During the winter solstice festival, the dishes on the Song people's wine table are unusually rich, among which dumplings and chaos are also essential, and the same is true for Li Sanjian's family banquet, in addition to dumplings and chaos, there are many Qiongtai specialties, such as Lei Gong bamboo shoots, Nan Kill, Linen, etc., many of which are cooked by Fu Erniang himself.

Of course, Li Sanjian's addition of officials to the rank of knight, and so on also increased, so at this time, Li Sanjian had hired a chef with good skills in his house, who was the exclusive cook in the family of the judge of the Kaifeng Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty.

It is said that how can there not be a cook in the family of the six-grade court doctor? It is said that this chef once cooked food for the palace...

However, although Li Sanjian has an exclusive cook, Fu Erniang is still idle, and she runs to the kitchen to "point out the country" when she has nothing to do...

At this time, there were no male elders in Li Sanjian's house, so he pushed his mother Fu Erniang to sit in the first seat, and Xu Biao's mother Zhou sat to accompany him.

The people of the Li family are not as particular as the Han people, and they pay attention to men and women, so men and women, old and young, sit together and celebrate the festival lively.

"Sister Zhou, this dish is a very special dish of my Li family, you can try it." Fu Erniang, who was at the banquet, said with a smile after clipping a chopstick dish for Xu Biao's mother Zhou.

"Ouch, Madame has killed the old maid..." Zhou was already sincerely frightened when he was invited to the judge's mansion, and at this time, Fu Erniang was like this, which made Zhou even more restless, and quickly stood up, bowed down and said.

Zhou's forties are not much older than Fu Erniang, but he looks the complete opposite of Fu Erniang, he looks tall and big, his skeleton is thicker, and although he bows when he stands up, he is much taller than Fu Erniang who is standing.

It is said that no one is tall and big, and Xu Biao can't give birth to Xu Biao, who is as tall as a mountain...

Zhou's father is a blacksmith and is from a blacksmith family, so where have you ever seen an official eunuch? Although Fu Erniang is also from a poor family, she is currently the mother of a member of the sixth rank of the imperial court, so the Zhou family is terrified.

In the eyes of ordinary scholars, Liupin officials are officials who are bigger than the sky.

"Sister Zhou, don't be like this..." Fu Erniang helped Zhou up, pulled him to sit on the stool, and said with a smile: "I am the daughter of a fisherman's family, where is the lady?" Sister Zhou, don't be polite anymore. No matter how polite you are, you'll see the outside, sister, you're older, and you and I will be called sisters. ”

"That's it..." Xu Biao gnawed on a big bone and said with a grin: "None of them are outsiders, they are all their own brothers, so don't be too restrained... ”

"Shut up, you are a black guy, you know how to eat, how dare you be so presumptuous in front of the big officials?" Zhou glared at Xu Biao and said angrily.

The old lady scolded her son for being a black man, but it was rare...

The black guy wasn't born to you yet, Xu Biao muttered in his heart.

However, Xu Biao saw that the old lady was angry, so he didn't dare to say any more, so he had to eat and drink with his head bored.

"Haha, Biaozi, come and have a bowl with my brother." Shan Kui picked up the wine bowl and said.

Xu Biao had meat in his mouth and couldn't answer, so he drank a bowl of wine and gave the wine and meat away together.

"This is a family banquet, there are no big officials, all of you here are my relatives and brothers Li Sanjian, Aunt Zhou, don't see outside." Li Sanjian also smiled.

"What my brother said... Be... Xu Biao was under Zhou's "tiger eyes", and retracted the words that were about to be exported...

However, Fu Erniang and Li Sanjian, the owners of the Li Mansion, said so, and the Zhou family also relaxed a lot, talking and laughing with Fu Erniang, and they were not so restrained.

The Zhou family is unusually grateful to Fu Erniang's mother and son.

Before this, Xu Biao was just a fighter, a rough man, although he could also make some money, but he had a meal without a meal, not only was it extremely unstable, but it was also regarded as a "three abuses", but now Xu Biao has eaten the official meal, no matter what, he is also a person from the government, and he can be regarded as promising, the neighbors talked about it, and the Zhou family also had a light on his face, and felt a special face, compared with the past, it was completely different, all of this was due to Li Sanjian, so Zhou was very grateful to Li Sanjian.

Li Sanjian is currently a six-rank official of the imperial court, and a dignified judge of the Kaifeng Mansion, but today he invited Zhou's mother and son to the house to celebrate the festival together, which made Zhou feel very frightened, and at the same time, this also shows that Li Sanjian is looking at Xu Biao differently, so Xu Biao's future in the future is not like a brocade, but it must be flat.

So on the winter solstice banquet of Li Zhai, everyone was talking and laughing happily, and the guests and hosts were happy, which was very lively.

It's just that Li Sanjian looked a little sullen, which made Fu Erniang and the others feel a little puzzled, but at the banquet, they didn't ask anything.

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After the winter solstice feast, it is to "keep winter", prepare some fruits and vegetables, melon seeds and peanuts and other snacks, as long as you are in good spirits, you can talk and laugh until dawn. At this time, it was still early, so Li Sanjian, Cai Rongxue, Cai Yingxue, Wang Wen, Li Nan and others gathered in Fu Erniang's house to chat with Fu Erniang about family life and talk about some interesting things.

