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Chapter 275 How can I eat without vegetables? (Seek monthly ticket for subscription)
"A bit choking..."

As soon as these words came out, Wang Chaoyun's expression was a little sad. You must know that the reason why she wore perfume on her body today was actually because she did it on purpose.

Because she knows that many men like this feeling very much.

Unexpectedly, when Chen Nian smelled it, he simply said: a bit choking.

But when Chen Nian said this, he didn't mean to dislike it, it seemed that he was just not used to it or didn't like it.

This couldn't help but make her heart move, staring at the generous back in front of her, a blush suddenly appeared on her face.

But Chen Nian didn't notice this, he just came to the door with the rice dumplings.

Looking up, the sign at the door said Yihongyuan. Everyone knows what these three words represent. Apparently, A Cai herself has no culture, so she doesn't think that a fancy name can bring anything. Forceful, anyway, as long as everyone knows where this is, it is enough.

At this time, Wang Chaoyun hurriedly pushed the door a few steps forward, and then walked in front like this. Only when she was beside Chen Nian would she show the same appearance she had when she first entered the Guangrong Hotel.

In front of other people, Wang Chaoyun still behaved like a second sister.

After all, everyone knows that Wang Chaoyun is A Cai's favorite girl now.

"Hello, Miss Yun..."

"Sister Yun..."

People kept saying hello to Wang Chaoyun, and suddenly a person who seemed to have just finished work and was about to go home met them. After seeing Wang Chaoyun, he subconsciously wanted to come up to tease him.

If it were the same as in the past, Wang Chaoyun might still want to refuse and welcome the other party to send him away, or welcome the other party to come again next time.

But this time, after Wang Chaoyun saw the other party's actions, she felt irritable for no reason. Facing the salty pig's hand extended by the other party, she subconsciously stepped hard and avoided it.

But that person didn't expect that Wang Chaoyun would avoid it this time. He was about to say something when the servant who had been by his side noticed that Sister Yun's complexion didn't look very good today, so he hurriedly pulled that person with a smile. then left.

But after what happened just now, Wang Chaoyun suddenly felt embarrassed. Even if she avoided that person just now, Chen Nian must have seen him.

"I……"

She was about to say something just now, but Chen Nian had been looking at the layout here since just now, and didn't pay much attention to the scene here. He only turned his head when he heard someone talking, but at this time the guest had been captured by the servant. pulled away.

"The environment here is quite good, but the weather is hot now, and sometimes our restaurant will make mung bean soup. If you have time, you can come and have a drink." Chen Nian suddenly opened his mouth and interrupted the other party inadvertently, but he didn't finish speaking. Responding, "Hey, what did you want to say just now?"

"No...it's nothing, just now I just wanted to say that Sister A Cai often mentioned your name, and I also wanted to go to Guangrong Restaurant to eat some of your stir-fried dishes when I have time later."

Chen Nian smiled when he heard this: "I'm just a boy now, when will I get the pot and spoon?"

"Didn't you just..."

"Those are all practiced by me, and I can't get on the stage."

"Is this still practice?"

"Yes."

While talking, they passed a room, the door was half open, Chen Nian had been looking around at the layout since he entered the door, at this time he naturally looked inside subconsciously.

Through the half-open door, Chen Nian actually saw A Cai dancing in the center of the room, there was no music, but he could vaguely see the other party's lips moving, maybe he was making music for himself.

But after only taking a few glances, Chen Nian felt that A Cai deserved to be very popular for so many years. Although she is much older than before, she also added a bit of mature charm, coupled with her graceful figure and A beautiful face, if you put aside other things and just talk about dancing, Ah Cai's dancing is already very good.

The sleeves are graceful and the figure is graceful.

"Sister Acai has always liked dancing. In the past, many of Sister Acai's guests came to praise her because they liked her dancing posture. But Ah Nian, do you like to watch dancing?"

"Me? It's okay."

Chen Nian didn't say much on this topic, and soon they came to the kitchen, Chen Nian put down the big iron basin, and told them that if they couldn't finish eating at noon, it's better to put it away first, and wait until they want to eat If so, put it in a pot and steam it. "

"Don't worry, I know this. After all, I used to cook and work at home often." Wang Chaoyun said.

"Okay, that's it for now. I'll go back first, and the basin will be left here with you. When it's used up, ask me to pick it up or send it directly to the store."

"Okay, hard work."

Then Chen Nian left here...

