Chapter 60: Eating at a Restaurant

Facing Zhang Dapang's praise, Lin Xiangnan said complacently: "Don't you see who taught you this?"

After finishing the preparations for the restaurant, during the intermission, Lin Xiangxi stared at the math paper for a while and scratched his head.

Seeing Zhang Dapang and Lin Xiangnan going to the backyard to prepare lunch, he hurriedly followed them.

"Uncle Fatty, please stand still. I'll take care of the shrimp."

"That would be great."

Fat Zhang immediately gave up his seat and only used his mouth without using his hands. He not only taught Lin Xiangxi how to process the shrimps, but also asked him to kill the fish.

Although he ate with Lin Xiangnan.

But Lin Xiangnan is like a toad, moving only when you poke her. If you don't give her any tasks, she will just sit there and eat melon seeds and watch the fun. If you ask her to do something, she can do it very well. She is smart, but lazy.

Lin Xiangxi is different. He is proactive, enthusiastic and can find work to do on his own.

Zhang Dapang likes this because he is also lazy.

"Crack the eggs in and beat them clockwise, then add warm water. That's enough. Don't add more..."

"Don't coat the shrimp balls with too much starch. Shake off the excess starch..."

Zhang Dapang is an experienced master chef who is used to teaching apprentices. When he cooks, he also explains to Lin Xiangnan and his sister.

What he taught was not a secret recipe, but a common method at home. He hoped that Lin Xiangnan would listen more and be more discerning in the future. When cooking, if he wanted a low fire, Lin Xiangnan should not turn it up high; if he wanted scallion shreds, Lin Xiangnan should not cut the scallion into segments.

A master like Zhang Dapang can ask his apprentice Zhang Yong to do many small things. While helping, Zhang Yong can also learn real things.

When Zhang Dapang was teaching Zhang Yong in the restaurant kitchen, he was very attentive, but the restaurant's daily dishes were too simple. Zhang Yong had studied for so many years, but all he had learned were the basics, and he couldn't master the big dishes at all.

There was no way. The ingredients were limited and there wasn’t enough chicken, duck, fish and meat for Zhang Yong to practice.

Lin Xiangnan is quite unconventional and can get good ingredients.

But Zhang Dapang was too embarrassed to ask Zhang Yong to help. He couldn't let him work all the time and then have no share for dinner. That would cause so much resentment.

No matter how stupid he is, he can't do this.

So he could only order Lin Xiangnan and his sister around.

After the dishes were ready, Fatty Zhang rolled up his sleeves and started pouring oil into the wok to fry the dishes.

"So much oil?" Lin Xiangxi was amazed.

“When frying, it’s just a matter of frying it in oil, and the rest can be used.” Fat Zhang felt distressed, but he was even more greedy and didn’t want to save money on this and affect the taste of the dish.

Lin Xiangxi was making a fire, Zhang Dapang was cooking, and Lin Xiangnan was standing beside them fanning herself with a big fan. Smelling the aroma, she asked, "Uncle Fat, when are you taking a day off? Let's have some beef hotpot."

Fatty Zhang was happy. "Oh, that requires a lot of things. I'll make a list for you. If you can get them, I'll arrange it for you."

"I'll have a day off tomorrow, and you'll have a day off the day after tomorrow," Lin Xiangnan hinted.

"Not the day after tomorrow. An old friend of mine is hosting a dinner for his in-laws the day after tomorrow and asked me to make dragon and phoenix soup. Have you tried it? I'll bring you a bowl."

Craftsmen like Zhang Dapang don't easily go hungry and can get a meal anywhere.

Lin Xiangnan shook his head, "I don't drink that."

Lin Xiangxi had never eaten snake meat, but he wanted to try the soup. However, he was too embarrassed to say it. He just followed his sister here to eat and drink for free. It was good enough to have something to eat, so he didn't have the nerve to make any demands.

Although he has no other abilities, he does have self-awareness.

