When Xu Jie and Mo returned home, Mrs. Fujimoto had already prepared dinner.

The square table is full of pots, chopsticks and various ingredients.

The main ingredient of sukiyaki is beef, which is served with shallots, tofu, shiitake mushrooms, konjac and seasonal vegetables.

Different sauces have different flavors, and different regions also give sukiyaki many different ways to eat.

But what remains unchanged is that this delicacy is widely loved and is one of the first dishes considered by housewives when they are gathering together as a family or entertaining relatives and friends.

When Xu Jie and Mo climbed into the house from the cat road, Xiao Jiantai, who was walking on the warm table facing their position, waved to them excitedly and said, "Great Sage, come over quickly, the sukiyaki prepared by my mother today has Kobe beef." ”

Kobe beef? Is that the legendary black-skinned Wagyu beef?

Xu Jie, who has been living here for a while, knows that Kobe's black cattle are the pride of their side, and the word Wagyu is almost synonymous with top-quality beef.

In particular, Kobe's black cattle are the top of the Wagyu beef, and the annual production is very limited, and it is basically digested domestically, and only a small part will be exported.

The market price of this beef can reach 20,000 yen per kilogram, but even if it is such a high price, it is often priceless.

So when he heard that he could eat this legendary top-notch ingredient today, as a foodie, his eyes immediately lit up, and he turned around and ran to Jian Tai's side with Mo.

On the warm table, Mrs. Fujimoto is making zuò sukiyaki on the spot, and the soup stock is already boiled, and the shredded onion and shallots are put in a pot with butter and stir-fried, and the prepared soup is added, vegetables and meat are added in turn, and finally a raw egg is beaten into the pot, and the family version of sukiyaki is completed.

Although the method is simple, the advantage is that the materials are fresh, and Mrs. Fujimoto's good craftsmanship makes the room full of aroma for a while.

While her daughter-in-law was stir-frying sukiyaki, Grandma Fujimoto took out a bottle of sake from the cloth bag she had brought with her, put it on the table and said, "This is the rice wine I fermented myself in the fall, using rice from our fields. There are two large bottles of wine, one of which I have drunk myself, and this one is for you. ”

When Mr. Fujimoto heard this, he hurriedly closed the bottle in his mother's hand, and found the small wine glass, ready to drink a few glasses later.

Mr. Fujimoto is not surprised that his mother can make wine.

When my father left, my mother worked in the distillery for several years to support herself and her sister.

By the time Mr. Fujimoto finished pouring the wine, Mrs. Fujimoto's sukiyaki had already been made. As the youngest child in the family, Kenta waited for the elders to move the dishes and chopsticks before picking up the chopsticks and starting to pick up the dishes.

Stretching out his chopsticks to pick up a slice of beef, Jian Tai did not put the beef into his mouth, but instead sent it into Xu Jie's plate who was waiting on the side.

The beef still wrapped in thick egg juice was put into his plate, Xu Jie smelled the fragrance, and didn't care about the hot mouth of the beef just out of the pot, so he bit it directly.

The tender beef burst directly in Xu Jie's mouth, and the hot juice scalded its cat tongue in his mouth, but even so, Xu Jie was unwilling to spit out the beef in his mouth.

The slippery and tender taste almost made Xu Jie gobble up, almost swallowing his tongue.

Seeing that the raccoon cat he raised was eating happily, Jian Tai was happy, and soon he sandwiched another chopstick beef and sent it to Xu Jie.

Xu Jie didn't choose to eat this piece of beef by himself, but picked it up and sent it to Mo's mouth.

It is a sin to have such a delicious thing for a cat to enjoy, and sharing is the ultimate pleasure of tasting food.

While giving away the beef, Xu Jie hadn't forgotten to signal the little fat man to tell him not only to feed the cat, but also to eat it himself.

The Kobe beef that Mrs. Fujimoto bought this time was a one-kilogram standard pack, and although it looked quite full after cutting it out, it was not much for a family of three adults, two children, and four pets.

Mrs. Fujimoto also knows this, but it's not that she doesn't want to buy more, it's that she can't.

This top-notch Kobe beef needs to be ordered in advance, and yesterday I knew that my mother-in-law was coming, and Mrs. Fujimoto also relied on the relationship of her old classmates to temporarily divide some today.

In order to allow others to eat more, Mrs. Fujimoto did not clip a single piece of beef herself, and ate all she ate was green vegetables, tofu and radish.

Just when she grabbed another pair of chopsticks konjac, she looked down and found that there was suddenly an extra pair of chopsticks in her bowl, and a large piece of beef was sandwiched on top of the chopsticks.

