Rebirth, Starting from 2005

"Going to buy lunch dishes so early?" Yan Xin was taken aback for a moment.

I looked at the time, and it was only past eight o'clock in the morning, which was still very early before noon.

"Go earlier to buy better ingredients." Ai Lili explained to him.

Then I counted with him with my fingers: "It's more than eight o'clock now. When we go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, it will be almost ten o'clock. Then we will process the ingredients and prepare the meals. It will be noon."

Yan Xin couldn't help laughing: "According to what you said, if you don't have to do anything for a day, just prepare three meals a day, and the time will be gone."

Liang Wei was cooking here every day, but it didn't take that long.

Cooking a lunch all morning is indeed a bit too time-consuming.

Ai Lili explained to him: "There are simple ways to do it, and there are complicated ways to do it. If you want to eat better, of course the preparation time will be longer. If you just fill your stomach casually, you can make it quickly of."

Listening to her tone of voice, Yan Xin seemed to be quite good at cooking, so she was a little curious: "Your family is so rich, do you want to cook by yourself?"

Ai Lili nodded: "Yes, when I was a few years old, my mother taught me to cook. Every time I cook, I have to watch and ask me to help. Later, I signed up for several cooking training classes .”

"Your mother can also cook?" Yan Xin became more curious.

"She has learned it," Ai Lili said. "My grandfather used to be a cook. She has followed her since she was a child. Now she is still learning those things. From time to time, she enrolls in a cooking class, but the cuisine has changed to Cantonese style."

That's all she can say.

More reasons are hard to say.

She remembers that when she was a few years old, her mother asked her to learn to cook, and then she called her father: "Lily always told me that she wanted to cook for my father, and now she is learning to cook, you Do you want to come and taste your daughter's handicraft?"

Let her learn to cook when she was a child, just to gain favor with Cai Qixiang.

Let her learn to cook when she grows up, and there are some other factors-to please the man's stomach.

I don't know where I learned the theory. If you want to capture a man's heart, you must first grasp a man's stomach.

It's not enough to learn from myself. When she was in high school, she was asked to enroll in that kind of cooking training class every summer vacation.

Ai Lili sometimes has that kind of thought - if she spends her summer vacation studying and enrolling in a few classes, maybe she doesn't need to study abroad, and she can be admitted to a one-by-one university in China instead of Go to a pheasant university abroad.

Of course, her mother would not approve of her thinking. Her mother would think that women should return to the family after all. It is not so important whether they are capable or not. The most important thing is to serve a capable man well.

It is enough to have a signboard for international students. In the minds of many people, this signboard is more dazzling than those of famous universities in China.

Her mother's thinking brought her an unhappy teenage time, and it also affected her studies.

But it can't be said that there is no benefit at all, at least I know how to cook, so that my taste buds will not be so wronged.

When Ai Lili said this, Yan Xin became interested and wanted to see what delicious food she could cook.

Among the girls he knows, Feng Xi can cook and Xiao Shiyu can cook, but like Liang Wei, they all cook home-cooked dishes, and they are all cooked at home slowly, and there is no special learning. Passing these things belongs to Ye Luzi.

He really wanted to know how people who had learned how to cook cooked.

So I went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables with Ai Lili.

Only after this trip did he realize that there are so many things to pay attention to when buying vegetables.

Ai Lili doesn't haggle, but she cares more about the choice of ingredients and picks and chooses, which makes Yan Xin feel that this is much more troublesome than bargaining.

While choosing the ingredients, Ai Lili also explained to him which of the same ingredients is the best.

However, Yan Xin didn't understand the things she said. He heard them in his ears and soon forgot them. He didn't remember them at all.

Just to understand a little, there are a lot of exquisiteness in it.

I bought several hundred dollars worth of vegetables at one go, and when I got back, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning.

On the way back, Yan Xin couldn't help but said to Ai Lili: "You know how to cook so well, you can actually open a food column on the website, take photos of every process and post them, and tell netizens how a dish is. Completed."

"Not many people like to watch this, right?" Ai Lili said.

"That's not necessarily the case, there are still some people who are interested in food." Yan Xin said.

In his memory, food shows became popular in the world a few years later, and some chefs even became Internet celebrities by shooting videos and cooking, started a company, and embarked on the road of bringing goods.

Ai Lili thought for a while, and said, "I can try it in the future."

She can try it later, but she doesn't want to try it today.

I bought a lot of ingredients, and when I carried them into the kitchen, Yan Xin said with a smile: "There are so many dishes for lunch, it seems that the five of us can't finish them."

Ai Lili froze for a moment: "Five people?"

"Aren't there five people?" Yan Xin said, "The two of us, plus Sister Ru, Xiao Yin, and Xiao Yuan, isn't there five in total?"

Ellie looked at him and didn't want to talk anymore.

Yan Xin looked at her for a while and understood: "Are you planning to invite people from the company over for dinner, right? Let me just say, can the five of us eat so much? So you still have such a plan."

