Bai Ko spent two days making various preparations step by step, and also set aside a wine jar of saber wine, and began to cook the soup of Fu Shouquan from the time she got up, until the dinner was served, and she personally served the old lady's table, in front of a total of seven big masters, lifted the lid, tore off the sealed lotus leaves, and a fresh aroma mixed with the aroma of wine rushed to everyone's nose with the hot air.

Everyone's throats couldn't help but slide up and down, and they only cared about taking deep breaths.

"Old lady, ladies and gentlemen, this is Fu Shouquan." Bai Ko took a step back and stood up straight, and said with a smile, "Old lady, please allow the maid to serve you soup." ”

The old lady laughed happily, watching Bai Ko first put half a bowl of clear soup in front of her, and then Bai Ko walked around the table, serving soup to the old lady in the order of eldest and youngest, when it was the turn of the second lady, the second lady smelled the soup because of the taboo, but could only wave her hand, Bai Ko passed her and then served soup to the third master and the third lady.

The second lady ate the other dishes on the table, and the audience praised how delicious the soup was, and the old lady also specially thanked the third daughter-in-law for bringing back so much seafood, otherwise she would not have been able to make up the ingredients for this soup.

The third lady smiled happily and thanked her mother-in-law again and again, and the third master couldn't help but show a smug look on the ground, the daughter-in-law's human skills are really good.

The second lady is even more aggrieved, the New Year's gifts she brought back are all related to the literary play, after all, it is a family from the poetry and book heirloom, there is a natural love for the literary play, and Pingzhou is a rich place, and there is a traditional scholarly family such as the Gan family, the cultural play market is very developed, you can buy a lot of famous works, but you can return to the capital and compare with the three rooms, obviously the piles of seafood are more impressive.

It's just vulgar.

Except for the second lady, everyone else was very happy and satisfied with this dinner, and the old lady set this soup as the main soup for the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, and also prepared a portion at noon on the second day of the first lunar month to entertain the two granddaughters Gu Xian and Gu Jie, who returned to their parents' home.

Bai Ko Lang responded.

The next day, Mother Pang returned the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet menu that the old lady had seen to Bai Ko, and there was no change on it, so she did it.

Bai Ko took the menu to the East Kitchen and began the countdown before the Chinese New Year's Eve feast.

Busy like this, Bai Ko didn't miss Zhong Mingyuan's errand, as if she really had three heads and six arms, and in the scope of her responsibility, no omission could be ignored from under her nose.

Under this tense and busy rhythm, the Chinese New Year's Eve finally arrived, during the day all the men went to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, the women arranged the Rong En Hall, all kinds of lanterns were colorful, and all the lanterns hung were lit at the palm of the lanterns, and several important main courtyards were as bright as day.

Before dark, all the masters in the house, including the concubines, gathered in Rong'en Hall, the old lady sat in the main hall, and the children and grandchildren were sorted in order of the elder and younger, kowtowing to the old lady to congratulate the New Year.

The vacant rooms in the main room, which had been closed in the past, were all cleaned and renovated into a dining room, and everyone was accommodated in it, each with their own seats, and it was much more spacious than the last time I tried the seafood feast.

In the old lady, they are all treated equally, and they are all her children and grandchildren for her, so the children of the concubines are only divided into men and women, the sons and daughters-in-law are at the same table with the old mother, and the concubines sit at a single table.

Fu Shouquan, which is served in a wine jar, is the first to be served, there are a few pigeon eggs in each urn of soup, according to the number of people at each table, just one person, and the soup is drunk before the official serving, in order not to let the second lady sit dryly and watch the family drink the soup, Bai Koshan made a cup of chicken bean curd for her, and there is also a pigeon egg in the soup.

The east kitchen is in full swing, all the stoves are on fire, Cui Lin is the best at white cases, he is in charge of the white case stove alone, Zeng Zhu and Huang Dahai are two people in the red case stove room, one person manages half of the stove, staring at the cooks and cooks to do things well, Bai Ko is only responsible for the oven and inspection.

The habit of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the house is to end the banquet before the second change, and then the masters sit in the Rong'en Hall until the third change, and the whole family eats another meal, and when the old lady has sent the money for the New Year, everyone disbands, and each goes back to rest, and if he is willing to stay up late to keep watch, he will stay up late, and if he can't stay up, he will sleep, and even the whole box of fireworks has been prepared in each room for those who stay up late to pass the sleep.

It's just that Lao Taijun, Ye Guogong and Gu Yun can basically only take a nap, and they have to get up when they are ready to go out to the palace to pay New Year's greetings, and the second and third rooms can rest at home and entertain their respective guests.

When the stove in the east kitchen was turned off one after another, the melons, fruits and snacks used to set the table for the New Year were brought out, and the cooks and ladies who had been working until now were tired and almost exhausted, and those who had families were busy changing clothes and going home to spend the New Year with their families, and the single cooks and cooks who stayed behind were responsible for cleaning up the aftermath, because even the handymen had a small nest in the backstreet.

In this way, only the newcomers who entered the house this year were left to work, five men, five women, and ten people, who left Bai Ko and Mengmei one after another, and the remaining eight people looked at the two big stove rooms in a mess, and they didn't even have the strength to wipe the table with a wet rag, and their stomachs were already empty until now, but fortunately, the white case stove room also left some snacks for them to fill their stomachs.

Bai Ko was almost exhausted, the amount of labor this whole day was far more than the burden that the child's body could bear now, she followed everyone into the stove room and swallowed two buns indiscriminately, then left the rest to the others to deal with, and stumbled back to the Zhongming Courtyard to sleep.

The girls helped Bai Ko to light her three rooms with bright lights, she didn't look at them, rushed into her bedroom, didn't wash her face or hands, pulled up the bed net, took off her clothes and lay down directly, she couldn't bear it anymore.

The girls in Zhongmingyuan made their own Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and Bai Ko left them some simple and easy-to-make seafood ingredients, so that they all could have a delicious good year, and when they knew that Bai Ko had returned, they took a bowl of sweet soup to her room.

The door was not latched, everyone went in and found that the bed tent was pulled, the clothes taken off were randomly put on the hangers, the shoes were taken off one by one, and all kinds of messy things that were rare to see, knowing that she must be tired one day today, everyone put down the sweet soup and tiptoed away, without waking her up to eat.

When the third watch was about to be over, the pantry of Rong Entang began to cook Jiaozi, which was actually dumplings, a variety of meat and vegetarian fillings, which were also mixed with a lot of peculiar dumplings, and the strange dumplings were trivial, and there were small money and small silver money in the filling, and everyone was laughing when making dumplings and saying don't break your teeth.

When eating dumplings, there is naturally a laughter, and people who eat special dumplings have to shout out loudly, Gu Yun didn't eat strange dumplings, but he was prosperous, his table of more than 100 dumplings, all of which were wrapped in gold and silver money, were eaten by him, and he got three gold, three silver and six coins, which made the whole family congratulate him on making a lot of money next year.

After eating dumplings, the grandchildren kowtowed in front of the old lady in order of eldest and youngest, said some auspicious words to celebrate the New Year, and happily received a New Year's red envelope.

Firecrackers and fireworks began to be set off again in the courtyard, and after a lively and lively play, the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet finally ended.

(Author's note: Happy National Day, everyone!) Holiday Harpy !! ）