Xiang Jin wanted to eat stinky tofu, but he didn't eat it yesterday, so when he went to work the next day, Yan Chen secretly asked Secretary Chen behind Xiang Jin's back, "Do you know where I can buy stinky tofu?"
Secretary Chen looked at him in surprise, "Isn't it right? Do you want to eat stinky tofu?"
No, their boss has a severe mysophobia. Of course, you can’t say that stinky tofu is unhygienic. It’s just that the smell of stinky tofu is a bit special. According to their boss’s temperament, he probably won’t touch that kind of food.
of food.
Seeing his exaggerated expression, Yan Chen frowned slightly, "Don't make a fuss, just tell me whether you know what to sell!"
Chen Zicong shook his head, "I really don't know about this. After all these years here, I have never seen this snack sold anywhere."
Yan Chen waved his hand, "Okay, then go and do your work." After that, he immersed himself in the work and continued to handle the work.
"Oh, okay!" Chen Zicong took two steps and then turned back and said, "How about I ask my colleagues in the big office outside to take a look?"
Yan Chen said without raising his head, "Okay!"
After Chen Zicong went out to ask around, he finally sent him a text message saying, "I'm sorry, no one in the big companies outside knows where BJ sells stinky tofu. Not only that, even the finance department and the department managers like me
I’ve asked, but they don’t know either.”
After Yan Chen read the text message, he replied, "I know! Just forget it if you don't know!"
After replying to Chen Zicong's text message, Yan Chen looked at the phone in his hand and hesitated for a moment before dialing Han Che again. Han Che picked up the phone quickly.
"Hello? What's the matter, brother? Call me at this time?"
Yan Chen asked, "Where is it? Home or Shanghai?"
Han Che said, "Home, I just came back to the provincial capital from Shanghai yesterday."
Yan Chen said, "Okay, then you can help me do something, right now."
Han Che asked, "What's going on? Can you do it later? I'm looking at the account book right now?"
Yan Chen said, "If I go later, I'm afraid that others will have closed their stalls by then."
"What are you so angry about?" Han Che asked.
Yan Chen said, "Go to the street and see where they can sell stinky tofu. Buy some for me, then vacuum it up and pack it to bring to my grandparents or Xiang Jin's grandparents. They will come to the capital tomorrow.
Let them bring it here."
When Han Che heard this, he immediately became very speechless, "Yan Chen, you bastard, you said it so hurriedly, what did I think it was? You actually asked me to buy you stinky tofu? When did you bastard?
Has the taste become so heavy? Does your family, Xiang Jin, know?"
Yan Chen said, "Fuck you, I bought it for our Ajin. We don't know where to buy it here at BJ. I went shopping on the street yesterday and didn't find anything. I asked my colleagues when I got to the office today.
They don’t know either, but I remember there were quite a few selling stinky tofu in the provincial capital.”
Han Che said with a disdainful tone, "Yan Chen, I'm not telling you, you are doting on your family too much, right? You have to have a certain limit when it comes to doting on your wife, right? Be careful when the time comes.
She is so pampered that she will eat you to death!"
Yan Chen said, "That's nonsense. Is our Ajin such a proud person? Besides, I'm happy to pamper her. Do you care? If you don't even have a girlfriend, don't do it."
You can just eat carrots there and worry less. If you have the leisure time, you should worry about your own life-long affairs. Don't wait until all my children are busy playing soy sauce and you will still be alone."
Han Che choked up again on the other end of the phone, and then said in surprise, "Wait, wait, your grandparents, Xiang Jin and her grandparents are going to BJ at this time. Yan Chen, isn't your Xiang Jin real?"
Are you pregnant?"
"Well, why else would I ask you to buy stinky tofu for me? Ajin suddenly wanted to eat stinky tofu yesterday, but she couldn't find it."
"Oh my God, this is too shocking for you. How long have you been married? It's not even half a year, right? Now you are pregnant with the child? Isn't this too fast for you?" Han Che was still in a state of confusion.
After a shocked expression.
Yan Chen said, "I am not short of money, job, and house now. Why don't I get married when I get older? Why not have children when I get married? Get married early and have children early, so that you can retire early in the future.
.”
"Damn, you're so loud?" Han Che said.
Yan Chen said, "As long as you want, you can play the zither."
Han Che said, "Yes, why not? I'm willing! Isn't there someone who is willing to come with me to get the certificate?"
Yan Chen said, "Okay, since you are willing, go find it quickly. Don't just talk about it but refuse to take practical actions."
