I ate rice for lunch today, and then paired it with five or six vegetables. Lunch was so hard.

In Li Wen's memory, the year before last, when his family was hosting guests, they only had white-flour steamed buns and porridge for breakfast. At noon, the relatives were given pork noodles and no stir-fried vegetables.

This was the limit. After entertaining the guests, the family did not recover for the next two months. The family was hungry all day long. When the wild vegetables came in spring, they filled their stomachs a little.

With the same treatment as the year before last, the reception given by Li Wen's family was already of a very good standard.

Many relatives entertained me during the Chinese New Year, and we ate cornmeal steamed buns with pickles in the morning and lunch.

Even though Li Wenjia and Sanxing Village are so arrogant this year, it is very rare for many people to leave the village.

Yesterday, on the second day of junior high school, my father and my eldest brother went to visit relatives at my aunt's house. After returning home, my eldest brother Li Wu said that they ate steamed buns mixed with corn flour and white flour in the morning. At noon, they had some soup noodles and ate them. I won't say how much noodles they had. I was full after drinking the noodle soup.

Most of the relatives still say that the food in Baishi is good. This shows that other villages are still having difficulties.

Today Li Wen's family entertained guests for dinner. Because lard and sesame oil were put into the sour soup noodles, all the adults and children drank the soup.

The child also ate two big white steamed buns, and the four large plates of cold dishes were immediately cleared.

Everyone who had had a full breakfast was full of praise for today's treatment. They were also looking forward to the lunch at noon. Because according to the rules, the New Year's lunch is more sumptuous than breakfast.

Because there were not many fish left, no fish was served today. The meat dishes at noon were all pork.

Today's staple food is Li Wen's ten pounds of rice and white flour steamed buns.

The meat dishes are braised pork with red oil, cold braised pork, large meat stew, and boiled pork slices made by Li Wen. The vegetarian dishes are fried shredded potatoes, cold fungus, and stir-fried cabbage. Plus an egg glutinous rice soup, it can be said to be rich. Extremely.

Although I was very full in the morning and had just finished my meal not long ago, as the smell of cooking came out from the kitchen, the children playing in the yard all ran towards the kitchen.

Li Wen and his family were busy in the kitchen. A group of five or six-year-old children were lying at the door of the kitchen, swallowing their saliva and watching.

"Okay, let's go play quickly. You can eat in a while!"

The children blocked the door, preventing everyone from going to the cellar to get food. Mother Wang Chunmei had to drive away these little guys.

Because it was not his own family, all the little ones were embarrassed and ran out the door one after another.

"Deyou, today's lunch at noon should be very rich! Just smelling the oil is so fragrant." A group of relatives who were listening to the noodles at the door were chatting with their father Li Deyou.

"I have to entertain everyone here today. I got some rice from the south some time ago. I will have rice and stir-fry vegetables for lunch today." Li Deyou said with high spirits.

Northern families entertain guests during the Chinese New Year. They bring out good things from home to entertain everyone, just to have a good meal.

"It seems that your village is really developed this year!"

"We just heard that several families serve noodles in sour soup for their guests in the morning. From now on, the Li family in Sanxing Village will have a lot of wives." All the relatives said with envy.

In these years, the village is united, the production team is capable, and the living conditions are good, which is of great help to the marriages in the village.

"Deyou, your Xiaowu has reached the age of marriage, how about we arrange a marriage for Xiaowu."

"There are also Ah Quan and Ah Wen. The children are not young anymore, so we can decide first." The seven aunts and eight aunts at the door all recommended themselves.

"Khan, what kind of lone wolf words are these." If Li Wen were here, he would definitely be shocked.

But in this era, engagements have indeed begun at the age of 14 or 15, and marriages at the age of 17 or 18 are commonplace. There is nothing to make a fuss about.

"Haha, thank you all for that. But Xiao Wu and Ah Quan have just started working and are still temporary workers."

"I want to wait until the child has learned the skills and is completely stable, and I am looking for opportunities to change the relationship. I am now proposing to the child. Proposing to marry the child now will only distract the child." Li Deyou and Li Dezhong chatted with relatives.

