Chapter 58 Moving to a new home and burning the bottom of the pot
Early in the morning of November 10, the two of them officially moved into the new house of Liangcheng Homestead.
When you move to a new home, of course, you have to burn the bottom of the pot.
Wang Ziyan doesn't have any friends now, but Li Li has a lot of little sisters and good classmates.
Li Li flipped through the phone book with her landline, called one phone call after another, and notified her little sisters and good classmates one by one.
Including Wang Ziyan and Li Li, there are a total of 11 people, four men and 7 women.
Then the two of them immediately went out and ran to the supermarket to buy groceries and drinks to prepare for the noon party. Wang Ziyan stopped Li Li from going to get beer, pulled Li Li to pick out four boxes of different brands of red wine at the wine counter, and bought a set of imported drinking utensils.
Facing Li Li's puzzled eyes, Wang Ziyan explained: "Drinking too much beer is easy to gain weight, and red wine can soften blood vessels, resist oxidation and prevent skin aging. ”
Li Li agreed with Wang Ziyan's statement suspiciously, did not choose beer, and gave up after choosing a few bottles of juice.
After learning that no one is allergic to seafood, the two unanimously decided to eat seafood today. Clams, clams, scallops, sea bass, sea snails, cod, fresh squid, marine shrimp, treasure fish, sea sausages......
The two of them picked a bunch of seafood, complete the green onions, ginger, garlic and ingredients, and bought a multi-layer steamer.
At half past nine in the morning, the two of them hurried home with a few large bags of things and put them in the kitchen. The two of them changed into home clothes, Li Li began to clean up the living room, and Wang Ziyan walked directly into the kitchen and started to get busy.
In the kitchen, Wang Ziyan took out the same things and categorized them, the soaking water that should be soaked, the cleaning that should be cleaned, the pickling that should be pickled, and the moving knife that should move the knife. Sort and plate, prepare the sauce, peel the garlic melon.
Outside the kitchen, Li Li cleaned up the living room that had been cleaned up last night, went into the kitchen to take out the newly bought fruit and wash it, and unpacked the candy melon seeds and pistachios. Then he cleaned up the bedroom for two people, threw the changed clothes into the washing machine, and finally looked at the layout of the whole room again, and showed a satisfied smile on his face.
The floor heating in the room was on all the time, and it was not turned off when I went out, and the room was warm. Li Li walked to the kitchen door with brisk cat steps, leaning on the door frame and staring at Wang Ziyan who was busy in the kitchen, with a smile on her face.
It's a blissful feeling, isn't it?
After looking at it for a while, Li Li took the initiative to pick up the apron hanging on the side and put it on her body, took out a pair of rubber gloves and put them on, and began to unpack the multi-layer steamer she bought today.
Wash, layer, wipe the water with a dry rag, and put half a pot of water on the gas stove. Wang Ziyan sorted out some dishes that needed to be steamed and put them on a plate, gently put them in the steaming drawer, and Li Li picked them up and put them aside.
Steamed eggs with clams, steamed sea bass, shrimp with garlic, steamed scallops with tofu, and treasure fish with chopped pepper are all steamed, but the heat time is different, so the time of serving is very particular.
The two of them were talking and laughing, working at the same time, and occasionally engaging in some small ambiguities, and time flew by.
At half past ten in the morning, the doorbell remembered, interrupted the little affection between the two people, and began to have guests come to the door.
Li Li washed her gloves, took them off and put them aside, then hung her apron back into the distance, and trotted to open the door in a series of promises.
Originally, there were three gates to Wang Ziyan's house, but when it was renovated, two of them were blocked, and the middle gate was widened and replaced from a single door to a double door. And also made a hall of ten square meters for thermal insulation, and at the same time, there are two walls of shoe cabinets and coat hooks, which looks very atmospheric.
Li Li opened the door, and there were two equally pretty little girls standing at the door, dressed very beautifully, but a little beautiful and frozen, hugging their arms and shivering. There are still a few packaging boxes at the feet of the two little girls, nothing more than some wine supplements or something, they are still students, there is no money, and the packaging should be brought out from home.
Li Li hurriedly let the two of them into the foyer, took the gifts and put them on the side of the locker, and then turned on a switch on the side of the door light switch at hand. A strong warm wind blew down from above, and the entire foyer quickly began to heat up.
This is Wang Ziyan's idea, inspired by the thermal insulation device at the entrance of some large shopping malls in later generations, a dual-purpose fan can be done, which perfectly solves the discomfort caused by the instantaneous temperature difference between inside and outside when opening the door.
Li Li hugged the two little girls, greeted each other, pointed to a cartoon slipper on the side, and motioned for the two to change their shoes.
The two little girls looked at everything in front of them with bright eyes, and pulled Li Li to change their shoes while chattering non-stop.
"Duoduo, your boyfriend's house is good, it cost a lot of money, right?"
"Duoduo, who is the master of decorating this house? ”
"Duoduo, I can't see that your boyfriend is so tasteful. ”
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Li Li smiled and coping with the bombardment of the two little sisters, brought the two of them into the living room, and led people to visit the house decoration and drink all kinds of new furniture and appliances.
Wang Ziyan heard the frolic, poked his head out of the kitchen and shouted to Li Li: "Li Li, there are a few boxes of videotapes in the second cabinet on the left hand of the study, which my friend sent me for me, you can take them to watch a movie." ”
Li Li heard his cry and hurriedly agreed, and she didn't know what she was doing in the room with the two little girls, and from time to time there was a pleasant laughter.
It wasn't until almost 11 o'clock that the guests were almost there, and a group of people were chatting and farting in the living room.
