Chapter 375: Exchange of New Year's Goods

"I'm afraid it won't work in the evening. The people in our Youth Academy have agreed to have dinner together tomorrow night to celebrate the New Year. We can't change our appointments."

Ning Xiyue shook her head and refused, making Bai Yu feel lost for a moment.

"However, I can have lunch with you guys tomorrow at noon."

With a turn of events, Bai Yu's depressed mood disappeared without a trace, and he was revived in an instant. Afraid of any changes, he immediately took Ning Xiyue's hand and high-fived her, saying, "It's settled, we'll have lunch together tomorrow at noon, Qingyuan, remember to come along, I'll make you some delicious food."

Seeing that his sister agreed, Ning Qingyuan politely agreed: "Okay, thank you for the invitation, I will definitely come."

Zhou Cheng, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, heard this and turned to look at them in the back seat. With a smile on his face, he asked, "What dishes do you want to eat? Just tell me. Tell me the names of the dishes and I'll cook them for you tomorrow."

When it comes to Zhou Cheng's dishes, Ning Qingyuan is not picky at all: "Brother Zhou, just do whatever you want. We all love the dishes you cook."

Ning Xiyue was not polite and looked at Zhou Cheng with a smile: "Brother Zhou, I have some ingredients for the dishes. I'll give them to you when I get off the car. Can you please fry them for me, Brother Zhou?"

She thought that the things she bought today would be very good after being cooked by Zhou Cheng. With such excellent cooking skills and such good meat, she must give some to Zhou Cheng to cook. The opportunity should not be missed.

"Okay, leave it to me." Zhou Cheng patted his chest and agreed.

Ning Qingyuan secretly gave his sister a thumbs up.

Sure, sister.

Why didn't he think that it would be a waste not to use the free chef's cooking?

When we arrived at the dam where the coal mine team was stationed in the Daliu Brigade Office, it was already 8:40 in the evening. It was completely dark outside, without a single light, not even a star in the sky.

Fortunately, Ning Xiyue and her brother had planned their trip well in advance, knowing that they might come back very late at night, so they brought two flashlights with them.

Turn on your flashlight when you get off the car.

The driver was in a hurry to return to the county to report, so he helped them unload the things from the car and then drove away.

Ning Xiyue and his sister and Bai Yu and his wife were left standing there sorting their things.

"Brother Zhou, go back and get a basin to hold the food. I'll give you the ingredients first."

After Ning Xiyue finished speaking, she took out a flashlight, opened the sack of meat, took out a piece of beef, and then took out a dagger from her bag, cut a piece of mutton weighing about one pound, and handed it to Zhou Cheng to take back first.

Zhou Cheng, who had been dealing with ingredients for a long time, recognized the meat in Yue's hand at a glance. Seeing such fresh and high-quality meat was very attractive to a chef, he asked happily: "Is this beef and mutton?"

"Yes, I bought it in the city today. It was freshly slaughtered when I bought it. Let's taste it together tomorrow."

Zhou Cheng happily took the meat. Looking at the beautiful texture and muscles of the beef in his hand, he already had an idea of ​​how to cook the meat well.

"Then I won't be polite with you. Wait, I'll go back and get the basin."

Zhou Cheng held the meat and ran quickly towards where he lived.

"Look at your brother Zhou, his favorite thing is cooking, he is so happy when he sees good ingredients." Bai Yu retracted his gaze and gave Ning Xiyue a look affectionately: "You are the same, I invited you to dinner, but I still took your ingredients. You can keep them for yourself, why give them to us."

Ning Xiyue continued to untie the bag of seafood while talking to Bai Yu.

"My brother and I are here to enjoy Brother Zhou's cooking skills. We are so hungry that we would like to ask Brother Zhou to cook for us. We bought a lot of meat this time. Don't worry, we will keep it for ourselves, right, brother?"

"Yes, of course. Apart from anything else, Brother Zhou's cooking tastes better than the dishes we had in the state-owned restaurant in the city today."

Qingyuan had to admit that he didn't like the Baiyu couple, but he liked the food Zhou Cheng cooked very much. His mouth could honestly tell how delicious a dish was.

Bai Yu was very happy to hear these words and invited them: "If you like to eat, come to our house often. Your brother Zhou is also good at cooking."

At this time, Zhou Cheng ran over with a dustpan and stood next to Ning Xiyue with the dustpan in hand: "I've got the things."

Ning Xiyue nodded, then squatted down and took out two beef bones and put them in the dustpan.

