At about 12:40, Aunt Liao came over and called them to eat. Then everyone got up and left the room. When they arrived in the yard, Xiang Jin and her aunt left the pickup truck driver behind and called the others.
The people left first, she said they would go there later, and everyone didn’t think much about it, so they all left first.
But Xiang Jin stayed, and then she saw that after the driver of the pickup truck opened the door, her aunt took two more gift bags from the truck, and then the driver of the pickup truck followed and took another one from the truck.
A box of grapes was carried out of the car.
Her aunt explained to Xiang Jin, "Your grandparents and I have prepared a birthday gift for you, Aunt Liao. You have been taking care of her here, and we can't lose this courtesy."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then reached out to take the gift bag in her hand. Her aunt refused, "No, it's not heavy!"
"Okay," Xiang Jin stretched out his hand, and then the three of them walked towards Aunt Liao's house together.
"Oh, do you think you have any other gifts?" Aunt Liao was warmly greeting everyone to sit down. Then when she turned around, she saw the gifts brought by Xiang Jin, her aunt and Napi the driver, and her brows suddenly furrowed.
Frowned.
Xiang Jin's aunt said, "Sister-in-law, you don't drink tea or drink, so we bought some practical things. They weren't anything expensive, just some common etiquette. I hope you can
Don’t you dislike it?”
Aunt Liao said, "Oh, look what you girl said, I would be very happy if you could come to my house to sit for a while and have a simple meal. How can I dislike it? Come on up and sit down, come up and sit down, sit down and have a barbecue
Erhuo!"
Then the relatives from Aunt Liao’s family also greeted them with warm and simple smiles. A nephew and nephew’s wife from Aunt Liao’s family politely came forward to help Aunt Liao bring Xiang Jin, her aunt and
The pickup truck driver took the things in his hands and put them on the large cabinet in Aunt Liao's house. Then he came out to greet them warmly, poured them water, and handed them melon seeds and snacks.
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Xiang Jin grabbed a handful of melon seeds and sat next to everyone, picking them.
Ten minutes later, when all the food was on the table, Aunt Liao came to call everyone to eat. When she saw the various dishes on the large table, and everything was served in generous portions, it was either a sharp plate or a bowl.
, Xiang Jin couldn't help but joked, "Auntie, your cooking skills are too outrageous. Did you cook half of your pigs?"
Immediately, everyone in the room burst into laughter, and Aunt Liao said, "You child talk too fast and exaggerate. How can a half-pig do this for you?"
Everyone was laughing again.
Aunt Liao then greeted everyone, "Everyone, sit down, sit down. It's a cold day in winter, and this food will get cold quickly. Let's start eating when we sit down. You're welcome. This is just plain food. I'm clumsy and I don't know how to cook."
It’s just so-so, but don’t dislike it, huh?!”
Xiang Jin and her grandmother said, "Look at how modest you are, are you still so-so on this? It's very good! Just by smelling it, I'm going to eat an extra bowl of rice later."
Everyone burst into laughter again.
"Okay, okay, Auntie, do you want to keep your word? Don't let me have leftover food, and let me still have it on New Year's Eve?"
Xiang Jin and her grandmother said, "No, no, don't worry!"
Then everyone sat down and really started to move.
Then Aunt Liao asked Grandpa Zeng and Xiang Jin if her grandfather wanted to drink. She went to get them some. They both waved their hands, and Aunt Liao said, "Uncle Ou, if you are not allergic to alcohol, you can drink some."
Where is your son?"
Xiang Jin and her grandfather said, "I have been abstaining from alcohol for decades."
Xiang Jin's grandmother said, "From the time he and I were dating, after learning that I was allergic to alcohol, he gave up drinking and then stopped drinking. We never have alcohol in our house."
Aunt Liao nodded, "Okay, then I won't let you down!" Then she turned around and asked her natal father, brothers and nephews if they wanted to drink. They all waved their hands and said no, so Liao
The aunt said, "Okay, let's eat and eat vegetables. Let's all eat more vegetables. There are still some in the pot."
"Is there anything else in the pot? Auntie, you made too much of this!" Xiang Jin said.
