Chapter 56 Family Banquet(1/2)
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The group walked in from outside. The first one was a tall old man with purple face, wearing a green dress, holding his hands, and walking in with big strides. A woman with a fair face in her forty years was supported by a wife with a bun and a young girl. Then the door opened wide, and a man with a face similar to that of the old man in front drove the carriage from outside.
Even the old man, Shouxin and others hurried out of the house and went up to meet him.
"relatives by marriage!"
"Old brother."
Even the old man and the old man greeted each other, and even Shoxin hurriedly stepped forward and bowed deeply to the old man.
"father in law!"
It turned out that this was Zhang's father Zhang Qingshan, followed by Zhang's mother Li, sister-in-law Wang, niece Zhang Caiyun, and Zhang's elder brother Zhang Qingnian.
Zhang's mother's family is about fifty miles away from Thirty Li Yingzi. It is a village in the mountains called Shaoguotun. The Zhang family also planted dozens of acres of land, and there were dozens of acres of orchards in the mountains. It can be regarded as a wealthy family. The old couple had only two sons and two daughters. Both sons became families, and the eldest daughter was Lian Man'er's mother married to Thirty Li Yingzi.
Lian Man'er, Lian Zhi'er, Wulang and Xiaoqi rushed to call grandpa, grandma, uncle, aunt, and cousin. Lian Lao'er asked Zhang Qingshan into the room, and Li took his wife and granddaughter to see Zhang first. Lian Shouxin took Wulang to help Zhang Qingnian unload the animals, fed grass and water to the animals, and then moved things into the room.
The few people invited to the room saw that it was Zhang's mother's family. They knew that the separation was delayed. Even if there were any changes, they would say goodbye first.
"...Bring a jar of burning knives. We brothers and men will have a good time to drink." Zhang Qingshan blocked.
Some of the people Li Zheng and others called old brothers, and some called uncles, but they refused to stay and still said goodbye.
Old Master Lian gave Zhang Qingshan to the kang, Zhang Qingshan took out his tobacco pipe, put a bag of cigarettes, and slowly started smoking.
"Old brother, our family is not separated from each other, so if something happens, I should also send me a letter." Zhang Qingshan said slowly.
Even Shouxin was coming in from outside, so he hurriedly admitted that it was his fault.
Zhang Qingshan glanced at Lian Shouxin and said nothing. Even the old man's face turned red. He knew that Zhang Qingshan had heard about the Lian family.
"I was rude. I was too busy in autumn, so it wasn't good..." Old Master Lian tried to explain.
"Old brother, do you still remember how we met..." Zhang Qingshan intercepted Mr. Lian and talked about the past.
When Zhang Qingshan was young, he went out to go to single gangs and did a lot of livelihoods, including going to the prairie further north to sell horses, to sell silk and cloth south of the Yangtze River, and even doing private salt business. At that time, even the old man was a shopkeeper in the county. After a while, the two met.
"We love to be a kiss. My old brother is a kind and sincere person. At that time, he was a shopkeeper. I admire your character. The Lian family is a serious family. My daughter is a daughter-in-law for you. Then the Guanguanbao cannot be wrong..."
Zhang Qingshan didn't mention Zhang's affairs, but only talked to Mr. Lian about the things they did when they were young. Mr. Lian was both ashamed and grateful, and the more they talked, the more they became more and more dense.
There was a different scene in the west wing.
Li and Zhang's mother hugged each other and cried bitterly as soon as they met. Wang and Zhang Caiyun persuaded each other, but they heard that Lian Man'er was sleeping for three days and almost died. Zhang lost her child, and how she saved her life, she wiped her tears.
"You stupid kid, why don't you know how to send a message to your home? If your brother hadn't rushed to the Shantun'er market and met people in your village, and heard about this, I wouldn't know anything." Li scolded Zhang with heartache, "You have to feel sorry for your mother, do you know?"
Zhang cried, "Mom, I'm just afraid you're worried..."
Zhang loves face and never says how good he is in front of his mother's family, and he refuses to say a word of bad words. Of course, he also has the intention of being afraid that Zhang Qingshan and Li will worry about her.
"Girl, if something happens to you, you should think of someone to tell me and your brother if you don't tell me." Wang was a loud voice, "The girl from our Zhang family can't be bullied like this. If it is reported, my Wang Yufeng's face will be left. Girl, you can tell the rules, and now my sister-in-law alone can vent your anger."
