TN: Minor change: Mo Fei’s song “Feel Like Strangers” changed to “Sentiment with Stranger”
Chapter 75 – Delicious Food and Beauty
Since Mo Fei was coming, Yang Yi didn’t intend to open the shop. Anyway, there were only a few customers a day. So, he took off the signboard early, closed the door and went upstairs.
Yang Yi knew that Mo Fei has been so busy that she hasn’t even eaten regularly for the past two months, and her appetite wasn’t very good, so he didn’t plan to prepare a few dishes to deal with it.
When Mo Fei arrived with Xixi, Yang Yi was busy in the kitchen, wearing an apron and carrying a spatula.
“And Xiaojuan?” Yang Yi asked in surprise.
Mo Fei curled her lips and said ill-humoredly, “It’s just us. Do you think anyone would enjoy your cooking? Xiaojuan has an appointment. I don’t know which handsome guy took her heart away!”
This woman, when facing Yang Yi, seemed to gradually put down the defense in her heart. Her frown and smile were full of charm. She no longer put on a cold expression like before.
“Papa, it smells good!” Xixi couldn’t wait to take off her small leather boots and walked ahead in her slippers. When she got to the second floor, she sniffed with her nose like a puppy and said with sparkling eyes, “Is it time for dinner?”
Yang Yi took Mo Fei’s bag, walked in last, and said with a smile, “Not yet. We still have to wait. The delicious food still needs some time to be prepared!”
However, only a few minutes after Yang Yi got into the kitchen, he came out again, carrying a plate of strawberries with frost. The bright red strawberry made Mo Fei and Xixi’s index fingers move, but the core of the strawberry was hollowed out, and they were curious about what the white thing inside it were. (TN: [食指大动] made the index finger move – Chinese idiom that means there was something delicious.)
“What is this?” Mo Fei couldn’t help asking.
“This is called Chilled Strawberry with Condensed Milk!” Yang Yi smiled and said, “I specifically picked this kind of big strawberry, cut off the stalk, hollowed out the middle, then pour condensed milk into it, and finally put it in the refrigerator to freeze it. It’s completely natural, and handmade dessert. Try it first!” (TN: It looks like this. Here)
After Yang Yi put the plate down, he returned to the kitchen, but behind him, the two, one big and one small, who’s eyes were shining, couldn’t wait to start eating.
“Ah, it’s so cold!” Vague sound of shouting could be heard.
“Delicious, so yummy!” Xixi gasped, but still cried with joy.
“It’s sweet and sour!” Mo Fei’s voice was as happy as a child’s.
Yang Yi was cooking in the kitchen when he vaguely heard them. He couldn’t help smiling.
…….
Finally, it was time for dinner. Just when Mo Fei and Xixi longed to see the dishes on the table, Yang Yi filled them with porridge that he had carefully cooked.
“What is this?” Mo Fei reacted, looking at the porridge with yellow, black, red and other colorful ingredients, and asked in some bewilderment. (TN: It looks like this. Here)
“This is multi-grain porridge.” Yang Yi said, “It contains pumpkins, black beans, glutinous rice, rice, millet and peanuts, and then boiled thin. It melts in your mouth, and it especially nourishes the stomach!”
Xixi couldn’t wait to take a small spoon and secretly take a small bite, and she just happened to eat her favorite peanuts. The little girl blinked her eyes and said with delight, “Delicious!”
“Xixi! You can’t be so rude. Wait for your father to sit down before you start eating!” Mo Fei attached great importance to etiquette and immediately put on a straight face to educate.
Xixi had to obediently put her two small hands on her lap and sat down solemnly. She made a face and stuck out her tongue at her father, as if secretly complaining to her father about her mother being strict.
Yang Yi didn’t mind it and smiled, and he continued to explain, but kept it simple, because Xixi couldn’t help but want to eat quickly!
“The theme of today’s meal is ‘To enjoy delicious foods’. If you want to enjoy delicious foods, you have to whet your appetite first. Then, I recommend this plate of Sweet and Sour Squid. It is a reproduction of Sweet and Sour Pork with Fat, but the base ingredient is the more elastic and chewy squid!”
“This is Stuffed Tofu. Although it looks like ordinary tofu, it’s stuffed with carrots and shiitake mushrooms.”
“These are Xixi’s favorite Soda Chicken Wings (similar to Coke Chicken Wings, and for the sake of differentiation, it will be called Coke Chicken Wings). It was only slightly fried in oil, so it’s not very hot.”
