Chapter 49: Roast Meat

  The May Day holiday is still a real seven-day holiday, and CCTV will broadcast "Happy Holiday" for seven days.

  Before the holiday, the head teacher was still busy assigning homework to them.

  And there's even comparison!

  Teacher Wang had only prepared three sets of papers, Gu Xiang was originally going to take them and leave, but the English teacher from Class 2 and the English class representative came in with an even bigger pile.

  Looks like he just came from the printing office.

  Mr. Wang took one step forward.

  The English teacher of Class 2 is surnamed Zhao and has less seniority than Teacher Wang.

  Teacher Wang directly asked: "Little Zhao, where did you find so many test papers?"

  Teacher Zhao waved his hand and said: "Just those two copies that our group unified, I casually took out two more."

  Teacher Wang quickly pulled out a few and took a look. Among these, there was one test paper that Teacher Zhao had written himself.

  Mr. Wang said: "Little Zhao, this volume of yours is quite good! Let me take a look." Then, without waiting for Mr. Zhao to speak, he pulled Gu Xiang and left.

  Mr. Wang took Gu Xiang to the printing room next door.

  In the printing room, Wang teacher directly cut in line, took Zhao teacher's papers and copied more than 50 copies, and asked Gu Xiang to take them back to the classroom together.

  So the English homework went from three pages to four, and Gu Xiang was left staring in shock.

  Mathematics and language arts each have three volumes.

  Of course, there is also some review and recitation of oral homework.

  Teacher Ren and Teacher Jiang's homework are of normal difficulty, mainly still letting classmates review independently.

  Teacher Wang's test papers are relatively poor in quality. The two sets of papers from the teaching and research group are very recognizable because they are more basic. Teacher Zhao's test papers have a small degree of difficulty, with many trap questions. Teacher Wang's own papers make people want to laugh.

  Teacher Wang's own test paper, Gu Xiang quickly scanned through it and found that many words were unfamiliar to her!

  On the first and second days of the month, Gu Xiang helped her mother with a day's work.

  After a year, she grew up a lot taller and looked like a little adult.

  Also helped Mom Gu with two business deals.

  But her eloquence is far inferior to Gu's mother.

  For example, a long-sleeved item costs 15 and is sold at a minimum price of 20.

  She was once haggled down to 18, originally couldn't sell, but looking at the woman holding a child, actually only a few years older than herself, tanned and dark, carrying one on her back and holding another in her hand, looked quite pitiful.

  She was sold out then.

  The people of Xiang are also honest, when they are busy and can't get away, if they encounter someone with a loud mouth and a hoarse throat who wants to quarrel, she can only shout for her mother to come and rescue the scene.

  Gu's mother puffed out her chest and directly chased people away, those who didn't leave she scolded.

  Moreover, Gu Xiang felt that her mother's scolding was quite powerful, although it rarely contained dirty words, the effect was still very good.

  "Gu's mother continued to scold: "There's no lid under the Liberation Bridge, and no one is stopping you from jumping... The mush in your brain has flowed out, hurry up and get a pig's bladder to fill it up... Outsiders coming to our place to cause trouble, I'm using Mandarin to argue with you just to give you face!"

  If it weren't for the unsuitable atmosphere, Gu Xiang would have applauded her mother, this is simply a master of quarreling.

  After helping out for two days, Gu's mother drove Gu Xiang away, complaining that she was not only slow with her words but also messed up the prices and caused trouble.

  But Gu Xiang knew her mom would definitely be heartbroken for her.

  Standing in the store for a whole day is really tiring! Her throat has been hoarse for two days, her calves are sore and swollen, and when she rode her bike at night, Gu Xiang felt like her feet were going to fall off.

  As soon as I got home and lay down on the bed, I didn't even want to take a bath, all I wanted to do was sleep.

  I also don't know how her mother managed to hold on!

  Fortunately, she has a strong recovery ability and felt nothing after waking up from her sleep.

  Gu Xiang calculated the days, and the rumor that Jiefang Road Shopping Mall was going to be demolished also spread during this summer vacation. She had made up her mind to let Gu's mother sell the store!

  This hard-earned money is really exhausting!

