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Li Tingzhou completely conquered Tao Shengwen and Tian Yuxia with a single dinner. Compared with Li Tingzhou who had learned cooking skills, Tian Yuxia's cooking seemed a bit rough.After these few months, everyone has gradually gotten used to the delicious vegetables in Taoyuan Village, but now with the addition of Li Tingzhou's cooking skills, the four of them can't control their appetite.

Today is not the opening time for Tao Ran's strawberry picking. The strawberries sent to Taoyuan Supermarket are delivered in the morning, and there is nothing to be busy after lunch.

After Tian Yuxia had a rest, she prepared to make another batch of strawberry snowflake crisps, and invited Li Tingzhou to come over to guide her.This idea is exactly what Li Tingzhou wanted. He has a sweet tooth, and he is full of expectations when he thinks that he can eat snowflake crisps made of top-quality strawberries.

It just so happened that Tian Yuxia proposed it on her own initiative, so she handed over all her experience to her, paying attention to the various heat conditions and the ratio of various ingredients. After several people tasted it, they all felt that it was more delicious than before.Leave a part of the snowflake crisp and freeze it in the refrigerator to make the taste better. This is the snack for the four of them tonight.

After packing up the things, it was just after three o'clock, and the four of them went out with a big bamboo basket full of snowflake crisps.Tao Shengwen and his wife walked directly to the Peach King Tree. The son said that outsiders should come if they want, so don't wait in the house.Tao Shengwen was really anxious to stay at home these few days, and he felt a little itchy if he didn't play chess.

Tao Ran took Li Tingzhou for a stroll in Taoyuan Village. In the morning, he said he would show him around the village, but he only went to Taoshan, so he hurried back to cook.There are not many people in the village, most of them are playing under the peach king tree, and a few are in the vegetable field, because people from other villages come to buy vegetables.Seeing Tao Ran came back from school, they all chatted with him enthusiastically.

In order to avoid trouble, Tao Ran directly introduced Li Tingzhou as his friend and came to play for a few days.People in the village are very accepting. In the past few days, many relatives and friends of Taoyuan Village people have come to visit their relatives and want to enjoy themselves here.

The outsider who was shopping next to them looked at them curiously. They only felt that these two young men had a very good appearance and temperament, so they couldn't help admiring them a few more times.Tao Ran's special status was not known to outsiders, and Taoyuan villagers spoke in unison, never telling outsiders about the connection between Tao's family and Shennongquan, even the children.

There is no special scenery in Taoyuan Village now, only bare peach trees, green vegetable fields, and vegetable buyers coming and going.It may be boring for many people, but for Li Tingzhou, this place attracts him more than the major scenic spots.

Every time he saw a new vegetable field, Li Tingzhou would go down to see how the vegetables were growing, and even pluck some leaves to taste.Naturally, the villagers would not stop people who came with Tao Ran, especially after Tao Ran explained that he was a cook, they understood better.

Fortunately, Li Tingzhou was very measured, he didn't take the initiative to make any comments on these dishes, even when the owner of the vegetable field asked, he mainly praised them.Only Tao Ran was watching carefully, and found that sometimes, Li Tingzhou's brows and eyes were stretched, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and the dishes he tasted at those times were also recognized as the most popular.

There are not many kinds of vegetables grown in Tao Ran's vegetable field, and all the vegetables are in season, which can grow freely in the cold winter weather.The villagers planted a lot more vegetables, and some of them set up small greenhouses just to grow some off-season vegetables.Li Tingzhou picked several kinds of vegetables that Tao Ran's family didn't grow but grew well, and it seemed that he was going to show his skills in the evening.

Several people argued with each other over whether to pay for these dishes and who would pay for them.In the end, Li Tingzhou snatched the right to pay because he would have to pay the accommodation fee if he was not allowed to pay, and took out his mobile phone to make online payment.

