Chapter 7 The first thematic photo shoot
Cheng Jie's family is on the other side of C University, her father-in-law used to be a university professor, and after retirement, he became a consultant in the library, responsible for the collation and restoration of ancient books.
Their home is a typical old-fashioned building, the courtyard facing the river is not too spacious, but the depth is relatively long, there is a patio in the middle, and then there is a small garden in the back, and the back door of the small garden is a sandwich road, opposite the courtyard wall of a temple. The sandwich lane is not wide, and two bikes can be filled side by side.
In the front courtyard lived Cheng Jie's family of three, and in the wings on both sides of the small garden behind the patio lived Professor Song's old couple and the nanny who took care of them. The kitchen is in the middle of the two wings, and the dining room is opposite. After the renovation, the old courtyard was also equipped with modern equipment, and the front of the restaurant was covered with glass tiles, which were separated by hanging greenery, and divided into two parts: indoor and outdoor.
When the weather is nice, the old couple and the nanny eat in the patio, and in the evening, when there are many people, they eat at the large table in the restaurant.
Cheng Jie and Teacher Song's plan is to use the small dining table in the patio to arrange the petty bourgeoisie, and then take a few beautiful photos.
However, after Chen Xin met with Mr. Song, she studied his plan and found that he actually wanted to recommend local local specialties, starting from breakfast to supper, a total of three meals, two snacks and one supper.
Chen Xin directly suggested that there was no need to rearrange the small dining table, and directly found a small wooden table and small chair where Professor Song usually drank tea in the small garden, spread it with cheesecloth, serve the food on large plates and bowls, and then put two sets of small tableware for stoneware, bamboo chopsticks for chopsticks, and a porcelain spoon for raw white for spoons.
Professor Song, who happens to like old culture, has collected this kind of thing, and at this time, after listening to Chen Xin's suggestion, everyone tried to arrange it, and placed it in the dam of the patio, next to the old-fashioned wooden staircase. While they were setting up the table, chairs, dishes and chopsticks, Chen Xin quickly made two authentic local breakfasts.
One is pasta, and it is a red and bright dry mixed noodles, with meat whistles, mustard grains, freshly fried peanuts chopped with the back of a knife, fresh chili peppers cut into small grains at will, and fine green onions cut into flowers are placed in a circle, and the red, red, green and green toppings are paired with yellowish noodles, which looks very appetizing.
In addition, mix a spoonful of batter in a large bowl, add an egg, put in the chopped green onion that has not been used up before, and after mixing well, fry four bowl-sized soft dough cakes in a pan and put them on a plate. In addition, four ham sausages were peeled, the knife was beaten, the rapeseed oil was slightly heated in the pot, the ham sausage was put down, and the ham sausage after heating was partially heated and rolled by the flower knife, becoming a meat flower roll. Four ham sausages are served on a small long plate and placed with the dough cakes, and two spoonfuls of the local spicy sauce are served in a small bowl.
If the dry goods are enough, the porridge is short.
There was no mung bean porridge, which was more time-consuming. Chen Xin used the big bones with the meat removed to boil the soup, although the bone broth was not hot enough, but it was enough to scoop some up and boil the porridge.
Chop the minced meat off the bones a few times at will, into soybean-sized meat granules, mix well with salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper and some water, and wait until the bone broth porridge with ginger slices is boiled well, and when it rolls the most, turn off the heat, pour the minced meat down, stir well and cover the lid, and simmer for ten minutes before you can uncover.
Lift the lid and sprinkle a handful of chopped green onions, and the fragrant smell rises with the white water vapor, causing a belly roar.
Before adding minced meat just now, Chen Xin had already scooped a bowl out in advance, and this was not minced meat for the two children to eat. They are still young, and the porridge boiled in meat and bone broth is enough, but too much oil and gas are easy to diarrhea.
"After watching Ren Xiaoxin's cooking, I think what I cook is pig food...... Cheng Jie looked at the pot with blank eyes, she was already very restrained, and she had eaten in the morning, but now she felt hungry and panicked.
