497 Chinese New Year's Eve dinner
Compared with the bustle outside, the Mobei Royal Mansion is not bad at all.
In the backyard, Chen Mo's wives and concubines were also preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner lively.
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has its own meaning of reunion.
Chen Mo invited all the clan elders who lived in Chen's Mansion to come over.
Lin Jiu'er also called her father Lin Bai.
Naturally, Ning Yuelan's parents also came.
Zhenxi Wang, Qiao Yiyang, and Xiao Teng didn't come.
Chen Mo was invited, but they were also a family, but they married their daughter, and they also had to prepare their own Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
In the living room, Chen Mo was chatting with Lin Bai and a few others.
Because they are men, this is the backyard of the Mobei Palace, and they are all female dependents, even if they are elders, they can't move around at will.
In order not to let them get bored, Chen Mo took the initiative to come over and chat with them.
"Son-in-law, where did Yuelan and Yuelu go?" Ning Zhengzhong's wife Liu said.
"In the kitchen, they all have to cook by themselves, and I didn't stop them, let them go." Chen Mo hugged Chen Shu and said while coaxing the child.
"It's good if you can't do this kind of hard work, as the head mother of the palace, why do you run to the back kitchen?" Ning Zhengzhong reprimanded softly, and then looked at Chen Mo with a smile on his face: "Virtuous son-in-law, can you let me hug the child?"
At this moment, Ning Zhengzhong had long forgotten the contradiction between him and Chen Mo, but there was a hint of flattery in his eyes.
"Absolutely." Chen Mo handed the swaddling clothes to Ning Zhengzhong.
Ning Zhengzhong hugged it carefully, looking at Chen Yu's immature little face in swaddling clothes, and his old face smiled like a chrysanthemum: "My grandson is so good..."
Liu also leaned over.
"Old father-in-law, how are you getting along with the tofu fairy in the west of the city?" Compared with Ning Zhengzhong, the relationship between Chen Mo and Lin Bai is obviously closer, and he has worked as an errand under Lin Bai, so he can naturally ask some more personal things.
And the tofu Xi Shi in his mouth is a widow living at home in the west of the city, in her early thirties, with a five-year-old girl, who runs a tofu shop.
Some time ago, he heard Lin Jiu'er say that Lin Bai and this tofu fairy got along and had a close relationship.
Hearing this, Lin Bai's old face turned red: "Don't misunderstand, virtuous son-in-law, I have nothing to do with Xiuyan, I just see that her life is too difficult, and I drag a daughter, and occasionally go to help a few times."
"Xiuyan..." Chen Mo smiled meaningfully.
I even knew the nickname, and said it didn't matter.
"Don't worry, Jiu'er told me, she won't mind, saying that you are also old, and it is time for a woman to accompany you and take care of you." Chen Mo conveyed Lin Jiu'er's words. qδ.net
Lin Bai's old face turned even redder.
A father actually let his daughter worry about his own life.
I'm ashamed.
At the same time, the back kitchen.
The kitchen lady in the house has no place to use, because the kitchen is occupied by Chen Mo's wives and concubines.
According to their words, this year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will be prepared by them.
In the big kitchen, Li Wanqiu and Lin Jiu'er slaughtered chickens and fish, and the latter chopped melons and vegetables.
Xiyue and Nangong Jinse are responsible for the cleaning of ingredients.
Ning Yuelan and Du Zijin are in charge.
Qiao Qingya and Xiao Yunxi stood next to Ning Yuelan and Du Zijin with handkerchiefs in their hands, wiping their sweat and adding firewood to the stove by the way.
Ye Yiren and Xu Miaoer held the plate on their chests and stood in the corner of the kitchen, watching envious and nervously.
It's not that they touch the fish, it's that the kitchen work is all done by the sisters, and they are useless.
Bai Shuyu was not in the kitchen, because she was pregnant, she was familiar with the room, and she took care of Chen Yu, Chen Shi, and Chen Qing with Jiang Qi.
Lin Jiu'er wore an apron on her body, dancing with two knives, and then handed over the cut vegetables to Du Zi
It's up to her to do it.
raised two stoves, and Li Wanqiu handed over the cut chicken to Ning Yuelan to fry.
On the board next to the steamer in the other corner, Ning Yuelu and Chu Lechan were making palace snacks.
Chu Lechan, who has never cooked all year round, tied an apron, carefully pasted the dough, then pinched it off, kneaded it into a dough, put the filling on it, wrapped it carefully, and finally put it into the grinding tool and pressed it into a snack.
Obviously, for tonight, she also studied before.
Ning Yuelu was sitting seriously carving, and her cheeks were inadvertently smeared with a little flour, and the pattern of the dim sum made the faces of the women and Chen Mo, although it was not lifelike, but she could recognize at a glance who was carved on which dim sum.
"Huh, Sister Yuelan, you still have to flip the spoon?" Xu Miao'er looked at Ning Yuelan's suddenly revealed hand, the flames rose under the iron pot, and said with a surprised expression.
"When I was in Yongcheng, I didn't cook less, and when I came to Jingshi, I was a little rusty." Ning Yuelan said modestly.
Flip the spoon, Du Zijin will too, after all, when she took Du Tian before, she made all the food.
It's just that Ning Yuelan is in the main palace, and Du Zijin is not good at stealing her limelight.
"By the way, is the meal ready?" Du Zijin asked.
"In the front kitchen, I asked Chun Ling to do it." Ning Yuelan Road.
There is more than one kitchen in the palace.
Since it is a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the dishes must be sumptuous, and a kitchen is a little busy.
"Are the drinks ready, this is not indispensable." Ning Yuelan casually took a sip.
However, as soon as these words came out, no one answered.
Obviously, the drinks weren't ready yet.
"You're busy, I'll go."
seemed to have something to do, Xu Miaoer immediately said that she would leave this matter to herself.
"The drinks are in the storeroom." Ning Yuelan Road.
"Okay."
Xu Miaoer hurriedly walked out of the kitchen and walked towards the warehouse, with excitement on her face, and as soon as she turned the corner, she was hugged by Chen Mo.
"Ahh
Xu Miao'er was startled, and when she saw that it was Chen Mo, she patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, a flush appeared on her warm cheeks, and said, "Husband, why are you here?"
"There was a chat in the living room, I couldn't interject, the tree fell asleep, I handed it to Shuyu, come to the back kitchen and take a look."
Chen Mo hugged Xu Miao'er, with a smile in the corner of his eyes: "You see that you are so happy, what are you talking about?"
"It's nothing, it's... There is something to do, not to sit idly by and watch..."Xu Miao'er whispered, "I'm going to the warehouse to take out the wine and prepare it."
"That's it?"
"Hmm."
"I'm ready, don't bother you."
"Huh? That... What am I going to do?"
「……」
Chen Mo put his arm around Xu Miao'er's shoulders, his eyes playful: "Speaking of which, I haven't played a house game with Miao'er for a long time, and it's still early to eat, why don't you find a ......place?"
「……」
Xu Miao'er's face was pale, and she glanced back, before she shook her head and said, "Don't, my sisters are busy, if you know me and my husband...... It's going to be what they're talking about..."