Looking at these zongzi, Wang Chaoyun didn't know what was going on in her heart. She didn't realize it until someone came into the kitchen and called her.

After returning from old age, I was making zongzi until the afternoon. After all, there are still a lot of zongzi leaves, and the afternoon is long.

In this way, they were selling while packing, and they sold more than 100 more in total. However, just after 6 o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Qiao directly closed the door, and then put up a closing sign outside the store.

Immediately afterwards, he called Chen Nian and went to the kitchen to start preparing the ingredients.

"My son will come over later, and I have to get some dishes he likes to eat. We come here every year, every Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, no matter how busy he is. Come back and have dinner with me."

Chen Nian also thought about it in his mind, he did have this memory, because their old Qiao's family in the United States was actually the two of them, Mr. Qiao's wife passed away, and Mr. Qiao's son never married a wife.

But although he didn't have a wife, he did have a few lovers.

And except for the New Year they will spend together at home, the rest of the holidays are basically spent in this small shop.

Although the lights are not as bright as at home, Mr. Qiao always remembers their house before they came to the United States, and he would give a lot of speeches at such times.

Although I know this, every time I used to eat in the kitchen at such a time, leaving the outside space for the father and son.

So Chen Nian quickly became busy.

Since tonight was their Qiao family's own family banquet, Mr. Qiao was very serious about cooking, but since there were only two of them, Mr. Qiao didn't prepare too many ingredients, only about four or five dishes.

During the whole process, Chen Nian didn't ask any more questions. Mr. Qiao did whatever he asked him to do, but he processed the chicken, the fish, and washed a pork belly.

In addition, there are vegetables, tofu and some roast meat.

Mr. Qiao didn't make soup before, but after seeing what Mr. Qiao did afterwards, Chen Nian also knew what soup he was going to make.

Chicken with pork belly.

It is also a famous Cantonese dish, and it is from the Hakka side.

Cut the old hen into pieces, put it into the pork belly that has been washed countless times for many years and is basically tasteless. Seal it with water plants, put it into a pot, add seasoning and other auxiliary materials for cooking.

The pork belly chicken was simmering aside, and the fire was turned on.

Then Mr. Joe went to fish again.

Chen Nian on the side can tell that the fish he cooks is braised fish just from the seasoning prepared by Mr. Qiao.

However, the method is still somewhat different from what he knows, but he thinks that the taste of the fish made by Mr. Qiao must not be bad, but it is just that the eating habits are different due to regional differences.

The sound of 呲味味啦 kept coming, the kitchen was full of fragrance, and all kinds of smells mixed together, making Chen Nian's stomach start to protest loudly, but because the sound on the stove was too loud, so Mr. Qiao didn't hear it, but just concentrated on cooking.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door of the restaurant, Mr. Qiao was shocked, and hurriedly called Chen Nian to open the door.

Chen Nian also hurriedly put down his work to dry his hands, and ran to the door to open it.

What caught my eye was a decent-looking middle-aged man with a mustache on the corner of his mouth. He looked quite masculine, and his face was a bit majestic. He looked like a superior.

Wearing a black suit and a black top hat.

Very refined and decent.

"Mr. Qiao, you are here. Mr. Qiao is preparing dinner inside." How could Chen Nian not know who this person is.

The man is naturally Mr. Qiao's only son, Qiao Tianhua.

"En." Qiao Tianhua nodded and walked into the store. Chen Nian closed the door at the back and went to the kitchen to continue helping.

At this time, Chen Nian happened to see Mr. Qiao take out the prepared fish and put them on the plate.

"Ah Nian, bring the roasted pork and some preserved vegetables to wash. You don't need to wash it too clean, it's almost enough." After Mr. Qiao finished his orders, he went out with the vegetables and put them on the table.

"Tianhua... you eat first, there are still a few dishes, they will be done in a while, let's sit down and have a drink later."

While speaking, Qiao Tianhua was still a little out of breath. Qiao Tianhua felt sorry for his father. He used to make rice dumplings all day every Dragon Boat Festival. That means Chen Nian got better after he came to the store, but he was so busy all day long. The day is also more tiring than usual.

And every night, I have to cook a large table of dishes myself.

"Dad, take a break."

Unexpectedly, Mr. Qiao refused to accept his old age, and said with a relaxed look: "No problem~ Your father and I are still young, so I only cooked two dishes~"

Then he went back to the kitchen.

At this time, Chen Nian had washed the plum vegetables several times, basically meeting Master Qiao's requirements.