Ai Lili said: "We don't have to cook all these dishes at noon today, but we can also cook them for dinner at night."

Yan Xin let out a cry.

Ai Lili said again: "I think it's better not to call Sister Ru and the others over for the time being. You can eat first and see if the food I cook suits your appetite. If you think it's okay, it's okay to call them over again." It’s too late, it’s not too embarrassing.”

Yan Xin finally understood that Ai Lili didn't even think about calling Gu Ru and the others over to eat, but wanted the two of them to have a meal together.

He didn't say anything.

When cooking, he was there all the time to help Ai Lili.

But he is not a competent striker either, he can't do many tasks, he can only do the simplest ones.

Sometimes Ellie would ask him to do this or that, and then she turned around and saw that what she was doing was not the case, so she had to do it herself.

To be precise, Yan Xin was more like a person standing next to her to cheer her on, and he was here to do the atmosphere group.

He was able to help Feng Xi when cooking and help with those dishes, which was honed slowly.

But there is no way to start with Ellie.

It's not the same thing at all.

Most of the time, he could only stand at the kitchen door and watch Ellie do these things.

Watching her busy up and down in the kitchen wearing an apron, I don't know how it tastes yet, but it can be seen from the skilled knife skills that she is a trained knife.

Yan Xin couldn't help thinking: "Whoever marries this girl will be really blessed."

But when I think about this beautiful, good-tempered girl who is also proficient in cooking being married off by another man, I feel very uncomfortable.

——How can such a good girl be married off by others?

Another idea secretly grew in my heart: "If I can marry a girl like her..."

That thought quickly turned into another: "If only I could marry her..."

Then there was a feeling of rapid heartbeat, and I didn't dare to think about it any further.

After eleven o'clock, he was standing at the door watching Ai Lili work, and then the phone rang.

Taking out the mobile phone in his trouser pocket, he saw that it was Gu Ru calling.

After connecting, he smiled and asked, "Sister Ru, what's the matter?"

Gu Ru said: "Chen Li and Liang Wei went on a trip, no one is cooking, we are going to eat outside, do you want to come over?"

Yan Xin hesitated for a moment, looked at Ai Lili who was cooking, and said, "No need... you guys go and eat."

They were almost about to call Gu Ru and the others over.

Gu Ru snorted and asked, "Is Lily with you?"

Yan Xin said: "Yes, here I am."

Although Ai Lili was cooking, she also listened to Yan Xin answering the phone.

He couldn't hear Gu Ru's words, but he could hear Yan Xin's words.

From Yan Xin's words, he could roughly guess what Gu Ru was talking about, so he couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

Cooking for Yan Xin secretly without telling Gu Ru and the others made her feel like a stealer, a little immoral.

If they want to come over, she doesn't know what to do.

There is definitely no way to stop it, but the first time I cook for someone I like, but some other people come, it doesn't feel so perfect.

It's okay for everyone to eat together at night.

For the first meal, she hoped that there would be only Yan Xin and her.

After Yan Xin finished this sentence, he added another sentence: "We are discussing some things about the company."

Gu Ru snorted: "That's fine, I won't delay your discussion, bye."

After hanging up the phone, Gu Ru said to Xiao Yin and Xiao Yuan next to him: "It seems that after Chen Li and Liang Wei go on a trip, they will have to live together. During this time, we should be more discerning. , don't bother the two of them."

Both girls agreed.

One is their boss, and the other is the alternate boss lady. Don't interfere with them at this time.

If you don't understand this bit of sophistication, how can you come out and mix in society?

After accepting the call, Ai Lili asked Yan Xin what they were talking about, and Yan Xin told the truth that he invited them to go out for dinner together, but he refused.

When they went out to eat, they even made a phone call, in case they were hungry, and Ai Lili could feel Gu Ru's kindness.

Thinking that I was already cooking, but I didn't invite people over for dinner, I felt even more guilty in my heart, and I was a little sorry for such an enthusiastic friend.

She knew that Yan Xin's response was because of her suggestion not to invite them over for dinner.

This is her fault.

However, given her a chance to choose again, she would still advise Yan Xin not to invite them over for dinner.

If it's wrong, it's wrong, anyway, this is the first time she cooks for someone she likes, and she hopes that this first time will be more pure, without the participation of others.

After making this call, no one came to bother me at last.

At 12:10 noon, several dishes were finally ready.

Put them on the dining table one by one, I don't know if they taste good, but they smell delicious and look quite appetizing.

After serving the meal, Ai Lili asked again: "Would you like some wine?"

"Do you like to drink?" Yan Xin was a little curious.

Ai Lili quickly denied: "I don't like drinking, and I don't know how to drink. I just think it's more ritual to have a meal with two people."

Yan Xin laughed: "Do you still want to drink red wine?"

Ai Lili nodded: "Well, red wine is more ceremonial."

Yan Xin doesn't like drinking at all, neither red beer nor white beer.

