Old Man Chen obviously came out to play a round.

However, as soon as she heard that Old Man Chen said that he wanted to spend Laba together in two rooms, Chen Xuejiao was a little unhappy.

It's not that she's stingy, but according to the thoughts of everyone in the room, something might come out. Mrs. Chen fell and injured her waist last night, and her heart was on fire, and it was not enough to see her face during the holiday together. Even if she didn't fall and get hurt, she was unhappy with Xuejiao's purchase of land, and she might lose her face when they ate together.

It's a big holiday, why don't you want to look for it.

If Laba is spent together, wouldn't the next Spring Festival be even more together, and the next will be the Lantern Festival. Do you spend so many festivals together in a year?

It's okay to have a meal together on one or two festivals, but if you spend every festival together, it should be more depressing.

Originally, the festival was very happy, so the two rooms spent the festival together and couldn't feel the happy atmosphere of the festival.

Seeing that Chen Xuejiao was silent, Old Man Chen thought that Mrs. Chen's words just now were too heavy.

So he put down the cigarette pouch, frowned and said to Mrs. Chen: "The boss can think of you with a flower, I think he is more filial than anyone else, you fell yesterday, not only broke your waist, but also broke your brain?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the Zhao family, Xue Yao, and Zhang family were all shocked.

Old Madam Chen snorted and twisted her head in the direction of the wall. This twist involved a back injury, because Xue Jiao was standing by the kang, she tried her best to endure it, and suppressed the sound of "oops" in her heart.

Chen Xuejiao flashed a pair of big eyes, only feeling ridiculous.

"I'll go tell your mother, this festival is celebrated together, it just so happens that Xue Yao has also gone home, and everyone is reunited together." Old Man Chen said to Chen Xuejiao with kind eyebrows.

Old Man Chen personally told the Li family that it was an order, and the order of the elders was irreversible. This Laba Festival must be celebrated together.

Last night, Mrs. Chen fell, and the people who went to the room to make trouble turned on their backs, and they didn't even eat dinner, let alone the beans and rice that prepared Laba porridge.

Chen Xuejiao thought for a while and said to Old Man Chen, "Grandpa." I'd better go tell my mother. By the way, since we are celebrating the festival together, I cook a lot of Laba porridge, and my mother ...... alone."

Is it possible to ask the Li family to cook meals for more than a dozen people alone?

Old Man Chen heard the song and knew the elegance, and said to Zhao and Zhang: "You two go and help your sister-in-law." Take a piece of meat from under our roof. ”

Zhao was extremely reluctant, but she didn't dare to disobey Old Man Chen's order, so she had to bend her knees and agree.

When Zhang heard this, she couldn't wait to leave the upper room quickly, she would rather go to cook than stand here and be scolded by her mother-in-law.

Chen Xuejiao immediately walked out of the upper room, walked into the kitchen quickly, and told the Li family what Old Man Chen said.

Lee was very happy. Maybe the people of this era pay a lot of attention to the festival and think that it is appropriate for a large family to have a lively festival together, and the Li family is naturally no exception.

As early as last night, she prepared all the ingredients for Laba porridge for more than a dozen people in two rooms.

Zhao and Zhang then entered the pot house, Li smiled at the two of them, and continued to bow his head to clean the beans, Xue Ru was on the side to help, and Jing was cooking the pot. All of them are busy, green and orderly. The two concubines stood for a while and didn't know where to start, and their expressions were slightly unnatural.

"Sister-in-law. Dad said to celebrate the festival together, this meat ......" Zhao glanced at the piece of pork he was carrying.

"Put it on the board." Li didn't raise his head.

To be honest, the Li family didn't want the two of them to help, it was enough to have Xue Ru and Jing Hao to help.

In front of Li was full of all kinds of ingredients for cooking laba porridge, including wheat and rice. Millet, kidney beans, cylinder beans, soybeans, sesame seeds. Peanuts and water chestnut rice brought by Chen Xuejiao from Weishan Lake were soaked together and put in a large pot. The Laba porridge in Xuzhou Mansion is a salty porridge, so the Li family also prepared tofu, carrots, cabbage, and fungus, chopped and put them in a pot to cook together.

The proportion of these materials is certain, the so-called "harmony of five flavors, hundred flavors". Before cooking porridge, heat the oil, then add the rice to fry, and then put the fried rice into a hot water pot to cook, and then put the peanuts and other ingredients in it. The whole pot of laba porridge has yellow fritters, white tofu, red carrots, black fungus, and green cabbage, which are put together in bright colors, which are not only delicious but also beautiful.

Before the pot boils, Li stirs a scoop of flour vigorously, and when the pot is boiled, pour it in, so that the porridge cooked is sticky and delicious.

Zhao and Zhang watched Li's movements, and the soles of their feet wanted to slip away as if they were smeared with oil.

"Sister-in-law, I'll help." Zhao spoke.

"No, it's enough for Xue Ru and Jing, you two go to the room to talk to your mother." Li said.

Zhao and Zhang wanted to quit the pot house.

Chen Xuejiao didn't want them to leave like this, so she smiled and said, "Second aunt, fourth aunt, why don't you go to the cellar to dig a cabbage, let's make cabbage stewed pork later." ”

The Zhao family and the Zhang family glanced at each other, and secretly hated Xue Jiao in their hearts. Good for you, a dead girl, you let us dig cabbage, on such a cold day, digging snow with your bare hands, trying to freeze us to death.