  On the third day, Gu Xiang slept in and had a big lazy morning. She first went to buy some groceries near her home to cook lunch, then sent lunch to her mother.

  Although there were many people in the store, it was already something that Mama Gu could handle by herself.

  Gu Xiang went home and stopped by a supermarket on the way, she had an appointment with Tang Lulu at 4 o'clock.

  Tang Lulu suggested having a picnic at the time, and Gu Xiang wanted to barbecue.

  She just casually mentioned that barbecue requires fire, and tools are needed. Would parents be willing to lend their tools to these half-grown kids? Moreover, although the forest park doesn't charge an entrance fee, it's not like they can just let a group of kids play with fire inside, right?

  But Tang Luolu said that her mother likes picnics and barbecues, so they have all the tools at home. She's been doing this since she was a kid, and her dad is also very reassured. Moreover, her father knows someone in the park, so it's safe for her to barbecue there too.

  All of Gu Xiang's worried problems were solved at once!

  Gu Xiang wanted to directly call her Doraemon.

  A few people counted together, Tang Lulu was in charge of bringing equipment, Gu Xiang brought some tableware and tablecloths, and the others all said they would bring food ingredients.

  Gu Xiang set a standard of 30 per person for everyone.

  But Gu Xiang couldn't really bring nothing, the tablecloth was used last autumn outing, so Gu Xiang bought a dozen plastic plates and a roll of paper towels, a pack of paper cups, and a pack of disposable gloves at the supermarket.

  Then she went to the market and bought scallions, eggplants, yams, bok choy, and also bought pepper powder, chili powder, cumin powder, etc.

  She didn't buy much meat, just some marinated chicken wings and bone-in meat, after all, since we're going out for a barbecue, everyone's dishes are bound to be mostly meat.

  One bought and ran away to 50.

  There are a lot of things, her trunk is full, and there are two plastic bags hanging on the dragon head.

  Napkins and plastic plates were packed and placed on the back seat.

  Just like refugees.

  She sent a text message after going home asking Tang Lulu if she could give her a ride in the morning.

  Since Tang Lulu's home route to the forest park must pass by Gu Xiang, Gu Xiang thought of making an appointment with Tang Lulu at a midpoint, and she would wait there.

  Tang Luolu said "I was going to call you tonight, I even told my dad that you definitely can't bring your stuff down. Don't come out, I'll go straight to the bottom of your building."

  In the evening, Gu's mother came back and saw a pile of things spread out in the living room. She asked Gu Xiang what she was going to do.

  Gu Xiang was busy for the past two days and had a headache, forgetting to tell her mom that she wanted to go out and have some fun.

  When she finished speaking, Gu's mother also slapped her forehead: "Tomorrow is already the 4th? Your cousin said tomorrow he wants to bring Hao Hao to take a look at the middle school, and I even invited him to come to our house for dinner."

  Xiao Hei Pang wants to come see the school?

  It's just as well, anyway. The junior high school entrance exam is coming up in mid-June, so it's good that he came to take a look ahead of time if he wants to attend Hua Lu Middle School.

  Gu Xiang said: "If you don't have time to cook, just take them out to eat."

  "Mom Gu originally thought that Labor Day holiday would definitely not have time to cook and entertain them, planning to take them out to eat at a restaurant, so she asked Gu Xiang: 'Will you be able to come back home for lunch?'"

  There is a direct bus from here to the Forest Park, and it takes more than 20 minutes by bus.

  It's no fun if you go in the morning and come back at noon.

  Gu Xiang said no, but seeing her mom was quite reluctant, she laughed and said: "You guys go eat, I still have one more meal to eat."

  Gu's mother glared at her.

  Gu Xiang bought a disposable cup and prepared to bring drinks. At home, they had 2L bottles of Sprite and Coke left over from the New Year's celebration.

  The next morning, Gu's mother helped her carry it down together.

  Tang Luolu saw that she was still carrying drinks and said that she had also brought some, so Gu Xiang didn't need to bring any. As she spoke, she opened the trunk for Gu Xiang to see.

  Tang Lulu brought a large bottle of Huiyuan fruit juice and a box of canned coconut milk.

