The Sun and Cao families in Xiangjiang, except for the infant Cao Shanshan, all arrived and waited at the exit for the arrival of Teacher Liu and his family.
Zheng Ziwei also came to join in the fun. It was Teacher Liu and Liu Hanwen who he received more than ten years ago, and they can be regarded as old friends.
Teacher Liu's family took the "Pisces Star" cruise ship from Taipei to Xiangjiang, which lasted more than a day and a night.
Although it takes a long time, the passengers are relatively comfortable, especially the old, young and sick.
Ten minutes later, a large number of passengers began to leave the customs. Cao Yong, who had seen Teacher Liu, quickly squeezed to the exit and watched everyone one by one, fearing that he would miss it.
Sun Dahai also raised a sign in his hand and wrote "Welcome Teacher Liu to Xiangjiang", forming a double insurance with Cao Yong.
After a few minutes, the flow of people at the exit gradually thinned out.
Cao Yong suddenly started to move. He ducked and squeezed to the exit, waving his hands inside.
Sun Dahai thought that Teacher Liu's family must be here, so he couldn't help but squeeze forward.
Sun Dahai had never met Teacher Liu in his previous life. In his impression, he seemed to have passed away two years later at the age of 85.
The Sun family did not run a business in the previous life, so Jiang Xiuping did not go to Xiangjiang to sign documents, let alone meet Teacher Liu and his family in Xiangjiang in the early 1980s.
Teacher Liu is old and in poor health. He cannot fly and cannot bear the torture of long-distance travel.
If Jiang Xiuping and Chef Cao's family were not in Xiangjiang at the same time, I am afraid that the Liu family would not agree to Teacher Liu coming to Xiangjiang.
After Chef Cao and his wife arrived in Xiangjiang in the previous life, they did not hear that Mr. Liu came to Xiangjiang. Instead, a year later, Chef Cao went to Wanwan to meet the old man.
As for the rest of the Liu family, Sun Dahai had met them in his previous life. But that was already after the 1990s, when Wanwan relaxed the policy of returning to the mainland to visit relatives.
Therefore, until now, in two lifetimes, Sun Dahai has only heard of Teacher Liu, but has never seen his face.
It’s out~!
The first person to come out was Liu Hanwen, and Cao Yong had already greeted her.
Sun Dahai looked behind him. It was Grandpa Liu Hanqing pushing a wheelchair out of the gate. Next to him was his wife, Grandma Lu.
Sitting in the wheelchair was an old man, wearing a moon-white short-sleeved Tang suit. He was slightly thin and had silver hair that was neatly combed. His eyes were alert and he had a kind smile on his face.
At this time, Chef Cao had already rushed forward. With tears in his eyes, he bent down, held the old man's hand, and said, "Teacher Liu, I am the chef~!"
Teacher Liu looked at Chef Cao very seriously, sighed and said, "Chef, I haven't seen you for many years, and even you have grown old."
Chef Cao choked up and said: "You are not old, you are still the same in my heart."
Instead, Teacher Liu smiled openly: "Idiot, I'm over eighty. If I didn't age, wouldn't I become a monster?"
At this time, Liu Hanwen and Cao Yong came over.
"Brother Chef, I am Han Wen."
"Sister Hanwen"
Cao Yong quickly said: "Dad, this is the entrance to the passage, let's move aside first."
When we arrived at a corner of the hall, everyone introduced each other.
"Teacher Liu, this is Brother Cheng's wife Jiang Xiuping, and this is his grandson Sun Dahai."
Teacher Liu took Sun Dahai's hand and looked at it carefully.
"It's so similar, what a pity, Cheng."
"Brother Sun Cheng..." Liu Hanwen hugged her grandma Jiang Xiuping and started crying.
Sun Cheng and Chef Cao left the capital in 1937 to participate in the revolution. Liu Hanqing was still young at that time, only 4 years old, so he may not have a deep impression.
But his sister Liu Hanwen has lived in the courtyard for 11 years. Although Liu Hanwen lives on campus most of the time, what she looks forward to most during holidays is to return to the courtyard, chat with Grandpa Jin, and play games with brother Sun Cheng.
, eat the delicious food cooked by the chef brother.
