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Chapter 137 Dinner Party 【Please customize!First update]

in the kitchen.

The three men were busy preparing dinner.

In fact, even if Xu Haozheng didn't need anyone's help to deal with these things in the kitchen, he could handle them all by himself.

Just like the last time, when the old man was at the old man's house, even if the old man didn't call Jiang Hong in to help him, he could still cook exactly the same dishes.

Now, the reason for letting Jiang Hong and his son come in to help is to help them get busy together.

It's just to get closer and say a few more words to each other.

Things look very busy in the kitchen.

But Xu Haozheng, a master cook, can arrange everything in an orderly manner, and he won't mess up when he is busy, let alone missing any important steps.

A good chef is a must with a clear mind, a rigorous and organized approach.

Otherwise, if there is a slight difference somewhere, it is very likely that the taste will deviate, and the taste of the cooked food will not be satisfactory.

Taste is the highest pursuit of chefs.

However, with the help of Jiang Hong and his son, they can indeed help Xu Haozheng do a lot of things and speed up the cooking.

Increase efficiency.

So the dinner time was brought forward by an hour.

Xu Haozheng originally planned to have dinner at six o'clock in the afternoon, but now it's only five o'clock, and a large table full of dishes has already been served on the round dining table.

In Jiang Hong and Xu Wan's home, there are two dining tables.

One is the long table near the stairs in the living room. If you sit around it, it can seat about [-] people. It is suitable for a large family to sit together, or to hold a party with many friends.

There is also a foldable round table. For gatherings with fewer people, people usually eat at the round table.

The last time Lao Sun paid them to come, the gathering of the four families was where everyone gathered around the round table to eat, drink and talk together.

Also, by the way.

Normally, when Jiang Hong and Xu Wan eat, they don't set a round table.

Either eat at the long table, or eat on the platform of the semi-open kitchen.

Today's dinner was eaten at the round table.

Everyone surrounded a circle, six people, not crowded, but also able to maintain a very good atmosphere for eating.

On the dining table, various plates were placed in a random order.

The colorful and delicious dishes on it are dazzling.

Xu Haozheng is worthy of being from the Xu family cuisine, which includes all the elders of the family. The food on the table is not limited to a certain local cuisine.

It is a perfect fusion of many kinds of cuisines and many kinds of dishes.

The local dishes from all over the world have been blended together.

Mainly Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine and Zhejiang cuisine, but it is not only that.

It really combines the advantages of all major cuisines, plus Xu Haozheng's own experience in cooking for many years, and finally composes a very sumptuous family banquet.

There are sweet and sour fish represented by Shandong cuisine, and the soup is double crisp.

There are also boiled pork represented by Sichuan cuisine, shrimp fried eel back in Zhejiang cuisine, Huangshan stewed pigeon in Anhui cuisine, etc.

In addition, there are white-cut chicken, nine-turn large intestine, etc...

Meat and vegetarian combination.

There are almost everything that flies in the sky, walks on the ground, jumps in grass husks, and swims in water.

Not only the external beauty is ensured, but also the flavors of various dishes blend together, and the strong impact on vision and five senses cannot be fully explained in a few words.

Although Jiang Hong could clearly feel that the food on this table was obviously different from the one cooked by Mr. Xu last time.

But he didn't feel that Xu Haozheng's cooking skills were worse than Mr. Xu's.

To give the simplest example, a plate of nine-turn large intestine, whether it is made by Mr. Xu or Xu Haozheng, looks completely different in appearance.

Arrangement, arranging, and then to the color, luster, and smell.

There are some discrepancies.

If you don’t know how to taste carefully, you may feel that there is no difference between the two, as long as they are both delicious.

But if you really taste it carefully, there are some very subtle differences between Xu Haozheng and Mr. Xu in terms of materials and production, which determines that the taste of the two is absolutely different.

This does not mean that Xu Haozheng's cooking skills are inferior.

And it just shows that Xu Haozheng, to a certain extent... is already out of blue.

Jiang Hong learned from Xu Wan's mouth that the Xu family inherited that all the children started to work hard from the boy's skill to hone their cooking skills.

However, everyone learns the most basic ones, such as heat, the use of various seasonings, knife skills and so on.

It is no different from what ordinary chefs need to learn.

Then, the master will directly take out a cookbook written by himself, and give it to all subsequent inheritors to follow.

Through the simplest and most basic knowledge learned at the beginning, combined with this recipe, to cook the same dishes.

During the cooking and cooking practice, the dishes on the recipes are reproduced.

But... Do you really think that the re-enactment is the end?Just perfect?
Actually, this is not the case.

The successors of Xujia cuisine, every time a dish is made according to the recipe, the master will taste it and give a score.

Master has known for a long time that if he cooks exactly according to the recipe, he has a good idea of ​​what the final product will taste like.

