Dinner was supposed to be simple, but with the arrival of Chen Weizheng's family of four, things became more complicated.
When Liu Yi arrived, Chen Xiaomei took the initiative to step down and became an odd-job worker. He was not even the main assistant, as the main assistant became Xiao Zhu. Liu Yi took out a piece of pork belly from the fridge that Chen Xiaomei did not know how to cook and threw it into a big pot with ice and water. He added a piece of star anise and a few spices and boiled it until it broke. He then took out half of it and put the other half back into the pot. When the sliced pork belly was served, everyone did not think much of it, but when the twice-cooked pork belly was served, Xiao Song took a piece and threw it into his mouth and said: "Cousin-in-law, in the past six months in school, this is the dish that I want to eat the most."
Liu Yi laughed and said: "If you have a girlfriend, bring her back immediately. I will train her. The first lesson will be to make Gu Yi City's twice-cooked pork belly."
"You should teach Xiao Zhu first!" Xiao Song said: "Girls these days, hmph! In the past, gentlemen stayed away from the kitchen, but now it's women. "
"Aren't I learning now?" Xiao Zhu said.
"In our school, there are many girls chasing after me. When they see me go to school with a military license, they all have stars in their eyes." Xiao Song said: "I said that if you want to be friends with me, you have to conquer my stomach first. Otherwise, there's no need to talk."
This was the first time Chen Xiaomei heard Xiao Song say this, and was very interested. He knew that his children had grown up, and that men and women should get married. Only those sick parents would object to their children dating. He asked: "Is there anyone who meets your requirements?"
"The first one who didn't know what was good for him was from Longxi. He claimed that he knew how to make mutton steamed buns, but in the end, he made that oily mutton soup. He even bought the pancake from the market. He crushed the pancake and put it in the mutton soup. It looked like something a drunk person would spit out. "Xiao Song said.
The whole family laughed. Xiao Zhu said, "Liu Songzhao, you're so disgusting."
"The second one is not bad. He's from Nanjiang. His dishes are close to the taste of the North of the Red River. However, this guy only uses chili in all his dishes. Even though Sichuan Cuisine is undergoing a reformation, he's still so inflexible. It's a little hard to get along with him," Xiao Song continued.
Chen Xiaomei said, "Qin Juan is from Nanjiang, but she can also cook well. You! He's just looking for an excuse. "
"I agree with Auntie's point of view. If you really want to find your Mr. Right, if you don't know how to cook, you have to obediently cook for her." Liu Yi said.
"Cousin-in-law, has my cousin ever cooked anything for you?" Xiao Song cunningly changed the target.
"Yes, I have." Liu Yi said with certainty, "In the old house in Chen Village, he knows how to cook Western food in Chen Village. He knows how to cook some unimaginable dishes. It's really quite delicious."
"Wow! Big Brother. "Xiao Zhu said," I couldn't tell that you know how to cook Western food. You even know how to cook creative dishes. I strongly urge Big Brother to show off his skills and cook a dish. "
Hua Zheng and Xian Hua also chimed in. Chen Weizheng stood up and walked into the kitchen. Liu Yi smiled and said, "You really want to show off your skills."
Chen Weizheng said, "Then I'll show off my skills. It'll definitely be good."
He opened two packets of Lin Zhenxiang's pork jerky and cut it into thin strips. He cut the spiced dried seeds into thin strips and fried them in the pot. Then, he cut the cucumber into thin strips and chopped the green onions into thin strips. Chopped the coriander and fried the peanuts into thin strips. Then, he put them into a big bowl and mixed them well. Chili oil, raw oil, soy sauce, sesame oil, aged vinegar and salt. Soon, a big bowl of fresh salad was ready. Everyone gathered around to take a look.
"Dad, it's so spicy!" His daughter, Xian Hua, ate a piece and stuck out her tongue. Chen Xiaomei quickly poured a cup of cold fresh milk for Xian Hua. It was more effective to use it to calm her tongue.
