Chapter 69: The Great Year of Distant Escape (2)

When Xi's mother heard Sister-in-law Fang's praise for her daughter, she couldn't help but smile, "She, she was still in the second year of junior high school at the time, so she insisted on learning cooking, and she went to participate in a training class." Her father and I were not optimistic at first, thinking that she was just impulsive, but who knew that she had persisted for more than a year, you said that after such a long period of professional guidance, her skills can be poor? Haha"

"No wonder" Sister-in-law Fang nodded suddenly, it turned out that she had undergone professional training. Now my heart is balanced. Who wouldn't have had that after more than a year of professional guidance? Sister-in-law Fang thought of her daughter, and then sighed secretly, Shen Man's temperament didn't know who she was like, when her father was alive before, he also liked to cook. But Shen Man didn't know anything about cooking, and he didn't even want to watch it. Everyone says that only by grabbing a man's stomach can he conquer a man's heart, how can a woman who can't even cook find a good partner? Sister-in-law Fang was anxious, but she also understood that her daughter didn't like to hear these words.

The hot pot at noon is made of pork bones. There are three kinds of sauces: spicy, non-spicy and seafood, for everyone to choose. The main ingredients of the hot pot dish are thin rolls and seafood made of fat sheep and fat beef slices, and then there are various meatballs: fish balls made of large herring produced by Zhuangzi, shrimp balls and crab sticks made of seafood produced in the sea of Xuanbang, meatballs made of pork, and quail eggs from Xuanbang. Then there are the sauce meat and sausages that have only been marinated recently. With all kinds of bean products: old tofu, frozen tofu, thousands of knots, thousands of silk; All kinds of seasonal vegetables. A full table was spread out on the long dining table. Dongfang Luming and Fu Ningrui, who came to see and smell the fragrance, were dripping.

"Come on, come on, do it yourself. Our family will have a hot pot buffet at noon today. Xi's father served everyone all kinds of sauces, and asked Xi Yidi to go to the wine cellar to pick out the rice wine that was perfect for hot pot drinking.

Mr. Xi and Mr. Fang received special care from Xi **, in addition to the hot pot, each of them also had an extra bowl of warm cereal porridge to warm their stomachs first, so as not to stimulate their stomachs too much.

"Mom, why are you stopping me from going?" Shen Man pouted, glanced in the direction of the restaurant, and complained to Sister-in-law Fang with extreme dissatisfaction.

Sister-in-law Fang motioned to her to be quieter, "What is your identity?" I went to dine with my wife. No matter how polite they are, they are also the masters. Your mother and I are just servants here, not guests. Sister-in-law Fang said reproachfully, trying to wake up her daughter's unknown temperament, "It's you who don't want to go back to your hometown for the New Year this year, so come if you want to come, anyway, Mrs. They are easy to talk to, and they have arranged another room for you." It's good that you're trying to get along with Mrs. and Miss them. I think you're in a mess. I don't know my identity," Sister-in-law Fang couldn't help but nag. The expression was pathetic.

Fang's sister-in-law's husband died early, and she relied on odd jobs to pull her daughter up, but fortunately, her daughter was still competitive and was admitted to a key university in another province, but she found that since she went to college, her daughter's mind was not as simple as before, and she began to love to dress up and follow the trend. But I don't want to think about the situation at home, where can I provide her high standard needs. Although Shen Man can receive a lot of bonuses every year with good grades, she has never seen her use it to subsidize her family, presumably to buy clothes and jewelry for herself. Sister-in-law Fang always felt ashamed of her daughter, and she couldn't give her good help financially, so the scholarship she got with her own strength would go with her to buy something, and never ask her anything.

Before this year's winter vacation, Shen Man specially called and said that he didn't want to go back to his hometown in the poor ravine for the New Year, and wanted to come to Beijing to have a look. Come on, come on, there are only mother and daughter in the horizontal and vertical, and it will be the same wherever the New Year is celebrated. However, since coming to Yuanyizhuang, she found that her daughter's mind was lively.

Sister-in-law Fang saw her daughter looking for an opportunity to talk to Xi Yixiao more than once, with a twisted expression, like a daughter who is in love. This state made her heart start to get anxious. When eating lunch just now, Xi's mother politely asked her to go to the hot pot with her, but before Sister-in-law Fang could organize it, Shen Man was busy agreeing, and she was dressed up and ready to go to the restaurant, and was carried into the kitchen by Sister-in-law Fang.

"Okay, why do you say I'm so shameless. You're just working for them, and now it's not the old society, and you still have a wife and a young lady, what kind of hierarchy is it? Cut, it's just a meal, it's so serious" Shen Man was impatient with Sister-in-law Fang's nagging, and blurted out a retort.

"In short, I don't allow you to be so big or small, I don't know your own weight." Seeing that her daughter still couldn't listen to her persuasion, Sister-in-law Fang lowered her face and ordered: "This is a stable job that I have finally found, if you don't want me to lose it, give me some peace." ”

"Mom - work is work, but Mrs. Xi also said just now, let me treat this place as my own home and not be restrained. Why should you be so cautious? Shen Man didn't give up, "What's more, I'm not their domestic servant." At the end of the words, her voice was lowered, because she saw that Sister-in-law Fang was already so angry that her body trembled.

