Chapter 19(1/2)
"Seriously?" Mrs. Zhao began to feel tired again, "You have to treat someone to dinner at night. I am her grandmother. How can she not invite me?"
Ye Dasheng laughed quickly, "Then as the second uncle, I should prepare some good things for them."
Mother and son looked at each other and smiled, who knew they had some bad intentions.
Due to local customs, when the Ye family built a new house, relatives and friends came to bring wine and meat to "quench the wind". As the head of the family, they should entertain these relatives and friends with good wine and good food.
There are not too many people coming to "Biafeng" today, but if the whole family comes, or as Zhu Chaozhang said, some people come directly with gifts to congratulate them, you can't think of people outside, right?
So, Ye Sangwan, Ye Sangwan, Yunxiang, Grandma Zhu and Mrs. Wang all worked in the kitchen all afternoon.
Zhu Jizhong was going to town to pull bricks and tiles, so Ye Sangwan made a list and asked him to temporarily act as a buyer. In addition to the many ingredients he bought, there were also the carts connected to each other. Ye Dasheng could not count them.
A cart carrying neatly stacked blue bricks passed by the house.
Ye Dasheng howled uneasily: "My dear! This is all the money of our old Ye family!"
Except for Ye Dasheng, everyone in the village was not calm.
They all followed the cart involuntarily and pointed.
After confirming that the green bricks were sent to the Ye family's homestead, Zhao and Ye Dasheng's eyes lit up.
"Second brother, pinch me quickly."
Ye Dasheng pinched Ms. Zhao hard.
Mrs. Zhao yelled "Ouch!" and kicked Ye Dasheng fiercely: "I asked you to pinch me, but I didn't let you pinch me to death!"
Ye Dasheng covered the place where he was kicked, feeling extremely aggrieved.
"Second brother, where do you think these bricks come from? Those dozen carts of bricks cost more than twenty-five taels of silver."
Ye Dasheng shrugged his head: "How did I know?"
Mrs. Zhao stretched out her index finger and poked Ye Dasheng's forehead hard, "You only know how to eat, what else do you know?
Let Liu'er clean up, and our whole family will go to have a feast later."
"What about dad?"
Mrs. Zhao's eyes suddenly widened, "We'll call them together later. At any rate, we've lost ten eggs."
Ever since Ye Wenzhu disobeyed her and wrote a divorce letter to those gangsters, they both slept in separate rooms.
Although she was still angry, when she thought about the losses she was about to suffer, Ms. Zhao felt as if her heart had been cut out with a knife, and she felt so empty.
The family waited and waited until firecrackers went off in the main room of the Ye family, but no one came to invite them.
On the contrary, Ye Wenxiu, who had not visited for several years, shouted outside the hospital: "Wenzhu~! Wenzhu~!"
Mrs. Zhao was so angry that she opened the door and shouted impatiently at her: "What are you doing here? You are not welcome in our home!"
Ye Wenxiu's old face was slightly sunburned and he said nothing.
Only a heavy "cold snort" was heard, and Zhu Chaozhang came from a dark corner and said in a bad tone: "Go and call Ye Wenzhu out."
Mrs. Zhao opened her mouth, but she didn't expect that her husband was followed by the village chief.
I have been embarrassed in front of the village chief several times in the past few times, and it seems that every time it was because of that jerk.
Seeing that Ye Dasheng was not moving, Zhao kicked him again, "Why don't you go quickly?"
Then he apologized to Zhu Chaozhang and said, "Village chief, what brought you here? Do you want to go in and sit down..."
"Don't dare."
Zhao choked.
I originally wanted to find out what was going on with the old man, but when I saw Zhu Chaozhang's donkey face, I suddenly felt a little scared.
Not long after, Ye Wenzhu came out with a hunched back. He seemed to have aged a lot after not seeing him for a few days.
I heard that I came because of Dafang's affairs and to "put pressure" on Dafang's new house, so I went back to prepare some things to pack. I couldn't leave empty-handed.
I happened to see a basket of eggs on the kitchen counter and took it in my hand.
"Old man, why are you going?" Zhao held the basket and asked with triangular eyes.
Ye Wenzhu's eyes flickered, "The village chief invited me to drink."
"Drink?" Mrs. Zhao gritted her teeth, "Go and show off to the Ye family's eldest brother? No one even came to invite you in person, so you just go there? And you still bring eggs?"
Although the eggs were meant to be given to those chicken breeders, they didn't even come to invite them, and they just kept coming, which made Ms. Zhao feel unhappy.
Even if the egg is an orphan egg!
Ye Wenzhu said nothing, but stubbornly protected the basket in his hand.
Seeing this, Mrs. Zhao started to mock: "Wow! It's indeed a seed thing born from a vixen. If you have the seed today, go ahead!"
Ye Wenzhu glanced at Mrs. Zhao with a numb expression, turned around and left while holding the eggs.
Mrs. Zhao yelled behind him: "You have the guts! If you have the guts, don't come back tonight!"
