After packing up their things, Feng Yifan and his group drove down the mountain from the camp on the hillside. Everyone was still sitting in the business car driven by Feng Yifan.
Yang Zhiyi drove Feng Yifan's new off-road vehicle and was responsible for pulling back all the things brought up the mountain.
But when I got back, there wasn't much left.
Because I had basically eaten almost everything I needed to eat yesterday and this morning.
Feng Yifan and his team planned to take the remaining food down the hillside, find a farmer in town to borrow his stove to cook and eat at noon, so that they could feel completely relaxed when they returned.
Along the way, Yang Zhiyi followed behind Feng Yifan's car, and saw the three little girls in the car laughing and talking happily. He was really envious. But he could do nothing about it, after all, someone had to drive the other car down the mountain.
At the same time, Yang Zhiyi secretly decided in his heart that if he went out in the future, he would just take one car.
Because we had experience going up the mountain, the journey down the mountain was relatively smooth.
Soon the car drove down the mountain and, following the instructions on the road signs, turned into a small town at the foot of the mountain with gray tiles, white walls, a small bridge and flowing water.
Seeing the scenery in the small town, Feng Yifan couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Oh? There are so many Hui-style buildings in this place?"
Li Xiuchun, who was sitting in the back row, said: "Hui-style architecture is not only found in Huizhou, Jiangnan."
Shortly after entering the town, there were special people in front of us instructing all vehicles to park in the parking lot outside the town.
Feng Yifan and his friends also followed the rules and drove the car into the parking lot outside the town.
After parking the car, Yang Zhiyi got out and asked, "We park the car here, what should we do with the things in the car?"
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Do you think it's a pity? Then you can carry it on your back."
Yang Zhiyi rolled his eyes at Feng Yifan and said, "Why do you want me to carry you? Don't expect me to do all the work alone. I won't carry you."
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Okay, if you don't want to carry it, then don't carry it. Just leave it in the car."
Su Ruoxi asked worriedly, "But if we don't take the things with us, what will we do with the remaining things?"
Feng Yifan responded to his wife: "Don't worry, we can just take the rest back home. We can also process it in the kitchen after we get home. If we can't cook it for the diners, we can eat it at home, or make meals for the staff."
Hearing that her husband had a way to arrange it, Su Ruoxi nodded and said, "Well, that's good. We can't waste it."
Feng Yifan said: "Of course we can't waste them, these are all good things."
Hearing that he didn't have to carry the food himself, Yang Zhiyi was immediately very happy. He put his arm around his wife and wanted to take his daughter with him to walk towards the town.
But Li Feier and her daughter avoided Yang Zhiyi's hand almost at the same time.
Yang Xiaoxi said bluntly: "Dad, don't pull me, I want to wait for Ruoruo and Feifei to leave together."
Li Fei'er also said: "What are you doing? You are touching me in public with a child around."
Yang Zhiyi was scolded by his wife and daughter, and felt helpless when he was despised.
Seeing this, the old couple Chen Shoulin and Li Xiuchun also laughed.
Chen Shoulin said: "In the past two days, our father has worked very hard. Not only does he have to work, but he also has to be the source of our happiness. It's really too hard. We should give him more encouragement."
Li Xiuchun also said: "Yes, yes, at noon, I will reward you with a big chicken drumstick."
Yang Xiaoxi heard this and said, "Grandma, we kids also want to eat big chicken legs."
Feng Ruoruo and Chen Yaofei followed suit: "Yes, we want chicken legs too."
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Okay, let's find a place to eat chicken legs at noon."
When Yang Zhiyi heard about food, he became excited. "I heard that the specialty of this town is the clay pot chicken cooked in an earthen stove, with pancakes on the edge of the pot. We must find the best one to try at noon."
Chen Shoulin said: "Of course I have to try it. I haven't eaten clay pot chicken for many years, especially clay pot chicken with pancakes."
Feng Yifan closed the car door and locked it, then called out to everyone, "Okay, let's go quickly, take a walk around town, and find the best clay pot chicken restaurant so we can have a good meal at noon."
Feng Ruoruo immediately asked curiously: "Hey, Dad, don't you cook lunch?"
