Chapter 246: Banquet

The place where Yu Dehai circled out was not far from the village, and Zhao Shanchuan drove the ox cart and arrived in less than a pillar of incense.

Looking up and looking at the dense bamboo forest around him, Zhao Shanchuan sighed, it was really lush,

Because of the recent rain, many fresh green bamboo shoots have emerged in the bamboo forest.

Zhao Shanchuan was also handy, cut almost half a small oxcart of bamboo, and directly dug a large basket of bamboo shoots and came back.

When he got home, he happened to see Zhao Yu's three children playing in the yard.

The small courtyard is full of children's laughter.

Most of the fruit trees planted around the yard have survived after so many days of careful care.

Zhao Shanchuan fertilized and reduced the buds, and a layer of lush new shoots appeared on the trunk of the tree that was still bare, and the breeze blew and rustled.

Zhao Yu's three children have only been in love with this fruit tree since they moved to their new home for half a day, and they love to get into the fruit tree to play when they have nothing to do.

Zhao Shanchuan smiled and told not to be frightened by the insects growing on the tree, he parked the oxcart by himself, found a vacant space under the eaves, and put down the green bamboo shoots and bamboo strips on the oxcart.

Then, taking out the tools to be used from the side room, Zhao Shanchuan brought a chair and patiently split it horizontally against the thick stack of bamboos.

Bang bang bangβ€”β€”β€”

The knife rose and fell, the afterimage flashed, and the bamboo strip was successfully split into two sections.

During Zhao Shanchuan's busy period, Zhao Yu was tired of playing, so he came over to take a look.

After discovering that there was still a basket of green bamboo shoots, he directly grinded Yuan and pickled them.

Not to mention, the sweet, sour and crisp bamboo shoots in Zhao Yu's head are delicious and delicious.

Zhao Yu's eloquence is good, and Yuan has no resistance to the pickled bamboo shoots that Zhao Yu said, thinking that it is still early before it gets dark, so he simply thinks that it is better to choose a day than to hit the sun, so he pickles it directly.

Wash and dry the bamboo shoots, take out the raw materials and clean jars, and the two of them almost pickled a jar or so before they stopped.

And the remaining bamboo shoots were all used by the Yuan family to make today's dinner.

The dinner was sumptuous, especially when families moved to a new house recently, and they all held banquets, so there was a lot of meat left in the village.

The method of inciting pigs is more prevalent in the south than in the north, so the production of pork in the south is also higher than that in the north, and the price of pork is even cheaper.

Therefore, the Yuan family had to spend some silver money to buy meat and eat it almost every day.

Stir-fried bacon with bamboo shoots, pork ribs soup with bamboo shoots, shredded bamboo shoots in cold salad, popcorn shoots with sauce......

Served with a bowl of fragrant rice.

The family ate happily at night, and their stomachs were round, and they fell asleep for a long time.

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In the next few days, Yuan began to go to other people's homes to help on a daily basis.

Zhao Yu's three children can only follow, and occasionally make a cameo appearance, help serve a plate and deliver a dish, proper child labor treatment.

Zhao Shanchuan is much more relaxed, as the head of the family, he only needs to go to other people's houses to eat every day with money, and he sometimes pays attention to the characteristics of other people's banquets.

The rest of the time, Zhao Shanchuan spends his time on his own bamboo products and bamboo mats.

Even because he had a lot of bamboo leftovers, he didn't forget to use it to trim it simply, and then set out a fence yard to separate the family's vegetable garden, chicken racks, pigsty, livestock sheds, etc.

Because of the large increase in the amount of work, for this reason, Zhao Shanlin also went to the south and made up some bamboo.

When he repaired the yard, the bamboo fenced courtyard was matched with the peach trees, pear trees, bayberry, apples, longans and other fruit trees planted in the corners of the yard, and for a while, the lush green filled the entire front yard, making it look vibrant.

Such a busy day lasted until the morning of the 19th.

Because today is the day when the family celebrates the banquet in the new house, the family has not slept lazy, whether it is adults or children, they all get up from the kang before dawn.

Yuan cleaned himself up and went to the kitchen to take out the raw pork that he had brought back from the town last night and cut it into pieces.

Although Yuan's cooking talent has not been lit up, after such a long time of practice, coupled with Zhao Yu's daily guidance, Yuan's cooking and willingness to put ingredients in cooking, so that recently Yuan's cooking has reached the level of ordinary women.

However, today is a big day for the family, and it is not the Yuan family but the Liu family who is in charge, so the Yuan family is simply handling the dishes at the moment and waiting for the Liu family to come over and start the fire.

Zhao Shanchuan took advantage of the time to quickly invite Zhao Fuxiang to come over and preside over the overall situation.

Don't look at Zhao Shanchuan's banquet today, but the person in charge is still Zhao Fuxiang.

There is no way, the relationship between the elderly people in the village and Zhao Shanchuan is not equal, Zhao Shanchuan belongs to the junior, and the elders need Zhao Fuxiang to entertain them.

