The gourmet master on the tongue

in the nanny car.

"Xiaoxue, you said that this small restaurant in Yanran changes new things every week. Today is the seventh day. Do you think there will be little Shaoxing chicken porridge tomorrow?" Mrs. Zhong asked her granddaughter Zhong Xue nervously.

Zhong Xue frowned slightly, but she was not sure.

She couldn't help being a little sad, grandma likes little Shaoxing chicken porridge so much...

The two came to Yanran's restaurant, Mrs. Zhong smelled the familiar fragrance as soon as she got out of the car, and a smile appeared on her face instantly.

"Young man, please have a bowl of Shaoxing chicken porridge." Mrs. Zhong walked into the shop and said to Yan Ran.

"Okay! Wait a moment." Yan Ran replied bluntly.

He scooped up a bowl of Shaoxing chicken porridge and brought it to Mrs. Zhong.

"Grandma, be careful!" Yan Ran warned.

"Okay, thank you." Mrs. Zhong nodded slightly.

In the past few days, Mrs. Zhong would come to Yanran's restaurant to drink porridge every day, and Yanran gradually understood the reason why Mrs. Zhong was crying.

……

In February 1949, Shanghai.

It was getting late, Ye Xiaonan returned home from work at the pier.

"Brother Nan." My friend Han Shunwu stepped forward and put his hand on Ye Xiaonan's shoulder.

"Xiao Wu." Ye Xiaonan smiled.

"Brother Nan, I have found out everything you asked me to inquire about. There is nothing wrong with Xiaobei's study. In a few days, you take Xiaobei with you, and we will go together to give Mr. Zhang a gift." Han Shunwu said.

"Thank you!" Ye Xiaonan said.

"Hey, we brothers don't talk about this." Han Shunwu waved his hand.

"Brother Nan, Xiaobei is a girl, what's the use of studying?" Han Shunwu was a little puzzled.

"I don't know what is the specific use of reading, but I know it will be useful." Ye Xiaonan replied affirmatively.

Han Shunwu shrugged casually, he couldn't understand what Ye Xiaonan meant.

The two walked side by side, there was a fork in the road ahead, Ye Xiaonan didn't walk the way home, but walked to the other side.

"Brother Nan, why are you going?" Han Shunwu asked.

"I went to Yunnan South Road to buy chicken porridge." Ye Xiaonan replied.

"For Xiaobei?" Han Shunwu asked.

"Well, Xiaobei likes the little Shaoxing chicken porridge there very much, and asks me to buy it for her every now and then." Ye Xiaonan said, with a doting look on his face.

Han Shunwu looked at him and smiled, and said sincerely: "It's great that Xiaobei has a brother like you."

The two went to Yunnan South Road together.

"Boss, please have a bowl of chicken porridge." Ye Xiaonan said to the porridge stall owner.

"Okay, please wait." The porridge stall owner immediately filled Ye Xiaonan with a bowl of chicken porridge.

Ye Xiaonan packed it in a bamboo tube and brought the chicken porridge home. As soon as he entered the door, his sister rushed over and threw herself into his arms.

Ye Xiaonan fondled his sister's little head: "Are you good at home today?"

Ye Xiaobei nodded obediently.

"In a few days, my brother will take you to study, okay? There are many friends who are about your age in the private school, and then you won't have to be bored at home all day." Ye Xiaonan said.

"Really?" Ye Xiaobei blinked his bright eyes.

"Of course it's true. When did my brother lie to you?" Ye Xiaonan hugged his sister.

"Are there really many friends there?" Ye Xiaobei asked.

"Yes, there are many, many, and you can play with them at that time. Of course, you must listen carefully to the teacher's lectures in class, you know?" Ye Xiaonan said.

Ye Xiaobei nodded cutely.

"Come on, let's see what brother brought you." Ye Xiaonan put his sister on the stool.

He slowly opened the bamboo tube, moved it under his sister's nose and shook it.

