After a while, the door was opened! A typical ethnic minority man stretched out his arms and hugged Huo Dazhuang.
"Hahaha, Adasi, are you back from your business trip?"
"Yes, Adasi, I just came back from Beijing. I missed your pilaf, so I came to visit you!"
"Oh, the pilaf won't be ready so quickly. It'll take another hour. Why don't you eat some naan first?"
He followed her inside. Ye Zhiqiu was carrying forty or fifty kilograms of luggage, and it was quite tiring to carry it for such a long time.
After putting down his luggage, he looked around the environment. Isn't this just a normal home decoration?
After putting his things away, Curry pulled Ye Zhiqiu over to sit down. Noticing the confusion on Ye Zhiqiu's face, he introduced him, "This is a private restaurant. They only serve acquaintances. Don't tell anyone about it outside."
It turns out that this is a secretly run restaurant, but it’s not a good idea for Huo Dazhuang to do this and bring people like him along, right?
Ye Zhiqiu asked curiously: "Brother Kuliban, what does Adasi mean?
"Adasi is just a friend to us, which is the same as being a comrade."
Fang Wenhai whispered, "It's hard to explain. It's actually a local term of endearment. If they call you that, you can call them that. If they call you friend, you can call them friend too. The same goes for comrades."
Ye Zhiqiu nodded quickly to indicate that he understood. The baked naan here was very big. The man brought up four naan and some milk tea, then ran off to get busy.
Ye Zhiqiu thanked them and took the milk tea. After taking a sip, he found it was salty! Then he saw them breaking up naan bread and putting it in. Only then did he realize that they were eating it with naan bread soaked in water. This was really embarrassing!
However, Ye Zhiqiu was thick-skinned and followed suit, breaking the naan into pieces and dipping it in the milk tea.
I figured it out a bit, I guess it's because the naan doesn't have much flavor. Soaking it in salty milk tea, the naan absorbs the milk tea, which not only softens it but also makes it flavorful. It's a unique way to eat it.
Then people knocked on the door one after another. Ye Zhiqiu saw Huo Dazhuang, and they smiled and nodded at each other, and sat aside without interfering with each other.
However, Ye Zhiqiu saw that they ordered naan and barbecue, and that they were served very quickly. He couldn't help but ask, "Company Commander, how much is the barbecue here? Why don't we try some too? I've never tasted barbecue like this before!"
Huo Dazhuang replied, "What's so good about it? It's a dollar a skewer, that's ridiculously expensive! When we arrange to have mutton later, I'll have Curry grill two skewers for you. It'll taste just as good!"
Kuliban shook his head and said, "Captain, I can't do that. This is meat roasted in a naan pit, and we don't have a naan pit to roast it."
Huo Dazhuang was suddenly choked. Do you think he doesn't want to eat delicious barbecue? The key is that the monthly allowance is so much. How can he have so much money to spend?
Although Ye Zhiqiu didn't know that it was because the company commander was too poor and had no money, he really wanted to try this thing, so he took out a big black ten and handed it to the company commander Huo Dazhuang.
"Captain, I'll treat you all. Please arrange for the barbecue as well!"
Huo Dazhuang's movements were very fast, and the Big Black Ten was in his hands in an instant. He shouted with a smile: "Adasi Adasi, bring me four skewers of barbecue!"
The person inside responded, and Huo Dazhuang smiled and said, "As expected of someone from the capital, you're so generous! Everyone, thank Comrade Ye Zhiqiu. He treated us to pilaf and barbecue!"
Both of them smiled and said thank you. Although Ye Zhiqiu changed from treating everyone to barbecue to paying for everything, he didn't mind it. He didn't lack the money.
The barbecue was served soon. It was said to be a skewer of barbecue, but it actually used over a pound of lamb! The large chunks of meat were roasted golden and sprinkled with cumin powder. It smelled especially fragrant!
Ye Zhiqiu looked at the amount of barbecue and asked curiously, "Such a large portion, it must be more than a pound. How much is the mutton here, Company Commander?"
Curryban laughed and said, "Haha, when buying sheep, there's no weighing. They just calculate the price of each head!"
Ye Zhiqiu scratched his head. Are the people here so arrogant? They don't weigh the mutton when they eat it, they buy it by the head!
Huo Dazhuang explained with a smile: "Don't listen to what Curry said, they are the ones who buy meat this way, the rest of us have butchers who weigh the meat when we buy it.
The situation here is special, as meat coupons are issued based on ethnicity. Han people are generally given three kilograms of meat coupons per month, and beef and mutton are sold for 50 cents per kilogram.
Although pork is not widely eaten here, it's also because few people raise it. Even with a meat coupon, it costs 80 cents per pound."
Ye Zhiqiu thought it was really cheap. In the capital, mutton cost 65 cents and required a meat ticket, while beef cost 70 cents.
However, the beef and mutton here are both oily, probably not as oily as in other places, so people prefer to eat pork.
Huo Dazhuang distributed the barbecue to several people. Ye Zhiqiu took it and started eating with everyone else.
The lamb here had only a slight mutton smell, and although it looked dry, it actually wasn't dry at all, but rather tender and juicy!
Everyone was hungry because they hadn't had breakfast, so they all started eating.
Ye Zhiqiu finished the barbecue quickly. The feeling of eating meat in big mouthfuls was really great!
It would be even better if it was paired with beer, but unfortunately there was some beer in his space, but it was not easy to take it out and drink.
As for other alcoholic beverages, Huo Dazhuang made it clear on the train that drinking is not allowed when going out on missions.
We ate the naan while chatting, and waited for more than twenty minutes before the pilaf arrived.
Unexpectedly, there was quite a lot of meat in the pilaf. Ye Zhiqiu enjoyed it very much because it was his first time eating it and the taste was very novel.
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