After delivering the meat, the pair of chopsticks was quickly taken back, and Mrs. Fujimoto looked in the direction where the chopsticks were retracted, but saw that her husband continued to eat the shiitake mushrooms in the pot very calmly.

The others who were busy eating didn't notice the sweet little action of the Fujimoto couple, and Xu Jie, who was very curious about homemade rice wine, put his paw on Grandma Fujimoto's thigh after eating, and looked at her by the milky white rice wine inside.

Finding that her grandson's tanuki cat had been staring at her wine glass, Grandma Fujimoto smiled and nodded at Xu Jie's little head and asked, "Does the Great Sage also want to try it?" Now that you're a big cat, I'll give you some to taste. ”

As he spoke, he tilted his wine glass and poured a little bit into Xu Jie's food plate.

Seeing this, Xiao Jiantai couldn't help asking, "Grandma, can cats drink?" ”

Grandma Fujimoto smiled when she heard this, "It's okay to lick a little once in a while, as long as you don't drink it often." I think the old cat in our family back then, but he loves to drink the rice wine I brewed the most. ”

Xu Jie lowered his head when he heard this, and first sniffed inside the plate, well, the smell is acceptable.

So Xu Jie stretched out his tongue and licked it, the first thing he tasted was a fermented sourness, and then a faint sweetness and the spicy taste of wine.

Tasting wine with a cat's tongue, this feeling is really indescribable in simple words, but the sweetness of rice wine makes Xu Jie can't help but squint his eyes and taste it.

Seeing Xu Jie's enjoyment, Mo also came over curiously and licked it on the plate with his tongue.

Well, it's tasted before, but this time it's called rice wine and it's better than sorghum wine.

The two cats, you and I, soon the rice wine that Fujimoto poured on Xu Jie's dinner plate was not too much, and it was licked clean by the two of them.

Xiao Jiantai, who was worried that the cats were drunk, squatted down and carefully observed the cats, and found that they did not have any abnormalities, so he returned to his place and continued to eat.

In fact, the little fat man was relieved a little early, because although the degree of rice wine is not high, it is a well-known regression.

So it didn't take long for Xu Jie, who was starting to get drunk, to start walking a little unsteadily.

Looking at the little raccoon flower that drew an arc there, Mo stood up and walked over, and Xu Jie looked at Mo's face for a long time with a look that had begun to blur.

Xu Jie, who found it useless, shook his head, then stood up, slapped Mo's face with two paws and said, "Don't dangle around, I can't see your face clearly." ”

After speaking, he probably felt that the cat face of the flesh under the paws was very interesting, and Xu Jie actually rubbed it up with his paws.

Under Xu Jie's paws, the cat's face of ink constantly transforms into various shapes, round, flat, and long.

But no matter what shape it becomes, as long as it is combined with the particularly strict face of the ink, it has a very funny effect.

Xu Jie looked at the cat's face under his paws and kept giggling, meow hehe, meow looked a little scary.

But Mo didn't care about it, because it was starting to get a little drunk.

When Mo is drunk, he is different from other qiē animals, and other creatures are too drunk and talk nonsense, and their brains are hot and can do anything.

Mo is the more drunk and sober, the more he drinks, the faster his brain turns, as long as he doesn't get drunk and sleeps, it doesn't make a difference whether he drinks too much or not.

The more he played, the more excited Xu Jie became, and he had already begun to pull Mo's cheek with his paws, and when he was halfway through, he suddenly asked a hint of the taste of rice wine??? , where the smell of alcohol came from?

Xu Jie shook his nose and sniffed carefully in the air, sniffing and sniffing the side of Mo's mouth.

Well, that faint smell of wine came from here.

So Xu Jie, who was already drunk and couldn't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, bit Mo's mouth with a bite.

Lick lick lick lick hard, hey, why doesn't there be that sweet and sour taste in my memory? Did ink hide the good things?

So Xu Jie, who was unwilling, began to roll his tongue into the innermost part of the ink.

Mo, who had been obediently squatting there and not moving, letting Xu Jie ravage/ravage casually this time finally couldn't sit still, it stood up and unceremoniously picked up Xu Jie and left.

Early the next morning, a satisfied Mo came out of the little raccoon flower's cat nest in good spirits.

Behind it, Xu Jie curled up in the cat nest, pressing his old waist little by little with his paws.

What is the broken wine, the ink drunk is like a fire, this time I must remember it for a long time, and I will never let the ink touch anything containing alcohol in the future.