Han Che said, "How do you know I didn't look for it? I looked for it, but didn't I miss it?"
Yan Chen said, "Okay, I won't be poor with you anymore. Please help me go out and look for him. I owe you a favor."
Han Che said, "Say that, okay, then I'll go out and look for you, but as we agreed, I will be the godfather of your child then?"
Yan Chen lost his curiosity and said, "Get out! If you want a child, you can find your own life. Don't come and rob my child!" He hadn't even said "Dad" yet, so how could he be given any advantage?
Han Che said, "Don't bother me, brother? Isn't it enough for so many people to love your children? Besides, I can't find a life for a while now?"
Yan Chen said, "My child is not lacking in love. There are many elders in the family who love him. You are the one who is missing."
Han Che said, "You are really domineering, aren't you?" But his heart was saying: Huh, you don't agree, I will go to Xiang Jin to talk about it then, so he said, "Okay,
That’s it, hang up? I’m going out!”
Yan Chen solemnly said to him, "Thank you, brother!"
"Hey, talk about that!"
At three-thirty in the afternoon, Xiang Jin and Yan Chen left the company and drove to the airport. Yan Chen drove the car to the roadside and stopped when it was more than half way.
Xiang Jin turned to look at him, "Hey, why don't you leave? You haven't arrived yet?"
Yan Chen said, "We'll leave later. After they arrive, we'll go directly there."
Xiang Jin's eyes were questioning, and Yan Chen explained to her, "We are going over now. First, they haven't arrived yet. Even if they arrive, they will have to wait for about half an hour for their luggage to come out, so we
This time passed and I was still waiting outside.
The second thing is that you can't park your car for a long time in the terminal building. It can only be used as a temporary parking spot for getting on and off the bus, so we can only drive the car to the parking lot near the terminal building and then go to the airport.
If you go to the terminal, you have to go around a circle. Instead of having so much trouble, we can go there after they arrive, then drive directly to the terminal, pick them up there and leave."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Oh, yes, okay, I'll go there later."
Yan Chen asked, "Are you sleepy? Do you want to close your eyes and rest for a while?"
Xiang Jin said, "Not bad!"
Yan Chen took off his seat belt, opened the door and got out of the car, opened the back seat door, took out a small blanket from a bag on the back seat and covered Xiang Jin's body, "Keep it closed first."
Rest your eyes for a while. After we pick them up later, we have to go out to eat together, which may delay us for a few more hours. You haven't had much rest this afternoon."
Xiang Jin nodded, then closed her eyes. Suddenly she opened her eyes again and asked, "Hey, where are we going to eat then?"
Yan Chen asked her, "What do you want to eat tonight?"
Xiang Jin said, "I can do it, it's up to them."
Yan Chen nodded, "Okay! But they will definitely be based on your taste."
Xiang Jin thought for a while and then said, "How about we go to Quanjude or Donglaishun Restaurant? Both of these restaurants are on the Shichahai side, and they are relatively close to our home."
Yan Chen nodded, "Okay! Then let's go to Quanjude. It's supposed to be the warmest place to eat mutton pot in Donglaishun in this weather. I'm afraid it will be stuffy and stuffy inside and you will feel uncomfortable."
Xiang Jin said, "Okay, Quanjude is said to be one of the best restaurants in BJ at present. How can they not taste the authentic BJ roast duck when they come here?"
Yan Chen smiled and said, "Yes!"
Xiang Jin then added, "For those other restaurants, they can taste it slowly later."
"Um!"
Xiang Jin yawned and then closed his eyes again, "I'm going to squint for a while. Will you call me when you want to leave later?"
Yan Chen also saw her tiredness, so he said, "Well, go to sleep!" Then he leaned over and lifted the small blanket on her body for her, and then returned to his seat.
So I closed my eyes and started to calm down.
Yan Chen closed his eyes and rested his mind until 4:37 in the afternoon. He immediately found his grandfather's mobile phone number and dialed it, but his grandfather's phone was still turned off, so
He dialed Xiang Jin's grandfather's number again. This time the call went through, but it rang for a while before he was picked up.
"Hey, Xiaochen?!"
"Grandpa, have you got off the plane?" Yan Chen asked.
"Oh, we got off, we got off, we just came out of this boarding gate, we are going to wait for the salute immediately, are you all here?" Xiang Jin and her grandfather asked.
Yan Chen said, "Not yet, we are still on the way, but we will arrive in about twenty minutes. Okay, then after you take the salute, go outside the terminal building. I will drive there and pick you up."
Come on and leave."
"Oh, okay! But take it a little slower on the road, huh? There's no rush!"
