The Book of Raising Children by Houmen

Chapter 248
Zhao Yong has already returned from Piaoxiang Building. He bought a sack of peanuts at the grocery store at the intersection, and distributed them to the neighbors and the women, servants, and guards standing in the yard.The small courtyard of the Zhao family has never been so lively, surrounded by people on the inner and outer floors.Mrs. Xu sat in the middle of the living room, calling Zhao Yong and Yuan Shi to sit down.

"Since the old lady is here, how about having a light meal at our house?" Zhao Yonghan asked the old lady Xu with a smile as it was already noon and he was hungry.

At this time, Mama Zhang had asked her servants to clean up an empty room for the Zhao family, and stuffed all the betrothal gifts they brought in. The room was full.The old lady Xu originally planned to get up and go back home, but Zhao Jing saw Zhao Yong's enthusiasm, so she also persuaded: "The old lady can stay and have a bite, my brother is the chef of Piaoxiang Building, and the old lady should also try it." his craft."

"That's a good relationship, then I'll stay." The old lady said, glanced outside the door, and said to Zhang's mother: "Take someone back to the house first, don't squeeze the door of the house, if you go back Seeing Lord Hou, tell him not to worry, I will go back in a while."

Seeing that Zhao Jing was serving here, Mama Zhang was relieved, and now that she knew who the old lady liked to deal with, she was not surprised, so she smiled and said: "Then you will always play here for a while." ? The old slave has gone back to the Marquis Mansion first, Mr. Zhao will send the old lady back to the mansion later!"

Zhao Jing nodded, and sent Mama Zhang and the others to the door. The people who watched the excitement finally dispersed. Zhao Jing greeted all the neighbors and closed the courtyard door.

Zhao Yong had already started cutting the bacon hanging outside the kitchen. Yuan took a lot of dried fruits and sent them to the coffee table next to Mrs. Xu. The old lady Xu said, "Try two, the old lady. We poor people usually don't have much to eat, but we just eat some peanuts and sesame seeds. It is also good for the elderly to eat a little."

Mrs. Xu picked up two peanuts and put them in her mouth to eat. She didn't pick her mouth. She really didn't eat peanuts for some time. The dried fruit my wife usually eats is either almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, or torreya.In fact, she herself likes to eat peanuts very much, but the servants didn't bring them over, and she couldn't think of eating them, so she never ate them.

Think about when I was a child, there was nothing to eat at that time, and if I could get a handful of peanuts during the Chinese New Year, I would put them in my pocket and keep them for several days.Once you get rich and honor these days, how can people change?She is chewing peanuts now, it still tastes like when she was a child, and it is still so fragrant, but she is already such an old age.

"These peanuts are really fragrant, the same flavor I ate when I was a child!" Madam Xu sighed, thinking about the time when she and Mama Sun grew up together, the two of them no longer had any grievances.Later, both of them grew up and married each other. Mrs. Xu was very kind to Mama Sun, but she couldn't find the feeling she had when they slept together under the same quilt when they were young.

"The old lady doesn't eat it very often, so she thinks it's delicious." Zhao Jing changed the old lady for a cup of tea, and she didn't understand why the old lady suddenly looked unhappy, but fortunately, the old lady After receiving the tea, he was happy again, bowed his head and sighed, nodded and said, "Is this barley tea? I fried it at home? I can even smell the smell of iron pot."

"Old lady, you are really good, you can taste it all!" Yuan Shi came in from outside with a smile, and she had already brought two dishes in her hand, "I also like this smell of paste, smelling fragrant, I specially asked the head of the house to add more I bought two handfuls of firewood, if the old lady likes it, I will pack a bag and bring it back to you later!"

"That's a good feeling, I like this taste!" Mrs. Xu agreed with a smile, her face full of satisfaction. In fact, there are many good teas in the Hou Mansion. The old lady may not really care about such a little barley tea, but she is so generous by nature. Compared with ordinary old Fengjun, he is really more down-to-earth.

Zhao Yong is worthy of being the master chef of Piaoxianglou. It only took half an hour for five dishes and one soup. Zhao Jing glanced at the dishes on the table. difference.

The peanuts in the Kung Pao Chicken are freshly fried, fragrant and crispy; the fried eggs in the Mushu Pork are golden in color; , shredded cucumber salad, poured with a special sauce, looking tender and refreshing, and a soup with mushroom ribs, served in a crock pot, full of flavor and steaming.

Zhao Jing invited Mrs. Xu to take her seat, and said with a smile, "Old lady, let me have a taste of my brother's handicraft."

Mrs. Xu sat down and was about to eat with chopsticks. She looked up and said, "Sit down too. I can't let me eat all the dishes for a table?"

Yuan Shi smiled and waved her hands, not daring to sit down, so Zhao Jing pulled her to sit next to Mrs. Xu, she was about to go to the kitchen to call Zhao Yong over, when she heard a few voices coming from the door There was a steady knock on the door.

Zhao Jing went out in a hurry, and opened the courtyard door while answering, and saw Xu Si'an standing at the door with a serious face, leading a horse. He saw Zhao Jing raised her eyebrows inside the door, but Zhao Jing had already He took the bridle from his hand, tied it to the stone pier at the gate of the courtyard, and said with a smile, "Master Hou, who taught you how to dismount after smelling the fragrance?"

(End of this chapter)