Chapter 150: Celebratory Dinner
Mu Shiying saw that Leng Mufan's attitude softened, and her face improved at the moment, and she happily pulled Leng Mufan to celebrate that she had finally washed away her grievances.
"Call Secretary Zhang, Nuo Feng, and Huang Xin, they have all worked hard during this time." After some discussion, the two decided to hold a small celebratory dinner at home, and then call a few people who have been helping during this time, so that they are not afraid that the dinner will not be lively.
"Go to the supermarket to buy ingredients first?" Leng Mufan notified Nuo Feng and Huang Xin, and after Mu Shiying notified Secretary Zhang, the two decided to go to the supermarket near their home to buy some ingredients, and then cook hot pot directly at home.
"By the way, do you know how to cook hot pot? What kind of base do you want? Looking at the dazzling array of hot pot materials on the supermarket shelves, Mu Shiying's eyes were a little dazed, there was nothing wrong with her liking hot pot, but she had never made hot pot by herself, so cooking hot pot was a new world for Mu Shiying.
"I won't, let's take a turn first." Leng Mufan also looks a little big, he usually eats Western food, even Chinese food is very little, let alone any hot pot, he has grown so big, the only few hot pots he has eaten are all with Mu Shiying, and every time he eats, he feels so spicy that he can't do it, after eating, his whole stomach is uncomfortable, but Mu Shiying's interest in eating hot pot is so high today, plus he will definitely not be as spicy as the one sold outside, so Leng Mufan is also up to Mu Shiying.
"Then let's go around first." So, Mu Shiying and Leng Mufan pushed the kind of small cart in the supermarket, and circled around the shelf of the hot pot base, round and round.
"Why don't we just buy a ready-made hot pot base, like this?" Mu Shiying stopped in front of a small shelf, then picked up a pack of "big red robes" and shook it in front of Leng Mufan.
"Okay? Will the taste be inauthentic? Leng Mufan looked at the big red packaging bag in Mu Shiying's hand with some suspicion, and then continued: "This kind, there should be a lot of food additives, right?" ”
Leng Mufan has always been skeptical of the so-called "big red robe" in Mu Shiying's hands, and since he was a child, he has never eaten anything similar to packaging.
"But I'm feeling pretty good, so why don't we try?" Mu Shiying took the "big red robe" and studied it carefully, and then she was still very interested in it, probably because she hadn't tried it, so she wanted to give it a try.
"Let's not do it, we can skip the hot pot and eat something else. You can also cook Western food at home, and it's more good. "Of course, Leng Mufan's specialty here is not that he really knows how to do it, but as the saying goes, he has never eaten pork, and he has never seen a pig run? So he took it for granted that he had eaten Western food for more than 20 years, and if he made Western food, he should still be relatively good at it.
"I don't want it, how cold it is to eat Western food, everyone eats their own, I think it's better to eat hot pot, we Chinese should be lively when we eat to celebrate, today is for me to celebrate, so I am the biggest, then I just want to eat hot pot." Mu Shiying is the type that eats a lot of Chinese food, especially prefers Sichuan cuisine, the so-called spicy and unhappy kind, especially loves hot pot, and usually, it's okay if you don't mention hot pot, as long as she mentions eating hot pot, it is absolutely impossible for her to change her mind and give up hot pot to eat something else.
"Are you really going to buy this?" Leng Mufan looked at Mu Shiying a little helplessly, he knew Mu Shiying, knew that she loved hot pot very much, and knew that once she moved her mind, it would be impossible to change it, so Leng Mufan had no choice but to silently accommodate her.
"Yes, just buy this, if you don't want to buy it, then you can come and show me a hot pot base." Mu Shiying raised her chin arrogantly, and then put a bag of "big red robe" into the shopping cart.
Leng Mufan followed behind Mu Shiying, smiled dotingly, and then the two went together to buy some other materials, meat, vegetables, noodles and the like, and called someone to send two cases of beer.
By the time the two returned to Leng Mufan's villa with a full of dishes, Secretary Zhang, Nuo Feng and Huang Xin had already arrived, and they were sitting on the sofa in the living room chatting.
Seeing Mu Shiying and Leng Mufan walking in, in addition to Nuo Feng, Secretary Zhang and Huang Xin were a little cramped and uneasy, although Secretary Zhang had been with Mu Shiying for a long time, but she really had never been so close to Mu Shiying, not to mention that there was also a Leng Mufan.
Not to mention Huang Xin, he had always done things directly under Nuofeng's orders before, so he hadn't spoken to Leng Mufan at all before this incident, so this time he was able to come to Leng Mufan's house to eat, and he still ate something like hot pot with Leng Mufan, so it was not normal for him not to be nervous.
