Chapter 773: A Little Barbecue by the River

Han Li didn't know that his second sister went on a blind date today, and he also didn't know that Ma Runping and Liu Liyan were jumping at the door of their house.

He is now lying by the river enjoying the inaccessible track, watching the white clouds, and listening to the flow of the stream. Birds. The insect hissed, and the mood suddenly became a lot better, the dog fluttered in the river, and occasionally bit a fish and put it beside him.

Han Li looked at the two gags and the ox tail that the dog had bitten, and the idea of eating fish in his heart was suddenly seduced, although there were still some fish that Meng Zaihong had traded to him at that time in the decomposition space, but how could eating ready-made ones have the fragrance that he caught.

Han Li took out his improvised fishing rod from the decomposition space and prepared to show off his skills, but this reed bush was not a place for fishing.

There was no choice, so Han Li had no choice but to step out of the comfort zone of the reeds, walked some distance upstream, and chose a few ash trees that could be used as his fishing spots.

Han Li dug out an earthworm and hung it on the hook, and when the crows saw it, they were smart enough to wrap up Han Li's remaining bait.

However, the next harvest made Han Li frown, just now the dog could still bite the teeth and the tail of the ox below, but here it was all willow roots and gourd seeds.

These two fish are too small to keep their mouths shut, and at this time they are not as good as a sparrow in the eyes of most people in the village, because the children of the village will roast and eat the sparrow when they catch it.

However, if you catch small fish such as gourd seeds, boat cloves, and willow roots, they are generally taken home and chopped up and fed to chickens, and only the relatively large Northeast catfish, old head fish, Ga Yazi, ox tail, or large fish are eligible to be put into the pot for sauce stewing.

Han Li fished for a while and the harvest was still these two kinds of fish, although he suspected the reason for the fishing position, but he didn't bother to change the position.

Of the two crows that came to report the news, one flew slowly in front to lead the way with He Mi, and the other had already flown back to Han Li's side to report the news at this time.

As they spoke, the four of them had already come to the shade of the tree, put down their baskets and went to the river to wash their faces, and saw the two fish baskets that were about to be filled in the river.

"Han Li, he's fishing by the river, he wants to have a picnic by the river at noon, why don't we go and prepare first, you guys came back just in time, otherwise I'll come back at noon and ask you to go again."

"Han Li, this place you're looking for is too far away, and the road is not easy to walk, this hot day can give us enough heat."

Han Li waved his hand for the dog to pick them up, and he sat still and continued to fish, Yang Xiuying shouted from a distance.

Even if these small fish were immediately put into the wicker basket in the river, they still could not stop their death, and now that the weather was hot, these dead fish were soon no longer fresh.

Hao Hongmin and the others went home and quickly washed their faces, changed their clothes, took out two bottles of canned food and some sausages, and picked some fresh vegetables, and then several people walked towards the river together.

"Sister He, what are you doing here? Why is there a pot in the back basket?"

He Mi was very interested in going out for a picnic, so she hurriedly beckoned Hou Yuhua to follow Han Li's instructions, take the smallest iron pot in the house, chili peppers, spices, steamed buns, a bottle of oil, and a small jar of sauce, picked some cucumbers and tomatoes from the vegetable garden, and took out some beef and sausages from Han Li's ice cellar and put them in two back baskets respectively, and was about to go to the river to find Han Li.

He Mi and Hou Yuhua don't have much understanding of fishing and catching fish, Hao Hongmin didn't have to care about these when she was a child because of her own family reasons, and later, she had to be mentally prepared when she went out to school every day, and she rarely went out usually, so she didn't know much about fishing.

As soon as Han Li heard that Hao Hongmin and the others were also here, he felt that the little fish in his fish basket was not enough to eat, and only small fish such as willow roots and gourd seeds seemed to be not good at his own fishing level, so he immediately took out some fish from the decomposition space and put them in, and the fish basket was not big enough, so he took out another one.

After Han Li finished this, he simply cleaned up the weeds and rubble around him, and piled out two simple stoves with a few stones in the shade of the tree, one for one

It was used to place the iron pot brought by He Mi, and a decomposed stone slab was placed on the other one for frying fish.

Finally, Han Li took out some firewood from the decomposition space and put it next to the stove, and when they came, they could directly light the fire and cook.

"You have a reason for what you say."

He Mi was catching flying dragons with Hou Yuhua at this time, these were one of their jobs, because the height of the courtyard wall couldn't stop the wings of the flying dragons at all, so they would cut off all the wings of the flying dragons directly from the tail every once in a while, so that they could only move within the specified range, and they had no ability to fly out of the courtyard wall, or fly to the territory of other flying dragons to fight.

After a while, the dog barked softly in the distance, which was aware that He Mi and the others had approached.

He Mi was stunned for a moment when she received the note from the crow, she knew that Han Li had been feeding the crows, and she originally thought that she was playing with them like Han's father, but she didn't expect these little guys to be so smart and have this effect.

"It's too close to the village to talk too much, maybe there are people who go down to the river to bathe, if the children are fine, if the adults are embarrassed, I am thinking about you, as for the heat, you go to the river to wash your face, sit in the shade of the tree and it will be cool immediately."

"It's great to have a picnic by the river, Sister He, wait a minute, let's go home and wash our faces, change our clothes for work, and leave."

He Mi and the two of them met Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying as soon as they went out, the two of them came back early because Han Li was at home, so they planned to eat together at noon, and when they saw He Mi and Hou Yuhua, they asked with some confusion.

Han Li immediately decided to fish and eat here, but he didn't want to do it himself, so he took out a pen and paper and wrote a line of words and handed it to the two crows, asking them to give the note to He Mi.

