Feng Ruoruo was also very happy when she heard her father say that the paintings she and her good friend made were the best gifts for his father.
The little girl hugged her father and said, "Dad, you have to keep our paintings and put them in your kitchen so you can see them anytime."
After hearing what his daughter said, Feng Yifan smiled and nodded: "Okay, listen to my daughter. When grandpa's restaurant is renovated in the future, I will post it on the wall of the restaurant. I will set up a special wall to post the paintings of Ruoruo, Xixi and Feifei, okay?"
The three little girls were immediately delighted and clapped their hands when they heard this.
"Great! Dad, remember to put these three up."
“Father Feng, we’ll draw it for you later, and you can put it on too.”
"Then we have to draw a lot, otherwise we won't be able to fill up the entire wall."
Feng Yifan smiled and said to the children, "Sure. I'll put up all your paintings on the wall so that the guests who come to eat will know that we have three little painters in our family."
Hearing her father say this, Feng Ruoruo shouted happily: "Okay, okay, Ruoruo wants to be a little painter."
Yang Xiaoxi naturally followed suit and said, "Xixi likes painting and wants to be a little painter."
Chen Yaofei said with a smile: "Well, the three of us can all be little painters. We should learn painting from my grandma and become better at painting in the future."
Everyone listened to the conversation between the three little girls and Feng Yifan, and everyone's face was filled with smiles.
Of course, Yang Zhiyi still felt a little sad, after all, he and his daughter were not that close.
Fortunately, when Yang's father was feeling jealous, Yang Xiaoxi suddenly ran to his father and raised the painting in his hand to show his father.
"Dad, take a look, is Xixi's painting good? Dad Feng said Xixi's painting is very good, and he wants to make a wall in the future to put up Xixi, Feifei, and Ruoruo's paintings."
Seeing his daughter running towards him, Yang Zhiyi immediately put away his sourness, hugged his daughter with a smile and said, "Xixi's painting is really great. My daughter is really amazing."
Yang Xiaoxi smiled happily at first, then hugged her father's neck and said, "Dad, I think Feifei draws the best. Xixi is not as good as Feifei. And Ruoruo's drawing is really big. She drew the whole place where Dad Feng sets up his stall to do business."
After hearing his daughter's words, Yang Zhiyi encouraged her softly: "It's okay. Our Xixi paints with the most colors. Look at your painting. There are so many colors, more than Ruoruo and Feifei, so Xixi's is not inferior to them."
Hearing his father say this, Yang Xiaoxi felt very happy.
"Hehehe, thank you, Dad."
Yang Zhiyi hugged his daughter and said, "You're welcome. Xixi will always be the best in daddy's eyes."
Chen Yaofei also took the paintings to show her grandparents.
The little girl also received praise from her grandparents.
Chen Yaofei also asked her grandparents: "Will mom and dad like Feifei's paintings?"
Grandma immediately said, "Of course I would like it."
Grandpa continued, "Then let's take this painting back tonight and show it to Mom and Dad when we video chat at night, okay?"
Chen Yaofei wanted to say yes, but after thinking about it, she said, "But? This painting was supposed to be given to Father Feng."
Feng Yifan heard it and said with a smile: "It's okay, Feifei can take it home to show mom and dad first, and then you can bring it back to dad Feng tomorrow."
Grandma also said: "Right? Let's take it home to show Mom and Dad, and then we'll bring it back tomorrow."
This idea was also approved by Chen Yaofei.
While everyone was chatting, Lin Ruifeng brought Shen Qingluo to the restaurant.
Seeing his apprentice coming, Feng Yifan put his daughter down from his arms and said, "Okay, Uncle Xiaolin is here. Daddy and Uncle Xiaolin are going to prepare things for the evening. Can you go play with Xixi and Feifei?"
Feng Ruoruo looked at her father and asked, "Then Dad, can I go in with Xixi and Feifei to watch you and Uncle Xiaolin get ready?"
Feng Yifan smiled and asked, "Aren't you three going to learn painting from Grandma Feifei?"
When Feng Ruoruo heard her father ask this, she immediately fell into a little dilemma.
The little girl wanted to go into the kitchen with her good friend and watch her father busying around, but she also felt that she should learn painting from Grandma Feifei, otherwise when her father prepared the wall, they would have no beautiful paintings to put on the wall.
Feng Ruoruo was in a little dilemma and couldn't make a good choice for a while.
