When setting the dishes, Chu Nanzhi remembered the customs and etiquette of this dynasty that women and children were not allowed to sit at the table casually. Especially when eating with these great Confucians, one should pay more attention to details.
She first laid out the dishes for the two elders, and then prepared the dishes for the four little ones and brought them to the stone table in the pergola outside, so that she could take care of the little ones as they ate.
But as soon as she came out of the kitchen with the dishes, Chang Lao stopped her: "We are not outsiders, so there is no need to be so formal. It's hot outside, so you can take the children to the table with you."
Lin Jinxiao and Nie Huaian both looked surprised. They didn't expect that the always rigid old man would let a woman sit at the table with him. This was a strange thing.
Liu Lizheng took a look, and he was the only outsider in the whole room who saw more.
If Mr. Nie hadn't asked him to stay with him, he wouldn't have been willing to eat here.
After hearing Chang Lao's words, he quickly echoed: "Chang Lao has already said this, Mrs. Chu doesn't need to be rigid anymore."
Chu Nanzhi was also a little flattered, but with Chang Lao's permission, she no longer had to deliberately follow these ancient etiquette.
The four little guys were even more happy when they thought they no longer had to eat out. They happily gathered around Lin Jinxiao and began to enjoy the food they had dreamed of.
It looks like a big table of dishes, but in fact there are not many dishes. Except for the pot of chicken soup, eggplant with oil, fried cucumber slices with pork belly, shredded pork with green pepper and fried eggs with tomatoes, Chu Nanzhi used two plates to serve them.
I have eaten all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and seen a lot of ostentation, but this was the first time I saw someone cooking like this, and I still couldn't accept it.
In addition, this was at the hands of a well-known evil woman, so even though the two elders agreed to stay for dinner, they were still a little wary of cooking on this table.
Nie Huaian first took a piece of chicken and put it into his mouth, chewed it, and then commented in a pretentious and lengthy manner: "This chicken tastes good. Li Sanlang's wife is really a virtuous person, and she makes good food."
Even though he was watching the four little guys enjoying the stir-fried vegetables in front of them, he pretended not to see them.
He had already lost to the old guy Chang Yanjue in the courtyard, but he couldn't let him gain the upper hand again.
You must be more reserved this time.
Well, be reserved!
Seeing this, Chang Lao also brought a piece of chicken over and chewed it slowly without saying anything.
When Chu Nanzhi saw that both of them refused to eat the food she cooked, she just thought it was not to their liking and ignored them, eating the food in front of them.
After all, she is a great scholar, so she can't be so shameless as to make others yell at her.
I was worried that the fried vegetables wouldn't be enough like yesterday, so I cooked more. But now it seems that I was overly worried.
The leftovers can't be kept for a long time in this hot weather, so she has to eat some herself.
After a while, she saw Nie Huaian put a chicken drumstick into Dabaolin Ruiwen's bowl, and said with a kind smile: "Dabao, eat a drumstick to replenish your health."
"Grandpa Nie, please eat chicken legs to replenish your health."
Dabao quickly put the chicken legs back into Nie Huaian's bowl, and hurriedly picked up the cucumber slices and fried pork belly in front of him.
He felt that this dish was more flavorful than yesterday's fried pork, and he really liked it.
Although he also likes to eat chicken legs, the dishes cooked by the bad woman are not always available to him.
But for chicken legs, Uncle Li Ce raises a lot of chickens at home and occasionally brings them to them to eat.
Nie Huaian was a little puzzled. These naughty kids must have had a brain convulsion today. The chicken drumsticks were no longer fragrant.
Seeing that most of the dishes in front of him were eaten by a few little guys, he couldn't hold himself any longer.
Looking at Liu Qingbo and Lin Jinxiao enjoying the dishes cooked by the evil woman, he began to curse in his heart:
Liu Qingbo, a good-for-nothing fool, is just a glutton, but he is also a student.
What a bastard!
Disgraceful to gentlemen!
Just when he was burning with anger, Chang Lao quietly stretched his chopsticks in front of him and picked up the last piece of cucumber, put it into his mouth and chewed it carefully.
Finally, he showed a hopeless smile.
"A shameless old thief would bend down for a piece of fried cucumber. It is simply an insult to the reputation of a great scholar."
He glared at Chang Yanjue angrily and cursed.
