When Ye Zhiqiu returned to the Ma family and sat down, Ma's father smiled and asked Ye Zhiqiu, "Xiao Ye, everyone thinks your cooking is very delicious! I want to wait until the second day of the three-day National Day holiday and ask you to come over to help prepare the banquet. What do you think?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Zhiqiu shook his head quickly and explained, "Uncle Ma, I can't agree to this! After all, I haven't officially graduated yet. I can cook for relatives and friends, but I can't break the rules and accept formal banquets like weddings!"
However, I can recommend two of my masters. Not only do they own their own restaurants, but when the chef certification exam was open, they both passed the Level 3 chef certification!
My master didn't continue taking the exam because it would have required too much extra work. Actually, their level is extremely high!"
It’s not that Ye Zhiqiu was praising his two masters, but that’s what they told him.
After hearing Ye Zhiqiu's words, everyone was quite convinced, because even his apprentice had such level, so the matter was settled.
Now that the Ma family has been decided, naturally the He family has also been decided. It just so happens that Ye Zhiqiu and his two masters can be invited over together when the time comes.
The four families discussed it and decided they needed ten tables. They held a joint banquet to stop the accusations of extravagance and waste.
When two families get together, isn't it normal for the dishes to be more sumptuous?
But this is just for this year. Starting next year, we won’t be able to do this anymore! Because the shortage of supplies next year will be extremely alarming.
Nowadays, no matter what, as long as you have money, you can get all kinds of ingredients, and relatively speaking, the prices are not very expensive.
After a satisfying meal and a few drinks, Ye Zhiqiu accompanied Ma Banghua and He Yongjun to see off Mu Xiuying and Sun Yulan's families as they went out to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.
When they returned to the Ma family, both families gathered together and began to discuss the dishes.
When He Yongjun's father saw the three of them coming back, he smiled and waved, "Xiao Ye, come here quickly. We'll need your help with the ingredients for this banquet!"
Ye Zhiqiu said with a grin, "Okay, uncle, I'll help you get the ingredients. Can you spare me two packs of your Panda cigarettes?"
He Dashan laughed heartily and said, "Hahaha, what's wrong with that? Although uncle is a little distressed, but for your brother Yongjun, I have to give it to you no matter how much it hurts!"
Ye Zhiqiu was extremely happy, as these Panda cigarettes were specially supplied and could not be bought in department stores at all!
At this time, Chen Yuting, who had gone to cook sobering soup, came out with the soup. Feng Xiaomei placed the bowl she was carrying in front of Ye Zhiqiu.
Then he said for the first time: "You drink..."
Just this one sentence shocked and stunned everyone who knew her.
Ye Zhiqiu was unaware of this. He looked at Feng Xiaomei, whose face was icy, and smiled brightly, saying, "Thank you, Comrade Xiaomei. This hangover soup must be delicious!"
These words not only made Feng Xiaomei a little confused, but also made everyone who was already stunned, their faces twitched!
The hangover soup in this bowl is just boiled ginger soup. What’s so good about it?
Chen Yuqing finally discovered that Ye Zhiqiu was very thick-skinned and shameless!
I'm not trying to belittle him, but he has a good personality. Maybe he can really change my daughter!
Ye Zhiqiu blew on the ginger soup while drinking it. Seeing the two families start to list their things, he said to them, "Four-happiness meatballs, chickens, ducks, fish and shrimps, I can help you purchase them.
I can't get this pork elbow. Ten tables means ten pork elbows, so you need to get them yourselves. It's also not easy for us to get together the Tremella Soup for Early Birth.
As for the main dishes like green vegetables and lotus leaf glutinous rice, I can help get them. By the way, uncles, are we going to make eight cold dishes and eight hot dishes?"
Ma Jinzhong shook his head and said, "Xiao Ye, we have some leaders coming to the wedding banquet, so we can't be so extravagant. We have six hot dishes in total: four-joy meatballs, braised pork elbow, sweet and sour carp, roast chicken, plus one braised pork and one boiled fish.
"Add a white fungus soup, a cold dish, an old duck soup, and a lotus leaf glutinous rice. Ten dishes in total, making it perfect. Do you think this arrangement is okay?"
Ye Zhiqiu nodded and said affirmatively: "This is perfect, there is definitely no problem! Uncle, you guys will be responsible for getting the ingredients for the pork elbow and white fungus soup!
If needed, I can help purchase pork, chicken, duck, and fish. As for the salad, since there aren't many vegetables on the table, I suggest a mixed salad; it's perfect for serving in one bowl."
Feng Xiaomei watched Ye Zhiqiu speak so freely. She really didn't know why he was so arrogant. Ten tables would require ten chickens, and two dishes of fish would require twenty fish! Not to mention pork and duck, which weren't easy to come by!
Ma Banghua excitedly patted Ye Zhiqiu on the shoulder and said happily, "Brother, thank you so much! If we really had to get these ingredients ourselves, I don't know how much favors we would have had to pay!"
Ye Zhiqiu raised his eyebrows and said seriously, "Don't thank me too much. Go and collect my uncle's collection of wine and cigarettes and bring them back home for me soon!"
"Hahaha, I have no objection to Xiaoye moving out, but I can't let your brother Banghua line his pockets!"
"Xiao Ye, when that day comes, you have to help your brother Yongjun and toast people!"
"Yes, yes, Xiaoye, don't go to the kitchen on that day. Help your brother Banghua entertain the guests!"
Everyone was talking and laughing, but Ye Zhiqiu didn't mind. Who was he afraid of when it came to drinking?
In the past, there were fewer people, and no one knew Ye Zhiqiu's drinking ability. But today, with so many people around, he toasted both sides for a long time, but no one could figure out his drinking ability!
It would be such a waste of a person's drinking ability if he didn't help to entertain the guests!
Ye Zhiqiu asked He Yongjun and his companion to copy the recipe three times, two copies for his two masters to see, and one copy for himself to prepare the dishes.
There was space for chicken, duck, fish and pork, and there were plenty of vegetables, so Ye Zhiqiu didn't need to go shopping at all.
Everyone discussed it again and decided how many kitchen helpers to arrange.
Ye Zhiqiu said with a smile: "As for the kitchen helpers, you can arrange them accordingly. Actually, they just help with killing chickens and washing vegetables. The kitchen helpers don't even need to cut the vegetables. My master and his friends are very particular about how to cut the vegetables!"
I will help in the kitchen by chopping vegetables, and then help with the reception when guests start arriving."
Ma Banghua winked and said, "Okay! I'll arrange for you to bring my cousin with you to help arrange seats for the guests and pour tea."
Feng Xiaomei was a little confused because she had never done such a thing before, and she looked to her mother for help.
Who knew that Chen Yuqing didn't even look at her, but smiled and said to Ma Banghua, "Second nephew, this is a good arrangement. You should let your cousin exercise more! Otherwise, she will just read books all day and won't even go out for a walk."
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