Of course, it was convenient for them to sit together. Just so, nine people came to them, and there was only one table left, leaving an empty seat. Because the tables they were sitting on were big tables like Xiaoxi's family, and the benches were also big benches, not like the ones who later put ten stools on them, and it was obvious whether they had enough seats for ten people.

For example, now, if you have to know if one table is enough for ten people, you have to count it. You can sit in a crowded table, and you can really fool it if you don’t care. So, until the table is over, there are still nine people, and there is not enough for them to get together.

Before the food was served, a few people grabbed the melon seeds on the plate and ate them while chatting. The hard candy was also divided, usually two for one person, but the adults didn't eat them and gave them to the children. The fruit was orange, one for each person, and one for each person was divided into a box of yogurt.

Grandma Chen took out a plastic bag from her pocket and spread it open. Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin put the yogurt and oranges in front of her in without any lingering at all. This is very common in eating banquets in rural areas. Basically, everyone who eats mats has prepared pockets, such as these fruits and milk, as well as some dry and resistant things behind, and they will be put in them and eat them slowly when they go home.

While everyone was eating melon seeds, my cousin's father took out the cigarette box and distributed two of them each, and everyone carefully collected them. The cigarette costs several dollars a pack, which was much better than what they usually smoked. Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin's were handed over to Grandma Chen to collect, and when he went home, he smoked for Mr. Chen or came to find cigarettes for someone.

Looking for cigarettes means that someone helps or comes to the house and lights a cigarette for someone to smoke.

Then divide paper cups, plastic bowls and chopsticks. For example, when holding a banquet, it was only in the past two years that I slowly started using plastic bowls. I just wanted to save trouble. After eating, I didn’t have to spend more time washing dishes. You should know that if I hold a banquet, the consumption of these bowls and chopsticks is very large. Just washing it will make it so tired that several people can’t straighten their waists.

In fact, this kind of bowl is not good at all. It is very thin and looks bad at first glance. There is also hot soup behind it. Xiaoxi dares not use this bowl to serve soup.

When a man drinks, he pours soy milk for the women and children, and those who help him start serving the dishes.

Even though it is winter, the first ones must be served are a few cold dishes. A plate of cold pork liver, a plate of cold pork ears, a plate of sliced ​​beef, a plate of whole roast duck cut into pieces, and a plate of fried chicken legs.

One fried chicken legs were given to Xiaoxi and the other one left. The eldest lady also gave her to them. Grandma Chen put her into a plastic bag in her hand. The father and his wife also gave their chicken legs to Zhao Juan and the sister. Everyone knew that this was to be taken home for food, but they saw that they were put into plastic bags, and they didn't say anything.

Grandma Chen picked up a few slices of beef and a few pieces of roast duck and put them in a plastic bag, but stopped picking it up. She tied her pockets and then worked hard to eat it by herself.

After the cold dishes, there are hot dishes. First, serve some home-cooked stir-fried dishes, such as shredded peppers, fried meat slices of black fungus, fried meat slices of garlic sprouts, cucumber slices, etc., and then the highlight is the highlight.

A steamed fish, a bowl of crispy meat, a bowl of roasted white, a bowl of stewed chicken, a bowl of sweet rice, a bowl of elbow, a bowl of knife tip, a bowl of longan, a bowl of sand, a small pot of corn, winter melon, kelp and rib soup, and a plate of cold bean sprout vermicelli.

The cold bean sprouts vermicelli means that the dishes are served, and the banquet is almost done. Those who help will carry a large basin with white rice and shuttle through the table to serve the rice. After a while, someone will carry an iron bucket filled with hot soup and pick up the basin on the table to serve the soup.

Generally, there are two types of soup after meals, one is vegetable soup and the other is tomato and egg soup.

After drinking the soup, the meal was ready. A few people got off the table and went to the fire to roast the fire. The seats on the winter are cold.

After baking for a while, it was getting late and the second wheel of the man was almost finished, so I found the owner to arrange accommodation. It was so late that it would take more than 40 minutes to go back. The old ones, the young ones, will definitely not go back.

There are many houses and beds in the countryside. Although there are many people coming to have banquets, there are also many households around. After being arranged, a group of people went to bed with them.

The next morning banquet is slightly different from the night before. Some people make banquets better than the morning, while others make mornings better than the evening. In fact, this one is better, and there is no big difference.

There are a few more cold dishes, such as soaking chicken feet, fried shrimps, losing elbows, changing into stewed turtles, and pastries. There are also a few more stir-frying dishes.

After dinner and resting for a while, he went to say hello to the master's house and said he was going home. The master pulled them and said he would not let him go. The group of people talked for a while. One side said, "It's almost the Chinese New Year, I have to go home to pack up and prepare things, what's going on." The other side said, "That's right, then I won't delay you, sister and brother, after the Chinese New Year, I will come to play for two days." One side said, "Yes, yes, yes, I want it."

When the person was about to leave, the owner went back to the house to pick up steamed buns. When he came to the banquet, he had to pay for the gift. The steamed buns were a gift. The family returned two white flour flowered buns, which were usually bought in the market, two yuan per one.

If the two families were closer, when they left, the owner would pick up some leftovers and bring them with them. Although it was left on the table, it would be possible for the whole family to change their tastes when they took them back, so no one would refuse.

