The corn was sold out, and Tang Xiaofu was also on vacation, although it was still in the busy farming season, Tang Xiaofu's two aunts insisted on giving Tang Xiaolan a banquet to celebrate her good results in the high school entrance examination and being admitted to the provincial key middle school.

If the village has a good relationship with the village cadres, there will be four tables, plus the two uncles and the two families will have one table, so there will be five tables.

Wen Jing discussed with her two daughters for a long time, and finally decided to please, otherwise it would be like the last housewarming to move to a new house. It would be too embarrassing for Chief Leng's grandfather and grandson to touch the door by themselves.

The next day, Tang Xiaofu made a special trip to Leng's house in the town to invite Old Man Leng and Head Leng to participate in Tang Xiaolan's college banquet three days later.

When Tang Xiaofu went, Leng Chenxu was not at home, only Old Man Leng was alone, and he was chatting with a few local old men sitting in this spacious, bright and cool living room.

Old Man Leng listened to Tang Xiaofu's intention, and said with a smile that he and Leng Chenxu would definitely go to participate in three days.

Three days later, the sky was slightly bright, Tang Xiaofu's two uncles and two families came, they came so early to help Tang Xiaofu's mother and daughter prepare a banquet, and the five tables of wine banquet her mother and daughter were too busy.

Fang Ming and Fang Liang brought several silver carp and big black fish that they had touched in the river the day before, and also brought several big roosters, so they didn't need to buy the fish and chickens they wanted at the banquet.

The second aunt's family is very good at raising chickens, ducks and geese, so the second aunt brought a lot of eggs and pickled duck eggs, as well as two big fat geese.

Caidie and Caifeng sisters helped wash the vegetables, although Tang Xiaolan was the protagonist of this banquet, she also tied a small apron to help with the pickled vegetables.

The two uncles helped kill the chickens and slaughtered the geese, the Fang Ming brothers chopped firewood, killed the fish, the two aunts helped grind and beat the tofu, Tang Xiaofu and Fang Wenjing chopped the stuffing and chopped vegetables, soaked glutinous rice, made glutinous rice balls, and fried meat balls...... A group of people were busy.

A few girls were busy eating meat balls and glutinous rice balls that had just come out of the pot, and several of them were still smiling at each other.

Everyone was happy today, even if they saw their daughter stealing food, they didn't say it, but Fang Ming came back from chopping firewood and saw it, and said: "Don't eat it all, the guests haven't come yet." ”

The Caidie sisters spit out their tongues embarrassedly at Sister Tang Xiaofu, in fact, they only tasted it, and they didn't eat much at all, Fang Ming was too young and old, and sure enough, the eldest brother was the father, but Tang Xiaofu really wanted to have an elder brother like a father, she lacked fatherly love in her past life and this life.

At noon, the guests came one after another, all sitting in the living room and dining room of Tang Xiaofu's house, smoking, drinking tea and eating sugar, waiting for the old man and grandson to come.

Tang Xiaofu saw that everything was almost ready, so she pushed Tang Xiaolan into her own room and asked her to quickly dress up and sit at the table.

Tang Xiaofu also wore a beautiful flower dress today, combed a ball head, and dressed up very beautifully, but she tied a small flower apron, and she couldn't see the style of her flower dress, which made her beauty discounted.

The guests drank tea for a while in the living room, smoked for a while, chatted chattering, and heard the sound of car horns outside the courtyard gate, everyone stood up happily and said, "Chief Leng, they are here!" Then they all went out.

Tang Xiaofu also heard the sound of the car horn in the kitchen, and quickly took off the small apron on his body and went out, and saw the old man Leng walking in with a smile, Wu Weiguo had a big bag in his hand.

Tang Xiaofu couldn't help but stretch her neck to look behind Old Man Leng and Wu Weiguo.

Old Man Leng smiled and said, "Don't look at it, that kid Ah Xu is on a mission and can't come." ”

Tang Xiaofu's face turned red, she wanted to justify, but after thinking about it, the more she argued, the more it seemed that there were no three hundred taels of silver here.

Wu Weiguo lifted the two bags in his left hand and showed them to Tang Xiaofu: "Although Commander Leng didn't come, the gift has arrived." ”

Fang Wenjing stretched out her hand to take the big bag in Wu Weiguo's hand, and said politely with a smile: "Chief Leng can come, our family feels very honorable, and what else do you bring, we are all embarrassed!" ”

Chief Leng smiled and said: "Xiaolan was admitted to a key high school, and she will be admitted to university in the future, serving the country with knowledge, and realizing our Leng family's wish to donate Yuhong Middle School knowledge to serve the country, I am so happy, of course I want to buy some gifts to celebrate!" ”

Everyone greeted Chief Leng and entered the living room, and after a bowl of egg and rice wine was served, everyone moistened their throats before the feast began.