"You'll pack my things for me tomorrow and go back to school. It's getting more and more ridiculous. Sister-in-law Fang didn't want to pay attention to her anymore after dropping her words, she finally gained a firm foothold in Beijing, although she was just a cook in a private family, but the salary offered by the Xi family was not low, and she paid enough social security money, everything was in accordance with the charter, and she was not treated badly at all. Usually, if there is anything delicious and easy to use, Xi's mother will also leave her a copy, and the rest of the Xi family never looks down on her because she is a servant, on the contrary, they respect her very much. She has never studied, and she especially knows that people respect me and I respect people. But her daughter, a college student at a prestigious university, was so stupid that she didn't know anything about this etiquette, oh no, or even if she knew, she never thought she should follow it. As a new human being, they subconsciously think that they should enjoy all equal treatment.

"Hmph, old stubborn, brainless" Shen Man muttered a few words towards Sister-in-law Fang's back, and went back to his room stupidly.

In the afternoon, Xi Yizheng began to prepare the evening dinner with Xi's mother and sister-in-law.

"How? All the ingredients are ready to start stewing, right? No mistakes, not a lot of words," Xi's mother asked her daughter, who was intently cutting shredded ham.

"Well, right away." Xi Yizheng put the cut materials one by one in a large ceramic urn.

"The eldest lady is so amazing, even the Buddha can jump over the wall." Sister-in-law Fang's eyes were full of appreciation.

"She likes these hobbies." Xi's mother said with a smile. Shen Man, who walked around and didn't have a chance to meet Xi Yixiao, came in to find a drink to drink, pouted when he heard the words, full of disdain, what is the ability to cook, what is there to make such a fuss about. Sister-in-law Fang took advantage of Xi's mother's lack of attention, glanced at her daughter fiercely, and motioned for her to settle down. Shen Man snorted disapprovingly, and paced to Xi Yizheng's side to see how she did this Buddha jumping over the wall.

Buddha jumping over the wall is Xi Yizheng when he first participated in the cooking training, but because of the complexity of the materials, and time-consuming, so it has never been done so neatly.

Buddha jumped over the wall, as the name suggests, the taste of this dish is so delicious that the Buddha has to jump over the wall to taste it when he smells it. You can imagine how appetizing this dish is. Just looking at the more than 20 kinds of raw materials that are full of this posture is staggering: abalone, shark fin, sea cucumber, dried scallops, fish maw, fish lips, fish maw, razor clams, pork belly, hoof tips, hoof tendons, lamb's elbow, duck breast, chicken breast, duck gizzard, chicken gizzard, shrimp, etc., the soaking of the soaking, the washing of the washing, layer by layer into the ceramic crockpot, and then sprinkled with winter bamboo shoot slices, shredded ham, mung bean vermicelli, baby cabbage and all kinds of mushrooms diced, and finally poured rice wine and soup, sprinkled with salt, covered with lotus leaves and sealed with lid, first boiled over high heat and then turned to simmerIt takes about 5 hours to complete. It's delicious.

"Mom, are we decent to have a mixed meal like this?" No mistakes, no word skipping. Xi Yizheng completed the process of Buddha jumping over the wall, let it simmer there slowly, and when the Chinese New Year's Eve meal begins, the dish is also completed. She looked around the other dishes that had been prepared in the kitchen and found that there were both Chinese and Western recipes. Wouldn't it be nondescript?

"What's this, we are having a reunion dinner for the New Year, which one is delicious and which one is prepared. It's not a banquet for big customers, but also for Chinese and Western food. Xi's mother didn't think so, and then thought of Huo Jun's two brothers, "Yes, will that Huo's president be more picky?" ”

"That's not really, he said he just came to feel the atmosphere of the New Year, as for what to eat." Xi Yizheng replied without replying, not paying attention to the ambiguous eyes exchanged between Xi's mother and Fang's sister-in-law, and the two of them invariably thought that the relationship between that person and her was not ordinary, and even explained these words to her. And Xi Yizheng didn't pay attention to the tone of her words at all, she just repeated what Huo Jun said on the phone, if she knew that this would also cause her mother and Xi Yiqing to have a misunderstanding, she would definitely choose not to say it.

"Who is President Huo?" Shen Man, who had nothing to do on the side, grabbed the words in Xi's mother's words and asked Xi Yizheng with interest.

"Oh, sort of a friend." Xi Yizheng smiled lightly, turned around and continued to cut the wild sturgeon fillets from the Xuan Bracelet, intending to make bamboo sturgeon. This is the last time the family traveled to the bracelet, I found a fresh way to eat. Yesterday, I took the time to go out with Xi Yixiao to hide people's eyes and ears for a long time, and when I came back, I brought back all kinds of mountain and sea delicacies produced from the Xuan Bracelet, among which there were sturgeon and lobster named by Xi Yidi, salmon and blue crab that Xi's father had to drink, chicken, rabbit and sheep ordered by Xi's mother, Xi Yixiao's favorite delicious mountain tun wild vegetables, and river shrimp and Haigu (rich shrimp) that made him fresh and lose his tongue. In addition, there are sake brews that have been hidden for several years, and there are several flavors to choose from. returned to Yuanyizhuang with such fanfare, and did not see any reaction from others. Presumably they thought that the two of them had gone out to make a big purchase.

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