Chapter 72 72. At the engagement party

By the time Xiang Yijing washed the cage and brought it into the kitchen, Lin Qingxi had already taken three pieces of clean white cloth from the warehouse. She spread the white cloth on the cage, and then put Xu Lin's prepared steamed buns on the white cloth.

"Yijing, please help your concubine. First, fill these three drawers with steamed buns for steaming." After Lin Qingxi finished speaking, she was about to ask Xiang Yikang to go to the old Zhou family and ask Jin Dahua to come over with his two daughters-in-law to help.

, they saw Zhou Jin and Jin Dahua, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law walking towards the kitchen.

"Girl Xi, look at what work you haven't done yet. Let your elder sister-in-law and your two sisters-in-law help you. Your sister-in-law will be free to come to the main room to entertain the guests. The Zhou family will come to the door later," Zhou Jin said

The lady's voice arrived before she arrived. Upon hearing her words, Xu Lin quickly put down what she was doing, fetched water and washed her hands before going to the main room.

"Just in time, my sister-in-law and my sisters-in-law arrived just in time. The steamed buns haven't been steamed yet. You help me make the steamed buns. I asked my uncle and my second uncle to set up a temporary stove in the yard. Big sister-in-law, please go to Er Jinzi's house and help me.

Bring Er Jinzi's rice steaming tent over here. I'll bring the steamed buns that I want to use to keep warm. There will also be steamed fish in the basket later," Lin Qingxi said as she kept rubbing the steamed buns in her hands, busy.

non-stop.

"Okay, I'll go right away," Jin Dahua said without being polite, and immediately turned around to do what Lin Qingxi ordered.

With the help of Sun Yumei and Zhang Cuilan, Lin Qingxi and the others quickly filled the three baskets with steamed buns. Lin Qingxi steamed them directly in the back pot. She specifically asked Xiang Yikang to put some firewood in them.

"Two sisters-in-law, please go and pick some peppers and green onions from the private plot in the backyard. Pick more. I'll use them for cooking later. After a while, you can go to the main room to rest! Just have your two sisters-in-law here to help.

"Lin Qingxi still felt a little distressed when she looked at Xiang Yijing who was so busy and sweating profusely.

"Okay, let's go right away," Sun Yumei readily agreed. She was very grateful to Lin Qingxi for asking everyone to identify the herbal medicine, and even more grateful to her for finding a job for her family.

Lin Qingxi opened the lid of the pot and looked at the radish bone soup. It was almost done. She quickly threw the chopped sauerkraut into the pot, put two handfuls of unsoaked vermicelli into the pot, closed the lid and stewed.

Within a few minutes, she took out the pot, put it into a wooden bucket on the ground, and covered it with a wooden cover.

Lin Qingxi cleaned the pot and started to stir-fry the air-dried chicken. Just when she threw the potatoes into the pot and stewed them with the chicken, Sun Yumei and the others came back. They washed and cut the vegetables they picked.

I came to help light the fire while working on the stove.

In the yard, Zhou Guijiang and Zhou Guihe built a temporary stove with stones and mud, and lit the fire to make sure that the stove would not collapse. Zhou Guijiang put the big iron pot that he had brought over and did the rest of the work.

He gave it to Jin Dahua and took Zhou Guihe to the main room.

"Girl Xi, the temporary stove has been set up in the yard. I brought the iron pot from home. I will help you with what to do next," Jin Dahua looked at the blazing fire in the temporary stove.

I didn't pay attention, so I could only add some cold water to the pot and went to the kitchen.

"Da Jinzi, please help me clean the tent that I brought from Er Jinzi's house. I will put these steamed buns in the tent to steam. Next, I will use the steamer to steam the fish," Lin Qingxi was busy with her work.

He said without raising his head.

"Okay, I'll do it for you right away," Jin Dahua said with a smile on her face.

Lin Qingxi ignored her and continued to do what she was doing. The potato stewed chicken was ready. She put the vegetables into a wooden bucket, washed the pot, made the fish sauce and poured it on the fish.

On the body, start to dry the rabbit. First stir-fry it over high heat, then add some water to boil it.

While cooking, Jin Dahua just happened to move the steamed buns in the steamer to the tent in the yard to continue steaming. Although these steamed buns have been steamed, the weather is cold. If they are taken out like this, they will get cold very quickly, so they can only

Place on fire and continue to warm.

After the basket was empty, Lin Qingxi placed the fish covered with sauce in the basket and steamed them. Only six of the eight fish were steamed, and the remaining two fish were left untouched in the cupboard.

These six fish took up two layers of cages, and about ten or twenty steamed buns were steamed in the free space. The steamed buns were all placed in the third cage. The cages were still steamed in the back pot. Just after the cages were steamed, the food in the front pot

The rabbit meat was also cooked. Lin Qingxi quickly put half a bowl of chopped chili peppers into the pot, added some salt and soy sauce and stir-fried for a few minutes, stir-fried with the rabbit meat for a minute or two, and then it was done. It was still in the pot.

Into the barrel.

Lin Qingxi cleaned the pot, added half a pot of cold water, put in bamboo slices, rolled out the remaining steamed buns and steamed them on the bamboo slices, leaving Sun Yumei to watch the fire, and told her to wait for the steamed buns in the pot to steam out.

It was time to stir-fry cabbage, and she was called to the main room by Xu Lin.

Over in the main room, while Lin Qingxi was stewing bones, the Zhou family brought their elders to deliver engagement gifts. The gifts were not rich, but included two fish, two geese, a watch, and a bicycle.

As well as two pairs of leather shoes, a woolen coat, and the rest are some scattered things. The most important thing is that the Zhou family gave me an engagement gift of 68 yuan, which was very thoughtful.

The Zhou family took out the things one by one and placed them on the Kang in the main room. Lin Qingping did not embarrass Zhou Mingming and the Zhou family. He faced the Zhou family with smiles on his face. In addition, with the old Zhou family as company, the atmosphere was still very harmonious.

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The relatives from the Lin family are from the old Zhou family, the relatives from the Zhou family are the Zhou Guitang family and the Sun family, and then there are several elders from the Zhou family. They all came to the door with more or less something.

After everyone was almost there, Zhou Daye asked Xu Lin to go to the kitchen and call Lin Qingxi over. In front of Lin Qingxi and Zhou Mingming, the protagonists, Zhou Daye made the final decision on their marriage.

The witnesses are relatives of both families.

Lin Qingping directly asked Lin Qingxi to take the things given by the Zhou family to her house, and the bicycle was parked in the yard.

At the same time, Lin Qingxi also took out the things she had prepared for Zhou Mingming, which were a sweater and woolen trousers, as well as four pieces of pure cotton pants and socks. She also made a cotton coat for Aunt Sun and Zhou Guilin each.

Mingmin and the three younger ones also made it, but it was not suitable to take it out because it would be too conspicuous.

"Okay, you two have to support each other in the future. Understand, kid, my girl Xi will be taken care of by you from now on. The specific date of getting married depends on when you come back next time. I'll wait for you to file a report and come back when you have a vacation.

Just get married."

As the senior elder, Zhou Daye directly summed up the marriage of the two. No one else had any objections. The main reason was that Zhou Daye was right. The date when the protagonists got married depended on when Zhou knew when he had a holiday.

"I got it, grandpa, I'll report it when I get back," Zhou Mingming smiled like a fool, which made everyone extremely happy.

"Okay, it's getting late, let's start dinner!" Zhou Jin glanced at Zhou Mingming angrily, then turned to Lin Qingping and said, he is the master of the family, so naturally he has to arrange the dinner.
Chapter completed!