Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 734 The Two Scheming Men
In this way, they chatted for a while, and An Pingyao couldn't sit still. After all, Chen Nian brought such a set of tea sets, but he could only drink tea from a glass cup, which made him feel that something was wrong.

So I got up and took these tea sets to cook first.

It is good to use after cleaning.

Just after An Pingyao left, Chen Nian glanced at the kitchen and asked in a low voice, "Hongdou, how am I doing?"

"Pretty good!"

"My dad was thinking about it before, but I didn't expect you to chat with him not long after you came here. By the way, I didn't talk about Kunqu opera before. The reason why my dad likes it is because my mother loves it. Listen, and you can sing a little bit, you can perform well in this aspect later, and try to win my mother down."

"No problem, but how are we going to start this topic in a moment? If I say it directly, it may seem that I am too showy."

"You don't have to worry about that, wait a minute and I'll give you a head start."

"it is good."

Not long after, the food at Gu Nanyun's side was ready, they sat at the table, An Pingyao and Gu Nanyun sat on the side, Chen Nian and An Hongdou sat opposite them.

"Xiao Chen, I'm not very good at cooking, and I can only cook some home-cooked dishes. I hope you don't mind." Gu Nanyun said gently.

Chen Nian looked at the food on the table: "Auntie, don't say that, I'm a chef, and you can tell at a glance whether the food is good or not." He pointed at one of the dishes, "This should be Pingqiao tofu, right?"

Gu Nanyun showed surprise after hearing this: "You know this? I thought that outsiders didn't know this dish. This dish is quite famous in our place, but when I go out, I basically don't know it. Haven't eaten it yet."

Chen Nian nodded: "Indeed, this dish is a relatively homely famous dish in Huaiyang cuisine, and it is also a test of knife skills. I have to say that auntie, your knife skills are really good. This dish needs to be cut A thin slice in the shape of a sparrow tongue, ordinary people can't cut it so thin."

Gu Nanyun was a little happy to be praised by Chen Nian, mainly because Chen Nian's compliment could still be praised to the point.

"No, I don't usually cook this dish much.

"Auntie, you are too modest. You can make this look without doing much, which shows that your knife skills are amazing. I heard Hongdou said that you are a music teacher, but I didn't expect your cooking skills to be so good. "

"No, no." Gu Nanyun was so happy that she could not close her mouth from ear to ear, "You are too good at talking."

At this time, An Hongdou said from the side: "Mom, Chen Nian doesn't usually say that, and he is very serious about cooking. He often spends a long time studying a dish, so if he says yes, it must be good."

"nice! You love it."

After the two elders started to move their chopsticks, Chen Nian also started to use his chopsticks, but after eating two mouthfuls of food, Gu Nanyun hurriedly brought over a bowl and filled Chen Nian with a bowl of Pingqiao tofu.

This is a soup dish, so it needs to be served in a bowl.

"Thank you auntie."

Chen Nian quickly took it with both hands.

Then I took a sip with a spoon.

"Hmm! Auntie, the soup you made tastes quite authentic! Lard must be used in it, right?"

After hearing this, Gu Nanyun raised his head: "Does the smell of lard be very strong?"

Chen Nian shook his head: "No, I'm mainly a chef, so I can taste it, and you should have boiled it with onion and ginger before using it? In this way, its own taste will be simpler. A lot, it's just right now, it has a fragrance, and it's not fishy at all."

"And there are egg skins, dried shrimp, chicken and shiitake mushrooms in it. Putting these things together will make the soup taste more delicious, but I feel that there seems to be other aromas in it... What is it?" Chen Nian scratched his head while thinking.

"Coriander?" An Hongdou guessed from the side.

"No, the smell of coriander is obvious, and there is another fragrance besides coriander."

Gu Nanyun looked at Chen Nian's pensive look, and couldn't help but say, "Sesame oil?"

"That's right, that's it!"

"It's the smell of sesame oil. If Auntie doesn't remind me, I really don't remember it." Chen Nian suddenly realized.

"For this dish, it's best to put a drop or two of sesame oil in the end, but not too much, otherwise the soup will be full of sesame oil." Gu Nanyun said.

"It's delicious, Auntie, I want to drink another bowl." Chen Nian finished the soup in the bowl while talking, and then said with some embarrassment.