Aunt Liao just laughed and said, "Auntie has always wanted to treat you to a meal, but she has never been free. She is either busy with this or that. Auntie is really upset. Today is a rare opportunity, so
Auntie, why don't you prepare more? Eat, you all, please eat more?"
Everyone nodded.
After Han Che took a piece of steamed pork and ate it, he whispered to Xiang Jin and the others, "Not to mention, the pork from this pure grain-fed pig is really more fragrant than the meat from the feed pig, and the meat quality is better in texture.
The ones on top are fresher and chewier, and even the fried pork liver is delicious to me, without any fishy smell."
Ouyang Bo nodded, "Well, that's true!"
After hearing their conversation, Aunt Liao said, "Oh, you should eat more, I have a big bowl of fried pork liver and steamed rice noodles."
After the meal, everyone sat down and chatted for a while, then Yan Chen said to Xiang Jin, "Let's go, it's time to go back and pack the vegetables."
"Oh, okay!" Xiang Jin stood up immediately.
Everyone was sitting together, and Yan Chen did not avoid everyone when he said what he said, so everyone heard it. Then Grandma Mo and Grandpa Zeng also stood up, and then greeted Aunt Liao and her natal relatives, "
You all should chat slowly, we will go back and clean up for them for a while, they will have to go back to the city later, the road is not easy to walk in this snowy weather, so don’t delay too late."
Xiang Jin and her grandparents followed suit and stood up, and then they all said hello to everyone.
"Oh, okay, okay," Aunt Liao's family members responded with a smile.
Then Aunt Liao stood up and said, "Okay, then I won't try to persuade you to stay. After all, this is such a long road, and it still takes several hours to drive. We really can't delay any longer, otherwise we will go back later."
It gets dark when it gets late."
"Oh, yes!" Xiang Jin and her grandmother nodded in agreement.
"Why don't you pick some vegetables and go home?" Aunt Liao then turned to her mother-in-law and said.
Her brothers, brothers, daughters-in-law, nephews, nephews and daughters-in-law looked at Aunt Liao and her parents. After the two old men nodded hesitantly, everyone stood up from their seats, and a group of people shouted loudly.
They walked out of their yard in a grand manner.
When we got home, except for Grandpa Zeng, Grandpa Xiang Jin, and the pickup truck driver, basically everyone went out to pick vegetables in the greenhouse vegetable field below.
"Grandma Mo, there's no need to pick any more eggplants. There's enough. You can keep some for yourselves," Xiang Jin picked a bag of long peppers and walked over to Grandma Mo.
Grandma Mo said, "It's okay, pick more. You give gifts to many people. Why do you want each family to give three or four or three or four trees of each dish to each family, so that they can make a dish easily, right?"
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This vegetable will not be sold for a few days. If it stays on this tree, it will grow old by then. Our family is not big, and there are only a few people. How much can we eat in one meal?
And your Aunt Liao's family, once this pig is killed today, there will be only one pig left in the family. By then, it will not be able to eat the vegetables of the elders, so those vegetables will have to be wasted.
Rather than that, you might as well bring more back home. Moreover, these dishes can be stored in the refrigerator for a long time. It is not a problem to store them for two weeks.
And this is also good for our vegetable seedlings, that is, it preserves the fertility of the soil, and waits for the fruits they will bear to be sold later in the year."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Yeah, okay!"
Then I heard Grandma Mo say to Xiang Jin, "And that mushroom, you guys should pick more and go back later, try to keep the smallest mushrooms, that thing grows fast!"
"Oh, good!"
Because people are hands-on with picking, it didn't take a while for everyone to pick a series of vegetables such as cucumbers, eggplants, green peppers, bell peppers, green beans, tomatoes, etc., and then moved on to mushrooms.
In the shed.
"Oh, aunt, your mushrooms grow really well?" Xiang Jin and her aunt couldn't help but exclaimed as soon as they entered the mushroom shed.
Xiang Jin and her grandmother also nodded with a smile on their faces.
Grandma Mo smiled and said, "These were all picked this morning," and then she gave everyone a plastic bag. "This mushroom is quite delicate, and it is most taboo to be turned over, so it will
It's easy to get stale, so you just put it in one bag per family, so you don't have to take it back and repack it. When the time comes, you can just carry one bag for each family member."
