Chapter 94 Hot Pot Business

  The dog's front legs opened the door to welcome the "old Buddha" of her family. After Zhao entered, she brought in the cold air from outside and had an expressionless face, making Xi Mei shudder involuntarily.

  She looked back at Chen Tian with her eyes, only to see her father's bitter face, mouthing the words "the matter has been exposed, your mother knows".

  Guessing that she saw a stranger sitting in the house, Mrs. Zhao collected her expression and said politely, "Is this Young Master Zheng? It's been some days since we last met, how are your parents doing?"

  Zheng Wenyu smiled slightly and replied respectfully, "Thank you for your concern, my father and mother are both in good health, they even asked me to greet you when I came here."

  Delighted Zhao said repeatedly, good child, good child.

  Outside, the snow was falling heavily, but inside, it was a completely different scene. Ruihao walked forward, looking at the pot on the table that was still bubbling away, and swallowed hard, asking: "What's this? How can it smell so good?"

  Xi Mei smiled secretly, in this big family, Er Ge was still the one who suited her taste the most. Why? Of course, it's because both of them were foodies!

  "Second brother, this is called hot pot. I saw how to do it in a book and since we didn't have anything else to do today, I tried making some." Xi Mei lied.

  Hearing Xi Mei say this, Zhao Shi felt slightly comforted. At least this girl wasn't completely useless. However, this also reminded her of the thing that Master Stabbing had brought over for her at noon today.

  Zhao's smile on his face was a bit unbearable. You say, whose child is like a mandarin duck following a wild chicken?

  She even handed it over to her master with a clear conscience, claiming that this was her masterpiece.

  Luckily this master was found by Zheng's family, he is tight-lipped and practical, otherwise within two days the whole Anping Town would know that Chen Jiaoyan's daughter Hong is ignorant.

  In the future, I will have to find a good family for you.

  Looking at her mother's furrowed brow, Xi Mei wisely didn't approach and instead opened the door. She instructed the little servant waiting outside: "Tell the shopkeeper that it's almost time, have him bring up the things I've entrusted to him."

  The young shop assistant received his orders and turned around to head downstairs to report back to the boss.

  At this time, Qin Zhuang brought Xiao Er and handed over the thinly sliced mutton that Xi Mei had instructed to cut, of course, along with various small seasonings served in small dishes.

  Sesame paste made into sauce, scallion flower flavor dish. Sesame oil flavor dish, red oil flavor dish, and some small ingredients that are often seen being neatly sent into the private room where Xi Mei and others are.

  Rui Xuan's eyes showed a hint of admiration as he looked at Zheng Wenyu and said, "Normally in the academy, I have to thank Brother Wenyu for taking care of me. Today, I'll use tea instead of wine, let me toast you with a cup."

  After hearing her big brother say that, Xi Mei became unhappy. With him being like this, how can he take care of his brother? He undeservedly receives respect from others and isn't even afraid of getting hurt when he goes home!

  Seeing Xi Mei's little movement, Zheng Wenyu took over the tea water brought by Rui Xuan without changing his expression and drank it all in one gulp.

  After putting down the teacup, he said sincerely, "These are all trivial matters, Rui Xuan doesn't need to worry about them. However, there is one thing that I must tell you in detail."

  At this point, Congming stopped talking.

  Xihe curiously asked, "What's going on? Brother Yu, quickly speak."

  Zheng Wenyu glanced at Xi Mei with the corner of his eye. He found that this girl was also completely different from her previous appearance, propping herself up and turning her ears in this direction.

  Zheng Wenyu smiled secretly, put his fist to his mouth and coughed before continuing: "I had a teacher earlier who was very close to Father, I was fortunate enough to be guided by him for half a year, my studies made great progress..."

  As expected, before he could finish speaking, Xi Mei's eyes lit up and she eagerly walked in front of him, saying tenderly: "Brother Yu, this is your first time eating hot pot, right? Come, let me teach you how to eat it."

  Jade-like small hands picked up chopsticks, clamped a thin slice of mutton, and put it into the boiling red pot.

  After the color of the mutton had turned slightly white, he picked it up and placed it in a plate that had been adjusted to be in front of him.

  Then, blinking her big eyes at him, she said: "Brother Yu, don't be dazed, hurry up and try some."

  Zheng Wenyu didn't know what she meant by her good intentions? With a warm smile on his face, he picked up the meat from the plate and sent it into his mouth amidst the longing gazes of several children.

  As soon as the mutton entered my mouth, the meat was tender and fragrant, and the delicious flavor spread throughout my mouth. But what followed was a numbingly spicy sensation, as if my tongue had been immobilized by this numbingly spicy flavor.

  Calmly picked up the tea beside him and took a big sip. After the numbness in his mouth subsided, he said to several people, "It's delicious."

  Seeing him satisfied, everyone picked up their chopsticks and prepared to start eating.

  Of course, Zheng Wenyu did not miss the fleeting smile that flashed across Xi Mei's face.

  Shaking his head secretly, this girl, can't afford to offend her, otherwise she would always find ways to frame him (Xi Mei knew he couldn't eat spicy food).

  Just as everyone was having a great time together and getting ready to enjoy themselves, there came a gentle knock at the door.

  Chen Tianfa put down his chopsticks and asked: "Who is it?"

  Logically speaking, no one should know that they are a family here, and it's unlikely that the workshop has something to do with it, so why would they deliberately come here to find themselves?

  All he heard was a calm voice coming from outside the door, "Uncle Chen, it's me."

  Ruihao put down his chopsticks and excitedly said: "It's Wang Gege, I'll go open the door."