"You can drink as much as you want, there's still a lot, and I'll serve it for you." Gu Nanyun saw that the best soup she made was liked by Chen Nian, and her heart was already full of joy.

"It's okay, auntie, I can do it myself."

"No, no, I'll serve it for you, it's inconvenient for you." Gu Nanyun insisted on serving soup for Chen Nian, and Chen Nian had no choice but to hand over his own bowl.

An Hongdou knows what Chen Nian is like, why can't he see that this is also Chen Nian's plan?
"What a well-mannered man!" An Hongdou couldn't help saying in his heart.

Then An Pingyao took out a bottle of wine from the side.

"Drink something? Can you drink?"

"I can drink some, my alcohol capacity is not very good."

"That's fine, then let's drink less, today is mainly about being happy."

"Uncle is right, but I am very happy today!" Chen Nian said.

Then An Pingyao poured two glasses of wine, and touched Chen Nian first.

After finishing drinking, An Pingyao suddenly took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, tore it open, took out one and handed it to Chen Nian: "Come on, smoke one."

Seeing this, Chen Nian quickly waved his hands: "Uncle, I don't smoke."

"Here's one, it's all right, it's all from my family." An Pingyao handed it forward again.

"Uncle, I really don't know how to smoke cigarettes."

It's just that An Hongdou was shocked when she saw her father take out the cigarettes just now. She didn't know when her father bought a pack of cigarettes.

When she saw her father handing Chen Nian the cigarette, she instantly understood what her father meant.

"Sure enough, men are full of tricks!"

"Conversations come and go, every gesture is tricky!"

An Pingyao saw that Chen Nian was evasive, and then he stuffed the cigarette back: "It's okay, it's good not to smoke, but smoking is not good for your health."

Chen Nian actually knew that his future father-in-law had quit smoking for several years, but he still pretended not to know and said, "Yes, uncle, you should smoke less, too."

"Well, I basically don't smoke now." An Pingyao smiled and put the cigarette back into his pocket.

The first round of trials is over.

Afterwards, they chatted about daily life again, mainly asking how is Chen Nian's usual work?Are you tired?busy or not?
Chen Nian said that his usual job in the store is fine, and he has a few apprentices under him, and they know most of the dishes sold in the store, so if there is nothing to do, they can cook in the store, and they can leave if they have something to do open.

"That's pretty good. Don't do everything yourself, let them do it if you can. After all, you are also the boss now."

"Yes, uncle."

"Then how are the people there treated?"

"The treatment is not bad, basically one or two thousand higher than in other hotels of the same standard, and regularly I will give them a salary increase based on their personal ability, such as five social insurance and one housing fund. They go to work, after all, they have to support their families when they go to work, so they can be guaranteed, and they will be taken for a medical examination every year."

"It's pretty good. Most of the small restaurant owners I know can't do what you do. They don't even pay social security, let alone provident fund and medical examinations."

"Oh, it's not easy. It's okay for me to earn less. The main thing is to make everyone work happily, at least they will work here willingly."

"That's the reason. To do business, you have to have a conscience."

An Pingyao was also very satisfied with Chen Nian's attitude towards employees.

"By the way, do you plan to keep doing this in the future?"

"Should be able to. After all, a man always needs to have his own business, no matter whether it's going to work or opening a shop by himself, and now it's almost enough for me to run the Honghong Hotel well. I will find a suitable one in the future." There is an opportunity to expand the scale, but this still has to be done slowly. Since opening a restaurant must ensure the taste, it cannot be said that I made money, opened a branch, and decorated the store magnificently. There are more customers, but the taste has declined. .”

Gu Nanyun nodded, obviously agreeing with this attitude: "But even so, you should be quite busy at work, right?"

"Business should be inevitable, but I have already figured it out. It is estimated that I will be able to save a down payment in one year. At that time, I will buy a house in Chengdu. It will be very easy to repay the loan later, and then I will not be busy in Hongdou. Take her out to play sometime."

This attitude must be expressed in old age. After all, when facing other people's parents, they must always let them know what they can bring to their daughters.

And Chen Nian felt that there was no need for him to say that he was not busy against his will. Besides the rich second generation, who could be free all day long?

"Indeed, it's better to be busy."

At this time, An Pingyao raised his glass again: "Come on, let's have another drink."