“This is…”
Finally, when Yang Yi finished, the Queen nodded with satisfaction, waved her chopsticks and said, “Let’s eat!”
Xixi had been craving and couldn’t stop swallowing her saliva. Hearing the words, she grabbed a small spoon happily and began to delectably eat the porridge.
“Delicious! Sweet. Xixi likes it! ” Xixi probably ate the pumpkin and said vaguely, “It’s better than aunt’s cooking!”
Mo Fei said with some seriousness, “No talking while eating, Yang Xiaoxi. How many times do you want Mama to say it?” (TN: Similar to don’t talk while your mouth is full.)
Yang Yi picked up a piece of Coke chicken wings for his daughter and put it on the small plate in front of her. He advised, “It doesn’t matter, it’s just a meal. What’s the matter with talking?”
“Of course, it matters. Xixi is a girl. How can she talk like those old men, spraying saliva while eating?” Mo Fei objected. She laid down her chopsticks and argued seriously.
Well, if there’s going to be a quarrel, there I won’t be able to eat.
Yang Yi hurriedly shut his mouth and just repeatedly picked up food for them. Xixi was small and couldn’t stand up to picked up the food. Yang Yi just did what Mo Fei originally does, and while convenient, he also served Mo Fei the soft and smooth tofu and Sweet and Sour Squid… (TN: Mo Fei was usually the one that help Xixi with eating)
Actually, Mo Fei was not used to others picking up food for her. She has been raised to be very independent since she was a child. She even resists the hospitality of others.
But this time it was a little different. It was Yang Yi who was picking up food for her.
She didn’t know why, but a wonderful feeling lingered in her heart.
Is it a sweet feeling? Is it happiness? Or something else? Mo Fei couldn’t clearly tell.
So, she hesitated for a moment, stayed silent, and didn’t reject it.
“Actually… It’s because his cooking is so delicious!” Mo Fei, in her heart, made an excuse for herself. “Otherwise, I wouldn’t have given him face!”
Yang Yi’s cooking, of course, was full of color and flavor. After eating so much, Mo Fei and Xixi were full and very satisfied, sitting on the chair, unwilling to move. Finally, Yang Yi tidied up the tableware, and then suggested, “Let’s go for a walk around the dam!”
“No, I can’t go.” Mo Fei shook her head.
“What’s the matter? Now it’s night, there are basically no one around the dam, and the wind is comfortable.” Yang Yi urged, “Go for a walk. Just relax. I’ll drive you back later.”
Xixi was intrigued. She stretched out her arms high to attract her father’s attention, and then cried, “I’m going too, I’m going too!”
“All right, then…” Mo Fei hesitated and agreed.
As the gentle night wind blew through the Grand Canal, three figures, two big and one small, appeared on the dark river dam. Yang Yi walked behind, carefully protecting the two in front, and Xixi was in front walking cheerfully, but her small hand was pulled by Mo Fei.
Jiang Dam was very spacious, and also has a section of protective fence, but Mo Fei was still not at ease.
In fact, this was the first time that Yang Yi and Mo Fei have gone out together. Were it not for the constant laughter of Xixi, the atmosphere might be a little awkward.
But in spite of this, Mo Fei and Yang Yi still didn’t know how to talk to each other, and they remained silent.
It was still Yang Yi who broke the silence, he said: “I quite like your song “Sentiment with Stranger”.”
In the dark, the water of the Grand Canal gently hit the dam. The sound of the water was soothing. Mo Fei turned her head and saw Yang Yi’s bright eyes in the night.
As if they understood each other’s thought, Mo Fei said softly, “Why don’t I sing it to you now?”
“But there is no accompaniment.” Yang Yi said with some regret.
“The dark cold night rain… can’t get through my heart / like this old way… can’t wait for the appointed person / can never rush away, the brand of deep affection…” Mo Fei’s ethereal voice, with its own melody, has already sung softly.
Yang Yi shut his mouth and listened quietly.
Xixi, who likes her mother’s singing most, was no longer naughty. She obediently followed her mother’s pace, as if she was also following her mother’s rhythm.
“…You said that this road was a bit dark / but you don’t want to accompany me / the only concern left is indifference / and I can only carry this sadness alone…”
Mo Fei’s singing, weighed down with sorrow and weary, was like drinking an intoxicating red wine. Yang Yi listened somewhat intoxicated.
Yang Yi watched Mo Fei’s beautiful figure in the dark. This quiet and beautiful woman, like an orchid in an empty valley, made people feel pity. He can’t help but have some reverie…
Sentiment with stranger, so, what kind of road are the two people taking now?
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