Chapter 57 Happy Sandy Meat
After Sun Fugui finished showing off to Cao Feng, he continued to take a bath. Listening to his singing, Cao Feng put down his book and went to the balcony.
Tang Xiong was standing on the balcony outside smoking.
He had quit smoking for a long time, but tonight he just wanted to smoke a couple of cigarettes, which was better than drinking and getting drunk by accident, which would delay things.
Cao Feng closed the balcony door, walked behind Tang Xiong, took out the cigarette case and lighter from his pocket, took out three cigarettes, lit them, and put them in the flowerpot on the balcony.
He made a gesture of worship with his hands clasped together towards the distant moon, then patted Tang Xiong's shoulder, motioning him to sit down and talk.
Tang Xiong followed Cao Feng and sat on the balcony sofa. He put out his cigarette and whispered, "Boss Cao, I miss her and them."
Although Cao Feng spent a short time with that team of special forces, the image of them was unforgettable in his mind.
Especially that girl, when she held the special bomb to her chest and exchanged her life for his, the explosion seemed to hurt his nerves.
He subconsciously raised his hand, rubbed his temples, and whispered, "It's been three years, and I haven't forgotten it for a single moment."
Tang Xiong burst into tears, covering his face as he sobbed, "Yes, it's been three years, three years already, but it feels like it happened yesterday. An Yin was the girl who loved drinking the most in the team, she could knock down several men by herself. Before I left for the expedition, I told her that we would get married when we came back, and she would knock down those men at the banquet, and I would have some free time. But this wedding has been delayed for three years."
He wiped the tears from his face and continued, "And Liu Wu foolishly said to me on the plane on the way there: Captain, my grandma's wontons are so delicious, with thin skin and lots of fillings, and the red oil dumplings are so fragrant! Captain, when we finish this mission and return home, I'll take you home to eat my grandma's big wontons!"
Cao Feng choked up, "Grandma Liu's wontons are really delicious."
Tang Xiong clenched his fists: "I'm not strong enough."
Cao Feng patted him on the shoulder and said, "Only if we do our part well can we be worthy of their sacrifice."
Tang Xiong turned his head to look at Cao Feng and remained silent.
Over the years, he watched Cao Feng build his company into the largest factory in China, and some restless elements abroad were indeed suppressing and fearing Feng Kai.
Fengkai has developed rapidly in recent years.
They are afraid that China's technology will become stronger and that China will become the world's number one power.
Cao Feng's survival was indeed worthy of their sacrifice.
During these years he not only lived, but lived for those who sacrificed.
Such people truly live to magnificent heights.
Tang Xiong still doesn't know how Cao Feng survived those three years of being trapped, and he never dared to ask.
He also didn't understand what kind of belief this man had in his heart to be able to survive in such an environment and under such humiliation.
When Tang Xiong rescued Cao Feng and brought him back to China, the doctors said he had a high risk of survival. Even if he was cured, he would still have a persistent illness and probably wouldn't live more than seven or eight years.
Tang Xiong still remembered that he vaguely heard the doctor explaining Cao Feng's condition to his leader. The man not only ate feces, but was also starved to the point of being skin and bones.
They even suffered some inhumane humiliation.
Those humiliations would not threaten his life, but they were enough to make a sane man collapse.
In short, Tang Xiong's admiration for Cao Feng has reached an indescribable level.
According to Cao Feng's original condition, he could only survive for two to three years at most.
But the appearance of Xue Qi was like a good medicine in his life.
Xue Qi's cooking allowed Cao Feng to regain the ability to taste delicious food, and his body gradually recovered its health as it absorbed the nutrients from the food.
Tang Xiong watched Cao Feng's health gradually improve, and was sincerely happy for him. He also knew that Cao Feng was serious about Xue Qi and had decided on this girl.
Want to live your whole life and fight for yourself.
He asked, "When are you going to tell her the truth?"
Cao Feng: "I can't tell her directly. I took her to the movies today and gave her a hint. She must have mistaken me for you. It's okay this way. When the secret is revealed, she won't be so surprised and unable to accept the truth."
Tang Xiong sneered and said, "Boss Cao, your operation is really a bit..."
He thought about the words in his mind and shook his head: "Chicken thief."
Cao Feng: "Now is not the time to decrypt it. We can only let her misunderstand for now."
Cao Feng couldn't tell Xue Qi the truth, or his true identity, as it was related to a national strategy. He could first make Xue Qi mistakenly believe he was Tang Xiong, and use this to tell her about his past.
