Chapter 63 Want to Eat Fish
"Master, what's wrong with you?"
Uncle Xu, who was working in the compost pile, heard the noise and ran over quickly.
"It accidentally splashed into my eyes." Bai Mengmeng rubbed them with her hands.
"Wash it with water later."
Xu Bo breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the lemon tree.
He couldn't help but be surprised: "I didn't realize before that there were so many lemons."
Xu Bo stood beside the tree, looking at the lemon tree laden with fruits, his tone filled with emotion.
"This tree was planted by your grandfather."
Bai Mengmeng also fell silent. Her grandfather's face had long been blurred, but it felt very close when she thought of him.
Xu Bo gently stroked the leaves: "When we planted the trees, your grandfather was still in good health."
"He said his little granddaughter loved eating oranges, so he bought two orange trees at the market so he could give them to his granddaughter when they bore fruit."
Bai Mengmeng's eyes were also a little moist.
Although she doesn't remember her grandfather very well, she does like eating oranges.
In the past, the material living standards were not very high, and it was not easy to eat fruits all year round. The yellow oranges in autumn, sour, sweet and juicy, were her favorite, so much so that she still missed them even in spring.
It turns out that grandpa has always kept this little thing in mind.
But her parents never mentioned her grandfather since she was a child, so she thought he had died a long time ago.
She thought of her father who passed away early, her mother who raised her alone with great difficulty, and her mother who also passed away due to illness.
Every summer vacation, after she returned home, she could only sit on the sofa alone, surrounded by loneliness.
Even on New Year's Eve, I can only be alone and listen to other people's laughter.
The loneliness and pain penetrated deep into his bones and almost made him depressed.
The work pressure was so great that she felt a little breathless, but Bai Mengmeng could only move forward silently because she knew that she would always be so lonely in her life.
So, she could only pretend to be strong and become more and more independent.
But, if grandpa cares about her so much, why doesn't he come to see her?
She once asked Xu Bo why her grandfather didn't come to see her, but she didn't get an answer.
It was not until her grandfather left that Xu Bo found her and asked her to drive the fishing boat.
Half of the mountain, the sect, disciples, fields and small buildings were all left by my grandfather.
Bai Mengmeng suppressed the sadness in her heart, the doubts and sadness in her heart, and took a deep breath.
"Uncle Xu, I understand what you said, but this is not an orange tree, it's a lemon tree."
"Um???"
"Didn't you realize before that this fruit isn't an orange?"
"This...it actually never borne fruit before. Grandpa is so heavy, so this is the first time it's borne fruit."
“…”
Qi Cong’s birthday was coming soon. After buying ingredients at the market, Bai Mengmeng planned to prepare side dishes and make a golden soup lemon fish.
Similar to pickled fish, this dish actually also requires black carp or grass carp.
However, black carp has fewer bones and its meat is more tender, so Bai Mengmeng finally bought a black carp to cook.
Lemon fish requires heavy seasoning, but the ingredients must be fresh. At noon, Bai Mengmeng started to process the black fish.
He scraped off the fish scales. Because the black fish had a lot of mucus, even after using hot water and rinsing it, it was still a bit slippery, which made Bai Mengmeng frown.
He felt that if he let his eldest disciple scrape the scales, that kind of wonderful swordsmanship would definitely be more suitable.
Of course, the other party would definitely not agree.
Bai Mengmeng cut open the black fish's belly, separated the fish meat from both sides, then cut it into thin slices with a knife, chopping it directly off the bones.
I was a little unfamiliar with it at the beginning, but later on, I became more and more familiar with it, and my movements became faster and faster. Soon, I had a lot of fish fillets.
"It doesn't feel that difficult." Bai Mengmeng felt that her knife skills had improved a lot.
And because of his talent, his physical fitness is better, and his coordination ability is much better than before, so he can do things particularly smoothly.
Huaguduo was still holding a mobile phone and taking videos continuously.
"Master, your swordsmanship is truly amazing. Watching it makes me feel relaxed and refreshed."
Bai Mengmeng was speechless for a moment: "I think you're a little weird. Does anyone really watch your short videos?"
Huaguduo chuckled and said, "Master, you don't know this. In our current society, there is so much pressure, so decompression videos are very popular."
The two were chatting.
"Boss, you really want to cook fish? Great!"
Qi Cong ran to the yard and saw the smooth sword skills through the window. He was immediately stunned.
"Boss, your knife skills are amazing. Did you kill fish at RT-Mart for ten years?"
Bai Mengmeng looked outside following the sound and found that Qi Cong was not alone. There was a girl next to him with curly hair and a pretty face.
"Happy birthday! You brought your girlfriend here today?" Bai Mengmeng couldn't help but teased with a smile.
Qi Cong was startled and shook his head quickly: "No, no, boss, don't talk nonsense. Her name is Qi Yue, she is my cousin. We are not familiar with each other. She heard that I was coming here to eat and insisted on following me."
The curly-haired girl frowned, with a hint of displeasure in her eyes.
What a hasty boss! He didn't even remember her!
When the boss went to the villa to cook before, she was very dissatisfied with her grandfather's favoritism towards Qi Cong's family, so she deliberately made a sarcastic statement at the door, mocking Bai Mengmeng as a chef from a wild vegetable restaurant in the countryside.
But at that time, seeing that Bai Mengmeng ignored her, Qi Yue felt a little regretful. She felt that since someone came to her house to cook, it was really too rude of her to be so aggressive.
Later, after eating the vegetarian dishes made by Bai Mengmeng, she was immediately amazed. The dishes were so delicious that it made her previous words seem like a villain's.
So after the birthday party was over, Qi Yue planned to meet the chef and apologize sincerely so that the two of them could make peace.
However, I didn’t expect that after waiting for a long time, the chef didn’t show up, and after the meal was cooked, he actually ran away?
Like her father, she particularly loves to eat delicious food and her taste is more picky than that of ordinary people.
These days, I went to several high-end restaurants, but I didn’t feel anything was special about them. Instead, I still couldn’t forget the dishes at the birthday party.
So today, when she saw Qi Cong boasting in the family group that he was going to celebrate his birthday at Qiongye Restaurant, and said that the boss had agreed to her request and would specially cook a fish, she followed him over.
At this time, Bai Mengmeng finally remembered that this girl was the one who had mocked her before.
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