Therefore, the closer to this "correct taste" dish, the lower the score.

Yes.

The taste is right, but the score is low!
This is the most critical step in the inheritance of Xu's cuisine.

Encourage all latecomers to change the recipe and incorporate their own new ideas.

Of course, this does not mean that if the taste is particularly unpalatable, the score will be high.

This score depends on the three aspects of the dish's color, aroma and taste.

A truly qualified inheritor must do it, deviate from the "correct taste" of this dish, and at the same time make it delicious, bring out the taste of the ingredients themselves to the extreme, and ensure that the color, aroma and taste are complete.

This is where the real difficulty lies.

and so.

Xujia cuisine is very difficult to pass on.

Because there is no fixed inheritance.

Xu Haozheng's eldest brother and second brother did not do well in this area. They were staring at the recipes from the beginning to the end, and they were all staring at Mr. Xu to learn how to cook.

Therefore, no matter how much they learn from Mr. Xu, no matter how well they learn, no matter how delicious the food they cook.

The old man was not satisfied either.

Because these are not Xu family dishes, what they have learned is only the Xu family dishes from his Xu Jianguo.

but……

For so many years, the old man has never broken this point.

Because this is also a test of understanding.

In the end, Xu Haozheng came out.

Became the inheritor recognized by Xu Jianguo.

The final reason is actually very simple, just because Xu Haozheng changed the rice and the recipe when making a steamed eight-treasure pig that day.

At that time, the eldest brother and the second brother scolded him badly.

How could he change the recipe of the old man casually?
As a result... it was this small change that made Xu Jianguo's eyes shine.

Since then, he has given important tasks to Xu Hao's political commissar.

Xu Haozheng has also officially started learning and practicing cooking for more than [-] years. He travels all over the world, travels here and there, mixing the strengths of various families, and embarking on his own culinary path.

This is the most important thing in the inheritance of Xujia cuisine, which is different from the inheritance of other ancient dishes.

Among many other culinary apprentices, there is actually a saying that "learn a master's culinary art, if you want to really learn it, you have to learn even the master's mistakes, in order to be called learning."

That is, the real copying of the master's cooking skills.

The pursuit is completely unchanged and maintains the current taste.

Xu Jiacai chose to find a new way, preferring to risk the interruption of his own inheritance, preferring to lose the existing taste, but also to ensure the words "new" and "change".

This seems particularly unusual, but it allows Xu Jiacai to keep up with the times on the basis of following his own ancient inheritance.

The dinner table.

Although Jiang Hong doesn't know much about these dishes, which side's specialties are they.

But just looking at the well-arranged dishes on the dining table, he was articulate and kept swallowing his saliva.

This really is art!
Because, Jiang Hong saw a very detailed place.

When Xu Haozheng put all the food on the table, he just fixed the position of each plate.

Some are piled up and down together, and some are put together to form a square, and they are staggered together to form a very artistic table.

If all the dishes were laid flat, the table would not fit at all.

But now, after Xu Haozheng's manipulation, it happened to be perfectly arranged, and there was room for six people to put the dishes.

Moreover, the most important thing is that the aesthetic feeling of all dishes has not been destroyed.

Obviously they seem to block each other, but all the dishes can be clipped, and the best corner can also be displayed.

All of this... seems to have been calculated in advance.

This made Jiang Hong a little puzzled.

Is it true that an excellent chef must have studied art?

There seems to be a lot of knowledge in a dish, from the pot, the plate, to the table, and the plate.

And it especially tests the ability to adapt to changing situations.

Because these tableware and dishes were not brought by Xu Haozheng himself at all, they are all from the family now.

Xu Haozheng's control over the kitchen and tableware is like an old fried dough stick's absolute control over his private money and hiding places.

Jiang Hong could only say: Absolutely!

He involuntarily took out his phone and took a photo first.

But then I saw the news that he had forgotten on vx.

[Xu]: Damn it!Lao Jiang, what are you doing at home?Why is it so fragrant?

This was already an hour and a half ago.

Jiang Hong had been following his father-in-law just now, busy in the kitchen.

When I first saw the news, I felt a little surprised.

【River】:? ? ?

[Jiang]: Are you a dog nose?You live downstairs in my house, how did you smell it?You are too scary!I'm so scared when I think about it carefully!

[Xu]: No, I just went out for a trip, and the corridors were filled with scents. I followed the scents and found your house.

[Xu]: I'm not the only one who is curious, look at the vx group in our building, they are all discussing this.There are a lot of foodies in our building, and they just come here because of the name, and they are all guessing what your family is eating today.

【Xu】: This is too fragrant!It's absolutely perfect!
Jiang Hong still had business to do, so of course it was impossible to pay attention to these useless news.

