Chapter 449: Barbecue
The celebration party was almost over by 8:30.
The adults were still sitting at the dining table, but the little girl had already finished eating and started playing.
The barbecue party starts at 9:30.
Considering that there are quite a few people in the garrison, there are several hundred of them, so they can only give up the small places such as the rooftops of office buildings and commercial buildings, and choose the address in an open place, on the square or on the beach. After all, the beach is better.
In fact, Su Xia originally considered holding a dance party after the celebration banquet, but thought it would be a bit awkward to dance instead of appreciating the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival. People can dance at any time, but there are not so many opportunities to appreciate the moon. So, the dance party was replaced by a barbecue party, which was just right for appreciating the moon while eating barbecue.
The only problem now is that I just had dinner, so how can I have the appetite for barbecue?
Of course, this is not a problem at all for foodies and big eaters like Akagi and Quincy.
"I want a bunch of grilled cabbage ."
"I want a grilled mid-wing."
"I want a skewer of grilled squid."
In order to give everyone a chance to participate, many barbecue spots were prepared on the beach. Regardless of how other people's barbecue spots were, Su Xia's barbecue spot was very popular. So much so that he was very busy. The huge barbecue stove and the stainless steel grill were all filled with food for everyone.
"Admiral, you go and have a rest. I'll help everyone with the barbecue." Lexington is a caring wife.
"It's okay." Su Xia said. He really enjoyed helping everyone prepare the barbecue. It was very satisfying to be needed.
After brushing the beef skewers and chives with seasoning for the last time, Su Xia’s habit was to brush all the seasonings, whether it was soy sauce or oyster sauce, honey or soy sauce, cumin powder or chili powder, and she shouted, “Wichita, your beef skewers are ready… Gaga, Gaga, your chives are ready too.”
Wichita was playing cards with Nevada, Indiana, and others. Small bets are good for the heart, but big bets are bad for the body. When he heard Su Xia's voice, he ran over to get the beef skewers and left. He ate while walking. It didn't matter if the beef skewers were a little burnt. Saratoga came late and just stood in front of the barbecue grill.
"Jia Jia, don't you want to eat?" Su Xia said, "Didn't you order grilled leeks?"
Saratoga crossed her arms and said, "It's my grilled leeks...but I ordered the grilled leeks for you, my brother-in-law."
"I don't need you to order grilled leeks for me." Su Xia said. He already had his favorite barbecue, a large cut chicken leg.
"Really?" Saratoga said nonchalantly, "I heard that you slept in Bei's room last night, and you were up until five o'clock in the evening... No, it should be five o'clock in the morning. You didn't go to bed until five o'clock in the morning. Don't you really need to make up for it?"
Su Xia looked at the blonde girl, who was wearing a white dress today and standing in front of the grill. She said, "I slept in Bei's room last night, but who told you that we didn't go to bed until five o'clock in the evening... five o'clock in the morning?"
"If it wasn't five in the morning..." Saratoga asked, "then what time did you go to bed?"
"Three o'clock is the worst that can happen." Su Xia said this and then realized that he was being tricked by Saratoga.
"It's not too early after three," said Saratoga.
"I was playing games until two o'clock, and then I found something else..." Su Xia thought about what happened yesterday. The old driver was really the old driver. She shook her head, "So... I went to bed a little late."
"What's going on?" Saratoga asked curiously. It seemed that the admiral was not just staying in Bei's room, but there was something else going on.
Su Xia took a brush and greased the remaining barbecue on the grill, turned them all over, greased them again, and said indifferently: "Do you think I'm that stupid? A Saint Seiya will not be defeated by the same move twice."
"If you don't tell me, I can only guess." Saratoga said, "I hope my brother-in-law doesn't mind my wild guesses."
"I don't care." Su Xia said.
"We played games until two o'clock, and went to bed at three o'clock, which means less than an hour." Saratoga saw that threats were useless, so she changed her approach. She picked up the bamboo skewers with leeks and put them in front of Su Xia, "Let's give this roasted leek to my brother-in-law. It will nourish him."
Su Xia raised her head and hands. If she hadn't been holding a brush in her hands, and if she hadn't been inevitably stained with seasoning when she was brushing the barbecue, she would have attacked her face without hesitation.
Saratoga grinned, stuck out her tongue, picked up the roasted leeks and ran away.
“Is the fire too big?”
"You can turn it over now."
"Bring me a pair of chopsticks."
“What kind of seasoning is this?”
New Jersey ran over, poked the barbecue on the grill with chopsticks, and rubbed oil on the barbecue with a brush, without any courtesy. The oil dripped into the charcoal fire and started a big fire. He didn't even know how to move the barbecue to the side. He just shouted and yelled beside them, and threw all kinds of messy things on the grill from time to time.
Garlic oysters, squid strips, mushrooms, saury... Su Xia looked at the increasing number of barbecues on the barbecue net and said, "New Jersey is ready."
"Are my grilled mid-wings ready?" Guangrong ran over at this time.
"Okay." New Jersey skillfully found a plastic bowl, picked up a slightly burnt grilled wing with chopsticks and put it into the bowl. He then found another pair of chopsticks and put them on the plastic bowl, then handed it to Guangrong. "Thank you for your patronage. Five dollars."
Guangrong took the plastic bowl, blinked, and was a little confused for a moment.
New Jersey is fun. Rebellious girls like to try new things.
As New Jersey joined, more people joined the barbecue. Mutsu, Newport News was also an unreliable guy. Su Xia withdrew with a grilled whole wing. The chicken drumstick he had originally grilled for himself had already been taken away, and it was good enough to have a grilled whole wing.
While eating grilled whole shark fin, Su Xia strolled around, watching the little girl building a sand castle, trying the grilled fish at one barbecue stall but it was a bit salty, trying scallops at another barbecue stall, and walked to the long table with moon cakes.
In addition to mooncakes, there are also moon-viewing dumplings. Those are prepared by the Japanese. Unlike the mooncakes that Chinese people eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Japanese eat glutinous rice dumplings, also known as moon-viewing dumplings, a white dumpling made of glutinous rice, when they enjoy the moon.
Su Xia picked up a mooncake casually, wondering where the mooncake he stuffed a coin into was and who would eat it. He broke open the mooncake and found lotus seed paste and egg yolk filling.
Su Xia ate half of the mooncake and looked up at the night sky. The round moon was hanging high in the sky. She suddenly thought of the saying - the full moon brings families together. Her mother's favorite saying was that the moon is fullest on the 15th and 16th. She smiled, but suddenly couldn't control her tears.