"It's Little Shaoxing Chicken Porridge!" Ye Xiaobei said excitedly.

Ye Xiaonan smiled, got up to get a bowl, and poured out the chicken porridge in the bamboo tube.

Ye Xiaobei stared straight at the chicken porridge flowing out of the bamboo tube, without moving his eyes.

"Come on, eat it while it's hot." Ye Xiaonan put the chicken porridge in front of his sister.

Ye Xiaobei looked down and licked his lips with his little tongue.

She picked up the spoon and scooped it up, and was about to put it into her mouth, when she stopped suddenly and handed the spoon to her brother: "Brother, you eat."

Ye Xiaonan patted her head with a smile: "Eat it, brother has already eaten."

After hearing this, Ye Xiaobei smiled happily and put the chicken porridge into his mouth.

"It's delicious!" Ye Xiaobei said excitedly.

"Xiaobei likes to eat little Shaoxing chicken porridge so much, does my brother have to learn from a teacher? Try to open a porridge stall in the future?" Ye Xiaonan joked.

"Okay, okay, then I will have chicken porridge every day from now on." Ye Xiaobei immediately shouted happily.

"Will you eat them all by then?" Ye Xiaonan said.

"No, no, I only eat one bowl a day..." Ye Xiaobei thought for a while, and probably felt that one bowl was not enough, so he changed his mind and said, "I eat two bowls, and I only eat two bowls a day. I won't eat them all." of."

Ye Xiaonan rubbed his sister's forehead with a smile: "Eat quickly, it will be cold in a while."

After hearing this, Ye Xiaobei immediately immersed himself in enjoying the food.

……

In mid-April 1949, Shanghai.

Han Shunwu found Ye Xiaonan: "Brother Nan, many people in the city have left, let's go too, take shelter in other places, and come back after the battle is over."

"Okay, I'll go back and get ready, let's go together tomorrow." Ye Xiaonan said.

That night, Ye Xiaonan bought another small Shaoxing chicken porridge for his sister.

"Xiaobei, we won't go to school tomorrow." Ye Xiaonan said.

"Why?" Ye Xiaobei asked.

"Because there is going to be a war, let's go to other places to take shelter first, and we will come back after the war is over." Ye Xiaonan said.

"Oh." Ye Xiaobei nodded half-understanding.

The next day, Ye Xiaonan packed his luggage and took his sister to the pier.

"Brother Nan, here are the boat tickets." Han Shunwu handed the two boat tickets to Ye Xiaonan.

Ye Xiaonan nodded and took the ticket.

"Let's hide in the countryside for a while, and then we'll see the situation," Han Shunwu said.

"Okay." Ye Xiaonan replied.

"There are a lot of people at the pier, so we must take care of it." Han Shunwu reminded.

Ye Xiaonan shook his sister's little hand and looked down at her.

The little girl still didn't quite understand what happened, and kept looking at the people around her with curious eyes.

After a while, the boat came.

The crowds at the pier began to surge.

"Brother Nan, the boat is coming, let's go!" Han Shunwu said.

"Let's go!" Ye Xiaonan pulled his sister's hand.

Han Shunwu also took Ye Xiaobei's other hand: "Xiaobei, remember not to let go later!"

Ye Xiaobei nodded obediently.

The crowd holding the tickets began to board the boat. At the beginning, the order on the scene was fairly orderly. Although the crowd was crowded, everyone still behaved according to the rules.

Later, without knowing what happened, there was a sudden commotion at the scene, and everyone scrambled to squeeze onto the boat.

The three of Ye Xiaonan were surrounded by the flow of people, and they couldn't tell the direction at all, so they could only drift with the flow.

"Brother Nan, this way!" Han Shunwu shouted.

The three of them squeezed hard into the boat.

After much difficulty, the three finally squeezed onto the boat.

But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, a few people squeezed in and accidentally rushed Ye Xiaonan and Ye Xiaobei away.

