The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 575 Seaside B&B
The black car drove out of the Liuqinghe Scenic Area and continued on. The road ahead began to narrow and had a slope.

Sister Zhao pointed to the mountain not far away and said, "Have you seen that mountain? That's it."

Lao Tan saw it and felt that it was similar to Bijia Mountain in Huludao, but it was bigger and longer than Bijia Mountain, but it was less majestic.This reminded him of the mountains in his hometown, which were similar to this mountain, one next to the other, not high.

As the car approached, I saw the village at the foot of the mountain.It is almost a two-storey small building with clear water, built against the mountain, and it is well-proportioned.One mile away from the village is the sea, and there are several fishing boats parked by the sea.

The car drove into the village and stopped in front of the second courtyard at Houjiekou.

This is a standard farmhouse with a spacious courtyard. The main house is a two-story building with 50 square meters. It faces south and is very grand.On the east side is a row of wing rooms with a length of [-] meters, which is also on the second floor. The bottom floor is the garage, and the upper floor is the homestay.

Half of the west side is a homestay and half is a gazebo garden. In front of the gazebo is a fish pond, in which there are all kinds of sea fish.

Walking out of the main room was a black-faced man in his forties, with a burly figure and a cut-cut haircut that looked very energetic, with a gentle smile on his face.Behind the man is a woman, with delicate features and dignified demeanor, gentle and quiet.

Sister Zhao first shook hands with the black-faced man, then took the woman's hand and said affectionately, "Sister misses you so much."

"I miss you too." The woman said happily, looking at Lao Tan beside Sister Zhao.

Sister Zhao introduced Lao Tan to the man and the woman: "This is my younger brother." Then she introduced the man and woman to Lao Tan: "This is Qiangzi, who is a family member, and this is his wife Xiufang."

Lao Tan stepped forward to shake hands with the two and say hello.

Qiangzi said: "The room is ready, the one next to the pavilion. You go to rest first, and the food will be delivered to the room later."

Sister Zhao said, "I'm thinking of taking the seahorse wine you brewed."

"Okay!" Qiangzi said.

"I'll take you two there." Xiufang led Sister Zhao and Lao Tan to the pavilion, and said as she walked, "I just wanted to go to the city to see you, and to see the children by the way. called."

Sister Zhao said, "My younger brother is here. He arrived yesterday. I'll bring him to play for two days."

"That's quite a coincidence, it happens to be a temple fair tomorrow, and you two are here."

This is a two-bedroom house. The layout inside is the same as that of a home. The difference is the color tone, which is light pink, warm and romantic.

The room is clean, the bathroom is large, and there is a small bath in it, which is the same as the bath in the bath, but smaller.

Sister Zhao said: "This is a hot spring bath. There is a hot spring on the mountain behind. They piped the hot spring directly to the room, and you can soak in the hot spring inside the room."

Old Tan said: "It's so amazing."

Sister Zhao said: "What's so magical about it? Isn't our Wulongbei in Fengcheng, Dandong just like this?"

"I've heard of it but never been there."

"After a while, you will feel comfortable with bubbles."

"Okay, in a while."

The two sat down in the living room, and Sister Zhao picked up an orange from the fruit plate on the coffee table and handed it to Lao Tan, saying: "This place was not like this before, it was a fishing village, and people only went out to sea to fish. They were farming, and they were very poor." of.

Later, when the government developed and built farmhouses, it was better. After that, it started to grow sea cucumbers, and it became like this.

The homestays here are famous, mainly because it is quiet, backed by mountains, and there are no strong winds and waves.In addition, the people here are okay, they are really kind, there are no twists and turns, so there are many people who come here.

Many people engaged in literature and art also came, and some stayed for several months. "

"Really, is it expensive to live here?"

"It's not expensive, it's cheap this season, one hundred and two a day, three meals a day."

Old Tan thought of the Beautiful Valley. The Beautiful Valley doesn’t care about food, but there is a small heated kang in a single house and a single courtyard, which is comfortable and comfortable. It costs [-] yuan a month, which is more affordable than this.

