In the final analysis, most of the things that the Yuan family tried to bring back from his mother's house were for the Li family and the family's shop.

Li didn't say anything, he waved his hand, and took the leather that Yuan had paid homage to and took back to the house.

Of course, the Li family did not take it in vain, but whenever the Yuan family paid for it, the Li family paid for it at a price one level higher than the Yuan family.

After all, the public family has public accounts, and the Li family can't take advantage of the juniors in vain.

In addition, the Li family also gave the Yuan family some extra money, the purpose was to reward the Yuan family for these things, after all, not everyone can withstand the biting cold of the cold winter wax moon, and dare to shake outside.

After taking the time to warn Yuan again not to take any more risks next time, Li generously distributed a few of the good skins to his three daughters-in-law, of course, Yuan, as the main labor force this time, she received the most.

Wiping the thick skin of wild things on his hands, Yuan calculated in his heart, and said in his heart that if he added a piece, he could at least make a jacket for Zhao Shanchuan.

Liu and Cheng looked very hot, and the two of them each held their own skins, planning in their hearts to buy some extra money, just buy them from Yuan's hands, her mother's family is a hunter, and there must be more good skins.

Yuan didn't know that her two concubines had already made up her mind.

Right now, Yuan is holding the leather that has just been sold, and then returning to his hand, and Mei Zizi returns to the house to make a jacket for his man.

Now that it's cold, she and her children can hide in the house, but men can't, and the fields and woodlands at home have to be measured from time to time.

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On the fourth day of the first lunar month, there was nothing to do in the village, and there was nothing in the clan.

The family was so lazy that they didn't go anywhere, so they rested at home for a day.

The fifth day of the first month.

Zhao Fuxiang's family got up early in the morning and started to be busy.

Because today is the fiftieth birthday of Zhao Fuxiang's eldest brother Zhao Fusheng.

Zhao Fuxiang, as Zhao Fusheng's brother, naturally wanted to go over to celebrate his birthday early.

In this era, most of the longevity is to obtain integers and auspicious numbers.

For example, fifty, sixty, sixty-six, seventy, eighty, eighty, eighty, eighty, ninety, etc.

And the days of life are exquisite, generally depending on the age, for example, 50 years old, 60 years old, 66 years old, 70 years old, ...... Arrange in turn.

When the countryman celebrates his birthday, he has to prepare a banquet.

The number of dishes at the banquet is also counted, after all, the birthday is auspicious, and there is no need for others to worry about this.

Zhao Fusheng's family also lives in the northwest corner, but Zhao Fuxiang's family lives in the northwest corner, while Zhao Fusheng's family lives in the northwest corner.

As a concubine, Li brought her three daughters-in-law to help early.

At present, there are only a few grandfathers and grandchildren left in the small courtyard.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Zhao Fuxiang stood in the courtyard and shouted, and went out with a large group of people.

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The house building of Zhao Fusheng's family is also a structure facing north and south.

As soon as you enter the gate, there is a wide courtyard, and on both sides of the courtyard, the east and west side houses are built, facing the door, is the main house, and the main house is the kind of composition of a hall house with four rooms.

For today's birthday, Zhao Fusheng set up two tables in the hall and the back room, and cleared two of the east and west side rooms and put them on the tables and chairs.

The whole thing is counted, and there are almost eight tables.

These eight tables are also exquisite.

The four tables in the hall and the main room are occupied by men from the clan or village, while women and children are seated in the east and west rooms.

As for the reason,

Or because of the unwritten rule that women and girls are not allowed to serve at the table.

In order to prepare for the birthday feast, Zhao Fusheng's daughter-in-law Guo took her two daughters-in-law Jiang Shi, and Jiang Shi started to work early in the morning.

Not only did he clean up the inside and outside of the house, but he also put away some fragile large ornaments in the house, and at the same time did not forget to warn the children at home to keep them.

There are a lot of people coming today, and it's not safe to leave these valuables outside.

They are all over to celebrate their birthdays, if they are accidentally damaged, whether they will pay or not, not to mention that there is no charter, this will also affect the relationship between neighbors and clans.