This was the only way he could think of to let her slowly understand her past.
When Sun Fugui came out of the shower, he saw the two grown men sitting outside with sad faces.
He pushed open the door and leaned against it in his bathrobe. "Oh, I haven't even had a date yet, and some people are already looking depressed?"
Sun Fugui looked at Tang Xiong and said, "Hey guys, you cried when I was dating 77? Why did you cry? Do you like 77 too? I am such a beautiful girl, everyone likes me. Oh, my standards are too high. I actually fell in love with such a charming girl. But forget it, 77 is going to date me the day after tomorrow."
Tang Xiong: “…”
Cao Feng: “…”
If there was a live broadcast in the bedroom, netizens would definitely scold him for being too self-indulgent.
That night, Sun Fugui was so excited that he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
Tang Xiong and Cao Feng were also awake.
In the girls' dormitory, Bai Rou had fallen asleep, and she had a dream about the male guest on the show. Even Zhu Quan ignored her, which scared her so much that she woke up immediately.
Fortunately it was a dream.
If that's true, then she's a nightmare.
If she comes on this show and no male guest chooses her in the end, then she will undoubtedly be a failure.
As a newcomer in the entertainment industry, if you cannot get resources or perform well in this show, it is equivalent to ruining your own future.
This program has five male guests and three female guests. If no male guest confesses his love to her in the end, she will definitely become the focus of public opinion.
From the current perspective, she cannot defeat Chu Cheng and Sun Fugui, the two resource tycoons. She overestimated her abilities.
So now she can only settle for the second best and bind herself to Zhu Quan.
As long as a male guest confesses his love to her in the end and she refuses, she won't be considered a complete loser and will not become an unwanted female guest in the eyes of the audience.
Thinking of this, Bai Rou had already decided to bind herself to Zhu Quan and lock him up, while she would stay as far away from the other three men as possible. Especially that Sun Fugui, who was like a psychopath and a narcissist.
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The next day was still the date between Xue Qi and Cao Feng, and she hosted a banquet for Cao Feng at home.
Xue Qi made camphor tea duck, fruity meat with sand, steamed beef in dumplings, steamed bacon with dried salted vegetables, and some stir-fried seasonal vegetables.
They were all farm-style dishes, and Cao Feng was looking forward to it.
Early in the morning, Xue Qi returned to the villa to make smoked camphor tea duck, a hard dish made from Sichuan camphor leaves and tea leaves smoked.
This dish is marinated with fermented glutinous rice juice and other mixed seasonings. The smoked duck has a dark red and shiny skin, tastes extremely fresh, and looks tempting.
Fruity and sandy meat is also a famous Sichuan dish. It uses fat meat with skin and cuts it into thin slices.
Boil the best red beans until they are soft and make into red bean paste filling, mix it with sugar and lard, sandwich it with two slices of meat, spread it on the bottom of the bowl, then add glutinous rice, pineapple and cherries on top, mix well, and turn it upside down into the bowl.
Press the glutinous rice in a bowl shape under the stuffed meat. Finally, spread the orange segments aside, make a circle, and place it in the steamer.
Before the steamer was heated up, Xue Qi started making steamed meat in small steamed buns.
The method of making steamed beef in a steamed bun is also very simple, but also requires some attention.
Xue Qi removed the tendons from each piece of beef, sliced it along the horizontal grain, mixed it with fermented black beans, soy sauce, vegetable oil, fermented glutinous rice juice, minced ginger, and steamed meat rice noodles, and put it into a bamboo steamer as big as a plate.
The last steamed dish was steamed bacon with dried salted vegetables. The bacon was cut into paper-thin slices, and it was crystal clear under the light. The thin slices of bacon were spread on the dried salted vegetables and sprinkled with chopped red pepper, which looked very fragrant.
Xue Qi put these three dishes together in the steamer.
As the fire in the cage burns brightly, mist swirls and all the fragrance wafts out.
…
Xue Qi's entire cooking process was captured by a high-definition camera. As soon as she lifted the lid of the steamer, hot steam gushed out, and she looked like a fairy bathing in fairy mist.
Netizens were drooling after watching this, and the barrage of comments was full of "drooling emoticons".
“(﹃)…”
"Mom, food, I'm hungry, please give me some food!"
"To those netizens begging for food in the comments, are you feeling embarrassed? A while ago, you were yelling for them to be banned, weren't you? Now you're calling for your mom when you want food? What kind of daydreaming are you doing?"
