Men and women eating in the courtyard

Xu Ning from the security unit tied magnets to the head of the baton from somewhere, one in each opening.

This thing is effective on things containing iron, and is basically useless on other metals, but it can act as a deterrent.

I don’t know if this kind of inspection will become the norm. A gust of wind inspection will have no effect.

After pushing the bicycle and standing there for a while, he no longer waited for get off work. He pushed it outside the door, got on the bicycle, and rushed to the address given by Sha Zhu, which was in Haizibian Hutong.

When passing by the flea market in front of Wen Saner's house, I turned in.

At this time, the sky was starting to get dark, and the bustling crowd in the market was moving to leave. It was rare for Li Xuewu to push the cart in like this.

This market should be managed. The stalls or carts on both sides are neatly arranged, and it is not difficult to walk around with a cart.

Passing by a group of pigeon farmers who were preparing to close their stalls, the cages were moved causing the pigeons to coo.

After walking around for a while, I saw a seller selling second-hand kitchen utensils and walked over with a cart.

The stall owner was a burly man in his late thirties. He was loading used goods onto a trolley. When he saw Li Xuewu approaching with a cart, he quickly put down what he was doing and asked with a smile: "What do you want to see?"

Li Xuewu pulled over to the side of the car, squatted in front of the stall and knocked on the dark brown frying spoon. The quality was pretty good and it made a clanging sound when he knocked it.

Seeing that Li Xuewu didn't reply, but squatted on the ground and looked at the frying spoon, it was time to buy kitchen utensils. The stall owner didn't care about Li Xuewu's attitude and said with a smile: "Brother, we use all the kitchen utensils for ourselves. Master." I'm laid off and money is tight, why don't I just sell it for money?"

Li Xuewu leaned over and took a look. The bottom of the pot was scraped clean and there were no lines (pronounced wèn), but traces of use could still be seen. The wooden handle of the large spoon could also be seen that it had been used for a long time.

"How much does a frying spoon like this cost?"

The big man said: "This kind of wok is Zhangqiu's old craftsmanship. Please give me 9 cents."

The common people called the wok a frying spoon, but this big man stubbornly corrected the name.

Li Xuewu asked: "How many mouths do you have?"

When the big man heard that this comrade wanted to buy more, he quickly replied: "There are still 5 mouths left."

Li Xuewu nodded and said: "I'll pick it up later. Do you have a hand spoon? Give me a good quality one."

The big man nodded hurriedly, pointed at the car and said, "Yes, yes, it's over here. Take a look."

Li Xuewu walked to the cart and looked at it. The big man had put it away earlier. There were seven or eight white steel hand spoons with wooden handles in the box. They were okay and met his needs.

I picked one in good condition and picked it up.

The hand spoon Li Xuewu wants is a spoon with a long handle and a relatively large head, which can be used to add water, soup, stir, and seasoning.

After looking at the handleless double-eared iron pot on the car, which was about 40 centimeters in diameter and in pretty good condition, he asked the big man next to him, "How much does this cost?"

The big man didn't know whether Li Xuewu wanted one with a handle or one without a handle, but he still replied: "The handleless one is a cast iron pot, for stews. You can give me 80 cents."

Li Xuewu nodded and pointed at the wooden handle wok and handleless stew pot on the ground with the hand spoon in his hand and said: "A wok, an iron pot, I will look at the kitchen knife and chopping board, I am going to open the fire myself, you are here If they are all, I will buy them all from you.”

The big man said happily: "Then I will pick it up for you."

While talking, the big man stacked the two pots that Li Xuewu picked out and placed them on the side, and opened the goods that had just been put in the car.

The big man said to Li Xuewu: "I packed up a whole set of cooking tools a few days ago. You are in luck today. Come and take a look. You can pick out what you need."

Li Xuewu raised his eyes and looked into the car. It was really complete, as the big man said, he had brought out a chef's entire set of tools.

The complete set of pots includes: woks, steamers, soup pots, casseroles, hot pots, and pans.

The complete set of knives includes: slice knife, mulberry knife, civil and military knife, machete, peeling knife, peeling knife, bone chopping knife, deboning knife, pork knife, and roasting meat knife.

There are also some colanders, cutting boards, bowls, plates, rolling pins and other tools.

"Except for the two I picked out just now, I want all the other pots in this set. I also want this set of knives. I don't want the rest. I feel comfortable using new bowls and plates."

The big man pointed at the chopping board and rolling pin anxiously and said: "Our chopping board is made of ironwood, and it will never shed slag. In the early years, ironwood was also produced in the mountains here, but it has long been chopped down. Look at this piece of wood. , It’s rare to see such a well-dressed ironwood chopping board.”

Li Xuewu knew that ironwood is a famous hardwood in the world. Ironwood is hard in texture and has excellent mechanical properties, but it is rarely seen in later generations, so he really doesn't know that it can still be used as a chopping board.

The chopping board that the big man is pointing to is more than 50 centimeters in diameter. It is a cross-cut log with a width of more than ten centimeters and is surrounded by a circle of iron hoops.

Seeing that the big man was indeed a little anxious, Li Xuewu looked at this thing and said, "Okay, okay, I'll listen to you, I want it."

Seeing that the sales promotion was effective, the big man added: "Look at our two rolling pins. They are made of toon wood. Look at how deep the color is. If you smell it, they all have a fragrant smell."

As he spoke, he asked Li Xuewu to smell it, and found that it did have the fragrance of toon, just like the smell of eating toon leaves.

"Chinese toon wood is very corrosion-resistant and can repel insects. As the old saying goes, "mahogany" refers to toon wood."

The big man had an expression on his face as if he caught up with him and said, "You also know that toon leaves are edible and they are often picked, which limits the growth of toon trees, so we rarely see such full-grown trees."

Li Xuewu couldn't laugh or cry as he took the two rolling pins in his hand. The big man also told Li Xuewu the origin of the two rolling pins.

"There are many kinds of rolling pins, including single-handed sticks, double-handed sticks, olive sticks, flower rolling pins, and walking mallets."

"Our two rolling pins are commonly used by chefs in Henan. For dumpling wrappers and wonton wrappers, we use small rolling pins with pointed ends, while when rolling noodles, we use large, thick, long and equal-diameter rolling pins."

Li Xuewu knew what the big man meant. Master Bai An in the north was the most famous in Shandong and Henan. The big man wanted to put nameplates on these two rolling pins.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, you can agree on the price."

Li Xuewu saw that this man was also a chef, otherwise he would not have been able to explain it in such detail and in such a clear way.

Although the big man was surprised that Li Xuewu asked for so much, he was really happy and hurriedly helped Li Xuewu tie these things with straw ropes and hang them on the back seat of his bicycle.