The Garden Life of a Little Gardener

The small second floor of Zhou Quan's house and the old house of Bao's house were chosen to break ground on the same day.

Compared with Bao's house, the renovation process of Zhouquan's small second floor is relatively much simpler.

After the top floor is waterproofed, it is only necessary to fill up the original aqua toilet of Zhou’s house, re-build the toilet and shower room on the west side of the room, and connect it with the kitchen and outbuildings after completion.

The most labor-intensive is the biogas digester. As a collection place and fermentation site for all the sewage in a family, its construction orientation is still very particular.

But these are all things that the construction party has to worry about, and Zhou Quan can't understand these things, but the surprise is that Bao Yan still understands a little bit, so he just entrusted them to him.

Because only the external renovation does not affect the interior of the second floor, it basically has no impact on Zhou Quan's life.

As for the third yard that was first built among the old houses on the Baoyan side, because no one lived in it for a long time for repairs, the rooms were somewhat leaky, damp and moldy, unsuitable for people to live in.

The newly built entrance without rain leakage is the most remodeled place in the entire courtyard, and it is impossible to live there before it is completed.

Therefore, after accepting Zhou Quan's invitation, the long-legged chef immediately checked out of the hotel room and moved into Fa Xiao's house with his luggage.

Although the other party lived in his home, Zhou Quan felt that he was the one being taken care of.

Ever since Fa Xiao moved in, Zhou Quan was awakened every morning by the smell of the food, was urged to wash up quickly by the other party while drooling, and then threw himself on the kang holding the rice bowl and waiting to be fed.

After eating and drinking, he went to work in the flower shed, and when he returned home at noon when he was tired and sweaty, in addition to the delicious lunch, there would definitely be a pot of sugar water waiting for him to quench his thirst and nourish yin and qi.

After lunch, play games for a while, and after a nap, you can continue to work on the mountain when you are full of energy.

When the sun goes down, after working down the mountain to go home, you can take a detour on the road, go to the old house of Bao’s house, take the supervisor’s hair boy home, and enjoy a nutritious and delicious dinner.

Cousin Wen Li will definitely come to visit after dinner. The three of them set up the chessboard.

After washing at night and before resting, Zhou Quan will put on headphones and listen to music for a while, or read online novels for a while, and chat with friends and classmates in the WeChat group by the way.

The chef who is in charge of feeding will lean on the pillow and search for new dishes with his hand to recharge himself.

There is no pressure from work, a house, or a car, no censure from your boss, no petty intrigue and intrigue among colleagues.

You don’t need to wake up at six o’clock every day to catch the bus with breakfast, and you don’t have to wait in line to take a shower after you return to the rental room, and you don’t have to stay up late and work overtime and finally fall asleep in the office. This kind of stress-free The slow pace of life is really nice.

After returning to the village for a few days, Zhouquan's neurasthenia healed without any medicine. He was refreshed and felt that he was out of sub-health, both mentally and physically, and returned to his previous appearance.

On this day, Zhou Quan finally finished tidying up the four flower sheds at home. After taking samples of the soil and water quality in the flower sheds, he went home and packed them to send to the school.

The cleared flower shed needs to be covered with plastic greenhouse film again, and sunscreen nets, quilts and straw mats for heat preservation must be prepared.

The uncle of these things had already pulled out a list for Zhouquan yesterday, and after he mailed the samples today, he will go to the farmer's market to buy goods.

The chef who knew the news in advance looked through Zhou's family's refrigerator at night, looking at the empty compartments with only a few eggs and some fruits left in it, Mr. Chef said that he also needed to buy.

It happened that the two of them went together in the same car, and they could help each other out.

Everything that Zhou Quan needed was easy to buy. The uncle was afraid that his nephew would be disadvantaged when he went to buy agricultural products for the first time, so he specially gave him the address of the agricultural store he often went to, and called the owner to tell his children If you want to go shopping, ask him to take care of you.

With the store's attention, Zhou Quan's shopping went much smoother, and he basically bought everything he needed for his flower shed at once.

After leaving the agricultural materials market, the two of them went to the agricultural products wholesale market across the street. This is the place with the most complete seasoning supplies in the city.

Zhou Quan is rarely a cook, but this time it was an eye-opener. Just one condiment, soy sauce, Bao Yan bought seven or eight kinds.