Feng Yifan looked at his daughter seriously and said, "Ruoruo, although you are still young and may not understand, Daddy thinks you should know that many times you have to make choices, that is, if you want to get one thing, you may have to give up another thing. You have to choose now, do you want to go into the kitchen with Daddy? Or do you want to learn painting from Grandma Feifei?"
Originally, everyone thought that it was not a good idea for Feng Yifan to let his daughter make such a choice, after all, the child was still young.
But now after hearing what Feng Yifan said, everyone feels that children do need to make choices.
You must know how to make choices and be responsible for your choices.
Feng Yifan called Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei to his side. Facing the three little girls, his face was not serious. He just asked with a smile: "What is your choice now? Do you want to learn painting well? Or do you want to go to the kitchen with Father Feng and Uncle Xiaolin?"
Su Ruoxi then said, "If you three go to the kitchen, you won't be able to learn to paint properly. When our restaurant is renovated in the future and we put up paintings on your walls, you won't have any nice paintings to put on the walls."
Hearing this, Yang Xiaoxi immediately said: "Then Xixi must learn to paint well."
Chen Yaofei then said: "I will also learn to paint from grandma."
Finally, Feng Ruoruo was the only one still hesitating.
The little girl seems to be still thinking about how to choose
After thinking for a long time, Feng Ruoruo suddenly said, "Dad, we can take the sketchbook and go to the kitchen with you and Uncle Xiaolin. Then you and Uncle Xiaolin can prepare, and we will draw beside you. We won't disturb you."
Feng Ruoruo's words made everyone stunned at first, and then grandpa and grandma all laughed.
Yang Zhiyi laughed loudly and said, "Chef Feng has met his match. As expected, Chef Feng's daughter is amazing. She can think of such a way to have the best of both worlds. Let's see what you are going to do?"
Feng Yifan looked at his daughter and felt a little amused when he proposed this idea to her.
But he still shook his head: "No, the kitchen is not big, and Dad and Uncle Xiaolin will be very busy. If you are in there, it will disturb us and it will also disturb you, so you can't draw in the kitchen, and the kitchen is not a place to draw, right?"
Under her father's persuasion, Feng Ruoruo finally compromised and made the same choice as her good friend.
"Okay then, Xixi, Feifei and I will paint together, then can we go to the stall with dad tonight?"
Feng Yifan smiled and nodded: "Of course, before we go to the stall, let's have dinner together first, and then go to the stall, okay?"
When the little girl heard her father agree to set up a stall, she naturally smiled happily and said, "Okay."
Feng Yifan then stood up, asked his daughter to go to his wife, and said to everyone with a smile: "Everyone sit down for a while. Ruifeng and I will prepare dinner before we go out to the stall. In this way, the children can play at the stall for a while at night and go back directly after dark. Please help take care of the children."
Grandpa Feifei smiled and said, "Xiao Feng, you don't have to be so polite. In fact, we are the ones who are bothering you. The children don't have to go to kindergarten, but can come to your place to play together. This saves us a lot of worry."
Grandpa Xixi also said: "Yes, it is your Su Ji that has saved our two families a lot of trouble."
Yang Zhiyi said, "I agree with Chef Feng's arrangement to have dinner first. We can also go back early. I may need to write a manuscript in the evening."
When Yang Xiaoxi heard what her father said, she immediately said, "Dad, you go back first. I still have to go set up a stall with Ruoruo, Feifei and Father Feng."
Yang Zhiyi smiled and said to his daughter, "Dad is not in a hurry to go back. Dad can stay with you. After eating Dad Feng's dinner, he can go back."
Yang Xiaoxi said again: "Dad, you only know how to eat. Didn't you say you were going back to write a manuscript? And you're still eating."
When Yang Zhiyi heard what his daughter said, he was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry: "But, even if you want to write an article, you have to eat enough."
Yang Xiaoxi pouted and hid in her grandmother's arms and said, "Huh, Dad just likes to eat."
The grandmother hugged her granddaughter and agreed, "That's right, your father is a foodie, a glutton, he only knows how to eat and never pays for it. Let your father pay for dinner tonight. He writes so many manuscripts every day and earns so much money. Let him treat us all to dinner tonight."
When Yang Xiaoxi heard what her grandmother said, she immediately smiled and said, "Okay, I'll let Dad pay for it tonight."
Yang Zhiyi felt really helpless. Why must his little cotton-padded jacket be like this
Fortunately, Su Ruoxi said in time: "You don't have to pay. A dinner is not worth much. Besides, we have to eat at home at night. Don't be so polite."
