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She walked over, picked up Wang Yao's completed "masterpiece," and looked at it with disdain. "Is it really that simple? Isn't it a bit unsightly?"
“I also want a decent one, but we don’t have the money. I think mine is pretty good, simple, clear and easy to understand.”
The mother and daughter are currently discussing their family restaurant's promotional flyers.
Wang Yao originally wanted to find a print shop or similar place to see if she could design one for them and then print it out.
However, when Liu Xiangmei went to order the signboard yesterday, she asked about the price and immediately gave up. It was just too expensive and unnecessary.
However, Wang Yao still felt that if she could distribute some flyers at the school on the day of school registration, her restaurant's popularity at the school would definitely increase rapidly.
Since the price offered by the print shop was too high, she decided to do it herself.
She bought a stack of paper and a box of watercolors and went home. After much thought and revision, she finally came up with the current version.
The flyer showed several strings of firecrackers at the top, and a small house below with the words "Hao Zai Lai Restaurant" written on the roof. The back gate of the county's No. 1 Middle School could also be vaguely seen in the distance.
The sign on the left and right sides of the building reads: "New store opening, all-you-can-eat rice."
The restaurant's opening date and address are located below the building.
Although the writing is very simple, it contains all the necessary information. Although the drawing is a bit abstract, it looks colorful and festive.
"Okay," Liu Xiangmei remembered something else, "Didn't you say you wanted to learn how to barbecue? When are we going?"
Wang Yao figured she had nothing to do tonight, so she decided to hurry rather than go too late.
Liu Xiangmei agreed, "Let's invite your second aunt's family too. They've been a lot of help these past few days, so let's thank them as well."
Wang Yao had no objections; the more people there are, the more lively the barbecue becomes.
Then she thought of her second aunt's husband, and felt that it was hard to say whether he was a good person or a bad person.
He could be considered a good person, yet he allowed his mother to act arrogantly and domineeringly in his home. Later, in order to have peace and quiet, he even threatened to force his mother to leave by using a nursing home as leverage.
If you call him a bad person, he has never done anything wrong. Now he is not only good to his second aunt, but also helps his second aunt's family whenever he can.
It's hard to explain, and I can't understand it. I can only say that he's an egoist!
In the evening, a group of six people gathered in front of a barbecue stall. The place was located on the riverbank of Hejie Street, and there were several barbecue stalls along the way, making it quite lively.
Looking at the shirtless men drinking and playing drinking games, Liu Xiangmei told Wang Yao and Sun Min to stay close to the adults, fearing that late at night, the two little girls might be taken to some corner and bullied if they weren't careful.
Apart from Sun Dong, everyone else here was visiting for the first time, so Sun Dong chose a stall to sit down at.
Liu Xiangmei looked at the handwritten menu handed to her by the owner. What was on this menu? Unlike other restaurants, which usually only listed skewers.
Looking up at the other tables, she saw that the strings of food weren't very big either, with the cheap ones costing only a few cents and the expensive ones costing two or three dollars. She clicked her tongue in surprise.
However, since it was a dinner party, Liu Xiangmei couldn't be too stingy. She ordered both meat and vegetables, and even got two bottles of ice-cold beer for each adult, while the children drank ice-cold soda.
Before the skewers even arrived, Liu Xiangmei raised her ice-cold beer to Sun Dong and Liu Xiangqiu to express her gratitude for the past few days.
Liu Xiangqiu gave her an annoyed look. "We're all family, what nonsense are you talking about?"
When the skewers arrived, the adults chatted about their lives and businesses, and Chen Xiu listened with great interest.
Wang Yao quietly commented on the taste of the grilled skewers to Sun Min.
Sun Min always knew that Wang Yao had learned a lot of cooking skills by reading books, which was why her dishes were so delicious.
She tried it again when she got home, but she found that even if she followed the book step by step, the final product was not very tasty.
Therefore, she believes that Wang Yao is very talented in cooking.
But tonight she really opened her eyes. How could someone know what seasonings were in the dish just by tasting it, and even be able to give a detailed explanation of how to improve it to make it taste even better?