  But Gu Xiang had already picked it up and put it away.

  Adding Tang Luoluo's grill and charcoal stove and so on, the two people's things filled up a whole trunk.

  After putting away the things, Gu's mother was afraid that she didn't have any money on her and gave her another 50 yuan. She also asked her to thank Tang Lulu's father.

  Tang Dad is very polite to Gu Xiang, with a smile on his face all the time.

  Tang Lulu wore a white lace-trimmed blouse today, simply tied her hair into a ponytail, and the whole person looks very exotic.

  Gu Xiang was still wearing the ash-gray sportswear from last autumn's outing.

  Although it's a bit loose compared to before, Gu Xiang was still very happy. The clothes on her body had loosened up quite a bit and the sleeves that originally covered her hands now just reached her wrists.

  She's grown taller and thinner again! ~\(≧▽≦)/~

  On the way, Tang Dad asked Gu Xiang: "Is your recent study tense?"

  "It's okay, we're almost at the end of the semester, and our teacher is helping us review."

  "Dad Tang said: 'Our family's Lu Lu still needs your help a lot, this child is just not careful enough.'"

  Gu Xiang was taken aback for a moment, and if Tang Lulu didn't take it seriously, she wouldn't know what to say either.

  "We help each other out, haha." Gu Xiang winked at Tang Lulu, and Tang Lulu cleverly changed the subject.

  They were supposed to arrive at eight o'clock, but they arrived at seven forty.

  After sending them away, Dad Tang didn't leave directly, but instead carried the barbecue rack and drinks to go in with Tang Lulu to find a place.

  Gu Xiang was waiting at the door.

  Soon, Li Wei and Lin Jiahuan arrived one after another.

  Lin Jiahuan and her cousin took the bus, while Li Wei was driven by her mother.

  They also have a lot of things.

  It was 8:10 and Chen Yue still hadn't arrived.

  Lin Jiahuan was a bit unhappy: "She's got so many things on her mind and she's late! What's the point of bringing her along?!"

  Gu Xiang changed the subject and asked her: "How did your mom agree to let you come out?"

  Lin Jiahuan's mother had a good impression of her before, but after the rental card incident, it was impossible to be like before. As soon as she heard that Lin Jiahuan came to find her, she let her go.

  Lin Jia said with a smile: "My mom is working overtime, so I live in my uncle's house. My uncle doesn't care about me."

  Lin Jia Huan's brother next to him heard it and huffed in anger: "My dad is better to you than me!"

  Lin Jiahuan's younger brother is quite short, only about 1.5 meters tall, and he is also thin, with a mushroom haircut, looking like a small soybean sprout.

  Gu Xiang was delighted by his words and patted his hair: "Later, sister will roast meat for you to eat."

  Xiao Douya's face turned red and she hid behind Lin Jiahuan, refusing to come out.

  Gu Xiang almost burst out laughing.

  She hadn't even smiled yet when she saw Chen Yue coming from the platform.

  And it's not just her! Xu Lu is also following behind her!

  Wait! Behind Xu Lu are Ning Peng and Chai Zi Yu!

  I'm so angry!

  Tang Lulu's dad hasn't left yet!

  Lin Jiahuan and Li Wei also saw it, their facial expressions were quite subtle.

  Li Wei was because of introversion, Lin Jiahuan was because she had a crush on Ning Peng before and felt uncomfortable when she saw him coming.

  Gu Xiang put the things on the ground and let Lin Jiahuan and Li Wei wait for her here, and also instructed: "After a while, Tang Lulu and her dad will come out, just say that I met my classmates to greet them, don't mention those people are with us!"

  Lin Jiahuan was also startled: "Tang Lulu's dad hasn't left yet?!"

  Gu Xiang quickly ran over and blocked his way.

  Gu Xiang was going to settle the account.

  If it was just a coincidence that we met after school last time, then this time she's purely being used as a shield!

  Chen Yue didn't expect Gu Xiang to come over with such a fierce attitude.

  Gu Xiang usually gives people the impression of being a kind and gentle round-faced chubby girl, speaking very softly and rarely getting angry.

  "Chen Yue, why are you late? What's with all these boys?"

