After the sports meeting on Friday, Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu had just returned home. Before they started cooking, Zhou Yan's phone rang.
I picked up the phone and saw that it was Cheng Lidong.
"Brother Cheng, is something wrong?"
"Brother, did you forget that you said you wanted to come to our house for dinner last time?"
Zhou Yan Juhan: "How can it be possible!"
"That's good. Your sister-in-law and I will treat you and Xiao Qin to a casual meal tomorrow at noon. You should know my home address, right?"
"Know!"
"Oh, and you are not allowed to bring anything..."
Although Cheng Lidong repeatedly emphasized that he was not allowed to bring anything with him, after breakfast on Saturday, Zhou Yan still made a few boxes of macarons, one box as a gift and the other boxes as snacks for the eldest lady.
At around ten o'clock, the two of them got ready and drove out.
Cheng Lidong lives near Xinghuo Plaza, next door to Yunzhong Hotel, and across the lake from Yunzhong University.
Zhou Yan had delivered New Year's goods to Cheng Lidong for his second uncle, so he was no stranger to his family. Entering a high-end community was difficult, and Cheng Lidong knew that, so after receiving Zhou Yan's call, he rushed to the gate.
After parking the car, Zhou Yan took the "little gift" off the back seat and handed it to Cheng Lidong.
"Didn't I tell you everything?" Cheng Lidong took the trouble.
"This is for my sister-in-law and my eldest nephew!"
"Just go ahead!" Cheng Lidong rolled his eyes, "My son goes to kindergarten with his grandparents and comes back once a month!"
"Brother Dong, you are so cruel..." Zhou Yan was dumbfounded.
"Okay," Cheng Lidong smiled, "hurry up and go up, your sister-in-law is still waiting at home..."
When Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu followed Cheng Lidong to the door of their house, they found that Cheng Lidong's wife was already waiting at the door.
"Daughter-in-law, let me introduce to you. This is Zhou Yan, whom I have often mentioned to you. This is her girlfriend, Mr. Qin's daughter from Dongyang..."
"Hello!"
When shaking hands, Cheng Lidong's wife felt that Zhou Yan looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen him before. She looked at Zhou Yan with a smile: "Xiao Zhou, have we met before?"
With Zhou Yan’s memory, he naturally remembered where he had seen him. Tong Jiaying, Cheng Lidong’s daughter-in-law: “I took the CET-4 and CET-6 oral exam!”
Tong Jiaying suddenly realized: "I just said..."
"Honey, all the guests are here, and you're still blocking people at the door?" Cheng Lidong handed over Zhou Yan's small gift, "This is Xiao Zhou's gift to you and Xiao Ming!"
After entering the door, Cheng Lidong and his wife arranged for Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu to sit down, turned on the TV, and then entered the kitchen together.
After a while, Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu saw that there was no movement from Cheng Lidong and his wife, so they had no choice but to stand up and approach the kitchen door.
At this time, Cheng Lidong was holding a kitchen knife and was at a loss when facing the big carp in the water tank; and Cheng Lidong's daughter-in-law was even weirder. She was holding an inch-wide kitchen knife and trying hard on the mutton chops...
Seeing this situation, Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu looked at each other: These two couples want to use us as test subjects, right?
The two of them immediately nodded again.
After watching it for a while, Zhou Yan felt that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he reached out and knocked on the kitchen door...
Cheng Lidong, who was about to operate on the big carp, was startled and almost dropped the knife in his hand.
Looking back, he found Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu standing at the door with smiles on their faces. They felt a little embarrassed: "Well, brother, I'm really sorry. This is the first time..."
"Brother Dong, how about I try..."
Although Cheng Lidong was very reluctant, seeing Zhou Yan's resolute attitude, he could only hand over the knife in his hand.
"Oh, and an apron!"
Zhou Yan was much more skillful with his knife than Cheng Lidong. He reached out to grab the fish from the water, chopped it into a vegetable fish with the back of the knife, then quickly scraped off the fish scales, performed a laparotomy, took out the lateral line, and removed the black membrane.
"Brother Dong, what are you going to do with the fish?"
