A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Chapter 173 Barbecue

I have been busy all afternoon today and will continue to be busy in the evening. I happened to have bought some mutton, so I decided to have barbecue for dinner so that everyone can have a taste of this modern barbecue that is popular among thousands of Chinese people.

"Grandpa, Dad, Second Uncle, Mom, we are not going to cook tonight. I have come up with a new way to eat, barbecue."

"Barbecue? What is this?" Zhang's father asked puzzledly.

"Well, just grill the marinated meat over the fire and dip it in the special barbecue chili powder I just made. It will definitely make everyone want to stop."

Then let everyone smell the barbecue chili noodles they just made: "How does it taste?"

"Yes, this taste is not only spicy, but also fragrant. It smells good." Father Zhang said after taking a sniff.

"Yueyue, you are so confident. Then your uncle will have to try it."

"Okay, Uncle, just wait. Grandpa, can you please cut more bamboo sticks?"

Grandpa Zhang happened to have nothing to do at the moment, so Zhang Yunyue asked him to cut bamboo sticks and skewer the meat later.

"Okay." Grandpa Zhang took a bamboo from the old house next door and started cutting it in the yard.

She cut one-third of the mutton into thin slices, cut some pork belly, and marinated the mutton and pork belly.

I went to the kitchen and peeled some potatoes, pulled out the vegetables from the field, such as leeks, lettuce, cabbage, etc., and washed them, and also washed some onions and chopped them.

For fear that everyone would not be full after eating the barbecue and that they would get a sore throat, I cooked a pot of porridge in a clay pot in the kitchen.

Seeing that everything was almost ready, he called his eldest and second brothers and asked them to move some blue bricks left over from building the house from the backyard and build a rectangular barbecue grill in the yard to accommodate bamboo skewers.

"Yueyue, do you think these bamboo sticks are enough?" Grandpa Zhang asked, pointing to a pile of bamboo sticks on a stool nearby.

Zhang Yunyue made a rough estimate and found that there were about three or four hundred of them.

"Grandpa, it's not enough. There are many people in the family. It's better to put all the meat on bamboo sticks at once. We can eat it seriously later."

"Row."

Zhang Xingyun heard this and said, "Grandpa, let me help you cut bamboo sticks."

Zhang Yunyue took the peeled bamboo sticks, washed them and soaked them in water.

I called over those who had nothing to do at home and started skewering meat and vegetables in the main room.

After all the bamboo skewers were strung together, Grandpa Zhang brought in another handful of bamboo skewers.

Zhang Yunyue looked at the remaining meat and vegetables in the basin, and then looked at the bamboo sticks that Grandpa Zhang brought in:

"Grandpa, the bamboo sticks are almost done, you don't need to sharpen them anymore."

"Okay, that's enough."

Everyone skewered for a while and finally skewered all the prepared meat and vegetables.

Zhang Yunyue asked his father to put burning charcoal on the barbecue grill and build a large pile of firewood in the yard, otherwise it would be too cold to eat barbecue in the yard.

Then he brought all the prepared things to the stone table in the yard.

Then start grilling the meat and vegetable skewers on the rack, apply oil and soy sauce on them, turn them over and grill them repeatedly, and sprinkle them with green onions and homemade barbecue chili powder before taking them out after they are cooked.

"It's done. I'll share some with everyone. Let everyone try it and see if they like it."

Zhang Yunyue shared the grilled skewers with everyone and took one for herself. It was a long-lost taste. At this moment, Zhang Yunyue suddenly felt happy and satisfied.

"This barbecue is so delicious, fragrant, spicy and unique in flavor."

"Sister, the chili you sprinkled smells so good. Can you give me more later?" Zhang Yunxue said.

I forgot that the girl in front of me can eat spicy food: "Okay, sister will give you some more chili powder later."

Zhang Cheng was still not satisfied and said, "Yueyue, if this opens a store, I think it may be as popular as your hot pot restaurant."

Zhang Yunyue smiled and said, "If you have a chance in the future, you can try to open a barbecue restaurant. Not to mention winter, there will definitely be a lot of people who like to eat in the summer."

Father Zhang also said, "Yes, except for those who cannot eat spicy food, most people should be able to accept this taste."

Grandpa Zhang: "In the past six months, everyone's tastes have become more and more picky. I didn't expect that there would be a new food, barbecue, now."

Zhu: "Yeah, I didn't have these delicious foods before, so I didn't feel anything. Now I realize that I missed too much in the past, haha."

"Hahaha"

"As long as everyone likes to eat it, it's fine. We can all make it. It's not difficult. It's just that the preparation of the chili powder is more troublesome, but it's okay. We have everything we need at home."

Grandpa Zhang suddenly thought of the wine Yueyue brought back from the county town, and looked at Zhang's father and said, "Boss, go and pour out some of the wine Yueyue bought from the county town."

"Okay, if you want some, I'll pour some for you too."

"Okay, I'll have a drink with Dad too. Thanks, big brother."

Father Zhang poured half a bowl of wine for each of the three people and brought it in front of the two of them.

Grandpa Zhang took a sip of wine, ate a skewer of barbecue, and sighed: "This barbecue and wine make life feel like heaven."

Zhang Yunyue continued to grill meat for everyone.

Zhang Xingyun looked eager to try, so Zhang Yunyue gave the barbecue position to his elder brother and guided him from the side.

Seeing Xiaoyun doing it herself, everyone also wanted to grill their own food, so they crowded around the barbecue grill and grilled their own food. It turned out that the food they grilled themselves was more fragrant, so people stood on both sides of the barbecue grill.

The Zhang family spent nearly an hour eating the barbecue. They had originally prepared white porridge, but they were afraid that everyone would not be used to it. In the end, only Grandma Zhang drank a bowl of white porridge, and the rest of the family ate only the barbecue.

After eating the barbecue, everyone took a break.

Zhang's mother and Zhu were busy in the kitchen preparing braised pig's head and steamed pickled meat.

After the pickled meat is steamed, leave a little spark in the braised meat pot and let the meat soak overnight. It will taste better when heated up tomorrow.

New Year's Eve.

Early in the morning, Zhang Xingyun drove a carriage and took Zhang Yunyue and Zhang Xinghao to the town.

Because the purpose was clear, this trip was mainly to buy milk. They thought about making some honey cakes while they were at it, so the three of them bought half a bucket of milk before returning home.

There were no delays along the way. The round trip took just about an hour.

At this time, Zhang's father and Zhang Cheng were killing chickens, ducks and fish in the old house next door.

Grandma Zhang, Mother Zhang, and Mrs. Zhu were preparing to wash and cut the dishes for the New Year’s Eve dinner in the afternoon.

Zhang Yunyue and the other two took half of the milk to ferment the dough for making biscuits while it was still early.

Use the remaining half of the milk to make honey cakes.

Since I knew that to make honey cakes, I had to knead the dough into a film, I asked my eldest and second brothers to help knead it in the kitchen.

Otherwise, it would be too tiring to knead it by one person. After kneading, put it together with the biscuit dough by the stove to ferment.

Now Zhu and Zhang's mother have become very good cooks, so Zhang Yunyue was not asked to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner today.