"Hehe, you Aunt Jiang did a lot of tricks when she was young." Uncle Jiang took off his reading glasses and said.

"At that time, I was making buttons in the tailor's shop, and there were many patterns of buttons in the cheongsam, such as phoenix buttons, plum blossom buttons, and word buttons." Aunt Jiang talked about what she was good at, and her eyebrows and eyes were smiling, "It's a pity, I don't need it now." ”

"Who said it might be used one day." Ming Nuan said.

Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang smiled, obviously not taking Ming Nuan's words to heart.

"The eldest lady was also in the tailor shop when she was young?" Guan Xia asked.

"Yes, at that time, I was in the tailor's shop, making buttons every day, and using rags to assemble double uppers, and your uncle was the apprentice of the great tailor." Aunt Jiang nodded and said.

"My master is a Red Gang tailor in Ningbo." Uncle Jiang said with some pride, "It's a pity, the master said that I would be able to become a teacher, but as a result, alas~"

Ming Nuan listened to the solemn respect, you know, the Red Gang tailors to go out of the requirements are very high, they have been learning since childhood, experienced, superb skills, during the Republic of China, countless Ningbo Red Gang tailors went to Shanghai to make a living, the clothes they made were quite sought after by the upper class, ten miles of foreign fields, said that they have a credit, by no means an exaggeration.

Even China's first suit, the first Zhongshan suit, was also made by them.

"Then why did your master come to live in Jishi?" Ming Nuan moved a stool and sat down in front of Uncle Jiang and asked.

Uncle Jiang's face showed a trace of excitement, and some excitement, he stood up, looked out the window, and made sure that there was no one, before he whispered: "My master was invited by Zhang Dashuai to make clothes." ”

Ming Nuan looked at the light in Uncle Jiang's eyes, and immediately understood, "General Dog Meat, Zhang Zongchang?"

Uncle Jiang nodded, and said with some nostalgia: "When Zhang Dashuai went to Shanghai, he asked my master to make him a handsome suit, saying that it was comfortable and energetic to wear, so he took my master back to Shandong to make clothes for him." ”

"Later, Zhang Zongchang died, and my master opened a tailor shop in Jishi." Uncle Jiang said, "When I was a child, my family was poor and couldn't afford to eat, so my father sold me to the master as an apprentice. ”

Seeing that Uncle Jiang was a little sad, Ming Nuan didn't continue to ask, she and Guan Xia ordered a tweed coat alone, her business was off-white, and Guan Xia's was dark blue.

Uncle Jiang's craftsmanship really doesn't have to be picked, unlike the straight-leg clothes of this era, Uncle Jiang makes the clothes very stylish, and they don't look as heavy as others.

"Humph!" Mingxi forgot about herself when she saw the two of them stinky and beautiful, and deliberately made a sound with her arms in her arms.

Ming Nuan knew what Ming Xi was thinking when she saw her expression, and then deliberately said to Aunt Jiang: "Auntie, please come over and measure my sister's size and make her a dress." ”

"Okay." Aunt Jiang also deliberately responded loudly.

took a tape measure and measured Mingxi's size, "Make a thin skirt?" Aunt Jiang asked.

Ming Nuan looked at Ming Xi inquiringly and said, "Let's wait for the thin skirt to be made next year, make a coat first, and then use my leftover tweed to make a winter skirt." ”

When Ming Xi heard Ming Nuan's words, her little face came alive again and said to Uncle Jiang: "Grandpa, I want a doll collar, you have to make it look better for me." ”

"Haha, don't worry, I'll definitely make you the best dress."

"By the way, auntie, see if you have time to knit a sweater for us, knit one and we'll give you two dollars." Ming Nuan looked at Aunt Jiang and asked.

"Absolutely." Aunt Jiang was a little excited, she could weave five or six pieces a month, which was a lot of income, "You can do whatever you want." ”

"Nacheng, then I'll bring you the wool by the way when I come to get the vest in two days."

Then they went to the state-run hotel, the current chef is no longer Qiao Zhengqin's uncle, but his son, Qiao Zhengqin's cousin, their family's craftsmanship is family heirloom, it is said that Qiao Zhengqin's cousin already has his father's eight-point fire.

This time, the wedding banquet of Mingyang and Guan Xia is set here.

"Aunt Mingnuan, you're here, my uncle and mother are behind."

Seeing them come in, a little boy of five or six years old ran over, this is Qiao Zhenglian and the monkey's son.

"Little monkey, Auntie, look at you, have you grown taller again." Ming Nuan squatted down and said, "Come, give you a candy." ”

"Thank you, Auntie."

The little monkey bounced back to the back of the big counter.

"We were talking about you, and here you are." Qiao Zhenglian came out of the back kitchen and said.

"That means we have a tacit understanding!" Ming Nuan said with a grin.

"This is Mingxi, I've always heard your sister talk about you, this is the first time I've seen you." Qiao Zhenglian lowered her head and said to Mingxi.

"Sister Joe, hello." Mingxi said obediently, Ming Nuan looked at Mingxi with a smile, although Mingxi was sometimes a little nonsense, but he had always been sweet and well-behaved outside, which made Chen Guiyun and Huo Jianguo's colleagues and comrades-in-arms feel that they are blessed, and their two daughters are so well-behaved, but who knows the bitterness in their hearts.

"It's okay for you, little monkey, you ...... with you" Qiao Zhenglian was a little embarrassed when she said this, Mingxi was not a few years older than the little monkey, but Mingnuan called her sister, did you want the little monkey to call Aunt Mingxi.

Ming Nuan knew what she was thinking, and said, "Let's talk about each other, let's call my sister." ”

"That's it, the child is still young, and now I don't understand this." Guan Xia also said with a smile.

"Okay, I'm still confused about how to explain it to the little monkey." Qiao Zhenglian called the little monkey out, pointed at Mingxi and said to him, "This is Sister Mingxi, you take her to play." ”

"Mingxi, don't bully your brother." Ming Nuan touched Mingxi's head and said.

"I'll definitely have fun with my brother." Mingxi nodded and said, although she was very disdainful in her heart, let her play with such a young child.

"Let's go, let's go to the back." Qiao Zhenglian pointed to the back kitchen and said.

Qiao Zhenglian's cousin also has the common characteristics of a cook, with a big head and a thick neck, not tall, five short figures, and very thick wrists, which makes people feel particularly powerful at a glance.

"Sister Ming Nuan and Sister Guan Xia are here." Hao Zhigang laughed and his eyes sank into the flesh, a bit like Maitreya Buddha, "It just so happens that I have listed the happy menu, you can take a look." ”

As he spoke, he took down a piece of paper from the high counter and handed it to Guan Xia.

Between the above is listed "boiled liver tip, stir-fried fat sausage, plum cabbage button meat, chicken stewed mushrooms, sauerkraut fish, boiled cabbage, bitter gourd scrambled eggs, cold cucumbers, vinegared potatoes, fungus fried yam." ”

Five meat and five vegetables, take the meaning of perfection.

"What's going on?" Hao Zhigang looked at them with a smile.

To tell the truth, this banquet is absolutely decent, and it is good to have one or two meat dishes when you get married now, Ming Nuan and Qi Junze specially instructed them when they came to the wedding banquet before, don't care about money, just do it decently.

When a chef likes to meet such a customer, not because he earns a lot of money, anyway, the money belongs to the country, but because it is cool to do and can be enjoyable in one go.

When Hao Zhigang didn't take his father's class, the neighbors, whoever had a happy event liked to ask him to go over to take charge, but the main family was instructed and instructed, calculated and calculated, for fear that he would accidentally waste materials.