"Yeah, I know!"
Yan Chen put away the phone and saw that Xiang Jin was already awake, and then asked, "Did I wake you up?"
Yan Chen shook his head, "No, I woke up on my own. Are they all here?"
"Well, I'm waiting to salute you."
"Then let's go over there quickly," Xiang Jin said as he took off the blanket on his body, sat upright, and fastened his seat belt again.
"Okay!" Yan Chen waited until she was ready before starting the car and driving slowly onto the road.
When they arrived in front of the main terminal, several elders were already standing there waiting. The two got off the car and went to greet them. The elders were very happy to see them, especially when they saw Xiang Jin.
The faces of the two old ladies burst into laughter. They pulled her and asked her questions about this and that with concern.
Yan Chen and the two grandfathers moved all the luggage into the car. After they loaded the luggage into the car, Yan Chen called them to get in the car, so Xiang Jin pulled the two grandmas into the car.
After getting in the car, Xiang Jin said, "Grandpa, grandma, grandpa, grandpa, let's go directly to dinner later?"
"Are we going to have dinner now?" Xiang Jin and her grandmother asked.
Xiang Jin said, "Well, that place is not far from our home, and it is also on the side of Shichahai. I will stop by to eat now, and then I will go home to rest later, so as not to go back now and wait.
I'll come out again later and make you tired."
Grandma Mo said, "We're not tired at all. We have a flight to catch. It's just that we were a little airsick at the beginning."
"What's wrong, grandma, are you still airsick? Are you feeling uncomfortable right now?" Xiang Jin looked at her with worry and asked.
Grandma Mo patted her hand with a smile on her face and comforted her, "Don't worry, I just felt a little uncomfortable in my chest when the plane took off, but it gradually got better."
Xiang Jin nodded, "That's good, that's good. I thought you were very dizzy, but you should tell us if you feel uncomfortable? We will go to the pharmacy to see if there is any treatment for motion sickness.
You can buy some medicine."
Grandma Mo nodded, "Yeah, okay!"
Then Xiang Jin asked her grandparents, as well as Yan Chen and his grandpas, if they had airsickness. They all said no. They were all fine and didn't feel anything. It was just that Yan Chen and his grandpas were a little bit.
I got airsick, but it wasn't serious.
Yan Chen asked them, "What did you eat for lunch?"
Her grandfather said, "We had dinner with your aunt at Han Che's restaurant at noon. Han Che invited us to eat, and after the meal, he and your aunt drove a car to see us off.
Go to the airport, otherwise there are so many of us and so much luggage, and we have to take a taxi to the airport."
"Are we going to eat Quanjude tonight?" Yan Chen asked.
"Okay, you can eat anywhere. If you are familiar with this place, you can make arrangements," his grandfather said.
Xiang Jin smiled and said, "There are a lot of delicious restaurants here. Today we are going to taste the roast duck in Quanjude first. We will try some other restaurants later. You can also go shopping by yourself.
Go taste it.”
Several elders just laughed and said, "Okay!"
While they were talking, they arrived at the place where they would have dinner tonight. Several elders got off the car. When they looked up and saw the luxuriously decorated facade of Quanjude, even those who had seen the world had to sigh at the restaurants in the capital.
It's solemn, grand, and very classy at first glance.
After Yan Chen parked the car, everyone went into the inner room together, asked for a private room, and then ordered the dishes. The first was the BJ roast duck, and the most popular ones were a soy sauce elbow scallop, a soy sauce beef, a five-spice fish, and a stir-fried shrimp ball.
, a sweet and sour dish
Tenderloin, a dish of fried duck intestines with tea tree mushrooms, a dish of Sour duck with pineapple, a dish of roasted duck heart, a dish of golden lion fish, and finally a dish of salted duck liver and mustard duck feet, a total of twelve dishes, plus an extra dish
Duck rack soup.
Grandma Mo quietly asked Xiang Jin, "These are all meat dishes. Don't you want to be unable to finish them by then?"
Xiang Jin said, "It's okay, let's all have a try," and then she whispered to them, "Actually, the portions of the dishes here are not as big as ours, so don't worry about not being able to finish them. Everyone in our family can eat them."
They are carnivores."
Her grandma laughed and said, "That's right!"
Xiang Jin then joked again, "You want to eat vegetables? Let's go home and eat them then. We have planted a whole yard of vegetables in our yard."
Grandpa Zeng immediately became interested, "Oh? So what vegetables have you grown?"
