Siheyuan: Sizhu starts blindly and takes a new path

Sha Zhu asked Uncle Ren for advice, and Uncle Ren not only gave two feasible methods.

Here is another suggestion that works very quickly for Sha Zhu: "If you want to quickly change the public's impression of you, you must learn to be selfless. Yes, to put it simply, share your unique things with everyone. Remember that the people who benefit from you must not be just one or a few people, but many people. This way, your good image can be spread quickly, and at the same time, avoid those who don't benefit from being jealous of those who do, thus preventing unexpected chaos."

While playing chess with Uncle Ren, Sha Zhu was thinking about the advice Uncle Ren gave him. During this time, he got up to change the water for the rabbit meat twice (he was really busy). He also explained to Uncle Ren that soaking in salt water can remove the residual blood and fishy smell inside the meat through the principle of osmosis.

After soaking for about two hours, put the rabbit meat in cold water and cook over medium heat until the water boils. Keep skimming off the foam. After about 5 minutes, Sha Zhu uses a colander to scoop out the rabbit meat and wash it clean with a vegetable basket.

Sha Zhu poured the rabbit meat into the pot again and stir-fried it repeatedly. When it turned into a red sauce, he poured in some Erguotou and shook the pot. The aroma had come out at this time. He took the pot out of the pot and poured the stir-fried rabbit meat into a large bowl. He washed the pot again and sautéed star anise, cinnamon, scallion segments, ginger slices, and minced garlic in oil. He added fresh yellow sauce, light soy sauce, soy sauce, sugar, salt, and pepper and stir-fried on low heat until fragrant.

Uncle Ren had been watching from the side and noticed that Sha Zhu had used too much sauce, so he asked, "It seems that roasting rabbit meat requires a lot of sauce to suppress the fishy smell, right?"

Sha Zhu smiled mysteriously and did not answer.

After Sha Zhu put the cleaned pot on the stove, he poured a lot of boiling water into the pot, then added the fried rabbit meat and prepared mushrooms, and a large spoonful of freshly fried sauce. He covered the pot and said to Uncle Ren, "Uncle Ren, the rabbit meat can be taken out of the pot after 30 minutes. I didn't finish frying the meat today, so I fried more sauce. You can add it when you fry it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Simmer it for 30 minutes and it will be ready to eat. I hope it won't be fishy or woody. I'll be back, my sister is still waiting for me."

Uncle Ren wanted to keep Sha Zhu for dinner, but Sha Zhu just left.

When I went to work on Monday, Team Leader Zheng from the Security Department brought over a large piece of meat. It was mostly lean and less fat. Sha Zhu smelled it and it was particularly fishy. He looked at the remaining hair on the skin and said, "What a waste of food."

"You know what kind of meat it is, why didn't you handle it properly?" asked Squad Leader Zheng.

"It's not that the wild boar was not handled properly, but the blood was not drained cleanly, which is a pity. The meat will be fishy if it's not cooked well. The hair was not shaved cleanly, which is a bit fishy."

"You know what, the food Niu Xihua's wife cooked yesterday was really fishy and smelled like dirt. If we hadn't eaten meat for a long time, none of us would have been able to eat it."

"Okay, come over in the evening. I'll cook you a good meal, and I'll add the rest to your lunch. It's a benefit you can give to your fellow workers."

"Don't worry, we left this for you as a thank you for cooking dinner for us these days."

"You said it's for me, so how to arrange it is my business." Sha Zhu remembered the method that Master Ren taught him yesterday, so he could try it out. He said to Zheng Xi, "Just tell me whether you'll come in the evening or not?"

"Come on, why not come? Someone has prepared it and we can just eat without doing anything. How nice it is! I will definitely come." Zheng Xi raised his eyebrows and left briskly.

The workers from workshops three and four who were having lunch in the second canteen at noon were overjoyed. They hadn't eaten pork for a long time. Although each person's bowl was filled with only one or two thin slices of pork, many of them picked one up to look at it, then put it back into their bowls. They went back and forth many times and were reluctant to eat it, just to save it for their children or the elderly to take home (this is a fine Chinese tradition).

Workers from workshops three and four who were queuing for food saw people from other workshops coming over. Some of them knew each other, so they joked, "This dog has a really good nose. He came here just by smelling the fragrance."

The other side was not to be outdone: "You didn't even bother to tell us about the good stuff. I fed all the good food to the dogs before."

Someone nearby laughed and said, "Go ahead and bite it, but don't forget to spit out the fur after you're done."

"Hey, let's bite you together."

Everyone was in a good mood with meat to eat.

Someone asked if only the second canteen had meat. One person asked, but no one answered. So many people asked. Ma Hua, who was serving food at the window, told the workers in line that it was his master, He Yuzhu, who cooked the wild boar meat given to him by others for everyone to eat.

When the workers heard this, some of them knocked on their lunch boxes and suggested that everyone thank He Yuzhu together. Then, everyone outside the second canteen could hear the sound of everyone in the canteen thanking He Yuzhu in unison.

This matter reached the ears of the canteen director in the afternoon, and he was satisfied: Shazhu has really changed, he is no longer greedy and has a spirit of dedication. It seems that he left the workshop too late, and I would have been less worried if he had gone earlier.

In the evening, when twice-cooked pork, braised pork, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, spicy crispy pork, hot and sour cabbage, stir-fried potato strips, four meat dishes and two vegetable dishes were put on the table, squad leader Zheng and several other security team members smelled the aroma, accused others of drooling, and then laughed.

The brothers were amazed at the smellless pork, so Niu Xihua asked Sha Zhu how he did it. Sha Zhu told him to soak it in salt water for 2 hours and use more cooking wine and ginger juice when marinating it. Everyone said that they would never eat fishy meat again.

Squad leader Zheng took out two bottles of white wine and asked his teammates to pour some for several people, then raised his glass to thank Sha Zhu, "Master He, first of all, thank you for your dedication and responsibility in cooking for us recently, and for preparing midnight snacks, so that the brothers did not go hungry."

"I should do this. You guys want to drink? Don't you have to wait in ambush today?"

Zheng Xi explained to Sha Zhu: "We are no longer needed for that matter. The police were short of manpower before, and we just happened to discover it, so they transferred us for a period of time. Now they have deployed the manpower. So we can stay drunk tonight."

"Okay, we won't go home until we're drunk." The group of people clinked glasses and had a great time. It had been a long time since they had such a comfortable meal.

Niu Xihua asked casually: "Master He, have you cooked all the meat I reserved for you?"

"Yes, I have cooked all of them. I have left a little bit of the braised pork, which I will take back to the old lady in my yard who is a five-guarantee household. The rest are all here."

"Why don't you leave some for yourself?" Squad leader Zheng Xi asked again.

"My sister lives on campus, and I'm not married. If I eat well, the whole family will not be hungry. Why keep it and wait for it to stink and go bad? That would be a waste of good things."

"Master He, I apologize to you. I always thought that you cooked for us so carefully because you wanted to get some benefits. That's why I went hunting with my brothers yesterday. I thought that if I gave you the meat, we would return the favor."

"Team Leader Zheng, you are a very honest person. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known either." Sha Zhu quickly praised Team Leader Zheng and his colleagues. "It's thanks to the meat you brought back that not only satisfied everyone's cravings, but also gave me a chance to practice. I'll get used to it if I don't do it for a long time. I have to thank you very much. Let me toast you."

The two drank the wine in their glasses and felt closer to each other.

Squad leader Zheng put his arm around Sha Zhu's shoulders and said, "Zhu Zi, is it okay for me to call you Zhu Zi?"