Grasp the farming script in the famous book

Before the evening, there was a moderate thunderstorm.

The wedding guests can be imagined complaining about the blinding weather as they hurried from the verdant lawn where the outdoor ceremony was held to the indoors.

"It's a rainy day for me to stay with guests," Bai Ruide looked up at the raindrops dripping from the eaves, with a look of rejoicing.

"Okay, the rain has stopped."

Roland was standing in front of the counter wiping all kinds of cups and saucers, so he simply reminded him kindly.

Rhett turned to look at Roland: "Aren't you going to entertain me?"

"If I had known this, I should have eaten at the banquet over there before leaving. At least there are French chefs there..." He spread his hands innocently.

Roland stared fiercely at him and wrinkled his nose.

"Aren't you just trying to motivate me to cook you a meal?"

She has seen through this little trick a long time ago, and she is not fooled at all.

But she was already calculating in her heart how many ingredients were left in the kitchen, and she could roughly do something.

Today, Ruide broke with the "old system" because of her, and it really doesn't make sense not to "take in" him for a while.

So Roland quickly cleaned up the counter and asked, "Is there anything you want to eat in particular?"

Rhett rolled his eyes: "I want to eat puff pastry filled with mascarpone, topped with chocolate and blended cream."

This is another guy who deliberately "raises the argument". He knows that she doesn't have the time and materials to make those things up, so she can only make him some very homely things.

But he intentionally announced a long name - such snacks were indeed available at Wei Yingti's wedding.

Roland flattened his mouth: "Then I'm sorry, you can eat whatever you have."

Rhett grinned, as he meant it to be.

Roland went into the kitchen—she hasn't been to the market for the past two days, and there aren't many fresh ingredients in the kitchen now, only a few sausages, a dried rabbit leg, a handful of beans, carrots, cauliflower and the like.

Roland hurriedly looked through her private collection and found that there was still a little saffron left in the small jar, and she was relieved: With these, she was enough to make a decent dinner.

In the evening, the small restaurant is still closed to the public.Rhett merged the tables in the dining room into one big table, and invited all the women and children from the whole house.

Mrs. Munro sat down, smiling.

Aunt Nannie and the little girl Prissy, who still had a towel tied on their heads, were a little at a loss. They didn't know whether they should have a place in front of such a handsome "guest"—but they were all dragged here by Rhett in the end. to the dining table and push the chairs behind them.

And Wade.

Rhett carried him to Mrs. Munro, raised the seat for him, tied his napkin, and handed him a spoon.

Wade didn't know why, but said proudly: "Wade is very good at using a knife and fork."

Mrs. Munro had been giving him a pair of wooden cutlery and forks, and Wade looked like a big child when he used them.

But he is a little confused now, he doesn't know what this handsome uncle wants to do.

When Roland came out of the kitchen, he happened to see this scene: Wade opened his eyes wide, looking at Mrs. Munro next to him for a while, and Rhett on the other side for a while; Sister Nannie and Prissy were both trembling. , but also sat at the table.

Roland was surprised—after all, even Ellen, who was extremely kind to others, never invited her most dependent nun to the table to eat with her.

By doing so, Brad almost took a big step forward compared to his contemporaries.

But she didn't show any surprise on the surface, but directly warned Brad:

"Give way! Be careful that the iron pan is hot."

She directly brought up a flat iron pan.When it was served on the table, the iron pot was still steaming, and the bottom of the pot made a cheerful sizzling sound, which seemed to remind people that a layer of delicious rice crust was forming at the bottom of the pot.

With extremely limited materials, Roland made a pot of Valencia-style pan risotto, sautéed rabbit meat and sausage, then added vegetables, and finally poured in saffron broth to cook a whole pot of risotto Afterwards, the pot is served on the table, and then shared among all the people.

This is actually "seafood risotto" without seafood, but it is said that this is the most traditional taste of this delicious dish.The broth soaked in saffron dyes the rice golden yellow. The rich fat of rabbit meat and sausages brings a charming aroma to the rice. Various seasonal vegetables are dotted in it.

Roland didn't say much, and directly scooped out the hot and fragrant risotto from the pot with a wooden spoon. The first one was delivered to Mrs. Munro, but the second one was given to Sister Nannie——

Mammy immediately ushered in the second flattery of the day.

After distributing the risotto to everyone, she poured wine for Mrs. Munro and others, and poured a glass of water for Wade.Mrs. Munro took the lead in praying, and everyone thanked God before starting to enjoy this delicious dish cooked by Roland with the simplest ingredients in the shortest time.

Everyone didn't speak much.Only Ruide admired this simple risotto as he ate it.However, he has a wealth of experience, and he knows allusions from both sides of the Atlantic like the back of his hand, and his words are full of wit and wit, not only Little Wade, but even Mrs. Munro and the others listened to them.

Roland remained calm, watching what he wanted to say.

