Chapter 121 Cooking to show cooking skills, picking up mother-in-law at the station (3K)
Hearing the Queen's angry words, Fang Yan knew that she was only thinking about him when buying groceries.
Just looking at Professor Zhu's interest in eating, Fang Yan thought that as a married couple, Zhu Lin's wife would definitely not be picky.
However, Fang Yan did not make trouble at this moment, nodded and said:
"It seems that Comrade Zhu Lin is very confident in my cooking skills?"
"Then I must perform well today and not let down your trust in me."
When Zhu Lin heard this, he immediately smiled and said:
"I've eaten here several times, so I have to have confidence in you! None of the dishes you cook are unpalatable, so I think my mother will definitely like whatever you cook."
Hearing the Queen praising him so much, Fang Yan couldn't help but feel a little carried away.
Of course, there is something wrong with cooking all the dishes you like to entertain others.
Fang Yan remembered that when Professor Zhu and Zhu Lin went to Fang's house for dinner for the first time, Zhu Lin said that her mother had had a state banquet with Huaiyang cuisine before.
Fang Yan thought about it and decided to make the main style of today's dishes lighter, like Huaiyang cuisine.
Of course, Huaiyang cuisine is too particular. The time is too short to cook it, and the ingredients here are not enough, so Fang Yan can only make a Huaiyang dish to show off.
So he asked Zhu Lin:
"By the way, I heard you say before that your mother eats Huaiyang cuisine. How about I make a braised lion head?"
Zhu Lin looked at Fang Yan in surprise:
“Do you know how to cook Huaiyang cuisine?”
In Huaiyang Cuisine, Fang Yan also thought about it himself and made it in his previous life. Even without the blessing of the system, if he was asked to make a few simple dishes, he would still have no problem.
What's more, there are system blessings now.
However, in order to avoid knowing too much Huaiyang cuisine and seeming unreasonable, Fang Yan said:
“I know only simple ones, and I don’t know anything else that is too complicated.”
Hearing what Fang Yan said, Zhu Lin thought Fang Yan was being polite, so he said:
"Then don't worry about her, just do what you're good at."
The dialect is funny, the queen doesn’t want to embarrass herself at all, he emphasized:
“Actually, it’s just braised a few meatballs, and it’s pretty good.”
Zhu Lin agreed after hearing this.
Next, Fang Yan used the ingredients bought by Zhu Lin to decide on several dishes for today, braised lion head, casserole pork belly, steamed pork with rice flour, steamed fish, crispy oyster mushrooms, stir-fried vegetables, cold vermicelli, and vegetarian three-fresh soup.
Four meat dishes and four vegetarian dishes.
Boil, steam, stir-fry, stew, fry, cold dishes and soups are all available.
Because the dishes were very solid, I skipped the staple food.
After making the decision, Fang Yan and Zhu Lin got busy. The two of them worked together and made progress very quickly. When Professor Zhu came back at 5:30, he could smell the fragrance of the house as soon as he opened the door.
He immediately understood that the family was here to help.
"Is this dialect?" he asked loudly into the kitchen.
"Uncle." Fang Yan stuck his head out of the kitchen and greeted Professor Zhu.
Professor Zhu said with a smile:
"I knew it must be you who came over. Linlin's cooking wouldn't be so fragrant."
Zhu Lin leaned out of the kitchen and said dissatisfiedly to his father:
"Dad, are you still in the mood to tease me? Where did you go today and are you back now?"
Professor Zhu quickly apologized:
"Oh, my old classmate from Shanghai is here. He came to see me at school today. I forgot all about the time while chatting. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
After saying that, he looked at his watch, then stood at the door of the kitchen and asked:
"Your mother won't arrive for more than an hour. How can I help?"
Zhu Lin was holding a large bowl in his hand and was mixing vermicelli. Fang Yan was currently turning down the heat and slowly simmering pork belly strips.
