Chapter Twenty-Six: The Best Tomatoes
In the afternoon, Daddy Xiao called Lingmei to visit Dr. Zhu with gifts.
The small courtyard of the Zhu family is always wafting with a good smell of medicine, quiet and elegant.
Seeing the Xiao family coming, Zhu Hanyan was very happy.
"The Poria cocos you found last time was very effective after drying. The people who received the medicine said that it was rare to see such good goods. He beckoned his guests to sit down in the courtyard, "Ah, why did you bring so many things?" ”
When Chen Yuzhi saw Ling Mei, her heartbeat accelerated, and her son had already run to the hall, making tea and delivering water with a cheerful expression.
She couldn't help sighing, followed her son to the courtyard, raised a smile and said, "You guys are here, why are you sending so many things?" How can this make me and Lao Zhu embarrassed? ”
Ling Mei took Jun Xiao's teacup, thanked him, and called Aunt Chen again, and said with a gentle smile: "The last time I went back to Ma's house to make trouble, thanks to Uncle Zhu's resourcefulness to help us deal with the past." These are home-grown vegetables, and the fish my father caught outside are worthless, just a little heart. ”
Ling Mei's speech is decent, her appearance is beautiful, and her temperament is dusty. In addition to her background and family background, Chen Yuzhi really can't find anything wrong. She glared at her son: "If you can be as considerate and sensible as Ling Mei, I don't want to burn high incense in front of the Bodhisattva every day." ”
Jun Xiao called out in an exaggerated tone: "I'm not considerate and ignorant? ”
Everyone burst out laughing.
Yuzhi saw that there were fish and eggs in the basket, as well as big red tomatoes, and asked in surprise, "Yo, where did the tomatoes come from at this time?" ”
"Ling Mei picked it up on the mountain." Daddy Xiao immediately said, "It's sweet." The skin is thin and juicy, and it is delicious no matter how you cook it. ”
"It's eggs and fish - how embarrassing is that?" Yuzhi looked at her husband in embarrassment.
Zhu Hanyan waved his hand and smiled: "It's okay." Let's take it. If you eat well, ask his family for it. ”
Jun Xiao immediately smiled brightly: "Thank you Uncle Xiao, thank you Ling Mei." ”
The Zhu family's invisible performance made Dad Xiao very happy, and he glanced at Ling Mei, there was a play.
After the father and daughter left, Jun Xiao returned to the house to warm the book. Yuzhi had a calm face and pulled her husband's sleeve: "Why did you accept the Xiao family's things?" ”
"Why can't you take it?" Zhu Hanyan glanced at his wife and persuaded her, "Don't think too much." It's all normal for us. If you don't accept it, it makes the Xiao family feel that we look down on him. ”
Yuzhi wanted to speak and stopped, and only said after a while: "I know." ”
"Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren." Zhu Hanyan said again, "Let's let it be." ”
Yuzhi didn't answer her husband's words, and picked up the vegetable basket and sent it to the kitchen.
She handles grass carp with irritation.
Remove the scales and gills, and then go down with a knife, the grass carp is cut in half, and the exposed fish flesh is crystal light powder.
"It's a nice fish." Yuzhi decided to stew the fish head and tail, and the fish body will be braised tomorrow, so as to make up for it for her son.
As for the shepherd's cabbage, fresh and watery, I just bought meat at home and wrapped it in wontons.
"Mother, give me a tomato to eat." Jun Xiao came in with a smile, fished two tomatoes and left.
Yuzhi hurriedly shouted: "Wash and eat again!" ”
"Got it." Jun Xiao went to the water tank outside to wash it, handed it to his father, and took a bite of it, and the sweet juice with a sour fragrance made him almost choke.
Damn! He stared at the tomato in his hand incredulously: "What kind of new variety of tomato is this?" It's delicious, isn't it? ”
Zhu Hanyan was wiping his hands and glanced at him: "Why are you surprised?" ”
Jun Xiao pointed to the tomato: "Dad, you can taste it." I've never eaten such a delicious tomato in my life. ”
Zhu Hanyan glanced at his son, how could he say anything bad about the things sent by Xiao Lingmei?
Before he thought about it, he was slapped in the face.
"Huh!" He stared at the tomato and looked left and right. "Yue Shan said just now, this is from Lingmei Mountain?"
"yes."
