wavenovel Chapter 39 Fried Noodles
Chapter 39 Fried Noodles
"Your sister-in-law knows how; I'll call someone over."
Lu Wen's house was right next to the old man's house. He ran a few steps and went home to call his wife out.
"Wow, whose daughter is this? She's so beautiful! Look at that figure!"
Lu Wen's wife was a cheerful woman; she held Zhenzhen and Pingping and examined them closely for a while.
Seeing that his wife was doing nothing productive, Lu Wen immediately pulled her aside and said:
"Xiao Yuan has something important to discuss with you!"
Lu Wen's wife rolled her eyes at him and said:
"Do you think I don't know this is important? I'm just figuring out how to make it look good for them!"
Seeing Lu Wen's discomfiture, Lu Yuan smiled and greeted her, "Hello, Sister-in-law Cuilan!"
Cuilan looked at Lu Yuan and immediately smiled: "Hello, Boss Lu Yuan!"
"Sister-in-law, please don't call me 'boss,' it sounds too formal!"
"Don't be so formal! I heard you pay your aunties a lot of money, why don't you hire your sister-in-law too?" Cuilan asked directly.
"I wouldn't dare hire you!" Lu Yuan said, pointing to Cuilan's protruding belly.
"With a family to support, if something happens to you, I won't be able to explain it to Brother Lu Wen."
Lu Wen pulled his wife aside again and said:
"What's the point of saying all that? Just put your hair up!"
"Let's have a chat! Why are you being so nosy!" Cuilan glared at Lu Wen, turned her head away, and shook off his hand.
Before long, Zhenzhen and Pingping's hair was styled.
The two girls were tall, and with the small leather shoes they were wearing, they were probably around 1.75 meters tall.
With her hair styled in an updo, her smooth neck perfectly accentuated the beauty of the cheongsam.
What's most remarkable is that both girls were completely without makeup, yet their beauty is still striking.
In his past life in Beijing, he served many so-called female celebrities.
Honestly, most female celebrities aren't as pretty as these two girls.
Lu Yuan felt that only Zhao Yan's natural face could outshine them.
"Xiao Yuan, you've made your two younger sisters look so beautiful, don't do anything to ruin their reputation!"
Sister Cuilan is essentially a traditional rural woman, and some of her worries are her true feelings.
Lu Yuan smiled and explained, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, with their own brother around, who would dare to act recklessly?"
"That's true!" Cuilan covered her mouth and laughed when Zhenzhen and Pingping's older brother was mentioned.
Their older brother is named Lu Hai, and he is the largest among the younger generation of the Lu family. Lu Yuan estimates that he is almost 2 meters tall.
When the Wang family's troublemaker was a child, he bullied Zhenzhen and Pingping at school. Lu Hai and his other brothers beat him up for a whole week before it finally stopped.
From then on, no one dared to mess with the two girls again.
Seeing that everyone looked puzzled, Lu Yuan decided to give them pre-job training.
"Zhenzhen, Pingping, from now on, you two will work at the shop on the national highway in the morning and come to the tent to work as waitresses in the afternoon."
Pingping asked, "So, a waiter just carries plates?"
Lu Yuan shook his head: "This is your biggest misunderstanding of what a waiter should be. For example, if I were to charge 5000 yuan for this banquet tomorrow, do you think a waiter from a small restaurant in town would be qualified?"
Pingping immediately shook her head and said, "Definitely not. My brother and I went there once, and it took the waiter 10 minutes to bring us the spoon."
"That makes sense." Lu Yuan snapped his fingers and continued:
"My meal cost 5000 yuan, the waiter should be worth at least 2000 yuan!"
Zhenzhen and Pingping nodded as if they understood, and Lu Yuan walked directly in front of them: "Hold out your hands so I can see."
The two sisters stretched out their hands a little shyly. They were slender but a bit dark and rough, with even black dirt under their fingernails.
After all, she's a girl from the countryside, and she has to do farm work all day, so she can't possibly have fair and tender hands.
Lu Yuan pointed to the nail bed and said mercilessly, "Trim your fingernails tomorrow and wash off all the black dirt."
"Oh, oh!" The two sisters were, after all, 18-year-old girls, and were still a little embarrassed by being said that. Their faces turned red to the roots of their ears.
However, Lu Yuan didn't hold back. He lifted a strand of hair, touched it, and smelled it before immediately taking out a hundred yuan and handing it to Zhenzhen.
