"It's time to eat!" said Barot's voice from the kitchen.

In the kitchen now, only Barot and Su Wen are doing the final finishing touches. Others, already with a variety of dishes, sat down at the dining table and watched Mia's fancy cocktail move.

Drinks in pub bars are expensive, and most people order a drink for the sake of their wallets and don't drink it too quickly. Therefore, for ordinary people, such a concocted drink should be tasted slowly.

However, it is different at home, and the cost of base wine has dropped by a little bit, so you can drink it as plain water.

So Mia wasn't idle, and kept making drinks. And the drinks at home are well stocked, and it is more than enough to use.

The dishes on the table are all some decent holiday dishes, of course, hearty are hearty, but such specifications can only be regarded as ordinary for these noble children. However, these dishes are made by their own hands, and their meaning is not ordinary.

"Uh, are they still cooking? isn't it a bit much?" Rosen asked worriedly, looking at a table that was almost two layers of dishes, "I remember, there's a whole rib in the oven, right?"

"Not much, not more!"

Roland Shirley, who was sitting opposite Rosen, said in unison, her expression even a little worried about not enough.

"With Big Brother's appetite, you should be able to wipe it out, right?" Kyle asked.

"Me?" Rosen carefully compared the total amount of food on the table with his own hunger, and said with some unconfidence: "No, no...... Unless Brother Su Wen and Big Brother Pharos have me so good at eating, it's almost ......"

Rosen's name for Falos also added the word "big brother". After all, Pharos looks about the same age as Su Wen, and it is not wrong to call him big brother.

"My appetite is a bit big. Pharos followed the conversation of several people and spoke.

"That's just right, it should be able to be wiped out!"

Linda looked at this scene, unconsciously put on a smile, and said: "I can't finish eating supper at night, if I want to sleep lazily tomorrow, breakfast will be enough......"

。 This seems to be the life I once dreamed of...... It's just that, due to various reasons, their family is left with only themselves and their granddaughter to rely on each other.

Only Ellie, smiling hehehe, seemed quite relaxed.

"Is there still a place?" Su Wen walked out with a pot of steaming, spicy dishes, looking for a place to put them.

"Yes, yes!" Ellie stood up and piled the food in front of her to the third floor, making room for it.

Su Wen put this pot of vegetables in front of Ellie, and everyone's eyes were also attracted by this appetizing dish.

"It smells so good!"

"This layer above...... Is it chili oil? Wow...... Where do you get all these spices?"

"I conjured it up. Su Wen told the truth, but it was only regarded as a joke by everyone.

Ellie took a hard breath of the aroma, but she didn't expect the aroma to be a little choking, and under the stimulation, she turned her head away and coughed continuously, relieving the discomfort in her throat. Even so, she was about to cough up tears and asked, "What kind of dish is this?"

"Mao Xuewang. ”

"Huh?"

Su Wen's Mandarin pronunciation, of course, the people present couldn't understand it. So Su Wen continued to introduce: "Just now it was the name of my hometown, the raw materials of this dish are the offal leftover in the kitchen, I added a little vegetable bean sprouts to it, I didn't make it too spicy, I'm afraid you won't be able to accept it." ”

Almost half of the people present swallowed a mouthful of saliva quietly.

This spicy smell is indeed the best choice to whet your appetite.

"There's more!" Balott also walked out after Su Wen with a pot of vegetables.

"Mapo tofu?!" Ellie coughed, turning her head to stare at Barot.

"Tofu? Ballot shook her head.

"Lie to me, I smell that tingling!" Ellie stood up, looking at the dish in Balotte's hand. However, the pot of vegetables was not the white tender tofu she imagined, so Ellie suddenly showed a somewhat disappointed expression.

"Well, this one is just as delicious. Seeing this, Su Wen said: "This is called spicy chicken, I improved it a little and put more peppercorns, so it smells numb." ”

"Chicken, how is it a pot of chili peppers...... Mia asked curiously.

In this pot of "spicy chicken", it is indeed as Mia saw, it is a red pepper, and there is no trace of chicken at all.

