[Chapter 112 Chapter 112 Uninvited]
"Where is your sister-in-law?" Cheng Liyan asked.
"Sister-in-law is in the kitchen." Xiao Mei said.
Cheng Liyan responded and went into the house.
As soon as he entered the house, he smelled a fragrance that was stronger than outside, and it was sweet and fragrant.
Even he, a grown man who hadn't eaten candy for a long time, couldn't help swallowing.
"Li Yan is back." Qi Gong was the first to see him and greeted him while sitting in the living room.
Cheng Liyan could only walk towards the people sitting around.
He found that not only Engineer Qi and Dean Qi came, but also Commander Ye and Deputy Political Commissar Liu came uninvited.
This surprised Cheng Liyan for a moment.
Seeing his surprise, Commander Ye glared at him and said, "Why, we can't come?"
Cheng Liyan quickly said, "No, I can come, I can come."
Commander Ye snorted and ignored him.
Deputy Political Commissar Liu on the side laughed and said, "You let us come here or not, this is called coming uninvited.
Who made your Xiao Shen so good that the food he baked smells so good? Didn’t you see that not only we came, but all the children in the yard were also attracted to come.
It was just me and your uncle Ye who were thick-skinned enough to come here on our own. The others who were embarrassed are now drooling over their food without knowing where to hide!"
As he said this he started laughing to himself.
"Here I come!" At this moment, Fade Chen had already walked out quickly from the balcony at the back, carrying a large plate of various skewers.
Cheng Liyan glanced at the plate and found roasted pumpkin slices, roasted potato slices, roasted eggplant slices, roasted green peppers and roasted leeks.
Although they are all vegetarian dishes, each skewer is brushed with a sauce-colored sauce and half of it is sprinkled with red chili powder, which makes people salivate at the sight.
"Hey, there's a battlefield in the backyard?"
Seeing Chen Fei, Yan Huayang immediately put the things he had brought in on the table, and followed him to the small space behind the balcony where vegetables had not yet been planted.
Only then did Cheng Liyan realize that there was also a grill over there.
They were all acquaintances, and although most of them were visiting Cheng Liyan's home for the first time, no one was restrained.
Several leaders gathered together and chatted while eating skewers, and Cheng Liyan finally had the opportunity to go to the kitchen to visit his wife.
At this time, Shen Yuyao was cutting tofu in the kitchen.
She was not surprised to see him come in, but picked up the chopsticks and stuffed something into his mouth, then asked, "Is it delicious?"
Cheng Liyan was caught off guard and her mouth was filled with food.
He chewed it subconsciously and found that the food in his mouth was soft yet chewy, salty, fragrant, and a little spicy, with a very special taste.
He chewed it several times before realizing that he was eating potatoes!
He knew that this must be what his wife had said, the effect of the sauce that even her second brother praised.
"It's really delicious." Cheng Liyan couldn't help but praise.
"Don't eat too much even if it's delicious. There are still many good things that haven't been taken out." Shen Yuyao said.
She was also helpless.
There were too many children in the yard just now.
Even though we prepared a lot of food, it still can’t hold enough for so many people!
Therefore, she could only ask Chen Fei to bake some potatoes, pumpkins and the like to appease the children.
As for meat and vegetables, I didn’t even dare to serve them out!
Cheng Liyan picked up another piece of potato and put it in his mouth. Then he leaned forward over his wife's shoulder and asked, "Why did you cut so much tofu?"
"Roast it and eat it." Shen Yuyao said.
Shen Yuyao was also a little helpless at this moment.
She had planned everything before, always fearing that she would not be able to entertain everyone well on her first dinner party at home.
She thought of various scenarios for this.
I even listed the ingredients for grilling several times, for fear that there wouldn’t be enough and everyone wouldn’t enjoy the meal enough.
But she overlooked one thing, that is, she forgot that people at this time would come uninvited.
It was like the sudden visit of Commander Ye and Deputy Political Commissar Liu, or the sudden rush of children...
This made Shen Yuyao realize that it was inappropriate to barbecue in the yard.
If the fragrance gets out, it might attract jealousy and resentment.
So she had to temporarily decide to move the barbecue grill to the backyard and have the meal in the dining room.
Although this way you lose the fun of eating while grilling, at least you won’t have a group of people sitting inside eating while a group of people gather outside the fence to watch.
That's so embarrassing!
As for the fragrance that wafts out, there's nothing we can do about it.
You can smell it. Anyway, they don't have barbecues every day at home, so whoever wants to talk about it can talk about it.
Cheng Liyan put all the bags he brought in onto a plate, and then brought them to the restaurant one by one.
When I entered the house again, I found my daughter-in-law was cleaning scallops.
Cheng Liyan knew that his wife liked to be clean and didn't like to do these things, so he quickly went over and said, "You take a rest, I'll do it."
After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and stood in front of the sink skillfully. He grabbed a scallop and started to clean out the internal organs.
"After cleaning, put the scallop meat back into the shell and arrange it properly."
Shen Yuyao gave some instructions and then stood aside and started chopping green onions.
"No problem." Cheng Liyan agreed, and his hands moved very quickly. In a short while, he had washed twenty or thirty scallops.
Shen Yuyao checked it and was very satisfied.
She pointed to a bamboo basket on the side and said, "Take those out and put them on the plate. No need to wash them, they were all cleaned up by Xiao Mei earlier."
Cheng Liyan opened the lid of the bamboo basket and took a look.
I found a dozen small flatfish, a bag of white shrimps, a bag of small crabs, a dozen small octopuses, and ten large oysters.
All cleaned and packed away.
He couldn't help but frowned: "Did you go to the beach this morning?"
"Yeah." Shen Yuyao nodded.
"It's so far, how did you carry it back? You said you would wait for me to come back, wait for me to come back."
Such a large basket of seafood must weigh at least twenty pounds. The small market on the beach is about an hour and a half away by bike.
Cheng Liyan immediately felt bad when he thought about his wife running so far and carrying so many things back.
I even started to regret treating everyone at home today.
He really didn't intend to make such a big fuss.
In Cheng Liyan's opinion, all he had to do was buy some cooked food from a restaurant outside and then come back and stir-fry a few dishes.
We are just trying to maintain our relationship, what we eat is not important.
He didn't expect that his wife would take his words so seriously and make such a grand event.
This made him both moved and distressed.
Shen Yuyao knew what he was thinking as soon as she saw his expression.
He explained, "Xiao Mei went with me. She rode Chen Fei's bike, which was big and could hang the bamboo basket on the crossbar. She didn't let me carry it."
"That's far. And it's still so sunny today!" Cheng Liyan was still unhappy.
The more he thought about it, the more distressed he felt. Cheng Liyan began to urge his wife to leave: "Go and eat, don't let them eat it all. I can make these, I'll be done in a moment."
As he spoke, he walked behind Shen Yuyao and reached out to take the chopsticks she was holding.
"I'll add another ingredient." Shen Yuyao dodged to the side helplessly.
But she didn't expect that Cheng Liyan was standing right behind her, and she took a step back and ran directly into his arms.
Cheng Liyan held his wife with both hands, subconsciously hugged her tightly, and kissed her on the cheek.
"Ah! I didn't see it, I didn't see anything." Xiao Mei's surprised voice suddenly came from the kitchen door.
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