"Big Brother, you're not bad. You're fast enough and you don't need to use the kitchen." Xiao Zhu said. She and Liu Yi were preparing other dishes. Stir-fried squid, egg steamed sea bass, steamed pork ribs, five willow fried eggs, preserved bean curd and water spinach, and vinegar fried shredded potatoes.
"Cousin, you're not bad!" Xiao Song said, "You're good at both the hall and the kitchen. I want to learn from you. I want to learn how to cook too. "
"Actually, most of the people who are good at cooking are men." Liu Dehou said, "That's because men are more creative. Your cousin's dish is completely original. I reckon that even in Siam, no one would eat Lin Zhen Xiang's pork jerky like this. Your cousin's dish has three advantages. First, it makes up for the imbalance of the dishes. We didn't have any cold dishes for dinner today. With this cold dish, it's very balanced. Second, it makes full use of the existing ingredients. Moreover, it's rare and imported ingredients. Third, it's very creative. Although it has the base of the Northern Tiger Cuisine, it's completely new and not plagiarized. "
"Wow, Dad." Xiao Zhu exclaimed, "You're really the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. You can even come up with something like this."
"Granduncle's words make a lot of sense!" Hua Zheng said, "Cooking is the art of the kitchen. The art of the chef. The art of cooking is also the art of living. Those who can cook are the artists of living. "
Wang Xian looked at Hua Zheng. Hua Zheng's words made him, an educator, look at him in a new light. He asked Hua Zheng how many years he had studied. Hua Zheng told him that he would be in the first year of the next semester. Wang Xian stared at Hua Zheng with strange eyes. If it weren't for his lenses, his eyeballs would fall out at any time.
Chen Weizheng also felt strange and asked, "Isn't it the sixth year? Why did it change to the first year? "
Hua Zheng said, "One day, I passed by Bayi Middle School on my way to school. I happened to see Grandpa Xiao at the door. I told him that I wanted to come to Bayi Middle School to study in the first year. I didn't want to hang out with those brats in primary school anymore. Grandpa Xiao asked me to come back next year. I said that I would come back next year. Grandpa Xiao had retired, so I wouldn't be able to play with him anymore. Grandpa Xiao was very happy. He took me to see the principal of Bayi Middle School. They tested me with a bunch of questions. They didn't stump me and agreed. There was only one condition. I had to draw a painting about the Youjiang Uprising before December 11th, 2019 and enter the capital to participate in an exhibition. I agreed. "
There was such a thing. He didn't even tell his parents when he came back. Hua Zheng said that Grandpa Xiao said that he would be responsible for telling them. He must have forgotten.
Liu Dehou laughed and said, "Hua Zheng, it's definitely not Grandpa Xiao who forgot. You were afraid that your parents would scold you, so you pushed the responsibility to Grandpa Xiao, right?"
Hua Zheng smiled and said, "It's not fun. It wasn't easy to think of a countermeasure, but it was exposed by Grandpa Xiao just like that!"
Chen Weizheng said, "If you want to do something in the future, just tell your parents. Don't try to be smart. With your skills, they will understand at a glance." Skipping a grade was not a bad thing. There was no need to be secretive.
Hua Zheng stuck out his tongue and asked Grandpa Xiao what wine he wanted to drink. He would go get it for him. Chen Weizheng said to go get it from the car. There was white wine made in Shin Myung Province in the car. It was a branch of a famous winery in Nanjiang. The wine tasted good and the sales were good. The cost of bringing wine from China was too high, and the price was too high. Chinese people in Shin Myung Province basically no longer drank wine. They all drank this "bamboo wine" instead.
Two bottles of bamboo wine were brought in. Xiao Zhu picked up a bottle and looked it up and down. She nodded, meaning that the appearance was not bad. Chen Weizheng said, "Xiao Zhu, when you hold your wedding banquet, let's use this wine. What do you think?"
