Chapter 194: The Origin of Gold Coins
"Come on, it's time to eat!" Jiang Hai walked to the table with a plate of big lobsters with a smile, and said with a smile to the three girls who had been waiting here for a long time. After hearing Jiang Hai's words, Xiandy Clive, Darlena and Marian all ran to the kitchen to help Jiang Hai carry things. Soon, the large table was filled with food.
Jiang Hai used to be able to cook, otherwise he wouldn't have been thorny and starved to death when he stayed at home.
However, because he had money later, and he was lazy, he was unwilling to open fire at home, so he gave Mrs. Philipmon some money to go to her place to eat every day, but he still made breakfast by himself.
But sometimes, it is difficult for him to have a meal at Mrs. Philipmon's house, for example, in this situation now.
He took Darlene and Marian to go with him, and there was a saying, but Mrs. Filimon might not feel any inconvenience, but Sinty Clive would feel a little uncomfortable.
At this time, he had to pick up his previous skill of holding back his feet and cook a meal.
Fortunately, Western food was not too difficult at first. Well, of course, it is not too difficult to refer to the Western food made by Jiang Hai.
He made four dishes in total, including lobster baked with cheese, steamed abalone with garlic vermicelli, braised sea cucumber, and fried steak.
These four dishes are actually not very difficult to make. Baked lobster with cheese is very simple. First, insert the lobster that Jiang Hai caught yesterday and use a drill to insert it into the tail. This is to put urine, and then knock the lobster to death, which is similar to knocking fish.
Then open the head and tail, throw away the claws on the body, and there is no flesh inside them.
Then cut the shrimp tails with the most lobster meat from the vertical line in the middle and marinate them with salt, wine, ginger juice, etc.
Then put it in the oven and bake it half cooked. After taking it out, spread it with cheese and breadcrumbs on it, then sprinkle some pepper on the top and put it in the oven. Grill the cheese and dissolve it. Of course, the difference between Boston lobster and ordinary lobster is that it also contains a lot of meat in its two large tongs. This one needs to be knocked open and can be eaten.
It is also very easy to steam abalone for garlic vermicelli. Soak the vermicelli first. These are all bought by Jiang Hai at the store of the old man at the last time, otherwise. It is not easy to buy fans in the United States, and people in the United States do not eat this too much.
Then wash the abalone, dig out the abalone meat with a knife, and throw away the abalone's internal organs.
Cut the meat on the abalone a few times, but do not cut it off. You can cut it into patterns like a waist flower, then put the vermicelli into the abalone shell, then put the abalone on it, turn on the heat and stir-fry the garlic that has been made into garlic residue. Then add some steamed fish fermented black beans.
Then spread the fried ingredients flat on top of the abalone, put them in a steamer and steam for five to six minutes. Then, according to your own taste, you can sprinkle some scallions, minced peppers and other things, and then pour boiling oil on it. This is done.
The abalone made after it is fresh and delicious, but the taste is not too strong. In fact, Jiang Hai dug such a large abalone. It is a waste to eat it like this, but it doesn't matter, because some of these things here are.
Roasted sea cucumbers with onion is a very home-cooked dish in China. However, generally speaking, they use dried sea cucumbers. For example, Jiang Hai uses fresh sea cucumbers, but only Jiang Hai has this resource. After all, fresh sea cucumbers melt after being exposed to the air for more than ten hours.
It was not a few hours before Jiang Hai caught these things. He ate them, so he dared to use fresh sea cucumbers.
As for the final fried steak, it is relatively untechnical. The main aspects of the steak are two: one is Huohou and the other is marinated. Jiang Hai's steak is all chilled. Mrs. Philipmon helped him marinate it. As for Huohou, he only ate fully cooked ones.
Neither Darlena nor Marian had any objection to this. In the past, they couldn't eat steak, so now they don't care how cooked it is. Sinty Clive doesn't care. To be precise, she also likes to eat cooked ones.
Although the four dishes seemed to be small in quantity, the amount was definitely large enough. The lobster weighed eight or nine pounds. Jiang Hai used at least half a pound of sea cucumbers, and Jiang Hai steamed eight of the big abalones of half a pound, and each of them had two, and there was also a steak. It was enough to be enough, about three or nine pounds a piece. He made ten yuan. It was not easy to finish it with him and three women alone.
"Come on, have dinner!" After putting everything on the table, Jiang Hai also shouted, have dinner on.
He did not believe in Christ, so he naturally would not do the prayer before the meal.
With Jiang Hai's order, Darlena and Marian here also picked up chopsticks and started eating.
Originally, these two girls would not use chopsticks, but with Jiang Hai there, they would not use them, but they would have to use them.
As it turns out, these children are indeed quite smart. They have been using them for several months and have made them look pretty. Perhaps it is difficult to pick up some things like beans that are difficult to pick up, but picking up ordinary things is still not a problem.
