At the end of the dinner, Zhang Mingyu and Wang Bingqian returned to their parents' house, and it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

Zhang Mingyu's parents had already prepared the bed and finished washing, Zhang Mingyu sat down and discussed with Wang Bingqian about the development of the Sichuan real estate.

In the end, the two agreed that the community should be developed according to the small high-rise structure of the frame structure.

Moreover, it is also a ladder development, with eight buildings being developed in advance.

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The next day, Saturday, will be a momentous day, Zhang Mingyu's father, Zhang Jianghai will turn sixty-six on this day.

Zhang Mingyu and his sisters want to hold a grand birthday banquet for their father.

They know that birthday celebrations are a common custom among people of all ethnic groups, and there has not changed much in the past and present. People have always regarded the age of 60 as the year of life, and those under the age of 50 or those with parents who are still alive cannot be called longevity, only the birthday is commensurate.

As soon as the elderly enter the birthday year, their children, relatives and friends will have an annual birthday celebration, commonly known as "birthday celebration". To celebrate the birthday of the elderly, it is necessary to prepare gifts, generally mainly food and clothing that the elderly love. The food is noodles and kotoshi peaches.

In Chuanshui, I started to do longevity at the age of 66, and the proverb "Sixty-six, eat a bowl of meat". Generally, the "whole life" of every ten, such as 60 years old, 70 years old, 80 years old, etc., are big birthdays, and the birthday ceremony is grand, especially the 60th birthday (60 years old is called "Huajia", and the 60th birthday is called "Jiazi birthday") is more valued. At the age of 80, it is also celebrated, which is called "celebrating eighty". Southwest Shandong attaches great importance to the birthdays of 66, 77 and 88 years old, as the saying goes, "sixty-six eat knife meat, seventy-seven eat a chicken, and eighty-eight eat an old female duck".

The people of Sichuan believe that 66 years old is a difficult time on the journey of life, so there are many people who pray for the safety of the elderly.

Zhang Mingyu's brothers and sisters and the sisters of the second uncle's family really hope that Zhang Jianghai will "be in good health, eat well", Zhang Mingyu also has a secret hidden in his heart, at this time in his previous life, his father is no longer there.

Zhang Mingyu really wants to thank God for keeping his father alive, teasing his grandson, and enjoying the joy of family.

Brothers and sisters want to come, it is not easy for Zhang Jianghai and his mother to support this big family under such a difficult situation at home, step by step, leading a group of children to today.

Now, seeing the way his father talks and laughs, Zhang Mingyu has the bottom in his heart, looking at this posture, it shouldn't be a big problem to live to be eighty years old, Zhang Mingyu is not saying that he must hope that the old man's parents will live a hundred years old, but they must live happily.

There is a proverb in the West that says it well: the life of our life is seventy years old, and if we are strong, we can reach eighty years old, but what we can boast of is only toil and sorrow; Our years are fleeting, and we are gone.

As soon as the day was bright, Xiaomei and Zhang Minghong first put the chicken, duck and fish meat to the house, today's banquet was held at home, early in the morning, Xiaomei invited the family banquet master to organize the banquet, began to get busy.

Family banquet is a form of banquet that has become popular in Sichuan in recent years.

Prepare all the meat dishes at home, and the family banquet master is responsible for issuing the type and amount of ingredients to be purchased according to the scale of the banquet, and the family banquet master charges a processing fee of 20 yuan per table for the banquet.

20 yuan is quite cheap, and in the later part of the previous life, this processing fee has already received 100 yuan.

Originally, when several sisters met a few days ago, they were going to make a banquet with 15 tables, but Zhang Mingyu temporarily decided to prepare according to the standard of 30 tables, not afraid of 10,000, just in case.

The sound of chopping meat outside was so noisy that Zhang Mingyu and his wife couldn't sleep, they washed up neatly, and saw that their parents were already busy up and down.

Zhang Mingyu chatted with the master while watching the master operate skillfully.

The masters are making the famous "three cannons" of Chuanshui, also called "Chuanshui Sanxian".

Chuanshui Sanxian is a traditional Han dish in Chuanshui District, Jiangcheng City, Nanjiang Province, which has been passed down for hundreds of years. Three fresh is a collective term for fish balls, meatballs, and meat cakes. In the local New Year or red and white ceremonies, there will be such dishes on the table: there is a saying that "no three fresh is not a good meal, and three fresh is not good".

The three fresh foods of Sichuan water have their own traditional production skills. "Sichuan Water Sanhe", also known as "Sichuan Water Sanxian", is composed of fish balls, meat balls and meat cakes, and the production process is complicated.

Zhang Mingyu only saw a few cooking masters, when making fish balls, choose fresh grass carp, skillfully cut the scales and peel the skin to remove the gills and bones, and then chop into puree, mix in egg white, ginger juice, chives, refined salt, lard, starch, monosodium glutamate and water, stir well, squeeze into round balls with thumb and index finger, put them into the pot one by one, boil them in water until they float, and pick them up for later use.

For the production of meatballs, the master chooses pork leg meat to chop into a filling, with a little fish paste and various seasonings, and uses a spoon to make meatballs and fry them in an oil pan.

The meat cake is the same as the meat balls, but the process is more complicated, I saw the master spread the fried soybean oil skin in the steamer, spread the fish and meat paste on it, cut it into several large pieces after steaming, smear the egg yolk, and then steam it for half an hour before coming out of the cage, and cut it into long strips after it cools.

These three dishes are roasted and stewed, the meat has a fish fragrance, the fish has a meat taste, and the color and fragrance are beautiful.

