Chapter 175: The Manchu and Han Banquets
"I wanted to go to the village chief's house for a long time, but I was afraid of delaying my aunt's busy work, and a little thing should be used as a dish for your family for the New Year."
The village chief happily asked his daughter-in-law to take it: "Thanks to you for today's incident, it's really troublesome." ”
"I also don't want everyone to be deceived, so I came to make a fuss, and the village chief and uncle don't think I'm making trouble."
The two said a few more polite words, and Wang Xiao said goodbye to the village chief and went back.
The village chief taught his daughter-in-law: "In the future, don't make trouble for me, and learn more from Wang Xiao, otherwise sooner or later even Xiao An will be harmed." ”
Xue nodded, not daring to say more.
After Wang Xiao returned home, he saw that the Spring Festival couplets had been pasted on the doors of each room.
She looked at the past by a pair, only to feel that her heart was ironed, when she first came here, she even had difficulty eating, and now in just a few months, not only has her own yard, but her father has also returned, and she has a surplus of money in her hand, and the progress is earth-shaking.
On the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone ate something casually and began to prepare for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
Uncle Li from Fu Shenglou asked people to send a few hard dishes over, and Min Qing knew the dishes, so he arranged for Wang Xiao to pick vegetables and wash vegetables.
Seeing that he was busy, Wang smiled and said, "Uncle Min, it's almost enough, don't give us the whole Manchu and Han banquet or anything, we won't be able to finish eating!" ”
When Min Qing heard her mention the new word again, her eyes couldn't help but light up: "What is the Manchu and Han full banquet, why haven't I heard the girl mention it before, what dishes are there?" ”
Wang Xiao was stunned, his enthusiasm for cooking has always been so high: "I'll talk about this later." ”
Min Qing nodded, and got busy with the things at hand: "Otherwise, you can do things while talking about me, and you will be idle anyway." ”
The Manchu and Han banquets were feasts of the court during the Qing Dynasty, which not only had the characteristics of court dishes, but also had the essence of local flavors, highlighting the special flavors of Manchu and Han dishes.
According to what Wang Xiao had read in the book before, there were generally at least one hundred and eight kinds of dishes served at the Manchu and Han banquets.
After briefly stating what he knew, Min Qing looked surprised: "I don't know how the emperor eats on weekdays, but I heard that there are eighty-eight dishes at the largest banquet, and several of them are made with the same ingredients, just to make up an auspicious number." ”
"These dishes you said are unheard of and unseen, no, I must think about it another day, maybe I can become an imperial chef."
A cook who doesn't want to be an imperial chef is not a good cook, Wang Xiao expressed his support for him, and promised to think about it again and tell him in detail what he knows.
In the evening, Min Qing was busy with the day's work, and even tossed out more than 30 dishes.
In addition to the common home-cooked dishes, there are also big and hard dishes, and they are full of color, flavor and flavor, and the name of Fu Shenglou's chef is not covered.
Wang Xiao was amazed, just looking at this table of dishes, she also knew that Min Qing had made a lot of progress when she came to her.
These dishes not only have the flavor of the dishes here, but also combine the flavors of Wang Xiao's dishes, which can be regarded as a new dish.
She can cook deliciously, but she takes advantage of the wealth of modern knowledge, but Min Qing really loves cooking and is also very talented.
Before eating, Wang Xiao prepared several red purses, one for each of Min Qing, Yang Ming and other people who worked here, and even Wang Yan had one.
She tried it out as soon as she passed her hand, the amount in it was not small, her eyes were slightly wet, although she had silver here in Wang Xiao every month, but she didn't expect that there would be a New Year's wallet at the end of the year.
Wang Daoren looked at Wang Xiao like an adult, and felt uncomfortable for a while, she was just a child!
When it was just dark, some people sounded the sound of firecrackers, and some people had already started to eat Chinese New Year's Eve.
Wang Xiao also took the firecrackers out with great interest, went to the yard, and laid them out in a long way.
The family gathered outside the courtyard and waited for the crackling sound of firecrackers.
After seeing Li Baoping's order, Wang Xiao immediately covered his ears, Wang Yan was also smiling on his face, and Li Baozhen's childlike heart was even more smiling to his ears.
Even Liu Er, who doesn't like Wang Xiao the most, is also smiling at this time, and she doesn't want to make everyone unhappy during the New Year, and her cousin will hate her even more.
After letting off the firecrackers and honoring the elderly, it is time to eat the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
On weekdays, there is no division between master and servant at home, everyone eats like a family, and now the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is naturally the same.
After eating, everyone played leaf cards together, at first only Wang Xiao and Wang Yan, Zhu's sister-in-law three, Li Baozhen is a child, it is impossible to play cards.
The two elders, Wang Daoren and Li Shuren, would not fight with a few of them, but Liu Er said cautiously: "I'll fight with you!" ”
No matter how scheming Liu Er is, after all, she is just a teenage girl, and young girls don't like to play.
Wang Xiao nodded: "Come on, for the New Year, let's not blame the past, and we'll talk about it later." ”
Liu Er's New Year's bag was given by Wang Qiushan, and it was not Wang Xiao's turn to give it.
If Wang Xiao really gave it, she might be unhappy.
Wang Xiao is here, Li Baoping will naturally not leave, besides, if you have to keep the New Year today, everyone will sleep late.
At the beginning, everyone's wins and losses were about the same, but later, Wang Xiao won more.
Wang Xiao is calculating how to make money all day long, and her brain is flexible, how can these women who are locked up at home every day be her opponents.
Sister-in-law Zhu traveled south and north, but she relied on force to eat, so naturally she couldn't calculate.
After a while, Wang Xiao's front was full of small silver horns, all of which were in the New Year's bag she sent out today.
Sister-in-law Zhu looked angry: "I knew that the girl was so powerful, and I wouldn't have served anything I said." ”
Wang Xiao was very proud, not because she won so much money, but because the process of everyone playing together made her very happy.
Seeing that there were no silver horns in front of them, Wang Xiao divided the silver horns in front of him again, and then the scene ended.
After eating snacks for a while, everyone was tired, Wang Daoren and Li Shuren were older, and they couldn't stand it at first and went to rest.
Wang Yan is a pregnant woman, Wang Xiao didn't allow her to stay up longer, and arranged to rest.
In the end, there were only three people left in the hall, Li Baoping and Wang Xiao Liu'er, Liu Er wanted to stare at the two of them, and was afraid that what would happen if the relationship between the two would heat up when she was away, so she never left.
But in the second half of the night, she couldn't stay up anymore and fell asleep on the table.
Wang Xiao twitched the corners of her mouth, she didn't mean it, she wanted Li Baoping to take her back to sleep!
"What should I do?"