Niu Xiaoli's mood has not been very good in the past two days.

After Niu Ben and Niu Xiaoli said that they would not spend that money to go abroad, Niu Xiaoli has been a little angry. However, this kind of qi is not born on Niu Ben, but on himself.

It's useless to blame yourself, and your children are very sensible. But he couldn't give him the childhood that his classmates could enjoy.

Niu Xiaoli also heard Huang Zeying's ridicule of Niu Ben that day, and those words were like knives piercing her heart. Yes, other children are using good brand computers, and Niu Ben is the only one in the class who uses a miscellaneous brand.

Other children have as little pocket money as three or four hundred a month, and as many as one or two thousand a month. The pocket money he gave to Niu Ben a month was no more than one hundred and fifteen.

In fact, at Niu Ben's age, it is the time when a child begins to develop. Not just physiologically, but psychologically.

From junior high school onwards, children begin to have the rudiments of formal social activities. For example, after school, everyone goes to the bubble tea shop to drink milk tea, or goes to the bakery opposite the school to eat cake.

Either you can make an appointment to go to places like Kaifeng Cai, Golden Arches, and Potato Bawang to have a hamburger set meal or order a drink, and everyone can get together to write (copy) homework while eating.

These are almost all the daily activities of children in Huaihai City, and it takes money to support these activities. This is a very real question, who sells milk tea to you without money?

Let's go to the milk tea shop to drink milk tea together, and then play the glory of the king online together, everyone has food and drink, but you don't have one. Will there be a gap in this heart?

Niu Xiaoli hadn't paid attention to this before, and she didn't suddenly realize it until yesterday when Niu Ben was ridiculed by Huang Zeying. Do your children actually have a lot of pressure when they interact with those classmates?

Because what others have, he always doesn't have. Will there be many children like Huang Zeying, who are actually secretly laughing at Niu Ben.

Niu Xiaoli couldn't help but cry when she thought of this. I don't have any ability, that is, I do the work of the street office, and I can't do anything else except this.

Even the opportunity to study and exchange abroad Niu Ben didn't dare to tell himself, but had to refuse with the teacher in private. He was just afraid that he would spend more money, because Niu Ben knew that he couldn't make much money.

The more sensible Niu Ben is, the more sad Niu Xiaoli becomes. She felt ashamed of the child.

So when Niu Ben suddenly proposed to eat Western food today, Niu Xiaoli didn't think much about it, and she immediately agreed.

Niu Ben rarely made demands with himself, and Niu Xiaoli also had a little idea of wanting to compensate Niu Ben. And by eating Western food, she also wanted to talk to Niu Ben. Let him understand that it is difficult to go to the United States to study the opportunity of exchange performance, and he will definitely support him to go.

This matter still has to be explained to Niu Ben, otherwise it will easily backfire if he is forced to do something. Because Niu Ben is a very assertive child.

However, when Niu Ben took Niu Xiaoli all the way to Zhang Tong's shop, Niu Xiaoli looked at Niu Ben with some surprise and said, "Niu Ben, you are not mistaken." Aren't you going to eat Western food?"

"Mom, that's right. This is it. Uncle Zhang Tong's Western food is good. Niu Ben grabbed Niu Xiaoli's hand and walked inside.

Niu Xiaoli knew about the store opened by Zhang Tong, because she still helped run the process of registration and license. But doesn't this small shop sell simple food? When did you start cooking Western food?

However, Niu Ben brought all the belts, so Niu Xiaoli also followed him in.

In fact, after having lunch with Jiang Hua at noon, Zhang Tong began to prepare soy sauce Western food for Niu Ben. Because Jiang Huala went to do a half-day inspection today, there was not much time to prepare ingredients for dinner.

As soon as Zhang Tong summed up, he simply suspended business tonight, and it was better to charter the market as a cow. You can also take a day off yourself.

Soy sauce is actually a very interesting product. In fact, traditional China is a very tolerant and receptive country to foreign cultures.

This inclusiveness stems from a sense of cultural self-confidence, and this inclusiveness is also evident in food.

For example, there is no such thing as wheat in Chinese tradition. Today, 35 percent of the population in China eats noodles as their staple food.

China obviously obtained the civilization of wheat through the Silk Road in the Western Regions opened up by Zhang Qian, but China was the first country in the world to make wheat into noodles.

Later, noodles were transmitted back to the West through the Silk Road, forming the appearance that humans still eat in modern civilization.

Our ancestors never treated the unfamiliar with a state of resistance. Instead, he is as curious as a child, and is always willing to try.

However, when the wheel of history is turning, the once innocent man has become a dying old man. He began to resist everything he didn't understand, stubborn and old-fashioned. Until someone forced him to start studying again with guns.

And the birth of Huaihai is like this.

A hundred years ago, Huaihai was a place not worth mentioning. However, due to the strong ships and guns, it was forced to become a port of trade.

A large number of Westerners landed in this former small fishing village with their goods, culture, language, ideas and of course, food.

Huaihai City has a short history of glory and boasting, witnessing the fall of a decadent dynasty and the rise of a new regime.

Over the past 100 years, the city has been heavily influenced by Western culture. The birth of soy sauce Western food is derived from the evolution and reform of Western food.

In Huaihai, China, which was backward in the past, Westerners trampled on this land at will with their pride and arrogance and the scientific and technological level that was a hundred years ahead of China.

The steam-powered ocean-going ships made of all steel parked on the Pujiang River shocked the Chinese who only knew wooden sailing ships.

When one civilization and another civilization are completely unequal, people's mentality will always change.

For example, chasing each other's culture, chasing each other's living habits, and so on. At the beginning of the last century, because of the invasion of Western civilization, the Western food brought by those merchants also became the sought after food in Huaihai City.

Western-style pastry baking, foie gras, sharon steak and caviar, etc., all sprouted in Huaihai City. But authentic Western food is very expensive, and the average citizen of Huaihai City cannot afford to eat this kind of thing.

Therefore, some chefs in Huaihai City took a fancy to the business opportunities inside, and used Chinese materials and cooking methods to imitate Western food techniques to make Western food. As a result, a unique Shanghai-style soy sauce Western meal has been formed.

Niu Xiaoli followed Niu Ben into the shop, and she looked at Zhang Tong with a little stunned: "Xiao Zhang, my son said that he wanted to eat the Western food you made." When are you going to cook Western food?"

Zhang Tong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Sister Niu, sit down." Will I cook Western food, won't you know when you eat it next?"