Li Nan finally put on a new dress for Bai Nier at this time, still winter clothes, some white rabbit fur on the neckline turned out, the hair is white, but she is wearing a red winter coat, her little head is looking around, her eyes are like rubies, and from time to time she makes a cat-like cry, her fluffy tail is raised high, her body is petite, and she is cute, and anyone wants to go up and hug it.

However, at this time, Li Nan hugged Bai Nier, no one was allowed to take it away, and sat on Fu Erniang's pit while eating candy, fruits and vegetables by herself, and generally fed Bai Nier.

Wang Wen was busy making tea for everyone, but Cai Rongxue hugged a delicate small wooden box and put it in front of Fu Erniang and said with a smile: "Mother, what do you think of this?" ”

"Where did you get that?" Fu Erniang's eyes lit up when she saw this small wooden box inlaid with gold and jade, and she asked with a smile.

"Yes ... Mother, do you say it's appropriate? Cai Rongxue pursed her lips and smiled.

This small wooden box inlaid with gold and jade is Cai Rongxue's dowry, and when Cai Rongxue got married, it contained some valuable jewelry.

"Suitable, why not?" Fu Erniang smiled: "It's too precious, and my mother is a little reluctant to use it... ”

"It's just a wooden box, what's there?" Cai Rongxue smiled and used scissors to help Fu Erniang cut the rope on the copper coins, and then put the shiny copper coins into the wooden box.

These copper coins are all Li Sanjian's money.

Li Sanjian's current official title is the court doctor, the right to sentence Kaifeng Mansion criminal litigation official affairs, Zhilong Tuge, the official Lu official money, the post sticker, the museum post money adds up to 57 yuan per month, this does not include rice, silk, cloth, all kinds of material money, such as sedan chair money, horse money, clothing money, etc., not including the imperial gifts, every festival, the imperial court has to give some money and things.

Li Sanjian's current monthly income can be described as quite generous, of course, it cannot be compared with high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen, but the income of ordinary people is far from Li Sanjian.

The ordinary people of Kaifeng Mansion only earn more than 100 yuan a day, and their monthly income is only three or two yuan, but they have to support their family with just three or two yuan.

When the copper coins were to be used, they were threaded together with ropes to make them easy to carry and use, but Fu Erniang was reluctant to use them, so she put Huang Cancan's copper coins into the box.

"Mother, why do you bother? Money is something outside the body, so you can use it when you need it, why be so yourself? Holding a copy of "Zizhi Tongjian", Li Sanjian, who was reading the book, said after seeing it.

Li Sanjian hardly spends the family's money on weekdays, and the public money in the yamen is enough for Li Sanjian, so almost all of Li Sanjian's money, rice, and rewards are handed over to Fu Erniang, and she uses it tightly, and she does it herself, but Fu Erniang is reluctant to eat or wear, which is extremely economical.

"You know what?" Fu Erniang glanced at Li Sanjian and said: "The family has surplus food, so I don't panic in my heart, the family has a lot of money and a lot of places, how can I do it without some savings?" ”

Fu Erniang was born as a fisherman and had a poor family, and the situation did not change after marrying Li Qingcheng, but it became more and more difficult.

Especially after Li Qing's death, Fu Erniang's life became more and more difficult, her life was extremely poor, and she only got a few copper plates after a hard day of getting up early and being greedy for darkness, and a copper plate had to be broken into two halves, so that Li Sanjian was pulled big.

At the beginning, the two copper coins that Li Sanjian carried to study in Lingshan County were still scraped together by Fu Erniang and others, and after Li Sanjian left, Fu Erniang ate bran vegetables, and gradually returned the borrowed money.

Fu Erniang is poor and afraid, so although Li Sanjian has a lot of monthly income at this time, Fu Erniang is still reluctant to use it.

"Jian'er, come here, my mother has something to ask you." Fu Erniang then patted the bed and said to Li Sanjian.

"Mother, what's the matter?" Hearing this, Li Sanjian hurriedly put down the book and asked after sitting next to Fu Erniang.

"What's wrong with you today? Why don't you look unhappy? Fu Erniang looked at Li Sanjian and asked.

"What's the matter? Today's winter solstice festival, the children are very happy. Li Sanjian hurriedly covered up when he heard this.

Li Sanjian was reluctant to bring the things in the yamen into his home, for fear of causing the worries of Fu Erniang and other relatives.

"Jian'er, you were born to your mother, what do you think, your mother can guess some of them." Fu Erniang said when she heard this.

"Look at you, your brows are about to twist, and you say you're happy?" Fu Erniang then smiled.

Cai Rongxue, Wang Wen and others couldn't help laughing when they heard this, at the winter solstice family banquet, Li Sanjian looked like this, his brows were tightly locked, and he was forced to make a happy face.

"Let's talk about it, my mother is illiterate, but I live a few years longer than you, don't look at you have read a lot of books, but some things are not as good as my mother." Fu Erniang then said.

"What my mother said is, how dare a child compare with his mother?" There were no outsiders in the house, and at the same time, Fu Erniang opened his mouth to inquire, so Li Sanjian had no choice but to tell Fu Erniang and others what happened in Jinghu Villa.