After replying casually, he sent the photo he just took to Xu He.

I didn't pay attention anymore.

Xu He was left alone to swallow his saliva in front of the photo, almost licking the screen.

Crazy message with emotion.

【Xu】: I********, this is too good!Fuck, what day is today?You still have such a high skill?

[Xu]: Damn it!Lao Jiang, when will you invite me to dinner later on, you can also make such a table, so that I can also have a good time, Rongrong and I are both foodies! !

[Xu]: This is too luxurious, that little green dragon, I*...it looks like a living one, the meat looks too tender.And that and that carving, this... I rely on it!Lao Jiang, my saliva almost flooded our building!
[Xu]: Lao Jiang, if you have leftovers after eating today, don’t be shy, just bring them to me. I like to eat leftovers!Really, I really like it!
The more Jiang Hong looked at it, the more he wanted to laugh, so he turned off the phone and stuffed it into his trouser pocket.

Xin said that the person who wrote the book had a fast typing speed.

This mouth is like a machine gun, and it doesn't stop for a long time.

On the other side, Jiang Guotao and his wife, after seeing the dishes on the table, put them on the table and set them up completely.

All of them stared straight at the various dishes.

Swallow saliva.

If it wasn't for the wrong occasion, the two of them would have already "fuck the world with one sentence".

Just now, when Jiang Guotao was helping in the kitchen, although he had seen every single dish when it was baked, he had been shocked countless times.

I feel that every dish is special, and it is as delicate as a work of art.

But now, all the dishes are put together on one table and placed in specific positions.

The shock brought by the whole is far from the feeling of watching each dish separately just now.

Has an extremely strong visual impact.

It's the kind of person who has a very strong willpower to lose weight, and will jump up from the bed and eat three bowls of rice in the middle of the night when he sees it in the middle of the night...

It's even so beautiful that people don't want to destroy it at all.

Both visually and taste have reached their peak.

pole!

Six people are seated.

Jiang Guotao and Xu Haozheng sat at the top, while Liu Guixiang and Chen Huifang sat on both sides of their lovers.

In the end, Xu Wan and Jiang Hong sat side by side.

At this time, Jiang Hong, the so-called head of the family, should not take the lead.

Now the occasion is different, and the meaning has changed.

Now it's the in-laws meeting, and the in-laws are the main thing.

The parents of both sides are above, and the two of them are juniors, so they must sit in the lower position.

With the few hours of getting along during the day, the atmosphere of the dinner is not rigid, but very harmonious.

Plus, there are such perfect meals, as a twist.

The atmosphere naturally became better.

Jiang Hong took out the bottle of good wine from yesterday again.

Today, Xu Haozheng did not strictly follow the Xu family's rule of eating first and then drinking.

After all, this is not at Xu's house.

It was at Jiang Hong and Xu Wan's house.

So the wine was poured directly, and everyone chatted while eating and drinking.

On the lady's side, they are drinking fruit juice.

A table of dinner started like this and lasted for several hours. The woman quickly got off the table and shifted her position to the sofa.

The three men continued to drink and eat.

This was supposed to be a table, a big meal that six people couldn't possibly eat...

But it may be because the taste is so good, everyone has a big appetite and eats it with open stomachs. Up to now, they have really eaten seven or eight eight.

The three of them belonged, drinking and cleaning the battlefield at the same time.

After they finish drinking tonight, maybe the food is really good to eat.

The relationship between Lao Jiang and Lao Xu, after getting along in the afternoon, is now drinking again, and the alcohol is urging them up, so they just hook their shoulders together and talk about "brothers, elders, elders, brothers", and they are very happy.

Jiang Hong accompanied the wine the whole time, so he didn't say much.

Just looking at my father and Xu Wan's father getting along so well, I really feel relieved from the bottom of my heart.

He was really afraid that something might go wrong.

far.

He glanced over at the sofa.

But they found that Xu Wan was also looking in this direction, and the eyes of the two collided like this.

The two smiled knowingly at the same time, and then turned their eyes away, each busy with their respective battlefields.

It was about eight o'clock.

Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

It's almost time for everyone to eat and drink.

Today's scene was a happy event. Lao Xu and Lao Jiang did not strictly control their alcohol intake, and everything was about happiness.

But it didn't cross the line, and it didn't really get drunk.

After all, the situation is different.

Today, in front of the children, and it is such a big event to meet the in-laws, I can't really have fun and let myself go.

Almost got it.

There will be plenty of opportunities in the future, and you can definitely make an appointment again.

There's no need to squeeze in today and drink someone under the table.

The three shared two bottles of wine, one was the bottle of good wine that Lao Fang "enthusiastically" gave to Xu He, and the other was the local wine that Jiang Guotao brought over from City B.

They only drank two catties together.

