Chapter 43: Tenderness at the Table
After choosing the dishes, Zhan Baiyi still wanted to help Xu Rongrong do something, but Sister-in-law Ming had already returned, and there was nothing he could help, plus Xu Rongrong sternly asked him to go to the living room outside to rest, so he could only go out helplessly.
Sitting on the sofa, the LCD TV on the wall was playing a boring variety show, and Zhan Bai was uninterested after looking at it twice.
Lowering his head, there were washed cherries and pomegranates on the transparent crystal coffee table, Zhan Baiyi stretched out his hand and gently pinched a cherry, put it in his mouth, and instantly the sweet and sour taste filled his mouth, and the refreshing cherry flesh danced on the tip of his tongue, and then was swallowed into his stomach.
"Is it delicious?" Zhan Yiyang, who was sitting on the side, looked at him and asked with a light smile.
"It's delicious." Raising the corners of his mouth, Zhan Bai closed his eyes, and while reminiscing about the taste of Fang Cai's cherry meat, he answered Zhan Yiyang softly.
"If it's delicious, eat more." Zhan Yiyang is a person who is not good at expressing himself, but his full kindness can be seen in his soft eyes.
Zhan Bai pursed his lips and nodded.
In fact, the delicious thing is not the cherry, but the warmth.
A taste of home, a hundred times better than sweet and sour cherry meat, in the years when Zhan Bai thought that he couldn't feel the taste of home in his life, a warm Xu Rongrong attacked his heart, took him, and came to another home.
This home is warmer than the previous one.
Because there were only him and his mother in the previous home, although the mother and son are much stronger than one person, they will feel lonely after all.
And now, he has a mother, a father, a younger brother, a sister-in-law who cooks delicious meals, and even a group of smiling Filipino maids.
Sitting quietly on the sofa, watching Sister-in-law Ming and Xu Rongrong busy cooking, as well as Zhan Yiyang, who was always quietly reading the newspaper beside him, the sunlight spilled in from the big floor-to-ceiling window and shone on everyone's body, Zhan Bai squinted, as if he was going to sleep in this warm time.
About half an hour has passed, or maybe it has actually been several hours, but in Zhan Baiyi's feeling, only a short time has passed, and it is too short for him to feel the warmth of the other party.
Xu Rongrong smiled and took off his coat, and Ming's sister-in-law helped bring the dishes to the white table with the same color and carefully placed them.
Looking at the sleepy Zhan Bai Yi, Xu Rongrong woke him up with a smile, "Bai Yi, it's time to eat, if you're sleepy, go to sleep after eating." ”
Xu Rongrong's gentle voice pulled Bai Yi back to the real world, looking at the pair of pure and innocent elk-like eyes that were exactly the same as Zhan Tianning, Bai Yi couldn't help but smile gently, showing a little shyness on his delicate face, and she was beautiful, "I'm not sleepy, Mom." ”
"If you're not sleepy, let's eat." Xu Rongrong smiled lightly and pulled out a white chair and motioned for him to sit down.
Zhan Baiyi nodded embarrassedly, as if he didn't expect Xu Rongrong to pull out a chair for him personally.
Because the living room and the dining room seemed to be separated by only one wall, in fact, there was still a little distance, so Zhan Baiyi's footsteps came to the dining room slightly faster, and then smiled shyly at Xu Rongrong, and sat on the white chair.
Zhan Yiyang, who followed Zhan Baiyi, also pulled out a chair and sat opposite Zhan Baiyi, Xu Rongrong sat next to Zhan Yiyang, and the family of three was seated.
"Mom, brother's school, is it far from here?" Zhan Bai looked at the vacant seat beside him, but still hesitated to speak.
"Actually, it's not too far, it's not that Tianning is a little independent, so I stayed there, and I only went home on Friday evening." Xu Rongrong handed the chopsticks and knife and fork in his hand to Zhan Baiyi, and answered for him softly.
"That's right." Zhan Bai nodded as if he had realized, it seemed that he was going to stay too, it didn't make sense that his younger brother was staying alone, but his elder brother went home every day.
Then you can't see your mother every day, Zhan Bai raised his head and glanced at Xu Rongrong with some reluctance.
Unexpectedly, Xu Rongrong actually saw through his thoughts and smiled and comforted him, "Mom has to go to work on weekdays, even if you go home, you can only see your mother at night, not to mention that the school is not too far from here, if you want to add it, you can call Uncle Ming and ask Uncle Ming to pick you up." ”
Uncle Ming is the husband of Ming's sister-in-law and the driver of the Zhan family, but because Zhan Yiyang likes to drive by himself, he spends most of his time taking care of the flowers and plants in the garden, and occasionally picking up Zhan Tianning.
"Well, I know Mom." Hearing that Xu Rongrong explained to him specifically for this matter, Zhan Bai's face was filled with gratitude and understanding, he smiled shyly, and his big eyes smiled into a semi-circular crescent.
"Come, try the charcoal-grilled shrimp that Mom made." Looking at Zhan Baiyi's lovely smile, Xu Rongrong felt infinite pity in his heart, especially when he thought that this little guy could only eat white rice with small green vegetables before, he was even more distressed, so he directly picked up the knife and fork and gave Zhan Baiyi the largest one of the charcoal-grilled shrimps.
