Chapter 233: Going To A Private Kitchen Restaurant For A Meal
Yun Jiao and Yun Xiao Liu, upon hearing this, immediately became expectant.
“However, buying Peking Duck requires queuing. I’ll have someone buy it. We’ll go to the restaurant first.”
The restaurant Old Wu was referring to was actually a private kitchen restaurant.
Now that the country’s economy has opened up, those who are capable and intelligent have naturally started opening high-end restaurants.
The dishes in this type of private kitchen restaurant are delicious, and of course, the prices are also very appealing.
Private kitchen restaurants also have special private rooms, which are antique in style, with incense burning inside, and smell quite good.
A waiter brought out the menu. Yun Linhai and the others took it and glanced at it, their eyes widening.
It was only by suppressing themselves that they managed not to lose face in public.
Those who received the menu didn’t order anything and simply passed it to the next person.
Finally, the menu landed in Yun Jiao’s hands.
Yun Jiao: “What is this Buddha Jumps Over the Wall?”
The price of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall was among the most expensive on the menu, costing four to five hundred yuan for one dish!
Not to mention the other dishes.
Yun Linhai and the others emptied their minds. They would have to eat for how many meals to afford one dish.
Old Wu saw their thoughts and smiled, saying, “What are you worrying about? I’m treating you to this meal.”
Yun Linhai and the others gave sheepish smiles.
It’s not their fault they reacted this way. If it weren’t for Yun Jiao, they might never have had contact with such dishes or this kind of private kitchen restaurant in their entire lives.
Old Wu also understood that the life environment one grows up in determines a person’s vision and personality.
However, vision is something that can be trained later.
If they see more of it in the future, they will get used to it.
Old Wu directly asked the waiter to serve the signature dishes of the place, enough for all of them to eat.
While waiting, Yun Xiao Liu held the menu and looked at it with great interest for a long time.
“Well, Old Wu, you’re eating at my place and you didn’t even say anything. Are you afraid I won’t serve you?”
A plump but kind old man walked in from outside the door.
Everyone in the private room looked at him.
Upon seeing Old Mu, the man’s eyes lit up: “Good heavens, Old Mu! You came back too!”
Old Mu stood up, a smile in his eyes, “Yes, I came back for a visit.”
The two smiled and patted each other on the shoulder.
Old Mu said to him, “Come, let me introduce you.”
“This is my good friend Old Hu, who is also the owner of this private kitchen restaurant.”
“That’s my apprentice, and these are all his family members. We brought them to the capital to handle some matters this time.”
He didn’t mention what matters, and Old Hu didn’t foolishly ask.
He just smiled and greeted them.
“Since Old Mu brought you, then this meal…”
Old Wu: “Hey, I’m treating, don’t even think about waiving the bill.”
Old Hu laughed heartily: “Alright, I won’t fight you. How about I give you two extra pastries?”
“Old friend, I won’t disturb your meal. Let’s get together some other day, my treat, and have a chat.”
Old Wu and Old Mu both nodded in agreement.
Before the dishes were served, the pastries arrived.
Old Hu sent three kinds of pastries. Mainly, they still had to eat the main dishes, and if they ate too many pastries, they wouldn’t be able to eat many dishes.
Poria cake, pea cake, and osmanthus cake.
Not only were the several pastries exquisitely presented, but they also looked beautiful.
Of course, the taste was even more amazing.
Yun Jiao had also eaten osmanthus cake and poria cake before, at her Master’s place, and even brought some home for her family to eat.
But to be honest, professionals are professionals. The taste of these three pastries seemed to have been brought to the extreme, with moderate sweetness, making people want to eat more, and they weren’t sickening at all!
The happiest among them was Yun Xiao Liu. His slightly chubby, round face was so delighted by the delicious food that his features seemed to fly up, and his eyes were especially bright.
However, when eating the second pea cake, he was confused.
“This one is different from the first one; it’s a bit sweeter.”
Yun Jiao leaned over, and Yun Xiao Liu gave her a bite of the pea cake he was eating.
She blinked her eyes: “They’re the same.”
They were all delicious.
Yun Xiao Liu insisted: “They’re different.”
Yun Xiao Ba: “What are you talking about? Let me try.”
The pea cake was taken a small bite by each of the brothers, and the final conclusion was that they were all the same.
When the waiter brought the dishes, Yun Xiao Liu was still arguing with them.
“How can you not taste it? This one is clearly sweeter.”
“Forget it, I’ll try some of the other ones.”
After eating another piece, Yun Xiao Liu snorted: “I’m sure that pea cake from before and the others were definitely not made in the same batch.”
However, everyone else had no time to argue with him and their eyes were fixed on the dishes on the table.
They were mesmerized by the aroma!
When all the dishes were served, they started eating.
After one bite of food, they felt super satisfied.
Yun Jiao mumbled: “It’s different from what we make at home.”
It wasn’t the dishes themselves that were different, but the taste.
Yun Jiao also liked the meals made at home.
Humans are amazing; how can they make so many different flavors out of dishes?
The meal was so satisfying that everyone’s stomachs were bulging.
They were stuffed.
When they were leaving, Old Hu came to see them off and also packed some pastries.
Yun Jiao and her older brothers thanked him sweetly.
Old Hu also happily saw them off.
They didn’t take a car back; they walked all the way back, digesting their food.
It takes about an hour and a half to get from here to Old Wu’s siheyuan.
By the time they reached home, it was late, and the food in their stomachs had been mostly consumed.
Everyone sat in the courtyard rocking chairs and chatted.
“Old Mu, let the past be the past. You should come back here often for everyone to gather. We’re all at this age, how many more years can we live?”
Old Mu sat under a tree, looking up at the starry sky.
“I’ll see. I’m living quite well in Bailong Village now.”
Yun Jiao walked over to them and happened to overhear their conversation.
Hmm? Listen?
Old Mu’s voice came: “Little thing, if you want to listen, listen openly. What are you sneaking around for?”
Yun Jiao felt no awkwardness about being caught eavesdropping and walked over with her hands behind her back.
“Openly, I was afraid you wouldn’t talk anymore.”
Old Wu chuckled: “This little girl is so clever. Do you want to hear your Grandpa Mu’s story?”
Yun Jiao nodded without hesitation.
Of course, she wanted to.
“Then let your Grandpa Mu tell it himself.”
Old Mu pulled her into his arms: “What’s there to talk about.”
He gave a bitter smile: “I was just unluckily involved in some people’s interests, and then I implicated my family members. My wife, son, and youngest daughter all died. I, the one who should have died, miraculously survived.”
He said it simply, but Yun Jiao seemed to see the bitterness in his heart from his simple words.
Old Wu sighed: “That wasn’t your fault.”
“I know.”
Old Mu’s eyes were red: “But I can’t forget.”
A pair of little hands reached up to his face and wiped away his tears.
“Grandpa Mu, you cry, and I’ll wipe them away, and it’ll be as if you didn’t cry.”
Her tone was very serious.
Old Mu touched her head, as if looking at someone else through her.
“You little thing.”
“Jiaojiao, you must be safe and sound in the future.”
