Xu Miaomiao estimated the number of people coming tonight and took out the food from the villa.
She prepared a big carp to make a boiled fish, and fresh beef with tomatoes to make tomato stewed beef brisket.
Then make a braised pork dish suitable for all ages, and for vegetarian dishes, make garlic chrysanthemum with spinach and sweet potato with sugar, and finally serve it with a spinach and egg drop soup.
Perfect!
When Chen Chen came out to her again, he no longer showed any embarrassment and had a blank expression again.
Xu Miaomiao estimated that they were about to finish work, so she quickly asked Chen Chen to help light the fire while she flew back and forth between the stoves.
The time estimate was just right. When she served the last dish of soup, Liu Changan and Lin Fang entered the yard together.
Xu Miaomiao looked at the three people holding things in their hands and couldn't help but say, "I said I would treat you to a meal, but you still brought things. I won't treat you to a meal next time."
The three of them laughed. Lin Fang handed her what she had in her hand and explained, "It's different. This is your first time entertaining guests in your new home. It's like warming the pot. You can't come empty-handed."
There is a custom here that when you go to someone's house to warm up a pot, you have to bring something with you, no matter what it is.
Xu Miaomiao took a look at what the three people brought. Liu Changan's should have been bought in town. It was a fish weighing two kilograms.
Lin Fang and Feng Qingqing pooled their money to buy it. It was a set of five small flower bowls with white background and blue flowers. They looked very pretty.
Xu Miaomiao was not the kind of person who didn't know what was good for her, so she immediately said, "Oh, I didn't even know there was such a custom if you hadn't told me. Thank you!"
"We have fish tonight, and I'm going to keep this one for next time. This bowl looks really nice, and there are exactly five of them. We'll have this for dinner tonight!"
Because the weather was getting hot, the five people did not eat indoors, but set up the table under a big peach tree in the yard.
The three of them sat there, watching Xu Miaomiao and Chen Chen serve the dishes one by one. Their mouths watered at the aroma.
There were five people, and a total of five dishes and a soup. Since Xu Miaomiao prepared large portions of dishes, there was no need to worry about not having enough to eat.
When all the dishes were served, Xu Miaomiao came over last and even brought a bottle of rice wine.
Feng Qingqing saw that she had actually brought some wine and immediately shouted, "You still want to drink? I won't drink!"
Then, in less than five minutes, she really enjoyed the aroma. The rice wine was not spicy at all, but sweet instead, and the alcohol content was low, so she didn't have to worry about getting drunk.
The five people who had the meal were very satisfied. Liu Changan touched his bulging belly and collapsed in the chair.
"Xu Zhiqing, I didn't expect your cooking to be so delicious! Even the chefs at the state-owned restaurants in town can't compare to your cooking skills!"
The two girls were too embarrassed to lie down like him, but they still agreed.
"Yes, yes, when Miaomiao first came, I thought this young lady knew nothing!"
"I didn't expect that his cooking skills are so good. You really can't judge a book by its cover!"
Xu Miaomiao was quite confident in her cooking skills. She raised her chin proudly and said without being modest.
"That's right, there aren't enough of us to eat that much. I still have many specialties!"
Liu Changan looked at Chen Chen, who was drinking, with a sly smile on his face and said, "Oh, Xu Zhiqing, you have such great skills. Whoever marries you in the future will be blessed!"
The two girls also followed suit, but they didn't expect Xu Miaomiao to be as shy and embarrassed as they thought. Instead, Chen Chen lowered his head with his ears red.
Seeing him like this, Xu Miaomiao quickly picked up a piece of meat and put it in their bowls. "Can't all these delicious foods satisfy your hunger?"
The five of them chatted and laughed for a while and then prepared to leave, after all, they had to go to work tomorrow.
Xu Miaomiao cooked a lot of dishes, and there was still a lot left after the five people finished their meal. Fortunately, she packed the remaining meat and vegetables back for them.
A few people refused, but Xu Miaomiao said that if there were so many left, she couldn't finish them all by herself and they would go bad and be wasted.
In addition, because of her firm attitude, they were able to take it. Afraid that it would be unsafe for the two girls to go back by themselves, they sent them back to the educated youth site first.
The two of them walked slowly in the village under the moonlight. Liu Changan said with emotion, "Brother Chen, you are a blessed man!"
Chen Chen had nothing to be embarrassed about, so he smiled helplessly, "How do you think I'm lucky?"
The two of them are brothers who grew up together and are no different from real brothers. Liu Changan knows everything about him.
"Although you've suffered before, been taken advantage of, and married a troublemaker, thankfully, it's all over now."
"And I think Xu Zhiqing is a very good girl. She's beautiful, has a good personality, and cooks delicious food."
"The most important thing is that you are all in her heart and eyes, and she can't stand others saying anything bad about you."
"Tsk tsk tsk, if this isn't a blessing, what is?"
After hearing what he said, Chen Chen raised the corners of his mouth and even narrowed his eyes slightly, looking very satisfied.
"Yeah, she's fine."
Liu Changan waited for a long time, but the other person fell silent after saying these words.
"That's amazing! A girl said she wanted to buy a house and she bought one! Look at that big house and that big yard. I'm so envious!"
Liu Changan spoke with envy, but Chen Chen was reminded of something else in his heart.
When Chen Chen returned home, everyone in the family had already gone to bed. In fact, it was still early, only a little after eight or less than nine o'clock.
However, the village still has no electricity, and everyone uses kerosene lamps. There are also no entertainment activities, so after dinner when it gets dark, everyone goes to bed to rest.
He closed the door quietly, washed his face with water in the yard under the moonlight, and went back to the house to sleep.
When Wang Yan got up in the morning to prepare dinner, she opened the cupboard and saw a big bowl of meat.
It was half beef and half braised pork, and because it was cold, a layer of oil solidified on it.
Looking at the bowl that did not belong to her family, Wang Yan guessed that Xu Miaomiao must have taken it back from somewhere last night.
He complained, "You little bastard, how can you go to a girl's house and eat and take things away!"
But the upturned corners of her mouth showed that she was in a good mood. Although she didn't want the meat, she was thinking about it in her heart, which always makes people happy.
The Chen family members looked at the greasy meat on the table with their eyes wide open. Is the sun rising from the west?
You know, Wang Yan is a very frugal person, but she has never eaten meat so early in the morning!
Wang Yan knew what they were thinking by looking at their expressions. If it wasn't for the hot weather and the fear of spoiling the food, she wouldn't feel hot in the morning!
"This is what the third brother brought back from Xu Zhiqing last night. Eat it!"
Everyone else at the table was grateful, said a few polite words and lowered their heads to eat. Only Zhou Lanhua was picking up food quickly and talking non-stop.
"Oh, a little girl, she's so fancy, she even treated people to a meal, and she's not afraid of living alone in such a big house..."
The rest of the words were swallowed back into his stomach as Wang Yan's face became increasingly uglier.
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