Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 121 Cooking and showing off your cooking skills, meeting your mother-in-law at the station

Chapter 121 Cooking and showing off your cooking skills, meeting your mother-in-law at the station (3K)

When Fangyan heard the Queen's weak words, he knew that she was only considering him when buying vegetables.

Just looking at Professor Zhu's love for food, Fangyan thought that as the mother of a couple, Zhu Lin would definitely not be really picky.

However, Fang Yan did not spoil the show at this moment. He nodded and said:
"Comrade Zhu Lin, it seems that you have great confidence in my cooking skills?"

"Then I must perform well today and not let you down."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Lin immediately smiled and said:

"I've eaten here several times. I have to have faith in you! The dishes you cook are all good, so I think my mom will like them no matter how you cook them."

Hearing the queen praising him like that, Fang Yan couldn't help but feel a little elated.

Of course, making all of your favorite dishes to entertain others seems a bit wrong no matter how you look at it.

Fang Yan recalled that when Professor Zhu and Zhu Lin first came to the Fang family for dinner, Zhu Lin said that her mother had eaten a state banquet of Huaiyang cuisine before.

Fangyan thought about it and decided to make the main style of today's dishes lighter like Huaiyang cuisine.

Of course, Huaiyang cuisine is so particular, and the time is too short now, so there is definitely not enough time to make it. Moreover, the ingredients here are not enough, so Fangyan can only make a Huaiyang dish to express it.

So he asked Zhu Lin:

"By the way, I heard you say before that your mother has eaten Huaiyang cuisine, so how about I make a braised lion's head?"

Zhu Lin looked at Fang Yan in surprise:

"Do you also know Huaiyang cuisine?"

In his previous life, Fangyan had also learned to cook Huaiyang cuisine on his own. Even without the support of the system, he would still have no problem making a few simple ones.

What's more, there is now system support.

But in order to avoid seeming unreasonable because I know too many Huaiyang dishes, I said in dialect:

"I only know the simple ones. I can't do anything too complicated."

Hearing Fangyan say this, Zhu Lin thought it was just being polite, so he said:

"Then don't worry about her. Just do what you are good at."

The dialect was funny. The Queen didn't want to embarrass herself at all. He emphasized:
"Actually, it's just braised meatballs, which is pretty good."

Zhu Lin agreed only after hearing this.

Next, Fangyan used the ingredients Zhu Lin bought to decide on several dishes for today, including braised lion head, casserole pork belly, steamed pork with rice flour, steamed fish, fried oyster mushrooms, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, cold vermicelli, and vegetarian three-fresh soup.

Four meat dishes and four vegetarian dishes.

We have roasting, steaming, stir-frying, stewing, deep-frying, cold dishes and soups.

Because the dishes were very delicious, I didn’t eat the staple food.

After making the decision, Fang Yan and Zhu Lin started to get busy. The two of them worked together and progressed very quickly. When Professor Zhu came back at 5:30, he could already smell the fragrance in the house as soon as he opened the door.

He immediately realized that his family had come to help.

"Is this Fangyan coming?" he asked loudly into the kitchen.

"Uncle." Fang Yan poked his head out of the kitchen and greeted Professor Zhu.

Professor Zhu said with a smile:
"I knew it must be you. Linlin's cooking wouldn't smell so good."

Zhu Lin leaned out of the kitchen and said to his father in dissatisfaction:
"Dad, you're still in the mood to tease me. Where did you go today? Why did you come back just now?"

Professor Zhu quickly begged for mercy:
"Oh, my old classmate from Shanghai is here. He came to see me at school today, and I forgot the time while chatting. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

After that, he looked at his watch, then stood at the kitchen door and asked:

"Your mother won't be here for over an hour. How can I help you?"

Zhu Lin was holding a large bowl and mixing vermicelli, while Fangyan was turning down the heat and slow-cooking the pork tripe strips.

There was only a soup and some seasonal vegetables left to prepare, but the dishes were all ready, so we just had to put them in the pot.

Zhu Lin shook his head:
"We've almost done everything. You came back too late. There's nothing left for you to do."

"Get ready. We'll go to the train station to pick someone up later."

Professor Zhu sniffed his nose and said:

"I'm so sorry. I didn't cook anything today and I'm just eating this..."

Fangyan understood Professor Zhu's plan, so he asked him:
"Uncle, why don't you try the food and see if Auntie likes the taste?"

Hearing Fangyan say this, Professor Zhu immediately agreed:
"Okay, no problem."

As he said that, he walked into the kitchen.

Seeing this, Zhu Lin rolled his eyes at his late and greedy father.

"Delicious! Delicious! It tastes good." After eating a piece of fried oyster mushrooms with chopsticks, Professor Zhu gave a thumbs up.

Now I can be sure that Professor Zhu is definitely a gourmet who loves to eat. It's a pity that the two books today didn't describe what a gourmet looks like, otherwise I could have compared it myself.

I guess this kind of physiognomy can only be seen in books from the Jianghu school.

When his father was tasting the food, Zhu Lin reminded him:
"Dad, Fangyan is also planning to go to the train station to pick up Mom later."

Professor Zhu nodded in agreement while chewing:
"Okay, no problem!"

"It was dark when she came back. We feel more at ease with a young man like Fangyan following her."

After that, he put down his chopsticks and said:

"You don't know, my classmate who arrived yesterday had his wallet slashed as soon as he got off the train early this morning. The money and tickets inside were all stolen."

"Luckily he kept them separately, so not all his stuff was stolen, and his ID was also there, otherwise it would be a lot of trouble."

"It's really not peaceful these days, especially around the train station."

Zhu Lin nodded and said:
"It's true that things are not peaceful outside right now. We often hear about people being robbed or having their pockets cut."