  After finishing speaking, she ran quickly towards the door, and it was indeed Wang Zihan!

  As soon as Chen's family entered, Qin Zhuang had already sent someone to inform the master, don't look at him being old, but his eyes are poisonous.

  Every time the eldest daughter of the Chen family comes, it's only a matter of time before the young master appears. Now, Madam Zhao thinks her daughter is too old and restricts her from going out often, so the young master hasn't seen this girl for quite some days.

  As expected, it wasn't long after the talented person was sent away that this young master appeared, and he's really more useful than anything else.

  In such a hurry, didn't even have time to change clothes?

  The second-generation servant was calling out downstairs, leading the young master to the room where Chen's family lived. He didn't leave until Wang Ziheng had shaken off the snowflakes and stepped inside.

  The prince looked up and saw a strange man in the house, and his vigilance was raised involuntarily. After seeing clearly who it was, he let out a sigh of relief.

  "Hey, it's Wen Yu."

  The Wang, Zhang and Zheng families have a profound influence in this Anping Town. These few people have known each other since they were young, so naturally they know that he is not a threat to themselves.

  So it was only after seeing clearly at first glance that I put down my guard.

  Xi Mei looked at the two people chatting happily and couldn't help but pout, these two really are a match made in heaven, no wonder they hit it off immediately.

  Through the bright candlelight in the house, Xi Mei observed that the one who had changed the most over the past four years was probably the young man in front of her. No, perhaps he shouldn't be called a young man anymore, but a youth.

  Four years have transformed the once slightly immature young boy into a businessman who is feared by others in the business world. He now handles things with stability and composure, having lost his former immaturity, and has become a complete old fox.

  The only thing that hasn't changed is the bad habit of being unable to speak properly when seeing his own sister.

  But now there has been a lot of progress. At least, I can speak with my elder sister without stuttering.

  He is now wearing a dark blue robe, discussing the experience of this trip with Chen's father and son, and directly confusing Ruihao into five flavors and three ways, without knowing east, south, west, or north.

  "Hurry up and eat." Zhao's family looked at the few people who were speaking heatedly, finally opening their mouths to interrupt. "After we finish eating in a while, all of us girls will leave and give you space to talk. Now everyone just hurry up and have dinner."

  The prince suddenly realized and said repeatedly, "It's my fault, it's my fault." He picked up his wine cup to apologize to Zhao.

  Finally, after half a day of polite conversation, everyone began to get down to business.

  On the table, there are vegetarian dishes including potatoes, kelp, napa cabbage, spinach, winter bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, silver ear fungus, wood ear fungus, green bean sprouts, and red and white radish.

  There's mutton, chicken, pork blood cubes, chicken wings, river shrimp, carp blocks. After eating for a while, Qin the shopkeeper sent over some noodles!

  Goodness gracious, the whole big table was filled to the brim, what a spectacle for Zhao and his family!

  So Xi Mei temporarily became a "sweeping blind" teacher and demonstrated to everyone how to eat this hot pot.

  "Look, the lamb is sliced thinly, just throw it in the pot and stir-fry briefly, see? It's done when the meat turns slightly white. Everyone can add whatever they want to eat, the red ones are spicy, the white ones aren't, after cooking, put them on the plate in front of you and dip to eat."

  After finishing speaking, everyone suddenly realized and Wang Zihan smiled, "Xi Mei this girl, her brain will always have different ideas from others."

  The praise for Xi Mei in the words is endless.

  His sister quietly stuffed something into his mouth, gave him a white eye without leaving any trace, and said "Just eat, why talk so much."

  Several girls were eating and chatting about things that interested them, while the boys ate and laughed without regard for their image, looking very pleased.

  The more they ate, the hotter it got. The several men didn't care that there were still women in the house, and after taking off their outer shirts, they sat there with abandon, loudly blowing and shouting.

  After three rounds of drinks, Wang Zihan casually brought it up and said, "Uncle Chen, I think the hot pot tonight is not bad. Why don't we try selling it in the store?"

  Finally spoke out his own purpose.

  Chen Tianfa had drunk a lot, his tongue was already tangled, when he heard him say this, he laughed and said: "Alright, how can it not be alright? I want to let everyone in the town know that my Chen family has four clever and excellent daughters..."

  The wine was a bit too much, and Chen Tianfa had already started talking nonsense. Zhao saw that the food was almost finished, so he got up to bid farewell to the two of them.

  "Chen Shu should also go back, but this hot pot thing..." Wang Ziheng said with a pretended difficulty.

  "This hot pot thing we don't understand either, since it's that silly girl Xījiě who came up with it, let her tell you about it, we'll just leave for a while and trouble you to send us back" said Zhao, supporting her husband whose face was still flushed and talking nonsense.

  This sentence is exactly what Wang Ziheng and Xi Mei meant.

  So both of them nodded in agreement at the same time, fearing that if they were a little slower, Zhao would change his mind.

  Sister Xi thought that while her parents were not around, she could also get some benefits for her own family. Otherwise, her honest and simple father would not be able to get more benefits.

  Wang Zihan thought that after Chen Shu and Zhao Shu left, the remaining few who hadn't eaten well would definitely not follow them, besides, Xi Mei still had to stay here for a while.

  I was worried that I wouldn't have a chance to spend more time with the one I love, but now the opportunity has arrived.

  So the two of them each had their own thoughts, and for a moment, the atmosphere was harmonious...

  Thank you Huo Wu Mei Niang, thank you Jin Yue Xiao Guo, thank you May sister's peace charm!!

  Of course there is also YanYan and many more kids who silently support Da Ni!

  Here is the translation:

  Now, I'll make a deep bow with five body parts to show respect...