"Yes, look over here, there's a piece. Shirley pointed to the vegetable bowl and said to Mia.

"In addition to eating this dish, there is also an interesting part of this dish, which is to find meat in the chili peppers to eat. It's kind of like looking for a treasure, you think about it, in a pile of chili peppers, suddenly find a piece of chicken, that sense of surprise, that sense of accomplishment, isn't it interesting?"

This is where the fun of the spicy chicken dish lies. In addition to enhancing the flavor of the chicken, a large number of dried chili peppers are like dirt, buried treasures waiting to be unearthed by the eaters.

After Su Wen and Barot took their seats, everyone raised their glasses and celebrated the arrival of the Wintering Festival.

"Cheers!"

Everyone stood up and handed the cups out as best they could, colliding with the others' cups with a crisp clanging sound.

Even Pharos, following the same example as Mia next to him, raised his glass and toasted to them. In Pharos's sight, everyone in front of him had an expression on his face that humans called "smiles", which was an expression that would only be revealed whenever something good happened to humans.

Looks like it's kind of interesting......

The same expression unconsciously and gradually appeared on Pharos's face.

Everyone was slowly savoring the drink in their cups – except Ellie.

Ellie gulped down her drink, then grabbed her knife and fork and quickly cut the steak on her plate into quarters, then one bite at a time, and wiped out the steak clean.

By the time Ellie wiped the soup from the corners of her mouth with a napkin for the first time, the others had just sat down and picked up their knives and forks.

Everyone stared at the steak on their plate, and no one noticed that Ellie's plate with the steak was empty.

"Spicy chicken!" Ellie poked out of the fork in one hand, aiming at the piece of chicken that was exposed above the layer of chili peppers. The metal fork easily punctured the scorch on the surface of the chicken nugget and poked into the tender chicken inside, and then Ellie brought the chicken nugget with a little crispy bone and a little chili seed to her mouth.

The moment the chicken is eaten, it is the oily aroma that reacts with the chicken. Su Wen's frying method produced a lot of oil smoke, but it was also blown out by him in time. The smell of oil smoke is not pleasant, but Ellie didn't expect that the chicken nuggets that produced such oil smoke would be so delicious!

As Ellie bit through the piece of meat, the tender and juicy chicken, with a strong and stimulating spicy taste, burst open in her mouth, making Ellie's mouth experience an unprecedented shock! After the first wave of impact caused by the pepper ended, a concussion caused by the pepper was revealed, and continued to shake Ellie's tongue.

Spicy!

The two senses blended together, making Ellie feel like her taste buds were about to sublimate.

"Whew......" A piece of chicken went down to her stomach, Ellie exhaled and said with satisfaction: "This spicy chicken is delicious!"

At this dinner table, Ellie's words were like beacons, which diverted the attention of others. After they saw Ellie's satisfied look, they all stretched out their forks to the spicy chicken one after another.

The exposed chicken nuggets were taken away by the first striker, and Ballot's fork froze in the air, looking at a plate of chili peppers, and was suddenly stunned.

It's all chili!!Chicken!!...... Are you going to rummage through the pepper piles? No...... Isn't that rude?

Just when Barot hesitated, Su Wen's chopsticks reached into the pepper pile and accurately pinched out a piece of chicken, and then, Su Wen sent this piece of chicken into Linda's plate and said, "Grandma, you taste it, it's a little spicy, be careful?"

In the table culture of the Marenor Empire, it was a virtue to give good food to the old and the young. As for personal hygiene, there is no need to worry, because Su Wen uses chopsticks.

Then, while Barot was still hesitating, Su Wen stretched out his chopsticks again, accurately picked up a piece of chicken again, and put it into his mouth, and then, showing an expression of enjoyment.

"Wow! It's so spicy!"

"It's delicious......! Hah......!"

Barot swallowed and slipped her fork into the pepper pile.

Chicken...... Chicken...... Where is the chicken......

Every 0.1 seconds of searching for chicken, Barot realizes her "faux pas", and the longer it takes, the more uneasy she feels.

