Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 257

"Aunt! What did you bring back?" Cuicui and Tiedan were playing in the yard. When she saw her carrying a basket, she asked curiously.

Zhong Ruyi walked to the stone table and sat down, waving at them, "Come quickly, these are the buns made by your Uncle Dongzhi himself. Let's leave two for Shitou and Xiaohe, and we can eat the rest."

She lifted the cloth covering the basket, took one and broke it in two and gave it to them.

When you break it open, you'll see meat filling inside, which is still steaming and smells delicious.

Zhong's father heard the noise in the main room and came out to see what was going on. Zhong Ruyi handed him one and said, "Dad, try it. This is a bun made by Brother Dongzhi himself."

Cuicui and Tiedan have already started eating, saying how delicious it is.

She took one herself, thinking it was full of meat filling, but after taking a bite and chewing it twice, she felt something was wrong.

When she picked it up, she saw that it was not filled with meat, but red filling. She chewed it a few more times with a strange expression on her face.

Why does it taste so much like a tomato?

Tomato stuffed buns?

Zhong Ruyi's face was wrinkled.

What kind of weird food is this?

Even if Chen Dongzhi likes eating tomatoes very much, he can't do this, right?

The buns are sweet and sour, and they also have a tomato flavor.

It’s not that it’s not delicious, but it’s really hard to accept.

Mr. Zhong was eating meat-filled buns. Seeing his daughter holding a bun in her hand for a long time, he took a bite and said, "What's wrong? Don't you like it? It's delicious. If you don't want to eat it, give it to Dad. Save some for dinner tonight."

After saying this, before Zhong Ruyi could react, the bun in her hand was handed over to Zhong's father.

Father Zhong bit the place she had just bitten, and after chewing it twice, his happy expression suddenly froze.

???

"This? What's the filling in this bun?"

In the moonlight, Mr. Zhong squinted and carefully looked at the bun in his hand, but his presbyopia made it difficult for him to see clearly, so he could only see the red filling.

Zhong Ruyi shrank his neck and said, "Dad, this should be tomato flavored. You may not like it, but maybe big brother does. He also likes tomatoes. Let's leave these buns for big brother."

"Okay!" Mr. Zhong didn't force himself to eat, but just sighed. It seemed that his future son-in-law's cooking skills were not bad, but he was too imaginative.

At dinner time, there were buns in front of Boss Zhong, and there were rice in front of everyone else.

He looked at his bowl and then at the others, wondering, "Why am I eating the buns while you guys are eating?"

Li Guihua and Liu Yu Niang just shared a tomato-filled bun. Now she felt a little uneasy because she thought it was not very tasty. She didn't want to eat it and had to let her husband down, because he also liked tomatoes.

"Eat quickly, these are all your favorites. If you don't have enough buns, there are more in the kitchen." Li Guihua did not answer directly, but pushed the bowl of buns in front of Boss Zhong again.

"Oh." Old Master Zhong is an honest man. Although he doesn't understand why the whole family eats meals while he himself eats buns, he is easy to feed and will eat whatever is given to him.

Zhang Mingzhu held the bowl and ate obediently. She had just heard Zhong Ruyi say that the buns were sent by Chen Dongzhi.

She was originally angry that Chen Dongzhi's kindness was so wasted, but when she saw Li Guihua and Liu Yuniang's faces changed after eating half of the buns, this idea was immediately dispelled.

Just say it!

Can food cooked by men be delicious?

In her opinion, Chen Dongzhi was only so nice to Zhong Ruyi for the sake of Zhong Laosan, but Zhong Ruyi did not appreciate his kindness at all, even though the buns were not delicious at all.

She sighed and ate some food, not knowing when his eyes would fall on her.

No one knows Zhang Mingzhu's melancholy, and now everyone's attention is on Boss Zhong.

Seeing him eat a bun in a few bites, even if he ate the tomato filling, he would just frown at most, but he would quickly swallow the bun in his mouth.

Zhong Ruyi glanced at the bowl in front of him. It was called a bowl, but it was actually a small winnowing basket with a dozen buns in it.

Now there are only two or three buns left on it.

My brother is really awesome. He finished the tomato-filled buns in no time!

Zhong Ruyi just wanted to give her elder brother a thumbs up.

When she met Chen Dongzhi's expectant gaze the next day, she didn't have the nerve to directly say that she didn't like tomato-filled buns, so she just said tactfully, "Big brother likes it very much."

I'm sorry, brother. If Chen Dongzhi sends tomato-filled buns again in the future, I'll have to ask you to take care of it!

Chen Dongzhi didn't understand what she meant, he just thought she liked it too, so he smiled and said, "Then I'll make it for you next time."

"No! No thanks!" Zhong Ruyi quickly refused, "If you like it, just eat more. I can make it myself."

Upon hearing this, Chen Dongzhi's smiling eyes dimmed instantly. Even if he was dumb, he could tell that Ruyi didn't like buns with tomato filling.

Looking at him, he looked like a big dog with wet fur. Zhong Ruyi felt a little guilty and wanted to hit herself a few times.

Why do you talk so fast?

Why can't you say a few more nice words to coax him?

If worst comes to worst, just say that you like to eat it, but you don’t eat it every day, so it’s okay to eat one or two occasionally.

She quickly reached out and grabbed his sleeve. "It's not that I don't want you to cook, it's just that this is my first time eating tomato-filled buns, so I'm a little uncomfortable with it. It's not that your cooking is not delicious."

Fortunately, Chen Dongzhi was easy to coax. He just looked at her with a pair of aggrieved eyes, "I think it's delicious. I thought you would like it too."

This.

Zhong Ruyi could understand his desire to share his favorite food, but she really couldn't get used to eating buns stuffed with tomato.

Chen Dongzhi didn't dwell on this issue for too long. Yesterday, his mother, Xiaoxue, and Xiaoman all said that the tomato-filled buns were just average after eating them.

The two walked towards the mountain and met several villagers on the way who greeted them.

Now most women in the village work in Zhong Ruyi's workshop, earning more than two taels of silver a month. Whoever sees her treats her like the God of Wealth.

Zhong Ruyi also smiled and nodded to them, calling them uncle and aunt.

The two of them stood together, one in a light yellow long skirt and the other in a linen coarse shirt, and they looked particularly well-matched.

The villagers saw them walking towards the mountain and asked, "There are a lot of fruits growing on the mountain, and the apple tree has grown a lot. If you want to pick them, you'd better hurry up. Someone just went over there."

"Okay, thank you uncle." Zhong Ruyi thanked him, holding Chen Dongzhi's sleeve and slowly walked towards the apple tree.

But before they reached the apple tree, Chen Dongzhi pulled her to another path.

"I want to see how the apple tree is growing." Zhong Ruyi was pulled forward and did not hear Chen Dongzhi's answer.

She wanted to turn around to see his expression, but he pulled her behind a tree.

The two figures were hidden by the tree.