Chapter 115: The Marriage Proposal
When Cheng Xiaoyu sang and played the piano attentively, he didn't notice that the camera had already circled around the restaurant, especially for a long time at Cheng Xiaoyu's table, after all, everyone loves to watch beauties, and the visual economy is the eternal theme of the TV screen.
After Cheng Xiaoyu finished singing the song "Lovely Woman", the applause in the restaurant was even greater than the applause that began to congratulate the successful marriage proposal.
Cheng Xiaoyu stood up and bowed to thank him, and when he turned around, he found a middle-aged uncle holding a camera at him, which startled him, and a female host wearing a pink dress with her hair coiled next to her immediately held up the microphone and said, "Hello classmates, we are here for Dragon TV's "Marriage Proposal" column, have you watched our show?"
Cheng Xiaoyu was a little unclear about the sudden situation, so he could only shake his head and say, "I'm nervous about studying, and I don't usually have much time to watch TV." ”
The hostess didn't care either, and continued, "Look at your school uniform, it should be Fudan High School, right?"
Cheng Xiaoyu could only nod.
The host continued to ask, "What grade are you in?"
Only then did Cheng Xiaoyu understand that it was not a video, but a live TV station and replied, "Senior year of high school." ”
The host made an exaggerated "ah-oh" expression, and then said, "Wow, then I wish you a smooth college entrance examination." Just now you watched the romantic and touching marriage proposal scene, so you went up to play and sing to send blessings?"
Cheng Xiaoyu smiled, "Thank you for your auspicious words first, well, the proposal scene is very touching, and it also happens to be my friend's birthday, so I took the liberty of asking the restaurant manager to allow me to go up and play a song." ”
The hostess pointed in the direction of Su Yuxi and Xu Qinning and said, "Is that the table?"
Cheng Xiaoyu nodded.
The camera also turned.
The hostess immediately asked the photographer to keep up, ignoring Cheng Xiaoyu, obviously the beauty is more attractive.
As a result, Su Yuxi waved his hand to signal that he would not accept the interview before the camera arrived, and pulled Xu Qinning to bypass the camera and walk towards Cheng Xiaoyu.
The hostess looked at Su Yuxi and Xu Qinning with regret, thinking that if she could interview such a beauty, the ratings should be a few percentage points. ”
Cheng Xiaoyu saw that Su Yuxi hadn't finished eating, and signaled that he wanted to leave, so he went to the front desk to pay, obviously Su Yuxi didn't want to stay here.
Juan, the Italian manager of Turandot's restaurant, saw Cheng Xiaoyu coming to pay, and hurriedly applauded, "Oh, I don't know if you play the piano well, but your songs are really good, are you interested in singing in our restaurant?"
Cheng Xiaoyu smiled, shook his head and said, "Thank you for the compliment, I'm still a student and don't have time to perform for the time being." After saying that, he took out his wallet and took out his card to swipe it.
Juan smiled and said, "That's a pity, if you have such thoughts on vacation, welcome to me, I will give you a 50% discount on dinner today, don't think it is less, our restaurant never discounts." Lord, your music touches me so much. ”
Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and expressed his gratitude, swiped the card to pay the bill, this discount is indeed not low, the three of them ate almost 2,000 yuan, and swiped the card more than 900 yuan.
Cheng Xiaoyu said goodbye to the manager, and had an extra Juan's business card in his pocket.
Xu Qinning and Su Yuxi held hands and waited for him at the door of the restaurant.
Xu Qinning's face was full of smiles, it was a very special birthday gift for her, more precious than any jewelry she had received.
Xu Qinning pulled Su Yuxi with one hand, and Cheng Xiaoyu with the other and said, "I like this song "Lovely Woman" so much. Brother Xiaoyu, you must teach me to sing, this song is for me! You are not allowed to sing it to other girls!" After speaking, Xu Qinning felt a little red and heartbeat, regretting whether it was too abrupt to say this, would it make Cheng Xiaoyu misunderstand what she meant.
Before Cheng Xiaoyu could answer, Su Yuxi spoke first, "I haven't eaten yet, we have to eat something, right?" When he spoke, he also looked sideways at Cheng Xiaoyu and Xu Qinning, as if asking for their opinions.
