Anyway, Jiang Yu finally didn't let his grandma pick up those mineral water bottles.

In order to prevent her from sneaking out again when he was not paying attention, Jiang Yu took her directly to the vegetable market and prepared to purchase the dishes that needed to be cooked tomorrow.

It was a rare treat, especially to thank others for their help to him over the years. Jiang Yu naturally thought about how to make things rich, so he bought chickens, ducks, fish, meat, and various vegetables.

In a short time, my hands were filled with large and small bags containing various ingredients.

After so many years, grandma has become accustomed to saving. She has never seen a scene like Jiang Yu's shopping spree. Her face changed and her lips kept trembling.

She followed Jiang Yu closely all the way and went wherever Jiang Yu went. She stared at the dishes in Jiang Yu's hands and kept muttering:

"Oh, I bought so much, bought so much...how can I finish all this?"

"This mutton is too expensive. One kilogram costs more than thirty yuan, which can buy several kilograms of pork..."

"What kind of orphan is this? It costs more than twenty pounds per pound! It's more expensive than meat, so I might as well buy meat!"

"..."

Although grandma was very distressed, she just followed and muttered to herself. She didn't say that she wouldn't let Jiang Yu buy it. It was just these tiny words that fell in Jiang Yu's ears, making him both funny and sad at the same time.

You don't need to think about it to know that grandma is probably reluctant to come to the vegetable market to buy vegetables on weekdays. Even if she does come, she only waits until the market is about to close in the evening before she is willing to buy some fat meat and vegetables on sale.

Jiang Yu could imagine that grandma was willing to buy some fat meat. Not only could it satisfy her craving, she could also use it to make lard. In this way, she even saved money on buying cooking oil.

In fact, when she came back from the National Day holiday, Jiang Yu left money for her grandma, not to mention that she had to pick up rags to sell on weekdays, so she couldn't even afford food, but she just couldn't bear to spend the money...

Even Jiang Yu may not be able to correct this in a while.

After buying the vegetables, Jiang Yu bought some seasonings and other things from the grocery store in the vegetable market, and then he carried a lot of bags and returned home with his grandma.

On the way back, grandma struggled for a while, but finally couldn't hold it back and asked:

"Xiao Yu, we are going to treat you tomorrow. We will only have a dozen or so people at most. How can you finish all the food you bought?"

"Grandma, if you can't finish it, let's keep it for ourselves."

Jiang Yu turned his head and glanced at his grandma. Her silver hair was flying in the wind, making the wrinkles on her face deeper. He smiled and said,

"New Year's Eve will be here in a few days. Even though there are only two of us in our family, we still have to prepare a New Year's Eve dinner!"

"Oh, oh, it's the Chinese New Year!"

Grandma looked like she was dreaming, as if she had just remembered that the New Year was coming. She breathed a sigh of relief, laughed, and said with some emotion,

"Time flies so fast, one year has passed."

Jiang Yu pursed his lips and said nothing.

Perhaps, in grandma's world, time does pass faster than others. If you are busy, the year is over.

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….

She didn't even have time to sit down and take a good rest.

…

"Grandma, go and invite those people to sit at home, and I'll go to the kitchen to cook."

Another day passed. Jiang Yu processed all the ingredients he bought yesterday. Seeing that it was almost ten o'clock, he turned to his grandma and said,

"When they come over for a cup of tea, I'll almost be able to serve the food."

Grandma walked around the kitchen, looking at the various ingredients piled on the table, with some disbelief in her eyes:

"Can you do it alone? Don't you need me to help you light the fire?"

In the past, when the whole family was here, every Chinese New Year would be a big family meal. After she had breakfast, she would start busy preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner.

There is such a big table full of dishes, which are stewed, boiled, and steamed. If there are not a few people to help, I am afraid that they may not be able to eat it in the evening.

But now my little fisher actually doesn’t need his own help, even to light the fire!

"There's really no need. The smell of oil smoke in the kitchen is too strong. Go call someone. When they arrive, you can just stay outside and greet them. I'm enough here."

Jiang Yu smiled at her, turned around and started working.

Although he cooked a lot of food today, he was just being lazy.

For example, among the dishes he is going to make today, there are braised pork elbow, steamed pork with rice noodles, and fish head with chopped pepper. These three dishes are actually steamed dishes. As long as the ingredients are processed in advance, they can be steamed directly in the steamer.

enough.

