章 34: Conversation after lunch

While I and Ming Er still don't understand what happened, my father in law explains it to me.

"Son, I never thought you will make this dish, Fu Qi Fei Pian, aaahh…this dish makes me remember my younger days when I'm just married to your mother. I'm just a poor young man at that time, but I'm willing to work hard. To work hard need a lot of energy, and because of we poor, we can't afford to buy meat, only cheap part of the meat that we able to buy. And your mother here always cooks that dish to me. Now, we can live in prosper days, the meat your mother cook also being the better one and this dish is almost forgotten. This dish alone has a long history, a quite interesting story although end with the sad ending. I'll tell you the story later after we finish eat. Now let's eat before these dishes get cold"

Without talking anything further we immediately start to eat quickly. Whether they really hungry or the taste suit them or afraid the food getting cold, the dishes in the table quickly disappears, moved into our own bellies. As the closing, I serve them with lemon tea that I made before.

"Ahhh, it so relishes. It's been a long time before I can eat satisfied like this. Son, is this dishes that you will sell in the food truck?"

"Yes, father"

"It's good, you'll have lots of customers with menu"

"Thanks, father, I hope so"

"I think you all waiting for the story of the Fu Qi Fei Pian, right? It's said a long time ago, when China still under many kingdoms, there is husband and wife that selling food on the street. The man is a fine cook, his cooking is delicious, even the cheap and leftover part of meat he can turn into something delicious, and that's what he sells along the street. When he sold this food on the street, he always helped by an orphan girl that later become his wife. They live by selling food together in the street, food that now called Fu Qi Fei Pian because made by this husband and wife pairs. Many street peddlers also try to make the dish like them, but still the most popular is the dish that husband and wife pair made"

"Dad, that's a wonderful story. Similar with me and hubby that will make food business by food truck"

"Um, but the story did not have a happy ending. Because the food that they made becomes popular, the husband was hired as a cook in Palace. This, so far is good because of sound like promotion right? But one day this cook makes the king anger and sentenced to death along with his family members. Ugh, such tragic ends. But it seems this cook did not do something wrong that make the king angry because not long after his death, disaster comes one after another to that kingdom. Start with locust swarm that destroys that kingdom crops, drought and many wars followed after that. That kingdom itself becomes ruins within three years after that cook death. Whether true or not, it's a folktale that been told from generation to generation, I just hope you two not end like this story but live happily ever after"

I dumbfounded when hearing my father in law story. Isn't that looks like my previous life story? And the recipe still exists after a thousand years? And after my death, is that what happened to Shi Kingdom? Seems Heavens still have mercy for those oppressed and treated unjustly in this world. When I take a glance at Ming Er, I see tears in the corner of her eyes

"Wifey, are you crying?" I asked her while wiping the tears with my fingers

"Hubby, after hearing dad's story, somehow I feel so sad inside" after saying that she leaned her head in my chest like seeking for comfort

Seeing how their daughter act, my parent, and brother in laws only smiles looking at us. When Ming Er realize her family's eyes staring at her, she becomes shy and buried her face in my chest to hide. This only incite the laugh of her family members

"Son, please bear with my daughter childish behavior, although she now a woman, but sometimes she acts like a spoiled girl"

"Don't worry father, your obligation to spoil her is now in my hand. I'll be the one who spoils her"

"Hahaha, my daughter has a good husband"

When Ming Er hear she becoming the object of conversation, her face become red and she pinching me to stop that conversation. This makes her family member only laugh louder than before.

That afternoon time in Ming Er parents is another good time that I have in there.