Chapter 37 Entertaining Guests
My father's hearty laughter could be heard in the hall.
Ling Mei heard Gen Bao say loudly, "Brother Xiao." Needless to say, I can recognize your vegetable plot at a glance. ”
Manager Cui smiled: "Not bad." The Xiao brothers' vegetables are green and verdant, with two rows of red tomatoes in the middle, and the growth is much better than that of other people's houses. ”
"That's all my daughter's job." Yue Shan is very proud. "Without her picking and raising seedlings, our vegetables wouldn't have grown so well."
Manager Cui was already convinced by Xiao Jiacai. Today, I want to see a new model of "scientific vegetable planting". He laughed and praised, "Green out of blue, green out of blue." ”
"Sit down and have some tea. The meal will be fine in a while. Our side is no better than the town, coarse tea and light rice. Don't dislike it, two. ”
"Brother Xiao is polite. I can smell it. O dish of yours, Spirit! Manager Cui poured a cup of tea for Xie Genbao familiarly. Today, let's try authentic farmhouse cuisine. ”
Genbao raised his eyes to see Ling Mei and said happily, "Classmate Xiao is back." It's hard for you to go up the mountain to help us find game. ”
Ling Mei greeted them generously, and asked Genbao with a smile: "Uncle Xie, why didn't you let Xie Hang come to play together?" ”
Genbao smiled: "That stinky boy, I heard that I was going to climb the mountain, so I refused to come." Besides, let's get down to business, I won't let him come if he wants to. ”
Manager Cui's eyes flashed with surprise. Unexpectedly, Yunlai Village still hides such a beautiful and moving little girl as Ling Mei.
"Xie Hang is the top student in our school. The headmaster thinks of him. Ling Mei naturally sat beside them and talked about the interesting things that happened at the school, which made Chef Xie and Manager Cui very happy.
The laughter came into Ling Hui's room, and he covered his ears irritably: Don't let people warm their books?
Xiao Lingmei is a girl, talking and laughing in front of outsiders, what does it look like?
Under the arrangement of his sister, Ling Yun has begun to draw red literacy and do some simple addition and subtraction. As if he hadn't heard the sound outside, he silently memorized the multiplication formula.
Ling Hui saw his younger brother's serious appearance, and sneered: pretending. He didn't know the multiplication formula until he was in the second grade.
Today's lunch is a plate of braised braised sausage, fragrant Q bomb; A plate of stir-fried choy sum, sweet and crisp; A plate of stir-fried morels with green peppers, rare mushrooms such as morels startled the guests when they were served. Not to mention the strange fragrance, during chewing, the soup in the mushroom cap fills the mouth, the taste is like meat and not meat, that is, chewy and crisp and refreshing, and it will be disced after a few chopsticks.
Yue Shan killed a chicken raised by the family, and Guixiang made a casserole stuffy chicken. The last thing on the table was the long-awaited grass carp Yusheng of the Yuntao duo.
Manager Cui tasted the yusheng with wasabi puree, and was amazed. Although the way to eat it is novel, the taste is a must. He sighed with emotion: "How long has it been since I have eaten such a good yusheng?" Brother Xiao, I heard Ling Ai say, do you want to raise rice and fish? ”
Yue Shan only got the information yesterday, and he studied it with Ling Mei until the middle of the night. Experts are experts, they start with the selection and cultivation of fish fry, and even draw how to distribute the size of the fish pond. In addition, the living area of fish fry should be kept in the rice field, how deep the water should be, how many fish should be raised, and the feed they usually feed are all recorded in great detail.
As long as Xiao Yueshan does it, there is basically nothing wrong with it.
He smiled happily: "Preparations have already begun." Construction will begin next month. ”
Manager Cui nodded frequently: "Okay." This rice fish has been a tribute since ancient times. It's just that it's not big to raise, and the income is small. If you can raise it well, our Yuntao Hotel will be round! ”
Xie Genbao continued: "Don't worry about the price, our state-owned unit will never cheat you." It must be traded according to quality, and Tong Suo is not bullied. ”
Xiao Yueshan raised the rice wine and said with a hearty smile: "Then I will toast the two of you here, and we will cooperate happily." ”
Ling Yun hurriedly raised his bowl and shouted, "Cheers, cheers." "Everybody's cup touched, and then they buried themselves in eating.
Xie Genbao especially likes beautiful children, and praised: "The children in Brother Xiao's family are good at each other. He pinched a chicken wing for Ling Yun, "In the future, I will learn from your sister, who is beautiful, has good grades, is smart and capable." ”
Ling Hui glanced at Ling Mei with a heavy gaze, and a feeling of not knowing what to do in his heart rolled.
After eating, Manager Xie signed a detailed contract with Yue Shan on the price of each dish.