Cheng Xiaoyu naturally wouldn't object to her sister's mention, and said with a smile: "Me too, I basically didn't eat anything just now." "They paid for the main course before it was served, and it was true that they didn't have enough of it.
Xu Qinning was also relieved to see that Su Yuxi naturally diverted the topic, fortunately no one noticed that her words just now were full of ambiguity, and when her heart was relieved, she remembered that Cheng Xiaoyu said that he liked men. Thinking that Su Yuxi's family is such a boy, she feels that Cheng Xiaoyu really shouldn't be irresponsible and go to the road of no return to GAY, which makes her feel that she has the obligation to correct him, who wants him to be the brother of her best sister?
The three of them walked into the elevator and began to discuss where to eat something, and the two girls naturally asked Cheng Xiaoyu to be the master, and they didn't eat a big meal anyway.
In Cheng Xiaoyu's memory, the only place for SH to eat snacks is Chenghuang Temple, and he also knows that as a tourist attraction, the taste of what he eats must be average, so he asked Su Yuxi and Xu Qinning, "Do you know where else there is a famous snack street in SH?"
The two girls shook their heads, Su Yuxi never cared about what she ate, whether it was good or not, as long as she could eat enough.
Xu Qinning didn't have much chance to go to a place like the snack street, speaking of which, the only time her father took her to the park was on her ninth birthday, and her aunt, and also brought six or seven entourages, her father chartered the entire park in advance, so there was a huge park where only her father's secretary took her to run around and play the projects she wanted to play. Since then, she has not offered to go to the park. She hated his father's secretary too, and that vixen-like woman smelled of her father.
Cheng Xiaoyu had no choice but to propose to go to the City God Temple, speaking of which, the City God Temple is not far from the Golden Dome Building. It doesn't take long to turn left through the Renmin Road Tunnel, which is also convenient.
Cheng Xiaoyu originally thought that such a mention would be despised, but she knew that Xu Qinning was still very excited, as a native of SH, she had never even passed by the City God Temple, let alone entered.
Su Yuxi has been there, but he doesn't like where there are many people, so he has been there once, or Su Hongwen and Su Feifei came to SH to play during the summer vacation, and they went under the leadership of Zhou Peipei.
SH's City God Temple was built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the old City God Temple is adjacent to Yu Garden, located in the commercial center of SH Old City, and still maintains the style of the ancient Chinese side town market, all Chinese and foreign tourists who come to SH have to come to the City God Temple to take a walk.
It is famous for its various SH flavor snacks, such as the special dim sum of the Green Wave Gallery, the vegetarian buns of Songyue Building, the eight treasure rice of Songyun Building, the Nanxiang Xiaolong, the Ningbo soup dumplings and the wine-stuffed dumplings, etc., which are all delicious snacks that cannot be missed in the tour of SH.
In addition to the local snacks, the area of the City God Temple is also filled with different characteristics from all over the world, and all kinds of restaurants, restaurants, and restaurants can be seen on the winding old streets along the line, and you can see freshly baked buns and shortbreads everywhere in the flow of people, which makes this place another enduring "food paradise" in the city of SH, and all kinds of attractive tastes are constantly interpreting "old temple snacks" and "Shanghai style dishes" In this ancient and tourist-filled historical place, continue to deposit his characteristic charm.
The things to do when you go to SH Chenghuang Temple for snacks is to go to Nanxiang Steamed Bun Shop to eat crab roe xiaolong, and the other is to go to Huxin Pavilion to drink tea. In fact, the so-called "steamed buns" in Shanghai are not "solid steamed buns", but steamed buns in the traditional sense.
Cheng Xiaoyu was sandwiched by Su Yuxi and Xu Qinning, walking in the crowded City God Temple, because they didn't stay in the Italian restaurant for too long, it was only seven o'clock at the moment, nearly eight o'clock, and there were still quite a lot of people dining, and most of the popular attractions in China were not crowded.