Jiang Hong drank less, but Lao Xu and Lao Jiang only drank seven or eight taels of wine.

Not much.

Basically, it's almost the same, and the rest is talking and chatting.

Seeing this situation, the women's camp probably thought it was about the same, and they were about to come over to clean up the dining table and clean it up.

Just then.

I heard a "ding" from the kitchen.

Xu Haozheng turned his head and glanced, and greeted Liu Guixiang.

"Guixiang, go and turn off the fire! Fish out those cabbages and let them cool down! Take out all the seasonings I prepared earlier."

Then he looked at Jiang Hong again.

"The cabbage is almost done. Let's take it down and pickle the sauerkraut after a while. We can't waste such a good jar of yours, haha."

Pickled sauerkraut?
Good cylinder?

Jiang Guotao frowned slightly when he heard such words.

But he didn't say much, just continued talking about the topic just now, talking to Lao Xu.

It hung like this for another hour.

It happened that the food and wine were all settled, and it was just time to go to the table.

Jiang Hong found a big basin and put all the cabbage that he had just fished out together, while Xu Wan drained the prepared pickle water beside him.

Xu Haozheng is holding the seasoning.

Jiang Guotao followed silently with a slightly drunk face on his face.

Liu and Chen cleaned up the house.

……

Grab everything you need to pickle sauerkraut and run to the storage room.

Jiang Guotao subconsciously looked at the full dishes and the freezer in the storage room, and then at the pickle jar in the corner.

Nod slightly.

Did not speak.

The others put everything on the freezer.

Xu Haozheng rubbed his hands, picked up the sauerkraut, put a layer of cabbage on the water baffle, and then sprinkled a layer of salt and other seasonings.

Another layer, and seasoning.

This was repeated several times, until all the cabbage prepared at the beginning was used up, and then the pickle water was poured in.

Covered the cabbage.

After sprinkling a handful of other seasonings for the last time, the lid of the pickle jar was finally covered.

Jiang Hong looked at the pickle jar completely blocked by pickles, and subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

At first, he wanted to prepare a water-proof box, or a water-proof cloth, to protect the money before pickling the vegetables.

Now that he has pickled all the sauerkraut, there is no room for him to maneuver.

If Xu Haozheng's previous science popularization was followed, the excess water in the pickles would be drained below the aquifer, and his money would probably be flooded.

After all, the black cloth bag is only opaque, but not impermeable.

but……

Even if the money is flooded, it shouldn't ruin his great business of hiding money, right?

Anyway, now that the vegetables have been pickled, the money below will not be reappeared until next year when all the pickles are eaten at the earliest.

He can rest assured for a while now.

The only thing that's really fucked up is...

If he wants to do the task of three thousand 10 yuan in the future, he will have to change the change again.

However, there is no rush.

His money is basically stable at this stage.

There is no need for him to worry about the money, as it will basically not be withdrawn in a short time.

If there are other money problems in the future, it is necessary to find a new place to hide money.

Now these are stable!
After finishing the pickles, the two men walked in front, chatting and laughing. It seemed that the alcohol was a little bit up, and they couldn't walk in a straight line.

Jiang Hong and Xu Wan looked at each other, and supported their father from left to right.

back home.

The house is almost tidy up.

The house has an automatic dishwasher, so doing the dishes is easy.

The two of Liu and Chen usually do housework at home. After a simple tidying up, the house was restored to cleanliness.

When Xu Haozheng got drunk, he felt sleepy and wanted to sleep.

Everyone decided randomly, where to sleep at night...

Xu Haozheng and Liu Guixiang slept in the master bedroom last night, with clothes, toiletries and so on, so they didn't move any more.

Liu Guixiang supported Xu Haozheng to sleep.

Jiang Hong and Xu Wan gave up the second bedroom to Jiang Guotao and his wife. Anyway, it was already packed in the morning, so they can go directly to the guest bedroom.

It was time to go to bed. The four elders were all old and had maintained the habit of going to bed and getting up early all year round. They were not like young people who were used to staying up late.

Jiang Hong also thought that his parents should just go to bed like this, and today... probably that's it.

However, Jiang Guotao, who was drunk, suddenly turned his head and glanced at him, and then squeezed crookedly, grabbing his arm.

"Son, do you have time? Go upstairs and chat with Dad? Just on the balcony. I'm a little drunk now, and my mind is very clear, so I can't fall asleep. Blow the night breeze, and I can fall asleep after the alcohol passes."

　The first!
　　The first week has passed, and I don't know why I am very tired.

　　I slept all day during the day and just woke up at dinner time, sorry for the late update.

　　There will be another update in a while, which should be an update of [-] to [-], which will completely end the plot of the in-laws meeting.

　　No need to wait.

　　It must be after midnight.

　　good night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)