The remaining three children of Zhao Yu also knew that today was an important day for the family, and after washing themselves, they did their best to help the Yuan family deal with the next meals.

The rice is all rice that is often eaten in the south, and the vegetables are specially brought back by Zhao Shanchuan from the vegetable farmers in the city who helped yesterday.

Most of the dishes bought back are now available in Qingping County, and the three children squatted honestly at the door of the kitchen, washed every piece of the vegetable leaves, and then put them into the bamboo basket on the side.

It wasn't long before the sound of footsteps and talking could be heard outside the courtyard.

Zhao Yu tilted his head and looked, it turned out to be the eldest aunt Liu, the third aunt Cheng, and the fifth aunt Zhou Jin, the three of them should have arrived at the agreed time, and they all rushed over at once.

Whispering to her mother Yuan, Zhao Yu pulled Zhao Xia and Zhao Mingteng to leave the kitchen quickly, and by the way, made enough space for the three people who came to help.

As soon as the three of the Liu family came in, they first simply greeted the Yuan family, and then put on the apron on the side and got busy.

Zhao Yu was not idle, Yuan asked Zhao Yu to quickly lock up the chickens and ducks caught in the yard two days ago and put them in the side room, at least until the end of the banquet at home, they could not be released.

Because there are many people in the village, when they come to eat for a while, they can't sit in the house, so they must put a few tables in the courtyard.

When the chickens and ducks are noisy, it also affects the mood of the people who eat the banquet, if there is that naughty, accidentally hurt the chickens and ducks at home, they are not good to say anything.

Zhao Yu nodded, took the chicken food he had mixed with earthworms and green vegetables, and successfully attracted all the fluffy chicks scattered in the yard.

Let Zhao Xia and Zhao Mingteng block on both sides, Xiao Erhei blocked one side, Zhao Yu stretched out his hand, grabbed them all into the chicken coop made of bamboo strips, followed by a few ducks on the side, and locked them in the grocery room together.

After dealing with it, the three of them picked up the broom again and cleaned up the chicken poop scattered on the ground.

At this time, Yuan, who was still busy in the kitchen, suddenly called out and asked the three of them to hurry over and take a bite of breakfast.

"Nuo, the newly made multigrain cakes, the three of you will quickly rest after eating, the house is very busy today, you should pay more attention to yourself, like Xiao Erhei and Da Bai, pay more attention," Yuan muttered as he stuffed a wooden basin with a lid into Zhao Yu's arms.

Zhao Yu nodded, and asked Zhao Mingteng and Zhao Xia to bring Xiao Erhei and Da Bai respectively, and the three of them went directly to the side room.

By the way, Xiao Erhei is a dog, and Da Bai is the cat at home, just right, the color of the dog and cat is black and white, and the name also takes advantage of the skin color.

There were two more animals in the house at once, and it was more lively.

After the three of them finished breakfast, Li and Zhao Fuxiang also followed Zhao Shanchuan over.

At this time, Zhao Shanlin and others also rushed over to help.

The men were busy setting up the borrowed wooden tables in the house and setting them up one by one in the courtyard.

There are several times of work experience, and everyone's time control is also very accurate.

Zhao Fuxiang sat aside, took out the pocket watch in his arms at the right time and looked at it, and after determining the time, he hurriedly told Zhao Shanchuan,

"The hour has come, second, hurry up to the door and make a noise and shout,"

Zhao Shanchuan nodded, then took out the long straight cannon he bought from the bazaar, lit it with flint, and made several muffled sounds.

Hearing the sound of cannonballs, the atmosphere around him, which was originally quite quiet, was obviously warmed up, and the people who were waiting for the banquet came to Zhao Shanchuan's house in twos and threes.

A group of men, mainly Yu Dehai, quickly walked in from the gate of the courtyard.

First of all, I congratulated Zhao Shanchuan on moving to a new house, and then sent my own bride price, which is very varied, either food, or silver, or fabric, in short, the value is not too much, and there is no empty-handed coming.

The wooden tables set up in the house were instantly filled by the crowd that came in.

Li Shi looked, followed by a shout towards the kitchen, and together with Zhou Jin on the side, the two hurriedly took out the food prepared in the kitchen and put it on the table.

They are all from the village, and recently, because there are not a few villagers who have moved to a new house and invited the whole village to come over for a banquet, so after seeing that the banquet at Zhao Shanchuan's house is the same as nine dishes, four meats, four vegetables and a bowl of soup, the villagers have not compared much.

However, because Liu's seasoning is enough, the food has more oil and water than ordinary people, and it tastes more delicious, and the villagers are very satisfied.

At least after this banquet, there was not much food left on the table.

After the banquet, Yu Dehai, Zhao Fuxiang, and Zhao Shanchuan all said something one by one, although there were some scenes in and out of the words, but Zhao Shanchuan was still very satisfied.

This banquet also officially marked the beginning of their family's new life in Meadow Village.