There is only one soup and one seasonal vegetable left, but the vegetables are all ready, so just put them in the pot.
Zhu Lin shook his head:
"We have almost done it. You came back late, and there is nothing left for you to do."
"Get ready, we'll go to the train station to pick you up later."
Professor Zhu sniffed his nose and said:
"I'm so sorry, I didn't do anything today, I just ate ready-made food..."
Fang Yan saw that he could not understand Professor Zhu's plan, so he asked him:
"Uncle, why don't you come and try the food and see if Auntie likes the taste?"
Hearing what the dialect said, Professor Zhu immediately agreed happily:
"Okay, no problem."
With that said, he walked into the kitchen.
Seeing this, Zhu Lin rolled his eyes at his late and greedy father.
"It's delicious! It's delicious! It tastes good." After eating a chopstick of fried oyster mushrooms, Professor Zhu gave a thumbs up.
Now I can be sure that Professor Zhu is definitely a gourmet who likes to eat. It's a pity that the two books today didn't write about the appearance of a gourmet, otherwise I could compare it myself.
It is estimated that this kind of physiognomy can only be seen in the books of Jianghu sect.
When his father was trying the dishes, Zhu Lin reminded him:
"Dad, Fang Yan also plans to go to the train station to pick up mom later."
Professor Zhu chewed in his mouth and nodded in agreement:
"Okay, no problem!"
"It's already dark when she comes back. With a young man like Fang Yan following her, we can rest assured."
After that, he put down his chopsticks and said:
"You don't know, my classmate who just arrived yesterday had a big cut in his wallet as soon as he got off the train early this morning, and all the money and tickets inside were stolen."
"Fortunately, he opened it separately, and all his things were not stolen. It's okay that he still has documents and other documents. Otherwise, the trouble would be even bigger."
"It's really not peaceful these days, especially at the train station."
Zhu Lin nodded and said:
“It’s true that things are not peaceful outside right now. You can often hear people being robbed or having their pockets cut.”
As she said this, she glanced at Fang Yan. The two knife thieves she met on the bus after going to Lao Mo last time were still fresh in Zhu Lin's memory. If Fang Yan hadn't been good at it, it would have been something else. A story.
Every time he thought about this, Zhu Lin felt that he had a sense of security around Fang Yan.
Next, Fang Yan prepares the three delicacies soup.
After taking a look at the time, he called Zhu Lin and Professor Zhu and prepared to set off to the train station together.
"Aren't you cooking seasonal vegetables?" Zhu Lin glanced at the prepared dishes and asked Fang Yan curiously.
Without even speaking in dialect, Professor Zhu explained:
“It is best to stir-fry seasonal vegetables and eat them right away, so they are delicious.”
"After frying, let it sit. When we come back, it will be soft and won't taste good."
Zhu Lin glanced at his father and muttered:
"I remember that you were not so particular about food before..." Professor Zhu explained with a smile:
"There was no chance before, but now Chef Fang Yan has the conditions."
"You never tire of fine food, and you never tire of fine food. Paying attention to these details when conditions permit can be regarded as respect for food."
How about saying he is a professor? This little phrase is all the same.
Professor Zhu then said that he had to wash and shave his head first, and then change his clothes before setting off, otherwise his wife would say he was sloppy.
Dialect agreed. Professor Zhu looked even more unkempt than when they met before.
This man must have had his wife who took care of his life more before, but after his wife left, he gradually stopped paying so much attention.
Now that my wife is back, of course she must return to the state she was in before she left.
While he was cleaning up, Fang Yan and Zhu Lin turned off the heat of various dishes in the kitchen.
The weather is not afraid of getting cold now.
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While the two of them were waiting for Professor Zhu's instructions, they went downstairs to wait for him.
At this time, many people are cooking dinner at home. Standing at the door of the unit, you can still smell the aroma wafting from the windows of homes everywhere.