Feng Yifan said to his daughter, "At noon we eat what others cook. You always eat what dad cooks. Don't you feel sick of it?"
Feng Ruoruo said immediately: "It's not greasy, Dad, you cook the best."
Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei also said, "Yes, Mr. Feng's cooking is the best."
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll continue cooking for you when we get back. At noon today, we'll go try some of the local specialties and try the clay pot chicken with pancakes."
The three little girls were curious and asked, "Dad (Feng Dad), what is a clay pot chicken pancake?"
The adults heard this and said in unison: "Don't worry, you will know when you see it."
The little girls didn't ask in a hurry and followed the adults out of the parking lot.
I have to say that although the town is beautiful with its flowing water under small bridges and gray tiles and white walls, the parking lot outside the town is not very good.
Especially when the road is gravel, dust will be raised when cars enter and exit.
So when they walked out, Feng Yifan and the others also protected the three little girls.
We quickly walked out of the parking lot and finally officially entered the town.
The environment in the town is completely different from that in the parking lot.
As soon as you enter the town, you will see an ancient stone bridge. Under the bridge is clear gurgling water, and some residents of the town are washing clothes by the water.
The three little girls were also surprised to see those people hitting the clothes on the stones with a wooden stick.
"Hey, Dad, what are those people doing?"
"They are beating the clothes with sticks."
"But why hit the clothes? Did the clothes do something wrong?"
Li Xiuchun said with a smile: "That is not beating the clothes. When washing clothes, use the stick to gently tap them to knock off some of the dirt on the clothes. Then, the clothes will become clean."
This relatively old way of washing clothes in the town really surprised the little girls.
I stood on the stone bridge and looked down carefully for a long time.
He even squatted down, held his little face with his two little hands, and stared at it carefully.
The aunties who were washing clothes below looked up and saw three cute little girls squatting side by side on the bridge watching, and they all smiled kindly.
"Wow, these three little girls are so beautiful."
"Whose children are you?"
"He's really handsome."
"Yes, all three little girls are very cute."
Hearing the comments and questions from the aunties below, the three little girls felt a little embarrassed and quickly stood up and hid behind the adults.
Seeing the little girls being shy, the aunties who were washing clothes below all burst into laughter.
Feng Yifan turned around, looked at his daughter and said, "Don't be shy, the aunties are praising you, go and say hello to them."
With her father's encouragement, Feng Ruoruo was still the first to stand up and speak.
"Hello, my father said you were washing clothes, and you were hitting the clothes with that stick to get rid of the dirt in them, right?"
With Feng Ruoruo taking the lead, Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei naturally became bolder.
The two little girls also came forward to Feng Ruoruo.
Yang Xiaoxi asked: "Aunt, don't you usually use a washing machine?"
Chen Yaofei also asked: "Aunt, if you beat me like this, won't my clothes get damaged?"
The aunties who were washing clothes below heard the questions from the three little girls and they all smiled happily.
One of the aunties said, "You three little cuties have a lot of problems."
Another woman answered, "We usually wash clothes here, and then we hit the clothes with this stick. We will be careful not to damage the clothes."
"Yes, do you want to come down and take a look? You can also try beating them with a stick."
After hearing this, the three little girls were naturally eager to try it out.
Seeing that the girls were eager to try, the adults took the children down to take a look.
Following the guidance of the aunties who were washing clothes, Feng Yifan and his companions first walked down the bridge, then went around to the stairs on the embankment beside the stream, went down the stairs, and walked along the stream to where the aunties were washing clothes.
The three little girls saw the water and found it very interesting.
After coming to the aunties, the little girls squatted down, reached out and gently touched the flowing water.
I found that the water was not very cold, and it was very comfortable, just like the water in the stream on the hillside.
An auntie smiled and said, "We use natural stream water here, which flows down from the mountains. It's all good water. You will hardly find it in the city."
The two mothers also asked their children to be careful.
The father followed closely to prevent the little girls from slipping into the water while playing.
Soon, the three little girls all got the sticks given by the aunt.
Holding it in their hands, the three little girls realized that the stick was quite heavy.
