"Pfft..."
Although she knew that Gao Siming was most likely lying, she couldn't help it because it was her beloved who told this lie.
She's a fool; she believes everything he says!
After Li Nan finally finished moving all the ingredients, Peng Yuanyuan finally cleaned up the mess in the kitchen. When she opened the door, she found a huge pile of various ingredients in addition to three familiar faces.
"It's fine if you come, but did you just happen to take over the whole market?"
Peng Yuanyuan held a soup ladle in her left hand and a slotted spatula in her right, wearing a pink apron. If it weren't for the oil stains on her face, she would definitely look like a typical housewife.
"It's not right to come empty-handed on your first visit!"
Li Nan chuckled and scratched his head. The ingredients at the door looked plentiful, but they had only cost less than a thousand yuan.
Li Nan was just joking when he said he would ask the An Ding Si (a local medical institution) for reimbursement.
Especially considering that my seemingly large pile of vegetables is probably not as good as Brother Gao's two small boxes of matsutake mushrooms.
Peng Yuanyuan is also a foodie, and she spotted two boxes of matsutake mushrooms in the pile of ingredients at a glance.
Pointing with a spatula, he said, "It's only early April, these two boxes of matsutake mushrooms must be expensive!"
Even though Li, the foodie, didn't know the exact price, he naturally knew that matsutake mushrooms must be quite expensive this season. "This is Gao Ge's doing. I'm just a wage earner; I can't afford such good stuff!"
"We're all in for a treat today!"
Li Nan once again took on the role of a laborer, and this time, in addition to Gao Siming, two beautiful women naturally contributed as well.
Only after moving the items into the kitchen did Li Nan find the source of the aroma.
"It's braised pig's trotters with soybeans!"
Looking at the pot of piping hot soybean stewed with pig's trotters, Li Nan's thoughts drifted.
Soybeans, soybeans, is this just a coincidence?
Qin Wen hadn't followed Blood Rose or watched her latest video, so naturally she didn't know the symbolism of soybeans.
Seeing Li Nan staring blankly, she thought her husband's foodie tendencies had kicked in again.
Ignoring him, Qin Wen glanced at the other ingredients in the kitchen that looked like they were bought today and said to Peng Yuanyuan, "So Sister Peng is a chef too! She's already prepared so much food. If we had known, we wouldn't have bought these things. We'd be showing off our limited skills!"
Peng Yuanyuan put down the last batch of ingredients in her hand, wiped her forehead, and said, "Xiao Qin, please don't laugh at me. I don't know how to cook at all! I've been busy all day making this braised pork trotters with soybeans. If you hadn't come soon, we probably wouldn't have been able to have dinner until tomorrow!"
"Sister Peng is being modest!"
Gao Siming, leaning on his cane, slowly peeked out and said, "By the way, what are you planning to eat today? These dishes are enough for a banquet for 108 states!"
The kitchen was now filled with all sorts of ingredients, from fruits and vegetables to chicken, duck, fish, beef, lamb, shrimp, and crab.
Making 108 elaborate dishes is a bit of an exaggeration, but it would easily be enough to serve five or six tables without any problem.
The three people in the kitchen looked at each other, unsure of what to do.
"Peng Yuanyuan, do you have a half-and half-pot and hot pot base here? How about we have hot pot?"
Gao Siming made the final decision, ending the agonizing debate among the group.
"Yes, yes, Aunt Chen prepared a set of all these kitchen items. I just don't like whether the hot pot base is expired or not."
"It's okay, you can still eat that stuff even if it's expired!"
Gao Siming glanced at the three obviously mismatched people in the kitchen, considered today's plans, and gave Peng Yuanyuan the order to leave.
"Leave the cooking to me, this disabled person. You three can go do whatever you need to do!"
Li Nan and her companion had a task to complete, and being complete novices at cooking, they didn't refuse and voluntarily went to the living room to lie down.
Peng Yuanyuan, as the hostess, felt a little embarrassed, but it was also a bit awkward for her to stay in the kitchen alone with Gao Siming.
Gao Siming naturally understood, and waved to Peng Yuanyuan, "You should go out and eat some sunflower seeds too, you can't help here!"
"Oh, okay, thank you for your hard work!"
Peng Yuanyuan, like a eunuch granted a pardon, flew out of the kitchen.
Peng Yuanyuan doesn't like drinking tea, so there are no tea sets in the house, let alone a tea room.
All I knew was that the three of them were coming today, so I bought half a refrigerator full of all sorts of sugary drinks.
The refrigerator was in the kitchen, and Peng Yuanyuan felt embarrassed to go back to get the drink.
The three of them sat in the living room, not daring to use their phones, and could only stare at each other awkwardly.
Qin Wen hadn't forgotten today's task, so she said to Peng Yuanyuan, "Sister Peng, I really envy you. You're so young, yet you live in such a big house!"
"It was left by my parents; I couldn't afford to buy such a big house on my own."
Qin Wen naturally knew about Peng Yuanyuan's parents' situation, but didn't chat about it too much.
"Sister Peng, I've never stayed in such a luxurious house before. Could you show me around?"
“Yeah, we don’t have Brother Gao’s luck to win the lottery and buy a villa!” Li Nan interjected. “We’ll go back and buy a couple of quick picks to try our luck.”
"Okay, I'll show you two around!"
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