The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 495
After Lao Tan returned to the provincial capital, his son happened to be on vacation and had no training, so the father and son went back to their hometown together.

Lao Tan rarely comes back at this time, because the restaurant is very busy at this time of year, second only to the Spring Festival.

When he came back Fifth Sister was a little puzzled and asked, "Is the restaurant not busy?"

"It's okay, someone is in charge. Now I'm retiring to the second line and don't care about things. I will go home for a few days and see my mother. It happens that Jiaheng is on vacation, and he misses his grandma when he doesn't have training," Lao Tan said.

Fifth Sister then turned her attention to Jia Heng, looking very happy at her eldest nephew who was already 1.8 meters, and said, "Look at my eldest nephew, this big man."

"Grandma, I'm 1.8 meters now." Jia Heng said braggingly.

"Let your grandma take a look." Fifth Sister said.

When Jiaheng came to grandma, the old lady looked at the grandson with red eyes, and said happily: "This big man has a good physique, and he can eat four steamed buns for a meal."

"I can't eat milk, three is enough, save some for my old aunt." Jiaheng said.

The child's words made the fifth sister and the fifth brother-in-law laugh, and the fifth brother-in-law said: "You don't need to save your old aunt, your old aunt has a lot of money, but she can work hard."

"Is Jia Heng fifteen this year?" Fifth Sister asked.

Jiaheng said: "No, fourteen, fifteen years old, and go to high school during Chinese New Year."

Fifth Sister put her hand on her nephew's shoulder and said, "Fourteen, 1.8 meters, it's fast enough to catch up with your elder brother."

"That's enough, my brother-in-law is 1.9 meters three. By the way, he didn't have a holiday?"

"I've been released, but I haven't come back. I'm doing social practice in Beijing."

Old Tan's Fifth Sister's son Jia Xu was admitted to Beijing University of Political Science and Law last year.

"Oh, I still want to play basketball with him." Jia Heng felt a little regretful.

The fifth brother-in-law said: "Your elder brother can't beat you now, you practice every day, but he doesn't practice every day."

"Then I can't beat him, I can't fight with my body, his big body can hit me and stumble."

After entering the room for a long time, Old Tan didn't look at the fifth brother-in-law's parents, and asked, "Where are my second uncle and my second aunt?"

The fifth brother-in-law said: "The old couple are enjoying a happy life now. Didn't your fifth sister and I buy a house in the city? After buying and decorating it, no one can live in it. The old couple has gone."

The fifth sister said: "Otherwise, I bought them for them too. I work in this school and your brother-in-law works in a shale mine. Neither of us can go. Plus my mother is here. I am not used to living in a building at this age. Besides, she won't go."

Old Tan asked: "Are the two of them used to living there?"

The fifth sister said: "I didn't get used to it at first, but now I'm used to it, and I don't like to come back. The old man has become fat and his face has turned pale. The old lady goes downstairs every day to dance Yangko, and she is very happy.

In addition, my eldest sister's house is close to the building I bought, and the couple always take care of it, which saves us a lot of worry. "

"That's okay." Old Tan said.

The fifth sister asked: "When you come back, do you know the families of the eldest sister and the second sister?"

"I didn't tell them, stay at home for a few more days this time, and leave when Jiaheng starts school."

"That's very good. It's just catching up with the slack season, and they all have time to get together with each other."

The fifth brother-in-law said: "I'm not idle either. The third brother-in-law and Lan Jun's (eldest sister's son) family are roasting tobacco. It's time to roast."

The fifth sister said: "I called the last two days and said that it hadn't been roasted yet. No wonder it must be September. There is a lot of rain this year, and the tobacco leaves are turning green."

The fifth brother-in-law said: "Yes, there is a lot of rain this year, and the smoke is not ripe. It will be later than in previous years."

At this time, Lao Tan's mother, who was sitting on the kang, said to the old girl: "Don't bother chatting, what time is it, it's the end of noon, the two of them have been in the car all morning, and they are both hungry."

Fifth Sister laughed, and said to Old Tan: "See, my mother is afraid that you two will be hungry, so I'm in a hurry." Then she said to the old lady, "The meals are all ready, and they are in the pot. They Didn't the two of you just enter the house, take a breath and drink water."

"Hmph, can you drink enough water?" The old lady became angry.

