Chapter 206: Betting on Her Adulthood
The little guy was frightened by her mother and hid in Ling Yanran's arms and refused to leave, so he could only be left by Morgan and his wife to invite them to lunch together. m.
"Yanran, you accompany your aunt and uncle first, and I'll go out to buy some food. ”
"You have to be careful, you can't get rid of Brother Gu and them like last time. Ling Yanran thought about it and didn't feel at ease, she took Xiao Yiyi out of the villa, beckoned to Zhao Qingyi and Shen Li who were not far away, and said, "Sister Zhao, Sister Shen, you follow Qingyuan out, follow him closely, don't let him wander around the vegetable market alone." ”
Zhao Qingyi and the two nodded, and jumped behind Li Qingyuan without saying a word.
Li Qingyuan didn't refuse, kissed Xiao Yiyi's blown-up face, and waved goodbye to the little guy.
Li Qingyuan's appearance in the comprehensive market again is no less than an earthquake, after the last assassination, the merchants have shaken their heads and sighed more than once in private, I am afraid that it will be difficult for a big high-roller like him to take care of business again.
Li Qingyuan appeared as always, the only difference is that there are two more heroic female generals behind him, and the merchants are curious and vigilant about his identity, and they all have a helplessness in their hearts to get close and leave, if it is another last thing, they can't afford to pay the responsibility.
Li Qingyuan didn't say anything polite to them, he bought what he should buy, the price can not be discussed, and the joke should not be hidden, but whether the ingredients are fresh, tall, short, fat and thin has to be talked about.
A conversation with Morgan this morning made him come a little late, and he visited several pork shops but did not find tenderloin, which is the strip-shaped tender meat on the inside of the vertebrae, and a pig only has 4-5 pounds of tenderloin which it is a sought-after commodity in the market.
He went to the innermost vegetable stall in the comprehensive market relatively little, and the people were not as familiar as the stalls, so he was going to go home after visiting the last pork shop, and it didn't matter if he was missing one dish.
When the stall owner of this pork shop saw Li Qingyuan stepping forward, he quickly put down the sharp knife in his hand, took a towel and wiped his hands, walked around the stall and came to him, his expression was full of guilt, and said, "This little boss, can you speak further." ”
Li Qingyuan looked him up and down, in his forties, medium build, flat head and short hair, Chinese face, thick eyebrows and round eyes, garlic nose and big mouth with a slight setback.
"The eldest brother has something to say, and the villagers don't need to be polite. ”
The stall owner stirred the towel in his hand, his eyelids drooped slightly, leaned in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Last time, after you left, I found that there was a missing meat knife, and that knife made the little boss suffer, and I always felt sorry for it every time I thought about it." ”
"Brother is also a sincere person, the matter has passed, I have no intention of pursuing it, you don't have to take it to heart, but you don't want to take it back with a sharp knife, I'll keep it as a souvenir, haha!" Li Qingyuan showed a smile that he thought was sunny and patted him on the shoulder.
"It's just a meat knife, the little boss wants to keep it, fortunately, you're fine, otherwise I won't be able to feel at ease in my life." ”
"I'm a person who can't die easily, and my brother doesn't need to blame himself. It's also fate that I can go to you today, brother, do you still have a small tenderloin, I went out for most of the day, and all of them were sold out. ”
"I'm restless these days, the pork is sold less, and there are just two catties of tenderloin, little boss, wait a minute, I'll get it for you." Behind the stall owner's enthusiastic rotation stall, he lifted a small loin with ruddy color and transparent flesh from under the table, and he didn't go on the scale
I put a white vest bag in it and handed it over.
"Little boss, I'm just a pork seller, I don't have anything to handle, even if I make amends to you for this tenderloin, I hope you don't dislike it. ”
Li Qingyuan was not polite to him, solemnly took the pork, and said: "I will accept this intention of my brother, we will reveal this matter, brother, don't take it to heart, next time I will come to you to buy pork." ”
The stall owner grinned, showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, and said happily: "Don't worry, little boss, as long as you come, I will definitely give you the best pork." ”
"Then I wish you a prosperous business, I'll go first, you're busy!" Li Qingyuan waved goodbye after speaking.
Out of the comprehensive market, he beckoned Gu Tianli and explained: "Brother Gu, you go to find the best knife shop, buy a good meat knife, and give it to that old man. ”
At ten o'clock, Li Qingyuan returned home after buying the ingredients, Ling Yanran and Xiao Yiyi were like two frogs, lying on the floor of the living room head to head, the little guy was spitting bubbles in his mouth, Ling Yanran was grimacing and spitting out his tongue like a child who had not grown up.
Li Qingyuan didn't bother them, turned around and went into the kitchen to prepare lunch.
Li Yunyang, who was abandoned by his daughter, glanced at Ling Yanran very jealously, and was ruthless not to take care of his daughter, and went into the kitchen to help Li Qingyuan.
