Traveling through time as a goblin, just wanting to live a leisurely life

There were no other customers at the grilled fish stall that day, except for Akong and his family who came for a midnight snack. Xiao Chen spent most of the time standing in front of the stall and watching the happy family.

"The relationship is so good, so good... so ordinary."

Xiao Chen suddenly felt some emotion.

"Isn't that the case in your family?"

Igan asked.

"My family is also very good, but there is no such scene now."

Xiao Chen said.

"why?"

"My grandparents are all dead."

Xiao Chen is actually not very old. He just graduated from college and is only a few years older than Akong's nephews and nieces. However, his grandparents passed away one after another when he was in middle school. It has been a long time since everyone went to their grandparents' house to have a New Year's meal together when they were young.

"Besides, I'm just a fish stall clerk now. How can I have the nerve to let my family come to see me?"

Xiao Chen said self-deprecatingly.

Ordinary people spend their lives studying, working, getting married, and having children. The happiness and satisfaction they get from these four things are compared. Are their grades good? Is their salary high? Is their marriage happy? Do their children do well?

All face and respect also come from these four things.

For Xiao Chen, perhaps the absence of his grandparents is not the main reason why he does not want his family to come and see him.

Who would want their family members to look at them with a frown and a look of heartache when they come?

For example, in the case of this family, the old man always frowned, worried about this and that. Whenever he opened his mouth, he would scold and blame.

His family members surrounded him, trying their best to make him relax.

After all, this trip was just to visit my younger brother, but in fact it was a relaxing trip for my dad.

Let a father who has been worrying about his family for more than 30 years finally put his worries aside and enjoy his later years.

However, my father has made it a habit to worry about this family. All the annoying, sad, painful, happy and exciting memories of the past are suppressed deep in his heart, just like the compacted land. How can it be easy to relax it again?

Therefore, the three brothers had already prepared for a long-term war. If they failed once, they would try twice. If they failed twice, they would try countless times. Their father had worried about them for thirty years, so they would try every possible way to let their father enjoy his old age.

Whether in terms of material or mood.

"Dad, fish eyes are your favorite part."

"This, stingray, is your favorite food, Dad."

"Spicy fried small conch, your favorite side dish for drinking, come on, come on."

Except for a plate of fried squid for his two grandsons, the rest of the dishes on the table were all the old man's favorites.

That night, Akong specially chose the stall that had made him happiest eating in recent times, ordered his father's favorite seafood, and filled his father's plate in one go.

"Enough, enough! You guys eat. None of these dishes have stink beans. How can seafood be without stink beans? I don't like it, so you guys eat it!"

Dad still frowned and refused.

Everyone understood that Dad just wanted others to eat more and didn't really dislike seafood, so naturally no one would listen to him. The three brothers still dug up all kinds of seafood, carefully peeled and picked out the bones, and then put them into Dad's basket.

"Dad seems to like eating stink beans?"

One of the brothers' wife asked in a low voice.

"Yes, seafood must be paired with stink beans and chili peppers. Unfortunately, Akong told me yesterday that this stall doesn't have any stink beans to make. What a pity."

The last time A Kong came here with his colleagues, he asked Xiao Chen if he had fried stinky beans with seafood. At that time, Xiao Chen said no, so A Kong didn't ask again this time.

"Be careful! The menu is here, sambal stink bean shrimp!"

Just when everyone was feeling regretful, Xiao Chen came to the table holding a large plate of sambal stinky bean shrimps.

"Oh my god! Does the boss have telepathy?"

My sister-in-law opened her mouth wide.

"Huh? Didn't you say last time that there were no stink beans?"

Akong also asked in surprise.

"Today, someone just happened to bring a bag of high-quality stinky beans over, and the boss couldn't resist and bought it at a high price. This is a one-time meal, and it's only available on the buffet menu. It's not on the regular menu."

Xiao Chen said with a smile.

“Lucky!”

Everyone sighed in their hearts.

At Boss Tao’s grilled fish stall, the appearance of every ingredient is destined, and everything is so coincidental.

The bright red sambal sauce exudes an extreme spicy and slightly sour taste. It makes everyone's saliva flow crazily before it is even served on the table.

The white, chewy shelled shrimps are stained with a little red, blending their unique flavor into the sambal sauce. It is hard to tell whether it is white with red or red with white.

The tender green stinky beans appear and disappear between the red and white, like inconspicuous little actors, and will only bring you an unforgettable taste feast when you take a bite of the food.

When the old man saw the large plate of shrimps, the corners of his mouth slightly raised and his brows relaxed a lot, obviously he was very satisfied.

Before the three brothers could start serving food to their father, the old man suddenly stood up as if he was 20 years younger, scooped a large spoonful of sambal stink bean shrimp and put it into the grandmother's plate.

"Come on! Eat your favorite sambal stink bean shrimp. It's delicious with rice. Do you want another bowl of rice?"

The old man said.

"You old man, you still remember that I like to eat stinky beans. There's enough rice. I can't finish too much. You can have some too."

The old lady scooped some sambal stinky bean shrimp from her plate and gave it to the old man. The old man did not refuse, but stood up and scooped another spoonful back into the old lady's plate.

The three brothers watched this scene and all sat down.

"It turns out that it's mom who likes to eat stinky beans. Dad always orders stinky beans when he eats seafood. He wants to order some for mom."

The two married mothers suddenly realized and nodded silently.

They and their husbands showed off their love in the first half, but they didn't expect that the old man and the old woman would personally come out and take on all the love in the second half, and only Akong had to bear all the damage.

The old man didn't eat much of his favorite food, but instead advised others to eat more.

The finale, sambal stink bean shrimp, is the old man’s favorite delicacy, but it is because the old lady loves to eat it.

In the end, the old man was still worried about whether other people had eaten well, and didn't think about himself at all!

The three brothers smiled bitterly.

"Come on, Dad, eat some shrimp!"

Now Akong can only pin his hopes on shrimp.

He remembered that he felt extremely happy after eating Boss Tao’s shrimps during the last dinner with his colleagues. He hoped that this time, the sambal stinky bean shrimps would also bring the magical effect.