"Absolutely, absolutely, this craftsmanship is absolutely amazing."
The girl was shy, Bai Jiandong took a sip of the beer poured by his daughter-in-law, and another mouthful of pork head, beautifully slapping the table.
"Just now I just smelled it and felt that the lo-mei was similar, but when I tasted it, I felt that my expectations just now were not enough. I have lived for more than forty years, and it is the first time I have tasted such a good taste. Tasty pork head."
The conditions of the Bai family are good. The elders on both sides of the husband and wife are in good health, plus they have pensions, so they don't really need the support of their children. In addition, there are four or five brothers and sisters in both of them. Therefore, when working in the factory before, the small family with dual employees saved a lot of money, unlike the Yan family who owed debts everywhere. Speaking of which, the Yan family borrowed a lot of money to buy a house from the Bai family.
Bai Jiandong's hobby is ordering wine, no matter beer or white wine or rice wine, anyway, he must drink some with meals every day. He is a frequent customer of several delis in the nearby vegetable market, and he must have those side dishes at home.
After eating the lo-mei served by Yan Chu and taking a sip of beer, Bai Jiandong felt that the three yuan and five bottles of beer at his house were not worthy of the taste of the lo-mei, and spoiled the good meat.
"Daughter-in-law, hurry up and bring me my old flower carving, this meat has to be paired with good wine."
Bai Jiandong took another piece of pork cheek, which creaked and became more delicious as he chewed it, and he couldn't bear to swallow it down his throat.
"You're the one who has a lot to do." Jiang Yahong glanced at her man, "Xiao Chu, your uncle doesn't drink this beer, so my aunt will drink it with you."
Speaking of which, Yan Chu is also an eighteen-year-old boy, and it is normal to drink some beer. Anyway, when the two families ate together before, the men in the family, including Yan Chu, would drink, and even the women would come. a cup.
"Auntie, I've eaten. These are specially brought for you."
Yan Chu waved his hand, it's almost ten o'clock, and it's embarrassing to stay at Bai's house.
"Why don't you be polite to us, and talk to Lingling by the way." Jiang Yahong went back to the kitchen to get old flower carvings for her husband, Zhun took three extra bowls, she and Yan Chu drank beer, and Bai Ling got a bowl of fruit juice.
"Are there any good movies recently? You young people shouldn't stay at home every day and go out for a walk more. Didn't it be said on TV that you can get twice the result with half the effort if you are in a happy mood, and studying hard is not a good thing."
Parents are strictly guarding against the problem of puppy love, which is not a problem in Yan's family and Bai's family.
At the beginning, there were rumors of the love affair between Yan Chu and Bai Ling in the class, and the teacher called the parents of both parties to the school as if facing a big enemy. Who would have thought that Yan Chu's parents and Bai Ling's parents would turn around and persuade the teacher, saying that their two families are different? The children have been married since they were young. These two children are good, and they can't do what they shouldn't do, but they play well since they were young. You can't stop them from playing just because they grow up. Parents are happy to see a child find a partner. First, there is no delay in learning, and second, there is no bad influence. Let the teacher turn a blind eye and close his eyes and don't take it to heart.
In the end, it wasn't the teacher who criticized and educated Yan Chu and Bai Ling, who in turn was almost brainwashed by the adults on both sides.
Jiang Yahong feels that she is quite open-minded. You said that they found a good partner at the age of 17 or 18, and there were many people who got married and had children at the age of 20. On the contrary, the times have progressed. I have found a partner. There is a problem with this thinking.
However, the school is strictly controlled, and Jiang Yahong feels that there is also his reason. After all, the children are all spirited like monkey spirits. Who knows that they will steal the forbidden fruit with a wrong eye. should.
So that time when the teacher called their parents over, Jiang Yahong didn't feel that the teacher was meddling, but felt that the teacher was quite responsible, as long as the communication was over and the words were spoken, there would be no problem.
"I heard from my classmates that there seems to be a new set of textbooks recently released, which is quite specific for mathematics. Lingling and I are not very good at mathematics. Why don't we go to the bookstore near our house tomorrow to find out if there are any for sale. "
What Yan Chu said made the future mother-in-law very happy. No matter how enlightened the parents are, they still attach importance to their children's studies. It is also because Yan Chu and Bai Ling's academic performance is not bad. It won't be such a relaxed and happy attitude.
"I want it."
Jiang Yahong nodded again and again, and gave her daughter a pig's ear with chopsticks: "Mom will get you the money later, and I will go to the bookstore with Xiao Chu to read books tomorrow."
"Hey!"
Bai Ling was about to eat the pig's ear that her mother gave her, when she heard her mother's sudden exclamation.
"Is this stewed meat your own?"
Jiang Yahong covered her mouth and said inarticulately, she didn't dare to make her mouth too big, she was afraid that the fragrance in her mouth would burst out as she spoke, it was so fragrant, the taste was indescribable.
