Chapter 187 How can I do that?

Chapter 187 How can I do that?

Chapter 187 How can I do that?

The farm has been buying cattle and sheep. Now there are many varieties of cattle and sheep in the pasture. There are seven or eight varieties of cattle, ranging from local cattle to Angschuri, Simontal, Charolais and other breeds, and there are even more varieties of sheep.

There are Bei'an Tan sheep, Ningxia Tan sheep, and Inner Mongolia sheep.

Today another truckload of sheep was brought to the pasture.

A three-story semi-trailer specially used for transporting sheep.

These are a group of sheep from Xinjiang. They have white bodies and black heads.

It is named because of its black head and white body, so it is called black-headed sheep. It is produced in the Bayinbuluke area in western Xinjiang.

Hearing that this kind of mutton is delicious, Jiang Ning asked someone to buy a flock of them.

A total of more than 1200 sheep were packed, and each one cost 30 yuan regardless of size. More than sheep cost more than yuan, plus the shipping fee of several thousand, the total was yuan. The price of mutton this year remains high, and a pound of mutton in the market is no less than yuan.

However, the price of live sheep continues to fall, and sheep farmers are complaining.

A sheep in Bei'an costs less than one thousand yuan.

This batch of sheep was not cheap. I heard that many people in Xinjiang eat mutton, and the price of sheep is generally higher than in my hometown.

After the sheep were pulled to the pasture, Jiang Ning made a point of coming to take a look.

The door of the compartment was opened, and more than 300 sheep were driven down. They huddled together and bleated non-stop. They were probably not used to the new environment and were very frightened. They didn't dare to run around. Half of them were lambs that had not yet reached adulthood.

A sheep like this would not cost more than six hundred yuan in Bei'an.

However, sheep farmers generally do not sell their lambs because they cannot get a good price.

They are all raised before being bought, unless you are given the money for an adult sheep.

Although this vehicle specially designed for transporting sheep is well-equipped and carries fodder and water, so the sheep will not go hungry on the road and will have food and water, losses are inevitable during long-distance transportation. If there are three sheep, the vehicle will not be able to get up.

The driver went up and picked them up, all of them were half-grown lambs.

Li Fumin is definitely an expert in animal husbandry. He has been raising sheep all his life. Although he does not understand any theory, he has rich practical experience. After touching and observing the sheep for a few times, he came to the conclusion: "The legs are no longer good. It can't survive. Let's kill it and eat its meat!"

Jiang Ning readily followed the advice and asked someone to slaughter the sheep.

No one will eat a dead sheep, it's too unlucky.

The best option is to kill it and eat its meat before it dies.

Jiang Ning asked his uncle, "Is this sheep okay?"

"no problem!"

Chen Xuefeng said: "I negotiated the price in the pastoral area and watched the loading. I won't be cheated."

Jiang Ning finally felt relieved. There are many scammers nowadays and farms have been cheated before.

I was cheated when I went to the north to buy sheep before.

I originally wanted to buy Ujumchin sheep, but ended up buying a batch of fattening sheep.

It's too smelly to eat.

So this time Jiang Ning asked his uncle to make a trip directly to the pastoral area to buy the sheep, and also went to Xinjiang to visit his son. In order to prevent the sheep from being replaced, his uncle stayed in the herdsman’s home for three days, watching the sheep being loaded onto the truck and returning with the truck.

The distance is too far, even if the truck driver works overtime.

It took three full days to reach Bei'an.

Jiang Ning grabbed a sheep and took a look. The wool of these sheep was longer than that of the sheep in Bei'an. It was probably related to the growth environment. I heard that the area there belongs to the Gaosai region, and without thick wool, the sheep would not be able to withstand the severe cold of minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius in winter.

The wool of this kind of sheep should have a good warming effect.

He has a black head and a dark brain, which looks quite funny.

Old Yang said, "I don't think these sheep from high-altitude areas can adapt to our climate. Their wool is too thick. In such hot weather, we should cut their wool first, otherwise they will die of heat."

Li Fumin agreed: "We must shear the sheep. The weather has been too hot recently. The sheep can't stand it if they don't shear."

Jiang Ning nodded and said to his uncle, "Send a few people to help and cut the hair as soon as possible."

Chen Xuefeng agreed and took out his cell phone to make a call.

The driver was a middle-aged man in his early forties, driving a sports car with his wife.

His face is weather-beaten, full of traces of life.

Jiang Ning asked: "Master, what's your name?"

The driver said, "The surname is Liang."

"Who is it?"

"From Nishikawa."

"People in Xichuan can endure hardships, they are better than us people in Hexi."

"It's all because of life. People in Hexi are also very hard-working."

"I heard that it's hard to run big cars this year?"