"I saw the steamed food! Ahhhh I want to eat it! Woohoo, I finally understand why the third child and the third father wanted to grab 77. 77 is a god, anyone who doesn't grab it is a fool!"
"She's beautiful, kind, and can cook. Who wouldn't want a mother like that?"
"I suddenly understand why Qin Tiantian's classmates call Xue Qi "class mom". I'm so envious!"
"Seven Mom is beautiful, quiet, and truly talented. I call her the number one female lead in dating shows, and no one should object, right?"
"Wow, wow, wow, 7's mom is the pinnacle of romance variety show characters, unmatched!"
…
Netizens finally waited for the meal to start, and six people sat at a long dining table.
The 7-year-old boy group sat on one side, and Qin Tiantian, Xue Qi and Cao Feng sat on the other side.
The table full of delicious dishes made everyone present salivate. As soon as Xue Qi said to start eating, the teenagers were the first to reach for the camphor tea duck.
With one chopstick, the reddish-brown crispy duck skin was pierced, and with a gentle pull, the duck skin and meat were torn off.
The duck's skin is reddish and shiny, the outer skin is crispy, while the meat inside is tender and juicy. When you put it in your mouth, the fat in the skin mixes with the fresh juice in the tender meat, giving it a slightly juicy feeling. The texture and taste are enough to bombard your taste buds.
Several children rushed to grab the duck, while Cao Feng picked out the sandy meat.
I thought it would be greasy, but it turned out to be fresh, sweet, and sticky, rich but not greasy. The red bean paste inside was also very fragrant and mellow. As soon as I swallowed it, the light fruity aroma lingered in my mouth for a long time.
It is this fruity aroma that completely dispels the greasy feeling of fat and sweet filling.
Xue Qi’s cooking never disappoints him. He ate a few more pieces, and it seemed as if even his bitter heart had become sweeter.
Xue Qi asked him, "Is it sweet?"
Cao Feng smiled: "Sweet."
Xue Qi's eyebrows curved, and he smiled and said, "Thank you for inviting me to the movie yesterday. I hope that Manager Cao's life in the future will be as sweet as the meat in the sand."
Cao Feng did not put down his chopsticks and went on to eat the dried salted vegetables and steamed bacon.
The bacon is cut into paper-thin slices. After being steamed, it becomes crystal clear and the outline of the dried salted vegetables can be seen under the fat.
He ate a piece of steamed bacon, which was moist due to its rich oil and water content. The meat was completely immersed in the flavor of dried salted vegetables, leaving a long-lasting aftertaste.
Xue Qi added, "I hope that Manager Cao's future life can be like this steamed bacon with dried salted vegetables, full and not greasy."
The four teenagers were fighting over the duck to eat. When they heard Xue Qi's voice, they looked over and winked at each other.
Qin Tiantian picked up the duck leg and stood up and said, "Mom, it's sunny outside today, I'll go eat in the garden!"
Cao Yue also put a few slices of meat into his bowl, picked up the bowl and said, "I'll go too!"
Sun Shaoqi and Chu Xing didn't want to go, but Qin Tiantian called them: "Sun Shaoqi and Chu Xing, let's go to the garden to eat and bask in the sun."
Sun Shaoqi happily gnawed the duck butt he had snatched: "I'm not going. There's no point in sunbathing. I'll get tanned. I don't want to go."
Qin Tiantian tapped his tailbone with her toes: "No, you want to."
Sun Shaoqi's lips sizzled. He wiped his hands impatiently and stood up: "Okay, okay, I think about it, I think about it. I'm just eating. Am I guilty of being forced to be a light bulb?"
Qin Tiantian gave him a blank look: "You're the only one who talks too much."
She looked at Chu Xing again: "Wake up, let's go."
Chu Xing was completely subdued by Qin Tiantian and stood up with a bowl in his hand.
Before he even reached the door, the duck neck in the bowl was picked away by Sun Shaoqi. The boy looked at the empty bowl with his eyes blazing with anger: "Sun Shaoqi!"
Sun Shaoqi: "Why do I call you grandpa?"
Chu Xing said angrily: "Give me back the duck neck!"
Sun Shaoqi said "Oh", picked up the duck neck, licked it, and then handed the bowl over: "Here, I'll give it back to you. Look at your petty stinginess. How are you going to do big things in the future?"
Chu Xing couldn't stand it any longer: "Get out!"
Sun Shaoqi rolled away quickly, holding his duck neck in his mouth. As he rolled away, he could still be heard mumbling, "Oh my god, Chu Xing's true identity has been exposed. His character is completely ruined. Oh, how can this bad-tempered Chu Xing become a national idol?"
