Chapter 98, impressed (please subscribe!)

Author: March Mazhu

Chapter 98, impressed (please subscribe!)

In the kitchen, pork, beef, fish and chicken are always the protagonists, and winter vegetables such as white and radish are indispensable.

After a while, the table was already full.

Stir-fried yellow beef, pork ribs and winter melon soup, twice-cooked pork, fish tofu, Kung Pao chicken, Xiangxi grandma's dish, winter bamboo shoots, mutton and a large bowl of cauliflower.

Finally, there is the refreshing sour radish.

Yu Guanzhi couldn't get along with him, so he washed the dishes, served the rice and set out the wine, then sat next to him and watched him come and go.

When eating, she especially likes twice-cooked pork, grandma's vegetables, mutton with winter bamboo shoots, and eats a lot of pickled radish.

She said: "After so many years of New Year's Eve dinner, you are the one that suits my taste the best, and it has successfully overturned my nostalgia syndrome of only eating Huaiyang cuisine in the past."

Lu An gave her a spoonful of fish tofu: "Actually, this fish jelly is the essence. I really like this flavor. You can try it."

Yu Guanzhi said: "I can see that you were very careful when cooking the fish yesterday, and you would add more or less appropriate seasonings to other dishes.

But you only put salt and fish scented leaves on the fish, not even oil. It seems that you are pursuing milky white fish soup."

Lu An nodded: "When I was a kid, my family was poor. Every Chinese New Year, fish jelly was the dish I looked forward to the most. You don't have to eat anything else, but you must have a bowl of fish jelly. Just slurp it on the edge of the bowl with your mouth.

, it’s really delicious to the core of your soul.”

Yu Guanzhi loves to eat fish. After all, she lives in Shanghai and has abundant fish resources near the sea. However, she usually ate steamed and boiled fish in the past. She has never eaten fish jelly, and this is the first time she has seen this kind of fish flavor.

leaf.

She tried to put a spoonful into her mouth with a spoon, and pursed her beautiful red lips. Then her eyes lit up and she said with a smile:

"No wonder you only put fish scented leaves. This is the soul. It's really delicious."

According to custom, it is called the fifth day of the lunar month to break the peace.

Before the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, you should not visit other people's homes because the host family has to send you things.

It's okay if you meet a generous person, and you don't care about a drawer of peanuts and melon seeds.

If you meet someone who is stingy, you don't know what they will do to you behind the scenes. It's easy to call you ignorant, but if it's more serious, they'll say you came to ask for things on purpose and call you a "beggar".

After dinner, the two decided to take a walk along Taohuaping Street to eat, but when they went out they met Li Dong's family going to pay New Year's greetings.

Seeing Lu An and Yu Guanzhi walking side by side on the road, Li Dong's face, which was full of happiness a second ago, instantly turned into a coffin, and the sad eyes looking at the two of them had the words "I'm broken in love again" written in big words.

"Li Dong, happy new year and everything goes well."

"Brother, happy new year, I wish you a happy love."

Lu An grinned, not wanting to reveal Li Dong's thoughts. He took Yu Guanzhi around, but he didn't dare to stay outside for a long time, as this woman's body bones had not recovered yet.

After nine o'clock, the sound of firecrackers died down a lot, and the two of them took the opportunity to go home and catch up on some sleep.

In the next two days, both of them were reading, and one was reading textbooks on the Eight Immortals table to prepare for the college entrance examination.

One is reading classics and Dream of Red Mansions on the sofa.

In the middle, Yu Guanzhi suddenly asked him: "Lu An, how is your level of Chinese painting?"

Lu An didn't say anything, he just came to the bedroom and briefly sketched a "Spring River Picture".

Handed it to her: "How is it?"

Yu Guanzhi looked at it carefully for a long time and finally said: "It's better than I imagined."

Then she asked: "Can I take this painting away? I suddenly thought of an elder and let him see it."

Thinking of the five sets of whiteboards and the signing and partnership between the two, Lu An graciously gave them to her directly.

The third day of the first lunar month.

While having breakfast, Yu Guanzhi said: "The first lottery for stock subscription certificates is on March 2. You'd better get a BB machine to facilitate our contact."

Lu An felt that this was reasonable, "Okay, I will go and handle it in a few days."

After the meal, they packed up their things and left the Imperial Concubine Lane.

When it was time to say goodbye, Yu Guanzhi said: "Thank you for letting me have a special New Year. See you next time."

"Okay, bye, have a nice trip."

Rushing to the station in a hurry, Lu An searched for it with an uncertain mood. Sure enough, there was a shuttle bus. However, it only went to Liuduzhai, and he had to change trains later.

"Master, how much does it cost to go to Liuduzhai?"

"One price, 25."

This was a robbery, Lu An murmured inwardly, lost his temper, and just counted the money and got into the car.

But the car was quite good, it was new, and it didn't smell bad from oil. Since he arrived early, he even picked up a front passenger seat.

