Chapter 856

Fortunately, Little Fish didn’t need to wait too long before Yuan Zhou’s roast fish was ready to eat . It wasn’t an exaggeration at all to say that she gazed at it anxiously till her eyes were strained .

“Here’s your roast fish . ” Yuan Zhou carried the plate up and directly put it on the long curved table .

There were no waitresses when BBQ was served . Yuan Zhou could have served the kebabs up to the customers conveniently after they were ready to eat . After all, he stayed close to them and it wasn’t inconvenient, either .

But this “bad habit” was corrected by a muscular man whose name was unknown to the customers . What they knew about him was that he was as strong as a bear but was often frightened by the tricycle old man’s ghost stories . The regular customers all called him Muscular Coward . As an excellent graduate of a business college, Muscular Coward took half an hour to tell Yuan Zhou how excessive it was to serve the dishes up to the customers by himself .

The BBQ time was originally quite limited . It would take at least ten seconds to serve them personally once . And throughout the limited BBQ time, that delay would accumulate to least several minutes . And as was known to all, one serving of kebabs only required a few minutes to roast . In other words, at least one customer couldn’t eat the kebabs throughout the night because of that .

In Chengdu, the average annual humidity was 79-84% while the evaporation capacity was 841 . 1-1066 . 1mm, namely, the average annual precipitation was 750-1000mm . By conversion, one could easily know there were only about 60 rainy days throughout the year . That is to say, more than 60 customers would be delayed in eating the kebabs because of this “bad habit” in a year . Muscular Coward asked Yuan Zhou straightforwardly if he felt ashamed .

Yuan Zhou wasn’t very clear about if he was ashamed . What he really knew was that he felt a headache after Muscular Coward provided him with the above data . So from that day on, Yuan Zhou directly put the kebabs on the long curved table .

Later on, Yuan Zhou got to know this Muscular Coward was employed in the Chengdu Municipal Meteorological Bureau . He was a meteorological observer .

Yuan Zhou thought inwardly, Sh*t! A graduate from a business college went to a meteorological bureau to work as an observer . He stole the job opportunities from the college graduates of Atmospheric Sciences and Atmospheric Sounding Professions .

Coming back to the story . This serving of roast fish happened to belong to Little Fish . On hearing that, she revealed a smile, then lowered her head and carried the roast fish to her own table quickly .

The roast fish in front of her appeared quite intact, including the golden yellow fish skin . It was wrinkled and emitted a burst of scorching fragrance .

The roast fish wasn’t served exquisitely . It was directly put in a fish-shaped wooden plate, of which the size was just enough for the Yellow River Carp .

The scene could be described by a poem, “A carp is in a fish-shaped wooden plate; Little Fish sat in front of the roast fish . ” Well, it was a good poem . It was neither in rhyme nor neat . How great it was!

Apart from that, the fragrance was pleasant . If observed carefully, there were even some white crystalloids under the fish body . They looked like the crude salt used for seasoning .

There were no other ingredients except for these things . It was a very simple fish .

However, Little Fish wasn’t surprised at all .

“I’m looking forward to it so much!” Little Fish took the chopsticks and reached out toward the part where the fish body and the head were connected expectantly .

The first place where Little Fish got started was a piece of fish meat on the back . She always started to eat fish from this place .

The most delicious part was definitely the tail of the fish . As it always moved about, the meat there tasted both tight and chew . However, it didn’t lack tender and smooth texture . Nevertheless, Little Fish still loved eating the meat on the back .

As Yuan Zhou had prepared the chopsticks with sharp ends, she reached out her chopsticks and directly picked up a piece of fish meat as big as a garlic clove .

Wrapped by the slightly bigger skin, the white and tender fish meat was giving off slight steam between the brown chopsticks . There were even glittering and translucent salt particles over the surface . The whole fish appeared to be quite appetizing .

“Awooo . ” Little Fish couldn’t help swallowing it up directly without even picking the small bones out . She prepared to chew carefully and picked them out with her tongue .

As soon as the fish meat entered her mouth, the salt particles over the fish skin immediately melted . Then, the tip of her tongue felt a little saline taste blended with lemon fragrance . However, it was just for an instant because when the saline taste came out, the freshness of the fish meat also came out .

“It’s so fresh . ” Little Fish couldn’t help narrowing her eyes .

That’s right . Along with the salt particles blended with lemon fragrance, the fish meat in her mouth almost melted immediately upon entering her mouth and changed into little pieces of meat . Meanwhile, the freshness rushed straight into her throat . Nevertheless, the fish skin had a gelatinous texture . With some slight chewing, it tasted like the scorched, soft, sticky and tasty skin of steamed buns .

“It’s awfully delicious . ” Little Fish picked up the fish meat continually and muttered at the same time . She ate it bit by bit extremely quickly .

in just a little while, the meat on the back was eaten up, leaving the remaining intact fish body only .

“How is the taste of the fish?” Ling Hong looked at Little Fish for quite a while at the side . Seeing that she suddenly stopped, he couldn’t help asking .

Ling Hong didn’t have the habit of staring at others while they eat during normal times . After all, he wasn’t the Shameless Taotie, Wu Hai . However, today was indeed an exception . This girl was eating the roast fish enjoyably and blissfully . She chewed on and on just like a squirrel . Not only did she attract attention but she also made others have a good appetite .

“Very fresh and delicious,” Little Fish said earnestly .

“Um . I can tell that from your face . ” Ling Hong nodded his head approvingly .

“Really delicious,” after saying that, Little Fish lowered her head and continued eating . She still had the fish belly and the other side left uneaten .

Everyone had their own habit of eating fish . For example, Little Fish liked eating the back of the fish while some others preferred to eat the fat and tender fish belly .

Just like the second cook in the kitchen where Yuan Zhou had worked previously . As long as any customer ordered sliced raw fish, he would keep the fish belly for himself to eat .

This habit was known to everybody working in the kitchen .

Fortunately, the fish belly provided by Yuan Zhou was still intact .

Little Fish peeled the fish meat off along the big fish bones and got a large piece . She directly stuffed it into her mouth .

“Wooo . ” Little Fish suddenly got a shine in her eye and chewed it seriously .

There was a lot of fat in the fish belly . In the past, she would feel it to be a little greasy, but today, the fish belly wasn’t greasy at all . It tasted as if there were some green grass leaves in the fish belly, which covered the fish belly with some kind of fragrant smell .

Besides that, the fish belly today almost melted immediately upon entering her mouth and brought about a kind of abundant meaty smell to Little Fish . It tasted soft and tender as well as sweet and fragrant without any greasy feeling .

The key point was that there was even a slight chewiness and a slightly stimulating spiciness contained inside, which made the roast fish very delicious .

“It tastes so good . ”

Little Fish squinted her eyes and no longer paused this time . She ate up the fish meat on the fish bones and directly turned the fish over to eat the other side .

After she ate up all the fish meat, there was only an intact fish bone left in the fish-shaped plate . Even the meat at the cheeks was eaten up cleanly, not to mention the two white translucent colloid meat at both sides of the fish gills in the head .

Little Fish ate the fish cleaner than the cat did .

She not only ate the fish clean but also ate quickly . The second fish had been barely served by Yuan Zhou when there were only the fish bones left on the plate in front of her .

“Tsk tsk tsk . Boss Yuan, your speed of cooking almost couldn’t catch up to her speed of eating,” Ling Hong said jokingly .

Yuan Zhou looked fixedly at the empty plate in front of Little Fish and then at Ling Hong . Without saying anything, he continued roasting the fish, but more quickly .

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