"It's not easy to run. There are too many cars and the competition is fierce. I can't make much money."

"Can you earn 30,000 a month?"

"It depends. Sometimes I can earn more than 30,000 yuan if I get good cargo, but there are too few such opportunities. When there is less cargo, I can't even make 10,000 yuan a month. Anyway, after paying off the mortgage, I have no money left after working hard for a year, and all the money goes to the loan company."

"The freight rates to Xijiang seem to be quite high."

"Those who leave Xinjiang can earn money, but those who enter Xinjiang can't even afford gas."

Jiang Ning nodded. The transportation industry has not been doing well in the past two years.

There are too many trucks and the traffic is very crowded, which is of course a good thing for companies and cargo owners, as they can save a lot of freight. However, it is miserable for those who drive large trucks. Running at a loss is the norm in the industry. For example, from Hexi to Xichuan, the freight rates were high in the past and they could make money.

But it's not profitable to come here, and the freight rate offered is not even enough to cover the fuel cost.

Do you want to pull it?

If you carry some goods, you can lose less. If you don't carry any goods and have an empty truck, you will lose a lot of money.

Jiang Ning chatted with the driver for a while and asked, "Can your truck haul wood?"

The driver said: "It can't be pulled, only animals can be used."

Jiang Ning said, "That's a pity. If you can haul wood, I still have goods here. If you can't haul wood, there's nothing I can do. Don't go out. Just park your car here. I'll have someone arrange a dormitory for you. You can eat in our cafeteria. You can leave anytime when you have goods. There's no place for you to park outside."

The driver was quite surprised: "How can I be so embarrassed?"

Jiang Ning said, "It's not easy to drive a truck. Since you're carrying my goods, it's no problem for me to provide you with food and lodging for a few days."

……

After the three sheep with leg problems were slaughtered, most of them were sent to the canteen as extra meals.

Jiang Ning ordered two lamb legs and a small piece of lamb chop.

The lamb legs were prepared to be grilled, and Feng Xue stewed the lamb chops.

The people in the cafeteria knew his habits, so they cut the meat from the lamb legs, removed the chewy tendons and skin, and cut some lamb tail fat, skewered them into skewers of three lean and one fat, and chopped the lamb chops into small pieces before serving them to him.

Feng Xue stewed the lamb chops.

Jiang Ning took out the oven from the warehouse and grilled lamb kebabs in the yard.

If nothing else, just eat lamb kebabs.

He didn't call his parents, brother or sister-in-law, since there was food to eat in the cafeteria anyway.

Today they ordered two lamb legs. There wasn't much meat, just enough for the three of them, so they didn't want to call anyone else.

There are several ovens, not the junk ones you buy outside.

It was made by farm workers using steel plates. It’s a bit heavy, but it works well.

Use a larger one when there are many people, and a smaller one when there are few people.

Jiang Ning moved out the smallest oven, took out the charcoal and lit the fire.

Charcoal is special.

How to eat well is a science.

Jiang Ning is also interested in research, and there is a lot of knowledge involved in barbecue.

For example, grilled lamb skewers skewered with red willow branches are more fragrant than those skewered with iron skewers, but there are no willow trees on the farm, so there is no choice but to use iron skewers.

The most important thing is fuel.

There are many types of charcoal sold outside, and they are all junk.

Jiang Ning never uses it, he only uses apple trees for baking.

The lamb skewers grilled with charcoal made from fruit trees are the most fragrant.

Among them, apple trees are the best.

The charcoal that Jiang Ning used was made by asking workers to saw apple trees as thick as his daughter's wrist into pieces. When the wood was almost burned and there was no open flame, only red charcoal was left, and then the lamb skewers were put on the charcoal to grill.

Moreover, burning fruit wood does not produce harmful substances.

Unlike the charcoal sold outside, only God knows what is mixed in it.

Barbecuing with fruit trees is the most hygienic.

Move the table out and take out the seasoning.

He took out a parasol and held it up to block the sun.

Feng Yu came out holding her daughter and sat under the parasol watching him busy himself.

I casually shot a video and posted it on Tik Tok.

Within a few minutes, there were a dozen likes and several comments.

The first comment was from Zhang Xin: "Your boss Jiang is so laid back. He's such a big boss, but he still has the leisure to cook barbecue for you at home. It's nothing like mine. We only see each other a few times a month, and he doesn't care about anything at home."

Feng Yu replied: "The leaders are all busy."

The little guy was restless and saw his mother playing with her mobile phone.

He stretched out his little hand to grab the phone. Feng Yu quickly put it aside and didn't dare to play with it anymore.

While fiddling with the oven, Jiang Ning smiled and said to the little guy, "Be good, baby. Daddy will grill some lamb for you later."

