Chapter 54： 54 birthday

Chapter 54 54 Birthday Celebration

When Li Yu woke up, it was a new year, and when he turned around, he saw a set of crimson embroidered dresses on the bedside table. Li Yu brought them and put them on outside the house. Li Qing saw Li Yu came out wearing new clothes. Feeling bright, he smiled and praised, "Sister, you look so good in this outfit today."

Li Yu glanced at him and looked at him with a look of anger, "Don't tell me your sister doesn't look good in old clothes?"

Li Qing hurriedly smiled and bowed to apologize, "I was wrong, my sister looks better in old clothes."

Li Yu burst out laughing, "What do you want for breakfast?"

"I warmed up the cold dishes and cold rice from last night, and I'll wait for you to get up and eat them."

The two brothers and sisters had eaten and fed the chickens and pigs. Xiao An also came to take the big ox out for a walk. The two brothers went to Li Mei's house to pay New Year's greetings and Chen Yaohui's house to pay New Year's greetings. Li Yu had a rare day of leisure.

On the third day of the first day, Li Yu found that the rapeseed in the field had buds, and the wheat began to turn green. The fence walls surrounding the city were also beginning to pull out green shoots. The rapeseed and wheat seedlings needed fertilization to increase nutrients.

Li Yu took a **** to dredge the ditch, then went back to the house and put the ox cart on, and asked Li Qing to move the buckets and wooden basins in the house onto the ox cart. The three of them came to the ditch, and Li Yu found the ox cart in the ditch. The water was much shallower than before, so Li Yu decided to fill the reservoir with water after fertilizing.

Xiao An and Li Qing pulled the ox cart to the side of the ditch, filled it with water, and then pulled it onto the field ridge. Li Yu scooped the manure out of the manure tank, picked it up and mixed it with water to make it up to start fertilizing.

Li Yu took Xiao An and Li Qing for a few days to fertilize rapeseed and wheat.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Mrs. Li, Mrs. Qian and more than a dozen other women also came to work. Li Yu asked Li Mei to take them to work, and he took Li Qing and Xiao An to continue to transport and store water. pool.

On the afternoon of 14, Li Yu began to prepare for the next day's barbecue and hot pot. Li Yu first went to the bamboo forest to pick up a bamboo, then split it and cut it into long bamboo sticks, ready to be used for skewering venison.

Cut the bamboo sticks, grind the cumin, pepper and aniseed in proportion, then start to fry the soybeans, sesame seeds, and grind the soybeans and sesame seeds into powder for later use, and then grind the soaked peas finely and put the pea flour in the water to settle Strain out the starch and prepare to make meatballs.

Early the next morning, Li Yu took advantage of Li Qing and Xiao An to go out to herd the cows, took out the goats and wild deer in the space at home, put them on the chopping board and cut them out, washed the lamb belly and offal, and blanched them in water. After the cutting plate is placed, the venison and mutton are cut and seasoned and marinated in a pot.

Zhou Jia and the old servant Zhou Bo went to the small ancestral hall of the Zhou family. Zhou Jia looked at the tablets of his grandfather and mother, lit incense and worshipped, and knelt in front of the tablets, "Grandfather, mother, I found a woman I like. Now, I want to ask her for a kiss tomorrow, and I hope your second elder will bless me to achieve my wish."

Uncle Zhou looked at Zhou Jia with sour eyes, and prayed silently in his heart, "Grandpa, madam, please bless the young master in the spirit of heaven, and he will not suffer from those innocent disasters again."

Zhou Jia knelt and sat in the ancestral hall for a while before getting up and walking out. Uncle Zhou took a brisk pace and said after him, "Master, should I take out the dowry gifts prepared by Mrs. go."

Zhou Jia hesitated for a moment, "Alright, let's see if we need to add something?"

"Hey! I'm going right now." Zhou Boli jogged happily and went to the warehouse to clean up the dowry.

Zhou Jia looked at Uncle Zhou's back, smiled and shook his head: This old man, as long as he promises to get married, he will come up.

Li Yu took the vegetable basket and went to the field. He took pea tips, **** moss, coriander, garlic sprouts, lettuce, and radishes. He went home and took some taro to scrape and wash them. He also took a few fish from the space to wash them. Put the seasoning on.

Put the remaining two fish in a gauze bag, along with the lamb chops, lamb hooves, and lamb bones, and put them in the pot to make the soup.

Li Mei, Zhao Di and Laidi came to help with glutinous rice wine and glutinous rice cakes. Laidi saw that Li Yu had prepared so much food, so she quickly washed her hands and asked Li Yu diligently, "Cousin, want my help What are you doing?"

Li Yu looked at her happy expression and pointed at the venison in the pot with a smile, "You and cousin Zhao Di put all the meat on the bamboo sticks and don't skewer too much, otherwise some of them will be undercooked."

"Cousin, when did you go up the mountain to hunt again?" Li Yu pretended not to hear it, and Laidi didn't care. He took Zhaodi and sat at the small wooden table with a bowl and went to skewer the meat.

Li Mei put the glutinous rice wine and glutinous rice cakes in the stove, and came out with a smile and asked Li Yu, "Yu'er, what are you doing auntie?"

Li Yu pointed to the vegetables in the bamboo basket and said, "Aunt, help me wash the vegetables, and I'll chop the meatballs."

Li Yu took a piece of meat and cut it into pieces, put some **** and rice and started to chop the meatballs. The meatballs that Li Yu chopped vigorously tasted strong and smooth.