Xiang Jinjiu said, "Lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, and Chinese cabbage, there are also peppers and eggplants, as well as chives, coriander, garlic sprouts, etc. There are also tomatoes and cucumbers, but tomatoes and cucumbers will probably not be available until after the New Year."
The flowers and fruits are still seedlings now, and the rest can be picked and eaten directly. We didn’t buy vegetables outside all winter, we only ate vegetables grown at home.”
Grandma Mo smiled and said, "You two kids are really naughty, aren't you?"
Xiang Jin said, "We had discussed it when we were renovating the house. We would plant some vegetables in the yard. In this way, the ones we grow ourselves will be much fresher than those bought outside."
Grandma Mo said, "That's right."
Xiang Jin then added, "Actually, we originally set aside some areas for planting flowers and plants, but the two of us were not very good at planting them. Many of the flowers and plants we cut and planted later died, so I just allocated them.
I used it to grow vegetables, thinking that the vegetables would also beautify the environment.”
Her grandma smiled and said, "This is indeed it, and it can be enjoyed and eaten at the same time."
Xiang Jin smiled and said, "That's right. We both never worry about getting off work late and having no vegetables to eat at home."
Soon the food was on the table, and then they got up one after another and went to the bathroom to wash their hands. When they came back, Xiang Jin and her grandmother whispered to Xiang Jin and Grandma Mo, "Is the portion of the food here only average?"
The two of them nodded, "That's right!"
Then everyone sat down and started eating.
After eating, Xiang Jin and Yan Chen went to pay the bill, and then everyone followed them home.
When several elders entered their yard and saw the scene inside, they couldn't help but nod and exclaimed, "This courtyard is quite nice? There are corridors on both sides that lead directly to the master bedroom inside. If this is
It’s raining, and I don’t have an umbrella with me when I come back from outside, so I can go back to the main house directly through the corridor without worrying about getting caught in the rain.”
Xiang Jin and the others nodded, "Well, it's okay. What we're also quite satisfied with is that the layout of this courtyard is very good, and the area of each room is large enough. Like our three main houses, each one has
It’s about thirty square meters. The two wing rooms on both sides, the side rooms on both sides, and several side rooms all have an area of 18 square meters. The kitchen and bathroom each have an area of a little more than ten square meters.”
The elders nodded and believed her grandma said, "Then this house is indeed pretty good."
The two welcomed several elders into their house and sat in the hall to rest. After Yan Chen poured a glass of water for each of them, he said, "Grandpa, grandma, and grandpa, you will live next to us later.
These two rooms."
A few people nodded and expressed no objection. After a few elders looked around their room, they said, "You put a lot of thought into the decoration?"
Yan Chen said, "Ajin and I drew the drawings together, and then the decoration company installed them according to our drawings and requirements. Most of the decorative ornaments inside were selected by Ajin."
Grandma Mo pulled Xiang Jin and said with a smile on her face, "It looks good!"
Xiang Jin also smiled and said, "We probably bought these when we were shopping in Suzhou and other places."
Her grandma also smiled and said, "Well, there are similar embroidery paintings displayed in our houses in our provincial capital."
Xiang Jin said, "Well, we bought these paintings from the same store when we were shopping in Suzhou. We bought five of them at once, one for each of the three main rooms in BJ.
, over in the provincial capital, you and grandpa and grandma also have one in each of their houses."
Xiang Jin and his grandchildren were chatting there, while Yan Chen and his two grandfathers unpacked and took out the things they had brought from the provincial capital.
Then Xiang Jin saw three large foam boxes. One of them contained some freshly slaughtered chickens and ducks. One box contained all fresh mutton, and the other box contained some vacuumed meat.
The five-spice rabbit head, spicy rabbit, and spicy chicken.
Her grandmother said, "Han Che asked us to bring this to you. In the box containing chickens and ducks, there are also several large packages of fresh chicken feet and legs, as well as chicken wings and duck wings. He also brought them to you.
"
Xiang Jin nodded, then picked up a package of vacuumed things and asked, "What is this?" Suddenly she smelled a strange smell, so she brought it closer to her nose and smelled it again.
, and then suddenly raised his head and looked at Yan Chen, "Stinky tofu?"
Yan Chen nodded, "Well, I couldn't find it here, so I asked Han Che to help me find it in the provincial capital. I asked him to vacuum it and bring it here so that it can be stored in the refrigerator when you get there.
If you want to eat it at any time, just take out a bag, open it, fry it in a pot and eat it."
The corners of Xiang Jin's mouth suddenly raised, and his eyes narrowed into slits with a smile, "I want it!"