The dishes on the table are actually quite simple. There are only four dishes in total, but the quantity of the dishes is really considerable. It feels like they are not plates for serving dishes, but washbasins.
A pot of stick bones, a chicken stewed with mushrooms, and a pickled cabbage stewed pork ribs. These are all in pots. Not to mention three old men, a middle-aged woman, and a young man, even if there are twice as many people, they will definitely not be able to eat them.
over.
There is also a Guobao Pork, which is also served in a large fish plate, and is piled high. It feels like it is impossible to make such a big plate without even three to five kilograms of meat.
Four dishes were four dishes, but they almost caught up with the dish bowl in front of the master chef in the cafeteria. The three old men looked at it with their mouths agape.
Cheng Cuihua said with a smile: "There are still three delicacies, come right away, I will shoot another cucumber, and the dishes will be ready." The three old men and the young man sat down, and Cheng Yu asked Uncle Wu to get the wine. Every old man still said
A small cup, and stated that it was only a cup, but Cheng Qingsong no longer cared about so much. While pretending to be polite to Sun and Li, he did not care at all.
He politely picked up a stick bone and put it to his mouth, like a hungry dog eating meat. Old Sun Tou and Old Li Tou seemed to be aroused by Cheng Qingsong's eating appearance.
, looked at each other, each smiled, and stopped being pretentious. Chopsticks and other things are completely useless in front of such a huge stick bone.
, they rolled up their sleeves and grabbed a stick bone each, put it directly to their mouths and started chewing it. Cheng Yu also took one. Not to mention, it tasted really good. It seemed that Cheng Cuihua had worked hard in this area.
Relatively speaking, due to the high latitude of the Northeast and the long period of cold weather, it is not easy to eat hot dishes. Therefore, their dishes are mainly stews, and most of them can be eaten while stewing.
After the meal, all I ate were hot dishes. So in terms of taste, it was somewhat unsatisfactory. But Cheng Cuihua, first of all, was not
It is simmered all the time and will not be overcooked. Secondly, some thought must have been put into the seasoning. The taste is much better than the dishes Cheng Yu had eaten when he was in the Northeast.
The two old men, Sun and Li, were quite satisfied with what they had eaten, mainly because of the good presentation of these dishes. The ancients often said that drinking in big bowls and eating large pieces of meat is the norm. Only now, it shows the boldness of Northeastern style and truly eats meat in large pieces.
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Cheng Qingsong, on the other hand, pounced on him like a hungry dog and ate up the bone of a stick in three licks. He also used chopsticks to poke out the bone marrow and sucked it off, but there was nothing on his face.
The look of satisfaction.
"It's strange. It looks good and the food tastes good, but I just don't think it's as delicious as the stick bones I ate back then."
Hearing what Cheng Qingsong said, Cheng Cuihua, who was walking over carrying fresh vegetables and cucumbers, hurriedly put down the two dishes in his hands and asked Cheng Qingsong nervously: "Dad, what's wrong? This dish doesn't taste right?"
After that, he looked at Lao Suntou and Lao Litou again. The two old men, Sun and Li, looked much more elegant, so there were still a lot of stick bones left in their hands. Seeing Cheng Cuihua's eyes, the two of them paused for a moment.
Sun Tou said: "I think it's good. The meat is rotten, but it's not bad."
When it comes to removing the bones, the heat is just right. You can pull it off with just a smack of your lips and bite it in your mouth. Even a toothless person like me can eat it. It’s pretty good.”
Lao Litou also nodded repeatedly and said: "The taste is also good, the typical stew flavor, the spices and seasonings are just right, and the flavor is complete."
Cheng Cuihua felt relieved when the two old men said this, but she still looked at Cheng Qingsong nervously, because the old man was still frowning, as if he was wondering what was wrong.
"I didn't say it didn't taste good, but I always felt that something was wrong. It didn't have the same taste as when I ate the stick bones. What kind of taste was missing?" Looking at Cheng Qingsong thinking hard.
, Cheng Yu put down the meatless bone of the stick, sucked each of his fingers in his mouth, then picked up a wet wipe and wiped his fingers slowly, and then he opened it lightly after wiping them all clean.
mouth.
"Old man, what time is it now? You are already eighty years old. How old were you then? In your teens. And what era was that?"
Although they only spoke half of the words, Old Sun Tou and Old Li Tou seemed to understand the gap immediately, and they nodded with expressions of approval. Cheng Yu continued: "You were going to develop the Great Northern Wilderness.
That was not the Beidacang that is now full of fish and grain. At that time, you were in your teens when you were growing up, and the country had just been established. It had also experienced three years of natural disasters, and the whole country was in poverty. Not to mention their Daxing'an Mountains
Well, even Wu Dong could barely eat enough at that time, right? If he wanted to eat meat, I dare not say that it was an extravagant wish, but it was definitely not something that just anyone could do. I heard that in those days, it was still difficult to buy meat.
Meat tickets are needed, and money alone is not enough. You go to a cold place in the Northeast, and someone brings you a plate of stick bones, not to mention the kind prepared by my aunt now.
Even if it is boiled in plain water and added with a little salt, you will definitely regard it as a delicacy from the mountains and seas. This stick bone, my aunt has reached the limit. You think it is almost meaningless. It can only be because of your state of mind." Cheng Qingsong Wai.
After pondering for a long time, he finally nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, that's what it means. At that time, I was like a hungry wolf. It didn't matter whether it tasted good or not. Having meat was a matter as big as the sky.
I have to say that I ate a lot of meat in the Northeast at that time. At that time, I slaughtered my own pigs, and every family had a shotgun. When I ran out of meat, I would go to the woods. Rabbits and pheasants were just gadgets, silly.
I eat roe deer, venison, wild boar and even bear meat.