Ling Mei insisted on dividing her dishes into two grades, top-grade and medium-grade, and the prices were also different, and the dishes were delivered four times a week. Billed daily on the basis of actual quantities. Yueshan feels that her daughter has ideas and the ability to put them into practice, and she is happy to see them come to fruition. How do you know that it was my daughter's trick to cover up the space vegetables better than her own field vegetables?
In the end, there is a big question left: "Manager Cui." How do you get this food to the store? Ling Mei wanted his father to borrow a tricycle, but the amount set by Yuntao Hotel was double what she thought. There aren't enough tricycles for two in the village.
"We'll take care of that." Manager Cui said with a smile, "Our hotel has a van, which is specially purchased. You deliver the food to the intersection of the mountain, and our car will pick it up. ”
"That's great." Xiao Yueshan couldn't stop smiling. This saved him a lot of effort, and he could concentrate on the cultivation of rice and fish.
Seeing off the guests, Yue Shan immediately called for a family meeting.
"Starting tomorrow, our family will deliver food to Yuntao Hotel." Daddy Xiao smiled with seriousness, "You should have heard the hotel's request just now." We have to deliver at least 300 catties of vegetables every day. Usually sell some vegetables, Ling Mei and I just need to harvest it the night before. Now this supply needs to be helped by the whole family. ”
Ling Hui frowned when he heard this, and before he could open his mouth, he was named by his father: "Ling Hui, you are the eldest man in the family." It doesn't make sense for my sister and mother to get up early and work in the dark, and you are hiding in the house to read books and hide things. Starting today, you will go to the field to cut vegetables together. ”
This time, Guixiang didn't say anything to her son: This is a big thing to make money. There can be no gaps in signing a good contract. How can Ling Hui stay out of it? At most, when he is working, I can help him a little more.
Ling Hui saw that his mother was all approving, so he had to reluctantly agree.
Yue Shan said with satisfaction: "Okay." There is strength in numbers. We're going to get the dishes ready before the clouds fall. ”
Next door to Yuefeng's family, his father and mother heard that the eldest son's family had negotiated a big contract, and they were also very happy. In the evening, seeing that their family even sent Ling Yun to the field to collect vegetables, Xiao Yuanliang couldn't sit still and went down to the ground together.
Yue Shan hurriedly persuaded him: "Dad, don't get involved." We can do it. ”
Xiao Yuanliang smiled and said, "I'll help you pick tomatoes." Ah, your food here is so good. ”
Yue Shan had to ask his father to be careful about his waist.
Ling Mei took advantage of the hard work of everyone and unknowingly piled up the vegetables in the space in all corners. When the last piece was weighed, her grandfather was dumbfounded: "Yue Shan, the yield in your field is like this?" ”
Don't overdo it.
Yueshan also pointed to his daughter and said: "It's not Lingmei, in response to the call of the country, we must use advanced pesticides and raise seedlings in advance, I didn't expect the effect to be so good." ”
Xiao Yuanliang couldn't help nodding and looked at Ling Mei with a loving face: "Good, good." My family Lingmei has not read all these years in vain. ”
Yue Shan's heart moved, and he took the opportunity to say, "Dad." I'll tell you something. Ling Mei has good grades and is smart. After the family has more income, if there is more money, I want Ling Mei to continue to study in high school. ”
Xiao Yuanliang's smile froze.
"High school? How much does that cost? He looked at Ling Hui and Ling Yun, his brows twisted like a caterpillar. said earnestly, "You can't spend money blindly." You have to save it. ”
Yue Shan's smile remained unchanged: "Dad, you said it all, Ling Mei hasn't read books in vain all these years." If she could study deeper and better, and then go back to college, what do you think would be like at that time? ”
Xiao Yuanliang was shocked: "Big, university-"
Yue Shan said as a matter of course: "Isn't it to go to high school to get into college?" ”
Xiao Yuanliang stomped his feet: "Fooling around." Is it so easy to fly a golden phoenix out of a mountain nest? Wake up. After saying that, he shook his hand and left.
Yue Shan didn't chase him, so Mei didn't care about Ah Gong's attitude, and was diligently dividing the dish into two.
Yue Shan saw the two dishes clearly, and said in surprise: "Don't say it, you are so divided, you are really divided into upper and lower grades." ”
The best dishes are generally larger and more beautiful in color.
Ling Mei smiled: "It's not a loss, right?" ”
"No loss." Yue Shan helped to put the vegetables into baskets, and the baskets were stacked on the edge of the fields, which was quite spectacular.
Guixiang went home first to cook dinner. The men in the family are busy surviving this meal, and they need to eat something honest.
The leftover fish head and fish tail soup at noon, tomato scrambled eggs, more eggs and more oil. The Chinese New Year's pickled bacon was cut into small half pieces and fried cabbage, and the vegetarian dishes were also fried on two large plates, and a pot full of brown rice was steamed.
As a result, a few people came back from the mountain, and their spirits were actually good. Even Ling Hui was surprised, he was very tired, but he was not as impatient as he imagined. After a full meal, everyone fell asleep.