Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 280

A few children around ten years old were vaguely walking towards the village entrance.

Shitou and Xiaohe were woken up early this morning and asked to go out to the village entrance to wait for their classmates. It was not easy for their classmates to come from far away, so they had to be polite and considerate.

So when the two saw a few familiar figures, they immediately jumped up with joy.

"Li Yang! Li Zhi! We are here!"

Several classmates, carrying small bags on their backs, hurriedly followed Shitou and Xiaohe back home.

Shitou looked at them, each carrying a bag, and asked curiously, "Did you bring any books with you?"

One of the students, Li Yang, smiled sheepishly and said, "My mother asked me to bring this with me before I left. It's my lunch."

"Why are you like this?" Shitou was a little angry. "I invited you to my house for dinner, why did you bring your own lunch?"

Li Yang quickly said, "Don't be angry, I know I was wrong."

Shi Tou became even angrier. He knew that Li Yang was like this. He always said that he knew he was wrong but he would never change.

He had also heard about Li Yang's family situation. Shitou never thought that inviting them to his home for dinner was taking advantage. He was still a child, and he only dared to talk to his classmates about inviting them to dinner after his family members told him to do so.

He would never be like the classmates who bullied Li Yang in the past and said that Li Yang was taking advantage of his family by eating his food.

The other people also carried small bags. Shi Tou asked if they were carrying lunch bags like Li Yang.

Several of them rubbed their noses in embarrassment. Before Shitou and the other two entered school, the private school had just been established not long ago. Among the new batch of students, there was a student whose family was relatively well-off and he invited all the classmates to his home.

Li Yang's class was full of new students, and everyone wasn't familiar with each other yet, so that classmate suggested taking this opportunity to get to know each other.

As a result, the word spread in the class the next day that children from Li Yang's poor family did not know etiquette.

That classmate said that Li Yang and his friends went to his house and ate a lot of food, but they left empty-handed. He had never seen them take advantage of others so much.

The ages of students in the same class are not much different. Some come from well-off families, while others come from poor ones.

Those with better conditions hung out with those with better conditions. Since that party, the class was subtly divided into two factions.

One group is those who are proud of their well-off family background and are unwilling to associate with people who are worse off than them.

The other group, including Li Yang, was devoted to studying and never thought that there was any distinction between high and low levels in studying.

Although Shitou and Xiaohe were in the same class as them, they were a few years younger than them and not as difficult to get along with as the classmate who accused them of taking advantage of them.

So over the past few months, the few of them got along pretty well. This time, when Shi Tou and his friend invited them to their home, they agreed after hesitating for a moment.

However, in order to avoid being accused of taking advantage like last time, their family members packed some food and handed it over to the Zhong family when they arrived at their house.

Shi Tou pursed his lips and looked a little depressed, but he soon became happy again when he got home.

"Aunt! What are you doing? It smells so good!"

Li Yang and others followed behind him, bowed politely and called out to them.

Zhong Ruyi looked at the bunch of radish heads that came back with Shitou Xiaohe with a smile, and said with a smile, "Come in quickly, I still have some potato chips frying."

Zhang Mingzhu called her from the kitchen, her voice a little flustered, "Ruyi Ruyi! The fries are turning black! Come quickly!"

Li Yang and others were led into the yard by Shitou. Xiao He poured water for them. Six or seven people sat there holding cups of water, feeling a little uncomfortable and not daring to look around.

They live in a nearby village. Li Yang and Li Zhi are from Taohua Village, the same village as Li Guihua's mother's family.

The others were from Yangliu Village and Qianniu Village.

Soon a fragrance wafted out, and Zhong Ruyi brought out a large winnowing basket from the kitchen, on which were two golden and crispy fried chickens.

"Shitou, take the students to the main hall. Xiaohe, go to the workshop and call Cuicui and Tiedan back. Tell them that my aunt has prepared delicious food for them and ask them to come back quickly to eat."

After hearing this, the two of them quickly took action, and several classmates were taken into the main room by Shi Tou.

In the morning, Zhong Ruyi told Zhong's father and mother that the main room would be used for a party today, so the table was pulled to the middle of the room and a dozen chairs were lined up.

The fried chicken was placed on the table, and several people only looked at their feet, not daring to look at the table.

While Zhang Mingzhu was taking out the potato chips, Zhong Ruyi took out two cakes from the refrigerator.

She took out the big one first, which immediately caused a group of people to exclaim in amazement.

Zhang Mingzhu felt like she didn't blink just now, how come such a big thing suddenly appeared?

"Don't look at it anymore. There is another one on the stove. Go and get it out." Zhong Ruyi raised her chin at her.

By the time the remaining cake was served, Cuicui and Tiedan had already run back.

Cuicui saw a lot of things on the table that she had never seen before. Although she had never seen them before, they smelled very good. She asked Zhong Ruyi, "Aunt, can I go and call Xiaozhu and Xiaohua over?"

"Of course, go call them now."

Tiedan immediately said, "Then I'll go get Shuisheng!"

Not long after they came back, they went out again.

Li Yang and others were also very happy to hear Shuisheng's name, because they were in the same class as Shuisheng.

Zhong Ruyi took out watermelons, strawberries, and mangoes, and the grapes were picked directly from the yard and could be eaten after being washed.

When a watermelon weighing more than ten pounds was cut in front of several people, everyone was stunned except Shi Tou and others who had eaten it many times.

Li Yang and his friends seemed more surprised. Watermelons had only been sold in town or other places, so it was normal that they had never seen them.

One of the students pointed at the red flesh after cutting it open and asked, "What kind of fruit is this? Why is it so big? Is the red flesh inside?"

Xiao He took the cut watermelon and handed it to them, saying, "This is a watermelon. My aunt grew it from seeds she bought from town. Try it. It's very sweet."

Although they were curious, they did not eat it right away. Instead, they said, "Let's wait until uncle and auntie come back before eating."

Zhong Ruyi put the washed grapes in front of them and said with a smile, "It's okay, you can eat first. They are going to my third brother's house to eat today and won't be back for lunch."

She would save some of the cakes and fried chicken for her family. Today, when Zhong's mother went to the workshop to help, she saw her busy in the kitchen and complained, "These little kids have birthdays, and my daughter has to work hard to make delicious food for them. They are still sleeping and haven't woken up yet. They are so heartless!"

It just so happened that Huang Ying had been asking Mr. Zhong to live with them for some time, and now that Mother Zhong had also returned, she was even happier and kept asking Mr. and Mother Zhong to stay with them for a few days.

My daughter told me that she was going to celebrate birthdays for several kids at noon today and that she wanted to invite Shitou Xiaohe's classmates to come along. They thought it would be noisy, so they agreed to let Huang Ying, who came to persuade them, to stay for two days.

Zhong Ruyi asked Cuicui to cut the cake and give them all a portion, while the fried chicken was still on the plate.

Zhang Mingzhu had been craving for the fried chicken since it came out of the pan, so she raised her hand and said she could help.

So the two golden and crispy fried chickens were torn apart, crispy on the outside and tender and juicy on the inside, and the juice flowed out from the torn parts and dripped onto the table.

The aroma of fried chicken spread everywhere. It is hard to describe the aroma for those who have never eaten it. Anyway, Tiedan's saliva was already flowing down the corners of his mouth.