I am the castle master

Chapter 32 A Group of Uninvited Guests

In fact, the old lady's cooking skills are quite good, and she is well-known in the neighborhood. Anyone who has a big or small affair asks her for help.

It's just that now that the old man is getting older, there are much fewer people asking her for help.

Sometimes she cooperates tacitly with Grandma Wu. She picks vegetables, washes vegetables, stews rice, and cleans dishes for hygiene, while the other cooks and stir-fries.

Sometimes, it can be done independently without Qiu Dacheng.

As long as there are people who like to eat local Jiangnan dishes, the old lady can handle it by herself.

Qiu Dacheng looked at the weather forecast last night and said that it had been raining moderately to heavily for the past few days. He thought that since the weather was bad, there would not be as many people coming to fish, pick strawberries, or go out for fun. Relatively not busy anymore.

He just wanted to take advantage of the weather to go to the town to apply for a sanitation permit. It has been open for a while, and two days ago, people from above came down to check and said there was a deadline for processing. This matter must be unavoidable and must be done.

He went upstairs to change his clothes and saw that Hanhan and Cui Xiaoyan had breakfast together, having a great time and learning Chinese characters with Cui Xiaoyan with a picture, he waved at Hanhan very relievedly, "Dad, Yo, Hanhan is so good Ah, learn from my sister!"

Han Han blinked and nodded, "Papa, where are you going?"

He shook the newly purchased electric car key in his hand and said with a smile: "Dad, you have to go out to do some errands. At home, you must listen to your grandmother and teacher. Don't run around, let alone play by the pond. Do you understand?"

"I got it, Daddy! Bye!"

It happened that Grandma Wu also came to work, so she explained a few words to them, and then rode out on the electric bike.

On the bridge at the head of the village, Xia Axin happened to be chatting with several people, including Yue Afeng's nephew, Yue Dongmeng, who was also standing beside him.

"What are you doing here, Dacheng?" Xia Axin handed him a cigarette.

"Stop smoking, there are still many things to do, and several things have not been done. Why don't you go to the epidemic prevention station to apply for a health permit..."

"Didn't all the documents come back? What's the difference?" the person next to him asked.

"The only thing that is missing is the sanitation permit. I have to go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau today."

He saw that the sky was overcast, and hurried away on his electric scooter.

Seeing him walking away, Yue Dong, who was chatting in the crowd, squeezed out the cigarette in his hand, turned around and walked away quickly.

Qiu Dacheng rode an electric car to the town's health and epidemic prevention station and waited for half an hour before getting the health permit. It took more than three hours to go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to complete the work.

The rain suddenly picked up again, so I had to hide from the rain for a while. Seeing that there was a bookstore next to me, I went in to read children's books.

Hey, why are your eyelids twitching and your heart flustered? Qiu Dacheng rushed home despite the rain.

Grandma Wu was chatting with the old lady, sitting on a chair peeling garlic, when she heard a few people talking on the side of the road, she knew it was someone who was eating.

"Is the rice ready? His aunt!"

"Okay, everything is ready!" Grandma Wu quickly cleared the table.

Talking hard, only four or five people came in, and they didn't know each other at first sight.

"Young man, are you eating?" Grandma Wu asked with a smile.

The leader was a fat black man, calling them to sit down.

"What can you do here without eating? Are you here to pick up girls?" As he spoke, he stared at Cui Xiaoyan.

He knocked on the table, "Let me have a pot of tea first, let me have a look at the menu..."

Grandma Wu and the old lady exchanged glances at their ferocious looks.

Generally speaking, the people here in the south of the Yangtze River don't pay much attention to drinking tea, and few guests come here to ask for tea.

But today, the accents of this group of people are obviously locals, but they are clamoring for tea, which is strange.

Seeing that the visitor was not friendly, the old lady said to Grandma Wu in a low voice: "This person is probably here to find fault, and Cheng Cheng is not here. Hurry up and make tea and water for him, and send these animals away!"

At this time, Hanhan was tired from playing, Cui Xiaoyan took him to the bedroom, covered him with a thin quilt, and went to the restaurant to help.

The fat black man knocked on the table while looking at the dishes on the menu, looked at them slowly for a while, and then handed the menu to someone else.

"There isn't a single dish that I like, so order it!"

A group of people looked at the menu for a while, and the other for a while, but they didn't order for a long time.

These people were sipping tea, whispering and giggling for a while, when they heard footsteps outside, and a group of people ran in.

"It's raining so much, you insist that it's delicious here. You must come here from a long distance, you say..."

There are seven or eight people in this group, and they have to order from the menu when they come in. The old lady is about to collapse. This kid has gone out and hasn't come back yet. I can't get some dishes.

She handed over the dish with the home-cooked menu printed on it, whoops, finally got away with it.

Those people were all locals, and they ordered local side dishes. They probably heard other people's publicity, saying that there are old thorn sprouts and Chinese toon sprouts here.

When they heard that these people were ordering Chinese toon and thorn buds, Grandma Wu and the old lady were very happy.

Because this dish is so simple, you can make it in no time!

Cui Xiaoyan seems to be no stranger to catering, and she skillfully took the list and wrote down the dishes requested by the guests on the paper.

The old lady was very happy when she saw it. This girl is capable of both literature and martial arts. She can do anything?
The dishes that the subsequent guests ordered were very simple. They ordered a stir-fried thorn sprout with local eggs, stir-fried Chinese toon sprouts with meat, a steamed crab, a braised dried squid, and egg soup with loofah soup. This was nothing to say to a grandma who has been cooking all her life. Down.

Fatty Hei saw that the first dish from Cui Xiaoyan's table had been served, so he started ordering: "We also want those stir-fried meat with toon sprouts and stir-fried thorn sprouts with eggs!"

"Prickly bud! Hahaha!"

The group laughed, Cui Xiaoyan took the list and wrote it down, and asked cautiously, "Sir, do you want to order anything else?"

The fat man glanced at her, "Why are you urging me, isn't I watching?"

Pointing to the menu: "I heard that the stewed local chicken here is good, let's have one."

Then he pointed to the braised oil horsefly and said, "And this!"

After Cui Xiaoyan wrote it down, she ran to the kitchen quickly. The old lady was busy listening and said: "The stewed local chicken dish is slow, as long as it is not in a hurry, but now is the sea ban period, where can there be oilflies? ?”

"Then let me tell the guest, if there is no such dish, change it, right?"

Grandma Wu went back to the restaurant with her after finishing her work.

"Sir, the oil fly is gone now, let's change to another dish."

The black fat guy and his group were worried that they had no excuse to find fault, so they chuckled at each other, "Why did you write it without this dish? What kind of restaurant did you open to call your boss over!"

Cui Xiaoyan: "..."

As soon as Grandma Wu saw it, she pulled Cui Xiaoyan over and walked to the front by herself.

In the local language: "Young people, you are also locals, why don't you know that it is the sea ban period, where there are still oil horses? Let's change the dishes."

Just as the fat man was about to say something, one of them said, "Okay, let's change to the roasted dried squid!"

This group of people now wants tea, now water, now napkins, and now toothpicks!

These bums!I haven't eaten anything, what toothpick do I want?
Grandma Wu glared at them angrily and resentfully. For a moment, Cui Xiaoyan and Grandma Wu were dizzy from being greeted.

(End of this chapter)