Minghe habitually raised his head to ask for his uncle's opinion.
Xiao Yu lowered his head and smiled: "Do you want to play with him? You can tell him if you do or not."
Minghe nodded, looked back at Tian Liu again, and said loudly: "Yes! Come on!"
Tian Liu was stunned for a moment, and then ran happily towards Minghe. He was afraid that Minghe would regret it if he was too slow. Suddenly he thought of something, and immediately stopped his small steps, then looked back at Mrs. Yuan Sanni, and said: "Mother, Minghe and I are together Go play.”
Before she left the court, Mrs. Yuan Sanni was very lively. She would go to temple fairs several times every year. She went there again before the Mid-Autumn Festival when she was twelve years old. As a result, several children in shabby clothes covered each other and took away her wallet. That was her. I had saved my personal money for more than half a year, just waiting to buy my favorite rouge, gouache, jewelry, and food, but it was all gone.
She went back and cried for three days.
From then on, she developed a stereotype about poor people and always ridiculed them whenever she saw them.
When she saw Ming He, who was dressed in gray and old clothes today, she immediately thought of the group of children who stole money. She couldn't help but say bad words to Ming Hekou, and she was also unkind to Xiao Yu.
But!
However, in front of Tian Yuanwai, Ming He and Xiao Yu not only did not add insult to injury, but also spoke for her. Now they are willing to take Tian Liu to play, which really proves with their actual actions that poor people also have noble sentiments.
She felt extremely ashamed of her narrow-mindedness, as if she could not express her apology, gratitude and appreciation for Ming He and Xiao Yu with any words. Now she could only reply to her son dryly: "Go and have fun with Ming He."
Tian Liu happily ran to Minghe, followed Minghe and others forward, and said: "Minghe, I will never call you little beggar again."
"Do you want to call him a big beggar?" Jin Dabao asked.
"No, Minghe is not a beggar, Minghe is a very good person." Tian Liu said.
"Yes." Jin Dabao agreed.
This is a compliment!
It's a compliment!
It’s a compliment from peers!
Minghe looked up at Xiao Yu excitedly and called, "Uncle."
"What's wrong?" Xiao Yu asked.
Minghe couldn't control his happiness, and was embarrassed to laugh out loud, so he covered his small mouth with his already voluptuous hands. His beautiful eyes were as curved as crescent moons.
Xiao Yu smiled and asked, "I'm very happy to have new friends, right?"
"Yeah!" Minghe nodded heavily.
"Are you still sad that your aunts said this about you?"
Ming He shook his head: "They all apologized to me, and then I forgave them. Tian Liu also said that he would not call me a little beggar, and said that I am very, very good."
"Then this matter is in the past, and we don't need to remember it."
"Um."
"So good." Xiao Yu reached out and touched the little guy's head.
"Uncle." Minghe called again.
"Um?"
Minghe's eyes were bright and he said, "Uncle, you are the best in the world!"
"Of course, you have to remember in the future that no matter what happens, you will never face it alone. My uncle will always stand by your side." Xiao Yu didn't expect that one or two things in front of him could spread in Minghe's heart. It's full of sunshine, but he can always be by Minghe's side, using words and actions to heal the little guy and lead him to a different and beautiful life path.
When the little guy Ming He heard this, he blinked twice.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Yu asked.
Minghe touched his heart with his little hand: "Little uncle, my heart is very warm here."
"Really?" Xiao Yu understood that the little guy was warmed up like this, but he became more playful, stretched out his hand to pull Ming He's little body, and said: "Is there a jumping bird hidden in it? Let me see. Look, let me see what kind of bird it is."
Minghe was ticklish and giggled while hiding from his uncle.
Jin Dabao and Tian Liu didn't know what was going on, but children could just run, laugh, and play with the wind for no reason. In a blink of an eye, they and Ming He were running in circles around the big tree in front of the small kitchen yard.
Before Xiao Yu's pasta was ready, he handed over the three children to some maids. He returned to the kitchen and continued to work. When he was making the last pasta, Xiaofang walked in and said, "Xiao Xiaolangjun, we Young Master Jin of our family invited his good friend Young Master Ming to have dinner in the dining room."
Xiao Yu and six cooks watched Minghe together.