Several masters worked together, and in less than an hour and a half, pots of fragrant Sichuan water and three fresh flowers were officially baked.

Seeing the fish balls floating in the basin in vain, like a white table tennis ball floating on the water, it was very beautiful, and the meat balls and meat cakes that exuded the fragrance of fish were stacked in the basin, which made Zhang Mingyu swallow his saliva even more.

Chuanshui has a saying that "there is no three-in-one, no seat". At the family banquet for the New Year's holidays, the banquet for marriage and birthday, "Sichuan Water Sanhe" is the finale.

This dish has an auspicious and festive meaning, looking at its name, "fish" and "yu" are homophonic, containing the beautiful yearning of "more than every year"; "Cake" and "high" homonym, symbolizing "step by step"; The word "round" is simpler, meaning "flower good moon" and "reunion".

Connecting the "three combinations" is full of auspicious colors of more than every year, family reunion, and rising step by step. Nowadays, "Huangpi Sanhe" has become one of the famous dishes of Jiang Paicheng.

The reason why it is called "Sichuan Water Sanhe" is because three dishes can be put together to make a bowl of dishes, and each has its own taste.

After the main course was done, the task was almost half completed, and the chefs were busy and leisurely, smoking cigarettes very comfortably, and operating other dishes unhurriedly.

One after another, the sisters arrived, the six brothers and sisters of Zhang Mingyu's second uncle's family also arrived, and even the four children of the uncle who lived in Jiangcheng City also rushed back.

At this birthday banquet, most of the people invited were relatives and six relatives, plus Zhang Jianghai's old colleagues in Chuanshui, and the neighbors of this building.

However, people are not as good as heaven, and I never thought that an accident happened.

Before ten o'clock, the little sister Mingcan saw several cars driving over, and the people in the cars walked towards Zhang Jianghai's house as soon as they got out of the car.

Mingcan recognized the driver, it was Wang Qi, the driver of the little brother, hurriedly said hello, and called Zhang Mingyu to come out, Zhang Mingyu saw that Mr. Fang, Mr. Tao, Mr. Li, Ma Zhili, and several department managers such as Li Guang, Dacheng, and Wang Hai came.

While sprinkling smoke, while complaining about Wang Qi,

"You Wang Qi, it's really not a thing, why do you want to tell them? I thought it was a simple family dinner, so I didn't want to alarm you, but I didn't expect ......"

"Mr. Zhang, you are too uninteresting, you don't tell us about the old man's 66th birthday, do you want us to build a team!" Mr. Fang shouted directly.

Everyone also "criticized" Zhang Mingyu well, and sent gifts to Zhang Jianghai to express their blessings, and several tables of mahjong in the mahjong room gave them a lot of fun.

Zhang Mingyu instructed his second brother Minghan to be responsible for greeting Mr. Fang and his party.

The second brother of Ming Han has also been in contact with Zhang Mingyu and their colleagues many times, and they can also talk to each other.

It didn't take long for Mingcan to exclaim again, "Big brother, second brother, why are you here." ”

hurriedly called the brothers and sisters to come out to greet them, Zhang Mingyu glanced at them, and the two brothers Qian Ming and Qian Jin entered the house.

"Fourth, you are too unproductive, and you don't talk about your uncle's birthday, are we still brothers?" Qian Jinshu fell to Zhang Mingyu, and also sent gifts and blessings to Zhang Jianghai on behalf of his parents.

Zhang Jianghai held the hands of the Qian brothers, asked about the physical condition of Qian Shengwen and Qian Ming, and accepted the blessing with great satisfaction.

"Big brother, second brother, I'm sorry, I don't want to alarm you." Zhang Mingyu was powerless to explain. I don't know how they know about Qian Jin. Zhang Mingyu only briefly mentioned it at the last meeting.

"You can't hide it from me, yesterday, my dad called Uncle Zhang, his old man knows Uncle Zhang's birthday, and today's banquet is what Uncle Zhang said." Qian Ming said, it is rare for Qian to win Uncle Wen's thoughts.

Mingcan said a few words to Zhang Jianghai, nothing more than blaming her father for being too talkative.

Zhang Mingyu stopped Mingcan and said, "Little sister, don't talk about it, it's rare for brothers to be together, and if you come, you will be safe." ”

"Yes, it's good to come, Mingyu, I'll talk to them later." Zhang Jianghai said happily, thinking, Brother Qian Shengwen is really good, he calls in advance every year on my birthday, and this year he asked the two boys to come, so touched.

Several brothers and sisters chatted happily with the Qian brothers, but they grew up with bare butts when they were children.

Even a few of the second uncle's family are very familiar with the Qian brothers.

Mr. Fang, Mr. Tao and Mr. Li of the mahjong room saw Director Qian Jin coming, and hurriedly got up and greeted him warmly.

Only then did several vice presidents understand that it is no wonder that we can't compete with Zhang Mingyu, who not only has good skills, but also has people above him, and he actually calls the director of the third department of the organization department a brother.

Several vice presidents made up their minds that they would cooperate with Zhang Mingyu's work in the future, and they could no longer think crookedly and beat their own little Jiujiu.

Qian Jin was very natural, and said to several vice presidents,

"A few bosses, you go play cards, I have always been friends with you Zhang, you don't have to worry about it." Qian Jin is worthy of being a veteran of officialdom, and his answer is clever and there is no trace.

Seeing a few CEOs walking away, Qian Jin whispered to Zhang Mingyu and said hurriedly,

"Fourth, Brother Jiang and Yu Jie may come."

Zhang Mingyu was speechless for a moment.