"I asked you earlier, did you agree?"

After a simple risotto supper, Rhett turned to Mrs. Munro.

Mrs. Munro nodded with a smile: "I'm asking for it. But..."

She turned to look at Roland, "You still need to see the chef's opinion."

So Rhett turned to Roland again, his eloquence just now seemed to have disappeared in an instant, on the contrary, the moment he spoke, he was expecting love.

"This... Scarlett, I want to, I want to ask..."

Roland raised his head and saw the pair of big black eyes staring at her intently again. The person opposite was staring at her so intently that he opened his mouth slightly and could not make a sound.

Who knew that something unexpected happened at this time——

Prissy suddenly stood up in a panic: "Mr. Bai, are you proposing to Miss Scarlett? Do you need us to get out?"

Proposal? !

Roland never expected this either.Her face turned rosy in an instant.

Mrs. Munro took the napkin and gently covered her mouth, her eyes were shining with joy, and she couldn't help laughing.

Ruide also froze in place, looking as if his plan had been completely disrupted.

"Huh? Marriage proposal?"

"Although I also... But, what is brought up at the dinner table now is really not this matter..."

The red tide on Roland's face receded, and he secretly let out a long sigh of relief.

If Rhett proposed to her, she seemed to have no choice but to reject him harshly.

"What I would like to ask of you is to take me, a homeless person in New Orleans, an idle unemployed person, and let me stay and help you run the restaurant."

After hearing this request, Roland was unable to speak for a long time, and could only blink his eyes quickly, staring at Rhett, as if he wanted to see exactly what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

This request is actually very surprising. Ruide has a lot of money and is a guest of the upper class. He is willing to condescend and "work" in her small restaurant, which seems to have impure motives.

But with Pulissy's interruption just now, Roland's psychological expectations have already been constructed-this request can't be worse than a marriage proposal.

Besides... this actually solved all her problems.

Before, there were only four women in her restaurant, and no one rescued her when she was in danger.But once there is Ruide, everything will be different.

In addition, you can let Rhett do all the dealings with the Local Affairs Bureau - this man has always handled these matters with ease, he has just proved that he can easily enter a "system", and then retreat without loss , Jumping out of the world and watching with cold eyes.

Roland thought to himself: If this restaurant was her own, she might still raise her head proudly and say, "Without Rhett, I'm still me."

But this restaurant belonged to Mrs. Munro, and more than half of the reasons why Brad came here were for Mrs. Munro.

Could she... be able to refuse his request without any reason?

Thinking of this, she took another serious look at the expression on Rhett's face—if she could see the slightest bit of frivolity and cynicism, she would immediately vote veto.

But the result was just the opposite: he didn't show any such expression, on the contrary, the face seemed more sincere than ever.

"okay."

She finally nodded.

There was joy in the small restaurant, except for Little Wade who continued to be confused, everyone else applauded.This means that the restaurant can continue to operate as before without any threats from "bad white people" and "bad black people".

So Rhett put his right hand on his chest and bowed to Roland: "Scarlett, your loyal knight thank you for taking me in."

Roland finally couldn't help it, and was also amused by him to laugh.

After that, "Tommy's Kitchen" really reopened.

Roland has never experienced such a relaxed life.As the head chef, she now only needs to write a note every day, telling Rhett what materials she needs, and when she comes to the restaurant after taking a nap in the afternoon, she will naturally see that the materials have been packed and placed on her kitchen table.

The materials no longer need her to go to the pier and the market to buy, and fishermen will deliver fresh materials to the restaurant regularly every day.

It was also the first time that Roland saw Rhett put a pen behind his ear to pack and count the materials, and then bargain with the fishermen.

This guy will work hard all morning, and he will go to rest when Roland starts to work in the afternoon.When the sun starts to set, he will appear at the door of the restaurant in a high-spirited manner, and start mixing the "Sunset Friends" wine according to the recipe given by Roland.

When entertaining admiring guests, Rhett would also drink a little by himself, but mainly chatted with customers.

His experience and humor are very popular, and some people even come to the restaurant for drinks just to chat with him.

After the business hours of "Sunset Friends" are over, Reid will stay in the restaurant with a little bit of drunkenness, holding the drinks and snacks specially made for him by Roland, watching the women run their small restaurants, Stay until the restaurant closes.

With a big man like him in charge, no one would dare to make trouble in the restaurant.

Sometimes the restaurant will be temporarily closed for a day or two. At this time, Rhett will take Roland to hunt and fish in the Mississippi River.

They would also take Wade with them when they went out. Roland felt that Wade should be more in touch with nature, while Rhett felt that boys should be more wild. They could only teach sissies and nerds by facing books all day long.

(Roland: Hey, I think you seem to have something to say.)