Then, he directly picked up the plate in front of him and poured the remaining eggplant in oil into his bowl.
Chang Yanjue was dumbfounded and scolded Nie Huaian: "You old man, you are so disrespectful of your dignity in front of a group of juniors. You are really disrespectful."
Glancing at the table, he saw that the dishes in front of him and Nie Huaian were all taken away by a few little guys. With lightning speed, he stretched out his hand in front of Chu Nanzhi and quickly poured half a plate of cucumber slices into the bowl.
inside.
Worried that Old Man Nie would come and snatch it away, he poured half of the plate of scrambled tomatoes and eggs into his bowl.
In this way, I felt much more relaxed instantly.
Looking at a bowl full of cucumber slices and tomato scrambled eggs, he finally didn't have to worry and smiled with relief.
Later, he shamelessly preached to Chu Nanzhi:
"Ms. Chu, you have worked hard today. Drink more chicken soup to replenish your body."
After that, he brought her another chicken drumstick.
Chu Nanzhi looked confused, took the chicken leg with some embarrassment, and began to doubt in her heart:
Are these two old men really respected scholars of the time?
Lin Jinxiao and Liu Qingbo were so frightened that they dared not move their chopsticks.
Lin Jinxiao was already used to the bickering between the two teachers, but this was the first time he saw the two of them fighting over a few plates of food.
And it’s the food cooked by this evil woman.
He glanced coldly at Chu Nanzhi opposite who was engrossed in eating a chicken leg: This woman has been married to me for more than five years, and she has always been crazy and out of shape. She has never been so virtuous as she has been these past two days.
What is her intention?
The more Lin Jinxiao thought about it, the more frightened he became.
Chu Nanzhi finished chewing a chicken drumstick, feeling a little unsatisfied. The four little guys had already put down their bowls and chopsticks with satisfaction, and were watching the two grandfathers quarreling with curiosity.
Chu Nanzhi looked at the pot of chicken soup. Mrs. Zhou was too honest. The old hen she brought over was probably the richest in her family, and she stewed them all. The four little ones only ate the dishes she cooked. Lin Jinxiao
He and his wife didn't even eat a few pieces of chicken.
If there is too much left over, it will be too much for dinner and it will be spoiled tomorrow.
She picked up another chicken leg and looked at the four little treasures opposite.
Si Bao is not so repulsive to her now. She originally wanted to give Si Bao the chicken legs, but when the little guy saw the bad woman trying to give him the chicken legs, he ran outside.
Seeing this, the other three little guys also ran into the courtyard.
Lin Jinxiao began to realize that she was deliberately trying to win people's hearts in front of the two elders. He glared and said angrily: "You can eat it yourself if you want. Why are you doing so many dramas?"
Grandma has legs.
A good intention is treated like a donkey's liver and lungs.
Being scolded for no reason, Chu Nanzhi was also very angry and didn't want to spoil him. She put the chicken legs back into the soup angrily and said sternly to him in front of the two elders:
"It's just a chicken drumstick. What kind of drama can I do? I think you have obsessive-compulsive disorder."
"That's right. It's a good thing that Mrs. Chu cares about her children. How can you, Dalang, make such assumptions about others?"
Mr. Nie couldn't stand listening anymore and scolded Lin Jinxiao. Then he put the chicken leg into the Chu Nan Zhi bowl and said with a smile: "Ms. Chu, please leave him alone. Come on, eat more."
At this time, Chang Lao also glared at Lin Jinxiao with dissatisfaction: "I see, there is nothing wrong with the Chu family. They are well-educated and can cook well."
"Teacher, me"
Chang Lao also didn't give him a chance to speak: "Don't quibble. If you can't clap, the family will not be harmonious. Da Lang, you should look for the faults in yourself."
Lin Jinxiao was scolded by his two elders until he was speechless.
He was really frustrated to the extreme that his two teachers actually spoke for this evil woman.
Does it mean that the sun rises in the west today?
Looking at his pitiful appearance, Chu Nanzhi felt that he was indeed unjust, but his self-proclaimed and noble temperament did not deserve sympathy.
But those little guys are innocent. They have been living in the shadow of the original owner's ravages for the past few years, and their life is too pitiful.
Thinking of this, she put the chicken legs in the bowl back into the soup, thinking of leaving them for the little ones to eat at night.