She is not a woman who has high requirements for the taste of food, but she can eat it with such a not-so-sensitive tongue. There is a new aftertaste.
What she is eating now is a piece of lean pork, which is usually in the lo-mei. The lo-mei in this part will be a bit woody, and the taste is not as good as the fat part, and it is not as chewy as the pork head meat.
Originally, Jiang Yahong wanted to eat these large pieces of lean meat by herself, and save the good parts for her husband and daughter, but after this import, she realized that she had guessed wrong.
This is not firewood but tasteless, it is simply too delicious, the more you chew it, the more delicious it is, you can't bear to swallow it.
Can pork be so delicious? Thinking about her cooking skills, Jiang Yahong felt that her life was wasted.
"My mother and I thought about it together. Don't you think the deli is too expensive?" Yan Chu didn't say anything about the recipe.
"Absolutely."
Jiang Yahong gave her thumbs up again and again, then picked up her husband's wine bowl, and took a sip of his Huadiao. Like Bai Jiandong, she suddenly felt that the cheap beer wholesaled by her small supermarket was not worthy of the braised meat.
Bai Ling was trembling just now when she smelled the scent in her own room, but a little girl at this age is just at the time when she wants to look good, and she was still a little bit against this big piece of fat in her heart, but now her parents are showing it So amazed, she couldn't help picking a piece of pig's ear and putting it in her mouth.
The pork ear bones are very crispy, and the pork skin is deliciously stewed, slightly spicy, which stimulates the taste buds.
One piece, two pieces, Bai Ling couldn't help speeding up the movement of chopsticks.
The plate of lo mei was quickly wiped out by the efforts of the Bai family. Yan Chu only drank the half glass of beer in front of him the whole time, without moving a chopstick.
"too delicious."
Jiang Yahong was very flexible, she put down her chopsticks and said to Yan Chu: "Auntie dare to assure you, if your parents switch to selling this lo-mei, your family will surely get rich. If nothing else, the aroma of your family's cooking of lo-mei just now, probably It has already seduced most of the gluttons in our community, choose a store, and then put the stewed pot near the window, fan it, and people from the whole street can smell it and come to buy it."
Jiang Yahong and Jin Xiujuan have been good sisters for half their lives, the kind who are closer than real sisters. Before, she wanted to lend money to Jin Xiujuan to let them rent a small shop to sell breakfast in a serious manner. Jin Xiujuan was timid and felt that the cost In addition, if the income does not increase, it may be matched with the rejection. This time, she couldn't help Jin Xiujuan's willfulness, and she would encourage the other party to open the lo mei shop no matter what.
"Auntie, do you think it's possible to open a shop?"
In fact, Yan Chu came here this time for this purpose. The parents of the Yan family were too timid. Let them think about opening the store. It is estimated that the day lily is cold, but Aunt Hong in front of him is different. The other party is quite courageous. Besides, her words are more effective than her own. As long as the Bai family and his wife get involved, his parents are likely to be persuaded to open a lo-mei shop.
"Success, there is a more reliable deal than this."
After taking the last sip of wine, Bai Jiandong patted his chest and said, "I'll talk to your parents early tomorrow morning. This idea is so good."
On the one hand, he really hoped that the life of his good brother’s family would improve. On the other hand, Bai Jiandong felt that he had eaten such delicious lo-mei, and that he would eat food from those delicatessen in the vegetable market in the future. How hard it is.
It would be different if the Yan family started to sell lo-mei. He didn't eat his brother's food for nothing, he gave money every now and then.
It was agreed that the Bai family and his wife would come to be lobbyists tomorrow, and Yan Chu returned home with a plate that Bai Jiandong had wiped clean even the soup with the steamed buns left over from dinner.
"Lingling, I'll come to see you at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, and then we'll go to the bookstore together."
When Yan Chu was about to leave, he did not forget to turn around and say to Bai Ling that the little girl was getting up to see him off, and the two of them almost ran into each other.
"Sure, I'm sure about that point." Bai Ling nodded, after that little shy time, she was still a generous little girl.
Young people's love should be in a lovely place like a bookstore.
*****
"Did you smell that scent last night? My little grandson cried out for half the night. I called him his favorite chicken decan's crispy chicken drumsticks. He took a bite and threw it on the ground, saying it didn't taste that way. Son, don't eat that nasty thing, my son was so angry that he took off his pants and beat him up."
The old man exercising in the garden of the community, the topic of conversation today is related to the pot of lo mei made by the Yan family.
"Who doesn't? My daughter ordered takeaway in the middle of the night last night, and she didn't eat honestly. She took a breath outside with the window open and ate a bite of barbecue. It seemed like she was sick, but speaking of it, the taste was indeed It’s delicious, I don’t know which family is making food, if there is something to sell, I really want to buy a copy back.”
