Chapter Seventy-Three, a leisurely afternoon
"Wow, comfortable!" After drinking the osmanthus sour plum soup, Zhang Zhicheng breathed a long sigh of relief and sighed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Li Manman, where did you buy this osmanthus cake? It's not like the sweet ones sold outside! "Zhou Fan likes sweets, but he doesn't like to eat things that are too sweet, so he thinks that Li Manman's osmanthus cake tastes right.
"Ah, I did it myself!" Li Manman explained, "What, you like to eat? There's still something in the fridge, bring you some back? ā
Zhou Fan nodded again and again: "Okay, good!" At the same time, he didn't forget his good friend, "Bring some to Shao Yunyang, he also likes to eat sweets!" ā
"I want some red bean cake!" Shao Yunyang opened his mouth unceremoniously.
Li Manman glanced at Shao Yunyang, this guy has been silent all the way, Li Manman thought he was introverted and shy in front of girls, it turned out that he had a black belly! smiled and nodded, looked at everyone and said, "Okay, which of you still wants it?" ā
"I don't want it, what's so delicious about sweets!" The tall and thin Gao Jun only drank a bowl of soup and ate a piece of osmanthus cake, obviously not interested in sweets, seeing Li Manman asking, he looked at Zhou Fan and Shao Yunyang with contempt and said.
"What about Zhang Zhicheng and Yuanyuan?" Li Manman asked.
"I don't want it, but I want lotus flowers and the delicious lotus seeds you said!" Cai Yuanyuan said slyly.
Zhang Zhicheng shook his head and said, "I love grapes!" ā
"Got it." Li Manman nodded, knowing in his heart.
A few people talked and laughed and killed a pot of sour plum soup, and Li Manman took everyone out to the hotel, introducing everyone to the things in the field along the way, and answering all kinds of strange questions raised by everyone.
As soon as she entered the door of the hotel, a waiter greeted her, because Li Manman often came to run to the kitchen, and the waiter here was very familiar with her, and she didn't ask anything, so she welcomed the group into a private room in the west wing.
"Manman, what are you eating today?" The foreman in charge of the private room came over and asked, of course, not everyone comes to the private room, the foreman will come, but Li Manman is a small boss, and the manager attaches great importance to this opinion, and this is not a good stubble, that is a famous little bully in his hometown.
Li Manman looked at the smiling foreman, an acquaintance of his hometown, this girl has a very good ability, took the menu, handed it to a few classmates with a novel face, and said to the foreman: "Today is Sister Shiping on duty, let's get a few signature dishes, sauerkraut fish, health medicinal food pot, rice cake fried meat, and then a squirrel fish, fry a few seasonal side dishes, and serve fruit salad on the fruit plate!" Let's start with a variety of pastries for the main dish. Then he turned his head and asked a few people around him, "If you have anything you want to eat, just order it!" ā
"I want to eat pineapple pork, last time my dad took me to Lu City to eat, sweet and sour, very delicious, but we don't seem to have other restaurants here." Gao Jun said, pointing to the picture on the menu.
Li Manman looked at the foreman, the foreman nodded, and Li Manman knew that there were goods in the kitchen, so he said, "Okay." What more? ā
"No, you ask them!" Gao Jun shook his head and closed the menu.
"What's a good harvest?" Zhou Fan asked.
"It's a hodgepodge of boiled peanuts, corn, sweet potatoes, yams, etc." Li Manman explained.
"That's what I want." Zhou Fan thought it was interesting, so he ordered this.
"I want a plucked fruit." Shao Yunyang is worthy of being a lover of sweets, so he ordered a silk drawing.
"I want a lotus seed and lily soup." Cai Yuanyuan has always remembered the delicious lotus seeds that Li Manman said.
"Two bottles of grape juice! Don't want anything else. That's it, there you go! Li Manman said to the foreman. The foreman went out with the menu.
The waiter brought the tea, and Li Manman poured it for everyone, and introduced: "Everyone try this is my family's special tea, which is made of lotus flowers, and there is a light fragrance of lotus flowers." ā
Cai Yuanyuan first took a sip of the teacup, tasted it, and nodded: "There is a lotus fragrance!" After speaking, he looked at Li Manman, "There are a lot of things in your house that are quite novel!" ā
"That's it, there are a lot of things that we don't have in our county, and you actually have them here!" Zhang Zhicheng followed.
"Actually, many of the things in my house are not original, such as this flower tea bar, which was mentioned in the book, especially described in "Dream of Red Mansions", and the pastries I ate today are also in it. It's up to you to see if you can use your brain! Li Manman smiled and took a sip of the teacup.
