Chapter 52 It turns out that Professor Jiang also has a strong side

The next morning, Lin Han got up before dawn.

Although he has full confidence in his cooking skills, preparing a big banquet is not only about cooking skills, but also about the speed of serving the dishes.

So he had to get up early in the morning to prepare the dishes.

Big plate chicken, spicy fish, braised pork elbow, meatballs in clear water, eight bowls of crispy meat, vermicelli, salted chicken, pepper and salt peanuts, twice-cooked pork, braised pork face, sweet and sour prawns, fried wild rice stem with meat, plus pork ribs, lotus root soup and chicken soup.

There are a total of 12 dishes and two soups, with a fixed capacity of 20 seats, and we have to prepare some extra food for about 5 tables. It is not an easy job at all.

Fortunately, I contacted the chef yesterday.

After explaining the situation, they readily agreed to let the kitchen helper and apprentice come to help.

With experienced kitchen assistants helping in preparing the ingredients, Lin Han felt more confident.

The processed pig head is braised in stewed soup, and the salted chicken is soaked in seasoned brine.

Use a large pot to stew the pork elbows separately, and then prepare the fish, shrimp and seasonal vegetables.
As it was approaching noon, the invited villagers had already taken their seats and started chatting animatedly.

Jiang Mengyan was not idle either. She entertained the guests together with Zhao Qiuhong and her second sister-in-law, serving them cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, tea and various small things.

"I heard that the Lin family's old lady's birthday banquet invited the most famous chef in the area, Mr. Li."

"Oh, Master Li is so hard to invite. My son had a wedding banquet two months ago and I wanted to invite him, but it turned out that I couldn't get a time because all the good dates in the year had already been booked."

"I've eaten at Master Li's banquet before, and the taste was amazing. It looks like I'll be in for another treat today."

Everyone was talking noisily when a sour voice suddenly rang out from the side:
"I think this is oral, maybe it's a mouthful of trouble."

It just so happened that Jiang Mengyan was distributing cigarettes to the guests nearby. Upon hearing this, her beautiful brows frowned in displeasure.

She turned her head and glanced at the cigarettes and alcohol in the hands of the person who was speaking, which she had just given him, and said:

“Today the Lin family is opening its doors to welcome guests from all over the world, so that everyone can share in the joy of grandma’s birthday.

But with so many guests, it's inevitable that some low-class people will sneak in, take our cigarettes and alcohol, eat our birthday banquet, and still have dirty mouths. Aren't they afraid of ruining their own good deeds?"

Jiang Mengyan was not the kind of person who liked to care about things or stand out.

But this was Grandma Lin's birthday party, and Grandma Lin's second sister-in-law had taken good care of her, so it was impossible for her to listen to people talking about such sarcastic gossip at a festive birthday party.

So she turned around and spoke without hesitation.

The person who just spoke was none other than Liu Erjia, who had wanted to mock Zhao Qiuhong but ended up losing face.

Having lost face last time, she had no intention of coming again. However, she heard from her fellow villagers early in the morning that the famous Master Li, who was originally scheduled to prepare the banquet for the Lin family today, had a traffic accident yesterday.

What happened to the chef yesterday only lasted half a day. Where can the Lin family find another chef of this level to save the situation?

Isn't this a ready-made joke waiting to be seen?
Liu Erjia didn't expect Jiang Mengyan to be so tough. She turned around and scolded her. So she was stunned for a moment and said with an unhappy look on her face:
"Who are you? You're just helping to distribute cigarettes and alcohol, but you really take yourself seriously?"

He looks pretty, but he's a stranger.

"who am I?"

Jiang Mengyan chuckled, "I am Jiang Mengyan, the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Lin's eldest grandson Lin Han. I am a professor at Tunghai University. This time I came back with Lin Han to celebrate grandma's birthday." Jiang Mengyan smiled slightly and spoke to the people around her in a clear voice.

Hearing this, many villagers who didn't know Jiang Mengyan's identity were shocked:
"Wow, the professor at the university is actually real?"

"The old Lin family has a remarkable and respectable granddaughter-in-law."

"She is beautiful and speaks even more beautifully. The second Liu family member likes to gossip the most. I'm afraid she will fall into the hands of the beautiful granddaughter-in-law of the professor from the Lin family today."

The noises of discussion nearby were getting louder and louder, but Jiang Mengyan was not affected at all. She just stared coldly at Liu Erjia:

"I am indeed a junior in my family, but it is enough to control the people who talk nonsense at my old lady's birthday party."

Hearing the noisy discussions here, Zhao Qiuhong turned around and saw Liu Erjia choking Jiang Shiyu, and hurried over to hold her daughter-in-law's arm:

"Who did I think she was? Isn't this Liu Er's sister-in-law? Why didn't she embarrass herself here last time, and now she's rushing to show off her face again, to see my professor's daughter-in-law?
It doesn’t matter. Today is the old lady’s birthday. Although you are not on my guest list, you come here to eat and drink for free, and I certainly can’t chase you away.

Even if a dog comes to beg for food on a good day, I have to let it go full, folks, is that right? "

After all, Zhao Qiuhong was more experienced and knew Liu Er's family inside and out. She was merciless when she started to scold her.

After saying that, she tilted her head to look at Jiang Mengyan, patted her hand comfortingly, and said in a low voice:

"She's an old cancer in the village. Don't mind her. Sister Qiu will help you scold her."

The villagers around knew that Liu Erjia loved to gossip, and no one supported her. They were just happy to watch the joke from the sidelines.

"Stop it, dogs are coming to your house to beg for food. If dogs knew that you didn't invite a chef when you had a big banquet, they wouldn't come to your house.

The old lady had a birthday banquet, but she couldn't even hire a decent chef. She only got two second-rate cooks from nowhere to do the cooking. And she's still so proud of herself?"

Jiang Mengyan and Zhao Xiuhong repeatedly choked her so hard that she had no chance to talk back. Liu Erjia was so angry that her face turned red and white. Finally, she smiled mockingly and told the purpose of her stirring up trouble:

“You all don’t know yet.

Someone spread the news that the famous chef Li who was invited to cook the banquet had a car accident yesterday afternoon and is now lying in the hospital. Who knows who is cooking the banquet dishes now? "

When she said this, the villagers who were watching were a little shocked. Someone asked Zhao Qiuhong directly:
"Sister-in-law, is what Liu Erjia said true? Which chef did you invite to prepare the banquet today? It must be difficult to hire someone with such short time, right?"

".This." Zhao Qiuhong choked.

Yesterday she also saw her son's exquisite skills in preparing a dish in just over ten minutes.

But Lin Han was, after all, just a graduate student, and had hardly ever been in the kitchen before.

Now, if she were asked to say that her son was the chef for the birthday banquet, she would feel guilty.

Zhao Qiuhong was in a dilemma, but Jiang Mengyan beside her spoke first:

"Fellow villagers, please listen to me."

She was originally a professor who gave lectures and was very good at using her voice.

As soon as this clear voice came out, the discussions around her suddenly became much quieter, and everyone's eyes were focused on her.

(End of this chapter)