But everywhere the fork passed, it was all chili peppers, and it didn't touch the touch of the chicken pieces......

"Aha, find a piece!" Lawson took the fork back and put it in his mouth, revealing a surprised expression: "Oh my God, it's delicious, isn't it!?"

When Barot was looking for chicken, she still had time to distract herself from Rosen's expression?

A second, right...... I've been in this pot for a second, right? Do I keep looking for it, or do I take it back...... Is anyone looking at me?......

Although the narrative is rather verbose, in the mind, it is just a thought. Ballot's fork stayed in the pepper heap for only two seconds.

Finished...... There's no chicken...... No!!I've touched the chicken!Where!

Barot forked the fork back, but only the touch of the pepper pile could be heard. Oh no, gone...... Did I take it away?

In the end, Barot still couldn't find the chicken, and because of the time limit he had set for himself, Barot poked a piece of chili pepper and sent it back to the bowl with some embarrassment.

Yes...... Can you eat this chili directly?

Barot glanced up and saw that no one was paying attention to her. This also made her breathe a little relieved.

"Balot, here. ”

Just as Barot sighed, Su Wen's voice stopped her.

Su Wen used chopsticks to open a slice of chili pepper, revealing a piece of chicken with a crispy appearance, which looked extremely attractive under the lure of warm light and aroma.

"Thanks......" Barrot thanked and forked the chicken back.

Finally...... I got my wish......

Balot, who put the chicken in his mouth, was hit by the spicy and fragrant flavors, and Barot actually had a strange feeling of "dying without regrets".

The deliciousness of the spicy chicken exceeded everyone's expectations, and the popularity of the spicy chicken also exceeded Su Wen's expectations. But all this has a fact that cannot be ignored, that is, the amount of chicken is certain.

Under constant consumption, the chicken nuggets will be exhausted.

However, these "treasure hunters", in the face of the charm of spicy chicken, seem to ignore this fact, and are just constantly looking for possible chicken nuggets buried in the pepper pile.

Whenever someone is about to despair and give up looking, there will always be another person, with a surprised and smug expression on his face and a chicken nugget on the fork, to tell that person what a miracle is.

While looking for the chicken nuggets, almost no one touched the other dishes on the table, and even Shirley hadn't even eaten half of the original steak on the plate.

Only Ellie, in between looking for chicken nuggets, will poke a piece of chicken wing or roast meat and bring it to her mouth, and while she continues to poke the spicy chicken nuggets, she can chew it and swallow it in her stomach.

"Wow, Brother Su Wen, are your two poles so powerful!" Roland saw a piece of spicy chicken, which slid out of his fork, and then was firmly clamped by Su Wen with chopsticks and put into his mouth.

"This is called chopsticks, and it is a traditional tableware from my hometown. ”

As he spoke, Roland continued to rummage through the chicken nuggets.

"Hahaha, I found it!"

After everyone was silent for a long time, Mia smiled and held up a piece of chicken and proudly put it in her mouth. Before he had time to enjoy the jealous eyes of the others, his face changed abruptly, and he suddenly spit the "chicken nuggets" on the plate, revealing an uncomfortable expression.

"Wow, this is ginger!"

Ginger......

When Su Wen was cooking, he deliberately cut the ginger to the same size as the chicken nuggets, originally just following the habit of "the size of the ingredients is the same", but he didn't expect that between unintentionally inserting willows, he also calculated a handful.

The first one to win the trick was Mia.

Mia's aggrieved and disappointed expression reminded Su Wen of her school days. Eating in the school cafeteria, the dishes all depend on the face of the cafeteria aunt, and finally saw that there is something different from potatoes in the dish of "potato roast meat", but when I eat it, I find that it is ginger, that kind of despair, it's not too sour!

"No more!"

"No more!"

"I can't find it!"

One by one, they announced their surrender, wiped the sweat oozing from their foreheads with a towel due to the spicy irritation, leaned back in their chairs, and rested.

"Wow, it's really like treasure hunting, it's so much fun!"

"yes, every time I find meat in the future, it feels like a miracle......

