rebirth through food

"Xiaofeng, it's just right, I'm just about to start cooking." Old Wright was still enthusiastic, "Your brother eats very little at noon, only ate a bite of bread, and has been hiding upstairs and refused to come down. I guess he is A little scared."

"Okay, I'll go up and see him." Ye Xiaofeng put the meat in the kitchen.

"What are you?" Old Wright was very surprised. According to Ye Xiaofeng's salary, if he bought this piece of meat, he should be out of money!

"The owner gave me a good job, let's celebrate today." Ye Xiaofeng was anxious to see Su Mochen, and ran upstairs, "Ah, by the way, I'll cook for Uncle Wright tonight, and I'll be down right away."

"Xiaochen?" Ye Xiaofeng gently opened the door, only to see Su Mochen practicing on the bed.What makes Ye Xiaofeng feel very comfortable living here is that Father Wright gives them absolute privacy. Even if this is his home, he only knocks on the door first, and never trespasses.

Su Mochen opened his eyes, pursed his mouth with an aggrieved look, "You're back." Su Mochen had never felt so incompetent, and asked his disciples to go out to earn money to support him when he was at home.I tried my best to cultivate, but found that although the aura here is rich, it is not so easy to absorb.

At the end of the day, there was no real growth.

"Well, I'm back." Ye Xiaofeng hugged Su Mochen subconsciously, "Why don't you have a good lunch at noon."

Su Mochen's face turned red, this feeling like being questioned by a parent...

"Eat well, you will recover well, and we can go back." Ye Xiaofeng straightened Su Mochen's clothes. "I'll eat a little more later, I bought some meat."

"Well...he cooks, it's not delicious." Su Mochen's temper seemed to have become smaller, and he looked somewhat angry.

Ye Xiaofeng burst out laughing, "Okay, I'll cook later, and when I'm not at home, don't be picky eaters."

He took Su Mochen downstairs and asked him to sit with Old Wright, while Ye Xiaofeng himself got into the kitchen and started preparing a big meal.

Old Wright is not a person with superb cooking skills, plus he lives alone, basically bread, vegetables, fried eggs, and sometimes stewed some broth to drink. good workmanship.

Old Wright went back to buy meat every few days, marinated the meat, or ground it into minced meat to make meatloaf.

After asking Old Wright's permission, Ye Xiaofeng began to look around the kitchen to see if there were any seasonings that could be used.

He is good at Chinese food, but not necessarily Western food.There were some western food mentioned in the jade slips, but they were not available at the time, and Ye Xiaofeng didn't look at them carefully.

In his impression, Western food is red wine steak, hamburger, pizza, hot dog and so on.

Right now, most of the meals here are bread, butter, cheese, etc. People who live well off may eat some beef, ham and the like.

Ye Xiaofeng rummaged around and decided to make some beef patties.

But this beef patty was different from what they had eaten before.

Wash the beef and cut half into the stuffing machine, shake it to get the minced meat, add fine salt, olive oil, black pepper, herbs, etc. and stir evenly, and cut some onion and cheese put them together.

But half a piece of beef was obviously not enough for the three of them, so Ye Xiaofeng grabbed a few handfuls of flour and put it in.

On one side, put oil in a pot and start frying the beef patties. On the other side, also heat a pot, put a piece of butter on it to melt slowly, and put some diced vegetables in it for frying.The fragrant smell slowly came out with the heating, Su Mochen outside and the old Wright who was chatting with him couldn't help but stop talking and looked towards the kitchen.

"Your brother is really capable, we are lucky." Old Wright was a little excited.Such a fragrant smell, that is, his wife had smelled it when she was still alive.

"Of course." Su Mochen replied calmly, with a hint of pride in his eyes.

Old Wright has long been used to the other party's adult-like answers, and even finds it very interesting.

Ye Xiaofeng didn't know the conversation outside, put the ground corn kernels and milk in a blender into the fried ingredients that had already been filled with some water, and simmered slowly.

When the three servings of beef patties came out of the pot, it was time for a pot of fragrant and thick corn soup. Put some starch, fine salt and other seasonings in the bowl.

The first bowl is naturally for the owner of the family, the oldest old man, Lao Wright. The milky yellow corn soup and the fried beef patties, which are charred on the outside and tender on the inside, are served with a plate of olive oil and vegetables, which look extraordinarily delicious. of abundance.

Soon Su Mochen and Ye Xiaofeng brought out their own portions, and the three of them began to eat by candlelight.

The fried beef patties, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, have a mild taste of vanilla, and the unique spicy taste of black pepper not only does not scare off a few people, but also stimulates the appetite.After the oily aroma and spicy taste, there is a hint of sweetness in the mouth, which makes people feel endless aftertaste.

Eat a piece of beef patty, and then take a sip of slightly salty corn chowder. You can almost eat sweet corn kernels in every mouthful of the extremely thick soup, and it is extra smooth with milk.

Maybe it was because the beef patty and corn soup were really delicious, or maybe it was because it was made by Ye Xiaofeng, Su Mochen was not picky about food, and he ate deliciously with a small spoon.But he deliberately ignored the plate of vegetables next to him.

