Chapter 542 Different Courtyards
alley.
In late spring and early summer, the heat has just arrived, but at four or five in the afternoon, it is still a little cool.
The Fan family's courtyard was particularly lively that day.
Jiang Manye moved a stove with a small chimney from her hometown and placed it in the yard to stew meat for everyone to eat, which attracted the attention of curious babies No. 1234.
Curious Baby No. 1 Tiger: "Wow! Smoke!"
Curious Baby No. 2 Yang Qiuyan: "It smells so good!"
Curious Baby No. 3 Song Ying: "This pot is good. Let's eat around the pot later, how about that?"
Curious Baby No. 4 Huang Ling: "Xiao'e, stop selling meat and come to my Suihualou to be a chef! Just make this one dish."
Jiang Manye was a little embarrassed when she was surrounded by so many people and praised for cooking for the first time:
"This is nothing in our place. Almost every household can make it. How can I be a chef? It's better to sell pork. Sister Ling, if you think it tastes good, I will tell your chef the method and seasonings, and they will definitely be able to make it."
"Oh, this involves intellectual property rights! That's not possible." Huang Ling waved her hand.
"What power?" Jiang Manye asked.
"You'll know the answer later by asking your Engineer Fan. Ask him to write a contract, and then you can work out how much this stew recipe should sell for." Song Ying said with a smile.
"Hey! You can't sell it for money, Sister Ling, I don't want money." Jiang Manye was unwilling to sell it when she heard about money.
Jiang Manye simply moved out tables and chairs and let everyone sit in the yard to chat and eat fruit snacks.
This was the first time Huang Ling came to this courtyard since the Fan family moved in.
The yard and the house have been freshly painted inside and out, the earthen brick floor has been poured with cement, and there are no vegetables planted along the courtyard wall. Instead, it is planted with roses and small evergreen trees. It is no longer the original appearance, but a warm new house.
"This little tree is good. It's green even in winter." Huang Ling walked along the courtyard wall.
"Shitou and Xiaojun read all day long, and I'm worried their eyesight is getting damaged. Planting some trees would be good for their eyes," Jiang Manye continued. "I wanted to invite you guys to dinner a long time ago, but it took you so long to clean up. I'm so sorry. We've even eaten quite a few meals with Sister Ying and Sister Li."
At that time, they were renovating the kitchen and could not cook. In the first few days, Engineer Fan brought meals from the canteen to his wife and children. After Aunt Li and Song Ying found out, they let the family eat in their yard.
"That's no big deal! Hey, Sister Ling, look at this house now. It's really nice and completely different." Song Ying couldn't help but say.
"Yeah, Xiao'e is really capable. I can't." Huang Ling praised.
"Forget it! You have Director Zhou in your family, so why do you need to interfere in anything?" Song Ying said with a smile.
Huang Ling nodded proudly:
"That's right. Our Director Zhou is also a capable director and a skilled bricklayer. If I interfere..."
"I have to thank you!" Zhou Huaiyi, who had just entered the courtyard, came over and took over. "You mix some cement, she asks you the ratio, you put it on, she asks you the specific gravity, you turn around, and she uses her fingers to poke a few holes in the wall you put it on and asks me what it looks like. I said it looks like dog paws, and she gets angry."
Zhou Huaiyi had just painted the wall not long ago, and now he was trying his best to complain.
"That's a plum blossom!" Huang Ling said dissatisfiedly.
"Oh, yes, flowers. Song Ying, go and see if it looks like a flower or a dog's paw." Zhou Huaiyi said to Song Ying.
Lin Wufeng, who entered the courtyard a step later than Zhou Huaiyi, bumped into him and said in a low but not so low voice:
"Sister Ling says it's a flower, so it's a flower."
Everyone in the yard laughed.
"Wow, it smells so good." Huang Ling quickly changed the subject.
Jiang Manye opened the pot and sprinkled a handful of green onions into it.
Everyone exclaimed "Wow" when they smelled the fragrance.
Fan Shilei didn't talk much, he just did the logistical work, moving chairs, pouring tea, adding water, melon seeds, and fruit, and then laughing along.
Half a year after Dongzhe went to college, Xiaohu finally got a new playmate - Jun. At this moment, he and Dongzhe are using a small stick to poke a snail in the corner of the wall.
Fan Jun felt that the edge of the pot was too dangerous, so he led him to the side to play.
I have to say that Jiang Manye is really capable. She chose a day when Wang Yong's family was not at home to host the dinner.