She sat down on the stool angrily. Mrs. Zhao couldn't understand why Ye Wenzhu, who had been cowardly for her whole life, suddenly became so stubborn.
"Mom, are we going to have a banquet?" Lu Liu'er has been thinking about the banquet for a long time.
If you want to eat well, just eat at the table and feel a little happy.
In anger, Mrs. Zhao threw everything on the table cleanly.
Ye Dasheng hunched his neck and hid in the corner, while Lu Liuer protected a pair of children from obstacles flying from all directions.
The second room and four members of the Ye family are already accustomed to such scenes.
The only blame is Ye Wenzhu. He knew that his mother would throw things when she was angry, but he still disobeyed her.
After Mrs. Zhao finished venting her anger, she became angrier as she thought about it and shouted at the door: "Second brother, old daughter-in-law, let's go have a feast!"
A group of five people came in empty-handed, not as if they were here to enjoy a meal, but rather as if they were here to cause trouble.
When the news that Zhao and others came to dinner reached Ye Sang in the evening, they were already seated at the table, and even sat at a separate table.
There were ten people at the village banquet table, but Mrs. Zhao sat on two stools. Even Ye Dasheng and Lu Liu'er did the same. The two little ones imitated each other and laughed heartlessly on the sidelines.
Ye Sangwan only felt anger boiling in her chest, and her eyes were as terrifying as bloodthirsty. She clenched her fists and was about to step forward to teach these ungrateful old Ye family members.
Mrs. Wang and her eldest aunt He, who were urged by Grandma Zhu to stop him, took her back.
Grandma Zhu patted her on the back and said, "Wan Ya, let's not be angry! It's unlucky to be angry today, and it's even more unlucky to cause trouble! Just think of these people as wild dogs and mad dogs who come to the door with shy faces to beg for food and drink. Let's go first
Don’t argue with them. The future is long!”
What a saying, mad dog, wild dog!
Ye Sangwan turned his head and endured it again and again: "Can you please help me set up two more tables? Also, place their table further away so as not to harm other people."
"That's no problem, but don't be angry, little girl, my father-in-law is here." Seeing that her face looked better, Mr. Wang and Mr. He went to set the table.
When Ye Sangwan finished frying the last dish, the table belonging to Ye's family was indeed moved further away from the other tables.
The firecrackers outside were lit by Zhu Jizhong. Along with the lively sound of firecrackers, Grandma Zhu said: "Let's eat!"
Several teenagers from the village started serving food on wooden trays.
The first dish was half a fried chicken. I should have used a whole chicken, but Grandma Zhu said it was too eye-catching and no one cared whether it was a half or a whole chicken.
Using half a chicken to cook a dish for a banquet was the first of its kind in Banyuewan Village. As soon as the dish was served, there was a heated discussion.
Ye Sangwan originally thought that because of what happened yesterday, the Ye family's main house would be isolated in the village.
The people who came today were all honest and upright people like Zhu Jizhong, and Ye Sangwan was extremely grateful.
It is said that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. She was born and raised in this village, so she cannot cut off her ties with everyone in the village.
She, Ye Sangwan, could do it, but for Ye Chuan and Ye Sangyan, she couldn't be so selfish.
Therefore, she worked hard on the dishes for the banquet, which was a simple way to express her gratitude to the villagers.
Fortunately, the rest of the dishes, except for the fried wild cress with meat and fried fungus with eggs, are not very good on their own.
Pigs in the water are a good thing. Zhu Jizhong bought three pairs for Ye Sangwan and made countless meat dishes for only 9 Wen.
Pork lungs, pig blood, and pig liver were cooked into a large pot of pig offal soup with a few vegetable leaves and tofu.
There are nine dishes in total including braised fat intestines, pickled pepper kidneys, cold braised pig head, pig ears, and stir-fried pork tongue.
I picked up a basket full of potatoes in the warehouse and fried some hot and sour shredded potatoes. I pulled some small vegetable seedlings from the vegetable field and fried them with minced garlic. I also took a few packages of bracken to make cold salad and pickled them in advance.
Pickled radish slices make up a bowl of cold vegetable platter.
There are six tables, each with twelve dishes. In addition to steamed buns, there are also sweet potato pancakes and steamed sweet potatoes as staple food. It is simply an eye-opener.
Although the villagers couldn't name the dishes cooked by the pigs, they had a unique taste and texture like meat, so they were naturally classified as meat dishes.
"The Ye family is really generous. They serve twelve dishes and nine meat dishes in one feast. I'll be a good boy! Am I not dreaming?"
"I'm not dreaming! You can actually eat all this meat in your mouth. It's meat! Use your chopsticks quickly, or you'll be robbed!"
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, Mrs. Wang smiled and said: "Everyone, please eat with all your heart. Wan Ya said, if there is not enough, add more. I hope you will eat and drink well tonight!"
Everyone couldn't close their mouths after hearing this, "Then let's celebrate Wan Yatou and Yan Yatou together. Mr. An will have good luck in starting work and make money!"
To be continued...