Of course, it's convenient for your own people to sit together. It just so happened that there were nine of them in total, so they gathered a table, and there was still an empty seat left. Because the table he sat on was the big table of Xiaoxi's house, and the bench was also a big bench, it was not like the later ten stools, and it was clear at a glance whether there were enough people to sit for ten people.

Like now, you have to know if there are enough people at a table for ten people, and you have to count. Sitting at a table in a crowded manner, if you are not careful, you will really be fooled. Therefore, their table, until it was over, was still nine people, and there were not enough people.

Before the food was served, several people grabbed the melon seeds on the plate and chatted casually. Hard candy is also divided, usually two per person, but adults don't eat it, so it's given to children. The fruit is oranges, one for each person, and one box for yogurt.

Granny Chen took out a plastic bag from her clothes pocket and opened it, and Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin put the yogurt and oranges in front of them without being unfamiliar at all. This is very common in the countryside to eat banquets, basically everyone who eats the banquet prepares pockets, like these fruits and milk, as well as some dry and durable ones in the back, will also be put in, and eat slowly at home.

While everyone was eating melon seeds, my cousin dismantled the cigarette box, distributed two for each person, and everyone carefully collected them. These cigarettes cost a pack of money, which is much better than what they usually smoke. Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin's were handed over to Granny Chen to keep, and when she went home, she smoked it for Old Man Chen or found cigarettes for people when she was a visitor.

Looking for a cigarette means that someone helps or a guest comes to the house, and gives someone a cigarette to smoke.

Then it's a matter of paper cups, plastic bowls, and chopsticks. For example, the use of plastic bowls for banquets has only slowly begun in the past two years, so it is convenient and trouble-free, and you don't need to spend more time washing dishes after eating. You must know that the consumption of this bowl of chopsticks is very large, and a few people will be so tired that they can't straighten their waists just by washing.

In fact, this kind of bowl is not good at all, it is very thin, the quality is not good at first glance, and there is hot soup in the back, and Xiaoxi does not dare to use this bowl to drink the soup.

When the man drank, he poured soy milk for the woman and the child, and the helper began to serve the food.

Even though it's winter, there must be a few cold dishes first. A plate of pork liver salad, a plate of pork ears salad, a plate of sliced beef, a plate of whole roast duck diced, and a plate of fried chicken thighs.

One fried chicken leg per person, and the remaining one was given to the Xiaoxi sisters and brothers, and the eldest mother also gave her share to them, and Granny Chen put it in a plastic bag in her hand, and the cousin and son also gave their chicken legs to the Zhao Juan brothers and sisters. Everyone knew that it was going to be taken home to eat, but when they saw that they were all put in plastic bags, they didn't say anything.

Granny Chen put a few slices of beef and a few pieces of roast duck into a plastic bag, then stopped clipping them, tied the pocket, and busily ate them by herself.

The cold dish is followed by a hot dish. First serve some home-cooked stir-fried dishes, such as shredded pork with sharp peppers, fried pork slices with fungus, stir-fried pork with garlic sprouts, cucumber slices and so on, and then it's the main event.

A steamed fish, a bowl of crispy pork, a bowl of roasted white, a bowl of stewed chicken, a bowl of sweet rice, a bowl of elbows, a bowl of knife tips, a bowl of longan, a bowl of sand, a small pot of corn, winter melon and kelp pork rib soup, and a plate of cold bean sprout vermicelli.

Serving cold bean sprouts vermicelli means that the dishes are ready, and this banquet is almost finished. The helper will carry a large basin of white rice and shuttle between the tables to serve rice. After a while, someone came out with an iron bucket of hot soup and picked up a basin on the table for the soup.

Generally, there are two kinds of soup after the meal, one is green vegetable soup and one is tomato and egg soup.

After drinking the soup, the meal was ready. A few people got off the table and gathered around the fire to roast the fire, and it was cold to sit at the table this winter.

After roasting the fire for a while, it was not too early to see the day, and the two wheels were almost finished, so I found the host's house to arrange accommodation. It's so late, it will take more than 40 minutes to go back, the old and the young, will definitely not go back.

In rural areas, there are many houses and beds, and although there are many people who come to eat and feast, there are also many people around. It was arranged, and a group of people followed to sleep.

The next morning's banquet should be a little different from the night before. Some people make a banquet at night better than in the morning, and some people make the morning better than the evening, in fact, this is good, and there is not much difference.

There are a few more cold dishes, such as pickled chicken feet, fried shrimp, the elbow is gone, replaced with stewed turtles, and pastries or something, and there are a few more stir-fried dishes.

After eating, resting for a while, he went to greet the master's house, saying that he was going home. The host pulled them and said that they would not let them go, and the group of people gossiped for a while, and one of them said, "It's almost the New Year, you have to go home and pack up and prepare your things, whatever." The other party said, "That's right, then I won't delay you, sister, brother, come and play for two days after the New Year." One party said, "Yes, yes, yes." ”

Seeing that people are leaving, the main family will go back to the house to pick up steamed buns, and come to the banquet to pay for gifts, and this steamed buns are a return gift. A family returns two white-flour flowering steamed buns, which are generally bought in the market, two pieces each.

If the two families are closer, when they leave, the main family will pick up some leftovers and bring them with them. Although it is left over from the table, it can be brought back to change the taste of the whole family, so no one will refuse.