These days, children and wives cannot get married without mutual introductions from relatives and friends. If you refuse directly, it will be a failure.

After the ingredients were processed, only Li Wen, his second sister, and a few children who were helping out from the fourth master Li Juncai's family were left in the kitchen. The mother and second aunt all went out to chat with relatives.

"Awen, your craftsmanship is really good. The braised pork is soft but has a bit of chewy texture." Li Desheng's eldest daughter said with a smile.

"Sister Fang, don't make fun of me. Braised pork and boiled pork are actually the same, they just have a little more seasoning. The most important thing is to control the time and heat." Li Wen said while sitting on the pot.

"You are already so good that you can even work as a chef in a restaurant." Several other people also said in unison.

"I'll go! Be a cook?"

Li Wen didn't think about it. He likes to cook because he likes delicious food and eats it.

"I'm not interested in being a cook. I'm still young. It's not okay for me to sit around the pot all day long." Li Wen shook his head and said.

"As a cook, you can eat and drink enough every day, and you can also bring leftovers to the family. How great it is. I will marry a cook in the future." Li Desheng's eldest daughter said with admiration.

"You are poisonous. A fifteen-year-old girl wants to get married." Li Wen complained in his heart.

"Wow, Ah Fang is in love with her. She wants to get married so early." Second sister Li Xia gossiped.

"So what's the matter? We girls will have to get married sooner or later. Chunye from our village is only sixteen years old and she didn't get married years ago."

"Also, second sister, you are already seventeen. When your birthday is in March, you will be eighteen. You must find an in-law as soon as possible." Li Fang said with a smile.

"You are such a damn girl that you are in such a hurry to get married. I am not waiting for two years." Li Xia blushed and joked with Li Fang.

Li Wen couldn't help but sigh, it's really early for people to get married in this era! It's not like in later generations, there are still a lot of people in their thirties and forties who haven't gotten married yet.

"Okay, you guys, stop being so playful, it's almost one o'clock, hurry up and cook." The mothers who walked in from outside the door said with a smile.

The few young people just shut up and started lighting the fire and picking vegetables obediently.

Li Wen's family now uses iron pots. In October, Li Wen bought some scrap iron from the scrapyard and went to the town's blacksmith shop to make two pots.

In the kitchen, mother Wang Chunmei and second aunt Cui Yanzi were preparing dishes in a pot each. Several daughters-in-law of Li Juncai's family were busy garnishing and chopping vegetables. Li Wen, several sisters, and father were serving dishes outside.

The cold dishes, cold bean sprouts, cold braised pork, and cold fungus were brought out first by Li Wen. Next came the big white steamed buns and rice.

As plates of hot dishes were brought to the table by Li Wen and others, the adults were sitting at a slightly better table. They were all munching on the dishes, but there was no commotion.

There was a lot of fighting over the children's seats, but luckily there were a few older children watching and no fight broke out.

"This lunch is really hard! Sister-in-law, your family is really prosperous." At the old man's table, Li Wen's sister-in-law said to the old lady while eating braised pork.

"Eat quickly. I haven't had this meal this year for many years. The village is doing better this year, and the members have also benefited."

"It has already snowed several times at the beginning of the new year. This year will definitely be a good harvest year. I think the bad years are over, and everyone's life will be as easy as before." The old lady smiled and served some old sisters.

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The dishes have been served, and everyone has almost eaten. On the men's table, Li Wen's father took out the bulk wine he bought, and everyone moved the glasses and started drinking.

I rarely drink alcohol these days. Everyone rarely drinks, but today I had a lot of fun.

"Sister, today's banquet is really good, with lots of meat, and the rice from the south is so delicious!" Li Wen's aunt Wang Chunyan said with a smile while holding rice at the woman's table.

"Eat less, this is the only meal today, you have eaten up all the rice at my sister's house." Wang Chunmei said with a smile.

"It's so good to eat!" said the grandchildren of Uncle Li Wen's family, stretching their backs. (My uncle is my father's uncle.)

On the children's table, the little ones aged five, six, seven or eight had all finished eating and ran away, leaving only a few older young people on the table.

When visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year, most of the children are taken with them. These little ones are not good at eating and basically eat vegetables.
Chapter completed!