After a while, the hostess Xiufang brought the food.

Four dishes, one soup, one staple food, plus a jar of soaked seahorse wine.The four dishes are steamed crab roe, scrambled eggs with oyster and locust, vermicelli with cabbage and clam meat, and fried sea duck eggs with green onions.

The soup is skirt vegetable soup, and the staple food is rice.

Sister Zhao poured two glasses of seahorse wine and said, "The wine Qiangzi brewed is not bad. I learned from his old man. His old man is in his eighties. He is in good health and optimistic. It's a good drink."

Old Tan looked at the wine and said, "Still drinking, can you do it? You didn't drink less yesterday."

"It's okay, my sister can drink a lot now, and sometimes I drink by myself at home." Sister Zhao said, "When your brother-in-law was around, we both drank a little every day, and we practiced it. I drank it by myself after he left, and finished it." Feeling dizzy, sleeping soundly."

Old Tan smiled and said, "Catch up with me soon."

"Almost, don't you say that the sun and the moon are long in the big cup of the universe in the pot."

After Sister Zhao finished speaking, she raised her glass as a signal, and Lao Tan raised the glass to touch hers, and they both took a sip.

Old Tan put down his glass and said: "This wine is good. It contains hippocampus, safflower, wolfberry, Codonopsis pilosula, Danshen slices and achyranthes bidentata.

Sister Zhao said, "Okay, just take a sip and you'll be able to tell what kind of brew you use."

Old Tan said: "Oh, I can also make wine, and I am the one who makes the health wine sold in my shop."

"Really? I haven't heard you talking about it."

"I didn't have time to say that we met twice in ten years, and it took less than five days to be together."

So Lao Tan talked about the health-preserving wine he made, and when he talked about the health-preserving wine, he talked about the beautiful valley and the wineries there, as well as the ski resort and the farmyard.He introduced the customs and beautiful scenery there, Zhou Xiaomei's parents and Xiaoyingzi's family to Sister Zhao in detail, and finally said:

"Thanks to the recuperation there, otherwise my illness would not be cured so quickly. The water in that place is good. Using the water in that place to make nail mushrooms picked from the mountains in that place is good for the stomach and can effectively inhibit the growth of cancer cells. My stomach cancer can be cured." Fortunately, it has a lot to do with eating nail mushrooms there."

Old Tan's narration aroused Sister Zhao's curiosity, and she said, "It's amazing, why don't you take me to stay for a few days."

"Okay, you can go anytime." Old Tan said.

"Let's go back from here."

"it is good."

Sister Zhao felt that she was a little impatient, and said embarrassedly: "Brother, don't think too much, sister has no intention of kicking you out."

"Hey, what are you talking about, sister."

"Mainly because I heard from you that the place is so nice, purely rural, or a farmyard, with a small heated kang, and I haven't slept in it for almost 30 years——"

"I'll take you to sleep this time."

"The people you led me to that place can't say anything, right? I'm talking about those who know you." Sister Zhao asked worriedly.

"No." Old Tan said, "What can you say if you are my sister? Besides, people are not like that now, and there are not many people who are free to chew their tongues."

"The main reason is that I am afraid of affecting you."

"Hehe, I'm single now too."

"That's not good--I heard you nagging yesterday, didn't there be a woman who treats you very well."

Sister Zhao was talking about Yaru.

"It's pretty good—" Lao Tan said: "But it's impossible to be together, she has no plan to find a partner, and I have no plan to start a family, so it can only be regarded as—"

"Iron son."

"Well, almost. You've seen her before. At the Rose Restaurant on Taishan Road, she served you when you went to eat. I guess you don't remember her."

Sister Zhao thought about it for a while and said: "I have an impression, but I forgot what he looked like. I know there is such a person. I remember you went to her house and came back and said she was engaged. How did you two get in touch?"

(End of this chapter)