If there is one thing I like, it is the sweet wine from my hometown, the sweet one made from glutinous rice, which basically does not feel the alcohol taste, it should be called a drink.

Then there is pineapple beer. In his previous life, he liked to drink Guang's pineapple beer. When it first came out, the price was very cheap. It was sold in Tianyou City for 80 cents a can.

But that's not even wine.

There is some beer in the refrigerator, and sometimes someone drinks a little.

Red and white are nonexistent.

For the sense of ceremony that Ai Lili said, he still stood up:

"In that case, I'll go down and buy a bottle of red wine. What brand do you think is good?"

This was the first time for Ai Lili to cook for him, and she had been busy for a long time, wanting to have a sense of ritual, and he felt it was necessary to fulfill her wish.

Ai Lili changed her words, "I don't drink much, and I don't know what brand of red wine is good. You can just buy a bottle."

"Okay, wait a minute, I'll be right back."

Yan Xin said, picked up the keys and wallet and went out.

There is a supermarket in the community, and there is red wine in the supermarket, so you don't need to go too far.

When we arrived at the supermarket, we went straight to the wine shop.

He didn't know what kind of red wine was better, so he could only use a stupid method, which was to buy the most expensive one.

There are not many extravagant things in this supermarket. The most expensive red wine is two to three hundred yuan a bottle. Yan Xin can't understand any of the words on it, so he goes upstairs after buying a bottle.

It was only ten minutes before and after.

Then it was a pity to find that there was no glass for drinking red wine.

But this is not a big problem, there is a big bag of disposable cups on the refrigerator, just find two.

Only in this way, the sense of ritual is a little worse.

Fortunately, I bought this bottle of red wine with a bottle opener, otherwise I couldn't even open the bottle.

Watching Ai Lili skillfully open the red wine with the corkscrew, Yan Xin felt that she should have drunk some red wine.

Ai Lili also saw the difference in his eyes, so she explained:

"I don't like to drink alcohol. My mother likes to drink red wine. She said that drinking this will keep her healthy. Every time I eat with her, I will open the bottle for her, so I am good at doing this."

Yan Xin let out a sigh, but didn't suspect anything.

In fact, Yan Xin is not very used to Cantonese cuisine, and always feels that the taste is too bland.

The dishes in his hometown are relatively heavy. Compared with Cantonese dishes, they are spicy and salty.

Influenced by such an environment, it is very uncomfortable to eat such bland dishes.

However, the few dishes made by Ai Lili are quite to his liking.

Although it is light, it is not so light that it is unbearable.

I don't know if these dishes are supposed to taste like this, or if Ai Lili made some adjustments to accommodate his taste.

All in all, he enjoyed his meal.

It feels much better than Liang Wei's craftsmanship.

It is better than the few girls he knows who can cook. Whether it is Feng Xi or Xiao Shiyu, they are incomparable to her in terms of cooking skills.

While eating and drinking.

He doesn't like the taste of red wine, but that doesn't mean he can't drink it at all, at least in his opinion, it tastes much better than Huoxiang Zhengqi Water.

After drinking a little wine, people are a little dizzy.

After drinking the red wine, Ai Lili's face was peachy, and she became more and more beautiful.

I couldn't help feeling: "Sister Lili, you are so beautiful and capable, if anyone marries you, it will be a great blessing."

Ai Lili smiled and said, "I'm not capable. My mother helped me find the previous job. The latter job is not my ability. You helped me."

"You are already very capable," Yan Xin said seriously, "Aside from other things, your cooking skills are enough to open a restaurant. If you can cook your taste, then the restaurant business will definitely be good!"

Here he compares the small restaurants that he often eats, including the restaurants that cost five yuan a meal.

Not those fancy restaurants.

He seldom went to high-end restaurants for consumption, and the total time did not exceed ten times. He ate more in small roadside shops, restaurants facing low-level workers.

In comparison, the meals made by Ai Lili are indeed delicious.

Ai Lili's heart moved, and she felt that this seemed to be a way.

In fact, she is still so sensitive, and doubts whether she has the ability to live independently.

After all, her mother found her the last job, and this job was given to her by Yan Xin, which has nothing to do with her own ability.

She also worked as the general manager of Starlight Entertainment for a few days, and she herself didn't realize the difference between the company with her and without her.

This made her fall into a serious self-doubt-am I just a waste? Am I unable to live on my own without the help of others?

In fact, she really wanted to prove herself.

——This is also the fault of the children of rich people, who care about those imaginary things.

Children from really poor families don't care about those things, as long as they can improve their lives, they are successful.

If your cooking skills are really enough to support you to open a restaurant and have a good business, then you can be regarded as having the ability to survive independently.

He smiled and asked, "If I opened a restaurant, would you come to spend money?"

"That's necessary," Yan Xin said, "Sister Lily, you are such a good cook, if you open a restaurant, then I will have three meals a day at your place."

Ai Lili glanced at him: "I don't open a restaurant, but I can cook for you every day."