Ling Pingan helped the old man, the leader of his aunt, up the stairs carefully.
Respecting the old and loving the young.
He had been taught of that since elementary school.
After helping the old man up the stairs, Ling Pingan held him and invited him to the sofa in the living room to take a seat.
“Sir, please take a seat first. I’ll call my aunt and her colleagues to accompany you…”
“As for me, I’ll prepare the dishes in the kitchen before joining all of you…”
The old Sir was very amiable. He smiled and said, “Young Master, please suit yourself. Don’t worry about me!”
Ling Pingan nodded and walked to one side of the living room. He knocked on the door of his aunt’s bedroom. “Aunty, your leader is here. Hurry up and come out to accompany him!”
Dup!
Ling Pingan heard panicky noises coming from the bedroom. After a while, aunt and her colleague came out in panic with the kitten, Bastet in their arms.
They looked at the old gentleman sitting on the sofa and seemed to be very nervous and excited.
Ling Pingan looked at him and nodded. “This old sir must be a respected senior in their unit!”
He knew that there were not many people who could make his aunt so nervous.
Because this aunt of his was a tough girl in nature. She was careless and never knew what panic and fear were. Except for cockroaches and rats, that was the first time Ling Pingan saw her being panicked.
Thinking of cockroaches and rats, Ling Pingan felt a little strange.
It seemed that ever since he stepped on that cockroach when he was ten years old and caught a rat and hanged it to death when he was 12 years old, he had never seen a fly or a mosquito in his house. Let alone cockroaches and rats.
It was quite strange!
Logically speaking, shouldn’t such an old-fashioned building have cockroaches crawling all over the ground and rats running everywhere?
However… he didn’t think much about it.
After all, would anyone want cockroaches and rats in their house?
‘I must be too diligent!’ Ling Pingan thought, ‘My house is too clean, and the cockroaches and rats have no room to survive. They have all starved to death!’
Thinking of this, Ling Pingan happily went into the kitchen.
He might be lazy usually and wouldn’t cook himself if he could order takeout.
However, he was extremely into it once he started cooking.
He placed the pressure cooker that he had not used for a long time under the tap and washed it clean. Then, he picked up the rice that he bought yesterday. After thinking about it, he scooped three bowls out of the bag.
Then, he rinsed the rice, placed it in the pressure cooker, and turned on the gas.
After doing that, he began to prepare the crayfish.
He opened the refrigerator and took out the crayfish that he had fried yesterday.
“I’ll make some with garlic paste and the others into mouth-watering crayfish…” he thought for a moment and popped his head out to ask, “Aunty, ask your colleagues and leader could they eat spicy food?”
Ling Pingan soon received an affirmative answer.
Of course, considering that there was an elderly among them, and too spicy would not be good for him.
Therefore, he took out seven to eight dry chilies that were not too spicy. He cut them up randomly and threw them into a bowl.
The bowl was already filled with chopped garlic.
He took out a pan and lit up another stove. He heated the pot and put the lard in.
When the lard started to smoke, he put in the garlic.
Instantly, the entire kitchen was filled with the fragrance of garlic.
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“It smells so good!” Chu Weiwei’s nose twitched slightly. She couldn’t help but stand up and look at the kitchen.
“Weiwei, how is it?” Li Anan said proudly, “My nephew’s cooking is pretty good, right?”
“You can eat his cooking every day if you are his girlfriend!”
“Such delicious food could not be bought from other places!” she began to use the temptation of delicacies.
Chu Weiwei’s face blushed a little when she heard this. She said angrily, “Captain, you are making fun of me again…”
The children of the Chu family abstained from love before they became monks.
That was the specialty of their family’s “Principium of Dao”!
“Actually…” Li Shouyi, who had been sitting on the sofa, suddenly said to Chu Weiwei, “First Lieutenant Chu, you can consider captain Li’s suggestion!”
Chu Weiwei’s face blushed more. “Even you are making fun of me…”
“This is a serious suggestion from this old man!” Li Shouyi said with a smile. His tone was more of a serious suggestion than just teasing.
At this moment, the fragrance in the kitchen became even intense.
Li Shouyi could not help but gulp. “Fragrant! So fragrant!”
He recalled the pictures of the crayfish that he had seen before.
The bright crystal-like flesh and the crystal-like shell of the crayfish.
Each crayfish was comparable to a unique work of art in the world!
“Then you should have more crayfish later!” Li Anan said very happily.
“Definitely! Definitely!” The old man smiled and rubbed his palms together.
He had given up on his reputation. He didn’t even care about his reputation. Didn’t he take the courage to come here just for this feast!
For the most luxurious, expensive, and gorgeous feast in the world?
Meow!
The kitten in Li Anan’s arms cried out unhappily.
Li Shouyi finally noticed it. The Egyptian cat goddess who had been ignored.
“Bastet, right?” He smiled. “You should eat more of it later too…”
Meow!
The kitten was finally happy.
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In the kitchen, Ling Pingan was cooking the garlic crayfish, which was his specialty.
Everyone had their understanding of the garlic crayfish.
Ling Pingan’s understanding was that when boiled with beer, the aroma of the garlic would permeate into the shrimp meat.
Only then, the taste of the crayfish was strong enough to eat!
Therefore, after frying the crayfish and garlic for two minutes, he poured in two bottles of beer!
Then, he covered the pot and let the crayfish stew slowly upon the fire.
He walked out of the kitchen, up the stairs, and to the rooftop.
At this time, it was almost ten o’clock.
The sun was gradually getting hotter, and the entire rooftop was slightly foggy.
He walked to the slow oven and opened the lid. He took out the beef wrapped in tin foil.
He held the scalding beef in his palm and walked to the chopping board. He unwrapped the tin foil and revealed the beef inside.
The entire piece of meat was extremely crisp and soft. After more than half an hour of roasting in the stove, the internal temperature had already risen to 80 degrees.
That was the most suitable temperature for stewed and roasted beef!
Therefore, Ling Pingan only pulled lightly, and the shredded meat separated from each other.
He couldn’t help but swallow his saliva.
“There are guests here today. So I’ll not taste it first!” As he spoke, he took a knife and cut the piece of beef into slices.
He cut out about ten slices of meat in total.
Ling Pingan picked up one of the pieces and placed it in front of his eyes to observe.
Even though it had been roasted for more than ten hours, the beef still had a bright red color of the myoglobin.
With just a gentle squeeze, the juice flowed out from the meat like a mountain spring.
The fragrance of the meat filled his nose!
“I’m such a genius!” Ling Pingan was overwhelmed by his culinary skills!
He placed the beef on a plate and poured the juice in as well. Then, he held the plate of meat with both hands and walked down the stairs.
Drones flew by in the sky.