The little guy put his hands in his mouth and sucked his fingers.

While watching him babbling.

Jiang Ning was busy for a while and the fire was almost lit.

The open flame gradually died down and the wood burned into charcoal.

I pulled up a small stool and sat next to the oven, then took a handful of skewers and started grilling them.

Five skewers of meat were strung on an iron skewer, three skewers of lean meat as big as mineral water bottle caps with two skewers of lamb tail fat in between. The lamb fat crackled in the fire and fell into the oven, causing flames to rise from time to time.

The mutton fat seeped onto the lean meat and boiled on the surface.

Bubbles are popping up densely like bubbles in water.

With this layer of mutton fat, the lean meat will not burn.

If there is only lean meat, the skin will easily burn if it is roasted for a long time.

After five or six minutes of baking, it felt almost cooked.

Jiang Ning took half of it, sprinkled some salt on it, and then sprinkled cumin and chili powder on it.

I turned it over and grilled it a few times before putting it aside.

I tried it first. The surface of the mutton had been roasted to golden brown, but there was a bag of water inside. When I bit into it, my mouth was full of fragrance. The meat was also very good, with a delicate and fragrant texture. It felt better than the mutton from Bei'an and Inner Mongolia.

The difference is subtle, and people who don't eat lamb often really can't taste it.

Feng Yu asked: "Is it cooked?"

"It's cooked!"

Jiang Ning handed her a string and said, "Try it!"

Feng Yu took it, tasted a piece of meat first, then ate a piece of mutton fat, and said: "I feel that the meat is almost the same, but this mutton fat is better than before, fragrant and not greasy at all. Otherwise, if you eat it with your eyes closed, you won't even know that you are eating mutton tail fat."

"Sister, it's time to eat meat."

Jiang Ning called out first, then picked a bunch without seasoning, and carefully blew off the ash on it, while saying with experience: "Sheep tails are good, but if they are not cooked well, they will be too greasy and oily to eat. The tails are most delicious when they are roasted. Otherwise, if you cook a large mass of them, it will make you sick just by looking at them. How can you eat them? Give some to my daughter later."

The little guy also became excited when he saw the meat.

Start feeding complementary food at six months, and occasionally give a little meat to try.

Needless to say, the meat from the farm is all good stuff.

The best thing is the meat you eat at home.

The little guy tasted the flavor and liked to eat meat.

Feng Yu held her daughter in one hand and put a rice bag around her neck with the other hand, saying, "Feed her less. Don't eat too much, or she won't be able to digest it. Her stomach will sink and she'll get upset again."

"I know."

While responding, Jiang Ning took out a bunch of sheep tail fat, peeled off a piece as big as a bean, and fed it to the little guy.

The little guy was a little anxious, with his mouth wide open.

He bit his fingers as well.

Jiang Ning didn't dare to use force and turned his fingers first.

Wait until the little guy relaxes before pulling your finger back.

The little guy puffed up his cheeks and looked like he was eating with great relish.

At this time Feng Xue also came out and sat next to Feng Yu.

He first looked at the child, wiped the saliva from the corner of the little guy's mouth with his hand, and then took a skewer of barbecue and ate it politely, using sign language while eating, to indicate that it was delicious.

Jiang Ning's barbecue is never marinated.

The marinated lamb has no lamb taste when grilled.

The reason why the kebabs sold outside have to be marinated first is either because the mutton is too good and hard to chew, or because the mutton has no taste, so it has to be marinated to add flavor; or because the mutton has a strong mutton smell, and the mutton from the farm has no mutton smell.

The meat of old sheep is too tough, so we use lamb for barbecue.

The meat is tender, so just grill it without covering it.

Sprinkle some salt when it is almost cooked, then sprinkle some cumin and chili powder, so that you can taste the original flavor of the roasted lamb. Otherwise, it will all taste like seasoning, and there will be no taste of lamb. Once you have eaten the roasted lamb skewers from the farm, you will never want to eat them outside again.

While we were eating meat, a big Land Rover drove into the yard.

Jiang Wei and Jiang Ze got out of the car and were surprised to see the family eating barbecue.

Jiang Zexian said, "Okay, eating meat without asking people, is it just your family that enjoys eating meat?"

Jiang Ning simply ignored him: "Why are you here?"

Jiang Wei said, "I figured you were eating meat, so I hurried over here."

Jiang Ning thought he was just farting and didn't even get up.

Feng Yu and Feng Xue quickly got up and asked someone to come.

The two of them teased the little guy for a while before sitting down aside.

Jiang Zexian asked, "I heard that a truckload of sheep from Western Xinjiang arrived today?"

Jiang Ning nodded: "These are two old dead sheep. You two had better not eat them."

"To fool the ghost!"

