Chapter 4 Xiaolu's cooking
Gu Xiaochun's parents moved, her younger brother graduated this summer, and looked for something to do in Hongkou South, although it was a dormitory, Gu Lao and his wife were not at ease, and they also moved to Hongkou South, so that they could take care of it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThere are a lot of things to move this time, because there are still some of Gu Xiaochun's wedding things, so Gu Xiaochun asked Su Youling and another sister to help. Old Mr. and Mrs. Gu were very polite, and after settling down in their new home, they wanted to invite them to their home for dinner, urging Gu Xiaochun to invite them there.
The other sister who helped was already married, and Gu Xiaochun was quite familiar, Gu Xiaochun naturally didn't want to invite her alone, Su Youling was also "ordered" to bring "Master Zhao" here, Su Youling refused, and now it seems too rash and inappropriate to go to other people's houses as guests, and then I thought that when the time comes, everyone will be there in pairs, and she will not be embarrassed alone, so she only agreed to ask Zhao Liansheng to see, she doesn't know much about this kind of human feelings, and she can only ask him to see. He didn't plan to go, he didn't know people well, and he didn't help much, they were polite, he was embarrassed. However, she wanted him to go with him, and he thought about it, but it was not impossible, and he carefully made a few good pastries in the coming days, and put them in an ebony wooden box layer by layer, and pasted a piece of red paper on the outside, which was very beautiful and pleasing to give away. He also prepared two more packets of candied fruit, tied them together with rope, and attached them with red paper.
Su Youling put on a cheongsam, envied for a long time, and took advantage of this time to go to someone's house for dinner, so she made a cheongsam at the tailor's place, a moon-white cloth cheongsam, a little loose, and the style of a female student at that time, wearing a short hair became foreign. He took her on his bicycle, and the things hung on the faucet, but it was difficult for him to think about it, and she was not very embarrassed, but she was not polite to him.
He took her through the sound of the city on a summer evening, the afterglow on the street, and the evening breeze blowing in his face.
This alley is not difficult to find, he looked at the house number all the way, parked outside the back door of Gu's house, Gu Xiaochun had already run out to greet them in the stove room, and while letting them go to the front of the guest hall, he blamed them for bringing things too politely, Su Youling didn't say anything, only smiled, Zhao Liansheng was coping, after all, he was born in a pastry shop, although he didn't talk much, he was polite and thoughtful with his gestures, and he was quite popular. Gu Xiaochun's mother-in-law was smiling at him when she saw her son-in-law today, took the things he sent, saw that the black lacquered wooden box was beautiful, and asked, "Yo, what is this?" On the other hand, the lid of the box was opened, and when he saw the delicate pastries, he was immediately overjoyed, and Su Youling next to him said: "Xiao Zhao has made a few pastries, and I don't know if they are suitable for Mrs. Gu's taste...... "Yo, Mr. Zhao made it himself!" What a bother...... You can't buy it out there like this! Mrs. Gu smiled happily at Zhao Liansheng twice, nodded, sat on the stool for him for a while, and gave him candy for a while, he shouted "Mrs. Gu" and made her smile, Su Youling next to her didn't talk much, smiled and watched them chat, and then went to the back stove to see if there was anything to help.
Gu Xiaochun and her father were peeling broad watercress in the stove room, Su Youling called him "Mr. Gu", and helped peel the watercress, he was busy and politely persuaded her to go to the guest hall to drink tea, and blamed himself for his leg and foot problems. Su Youling chatted with him, the phone in the living room rang, Gu Xiaochun went out to pick it up, it was Brother Li who had something going on, let Gu Xiaochun go, she said hello and went out, Mrs. Gu complained and chased to the back door, calling her to come back quickly, there was a guest at home, muttering that the strange daughter and son-in-law were not sensible, and when he turned around, he saw Zhao Liansheng smiling and calling him to drink tea, he was polite, and also paced to the stove to help. The old couple Gu was very embarrassed, they originally invited them to dinner, but now let them pick up the dishes, Zhao Liansheng hurriedly said that it was okay, just a little favor, and Sister Gu would save some trouble when she came back later.
They are busy here, another pair of guests at the back door have come in, they are familiar with the Gu family, greet warmly, the guests have arrived, Mrs. Gu asked Su Youling and Mr. Gu to go to the guest hall to drink tea, and she can come alone between the stoves. Mrs. Gu's eyes are not very good, Zhao Liansheng wants to stay and fight, Mrs. Gu also agreed, she really has a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law, and the more she looks at it, the happier she is. Someone handed salt and oil next to the cooking was naturally much more convenient, this Zhao Liansheng also showed that he was a person who often entered the kitchen, but he was called by Mrs. Gu very handy, and he was more intelligent than his son-in-law. Mrs. Gu is not good at burning broad bean paste, she doesn't like to eat it, so she basically doesn't burn it, Zhao Liansheng said that he knows how to burn, mash it with salted egg yolk and then serve it with shrimp, and he burned it, it was really delicious, Mrs. Gu tasted several broad bean pastes in a row, and she liked it very much, and the other two dishes that were not very good also invited him to cook them, and asked him for advice, and he did cook a good dish.