"No wonder Xiaoxin has the courage to open a restaurant, and with this skill, there will definitely be a crowd of diners. ”
"Teacher Song, you are too exaggerated, these are home-cooked meals, but we usually don't pay attention to them when we eat them, just mess with them, it's not to take pictures, you must match some color, but the taste is the same." ”
Hearing her say this, Teacher Song wanted to say something more, but Cheng Jie reacted and quietly poked her husband's finger before stopping his words.
Aunt Yao, the nanny who was watching from the side, had already begun to lose her face, and she didn't go up to help from beginning to end, looking like she was watching coldly. She looked at Teacher Song's children, and Zhang Zhang on the other side didn't touch a finger.
Cheng Jie didn't say anything, when she saw Aunt Yao holding her own child, she went to hug Zhang Zhang, but her hand was next to the child's clothes, and she heard Aunt Yao say that she didn't hold her own child to hug other people's children, and those who didn't know thought it was her son.
"You just do your own thing, if you don't want to take the child, you put it down for me. "Cheng Jie's own family is not weak, she is not afraid of offending the old couple at all, besides, she is a nanny, taking people's money, shouldn't she do what she should do?
was scolded back by Cheng Jie in front of everyone, Aunt Yao blushed, then snorted coldly, put down the little girl in her arms, and said that there was still something to do in the future, so she turned around and left.
Professor Song's wife was a little unhappy and wanted to say that Cheng Jie shouldn't treat Aunt Yao like this, but her son spoke first.
"Mom and Dad, I think you should let Aunt Yao go back to her own house to enjoy the blessings, she is not young, and she can't do anything, and we can't explain to her son and daughter if we bump into her. Besides, Xiaoyun is in the nursery class now, and Cheng Jie and I are also at home sooner or later, if you find it inconvenient, either we will move out to live, or we will hire a younger aunt again. ”
This Aunt Yao is a distant relative of his mother's hometown, before the family could not afford to eat, helped work in his house, and earned money to support the family, at that time she deducted and searched from this house to find some things and sent them back, he didn't say anything, after all, no matter how good the things are, no one is worth anyone's life. But after a long period of connivance, this old aunt's heart has been raised, and she blatantly takes it to her house, and shows them her face when she is unhappy, especially very rude to Cheng Jie, because she originally wanted her daughter to marry Teacher Song.
Teacher Song's mother's surname is Gu, and his grandmother's surname is Yao, so Aunt Yao thinks that he is Teacher Song's elder. But she didn't think about it, from the genealogy point of view, she and Granny Gu are both distant relatives who came out of Wufu, but they are friends with Granny Gu's mother with the same surname, but they lost their nature in the tolerance of others, and they still want to rely on the old and sell the old. It wasn't for Granny Gu's face, Teacher Song wanted to invite Aunt Yao to leave.
Today is a small outbreak, and because there are outsiders there, Mr. Song did not continue to drag this matter, but after that, he didn't care about Granny Gu's mood at all, or Professor Song patted the back of his wife's hand comfortingly, and directly called Aunt Yao's son to pick up someone.
In the end, Professor Song is used to being serious, and he usually doesn't care, but he won't regret and entangle what he decides.
Aunt Yao learned that she was going to be sent away, and she thought about making a scene, but Professor Song said that if she went back honestly, they would give enough money to take care of her family for many years. If you want to make trouble, then call the police and let the police come and settle how much she stole from this house.
"The stationery you stole from my study last time is a cultural relic, and it is estimated to be worth twenty or thirty thousand, and if you want to make trouble, you can go to jail with this thing. ”
Looking at Professor Song's cold eyes, Aunt Yao finally didn't have the courage to make trouble, packed up her salute in a gloomy manner, and was picked up by her son in the afternoon.
Aunt Yao's son is more honest in comparison, knowing that it was his mother who completely angered the Song family, and there was a ghost in his heart, so when he came to pick up his mother, he also sent back the inkstone that he almost sold last time.
When she saw the inkstone, Aunt Yao almost couldn't help but want to reach out and grab it, it was 20,000 or 30,000 yuan! But in the end, under the obstruction of her son, she was taken away in a discouraged mood.
"Go and ask a housekeeper to come, just let my son go, you and I are old, just take care of yourself, don't worry too much about other things." Patting his wife on the shoulder, Professor Song went to the front yard with great interest, watching the young people toss around, feeling that he was younger.