However, when I returned to Wudong, I couldn’t eat meat anymore. The meat at that time was so delicious. Just watching the bubbling in the pot made me not think about anything, and all my eyes were filled with meat. It was me.
The eldest grandson understands."
Everyone laughed, and Cheng Cuihua was completely relieved.
After dinner, with Cheng Yu's approval, the old man stopped taking a nap and went to the backyard pavilion with Sun and Li to sit and chat and drink tea.
Cheng Yu actually thought about poking around in the study to see where Cheng Guangnian might have hidden the information about the money.
Thinking of Cheng Cuihua's words, Cheng Yu first called Ning Kezhu. "Yu'er, do you have anything to do with mom? Oh, by the way, I went back late yesterday and I heard that you brought your grandfather's daughter from the northeast. It's good. Yes.
Stay with your grandpa personally, he will recover faster. I left in a hurry in the morning
Yes, I only had time to talk to you... I called you aunt, I said hello to her, but I didn’t have time to chat."
Ning Kezhu might be really busy and said everything he wanted to say at once.
Cheng Yu said: "Mom, my aunt asked you if you can come back for dinner tonight so that she can prepare two dishes for you to try Northeastern Wind and her cooking." Ning Kezhu thought for a while and said: "Okay, tonight
No matter how many things happen, I always get off work on time. No matter what, she is your father’s eldest sister. Although we have never met, we are still a family, and the eldest sister has spoken.
, both emotionally and rationally, I have to go back and have this meal.”
"Well, Mom, there is one more thing. I want to ask you. Anyway, Xiaoyu must be here to meet my aunt. I wonder if I should call her parents here too."
Ning Kezhu pondered again for a moment and said: "We are a family after all. If we don't see each other this time, I don't know when we will see each other next time. Please call us all. I just have to trouble your aunt to prepare a few more dishes." Cheng Yu smiled.
He said: "If you had seen the container my aunt used to cook, you wouldn't say that. Let me tell you this, you and Xiaoyu's whole family will come back and eat the dishes she made at noon.
Not half of it. And
, that’s only four dishes.” Ning Kezhu thought for a moment, laughed, and said, “That’s so exaggerated.” After a pause, she added, “But Yu’er, since you called Xiaoyu’s family, right?
Also ask your third uncle and sister-in-law about their family, after all, it is him
Our eldest sister, everyone is here, isn't it appropriate for you not to tell them?" "Okay, then I will ask them separately. My sister-in-law will definitely be fine, and my third uncle will have some doubts in his heart, but he will definitely come.
.I also took this opportunity to ask my aunt to take the house that my grandfather had sold back then.
I went to the Northeast with the money and gave it all to my mother and I. I made it clear to my third uncle that I didn’t take a penny from the old man when he started the company."
Ning Kezhu nodded lightly and said: "Well, what you said makes sense. Although your grandfather said this before, there must be some people in the third family who don't believe it. With your aunt's evidence, they can't help but believe it.
Already."
After hanging up the phone, Cheng Yu called Du Changfeng again.
When Du Changfeng heard that Cheng Yu's aunt, Cheng Qingsong's daughter who was in the Northeast back then, was here, of course he agreed and said he would come over with Wei Lan in the evening.
Then came the sister-in-law Cheng Jie. Cheng Jie also agreed and said that she had always wanted to visit her after knowing about the existence of such an eldest sister. Unexpectedly, Cheng Yu took her home.
Finally, there is third uncle Cheng Guangtian.
Cheng Guangtian was shocked to hear that Cheng Cuihua was already living in the compound. You must know that not even he and Cheng Guangle, the brothers, were qualified to live there. It was good now that an illegitimate daughter had lived in it. But Cheng Guangtian now
It is quite clear. When Cheng Guangnian was here, he might still be able to act as an elder in the family as his younger brother. Now Ninghezhu is the head of the family. To put it bluntly, the Cheng family is already ruled by Cheng Yu.
As an elder, he could only live by looking at the looks of the mother and son. Especially the two incidents that happened at Cheng Guangle's house. One was that Cheng Yi tried to harm Cheng Yu but failed, and the father and son were sent away. The other was that Cheng Guangle was sent away.
Fu actually used his brains on Cheng Guangnian's head, which can be regarded as half the victory, but he also completely ruined the second son's family, and he was sentenced to death. Although he is now using the appeal to delay his imprisonment in a mental hospital
time, but the effect will definitely not be too great. The Cheng family is no longer the Cheng family of the past, so
Everyone has to look at Cheng Yu's eyes and act. Therefore, no matter how unhappy he was, Cheng Guangtian said happily: "My eldest sister has suffered so much for so many years. Why didn't you come with me earlier when you picked me up yesterday?"
Said, we might as well go and pick up the eldest sister in advance.
What a wind."
"My aunt arrived late yesterday, so I didn't tell my third uncle. The whole family will be back today, including my father-in-law and his family. It's a family fun." Cheng Guangtian's heart skipped a beat, family fun? Cheng Guangnian just lay there and stopped talking.
Cheng Guangle and his family are still out of town, so they are no longer regarded as Cheng family members at all? It seems that as long as the Cheng Group does not show up,
Such a serious change meant that my second brother and his family would never be able to return home.
"Yes, yes, it's a family fun, see you in the evening."
After everything was arranged, Cheng Yu walked to the backyard to see how the three old men were doing.
But apart from the back door, Cheng Yu only saw Lao Li Tou and Cheng Qingsong drinking tea and chatting at the pavilion by the lake. He couldn't help but feel a little strange. Just as he was about to go over and ask, Lao Sun Tou's voice came from behind.
"Hey, Xiao Cheng, you are here. It just so happens that I have something to talk to you about." If Old Sun Tou wants to talk to him, it can only be about the Zhao brothers.