Besides, Nuo Feng, Nuo Feng has been by Leng Mufan's side for a long time, so he is very comfortable in front of Leng Mufan, plus he has been by Mu Shiying's side to protect her during this time, and he has some understanding of Mu Shiying's character, so he is not as uncomfortable as Secretary Zhang and Huang Xin, plus Leng Mufan's villa, he also comes often, so he has long regarded this side as his own home.
So of the three people, only Nuo Feng seemed comfortable, and the other two were extremely uneasy.
Secretary Zhang and Huang Xin are in such a state that is so obvious, how could Mu Shiying not see it? So while Leng Mufan took all the materials into the kitchen, Mu Shiying walked to the sofa, and then said, "The expressions of the two of you are too ugly, right?" Is it so sad to eat with me? Or are you unhappy that I have been washed away? ”
Mu Shiying didn't know that the two of them were nervous, but she just wanted to deliberately joke like this, so that Secretary Zhang and Huang Xin's nerves could relax, and they should not be so restrained.
"Mr. Mu, let's help together!" Among these people, Secretary Zhang is the one who has the most contact with Mu Shiying and has known her for the longest time, so when Mu Shiying said this, she knew what Mu Shiying wanted to express, so she didn't squirm at the moment, stood up and walked in the direction of Mu Shiying, rolling up her sleeves as she went.
"I'm here to help, too." When Huang Xin heard this, he also understood what Mu Shiying meant, so he also stood up and went over with Secretary Zhang, and now there is only one Nuo Feng left on the sofa.
"I'm not going, I want to rest for a while." Nuo Feng really regarded this place as his home, so when he saw Secretary Zhang and Huang Xin standing up and preparing to help in the kitchen, Nuo Feng still sat comfortably on the sofa, and even lay down.
"You have to have it, if you want to rest, you can rest, and there are enough of us." Mu Shiying rolled her eyes at Nuo Feng, who was lying on the sofa with her eyes closed, but her heart was warm, Nuo Feng's move seemed really casual, in fact, he was telling Secretary Zhang and Huang Xin with practical actions that here, there is no need to be nervous at all, and you can come as comfortable as you want.
Mu Shiying led Huang Xin and Secretary Zhang into the kitchen, and then assigned them tasks respectively, and then she went to study the hot pot base "Da Hong Pao" she had just bought with Leng Mufan.
"How do you get this? Is it boiled straight? Mu Shiying took the "big red robe" and looked left and right, it shouldn't be as simple as simply boiling it.
"There should be instructions on the back of the bag, you see." Leng Mufan turned the "big red robe" over, pointed to the small tadpole-like words on the back of the "big red robe" and said.
"Well, he said here that you can put oil in the pan first, and then put this 'big red robe' in it and fry it, and then when it exudes fragrance, pour water, put it in the pot where the hot pot is boiled, add water, and slowly boil it over low heat." According to her own understanding, Mu Shiying explained the instructions on the "big red robe", and then looked at Leng Mufan again.
"Do you do it or do I do it?" Leng Mufan looked at the "big red robe" in Mu Shiying's hand and asked uncertainly.
"Come on, I don't think I will." Mu Shiying stuffed the "big red robe" into Leng Mufan's hand, and then immediately retreated two steps away, standing on the side to watch Leng Mufan's operation.
Leng Mufan looked at Mu Shiying like this, and then looked at the innocent "big red robe" in his hand, he couldn't cry or laugh, he was silent for a while, and then in Mu Shiying's expectant eyes, he slowly spoke: "Otherwise, let's wait for them to prepare all the ingredients before we do it?" ”
"It's okay, it's okay, or when the bottom of our pot is cooked, the ingredients on their side are not ready, and we have to wait." Mu Shiying saw Leng Mufan say this, and she was relieved at the moment, and then cooperated with Leng Mufan to say.
And Huang Xin, who was also standing in the kitchen, was in charge of handling meat and vegetables, and Secretary Zhang, who was handling vegetables, didn't feel nervous at all after hearing the god-like conversation between Mu Shiying and Leng Mufan, they even felt a little funny, isn't it just cooking a hot pot? Why did it seem that it was more difficult to get to Mu Shiying and Leng Mufan than to ascend to the sky?
In the end, Secretary Zhang couldn't stand it anymore, she spoke: "Mr. Mu, Mr. Leng, let me make the hot pot base, when I was in college before, I often cooked hot pot with my roommates in the dormitory, and I used this kind of 'big red robe'." ”
Mu Shiying and Leng Mufan heard that someone would make hot pot base, and they didn't have to do it, of course they were very happy, but Leng Mufan still asked uneasily: "You also use the 'big red robe', and you are still healthy and healthy, so it is estimated that there will not be any great harm, so after you finished eating at that time, did you have any immediate adverse reactions?" ”
"Not at all!" Secretary Zhang and Huang Xin were completely amused by Leng Mufan's words, and they laughed out loud after a puff.