The adults were quite nervous at first, but after Niu Niu's behavior of spitting out candy, they no longer felt nervous at all.
Xu Xiangjuan still took a clean bowl specifically.
The candy he just spit out was sticky on his hands, so Niu Niu put the candy into an empty bowl and told his mother that he was sleepy.
Xu Xiangjuan helped Niu Niu wash his hands, fed him water, and arranged for him to sleep in the bed of the tricycle.
The big tricycle in the house, which was the tricycle that her daughter Aning wanted to buy instead of a bicycle, has temporarily become Niu Niu's small bed.
The tricycle was parked outside the larger door of the kitchen. Niu Niu wanted to take a nap, so we laid a mat and a small blanket in the tricycle bed for him. The adults had no place to sleep, so they just endured it.
Xu Xiangjuan was accompanying Niu Niu. It was almost one o'clock in the afternoon. The sun shone over a wide area. When the tricycle was parked there, half of the cargo box was still illuminated.
Niu Niu slept on the side of the truck bed where the sun couldn't reach. Xu Xiangjuan held an umbrella and moved a chair, then sat next to the truck bed to fan Niu Niu.
Zhou Chengning came out of the kitchen after a while, "Juan, let me do it. You stay in the kitchen to get some fresh air and talk to your parents for a while."
Xu Xiangjuan stood up and handed him the umbrella. "Okay, remember to hold the umbrella. The sun is shining brightly now. Only the place where Niu Niu is sleeping is not hot. If you can't stand it later, I'll take over."
Zhou Chengning: "Well, Juan, you go in."
"I'm going in." Xu Xiangjuan felt that her son Aning might still not be used to staying with her parents, and would rather stay outside and watch over Niu Niu as he slept.
She didn't make things difficult for him and went into the kitchen to talk to her parents.
About half an hour later, the leader's secretary came over and told them that he would come again at around three or four o'clock in the afternoon and would prepare some herbal tea for them at that time.
When the secretary came over to say this, the leaders had all gone out, and the secretary followed suit after she finished speaking.
Xu Xiangjuan and Wu Caifeng went out to clean up the teacups. Wu Caifeng finally dared to speak, "You're leaving now. Why are you coming back this afternoon?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "Mom, it's normal to come in the afternoon. After walking around outside, you must have sweated a lot and felt thirsty. You have to come here to sit and drink herbal tea to quench your thirst before going back to the city. Not to mention the afternoon, just drinking herbal tea after lunch at noon will finish the tea in the pot."
Indeed, there is no water to pour out of the teapot now, and I don’t know where they are going to go to the toilet after drinking so much water.
Xu Xiangjuan: "Our food should taste OK. I'm very nervous because we entertained the leaders today."
Xu Xiangjuan: "Mom, why are you in such a hurry? We've finished eating. I'll ask Sister Ding and Sister Zhao later if lunch was delicious."
Wu Caifeng: "We can't waste food, so of course we have to finish it. Forget it, you can ask later."
He put the tea bowl and teapot into the basin and lifted it up. "Mom, don't worry. I'll go wash the tea bowl. You and Dad can sit down and have a rest."
"No, I have to clean up the floor and the table. The leader will be here in the afternoon." Wu Caifeng picked up the rag and wiped the table.
Xu Xiangjuan had no choice but to follow her mother.
...
Xu Xiangjuan didn't really want to ask, but since the leader had already returned to the provincial capital and her mother was still worried all day, Xu Xiangjuan had to ask: "Sister Ding, did the leader mention our restaurant? I'm afraid of leaving a bad impression."
Ding Li: "Your restaurant is so delicious, what's there to say? Oh, by the way, my husband told me that your restaurant is no worse than the old Shang family restaurant in the county town, and it's more humane."
Xu Xiangjuan: "As long as I don't leave a bad impression on the leaders, that's good."
There is a little difference between the Shang family in the county town and their family. After all, the meat dishes cooked for lunch those two days were all individual portions, not a big pot.
Ding Li: "Don't worry, it won't leave a bad impression. But I haven't tried Shang's yet. How does it taste?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "I've been there, there are quite a lot of customers, the food is okay, but a little expensive."
Ding Li: "If you think it's expensive, then it must be very expensive. Forget it, let's just eat meat at your place... I didn't say your place is expensive. Compared with other places nearby, your prices are quite reasonable."
Afraid that Xu Xiangjuan might misunderstand, Ding Li made a special statement.
She just thought that Xu Xiangjuan was generous. If even a generous person thought it was expensive, then it must be expensive.
Only in their family, from adults to children, no one is stingy. But after meeting Xu Xiangjuan, she knew what a generous person looks like.
Xu Xiangjuan: "I know you don't mean that, Sister Ding. Tell me when you want to eat meat dishes, and we'll prepare them in advance."
Ding Li: "So your family is still not going to have a meat menu?"
Xu Xiangjuan: "Of course we can sell it. We have one meat dish every day. Pork, duck, fish or shrimp is optional. It's not fixed. We give it to whichever customer wants to buy it. If no one buys it on that day, we eat it ourselves."
Ding Li heard this and said, "I'd better tell you in advance."
Xu Xiangjuan: "Actually, more people buy rice with toppings, right? Few people would specifically order one or two dishes for dinner, so it doesn't really matter whether there is meat or not."
Ding Li: "You two kids are so lucky to be able to eat meals cooked by their own mother all day long. My kids envy you two kids all day long."
Xu Xiangjuan: "Sister Ding, I can teach you if you want to learn."
When Ding Li heard that Xu Xiangjuan wanted to teach her how to cook, she immediately shook her head and said, "No, I'm not going to start a food business. Why would I need to cook something so delicious? It's enough for my family to have enough food."