Pearl balls, fried meat balls, sauerkraut glutinous fish, chili pepper back to the pot meat, braised pig's head meat, braised pig's trotter flowers, fried lean pork cubes with tender corn, tomato fish ball soup, mushroom chicken soup...... There are a total of 16 dishes, meaning 66 Shun.

This mushroom was still raining when Tang Xiaofu took Xiaolan to the mountains to pick it up, she loves to eat it, even if she makes mushroom egg soup, it is delicious.

Chief Leng ate very happily, not to mention the other guests, everyone said words of blessing to Xiaolan, Xiaolan was shy and excited, and her face was red.

The banquet lasted for nearly two hours before it ended, and Tang Xiaofu served plums and peaches to the guests to eat, and asked the guests to sit and talk with Old Man Leng.

Old Man Leng's family is very busy, and the time that can accompany him is limited, although there is a guard Wu Weiguo by his side, but Wu Weiguo has to do a lot of things every day, and the two of them don't have so much to talk about, so Old Man Leng stays alone in the mansion most of the time every day.

In the countryside, there are many fruits in summer, and the most common plums and peaches are found in almost every household.

In the past, the policy restricted farmers from buying and selling, and these plums and peaches were basically eaten by their own children, but this year is different, and farmers are encouraged to buy and sell, so many families pick plums and peaches and transport them to the city to sell, and many children in the village cannot eat their own plums and peaches.

Tang Xiaofu's mother and daughter have just separated from the Tang family, and the fruit trees planted by their family have not grown up, so there are no plums and peaches.

The big guy chatted with Mr. Leng for more than half an hour, and Mr. Leng was leaving, so the guests said goodbye and left with Mr. Leng, and only Tang Xiaofu's mother and daughter and two uncles were left in the house.

The two aunts helped Tang Xiaofu's mother and daughter clean the living room, dining room and yard, and they all sat down to eat fruit and talk.

As they spoke, before they knew it, it was four o'clock in the afternoon, and the two uncles were about to say goodbye and leave.

Tang Xiaofu's mother and daughter stayed hard, and Fang Wenjing said: "Now that the summer days are long, it's not too late to leave after dinner." ”

The two aunts said that there was still a lot of work at home, so they had to go back early to sleep and get up the next morning to work.

Caidie Caifeng sisters are noisy about going back after dinner, Caidie pouted and said: "I want to eat dinner at my aunt's house and then go back, back to my own house, my mother is reluctant to even fry a green vegetable, eat wild vegetables all day long, I'm almost tired of eating!" ”

The two Tang Xiaofu sisters asked in surprise: "Why don't you have vegetables to eat in your family!" ”

Hubei has a distinct climate in four seasons, even in winter, it is not too cold, and water resources are abundant, who may not have vegetables to eat!

Caidie revealed her mother's old bottom: "Since my mother knew that vegetables could be picked and sold in the city for money, our family basically didn't eat the vegetables produced in our own vegetable garden, just ate some wild vegetables, and took the lettuce some time ago to sell, my mother took the lettuce to sell, and the lettuce leaves were kneaded with salt water and fried for us to eat." ”

Wang Cuiyu smiled and slapped her eldest daughter's buttocks: "You came to your aunt's house to redress your grievances." ”

Fang Wenjing said with a smile: "Although it is important to make money, we must also take care of the diet of the people in the family, and the dishes still have to be eaten." ”

Wang Cuiyu said: "Now it's hard to catch up with the opportunity to make money, of course, we have to find a way to make more, there will be more people who go to the city to sell vegetables in the future, how can it be as easy to make money as now!" I want to make a few hundred yuan this year and make a new house with bricks and tiles, so that I can tell your two nephews about their daughter-in-law, Xiao Ming and Xiao Liang are not small. ”

Fang Wenjing said: "That's it." He said to Caiyun again: "Good boy, just bear with it, your mother is doing this for your good." ”

Caiyun grinned and said, "I understand." ”

Fang Ming glanced at Tang Xiaofu several times in a row, and Tang Xiaofu was inexplicable, thinking that there was something dirty on his face, but he touched it with his hand, and there was nothing on his face.

The two uncles had dinner, and Fang Wenjing took the remaining braised vegetables back to Fang Shoucheng and his wife to eat, the weather was too hot, and they had to watch the house, so Fang Shoucheng and his wife did not come.

