Chapter 36: The Three Men Meet
The aroma of roast mutton wafted far away, during which several neighbors and children were attracted to it, and Xu Tongdao's speed of roasting mutton in a small tandoor couldn't keep up with these people.
He can only bake about a dozen skewers at a time, holding the bamboo skewers of the mutton with both hands, hanging above the fire, constantly turning and roasting, when he needs to sprinkle seasoning, all the bamboo skewers can only be handed over in one hand, and the other hand has to grab the seasoning powder.
In the process of turning over these meat skewers, he also summed up a little experience.
Like before, I realized that the smell of mutton is too strong, and the problem of pickling mutton.
He felt that when marinating, the salt should not be put in place at one time, at most only half of it should be put in place, and this half of the salt should be enough to make the mutton taste inside.
The other half of the salt, which he plans to do next time when he does the experiment, will be sprinkled directly on the surface of the skewers as they are turned and grilled.
He thinks that putting salt in two batches will make the grilled meat skewers more delicious and juicy, and the point is to be juicy!
The principle is not complicated, it is very simple: when the mutton is marinated, the more salt is put in it, the more juice in the mutton will flow out.
If the juice is lost too much, the grilled meat skewers will naturally appear tighter and less juicy and tender.
However, if you don't put any salt at all when marinating, the meat will probably not have any saltiness in the meat after it is grilled.
And the salt ...... It is the king of all kinds of flavors, the so-called salty and tasteless, tasteless, if there is no saltiness in the meat skewers, then the taste of the meat skewers is unlikely to be any better.
More than a pound of mutton, not roasted.
After a long time, I didn't see the bridge, and I saw that all the mutton prepared by Xu Tongdao was roasted.
"It's gone, it's gone......"
"If only there were more, I haven't eaten it yet!"
"Mom, I still want sheep and ......"
"Xiaodao, do you want to give me two more serials in your hand? You see my daughter is going to cry......"
......
Xu Tongdao was surrounded by regretful voices and children's noises.
And his mutton, there are only the last six or seven freshly roasted skewers left in his hand.
He was good at talking, got up and smiled and divided the few skewers of mutton in his hand, leaving only the last one.
"I won't give you this last string, I'll keep it for myself and eat it, I'll try a string after working for so long!"
The last few strings of mutton just now, he gave them to the children, the children's emotions have been appeased, these little things are no longer noisy, and other people are naturally easy to talk, although they are still unsatisfied, but no one is embarrassed to say that Xu Tongdao will give them the last string in his hand.
Everyone talked and laughed, thanked them, and left with the children in twos and threes.
Soon, only Xu Tongdao's family was left next to the small tandoor, and Xu Tonglin, who was at the end and was also ready to go home.
"Wait a minute!"
Xu Tongdao shouted to Xu Tonglin.
"Hmm, is there anything else Xiaodao?" Xu Tonglin stopped and asked suspiciously.
Ge Xiaozhu, Xu Tonglu, and Ge Yuzhu also looked at Xu Tongdao curiously.
Xu Tongdao smiled and said to his mother: "You can help me clean up these things, I have something to do with Lin Zi, and I will come back in a while!"
"Oh, okay, then you can go!" Although Ge Xiaozhu was puzzled, he still nodded in agreement.
Ge Yuzhu also smiled and said, "Big brother, go ahead! We will clean up here." ”
Xu Tonglu didn't speak, but he had already bent down to pick up the bamboo sticks on the ground.
Xu Tongdao pinched the last string of mutton, beckoned to Xu Tonglin, walked into the hall, walked to the gate, and whispered to Xu Tonglin as he walked: "Let's go find a trip to Changsheng, I have something I want to discuss with you two!"
"You have something to discuss with us, with me, with Changsheng, what's the matter, why don't you tell me first!"
Xu Tonglin was aroused.
"Don't worry, let's go find Changsheng first, and then talk about it, so I don't have to say one thing twice. ”
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Xu Changsheng's house is at the westernmost end of the village, and his house is built on the slope of the mountain.
When Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin found the door of Xu Changsheng's house, they were both slightly panting.
There are few families in this area, either Xu Changsheng's house, or the house of Xu Changsheng's two uncles and two cousins.
As soon as Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin came here, they saw Xu Changsheng who was washing clothes in a large bathtub in the dim light outside the kitchen door.
And in the window of the main house next to him, there are still lights, and the colors of the lights are colorful and constantly changing.
This kind of unpredictable colored lighting, Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin are no strangers, obviously the TV is playing in the house, and the color of the TV picture is reflected on the window glass, which is this kind of light and shadow effect.
Also, the sound of TV commercials came out of the house.
There were also the sounds of men, women, boys, and girls playing and laughing.
Seeing this scene, Xu Tonglin didn't feel anything, but Xu Tongdao smiled helplessly and shook his head speechlessly.
Xu Changsheng's status in the family is really as low as he remembers.
The whole family was watching TV in the house, laughing and laughing, and Xu Changsheng, who was on duty in the polder for an unknown number of days, was only allowed to go home to rest by the captain today...... On the first night he came back, he was rewarded with a large basin of change of clothes for him to wash.
It's just a man and a woman crying.
Is this the treatment of stepmotherhood?
"Hey, Changsheng, what about the laundry at night?
Xu Tonglin strode over, and he joked with Xu Changsheng in a big way.
Xu Tongdao was speechless.
Xu Changsheng looked up when he heard the sound, he squatted under the light at the door of the kitchen, and saw that Xu Tongdao was dark on their side, and he couldn't see who the two people who came for a while.
But he heard Xu Tonglin's voice and said with a smile: "I'm not diligent for a day or two, you know?"
When Xu Tonglin and Xu Tongdao approached him, he recognized Xu Tongdao.
"Huh? Xiaodao? Why are you here too? Oh, I remember, you asked your family Yuzhu to call me to look for you, I still have clothes that haven't been washed! I was about to hurry up and finish washing to find you, by the way, what is the matter with you looking for me?
As he spoke, he stood up with a smile and wiped the water stains on his hands on the apron around his waist.
"Xiaodao said that there is something to discuss with you and me, no, he called me all together. ”
Xu Tonglin habitually rushed to answer.
Xu Tongdao smiled and handed the skewer of roast mutton to Xu Changsheng, "Eat! Taste it! I just roasted it, I originally called you over to let you taste it, but unfortunately you didn't go, but there are too many people going, there is only such a string left, eat it!"
Xu Changsheng stretched out his hand to take it suspiciously, "What? You roasted rat meat? Such a good Yaxing?"
In the past two years, some families in their village have more food, so they have installed electric cats, and as long as the mice touch the electric cat's wire, they will die.
The rats in the countryside are fat, and this kind of electrocuted rat is not poisonous, so some people are greedy, so they roast and eat the electrocuted rat, or braised it, or even stewed.
Obviously, Xu Changsheng thought that what Xu Tongdao handed him was a roasted mouse.
At the same time, it also proves that the child has never eaten roast lamb before, otherwise he should have smelled the aroma of kebabs.