Mrs. Wang rolled up her sleeves.
Zhang quickly said no.
"I'm fine now, I'll admit it. I don't look at others, and my father. If it starts to make trouble, it's not easy for him to be a human being." Zhang said, "I'm discussing the separation today, just separate."
"You are still the same kind of personality when you were at home." Wang said, "When you meet a good person, you are harmonious and beautiful. When you encounter a bad person, you are suffering."
"It's all my fault. I always teach you to be gentle and filial, and exchange your heart for your heart. I think his family is a good person, but it ends up causing you to suffer a loss." Li blamed himself.
"Mom, don't say that. It's because I'm too ignorant of adaptability. I figured it out now, and it's going to be fine in the future." Zhang said hurriedly.
After talking for a while, Li hugged Lian Man'er in his arms, and then cried again with the young grandson who had never met before. When it came to the child, Zhang cried again.
"Mom, the girl is nourishing her body. Let's show the things we have." Wang quickly interrupted.
"The two hens in that basket and this basket of eggs are all for you to nourish your body, so don't be reluctant to eat them." Li said to Zhang.
Li asked Wang to bring all the things he brought and told Zhang one by one. In addition to two hens, a basket of eggs, there were also a bag of rice and a bag of white flour, a piece of pork with three layers of dried mushrooms, a bunch of dry fungus, a basket of autumn plums, a basket of duck pears, a basket of brown sugar, two bags of desserts, and a big green cloth.
"Mom, it's time to collect the land and fruit trees at home. It's time to be busy. So many people come for me and bring these things..." Zhang was a little sad.
"The harvest in the fields is almost done, and the fruits on the mountain have to wait for two days. My second brother, my sister-in-law, and a few children at home, so I have nothing to worry about. There is not much to worry about..." Wang said.
"It's not your turn to know that your good things are good, I'm afraid you will lose your health." Li said.
Zhang Caiyun saw the chickens on the beams of the outer house, as well as the japonica rice and white flour at the corner of the house. There were two eggs in the basket on the cabinet, so he asked Li and Wang to see.
My mother's faces looked a little better.
"This time she was guilty and was willing to take out these things for you..."
"Thanks to a few children..." Zhang asked Lian Man'er to help her with his life, and then helped her to make a small kitchen. "Several children are sensible, Zhier and Wulang go to the ground to help his father work every day, so I lay on the kang, and Man'er arranged for me to eat and drink. Xiaoqi also talked with me..."
"Man'er can cook?"
"I learned it after seeing my mother doing it." Lian Man'er said.
"I was worried at first, but I didn't expect that the food she made was delicious." Zhang said proudly.
"Qiao Niang is not a stupid girl. You can do anything when you are at home. It would be great if Caiyun was half like her aunt." Wang said.
At this time, I heard that the old man asked Zhou to prepare the meal in the room.
"I'm going to cook when I go to the room, so my father asked me to take the meat over." Zhang Qingnian came in and said.
"Take it over." Li nodded, "Let's go there too, I have to talk to my mother-in-law."
Everyone came up to the room. Zhou and Li met. They all said a few polite words.
"Look, I have to cook now. Let my in-laws sit in the house. I will let my granddaughter-in-law talk with you." Zhou said.
Lian Man'er thought that Li had something to say to Zhou, so she said to Zhou, "My grandma, let's talk to my grandma's house, I'll make the meals with my sister."
"That won't happen." Zhou said. She was actually a little guilty and was unwilling to face people like Li.
"What's wrong? There are no outsiders. The children can eat whatever they do. Who can choose?" The men in the east room were talking. It was inconvenient, so Wang let Zhou half-held and half-held into the west room. Lian Xiuer and Jiang were afraid that Zhou would suffer losses, so they hurriedly followed him in.
Lian Man'er discussed with Lian Zhier what dishes to cook.
"Grandma and grandpa come to see my mother. This is a big deal. We should try our best to cook this food in a sumptuous way." Lian Man'er said.
First, it was a cold dish. I prepared a garlic paste and cucumber with three shreds: dried tofu shredded tofu, shredded carrots, and shredded green radish. It was made into a sour and spicy flavor. There were also a big skin-pulled garlic paste and autumn oil. In addition, I asked Goro to go to the roof to get a bundle of peanuts, peeled out the peanut kernels, fryed it in oil, and sprinkled with salt. There were four cold dishes in total.