Only Barot, after thinking about it, fell into thought. When Su Wen was cooking, she was on the side, she remembered that there were more than just chicken nuggets used by Su Wen...... Could it be that everyone has eaten a lot, so they have delusions?

Probably...... After all, even he didn't follow the strange rule of aristocratic etiquette that "a dish cannot be sandwiched more than three times", but this is an ordinary dinner, and there is no need to abide by that rigid rule.

"If only there was one more......"

"Su Wen, you can make another plate! By the way, I want mapo tofu!" Ellie said to Su Wen as she nibbled on the sausage.

Su Wen smiled and said, "What about miracles, but they are made by people, you can look for them again, and there is meat." ”

"No way, I've searched it all!" said Barot.

Su Wen smiled without saying a word, stretched out his chopsticks, and pushed away the chili pepper. Then, with a hard effort, it poked at the bottom of the pelvis and made a "click" sound.

"Wow, why are you poking the vegetable bowl to pieces?" Ellie said strangely, paused, Ellie sniffed the air again, immediately put down the only half of the sausage in her hand, and stood up: "Oh my God, there is still chicken!"

As she spoke, Ellie stretched out her fork.

And chicken??what's the situation?

Su Wen picked up the "bottom of the basin" with chopsticks and pushed it aside, and in the original vegetable basin, there was actually a layer full of spicy chicken! pure chicken! it was all meat!

"I made a sandwich with a pot, and on the top of the sandwich is the configuration of chili peppers and chicken nuggets, and below, it's all meat......

Su Wen was halfway through the explanation, then silently shut his mouth, and then joined the battle for the chicken. This idea also came to Su Wen suddenly when he was cooking, and his purpose was, of course, to surprise everyone. Of course, this purpose was also achieved perfectly.

As soon as these people saw the spicy chicken, their expressions changed all of a sudden, and the casual expressions that were originally being reminiscent suddenly became serious expressions as if they were fighting.

Even, they didn't have time to taste the delicious spicy chicken at this time, and just kept moving the chicken from the vegetable bowl to the plate. Move enough first, there's no way someone will snatch it from the plate, right?

With that in mind, Ellie stole a piece of spicy chicken from Balot's plate and walked away.

But Barot's eyes were like torches, staring at Ellie silently, and seeing that Ellie was trying to get by, she turned around and snatched a piece from Ellie's plate.

Su Wen felt that if this development continued, it would become a children's game of spitting on the plate to swear sovereignty...... Therefore, Su Wen hurriedly stopped this sign and said, "Try Mao Xuewang! This is also delicious." ”

That's right, and Mao Xuewang!

After experiencing the miracle brought by Su Wen, everyone found that Su Wen made more than one spicy chicken, and this Mao Xuewang is the second miracle!

Therefore, everyone's goal shifted from the spicy chicken with only one plate of chili peppers left to Mao Xuewang, which was still full.

Because of the layer of red oil floating on it, Mao Xuewang almost still maintains the hotness when it comes out of the pot, which is different from the taste of spicy chicken.

The smoothness of the blood, the toughness of the tripe, the crispness of the fungus, and the freshness of the bean sprouts...... Let everyone feel that they have opened the door to a new world.

Therefore, Mao Xuewang actually bottomed out faster than the elimination of spicy chicken.

"This soup ...... Can I use it with a steak?"

"Yes. ”

......

When they came back to their senses, everyone realized that they seemed to have just tasted two dishes, why had most of the other dishes on the table been wiped out? Could it be that he was too addicted to the two dishes made by Su Wen, while others were also tasting other dishes?

Almost everyone, that's what they think. Almost all of us think that others don't think so.

Probably except for Ellie...... and Pharos.

Looking closely, although this Pharos is silent, his appetite is not much different from Ellie......

Su Wen thought about it, if you add the steak in the oven, it shouldn't be enough for the two of them to eat. Therefore, Su Wen stood up and said, "You eat first, I'll go and bring the meat steak, and make a few more dishes by the way." ”

"I'll help you. Barot stood up.

"Mapo Tofu!" Ellie gestured with a raised hand.