Xiao Zhu did not answer, but Xiao Song answered, "That makes sense. When I get married, I'll use pine wine."
Liu Yi smiled and said, "Pine wine is a medicinal wine. It's used to treat Kashin-Beck disease."
The whole family laughed out loud.
Chen Weizheng and Xiao Song were each other's match when it came to drinking. Their standards were high, and Liu Dehou was not a noob at all. Unexpectedly, Wang Xian's alcohol tolerance was good, better than Liu Dehou's. Xiao Zhu whispered to Wang Xian, "You drank so much wine. How are you going to drive back to school?"
Wang Xian said, "Plans can't be changed. I'll take a taxi back. Tomorrow, I'll change the plan. I won't be the one to pick you up. You'll be the one to pick me up from school. Then, we'll take the highway near the school."
Xiao Zhu said, "Don't compete with Xiao Song and my brother. Both of them are good at drinking."
Chen Weizheng heard this and said, "I'm notorious. I didn't expect Xiao Song to be so good at drinking."
Hua Zheng heard this and picked up Chen Weizheng's glass. He finished it in one gulp and licked his lips. He tasted the taste and said, "This thing is not very good. It's not that bad either. It's not as good as the sweet wine made by old women. "
Under everyone's stunned gazes, Hua Zheng put down his bowl, greeted everyone, and left the dining table to continue his role as a great scholar.
"When you grow up, you'll also be a drunkard!" Xiao Song said.
Chen Weizheng knew the reason. Anyone who practiced breathing would have a good alcohol tolerance. It was not that alcohol did not make people drunk. It was that people had a higher tolerance to alcohol than normal people. It seemed that Xiao Yu was also a good drinker. Zhang Zhengping's alcohol tolerance was not bad. That night at the Provincial Hospital, the two of them unknowingly finished four bottles of white wine. Only then did Zhang Zhengping get drunk. With more practice, Zhang Zhengping's alcohol tolerance would not be below Xiao Song's.
Liu Dehou drank a few glasses and left first. With him around, Xiao Song and Wang Xian could not drink to their heart's content. Wang Xian drank a few glasses of wine and started to talk more. He said to Chen Weizheng, "When I started to chase Xiao Zhu, I only knew that her father worked in the Municipal Party Committee and her mother was a teacher at the Party School. I thought it was very normal and did not think much of it. Later on, I found out that he was the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. The pressure was too great. Later on, I found out that Xiao Zhu's brother was Chen Weizheng. The pressure was even greater. Every province has a Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, but there is only one Chen Weizheng in the whole world. "
Chen Weizheng laughed and said that there was only one person in the whole world. If there were two people who were the same, then one of them would definitely be a fake.
Wang Xian said that it was different. In the Eastern University and the Red River University, Chen Weizheng was a transcendent existence. When people talked about Chen Weizheng, they had to use honorifics. Now, in the laboratories of various universities, the Longshan battery had been widely used as the power source. Previously, when he was studying in the Eastern University, he had an academic exchange with Nancheng Yixian University. Nancheng Yixian University was really awesome. The moment he opened his mouth, he called Chen Weizheng Senior Brother.
Xiao Song agreed with Wang Xian's point of view. In Tsinghua University, cracking the Longshan battery had become the biggest topic in the laboratory. Dissecting the Longshan battery in a vacuum environment was an experiment led by a famous professor in Tsinghua University. Because of this experiment, the professor became famous all over the world.
Wang Xian said that during Xiao Zhu's parent-teacher conference, Chen Weizheng introduced Longshan 2015. This video was still ranked first on the internet. The students who attended the conference treated the bullets given by Chen Weizheng as a souvenir. Some students treated it as a mascot and carried it around with them. Some students kept it as a collector's item. The most talented student was a student. When he ran out of money, he took it out and auctioned it among his classmates. It was actually sold for a month's worth of living expenses.
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