The master is willing to give it to others now. First, sell it for a good deal, and second, it is almost the Chinese New Year, and then I have to pack up some food and throw it away if I can’t finish it. It’s a pity.

So, one person carried a few plastic bags and rushed home. Some of them were busy these days.

When they got home, the few people started to work hard.

After finding the konjac bumps in the corner of the kitchen, after washing it, Grandma Chen put on gloves and started peeling. After peeling the black skin outside, she wiped the konjac into thin silk with a wipe.

When playing konjac, you must take protective measures from your opponent, otherwise your hands will become itchy and extremely itchy, and it will not be cured for several days.

Add water to the pot, and when it is almost boiling, pour the rubbed konjac shreds into the pot and cook.

Xiaoxi's house has a wooden stick with a thick wrist, which is very smooth, and it looks like a common thing. This wooden stick looks like a rolling pin, but it is not as thick as a rolling pin, but it is as thick as a rolling pin, but it is as thick as a rolling pin, and it is as thick as a 70 or 80 centimeters long.

Mr. Chen looked at the fire, and Grandma Chen stirred the wooden stick clockwise along the edge of the pot. Slowly, the white turned gray, and the konjac shreds were gone, becoming very sticky. Put down the wooden stick, pick up the diluted alkali, that is, baking soda, and pour it into the pot. Stir for a few minutes, add a few scoops of water, add firewood and cook for a while. After it condenses into pieces, use a kitchen knife to draw the word "well" and cut it into pieces. Continue to turn and cook it, and cook the konjac a little older.

After cooking, it was taken out and put in a basin. When it was cold, Grandma Chen put it into the bracelet.

After lunch, everyone just took a bite and started to work hard again.

I washed the rice soaked in wood ash a few times, cleaned it, and took a few buckets to the old yard.

The wood ash is alkaline. The night before, Mr. Chen screened out the wood ash, measured the rice, and added an appropriate amount of wood ash to soak it. Then it was just right to refine the pulp.

How much does it take to use for the old man Chen, the old man, is easy to use. If you put too much wood ash, you will make this jelly and make it into a tongue. If you put it in less, the jelly will be too tender and easy to dissipate.

There was a stone mill in the old yard. Old Master Chen and his three brothers went on the battle, pushing, pulling, and putting rice. They worked together to grind two buckets of rice into two buckets of rice juice in an hour.

When I got home, I divided the two buckets of rice juice into two pots.

A bucket of rice juice poured into half a pot, the same is true. People cannot be separated from the stove. Use a wooden stick to stir clockwise along the edge of the pot.

As the water evaporates, the rice juice gradually becomes sticky. The more you stir, the more you become, the more difficult it is. Grandma Chen and Mr. Chen change it.

He added water to boil another pot and put it on the steamer. At this moment, the banana leaves were nothing fresh. Thinking that it would not break anyway on the tree, so he confiscated the house. He cut two yellow banana leaves, washed them and spread them on.

The first pot of rice juice needs to be cooked older, but this depends on experience. One is to look at the color, slightly darker, and the other is to look at the consistency. Dig it with a wooden stick to see if it can be hung on the stick.

Seeing that it was almost done, I prepared a basin of cold water beside my hands. Mr. Chen rolled up his sleeves and scooped the semi-finished product in the pot into the steamer with a spoon. Because it was about to be formed and generally flat, everything had to be patted with his hands, and the basin of cold water was used.

Most of the pot of rice juice was filled with two full trays, and the firewood was added to steam. The two steamers were rice tofu. Sliced ​​with slices of rice tofu and stir-fryed with meat, which was very delicious, but it was a bit oily. If the oil was added less, the fried rice tofu was relatively dry and not delicious.

After washing the pot, I started making another bucket of rice juice. I still stirred with a wooden stick, but this pot should be cooked a little tender. Or, everything depends on experience.

The pot is almost ready. Put the big firewood under the ladder pot in the middle, wash it and add half a pot of water to boil. After the water boils, add half a spoon of lard, add salt, pepper and other seasonings, and then add sauerkraut and chopped green onion. One pot of soup is ready.

I scooped two large bowls of jelly to serve, and then scooped four bowls of soup, put them on chopsticks, and then I started to finish my meal.

Use chopsticks to pick up a chopstick jelly, soak it in a soup bowl, soak it for a while, pick it up and put it in your mouth, it is glutinous and bubbly. This is hot jelly, which is delicious. Generally, you can only eat it on the day of making jelly. Later, there were people in the county town selling hot jelly in the morning, and the business was very hot.

After the meal, the jelly is almost done. These jelly are used for stewing later, so it is a little bit older than what Xiaoxi and the others had just eaten.

Find the large and small bowls at home, scoop up the jelly in the pot and put it in the bowl. When it cools down, turn it upside down and it looks like a bowl, which is very gratifying.

After simmering a meal with charcoal, there was a thick layer of crust at the bottom of the pot. It was packed up and the soup was very delicious after cooking.

The rice tofu is almost done. Uncover the lid, cut it into pieces with a kitchen knife, spread it all in a basket and cool it down, and lock it into the cupboard.
Chapter completed!