Chapter 13 Rice Pairing
Some flowers do not begin to unfold their petals until sunset, and nightshade is a typical example of this. Some flowers can bloom for many days in one breath and still be bright and bright, such as spiral flowers and red knotweeds.
Most of the wildflowers are not large and not very bright, but they bloom in large turns, and they have a plain and natural beauty.
From time to time, Su He would pick a large handful of wild flowers from the yard and insert them into large and small water bottles and cups to decorate the room. The scenery in the courtyard is good, so when the weather is good, Su He and Cheng Wei often eat outside.
When the plants in the backyard were growing wildly, Su He and Cheng Wei also changed from the original neighbor relationship to a meal friend relationship.
The so-called "rice friends" are friends who eat together, in other words, rice partners.
At the beginning, when Cheng Wei was out foraging, he met Su He and asked if he wanted to go to dinner together. Su He's food has been cooked too much, and he will also ask Cheng Wei if he wants to come down to eat.
After coming and going, Su He and Cheng Wei formed a temporary meal partner, which was temporarily limited to the duration of the summer vacation.
The money for buying vegetables is carried out by the two of them in the AA system, and each party takes a sum of money and puts it together, and the grain, vegetables, meat, fruits, etc. are taken from it. Each time you make a purchase, you will discuss and draw a list together, and you will record a detailed account for each expenditure.
This is Su He's insistence, and Cheng Wei is not too troublesome.
It is actually impossible for a real family to be half, but at least the accounts are clear, there is a discussion, and the division of labor is clear, so that the relationship can be long-term.
Su He was in charge of cooking, and Cheng Wei was on the side. After the meal, Su and the bowl were pushed, and the mouth was wiped to the end, and Cheng Wei was responsible for cleaning up the aftermath.
The benefits are two-fold.
Sue He doesn't have to worry about leftovers anymore. There is no limit on the amount of food, and the content of each meal can also be changed a little more, and the pattern is no longer so monotonous.
Although Su He is currently limited in the dishes she can make, she is idle anyway, and she is willing to keep trying, not to mention that now that she has a meal friend, even if the experiment fails, she no longer has to swallow the bitter fruit of failure alone.
Cheng Wei, a good food friend, is so easy to feed, not picky eater, and has a huge appetite, how much is left can be swept away, even the failed products are not a problem.
Another benefit of eating with Cheng Wei is that it is a special meal.
This kid can eat, even if the food doesn't taste good, seeing that he eats so vigorously, he also feels that the food in his mouth doesn't seem to be so difficult to swallow, and he is driven to eat two more bites. And this young man is also beautiful and delicious, pleasing to the eye, and he can tease by the way.
In addition, Cheng Wei's labor performance is also commendable.
Cheng Wei works neatly and carefully, and with the increase of practice, he becomes more and more proficient. He also has a little habit of cleanliness, and every day after eating, he not only cleans the dishes and cooking tables, but also wipes the kitchen floor again.
Su He lives alone, and he can enjoy eating alone. However, after having Cheng Wei, a temporary dining friend, she also felt that eating alone had the fun of eating alone, and two people also had the advantage of two people.
For any cook, especially a rookie chef like Su He, Cheng Wei's performance so far can be called one of the top ten good food friends, and when he eats, he can hold more than a trash can. It's better than house-elves. And compared to trash cans and house-elves, he is so flowery.
The bean porridge, side dishes, and tea eggs in Lao Wang's snack bar are really good, but Cheng Wei is not picky about eating them every day, and he can't help but feel a little monotonous. Although Su He's cooking is not very delicious most of the time, at least it will not put MSG desperately, which is much stronger than takeout and the like. Occasionally, Kitchen Su (the abbreviation of Rookie Chef Su He) can still play at a super level.
And that's just a minor aspect.
What's more, Cheng Wei's father has been busy with a big business recently, and he needs to frequently go back and forth at home and abroad, sometimes flying back from abroad in the morning, holding meetings in the company until midnight, and flying out of foreign countries non-stop, eating and sleeping on the road.
Cheng Wei didn't want to see his father so busy, and he had to squeeze out sleep time to worry about finding a nanny. Now that he is partnering with Su He, as soon as the problem of food is solved, at least before the start of school, the family does not have to worry about hiring a nanny for the time being. The life of their father and son is simple, and other housework is nothing more than cleaning up and purchasing some daily necessities, which is not a matter for Cheng Wei at all. As for the problem that he is alone most of the time in the family, Cheng Wei feels that he is a man, is it not as good as Su and a woman? She is not afraid, and she doesn't care about it.
The two can become food friends, mutual benefit and reciprocity are the foundation, similar situations are the conditions, they are not picky eaters in taste, and similar work and rest are also important reasons.
After getting acquainted, Su He and Cheng Wei soon discovered that the two had a common hobby - sleeping lazy.
A life is so long, there is opportunity and time to struggle for the future, but only when you are a student can you sleep until you wake up naturally without any burden during the holidays. As for life, you should do something at any time, and when you are a student, you should sleep to your heart's content during the holidays.