Jiang Wei took a skewer and started eating, saying as he ate: "Can you eat dead mutton? If you eat it, I will eat it too. It's roasted well. This mutton is good. It tastes better than the mutton in Bei'an. The mutton in Bei'an tastes good when stewed. The roasted skewers are not very good. It's only comparable to the mutton in Inner Mongolia. This mutton fat is pretty good. It feels richer than the mutton fat in Inner Mongolia."

Jiang Ze also took a skewer and nodded while eating.

Feng Xue went into the house and came out with a teapot and cups.

Pour tea for both of them.

Jiang Ning asked, "Why are you two here?"

Jiang Wei said: "If you want to give someone a gift, come and pick a sheep."

Jiang Ning said, "Why would you choose a sheep when you come to me as a gift? There are so many sheep out there, why not just buy one and give it as a gift?"

Jiang Wei said: "Nowadays, people with some status in Bei'an only eat your sheep, and they don't eat sheep from outside."

Jiang Ning asked: "Who is it for?"

Jiang Ze said: "Zhao Weiping."

Jiang Ning was surprised: "Damn, you are really brave."

Jiang Ze chuckled and said, "That's not the case!"

Jiang Ning didn't ask any more questions and took a handful of lamb skewers and continued to grill them.

After roasting for a few times, Jiang Wei took over.

I went into the house and got a bottle of beer, and drank it while eating skewers.

Jiang Ze also asked: "Why is there only mutton and nothing else?"

Jiang Ning said, "We are having some meat as a family, and we don't have any for you. Who knew you two would come?"

The two brothers were speechless. This was really rude.

As we chatted, we talked about the north.

Jiang Wei became excited: "Big Goose is going to use mushroom bombs. Is World War III about to begin?"

Jiang Ning asked: "Who told you that the goose should use mushroom bombs?"

Jiang Wei said: "It's reported in the news every day. Big Goose said it himself."

Jiang Ning sneered, "Wei Ge, how old are you? You still believe this kind of bullshit? That goose monster is good at boasting. He has been shouting that he wants to release mushrooms since the beginning of the war. He threatens this and that every day. Why didn't he release mushrooms when the fight was so bad?"

Jiang Wei insisted: "That's because the goose hasn't been forced into a corner. If it were forced into a corner, it would definitely be released."

Jiang Ning looked at him for a few times: "Didn't you turn goose black? How come you turned goose pink again?"

Jiang Wei denied: "Fuck, I'm just talking about the facts, I'm not a fan of Goose."

Jiang Ning said, "Let's talk about the matter at hand. Can you just throw mushroom eggs around? Whoever throws that thing will be the world's public enemy. Even the Americans don't dare to throw it, let alone the big goose. Unless you make the whole world an enemy, go ask Emperor Putin if he is ready, and then ask the dignitaries of the big goose if they want the big goose to be dismembered and exiled to another country."

Jiang Ze was quite touched: "In the past two years, things have become increasingly unstable. I feel like we are at war. Some people say that a storm is coming. There are all kinds of things. It is becoming increasingly difficult to make money. More and more people are going to extremes. I always feel that the world is going to be in chaos."

Jiang Ning laughed at him and said, "I have never worried about these national affairs, so you two should stop worrying about them. You should count how much money you have in your pocket, earn more money steadily, and live a good life."

Jiang Ze Dang didn't hear it, and said, "I heard that Daye has introduced a new policy to encourage our people to go to the north to lease land for agriculture. Are you interested in getting a piece of land in the north?"

"Not interested in."

Jiang Ning rejected it without even thinking about it.

Jiang Wei asked: "Why?"

Jiang Ning asked back: "Does that goose have credibility?"

Jiang Ze thought for a moment and said, "I heard that the reputation is not very good."

"That's not right."

Jiang Ning said, "When dealing with a group of untrustworthy people, how can you expect them to be reasonable with you? You may have invested a lot of money to get the land ready, but the next moment they are trying to drive you away. I am crazy enough to go to the north to get the land."

Jiang Wei said: "It's the same with the Americans. I heard they are going to check the assets of fellow villagers this year."

Jiang Ning didn't care: "Although the Americans are bastards, at least they can still talk about the rules. They are much better than that goose. As long as they sit down and talk about the rules, there will be room for negotiation. There will always be a solution. Forget about that goose, it only knows how to use fists."

Jiang Wei was a little puzzled: "Why do I feel that you are prejudiced against geese?"

Jiang Ning said: "This is not prejudice, I just understand the nature of the goose better. If you two want to go to the north to become a landlord, you can try it. Get a few tens of thousands of acres of land to plant, and you may make a fortune in a few years!"

The two shook their heads: "If you don't even go, how can we do that?"

(End of this chapter)