Speaking of which, mobile payment is becoming more and more popular now, but in Taoyuan Village, a remote village, not many people use mobile phones to pay, and most of them use cash.After the vegetables in Taoyuan Village began to sell hot, many people who came to buy vegetables were used to mobile phones. They usually did not carry cash in their hands, and there was no way to pay with mobile phones.

The young people in Taoyuan Village are okay, they are very good at operating mobile phones, and the older ones can't remember how to operate them, let alone pay by mobile phone.It was Tao Ran who suggested that each family should print a cash code, and then enlarge it to make a sign and stand it next to the vegetable field. The villagers only need to know the numbers.

After wandering around the perimeter of Taoyuan Village, Tao Ran took Li Tingzhou to Taowang's side after putting the vegetables he bought back home.Before I got there, I saw people sitting under the peach tree from a distance, and everyone was laughing and chatting happily.When I walked to Tian Yuxia's side, I saw that half of the strawberry snowflake cakes brought over this afternoon were sold out.

Seeing them coming, Tian Yuxia raised her tone: "Ting Zhou, you are here, do you want to be your aunt? By the way, your Uncle Sheng Wen is playing chess over there. If you are interested, you can play with Tao Ran The place where Tian Yuxia sat was full of bored women who gathered together, doing needlework and gossiping casually, and Tao Shengwen's place was more suitable for them.

Tao Ran took out a few snowflake crisps from the bamboo basket, handed half of them to Li Tingzhou, and then led him to the chess playing area.The two just turned around and didn't take a few steps when they heard someone gossiping behind them.

"The young man who came back with Tao Ran is called Ting Zhou. He looks really good. Look at his spirit, which is different from the people in our place."

"Not only does he grow well, but he can still work. He is very good at cooking. Don't you all say that the snowflake cakes are better than before? Tingzhou taught me that." Tian Yuxia praised Li Tingzhou very much. He kept talking, those who didn't know thought he was praising his son.

"Really, better than your cooking skills? Doesn't he look like he's good at cooking?" Seeing Tian Yuxia nodded and admitted that the aunt believed it in her heart, but she still looked at Li Tingzhou's back suspiciously: "I see He is more like a soldier, no matter how bad he is, he is a big boss."

"Hey, Yuxia, how old is Xiaozhou this year? Does he have a girlfriend? And your family Tao Ran has been in college for almost four years, and I haven't seen him bring a girlfriend back." Hearing the topic behind him, he changed to Turning to this aspect, Tao Ran was a little dumbfounded, he knew that he would introduce some good girls in the next sentence, and apologized to Li Tingzhou for them.

Although he knew that these people had no malicious intentions in talking about it, it was still wrong to talk about people behind their backs. Li Tingzhou was not angry, and he understood this kind of topic quite well.People in the village like to discuss these parents' short stories when they have nothing to do. The one who spoke just now is famous in the village for being a matchmaker. Not to mention, he really made several good couples.

What was going on later became hard to hear, but Tao Ran was very reassuring to his mother, no matter how big or small, he would not casually disclose Li Tingzhou's affairs to the villagers.There is also the matter of being a matchmaker. Tian Yuxia also helped a girl in the village before, and introduced it to a young man in Nantian Village. As a result, when the two were talking about boyfriend and girlfriend, they had to complain to Tian Yuxia whenever they quarreled. I didn't introduce it to anyone.

"You never had a girlfriend during college?" Hearing Li Tingzhou's question next to him, Tao Ran turned his head and found that Li Tingzhou had a relaxed expression, and he just asked casually.

"I can't help it. I'm obsessed with studying in college and can't extricate myself. How can I find a girlfriend when I have time?" Tao Ran pretended to complain and said, "What about you, let me see what my sister-in-law looks like?"

"I'm also single, and I don't have any plans for this right now." Li Tingzhou shook his head.As they spoke, the two of them walked to the place where they were playing chess, and tacitly stopped the topic.