Wade undoubtedly liked Rhett, although this uncle was not as amiable as Mrs. Munro, nor like his mother, who was fierce but cared about him.Reid is basically a person who advocates letting Wade let himself go and grow up by himself.

But Wade admires Rhett very much. When he is with his playmates of the same age, he will proudly advertise that his uncle "has been an artilleryman". His tone of voice, he thought it would make him "more manly".

After Rhett came, the blues band that used to play in the restaurant three days a week became a resident band.

The popularity of the restaurant may not be higher after the band is resident, but Roland can't help liking it.

Her "soprano" talent disappeared after leaving the previous plane, and now only her passion for music remains.

Although the tone of the "blues" music from poor blacks is sad, it still has a vigorous vitality and an unrestrained core.

Roland often came out after finishing his work in the kitchen and sat in a corner of the restaurant to enjoy the live performance of the band.

She sometimes sings softly to the music and rhythm of the band.Rhett would sit beside her, quietly with her, and listen to her humming.

"It's nothing but wishful thinking,

Gone as fast as spring,

But a word, a look,

But it taught me to think wildly and lose my mind. "

The black female singer chose to sing a cappella, and only one drummer accompanied her by beating the head of the drum lightly with his hands.Roland was attracted by the deep and mellow contralto, and listened carefully to her libretto.

"They say time heals all wounds,

They say you can always forget it,

But the smiles and tears of the years,

It still hurts my heart like a knife. "1

For some reason, Roland was stunned when he heard it.When she lowered her head in thought, Brad suddenly stretched out her arm, hugged her shoulder vigorously, then lowered her head and kissed her hand.

He looked dignified, as if recalling the heavy past.

Roland sighed silently in his heart: Although this is a plane created by holographic technology for public entertainment, everyone in this plane seems to be a living and emotional person, despite their emotional sorrows and joys. It does not communicate with outsiders.

But she is different.

She is not only a "spectacle" in the plane, but also a "talking material", she is also the only "person" in this plane with self-consciousness, influencing these "original characters" around her all the time.

All the smiles and tears she left on this plane will also affect other people in the plane—Little Wade, Prissy, Mrs. Munro, Melanie, Ashley... Rhett, make them feel happy, or pain.

She will leave eventually, carrying a lot of memories and emotions into the next plane.

She didn't want to add unwarranted pain to these original characters, nor did she want to add emotional burden to herself when she left.

People in this restaurant are not surprised to see Roland and Rhett sitting side by side, enjoying the music together. Everyone thinks that Roland and Rhett will marry sooner or later, and Rhett will become little Wade's stepfather and take care of the whole family. responsibility.

And Mrs. Munro and the others will often create conditions for Roland and Rhett to be "alone". Quickly wiping the table, Rhett was resting (idling).

Roland turned around abruptly. She felt that some things needed to be clarified with Rhett in advance - although she nodded and allowed him to run the restaurant with her, and they have indeed gotten closer recently, it does not mean that How could their relationship have fundamentally changed compared to before.

"Red, I'm going to tell you—"

"I'm not a man for marriage."

She's not the type to formally commit to a relationship, and sooner or later she's going to have to leave.

When he was talking, Ruide was half lying on a dining chair, basking in the sun with his feet crossed. Hearing this nonsensical sentence, he seemed to be awakened suddenly, and his eyes widened in surprise.

"Scarlett," he said, wagging his fingers, "that's not going to work."

"You should use your own lines, it's not good to always use other people's lines."

Roland: ...

Here again, she used Rhett's lines?

She collected herself and added, "It doesn't matter who the words are, as long as they can describe the facts."

At this moment, Rhett sat up straight and asked, "Scarlett, if what you said is true, where did the six-year-old boy upstairs come from?"

"But don't you think?" Roland asked back, "Whether it's Wade or my current status as a 'widow', they have provided the greatest conditions for my 'freedom'?"

With those two "shields", at least no one will always urge her to marry, and she can start her career with peace of mind.

"So, Scarlett, you chose to get married in the first place so that you could get out of marriage one day?"

Bai Ruide asked curiously.

Roland: "...It's sort of."

This is not necessarily true, after all Scarlett and Charlie Han could not have foreseen that when they got married, they would die of measles two months later.

But she had no other excuse.

"Then when you married Charlie Han, you had nothing to do with anyone else?"

Rhett looked at her with a smile.

"Of course, there will be some...relationship..."

Roland suddenly remembered this: God, how did she forget all the previous context of this story?

The character Scarlett Scarlett married her first husband in the first place for the sake of defending Ashley, who refused to marry her!

She froze there immediately, blushing, not knowing what to explain.

And the smile on Brad's face became even brighter: "Scarlett, I'm so happy when you say that."

She talked eloquently, trying to explain that she had no intention of remarrying in the plane, but she revealed her true state of mind now: she didn't like Wei Xili that much, and she didn't like Wei Xili that much in the past. So easy to remember from time to time?