The above is the fallacy of a certain born-again person. Ten people listened, about nine and a half to say a word of nonsense, but Cheng Wei obviously belonged to that half, and felt that it was true, and said that although Su He usually didn't have a straight mouth, it was rare for him to be able to say a few serious words by chance.
Su He, "......"
Classmate, you don't mean what you're talking about, are you? I'm just talking nonsense.
By the time these two lazy stars slept enough to get up, the breakfast time of ordinary people had already passed, and there was still a long way to go at lunch time.
It can be seen that if one of the two gets up early, he will not be able to eat this meal together.
Because of the similar schedule, we have to eat three meals together every day, and during this time, we have to go grocery shopping and cook together, so we have more time together.
Sometimes, even after eating and tidying up the kitchen, they don't immediately break up, chat, play games together, and feed the cat together.
With Cheng Wei having no leftovers, the frequency of Su He feeding the cats has decreased. However, sometimes if you eat fish and meat, Su He will also deliberately leave a little light for the cats.
Cheng Wei finally knew the true purpose of the fried fish he ate at the beginning, and the tangled mood of the cat's mouth made his face very delicate.
When Cheng Wei and the little gentleman were together with one person and one cat, it was really like Su He's brain supplement, the picture was very funny, and people couldn't help laughing, like a copy of Grandpa Cat and Erminzi.
For this reason, Su He also deliberately took out a point-and-shoot camera from home to take a group photo of the two of them and the two cats.
Cheng Wei looked at her as if she was looking at a neuropathy and scolded her for being bored.
Su He listened to it with one ear and one ear, this guy looked at his stinky face and poisonous mouth, but in fact he had a good temper, such as taking pictures, although he scolded and his face was dark, he didn't shake his hands and left, but still sat on the bench at her request.
The moment the shutter was pressed, the little gentleman and Cheng Wei were full of disgust, the heads of one person and one cat were twisted to the left side in unison, while Grandpa Cat and Er Minzi sat upright, looking at the camera seriously with two pairs of eyes, and their expressions were full of elder-like connivance.
The contrast between the two cats is stark, and the smile is full of fruit.
The camera used by Su He is a fool, and the level of taking pictures is also fool-like, he will press the shutter, and he will not understand any composition, light, tone, etc. But the moment when her blind cat touched the dead mouse and caught it was just right, making the picture in the soft light of the sunset look warm and interesting, quite tasteful.
Grandpa Cat's wife, Grandma Mao, liked this photo taken by Su He very much, so she deliberately enlarged one and hung it in the study in a frame, which became a topic of conversation for relatives and friends when they visited.
Soon after, the little gentleman was adopted by the niece of an aunt in the courtyard, who was said to be a young music teacher who doted on him very much. Sue He, although he misses it a little, is even happier with it.
In addition to feeding the cat, Su He is occasionally too lazy to cook, or wants to drink porridge again, and the two will still go to Lao Wang's snack bar for a change of taste.
The business of Lao Wang's snack bar is still very bleak.
The guy in the store said that they were ready to redeem it, but no one wanted to take it over.
As soon as he heard what he said, Su He made up his mind that he must come over to eat more while the store was not down, so as to save regrets in the future.
She also tried to get close to the owner and chef of the shop, secretly tutoring, hoping to do it herself after the store collapsed. Even if you don't learn 10 percent, learning 20 percent is a gain.
The owner and chef of the shop, that is, the old Wang in the name of the store, does not hide his secrets, in his opinion, the store is going to fall into a fart, and he is afraid of learning? What's more, there are no secrets, just some tips.
If you talk a lot, you will get acquainted.
Lao Wang is in his fifties, he looks older than his actual age, his face is full of weather, he said that he was originally a rural person in the suburbs of Houcheng, and when he first reformed and opened up, his eldest brother had a working brain and pulled the people from the village out to work in the engineering team. Lao Wang took advantage of the cheapness of his relatives, and also came out together to engage in logistics and cook a big pot of rice in the engineering team, which can be regarded as earning good money for a few years.
Unfortunately, the contractor was in arrears of payment for the project, and the engineering team could not continue. Lao Wang's eldest brother went to the south to pan for gold, he didn't want to leave his hometown with his background, thinking that he had been cooking for a few years anyway, and it was also a craft, so he took out his savings for many years to redeem this small restaurant.
Lao Wang does business really, the amount is more, the price is cheap, the things are the freshest, and he never cuts corners.
"I don't know why, this business is always so dead, alas, it's no way. There was no business to come to the door, so the depressed old Wang had to chat with Su and Cheng Wei, two little acquaintances, and have nothing to do, holding an unlit cigarette, leaning back on the back of the chair, frowning and looking at the smoke-blackened ceiling in the kitchen, with a look of confusion.
Su He and Cheng Wei, "......"
Because your stir-fried food is so unpalatable!
The waiter in the store who always doesn't seem to wake up is Lao Wang's nephew, that is, Xiao Wang.
After graduating from middle school, Xiao Wang has been farming at home, and later Lao Wang came to the city to open a shop, and his father asked him to follow the uncle out to help, and by the way, he also let him learn to cook, and after learning well, he will return to his hometown and open a small restaurant or something.
Su He and Cheng Wei, "......"
Stir-fry or something...... Don't learn it.