pasture leisure

Chapter 441
The three of them packed up and walked back.

When they returned to the front of the house, Miller's wife and son were already sitting outside the swimming pool. Seeing Miller's return, Jennifer immediately stood up holding her son's hand.

"Let's go back, Yang has played enough today," Jennifer said.

Miller grinned and said, "Okay."

After speaking, he turned to Zhang Chi and said, "Then we're going back."

Zhang Chi didn't think too much about it, and said casually, "Why don't you eat here tonight?"

Zhang Chi was just being polite, or maybe it was because his family came over, and he stayed with his family for a long time, subconsciously, the guest had to be polite before leaving. In fact, he didn't really want to invite the three members of the Miller family here. have dinner.

As soon as Yang heard this, he immediately grabbed his mother's hand tightly, and looked at his father pitifully. He is really bored at home alone now. Now when he comes home, even his sister Nancy is not at home, except to play with the dog , he couldn't find a playmate either, unlike here, Xiaoxiao is a living person.

Jennifer looked up at Miller.

Miller hesitated for a moment, and asked Zhang Chi, "What's for dinner?"

Zhang Chi paused for a moment. He really didn't want the Miller family to stay for dinner, but since he invited them and they also said they would stay, let's eat together.

Anyway, it's not a big deal, Zhang Chi's family can't afford a meal for the family of three.

"How about roast meat? Roast beef, Amber beef, tenderloin, eye meat and upper brain are all available," Zhang Chi said.

I said it in English and repeated it in Chinese.

Xiaoxiao heard this at this time, with a bitter face, he muttered: "Ah, eating barbecue again."

The little guy has been eating meat twice a day since he came to his uncle's house. At the beginning, the little guy was very happy. Every time he hugged a piece of meat that was bigger than his face. He couldn't eat it himself, but he ate it. No, Zhang Chi's family has a lot of guys waiting for the finishing touches.

Needless to say, Shiren and Bailao, these two are the shredders of leftover meat.

The rest, no matter whether they are big bulls, two tigers or three big boys, are not small eaters. Even Ergou and Santiao's family are small experts in dried meat.

Therefore, no matter how much meat is cooked, it is impossible to say that there will be leftovers.

Meat is delicious, but Xiao Xiao can't bear it if he eats it every day, every now and then, not to mention Xiao Xiao, even Da Xiao can't stand it now.

"Do you still eat beef at night?" Sun Yanping asked.

Zhang Chi thought for a moment and asked, "How about roast lamb?"

"Another way, don't roast." Sun Yanping, like his son, wanted to roll in the barbecue when he first came, but now when he hears the barbecue, he doesn't want to eat it too much.

It's not that the barbecue is not delicious, but that I eat too much, and naturally I don't want to eat it.Now give the two men a bowl of stick noodle porridge. They probably think that porridge is better than barbecue.

Zhang Chi wanted to make barbecue, because it was an easy job, so he said to his brother-in-law: "It doesn't matter what you say, you have to ask the guests."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Chi asked the Millers and his wife, "Is it something else to eat barbecue at night?"

Miller was also not polite. Americans probably don’t know what politeness is, so he opened his mouth and asked about his son and wife: "Do you want to eat barbecue or Chinese food tonight?"

“Chinese food!”

Jennifer and Yang said in unison. After they finished speaking, they saw that their mother and daughter were still in such a tacit understanding, and they clapped back.

Zhang Chi thought for a while and said: I don’t need to ask this question. Ask the two Americans if they want to eat barbecue or Chinese food. They will probably choose the food because they have never eaten it and think it is novel.

This is the same as when Zhang Chi was young, adults took him to eat KFC or something. It’s really not so delicious, the main thing is novelty.

Now that all the guests are talking about Chinese food, Zhang Chi can't escape now.

Chinese food.

What are you having for dinner?

Speaking of food, Zhang Chi's family has it, as well as meat, but Zhang Chi just can't figure out what to eat.