But Yang Xiuying is different, she is from Xishi, there is no situation like Hao Hongmin at home, she has been running back and forth since she was a child, and after junior high school, she has to go to farmland, mulberry fields, and paddy fields every week to take labor classes.

(There are all projects such as farming, sericulture, and fishing, and how to participate depends on how the school arranges.) )

The suburbs of Xishi have white sails on the water, red lings under the water, green reeds at the water's edge, and Taihu Lake and the Grand Canal with fat fish and shrimp at the bottom.

There are also many small rivers and lakes in the tin market, which is enough for her to have a certain understanding of the fishing harvest.

So when Yang Xiuying saw Han Li's harvest, calculated the time he had been here, and checked that there were no fishing nets around, it made her cry out in surprise.

"Han Li, you caught the fish in these two baskets?"

"Right? What's wrong?"

"You're amazing, I've never seen anyone catch so many fish with a rod in more than two hours.

It was only at this time that Han Li felt that he had taken out too many fish, which surprised Yang Xiuying, a girl who had lived on the shores of Taihu Lake since she was a child, but at this time, he could only say with a dry laugh.

"Haha. I didn't have such a catch when I fished before, but today the fish in the river know that they want to invite you to dinner, so they are scrambling to bite the hook."

"It's strange to believe you."

"I believe that Brother Han's luck has always been very good."

A few people were talking and laughing, and He Mi and the others had almost dissipated because of the heat brought by the hurry, and the group began to fish (c) by the river.

After Han Li saw that they had already cleaned out some of the fish, he put the fishing rod aside, bundled a handful of weeds from the side and used it as a brush, lit a fire and brushed oil on the stone slab to start frying the fish.

After a while, the fragrance wafted away, which made Yang Xiuying, who was cleaning up the fish by the river, shout.

"Ah, Han Li, you actually stole food while we were working."

"How can this be called stealing? I'm eating it openly."

After all, Han Li fried a few and gave them a taste first, the crispy, burnt, and salty flavor directly increased the speed of cleaning the fish in their hands a lot.

However, after Han Li tasted the taste, he stopped frying the fish and continued to fry the fish, he thought about the two fish baskets

The fish, inspected what He Mi and the others had brought, visually measured the size of the piece of beef, cut it into small pieces with a knife, and marinated it in a small piece with a seasoning.

Han Li then picked up some small stones from the river, built something similar to a ditch under the shade of the tree, and then went to the red willow not far in front of him to cut back some branches of suitable size and length from them, took them back to the edge of the small river and pruned off the branches that were in the way and put them in the river to rinse them, Yang Xiuying looked at his actions and asked suspiciously.

"Han Li, what are you going to do here? We can't seem to use such long, thick branches to make chopsticks, right?"

"I read in the book that there is a special delicacy called red willow barbecue in the southern part of my country's X Xinjiang, where the local people use red willow branches to skewer beef and mutton and cook it on a charcoal fire before eating, and it is said that roasting beef and mutton with fresh red willow branches can well remove the fishy smell of the meat itself.

Although I don't know what the difference is between the red willow here and the red willow in southern Xinjiang, the varieties are similar, and the effect should be very similar, and we have so many fish and vegetables today, so I want to use beef and red willow to grill skewers for everyone."

As soon as Han Li said this, he immediately brought the genes that they had hidden in their bones for an unknown number of generations, and they all said that they would grill some meat skewers with their own hands later.

[Although the word "barbecue" was born very late, "barbecue" has appeared in daily life since humans learned to use fire millions of years ago...... The fruit of herbs and trees, the flesh of birds and beasts...... Burn with cannons, and cook with fire.

Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, "often used the roasted deer liver to drink the belly", Emperor Zhao of the Western Han Dynasty also held the "Roasted Meat Festival", Tang Yizong's dowry to the princess included the famous dish "Soul Roasting", and Song Renzong was "very hungry because of sleeplessness last night, thinking of eating and roasting sheep".

"Shuowen Jiezi": "cannon" meat also, "burn" is the word huiyi, split up and down, the upper part is meat, the lower part is fire, that is, the meat is roasted on the fire.

However, at that time, only the upper class rulers, manor owners and wealthy merchants could enjoy barbecue at will, and ordinary people could only occasionally enjoy barbecue on festivals and festivals, so it is not an exaggeration to say that barbecue was imprinted in the genes of the Chinese people. 】

However, due to various historical factors, barbecue has gradually withdrawn from the stage of popular food culture in the former puppet dynasty, of course, some ethnic groups still maintain such food customs because of geography and production materials.

It was not until the market opened in the 80s that the people of Xjiang went to sell mutton skewers all over the country, which awakened the barbecue, a food that had been forgotten by the Chinese people for a long time, from the genes.

In the Northeast, and in the whole country, the people of QQHE were the first to react.

They combined the barbecue characteristics of many local ethnic groups, as well as the eating habits of barbecued meat, so that in a very short period of time, there was no market for Xinjiang mutton skewers here, so they had to evacuate from the local area to other places to make money.

However, there were many factories and enterprises at that time, and the people's lives were relatively wealthy, so they didn't have to go to other places to beg for a living, and many people had the idea that their homeland was difficult to leave, so they didn't go to the whole country for the first time.

After Han Li had prepared the red willow meat skewers, He Mi didn't let him do it, he just took out the tea leaves from his satchel and asked him to boil water, drink tea, fish, and wait.

Under the lure of the fried fish and barbecue just now, Hao Hongmin and the others quickly cleaned up the fish and began to skewer beef and eggplant on the branches according to Han Li's explanation.

While Han Li and the others were busy working by the river for lunch, the five new intellectuals who had just arrived in Shanghe Village yesterday were using today's holiday to buy daily necessities in the county seat

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