The main family is also willing to give it to others at this time, one is to sell it well, and the other is that it is almost the New Year, and then you have to pack up some food, and these can't be eaten and thrown away, it's a pity.

Therefore, one person carried a few plastic bags and rushed home, some of them have been busy these days.

When they got home, they started to get busy.

Find the konjac pimple in the corner of the stove room, and after washing it, Granny Chen put on gloves and began to peel the skin, and after peeling the outer layer of black skin, she used a rubber to rub the konjac into fine threads.

When making konjac, you must take protective measures against your opponents, otherwise your hands will itch and itch for several days.

Add water to the pot, wait for it to boil, pour the rubbed konjac shreds into the pot and cook.

Xiaoxi's house has a wooden stick with a thick wrist, which is very smooth, and it looks like a common thing. The stick resembles a rolling pin, but instead of being thick in the middle and thin at the end, like a rolling pin, it is just as thick, seventy or eighty centimeters long.

Old Man Chen watched the fire, and Granny Chen took the wooden stick and stirred it clockwise along the edge of the pot, and slowly, the white turned gray, and the konjac silk disappeared and became very viscous. Put down the stick, pick up the diluted alkali, that is, baking soda, and pour it into the pot, continue to stir for a few minutes, add a few scoops of water, add firewood and cook for a while. When it is condensed into a lump, use a kitchen knife to draw the word "well" and cut it into large pieces. Continue to cook and cook the konjac a little older.

After cooking, she scooped it up and put it in a basin, and when it was cold, Granny Chen put it in the bracelet.

At lunch, everyone made do with a bite and started to get busy again.

After washing the rice soaked in plant ash several times and cleaning it, I carried a few buckets to the old yard.

Grass ash is alkaline. The night before, Mr. Chen sifted out the plant ash, measured the rice, and added an appropriate amount of plant ash to soak it, and then it was just right to grind the pulp.

How much grass ash to use is easy for Mr. Chen, a veteran. If you put too much plant ash, this jelly will be made to numb the tongue, and if you put it less, this jelly will be too tender and easy to disperse.

There is a stone mill in the old yard, and the old man Chen and his wife went into battle together, pushing and pushing, pulling and pulling, and putting the rice on the shelf, working together, grinding two buckets of rice into two buckets of rice juice in an hour.

Go home and divide the two buckets of rice juice into two pots.

A bucket of rice juice poured most of the pot, and the same is true, the stove is inseparable from people, and the wooden stick is stirred clockwise along the edge of the pot.

With the evaporation of water, this rice juice gradually becomes viscous, and the more it is stirred, the more laborious it becomes, so Granny Chen and Old Man Chen will change it.

Add water to another pot and boil it, and Mr. Chen will bring the washed steamer and put it on. At this time, there was no fresh banana leaves, and I thought that hanging on the tree would not be bad anyway, so I confiscated the house. Cut two yellow banana leaves, wash them and spread them.

The first pot of rice juice should be boiled a little older, and this still depends on experience. One is to look at the color, slightly darker, and the other is to look at the viscosity, dig it with a wooden stick to see if it can be hung on the stick.

Seeing that it was almost over, he prepared a basin of cold water next to his hand, and Old Man Chen rolled up his sleeves and scooped the semi-finished products in the pot into the steamer with a spoon. Because it has to be formed, it is generally flat, and everything has to be patted with your hands, and this basin of cold water is used.

Half a pot of rice juice filled two drawers, added firewood and began to steam. These two steamers come out, and they are rice tofu. Rice tofu slices and meat stir-fry, it is very delicious, but it costs some oil, if the oil is less, the fried rice tofu is relatively dry and not delicious.

After washing the pot, it is time to make another bucket of rice juice. Stir with a stick, but the pot is a little more tender. Again, everything has to be empirical.

This pot is almost ready, retreat the firewood to the middle ladder pot, wash it and add half a pot of water to boil. After the water boils, put in half a spoonful of lard, add salt, chili peppers and other seasonings, and add sauerkraut and chopped green onions, and a pot of soup is good.

Scoop two large bowls of cold noodles and serve them on the table, scoop four more bowls of soup, put chopsticks on the table, and start eating.

Use chopsticks to pick up a piece of chopsticks cold powder, dip it into the soup bowl, soak it for a while, pick it up and put it in your mouth, it is glutinous and Q bomb. This is the hot cold powder, very delicious, generally only make the cold powder can eat a meal on this day, and then there are people in the county who sell hot cold powder in the morning, and the business is very hot.

After eating, this jelly is almost fine. These jelly are used to stew later, so they are a little older than the ones they just ate in Xiaoxi.

Find out the big and small pots and pans at home, scoop up the cold powder in the pot and put them in the bowls. When it is cold, it is upside down, and it is bowl-shaped, which is very gratifying.

When a meal is simmered with coals, there is a thick layer of pot at the bottom of the pot, and it is very delicious to put it away, and the soup is cooked later.

The rice tofu is almost ready, uncovered, cut into pieces with a kitchen knife, spread out in a basket to cool, and locked in the cupboard.

Then the water was boiled, and the family washed. It was already eight or nine o'clock when I was done, and I was tired, so I didn't say anything, and I fell asleep.