The whole family travels through time and space, and the three of them struggle together

After the people left, Zhou Dajiang asked his wife, "You've been looking here for a long time, why don't you say anything?"

Chen Xiuying was also speechless and said, "I realized that I don't seem to recognize any of the words on the menu."

Zhou Sisi was startled: "Let me take a look."

So Zhou Sisi was speechless.

I traveled through time and became illiterate. What kind of magic operation is this? The master of time travel would not be so deceiving!

Zhou Dajiang also took a look at the menu and touched his head. He was very proud now. He knew all the words on it. He was the only educated one in the family.

Now I finally surpass my wife, and the emancipated serfs are singing. Hehe, this feeling is not bad.

Chen Xiuying saw his smug look and pinched the soft flesh on his waist. "Hurry up and see what summer snacks are on there."

Zhou Dajiang quickly put away his smug expression and said, "The food we're looking for isn't here. The only cold dishes on the menu are salad lettuce, salad cabbage, pig ears with cucumber, glutinous rice and lotus root, and ice cream for dessert."

Zhou Sisi liked to eat sticky things, so she suggested, "We've been looking at it for a long time, it would be bad if we didn't order one. How about we order a portion of glutinous rice and lotus root to go?"

So Zhou Dajiang called the waiter and spent fifty cents to order a plate of glutinous rice and lotus root to take away.

After leaving the restaurant, Zhou Dajiang hissed his teeth and said, "When we make a lot of money, we will order all the signature dishes here and have a big meal."

Chen Xiuying: "It won't be far away. We'll try to have it by the end of the year!"

Zhou Dajiang and his daughter looked at her. "Have you decided? Which one should we do?"

"Let's make cold noodles and sea jelly first. They're perfect for eating at this time of year, so they're sure to sell well."

"Let's go buy some ingredients and seasonings." Chen Xiuying is a person who does what she says. Now that she has made up her mind, it's better to do it sooner rather than later.

The main ingredient of sea jelly is sea jelly, which is also called chicken feather vegetable or agar-agar in some places. You can just buy the dried one. Fortunately, this place is not far from the sea, so it is really sold there. However, most people buy it to make soup in winter when there are no vegetables.

The three of them found the dried seaweed they wanted at the grain store. It was reasonably priced, four cents per pound, and the store had over a hundred pounds, which was quite a lot. Normally, they bought it in batches of one or two pounds, enough to last them several meals after soaking.

The waiter hadn't expected Chen Xiuying to buy all the dried seaweed in the store. It wasn't expensive, but she'd never ordered so much. Was she planning to eat it all until next year or the year after? The waiter's mind raced, and he felt his entire body turn green.

Zhou Dajiang then asked about the price of flour. Although there was some at home, it was not much, and the amount needed for cooking was quite large, so he had to buy some more.

There are three prices for flour: the best fine white flour is twelve cents, the slightly inferior one is ten cents, and whole wheat flour is eight cents.

Chen Xiuying whispered that the eight-cent kind would be fine, so she bought another 100 kilograms of flour, paid a deposit first, gave an address, and asked the boy to deliver it after it was prepared, and she would pay the balance then.

The three of them then went to buy seasonings. Rapeseed oil was twenty cents per pound, so they bought ten pounds.

A small jar of fragrant vinegar weighed two pounds, and I bought it at eight cents per pound.

Two pounds of sugar, half a pound each of ginger and garlic, one pound of sesame oil, half a pound of white sesame seeds, and two pounds of dried chilies. He also bought fennel, star anise, bay leaves, cinnamon, and Sichuan peppercorns, and had them delivered to Chen's house as well.

Chen Xiuying was quite moved that she could buy chili peppers. The time-travel novels she had read before did not have chili peppers, waiting for each time traveler to discover them. Fortunately, there were chili peppers in this dynasty, otherwise she would have to eat less delicious food.

After buying the spices, the three of them went to the pharmacy to buy tsaoko, angelica dahurica, amomum villosum, safflower, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, lithospermum officinale, and bitter beans. These spices are used in frying chili oil and can only be found at the pharmacy. This time, there were fewer, so Zhou Dajiang simply put them in his backpack and took them away.

After buying everything, it was almost noon, so they went to the wine shop and bought two kilograms of sake, and then the three of them walked towards Chen's house.

The Chen family lived in an alley on East Street, and the Donglu Private School where Old Man Chen worked was also on this street. It was the best private school in town. When Chen Xiuying arrived at the Chen family's door, she hesitated at the door, feeling homesick, and did not knock immediately.

Zhou Sisi noticed her mother's nervousness, and she silently held her mother's hand.

Zhou Dajiang didn't hesitate. He had his memory so what was there to be afraid of? He knocked on the door three times.

"coming."

A young woman opened the door, "Second sister, brother-in-law, Sisi, come in quickly! Mom, second sister and brother-in-law and their family are back." It turned out that the person who opened the door was Chen Xiuying's sister-in-law, Wang.

Hearing Wang's call, a woman in her forties with a smile on her face came out of the house, followed by two little boys.

Seeing her daughter and her family of three coming back, Chen's mother said with a smile: "I have been thinking these past two days that it is time for you to come back after being away for such a long time."

Chen Xiuying stared at the woman's face, her eyes wide open, without blinking, just staring straight at her. Suddenly, she didn't know why, but started to cry, without saying a word, just crying silently.

Mother Chen was startled to see her daughter standing at the doorway, crying and staring at her. She quickly grabbed her daughter's hand and led her into the house. While wiping her tears, she softly asked, "What's wrong? What wronged you? We haven't seen each other for just a few days, why are you crying? Did Dajiang bully you?"

Chen Xiuying looked at Chen's mother, who looked exactly like her own mother who had passed away early, even her voice was the same.

Chen Xiuying was only 41 years old when her mother died in a car accident. She was in the second grade of junior high school. She was in the rebellious period of adolescence and usually didn't want to say a word to her mother. Then her mother was gone suddenly. She could no longer see her mother who loved to talk, laugh and sing, and she couldn't talk to her even if she wanted to.

Chen Xiuying regretted and blamed herself for many years, wondering why she didn't go out with her mother on the day she had the car accident. If she had been there, perhaps her mother wouldn't have had the accident.

This self-blame tormented her for many years, and she only completely let it go after she gave birth to Sisi.

Now she saw her mother again, a living, talking mother. It was as if everything was arranged by fate. She felt like she had suddenly returned to her childhood. This time she didn't want to be rebellious. She wanted to talk to her mother about so many things, telling her about all the grievances she had suffered over the years, one by one...