Charcoal grilled shrimp is to dehydrate the live shrimp in the water for three to five minutes to remove the vitality of the shrimp itself, then pull off the shrimp line on the shrimp tail, and then string it up with a bamboo skewer, smear it with various spices and then put it on the fire to slowly roast until the skin is completely red, and finally sprinkle cumin and other seasonings into the flavor, it is a very delicious dish, and it is also the favorite dish of Zhan Tianning Zhan Yiyang father and son.
Zhan Bai looked at the charcoal-grilled shrimp in front of him, hesitated twice, and finally decided to use a fork to separate the body and tail of the lobster fork first, and then cut the line between the back of the shrimp tail and the white inner skin little by little, and finally picked out the shrimp meat.
Because if this action is too big, it will scratch the shrimp everywhere, so Zhan Baiyi slowly paddled the shrimp tail very small and lightly, and it took several minutes to successfully peel a shrimp.
Zhan Bai looked at the white and tender shrimp, picked up the fork in his right hand and forked the shrimp, and gently put it into his mouth.
In the mouth, there is a fragrance that can only be made by charcoal grilling, this prawn is very delicious because the seasoning is sent in by the fire little by little, and Xu Rongrong's sophisticated roasting method is just cooked but not too tender, so that the taste of the whole shrimp has risen by at least three levels.
No wonder Zhan Yiyang and Zhan Tianning love this dish the most, it is so delicious.
Zhan Bai squinted his eyes and chewed slightly, feeling the taste of shrimp sliding down his throat, only to feel the delicious breath coming from his stomach.
It's delicious...
As soon as Zhan Bai opened his eyes, he just wanted to praise his mother, but he saw Xu Rongrong looking at him expectantly with wide eyes, "How is it, how is it, is it delicious?" ”
Such Xu Rongrong is like a primary school student who is expecting the teacher to correct the test papers, a little scared, a little expectant, and a little apprehensive.
Zhan Bai couldn't help but smile, and praised randomly without hesitation, "This dish is really delicious, mom is awesome..."
"Oye, it seems that my charcoal-grilled shrimp is really good, and everyone has praised it after eating it." Hearing Zhan Baiyi's praise, Xu Rongrong was happy like a child who had scored a hundred points, and he almost hugged Zhan Yiyang and shouted.
And Zhan Baiyi looked at Xu Rongrong with a smile, his eyes were praise, dependence, satisfaction, and happiness.
Probably embarrassed to be stared at by Zhan Baiyi, Xu Rongrong finally returned to the white chair after two minutes of feeling good about himself, and Chong Ming's sister-in-law asked for a pair of gloves and quickly peeled the shrimp.
Zhan Baiyi elegantly peeled shrimp with a fork very slowly, but it was much faster with both hands, so it was only five minutes, and there was a pile of shrimp meat in front of Xu Rongrong.
Probably tired of peeling, Xu Rongrong put down his gloves, forked the shrimp with a fork, and carefully sent it to Zhan Baiyi's plate, "Come, Baiyi, eat shrimp." ”
Zhan Bai looked at these shrimps, moved and helpless, "Mom, you eat, don't just peel the shrimp for me." ”
"Okay, okay, I know, come and eat the red yarn ribs I made." Xu Rongrong nodded excitedly, probably because he felt that Zhan Baiyi had eaten vegetarian for three months, which was very pitiful, so today's dishes were almost all meat, and there were few ingredients. 、
Now, what Xu Rongrong forked with a fork is the pork ribs that she has carefully stewed for 40 minutes, selecting the most tender and best tasting parts of the pig, first stewing for 40 minutes to stew the meat to the essence, and then stewing it with purple clay pot with condiments for more than ten minutes, completely drying up the soup and making this very delicious braised ribs.
These ribs are delicious and easy to digest, so Xu Rongrong forked several pieces in a row and sent them to Zhan Baiyi's bowl, and forked other pork livers and other things that can supplement the body's flesh and grow taller to Zhan Baiyi, and after a while, Zhan Baiyi's bowl was piled up into a hill.
He looked at the bowl full of food with tears and laughter, and only felt infinitely moved in his heart.
With such a loving mother, he will be satisfied in this life.
"Mom, thank you Mom for making so many delicious meals, but Mom doesn't just give Bai a piece of food, but also eats it herself." Zhan Baiyi looked at Xu Rongrong solemnly, obviously he was serious, but he always had the cuteness of a fascination.
Xu Rongrong responded with a smile, when she saw the hill in Zhanbai's bowl, she also knew that she was a little too excited, what the child likes to eat by himself, if he doesn't like to eat by himself, he is embarrassed not to eat, how bad it will be then.
"Bai Yi, mom was a little out of shape just now, if you don't like to eat, just put it aside and clean it up later." After thinking about it again and again, Xu Rongrong still decided to say it, so as not to embarrass Zhan Baiyi for eating what he didn't like to eat.
What answered her was Zhan Baiyi's indifferent smiling face, "Mom has everything I like to eat, and our mother and son really have a good heart." ”
"You stinky boy." Xu Rongrong scolded him with a smile, but his face was full of gentleness.
This kid, although he is a little flamboyant, does say what people like to hear.
Xu Rongrong smiled helplessly and gently, while watching Zhan Bai eat, his eyes were full of gentleness that could squeeze out water. RV