Food starts with Mapo Tofu

"Red bean, here I come."

After opening the door and seeing An Hongdou, Chen Nian said with a smile on his face.

Soon after hearing the voice, An Pingyao and Gu Nanyun also ran out of the kitchen. The two of them were still wearing aprons, and they were obviously cooking together in the kitchen.

"Xiao Chen is here." Gu Nanyun also greeted Chen Nian with a smile after seeing Chen Nian, and then she saw what Chen Nian was holding in his hand, "Oh, look at you, here you come , why are you carrying so many things?"

Chen Nian could always hear this before, but for Gu Nanyun, the old couple, they really felt that Chen Nian had brought a lot of things.

But just when the two of them hadn't walked out of the kitchen, the sound came out, and Chen Nian was stunned on the spot when the sound came to his ears!
Why does it feel so familiar?
Then he saw these two people again, and he was even more stupid in place!
"Uncle and aunt, you..."

Chen Nian was completely dumbfounded, he didn't expect that the couple who had been to the store before were An Hongdou's parents!
And An Hongdou pretended not to know anything at the moment, and introduced each other: "Mom and Dad, he is Chen Nian, my boyfriend, how is he? Isn't he handsome?"

"It's pretty handsome!" Gu Nanyun nodded.

An Pingyao held back his laughter, and nodded as he looked at Chen Nian's astonished face.

"Chen Nian, these are my parents. They just ran over from Jiangsu to look for me a few days ago."

Chen Nian doesn't know what to say now, so he can only look at the couple in a daze: "We...we met before, in the Honghong Restaurant, and my uncle and aunt went to eat twice."

"Yes, we've met." An Pingyao also admitted this time, but after he finished speaking, he quickly reached out to pick up the things in Chen Nian's hand, "Come, come, sit inside first, let's sit and talk .”

Although Chen Nian is a little confused about the situation now, it is definitely impossible for this couple to be actors invited by An Hongdou, so how can he ask his future father-in-law to help him carry things?

He quickly entered the house and put these gifts aside.

At this time, Gu Nanyun said: "Then you guys chat first, and I will cook first."

"Okay, Auntie."

Chen Nian nodded quickly.

After Gu Nanyun returned to the kitchen, An Pingyao glared at his daughter: "Why are you sitting and giggling? Pour tea quickly."

An Hongdou quickly responded, and then went to the side to make tea.

"Uncle and aunt, what's going on? Did you all know before..." Chen Nian asked curiously.

An Pingyao was very happy to see the surprised look of this future son-in-law: "That's not true. We really didn't know when we first went. At that time, my wife and I checked the strategy on the Internet and asked the taxi driver. Finally, the driver took us I pulled it to the entrance of your hotel. To be honest, there are a lot of news on the Internet now, all saying that drivers send tourists to restaurants that cooperate with them, and then get a commission. At first we thought it was cheated, but we went in. After eating it, I realized that the taste of your place is really good, and the price is also very cheap."

Chen Nian smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, the people here are pretty good, generally speaking, there is very little phenomenon of slaughtering customers."

It's just that after he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that An Pingyao said it for the first time.

"The second time..."

"The second time we actually ran after you. We just watched your TV show the night before, and Hongdou insisted on dragging us to watch it. I didn't expect you to know a lot of things. You can also know Chinese food and Western food, Italian and surfing.”

"Uncle, I'm just a beginner. I can't even talk about it. I still have a lot to learn in the future."

In front of other people's parents, and An Hongdou's father is a retired veteran cadre, it is better for him to be humble.

And Chen Nian's behavior reassures An Pingyao, although he is a bit reluctant to let his daughter marry off, but her daughter will have this day, besides, the two previous meetings with Chen Nian also think that this child is quite good.

At this time, An Hongdou also poured tea: "Come on, I invite you to drink tea. My father brought this from Suzhou."

"Yes, this is the tea I brought from Suzhou. I don't have any other hobbies. I just like playing table tennis, drinking tea, and watching operas. How would you like to try this tea?"