Lu Cuiling also said: "That's right, the vegetables in the store are all grown by us. We don't eat much meat for dinner, so they are not worth much. Don't ask us to pay for it. That would really treat us as outsiders. We don't welcome you to come in the future."
Faced with what the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law said, everyone could only happily agree not to give them money.
Then, at Chen Yaofei's call, the two little girls quickly finished their work together and continued to learn painting from Grandma Feifei.
Perhaps because they could put their paintings on the restaurant walls, the three little girls started to learn very seriously.
In order to make it easier for the children to draw, Su Ruoxi specially found high chairs so that the three little girls could sit on them at the same level as the table.
Chen Yaofei’s grandmother also taught very seriously, writing and drawing the names of dishes on Su Ji’s small blackboard with chalk.
With just a few strokes, Li Xiuchun can draw very beautiful little animals.
Not only did the three little girls find it interesting, but the parents present were also amazed. Even Shen Qingluo, who had learned to paint, thought Grandma Feifei was amazing.
While the children were learning to paint, Feng Yifan and his apprentices were busy in the kitchen.
However, while preparing the goods, Feng Yifan gave his apprentice a few reminders.
"Ruifeng, you still need to continue practicing your knife skills. You haven't practiced much recently, so your knife skills may be getting worse. If you want to be a good chef, knife skills are definitely the foundation, a very important foundation, so you must resume practicing knife skills."
Lin Ruifeng nodded seriously and agreed: "Okay, Master, I will practice well."
At this point, Feng Yifan gave Lin Ruifeng another idea: "In the next period of time, you can set up a stall, so you will have less time to practice knife skills. Don't practice with potatoes and radishes. Practice with pumpkins. Remember, no matter how busy you are, you must persist for at least 5 hours a day."
Lin Ruifeng immediately agreed: "Okay Master, I will try my best to find more time to practice."
Feng Yifan nodded: "Well, I hope you can stick to it and adjust your time."
As he spoke, Feng Yifan had already put the eels into a net bag and handed it directly to his apprentice: "You will be responsible for blanching this batch of eels tonight. Remember to separate the eels' backs and bellies."
Lin Ruifeng also reached out to take it, then quickly put the pot on the stove and boiled the water in the pot.
Then add ginger slices and scallion knots to the boiling water, pour in some rice wine, and finally put the eels in the net bag into the pot.
When the eels in the net bag are put into the pot and exposed to boiling water, they will naturally start to tumble immediately.
The boiling water in the pot started to splash out of the pot in an instant because of the eel's flipping.
When Lin Ruifeng saw this situation, he did not panic too much. He picked up the wooden pot lid next to him and placed it directly on the boiling pot.
It won’t take long before the eels in the pot will be scalded to death.
But it cannot be cooked for too long, otherwise the eel meat will become tough.
So after blanching and cooking it for a while, Lin Ruifeng opened the lid of the pot and immediately took out the net bag from the pot.
Then soak it in cold water for a while. After it cools down a little, take it out and drain the water.
Then take the eel out of the net bag, and then use a bamboo skewer knife to cut open the eel.
Before the apprentice was about to take action, Feng Yifan said, "Wait a minute, are you missing a step?"
Lin Ruifeng was stunned for a moment, looked at his master, and subconsciously opened his mouth to ask, but saw that his master's face was very serious, and he swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
Fortunately, when Lin Ruifeng looked at the eel on the chopping board, he quickly remembered the step he had missed.
He did not clean the white solidified mucus on the surface of the eel while taking a shower.
Lin Ruifeng quickly cleaned it under the faucet.
Then he took the eels back one by one and started to cut them open with a bamboo skewer knife.
There are certain skills involved here. The bamboo skewer must be inserted along the midline of the eel's abdomen and back, then cut along the internal spine to the bottom. After cutting, cut off the eel's head and clean out the internal organs. Finally, remove the spine connected to the eel's back.
In this way, an eel is completely disassembled and divided into: eel back, navel, and spine.
Feng Yifan watched his apprentice work carefully and pointed out some problems from time to time.
Although Lin Ruifeng is not as fast as his master, he still works very hard and tries his best to completely decompose each eel.
As for some of the cut eels, Feng Yifan naturally would not waste them. He kept them aside and prepared to use them when cooking in the evening. This would allow his apprentice to get training while also avoiding wasting anything.