Xu Xiangjuan: "You don't have to make delicious food to run a food business. As long as the food is not particularly unpalatable, you can open one."
Ding Li: "Yes, the food in the nearby restaurants is really not as good as yours. After I ate at your house, I never went to any other restaurants in Dezao Town."
In the past, when people went to restaurants, it wasn’t because they thought the food was delicious, but because they were lazy and didn’t want to cook, or they just wanted to change their taste.
"Sister Ding, you're exaggerating, but I also think the food near our restaurant is the best." Xu Xiangjuan was not being modest at this moment.
The two chatted for a while. Xu Xiangjuan did not disturb Ding Li while she was eating. She went back to the kitchen and told her mother what she had found out.
After hearing what her daughter had said, Wu Caifeng finally felt relieved. "Don't let the leader come over here in the future. He scares me every time he comes."
Xu Xiangjuan was puzzled. "Mom, the leaders came to work here because they value our town. It's a good thing. Why are you so scared?"
Wu Caifeng: "It's a good thing that the leaders pay attention to our town, but I'm afraid something might happen here. I haven't seen the drama, when the emperor is away from home, he might be assassinated or poisoned. If something happens, we, the common people who are involved, will be implicated along with our entire clan."
Xu Xiangjuan has recently been teaching her mother to read and write. After all, knowing how to read and write will make it easier to do accounting in the future. However, she did not expect her mother to have such a rich imagination and understand quite a lot of words. "Mom, don't think too much. This is not ancient times. Relax. There is still work to do in the small restaurant."
"I understand. Working is the most important thing."
...
After being busy for two or three days, Wu Caifeng completely let go of the matter that her leader had brought with him.
Xu Xiangjuan was wiping the table when she saw Niu Niu crawling under the table. "Niu Niu, you can't crawl under the table. Guests will come over later, and you will hit your head."
After a while, Xu Xiangjuan saw Niu Niu crawling under an empty table. She couldn't pull Niu Niu out by force, so she had to wait for Niu Niu to come out by himself.
Niu Niu was squatting on the ground, and his chubby hands were picking at something. Hearing his mother's words, Niu Niu slowly moved his round body and faced his mother, but he was still squatting under the table. There was a key in his hand, and he raised his chubby hand to show his mother the key, "Mom."
Xu Xiangjuan took the key from Niu Niu: "Niu Niu, this is the key. You can't eat it. Mom has taken it away."
Last time, she gave the candy that Niu Niu gave to Aning, thinking that Niu Niu would not remember it. Unexpectedly, Niu Niu kept asking her afterwards, "Mom, where is the candy?"
She remembered what candy was. She had made progress. She told Niu Niu directly that she gave the candy to her father, who had never eaten candy before and felt sorry for him.
It took Niu Niu some time to understand that his candy was gone because it was eaten by his father.
Niu Niu was not angry with his father. He told his mother about his sister Tang.
What he meant was that he should talk to his mother and sister and let his sister take him to buy candy.
At first, Xu Xiangjuan thought that Niu Niu thought her sister had hidden some candy and wanted her to ask her sister for it. She actually went to ask Gua Gua, for she was afraid that the child would have some money and buy candy all day and grow a mouth full of rotten teeth.
Guagua vehemently denied that she had no sugar.
Xu Xiangjuan did not give Niu Niu away either. Later, Niu Niu saw his sister and asked her for candy.
Guagua said he had no money to buy candy and couldn’t take Niu Niu to buy candy unless Niu Niu brought money.
Niu Niu didn't have any money on him, so he asked his mother for money.
Xu Xiangjuan told Niu Niu that she had no money, and after that she also gave Gua Gua a lecture.
However, it was because of Gua Gua that she knew what Niu Niu meant, and she wanted to take him to buy candy like last time.
She didn't approve of children eating candy, and thought it was wrong to ask adults for money. After educating Gua Gua, she simply pretended she knew nothing.
Now when she sees Niu Niu holding something in his hand, she is afraid that Niu Niu will put it in his mouth.
Niu Niu knew that this could not be eaten, so he gave it directly to his mother. After giving the key to his mother, he obediently crawled out from under the table.
She picked up a key, which definitely did not belong to their house. She and her mother swept the floor every day, so the key must have been dropped by a guest who had lunch there.
"Why is there a key here? Juan, whose is it?" Zhou Chengning looked carefully at the key on the counter.
It's definitely not theirs.
Moreover, all the keys in their house are in one bunch, and even Guagua has two keys strung together.
Xu Xiangjuan: "It was dropped by a guest at lunch. It was under the table and was picked up by Niu Niu."
Zhou Chengning found a piece of paper, wrote a lost and found notice, and pressed the key on the paper. "It's because Niu Niu is short. We can't see it at all if we don't sweep the floor."
If you write a lost and found notice, you will know that they did not deliberately pick up the guest's keys and refuse to return them, and it really has nothing to do with them.
Xu Xiangjuan didn't think her man was being unnecessary, and she even reminded him to use the small potted plant on the counter to hold down the paper to prevent it from flying around.
In the afternoon, someone actually came over in a hurry and said, "Here are my keys. Thank you, Madam boss."
The man was wearing a pair of glasses and looked young. He spoke Mandarin with standard pronunciation.
Xu Xiangjuan remembered this guest. It was indeed the table where Niu Niu found the key. "You're welcome. It's my honor."
"I have to catch a train tonight, thank you very much." The guest who lost his key bowed and thanked him.
Zhou Chengning heard the noise outside and came out of the kitchen: "It's good that you found it. You must keep the key safe. Do you need a rope? We have a thin rope here. It's best to string it with a thin rope and hang it around your neck. If you are in a hurry to catch a train, you must keep an eye on your things. If you lose something there, you will basically not be able to find it."
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