Then there is a hot dish, a fried egg with leeks, a fried cucumber and fungus with slices of meat, a dried green pepper tofu, and a fried eggplant box. It is to cut the meat into minced meat, season with flour, salt, and pepper to make a filling, pick a large tender eggplant to make an eggplant box, fry it in a pan, then fry a sour bean, and finally make a braised pork with potatoes and pork belly.
Four cold dishes and six hot dishes. Lian Man'er thought it would be almost done, so he asked Lian Ye'er to help him cook the fire, Lian Man'er and Lian Zhi'er prepared to cook.
In the east room, Mr. Lian didn't know what he said to Zhang Qingshan, so he sent Lian Shouli out and invited a few people in the middle to come back, saying that there was not much trouble for the separation of the family this time, so he took advantage of the time before the meal to distinguish the family.
When Wu Yuchang came, he also carried two carp.
Lian Man'er thought about it and the specifications of this meal should be improved a little. The dish I ordered just now was almost the same, but the amount should be increased. In addition, with these two fish, it should be enough to fry more things. The tables where people in rural areas had fish, meat, and fried food, which could be considered the first-class table.
The men were talking about the separation of the family in the east room. When they saw Lian Man'er's work inside and outside, they just thought that it was a few children who helped Zhou. The Zhou family members there didn't know that they had invited the waiter so soon, so only Zhang Caiyun came out and took a look. He wanted to help. Lian Man'er saw that she was wearing a new outfit and pushed her back into the room.
Therefore, no one knows that only Lian Man'er and Lian Zhier can take care of the meals for lunch.
"Man'er, can we cook, can we do it?" Lian Zhi'er was still a little unconfident.
"Why can't it be? Sister, you are no worse than your breasts or mothers."
"I have never made this eggplant box, cucumber cake and potato cake. Can it be delicious?"
"Don't worry, it must be delicious." Lian Man'er said.
"Man'er, how did you figure it out?"
"I'm cooking for my mother these two days. I'm fine." Lian Man'er said.
"I don't know how to feel sorry for milk after using so much oil." Lian Man'er and Lian Xiu'er first fried peanuts and frying eggplant boxes.
"You don't have to worry about how much oil you use. As long as the host and the guest at the dinner table are faced, you can only praise us." Lian Man'er said.
Lian Zhier nodded. The countryside family tried to be frugal as much as possible for themselves, but the meals they treated were not careless at all.
In the west room, Zhou heard the sound of the fryer outside, smelling the fragrant smell. He was a little anxious, but he couldn't take it off.
Li kept holding Zhou and wiping her tears while talking to her.
"...The bride gifts you gave were brought back. Including the dowry, there were also boxes and cabinets, which was no worse than anyone else. Now, my daughter's cabinet is empty and her head is naked. The last two hairpins are used to treat the child. Isn't the child the child?..."
"How much does Man'er cost to treat a doctor? Those two silver hairpins have bought some Yangrong Pills for my aunt." Wang said with a smile without a smile.
Zhou had a fever on his face and his butt was uncomfortably moved on the kang. Lian Xiuer and Jiang could only accompany him awkwardly.
"Old sister. Over the years, we have nothing to do with sorry for you. My daughter has her first child, and you are in confinement, and no one takes care of you. I brought my old daughter to serve you. My daughter is still behind and I will take care of you first. Old sister, I serve you in confinement. We are the same generation, I don't owe you not to you. What I serve you for? Isn't it just for you to remember this relationship and treat my honest daughter well? I have washed your diapers and your bloody pants for your in-laws. My daughter is so honest that she has put the branches aside for her breasts. We treat you so heartily, and the old sister, the hearts of people are all flesh. How can you bear to destroy my daughter to death..."
What Li said was the facts, and Zhou could not tell.
"No one asked you to serve me?" Lian Xiu'er said with a red face.
"Oh, you still have any reason?" Wang stared at her eyes.
Jiang hurriedly pulled Lian Xiu'er and refused to let her speak. Jiang herself refused to speak, just laughing.
"Xiu'er, you have grown to over one year old with your fourth sister-in-law's breasts. Your mother forced you to wean, and you also forced your sister-in-law to wean Zhi'er. Your sister-in-law treats you heavier than Zhi'er. Every time she goes back to her parents' home, she doesn't talk about you, saying that you have grown taller and gained weight. Xiu'er, why are you doing it? Are you guilty or not?"
To be continued...