Chapter 79

On the new year's Eve, every family pasted Spring Festival couplets and was busy offering sacrifices to their ancestors.

However, it had nothing to do with the three masters and disciples looking at the moon. They got up at the end of the ugly time and began to work in the Yin time.

The soup used in many dishes must be cooked now, and the oil of the whole table must be refined by itself.

A Yao wants to have three heads and six arms, deal with all the ingredients, and clearly list the light and moderate things in her mind, but the reality is different from her imagination.

Looking around at the moon, he saw his apprentice's hands trembling and his work efficiency was very slow: "don't panic. Work in an orderly way. First cook the dishes, and then help prepare the perfect dishes. After noon, it will be much easier in the evening."

A Yao's head was like a chicken pecking rice. She began to watch the dishes, but her heart was thinking that the old lady's big meal was really lively.

The hills made of preserved fruits and cakes are decorated with fish playing lotus fields cut with gold foil and red paper, and several auspicious and festive patterns of pine cranes, chrysanthemums and quails in the forest. This is "watching vegetables" on the table, but it is indispensable.

In the front hall, there was an endless stream of visitors. People in the inner lane sent servant women to bring year-old plates, mutton, herring and fruits. When they ordered the number, they stacked boxes in the side hall. The servant girls were busy giving rewards according to the intimacy of each family.

In the inner room, the old lady looked at Meng Qianxiu, her adopted son who came back and arranged ten thousand year grain for her in the inner room.

Zhuluo holds the washed white rice and puts all kinds of fruit Yuanbao cakes such as red orange, Wuling and water chestnut. There are pine and cypress branches in the plum vase, copper coins, fruits and calendars hanging on it, and a picture of 99 cold elimination hanging on the wall, like white rice Yuanbao cake, which has to be reserved for steaming in the new year.

"Adoptive mother, if you don't go out to host again, I'm afraid I'll cry." She is a servant girl who takes care of Mrs. Meng on weekdays. Meng Qianxiu helped old lady Meng and moved to the front hall.

"That's such an exaggeration. I'm a terrible old woman. No one comes to see me on weekdays. Each family just sends people to send a new year's plate. What a big thing, it's like this every year. The girl will do it well." Old lady Meng raised her hand, stopped the topic, took Meng Qianxiu's hand and asked him about his recent situation: "kuang'er, you have lost a lot of weight in the past year. It's good to have energy. Don't wear your body out. This time, I'm going to stay in town for a few days and leave after the new year?"

"Adoptive mother, please worry. I won't go and stay in Jiangliu county all the time. This year I got a job as a teacher and moved to Jiangliu county with my master's family. It happened that I could come and go frequently in the future. Are you happy? " Meng Qianxiu showed old lady Meng the high wall courtyard opposite the road.

That's the original Lu family.

LV Yuanwai was deprived of his fame. LV Yuanwai helped his son to harm the young children. LV Yuanwai and his son were beheaded in the autumn. The women's dependents were married and the family property was confiscated. Lv's house was empty, and the grass on the wall didn't grow a few inches. At the end of the year, he ushered in a new owner.

The LV family had a homicide, and the bones were buried in the backyard. I don't know how much resentment they accumulated. Many people want to start, but they are worried about it.

Mrs. Meng was surprised.

Meng Qianxiu smiled and explained clearly to her that the owner also knew that the LV family had been killed before. Because they had many families and were used to living in a big house, they couldn't live in a small house. They were not afraid of the shadow, so they bought the LV family and repaired it again.

"The house will be cleaned today. I'd like to bring the girl here to chat with you. Is it convenient for you?"

"Well, I also want to see her. What kind of girl will make me elegant and willing to be a teacher." Mrs. Meng smiled and did not refuse Meng Qianxiu's request. She pondered for a moment: "the people will arrive at about noon and leave after dinner. You help me cope with one or two in the garden. People are old. Although they like to watch the excitement, they can't bear it among so many people. "

As Mrs. Meng expected, her people stepped on the rice points to deliver the new year's ceremony. Everyone's belly drums thundered and asked to stay for dinner. When she was young, she led people to the garden to sit down.

In the garden, there were at least five or six sheds, with gauze curtains, charcoal stoves and red charcoal fires. Mrs. Meng's people swarmed in, and there were no empty seats in an instant.

Before they left, these people began to talk.

"It's said that the old lady invited a cook to watch the moon this year. She's valuable. The old lady is so rich!"

"Expensive? How about sun in Fanlou in Beijing? "

"Who are you, sun? Even the prince had to make an appointment a few months in advance according to the regulations before she could meet. She looked at the moon and was just a cook. She waved it and called it. How can she be compared with sun!" Between the lines, this man respected everyone sun and looked down on the moon.

"You can't say that. The grand banquet rewards 10000 yuan and 20 pieces of silk. That's her worth. You can get the 10000 yuan. Looking at the moon may listen to you."

"God, is the old lady crazy? Money is not left to our children and grandchildren, but cheap to outsiders. For me, I will never do this. "

Hum, this money is cheap. Outsiders won't leave it to you. A group of white eyed wolves!

The young man scolded secretly in the bottom of his heart with a black face and hurried back to the flower hall.

The old lady is talking to the girl brought by Meng Qianxiu.

"Xue Nianzhi, what a good name. Is Xue the Xue family in Hedong?" The old lady read her name and asked.

Xue Nianzhi lowered her head and smiled.

The little girl was carved with powder and jade. She spoke softly and behaved with a degree of hesitation. When the old lady saw her reaction, she thought of their move to buy the opposite house. She felt that they could not be wrong. The more she looked, the more she liked it. She was so intimate that she held her hand and refused to release it. She gave her her her jade bracelet as a gift. Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Xiao Sui coming back and asked her to call for food in the kitchen.

The younger glanced at Xue Nianzhi's bright wrist with a jade bracelet like the rippling green waves in spring. The water head is excellent. The old lady is used to wearing it. The jade bracelet has been raised for many years and is more crystal smooth. The old lady is not willing to give it to Meng Qianxiu, but she gave it to the little girl. It can be seen that she is so happy with the old lady.

The kitchen was as tight as the final sprint. The chef looked at the moon and kept stirring. The oil and temperature in the pot locked the gravy tightly in the meat. Finally, the spoon copied the bottom and picked up the dishes and covered them on the plate. Ah Yao quickly took them over to make the final decoration and set the plate. The servant girl took the dishes out.

Everyone is busy.

The first cold dish consists of frozen pears, frozen grapes and other fruits, pine nuts, longan and other dried fruits, Atractylodes macrocephala and ginseng, carved oranges, green plum lotus and other carved honey fried dishes, Xiangzao herring, fried shrimps with ginkgo, braised East goat, hand washing crab, Yuanbao Xiangyang meat, duck tongue stick, variegated fried steamed bread, radish and chicken soup, which quickly fills the table with water.

When the people in the garden saw that their elders moved chopsticks, and whether the old lady in the inner room had picked up chopsticks or not, they began to eat.

Xue Nianzhi waited for the old lady to pick up the chopsticks. Then she moved the chopsticks. She was stunned and chewed slowly.

After dinner, she was curious to ask who the cook was.