Zhou Yan was always in the kitchen, so there was no way of knowing what the elders were chatting with Xu Wenjing.
Fortunately, with the existence of Zhao Zixuan, the "correspondent" who comes and goes, Zhou Yan and his aunt and uncle who are guarding the kitchen can get some information from time to time...
Cousin Feng Jun's partner, Xu Wenjing, has an average family background. Her parents are ordinary farmers. She has an older sister and a younger brother. The elder sister is married and the younger brother is still in junior high school.
After chatting for a while, it was already half past eleven. Seeing that many vegetables had begun to "dehydrate", Zhou Yan quickly heated up the pot and heated oil...
In less than a minute, a dish is ready.
He glanced at his cousin Zhao Zixuan who was guarding the door: "Brother, go next door and ask how long we will continue to chat!"
"receive!"
The little cousin ran over quickly and soon brought back a piece of news...
“Serve!”
In order to entertain his nephew and his wife, Zhou Yan's grandparents made full preparations, including chicken, duck, fish, cattle and sheep, because Feng Jun said that his girlfriend likes vegetables, and they also sorted out Zhou Yan's plastic greenhouse.
After five or six dishes were served, the aunt and aunt in the "waiting room" quickly reported back the preferences of the "distinguished guest".
"Only the green leafy vegetables, pork, and chicken were touched..." My aunt looked at Zhou Yan with a look full of teasing, "Nephew, your cooking skills are not good..."
"Can you conceive me?" Zhou Yan shrugged helplessly.
Of course, in rural areas, "picky eaters" has many synonyms, such as "fine eaters" and "cheap eaters"...
Zhou Yan didn't have the nerve to spit out the fragrance, but Zhou Yan's second aunt was different. After staying next door for a while, she came back with a dark face...
"Greedy!"
Seeing Zhou Yan staring at her blankly, the anger on the second aunt's face quickly turned into a joke: "After the new year, isn't Junjun going to the capital for an interview? You don't have to worry about them then, take good care of Xiao Qin.
That’s it…”
Is my cousin your biological child?
Although Zhou Yan’s father brought over a lot of vegetables, it is the Chinese New Year after all. Too many vegetarian dishes are not good-looking, and it is easy for people to gossip, "When relatives come, they are not willing to put meat in!"
So, the next few dishes were either sweet and sour carp, which sounds very high in calories, or braised pork ribs, or braised pork elbows.
The tradition of banquets in the Xia Dongnan area is that stir-fried vegetables are usually followed by soup. The number of soup dishes depends on the guests.
When my nephew's wife comes to visit, the things she buys are naturally of the highest quality.
As soon as the braised silver carp was served, Zhou Yan had to start preparing the mutton soup, followed by the shredded chicken soup...
As a result, as soon as the mutton soup was cooked, my cousin Feng Jun came into the kitchen with a smile.
"Third aunt, little aunt, what do you think of this girl?"
Aunt Zhou Yan naturally smiled: "Do you want to hear the truth, or do you want to hear lies?"
Feng Jun was a little embarrassed: "Of course it's the truth!"
"This girl is a bit too dry!" My aunt looked at Zhou Yan with a smile, "Your third aunt thinks so too!"
"Wen Jing is no longer thin!"
Aunt Zhou Yan rolled her eyes: "Auntie is a person who has seen the world. None of the models in the capital are so dry..."
"Um..." Feng Jun was so embarrassed that he turned around and gave Zhou Yan an awkward smile, "Zhou Yan, you don't need to cook too much..."
"Brother, I'm just a chef, I don't care what I say..."
Feng Jun smiled bitterly and left the kitchen.
A few minutes later, Zhou Yan's grandma returned to the kitchen with a gloomy face. When she saw Zhou Yan's mother and aunt, her face was full of gloom, which soon turned into grievance.
"Junjun is over 1.8 meters tall after all. He is a good young man. Why did he fall in love with such a dry girl?" Grandma almost shed tears. "That's all. But this girl is so thin. When she gave birth to a child,
, but I suffered..."