Ye Xiaonan was directly squeezed out of the boat and fell into the water with a plop.

Fortunately, the place where it is located is a shoal, and the water only reaches the chest.

"Brother! Brother..." Ye Xiaobei shouted in horror.

"Brother Nan, Brother Nan!" Han Shunwu also shouted loudly.

Ye Xiaonan wanted to get on the boat several times, but there were too many people on the scene, and his hands touched the side of the boat several times, but he was still pulled off.

Seeing that there were too many people on board, the boatman worried about accidents, so he hurriedly sailed.

Seeing the boat moving slowly, Ye Xiaonan swam desperately to the side of the boat.

The distance was getting closer little by little, and he stretched out his hand to grab the side of the boat.

However, the boatman was worried about being overloaded and capsized, so he drove people away with long bamboo poles.

Ye Xiaonan was accidentally swept away, but he still couldn't climb onto the boat after all.

"Brother, brother..." Ye Xiaobei on the boat was still crying.

"Brother Nan!" Han Shunwu was burning with anxiety.

"Xiao Wu, take care of my sister, take care of my sister, I'll take the next boat! Take care of my sister, I'll take the next boat!" Ye Xiaonan shouted desperately.

"Brother!!!" Ye Xiaobei cried heartbreakingly.

Ye Xiaobei, who was only five years old, didn't know that the farewell between her and her brother was actually a farewell.

Because the scene was too chaotic, the pier was forced to close temporarily, and it was not reopened until the next day.

As a result, when Ye Xiaonan took a boat to find his sister and Han Shunwu the next day, he encountered a storm on the way, and all the people on the boat were buried in the belly of the fish.

Later, Han Shunwu took Ye Xiaobei to search for a long time but did not find Ye Xiaonan.

At that time, there were too many uncertainties. In order to make a living, Han Shunwu took Ye Xiaobei to Nanyang to develop under the advice of his fellow villagers.

Since then, Ye Xiaobei has never seen his brother again, and he doesn't even know if his brother is still alive.

Although Han Shunwu also asked people to search for him in China for a long time, there was still no news at all.

Under the careful care of Han Shunwu, Ye Xiaobei grew up safely and healthily, and Han Shunwu also sent Ye Xiaobei to school according to Ye Xiaonan's wishes.

Although he didn't understand the point of doing so, it was just to fulfill his promise to his friends.

After growing up, Ye Xiaobei married overseas Chinese Zhong Yuanbo, and her life was stable and prosperous, but that bowl of Shaoxing chicken porridge was always her lifelong obsession.

Zhong Haodong is Ye Xiaobei's fourth son. He returned to the motherland to develop in the early years. Seeing that his grades were not bad, he wanted to bring his mother over to have a look.

This is Ye Xiaobei's first return to China after being away from the motherland for decades. She did not expect to eat that bowl of little Shaoxing chicken porridge in Baohua City that made her dream.

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After Mrs. Zhong finished her porridge, a satisfied smile appeared on her face.

For some reason, when she drank porridge, she always felt as if her brother was by her side.

"Young man, I heard from my granddaughter that you have new things here every week. I want to ask, will you still make this little Shaoxing chicken porridge tomorrow?" Madam Zhong asked.

Yan Ran smiled after hearing this, and said solemnly: "Mother-in-law, as long as you are willing to come, I will keep doing it. I guarantee that no matter when you come, you can have a bowl of little Shaoxing chicken porridge."

"Really?" Mrs. Zhong was both happy and surprised.

"Really!" Yan Ran replied.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you..." Mrs. Zhong excitedly held Yanran's hand.

"No, no, I'm very happy that you like my porridge, really, very happy!" Yan Ran said.

Yan Ran never thought that a bowl of porridge could carry such deep emotions.

He was very happy that he was able to make such a bowl of chicken porridge for Mrs. Zhong.

He thought he would keep doing it!As long as Mrs. Zhong wants to eat, he will always leave her a bowl of porridge.