A strong smell wafted from the room. That's Yuzhi frying fish. After the grass carp is fried, it is put into the soup pot, and the soup is milky white.
"It smells so good." Father and son sniffed the fragrance and went to the kitchen. "Yuzhi, how much oil did you use?"
Yuzhi was also shocked: "I don't use much oil." This fish is really delicious. ”
Zhu Hanyan grabbed a handful of watery shepherd's cabbage and praised it with a mouthful of praise: "Tut, the vegetable garden of the Yueshan family, I have nothing to say." ”
Yuzhi glared at her husband: "I cook fish." Go and chop up the pork and the shepherd's cabbage. Jun Xiao went to the noodle shop at the entrance of the village to see if there were any wonton wrappers, bought two catties, and wrapped the wontons with shepherd's cabbage for a while, and there will be breakfast tomorrow. ”
"Holo." Jun Xiao rode his bicycle out.
Zhu Hanyan rolled up his sleeves, and the kitchen knife chopped properly.
At the Zhu family's dinner, the family unconsciously ate a few more bites of food.
The little cabbage is crispy, tender and delicious, with a little sweetness, and the fresh spring bamboo shoots fried with salted meat are fresh and salty for rice. Not to mention the fish soup, it feels like they have never tasted such a rich and delicious soup. Jun Xiao scraped the last bit of soup in the pot clean, and he was still unsatisfied. The tomatoes are so delicious that Yuzhi didn't want to burn them, so she kept them and enjoyed them slowly.
After dinner, the father and son took a walk in the courtyard with their stomachs up. The burp in the mouth also carries the flavor of the meal.
The wonton stuffing in the kitchen exudes an extremely attractive aroma of vegetables and meat, and Yuzhi is fast, wrapping more than 100 in an hour. After thinking about it, half of it was put into a small bamboo basket, and while the sky was not dark and the clouds were not much, he personally sent it to the Xiao family to return the gift.
The Xiao family repeatedly refused, and finally accepted it.
Luo Guixiang got so many wontons, and smiled: "There must be a lot of meat." The Zhu family is sincere. "It would be great if Ling Mei could marry into the Zhu family. But after so many years, she has already seen it. Chen Yuzhi's temperament is soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, and she is very proud in her bones. I guess I can't look down on my daughter at all.
For breakfast the next day, everyone was served a bowl of delicious ravioli with chives and a little lard soup.
"How can Chen Yuzhi's craftsmanship be like this?" Guixiang bites the wonton, the green vegetables in the meat filling of this shepherd's cabbage taste is more moist, the pork is fat and thin, and a little fungus is put to improve the freshness, the more you eat, the more delicious it is. The more she ate, the more hungry she became. "Yue Shan, didn't Secretary Zhang send you some meat tickets? Why don't you go to town and buy some meat today? Let's wrap some ravioli too? She paused, "Also, Ling Hui is waiting for the bicycle." ”
There is meat to eat, Daddy Xiao naturally agrees, and the bicycle is also to be bought. So, after breakfast, I went out with the money ticket.
Buy meat early. Otherwise, you can only pick the leftover minced meat. Father Xiao picks vegetables twice a week to sell vegetables in the town's vegetable market, and he rushes to the vegetable market with familiarity, and there is already a long queue in front of the butcher shop.
Luckily, it was his turn to open a new pig. According to his daughter's instructions, he bought three catties of large chops, five catties of ribs, six catties of fat and thin pork belly and a large piece of lard.
The faces of the people in the queue behind him were blue, and they stared at him with envy and resentment. When Daddy Xiao was about to pay, he asked for a few more large intestines, and then he stopped.
After buying meat, he set off to buy a bicycle at a designated store.
The bicycle ticket sent by Secretary Zhang was written on the model of the car, the place of redemption and the unit that issued it, and when Father Xiao arrived at the designated store, the salesman saw that he was an ordinary farmer, and his attitude was not very good. It wasn't until he took out his bicycle ticket that the salesman relented a little. After all, this ticket is issued by the city government, and it is not something that ordinary people can get.
"You pay first. After paying the money, you have to wait a few days to pick up the car. ”
Daddy Xiao knew that it was difficult to buy a car, but he didn't expect to have to wait for the goods.
After paying the money and making an appointment, he took the meat and prepared to return to the village. Two familiar figures flashed in front of him, and he looked at it fixedly, and the alarm sounded in his heart: Jiro Aso and Akira Matsuda!