The person in charge of the engineering department said: "It's too late today, so we can only deal with it urgently. It may affect the water supply to the villas in Phase 1. It has rained a lot recently and the ground is slippery. The earliest we can restore the water supply there is the day after tomorrow."
The three villas of the Xu family did not have any impact, because every household in Taoshui Village had a well, and the three villas were individually connected to the Xu family's well.
Only in the later stage of the reconstruction of the villa area did they drill wells and use water pipes to supply water.
This villa area is no longer habitable, but fortunately there are many vacant rooms in the three houses of the Xu family.
The four girls and Zhou An lived in Xu Qingzhi's building, while the three boys, Mr. Zhou, Mu Mingqian and A Long lived in Grandpa's building.
The group dragged their luggage and moved to another place.
At night, with Mu Mingqian in the kitchen, there was no place for Wang Yanmei to use her skills.
Mu Mingqian looked at the pile of fresh vegetables, took a deep breath, and was filled with energy. His eyes were full of enthusiasm: Mine, all my ingredients! He drove the other people in the kitchen out. Those who wanted to help could only peel garlic, pick and wash vegetables at most. He would not give up even an inch in preparing the vegetables. He rolled up his sleeves and started to work.
The lotus root dug from the pond is refreshing and crisp, not suitable for stewing soup. Cut it into thin slices, stir-fry it with a small amount of ginger, and finally sprinkle some chopped green onions.
I wanted to stir-fry carrots with fried tofu. Mu Mingqian cut white tofu into small pieces and soaked it in oil himself.
When cooking pork with peppers, stir-fry the peppers without adding oil. When frying the meat, add the soul of this dish, fermented black beans. Only then will the taste of pork with peppers be authentic.
The long green beans are fried in oil, the outer skin is fried into a tiger skin shape, and then stir-fried with chopped meat and a small amount of soaked salted dried vegetables. This way of stir-frying green beans makes Xu Qingzhi, who doesn't like eating beans, feel hungry just by looking at it.
There are also stir-fried beef tripe, scrambled eggs with wild shallots, peppers and preserved egg with egg, braised crucian carp with double peppers, stir-fried meat with dried vegetables, spicy shrimp, braised eggplant, and chopped chrysanthemum with garlic.
Considering that some people may not be able to eat spicy food, I stewed a light chicken soup and steamed meatballs.
There were more than a dozen people at a table, and they could barely sit down on a large round table. It was a new table that Wang Yanmei bought later. It was bigger than the previous round table. She said that it could accommodate more people when they came to the house. Usually, it could be folded up to become a small table, and it would not seem too big for the whole family to sit on.
Xu Fuqiang hasn't had a serious drink for a long time, mainly because it's boring to drink alone, and tasting the wine in a winery doesn't count as drinking.
There are many people here now, and there are several jugs of wine brought from the winery at home.
He loved drinking medicinal wine, so he brought out a barrel of medicinal wine, two cans of red wine and two cans of sweet wine.
The alcohol content of red wine and sweet wine is not high. The winery makes them according to the method of making fruit wine. Especially the sweet wine, which is like sweet water and not intoxicating, is just right for little kids to drink.
When Aaron arrived, it was time for dinner and he ordered another pair of bowls and chopsticks.
"Brother Fuqiang, it's time for dinner. Oh, if you want to drink, I'll accompany you." A'long's voice was bold and unrestrained.
The host doesn't even need to say: Don't be polite, just treat it as your own home.
He was able to fit in completely, put his schoolbag on an empty table nearby, snatched the empty bowl that Wang Yanmei brought from the kitchen and served himself some rice.
"We cooked a lot of rice today."
After serving the rice, he sat down and said, "Sister Wang, I see you cooked two big pots of rice."
Wang Yanmei smiled and said, "We are all young people. I was afraid that everyone would not have enough to eat, so I cooked a little more. Anyway, it doesn't matter if they can't finish it. It's the same as feeding the chickens and ducks tomorrow."
She extended her hand and beckoned, "Eat quickly, eat quickly. Today's dishes are all made by Mingqian. They look delicious. Thank you for your hard work, Mingqian."
"Sister, don't be polite to me. I just like cooking. It makes me happy when I cook." Mu Mingqian said.
Aaron raised his glass. When he came, he already knew that Professor Zhou had brought some young medical students with him. He felt that those young people were all in a tense state and were embarrassed to have a meal. He raised his glass and was said to liven up the atmosphere: "Come on, since we are lucky enough to be together here today, let's clink glasses together."
Everyone raised their cups and clinked them together.
Aaron said: "May we have this day every year! May we have such delicious food every day!"
Everyone clinked their glasses and took sips.
After this, the tense atmosphere at the dinner table was indeed relaxed a lot.
Aaron and Xu Fuqiang chatted about their daily lives.
The young people were much more relaxed when picking up food, and the stir-fried green beans and scrambled eggs with wild chives really suited the tastes of several girls.
"This egg is delicious. It has a very special flavor, with a very fragrant onion flavor, but I don't know what kind of onion it is. It is very fragrant."
"Don't even mention the eggs, even the rice is delicious. I heard that the rice at Fuwang Farm is all grown by themselves. It's so delicious. I can eat a bowl of it just by chewing the rice without any vegetables."
"This string bean is really amazing, it goes really well with rice."
The boys also joined in the conversation.
"And the chrysanthemum is delicious too, so fragrant. I never liked the taste of it before, but I don't know why it tasted so fragrant this time."
"This lotus root slice tastes sweet and refreshing. The lotus root you eat outside tastes as bland as chewing wax."
"This fish is delicious, but you have to watch out for the bones." The boy said as he did not stop eating at all. He did not even bother to chew slowly and finished a bowl of rice in less than three minutes. He then stood up to get the second bowl.
Embarrassed about eating? No, I've forgotten all about it because of the delicious food.
The same was true for other people. It was their first time eating the food at Fuwang Farm. They had seen that the food was delicious online, but this was their first time experiencing it in person. It was actually so delicious!
Everyone fell silent afterwards, not because they didn’t want to talk, but because the food was so delicious!
They all buried their heads in eating.
After finishing one bowl, I quickly went to get the second bowl.
Xu Qingzhi used a soup spoon to pick up some soft chicken meat stewed in the chicken soup for grandpa. When he put down the spoon, he looked at the boy with shining eyes beside him, curled the corners of his mouth slightly, knew what he meant, and handed the spoon to him.
The boy blushed, took the spoon and said, "Thank you."
He poured some chicken soup into a bowl and mixed it with rice to make soup-soaked rice. He loved eating soup-soaked rice the most. This was his third bowl of rice and he stopped after he finished it.
A Long was busy chatting with Xu Fuqiang. The two of them took a sip of wine, ate some food, and chatted for a long time.
When he finished one bowl of rice and wanted to get the second bowl, he saw that the rice in the two large pots was so clean that not even a grain of rice could be seen.
No, these two full pots of rice, were they finished? He exclaimed: "This meal is eaten too fast!"
Several young people at the table smiled awkwardly.
Only Zhou An smiled and said, "Who told you to eat so slowly? Such delicious food, tell me, who can resist eating more?"
Even she, who wanted to lose weight, couldn't help it and ate three bowls!
She is not young anymore, and her metabolism is not as good as that of young people. She should be careful not to eat too much, because if she eats too much, it will all turn into belly fat. But tonight... oh, she couldn't help it after all.
Aaron returned to the dining table and saw that most people had put down their bowls and chopsticks. He joked, "It seems I have to eat faster tomorrow."
Everyone was amused.
After dinner, everyone helped clean up the kitchen and went back to rest. (End of this chapter)