  Chen Yue was taken aback and his tone weakened: "I... I'm late, sorry about that. I asked you earlier if you could bring someone, and you said yes..."

  Gu Xiang chuckled: "When you asked at the time, Lin Jiahuan said she wanted to bring her brother, and you asked me if I could bring someone too. Everyone thought you were going to bring your siblings," then glanced at Xu Lu, "No one knew you were going to bring your boyfriend."

  Chen Yue and Xu Lu both blushed when they were mentioned as "boyfriend", and didn't know what to say.

  People who normally don't have a temper, when they do get angry, no one dares to provoke them. Gu Xiang scolded and interrogated them relentlessly, and they didn't dare make a sound.

  Chai Zi Yu spoke up because he normally got along well with Gu Xiang, so their relationship was better than ordinary classmates. He came out to mediate and said: "We just heard that you guys were going out to have fun, and we followed over ourselves."

  Ning Peng and Chai Zi Yu are just Lu Rou's smoke bombs, Gu Xiang didn't want to care at first, but after thinking about it, she happily followed up and said: "Right, we were originally a group of classmates coming out to play, and coincidentally met. Then Vice Class President, you're here, organize us to play together haha."

  Chai Zi is in big trouble. Ning Peng and Xu Lu have a good relationship, but Xu Lu always asks for help and Ning Peng agrees every time. Not only does he help himself, but also drags him along! Now, he's become the mastermind!

  Gu Xiang went to see Lin Jiahuan and the others, they said that Tang Lulu's dad had already come out, and told them to go to the empty space next to Shi Qiao.

  Fortunately, Tang Lulu's father did not find out that Gu Xiang was not there, thinking she had gone to do something else, and didn't ask much. After reminding them to be careful, he left.

  Everyone has arrived, and they are all classmates, so Gu Xiang can't drive them away.

  Chen Yue and the others had turned their faces away from Xiang before, but then they turned back with a smile, thinking that she was just saying something to vent her anger, and happily followed along.

  Only Chai Zi Yu was silently crying, didn't anyone understand what that little fatty meant by her words?!

  Everyone brought enough food, but as Gu Xiang thought, everyone brought chicken wings, chicken legs, and five-flower meat, while Lin Jiahuan directly let her brother carry a huge piece of beef.

  Fortunately, Tang Lulu also brought a knife, so they could still cut it, otherwise, I really don't know how to eat it!

  Before Tang Dad left, he helped them set up the barbecue racks. When they were ready to start barbecuing, all they had to do was string the ingredients on the skewers.

  Lin Jiahuan carried a spare badminton racket, and Li Hui brought a kite.

  Tang Lulu brought poker and chess.

  Gu Xiang's family had only mahjong, so she didn't bring anything else.

  It was all pre-arranged, and they sat on the tablecloth playing cards.

  Chen Yue and Xu Lu stood side by side with their heads together whispering to each other.

  Ning Peng and Chai Zi Yu walked around the nearby area for two laps.

  This park is called Forest Park, but actually it's just a lot of trees and grass.

  Inside there is also a stone bridge and a stone table, which are open to citizens for free.

  If you really want to say something interesting, there's nothing here either.

  The two of them wandered aimlessly around the park and then borrowed badminton rackets from Gu Xiang and her friends, playing a game on the side.

  They played cards quickly for a while, Gu Xiang taught them to play poker, chatting and playing cards at the same time, until 10 o'clock.

  The four of them found a faucet to wash their hands and started preparing lunch.

  Others didn't want to take advantage of the situation either and said they would come to help too.

  Gu Xiang began to assign tasks. Ning Peng and Chai Zi Yu were in charge of cutting the meat, especially the large piece of beef that Lin Jia Huan brought, which needed to be cut into slices.

  Because there was no folding dining table, the two of them carried a few pieces of meat, along with knives and chopping boards to the stone table by the lake to cut them up.

  Li Wei and Tang Lulu, Lin Jiahuan are in charge of stringing up food, Chen Yue and Xu Lu are responsible for washing the fruit.

  Gu Xiang himself was in charge of roasting meat and sprinkling seasonings.

  Lin Jiahuan's little brother Lin Xiaoyu had been listening all along without being assigned to himself, so he tiptoed to look at Gu Xiang.

