Chapter 32: A New Life
"Song Xiaoyue, where did you learn this tea-making technique, it's amazing!"
"The director praised it, and when he was bored, he played with it casually"
Song Xiaoyue modestly said that in his previous life, he loved to drink tea, but he specially invited a master with superb tea skills to teach him.
Song Xiaoyue and the director chatted quite a bit, the two of them are like a father and a daughter, but there is no generation gap in chatting, and even the director's knowledge reserve is not as much as that of Song Xiaoyue in the previous life, the two of them chatted very happily, and they almost forgot to entertain guests.
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It was almost noon, it was time to prepare for the banquet, Song Xiaoyue explained to the guests and others, and went to find the housekeeper!
"Butler, how is the banquet prepared? I see that the time is almost up, so I ordered to go down and prepare for the banquet!"
"Back to the little master, everything is ready, I will order it to go down now, and the banquet will start immediately!"
Song Xiaoyue went to the back room, and Song Xiaoyue and her eldest sister were chatting with her grandmother, aunts, cousins, and cousins in the hall! Song Xiaoyue hurriedly greeted them one by one, and told them that the meeting would start later!
After chatting with my grandmother and them, I went to the front yard to greet the villagers who came to eat the banquet, and I saw that the housekeeper was leading people to set up tables and chairs in the front yard!
"Butler, there are 12 tables in the front yard for those villagers to eat in the front yard. In the inner courtyard, 4 tables are set up for the relatives at home and the elders of the village to eat, and a table is set up in the main house to entertain the distinguished guests of the family. You then tell Han Shui to cook a few more good dishes and get them to the main house, and the wine should be the best! Set up five tables in the backyard and arrange for the ladies to eat in the backyard! The remaining three tables will be placed in the east courtyard for all of you to eat!"
"The little master is thoughtful, I'll arrange it!"
The housekeeper was busy, and Song Xiaoyue was about to go back to the inner courtyard, but met Xiao Yan in the verandah.
"Yue'er, I almost didn't recognize you when you were dressed like this today, you look so good today, if you always wear it like this in the future, it will definitely be the most beautiful in our village!"
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Xiao Yan was very envious when she saw Song Xiaoyue wearing a brand new dress, everyone was new for three years, three years for the old, and another three years for sewing and mending, everyone in Song Xiaoyue's family wore new clothes, and it had already spread in front of the villagers!
Song Xiaoyue smiled and shrugged her shoulders, but she didn't speak!
"Yue'er, your new home is so big and beautiful, I've been to the city, and your house is even more beautiful than the one in the city!"
Xiao Yan had just come back from a walk around Song Xiaoyue's new house, and she was envious and emotional!
"It's okay!Hehe! Xiao Yan, the banquet will start soon, you can go to the backyard to eat later! I still have guests to accompany me today, so I can't accompany you, next time you have time to come and play with me!"
Song Xiaoyue took Xiao Yan to the round door on the side of the west ear room, motioned for Xiao Yan to go to the backyard for a banquet, and walked to the main room!
The housekeeper had already arranged for someone to put tables, chairs, dishes and chopsticks in the living room, and Song Xiaoyue hurriedly beckoned everyone to serve the table, because it was divided into seats, just to avoid embarrassment, everyone began to serve the food as soon as they were on the table.
The dishes at the banquet today are all hard dishes, including drunken shrimp, steamed crab, roast goose, fried pork ribs, braised lion's head, steamed sea bass, mandarin duck chicken, plum cabbage button pork, braised pork knuckle!
Song Xiaoyue was dazzled when she was looking at it, Han Shui and daylily brought charcoal-grilled lamb chops, beggar chicken, two plates of exquisite dim sum, a jar of champion wine and a cup of old hen stewed ginseng soup per person!
Song Xiaoyue picked up the champion wine, patted the yellow mud of the sealing altar, and poured a glass of wine for everyone one by one!
"Come, Song Xiaoyue is here to thank all the seniors for coming to the cold house, I am here to toast all the seniors with a glass! The kid is too strong to drink, he can only drink this cup, I hope you will forgive me!"
Song Xiaoyue picked up a glass of wine and drank it all! It provoked the applause of the director and others! Everyone present also picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all, and the guests of honor enjoyed themselves!
