Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 243 Soup Base
"Should we discuss this matter with A Zong and A Rui?"

Seeing that Xianglan insisted on opening her own shop, the boss no longer objected. But he thought about it and asked again, after all, the couple are now working in the tea restaurant, if they quit now, they should at least let them know in advance to give an explanation, right?

But Xianglan shook her head. "Let's wait until the noodle shop opens. We still have to try the soup base, and we may not be able to get it right. What if the soup base is not ready and the noodle shop doesn't open? What should we do? We will be embarrassed to go back to the tea restaurant then, right?"

Da Lao Guang nodded. He had no objection to this. As long as there was a way out, he was willing to support Xianglan to try it out on her own. The two of them got down to work. The next day, Da Lao Guang went to the market to buy the ingredients for the soup base and went home to prepare for the experiment.

"A Guang, why are you back before you get off work?" Xiu Gu had asked for leave and had not come back yet. The old lady had been cooking dinner for the past few days. She asked in confusion when she saw Da Lao Guang walk in. She just checked the alarm clock and it was only 4:30, so it was not time to get off work yet.

"I don't know what's going on, but Xianglan has been craving soup lately, so I wanted to make some delicious soup for her." Big Brother Guang had already prepared his words.

The mother didn't doubt it after hearing it, and took the bag from the boss's hand and said, "Okay, give the things to me, I'll help you make soup for her, and you can go back to work quickly."

"This..." The boss was stunned. He had never considered this situation before. He was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to deal with it. He had nothing to say, but the old lady did. "What is this? You haven't finished get off work yet, go back and help quickly. Just give me these ingredients and I will help her cook. The old lady has been cooking soup for decades, don't you trust me?"

"Of course not." Big Brother Guang quickly denied. How could he dare to say that the old lady was not good at making soup? "Then I'll leave it to you. I'll go back to the restaurant to help now."

When Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan got off work at the store and returned to Kang's house in the evening, the old woman had already cooked the soup and placed it in their room. "Wife, try it and see how it tastes." Da Lao Guang went to the kitchen to get a bowl, poured the soup into the bowl and handed it to Xiang Lan.

Xianglan took the soup and took a sip, then frowned. "This soup is quite fragrant, but I feel like it's weird, but I can't tell what's wrong."

"Really?" Big Brother Guang asked. Xianglan asked him to try it too. After he took a sip, he said, "Huh? Why does it seem like there's something missing? And it tastes sweet."

At this time, the old woman walked into their room and saw them drinking soup. She smiled and said, "Is this soup delicious? Xianglan, you don't even know. Ah Guang is such a big head. He only knows how to feel sorry for his wife but doesn't know how to feel sorry for her. He bought a lot of soup ingredients and there are a lot of dried shrimps in it. You also know that you can't drink it. You will have an allergic reaction if you drink it. Fortunately, I picked out all the dried shrimps and put two candied dates in it."

"What? You picked out all the dried shrimps?" The boss said helplessly after hearing this.

The old woman nodded, "Yeah, what's that tone of yours? If you don't pick it out, do you think your wife is allergic?"

"No, that's not what I meant. I meant..." Big Brother Guang was about to say something, but Xianglan interrupted him and said, "It's delicious. This soup is delicious, Mom."

"Haha, as long as it tastes good, I'm leaving now. Remember to go to the kitchen and wash the dishes after you finish drinking." After giving these instructions, the mother walked out of their room.

Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan looked at each other and decided to cook it themselves tomorrow, and they would never let the old lady do it again. After Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan put the ingredients in the casserole, Xiang Lan went back to the room to take Tian You away, and Da Lao Guang was responsible for watching the fire. However, he was attracted by the sound of the TV outside, so he turned down the fire and came to the living room to watch TV.

"Boss, why are you so happy?" A Yao worked overtime that night. When he got home, he happened to see Boss watching TV and laughing, so he asked curiously. "This Mr. Bean is so stupid. He put the whole goldfish in his mouth. Don't you think it's funny?" Boss said, pointing at the content on TV. A Yao glanced at the TV, but he was not in the mood to watch TV. He had worked overtime all day and hadn't eaten dinner yet. "Mom, what else is there to eat?"

"I left some food for you. It's in the rice cooker. Go in and get it and eat it yourself." The mother pointed into the kitchen. After hearing this, A Yao thanked her and went straight into the dining room.

As soon as A Yao entered the kitchen, he smelled a delicious aroma, and he immediately discovered that the source of the aroma was a pot of soup. He was immediately excited, "My mom is so nice, she left a pot of soup for me. A child with a mom is a treasure." He sang while filling his bowl with rice and soup and ate happily.

At this time, after Xianglan coaxed Tianyou to sleep, she walked out of the room and saw Da Lao just watching TV, so she asked, "Honey, is the soup ready?"

"Stop making noise." Da Lao Guang's first reaction was to ask Xianglan to stop disturbing him while watching TV. After he said that, he realized that he was cooking soup in the kitchen. "It should be ready." He stood up and walked towards the kitchen. But when he walked into the kitchen, he didn't see his soup, but an empty pot in the sink.

"Where's my soup? It must be that bad boy Ayao, Ayao..." The boss knew without even thinking that the soup must have been drunk by Ayao, and he shouted Ayao's name loudly. "What's the matter, boss?" Ayao came over when he heard the voice.

"What's the matter? Did you drink my soup?" Big Brother Guang asked loudly.

A Yao was stunned for a moment, and shouted back, "What do you mean your soup? It's the soup my mom left for me."

"What's left for you?" The boss was really angry. "I made this soup myself. If you want to drink it, just tell me."

"No way, boss?" A Yao looked helpless. "It's just a pot of soup. Do you want to file a report now? What's so secretive about this soup?"

The boss was annoyed by A Yao's attitude. He took a deep breath and said, "Anyway, you can't just drink this soup. It's not cooked yet." He thought hard before coming up with this reason.

Ah Yao disagreed, "No, I think it's done, it tastes good."

"You" Da Lao Guang was really upset this time. He left the kitchen angrily and returned to the room. As soon as he entered the room, he and Xiang Lan started to complain about A Yao. "Li Zhao is such a jerk. He drank my soup without asking and acted like he didn't care." Da Lao Guang continued to scold.

"Hubby, forget it, don't be angry. We've already drunk it. Didn't you say that A Yao drank up all the soup? This shows that our soup is good. I'm getting more and more confident." Xianglan is a positive and optimistic person who can always find different angles to motivate and comfort herself.

"That's what we say, but we haven't tried it ourselves and it's hard to be assured." Big Boss Guang said.

Xianglan waved her hand and said, "Hey, that's nothing. Let's cook it tomorrow. After we try the flavor tomorrow, we can go look for a store. When I got off work today, I saw a store on the next street that was for sale."

(End of this chapter)