Wood-fired stoves in rural areas usually have two large pots. The inner pot is used for steaming vegetables, and the outer pot can be used for stir-frying. Both sides can be operated at the same time without any delay.

In addition to these three main dishes, some other stir-fries are much simpler.

In fact, in the kitchen, cooking itself is not complicated. The process of garnishing is the most time-consuming. Once the garnishing is completed, the cooking time is usually only a few minutes or ten minutes.

While Jiang Yu was busy in the kitchen, grandma had already invited Jiang Yu's uncles, uncles, aunts and other elders over. Before they even entered the house, a group of people in the yard smelled a strong smell.

The aroma of the food wafted far away.

An old lady with gray hair sniffed and couldn't help but muttered:

"Who is stewing meat early in the morning? It's hard to live with this way of eating!"

An old man walking beside laughed and said:

"Look at what you said, who doesn't eat meat now? You thought it was a few decades ago, and you had to wait until the Chinese New Year to eat some meat!"

"Life is much better now than before, but no one eats stew every day. It's not that I can't afford it, but it's too boring!"

"..."

A group of elders chatted and quickly entered the room.

As soon as they entered the house, they found that the aroma of the food in the house was even stronger. The old lady from before turned her head to look at Grandma Jiang Yu in surprise, and said with some reproach:

"Hey, sister-in-law, are you spending too much money?

We all belong to our own family. You said you wanted to treat everyone to a meal when Xiaoyu came back. No one was too polite. After all, our Xiaoyu is now a graduate student. This should be celebrated!

But you can just cook a few dishes by yourself and let everyone sit together and have a good time. Why do you hire a chef to cook? How much does it cost?

….

Last time when the little grandson of the Lao Niu family next door to my house was one month old, he invited a chef from a big hotel in the city to cook and cooked a banquet. The chef alone cost several thousand, and I

Smelling the aroma of that dish, it's not as good as the one you invited at home!

Tell me honestly, it costs a lot to hire this chef, right? This, this, this, this is too expensive!"

"What? Auntie, you invited a chef to cook for us? Isn't this too grand?"

"I'm telling you, why can I smell such a strong smell of meat from so far away? Ordinary people can't smell that kind of smell!"

"Oh, I haven't tasted the food cooked by the chef in the hotel..."

"..."

Jiang Yu's grandma looked confused at the moment, feeling like she was not thinking clearly.

What are these people talking about?

Why hire a chef from a big hotel?

After a while, she gradually came back to her senses and probably understood what these old men and women said.

Oh, they think the aroma of the food in the house is too tempting and smells so good, so they think I specially hired a chef from a big hotel to cook the food in order to treat them to dinner?

How can this be?!

For this banquet, Jiang Yu spent several hundred yuan just buying the vegetables and meat yesterday!

Go to a big hotel and hire a chef to prepare meals?

That's it

How much more money to spend!

Although she thought it was impossible, smelling the delicious aroma of food floating in the house, grandma felt a little unconfident. It was definitely impossible for her to invite a chef, but maybe her eldest grandson

ah!

Maybe he paid himself out early this morning just to prevent himself from finding out that he hired a chef to help?

How much does it cost to hire a chef from a big hotel?

Grandma couldn't help but tremble in her heart. She didn't care about the relatives who were still standing in the hall chatting, and walked towards the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Jiang Yu is making braised mutton.

The mutton stewed in the pot is alternately fat and lean. Because it has been stewed with soy sauce, refined salt, aniseed, cinnamon and other seasonings, the kitchen is filled with the aroma of mutton. The soft and fragrant mutton pieces are steaming.

The little bubbles trembled slightly in the soup, making people swallow their saliva just looking at them.

Jiang Yu picked up the kuaizi and poked it. He found that the meat was very rotten, so he picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth to taste the taste.

Probably because the mutton was a little hot, he couldn't help but open his mouth and "sizzle" a few times, then chewed it quickly and swallowed it with a look of satisfaction on his face.

After he swallowed the mutton, he suddenly heard a "Gulu" sound coming from the kitchen door. Jiang Yu turned around and saw that his grandma was standing there with an embarrassed look on his face. Jin was not the one.
To be continued...