"Come, everyone! Coarse tea and light rice, poor hospitality, please forgive me! Everyone move chopsticks!"
Song Xiaoyue picked up a cup of ginseng soup and handed it to the director with both hands, and the director smiled and took a sip, saying, "Everyone should move the chopsticks!
The director took the lead in clipping a drunken shrimp and ate it!
When everyone saw this, they all picked up their chopsticks and ate them.
The food is good food, the wine is good wine! Everyone opened their bellies and ate and drank to their heart's content, and the atmosphere became more and more relaxed, and the friendship between each other seemed to be one step closer!
After being full of wine and food, Song Xiaoyue summoned Yin Yiyi, who was waiting beside her, and asked her to remove the leftovers, serve the tea set, and make a pot of hot tea for everyone with her own hands!
Everyone chatted for a while, and the director got up and said that there was still official business to be done in the office, and everyone else also said that they wanted to go back!
Song Xiaoyue instructed Yin Yiyi to bring each person a basket of fruits she brought out of the space, and personally sent everyone to the entrance of the village before turning back!
Seeing off the director and others, Song Xiaoyue returned to Song's house. The villagers who were eating the banquet in the outer courtyard were almost gone, and there were basically no leftovers on the wine table.
Song Xiaoyue went back to the inner courtyard, Abba and Li Zheng were still drinking and chatting slowly! Even grandpa and grandpa were drinking red and red, and they were calling brothers and sisters there!
"Uncle, second uncle, third uncle, cousins, relatives, you all eat and drink well! I'll go to the backyard to see how my grandmother Song Ma is eating?"
Song Xiaoyue greeted those relatives with a smile, and her words were generous and decent, a little adult, which made relatives and friends laugh, and beckoned her to go!
Song Xiaoyue went to the backyard again, and all the women and children were eating in the backyard, compared to the front yard, there were a lot more Sven here! Except for the individual table, this individual table was the aunt's table, and the eating appearance of the three of them was much more serious than the wind sweeping the leaves! Fortunately, the people sitting at her table were all her aunt's own family, so it was not strange!
Mother Song, grandmother, aunts, cousins and cousins are at the same table, they chatted while eating, and laughed from time to time, the atmosphere is called a harmony!
The two tables next to Song's mother were all women and daughters-in-law in the village, Song Xiaoyue said hello to them a little, and then walked to the eldest sister's side!
Eldest sister, Lin Meier, Xiao Yan, Li Cui, Liu Qing, Wen Hui and a few girls who can't be named at the table. When they saw Song Xiaoyue, they asked Song Xiaoyue to sit down and chat for a while!
Song Xiaoyue was pulled by Xiao Yan to sit down beside her, and several little girls asked Song Xiaoyue all kinds of questions.
"Yue'er, I heard Xing'er say that your family's new house is all made by you for those craftsmen! Why are you so good, you can also draw a picture of the house!"
"Yue'er, I met a lot of distinguished guests at your door this morning, all of whom are looking for you by name, how do you know those people?"
"Yue'er, your family has been getting better and better looking in the past six months, especially you, who are getting more and more pretty and handsome! If you are a man, I will definitely marry you!
"Yue'er Yue'er, your house is so beautiful and magnificent, can I often come to your house to play with you?"
"Yue'er ......"
Song Xiaoyue looked at this and that, and she didn't know which one to answer first?
"Yue'er, we're eating almost all here, you go and arrange for the housekeeper to eat them!
"Yes, yes, it's time to arrange for them to eat! Sister, Xiao Yan, you eat slowly! I'll come when I go!"
Song Xiaoyue hurriedly withdrew, wiped the cold sweat from her head, and went to find the housekeeper!
The housekeeper was cleaning up the dishes, chopsticks and wine table in the front yard with everyone! When they saw Song Xiaoyue, they all hurriedly called "little master"!
"You clean up the front yard, leave the inner yard and the back yard alone! Let's eat first! You're all hungry!"
"Thank you, little master, then let's go to dinner!"
"Let's go! I'll clean up after eating!"
arranged for the next people to eat, Song Xiaoyue saw that there was nothing important, and she didn't want to go back to the backyard, so she went back to her west wing!
When Song Xiaoyue woke up, it was already Shen Shi!