For the old man's invitation to raise a toast, Chen Nian dare not refuse, he thinks that he has a good capacity for alcohol, it doesn't matter if he drinks a little today, as long as he doesn't get drunk and make a fool of himself.

Chen Nian chatted with his mother-in-law while drinking wine with his father-in-law. After chatting for a while, An Hongdou brought the conversation back to her work, and logically talked about the commercial she shot before.

Hearing this, An Pingyao couldn't help but took out his mobile phone and told his wife that the other girl who was photographed with An Hongdou was actually Chen Nian, who was just a man disguised as a woman.

Hearing this, Gu Nanyun couldn't help becoming interested, and began to ask Chen Nian about Kunqu Opera.

Chen Nian has been in the troupe seriously, so he knows all these things and can't understand them any more.

He even knows more than Gu Nanyun, talking about those historical origins and some of the repertoires clearly and clearly.

In addition to these old age, I still know a little about music, mainly chatting with Lucas a lot when I was on the Platinum Star.

Lucas is that wandering musician.

"Xiao Chen, you really know everything!" Gu Nanyun also felt a little incredible.

"No auntie, I actually know even less about music. At the beginning, I only met a friend who was engaged in classical music. We got along better. Later, when we parted, he gave me a sheet of music... ...By the way, I brought this music score here today." Chen Nian said as he got up to get it.

He did bring this music book with him, mainly because he thought about it when he went back to the old age, and things like bird's nest and donkey-hide gelatin can only be regarded as ordinary gifts.

I made a set of teapots for my father-in-law myself, and it would seem a bit unfair to give only these to the mother-in-law.

After much deliberation, he couldn't think of anything to give, and finally he thought of this music score.

Originally, he wanted to give this sheet music to An Hongdou, but Hongdou took the popular route.

In the end it was left on.

But I didn't expect it to come in handy at this moment.

He took out the sheet music from the bag, and Chen Nian handed it to Gu Nanyun.

Gu Nanyun didn't think about the complicated aspects at the beginning, she thought that the friends Chen Nian knew should also be ordinary music lovers.

After all, people who are not from this circle, even if they know each other, their level may not be very high, let alone the classical aspect.

Ordinary people who engage in classical music basically follow the scriptures. Even if they can create some tunes, the quality is not so high, unless they are that kind of genius.

But when she took the sheet music, she first saw that the name on it was written in English.

"Are you still a foreign friend?"

"Yes, his name is Lucas."

Then Gu Nanyun opened it again to take a look, and soon she was attracted by the content inside.

Seeing this score, the related voice immediately appeared in her mind.

"This……"

"Your friend is amazing!"

But when she continued to look back, her face became more and more serious.

When a person is too devoted to something, he will forget to breathe. After a long time, Gu Nanyun realized this, took a deep breath, and finally closed the score.

fell back again.

"No, this sheet music is too expensive, I can't accept it, I only read two pages, but if the quality of the rest is always the same, his level is much higher than mine."

An Pingyao couldn't help becoming interested when he heard this: "Let me see."

Then I took it and opened it for a look, and found that there were staves and various tadpole-shaped symbols on it.

"I don't understand this at all, is it so powerful?"

"Of course!" Gu Nanyun said solemnly, "Do you know Beethoven?"

"Of course I know." An Pingyao replied, but then he showed a look of shock, "Are Xiao Chen's friends so powerful?"

"That's not the case. I just listed a top master for you, but although Xiao Chen's friend is not a top master, he can definitely be regarded as a master." Gu Nanyun said.

An Pingyao thought for a while, he really didn't know what kind of rank this was: "What about Lang Langbi?"

"It's hard to say, after all, I haven't reached that level, but his friend is really amazing."

So in An Pingyao's mind, Lucas was already a top player at the same level as Lang Lang.

And Chen Nian doesn't know who is more powerful than Lucas or Lang Lang, but he knows that Lucas's ability is definitely not bad. After all, in that era, being able to go to concerts everywhere at the age of a teenager shows that Lucas is definitely not ordinary.

It's just that he didn't accept the sheet music that Gu Nanyun handed back: "Auntie, I'll give this to you. Put it here with me. It's a waste of money. It can only be thrown in the drawer to eat ashes. It's better to give it to you."

(End of this chapter)