In fact, most of the people who live here are not BJ locals, almost all of them came later, so you can smell the food from all over the world.
Zhu Lin remembered that Fang Yan’s family should be cooking at the moment, so he asked him:
"By the way, have you told your family that you're going to eat here tonight?"
Dialect said:
"I told my family a few days ago that they don't have time to take care of me right now. They are probably taking care of the kids somewhere else right now."
Thinking of the experience with Madam Fang Yan that morning and the baby, Zhu Lin said with emotion:
"That's great. I didn't expect your dad to be so supportive."
Dialect said:
"Maybe he also thinks that the child looks like my fifth sister... But in the end it still depends on the police to see if the family can be found."
"Do you hope to find it or not?" Zhu Lin asked Fang Yan curiously.
Fang Yan thought for a while and gave an ambiguous answer:
"Leave it to fate. I can accept any ending."
Zhu Lin thought about it and it was right. It is really difficult to express opinions on such matters in dialect.
Then the two chatted for a while and then saw Professor Zhu coming down from upstairs.
After some preparation, the whole person became energetic.
"Let's go! Go to the bus station." Professor Zhu waved his hand and took the lead towards the bus stop with a high-spirited look on his face.
……
At 6:50 pm, in the Yongdingmen Railway Station Square.
At this time, there was a huge crowd and a lot of people.
In the crowd, Professor Zhu stretched his neck and looked at the flow of people pouring out of the station.
He looked at his watch and muttered:
"Is the train ahead of schedule, or is it another train?"
To verify, Dialect on the side stopped a passenger leaving the station and asked:
"Comrade, does your train come from Taiyuan?"
"Yes, train 596." The other party nodded and said to the dialect.
"Thank you." Fang Yan thanked the other party.
On the way here, I had already inquired in Dialect. There are two ordinary trains 596 and 560 from Taiyuan to Yongdingmen Station in the capital, which take 13 hours.
There are also 388 express trains, which of course are not much faster. The time is only one hour shorter, arriving in 12 hours.
Mrs. Zhu Lin took train 596.
In other words, the train arrived early and should be among the crowd now.
But there were too many people at this moment. When the sky darkened and the street lights came on, the faces were cast into the waxy yellow of incandescent lamps.
The whole face seems to be printed from the same mold.
Faces flashed by one after another, and in these days, everyone was dressed similarly, which made everyone look featureless.
Zhu Lin and the short-sighted Professor Zhu were dazzled by the street lights in the square.
Only Fang Yan's eyesight, aided by various skills, was astonishing. At this time, it was highlighted that his eyesight was far beyond that of ordinary people.
He quickly searched the crowd for the face he saw in the Zhu family photo.
Although the photo was taken relatively young, it is enough for identifying people.
It only took about half a minute for him to finally see the right face in the crowded crowd.
At this moment, Mother Zhu was in the crowd more than a hundred meters away from them, holding a bag and looking around in confusion, looking for Professor Zhu and Zhu Lin who were picking up the train.
Before Zhu's mother came back, she called Professor Zhu.
At this moment, Professor Zhu was rubbing his eyes, and Zhu Lin also felt that his eyes were a little blurry.
"I saw auntie!"
Fang Yan said to them while pointing his finger at where Zhu's mother was.
The two looked at the crowded crowd with confused expressions.
I saw nothing except densely packed heads.
"Where?" The two of them were confused.
Fang Yan took a look and said:
"Forget it, just wait here and I'll pick you up."
Zhu Lin and Professor Zhu both nodded in confusion.
After that, Fang Yan walked towards Mama Zhu's direction.
Three minutes later, Fang Yan squeezed through the crowd and finally came to Mother Zhu.
Facing Zhu’s mother, who was very similar to Zhu Lin, he greeted:
"Auntie, my name is Fang Yan, I'm here to pick you up."
PS: The 6,000-word normal chapter has been updated, and additional chapters will be updated later.
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