Perhaps he realized that Wang Yong was not very close to the Lin and Li families.
At this time, Uncle Li stuck his head out of the store and shouted:
"Ah Ling! Sister Zhu is calling!"
Huang Ling stood up to answer the phone, and Jiang Manye followed her out and said:
"Sister Ling, is Sister Zhu in Suzhou or Shanghai?"
"I'm back today."
"Then let her come to dinner too!"
"Okay, I'll talk to her."
Huang Ling thought that Zhu Xiu Yu must have called her office and home but was not there, so she called the phone in the alley. She thought she probably had something to talk to her about, so after answering the phone, she asked Zhu Xiu Yu to come to dinner as well, so that they could meet and talk.
Zhu Xiuyu refused at first:
"I'm at Suihua Building right now. Just have a staff meal. I'll come find you after you finish eating."
"Come here, I tell you, you will regret it if you don't come. Xiao'e's dish is unique. She is willing to teach, so we must not let others learn this secret recipe. Only you can learn it and we can feel at ease!" Huang Ling thought for a while and said.
"Okay, I'll be there soon. Wait for me." Zhu Xiu Yu hung up the phone and rushed to the alley.
Huang Ling and Song Ying wanted to help, but Jiang Manye wouldn't let them into the kitchen, so they had to give up.
Just tell her not to be anxious and to take her time.
The two men came back and sat back at the table. Li Yiming had also returned home at this time, and the four men sat together chatting.
Huang Ling had nothing to do, so she took out her notebook and looked at it.
Li Yiming slapped his thigh and said, "I forgot about this. I took it back yesterday."
After saying that, he ran back home and brought a cardboard box to Fan Shilei.
"This is......"
"Engineer Fan, these are the stationery Aunt Huang asked me to prepare for you. There are leather notebooks, paper notebooks, white paper of several different thicknesses, fountain pens, ink, ballpoint pens, pencils, rulers and angle squares. If you need anything in the future, just tell me. From now on, we will be comrades on the same front!" Li Yiming replied.
Mr. Fan is not only fluent in German, but also very good at English. He is now involved in the translation of new machine manuals and some other categories.
When high school student Fan Jun heard about stationery, he also came over and drooled at the sight of those things. He had never seen a leather notebook before. The best notebook he had ever seen was the one with plastic cover.
"Xiao Jun, there are also your exercise books here. I was the one who prepared the stationery for Dongzhe and the others before. I have experience." Li Yiming said to Fan Jun.
"This costs a lot of money! Some things are hard to buy... Thank you so much, Yiming." Mr. Fan picked up a brown leather notebook and stroked it lovingly, apparently liking it very much.
"You're welcome. That's what I do. I look for goods all over the world. I sell things that other department stores have, but I also sell things that other department stores don't have, like this..."
As Li Yiming spoke, he took out a box of chocolates with liquor filling from his bag and placed it in front of Huang Ling.
"Haha, it's arrived!" Huang Ling was very happy.
"I haven't distributed the goods to Shanghai Yuesheng yet, so I asked them not to unpack them and send them to Suzhou. Suzhou is our headquarters! New products must always be sold at the headquarters first!" Li Yiming explained reluctantly.
Everyone knew that if the goods were unpacked and shipped in Shanghai, it would take many days to get to Suzhou, and Huang Ling would have to wait a few days before she could eat them, so everyone agreed:
"Yes, yes, that's right."
Huang Ling opened the package and let everyone eat together, then picked up one and went to the kitchen to give it to Jiang Manye.
"Ah, this, um~" Jiang Manye gave a complicated reaction, "It's bitter, sweet, and tastes like alcohol. Hahaha! Don't tell me! This tastes really good!"
This explanation is quite accurate.
When the three of them came out to set the table, Zhu Xiu Yu was squatting in front of the stove stewing meat, studying it.
Zhu Xiuyu was very interested in this dish. Jiang Manye met a confidant, and the two talked about cooking all the time. No matter what Huang Ling said, Jiang Manye taught Zhu Xiuyu how to cook this dish without reservation and without asking for anything in return.
The meal was placed in the yard, with three square tables set up around the stewing stove, and it was as lively as New Year's Day.
There hasn't been so much laughter in this yard in about ten years.
After dinner, Zhu Xiuyu and Huang Ling went to Song Ying's house to discuss something.
Zhou Huaiyi and Lin Wufeng knew that the three of them had something to talk about, so they sat in the yard with Yiming and chatted about everything under the sun.
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