Barrage:
"Hahahahahahaha. Sun Shaoqi, how come you're just like a dog like your dad!"
"Like father, like son! When it comes to being dogs, no one can compare to them."
"Wherever Fuguier and his son pass, no grass grows."
"Let's do a show where they're sent out into the wild to survive. They must be family with the animals out there!"
"Hahahaha, I'm paralyzed from laughing! I'm really going to get hurt from laughing at this show sooner or later!"
"I laughed so hard that I hurt myself. Will the production team compensate me?"
…
Cao Feng enjoyed this meal very much. The sand-stuffed meat was sweet not only to his taste buds, but also to his heart.
Xue Qi made him taste another kind of sweetness in life, which was unforgettable.
In the evening, Cao Feng and Xue Qi were going back to their love cottage. Since the distance was ten kilometers, Cao Feng found two bicycles and offered to ride her back.
Xue Qi looked at the bicycle, then at Cao Feng, puzzled: "Ten kilometers, this is not a close distance, are you sure?"
Cao Feng laughed and said, "Are you doubting my cycling skills?"
Xue Qi: "I'm not doubting your cycling skills, but I remember there's an uphill road to the Love House. It might be difficult for you to carry me uphill?"
Cao Feng's voice was gentle yet firm: "You believe me."
"good."
Seeing that Cao Feng said it was no problem, Xue Qi grabbed the man's waist and jumped into the car.
Cao Feng kicked the bicycle with his long legs and it was on the road.
The sky was filled with fiery red sunset glow, and the wind was a little chilly after the autumn.
Xue Qi took a deep breath of fresh air and admired the scenery on both sides of the road.
As the bicycle exited the suburban boulevard, the two sides suddenly opened up to reveal fields of cotton that had already been picked.
Going further, they began to go uphill. Xue Qi was about to jump out of the car, but Cao Feng said, "No need to jump out, hold on tight."
Xue Qi subconsciously grabbed the man's waist and could feel that the man was pedaling harder and harder. Although the speed of the bicycle slowed down, it was still moving at a constant speed.
Sun Fugui had just returned from the company and was walking back along a small path from the main road outside the Love Hut.
Suddenly, he saw Cao Feng driving past with Xue Qi. His eyes widened and he suddenly ran wildly: "Wait, Lao Cao, stop right there!"
Cao Feng didn't listen at all, but instead sped up.
Xue Qi was amused and waved to Sun Fugui behind him: "Okay, run faster! We're going back first!"
Cao Feng's speed increased a little, and Xue Qi's bangs were all blown up, and big gulps of wind rushed into his mouth.
The bicycle bumped on the bluestone slabs, and Xue Qi immediately hugged Cao Feng's waist tightly.
Cao Feng looked down at the girl's arms hugging her waist and laughed.
There are aerial shots in the live broadcast.
Cao Feng sped up with Xue Qi in his car, while Sun Fugui ran wildly behind him in his suit and leather boots. He finally stopped, panting.
Sun Fugui cursed, "Beast! Cao Feng, what a scumbag! He's too good at chasing girls!"
The cameraman also caught up with him and asked him, "Mr. Sun, tomorrow is your date with Xue 77. Have you figured out how to pursue her?"
Sun Fugui chuckled, took out his phone, and opened a PPT presentation. It was a compilation of two books, with the highlights:
"The Devil's Pick-up Art: It's Really Easy to Chase Girls This Way" and "Chase Girls Like You Chase Clients" essential analysis points!
The photographer was stunned, his mouth twitching: "Sun... Mr. Sun, what is this?"
Sun Fugui was overjoyed and said with a smile, "This is my secret to chasing girls. Starting tomorrow, you have to take good pictures of me. I will teach all the boys in the world who don't know how to chase girls how I do it. In less than three days, I will definitely chase 77."
The photographer's mouth twitched even more violently, but he had to flatter: "...This..."
Sun Fugui: "Do you have a girlfriend?"
Photographer: “No.”
Sun Fugui: "Wait, shoot with me for two days, and you'll be single soon!"
Barrage:
“???????”
"Chasing girls like you chase clients?"
"The devil's pickup art?"
"Okay, kid, why do I feel like you're going to do something big?"
“Hahahahahahahahahaha…looking forward to it!”
"Cao Feng! Our Xingxing boy is about to unleash his power! Tremble!"
"I'm Cao Feng, I'm already shaking, hahahahahaha..."
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