After Jin Dabao and Tian Liu were called away by the maid, Minghe sat in the kitchen and watched Xiao Yu busy. When he suddenly heard Jin Dabao inviting him to dinner, he was stunned.
"Isn't it appropriate for him to go?" Xiao Yu said.
"What's inappropriate? He's your young master." Xiaofang meant that Minghe's identity was acceptable.
Indeed.
Your Jin Mansion is a mansion, and our small courtyard is also a shelter from the wind and rain. Xiao Yu looked at Ming He: "Are you willing to go?"
Minghe asked: "Is uncle going?"
Xiaofang interrupted: "Your uncle must go too."
Xiao Yu looked at Xiaofang: "But I am a cook."
"Our master is really clever. He guessed what you would say at once. He said that when you are cooking, you are the cook. When you are not cooking, you are yourself and one of his guests. He was worried that you would refuse, so he asked I invite Young Master Ming first, and then you, so you don’t have to worry that Young Master Ming will follow." Xiaofang looked at Xiao Yu and said, "Look, do you still refuse this sincerity?"
Xiao Yu hesitated.
Xiaofang said: "Xiao Xiaolangjun, let's go. Our master even invited a beggar to have dinner." Master Yuan is an eclectic person.
Xiao Yu is willing to go, but what he cares about most is: "Then my eight taels of silver..."
"..." I really love money, but who doesn't have money? Xiaofang said: "You pay."
"OK."
Xiao Yu took Ming He to wash up, tidy up his clothes a little, and told Ming He some table manners, and then followed Xiao Fang to the dining room.
Tomorrow is Jin Dabao's birthday banquet, so today is a family dinner together, with a table for men, a table for women, and a table for children not far apart, with no barriers such as screens, and the atmosphere is very harmonious.
"Minghe!" Jin Dabao, who was sitting at the children's table next to him, shouted.
Minghe smiled politely at Jin Dabao.
Jin Dabao rushed over: "Come, let's eat together."
The Ming River has not moved.
"Let's go!" Jin Dabao said.
Tian Liu also came to Laming River.
Minghe whispered: "My lord has not spoken."
Jin Dabao asked: "If you don't speak, can you not move?"
"If you don't listen to adults, you will be betrayed!" Tian Liu said.
"How much does it cost?" Jin Dabao asked with wide eyes.
What he cared about was not "being sold", but "how much he sold." Master Yuan and others laughed loudly after hearing this, and then asked Minghe to sit at the children's table and Xiao Yu to sit at Master Yuan's table.
Xiao Yu sat down.
Master Yuan solemnly introduced the steamed buns made by Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu was a little embarrassed, thinking that the green vegetables, mushrooms, carrot buns and shredded radish buns were nothing.
But the other people at the table were all gourmets, and they talked endlessly about where they had eaten mutton cakes, candied haws, pig head soup, vegetarian meatballs, etc. They were all very down-to-earth.
really.
The people around Mr. Yuan are both elegant and vulgar like him, and they don't use their status to oppress others.
After a few words, the food was served. I have to say that the skills of the six cooks were pretty good. Xiao Yu had just taken a few bites when he suddenly heard an exclamation of "wow" from the children at the table.
The adults were very puzzled.
Jin Dabao shouted: "Grandpa, what do you think this is?"
"Mother, look!" Tian Liuye shouted.
Other children followed and called adults.
Xiao Yu followed the other adults to the children's table and saw a plate of chicken rice balls on the table, which were round, fat and silly.
"It's a chicken!" Jin Dabao shouted.
"It's so beautiful!" Tian Liu said.
The other kids stared.
This was the first time Mr. Yuan saw such cute pastries. He subconsciously turned to look at Xiao Yu: "Xiao Xiaolangjun, did you make this?"
Xiao Yu nodded: "Yes, I did it."
"How is this done?" Tian Yuanwai asked.
"They look so much like chickens. Why are there white ones and yellow ones?" Mrs. Yuan Sanniang asked.
Xiao Yu replied: "The white ones are white rice balls, and the yellow ones are rice balls with pumpkin added."
"What are the eyes?" Young Madam Jin asked curiously.
"Sesame."
"What's the mouth?" Tian Yuanwai asked.