If the plum vegetables are washed too clean, they will not have that smell, so it is almost good, and this is still known in the old age.

And the roast pork was also cut into slices.

The roasted meat slices belonged to Chen Nian's own initiative, because just now he saw that Mr. Qiao's hands were shaking a little while changing the fish knife, obviously he was tired from steaming and making dumplings all afternoon.

Seeing that the roast meat had been cut into slices, Mr. Qiao was obviously taken aback.

And Chen Nian quickly explained the reason why he did so.

Mr. Qiao wanted to be angry at first, because he thought that Chen Nian was just a guy, and today was the day when he and his son sat down to have a good meal, so naturally he wanted to make the dishes better.

What if this guy cut up the roast meat carelessly?
The meat with pickled vegetables should be moderately thick. If it is cut too thin, it will easily rot and fall apart. If it is cut too thick, the taste will be poor, and the taste will not get in.

But when he glanced down and saw that the cut of meat was the same as his usual cut, he was stunned again: "Did you really cut these just now?"

"Yes, Mr. Qiao." Chen Nian whispered at this time, still not wanting to let Qiao Tianhua know, "Just now I saw that your hands were shaking a little while changing the knife for the fish, it must be because you are too tired to make zongzi today, so I will make up my own mind I cut the roast pork, basically according to your usual thickness, but maybe not as good as yours, but I don't want to make you too tired...don't be angry."

The trick of aging is called advancing with retreat.

Mr. Qiao looked at the roasted pork that had been sliced ​​for a long time. Every slice was neatly cut. The thickness was exactly the same with the naked eye, and there was no novice who was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom or wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Common situations arise.

"Since when did you get so good at knife skills?"

"Didn't you save some ingredients every night, Mr. Joe? That's how I do it." Chen Nian naturally wouldn't say that, if you add up all the time before, you might be about the same age as Qiao Heyong , so we can only use these methods to prevaricate.

"Not bad... It's beyond my expectation~ You cut it better than me, an old man."

"How can there be, Mr. Qiao, you have cooked dishes for decades, and I can't compare them."

But Chen Nian knew that what he said was actually polite words, because he knew that the cuts he made were indeed slightly better than the ones made by Mr. Qiao. A little regressed from when I was younger.

I don't know whether Chen Nian's knife skills were approved by Mr. Qiao or something else. This time, Mr. Qiao didn't deliberately avoid Mr. Chen when cooking, and even told Mr. Chen about these things when he was making preserved vegetables and pork Mei Cai is actually made by the methods handed down from their families.

And when making it, you need to use Zhuhou sauce, and you also need to use some rice wine to enhance the flavor.

Chen Nian was overjoyed when he heard this, because it was obvious that Mr. Qiao was teaching him, so he silently memorized all these in his heart, and cooperated with Chen Nian's observations until Mr. Qiao put the pickled vegetables and pork into the When the pot started to steam, he already felt that he understood almost everything.

"Actually, this is just a simple way. If I want to make it really delicious, I still have to use fresh pork belly. But if I do that, the other dishes may be cold by the time this dish is ready."

Chen Nian nodded in agreement.

Sometimes dishes still need to be prepared in a simple way. If every dish is meticulous, then don’t open a restaurant, because there will be too many people to keep busy.

Afterwards, Mr. Qiao made tofu again. I didn’t continue to read about the old age, because the ingredients only need to be processed briefly, and when Mr. Qiao was making tofu, the old man had to go to the side to pick vegetables.

After a while, the fish and tofu were almost ready at the same time, and Chen Nian rushed to help bring these two dishes to the table outside. At this moment, Qiao Tianhua looked at his father with a tired look on his face and persuaded again: "Dad, rest For a while, don't do it."

But Mr. Qiao still wants to insist: "There is one last vegetable, and it will be soon."

But Qiao Tianhua was very firm this time: "Dad, if we don't forget about it, we won't be able to finish these dishes even if we add Ah Nian, it's enough."

"How can I do that? How can we eat without green vegetables?" Qiao Heyong obviously disagreed. Meat can be eaten without meat, but green vegetables must be included. Even if you usually eat salted egg meatloaf, you must put at least two leaves of lettuce on it. .

Just when the two were at a stalemate, they suddenly heard a weak voice: "Why don't you let me cook the last vegetable?"

　There is no recommendation, and the understanding is getting less and less. Is the competition so big now at the starting point? More than 1000 people have no recommendation for two independent months.

　　Difficult to die.

　　


(End of this chapter)