Chapter 60: The Banquet
"By the way, what did you just say?" Xue Qing asked Zhang Dali. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Oh, it's the monkey spirit kid, the brother and sister recognized the new daughter-in-law of the Shen family as a righteous sister, and I met him this morning when I picked up the water, I knew that this kid has a new sister and should invite us to drink."
Zhang Dali began to think about how to let the monkey spirit kid invite himself to drink to satisfy his hunger, he is a good baby at home, Qingniang doesn't like him to drink, he never drinks at home.
"Speaking of this lady of the Shen family, I have seen two sides, she is polite and cheerful and generous, she is smart and beautiful, and it makes me happy when I look at it."
When he heard his daughter-in-law praise him so much, he asked, "Is it really as good as you say?" But no matter how good it is, it's not as good as my daughter-in-law, my daughter-in-law is the best!"
Seeing her husband in front of her praising herself in that stinky fart, she smiled helplessly, this man!
"But I heard the sister-in-law of the Xie family say that the husband of the Shen family's lady seems to be injured, and she went to visit yesterday, do you want to go and see?"
"Well, yes, let's go and have a look together after breakfast, let's get closer to Xie Xiaotian and the monkey spirit in Xiaoqi, and now maybe we can count the kid surnamed Shen, I think he is not bad, unlike the other people in Xiaoqi, he is very ghostly, this person can be friends."
Zhang Dali finished summing up, and the couple began to eat without mentioning it.
After breakfast, Hou Hai also didn't go to the camp today, so he took his sister to lead An Ge'er to go crazy in the yard, dismantling a hanging of firecrackers bought by Li Yunbao into small ones, and then buried them in the snowdrifts and lit them.
Li Yunbao was waiting for Shen Xingnan to change his medicine and take medicine in the house, not mentioning that he was busy, he would serve Shen Xingnan properly, and Hou Hai, who was playing outside the house, led Zhang Dali and Xue Qing into the house.
When Zhang Dali entered the house, he raised his voice and shouted: "Brother Shen, Brother Shen, I heard that you are sick, I Zhang Dali came to see you."
After shouting, he walked to the door of the inner room, Li Yunbao watched the strong man at the door enter the door and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, "This big brother, I bother you to come to visit my husband, you go into the house and sit on the kang and let him accompany you to chat with the concubine to make tea for you." After saying that, he walked out of the door, thinking that this man was really loud.
When he got out of the back room, he saw the young lady holding two bags of pastries in her right hand, standing on the edge of the big kang in the middle room with a smile.
"Sister Qing is also here, hurry up and sit on the kang."
Xue Qing also returned the salute before sitting on the side of the kang, "Sister doesn't have to be polite, I just accompanied my husband to visit your husband, and by the way, I came to talk to my sister, I haven't found anyone who can talk to me in this place before." ”
"This relationship is good, in the future, Sister Qing can often come to my house to sit, Sister Qing, you sit first, and let me pour a cup of tea." After saying that, he hurriedly went to the kitchen to make two cups of tea and entered the house.
Li Yunbao made two cups of tea and brought them in, one was placed on the kang table for Xue Qing to drink, and one was brought into the back room and given to Zhang Dali, who came out and put down the tray, and moved the refilled box to Xue Qing's side.
"Sister, you drink tea, this is still the last time I met a trader in the market, I finally bought two taels, you can taste it." Li Yunbao made another excuse for this sparrow's tongue.
"No wonder, it's not unusual for me to smell this tea, or my sister is lucky." Xue Qing took small sips of tea.
"Mother, mother, go out with me, An'er and Aunt have built a little snowman, it's beautiful, you can go and take a look."
While greeting Xue Qing, Xing'er came in with a small bun that was still yelling in her mouth.
Li Yunbao took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweaty son, and instructed him: "An'er, Xing'er, hurry up and call someone."
The two children shouted obediently, and Xue Qing looked at the two children with a smile.
Li Yunbao saw that they had called someone before he continued to say to Brother An'er: "An'er, now my mother wants to talk to Aunt Qing, you are obedient, my mother will go to see it in a while."
"Okay then." The little bun that couldn't be put on display dragged the apricot out to play again.
When Xue Qing saw Xing'er, she asked Li Yunbao: "Sister, I heard that you have confessed to the boy and girl of the Hou family?"
"Well, yes, I saw that these two children have good character, and the children are pitiful, so I confessed to them."
