the roast. He Xiaojun, who was helpless, had to think of a stupid method, which was to lay a layer of soil on the iron cover as a thermal insulation layer, so that it did not dissipate heat so quickly.

In this way, after five days and nights, He Xiaojun finally completed the not small project of the barbecue grill. This achievement, in the contemporary era of lack of raw materials, is a miracle. Cat flutter Chinese