When I walked out of the door, I found that all the guests in the courtyard had dispersed, and even my grandfather and them had gone back to Yangjia Village!
The people are still cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, moving tables and chairs, and cleaning!
Song Xiaoyue felt a little urinating, so she walked to the west courtyard!
The flushing toilet is easy to use, clean and hygienic and not smelly, and finally a little bit of a previous life!
Behind the west courtyard is a toilet cowshed and other buildings, and there is a pavilion and a lotus pond in front!
Now she is also expanding livestock breeding, and she has already negotiated a few little piglets, and there are three cows and two sheep in the cowshed! Luo Zhongzheng has brought a bucket of water and is cleaning the pigsty, and one pig will have more than 200 catties by the end of the year, which is definitely enough to eat.
Before dinner time, Song Xiaoyue walked around the courtyard and returned to the West Wing!
After locking the door, Song Xiaoyue flashed into the space, and the space changed a lot!
There are many fish, shrimp and crabs in the fish pond, and from time to time I see those fish and shrimp jumping out of the water to play and play! There are ducks and geese everywhere in the fish pond, and they will take a small fish and a shrimp in their mouths, and they will eat happily!
The rice on the other side of the field is about to tassel again, the green vegetables in the field are still green, the ginseng in the ginseng field has grown a lot, and the old mountain ginseng is even more mysterious, it has been shrouded in purple mist, and I can't see what is going on inside!
The chickens, pheasants, and hares on the other side of the ranch are all in large flocks, and the lake birds that were caught last time were also raised in a big cage by Song Xiaoyue, and now there are more than 30 cages!
Over there, there are a lot of little lambs, and with those old sheep and big sheep, the number is also amazing!
Some of the ponies and calves I bought at the beginning have also become mothers!
There are also the three little foxes caught from the top of the Foggy Mountain, which have grown up now! Seeing Song Xiaoyue, they ran over and jumped into Song Xiaoyue's arms one by one, and the mother fox was watching them tenderly from the side!
The peach trees next to the bamboo house are growing more and more, and now they are blooming again, and they are pink!
The fruit trees behind the bamboo house are also blooming, colorful!
There are many fruit baskets around the bamboo house, and the fruit baskets are full of fruits. This was picked at the fruit grove last time, and I haven't had time to sell it, it's all piled up here, it won't rot anyway, and Song Xiaoyue is not worried! There are bags of rice under the peach tree, and these rice haven't had a chance to be dried outside, and it's still like it has just been harvested!
Song Xiaoyue took a book from the bookstore casually, filled a basket of cherries in the basket, and walked out of the space!
Put the book and cherry on the table in the room, and go and open the latch again!
Back at the table, picking up the book, a bit of a surprise.
I saw that the cover of the book was written with eight big characters "The Secret Method of Brewing Former Tribute Wine", and it turned out that this was a book of winemaking.
I was just about to open the book and take a look at it, when I heard someone knocking on the door!
"Come in!"
The two sisters who came in were Huarong and Huayan, because they were wearing new clothes, and their faces were clean, and they seemed to be more beautiful than the first time they saw them!
"Little master, were you sleeping in the room just now? We knocked on the door several times, but we didn't hear your answer!"
"Oh! probably asleep, didn't hear!"
"Hey, little master, what kind of fruit is this, so good-looking?"
"Oh, it's a cherry, a cherry with a small mouth, don't you look like it?"
Song Xiaoyue pouted her cherry mouth, picked up a cherry and put it to her mouth, and asked the twin sisters!
"Hee-hee~ The little master is so interesting!"
The twins were amused by Song Xiaoyue's eyebrows and smiled, and a touch of blush was added to their cheeks, but they looked a little better!
"Take it and wash it! Send some to the old lady, the eldest lady and the little young master!"
"Yes, little master!"
The two sisters went out with that basket of cherries together!
By the time the two sisters came back from washing the cherries, it was already dinner time!
Song Xiaoyue instructed the housekeeper to eat dinner in the inner courtyard.
There were four tables in total, one for the host and three for the subordinates.
Dinner is very simple, each table has a pot of sauerkraut fish, a plate of cucumbers, a plate of cold bamboo shoots, and a plate of sour and hot shredded potatoes. Basically, they are appetizing to help digestion, but the noon banquet is too tired, and this Han Shui is quite thoughtful.