"Sister, do you know the local rules?"
"There are still rules for this confession? What are the rules? I don't know if I'm a newcomer. Li Yunbao was a little puzzled and hurriedly asked Xue Qing.
"In the north, you must have a testimony to set up a banquet, and in the future, your righteous brothers and sisters will be the same as your own brothers and sisters, you have the obligation to take care of them, and they have the obligation to honor you."
"I'm not recognizing them for the sake of their filial piety, but it's good to find a witness to set up a banquet, let everyone sit and get together, and let people know that the brothers and sisters of the Hou family are my own brothers and sisters from now on, this is good."
"Sister, you are also a kind-hearted person!" Xue Qing sighed.
At this time, the three people eavesdropping outside the house, An Ge'er looked ignorant and didn't understand anything, while Hou Hai and Xing'er had red eyes.
After a greeting, Li Yunbao also prepared a two-pound piece of meat as a return gift, and after several pushes, he finally sent Zhang Dali and his wife away, and then went to the back room to discuss the matter of the banquet with Shen Xingnan.
Shen Xingnan thought that since he was going to have a banquet, and considering that they were going to enter the camp on the fourth day of the new year and had no time, he decided not to choose a day, and the people who would invite Xiaoqi on the third day of the new year tomorrow would all come from home for a banquet. It's just that I'm injured and can't move, and I may have to work hard for my wife.
Early in the morning of the second day, Hou Hai obeyed Shen Xingnan's arrangement, he first notified the other nine families in this small banner, invited some brothers who were good with Xiaohai on weekdays, and specially invited the two Gu doctors who came to see Shen Xingnan's injuries these days.
After inviting people, Xiaohai then asked the Xie family and the Zhang family non-stop to borrow their tables, chairs, benches, chopsticks, small stoves and other objects to use, and Zhang Dali and Xie Xiaodan also helped move to the Shen family.
Xue Qing and Sister-in-law Xie got the news and came early in the morning with a lot of vegetables to help Li Yunbao and Xing'er work, and Dongshan and Beishan came to play with the little buns.
Shen Xingnan was dressed neatly early in the morning, and was helped by Li Yunbao and Xiaohai to the big kang in the middle room, and sat on his side with a cushion.
A group of people worked together and were busy, and Li Yunbao also spent enough money for today's recognition banquet.
There are still many large jars left over from the burning knives or arsoning of the wine, which is enough for these people to drink, and the dishes are also prepared for four tables.
The hot dishes on each table include dog meat pot, braised mutton, braised pork, steamed egg dumplings, pot wrapped meat, radish pork rib soup, chicken stewed mushrooms, fried pork slices with black fungus, sauerkraut sliced pork slices stewed vermicelli, and sauerkraut fish.
The cold dishes include salted duck eggs cut into four petals and put on a plate, braised eggs cut into four petals and put on a plate, cold salad kelp silk, braised pig's head, fried peanuts, and cold bean sprouts.
These dishes include dried mushrooms, sauerkraut, green onions, vermicelli, peanuts, bean sprouts, and soybean sauce all sponsored by Xue Qing and Sister-in-law Xie.
At the beginning of Shen Shichu, everyone came one after another, Li Yunbao arranged the men in Hou Hai's room next door, and the two kang tables on the big kang were put together into a table full of dishes, and a table was also opened under the kang in the house.
Seeing that everyone was starting to come to the door, Hou Hai came to help Shen Xingnan to walk to the banquet in the next room, and the man handed it to Shen Xingnan to greet Hou Hai, and Xiao Baozi was also very clever and followed with his father's cushion under his buttocks.
On my side, there was a table on the kang in the middle house, and a table was also opened under the kang, and all the women came to eat with their children.
The women of the north were also able to drink, and the people at the two tables also drank two pots of burning knives. Everyone entered the table and saw that the table was full of delicious food, more abundant than their own New Year's food, and they unceremoniously threw off their arms and ate it, all of them are ordinary people who do not pay attention to those false courtesies, and the most important thing is to eat in their mouths.
But fortunately, they all knew why they came to Li Yunbao's house to eat and drink, and they all congratulated Li Yunbao and Xing'er one after another, and even Zhao Wu's widowed mother, who had a strange temperament on weekdays, said a few words of congratulations.
The two rooms were lively eating and drinking, and the noise did not slowly disperse until the end of the day, and it was time for everyone to praise the Shen family for doing a good job.