When they ate the dishes cooked by Zhang Dapang at noon, Lin Xiangxi was even more amazed, "Fuck, it's so delicious."

Fatty Zhang said modestly with pride, "It's just barely okay. My performance today wasn't particularly good."

Lin Xiangxi was shocked: "Is this called a poor performance?"

Lin Xiangnan held the bowl and smiled secretly. His younger brother was still too naive and didn't even know what Versailles meant.

The home-cooked meal shocked Lin Xiangxi's soul. After the meal, he became much more attentive to Zhang Dapang and treated him as the second Lin Xiangnan.

Zhang Dapang didn't even need to ask for help in washing the dishes and sweeping the floor, Lin Xiangxi just did it by himself.

When Lin Xiangnan started working, he was still muttering, "It smells so good. I wish I could cook such delicious dishes."

"Stop reading and hurry up and finish your test paper. I just glanced at it and you've only finished a few questions in the whole morning." Lin Xiangnan hurriedly urged, "Hurry up. After you finish your homework, go and play, don't get in my way."

Lin Xiangxi agreed, but after finishing two questions, he saw Hu Taohua and her blind date coming to dinner, so he ran over to join in the fun.

"Sister Taohua, come and sit here. I've saved a seat for you."

Lin Xiangnan was just about to wink at him, asking him to go play somewhere else and not be a third wheel, but as he approached, he saw that the small magnet that Lin Xiangxi had hung around his waist with a rope was attracted by the gold ring on Hu Taohua's hand.

The scene was very embarrassing for a while.

Walnut Flower looked shocked, but her blind date was calm and said calmly: "The gold ring can't be fake. So this magnet must be fake."

"The magnet is fake?" Walnut Flower sneered, "Yes, the magnet is fake, but the gift your grandma gave me is real, more real than real gold."

Things like gold and silver are too valuable, and Hu Taohua was afraid to accept them at first, but the man insisted that they were family heirlooms given by his grandmother, and he spoke with sincerity. Hu Taohua could only wear them for the sake of courtesy, and planned to take them off and put them away later.

The result, haha...

The daily entertainment of these naughty kids is to pick up scrap wires and scrap nails to sell for money. Magnets are their treasures, they use them every day, how could they be fake?

Knowing that the ring was not Hu Taohua's but a gift from this man, Lin Xiangxi immediately calmed down. Without saying a word, he took out the key from his pocket.

With a "swoosh", the key in his hand was sucked into the magnet.

Now the facts speak louder than words.

Walnut Flower took off the ring in her hand and stuffed it into the other person's hand. "Your family's gift is really too precious. I can't afford it. Let's not eat today's meal. Let's go home."

When receiving the gold ring, Hu Taohua really felt that this family was a good one and that they valued her enough to get married.

As a result, the gold ring was discovered to be a fake before it was even warm enough to be worn.

After the man left, Lin Xiangnan patted Hu Taohua's shoulder with empathy, "You must have suffered a lot from all the blind dates during this period."

"That's right. My mother wasn't in a hurry in the past two years, but she's pushing me again this year. My schedule now is even more busy than the period before and after your graduation." Hu Taohua couldn't help but sigh.

Lin Xiangnan patted her shoulder soothingly, "Alright, alright, stop talking about those bad things and sit down to eat. I'll treat you to dinner today."

"Okay..." Hu Taohua was about to sit down when she turned around and saw an acquaintance. She stood up again and said, "Forget it, forget it. I'm not hungry now. I'll just go home and eat something."

After saying that, she slipped away quickly.

"What's going on?" Lin Xiangnan was a little confused.

Lin Xiangxi looked around and said, "There's a man at the table by the window. He looks a bit like Sister Taohua's first love, whom she had been dating for two years."

"No wonder she ran so fast." Lin Xiangnan glanced at the magnet in Lin Xiangxi's hand, "It's all your fault, this broken magnet. That scene just now was so embarrassing. And her ex-boyfriend saw it. I feel embarrassed for her."