Moving to the sack where the seafood was placed, Ning Qingyuan held the opening of the sack, and Ning Xiyue took out three large dried sea fish from it, scooped up a handful of dried crabs and dried shrimps and put them in the dustpan, and then tore off a piece of kelp before finishing.

Bai Yu looked at the things Ning Xiyue took out of the bag in surprise, exclaimed, then picked up a piece of dried fish, looked at it, and smelled it.

"Oh my god, I didn't expect you guys had seafood in there. Where did you buy this? It's such a big bag. The dried fish looks so good. Mm, it smells really good."

Zhou Cheng was also quite surprised. This city was quite far away, and these seafood were rarely seen in department stores, and most importantly, no one ate them.

But as a chef, he is optimistic about all ingredients. There is no bad food, only people who don't cook it well.

When he saw the things Ning Xiyue took out, his eyes lit up and he was thinking about how to make them delicious tomorrow.

Ning Xiyue did not answer Bai Yu's question. Ning Qingyuan smiled and said simply, "I met a friend who just came back from the coastal area. He gave us some of the things he got from his fellow villagers."

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble and not wanting to tell them the truth, Ning Qingyuan gave ambiguous answers. Then he looked at Zhou Cheng and changed the subject: "Brother Zhou, I'll trouble you tomorrow. I'll leave these things to you. I look forward to tomorrow's lunch."

Zhou Cheng raised his head from the dustpan and nodded sincerely.

"Okay, don't worry. We will not waste a single cent and will definitely make the best use of the ingredients you gave us. Wait for lunch tomorrow. Remember to come early. We will start lunch at 11:30."

"Okay, I'll be there on time." Ning Qingyuan agreed.

Here, Bai Yu invited Ning Xiyue again: "Xiyue, you haven't eaten yet tonight, come on, eat at our place before going back. You and your brother will have to cook when you go back, which is too much trouble."

Ning Xiyue waved her hand to refuse. It was so late and she didn’t want to trouble anyone.

"No need. My brother kneaded some extra dough this morning. We can go back and cut the noodles into pieces and eat them in the pot. It only takes about ten minutes to eat sliced ​​noodles. It's not difficult."

"Okay." Bai Yu didn't force it. He squatted down and took out a few red apples from the box at her feet and handed them to her: "You two can take these back and eat them. They are given to you by your brother Zhou's friend. They are grown in our home and are quite sweet."

After saying that, fearing that Ning Xiyue would refuse, he stuffed the apples into Ning Qingyuan's backpack, then lowered his head and took out a few more apples, and also took out a few frozen pears and frozen persimmons and stuffed them in.

"Take these frozen pears and persimmons back home and freeze them with some ice cubes."

"Got it." Ning Xiyue nodded and thanked him: "Thank you, Sister Bai, don't put it down, that's enough, keep it for yourselves, it's already a lot."

Ning Xiyue walked forward and held Baiyu, who was putting fruits into the backpack, with one hand, and pressed the fruit box under Baiyu's feet with the other hand.

"Okay, I won't put any more fruit in." Bai Yu stopped and didn't put any more fruit in.

This is like a New Year's goods exchange scene.

Baiyu's family has all kinds of fruits, and their family has all kinds of meat.

Ning Qingyuan quickly put the sack of meat on the ground into the backpack, put the backpack on his back, and said goodbye first: "It's getting late, Sister Bai, Brother Zhou, we're going back. It's getting colder as the night goes on, so you'd better go to the kang and lie down to get comfortable as soon as possible."

Ning Xiyue couldn't help but laugh, and then she said goodbye as well, carrying a sack of seafood on one shoulder, waving a flashlight in one hand, and walking slowly forward.

"Okay, drive slowly, be careful, and pay attention to the road."

Bai Yu and Zhou Cheng waved at the two of them, and only turned back after watching the two siblings disappear into the darkness with flashlights.

Here, the two siblings trotted back to the Youth League Home. They were so hungry that they didn't want to waste any more time eating on the way.

After returning to the Youth League Home, Ning Xiyue took out the noodles that had been waiting in the pot.

Ning Xiyue was making the fire, while Ning Qingyuan was cutting noodles.

After Ning Qingyuan finished shaving the noodles, Ning Xiyue thought that if she put the small shrimps and what looked like seaweed she had brought back today into the noodle soup, it would be very delicious. She swallowed her saliva, looked at Ning Qingyuan and suggested:

"Brother, how about grabbing a handful of small shrimps and cutting up some seaweed and throwing them in so we can taste it first?"

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