Anything that adds flavor, color, and umami.There are also sauce-flavored, sweet-flavored, and fresh-flavored flavors, both domestic and foreign, which are more complicated than dispensing medicine.

After the soy sauce was finished, there was still vinegar, such as balsamic vinegar, rice vinegar, mature vinegar, white vinegar or even fruit vinegar. Zhou Quan was dazzled by the sight. When he came to the stall selling ketchup, mayonnaise and other condiments, Zhou Quan had completely given up buying them again. what.

Anyway, these things will be eaten by him in the end. Does the name matter?

But being a chef is really not easy, not to mention looking at the rows of things in those stalls, Brother Bao can tell the taste of them just by looking at them, and clearly know what should be used where , How much is appropriate to use, this kind of skill can only be accumulated after a lot of practice.

After the condiments were over, the two of them bought some fresh fruits and long-lasting vegetables.

When passing the poultry stall, Chef Bao frowned slightly and chose two white striped chickens. It was obvious that he was not very satisfied with the quality of these two chickens.The lean meat used for cooking was still in Zhou's refrigerator, so they bypassed the pork stall and went directly to the halal beef and mutton side.

The Bao family in the two-surname village has a special affection for cattle and sheep. Even if they don’t know how to cook, each family has their own unique methods of cooking cattle and sheep. Good cooking of cattle and sheep is a craft handed down by the Mongolian people for many years.

Back then, Grandpa Bao’s roasted whole lamb and stewed beef were the best in the city. The first dish Bao Yan tried to cook when he was a child was fried lamb with green onions.

There is such a Fa Xiaozai, Zhou Quan not only loves to eat beef and mutton, but is also very picky about the method and taste of beef and mutton.

Stepping on black riding boots, Bao Yan led Zhou Quan back and forth among the stalls selling beef and mutton in the market, walked from the beginning to the end, and after looking at the quality of the meat on each stall, Chef Bao had a new idea in his heart. choose.

When he came to a stall located in the back, Baozhen said to the middle-aged man with slightly graying hair: "Boss, I want the leftover lamb chops from your house, and give me the lamb leg bones with meat." Choose four, do you have lamb tripe and lamb head at your stall?"

The stall owner who was reading the newspaper raised his head when he heard the words, and first took a look at Bao Yan. He was not dressed like a chef or a buyer of a restaurant, and it was rare for a private person to buy such a thing at one time.

Looking at the ages of Baoyan and Zhouquan, the stall owner thought they were going out for a spring outing and barbecue, which is popular among young people these days.

Although wondering why the self-service barbecue people would ask about lamb tripe and lamb head meat, the kind meat stall owner still reminded: "Young man, I still have half a side of my lamb chops left. If you go out for a picnic, you can't use it." If there are too many things, it would be much better to just buy a few of them and waste them.”

He would think of the customers, seeing that the boss is a real person at first sight, Baoyan smiled lightly and said: "It's okay boss, we can eat too many people."

"Oh, in this case, I have lamb chops and leg bones here, and you have to buy lamb tripe and lamb head meat from the stall. But I have to explain to you in advance, young man, the price of lamb products on my side is very expensive. It is 5 yuan more expensive per catty than other stalls."

"Good price is not a problem. Boss, you can give me a name."

"You see that I am a good thing?"

"The young goat, male, should be about 10 months old. It's a pity that it was kept in captivity for the winter and released for free-range breeding in the spring. Otherwise, the texture of the meat should be deeper and the quality will be better."

The stall owner who was boning Baoyan was taken aback when he heard this, and the boning knife he was holding almost didn't fall off.

"Okay, I met an expert today. Brother, you can't practice your eyesight in 20 or [-] years. It's rare to have this skill at your age. If you still need it in the future, you can come to my booth. I, Lao Xu, have been running a meat stall for more than [-] years, and I have always been innocent, and today we are also destined, I don’t want a small change for meat, you can just give me a whole number.”

After paying the money happily, he went to the specialty store to buy lamb tripe and lamb head meat. After returning with a full load, Chef Bao said to Zhou Quan, the co-pilot, while fastening his seat belt in the car: "Zhou Zhou, go home. Let’s cook lamb soup for you.”

The mutton soup of Baojia Restaurant is as well-known in the city as their roast mutton. Anyone who has eaten and drank it will definitely become a repeat customer.

Thinking about the taste, Zhou Quan couldn't help swallowing, fastened his seat belt obediently, and sat in the co-pilot excitedly waiting to be fed.