Chapter 289 Boneless Chicken Tenders (8)

Not long after lunch, there were almost no people buying vegetables in the afternoon market. Because there were no people, the vendors on the roadside and in the shops set up tents and took a nap inside.

This is what Lin Fei and others saw when they walked to the market.

Although there are still some rules and regulations for the management of Darongfang City and the market, it is still a market, and even if it is cleaned, the air of the market is still filled with a fishy smell of vegetables, meat, and slaughtered poultry and livestock.

That smell made Liu Yuan, who was used to dealing with pens, inks, papers and inkstones, feel quite uncomfortable. Most of his impressions of people eating and drinking were in the public kitchen. Especially since the public chef came to the public kitchen, the only thing he could smell was the aroma that makes people salivate after eating food. , when have you ever smelled such a fishy smell in the public kitchen?

It was the market. It was not like he had never been there before, but Liu Yuan had not expected the fishy smell to be so strong.

"Is it because the New Year is approaching and too many poultry and livestock are being slaughtered?" Bai Zhu said and rubbed his nose, "The previous markets didn't seem to have such a strong smell."

Lin Fei, who has always been quite sensitive to smells, frowned but said nothing. Instead, he raised his head and glanced at the dozing vendors, then looked towards the slaughter stall.

At this time, the butchers who were slaughtering poultry and livestock were resting in their respective tents.

Lin Fei raised his hand to rub his nose and took a deep breath.

Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu, who were covering their noses at this move, were about to say a few words of admiration. After all, Lin Shaoqing's unusually sensitive nose meant that this breath must be extraordinary.

Lin Fei, who took a sharp breath, stood there for a moment, then immediately walked towards the slaughter stall not far away.

The slaughter stall has also been cleaned up. After all, the Da Rong Law is there, and you have to clean up even if you don't want to. But the bloody smell could not be eliminated no matter what.

Although the movement of several people walking towards this side was not loud, it woke up a bald butcher in the middle of the slaughtering stall. Hearing the noise, the butcher stood up from the angled stall and subconsciously started to lay flat on the stall. Among the various knives in a row, he picked up one and showed it to several people.

The bald butcher lady had an angry look on her face and a fierce look on her face. At this moment, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu were startled by the sight of him holding a knife. They subconsciously stopped and raised their eyes to look at him.

After staring at each other like this for a moment, the bald butcher's eyes paused for a moment on the two of them. Only when the two of them reacted belatedly did they realize that he was looking at the official robes of the two of them. After a moment of stalemate, the bald butcher put the knife back and glanced at the two of them, but his eyes turned to Lin Fei who had walked directly to a swill bucket. After thinking for a while, he said: " Don't let dirty things like the swill bucket stain your eyes. The smell of the waste and stinking things inside is harmful to your body, so you better not come near it!"

With a hoarse and rough voice, coupled with the fierce look and the row of knives in front of him, Liu Yuanxi thought that this person really looked like the villain in the storybook.

Lin Fei said "Hmm" and raised his head to glance at the bald butcher. However, he was not at all afraid of his sinister skin. Instead, he nodded, glanced at the swill bucket, and asked the bald butcher: "What is the filthy thing inside?" New here today?"

The bald butcher nodded, took a knife casually, and said while sharpening the blade: "As the New Year approaches, there are more people butchering poultry and livestock, and it takes less than half a day to fill it up, so it is necessary to replace it with a new one every day. "

Lin Fei glanced at the few swill buckets on the side. This one was obviously the fullest. After scanning the slaughter stalls, Lin Fei asked him: "Do you share this swill bucket or use it separately?" of?"

"It can be considered as sharing!" the bald butcher said while sharpening his knife. "There was a misunderstanding about the slaughtering. I suspected that the butcher changed the slaughtered poultry or something. You may not know, this trivial thing in the market There are so many things to do! You may not know what to check when the time comes. Generally speaking, which bucket the first order of business waste in the morning is thrown into, that bucket will be used until the bucket is changed."

When Lin Fei heard this, he said "Hmm" and looked at the bald butcher. His face was calm, but his eyes were extremely clear: "The smell of these slaughtering stalls is the strongest at your stall, but your business most?"

The bald butcher was slightly startled when he heard this. He glanced at Lin Fei subconsciously, but still nodded and said: "That's right!" After that, he explained a few more words, "Shopping for vegetables is not shopping. There are not that many people shopping for vegetables. Be patient, whoever is quick will come to the store!"

The implication is that among so many people, he is the most agile in his skills.

Lin Fei nodded again, pointed to the overflowing swill bucket, and said, "Are you using this swill bucket?"

The bald butcher glanced at the swill bucket and responded, "I'm using it!"

When Lin Fei heard this, he looked at the bald butcher's expression, then squinted his eyes and said, "It smells wrong inside. I want to see what's inside." While speaking, he looked back at Bai Zhu.

Bai Zhu understood immediately, turned around and ran quickly towards the Yamen of Dali Temple.

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After the snack boneless chicken fillet was sold out early, Wen Mingtang went back to the kitchen and started with a large piece of pork belly that was clearly fat and thin, and was quite "beautiful".

Snacks are in short supply, so it’s not that I don’t want to make more. After all, I can make two servings, five or six servings. It's just that there are only so many chicken breasts in one day, and they will be gone when they are sold out. This is due to the supply of ingredients on Zhuangzi.

There is no chicken breast, so I have to use other meat.

After Ji Caimai came back from Zhuangzi today, he excitedly pulled Wen Mingtang aside, and then showed her a long piece of "really beautiful" pork belly, and said happily: "The pork meat on Zhuangzi today is quite beautiful. , as soon as I went there I saw a lot of people fighting for it, so I hurried forward and finally managed to grab such a piece!"

To be fair, this piece of pork belly is not small. If it were a family, it would be enough for several meals! But if it were placed in the public kitchen among so many people, it might not be enough for one meal, so it wouldn't be used as a dinner.

It can be used as a snack without making a meal! Wen Mingtang had a snack that he had been craving for a long time and needed such beautiful pork belly.

Hearing Wen Mingtang say that he had been craving this snack for a long time, Ji Caimai immediately became interested, so he just held a cup of milk tea and watched her making snacks with Ah Bing and Tang Yuan while chatting with them.

Wen Mingtang has always been "harsh" when it comes to cooking. After he, Ah Bing, and Tangyuan had completely removed the hair on the pork belly, he put the pork belly into the pot and mixed it with Sichuan peppercorns, onions, ginger, Wine and other things were cooked together.

Rubbing his sore arms, Tangyuan was sighing, "It's not easy to pluck hair out. When this snack is ready, I will be the first to get one." When he saw several servants entering the public kitchen with serious faces, they then walked away. He came to Wen Mingtang and asked Wen Mingtang: "Master Wen, can you ask me some questions about the knives used in the kitchen?"