【Chapter 081】 Lively dinner
After the TV was adjusted, the two little guys hugged Zhang Peng and watched in the hall, Liu Rui didn't rush to watch with them, and came to the courtyard to talk to Zhang Zhenzu and others.
Generally speaking, in addition to the short and gossip of parents, most of the content of chats in rural areas is about agricultural arrangements, future planning, and so on.
In the past, when Liu Rui was still studying, he was not very impatient to participate in this kind of conversation, and he was not familiar with farming, so he felt out of place. However, half a year after returning to his hometown, Liu Rui tried to integrate into various circles and took the initiative to learn some knowledge that he could not learn in school.
In half a year, not long or short, Liu Rui has gradually grown from a half-bucket of water who knows nothing about farming, and is slowly accepted by others. Maybe Liu Rui is still lacking in experience, but his flexible mind and relatively novel ideas have allowed him to have a certain place in the circle of adults.
This is Liu Rui's growth and change.
Now, Wang Huaqiang, Zhang Zhenyao and others are talking about the next stage of agricultural arrangements, and Liu Rui can also join naturally, not jerky at all. Half a year is enough for others to look at Liu Rui with admiration and treat him with equal eyes.
Blowing a cool breeze, smelling the aroma wafting from the kitchen, and chatting with relatives and friends, Liu Rui felt very satisfied. The light lunch at noon was completed by Zhang Guizhi and Li Lan, but the banquet in the evening was a bit too much because of the need to prepare dishes, and the chef's became the eldest uncle Zhang Zhenguang, and Zhang Guizhi and Liu Rui's aunts helped on the side.
It wasn't until the sun began to set and the air was no longer so hot that Liu Rui got on a motorcycle and went to Xialiang Village to pick up his grandparents. There was a big feast at home tonight, and Liu Rui naturally wanted to take the two old people over to eat together.
When he came to the Zhang family compound, he was playing chess with Yang Zheng, and Liu Ruisuo's surname also invited Mr. Yang to his home. Originally, I wanted to run again to pick up my grandmother, but the old lady was reluctant to take a motorcycle, saying that it was swaying and dizzy.
The first call from home was to Huang Huaguo, inviting him to a banquet in the evening, which can be regarded as a sign that the Liu family has begun to enter the so-called information society.
It wasn't until more than six o'clock in the afternoon that the guests arrived one after another, crowding the Liu family's compound. Liu Rui's grandparents and three uncles, there are eight people in a family, but fortunately, Liu Rui's cousins and cousins are all studying in other places, otherwise there are more people.
Wang Huaqiang's father and son, Wang Huaguo, Wu Mingkai, Yu Shanwei and others, the staff of the power supply station and the post and telecommunications station, and some villagers who usually have a good relationship, there are at least 30 people, and it is very lively.
In the past, the guests of the Liu family banquet prepared dinner very early, started after five o'clock, and ended before eight o'clock, because there was no electric light, and there was no way to enjoy the black light.
Because of today's wire, Liu Rui arranged the dinner later, which can be regarded as the first time to experiment with the effect of lighting.
When Yang Zheng walked into the courtyard and saw three antique tables and a few high-backed chairs, his eyes lit up, and he immediately stepped forward to take a closer look.
"Teacher, what are you?" Yu Shanwei, who was next to him, was a little puzzled by Yang Zheng's reaction.
"These sets of tables and chairs look like they're made of yellow pears!" Circling around the table, and stretching out his fingers from time to time to knock, Yang Zheng said a little excitedly: "I didn't expect to see such well-preserved Huanghuali furniture here, it's really ......." ”
"Huanghuali?!" Yu Shanwei was also taken aback, he naturally didn't doubt Yang Zheng's judgment, but a little bit couldn't believe it.
In addition to academic research, Yang Zheng usually has one of the biggest hobbies is antiques and cultural relics, especially furniture and artworks made of rare tree species such as red sandalwood and huanghuali. In recent years, with the rise in raw material prices and the gradual rise of domestic cultural relics, the price of Huanghuali furniture has also risen, which has reached a staggering point.
Now that he suddenly saw such a treasure in an ordinary farmhouse, and it was used as a dining table, how could he not shock Yu Shanwei?
"Rui, do you know what these are?" Pulling Liu Rui who was next to him, Yu Shanwei pointed to the table in front of him with some excitement.
"Aren't they just a couple of old tables? What's wrong? Liu Rui felt a little strange, how could Yu Shanwei be interested in these tables?
"These are Huanghuali furniture, very valuable!" In Yu Shanwei's heart, such a precious thing should be placed in a museum, not stained with a layer of oil like now.
"Hehe, no matter how valuable they are, they are not tables? They do their duty to set up the banquet! Liu Rui also didn't care, waved his hand and said.