The fifth brother-in-law said to the fifth sister: "Look, my mother is getting angry, stop nagging, hurry up and serve the food."

"When will I still be a mother, I'm afraid that my children will be hungry." Lao Tan said, feeling warm in his heart.

Fifth Sister went to the outhouse to serve dishes and meals, and Jiaheng also followed.The fifth brother-in-law asked Lao Tan what kind of wine he drank, and Lao Tan said that he brought the wine with him, and it was the barrel that was soaked in it, so drink that.

The fifth brother-in-law slipped over the ganoderma lucidum and ginseng wine, and said, "It weighs twenty catties, what is it made of?"

"Ganoderma lucidum, wolfberry, safflower, snow lotus, and double ginseng slices are okay to drink. You can try them later." Old Tan said.

"Where's that barrel?" Fifth brother-in-law asked, pointing to another barrel of sparkling wine.

"That's for my second uncle. The elderly drink it well and keep in good health."

"Your second uncle doesn't know you're back. If he knows, he will be waiting for you at home."

"I'm in no hurry to leave. I'll call him tomorrow."

While talking, Fifth Sister came in with a pot of stewed stupid chicken, followed by Jia Heng, holding a pot of mutton in his hand.

The fifth sister put the little stupid chicken on the table and said: "I didn't prepare anything else for you two. I killed a chicken in the morning. The mutton was given by the parents of the students. They don't want money. I brought half a sheep. Take a lot for the old couple in the city, the old man loves to eat mutton, your old brother-in-law ate it twice, and the rest are all stewed today."

"Eat what you can't eat." Old Tan said.

"Grandma, I like to eat little stupid chicken and hand meat." Jiaheng said.

"As long as you like it, I will make it for you tomorrow." Fifth Sister said.

"Thank you, old lady."

Then Fifth Sister brought meat fried with celery and tomato scrambled eggs, and Jiaheng brought a dish of shallots, coriander, cucumber, pepper, lettuce and stinky vegetables, plus a bowl of miso.

The staple food is rice, cornmeal porridge and big white rolls.

The food was ready, Jia Heng went to help grandma get off the kang, the old lady said: "No need to help, my legs and feet are fine, it's fine to go out and come in."

The old lady got off the kang, and the eldest grandson supported the grandmother's waist with both hands. The old lady was happy and said, "It's okay, the grandson will help, and death will not be wronged."

"Grandma, you are a centenarian." Jiaheng said.

The old lady smiled and said, "That's great, I can watch you marry a wife."

The old lady sat down at the table, and Fifth Sister served cornmeal paste porridge, picked three pieces of rotten chicken, put them in a small bowl, shredded them for the old lady, and took away the big sauce bowl in front of the old lady.

"I dare not put this big sauce bowl in front of my mother. She loves it, so I dare not ask her to eat it. It is too salty. After eating it, I will cough, and I can't get over it for a long time." Fifth Sister said.

"You can't control it, how dare you not give it to her if she wants to eat?" said the fifth brother-in-law.

"It's fine if you don't ask her to watch it." Fifth Sister then said to her mother: "Mom, I tore this chicken into shreds. It's rotten. You can't move it."

The old lady said: "Pour it into the porridge bowl, and I will eat it with it."

Fifth Sister said: "Look, how do you eat it? The chicken shouldn't be delicious."

The old lady said stubbornly, "I would like to mix and eat."

Fifth Sister had no choice but to pour the shredded chicken into the porridge bowl and mix well with chopsticks.

The fifth brother-in-law said in a low voice: "Old child, young child, my mother is now an old child, and I have to obey everything, or I will get angry with you and won't talk to you."

Old Tan said: "Yes, there are more than eighty people, old boy."

Fifth Sister said: "Mom has a big temper now. She can't think of anything wrong. If she gets angry, she will get angry. When she gets angry, your old brother-in-law and I will squint, and we dare not let our breath out."

Fifth Sister laughed, and Lao Tan and Fifth Sister-in-law also laughed.

"What are you laughing at if you don't eat? What's the good thing?" the old lady asked after taking a sip of the original chicken shredded corn flour porridge.

"Say hello," Fifth Sister said.

"I'm not deaf."

The old lady curled her lips and made her son, daughter, son-in-law and grandson laugh.

(End of this chapter)