Before leaving, the two aunts each gave Fang Wenjing 20 yuan, saying that it was a gift for Xiaolan to be admitted to a key high school.

Generally, rural people only give a gift of five yuan at most, and ten yuan is a very heavy gift, and the two uncles' families give a gift of 20 yuan, which is really the top priority.

Tang Xiaofu's mother and daughter hurriedly excused themselves, and Tang Xiaofu said: "Uncle and aunt have brought so many things, this is a congratulatory gift, how can we still receive gift money?" ”

The two sides dragged for a long time, and finally Tang Xiaofu and the three of them had no choice but to accept the gift money from the two uncles.

After sending off the uncle's family, the mother and daughter returned home, and Tang Xiaofu said to the other party quietly: "It's nothing for us to collect this gift money, and when the uncle's family builds a house, let's wrap a red envelope of 100 yuan." ”

Fang Wenjing nodded, even among relatives, Fang Wenjing's mother and daughter didn't like to take advantage of others.

The mother and daughter went to see what kind of gift Leng Chenxu gave to Tang Xiaolan.

When I opened it, it was a trendy stationery box, filled with the latest stationery as well as a yellow schoolbag and a beautiful dress, these gifts Tang Xiaolan liked very much.

She gestured the light blue dress on her body, and then stuffed it on Xiaofu: "Sister, I think you look better than me in this dress." ”

Tang Xiaofu understood her intentions, and still stuffed the dress to her: "Even if I look better than you, I can't ask for it, this is given to you by Captain Leng." ”

Tang Xiaolan blinked mischievously: "What about what Captain Leng sent, I told Captain Leng that my sister was dressed more appropriately than me, so I transferred it to my sister again, will he still scold me for this matter?" ”

Tang Xiaofu said in disgust: "People gave it to you, and you transferred it to me, and I felt awkward in dressing." ”

Tang Xiaolan saw that her sister sincerely didn't want it, so she had to forget it.

Fang Wenjing looked a little undecided, and asked Tang Xiaofu: "Do you want to return the gift from Head Leng?" ”

Tang Xiaofu thought about it and shook her head: "I still don't want it, people sent it sincerely, let's go back and slap other people's faces more!" ”

When Fang Wenjing heard her say this, she didn't say anything more, she boiled the bath water, the mother and daughter took turns to take a bath, and then Fang Wenjing washed her clothes.

Tang Xiaolan said that she came to wash, in the past two months, her mother and sister almost didn't let her do any housework in order to let her study with peace of mind, and now that she has finished the exam, she should naturally take on more housework.

Fang Wenjing said with a smile, today is a good day in her life, let her have another day of fun, and start working in the field with her tomorrow.

After washing the clothes, the mother and daughter sat in the front yard refreshingly and cooled, eating the peaches and plums that the guests had not finished.

The peaches and plums in this place are particularly distinctive, the peaches are the kind of blood peaches, which can be broken in half with a little force, and the flesh of the peaches inside is red like blood, juicy and sweet, and very delicious.

As for the plums, when they are ripe, they are red and crystal clear, just looking at them makes people feel revelry, and no matter how ripe the plums are, they will always be sweet and sour in the mouth, this taste Tang Xiaofu likes very much, but the plums can't eat more, so Tang Xiaofu didn't eat a few plums.

It was already more than seven o'clock in the evening, and the sky was already dark, and there were no street lights in the countryside, so it seemed that the stars in the sky were particularly bright and large, as if they were on the head and could be picked by reaching out.

Although since she came to this time and space, she can often see such a beautiful night sky, but Tang Xiaofu can't see enough, just like at this time, she raised her head and looked at the starry sky, only feeling relaxed and happy.

Someone outside the courtyard gate was calling the door: "Xiaofu, can you open the door?" ”

It was Tang Jianbin 's voice.

Fang Wenjing's mother and daughter glanced at each other, Tang Xiaofu got up and opened the courtyard door, and invited Tang Jianbin to come in and sit down.

Tang Jianbin only followed the villagers to see Tang Xiaofu's new house when he had just become a good person and had not moved in, and he never had a chance to enter it again.

Now that Tang Xiaofu invited him in, he really wanted to go in and have a look, but in the end he held back, thinking inferiorly that he should be an unpopular person in the hearts of Tang Xiaofu's mother and daughter.

"Nope." He self-consciously refused, and handed a thick green plastic notebook in his hand to Tang Xiaofu: "This notebook is a gift from me to Xiaolan, congratulations on her admission to a key middle school in the provincial capital." ”

Tang Xiaofu took the notebook and said, "Thank you." So he closed the door and went in.