There are many onlookers around the most lively chess game here, and the two chess players are the most powerful masters in Taoyuan Village.On the contrary, there were only one or two people watching chess beside Tao Shengwen, because the person who played chess with Tao Shengwen was also a bad chess player.Tao Shengwen was playing happily, the two of them didn't disturb him, they just stood by and watched the battle on the chessboard.

Tao Shengwen's game of chess was meaningless, Tao Ran looked around, there was an empty chessboard on the right where no one was playing.He poked Li Tingzhou with his arm, and raised his chin towards the empty chessboard: "Can you play chess? Let's play a game."

Li Tingzhou readily accepted this, and the two of them sat down on the small stools on both sides of the chessboard. The chessboard was placed on a big stone. It was naturally square and the height was just right for them.

Tao Ran still has some confidence in his chess skills. This confidence comes from the record of winning 99 chess games with Tao Shengwen, but Tao Ran forgot how bad his father's chess skills are.Halfway through the game with Li Tingzhou, he felt the difference. After a while, he was defeated. Only then did Tao Ran realize that the opponent's chess skills are very superb.

"Okay! The young man played well. Come on, come and play a game with me!" The applause from the side came to his ears, and Tao Ran, who was concentrating on playing chess, realized that the side was crowded with people, even the two most powerful uncles. They're all here.The two elders looked at Li Tingzhou with glowing eyes, it was the eyes of the opponent, one of the elders pushed the other away, and waved Tao Ran to move him, he wanted to play a game with Li Tingzhou.

Li Tingzhou still looked indifferent, just said a few words with the old man, but was urged to start quickly.Tao Ran looked at the two silently, feeling a little frustrated, and left the crowd.

In fact, Tao Ran has not played chess for a long time, and his only chance to play chess every year is to go home. In his previous life, after the death of his parents, he seldom came back, let alone played chess.Today's game of chess, Tao Ran felt, was a new beginning.

Li Tingzhou, who was playing chess, looked at the back of Tao Ran leaving, and wanted to say something, but continued to think about the chess game under the urging of the old man.When he was a child, he often played chess with the old man, and he developed a good chess skill over time.

When the sun is setting and the sun is about to set, the women in the village are ready to go home and cook.The chess game was about to end, Tao Ran walked over there to take a look, Li Tingzhou didn't play chess anymore, but he was pointing others.Listening to the words of the people around, after just a few hours, they accepted Li Tingzhou because of his chess skills, and they called Tingzhou affectionately one by one.

Li Tingzhou also saw Tao Ran approaching, and smiled at him.After the game of chess was over, Li Tingzhou bid farewell to everyone, and left with Tao Ran amidst everyone's invitation to play again tomorrow.

"Aren't you in a hurry?" Li Tingzhou asked first after he came out. He stayed under the tree all afternoon, but when he stood up he still looked like a tall and straight pine tree.

"No, I'm playing next to you. I didn't expect you to be so good at chess." Tao Ran sighed casually.

Unexpectedly, when Li Tingzhou heard this, he stopped in his tracks, turned around and said to Tao Ran seriously, "I'm sorry." Seeing Li Tingzhou's serious eyes, Tao Ran couldn't think of what he was apologizing for.

"Play chess today..." As soon as Li Tingzhou said it, Tao Ran realized what Li Tingzhou meant: "You are not apologizing because you beat me in today's chess game, are you? You are being polite to me. If you lose, you lose." , I won't be angry because of this, and you even apologized to me specifically."

"It's good that you're not angry." Because the back of you left at that time looked a little lonely, Li Tingzhou didn't say the rest.

"If you want to say I'm angry, I'm still angry that you took away my position as soon as you came." Under Li Tingzhou's puzzled eyes, Tao Ran explained with a smile: "Because when you came, the most popular person in the whole village became the most popular person in the village." Became you."

The breeze blows, and the villagers walk home in twos and threes, ready to enjoy today's dinner, which looks so good.