If it was replaced by Liu Rui two months ago, as soon as he heard the word 'valuable', I am afraid that his eyes would be golden and he would try his best to sell it for money. However, after having Shennong space, Liu Rui's mentality has changed greatly, and for him, money is no longer the most important factor.
These tables are the legacy of the tavern opened by the Liu family winery during the heyday of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, and they are usually piled up in the attic of the Liu family, and will only come in handy when entertaining guests. However, no one knew that these inconspicuous tables and chairs were valuable things, just ordinary objects. Liu Rui remembers that when he was a child, there were more of these tables at home, and some of them were thrown into the stove to burn the fire after they were broken.
At the beginning, when the Liu family was in urgent need of money, no one knew that these tables and chairs would be valuable, otherwise they would have been sold out long ago.
"Well, Rui said it well!" After listening to Liu Rui's words, Old Man Yang praised them and said: "No matter how valuable they are, they are just decorations, we can't put the cart before the horse!" ”
Old man Yang, who originally admired Liu Rui very much, now feels that Liu Rui is even more pleasing to the eye, after all, Liu Rui's answer is a bit like the taste of money like dung, which is very suitable for the appetite of traditional literati like Yang Zheng.
In fact, Liu Rui also doesn't know the true price of these tables and chairs, if he knows that these furniture are worth a lot of money, I'm afraid it won't be so free.
Today is a celebration of the Liu family's successive happy events in the past few days, and it is also a celebration of Liu Jiahong's physical recovery, so Liu Rui decided to take this opportunity to set up a few tables.
For this reason, Liu Rui bought a goat with a villager in the village yesterday, prepared a few ducks and local chickens at home, and then netted some tilapia from the mountain pond, which basically constituted the main dish of the banquet. As for side dishes such as peanuts, eggs, vegetables, etc., they are all made in the yard and are all original and natural, and the taste is not bad.
If you are in the city, you have to get so many good things for a banquet, then the price has to be said, but in the countryside, it really doesn't cost too much money, at most it is just the labor that you usually plant.
Lamb bone and soybean soup, braised mutton, braised tilapia, lemon duck and white chopped chicken, any of these dishes can be regarded as first-class dishes in the countryside. This time, because his father was recovering well, Liu Rui was happy, so he was not stingy and prepared for the better.
The steaming delicacies were brought up like flowing water, and in a blink of an eye the marble table and the three huanghuali tables were occupied.
There are not so many rules for setting up banquets in the countryside, except for the parents and elders sitting at the main table, the other tables are casual for everyone. No one will raise their glass and shout any toast, what everyone should say has already been said to the host before the feast begins, and now it is time to eat.
All of a sudden, there was a bustle in the courtyard of the Liu family, and everyone held chopsticks one after another to attack the delicacies on the table.
After eating almost, Liu Rui entered the storage room and brought out a bucket of today's wine.
"Xiao Rui, what good wine did you prepare for us today? Why is it so fragrant? Here, when Liu Rui opened the wine barrel and poured wine into the big bowl on the table one by one, Wang Huaguo at the main table had already shouted.
As soon as Wang Huaguo shouted, everyone noticed that a rich aroma of wine had begun to permeate the air, which was different from the pungent feeling of ordinary rice wine, and the aroma of today's rice wine was very gentle and mellow.
"This is the best wine in our winery, take advantage of today's happy day, please taste it!" Seeing that the wine he brewed was recognized, Liu Rui was also very happy.
As soon as you enter the mouth, the mellow rice wine turns into a warm current, and you don't feel sick to your stomach at all. None of the villagers present had ever drunk such a fine wine, and even Yu Shanwei and others felt that these rice wines were mellow and fragrant, and they didn't look like they were brewed by backward farmhouse breweries at all.
The joyful atmosphere, delicious food and mellow rice wine, all these people can't help but be intoxicated, even Yu Shanwei and others were infected by the enthusiastic people around them, and began to shout and drink with the villagers, and the scene was extremely lively. Perhaps, Yu Shanwei never thought that he would have such a day to guess and drink bars with these native farmers?
The dinner lasted until 9 p.m., until late in the evening, when the guests and hosts were all happy.
Because Liu Rui's performance during this period of time has unconsciously made people forget the fact that he has only a few months to reach the age of 18, and completely treats him as an adult. Tonight, everyone was drinking, and Liu Rui did not escape, and was poured a lot.
The first time I tried drinking, it was really good!
In the past, Liu Rui would at most taste a little bit when making wine, taste the flavor, and then adjust it to ensure the quality of the wine. However, when you drink too much alcohol, you will have a wonderful and indescribable feeling.
Seeing off the guests, Liu Rui stood on the courtyard dam to blow the wind, looking at the lights under the mountain, feeling as if he was about to fly.
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