Li Yu chopped the meat into puree, added starch and egg whites, a little salt and a little wine. Li Yu picked up the meat and squeezed a meatball. All the meatballs were squeezed and put aside for later use. Li Yu began to prepare them. For the dipping sauce, sesame seeds, crushed peanut pepper powder and red oil chili are added to the dipping sauce.

When the food is ready, Li Yu starts to put the burning charcoal into the copper hot pot, scoops the boiled soup into the copper hot pot, and then cooks the mutton, lamb offal, lamb intestines, meat **** and taro in the pot. on.

The bottom of the pot boiled, Li Yugang wanted to ask Li Qing to invite Zhou Jia, Zhou Jia and Jixiang came with gifts.

Zhou Jia saw that the yard was busy handing gifts to Li Yu, and smiled at Li Meixing, saying, "Aunt Li, you will make a fortune in the new year."

"Okay, okay, we're all getting rich." Li Yu saw Zhou Jia wearing a new red robe, looking even more red-lipped and handsome, Li Mei sighed again in her heart: Such a good son, if he can match my family with more fish OK!

Li Mei asked Zhou Jia to sit in the main room and brought tea with a smile, "Mr. Zhou, you're welcome!"

Zhou Jia hurriedly stood up and took the tea cup, and said respectfully, "Aunt Li, I'll come by myself, you don't need to worry about me."

Li Mei smiled politely, "My family, Ah Qing, bothered you in the school, so he should be obedient!"

Zhou Jia smiled and nodded, "A-Qing is very good, and he studies very hard, and he will be successful in time."

Li Mei couldn't close her mouth with laughter after hearing this, "If you really have something to do, it's Mr. Zhou, you have a good education."

Li Qing came back from the outside and saw Jixiang helping to burn charcoal fire in the yard. He greeted happily, "Brother Jixiang, Happy New Year, I wish you a great fortune."

Jixiang looked at Li Qing and patted him with a smile, "Aqing, Brother Jiji wishes you to get your name soon."

"Thank you." Li Qing walked into the main room and bowed to Zhou Jia happily, "Sir, Ah Qing wishes you good health and all the best."

Zhou Jia took a red envelope and handed it to Li Qing, and said with a smile, "Sir, I wish you an early success in your studies."

Li Yu set the table, and after looking around, he didn't see Liu Changmin asking strangely, "Aunt, why hasn't my uncle come yet?"

Before he finished speaking, he heard Liu Changmin's voice, "Xiaoyu, my uncle knew from a long time that you were done, and I came when I smelled the fragrance."

Li Qing ran over and pulled Liu Changmin, "Uncle, come and sit down."

Li Yu called Zhou Jia out and everyone met again. Li Yu said to Zhou Jia and Jixiang with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, Jixiang, everyone gathers together today to celebrate the New Year's Day. One is to celebrate Mr. Zhou's birthday, and the other is for everyone. Get together and be lively and lively.”

Zhou Jia turned his head to Jixiang and said, "Today, our masters and servants don't have to bow to the ceremony. You also sit down and have a lively together."

"Yes, young master." Li Qing pulled Jixiang, "Brother Jixiang, sit next to me and Brother An."

After everyone was seated, Li Yu poured out the glutinous rice wine, raised the bowl and said with a smile: "We wish Mr. Zhou that every year has today, every year has this day, and every year has this day, and always be happy and happy."

Everyone raised their bowls and blessed Zhou Jia, Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu with a smile, "Thank you Xiaoyu, thank you for celebrating my birthday."

Laidi looked at Yuanzi in the pot, "Let's not be polite first, eat the delicious food and then talk about it."

Li Mei smiled and shook her head, "Look at this girl, when will she grow up?"

Li Yu smiled and used the chopsticks to give Laidi a ball, "Laidi is right, let's start eating! Mr. Zhou, auspicious, everyone is welcome!"

After eating for a while, a few young people couldn't sit still. Li Qing and Laidi took Xiao An to the kebabs. Ji Xiang saw that they were in a hurry and the meat was burnt, so he hurried over to Li Qing and smiled, "Aqing, come here, Brother Jixiang will teach you how to make kebabs."

Li Qing hurriedly handed the meat skewers in his hand to Jixiang, "Brother Jiji, you see that my roasting is mushy, you can bake it for me and I will learn."

Jixiang smiled and took the meat skewers and put them on the grill. He brushed some oil on the meat skewers neatly, and turned the meat skewers from time to time so that they could be heated evenly. The good meat skewers are distributed to several people, "How about you taste it?"

Li Qing and several people took it and didn't care about getting it hot, so he quickly bit down a piece and chewed it a few times before swallowing it. Laidi gave a thumbs up, "It's delicious, it's better than boiled one."

Li Qing took his grilled kebabs to Li Yu after learning, "Sister, try it, how is my grilling?"

Li Mei and Liu Changmin pretended to be angry and pointed at Li Qing, with a sad expression on their faces, "Aqing, you are really partial, so you will roast meat for your sister, not for your uncle and aunt."

Laidi saw this and quickly put the grilled skewers into the hands of the two of them, "Father, Mother, you have me!"

Everyone burst into laughter, and after a few children adjusted the atmosphere, everyone was less restrained.

Zhou Jia smiled and said to Li Yu, "You cook this pot well, you can cook it wherever you take it."

Li Yu smiled, "That's how I thought about it before I ordered it, Zhou Jia, don't be polite and let it go."

Zhou Jia listened to Li Yu calling his name, her happy eyes crooked with laughter, looking at Li Yu's red face after drinking, and then looking at her cherry red lips for some reason, Zhou Jia pinched it quietly. I thought to myself: Zhou Jia, why are you acting like a disciple.