Chapter 381 New Year’s Eve Dinner (4)

Author: A long walk back

Things in the world are impermanent, that's all.

Overnight, everything changed.

Tangyuan's tone was low, and her tears were falling, as if she couldn't wipe them away no matter how hard she wiped them.

Wen Mingtang hugged Tangyuan and comforted him in a low voice. He looked up at Lin Fei who made the point: I can't blame him. After all, Tangyuan himself knew about this matter. It made no difference whether he said it or not.

Glancing to the side, Zhao You picked up the branch that Lin Fei had thrown away and began to pull on the ground. Wen Mingtang sighed: Come on, some people in this world just don't know how to comfort people, such as these two people in front of them.

In this case, she looked at Lin Fei and asked: "Lin Shaoqing also wants to have New Year's Eve dinner here today?"

No matter how I keep sneaking out, I can't miss the New Year's Eve meal.

Lin Fei said: "No need, I'll go back to eat." This was not the time to talk nonsense, so Lin Fei didn't stay too long. He just told Zhao You who was playing with a tree branch at the side: "After eating, if nothing else happens,

Just stay here and keep vigil!"

Now that they are on annual leave, Master Wen will definitely stay here to make glutinous rice balls. It is not safe for the two girls to stay here.

Although compared to ordinary women, Master Wen has some ability to protect herself, and it is not a problem to deal with one or two incompetent thieves. But when she thinks about it, how can it be an ordinary thieves who will be detrimental to her? Lin Fei felt

It would be better to let Zhao You stay here and keep vigil.

As for Ah Bing...although he is a manly man, he may not be as good as Master Wen when it comes to meeting bad guys. Not to mention the situation at home, I am afraid that after this experience, he will try every means to prevent him from coming.

After Zhao You heard this, he immediately dropped the branch in his hand and said "Oh", "Oh! It's not sleeping anywhere, just make the floor thicker and use the charcoal basin to keep it warm!"

Zhao You is not a fastidious person, and he is very sincere in his speech. Isn't staying awake the same as sleeping?

Tangyuan on the side heard this and said hurriedly: "I'll go to sleep! I'll sleep even if I'm keeping watch, how can I really want someone to keep my eyes open all night? Besides, my father... my father has always been the most reasonable."

His voice dropped when he said the last sentence, and Tangyuan reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes again.

It felt like the tears would never stop falling! She buried her head in Wen Mingtang's arms and sobbed softly.

Lin Fei on the other side heard this, nodded, and reminded Zhao You: "The safety of her two is in your hands!"

Zhao You nodded again and agreed.

When Lin Fei saw this, he turned to look at Wen Mingtang, who was comforting the dumplings. He paused for a moment, and just when Wen Mingtang thought he was about to say something to warn her, she heard him say: "Have a safe and prosperous new year!"

Wen Mingtang raised his eyebrows in surprise, and said quickly: "Lin Shaoqing is safe and well, everything goes well!"

"Okay," he nodded, looked into her eyes, his tone was as calm as ever, "it will go well."

After that, he turned around and walked out of the door.

It's already half dark, and the firecrackers and fireworks outside the house are crackling. Before you stop, he has already appeared on the stage, making it noisy, messy and lively.

Wen Mingtang appeased the glutinous rice balls and asked Zhao You to go to the makeshift table in the kitchen to eat New Year's dinner together.

First, he wiped the glutinous rice balls' eyes with a wet handkerchief, and then covered the glutinous rice balls' eyes with a compress that was swollen from crying. While the glutinous rice balls were applying to his eyes, Wen Mingtang led Zhao You to bring out the food.

When all the dishes were placed on the dining table, Tang Yuan removed the handkerchief covering his eyes and looked at the dining table: In just over an hour, Master Wen had cooked a table full of dishes.

There is a casserole in the middle of the food table, and what is in the casserole is the three-fresh mushroom and egg dumplings that were just served from the small stove.

Surrounded by prepared cold and hot dishes: chicken with saliva, smoked fish, Sixi meatballs, steamed preserved meat, cucumbers, stir-fried leafy vegetables, etc. Zhao You couldn't help but exclaimed: "Master Wen knows a lot about magic."

?How do you prepare so many dishes in just over an hour?"

"There is indeed a magical method," Wen Mingtang glanced at Zhao You and said with a smile, "This magical method is called 'Practice makes perfect', let's eat!"

With that said, he turned around and brought over the warm green plum wine from the small stove.

Before moving his chopsticks, looking at Tangyuan and Zhao You, Wen Mingtang raised a half-filled bowl of fruit wine and touched it with them, saying: "Everything goes well in the new year, travel safely, and be healthy!"

The two of them replied with "everything goes well" and "good luck and success", and then started to use their chopsticks.

Needless to say, Zhao Youzi has always had a great appetite. The dishes that the public chef has cooked before, such as chicken with saliva, cucumbers, stir-fried vegetables, etc., are delicious.

In the steamed cured meat platter, various varieties such as pork sausage, chicken, duck legs, etc. were neatly placed on the plate. What Zhao stretched out his chopsticks from his head was the plate of steamed cured meat. Compared with the ordinary chicken, duck, and pork meat,

, this cured meat has lost some water after being pickled, and its texture has become much firmer, bringing with it the unique aroma of cured bacon.

At first glance, this dish looks very simple. It is just steamed with some shredded ginger. But when it comes to the mouth, Zhao You tastes something beyond the simple things that can be seen with the naked eye. The cured bacon in the mouth is still the same cured bacon that he tastes on weekdays.

, but it has a strong aroma of wine, and it has a bit of sweetness when chewed carefully.

Seeing Zhao You slow down his chewing movements, Wen Mingtang smiled and took a piece of sausage into his bowl with serving chopsticks, and then said: "If the bacon itself is well made, just add rice wine and sugar, and it will be delicious enough once steamed.

"

Tangyuan, who had not had a good meal for several days, took a sip of green plum fruit wine, then raised his chopsticks and reached for the smoked fish that he had never made before but listened to Master Wen talking about for a long time.

Smoked fish, which requires boiling, frying and braising, has a unique taste just as Chef Wen said.

The marinated smoked fish is salty and sweet. It is obvious that you have eaten all the marinade. When you take a bite, the fish is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It has a slight chewy texture when chewed carefully. The most special thing is the tiger skin.

The fish skin is usually slightly wrinkled. After being fried and marinated, it looks like it is covered in a layer of sweet honey-like paste.

Maybe it was to her liking, or maybe as Master Wen said, eating something sweet would make people feel better, so the glutinous rice balls reached out to the smoked fish with several chopsticks.

The past few days have been like a nightmare. When she closes her eyes, she can see her father gently admonishing her in front of her, and she can see her father lying there motionless.

Over and over again, like a walking corpse. Maybe people grow up overnight. She was not unaware of the changes in her family members and the changes in A Bing's family.

So the second aunt took action. Although she was angry and sad, she was not too surprised.

In the past, when I saw Master Wen taking care of his daily life in an orderly manner by himself, I only felt admiration. Now, only when it comes to myself do I realize how difficult it is.

To be fair, her situation is much better than that of Master Wen. So... chewing the fish skin covered in honey, swallowing the glutinous rice balls: she had to cheer up and keep what her father left for her.

, try to live!

Just like when she was selected to work for Master Wen at the beginning of the year and learned the first dish to cook and eat with her father, her father said: She can learn a skill and her father will not have to worry about it in the future.
Chapter completed!