"Yaoyao, is this really your first time eating this?"
Wang Yao nodded affirmatively and replied, "Yes."
Seeing Sun Min's incredulous expression, she added, "Don't think this is my first time eating barbecue. I've seen most of the ingredients on the table before. I know how to prepare each ingredient to make it taste better. There's an underlying logic to it. And the owner only uses a few kinds of seasonings, so I'm very familiar with their flavors. It's no big deal!"
Sun Min really wanted to grab Wang Yao's shoulders and shake her hard, to tell her that this was already amazing, that she was already better than most people, okay?
Well, Wang Yao really got away with it this time. Even when Sun Min went home and told her parents, Sun Dong still didn't believe her.
"She's just taking advantage of your inability to cook and talking nonsense. If everyone could cook it after just one taste, then all the restaurant owners on the street would starve!"
Liu Xiangqiu, who was feeling dizzy after drinking only one bottle of beer during dinner, expressed his dissatisfaction upon hearing this, saying, "Yaoyao wouldn't talk nonsense. You're just ignorant and don't believe it. There are many capable people in the world now, and Yaoyao is one of them."
Sun Min agreed with her mother. She left Sun Dong with the words, "Dad, don't be so narrow-minded," and went back to her room.
Indeed, Sun Min's behavior at home is quite different now than before.
Since returning home with her mother, she noticed that her father was very happy about her mother's return, even to the point of being overly attentive. She suddenly felt that her father's image was not as lofty as she had imagined.
It turns out that Dad also has many things he can't handle, and that he also needs Mom's support and help to live a normal life...
After making these discoveries, she has lost her reverence for her father.
In addition, her desire to grow up and become her mother's support further reduced her timidity.
Sun Dong was speechless at his daughter's words. Over the years, he had not only become a prominent figure, but also had a wide range of interests. He never expected that he would become a "frog in a well."
He watched his daughter's retreating figure, feeling both amused and exasperated.
Since her daughter came back, she has noticed changes in her daughter, which she sees as a good thing.
He never liked his daughter's timid and hesitant manner, but he never thought about correcting her. After all, she wasn't his son, so it didn't matter.
But he still felt a little strange about his daughter now daring to lecture him; he wasn't angry, but rather secretly pleased.
So the next day, Sun Min noticed that her father, who should have been unhappy that day, seemed to be in a pretty good mood.
Why should Sun Dong be unhappy? Because today is the day he suffers a major financial loss, the day he goes to the county's No. 1 Middle School to pay Sun Min's tuition fee.
Tomorrow is the 30th, the registration day for students at the county's No. 1 Middle School. All students who need to pay a transfer fee should go to the county's No. 1 Middle School to register and pay the fee one day in advance.
Sun Min followed her father to the academic affairs office of the county's No. 1 Middle School. There were already parents and students queuing up to pay, and many of them looked dejected.
But Sun Min glanced at her father and was still chatting and smoking with the other parents, as if he wasn't the one who was going to lose money.
When it was Sun Min's turn, she saw her father hand out a stack of hundred-yuan bills, and her heart bled. She secretly blamed herself for being so useless.
Sun Dong paid the money but there was no reaction. After signing the papers, he wanted to take Sun Min to a shop next to the No. 1 Middle School to buy some clothes, saying that the new school had a new look.
Sun Min had no interest in shopping for clothes. She said she wanted to go see Wang Yao, and Sun Dong readily agreed. He only gave her a hundred-yuan bill and told her to go home early.
"Your dad has become so good now, you should be secretly happy." After hearing Sun Min's description, Wang Yao threw a pillow at Sun Min's face, unable to bear her ungrateful attitude.
Sun Min removed the pillow and sighed, "I just feel like my dad is acting weird."
"What's so strange about that? He used to carry too many burdens in his heart, and there was always a barrier between him and you and your mother. Now that barrier has been broken, he's just going to do whatever he wants. The biggest troublemaker in your family has also been sent away. Without the troublemaker, people naturally become more peaceful."
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