The nearby vegetable market is bustling in the morning, with all kinds of fresh vegetables available. Due to the absence of meat for nearly eighty years, people's cultivation of vegetables has reached a new height, with diverse varieties, rich nutrition, and more outstanding taste. Of course, the ingredients Ye Chui wants to purchase are not vegetables, but mutton, in preparation for setting up a stall in the evening.
The meat stalls in the wet market are much less popular than the vegetable stalls. After all, although meat has become popular again, most people in this era are already very unfamiliar with meat. Some people cannot even accept the concept of eating meat at all. This has led to the strange situation that the price of meat is not even as high as that of vegetables.
Almost no one was interested in the various freshly slaughtered meats, but this actually brought cheapness to Ye Chui, greatly reducing the cost of his grilled lamb kebabs.
Speaking of grilled lamb skewers, Ye Chui has an anecdote. In his previous life, he had sold lamb skewers for a period of time when he was a teenager, which was the beginning of his career as a chef. Now that he has been reborn, everything has to start all over again. As a starting point, he has started selling lamb skewers again. For Ye Chui, it feels like fate. Of course, Ye Chui is now reborn in such an environment, which is like a fish in water for him. His starting point of selling grilled lamb skewers is much higher than that of his previous life.
"Young man, you're here to buy mutton again." Seeing Ye Chui coming with the fresh-keeping box, the butcher immediately greeted him with a smile, "Come and have a look, this meat is fresh meat I just pulled from the slaughterhouse this morning."
Having come here to buy meat every day during this period, Ye Chui has become quite familiar with the uncle. He nodded and began to examine the pieces of meat on the chopping board very professionally.
The most suitable meat for grilled lamb kebabs is the front shank, which is the meat from the front and back legs of the sheep. This kind of meat has tendons added to it, and the tendons are connected to each other, so it is very delicious when grilled into skewers. In addition, the "pole meat" on the spine and the "square meat" on the ribs are also very good choices.
With his professional vision, Ye Chui quickly selected the best mutton for barbecue, a total of about fifty kilograms. These fifty kilograms of mutton can be made into thousands of mutton skewers, which is almost just enough for his consumption for one night. Moreover, the mutton here is very cheap. On average, several types of meat cost only twenty yuan per kilogram, and fifty kilograms is only one thousand yuan. Based on Ye Chu's price of two yuan per skewer, after deducting these costs, Ye Chui can earn seven or eight hundred yuan a night.
To the owner of the mutton stall, Ye Chui was a regular customer and a big client, so he naturally took good care of him. He helped Ye Chui carefully pack the 50 kilograms of meat, and he almost personally helped Ye Chui deliver the mutton to the tricycle outside.
Carrying the mutton away with some difficulty, Ye Chui thought of what he had promised Wang Shiyu in the morning, so he looked around, wondering what kind of meal he would make for lunch. It had been more than half a month since his rebirth, and he had been busy with the mutton stall during this period. He had not cooked properly for a long time, and he was already itching to try his hand at cooking.
Looking at the meat stalls around him, Ye Chui's eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw a stall in front of him that specialized in selling white-striped chicken.
“Let’s make that dish for lunch!”
Ye Chui already had an idea in his mind and immediately walked to the stall.
The white-striped chickens here are broiler chickens that have been plucked of feathers and eviscerated. When the owner of the meat stall saw the customers coming, he immediately started to promote his chickens. However, Ye Chui turned a deaf ear to them and just concentrated on picking and choosing. After a while, he finally chose a white-striped chicken that satisfied him and gave it to the owner to weigh.
The boss praised it quickly, and then became curious, and asked Ye Chui tentatively: "Sir, I saw you picking for a long time just now, is there any trick in it?"
It has only been two years since chicken was put back on the table. Even the boss who sells the white-striped chicken is not very clear about the ins and outs of it. He only asked Ye Chui out of curiosity. Ye Chui thought it was not a secret, so he simply told the boss the key points of selecting white-striped chicken.
"There are four main things to pay attention to when buying chicken, namely, look at the incision, the eyeball, the skin, and the chicken feet. First, look at the incision. A good white-striped chicken should have a slaughtering incision on its neck, with blood infiltration at the incision. A white-striped chicken that died of disease has no slaughtering incision. If it is slaughtered after death, there will be no blood infiltration at the incision. Then look at the chicken's eyeball. A good white-striped chicken has full and shiny eyeballs, and the eyelids are mostly fully open or half-open. If it is a white-striped chicken that died of disease, the eyeball is dry and sunken, without luster, and the eyelids are completely closed. Next, look at the skin..."
After Ye Chui finished speaking, the boss was already dumbfounded. He had never thought that there were so many tricks involved. He hurriedly said, "I have really broadened my horizons today. But brother, you see, my chicken is absolutely not adulterated. It is all freshly slaughtered good chicken."
"The chicken is really excellent. I will patronize you again next time." Ye Chui took the bagged chicken from the boss, said with a smile, and walked away with the heavy mutton.
The owner of the white-striped chicken stall never forgot Ye Chui's words, and from then on, whenever someone came to buy chicken, he would show off to prove that the white-striped chicken here was the best.
Around noon, a fat man with sweat all over his forehead suddenly rushed over in a hurry. The fat man was about 30 years old, with a fat head and big ears, and was very fair. There was sweat on his forehead, and his white shirt was soaked. He looked anxious, and no one knew what urgent matter he had encountered.
He came to the stall selling white-striped chicken and started to pick hurriedly.
The boss then continued to show off his newly acquired knowledge: "The chicken here is the freshest and best. When choosing a white-striped chicken, you need to consider four aspects, which are..."
After listening to what the boss said, the fat man who was searching suddenly froze, obviously shocked by this. He raised his head and looked at the boss blankly: "You seem to know a lot about chicken? Then... do you know how to cook chicken?"
"Be a chicken?"
The boss quickly shook his head and said, "I'm just a chicken seller. I'm not good at cooking. When I want to eat chicken, I just make soup. It's nothing special."
The fat man looked disappointed: "Ah, after listening to you talk about so many things, I thought you knew a lot about this."
"Haha, to be honest, I heard those words just now from a young man this morning. That young man knows a lot." The boss said casually with a smile.
"I heard it from a young man?" The fat man's eyes lit up. "What does that young man do?"
"Well... I don't know the details. Go ask the owner of the mutton stall over there. He knows."
After hearing what the chicken stall owner said, the fat man hurried to the mutton stall to inquire. Coincidentally, the owner of the mutton stall had actually paid attention to where Ye Chui lived. Although he didn't know the specific address, he knew roughly which community it was. The fat man thanked him and ran hurriedly to Ye Chui's community.
It was noon. The fat man was wiping the sweat from his forehead. He had just arrived at this dilapidated neighborhood when his nose suddenly twitched violently.
"What a delicious smell... This is chicken! But, how did you get this... smell?!"
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