Chapter 856 - Muscular Coward (1/2)

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.