To put it mildly, Jiang Yu finally didn't let his grandmother pick up those mineral water bottles.

In order to prevent her from sneaking out again while she was not paying attention, Jiang Yu directly took her to the vegetable market, ready to purchase the vegetables that need to be made tomorrow.

It is rare to invite a guest, especially in order to thank people for their help over the years, Jiang Yu is naturally thinking about how to come richly, therefore, chicken, duck, fish, meat, all kinds of vegetables, he sees the same and buys the same, and after a while, his hand is full of large bags and small bags containing various ingredients.

After so many years, grandma has become accustomed to saving, how have she ever seen such a scene of wanton buying as Jiang Yu, her face has changed, and her lips are shaking.

She followed Jiang Yu closely all the way, she went wherever Jiang Yu went, her eyes stared at the dish in Jiang Yu's hand, and kept muttering:

"Oops, buy so much, buy so much...... How can this be eaten? ”

"This mutton is too expensive, it costs more than 30 yuan for a catty, and you can buy several catties of pork......

"What kind of loneliness is this, it costs more than twenty pounds! It's more expensive than meat, so it's better to buy meat! ”

“……”

Although grandma was very distressed, she just talked to herself on the side, but she didn't say that she wouldn't let Jiang Yu buy it, but these small words fell on Jiang Yu's ears, making him funny and sad.

You don't have to think about it to know that grandma is probably reluctant to come to the vegetable market to buy vegetables on weekdays, and even if she wants to come, she will wait until the evening when the vegetable market is about to close, and she will be willing to come to buy some promotional fatty meat and vegetables.

Jiang Yu can imagine that grandma is willing to buy some fatty meat, in addition to satisfying her cravings, she can also use it to boil lard, so that even the money for buying cooking oil is saved.

In fact, when she came back from the National Day holiday, Jiang Yu left money for her grandmother, not to mention that she had to pick up rags and sell them on weekdays, so that she couldn't even afford to buy vegetables, but she was reluctant to spend money......

This point, even Jiang Yu, I'm afraid it won't be corrected for a while.

After buying vegetables, Jiang Yu bought some spices and other things at the grocery store in the vegetable market, and then returned home with his grandmother with a large number of bags.

On the way back, grandma struggled for a while, and finally couldn't hold back, and asked:

"Xiaoyu, let's treat tomorrow, at most a dozen people, how can you finish eating so many dishes?"

"Grandma, if you can't finish eating, let's keep it for ourselves."

Jiang Yu turned his head to look at his grandmother, her silver hair fluttering in the wind, lining the wrinkles on her face a little deeper, he smiled and said,

"The New Year will be celebrated in a few days, although there are only two of us in our family, we also have to prepare a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner!"

"Oh, oh, it's the New Year!"

Grandma looked like a dream, as if she had just remembered that the New Year was coming, she breathed a long sigh of relief, laughed, and said with some emotion,

"Time flies so fast, a year has passed again."

Jiang Yu pursed his lips and did not speak.

Perhaps, in grandma's world, time does pass faster than others, and when you are busy, the year is over.

She hadn't even had time to sit down and get some rest.

……

"Grandma, you go and invite those people to come and sit at home, and I'll go to the kitchen to cook."

After another day, Jiang Yu processed all the ingredients he bought yesterday, and seeing that it was almost ten o'clock, he turned his head and said to his grandmother,

"When they come over for a cup of tea, I'll be almost ready to serve the food here."

Grandma walked around the kitchen, looking at the various ingredients piled up on the table, and her eyes were a little incredulous:

"Are you doing it alone? Don't need me to help you light the fire? ”

In the past, when everyone in the family was there, every New Year was also a big family to eat, and after she ate breakfast, she had to start preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, such a large table full of dishes, stewed and boiled, and steamed, if few people helped, I am afraid that it may not be able to eat at night.

But now my own Xiaoyu doesn't need to help himself, even if it's a fire!

"I really don't need to, the smell of oil smoke in the kitchen is too big, you go and call someone, wait for someone to come, you just stay outside and greet them, it's enough for me here."

Jiang Yu smiled at her, turned around and started to get busy.

Although he cooked a lot of dishes today, he was also "lazy".

For example, among the dishes he wants to make today, there are braised elbows, rice noodles and steamed pork, and chopped pepper fish head, these three dishes are actually steamed dishes, as long as the ingredients are processed in advance, it is enough to steam them directly in the steamer.

The firewood stove in the countryside has two large pots, the inside of the pot is used for steaming, and the outside pot can be used to fry vegetables, and both sides are operated at the same time, without delay at all.

In addition to these three dishes, some other stir-fries are much simpler.

In fact, in the kitchen, cooking itself is not complicated, the process of side dishes is the most time-consuming, once the side dishes are completed, the time to stir-fry is often a matter of minutes and ten minutes.