As for Sinty Clive, it is not the first time he has eaten here, so he naturally won’t be restrained.
"By the way, have you read that notebook? What is it written?" After killing a large piece of steak in a few bites, picking up nearly one-third of the lobster tail with one chopstick, and then eating another huge abalone, Jiang Hai's stomach calmed down for a while, then turned his head and looked at Xianti Clive and asked. Xianti Clive also knew that Jiang Hai had such a temperament.
So I didn't care about my ladylike image. I started talking while eating the lobster meat on my plate.
"I probably understand it. The person who wrote this diary was named John Wiltod, a British naval major. The things recorded above should be during the Second War of Independence."
Hearing Xiandy Clive's words, which was similar to what Jiang Hai thought, Jiang Hai couldn't help but ask: "Is it written in English?"
"Yes, but it's normal for you to not understand, because this is not the English you are learning now, but the traditional English, which is somewhat similar to the ancient Chinese language? Well, this description may not be correct, but it is also similar." Seeing Jiang Hai's puzzled gaze, Xiandy Clive explained with a smile.
It turns out that English has not been like this since its appearance, and it is still like this. English is constantly evolving and evolving.
So far, there are two branches of English: one is from the UK and the other is from the US.
In fact, in Jiang Hai, the words between the two sound similar, but in some small grammars and details, English and American English have branches that seem obvious in them, as if they are all Northeast dialects, and they are completely different from Liao and Heilong Province.
It may look a bit similar to outsiders, but locals can clearly distinguish them.
This notebook is written in English. But it is not the current English, but the British English that has not been simplified two hundred years ago. It is precisely because of this that most of the words are separated and Jiang Hai knows them, but he doesn't understand them a little.
"It's like this..." He probably explained to Jiang Hai. Xiandy Clive also ate almost the same food. He picked up his notebook and told Jiang Hai. In her explanation, Jiang Hai probably understood the story.
Speaking of the War of Independence, most people will think of the Eight Years of the United States from 1775 to 1783. It is precisely because of these eight years of war that they became independent countries in the world and got rid of the colonial rule of Britain, France and other countries.
But what most people don’t know is that the United States actually held the Second War of Independence.
The time took place between 1812 and 1815. This history is not very glorious, because there was no winner in the end.
The cause of the war was that when Napoleon, a dwarf in Europe, wanted to unify Europe, all the European countries were declining, but only the Russian Russians were dissatisfied. When the dwarf saw it, I would fuck you if you didn’t agree!
Then he went to find the Russians, but ended up losing a crushing defeat under the snow and ice of the Russians. When the Europeans saw him, he said, "Ho, it turns out that you are not that powerful!" The trees fell and the money scattered, and the walls fell and everyone piled up.
Then Europe entered the Napoleonic War stage, and the human brain became a dog brain, and the smoke was filled with smoke. Napoleon was surrounded by powerful enemies outside, and the French royal families and nobles inside did not stop and wanted to restore the throne.
In the end, the dwarf lost, and the Second War of Independence of the United States broke out at this time. They also wanted to get a share of the pie, but Europe did not dare to go, so they turned their attention to the neighboring, more developed Canada and wanted to occupy Canada.
Canada is the territory of Britain, so naturally it would not agree, and both sides started to do so. Originally, Americans believed that Napoleon could hold on to Europe for a longer period of time. Who knew that Napoleon was defeated so quickly that Britain invested more troops on the battlefield. As a result, on the Northern Line, Britain played triumphant songs all the way, and the first one was Maine. Massachusetts was naturally not spared, and once attacked Washington, the capital of the US, and burned a torch.
However, because the front line was too long, the army landed in the south was defeated by the US army in several battles.
Finally, in 1815, the two sides ceased to fight and the border was restored to its original state.
The protagonist of this notebook was the captain of a supply ship in the British Navy at that time. When he came this time, except for basic supplies, he only placed one thing on the ship, military pay, because at that time, the money was naturally extremely chaotic. Only hard currency, gold and silver coins were collected by soldiers, and the amount of silver coins was too large.
So this time, he was ordered to escort a hundred boxes of gold coins and handed them to the soldiers on the expedition. However, the ship arrived, but the US military counterattacked. In order to save the gold coins and to escape, he ordered the gold coins to be thrown into the ocean at that time in boxes, and then quickly escaped, and then caught them after they were brought back. But he must have never thought that his ship was sunk by the US military. The US military found nothing on his ship, and he also disappeared forever with this secret.
It was not until two hundred years later that Jiang Hai, who wanted to eat abalone, got it into his hands.
"One hundred boxes! Guru, this time it's developed." Listening to the story of Xiandy Clive, Jiang Hai's mouth also got higher and higher... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!