It can be said that her entire childhood was spent in the company of Sun Cheng and Chef Cao, and she had a very deep relationship with Sun Cheng and Chef Cao.
When Liu Hanwen cried, Jiang Xiuping and Zheng Ziyun also cried. Teacher Liu couldn't help but have muddy tears on his face when he thought of the young man under Cheng Huan's knees in the past.
Grandma Lu quickly took out the medicine from her bag and fed it to Teacher Liu.
Cao Yong was behind, talking to Liu Yang and his wife who came out last with their luggage cart. Seeing this situation, he quickly came over to help.
"Teacher Liu, Dad, it's a joy for the three of us to be together again today. Don't be sad. Let's go home first. Teacher Liu, you must pay attention to your health and don't get too excited.
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Everyone went outside the Ocean Terminal, boarded the 20-seater minibus rented by Zheng Ziwei, and returned to Bafu Garden.
Zheng Ziyun and Jiang Xiuping took them upstairs to settle their luggage and wash up briefly. Chef Cao and Sun Dahai went directly to the fifth floor to prepare a reception banquet for everyone.
Today coincides with the rest day of the restaurant. Everyone knows that Mr. Liu and his family are in Xiangjiang today, so on the two rest days today and tomorrow, no guests are invited. All family members eat and talk together.
Chef Cao has been learning how to cook from a chef since he was ten years old. From then on, he was naturally responsible for cooking the meals at home. Chef Cao was of course a master of Teacher Liu's tastes and habits.
Get on the dumplings and get off the noodles.
Today is Jie Feng, so the staple food is naturally noodles.
Zhajiang noodles, eggplant braised noodles, and sesame sauce cold noodles, these three ways to eat summer noodles in the capital should satisfy Teacher Liu.
Sun Dahai also learned how to sell them now, and made wonton noodles in pork offal soup and shrimp wonton noodles. The two soups and wontons were made by Sun Dahai himself, while the Zhusheng noodles were made by Qin as he made an appointment yesterday.
I made it myself that morning, and when Sun Dahai went to pick someone up just now, Ah Shan sent his boy to deliver the noodles over while they were still fresh.
The other dishes were just light and tasty. The weather was hot and they had been on a cruise for more than a day, so they couldn't eat the big fish and meat.
At noon, Zheng Ziyun took everyone down for dinner.
As soon as he entered the restaurant, Teacher Liu twitched his nose and said to Chef Cao who came out to greet him: "Chef, how many years have it been since I tasted your fried noodles? It still tastes the same as in my memory."
Sun Dahai said from the side: "Teacher Liu (Sun Dahai called him 'Grandpa' at first, but Teacher Liu refused. He said that he has been a teacher all his life, and calling him teacher is better than anything else). The family in the capital has changed a lot now."
Now, if you go back to the capital, eating this fried noodles will be even more delicious."
"Alas" Teacher Liu sighed and patted his leg: "When I get old, I can no longer run such a long distance. Even if I want to return to my roots after falling leaves, I can't. From now on, it will be the world of you young people."
Teacher Liu looked at Sun Dahai and said: "Dahai, you were not here just now. I heard your grandma say that you and your Grandpa Cao prepared this meal together. In this regard, you are much better than Uncle Liu Yang, who knows how to cook."
It sounds reasonable to say it, but it makes no sense to do it."
"Uncle Liu Yang and Aunt He Ying are scholars, as are Grandpa Qingqing and Grandma Lu. Wow, Teacher Liu, I just discovered that your family are all great intellectuals, and they are all scholars."
"Little guy, am I not an intellectual?" Liu Hanwen quit.
"You are just saving lives and healing the wounded, you are better than them all." Sun Dahai stuck out his tongue and quickly changed his words.
Everyone burst into laughter.
Liu Hanqing is now the deputy director of the History Department of Bay University. Grandma Lu also teaches at Bay University. She is from the Department of Social Sciences.
Liu Yang and He Ying were college classmates, and they went to the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States to study for master's degrees together, one in the Department of Mathematics and the other in the Department of Computer Science.
They returned from school at the beginning of this year and got married. They are both typical technical geeks, and they are considered a perfect match, and they live together.