Li Xiumei saw her son frowning all the time, so she came over and asked, "What's wrong, why does he look so sad?"

Zhang Chi said to his mother: "I was thinking about what to eat tonight."

"Then there's nothing wrong with it. You can eat whatever you have at home. It's no problem if you have meat and vegetables. That's all right. Don't worry about it tonight. I'll do it here and make some stews. A few cold dishes, and a couple of stir-fries," Li Xiumei said.

Li Xiumei knew that the Miller family stayed for dinner, but she also heard from her sister-in-law Gu Ying that the custom of foreigners here is that as long as it is not a particularly important occasion, eating is not too particular, so Li Xiumei wanted to ask Miller. Show off your skills as a family.

It's not for showing off, but just to see if they can get used to what they think is the most authentic Chinese food. If they are not used to it, then the Americans will figure out why. Anyway, Li Xiumei will not change it.

"Well, that's fine, I'll help you." Zhang Chi heard that his old lady had taken over the task, and immediately felt a sense of relaxation all over his body.

Li Xiumei thought for a while, and asked her son, "Today's dinner is not formal, is it?"

Zhang Chi was taken aback by his mother's question, and then smiled and said, "It doesn't count. If you just say so temporarily to keep customers, they will stay. Just do whatever you want. It doesn't need to be complicated, and the home-cooked food is good."

"Then don't worry, your mother can't do anything else, she is good at home cooking." Li Xiuqiao laughed.

Next, the two mothers looked at the refrigerator together, and what vegetables were in the small vegetable garden outside, and began to prepare.

Six cold, six hot and two stews are really home-cooked dishes.

The cold dishes include cucumbers, preserved eggs in vinegar, tomatoes mixed with sugar, dry cut beef, and two kinds of pork skin jelly and pork head just brought back from Auntie Gu Ying's restaurant.

The six hot dishes are simpler, such as shredded potatoes with vinegar, shredded pork with celery, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, etc.

The most important thing is two stews, one is cabbage and mutton vermicelli, and the other is a hodgepodge.

Stews have vegetables and soups, so naturally there is no need to serve soup on the table.

Miller and his family were not welcome when they arrived, they agreed to stay and eat, and then they started to play their own things. Needless to say, Yang and Xiaoxiao went crazy together, Miller, his eldest brother-in-law Sun Yanping, and Zhang Chi’s grandfather Lao Tzu Several people found a table to play poker. Miller didn't know how to play Chinese poker, and he was also training.

Although everyone can't understand the language, but in the high-tech era, the emergence of voice pens has solved most of these problems, and the four of them are still playing in full swing.

Jennifer naturally got together with Melika.

But it is a pity that these two of the three groups of people are a little uncomfortable. There is no way. Jennifer is just an ordinary western woman with a low level of education. She graduated from a community college. Those who came from an Ivy League school and are still at the level of outstanding graduates are far behind.

Although they are both women, and their ages are not too far apart, they have different levels of knowledge, social roles, and classes of birth.

In this case, the two people who seem to be the most compatible are actually the least topical.Talk about business, talk about the economy, Jennifer wants to wipe her neck, talk about cosmetics, gossip, and celebrities, and Melika wants to hang herself.

So the two chatted awkwardly for about 5 minutes, and Jennifer went to watch her husband play cards, while Melika went around the kitchen, was kicked out by her mother-in-law and grandma, and went upstairs to the study to read.

There were a lot of people busy in the kitchen, besides Zhang Chi, Li Xiumei, mother and son, Miao Guifang, Zhang Juan, the four of them worked together, and these small dishes were not slow to come out.

Waiting for all the dishes to be put on the table, the dinner was not placed inside the house, but directly placed on the big dining table outside, that is, on the terrace.

"time to eat!"

Seeing that the dishes were almost ready, Miao Guifang yelled at everyone.

