At Song Qiu's table, in addition to herself, Old Yuan and Old Deng, there were five other women. The village chief's wife happened to be at this table as well, making it even more lively when they were relaxing.
The village chief's wife is also of the same generation as Old Yuan and the others, she is about the same age, and she is more talkative.
"For my eightieth birthday, landowner Cheng said that not only would she invite a theater troupe to sing a three-day opera, but she would also hold a running banquet for three days! Everyone in the eight villages within ten miles can go and have a feast at will! By then, we can
Gotta go early!”
In their area, those who can live to be eighty are considered to be very old, and the Cheng family is even more blessed. I heard that Landlord Cheng's grandmother is still alive and is now almost a hundred years old.
The Cheng family is a well-known multi-generational family in Panshi Town and has a prosperous population. It is said that there are ten or twenty tables for the New Year's Eve dinner.
Who from ten miles and eight villages doesn’t want to be blessed by the Cheng family?
When there is nothing wrong, he often hangs around Cheng's house, hoping to get some good luck.
Not to mention the running water mat, which was destined to be crowded by everyone from ten miles and eight villages.
When the village chief's wife said this, everyone at the table became excited.
"Last year, Landlord Cheng held a lively event for his mother. I remember it was around this time. I can't remember the exact time. I wonder which day it was? I want to remember it so that I don't miss it later.
It’s been three full days! We don’t even have to cook!”
Guixiang, Wang Orion's daughter-in-law, grinned and pulled the village chief's wife to inquire about the details.
The three members of her family hunt all year round, and life is not difficult. However, the Cheng family's running water mat is not about hunting for the autumn breeze. Eating it brings blessings. If you don't use it, it will be in vain!
The village chief's wife laughed and said: "Zhengsheng is on the 22nd of April. There are three days of running water banquets. We eat from the 22nd to the 24th. The banquets are set up all day long. When a table is full, a table will be given out."
, it’s enough to eat, as long as you can eat it, you won’t have to worry about squatting there all day long!”
"This is really lavish. How much money will be spent on such a flowing water technique?" Sun Dati's daughter-in-law Jin Juhua couldn't help but clicked her tongue.
Old Mrs. Deng couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, "You are just sighing blindly. Who among us living hundreds of miles away doesn't know that the Cheng family is extremely rich? What does this little running water mat mean? The Cheng family's daily expenses for food and clothing are not worth it."
More than these!"
This is true. There are so many people in the Cheng family, and they use so many servants and countless long-term workers. The expenses in and out of a day are not small.
Jin Juhua said curiously: "I heard that the grandma of the Cheng family uses pearl powder to apply on her face every day, but the powder is ground with serious pearls. It is said that one pearl is worth twenty taels of silver. Auntie
, the Donggua brothers have been working in the Cheng family for so many years and know a lot, is this true?"
Zhang Donggua and Chen worked as long-term workers in the Cheng family and helped the Cheng family farm. How did they know about the affairs of the Cheng family's inner house?
Besides, Zhang Donggua and his wife only come back from holidays all year round, so how can they have so much free time to talk about these things?
Old Deng said: "I don't know about this. My Winter Melon and the two of them are both saw-mouthed gourds. They are busy working. How can they pay attention to anything else?"
Everyone in the village knew that she didn't like her son very much, and Jin Juhua was also a discerning person, so they didn't pursue her further.
He just sighed and started to talk, "We have worked hard all year round and we can't even compare to a pearl. This is just comparing people to each other. There is no comparison!"
The people at the table just listened to her smacking her tongue, and no one answered her words. Just say a few words, but it's not easy to follow her. What if someone accidentally heard her?
Those who know know that they are envious, but those who don’t know think that they are jealous of others!
However, although the Cheng family is extremely wealthy, it is also a family that started to prosper in just a few generations, and they did not get it by stealing or doing bad things.
During the free time, the food started to be served. Everyone just focused on eating and no one said anything more.
The ordinary banquet noodles in the village are quite satisfactory, consisting of eight dishes, four meat and four vegetarian.
The four meat dishes include a plate of fried pork with courgette, a plate of braised carp, a plate of roasted chicken with beans, and a plate of braised duck.
Si Su has a plate of fried long beans with eggplant, a plate of stir-fried loofah, a plate of tofu mixed with green onions, and a plate of stir-fried chrysanthemum.
I ordered a large spoon from Shiliba Village that specializes in making banquet noodles. The taste was okay, certainly better than the home-made noodles.
Song Qiu tasted them one by one, and found that the stir-fried dishes were all good and tasted better than those made with her own milk. At least the stir-fried courgette and meat were not made with wood.
After all, it is a large spoon specially used to prepare the table noodles, and the cooking skills are also experienced.
After tasting these dishes, Song Qiu gained some confidence in his craftsmanship.
After dinner, everyone went back to their homes. Song Qiu and Zhang Lihua, who happened to have lunch, went up to the mountain to pick up mountain mushrooms.
Zhang Lihua has grown so big that she has never been to a banquet, and she often drags Song Qiu around to ask questions.
"Aqiu, how was the banquet at Aunt Caihua's house today? Was it delicious?"
"It's not bad, there's meat, chicken, duck and fish." Song Qiu's evaluation was fair.
Zhang Lihua was drooling as she listened, "It sounds delicious, but it's a pity. Originally, I could have gone to my grandpa's house for a banquet, but my grandpa's house is far away, so I can't even go there during the Chinese New Year."
Yeah, it’s really hard to get a seat!”
It is a custom in the ten miles and eight villages that if you are not a real relative, you can go to other people's homes for a meal at most two people. If there are not enough adults to go, where will the younger generation get their turn?
Zhang Lihua is not greedy for the banquet, but she is greedy for the lively and meaty food.
Song Qiu looked at it and said what he heard from the village chief's mother-in-law at the banquet today, "On the 22nd, let's go to Chengjiazhuang together. You can eat as much as you want on the flowing water banquet, and you can also watch a play.
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If you don't get it for free, Grandma Deng won't care about Lihua.
Zhang Lihua's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she couldn't wait for it to be twenty-two tomorrow.
"That's great! Let's go have a banquet and meet my father and mother."
It was busy farming, and her parents hadn't been home for a long time. She missed them.
It was almost mid-day, and there were still several days until the 22nd, but the things at hand were more important. As they went up the mountain, the two of them began to pick up mountain mushrooms in earnest.
There are also mountain mushrooms that came out in the afternoon, or those that were not picked up in the morning. The cats are under the shade of the trees. Most of them are still fresh and fresh. Some of them are wilted and unsightly. It doesn’t matter. You can still pick them up and use them to make dried mountain mushrooms.
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After picking up two pieces of the mountain, almost half of the backpack was filled, and the sun began to set.
The skirt was swept back and forth, attracting a lot of lice, which were dragged on the skirt and looked frighteningly tight.
When the two of them were halfway down the mountain, they simply sat down and started picking the lice from their skirts. If you couldn't pick the lice, you picked them for me and I picked them for you. It took me a long time to clean them up.
After all the lice were removed, Song Qiu and Zhang Lihua put their backpacks on their backs and continued down the mountain.