Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 1072 - 522: Beggar (Part 8)_3

"Of course!" An Youyou said proudly. "Not only are we eating tonight, but also on the Lantern Festival day!"

"Not only will we eat pork knuckles, but also pig heads, pig tails, and pork ribs."

Just hearing An Youyou say this makes Xiao Si drool. Xiao Si tightly hugs the meal he got, saying longingly, "Pigs are really good, tasty."

An Youyou feels that Xiao Si has said something very reasonable and nods in agreement.

"So, boss, can I have a bite of pork knuckle tonight?" Xiao Si asks again.

"Of course you can. Everyone has worked hard today. After we go back, everyone gets a bite of pork knuckle. I'll divide the meat, don't you all start biting, or with one bite you'll have eaten all my pork knuckle. Xiao Si, you performed especially well today, you can have two bites."

"Thank you, boss, I will definitely keep working hard." Xiao Si shouts.

As they were speaking, a group of people arrived at the courtyard gate.

The stone-brick-and-tile building's every room on the 2nd floor had lights on, the brightest light coming from the kitchen, probably not from a lamp, but a fire.

Chen Shun stood at the kitchen door, saw An Youyou and the others come back, and welcomed them, saying, "My mother said the layer you rented doesn't have a dining table, so you all should come to the 2nd floor to eat tonight. Having the New Year's Eve dinner on a temporary table in the kitchen won't do. Eating around a round table upstairs is what a New Year's Eve dinner is."

"What's on your face? Were you beaten?" Chen Shun looked at An Youyou, somewhat confused, with a look of disbelief that she'd be beaten, thinking isn't she good at running.

An Youyou gave Chen Shun an annoyed glance: "You're the one who was beaten, with your height and build I could take on 8 of you! Begging for food comes with sacrifices, don't you understand? You think begging is simple and easy? Begging has its techniques!"

"Is Thirteen in the kitchen, has the pork knuckle finished cooking?"

"It should be done..."

Before Chen Shun finished his sentence, An Youyou ignored him and dashed to the kitchen, shouting as she ran, "Thirteen, when did you come back? Is the meal ready? I've starved to death today, didn't eat anything all day for tonight's meal, even the hot porridge I begged for was given all away to them."

"Did you steam any buns? Did you make those dumplings you said are eaten in the North for the New Year's? Today we begged for lots of white buns and vegetarian baked buns, did Fu Ji give you a reward?"

Qin Huai followed An Youyou into the kitchen, where Jiang Weiguo was busy at the stove, with pork knuckles simmering in a pot, and a few cooked vegetarian and meat dishes next to the stove, and a steamer on the stove steaming things.

Qin Huai glanced at the cooked dishes.

Minced meat stir-fried with cabbage, minced meat stir-fried with celery, minced meat stir-fried with tofu, sliced meat stewed with tofu, sliced meat stir-fried with white radish.

Every dish contains minced meat and sliced meat, which in this era absolutely counts as meat dishes.

It really is the New Year.

Jiang Weiguo looked up at An Youyou, stunned: "Boss, you were beaten?"

"Got robbed on the way back?"

An Youyou: ...

"You're the one..."

"Today, the boss gave me a reward of three silver coins and also awarded me a piece of streaky pork," Jiang Weiguo said, "I originally thought of making braised pork tonight, seeing you, the boss, being..."

"I think this piece of streaky pork should be saved for making braised pork during the Lantern Festival."

"Braised pork?" An Youyou, not wanting to argue, completely focused on the braised pork. "What is braised pork? Is it delicious? Is braised pork tastier than pork knuckle?"

"Boss, you don't know what braised pork is but know pork knuckle?"

"Nonsense, you never told me, how would I know? What is braised pork? Aren't pork knuckles the ones you keep telling me about, how Master Ding's pork knuckles are exceptionally delicious? Otherwise, I wouldn't want to eat pork knuckles."

"Make it! Make braised pork today!" An Youyou declared, pulling out all the silver coins she had hidden on her. "What I have now is money; on the Lantern Festival day, I want to eat an entire pig!"

"Boss, an entire pig has a hundred or two hundred pounds of pure meat; you can't eat it all."

"Don't worry about it, if I say eat an entire pig, we eat an entire pig, I'm the boss!"