The card players like Miller, when they saw the dishes starting to be placed on the table, collected the cards and began to prepare. When they heard Miao Guifang's words, they immediately gathered around the table.

Of course, Miller couldn't understand Chinese, but he still had a deep impression on the three words "have eaten", because he came to Zhang Chi's house for dinner and heard these three words most pleasing to his ears.

The dinner style is not like we Chinese eat together, but adopts a meal sharing system. All the dishes are placed on the table, but no one goes to the plate to pick up the dishes.Whichever plate you want to eat, you can use the public utensils on the plate to serve it in a bowl.

It can be regarded as Chinese food or western food.

As for why you eat this way, there is one reason, and that is hygiene.

The Miller family is not unaccustomed to it. They usually eat in separate meals. Zhang Chi’s family is also not unaccustomed to it. Zhang Chi’s side eats a lot of barbecue. Every time, everyone sends out a plate and picks food for themselves. .

So this Chinese meal must feel a little awkward to outsiders, but everyone who dined really didn't think there was anything unusual about it.

Where there is food, there is wine.

Zhang Chi provides white wine, beer, red wine, and white wine. Anyway, as long as it is the type of wine you can think of, Zhang Chi has it here.

Anyone who wants to drink can drink, no one persuades them to drink, let alone punches, everyone just eats and chats quietly, just like an ordinary home-cooked meal.

"Try this, it's not as scary as others say".

Miller persuaded his wife to eat preserved eggs.

Americans have vilified preserved eggs in every way they can imagine, such as deviled eggs, so when many Americans hear preserved eggs, they feel that they must not accept this taste.

It was the same when Miller ate it for the first time, but when he tried it, he ate a preserved egg topped with balsamic vinegar, sesame oil, and coriander and garlic, and he felt that the taste was not As bad as he thought.

People are like this, suddenly eat something that you didn't dare to eat before, and you still think the taste is tolerable, so you naturally take this matter as a kind of bragging capital.

The same is true for Miller. When chatting with American friends, as long as someone talks about Chinese deviled eggs, he will always say with a smug tone that he has tried it and the taste is not bad.

Generally speaking, this time will soon lead to a burst of questioning and wonder.

After hearing this, Jennifer ate a small piece about the size of a fingernail with the intention of giving it a try, but after chewing a few times, her complexion obviously didn't look so good.

Jennifer couldn't accept the smell.

Turning her head and spitting the preserved egg onto the napkin line, Jennifer waved her hand: "I'm sorry, I really can't stand the smell."

Melika smiled and said: "It's okay, some Chinese people can't accept this taste."

Jennifer was a little curious after hearing this: "Is there any Chinese who don't eat this?"

Melika nodded: "Yes, there are some Chinese who can't accept this taste. It's a bit like our moldy cheese. There are also people here who can't accept it. In fact, everyone is the same."

"Yes" Jennifer laughed.

After looking at the dishes on the table, Jennifer asked Melika again: "Today's dishes are all very good."

This is polite talk.

Melika smiled and said, "This is home-cooked food, the food on the dining table of ordinary Chinese families. Does it make you a little strange? They say that Chinese people eat dog meat or something like that?"

Jennifer laughed and said, "I have lived in China for several years, and none of the Chinese people I know eats dog meat. This is the case in some places, but it is very rare...".

Talking about the customs in China, Jennifer really came alive. Now Americans understand China much better than before, and many people know that China is actually not that poor.

The young generation’s impression of China is completely different from that of their parents. Many of their parents still think that the streets of China are full of people wearing yellow military uniforms and green trousers and riding bicycles.

When talking about China, Jennifer's interest obviously increased, and she and Melika finally found a common language.

It takes time for two men to chat enthusiastically, but it takes a lot of time for two women to chat enthusiastically.

Before we knew it, everyone was eating and chatting, and it was past nine o'clock, and it was time for Xi Sanren to go.

(End of this chapter)