When Jiang Yu was busy in the kitchen, his grandmother had already invited Jiang Yu's uncles, uncles, aunts and other elders, and before they entered the house, a group of people smelled a strong smell of vegetables wafting from afar in the yard.

An old lady with gray hair sniffed and couldn't help but mutter:

"Who's stewed meat early in the morning, such a way to eat, the days are over!"

An old man walking on the side laughed and said:

"Look at what you're talking about, who can't eat meat now? You should have been decades ago, and you had to wait until the Chinese New Year to eat some meat! ”

"Life is much better now than before, but no one has to stew meat every day, it's not that they can't afford it, it's too tired!"

“……”

A group of elders gossiped without a word, and soon entered the house.

As soon as they entered the house, they found that the smell of the food in the house was stronger, and the old lady turned her head to look at Grandma Jiang Yu in surprise, and said with some reproach:

"Hey, old sister-in-law, are you too expensive?

Everyone is their own people, you said that you want Xiaoyu to come back and invite everyone to have a meal, everyone is not polite, after all, our Xiaoyu is in graduate school, this thing should be celebrated!

But you can cook a few dishes by yourself, and everyone will sit together and be lively, why did you invite a chef to cook? How much does it cost?

Last time, the little grandson of the old Niu family next door to my house was full moon, and he invited the chef of a big hotel in the city to cook, and he made a table banquet, and the money for inviting the chef alone was several thousand, and I smelled the fragrance of the dish, which is not as good as the one you invited!

Honestly, it took a lot of money to ask this chef, right? This, this, this, this is too expensive! ”

"What? Auntie, you even invited a chef to cook for us? Isn't that too grand? ”

"I'll just say, how can I smell such a strong smell of meat from afar, ordinary people can't make that kind of taste!"

"Oh, I haven't tasted the chef's food in a restaurant yet......"

“……”

Jiang Yu's grandmother was at a loss at the moment, feeling that her brain was a little unconscious.

What are these people talking about?

What invited a chef from a big hotel?

After a while, she gradually came back to her senses, and probably understood what these old men and old ladies were saying.

Oh, they think the smell of the food in the house is too tempting and smelly, so they think that in order to invite them to dinner, I specially invited the chef of the hotel to cook the dishes?

How is this possible?!

For this feast, Jiang Yu spent hundreds of yuan just to buy those vegetables and meat yesterday!

Then go to a big hotel and ask a chef to specialize in the table?

How much does that cost!

Although I felt that it was impossible, but smelling the smell of good vegetables wafting in the house, my grandmother felt a little unconfident again, and it was definitely impossible for me to invite any chefs to come, but, but my eldest grandson, Xiaoyu, might not be able to say!

Perhaps, he paid himself out early this morning just so that he wouldn't find out that he had hired a chef to help?

How much does it cost to hire a chef in a big hotel?

Grandma couldn't help but shudder in her heart, and she couldn't care about the relatives who were still standing in the hall chatting, so she raised her feet and walked to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Jiang Yu was cooking braised mutton.

The mutton stewed in the pot is fat and thin, because it has been stewed with various spices such as soy sauce, refined salt, spices, cinnamon, etc., the kitchen is full of the fragrance of mutton, and the mutton pieces stewed soft and fragrant are shaking slightly in the soup with small bubbles, which makes people can't help but swallow saliva when they see it.

Jiang Yu picked up the fast child and poked it, and found that the meat was already very rotten, so he picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth to taste it.

Probably because the mutton was a little hot, he couldn't help but open his mouth and "hiss" a few times, then chewed it quickly and swallowed it with a satisfied face.

After he swallowed the mutton, he suddenly heard the sound of swallowing saliva from the kitchen door, Jiang Yu looked back, only to find that his grandmother was standing there with an embarrassed face, neither entering nor retreating.

Jiang Yu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly beckoned to his grandmother: "Grandma, come and taste the mutton stew, I'm worried that you won't be able to bite it!" ”

Including grandma, most of the elders invited by Jiang Yu are sixty or seventy years old, and only a few are slightly younger, but most of these people are not very good, so the dishes he makes such as stewed mutton and braised elbow must be stewed softly.

If you invite people to dinner, and they can't even bite the meat, then what's the point of inviting them?

It's better not to be invited!

"Huh? I'll try it too? ”

Grandma was also stunned for a moment, and took two steps into the kitchen with some embarrassment, couldn't help but look back for a moment, and said hesitantly,

"Your uncle and aunt are still outside, I'm here, won't I be very good?"

"What does it matter?"

When Jiang Yu heard this, he waved his hand carelessly, picked up the spatula and put a small half bowl of mutton and soup into the bowl, handed it to his grandmother together with Kuaizi, and said with a smile,

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"Whoever cooks the dish has to taste the salty soup, otherwise who knows if it tastes good?"