In addition to her own products, she also brought a gift box of donkey-hide gelatin and two bottles of high-quality Moutai liquor. These were naturally purchased from outside sources and were considered high-end and appropriate gifts.
Guo Mingli also remembered the fruits her son brought back during the Spring Festival and realized that these things were probably produced by Tang Xiaoxiao's family. Recalling the deliciousness of those fruits, she did not refuse and took them directly to the kitchen.
Tang Xiaoxiao followed behind and said, "Auntie, let me help you."
Guo Mingli refused and kept pushing her outside, saying, "Go sit and chat in the living room. The kitchen is smoky, so don't let it bother you. Auntie will finish cooking in a bit, just wait."
Tang Xiaoxiao didn't insist and retreated with her help.
No family with even a modicum of manners would let their son's girlfriend cook on her first visit. The Han family would obviously never do such a thing, not even when Tang Xiaoxiao first visited in her previous life.
Guo Mingli has always been impeccable in these matters of etiquette.
However, Tang Xiaoxiao still had to be polite. After that, she was done.
Han Shiping also went into the kitchen. Unlike Tang's father, who was completely clueless about housework, the Han couple were quite harmonious when it came to chores. In fact, Han Shiping's cooking skills were even better than Guo Mingli's. This was probably largely due to the division of labor between the couple. The Han family business was supported by the two of them together; neither could function without the other. While working outside, the couple had to pitch in, and naturally, whoever had the time would do the housework at home.
The Tang family was different. Tang's father worked to support the whole family, and after coming home from get off work, he didn't care about anything else; Tang's mother was a full-time housewife and didn't care about outside affairs at all.
The two sets of parents had completely different lifestyles, yet they both lived a loving and harmonious life together.
Therefore, there is no such thing as right or wrong, or what should or shouldn't be done; it all depends on the person's mood. As long as you are happy, who cares what others say?
Tang Xiaoxiao utterly despised the toxic motivational quotes that were popular online during the last two years of her previous life, which had harmed countless naive girls who had never been in a relationship.
The Han couple worked together and, in just over an hour, prepared a table full of dishes: braised pork, cola chicken wings, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, twice-cooked pork, and lotus root and pork rib soup.
Northerners' meals are traditionally heavy on oil, especially when entertaining guests. Serving a table full of bright green vegetables would be considered disrespectful. Therefore, the dishes prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Han were all meat-based, not many in variety but generous in portion, and they looked quite appetizing.
The four sat down, and Mr. and Mrs. Han kept urging Tang Xiaoxiao to eat more. Tang Xiaoxiao was very obliging and kept praising how delicious it was, which made Mrs. Han beam with joy.
In fact, Guo Mingli's cooking skills were really just average. The braised pork was undercooked, the eggs were overcooked, the twice-cooked pork had too much oil, the chicken wings were a bit bland, and the pork rib soup wasn't cooked long enough.
Tang Xiaoxiao had eaten plenty of her cooking in her past life, and she could tell at a glance that it was definitely her who was in charge of the cooking. Han's father had at most assisted by preparing the ingredients. If Tang's father had been cooking, it probably would have tasted better...
But even the most emotionally inept person wouldn't point that out directly, right?
Fortunately, the ingredients were of high quality enough that it wasn't too bad to eat.
Only Han Yunqi casually blurted out, "Mom, you need to work on your cooking. The cook at my company cooks better than you."
He was smart enough not to say that Tang Xiaoxiao did a better job.
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