It was quite late for Gu Xiaochun and Brother Li to come back, and they were counted down by Mrs. Gu, and Zhao Liansheng excused them a few sentences and went to the guest hall.
The three dishes cooked by Zhao Liansheng at the dinner table were the most popular, and they were all left in a short time, Mrs. Gu took Su Youling's hand and smiled and said, "Miss Su is so blessed......" Su Youling smiled, squinted at Zhao Liansheng, she didn't expect him to cook a small dish, but the dishes he cooked didn't seem to surprise her, she thought it should be this flavor when she ate it.
After dinner, they all drank tea in the living room, and the radio of the people upstairs sang Suzhou Pingdan, and in the sound of scattered silk strings, Soft Nong Wu Yu talked about a life experience, sad and confused, and the colon was sad, hidden in the nearby Yingying talk and laughter, there was a sense of detachment, but it continued from beginning to end. Maybe it was because of the two glasses of wine on the dinner table, and in a trance, she felt a wave of emotion rushing up. She always felt that the man in front of her was reliable, from the time she came to Shanghai alone, until now, he was reliable, she couldn't help but reach out and grab his clothes, he turned around, she smiled and let go of her hand, he held her hand again...... Commenting on the play and singing to the affection, the strings and the pipa are congzheng, which confuses the mind and the feelings.
Mrs. Gu took out the box of pastries sent by Zhao Liansheng for everyone to taste, and just as Mrs. Zhang, who lived here, came back, came in at the back door, and saw Mrs. Gu in the living room, and greeted her from afar, "Hello Mrs. Gu, there is a guest today!" "Okay, come back to see your son?" The two women had only met twice, and they were very polite, and Mrs. Gu also gave Mrs. Zhang two pieces of cake, "Nong, taste the taste, Mr. Ala Zhao made the ...... himself" "Ouch, thank you, it's so good!" Mr. Ala Tang Bifangzhai didn't buy as many walnuts as this one...... "Mrs. Zhang smiled and nodded at Zhao Liansheng following Mrs. Gu's guidance, Zhao Liansheng also said hello back, and said with a smile, "But Bifangzhai in Jing'an Temple?" It's my brother who opened the shop, and the walnut cake is done well......" "Ho, it's a coincidence!" Mr. Tang must buy walnut cake every time he goes, and it is good to do well, and it tastes strange, but it is not as good as you! "Mrs. Zhang said that Mr. Tang is the male owner of the family where she helps, she is now a maid in Jing'an Temple, occasionally come to see her son, today I saw that the Gu family has a guest, so I came to say hello, and then went upstairs. Su Youling had some doubts about this Mr. Tang, what kind of person he was, why he liked this walnut cake so much, but he laughed to himself when he thought about it—they were all talking and laughing lively, and they didn't know why they were so happy.
It was already dark when the Gu family came out, and Mrs. Gu kept holding Su Youling's hand, taking care that they would often come over to play in the future, anyway, it was not difficult to recognize here. They promised to take care of the second elder and pay attention to his body, so he didn't have to send it again.
It was much more lively and prosperous than their factory, and he took her to shuttle through the bustling figures, the neon lights and shadows of the buildings swept past her eyebrows, red, green, bright and dark, and the light was strange. The night breeze came with the sound of singing, and the wine was hot, and she put her head on his back, looking at the street scene in a daze. He was afraid that she would fall asleep, so he talked to her from time to time, and she was annoyed, so she straightened her neck and sang Tsing Yi in a play, and sang very reluctantly on the bicycle - it was the first time he had heard her sing Tsing Yi, and she had not sung it for a long time, and she was drunk today, but she sang it to the fullest, although she sang intermittently, but it was full of emotion, and it was not very embarrassing to see him the next day.
He said that he sang well, she smiled and said that she drank too much yesterday, and he asked her how she learned it, and she said that her aunt had been singing Tsing Yi before, and she was exposed to it, but unfortunately her aunt's ending was not very good, and later her parents passed away one after another, and she sent people under the fence, so she didn't think about the singing tone, and gradually seemed to forget it, and now she can only make people laugh when she sings. He shook his head and said no, he didn't think he was a person who knew how to play, but he thought she sang with some flavor.
They are no better than Hongkou South, as soon as the streets in the suburbs fall into the night, the shops on both sides will close one after another, and the sunset will look like a sunset. The two of them were pacing the street with nothing to do, and there was nothing good to go here, just wandering and talking. She said that she didn't expect him to make pastries, and he cooked a good dish, he laughed and said that it was nothing, and it was the same thing to eat, and it was not too good, so it was just a preference. She laughed at him, saying that anyone who cooks well will have a better taste, and she is not too good at it, so she doesn't have many requirements for eating, and can basically swallow everything, so she can't help but feel a little sad when she says this. In fact, she got used to eating hundreds of meals later, so she gradually lost her so-called "taste". His osmanthus cake was the first revival of her taste, it was not necessarily very delicious, but it gave her just the right amount of comfort during that time, and let her settle down from her wandering and restlessness, and since then she has a kind of dependence—she can taste what he made from Zhao Xingji's pastries, which seem to have his taste, and it is also her taste now.