Morgan's family rarely has the opportunity to come to Huaxia, and there is no chance to eat the food cooked by Li Qingyuan, since he has eaten the authentic Chinese food he made in New York, Morgan has always been obsessed, and today he finally has the opportunity to taste what he wants.
Li Qingyuan was busy in the kitchen for nearly two hours, and in Morgan's gaze through the autumn water, a large table of dishes was finally brought to the table.
Braised prawns, steamed crab, sweet and sour loin, stir-fried yam fungus, white radish in clear soup, stir-fried broccoli, stewed egg with clams, fried sea cucumber with green onions, stewed black-bone chicken, wild crucian carp soup, and a braised pig's trotter stewed in the pot.
Morgan looked at the dazzling dishes and secretly swallowed his saliva, he was so envious of the Chinese people, so the Chinese people could enjoy such food every day.
At the dinner table, Li Qingyuan gave Morgan a bowl of white radish soup, and said with a smile: "Little uncle, this bowl of soup is the most healthy, there is an ancient saying in China called 'eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, no need for a doctor to prescribe medicine', you have to eat more fitness and disease prevention, skin rejuvenation and anti-aging, intestinal cleansing and detoxification." ”
Morgan happily picked up the porcelain bowl, drank it in one sip, and said: "You Chinese people are the most knowledgeable countries in the world that know how to eat, compared with you, people in other countries eat pig food, if it weren't for my career in the United States, I would definitely go back to China with your aunt to live." ”
"Hehe, you don't have to be in China if you want to eat Chinese food, and it's not difficult to invite a Chinese chef to the United States with your current net worth. ”
Li Qingyuan scooped a spoonful of wild crucian carp soup, blew the hot air, and came to Xiao Yiyi's mouth, the milky white fish soup was like milk, the little guy didn't suspect that he opened his mouth and sucked it in, first frowned, and then waved his little hand "Ah, ah!" call, pointing at his small mouth from time to time.
The little guy was so supportive, Li Qingyuan was naturally happy to feed it, but he didn't want to be snatched away by Ling Yanran.
Li Qingyuan took it back empty-handed, his eyes were full of gloom, this woman is different when she gets married, and she started yelling without saying a word.
opened two bottles of beer, handed it to Morgan, and said, "Come on, Morgan, there is no food without wine, let's go one!"
After drinking the beer in the glass, Morgan sighed again: "China is really a magical country, and the words are equally broad and profound, and it is impossible for Americans to use 'go one' to describe drinking!"
"Don't sigh, there are many things that you can't think of in Huaxia, as a Chinese son-in-law, you should adapt. ”
"You Chinese people are smart and hardworking, and the economy is developing rapidly, and in a few decades, no country in the world can compare. Morgan doesn't know how many times I've sighed.
Li Qingyuan sandwiched a piece of tenderloin and put it in Li Yunyang's bowl, and said, "Auntie, you try the tenderloin here, it was given by the owner of a pork shop today, it is very fresh." ”
"Morgan, at the current speed of development in China, I don't think it will take a few decades, and it will take ten or twenty years to catch up with the United States, do you believe it?"
Morgan shook his head like a rattle and retorted: "Huaxia and the United States are too far apart, you can't catch up with you in fifty years, and you won't have a fever if you catch up with the United States in ten or twenty years!"
"Hehe, I won't argue with you, let's speak with facts, I'll bet on Yiyi's adulthood, let's go back and see, who is right or wrong!" pinched the little guy's bulging little face, Li Qingyuan joked: "Little Yiyi is here to be a witness." ”
The little guy nodded his little head with wide eyes as if he didn't understand, which made Li Qingyuan laugh.
"You don't have to think about it to know, I'm going to win, and I won't make any other requests, as long as Elizabeth is an adult, you will give her a coming-of-age gift!"
"It's simple, when Yiyi becomes an adult, she can choose whatever gift she wants, and I will pay for it. But then again, what if I win?"
Morgan had contempt in his eyes, anyway, he felt that he had won, and said: "Then my conditions are the same as yours, when your children are adults, they will give whatever they want!"
"Okay, it's a deal!"
Both burst out laughing, both believing they had won.
"Morgan, speaking of economic development, did you come to invest in Mark Zuckerberg, the person I paid attention to last time?"
"I went to him in March, because he had just started 'The Facebook', and I was going to invest $5 million in him for a 30% stake. But this little guy refused, he was very attached to the shares, and only accepted our investment of $1.5 million, and in the end we only got 10% of the shares. ”
Having a 10% stake is not a small gain, this is a company worth hundreds of billions, and 10% is already very impressive.
"Don't ask too much, just have this 10% stake, Mark Zuckerberg is a smart man, he won't let other people's shares surpass him, just keep an eye on it and don't interfere too much. ”
"Compared to being able to get a stake in 'the Facebook,' I can't do anything about Google, another technology company that I want to follow, but to salvage and buy 3.5 million shares of their stock at the time of their IPO. ”
"Don't force it, whether it's Facebook or Google, it's our tools to make money, we still focus on the Helium Star Group, this is our business!"