Chen Nian nodded, took a sip from the glass water cup: "This tea is not bad, it smells fragrant, sweet in the mouth, and the astringency is not so obvious. Although I can't tell what kind of tea it is, it should be just served. New tea."

"Good eyesight! This tea is indeed new, I'll get you some later." An Pingyao said.

If ordinary people don’t understand tea, even if they can’t taste the tea after drinking it, they can probably say that it’s a good tea, but old age can tell so many things, and they can still tell that it’s new tea. I don't know much about this aspect, but at least I am a tea drinker.

"Thank you, Uncle." Chen Nian quickly thanked him.

He now feels a little nervous all over himself.

It’s just that An Pingyao sighed again after he finished speaking: “Oh, it’s not easy to take too many things this time, so I don’t have any good tea sets, so I can only use this glass to serve it, which makes you laugh.

Originally, I planned to go out and buy a tea set, but Hongdou always refused to let me go. "As he said, he looked at An Hongdou again: "Look at you, this is all right, I can't bring out anything decent for tea at home. "

Hearing this, An Hongdou couldn't help but secretly glanced at Chen Nian, and quickly apologized with a smile on her face.

Chen Nian knew that his opportunity came: "Uncle, speaking of this tea set, I brought you a set when I came here. It's a gift I wanted to give you. I didn't know if it was suitable or not. , I’m afraid you won’t like it after you give it away, but it seems to be useful now.”

"You brought a tea set?"

"Correct."

After An Pingyao heard this, his face suddenly showed joy.

Seeing this, Hong Dou picked up the box containing the tea set from among the pile of gifts brought by Chen Nian, and put it on the coffee table to open it.

"Oh, this tea set..." An Pingyao couldn't move his eyes away after seeing the tea set.

He reached out and picked up the teapot placed in the center and looked at it carefully: "If I'm not mistaken, this should be a purple clay teapot, right? This thing is not cheap!"

Chen Nian quickly waved his hand: "No, no, it didn't cost much."

"How is it possible? An ordinary purple sand teapot costs thousands of dollars, and a slightly better one costs tens of thousands. Your teapot is made of good materials and the workmanship is quite fine. Why can't it cost three to four thousand yuan?"

"It's useless."

"Why can't it be used? Xiao Chen, I still understand this aspect. You said that you also took such an expensive thing when you came here for the first time, and I think the tea box over there is also quite high-end. It probably cost a lot of money." For less money, there are bird’s nest donkey-hide gelatin and the like.”

"Uncle, it really didn't cost much. I made this set of tea sets myself. I have a friend who does this, so I went to his place to make this set, but I have never made this before. Maybe the things are a little rough, but he only charged me the cost price, which really didn't cost much." Chen Nian said.

"You made it yourself? You still know how to make this?" An Pingyao gasped when he heard it. If Chen Nian could speak Italian, cook Western food, or even surf, he wouldn't feel anything, but making a teapot But it's a delicate job.

Some master craftsmen can make three or four in a month, but they are all run-of-the-mill products, and some people can only make one in half a month, and that is called a boutique.

Taking the tea set in front of him as an example, although it is not a high-quality product, the workmanship is not bad, so he just mentioned the price of three or four thousand.

"Actually, I didn't know how to do it. At that time, that friend taught me while I did it."

"What a skill! I might not accept anything else. After all, it's so expensive. It's not appropriate to accept it when we meet for the first time. It seems that I just want your things, but I really like this teapot. Kind of like."

"Uncle, from what you said, this is for you, and the tea over there was also recommended to me by another friend of mine. He knows more about this."

"Okay, okay." An Pingyao has completely let go of his prejudice now, and the main gift from the old age is directly delivered to his heart.

Seeing his future father-in-law so happy, Chen Nian thought of what the other party said just now, and planned to continue to pursue the victory: "By the way, uncle, just now you said that you like listening to opera? What kind of music do you usually listen to?"