"My wife and I were reluctant to turn on the air conditioner last night, and opened the windows to ventilate. Because of the smell, we had to lock the windows again and turn on the air conditioner, so we barely fell asleep."
The old men and women chattered all over the place, and finally someone who knew what it was so fragrant spoke up, that is, Uncle Jiang who lived in the same building as the Yan family and was lucky enough to get a pot of lo-mei.
"You don't know, it's Xiaoyan's house downstairs in my building, the son of technician Yan, the one who succeeded him as a welder in the factory."
Uncle Jiang said, "Their family made a pot of lo mei last night, and after it was done, they sent it to my house in the middle of the night. The taste, tsk tsk, I have never eaten such delicious meat in my life."
The old man described in detail what the meat was like, how fragrant it was, how soft the pig's trotters were, and could be chewed without teeth, which made the old men and women around them swallow their mouths.
"Isn't it just lo mei? Can it be as good as you said?"
Those who questioned Uncle Jiang's words felt that he might be exaggerating.
"Hey, tell me, have you ever smelled a marinade that is so fragrant that it can wake people up from sleep?"
Uncle Jiang’s words made those who were skeptical ask questions. Other lo mei are delicious, but the smell has never been so attractive, making people feel that they must eat it. If it is like its fragrance, how greedy it will be.
"It's a pity that the few members of the family licked up the soup last night. Otherwise, cooking a bowl of noodles and pouring a spoonful of marinade at this time will taste..."
The scene described by Uncle Jiang made the old men and women present swallow their saliva again. Smelling the faint aroma of stewed meat in the garden, they felt even hungrier.
Yan Zhonghua and Jin Xiujuan only left the stall until nine o'clock today, and hurried home.
In fact, around nine o'clock is the peak time for business. It's just that my son has an appointment to go to the bookstore with Bai Ling later, and no one is watching the pot of lo mei that is still simmering at home.
Last night, the gluttons in the stomach were relieved a little bit. The couple were still waiting for more delicious lo mei. For this reason, it seemed that it was not so unacceptable to miss an hour of business.
When they got home, Yan Chu had already left for a while, so the couple hurriedly turned on the stove again and let the pot of lo mei cook slowly.
According to the son's entrustment, if he didn't come back by eleven o'clock, they had to exchange the lo mei in the pot for a packet of spices.
During the day, Jin Xiujuan went to buy some ingredients again to marinate in the pot, and added new broth. The original bag of spices was probably cooked and tasteless, so she had to change the bag again when the time came.
Smelling the smell coming out of the pot, Jin Xiujuan and Yan Zhonghua couldn't be more excited.
"Xiujuan, you are back."
The iron gate of the fence of the Yan family was not closed tightly. Several old people pushed the door and came in. Most of them had eaten the lo-mei sent by the Yan family last night. An old man living in this old community.
"Uncle Jiang, who are you?"
Yan Zhonghua was a little confused about their reason for coming.
"It's the lo mei that you sent last night. It's so delicious. My grandson remembered it after eating it. He made a fuss about eating it today. If he didn't give it to him, he would cry. I just thought, your family If there are many, I will spend money to buy them."
"That's right, the scent is too attractive. I thought about it all night last night. If you have more, please buy some for me. I'll pay for it."
The old people's words caught Yan Zhonghua and Jin Xiujuan a little off guard. They didn't expect that these old people came here for the lo mei at home.
"They're all elders. What money are we talking about? I'll go get you some."
Jin Xiujuan's mind hasn't turned the corner for a while, although she feels a little distressed, but thinking that they are all close neighbors, it's okay to give some braised pork.
"That's no good, how can I ask you for nothing."
Uncle Jiang resolutely refused. The meal last night was a friendship between the neighbors. If he had the audacity to take it for nothing, he would be shameless.
The life of the Yan family is also difficult, and it has finally improved in recent years, but this is also the money that Yan Zhonghua and his wife earned by getting up early and selling at night, and it is hard money.
These retired old men and old ladies have money and have no place to spend it, so there is no need to take advantage of others.
As soon as the old man opened his mouth, those old men and old ladies who were happy to have the meat for nothing, were embarrassed to nod and said something, and they all paid for it, and asked Jin Xiujuan to sell it at the market price.
When other people in the community heard the news and rushed to Yan's house, they couldn't buy anything, and they all asked Jin Xiujuan to go to the vegetable market to buy meat quickly, and try to make a few more pots of marinade, so that they can be sold to them at that time.
Because I didn't buy any, and I heard those who bought the lo-mei describe how good the taste was, they even raised the price. After a while, every kind of lo-mei was six or seven yuan more expensive than the ones sold outside.
This is still among the elderly who are generally shrewd and thrifty. If it is among young people who have no concept of spending money and are intemperate, it is possible to double it several times.