Sauerkraut fish with small porridge is a perfect match! Everyone eats heartily, so happy!
After the meal, Song Xiaoyue called Yin Yiyi to take out the cherries in her room and let everyone taste them!
"Little master, this cherry is really delicious, sweet and sour!"
Twins are twins, they say exactly the same thing, even their expressions and movements are exactly the same.
"Yes, little master, this is the best fruit I've ever eaten!"
Even a girl as big as Yin Yiyi is full of praise for this cherry, and the charm of this cherry is really extraordinary.
"Little master, this cherry or something, the more you eat it, the more you want to eat it!"
Shi Da Niu's stupid and greedy appearance of eating cherries reminded Song Xiaoyue of Zhu Bajie's appearance of eating ginseng fruit, and she couldn't help laughing.
As soon as everyone saw Song Xiaoyue laughing, they all felt a little inexplicable! Song Xiaoyue didn't explain, the more she laughed, the more funny she felt, and in the end she couldn't stop, and finally laughed in the arms of her eldest sister Song Xing!
"In the past six months or so, our family has really changed a lot! In the past, there were still three meals that were not enough, but now there is fish and meat for every meal. In the past, there was a leak in the house on rainy days, but now I live in such a spacious and magnificent house. I don't want anything more in this life, I just hope that your father and son can be safe and healthy, and I will be satisfied!"
When Mother Song saw this brand-new house, she suddenly felt a feeling!
"Yes! All of this is the credit of our Yue'er! If it weren't for her, we would still be living in that leaky little mud house! Who would have thought that one day we would be able to live in such a good house, wear such good clothes, and eat such good food! Abba is useless, or our Yue'er has the ability!"
Abba Seinfeld is melancholy and relieved, and the expression on his face is also complicated and uncertain!
"Abba, you can't say that, it's just that Yue'er is lucky, where is it so mysterious as you say! Abba, next year I plan to buy a set of yards in Moxian County, you and your younger brother will go to the college entrance examination, although you are a little older, but the policy has not been formulated not to let your group go to the exam, study is still very important, you need a diploma wherever you go in the future, if you can be admitted to the university, then the tuition fee will be paid by me, and we will have two college students in our family in the future." ”
Song Xiaoyue's words made Seinfeld say with high morale and confidence. The mood is no longer low, and there is a bit of high spirit.
"I'll forget it, but your brother will definitely be admitted to college students!"
"Yes, I'm going to take the first place. ”
Song Hao was full of confidence, which made everyone laugh. But who would have thought that what the eight-year-old boy said at that time would later come true! Of course, this is a later story!
"It must be the first place, our family will have to rely on Song Hao to support the façade in the future, and everyone's life will definitely get better and better!"
Song Xiaoyue is full of confidence in her little brother, of course, she also has the ability to make Song Hao admitted to the top prize!
"Eldest sister, let's open a factory next year, and you will be the factory director, specializing in textiles?"
"Yue'er, is what you said true? I'm so happy, I want to find some work to do, but I don't dare to say it, I'm afraid of making jokes than others, you really understand my sister's heart!"
As soon as Song Xing heard Song Xiaoyue's proposal, his happy little face turned red, grabbed Song Xiaoyue's clothes and said excitedly!
"Abba, why don't we take our grandparents over and live there! Uncle and aunt don't seem to be so good to grandparents! Besides, our life is much better now than before, and if we don't take our grandparents over and do our filial piety, others will say it!"
"It's still Yue'er's thoughtfulness, I'll go to my eldest brother and talk about it tomorrow, try to take your grandma over as much as possible, okay?"
Seinfeld was very pleased, Yue'er is so capable and filial!
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The family chatted and chatted, and before they knew it, it was already late at night!
"Butler, your room hasn't been arranged yet!"
"Back to the little master, the room has not been arranged yet!"
"Okay! I'll arrange it for you! The housekeeper and Li Danian each have a room; Liu Yong, Shi Daniu and Song Fei share a room; Wu Dong, Pan Jiang, Zhu Ping and Ye Yang share a room; Wende, Xiao Feng, Feng Zhi and Zhao Yuan share a room; Huang San, Han Shui and Luo have a room. Go to the earthen house and get your luggage, and make sure you get it right!"
"Yes, little master!".