"Do you understand this too?" An Pingyao asked curiously, "I usually listen to Kunqu Opera a lot, after all, it is our kind of music, and I may not be able to understand it when it is sung in our dialect outside, but I I still like it better."

"Kunqu opera, I do know a little bit about this. I have worked with Hongdou once before, and it was the commercial film she shot."

An Pingyao, as a father, of course knows the commercial, and now he even has it in his mobile phone, and he will dig it out to take a look when he has nothing to do.

After all, this is one of the daughter's famous works.

"You also participated in that?"

"But I remember that besides Hongdou, the main singer was another girl."

An Hongdou couldn't help interjecting at this moment: "Dad, that girl is Chen Nian, but isn't it normal for men to dress up as women in operas?"

"Is that old?"

An Pingyao was shocked again.

In the short ten minutes of Chen Nian, he constantly refreshed his understanding of Chen Nian.

"That's me, but it's hard to tell after putting on makeup."

An Pingyao looked at Chen Nian carefully: "I really can't tell, so I said why this girl is so tall, so it's you."

An Hongdou watched Chen Nian show off at home, and she was also happy: "Dad, he didn't just sing, the clothes we were wearing at that time were also changed by Chen Nian, because we wanted the old clothes, and now the ones in the crew Many prop masters don’t know much about it, and Chen Nian was also responsible for the makeup of the two of us at the time, don’t listen to him saying that he only knows a little bit, he knows a lot more than me in this regard.”

"I remember you went to college at BJ's, didn't you? You majored in food, how do you even know this?"

"It's just a hobby. Although I went to university in BJ and I'm from Sichuan, I still like Jiangsu. Not only the food there is delicious, but Kunqu opera is also very good."

An Pingyao looked at Chen Nian differently now: "Nowadays, not many young people like these things."

"Yes." Chen Nian nodded in agreement.

An Pingyao now feels that Chen Nian is capable of everything except having children: "Then do you know how to play table tennis?"

"I'll do a little bit of this too. I used to play with my classmates when I was in school."

"A little bit, or a lot? Now you say you can only do a little bit, but I don't believe it anymore." An Pingyao said suspiciously.

"Uncle, I really only know a little bit about this."

"Okay, when you come to Suzhou in the future, I will take you to fight."

"Okay, uncle should be very good at table tennis, right?"

"No, no, I only know a little bit." An Pingyao said modestly.

"Dad, why are you so humble? Every time you play table tennis in your unit, you get second. The number one is your leader, and every time our community holds a table tennis competition, you are No.1."

"What are you talking about? Those are amateurs. Isn't it easy to beat them?"

"That's true. Our country's table tennis team comes back to compete for the national championship after winning the world championship." Chen Nian said.

"Hahaha, it makes sense! We may not be very good at big balls, but when we say second in small balls, no one dares to say first."

In this way, Chen Nian and An Pingyao chatted very happily, but after chatting for a while, Chen Nian stood up.

"Uncle, or I'd better go in and help Auntie."

"No, you are a guest, how can I let you work in the kitchen?"

"Uncle, this is the main job of mine. I'm used to cooking for others. Now I'm not used to letting my aunt cook."

But An Pingyao finally took Chen Nian's arm and made him sit down: "It's okay, you come here today and treat this place as your own home, sit when you should, and we can have dinner later.

But, you said that your friend who takes the tea leaves, does he sell this or... If he sells tea leaves, I can buy some from him in the future. "

"No, that friend of mine is also a cook."

"A chef too? Where does he work?"

"Intercontinental Hotel."

"Intercontinental Hotel, that's amazing. A five-star hotel, it's not bad to be able to work there. The masters there are amazing, and you can learn a lot, but it probably takes a lot of money to get you such good tea." Is it a head chef?"

"He is the chief executive of the InterContinental Hotel. He probably doesn't cook much now. He spends most of his time holding meetings with other chief executives of the InterContinental Hotel chain, and occasionally he is invited to do some big banquet projects."

"Are you talking about the master Huo that was shown on TV yesterday?"

"Yes, it's him."

"It's incredible, your friend is an amazing person!"