October 16, 2015 in the lunar calendar is a good day for engagement and marriage, and the day of Ye Honor's engagement is also today.

Since five o'clock in the morning, Ye Rongrong got up and drove an electric tricycle to the town with Ye Tiancheng to buy all the food he needed, and he has been busy with the stove temporarily set up in the backyard of Ye Tiancheng's house.

Of course, Ye Rongrong was not busy alone, Ye Tiancheng also invited two women in the village to help Ye Rongrong.

At ten o'clock, the man's relatives, that is, Ye Tiancheng's relatives, and several of Ye Rongrong's close friends and classmates had already arrived.

In the past, it was very troublesome to get engaged in rural areas, and there were a lot of ceremonies, and you had to buy this, buy that, hire a matchmaker, and set eight characters or something, anyway, it was very cumbersome.

However, with the increase in the number of rural people going to work in the city over the years, many concepts in the countryside have begun to change, and they are not so cumbersome.

Roughly it is to choose an auspicious day of the zodiac to get engaged, buy a pair of engagement rings for the woman (rural people basically buy gold rings), give the bride price money that the woman's family has negotiated in advance, and the rest is to do the engagement wine, which is much simpler than before.

"Brother Glory, why are you here?" a young man in his early twenties looked at Ye Rongrong with some surprise and asked.

"It's Rongsheng, you are also here for the honorary engagement. ”

Ye Rongrong said with a smile to the young man in front of him. This young man's name is Ye Rongsheng, five years younger than Ye Rongrong, but he doesn't live in the village now, eight years ago, the family moved to live in the town, his parents opened a breakfast shop in the town, and I heard that the income is good.

"I'm the best friend with Honor, by the way, Brother Honor, why are you here, you won't be a chef, right?" Ye Rongsheng looked at Ye Rongrong with some confusion and asked.

"Yes, why not?" Ye Rongrong said with a smile.

"No, Brother Glory, are you really a chef?"

Ye Rongsheng was surprised. After all, what kind of person Ye Rongrong was before, who in the village didn't know, he was a famous lazy person who didn't know anything, how could he cook any dishes, how could the honor family invite him to be a chef, this is not the rhythm of messing up the engagement banquet.

"Oh, yes. ”

Ye Rongrong looked at Ye Rongsheng with a surprised look and said with a smile.

"That brother glory, I still have something ahead of me, so I'll go first. ”

Ye Rongsheng said. Ye Rongsheng felt that he should tell Honor about this, lest he let this Ye Rongrong mess up this engagement banquet, if he made a table of dishes that were difficult to swallow, how could this engagement banquet continue.

"This baby is really, she actually looks at you with old eyes. A middle-aged woman who gave Ye Rongrong a hand and said with some grievances for Ye Rongrong.

"Aunt Liu, it's nothing, I'm used to it, who made me have such a bad impression on everyone before. Ye Rongrong said with a smile.

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At eleven o'clock, the woman's people came, and the two women who gave Ye Rongrong a hand went out to see Ye Rongrong's girlfriend, Ye Rongrong was so interested in seeing Ye Rongrong's girlfriend, in Ye Rongrong's opinion, no matter how beautiful Ye Rongrong's girlfriend was, she would not be more beautiful than his wife.

I am now a married man, so I should pay attention to my image, and I can't be like those young men who are not married, as soon as they hear that there are beautiful women, they are excited to join in the fun.

"Glory, you can start, hard work for you today. About half an hour later, Ye Tiancheng went to the backyard and said to Ye Rongrong.

"Uncle Cheng, don't be polite to me, you can accompany your in-laws, the kitchen, you can rest assured, leave it to me, there will be no problem." Ye Rongrong assured.

A total of five tables of wine are prepared, each table has six cold dishes, and the cold dishes are already placed on the table before the guests come, and plastic wrap can be attached.

Now Ye Glory needs to make eight hot stir-fries and six large bowls, which is the standard of traditional engagement banquets, and Ye Glory is now very familiar with this way, and it is very easy to cook.

Generally speaking, there are two types of engagement banquets according to the number of hot and cold dishes. Ye Tiancheng's kind is considered high-grade, and there is also a low-grade one, which is four cold dishes, six hot dishes and four large bowls.

But now the life of every family is much better than before, and no one will pull down their faces when they get married and only make four cold dishes, which will make relatives and friends laugh for a lifetime.

The four bowls are all the same, with a bowl of fish (fish plates are now used instead of large bowls), a bowl of stewed pork (stewed pork belly), a bowl of chicken, and a bowl of pork ribs or meatballs.

Some wealthy people who want to save face will replace chicken with more expensive beef and elbow instead of stew. Or add two more bowls to make six bowls to beg for good luck, which has gradually become popular in rural areas

The six cold dishes are cold jellyfish, crispy chicken, pike crab, prawns, spicy snails, bacon, all meat dishes and seafood, plus two plates of fruits are cherries and longans.

There are eight hot dishes, namely tea fragrant shrimp, osmanthus fish, West Lake soup, mushroom rape, steamed scallops with vermicelli, kung pao chicken, pineapple grunt pork, and a dish is braised sea cucumber with green onions.

The last six bowls are a bowl of stewed carp, a bowl of stewed beef brisket with tomatoes, a bowl of stewed elbow, a bowl of stewed pork ribs, a bowl of stewed pork and a bowl of meatballs.

The preliminary work has been done, and now it is enough to cook the dishes, so Ye Rongrong's speed is very fast, Ye Tiancheng just returned to the front room, and Ye Rongrong went down to the pot to cook the first dish.

"Dad, I heard Rongsheng say, you asked Ye Rongrong to be the chef?" Ye Tiancheng had just returned to the front room, and Ye Rongcheng hurriedly grabbed his father and whispered.

"Yes, your dad managed to get him to be a chef. Ye Tiancheng nodded and said.

"Dad, are you confused, how can you find him to be a chef, he is the most famous lazy man in our village, what kind of cooking skills does he know. Ye Rong Rong said with a depressed face.

"I said baby, you can't look at people with old eyes, people are now capable people, his cooking skills are in the nearby ten miles and eight towns, that is unmatched, if we are not in the same village with him, we can't invite him to be a chef." Ye Tiancheng said.

"Dad, you're not kidding, people like Ye Rongrong are still the first in cooking?" Ye Rongrong said with a look of disbelief.

"You baby, after reading for a few years, I don't believe your words anymore, today is the big day of your engagement, your father is more faceless than you, will you be so ignorant? Ye Tiancheng said.

"Dad......"

Ye Rong was still a little worried.

"Don't you believe your father, don't you believe your mother? If Ye Rongrong doesn't have that ability, will your mother agree? You can relax, your parents will take care of these things, and you will have face on your future daughter-in-law's side. ”

Ye Tiancheng patted his son on the shoulder and said. As a parent, you have worked hard all your life, and it is not for your children, how can you not pay attention to your children's affairs.

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