Chapter Ninety-One: The Feast
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Grandma Liu was overjoyed, and the people below hurriedly went to inform Wang Gou'er and asked him to go home first and pick up people in the evening of the next two days.
For dinner, there were more dishes than usual, venison, pigeon eggs, pheasant soup, fried quail, rouge goose breast, steamed crab in a cage, and stewed elbows with ham. It's still like this when you're down, and you don't know what it's like when you're rich.
Yingchun and Tanchun took care of all the things in the house, arranged the dinner, and told Lin Daiyu when they went back to change clothes. Daiyu thought about it, and sure enough, Grandma Liu was supposed to come to Jiafu again during the August Festival, and Jia Zheng moved out with everyone before the festival.
Lin Daiyu forgot that Grandma Liu actually came to Jiafu again in the autumn of the second year after the completion of the Grand View Garden. She came over in advance, and she also heard that something had happened to the Jia family, and she wanted to come to send something for the Mid-Autumn Festival, but when she arrived at Rongguo Mansion, there were already empty houses, and after two months, she heard that the Jia family had moved to Xicheng, and she inquired about it again.
Tanchun and Yingchun changed their clothes, and came over to wait for Lin Daiyu to go over.
Tanchun smiled: "I don't know what this grandma looks like, let's also meet the old woman who came up from this Zhuangzi." ā
Lin Daiyu smiled but did not say a word. This Grandma Liu is not an ordinary Zhuang mother-in-law, she remembered the interesting story in the Grand View Garden that year, and only said that this old lady was very bright and funny, but she really didn't know that this grandma was still a loving and righteous person.
Mother Jia left Grandma Liu for dinner, cleaned up the room for her and Ban'er to stay, and the next day Grandma Liu went over to thank her, and Mother Jia left her to talk.
Daiyu, Baoyu, Yingchun and Tanchun Li Kun are all there, and Grandma Liu picks up some legends and wild words in the countryside and tells them to everyone. Jia Mu listened with great interest.
After the meal, the gossip was eliminated, and Jia's mother left Grandma Liu to live. Lin Daiyu thought about the excitement in her previous life, and had the intention to let Jia's mother be happy again, beckoning Tanchun to come over, the two muttered and laughed to discuss, and Yingchun also hurriedly leaned over to listen.
After the discussion, Tanchun said: "It's a good idea, I have to talk to my sister-in-law, and the other Grandma Liu has to discuss in advance." ā
Lin Daiyu grabbed Li Kun and whispered. Li Kun also had the heart to make Jia's mother smile, after all, from the luxurious and gorgeous Rongguo Mansion to an ordinary mansion, everyone has a psychological gap. The two discussed properly, and Tanchun also found an opportunity to quietly talk to Grandma Liu.
Grandma Liu, an old lady who is like a fairy, has something she doesn't understand, so she agreed immediately.
Lunch was placed in the hall, and everyone drank and joked. Grandma Liu said "crop man", "the fire burned the caterpillar", "the flower fell and produced a big gourd", and everyone couldn't help laughing. Mother Jia smiled and praised Grandma Liu for saying the true colors of the croppers, and asked Li Kun and Tanchun not to embarrass her.
For a while, everyone was drinking, and Grandma Liu dropped the porcelain cup because she was worried about getting drunk, so she asked for a wooden cup to drink. The mandarin duck came over and said a few words with a smile to Li Kun, who also couldn't stop laughing, and went to ask people to get the ten large sets of cups with the whole boxwood roots.
When Grandma Liu saw this set of cups, she was surprised and delighted. I am glad to see that the cup carving is wonderful, and I am surprised that the largest cup is full of basins, and the smallest one is two large porcelain cups in my hand. She hurriedly said, "Just take the smallest cup and drink it." ā
Li Kun said with a smile: "This cup, because we don't have such a large number of people, we don't dare to make it." Grandma wants it, it's easy to find out, and you need to eat it one by one to make it! ā
Grandma Liu was so frightened that she hurriedly said, "Don't dare to do this!" Good aunt, spare me! ā
Mother Jia knew that she was an old person and couldn't help it, so she said: "Laughing is laughing, don't eat more, just drink this first cup!" ā
Grandma Liu looked at the big cup of the basin, beat a drum in her heart, and said, "I'll eat it in a small cup, leave this big cup for me to take home and eat slowly." ā
Everyone laughed non-stop, and the mandarin duck had no choice but to come over and pour wine for Grandma Liu. Lin Daiyu smiled and said, "I'll pour a bar for grandma!" ā
She knew that Grandma Liu was only half a cup of this big cup, so she took the pot and poured about one-third of the amount into the big cup.
Grandma Liu took it with great gratitude, held it in both hands, and everyone hurriedly said: "Drink slowly, don't choke!" ā
Mother Jia asked Li Kun to give Grandma Liu vegetables and some eggplant for her to taste.
Grandma Liu ate two chopsticks and said with a smile: "Don't coax me, the eggplant has this flavor!" We don't have to grow food, we just grow eggplant. ā
Everyone laughed and said: "It's really an eggplant, we won't coax you anymore." Grandma Liu really ate some more and asked how she did it.
Li Kun told her to use the eggplant that had just come down to shave the skin, only use the net meat to cut into dices, fry it with chicken fat, and then use the chicken preserved seeds and mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced tofu seeds, and all kinds of dried fruits, all cut into dices, simmer in chicken soup, collect the sesame oil, add the bad oil, and seal it tightly in a porcelain jar, take it out when you want to eat, and mix it with fried chicken and melon seeds.
Grandma Liu shook her head and stuck out her tongue and said, "My Buddha, I have to pour more than a dozen chickens to match it, and it tastes weird!" As he spoke, he finished his drink and played with the cup.
After eating wine and food, they walked around the new house a few times, went to the lotus pond to feed the fish, and went around the rooms again.
Although she moved away from Rongguo Mansion, those furnishings and arrangements were far from being comparable to ordinary rich and noble people, and Grandma Liu was overjoyed and amazed.
As she walked into a garden, Grandma Liu felt a rumbling sound in her stomach, and hurriedly pulled a little girl to ask for two pieces of straw paper to undress.
Everyone laughed again, and hurriedly drank her: "I can't do it here!" "Let a mother-in-law take her to the northeast corner.
Grandma Liu came out of the toilet and got lost again, seeing a corner gate leading to another red and willow green yard, she guessed: "Don't let them make fun of me again, let's pass quietly!" ā
While thinking, he walked towards the corner door.
When I entered the courtyard, I didn't even see a single figure. Grandma Liu was anxious, and when she saw a corner of the white wall in front of her, she hurriedly walked over, only to see that there was no one in the house.
Grandma Liu walked for a long time, drunk and tired, turned into the inner room and saw the mattress tent that had been made, only said to sit down and rest, and then leaned over and fell asleep on the bed.
Everyone waited for her for a long time and didn't see anyone, Ban'er cried urgently, and Li Kun hurriedly ordered the two mothers-in-law to find her.
Ping'er just came back from eating, and suddenly heard Jia Lian's house snoring like thunder, and felt strange in her heart, so she hurriedly came in, only to see Grandma Liu sleeping there drunk, and the house was full of wine and fart. She hurriedly woke up Grandma Liu, quietly took her out, and sent her to Jia's mother.
After Ping'er took Grandma Liu away, Jia Lian entered the house with his front and back feet. Since Wang Xifeng left, Jia Lian had nothing to do, eating and sleeping all day long. On this day, he was also drunk, completely unaware of the smell of the house, kicked his boots indiscriminately, and fell asleep on his back in the quilt.