Shao Yunyang listened to Li Manman's words, and his heart completely changed his opinion of this girl, at first he only thought that this girl only knew how to take exams, but looking at the pastries she made, and what she said, he knew that this girl not only knew how to take exams, but also could read, and was good at applying the knowledge in the book to reality, which was worth handing!
"Then, have you ever made jujube paste yam cake?" Shao Yunyang looked at Li Manman and asked.
"No, but I want to try it, and when the jujube is on the market, I'll make it for you to taste?" Li Manman looked at Shao Yunyang and smiled. Shao Yunyang nodded: "I'll wait!" ā
"Ayan, why do you have such a sweet tooth! Still a man? Zhang Zhicheng patted Shao Yunyang and said with disdain.
"It is said that people with a sweet tooth are more sensitive, kind and gentle." Li Manman thought of the description in a book about food and character that he had read before, and said.
"I don't see it, if Zhou Fan is still about the same, but Ah Yang is a little emotional? Where is it mild? Gao Jun complained that several people grew up together since childhood, and Shao Yunyang had a bad stomach.
"Let's play!" Zhang Zhicheng took the playing cards on the small table in the private room and said to everyone.
The boys have always agreed, the four boys sat together and played forty points, and Cai Yuanyuan pulled Li Manman to ask her how to make delicious pastries, and the two girls discussed this issue enthusiastically.
After eating, drinking hawthorn syrup, Li Manman took everyone to the vineyard, there were many people in the picking area, most of them were parents with their children to play, but that was the last time to relax before the start of school.
Li Manman said hello to his eldest cousin and led everyone into the vineyard, and the boys ran away from their shadows and disappeared among the layers of green leaves. Li Manman and Cai Yuanyuan carried a small basket, holding small scissors, and carefully picked up bunches of grapes.
"Manman, why do your grapes put paper bags?" Cai Yuanyuan looked at the paper bags on the bunches of grapes, and asked curiously, she also had a grape at her grandfather's house in the countryside, but she had never seen her grandfather bag grapes.
"If you put it in a bag, you can reduce the residue of the drug, reduce the damage of insects, and make the fruit look good." Li Manman explained that this idea was still given to his father by Li Manman, and his father went to ask his classmate, who was also praised for this suggestion and raised his title.
"Oh, no wonder your grapes are plump, purple, and rarely spoiled. Not at my grandfather's! Cai Yuanyuan nodded, "I'll tell my grandfather when I go back, let him do the same!" ā
"Okay, if you don't understand anything, you can ask me!" Li Manman said in a big way.
"Oops, you girls are meat! Picking so little for so long! Zhang Zhicheng stuffed grapes into his mouth while looking at the basket in Li Manman's hand. Shao Yunyang followed behind with most of the basket of grapes, while Gao Jun and Zhou Fan were still nowhere to be seen.
"The grapes should be washed before eating!" Li Manman looked at this informal boy and said with a smile.
"Hey, my grandmother said, don't eat it cleanly, it's not sick!" Zhang Zhicheng said disappreciatively.
"In this way, there is running water at the gate of the courtyard, we will wash it there and eat it!" Shao Yunyang suggested that when he came in just now, he happened to see a tap water sprinkler at the entrance of the courtyard.
"That's fine!" Zhang Zhicheng followed Shao Yunyang and walked to the door. Li Manman didn't care about them, and continued to pick grapes with Cai Yuanyuan.
A few people had eaten enough grapes, Li Manman packed the remaining grapes into five boxes, and asked them to carry them home for the family to taste, and then went to the pond to fish, saying that it was fishing, but in fact, there were few who were patient, and after playing for a while, a few people were driven away by the people who really came to fish a few times, and they couldn't help but be proud.
Li Manman beckoned everyone to get on the small wooden boat that usually picks lotus canopy, and rowed to the lotus bushes, Taihuang County does not have a real park, so rowing this kind of game, everyone rarely plays, so the interest is very high.
Shao Yunyang lay on the bow of the boat, looking at the green lotus leaves in front of him, and the blue sky between the leaves, he didn't know where his thoughts drifted. Zhang Zhicheng took a lotus pod and ate it with relish. Zhou Fan and Gao Jun were very interested in the fish in the water, holding small fishing nets and waiting for the fish to come and net them.
Li Manman and Cai Yuanyuan were on the other side of the boat, with a big lotus leaf on their heads, peeling lotus seeds and eating them seriously.