Chang Xiu and Lady Dong looked at the menu and list, discussed and made some adjustments.
Madam Dong couldn't help but ask: "Madam, do you want to invite people from Shanjiabao over this year? I heard that the Tian family's business is not doing well, and there is some money shortage there."
"No need," Jiang Feiping shook her head, "They are just a little poor on the surface. With the lingering shadow of Lengmei Palace, they will not be hungry."
Chang Xiu pondered: "Madam, why not ask Miss Xiao to make friends with her? She is similar in age to Miss Shan Er and Luo Mingzhu. It would be good to give her some silver as a gift."
"Sending money is a slap in the face," Jiang Feiping shook her head, "Don't worry, Luo Wendao and his wife will not ignore their daughter. Even if the food from Luojiazhuang cannot be transported, they will send money."
Madam Dong questioned, "Madam, is it really okay for us to just watch like this?"
"Who makes your husband never come back?" Jiang Feiping said with a smile, "Of course it's his fault if anything happens."
Chang Xiu sighed: "I wonder if the master is well."
"It must be more comfortable than us." Jiang Feiping looked at the river, "To be honest, the three of us are here to keep an eye on him so that he can hide in the deep mountains and old forests and be at ease."
"There are people who live in and control the city. You can't live outside."
"If someone takes care of the big house, you can no longer live in the wild shop."
"But my husband is the kind of person who lives and manages the mountains and forests and doesn't want to come out at all."
"Also, my husband really doesn't like money."
"So, to be honest, even if we are sitting on these millions of taels of homestead property."
"I really don't know when he will come back, let alone whether he will come back."
"This is why everyone has his own ambitions and his own life."
Chang Xiu and Lady Dong looked at the river and sighed together, but as Jiang Feiping said, they really couldn't get used to that kind of life, so they could only stay here.
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Soaring Snake City.
The twelfth lunar month is coming to an end, and the New Year is here.
Naturally, the restaurant was closed and everyone went home to celebrate the New Year.
Yamazaki and Shandai are two people, plus an evil thief who sneaked over.
He is alone, lonely and cold!
Yamazaki didn't mind him either, he was quite lively, so he just wanted to play mahjong with Shandai.
It is stated that no effort is allowed, only memory skills and luck.
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Yamazaki cooks, New Year's Eve dinner, eight cold, eight hot, sixteen dishes and two soups.
Although there were not many people, the portion size did not decrease much due to the foodie Shan Dai.
The cold dishes are four meat and four vegetables, a plate of half a pound of pig head meat, a plate of half a pound of pig ears, a plate of frozen yokan, and a plate of four pieces of chicken and duck.
A plate of cucumbers mixed with garlic, a plate of sour plum and lotus root slices, a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus rice wine, and a plate of fried tofu.
The hot dishes are four and four half meat dishes, a plate of braised pork, a plate of roasted lamb legs with dipping sauce, a plate of fried chicken meatballs, and a plate of steamed carp.
A plate of fried pork liver with onions, a plate of fried chicken offal with leeks, a plate of stewed mutton with radish, and a plate of stewed duck with dried bamboo shoots.
The soup is chicken soup and mutton soup.
Desserts include fried rice cakes and fried spring rolls filled with pork and chives.
There are also three jars of wine, and I hired a helper to make some. Usually it is mainly used for cooking, but now it is just for the occasion.
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The table was placed in the kitchen, all four stoves were turned on, and it wasn't cold at all in the kitchen.
Yamazaki's eight cold dishes were served, and the hot dishes were ready, so he called Shandai and Xie Dao to come over and serve them.
Hot dishes should be cooked while eating. If they are cold, they will become uncomfortable to eat.
Everyone pours hot wine, throws some bamboo into the furnace, and with the sound of firecrackers, eat!
While we were eating and drinking here, the carp in the No. 1 stove over there was steamed and served, and the haggis soup was put on the table.
Take a small dish of vinegar, sprinkle with minced ginger, and eat it as a dip. It is especially delicious.
After the fish is finished and taken away, the duck stewed with dried bamboo shoots in stove No. 2 is ready, and the oil pan is changed to the table.
Yamazaki ate a little, then got down from the table and started cooking the roasted leg of lamb on the No. 3 stove, peeling off the outer layer of the roasted lamb, then adding firewood to the No. 2 stove and frying the chicken meatballs in the oil pan.
Here the chicken meatballs are coming out of the pot one after another, then change the oil, stir-fry two while the pot is hot, and then they are out of the pot as soon as they pop.
Change the oil and braise the pork knuckles slowly.
Then cut the lamb leg meat, and at the same time, the haggis soup on the No. 1 stove is ready. Serve it on the table. Place a pot of radish stewed mutton on the No. 1 stove.
Yamazaki returned to the table for his second round, taking care of the pork knuckles and roasted lamb legs.
As all the roasted lamb legs were served, braised pork knuckles were also served.
The chopsticks are not good at handling, so I started to eat it with my hands, and my face was covered with oil.
Yamazaki was only 60 to 70% full after finishing the meal, so he got down from the table and continued cooking.
The No. 2 and No. 3 stoves are served together, one fried rice cake and one fried spring roll. There are not many, so I just tasted them.
After that, the radish stewed mutton is ready.
The chicken soup from the No. 4 stove is also ready, serve it together.
All the dishes were now served, and the previous ones were almost eaten, and most of them were in Shandai's stomach.
Collect the empty plates and start the final round.
After eating, it was already late at night, Yamazaki cleaned up the kitchen, and Shandai and Xie Dao went back to continue playing mahjong.
It was already midnight after Yamazaki finished his work. He went back to the house to say hello and urged the newly formed May friends to go to bed quickly.
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The next day is the first day of the new year.
When Yamasaki gets up early in the morning, he first feeds his chickens, pigs and sheep.
Now we have two nests of chickens, eight pigs and four sheep.
Then he jumped on the wall and went to inspect the various courtyards.
Three to four hundred acres of farmland are scattered among hundreds of residential houses of varying sizes.
There are straws piled up in the room, which can be used as firewood to save a lot of money.
I met some people who were also active on the wall and exchanged hands with each other to wish them a happy New Year.
As the rooster crows, Yamazaki goes back to urge Shan Dai and Xie Dao to get up, telling them that their task today is to chop stuffing.
Make pork dumplings and mutton dumplings and eat them all day long.
Yamazaki went to make noodles and steamed red date cakes as snacks.
Prepare the dumpling wrappers for the next two days. Steam dumplings at noon and boiled dumplings at night. You can sleep in tomorrow and fry dumplings in the morning.
All in all, Shandai's foodie needs two to three hundred dumplings for three meals per person, and five hundred dumplings for three people.
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On the other side, the Duanmu Dynasty, the capital.
The palace is preparing for a New Year's dinner for all the ministers. This is the busiest time of the year in the palace, and it is also the most tense time for everyone in the palace.
As a result of the assassination on New Year's Eve last year, the New Year's Eve banquet was also cancelled.
This year has come and gone, and it’s time for the palace to have a festive atmosphere and for everyone to relax.
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Over the past year, people have been breaking into the palace. Although the emperor was fine, there were many casualties among the guards and attendants.
The capital has a curfew every day and checks on people every day. It is no exaggeration to say that people are in panic.
The prosperity of the capital was gone forever, and many people fled the capital.
The merchants and common people were able to escape, but the officials could not leave, let alone the people in the palace, who had to bear the emperor's wrath with fear every day.
But everyone can understand that he deserves to be an emperor. Everyone in the world is waiting to see how he dies. How can he not be angry?
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Although the secret agent commander suggested not to hold a New Year's banquet this time, the emperor disagreed because it was important to save face.
This shelf must be maintained no matter what, otherwise people's hearts will become even more unstable and the world will look down upon them.
However, in order to facilitate the security in the palace, the banquet time was changed from evening to noon, and it could be postponed until the end of the evening.
The excuse was that it was suspected that there would be heavy rain at night, making it inconvenient to hold an open-air banquet.
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The banquet was outside the Golden Palace, with five hundred tables on each side.
There are five rows at the front, then four rows, three rows, two rows, and one row at the end.
There are guards and spies all around. Not to mention flies, it is impossible for people to sneak in anyway, but it is still possible to force their way in.
Eunuch You Yunxiang directed the palace people to be busy, and he was also very busy.
Hundreds of officials, dignitaries and their families arrived one after another, and they didn't talk much. They talked after they sat down to avoid being too conspicuous.
Everyone knows that this is for the world to see, to let the world know that Emperor Duanmuhuan is still the supreme emperor!