Chapter 180 Chapter 180 : The Fang Family's Desolation
Chapter 180 Chapter 180: The Fang Family’s Desolation
This year is the first year that everyone came here to escape the famine, and it is also the first year that Xu Yinyin’s family of four came to this world.
Old Man Xu wants to make things prosperous so that they can be even more prosperous next year.
Xu Chunshan also thought about the excitement, saying goodbye to that world and completely integrating into this world.
Therefore, when it came to preparing for the reunion dinner, the whole family went out together, and the preparations were extremely rich.
You can’t finish the New Year’s Eve dinner. You have to eat and have leftovers. The leftovers are eaten on the first day of the new year. There are no other meals on the first day of the new year.
If there are many people in the family, it is natural to prepare enough.
Old Man Xu, the head of the family, directly ordered that twelve dishes be prepared, one for each month of the twelve months of the year, so that there would be something to eat every month.
Chickens, ducks, fish, meat, a lot of everything, and I also bought a pair of pig's feet.
Qingzhou Prefecture is also a place where mutton is popular, so Mr. Xu also prepared mutton.
In addition, seeing that the prawns in the market were fresh and I had never eaten them before, I was reluctant and bought two kilograms.
A flash of green color appeared in Fang Congyun's mind. Before he could speak, Mr. Fang said: "Don't worry, wait until Congyun becomes a scholar. Getting married too early will affect him."
None of the Xu family had ever eaten this. They saw her peeling the shell with her hands and dipping the meat in soy sauce to eat it. They were curious about how she could eat this, and thinking she was smart, they all followed her example and peeled it and ate it.
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As the head of the family, Mrs. Xu stood up and delivered a New Year's speech, then waved her chopsticks, and everyone followed suit.
There was harmony and joy in the main hall.
He doesn't comment on the chicken stewed with mushroom soup, but the duck is boiled with radish in plain water. How do you eat it? It's not fishy, so why bother?
In the simple farmyard, the ongoing reunion dinner was warm and lively.
A few people in Xu Chunhe killed chickens, ducks, and fish.
Everyone in the kitchen couldn't help but look at him.
Stir-fried mutton shreds with celery, boiled prawns, cabbage stuffed with meat, and a large platter of cured meats.
But it was too time-consuming, so instead of making pig's trotter rice today, he simply made braised pig's trotters.
To be honest, he has never tasted the craftsmanship of the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law. After all, before, he mostly cooked wild vegetable porridge and drank it. Later, he opened a shop in the city and could eat well. He was also responsible for cooking.
Season the chicken soup and simmer it first, and put the duck aside first.
I haven’t touched pig’s feet for a few months, and I’m a little excited just thinking about it.
Xu Chunshan cooks very quickly and fluently, which shocked Mrs. Xu and others.
In the dining room, Mr. Fang and Mrs. Fang Bai were already seated. When he arrived, Mr. Fang poured him a glass of wine and clinked glasses with him.
Not far away in Fucheng, the New Year's Eve of the Fang family in Songlinfang seemed a little deserted.
Nowadays, the people in the kitchen around the stove have always been women. Unless they are cooks, otherwise, what are they doing in this house? How can there be a man in charge?
Seeing the enthusiasm of the third son, Mrs. Xu couldn't help but murmured that the family's life was not good at that time. Otherwise, she would have sent the third son to be a cook's apprentice, and it is impossible to say that they would all become master chefs now, nor would they.
As for the later twenty or thirty years of idleness and eating!
There were not many servants in the Fang family, just a few. Walking from one courtyard to another, no one could be seen. During the Chinese New Year, everything was quiet.
When Fang Bai heard this, she was unhappy and glared at him, "What's the impact? What's the impact?" Her grandson was always served by Wutong, who didn't even want a maid, unlike his cousin Hongxiu Tian.
Xiang, how can such self-discipline affect anything?
Mrs. Xu was in the kitchen and was in charge of directing. Mr. Ma and Ms. Zhou were in charge of the ladles, and Zhang Xiulan took Xu Yinyin and Xu Wuya to help.
Twelve dishes filled the square table.
He started by catching a pair of pig's feet.
The grandfather and grandson drank a glass of wine, then moved their chopsticks and started eating.
As soon as the firecrackers were set off in the yard, and the firecracker crumbs were everywhere, the reunion dinner began. In the main hall, two tables were set up for men and women. There were twelve dishes on the table, which were extremely rich and full of color, flavor and taste.
Since Cong Yun's parents died in an accident seven years ago, there have been only the three of them at every meal for the past seven years, which is really too deserted.
Fang Congyun offered incense and kowtowed to his parents in the quiet hall, and walked slowly to the dining room.
Her son and daughter-in-law are gone, and the two old ones have only one grandson left. From the bottom of her heart, she hopes that her grandson will get married soon and get a wife who will love him, care about him, and be considerate to him.
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Xu Chunshan rushed in quickly, "Well, let me take the spoon!"
Fang Bai used serving chopsticks to serve her grandson food, and kept asking him to eat more. She glanced at her husband next to her, paused, and couldn't help but said: "Congyun, you will be seventeen this year.
Do you have a girl you like? Let’s make an appointment to get married. If you come back with your wife as soon as possible, our family’s dinner will be more lively."
Without saying a word, Xu Yinyin was the first to pick up a prawn. The prawn was very fresh, not frozen. It must be very delicious. The most important thing is that she is not allergic now, so why not open her belly to eat it?
Mrs. Xu waved her hand and asked Mrs. Ma and Mrs. Zhou to give up the stove and let Xu Chun go up the mountain.
Vegetarian steamed egg dumplings, tofu with sauce, stir-fried spinach, and garlic bamboo shoots.
On New Year's Eve, thousands of families are reunited with lights, but for the Fang family, it is no different from ordinary times.
Now that he is doing so well without studying, how about letting the third child open a restaurant?
Mrs. Xu thought about discussing it with her father later.
Mrs. Xu thought, look at the cooking skills of the third child. He should be a cook. If she had known, she would have sent him to be a cook.
Don't mention it, a good New Year's Eve dinner is just fine if it's all boiled in plain water.
Seeing Ma stew a chicken with mushrooms, Xu Chunshan said nothing. But then, when he saw that the duck was also being stewed with radish, he couldn't help it.
The women's table was eating and talking and laughing, while the men's table, except for Xu Dajun, was all filled with wine. Old man Xu drank with his sons and grandchildren all night long, his face glowing red.
How unpleasant!
Xu Chunshan picked up a big spoon and his whole body seemed to come alive.
Xu Chunshan has been making pig's trotter rice for more than 20 years. He can cook pig's trotters with his eyes closed.
But it was too troublesome to peel the shrimps, and they were not very tasty to eat. After tasting one, I turned my chopsticks to other dishes. Well, the meat is still delicious!
Therefore, a plate of prawns was enough for Xu Yinyin to eat, and she was very satisfied.
Let the branches and leaves spread out earlier, so that there will be laughter and more popularity in this family.
"Congyun will end this year, don't you think so? With his knowledge, he will have no problem passing the county examination and then the college examination. I will work with him from next year on, and there won't be any delay, right? You guys are like
No matter what happens, do you think it can happen in a short time from getting to know each other and getting married? It might even take two or three years!"
Mr. Fang has been suppressing his grandson all the time, just to let him accumulate good knowledge and become a scholar in one go. Now that it is getting hot and the exam is just around the corner, he does not allow anything to disturb his grandson's mind at this time.
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But he also knew that the old wife was worried about her grandson, so she compromised and said: "After passing the college examination, no matter what the result is, you will start to help Congyun, okay?"