"Why don't you two go to town and take a bath tomorrow morning?"
As soon as these words were spoken, tears welled up in the eyes of both girls.
Cuilan looked at Lu Yuan with a reproachful expression and said, "Xiao Yuan, how can you talk like that!"
Lu Yuan ignored Cuilan and continued to stare at Zhenzhen and Pingping, saying:
"That's why I'm offering you 1000 yuan a month. This money isn't easy to earn. Can you handle it?"
Zhenzhen wiped away her tears, stubbornly raised her head, and took Pingping's hand, saying, "Brother, we can do it!"
"Good! As expected, there are no cowards in our Lu family!" Lu Yuan nodded in satisfaction, then turned his back to them.
"Come on, learn to walk with me first!"
Lu Yuan walked a few steps ahead with the standard posture of a waitress, leaving the others stunned.
One second she was a fierce and shrewish boss, the next she was exuding a certain elegance.
"Come, follow me."
Zhenzhen and Pingping followed Lu Yuan, awkwardly trying to learn, as if they didn't know how to walk.
Lu Jie and the others burst into laughter, so Lu Yuan kicked them away.
Although the two sisters' movements looked rather comical, Lu Yuan taught them meticulously, and they learned very quickly.
Then Lu Yuan patiently taught him how to greet guests, serve dishes, add water, and clear away the bone plates.
It wasn't until evening that the two sisters managed to get the hang of things, at least enough to handle tomorrow's banquet.
Pingping sat in a chair, rubbing the back of her feet, looking exhausted.
"Sis, I'm not envious of the celebrities on TV anymore. These shoes are really uncomfortable to wear."
As the older sister, Zhenzhen had a stronger personality and slapped away Pingping's hand that was massaging her feet, saying:
"You'll get used to it after wearing it for a while, Pingping. We need to get used to these things from now on."
Lu Yuan listened from the side and had a very good impression of Zhenzhen.
He didn't have many memories of Zhenzhen, but after getting to know her, he realized that she was definitely a promising talent.
"Are you hungry? I'll treat you to something delicious!"
Lu Yuan told Lu Jie to go and get some ingredients, and also to try out the stove on the tent side.
In order to use up the potato shreds that Lu Jie and the others had cut, Lu Yuan decided to make a stir-fried noodle dish.
Lancheng is famous for its Jincheng fried noodles, which are made in a similar way to the fried hand-pulled noodles of northern China.
Lu Yuan took out a piece of beef and quickly sliced it into thin slices about 2 centimeters wide.
Chop some more scallions, chives, and tomatoes, and add some shredded potatoes from Lu Jie's side. The dish preparation is now complete.
At this moment, Lu Jie lit the stove, and Lu Yuan instructed him to put a pot of water on it to prepare to make noodles.
The dough had been kneaded beforehand. Lu Yuan roughly divided the dough into portions and called out Zhenzhen and Pingping:
"Zhenzhen, Pingping, come and make some noodles!"
Making dough pieces is basically an essential skill for girls from the northern frontier, so Lu Yuan didn't even need to ask them if they knew how.
Sure enough, the two sisters were very skilled at pulling dough.
Long, wide noodles were wrapped around his arm, and his fingers moved so fast that the pot was soon filled with noodles.
At the same time, Lu Yuan poured an appropriate amount of sesame oil into the pot on the other side.
Heat the oil, add the sliced meat, stir-fry until it changes color, then add chopped green onions, soy sauce and a little vinegar to bring out the aroma.
Next, add shredded potatoes and tomatoes, stir-fry until a red soup is formed, then add an appropriate amount of water.
Once the soup boils, simply add salt and MSG.
Then Lu Yuan instructed Lu Jie to scoop the hand-pulled noodles from the side into the pot on this side.
While he was at it, Lu Yuan scooped out half a ladle of chili oil and added it to the pot.
Finally, add the chives, stir-fry a few more times, and the stir-fried noodles are ready.
Lu Yuan ladled the noodles into bowls one by one. The noodles were bright red and oily, with a clear, non-dull sauce color.
The aroma of a sizzling iron wok, mingled with the fatty scent of beef and the sweet and sour fragrance of tomatoes, wafted into my nostrils in layers.
Lu Fa, who was waiting on the side, couldn't stop drooling. He was about to pick up a bowl of noodles to eat when Lu Yuan slapped his hand away.
"Invite the old man to come and eat with us! You're only thinking of yourself!"