As she spoke, she glanced at Fangyan. Zhu Lin still remembered the two knife-wielding thieves she encountered on the bus the last time she went to Lao Mo. If Fangyan hadn't been so skilled, it would have been a different story.

Whenever he thought of this, Zhu Lin felt that he was very safe around Fang Yan.

Next, Fangyan prepared the three-fresh soup.

After looking at the time, he called Zhu Lin and Professor Zhu and prepared to go to the train station together.

"Aren't you going to cook seasonal vegetables?" Zhu Lin took a look at the prepared dishes and asked in Fangyan curiously.

Without using dialect, Professor Zhu explained:

“Stir-fried seasonal vegetables are best eaten freshly cooked, that’s when they taste best.”

"If we leave it alone after frying it, it will be limp by the time we get back, and it won't taste good."

Zhu Lin glanced at his father and muttered:

"I remember you weren't that particular about food before..." Professor Zhu explained with a smile:

"There was no opportunity before, but now that I am the head chef of Fangyan, I have the conditions."

“No matter how good the food is, the more delicate it is. If conditions permit, paying attention to these details is also a respect for the food.”

Otherwise he would be called a professor, but he uses so many little words.

Then Professor Zhu said that he had to wash his hair, shave his beard, and change his clothes before leaving, otherwise his wife would say he was sloppy.

Fangyan agreed as well. Professor Zhu looked even more unkempt than the last time they met.

I guess his wife used to take care of his life more, but after his wife left, he gradually paid less attention to it.

Now that my wife is back, of course I have to return to the state I was in before she left.

While he was waiting to clean up, Fang Yan and Zhu Lin turned off the fire for various dishes in the kitchen.

The weather is not too cold now.

While the two of them were waiting for Professor Zhu to get ready, they went downstairs to wait for him.

At this moment, many people are cooking dinner at home. Standing at the door of the unit, you can smell the fragrance wafting from the windows of various homes.

In fact, most of the people living here are not local to BJ. Most of them came here later, so you can smell the aroma of food from all over the world.

Zhu Lin remembered that Fang Yan should be cooking at home at this time, so he asked him:
"By the way, have you told your family about having dinner here tonight?"

The dialect said:

"I told my family a few days ago that they don't have time to take care of me right now. I guess they're still taking care of the kids somewhere else."

Thinking of the experience with Fangyan's mother that morning and the baby, Zhu Lin sighed:

"That's great. I didn't expect your dad to be so supportive."

The dialect said:

"Maybe he also thinks that the child looks like my fifth sister... But in the end it all depends on the police to see if they can find the family members."

"Do you hope to find it or not?" Zhu Lin asked Fangyan curiously.

Fangyan thought about it and gave an ambiguous answer:

"Let's leave it to fate. I can accept either outcome."

Zhu Lin thought about it and it was true. It was really difficult for Fang Yan to express his opinion on such matters.

Then the two chatted about other things for a while, and then they saw Professor Zhu coming down from the stairs.

After tidying myself up, I felt refreshed.

"Let's go! To the bus station." Professor Zhu waved his hand, looked high-spirited, and led the way to the bus stop.

……

6:50 pm, at the Yongdingmen Railway Station Square.

At this time, the crowd was surging and the noise was deafening.

Professor Zhu stretched his neck in the crowd and looked at the people pouring out of the station.

He looked at his watch and muttered:

"Is it the train that's ahead of schedule, or is it a different train?"

In order to verify, Fangyan, who was standing nearby, stopped a passenger leaving the station and asked:

"Comrade, may I ask if your train comes from Taiyuan?"

"Yes, Train No. 596." The other party nodded and said to Fangyan.

"Thank you." Fang Yan thanked the other party.

On the way here just now, Fangyan had already inquired and found out that there are two ordinary trains, 596 and 560, from Taiyuan to Beijing Yongdingmen Station, and the journey takes 13 hours.

There is also the No. 388 express train, which of course is not much faster, only taking one hour less, arriving in 12 hours.

Zhu Lin's mother took train No. 596.

In other words, the train arrived early and he should be in the crowd now.

But there were too many people at the moment. As the sky gradually darkened and the street lights came on, people's faces were projected into the waxy yellow color of incandescent lamps.

The whole face looks like it was printed from the same mold.

Faces flashed by one after another, and since everyone's clothes are similar these days, everyone looks nondescript.

Zhu Lin and nearsighted Professor Zhu were so dazzled by the light from the street lamps in the square.

Only Fangyan's amazing eyesight, supported by his multiple skills, highlighted at this time his eyesight far exceeded that of ordinary people.

He quickly searched the crowd for the face he saw in the Zhu family photo.

Although the photo was taken when the person was younger, it is enough to recognize the person.

It only took him about half a minute to finally see a face that matched his name in the crowd.

At this moment, Mother Zhu was in the crowd more than a hundred meters away from them, carrying a bag and looking around in a daze, looking for Professor Zhu and Zhu Lin who were there to pick them up.

Before Zhu's mother came back, she called Professor Zhu.

At this moment, Professor Zhu was rubbing his eyes, and Zhu Lin also felt a little dizzy.

"I saw my aunt!"

Fangyan spoke to them, pointing his finger at where Zhu's mother was.

The two looked towards the crowded crowd in bewilderment.

There was nothing to see except densely packed heads of people.

"Where?" The two were confused.

Fangyan looked at it and said simply:
"Forget it, you guys wait here, I'll go pick someone up."

Zhu Lin and Professor Zhu both nodded in confusion.

After saying that, Fang Yan walked towards Mother Zhu.

Three minutes later, Fangyan squeezed through the crowd and finally came in front of Zhu's mother.

Facing Zhu's mother, who looked about 70% similar to Zhu Lin, he greeted: