Chapter 355: 354. Re-Entering the Flea Market (Monthly Pass 69+)
Tomatoes, bitter chrysanthemums, cucumbers, purple cabbage, onions, red peppers, these can be used as vegetable salads.
Li Du used olive oil and lemon vinegar. He also bought yogurt on the way, so instead of salad dressing, he used yogurt for mixing.
Sophie smiled and said, "Will it be very sour?"
Li Du said: "But it will be healthier. If you feel sour, just eat less."
The wet crispy noodle with short fur on his body wandered around under his feet. He put down a small tomato, held the crispy noodle with two paws and washed it a few times, and happily gnawed on the little tomato.
Ah Meow jumped onto the stove looking for dried fish, but unfortunately found nothing, so it continued to sulk.
However, Li Du cooked chicken liver for it, and the tiger cat likes to eat this kind of food very much. After getting the chicken liver later, Ah Miao's sulking anger flew to the sky, and he became happy again.
With the chicken soup, Li Du also stewed a soup, which was creamy mushroom soup.
Sophie goes to bed early, usually eats little at night, and likes to drink soup.
These two soups were paired with a vegetable salad, and Li Du made another dish with mushrooms, fried mushrooms with black pepper.
There is a famous dish in western food, which is fried pleurotus eryngii with black pepper, but they don’t have pleurotus eryngii, but mushrooms. Li Du saw that these white mushrooms are very plump, and he thought it would be good to eat them fried.
He rinsed the mushrooms, dried them with kitchen paper, sliced them, sprinkled them with butter in a frying pan, and fried them over low heat.
Afterwards, he sprinkled a little salt on top. Do not add too much salt. If it is too salty, it will cover up the fresh and sweet taste of the mushrooms. These are all wild mushrooms, and they still maintain a perfect natural flavor.
Finally, sprinkle some crushed black pepper, and this dish is out of the pan, very simple.
Sophie licked her lips when she saw it, and said, "It must be delicious to fry mushrooms like this."
The mushrooms look very good. They are fried in butter until they are golden brown, and they are dotted with crushed black pepper. The color matches, and the mushrooms remain plump and full of color and fragrance.
Li Du handed her the fork and said, "You can try it."
Sophie changed into chopsticks, and said with a smile, "I have to respect the success of your labor. For dishes made by oriental chefs, of course you must use oriental eating utensils."
Compared with the first time eating, her chopsticks are much better.
The taste of the fried mushrooms was as good as it looked. After eating half of the plate, Sophie sighed after taking a sip of the chicken soup: "My God, it's so delicious. I ate too much tonight."
The two of them didn't eat much, Li Du packed a pot of chicken soup and took it away, and gave it to Godzilla after returning to the camp: "Here, supper."
The big Mexican man was overjoyed, and it was a joy to take out the tequila.
He was drinking and eating supper, Li Du asked: "What did you mainly do in the Gulf Group before?"
Godzilla said: "I'm a thug, and I don't participate in drug trafficking and disposal. When there is gang conflict, we go to fight."
He knew what Li Du was worried about, so he said it out.
Hearing what he said, Li Du felt relieved, Godzilla was very smart, and what he was afraid of was that this guy was selling or even manufacturing drugs.
While drinking, Godzilla chatted with him about his past in the gang.
He has only been in the Gulf Group for only two months, but because of his physical strength and experience in fighting and fighting, he is highly relied on in the thugs team.
"Boss, I know that the Gulf Group is a monster in the outside world, but for me, I had nothing to eat at the time. They accepted me and met a few good guys. I am simple-minded and feel very satisfied."
"Then why did you leave later?" Li Du asked.
Godzilla's eyes dimmed, and he said, "There was a battle for territory, we were ambushed, and several good guys died."
Li Du nodded and said, "You realized the danger of the industry, so you decided to leave?"
Godzilla said: "I knew it was dangerous, and I knew we were bastards, villains who deserved to go to hell. I don't know what to say, there are many things, many things happened."
He shook his head, picked up the soup pot and took a big gulp.
Li Du saw that he was in a low mood, so he didn't ask any more questions. He patted Godzilla on the shoulder and said, "Let's talk about this later, but you're wrong about one thing."
He paused, and said with a bright smile: "The others may be bastards, but you are not a bastard, let alone go to hell!"
Godzilla responded with a warm smile and said, "Thank you, boss."
When Hans came over the next day, Li Du said, "Help me find out where there are carriages for sale."
Hans reacted quickly and said, "Why, you found something good from the Amish again?"
Li Du shook his head and said, "No, I owe them a favor."
Hans said: "There must be some in the second-hand market. Let's go to Hessman to have a look. Anyway, we're going to auction the high-pressure fire extinguisher this weekend."
Li Du said: "OK."
Hessmann's auctions are usually held once a week, but if there are more good goods, it will be changed to two auctions a week, one in the middle of the week and one on the weekend.
Spring and autumn are the peak seasons for second-hand goods trading, because people trade more in these two seasons in the face of changing weather.
At the end of August and the beginning of September, although the weather is still very hot, the breath of autumn is approaching, and the flea trade has become even hotter than the weather.
Li Du and the others went to the flea market, and Black Tooth Robbie was riding a horse. When he saw the two of them, he jumped down and said hello: "Hey, Boss Li, Boss Fu, what good stuff do you have?"
Hans said: "Come and see, our good product is the fire extinguisher, and we need a carriage, used by the Amish, do you have any news?"
"You've found the right person, haha." Robbie smiled, revealing a mouth full of black teeth, as if his whole body had been drilled out of carbon ash.
Upon hearing this, Hans immediately asked, "Do you know who has it?"
Robbie nodded and said, "Yes, Jet, that guy has a carriage parked at home, but it's not easy to get it, that guy seems to want to remodel the carriage and sell it for a high price."
Although Hans knew a lot of people, it was for the warehouse auction industry. He didn't know many people in the second-hand trade, and he didn't know this jet plane.
Li Du took out one hundred yuan and handed it to Robbie, saying: "Take us to meet this guy, whether it succeeds or not, the money is yours."
Robbie showed his black teeth again: "Haha, Boss Li is such a straightforward guy, no problem, come with me, by the way, are you interested in horses? I got a good horse."
As he spoke, he pointed to the quarter horse he was riding on earlier.
Li Du was surprised: "Is there anyone else who trades with horses?"
Robbie shrugged and said, "Yeah, the secondhand goods trade used to be possible even with slaves. My grandfather said that his grandfather was traded from Maine to Arizona."
Li Du thought about it, and said, "Your horse seems to be pretty good."