It took nearly 2 hours to get to Liuduzhai, and more than 40 minutes to transfer to Jianhua. Someone was actually repairing the road. But judging from the efficiency, it probably wouldn't take more than ten days and a half.

After a lot of trouble, it was already past noon when he returned to town. He first called home and learned that his eldest sister and younger sister were at his sister-in-law's house, so he was not in a hurry to go back.

So he turned around and went to the supply and marketing cooperative. After wandering around, he picked up two packs of candy, two sticks of cigarettes, two bottles of wine and a hanging firecracker, and then came out carrying the bags.

Passing by a place that sells meat, he asked the butcher to cut 5 pounds of meat into the prepared position.

The Meng family's hometown is not very far from the town, about 3 miles. Although it takes a little longer to carry large and small bags in the snow, it still takes 20 minutes to get there.

From a distance, I saw a bunch of little kids playing with firecrackers gathered around the door of Meng's house. There was also a girl with a familiar face among them. I wanted to say hello, but unexpectedly, a firecracker was thrown directly at me.

Tsk, the county magistrate is trying to show off his power in front of the door, but he really can’t serve you.

Seeing the firecrackers coming to his feet, Lu An pretended to be frightened, making the group of naughty children laugh happily, and even scolded him for being a coward.

Meng Wenjie happened to come out to take out the garbage. When he saw him, he threw away the dustpan and hurriedly came over to receive the gift, chattering:

"Why are you back? Qingshui still wanted to go to your house today. If you hadn't gone to Baoqing, she would have already gone."

Afraid that his brother-in-law would become suspicious, Lu An did not dare to ask Sister Qingchi first this time, "Where is Qingshui?"

Meng Wenjie turned back to the second floor and babbled: "I'm playing cards with some aunts on the second floor."

Glancing at the window on the second floor, Lu An lit up the firecrackers and followed him into the yard.

Alas, it came at a bad time.

The Meng family is indeed a big family. Many relatives came today. As soon as he entered, some of the people inside looked at him, whispered to each other, and talked about it.

One of the older men also handed over a cigarette: "Lu An, congratulations on getting rich! Come and have a cigarette."

Lu An is inexplicably strange and has a weird mind.

He was not particularly unfamiliar with these people. He was an old face. After all, they all came to Meng's house often. At first, out of politeness, these people would ask who he was, but after learning about his family background, their appearance changed.

Later, when we met again at Meng's house, they just glanced at him and let it go. How could they take the initiative to talk to him like now?

Not to mention fucking passing cigarettes.

In the past, facing these people, although Lu An could not be said to have inferiority complex, he was more or less uncomfortable. After all, the people who could enter the Meng family in the first few days of the year were all direct relatives of the Meng family, and they all sought shelter under the protection of Meng Zhenhai. If you have to do something, it's either a supply and marketing cooperative, the post office, or a bank.

These units may not be enough to see in the Meng family, but once you step out, it is a pretty decent job, and it also requires you to be superior to others.

What's more, you have to walk with your nose in the air.

Because she often felt cold in the Meng family, and because she was often treated as a transparent person, Lu Yan, who had a strong temper, stopped coming to the Meng family after two years of worship.

Even though the five members of the Meng family were nice to her, she still didn't want to come back. She was so angry that she cried because of their disregard.

In the next ten years or so, Lu An was the one doing the talking, which is why the Meng family was very kind to him, but relatively indifferent to Lu Yan.

Although I know that Lu Yan is a little girl and won't care about it, people's hearts are full of flesh and blood. There will always be closeness and distance, and they will always be biased towards those who are close to them.

Originally, according to his young mind, he would not be able to smoke the cigarette that was offered to him.

But the Lu An now is no longer the Lu An he used to be. With so many people watching and Meng Wenjie around, he would not hit the smiling person. What’s more, it was the beginning of the year, so he still pretended to be polite and accepted the cigarette. He also replied with a Happy New Year.

The people in the room are different. They are different from before. Take the initiative to talk to him even if you don't say anything. Everywhere he looks, he sees smiling faces. No matter men, women, old or young, their faces are all covered with flowers. That smile was so blooming that it almost made him laugh.

All the lively men took the initiative to spread cigarettes for Lu An and get close to him.

There was also a middle-aged aunt who stared at him and said at the end: "Lu An, are you in love?"

Lu An looked at the other party with a confused expression.

The middle-aged aunt's next operation made him even more confused. She swiped her hand to the right, pulled over a young woman next to her, and introduced her enthusiastically:

"My youngest daughter, Qiqi, just graduated from technical secondary school this year and works in the Internal Revenue Service."

A room full of people: "."

Luan: "."

Damn it, he recognizes this Qiqi. Before he came out of school in his previous life, she never said a word to him, but today, hey, she is still shy.

This is really a change in the world and people's minds, and they have become confused.

There were many people in the main room, and Lu An was chatting with them all the way. His mouth was almost stiff, and his papery smile was almost broken.
To be continued...