My courtyard shelter

In a blink of an eye, the weekend is here again. In order to welcome the arrival of his eldest niece and nephew, and to provide extra meals for the children, Xu Dong plans to take advantage of the free weekend to prepare a barbecue.

Early in the morning, he drove his Daben to the Panjiayuan Flea Market. He had been here several times and was quite familiar with it.

"Check, boss, are you here?"

This boss Cha was the same shopkeeper who sold Xudong pig heads before. Excluding the pig heads, the two parties traded twice more.

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"Here, it turns out to be Brother Xu. Why did you come so early today?" Boss Cha asked curiously.

"It's off today. Come here early to see if you have any meat here?"

Boss Cha apologized: "That's really unlucky. There's not even a piece of meat today, so your trip was in vain."

"It's okay, I'll go check out other places."

Xu Dong waved his hand and left.

In another store, he was lucky this time. He exchanged three boxes of yogurt and a carton of cigarettes for three pounds of pork belly.

If I had known this, I should have stocked up on more pure milk. Yogurt is really not worth the price, not even one-third of the price of pure milk.

Xu Dong was curious, is the nutritional gap between them really that big?

Next, he went to the street stall area to see if he could find something missing.

The street stall area was more lively than before, especially there were many more chicken and duck sellers. Xu Dong made a rough estimate, there were at least seven or eight.

This is not difficult to understand. After all, as long as there are enough huge profits, not to mention chickens and ducks, crocodile meat can be made for you.

There are more chickens and ducks on the market, so the price has inevitably dropped a bit. At present, the price of a normal chicken is about 2,500 yuan, which is the price of a piece of Fuxing cigarettes.

Xu Dong conveniently replaced two small roosters, each weighing three pounds, and prepared to use them as barbecue ingredients.

Grilled chicken wings, grilled chicken intestines, grilled chicken legs, grilled chicken gizzards, grilled chicken breasts...

There are so many parts of the rooster that can be roasted.

After buying the meat, Xu Dong went to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables. Although he had a vegetable garden at home, there was no vegetable market with all kinds of vegetables.

Finally, he went to a large supermarket and bought two green fish.

Oddly enough, no one in the wet market sells seafood. It seems that only a few large supermarkets in the city sell seafood.

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At six-thirty in the afternoon, Xu Dong saw that the time was almost up, so he called his eldest niece over, and the two of them carried the barbecue to the yard together.

I bought a barbecue grill a long time ago, similar to the one in a barbecue restaurant. It has been kept in the concierge since I bought it and has never been used.

Today is the first time to "open meat".

"Lingling, I'm going to move the charcoal. You go to the kitchen and get some alcohol. Your grandma knows where the alcohol is." Xu Dong ordered.

"I'll go."

After more than ten minutes, the charcoal was finally ignited, and the fire was burning brightly.

"It's burning..." Several children gathered around and clapped their hands.

"Keke, watch Dian Dabao and the others, don't let them touch the oven with their hands." Xu Dong reminded in time.

"Dad, I'm holding Dabao, he won't be able to get through."

As soon as she finished speaking, Yang Lina came over carrying a large basket of vegetables, followed by Xu Ma, holding a large basin of marinated meat in her hand.

"Where's my dad, hasn't he gotten off work yet?" Xu Dong asked while brushing oil on the iron plate.

"Don't worry about him. He said he won't be back for half an hour. I don't know what he is busy with every day!" Xu Ma complained.

Yang Lina immediately advised: "Mom, the store is busy, and there is nothing dad can do."

"Okay, let's not talk about him! Dongzi, can you barbecue? Don't burn the meat. It would be such a waste." Xu Ma said worriedly, after all, the price of meat is so expensive now.

"Don't worry. Nowadays, barbecue restaurants all have self-service barbecues, and I've never seen them burnt." Xu Dong said confidently.

"Roast vegetables first, or grill meat first?" Yang Lina asked.

"Let's grill the pork belly first. The oil will come out from the grill, and then the vegetables will be fragrant."

After Xu Dong finished speaking, he used a tong to pick up a palm-long slice of pork belly and placed it on the iron plate.

With a "squeak" sound, a smell of meat immediately filled the air.

"Wow, it smells so good!"

Xu Dong grilled seven or eight slices of pork belly in succession. After grilling, he put them aside and grilled some vegetables.

"Dad, are you okay?" Coco asked impatiently.

"Don't worry, it will be fine soon." Xu Dong said with a smile.

While the vegetables were roasting, Xu Dong asked his eldest niece to use scissors to cut the pork belly into pieces for easy consumption.

When the vegetables were roasted, Xu Dong picked up a piece of lettuce leaf, placed two pieces of roasted pork belly and some vegetables on it, and then wrapped the whole thing.

"Did you see it? Wrap it in lettuce leaves and eat it. This way you won't get tired of it."

"Dad, I want to eat." Lele was anxious again.

Xu Dong smiled fondly and stuffed the wrapped barbecue into the little cotton-padded jacket's mouth.

"It's a little hot, eat it slowly."

Xu’s mother also packed a barbecue for her eldest grandson, and then asked everyone to help themselves.

"Well, it's delicious!" Ma Xu said happily.

Ma Lingling also moved very quickly. She wrapped one by herself in a few seconds. Smelling the meat, she couldn't hold it in any longer and took a big bite.

hiss……

The pork belly is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, fat but not greasy; the vegetables are tender and refreshing, soaked in fat.

The two mixed together are so delicious that I almost want to cry.

Xu Dong continued to be responsible for the barbecue, but he couldn't spare any time. Yang Lina didn't even eat it herself, so she quickly made one for her husband.

After serving her husband, she fed each of the triplets some meat. Otherwise, it would be very difficult if the three little ones started crying.

Halfway through, Father Xu finally came back.

"Grandpa, come and eat barbecue. The barbecue is so delicious." Ma Lingling said with chicken wings in hand.

Father Xu looked at the juniors devouring their food and felt comforted, "Don't worry about me. I'll go to the kitchen to drink some water. You can continue eating!"

Come back after drinking water.

Xu Dong grilled some chicken breast for his father. Xu's father is old and has a slight problem of high blood pressure. Big fish and meat are no longer suitable for him.

"Dad, how does it taste?"

"It's okay, just a little bland. Didn't you add salt?"

Xu Ma brought over a plate of meat sauce:

"Try some of this."

Father Xu did as he was told, and then nodded with satisfaction: "It really tastes much better."

"Dad, why did you get off work so late today? Something happened in the store?" Xu Dong asked.

"No." Father Xu shook his head and said, "I temporarily discussed something with Ma Jun."

"What is it that takes so long to discuss?"

"Well, it's like this. The store's business has been very good recently and it has made some money. Therefore, Ma Jun suggested buying a car to decorate the storefront and make it easier to discuss business." Father Xu said truthfully.

"Is it necessary? There are only seven or eight employees in your store."

Xu Ma immediately interrupted: "Er, it's been a long time since you went to our store. There are almost twenty people here now."

"Including me, there are twenty-eight people in total." Father Xu confirmed seriously.

Xu Dong looked a little embarrassed, but was quickly replaced by doubts: "No, twenty-eight people? Our store only has a total of more than 80 square meters, can it fit in?"

"It's okay. There are eighteen of them who are salesmen. They mainly run business outside and don't usually work in the store." Father Xu explained.

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