Li Li picked up the two remote controls from the coffee table and pressed them respectively, then closed the curtains in the large living room, and closed the doors of several rooms, and the whole room was darkened in an instant, only the light from the small balcony on the north side came through, which did not affect the line of sight.
Then Li Li explained a few words to a few people, and then turned around and walked to the study.
In addition to the latest LCD TV, Wang Ziyan also spent 50,000 yuan to bring a set of professional-grade playback equipment for small theaters from Xiangjiang, and the effect in the dark is comparable to that of professional theaters. This is also due to the fact that this house is relatively large, and the living room occupies about 60 square meters.
Li Li walked into the study and opened the cabinet door and took out a small plastic frame from the top of the compartment, inside which was a row of six D8 video tapes.
It walked out of the study with the videotapes, flipped through the videotapes, walked into the living room, put the videotapes on the coffee table one by one, and then asked: ""Braveheart" is a national M film, "The Lion King" is a national M cartoon, "Thunderbolt", "Changing Stars", "Journey to the West: Moonlight Treasure Box", "Journey to the West: Cinderella", these four are Xiangjiang films, three of which are played by Stephen Chow. Well, which one are you going to watch?"
There was a great disagreement on this side, and after arguing for a while, no choice was made.
The impatient Wang Ziyan poked his head out of the kitchen again and shouted: "Just watch "Hundred Changing Star King", these two movies are not long, and I just have dinner after watching them." If you can't understand "Journey to the West" now, don't add to the blockage. ”
So Li Li took the videotape of "Changing Stars", opened the lid of the player box and stuffed it in, then pressed the play button, and then threw down a group of people to watch a movie there, and ran into the kitchen to help.
Wang Ziyan looked at Li Li, who was absent-mindedly glancing outside while working, and said angrily: "Help me turn on the light, and then you go out to watch a movie with them, see that you are absent-minded." ”
Li Li stuck out her tongue at him embarrassedly, made a grimace, helped him turn on the kitchen light, and then exited the kitchen and went to watch a movie with a group of little girls.
At half past eleven, the movie was put to a third of the way, and Wang Ziyan finally checked the dishes, then lit the fire on the steamer, and at the same time stir-fried the vegetables in the wok.
At 12 o'clock, the dishes were basically completed, and then Wang Ziyan looked at it, and there were still more than 20 minutes left for the movie outside, so Wang Ziyan asked Li Li to come in and serve the plates.
Li Li arranged for two girls to open the curtains, and then asked a few boys to spread tablecloths and round glass on the large round table in the dining room, and she went into the kitchen to observe the situation.
Wang Ziyan still had two dishes in his hand that were not fried, and the finished ones were put into the steaming drawer for insulation, and when he saw Li Li coming in, he asked her to put on gloves and start serving the dishes.
Stir-fried clams with soy sauce, clams with ginger sauce, steamed scallops with edelweiss, steamed eggs with clams, steamed sea bass, stir-fried snails in sauce, stir-fried fresh squid with celery, open-edged shrimp with garlic, steamed treasure fish, stir-fried sea sausage with leeks, fried sea cucumber with green onions, chopped pepper opy* slice fish, steamed scallops with tofu......
A total of sixteen dishes, one salty soup, one sweet porridge, set up a full table, full of fresh fragrance.
The so-called burning pot bottom is to move to a new house and invite relatives and friends to have a light meal together, which is what everyone calls the joy of housewarming.
According to the current saying, burning the bottom of the pot is a traditional custom of new homes in some places in Henan Province. Moving into a new home, relatives and friends will get together to congratulate on the day, and the host's family will have a meal, and start a new life from now on, and the days will be sweeter and sweeter.
However, in recent years, the bottom of the pot has gradually spread to other places with the huge migrant population in Henan Province, and many outsiders have slowly begun to become popular. After all, there are not many names that everyone can gather these days, everyone is getting busier and busier, and time is getting less and less.
Therefore, the burning of the bottom of the pot has thus formed a custom that spreads all over the coast.
Liangcheng is very close to Yu Province, and there has been this custom since ancient times, but the old one has long been lost, and now it is just a lively meal.
After the lively meal, only one case of red wine was drunk, several girls were red on their faces, looking very cute, and a group of people helped clean up the house and continued to watch movies on the sofa.
Wang Ziyan sent Li Li to accompany him, cleaned the kitchen by himself, carefully observed the use of the range hood, and then washed his hands and went out of the kitchen.
The movie that is being shown is "Thunderbolt", he has seen it many times in his previous life, and now he is dealing with the problems of a group of little children by his side.
He knows all these people, and usually because Li Li often gets together, they are all children of local rich and powerful families, and they have lively and bold personalities, and some boundless jokes are still made.
For example, there is a girl named Liang Feifei who is Li Li's best friend, a very beautiful little girl.
The old man in the family is the head of the People's Armed Forces Department, just such a child, who has been fighting with a group of boys in the courtyard since he was a child, and has become a tomboy when he grows up, and his big grinning personality can't be changed.
This girl is good outside, and she will come when she opens her mouth to talk about meat, but who is Wang Ziyan, how can she be hit by such a girl?
So the little girl has been eating in front of Wang Ziyan, and after a long time, she is still honest, but only occasionally a sentence also causes a group of little girls to blush and heartbeat.
After a movie was played, the mobile phone in Wang Ziyan's trouser pocket rang, and he took it out and looked at it, it was the area code of Huating.
Wang Ziyan confessed to everyone, then got up and walked into the study, closed the door, and then picked up the phone.