Chapter 108: Designated Dishes for the State Banquet
"There should be some very important leaders visiting today." Wang Fen pointed at the license plates of the cars.
"Mom, let's just take the food to the kitchen and don't bother Grandpa."
"Well, your mother would be scared of your grandfather's comrades-in-arms." Wang Fen joked.
The mother and daughter took Xiao He and sent the dishes directly into the kitchen. As soon as they entered, they saw that the kitchen was busy.
The old man has always been simple and doesn't care much about food, so there is only one auntie who cooks at home. So when the old man invites people to a banquet, the auntie is very busy.
Seeing this, Wang Fen and Mi Xia hurried over to help. "Xiao Xia, just sit over here and take a rest. I'll do it." Since she became pregnant, the kitchen has been a forbidden area for Mi Xia.
"I'm fine, mom. I need to move my body. I can't sit all the time. It just so happens that I haven't cooked yet, so I'll try to see if my cooking skills have gotten rusty."
After working for half an hour, Mi Xia fried several vegetarian dishes, including golden-edged cabbage, salted egg yolk cauliflower, stir-fried shredded vegetables, fresh vegetables, blanched vegetables, etc. The elderly are suitable for eating vegetarian food, so the vegetables she brought came in handy.
"Old Zhou, don't just drink, come and eat some food." Grandpa Liu called out.
"Hey, come on, Lao Liu, this dish looks better today than before. Did you change the chef? Let me try it."
"The chef hasn't changed, but it does look good."
Mr. Zhou picked up a piece of food with chopsticks, put it in his mouth and chewed it. Suddenly his eyebrows raised, and he picked up a few more pieces with chopsticks.
"I say, Old Zhou, no one is competing with you. You are such a grown-up, is there anything you haven't eaten yet? If foreign friends see this, they will think that our great China can't afford to support an old man like you."
"Old Liu and Old Zhang, please try this, it's really different." Old Master Zhou was greeting them without stopping his hands, and he picked up another piece of cauliflower.
"This one is good!"
Mr. Liu and Mr. Zhang picked up the dishes doubtfully, but they couldn't help feeling a little sad.
At their place, this Old Zhou was really making a fuss about nothing, considering they had eaten everything.
This idea changed the moment the dish entered his mouth. Old Zhou really wasn't lying. This was much more delicious than the state banquets he usually had.
The old man swept away the several vegetarian dishes on the table like whirlwind. The health doctor next to him frowned secretly, thinking that he ate too much.
“Old Liu, this is too unfair of you. You have such a good chef hidden away and you didn’t invite him out when we came before.” Old Master Zhou smacked his lips with an unsatisfied look.
Mr. Zhang next to him echoed, "Indeed, I used to love meat, but now I realize that this vegetarian dish tastes better than meat."
"Yes, Lao Liu, go and ask the chef to come out. We have to thank someone for eating so much."
Mr. Liu wondered, "This is the first time I've eaten this flavor. The chef at home hasn't changed. Xiao Zhang, go call the cook over."
After a while, Wang Fen led Mi Xia in.
"Hey, Xiao Xia, why are you here? Come and sit next to grandpa." The old man was very happy to see Mi Xia, especially when he knew that Mi Xia was pregnant with a great-grandson, he was even more delighted and always summoned Mi Xia to come every other day.
"Lao Zhou, Lao Zhang, this is my granddaughter-in-law, Mi Xia. Did you know that there is a baby in her belly?" Old Master Liu laughed proudly.
"Hello, Grandpa Zhou, hello, Grandpa Zhang." Mi Xia greeted them one by one. Wang Fenxiao greeted the two old men one by one.
In fact, Mi Xia is now very frightened, because in front of her are two characters from the history books of her previous life.
Although my grandfather was in a high position, he was still my grandfather after all. I had only seen the two of them on TV before.
Hearing about twins, even though Mr. Zhou and Mr. Zhang were knowledgeable, they were full of envy at this moment.
"Good of you, Old Liu. You didn't inform me of this happy event. You should drink a penalty."
"Yes, yes, yes, drink a glass of wine, drink a glass of wine."
Watching the booing and drinking in front of him, Mi Xia felt closer to the two old men unconsciously. It seems that even the most powerful people have emotions and desires.
Old Man Liu drank another cup amid the noise, then turned to Mi Xia and said, "Xiao Xia, you're late. These dishes today are especially delicious. If you had told me you were coming earlier, I would have saved one portion for you. Now we old men have finished them all."
"Grandpa, I made these dishes." Mi Xia said a little embarrassedly.
"What?" The old man was confused at this time.
"Old Liu, you are so lucky. Not only did your son have a great-grandson, but your grandson's wife is also an excellent cook." Mr. Zhou said, but there was always a sour taste in his words.
Old Master Liu stroked his beard and laughed, "Don't you see whose granddaughter-in-law she is? My granddaughter-in-law is a college student at Jingqing University. She passed the exam on her own and knows several languages."
Seeing this, Mr. Zhang did not talk to Mr. Liu, but asked Mi Xia directly: "Xiao Xia, where did you learn this cooking skill? Let's send our chef to study for further studies later."
"Ah, Grandpa Zhang, my cooking skills are average. I learned it by myself." Mi Xia waved her hands repeatedly.
"Come to think of it, it might be because all the vegetables today are grown by me." Mi Xia suddenly thought that the vegetables grown from the seeds soaked in spiritual spring water must be particularly delicious.
"Oh? Xiaoxia, you can also grow vegetables."
"That's right. My granddaughter-in-law is very knowledgeable and talented. She can even make foreign steamed buns." Old Man Liu answered again.
Mi Xia smiled secretly, it turned out that the old man had such a "lively and cute" side.
Then he turned to Mr. Zhang and said, "Grandpa Zhang, I have contracted a piece of land in South City, about one thousand acres. I specialize in growing grains, vegetables, fruit trees, etc."
"Good, good, good!" Grandpa Zhang said "good" repeatedly, and then said: "Agriculture is the foundation of our country. We still have a long way to go to develop agriculture and let the people of the country have enough food to eat. However, top students like you have gone to farm, so it seems that we can achieve this goal soon."
"Then tell me why the vegetables you grow are so delicious, and do you have any advanced technology that can be promoted?" Mr. Zhang works in rural areas, and he never strays from his profession.
"Grandpa Zhang, I have a few small tools I invented that I can promote, as well as a drip irrigation system that is more suitable for arid areas. I am still researching some other ones."
At this point, Mi Xia secretly made up her mind that she had to find an opportunity to promote the high-yield seeds she brought from the space.
Upon hearing this, Mr. Zhang stood up excitedly and told the guard beside him, "Go ask Xiaoxia for a website address. We'll go visit it in a few days."
"Also, Xiaoxia, the vegetables you grow are so delicious. Is the yield enough? How about supplying them directly to state banquets in the future?"
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