Jimoshu held the wine glass and looked at Gu Zhengbang for a while before saying, "What can you say? Have a drink!"
After saying that, Jimoshu raised his head and drank the wine, then immersed himself in picking up vegetables and started eating.
Gu Zhengbang also drank a drink, and then poured wine for Jimo Shu and said, "Brother Shu, actually I understand your mood..."
"What do you understand?" Jimoshu replied and continued eating.
Gu Zhengbang finished pouring the wine for Jimo Shu, then poured wine into his own glass, and said: "Brother Shu, the daughter you gave birth to is also a daughter. How can I not know what you are thinking?"
Jimoshu said nothing.
Gu Zhengbang put down the flask and continued: "Brother Shu, to be honest, you don't really think much of that boy Chai Yan. It's just because that boy gets along so well with your You'er that even the emperor wants to marry them.
As a father, you finally reunited with your daughter, but now you feel a little uncomfortable, as if that boy has taken your daughter away, am I right?"
"No!" Jimoshu answered readily, but no matter how he listened, he felt that he didn't mean what he said.
Gu Zhengbang smiled and said: "You know it yourself, right? Haha..."
Then, Gu Zhengbang took another sip of wine, then took a piece of pork belly and put it in his mouth, chewing it happily.
Jimoshu fell into a brief silence, lowered his head to drink and eat vegetables, and stopped talking.
Gu Zhengbang had always paid attention to Jimoshu's wine glass. As soon as the wine was gone, he would take the initiative to refill it to ensure that the wine continued.
It didn't take long for the two of them to drink up the wine in the jug.
"Hey, the wine is gone, just wait..."
With that said, Gu Zhengbang stood up and walked to the door, stretched out his hand and pulled a hemp rope as thick as his little finger.
As the hemp rope was pulled, there was a ringing sound of bells outside, and the "dinging bell" was quite clear.
After a few pulls, Gu Zhengbang stopped, returned to his seat, sat down, and said, "Brother Shu, you are here today. I will treat you to a good meal!"
"What?" Jimoshu asked.
"Don't worry, you'll know it soon." Gu Zhengbang gave it a try.
After waiting for a while, a maid came over from the other side of the arch bridge, holding a tray in her hand.
The maid came outside the bamboo house and said, "Master, the barbecue you ordered is ready."
"Bring it in." Gu Zhengbang said.
Then, the maid entered the bamboo house and carefully placed a plate of barbecue on the tray on the table.
Jimoshu looked at the meat skewers on the plate skewered with thin wires and asked, "Is this also called barbecue?"
Gu Zhengbang nodded: "Ah! That's right, it's barbecue, you can try it..."
After saying that, Gu Zhengbang said to the maid again: "The wine is gone, go get another pot."
"Yes, sir." The maid responded softly, put the empty wine bottle on the tray, and then exited the bamboo house.
Jimoshu picked up a meat skewer, looked left and right for a while, and suddenly asked: "Brother Zhengbang, is your family unable to afford meat?"
In Jimoshu's view, meat should be eaten in large chunks. Such a small amount of meat is not enough to fit between the teeth.
"What?" Gu Zhengbang suddenly became happy, pointing to the meat skewers in his hand and said: "This is called barbecue. Cut the meat into small pieces, then skewer them like this and grill them on the charcoal stove. When the heat reaches a certain level,
Sprinkle some cumin, cinnamon or pepper on top, it will give it an exotic flavor!"
While Jimoshu was hesitant, Gu Zhengbang had already picked up a meat skewer and started eating it decisively. He chewed it while nodding and saying: "Well, not bad, not bad... Okay, Brother Shu, don't stop."
After seeing it, try it quickly..."
Jimoshu had no choice but to open his mouth and bite it. The moment the piece of meat entered his mouth, Jimoshu's expression immediately changed.
"Brother Zhengbang, the taste of this meat is very good!" Jimoshu exclaimed.
Gu Zhengbang smiled and said: "Haha, not bad! Brother Shu, don't eat too fast. Let's continue after the wine is refilled."
Jimoshu didn't seem to hear anything and ate up the skewer of meat in his hand in a few mouthfuls.
Gu Zhengbang couldn't help but smile when he saw the obvious oily stars on the corners of Jimoshu's mouth: "Brother Shu, look at your food, wipe your mouth quickly, people will see it in a while, but you will break your teeth with laughter, haha.
..."
Jimoshu raised his finger and touched the corner of his mouth, and found that it was indeed full of oily stars, so he quickly took out his handkerchief and wiped it, and then he couldn't help laughing.
Soon after the laughter subsided, the maid brought a jug of new wine and a plate of baked vegetables.
After the maid left, Gu Zhengbang began to introduce: "Brother Shu, these are roasted mushrooms, these are roasted leeks, these are roasted cucumbers..."
It was the first time Jimoshu saw such food, and he asked curiously: "Can these things be roasted and eaten?"
"Why not? Someone told me that everything in the world can be baked, except for those you can't imagine!" Gu Zhengbang said plausibly.
Jimoshu picked up a bunch of roasted cucumbers, tore off a piece with his mouth and ate it. He asked with a smile: "This sounds quite interesting. Who told you this?"
While eating roasted mushrooms, Gu Zhengbang replied calmly: "Oh, that person is your future son-in-law, Chai Yan."
"Is it him?" Jimoshu couldn't help but asked, "Did he make these things? Is he at your house now?"
Gu Zhengbang shook his head and said: "Brother Shu, you are overthinking! How can he be a cook in my kitchen?"
"Then these things..." Jimoshu looked confused.
"No hurry, no hurry, Brother Shu, just listen to me and tell me slowly..."
Gu Zhengbang patiently explained to Jimoshu, telling how Chai Yan gave him a barbecue grill.
"I see......."
After listening, Jimoshu slowly nodded his head.
Then, Jimoshu said: "Brother Zhengbang, you suddenly invited me to eat the barbecue taught by that boy, are you trying to say something?"
Gu Zhengbang immediately nodded and said: "Yes, I really have something to say...Brother Shu, do you know who Chai Yan originally built this barbecue grill for?"
"For whom?" Jimoshu suddenly woke up after asking, and immediately said: "Wait, are you talking about..."
Gu Zhengbang nodded quickly and continued: "Yes, it was made for your You'er. The purpose is actually simple. The boy just wanted to spend some time to make your daughter happy and happy, so that her life would be more interesting. It is used
You know your heart!"
Jimoshu didn't say a word, just drank the wine slowly.
Gu Zhengbang continued: "It is said that a gentleman should be a chef at a distance, but that boy Chai Yan doesn't care about this. Let me be fair, that boy is really not bad to your daughter, so just laugh at me, Brother Shu!"
After saying that, Gu Zhengbang drank wine and ate skewers.
Jimoshu pondered for a moment. When he looked up, he found that half of the kebabs on the plate were missing. He immediately shouted: "Hey, hey, what's going on with you? I'm the guest today."
, you’ve finished eating, what should I eat?”
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