  Gu Xiang was teased by him until she couldn't take it anymore, so she made him hold the plate and wait beside her. Once it's roasted, she'll serve everyone.

  Gu Xiang used old newspapers to stuff into the charcoal heap, and then fanned it with a newspaper on the side, and the charcoal slowly ignited.

  This task looks simple, but if you haven't done it before, it's also quite time-consuming.

  After arranging a row of meat and vegetables on the grill in an orderly manner, Gu Xiang felt that he had a very chef-like demeanor.

  She was afraid of grasping the fire improperly, so she covered the grill with more aluminum foil. Those easier-to-cook scallions and eggplants were placed on the foil to roast.

  Tang Lulu's charcoal is all smokeless, not very smoky. It's just very hot, and Gu Xiang soon rolled up his sleeves.

  Chicken wings, chicken legs and bone-in meat, as well as pork belly were all roasted.

  Tang Lu and her two friends strung together for a while, soon they were all done, and Gu Xiang, who was sweating profusely, said she would come to replace her.

  Just then, Chen Yue and Xu Lu returned.

  After washing the fruit for almost half an hour, Gu Xiang naturally let them take over the barbecue position.

  Gu Xiang pulled Tang Lulu and others, each holding a small plate of meat to slack off.

  Tang Luoluo opened a can of coconut juice for each of them, and drinking it was also refreshing.

  The meat is very filling, and after one person finishes a plate, it feels like they've had enough, having only eaten half of Gu Xiang's roast.

  Lin Jiahuan's little brother is still quite able to eat, but he hasn't eaten his fill. He can't eat meat anymore, so he ate some more leeks and eggplant.

  Ning Peng and Chai Zi Yu also returned from over there.

  Gu Xiang added another tablecloth next to theirs.

  This is all she has, and if everyone brings things according to their headcount, it's hard to know how to deal with it now.

  Xu Lu and Chen Yue also baked a batch.

  However, their roasted dishes were clearly not as meticulous as Gu Xiang's, with one side burnt and the other half raw, and the seasonings were also carelessly added.

  But they also ate it themselves, and Gu Xiang wouldn't say anything about it.

  But Lin Jiahuan's beef was reluctant to be wasted by Gu Xiang, now that she had eaten her fill, she took matters into her own hands again.

  Chai Zi Yuhe Ning Peng's beef slices are still cut with care, and each slice looks quite decent.

  It's just this piece is a bit bigger, it's almost as big as her palm.

  Ku Xiang didn't mix it up, directly spreading it out on tin foil and baking.

  After flipping several times, all the oil was roasted out, and then sprinkle some cumin pepper.

  Gu Xiang put five or six pieces in each of their plates and also ate a little himself.

  Everyone ate their fill and still only finished more than half of what was brought.

  The meat was so greasy that they really couldn't eat it anymore. Gu Xiang was afraid that the few boys hadn't eaten enough and didn't dare to say anything, so she roasted a few more sweet potatoes and let them share and eat.

  After dinner, everyone ate some apples and oranges, which made them feel less greasy.

  After sitting for a while, Gu Xiangxin calmly and neatly instructed Chai Zi Yu and the three big boys to gather all the barbecue things together. As for the barbecue rack, since the charcoal on it had not been extinguished yet,

  She took Tang Lulu to fly kites.

  Ning Peng and Chai Zi are usually not people who can be ordered around by anyone, but now the two of them have been used thoroughly.

  Ning Peng packed his things while scolding Xu Lu: "This is all for helping you! You'd better remember us!"

  Xu Lu said little, and just grunted an "en" sound.

  Chai Zi Yu just smiled and scolded Ning Peng: "Originally, Xu Lu only said to let you help with the cover-up, but you heard that they were going out for a barbecue and wanted to follow along."

  "Eh, haven't you ever played with this before?" Ning Peng said: "Right? If my dad and mom knew I was cutting meat outside and touching the carbon frame, they would have to remember to jump up. You say these girls are so brave?"

  Roommate came back drunk at 11+, vomited, cleaned up after her and the floor... Tomorrow when she wakes up I'm going to kill her!