But this request is reasonable and there is no reason to refuse, the two of them waited for Li to say kind words, and they didn't have to go to push the boat down the river, but Li didn't seem to hear Xue Jiao's words at all, and continued to bow his head and stir flour.

The two had to go to the cellar.

The two of them dug for a while, and their hands were really cold, especially the Zhao family, who had never done such a job.

In the end, it was Zhang who called the big egg and dug up the cabbage.

In the upper room, Xue Yao sat on the kang with a gloomy look.

She sniffed hard, and the fragrance of plum blossoms added to her worries.

She couldn't help but reach out and pull the plum blossom out.

Thinking of Zhang's arrogant and disdainful appearance yesterday, her heart was as uncomfortable as a needle in a tight silk. In the past, Zhang's family was very stammering with the second room, but he didn't expect that now he threatens the second room.

While thinking about it, she kneaded the plum blossoms vigorously, breaking the juice in the palm of her hand, so ruthless, as if someone owed her money and didn't pay it back, venting all her anger on the flowers and plants in the palm of her hand.

Last night, Zhao told her the secret in his heart.

The reason why Zhang's family is so unscrupulous about the second room now, and even dares to rob her baby hairpin, is because he learned this secret by chance.

What is this secret, in the big families of Xuzhou Mansion, which family has not had.

If in the past, this secret house would have known, but now that they have Xuejiao, if this girl knew, maybe she would do something.

Last night, Zhao cried and asked her to curry favor with Zhang, promising other benefits in addition to the Dongzhu hairpin given to Zhang. In order to seal Zhang's mouth, so that she doesn't mess around with everything. If this thing is poked out, with Chen Xuejiao's temperament, it will definitely cause trouble in the clan, and the Zhao family can directly carry the burden and walk in, in case this girl is even more harmful, she will not be able to enter the Ding Mansion.

But let herself please Zhang, she was unwilling in her heart.

Just now, Zhang's family stood on the kang head and listened to Mrs. Chen's lecture, and in a hurry, she asked Zhao to make peace, does this mean that she is still willing to stand on the same line with Erfang.

Suddenly, Xue Yao remembered a person, that was Chen Zigui. If you want to make peace with Zhang, it's better to find Chen Zigui.

In this way, the two houses join forces, and they are like iron passes, and their interests penetrate each other, and it is impossible for the Zhang family to bite the Zhao family if they want to fight back.

Thinking of this, Xue Yao's eyes lit up a few times, and the movement of kneading flowers in her hand slowed down. He took out the handkerchief from his bosom, carefully wiped the juice from his hands, opened the window, and threw the crumpled flowers out.

In the pot house, the Li family had already boiled Laba porridge, and the sweet fragrance spread throughout the courtyard.

Zhao cleaned the cabbage and pork, and Zhang started another pot of fire and stewed a pot of cabbage and roasted meat.

"Mother, this porridge is so fragrant, give me more kidney beans." Chen Xuejiao smelled the fragrance and endured her saliva and said.

"I want it too." Flush has a sample.

Li Shi looked at them lovingly while stirring the porridge and said, "Okay, worship God first, let's eat porridge." ”

In the previous life, Laba also drank Laba porridge on this day, but there was no such thing as worshipping God.

Old Man Chen had already ordered Chen Zichang, Chen Zigui, and Chen Zifu to set up a table in the middle hall of the upper room, with red cloth on the table and a few fruits on the plate. The Li family filled four large bowls of laba porridge, which were carried by Qi An and placed on the table to worship the gods. Chen Xiucai was already able to go to the ground, so he also entered the upper room together today.

When Mr. Chen saw that everyone had arrived, he led everyone to kneel down together, and there were words in his mouth.

Chen Xuejiao listened carefully, what Old Man Chen said was praying for good weather and a bumper grain harvest in the coming year.

Later, I learned from Qi 'an that the deity that Laba had dedicated to the Eight Grains Star God that year, in order to pray for a good harvest and good fortune.

After the sacrifice to the god of the Eight Grains, Li took away a bowl of laba porridge, walked to the door and threw it on the door, fence, firewood stack, etc., Chen Qi'an said that it was a sacrifice to the god of five grains.

Chen Xuejiao only felt curious.

In the previous life, except for the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, the atmosphere of other festivals was very weak. I didn't expect that here, just one Laba porridge would have to be so exquisite.

Later, the Li family filled a bowl of laba porridge and sent it to the Xianglian family next door, and the Xianglian family also gave a bowl in return.

After this qiē, everyone began to sit in the upper room and eat porridge. Before eating porridge, all hands and faces are cleaned, even the two and three eggs, which have always been sloppy.

The porridge boiled by Li is very fragrant, and the fragrance of various rice beans and the fragrance of various vegetables are mixed into a wonderful taste.

Everyone was satisfied.

Mrs. Chen was lying on the kang in the middle room, and Li personally brought the porridge and sent it over, and Zhao fed her to eat.

may be because of the festival, Mrs. Chen did not pick and choose the laba porridge cooked by the Li family.

Old Man Chen took out thirty yuan on the dinner table and handed it to Li: "You take this money, you look at what meat and vegetables to buy, let Zifu go to the town to buy it, let's have a good holiday today!" ”

Li refused to accept it, and Old Man Chen insisted again and again, so Li had no choice but to accept it.

Although 30 yuan is not much, it is enough to have a Laba Festival with meat and eggs.

Old Man Chen sighed: "It's just Qi Lin alone." (To be continued......)