"Two corn kernels." Xiao Yu said.
"Where's the blush?" Mr. Yuan asked, pointing to the cheeks of the cute little chicken rice ball.
"It's ketchup." Worried that they wouldn't know, Xiao Yu explained specifically: "It's a sauce made from tomatoes, rock sugar, white vinegar, and salt."
"Ingenuity, really ingenuity." Mr. Yuan, who has always loved eating, has seen many white dishes that are lifelike and ingenious, but he has never seen such childlike and cute ones as Xiao Yu's. He also wants to try it. As a result, Jin Dabao had already taken the lead and took away all the plate of chicks. He glared at Jin Dabao in disgust and cursed in his heart: "You little brat! You don't know how to be filial to your grandpa!"
"It's delicious!" Jin Dabao exclaimed.
Tian Liu took a bite of the yellow rice ball and said, "It's sweet and soft."
"There are red beans in it," Ming He said.
"There are peanuts in mine." Jin Dabao said.
Tian Liu said: "Mine are candied dates."
Each rice ball contains a different secret, and eating suddenly becomes interesting for children.
At this time, another plate of noodles was ordered, a plate of colorful round cakes the size of copper coins, composed of bright green, bright yellow, and bright white, fresh and beautiful.
"What is this?" Master Yuan asked.
"Why are they so colorful?" Mrs. Yuan Sanniang asked.
Xiao Yu replied: "This is a milky pancake made of spinach juice, carrot puree, milk mixed with sugar, milk, flour, yeast and salt."
"But my eldest child doesn't eat spinach." Young Madam Jin frowned slightly.
Tian Yuanwai followed: "I remember Tian Liu doesn't eat carrots."
As soon as they finished speaking, they saw Jin Dabao and Tian Liu reaching out to grab bright green and bright yellow cookies and put them into their mouths, squinting and saying they were delicious.
Mrs. Jin and others: "..."
Then pumpkin cups, French fries, green vegetable lucky bags, etc. were served. The appearance of each item was surprising.
The adults had not eaten until the children were full.
"Minghe, your uncle is so awesome!" Tian Liu gave a thumbs up.
Jin Dabao said: "Simply, simply, simply a god in the sky!"
The other kids echoed.
Adhering to the principle of talking less at the dinner table, Minghe's little head was nodding like a chicken pecking at rice, feeling happy because his uncle was praised.
Master Yuan invited Xiao Yu over, just to make some ordinary children's food, mainly for Jin Dabao to eat. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yu's craftsmanship was so good, all the pastries were liked by the children, and they were no longer picky eaters.
He seriously suspected that he had underestimated Xiao Yu.
No!
No doubt!
He just seriously underestimated Xiao Yu's strength.
Others saw Xiao Yu curing their children's partial eclipse, and immediately became fond of Xiao Yu. They quickly invited Xiao Yu to sit down and continue eating. Men, women and old people who loved their children all asked Xiao Yu how to cure their children's partial eclipse.
Xiao Yu told everyone seriously.
A good meal, gradually went sideways.
Fortunately, Xiao Yu and Ming He were both very full.
Mr. Yuan said with confidence: "Xiao Xiaolangjun, you can make dinner as you like. If you need anything, just tell me."
"Okay." Xiao Yu nodded.
It is not advisable to eat too much or too hard food at night. Of course, children need vegetables, fruits, carbohydrates, and meat.
He made milk with mung bean paste, which was sweet and glutinous. The most important thing was that it was put in a bamboo tube, which aroused children's curiosity and kept sucking it from the bamboo tube. It was served with carrots, shrimps, meatballs, mushrooms, quail eggs, etc. The oden mixed with skewers is nutritious and interesting, so every child is full.
Xiao Yu and Ming He had completed their tasks for the day. When they were about to go home, Mrs. Yuan Sanniang stopped Xiao Yu and said, "I heard that Fourth Uncle treated you for eight taels of silver?" Fourth Uncle was referring to Mr. Yuan.
Xiao Yu nodded.
Mrs. Yuan Sanniang looked at Xiao Yu anxiously and said, "Then I will spend ten taels of silver to invite you to cook two meals at my house, is that okay?"
Xiao Yu and Ming He looked at each other in tacit understanding.