Cheng Lidong obviously lacked confidence and replied weakly: "Sweet and sour carp!"
You are a novice in cooking, but you are going to challenge the difficult sweet and sour cooking?
Cheng Lidong saw that something was wrong in Zhou Yan's eyes, so he smiled awkwardly and said, "Brother, what's wrong?"
"Brother Dong, I suggest you start cooking with steamed seabass!"
Zhou Yan put the fish on the chopping board, skillfully cut it with a knife, then added seasonings and marinated it to taste.
After handling the carp, Zhou Yan glanced at Tong Jiaying, who had nowhere to rest his hands, and smiled helplessly: "Sister-in-law, are these lamb chops intended to be made into finger meat?"
Tong Jiaying put down her kitchen knife and nodded silently.
"Then you have to chop it into big pieces..."
Zhou Yan reached out and took out the bone-cutting knife that had not been used a few times from the mahogany knife holder, cleaned it, and started to use force on the mutton chops...
After handling the mutton chops, Zhou Yan looked back at Cheng Lidong: "Brother Dong, is there anything else that needs to be dealt with..."
Cheng Lidong silently took out a bag of unwashed tomatoes from the side and handed it over: "This salad is fine!"
"Snow falling from the volcano?" Zhou Yan smiled and handed the bag to Qin Ruoshu, "Classmate Lao Qin, are we partners?"
"Um, isn't this not good?"
When Cheng Lidong was about to speak, his wife glared at him: "With your cooking skills, you still have the nerve to say that you own a restaurant, and you can't even kill a fish..."
"Can you blame me?" Cheng Lidong felt a little unfair, "Since I changed my job, I haven't touched a kitchen knife for a long time..."
Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu were busy and snickering at the same time.
"Nothing bothers the two masters..."
After preparing the volcanic snow, Cheng Lidong took out a bag of celery and a bag of shrimps.
“Shrimp with celery?”
Finally, Zhou Yan added a piece of seaweed and egg drop soup to make four dishes and one soup.
After the food was served, Cheng Lidong told Zhou Yan the reason for the treat.
"First of all, dog food and cat food have been developed and are selling well online." Cheng Lidong was slightly proud, "Following your instructions, the fish meat is processed very lightly in the factory, and you can tell it is fish meat.
Sales are pretty good!”
"Congratulations to Brother Dong!"
"One more thing," Cheng Lidong stared at Zhou Yan, "my brother-in-law's comrade who has transferred to another profession has got you a batch of quotas for this year's National Day military parade."
"There's probably a limit to the number of people, right?"
Cheng Lidong nodded: "Under ten people, as you know, the personnel restrictions are very severe!"
"There are already a lot," Zhou Yan nodded and looked at Qin Ruoshu, "On my side, it's my parents and grandparents, and on your side..."
"My parents and I, my grandparents don't like to go out very much!"
"Then let's tentatively book eight people!"
"That's good. Also, my brother-in-law's comrade got you a set of Type 07 military uniforms..." Cheng Lidong smiled slightly and stared straight at Zhou Yan, expecting to see something in Zhou Yan's eyes.
,"but……"
"But what..." Zhou Yan's heartbeat had begun to speed up, but he still pretended to be calm.
"It is the uniform of the Air Force Reserve, and the tentative rank is second lieutenant..."
After breakfast, Cheng Lidong took out several sets of military uniforms prepared for Zhou Yan and placed them in front of Zhou Yan.
"Brother, don't you try it?"
Zhou Yan hesitated for a moment and smiled: "It's not too bad, is it?"
"Just treat it like you're at home!"
After so many years, Zhou Yan put on Air Force blue again, and Zhou Yan's heart was as turbulent as when he first wore Air Force blue...
"Brother, it's really a pity that you don't wear military uniform!"
Even Cheng Lidong, who has been retired for many years, has to admit that his old man's eyes are quite poisonous: after putting on the military uniform, Zhou Yan's temperament completely changed. From a boy next door, he immediately became an officer of the Air Force...
However, the requirements for wearing reserve military uniforms are much more troublesome than those for active duty. After thinking about it for a while, Zhou Yan quickly folded his clothes and put them away.