The little girls tried to hold it with one hand, but it seemed like they couldn't hold it.
In the end, the three little girls also held the sticks with both hands.
Although the stick was raised with both hands, when the little girls tried to hit the clothes, it was obviously difficult to hit with the stick held with both hands.
And the stick was indeed quite heavy, so after the little girls lifted it and hit it a few times, they gradually became too tired to bear it.
Putting down the stick, the three little girls said almost in unison: "Oh, it's so heavy."
Seeing the looks of the little girls, the aunties who were washing clothes all laughed.
Feng Yifan and the others also laughed, thinking that the three little girls were so cute and interesting.
After letting the children play for a while, Su Ruoxi and Li Feier said together: "Okay, when you've had enough fun, give the things to the auntie. She still has to do the laundry."
"Yeah, let's not bother others all the time."
The little girls then returned the wooden sticks to the aunt who was washing clothes.
The aunties took it and squatted down to continue washing clothes.
But when they were about to leave, Feng Ruoruo suddenly asked, "Aunt, my dad said you have delicious clay pot chicken pancakes here, but Xixi, Feifei and I have never eaten it, so we don't know what it is."
After hearing what Feng Ruoruo said, the aunt who gave her the wooden stick experience smiled and said, "Oh, so you want to eat clay pot chicken with pancakes? Then come to my house later. My cooking skills are very famous in the town."
The other aunts also agreed.
"Yes, let's go to Aunt Yao's house to eat."
"Sister Yao's cooking skills are definitely the best in town."
"You are in for a treat. Sister Yao wouldn't easily cook for outsiders."
"The cooking skills of other clay pot chicken shops in this town are not as good as Sister Yao's. You must not miss it."
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After being praised by the people in Tong Town, Aunt Yao smiled and waved her hands: "Okay, stop helping me, Wang Po, to sell melons. Hurry up and wash your clothes."
Let everyone continue to dress, and Aunt Yao said to the children and parents: "You can go around the town first. When it is almost noon, go to the house on the east side of the town near the market. My family lives over there. I will prepare food for you and wait for you to eat."
Feng Yifan immediately said, "Sister, I am really sorry to trouble you."
Others followed suit and expressed their gratitude to Aunt Yao.
Feng Ruoruo pulled Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei, and the three little girls said to Aunt Yao in unison: "Thank you, Auntie."
Aunt Yao immediately said happily: "Okay, you're welcome. I'm very happy to make this lunch for you three little cuties."
Then, after watching the children follow the adults away, Aunt Yao squatted down and speeded up the washing of clothes.
After going up, Yang Zhiyi asked curiously, "Do you think that Aunt Yao is as skilled as they say?"
Li Feier asked: "Do you think they are bragging?"
Yang Zhiyi said: "I have a feeling that what they said is a bit exaggerated."
Feng Yifan glanced towards the town and saw that it was bustling with people, and looking around the town, there were indeed various clay pot chicken restaurants all over the street.
He thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps what Aunt Yao and the others said is right. The clay pot chicken restaurants in this town may not taste very good."
Yang Zhiyi asked: "Then are we really going to Aunt Yao's house to eat?"
Feng Yifan nodded: "Of course I will go."
Yang Xiaoxi immediately said to her father, "Dad, we have to go. We have already told Auntie about it. Auntie will be sad if we don't go."
Feng Yifan said, "Yes, Xixi is right. We have already made an appointment with them, so we will definitely go."
Yang Zhiyi nodded and said, "Then let's go and try it. It's just a lunch anyway. We'll be back in the afternoon, so we can just have a bite for lunch."
Yang Zhiyi was obviously reserved about Aunt Yao's cooking skills.
This doesn't mean that he is arrogant and looks down on others.
In fact, it is mainly because after seeing Feng Yifan’s cooking skills and tasting too many of Chef Feng’s delicacies, I am not so concerned about other so-called cooking skills and delicacies.
Feng Yifan was somewhat looking forward to it. He felt that since Aunt Yao was praised by others, it meant that the earthen pot chicken pancakes she cooked must be of some quality, so he also had expectations for Aunt Yao.
But in the following time, I still accompanied the mothers and three little girls to visit the town.