The five of them went into their respective cubicles to tidy up a little, and it was already past noon, and they all felt a little hungry, but fortunately, the aunt also prepared lunch and served it on the table.

This first meal was really embarrassing.

Ban Fei went out of the house first, and when he met his aunt bringing a bowl of soup to the table, he stepped forward to take it, and the edge of the bowl was really hot, so he hurriedly put it on the table in small steps.

The aunt's eyes were full of relief: "This young man, he is such a good person." ”

Ban Fei was embarrassed: "Auntie, what else is there to do, let me come." ”

"It's gone," Aunt Niu went back and pulled out her chopsticks and took the bowl to settle it, and said with a smile, "Just call me Aunt Niu, you don't need to see outside." ”

After a while, the other four people also tidied up their rooms and came out to eat.

But when everyone sat down and looked at it, they were all dumbfounded.

Everyone is a rich and noble family, no matter how bad they are, such as Ban Fei, Qu Mingli, etc., they are also deputy generals, and the food is good on weekdays, Ning Zeqing and Wei Qin are famous generals, and they have their own cooks at home, not to mention Shi Shu, the imperial chef in the palace is even more hollowed out to study how to cook.

In the small stove in the countryside, no one is demanding how to compare it with daily meals, so you can just see it. But looking at the meal carefully prepared by Aunt Niu at the dinner table, she was embarrassed.

The dishes in front of me are all yellow, yellow, gray and gray things, there is no bright color, and there is no attractive fragrance, and the appearance is uglier than the leftover vegetable sticks from the street vendors. This meat, I don't know what kind of dye it is stained with, is a little darker than the stones on the side of the road, buried in a pile of black strips that I don't know what it is, and it looks very heavy at first glance. The bowl of bacon is not as crystal clear as it usually sees, but like an antique that has been dusted for a long time, and it is difficult to eat.

I thought the soup would be lighter, but I didn't expect it to be gray, gray and green strips floating in the water, and I didn't know that I thought it was aquatic products. The only thing that looks normal is the scrambled eggs with tomatoes, but the fried eggs are all soup, wrapped in sparse egg pieces, like a pool of red muddy water, how can there be a clear grain at home.

Everyone looked at these and didn't know how to put down their chopsticks for a while.

Aunt Niu looked at her craftsmanship and was very satisfied, and urged them: "Eat it quickly, it's not delicious when it's cold." ”

Ban Fei and Qu Mingli didn't care about these things the most, and when they saw that Aunt Niu was urging, they moved their chopsticks and carefully chewed the black stripe, almost holding themselves up.

Ban Fei and Qu Mingli glanced at each other, and silently opened up with a very tacit understanding, only silently raised their cups and drank a sip of white water.

The other three saw that there was nothing unusual about the two of them, so they also tentatively picked up the chopsticks.

Ning Zeqing's face did not change, he picked out a piece of egg from the red soup and chewed it carefully, he didn't feel inappropriate, and then he sandwiched a piece of the other, and it became a forbearant complexion, and the bite on his cheeks was also stiff.

Shi Shu held the chopsticks, in a dilemma, but he still barely ate a few mouthfuls of rice.

Wei Qin's heart was straightforward and undisguised, he bit a small piece of the black stripe and spit it out, stuck out his tongue and frowned and said, "What is this, it's too salty." ”

Aunt Niu was a little unhappy: "This is for you to eat, who let you eat." ”

Wei Qin took a few more bites of rice together, and the salty taste in his mouth disappeared a little.

After Wei Qin swallowed the meal, he sandwiched another piece of burnt tomatoes, nodded with satisfaction: "This tomato scrambled egg looks ugly, it tastes pretty good, sweet and sour." ”

Aunt Niu saw that she said that the dishes she made were ugly, and her face darkened a little.

"And what is this?" Wei Qin scooped up a vegetable leaf from the soup bowl with chopsticks, and asked with some disgust, "Can this piece of dying thing taste good in water?" ”

Aunt Niu said angrily: "We have planted this dried vegetable for eighty-one days, we have collected fresh vegetable leaves, washed and shredded, basked in the sun for sixteen days, spent four bags of salt to pickle, dried them in the jar and stored them, and took them out to drink in the summer just to cool off the heat." Don't say it, in this village, no one is fresher than our family's dried vegetables, and being able to drink my family's dried vegetable soup is a blessing that you have cultivated for eight lifetimes. ”

Wei Qin saw Aunt Niu swearing like this, so he scooped half a small bowl and tried it, and as soon as he entered his mouth, he felt that the taste was strange, and he wanted to spit it out but felt inappropriate, so he swallowed it raw, and choked for a while.

Everyone laughed.

"Yes, yes, it's delicious." Wei Qin pretended to laugh and coaxed everyone to try it too.

Everyone didn't doubt him, they each scooped a bowl and drank it, with different expressions, no longer moved, and put down their chopsticks.

When Aunt Niu saw them like this, she just disliked eating, snorted and took away some soup and dishes on the table with a black face.

Everyone couldn't resist it, and when they reacted, they barely finished the meal in front of the only bowl of tomato scrambled eggs on the table and the remaining vegetable soup in the bowl.

Everyone knew that they were at a loss, and they were embarrassed to say anything, so they just sat and watched Aunt Niu finish washing the dishes and go out, before they relaxed a little.

There is a hill next to Aunt Niu's house, and from a distance, there are many sparsely planted peach trees, and there are some dark shadows climbing up and down, and it is the farmers picking peaches.

In the afternoon, I was idle and had nothing to do, so I went to the mountains for a walk, and saw that the villagers were wearing bamboo straw hats in the sun, picking among the peach trees, and they couldn't care about it with a red face and sweating, and they felt that the crops were hard work, and it was really not appropriate to waste food, not to mention that cooking ingredients was really hard work, and it was not appropriate to show dissatisfaction in front of the cook.

After thinking about it, after a while, there was a big drama in the stomach, and there was a rumbling until it was time to eat.

The crowd walked around hastily and then went home.

It happened that Aunt Niu came back from doing farm work on the mountain, carrying a heavy basket on her back, revealing some green little heads, which were some freshly picked greens, radishes and other things in the field, and there were still a few drops of mud on many leaves, and the bottom of the basket was filled with heavy peaches.

Look at Aunt Niu again, the cloth on the feet and the edges of the shoes are all black mud, although the upper is splashed with a lot of mud spots, but the color itself is dark, you can only see some mottled, the clothes on the shoulders are a little wrinkled because of the peach basket on the back, the face is sweaty, mixed with mountain ash, and the cheeks have added some bright red after exertion, which looks a little dirty, and the palms of the hands are thicker because of calluses.

When Aunt Niu saw that they were back, she hurriedly put down her things and went to wash her hands and cook.

Xu was thinking that they were not used to eating the lunch meal, and many tricks were added to the table.

The fish freshly caught from the pond is cut and stuffed with ginger slices into the drawer to steam, and when cooked, soy sauce and hot oil are poured in turn, and some chopped green onions are sprinkled. Beat the freshly laid eggs and salt the water and steam them with the fish. The fresh radish and the tender greens were each cut and fried, and they were two more vegetables.

Although there were still some acquaintances on the table who had met at noon, everyone was hungry, so no one said a word, only quietly picked up the food. Occasionally, the gray-green dish with one or two chopsticks is fine, although there is still some strange taste, and when combined with others, it is not so difficult to swallow.

Aunt Niu looked at everyone's gobbling up and was also very pleased.