Chapter 26: No staple food, let’s eat barbecue
After getting Su Qi's assurance, Zhang Tuohai felt relieved and stopped paying attention to the private messages. Instead, he directly withdrew the pending commission.
As soon as the commission was withdrawn, those people in the regional channel suddenly panicked.
Originally, they wanted to take advantage of Zhang Tuohai's acquisition opportunity to make a fortune, but they didn't expect that Zhang Tuohai would be so decisive and directly revoked the commission.
They were stunned for a moment.
This is the equivalent of them throwing flour in their hands.
You know, not everyone is as rich as Zhang Tuohai and has the resources to make pasta.
In order to make flour into food, a lot of water is needed. Without water, the dough cannot be kneaded. Steamed buns, steamed buns, noodles, and even baked naan, everything needs water as support.
For most people, the water they get every day is not enough to drink, so how can they use it to make pasta?
Once the flour fell into their hands, it became almost waste, even worse than ordinary materials.
At least the wood can be burned to keep warm.
Cloth covering the body can keep you warm.
What can flour do?
Even if it is ignited, it is easy to cause an explosion.
Zhang Tuohai's move hit their vital point at once.
Let them wake up from their dream of getting rich.
Let them clearly realize that their lifeblood has been in Zhang Tuohai's hands from beginning to end.
If Zhang Tuohai really doesn't buy flour anymore.
At most, Zhang Tuohai would earn a little less, but they might really have to starve.
If Zhang Tuohai really refused to buy the company, some of them would probably starve to death.
Thinking of this, some smart people sent private messages to Zhang Tuohai, first apologizing sincerely, and then taking the initiative to lower the price.
The lowest offer was even 300 grams of bread in exchange for 500 grams of flour.
Zhang Tuohai didn't really want to force these people to death. Seeing that they took the initiative to lower the price, he reluctantly purchased a batch of flour and made these people thank him profusely.
However, Zhang Tuohai was so happy to receive the gifts that he replaced all the bread he had, and even the baked naan.
He now has almost no decent staple food.
There are still some instant noodles, but they are reserve food and cannot be used easily.
Zhang Tuohai looked at the sky and it was too late to steam buns now.
By the time the steamed buns were cooked, it was already dark.
Moreover, steaming buns requires yeast, which is too troublesome and Zhang Tuohai is too lazy to do it.
Why not just have something simple tonight?
Well, let's have a barbecue.
Zhang Tuohai looked through the food he had stored and took a giant eagle's wing, a giant eagle's leg, a few strings of leeks, tiger hearts, tiger kidneys, tiger penises and so on, which should be enough.
Zhang Tuohai had already prepared barbecue grills, grill skewers and other items during his first shopping spree, but there had never been a suitable opportunity.
Today I finally found a place to use my skills .
However, after Zhang Tuohai set up the barbecue grill, he discovered an embarrassing problem.
The giant eagle's wings are too big to fit on the grill.
Zhang Tuohai’s barbecue grill is the standard grill used in ordinary barbecue stalls, 18 cm wide and 2 meters long.
The giant eagle's wings are two meters long and half a meter wide, larger than a barbecue grill. What should be done?
"Do you have a larger barbecue grill?" Zhang Tuohai sent a private message to Su Mu.
"A big grill? How big should it be? Isn't an ordinary grill enough?" Su Mu was a little curious.
"The ingredients are a bit big." Zhang Tuohai sent over the size of the giant eagle's wings.
"The biggest oven I have here is a baking oven, which is 1.6 meters high and 1 meter wide. You can just fold the wings in the middle and it will be enough. If that doesn't work, I have no other options."
Su Mu said as he sent the oven drawings to Zhang Tuohai.
[Giant oven manufacturing drawings: the perfect companion for simmering. Height 1.6 meters, width 1 meter. Equipped with 10 special barbecue tongs. ]
[Material: 10 units of stone, 2 units of metal ingots, 5 units of metal fragments. ]
Zhang Tuohai looked at the size and found it could fully meet his needs.
"Okay, how much?" Zhang Tuohai asked.
"This blueprint is not worth much. If you want it, you must want to eat barbecue, right? Just give us some."
Su Mu knew that no one wanted this kind of oven blueprint in the early days when supplies were tight.
Now, everyone is very short of supplies, and they would rather split a piece of supplies into two halves.
No one would spend the resources to build such a thing.
Only a wealthy local tycoon like Zhang Tuohai would buy this thing.
Therefore, Su Mu simply did Zhang Tuohai a favor and almost gave the drawings to Zhang Tuohai for free.
"Okay, I'll give you some when we're done roasting."
Zhang Tuohai nodded in agreement.
He could probably guess what Su Mu was planning.
However, the cooperation between the two is now quite pleasant, and they have accumulated a lot of affection after several transactions.
It's not a bad idea to have a deeper relationship with him.
There is a potential helper who may play an unexpected role at certain moments.
After receiving the manufacturing drawings, Zhang Tuohai made the giant oven.
The giant oven is like a huge vase, divided into three parts. There is a ceramic basin-like thing at the bottom, which is used to make fire. The ceramic pot wall in the middle is the main part of the barbecue, and there is a lid like a bottle cork on it, which is used to seal it.
Zhang Tuohai lit the wood and burned it into charcoal. He then split the giant eagle's wing in half, smeared it with sauce, put it on a special barbecue tongs, and hung it on the hook at the mouth of the grill. He did the same with the rest of the tiger whip, tiger heart, etc.
Finally, close the plug and everything is done. All you have to do is wait patiently.
He had seen this kind of oven in a video of a foreign uncle before and had always wanted to buy one.
It’s a pity that he didn’t have a yard for barbecue, so he had to give up in the end.
Unexpectedly, this wish actually came true in the end times. I really don’t know what to say.
This oven grilling method is different from ordinary rack grilling.
Ordinary grill racks are open, and water loss is relatively large. If the meat is grilled for too long, it will become burnt and hard. If it is grilled even longer, it may even carbonize.
The barbecue skills are required to be relatively high.
The stuffing oven is different because it is closed and the moisture is locked inside, so the meat will be softer and tender and will not burn.
If we make an analogy, it's probably the difference between roast duck cooked in a hanging oven and roast duck cooked in a steamed oven.
About 20 minutes later, Zhang Tuohai opened the lid, took out half a grilled wing, cut a little with a knife and put it in his mouth.
Well, the meat is soft and tender, the sauce has completely penetrated into the meat, and the taste is excellent.
"I didn't expect that I'm also a barbecue expert. If I could go back, I might be able to open a barbecue restaurant and make a lot of money."