"Mom, why are you so careless? Junjun can just take a look for himself," Aunt Zhou Yan could only try to persuade her, "Besides, Junjun and his family didn't say anything..."
As soon as the aunt finished speaking, the second aunt came into the kitchen again with a dark face: "Who said we didn't say anything over there? Feng Jun, his uncle and his second uncle shook their heads when they saw the girl was so thin. Although his grandfather couldn't speak,
You can see that I shed tears when I see this girl..."
Seeing that the second aunt looked unkind, the aunt could only say something nice: "Girls these days love to be beautiful. It's normal to be thinner. It will be fine after getting married..."
"Still getting married, I can't agree to anything..."
When the second aunt made such a statement, neither Aunt Zhou Yan nor my mother knew how to comfort her.
At this moment, the second uncle pushed the door open and entered the kitchen...
"Second brother-in-law, what do you think of your daughter-in-law?"
"What else can I do? As the old people in the village say, if a gust of wind blows them away!" The second uncle's face was full of a bitter smile, and he looked at Zhou Yan who was hiding aside with envy, "Third sister
, I heard that the old Qin family will be looking after the house after the new year, I really envy you..."
After a while, the "landlord" uncle also got into the kitchen. Seeing the second aunt and uncle's brows furrowed, he smiled and shook his head: "As soon as I saw your posture, I knew I didn't like it..."
"His brother-in-law, how do you like us..."
Uncle Zhou Yan shook his head: "Isn't this Xiao Xu a little thinner? I look at the girl, she is quite polite..."
When the second aunt and uncle returned to the main room, cousin Feng Jun went to the kitchen again. The purpose was naturally to get the attitude of his parents from the mouths of several people in the kitchen.
"Auntie, my dad was here just now. Look at his face..."
"Junjun," Aunt Zhou Yan smiled, "Your dad has a dark face. It's not like you don't know. How do I know what his face is like?"
Feng Jun refused to give up: "What about my mother?"
"Your mother is in a hurry to have her grandson!" The aunt smiled and glanced at Zhou Yan, who was preparing to shred chicken, "Look at your cousin, he is two years younger than you, and he is getting married soon..."
Feng Jun obviously hadn't realized the crux of the problem yet, so he smiled and shook his head: "Xiao Xu is still in school, so he is not in a hurry to get married, and he is even less anxious about having children..."
Naturally, the aunt was embarrassed to say, "When you have a child, your mother's dissatisfaction with your wife will soon be dissipated by the joy of raising children." She just smiled and said: "Isn't your cousin also in school?
, Xiao Qin too!"
"That's different..."
Everyone in the family knew that Feng Jun was a stubborn boy, so they didn't try to persuade him, they just let it go.
When Zhou Yan finished his work and returned to the table, he found all the elders with smiles on their faces.
There was a bit of envy in the uncle's smile. Although Feng Jun's girlfriend was a bit dry, the relationship between the two was not bad after all.
The second uncle's smile was more perfunctory, and even a bit resentful, while Father Zhou Yan and his uncle Zhao Yongxin looked at all this with the mentality of watching the fun...
Only Feng Jun and Xu Wenjing have never experienced severe beatings from society and have no idea that there are hidden secrets in the smiles of their elders.
A party with surging undercurrents finally ended...
On the way home, Feng Xiaobei explained the reason why she wanted to visit relatives: "My sister-in-law has never done much housework. If I were at home, my parents would be even more displeased with my sister-in-law..."
Brother and sister Feng Xiaobei and Feng Jun are completely at opposite ends of the spectrum: Feng Jun is a top student, while Feng Xiaobei is a standard academic scumbag.
However, poor students also have their strengths. Feng Xiaobei’s strength is running a family. Although her cooking skills are not as good as those of the old chef Zhou Yan, they are enough to defeat many girls of the same age...