Rather than that, it's better to put it away in advance.

The meal was customized according to the specifications of the fiftieth birthday, and a nine, four meat and four vegetables were taken with a soup.

Because of this, Guo deliberately killed a fat pig raised at home, and all the pork was kept for the present banquet.

The menu was also decided in the morning.

Four meat dishes, braised pork, stewed chicken, braised pork belly in sauce, sweet and sour pork ribs, four vegetarian dishes, stir-fried vermicelli with song vegetables, tofu with shallots, stir-fried pickles, vinegar slices of song vegetables, one soup, mountain mushroom soup.

In the kitchen, Li took the three of Liu and Guo and others to be busy together.

Outside the small courtyard, at this time, many people came one after another.

Guo had no way to go out to entertain, so he could only let his eldest daughter-in-law, Jiang, go over and take a look.

Jiang Shi nodded busily, followed her to call the children at home, took out the dried fruit snacks prepared by Guo in advance, and asked the children to take out these dried fruit plates and use them to entertain the visitors.

Zhao Fuxiang's family came not early or late, after entering the door, Zhao Fuxiang took the junior to Zhao Fusheng to say hello, and the junior bent over obediently and skillfully to celebrate his birthday.

Zhao Fusheng saw that his brother was coming, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand to greet people over.

At the same time, he happily handed over the tea that had already been warmed at hand.

Zhao Fuxiang came to Zhao Fusheng's side, found an empty place to sit down, listened to everyone's chatter while drinking tea, and at the same time interjected two sentences from time to time.

The men's side chats happily, and the women's side is not bad.

The meals that are about to be prepared are already prepared.

Guo was finally able to take a breath and talked to Li on the side.

"Second brother and sister," Guo said with a smile, "I was going to say hello to you earlier, my brother and sister are really capable people, the shops in the city will be opened as soon as they are opened, and my sister-in-law really envy you." ”

What Guo said is not an exaggeration.

Since she got the news from Zhao Fusheng's mouth, Guo couldn't help but ponder, and at the same time guessed in his heart how much money the Li family had earned.

That's the city, the city that many people dream of.

"Sister-in-law, don't say that, it's just taking advantage," Hearing Guo say this, Li hurriedly waved his hand, for fear of being noticed, "Talking back and forth for a few months is just making hard money." ”

Guo didn't believe Li's words, but she also knew that there were many people in the kitchen, and some things were not easy to say.

Guo Shi winked at Li with an expression of "I understand",

"Hey, it's not bad to make hard-earned money, it's better than spending it at home, second brother and sister, you are hard, the two little ones in the family have grown up, but some of them are busy," Guo Shi joked with a smile, and at the same time eased the atmosphere between the two of them.

Li Shi was stunned for a moment, and then followed Guo's words and said, "That's not the reason, you need money to marry your relatives for the imperial examination, so why don't you save more money." ”

"That's right, that's right, who's not," Guo nodded, and the two of them chatted about other things at home.

In the kitchen, the big girls and little daughters-in-law who came to help around heard the sound and looked at their faces, and they all listened with their ears stunned, and pondered in their hearts.

Li didn't know that she was still afraid of being noticed, but in fact, their shop had been remembered by everyone early.

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Time went forward for a while, and seeing that the people outside had arrived, Jiang came back and hurriedly greeted him, and Guo began to take people to set up the table.

There were many people for the banquet, and Zhao Fujin's daughter-in-law Yun also brought her two daughters-in-law to help when she saw this.

Only Zhao Fuman's daughter-in-law, Huang, did not help.

Even if the two daughters-in-law who separated the family went over to help, she didn't move.

There is no way, this is the fault caused by Zhao Fuman's unfair division of the family, the family does not want to see the two of them, and the Huang family does not want to be disliked, so they simply do nothing and rest.

She rested, even if Guo couldn't see it, she couldn't say anything.

Hurriedly commanded the other women to help, Guo Shi ran before and after, and finally brought up the eight tables.

The food is good, and everyone is full of chopsticks to eat.