"Xiaofeng, thank you. I haven't eaten such a good meal for many years." Since his wife passed away, he has only bread and milk all day long, and he has long been ignorant of the taste of these dishes.Old Wright was very grateful.

"Then leave the dinner to me. When I come back, it's time to start making dinner." Ye Xiaofeng formally seized power with a smile on his face.It's not that he dislikes the other party's cooking skills, it's just that if old Wright continues to do this, his master may starve himself to death.

"Since this is the case, don't mention the rent, and I will pay for the ingredients." Even restaurants outside may not be able to eat such appetizing meals every day.

"How can this work?" Ye Xiaofeng was taken aback, "We are already very sorry for borrowing, and let you pay for it..."

"No, no, I did it voluntarily. I am very happy that you are here." Not to mention the children of his own family, even the two grandchildren and one granddaughter cannot be seen often.Ye Xiaofeng and his brothers were about the same age as his grandson, looking at them he felt much younger.What's more, these two children are so young and have to go out to work to support themselves, how can he be willing to ask them to pay.

"Uncle Wright, I know you love us." Ye Xiaofeng smiled slowly, and knelt down in front of Old Wright, "I have a job now, and I can support my brother and me. It's not hard. If you don't let us get the money We can only move out in shame."

"Don't... you child, well, we are half of us." Old Wright seemed afraid that Ye Xiaofeng would speak again, "No more haggling!"

Ye Xiaofeng saw that Old Wright was really going to be angry, so he agreed with a smile, quickly cleaned up the dishes and the kitchen, greeted Old Wright, and went upstairs with Su Mochen in his arms.

"Put me down." Su Mochen's voice was muffled.

"What's the matter?" Ye Xiaofeng saw that the other party's clothes were dirty, knowing that Master loves to be clean, he quickly helped him take them off. "These clothes are not suitable. Tomorrow I will make money to buy you suitable ones."

Ye Xiaofeng talked to himself, and didn't see Su Mochen's small mouth tightly pursed.

"What's wrong?" Ye Xiaofeng finally noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

"It's okay." Su Mochen went into the bathroom sullenly.In order to facilitate his use, the lotus pods are deliberately lowered.

Ye Xiaofeng will pull it up when using it, and then lower it again after use, so Ye Xiaofeng doesn't have to worry about taking a bath.

Ye Xiaofeng went downstairs to find a wooden basin, washed the clothes of the two of them and hung them up to dry. His industriousness and virtuousness were admirable.

When Ye Xiaofeng finished taking a shower, Su Mochen had already fallen asleep on the bed. Ye Xiaofeng was stunned for a moment, thinking that the master might be tired from practicing during the day, so he lay on the other side, blew out the candles and fell asleep.

Ye Xiaofeng didn't say it was a particularly hard day, but it was not easy, at least he didn't have such a heavy workload before, so he fell into a deep sleep as soon as he lay down on the bed.Hearing Ye Xiaofeng's long breathing, Su Mochen turned over quietly, and stared at the sleeping Ye Xiaofeng through the night.

"Feng'er...I won't make you suffer too much..." Su Mochen felt very uncomfortable.Simply get up and continue to practice.

The sun shone into the house from the window, Ye Xiaofeng rubbed his eyes and sat up.Glancing at Su Mochen beside him, he helped him cover his clothes and hurriedly washed and went downstairs.

He is now in charge of cooking, so naturally he has to get up earlier, as long as the master is willing to eat, it doesn't matter if he wakes up early.

After kneading a piece of noodles and putting them aside to eat, Ye Xiaofeng took a few tomatoes and started making soup.The tomatoes were washed and scalded to peel off their skins, and quickly turned into fingernail-sized pieces in Ye Xiaofeng's hands. The oil pan next to it had already been heated, and a few chopped green onions were thrown into it.

When the dough was ready, the diced tomatoes in the pot slowly melted and became smaller, turning into a pot of thick tomato sauce. The slightly sweet smell filled the small kitchen, put some water and continued to boil, Ye Xiaofeng Start to stretch the noodles.

When Old Wright got up, Ye Xiaofeng had already stretched the noodles thinly, like pure white silk thread, although not as thin as silk thread...

The stretched noodles were boiled in the tomato soup. Ye Xiaofeng rolled the remaining noodles thinly, wrapped them with finely chopped vegetables and ham, and wrapped them into spring roll-like rolls and put them in the pot next to them. Fried inside.

Ye Xiaofeng said hello to Old Wright, and hurried upstairs to call Su Mochen for dinner.In fact, Su Mochen got back under the blanket in a hurry when the sky was bright. If Ye Xiaofeng touched him, he would find him cool.

When Ye Xiaofeng went downstairs, Su Mochen naturally got up to wash up. When Ye Xiaofeng came up, Su Mochen had already dressed, rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs, and was opening the door.

"It's time to eat." Ye Xiaofeng breathed a sigh of relief, afraid that Uncle Sam would be here soon before Su Mochen got up, and he was afraid that Su Mochen would not be able to eat hot food.

Holding Su Mochen's hand, the two went downstairs.