Jin Xiujuan and Yan Zhonghua were dizzy and took the family money to go to the vegetable market to buy a bunch of ingredients, then washed them and cooked them in brine for different times according to their son's instructions. After everything was done, they realized that What did they just do.
The two of them wrapped up almost all the pig's trotters and pork in the market, and bought a bunch of good spicy stewed ingredients such as duck intestines and yellow throat.
Seeing that a pot couldn't hold the ingredients piled up in the kitchen, the couple worried whether they had a brain twitch and did something stupid.
*****
"This textbook is very good, and the questions on it are very targeted."
Yan Chu didn't know that his parents in this world had already started the business when he was not at home. He and Bai Ling were standing in front of the bookshelves of the bookstore, and in front of them were booklets of college entrance examination strategies.
As a man who has gone through N times of college entrance examinations and has rich examination experience, he selected exercises for Bai Ling in a targeted manner.
When she came out today, Bai Ling had carefully dressed up, a white shirt with a gray plaid pleated skirt, long hair hanging behind her back, very bookish, a clean and gentle girl.
She took off her black-rimmed glasses and put on contact lenses that she was not used to wearing. Before going out, she did not forget to apply a lip balm to make her lips look plump and shiny.
The two of them are now in a state where both parents agree, but neither of them has broken the window paper. In front of the person they like, of course Bai Ling has to show her best side.
But she thought that she had really overestimated this idiot, at this age, he bought books as an excuse, and whoever reads books in a serious way, but he was the only one who really chose the exercise book seriously.
If you want to be angry, you can't get angry at that face at all, don't be angry, but seeing the temperament of the other party who is obsessed with learning and unintentional love, I can't help scratching my ears and heart.
"chi chi—"
When Yan Chu was helping Bai Ling choose exercises, there was a laughing sound from the corner of the bookstore.
One was wearing ripped jeans, a suspender top showing a small waist, permed hair and nose studs. The little girl who looked like a bad girl walked towards the two of them.
"Girl, with your reserved appearance, how can you find a partner, especially when you're looking at an unenlightened idiot."
Long Ruofei sneaked into this small bookstore just now to avoid those talents sent by her father to follow her, and even watched a youthful love affair between boys and girls before arriving first.
Speaking of which, she still has an inexplicable pleasing to the male protagonist in this puppy love.
But she, Long Ruofei, is not willing to have a man with an owner, but it's a pity that she rarely likes a man.
The idiot she was talking about was naturally Yan Chu, and the reserved girl was undoubtedly Bai Ling.
If she hadn't spoken, Yan Chu would not have noticed that Long Ruofei was here.
"Forget it, I won't tell you little brats anymore. If you want to fall in love, just read more textbooks." She casually stuffed the little words she just read to relieve boredom into Bai Ling's hands, then whistled and swaggered left.
The people who were chasing her just now have gone far away, and she no longer has to nest in this small bookstore and smell the sour smell of love.
Long Ruofei's outlandish clothes can easily attract other people's attention even in the developed modern age, especially the exposed white and slender waist, some men with low willpower can't help staring at it more I took a few glances.
"Are you Miss Long?"
While walking, a man suddenly stood in front of her, stretching out his hand towards her like a gentleman.
Zhang Zifan didn't expect that fate would be so coincidental that he would meet Long Ruofei, one of the former male protagonist's harems whom he had been investigating for several days.
Sure enough, is God standing in front of him now
Who is this idiot
Long Ruofei glanced at him, slandered in his heart, and then walked around him and wanted to leave without thinking.
"Miss Long, I—"
Zhang Zifan wanted to stop Long Ruofei, but was thrown over his shoulder by the irritable young lady, and fell heavily to the ground.
He was in pain immediately, and let out a miserable scream. The people around stopped to watch the excitement, and no one wanted to lend a helping hand.
Long Ruofei didn't care how she threw him, clapped his hands, turned his head and left.
Zhang Zifan gritted his teeth and looked at Long Ruofei's leaving figure, but he was not angry. This is a rose with thorns. He is too impatient. After the other party realizes his ability, he will definitely be convinced by him, and I feel guilty for what I did today.
He struggled to stand up again, but fortunately, apart from the pain in every part, there was nothing serious.
Zhang Zifan rubbed his buttocks and shoulders, the most important thing now is to quickly pick up the leaks, at least to build his reputation in the antique circle is a serious matter.
A man starts a business before starting a family. When he has his own business, will women be far behind
He smiled smugly, and the person next to him who had just witnessed him flirting with a beautiful woman and was beaten by her just now saw him smiling smugly, muttered to him that he was a fool, and then hurried away around him, fearing that he would be infected with stupidity.
Zhang Zifan didn't care about those ordinary people, he raised his head proudly and walked towards the antique street.
Eh, my ass really hurts.