The appearance of Su Yuxi and Xu Qinning in the scenic spot of SH has become a scenery in China, and before he walked a few steps, several waves of international friends came to ask for a group photo, in line with the hospitable etiquette of Chinese people, Su Yuxi and Xu Qinning are not too refusal, but they pity Cheng Xiaoyu, he is the one who takes pictures every time, when he shouts eggplant, crooked nuts often look at him inexplicably, with a cute face.
And the Chinese people have always been thin-skinned, and no one asks for a group photo, but the two women are walking on the street, but there are countless flashlights around them, and they have no scruples about taking candid photos.
As a last resort, Cheng Xiaoyu randomly found a pork rib rice cake shop called Xiao Changzhou, planned to eat a little casually, quickly withdrew, and continued to move forward, he felt that he was about to appear on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper.
After entering, the store is quite large, as soon as you enter the door, there is a counter for ordering, Cheng Xiaoyu glanced at the menu at random, asked the two women, ordered three rib rice cake sets, paid the money and the three people found a seat to sit down.
There are a lot of guests at this point, and there is a 2nd floor, the overall decoration is already very old, but it seems to have the style of the old SH, the waiters are full of state-run style, Cheng Xiaoyu feels that this kind of style is particularly kind, and sighed that it is really time to apply for intangible cultural heritage.
Pork rib rice cake is a kind of economical, unique flavor snack in Shanghai, "Little Changzhou" pork rib rice cake is selected from Changzhou, Wuxi and other places of pork backbone meat, marinated with soy sauce, and then put into the oil pot mixed with soy sauce, oil, sugar, green onion and ginger, wine, etc., until the color is purple red, the meat is fresh and tender, and the taste is strong and fragrant.
At the same time, after the Songjiang rice is cooked, put it in the stone mortar and beat it repeatedly with a hammer, take it out after beating until the rice has no whole grain, cut 20 pieces per 500 grams, wrap a small piece of pork ribs that have been soaked in each root, and then boil it in the sauce oil pot, when eating, sprinkle with five-spice powder, then there is the strong fragrance of pork ribs, and the soft glutinous crispiness of rice cakes, which is very delicious.
Xiao Changzhou served the food quickly, the waiter brought the white plate and put it on the table, Cheng Xiaoyu looked at it, a piece of ribs and two rice cakes, the ribs are not the ribs that northerners understand, but like a meat cake, there are bones in it, but it is really delicious for a carnivore like Cheng Xiaoyu, I feel that rice cakes and pork ribs, which are not only untouchable, can not only be made together but also delicious, which is amazing.
SH people must stick to the spicy soy sauce when eating pork ribs and rice cakes, and there is a bottle of spicy soy sauce on each table, Cheng Xiaoyu doesn't understand it very well, Xu Qinning doesn't understand it either, only Su Yuxi knows, and sprinkled the spicy soy sauce on the ribs with a golden luster with a calm face.
Cheng Xiaoyu learned from Su Yuxi, sprinkled a lot of spicy soy sauce on the ribs, it was really much more delicious, the fried ribs stained with slightly sour and slightly spicy soy sauce just enough to relieve greasy and freshness, the palm-sized pork ribs were wrapped in a thin dough, the meat was tender and springy, and the juice was delicious when you took a bite.
Xu Qinning rarely eats this kind of unhealthy food on weekdays, and the first time she ate it, she was amazed by this high-calorie, high-fat food, and looked at Cheng Xiaoyu in inexplicable surprise, Cheng Xiaoyu looked at a satisfied Xu Qinning, and guessed that if she took her to eat junk food like KFC McDonald's, she would feel more delicious.
(Thank you for the reward of the innocent and kind little pervert, the night wood wind, and the depraved wind!) Originally, I thought that the most delicious convenience was Shin ramen (boiled noodles), and there was also a Thai instant noodle with a sour and spicy taste. Now I think the Laotan sauerkraut sauce noodles taste very good. Japanese Hong Kong instant noodles are not quite suitable for my taste, too light. There are also Singaporean instant noodles recommended on the Internet that I haven't tried yet, so if you have the opportunity to taste them, I will definitely tell you about them. Forgive me for writing about food at such a large length, in fact, I said in the novel that only food and love can not be disappointed, I hope you will not be too boring to read such chapters. I hope you'll feel a little hungry too, haha!)