Chapter 227: The Banquet is Ready
Cheng Yangyang came to the barn dressed as a chef, it was the afternoon when the sun was not so hot, there was still a period of time before it got dark, she had to prepare tomorrow's menu now.
"Brother Da Fei, will you kill pigs?" Wang Tong had just bought the two pigs back, and the pigs were still struggling alive in the pig cage.
"My dad will!" Wang Dafei put on his old apron and looked like he was going to do a big job, "I'll go back and call my dad to help!"
As soon as Wang Dafei turned around and walked away, Zhuang Yuxiu and Wang Daqing came over, they were holding the menu given by Cheng Yangyang, a little puzzled.
"Boss Cheng, I don't know how to cook a few dishes on this, what do you think of this?" In addition to the grain drying field, the school cafeteria is also used to prepare dishes, and Zhuang Yuxiu is naturally responsible.
The cafeteria has been closed this afternoon, and most of the students in Liujia Village have not gone home, they are playing in Wangjia Village and the students in Wangjia Village up the mountain and down the river, anyway, they will stay in school after the banquet tomorrow, so they simply don't go back.
"It's okay, I'm in the barnyard, if you don't know how to cook, leave it in the barn to cook, and if you can, you can take it to the canteen to do it", Cheng Yangyang patted Zhuang Yuxiu's shoulder and told her not to worry.
"Brother Daqing, if you have time, find a few people to go up the mountain to the fish pond, now you can catch fish, catch some fish of about two catties and few spines, and help me pick up some snails, the kind that is crawling on the wall of the fish pond and in the mud. ”
"No problem!" Wang Daqing agreed, and when he left, he turned around and told Zhuang Yuxiu to let her cooperate with Cheng Yangyang to cook.
The sweetness of the two of them is unparalleled, Cheng Yangyang has seen a lot, she saw that the two of them were tired again, she turned around and left silently.
"Cheng girl!"
Village Chief Wang followed Wang Dashu and they went to the field to pick vegetables and came back, and when they saw Cheng Yangyang, they shouted, "They said that you prepared ten vegetables and one soup, is it true?"
"Yes, what's wrong?" Cheng Yangyang nodded.
"You!" Village Chief Wang originally wanted to complain that she had prepared too much, but after thinking about it, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with her conditions, and he wouldn't say anything more on this day.
"You show me the menu, let me see what else you need?" Village Chief Wang restrained his tone a little and began to worry again.
"I've already asked someone to get this button meat, braised fish, and roast duck, and I can prepare it when I come back in the evening, but now the tofu and rice noodles haven't been prepared yet." ”
Cheng Yangyang opened the menu and discussed with Village Chief Wang, "This rice noodle is used to make steamed pork, after the rice is fried, add some salt and spices and grind it together." ”
"It's easy to make tofu, I'll ask my daughter-in-law to get it for you, it's just this rice noodle, or I'll fry the rice for you, you can tell us how to do it!"
They really don't have this way to eat tamales here, and Village Chief Wang didn't know how to do it, so he had to let her come in person.
"Okay, the village chief has worked hard!"
After Cheng Yangyang and Village Chief Wang separated, she turned around and went to see other things, she went back and forth between the threshing field and the canteen, and everyone came to her for everything, making her busier than usual.
When preparing the semi-finished products of tomorrow's dishes, the sky gradually darkened, and Cheng Qingqing and Li Yuanan sent a lot of lanterns from the mountain, but these can only be used in some small places, the barn is large, and the villagers can only burn bonfires to get light.
"Cheng girl, you're here!" Cheng Yangyang didn't know what he was busy with, walked to the stove in the threshing field, and was stopped again, "Look, this big piece of meat is not beautiful!"
A villager hooked a piece of button meat that had just been fished out of the oil pot with an iron tong in his hand, and the button meat was even more golden and beautiful in the bright yellow stove fire.
"Uncle Wang's skills are good, the meat is fried very well!" Cheng Yangyang affirmed him with a smile, and the man was even more happy when he saw her nodding, "The meat is almost finished, right? ”
"Hey, it's okay, I'm not hard!" "He is doing the work of roasting meat, how can he work hard, he wishes he could roast meat every day!
"Then since that's the case, I'll trouble Uncle Wang later, after the meat is fried, fry the taro slices again, and Ming'er and the button meat will be steamed together!"
"No problem!"
Cheng Yangyang finished reading the buckle meat, and then went to see the preparation of the snail duck feet pot, the snails are still in the water to spit sand, what can be done tonight is to fry the tofu and duck feet.
The frying pan on the threshing floor may have to burn until the second half of the night tonight.
The washing and cutting of vegetables, the roast duck, and the boiled eggs are all busy now, preparing everything, pickling it tonight, and eating it hot before the feast starts tomorrow.
A group of people in Wangjia Village were busy in the threshing field until midnight, and the things were finally almost ready, and the people who prepared the vegetables went back to sleep after cutting all the vegetables, only the people watching the fire were still guarding.
It is customary for them to burn the fire all night tonight until tomorrow, and it is customary for them to not cut off the fire even if they sit in the pot.
"Cheng girl, you can go back first, we are here tonight to help you watch things, and promise not to lose them!" Wang Dafei and Wang Dashu have already moved to the bench and are ready to stay up late.
Killing pigs and picking vegetables is their task, they have been idle since last night, stay tonight to see things, tomorrow there is nothing for them, go back and make up for a nap, just get up after eating.
But Cheng Yangyang is different, she still has to stare at the menu tomorrow and entertain guests, she can't stay up late.
"Brother Da Fei, Uncle Da Shu, then I'll work hard for you tonight", Cheng Yangyang was not polite to them, they were all old friends, and she was relieved to hand over the things to them.
"It's okay, you go back, go back!"
"Hmm", Cheng Yangyang nodded, she pointed to the meat and vegetables that had been cut on the table, and said to a few of them: "Brother Da Fei, if you are hungry at night, you can make these dishes as you like, don't be polite!"
"We know, if you're not polite, go back to bed, it's too late!"
Cheng Yangyang dragged his tired body up the mountain to go home, and several people in the family unexpectedly didn't go back to the room to rest tonight, they lit the lamp in the living room, and each looked for something to do.
"Why don't you sleep?" she asked, feebly, as she sat on the small bench in the doorway to change her shoes.
"I'm waiting for you!" the four of them said in unison, startling Cheng Yangyang.
"It's really strange, what are you waiting for me to do!" Cheng Yangyang changed his shoes and entered the door, and when he wanted to go upstairs to get his clothes and take a bath, he saw that the four of them also got up and followed her upstairs.
"Now that you're back, let's go to sleep. ”
"......" Cheng Yangyang was speechless, she thought they would wait for her to finish taking a shower, "You will sleep as soon as I come back, what about sincerity?"