"Auntie, you are so thoughtful!" She is also so generous and heroic, Xiang Jin and her aunt said again.
Grandma Mo said, "Just because we have been growing this for a long time, we know it better, so you all rush to pick it."
Everyone nodded, and then Grandma Mo taught Xiang Jin how to pick. Xiang Jin took her aunt. Han Che and Ouyang Bo had been picking with them these days, so they were already familiar with it and did not need anyone to guide them.
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Half an hour later, everyone walked out of the mushroom shed with several bags of mushrooms in their hands. After everyone put the vegetables into the pickup truck, Xiang Jin and the others followed to get her.
The bacon that grandparents put here to marinate and dry.
Grandma Mo wanted to bring them some pieces of her own bacon, but Xiang Jin and her grandma stopped her, saying that they also had a lot of bacon at home. Not only did they buy half a pig here and marinate it, but at that time
When I was in Shengshui Town, I also bought meat from young and old and marinated it, and someone in the city also sent bacon sausages to their house.
So Grandma Mo had no choice but to give up, and then went to remind Xiang Jin, "Girl Jin, don't forget those things your Uncle Tao and the others brought to you? There are also those hot pot base ingredients and watermelons, as well as those in your room upstairs.
Those things that Manager Xiao and the others sent you."
"Oh, okay!" They originally planned to return the things that Manager Xiao sent them that day, but then they called Manager Huang, intending to contact them in advance to make an appointment.
, I went to Miyun Reservoir the next day and stopped by there.
But Manager Huang disagreed, and said that he sincerely wanted to wish them well and had no other intentions. Did he mean that they thought the gift was too light and looked down on him?
If that was the case, then they should just throw away the gift. In the end, Xiang Jin and the others had no choice but to collect those things, thinking that he should not be so sinister and evil-minded.
Then Yan Chen said, "Let's move the hot pot base and watermelon into the car later. The vegetables from Aunt Liao's house can be placed on the hot pot base box later."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay! Wow, the load in this car today must be nearly a thousand kilograms, right?"
Yan Chen said, "Where is it? It only weighs eight or nine hundred kilograms at most."
Xiang Jin didn't believe it, and then he calculated it for him with his fingers, "These vegetables must weigh at least three hundred kilograms, and each of these watermelons must weigh at least ten kilograms. Sixteen, that's one hundred and sixty kilograms, and this
Hot pot base ingredients are two kilograms per pack, ten kilograms per box, sixty kilograms per six boxes, plus the weight of the boxes, that’s about sixty-five kilograms.”
Yan Chen laughed and said, "How can a cardboard box weigh half a catty?"
Xiang Jin said, "Oh, that's all we have to do. Then she continued to calculate, and there are all the things that Uncle Tao, Duoji, Uncle Zheng Gang, Manager Huang and Manager Xiao gave us. All these things add up."
It weighs fifty or sixty pounds each, and there are also those bacon cured by my grandma and the others."
Yan Chen said, "The bacon your grandma and her friends have cured is already dry bacon, so it only weighs thirty or forty pounds at most."
Xiang Jin said, "The total of these is almost over 700 kilograms, not to mention the dishes from Aunt Liao's house later, so there will be two less fish later, otherwise
It’s definitely over a thousand, but you should know that the load capacity of this car is only one thousand kilograms.”
Yan Chen said, "This is the rated load capacity, and the maximum load capacity can reach at least one thousand two."
Xiang Jin waved his hand, "No, no, it can't be done, but it can't exceed the standard. This road to heaven is not easy to walk, so it's better to be careful."
Yan Chen nodded, "Okay! Then I'll bring less fish later."
Xiang Jin said, "Just bring a bass, a carp, a black fish, and then some shrimp."
"Okay!" Yan Chen responded.
After they loaded all the things into the car, Aunt Liao and her family members carried a lot of things. First, there were several large bags of vegetables, and then there were two large pieces of meat in one bag.
There is also a bundle in a bag
There were about five or six ribs, and they were all good middle ribs. And her nephew and wife were holding a big prepared rooster and a basket of eggs in their hands.
Inside is a bag of washed sweet potatoes.
No one in the family of five had anything left in their hands, and they stuffed all the things into the car without saying a word, which made Xiang Jin and the others speechless.
Xiang Jin joked with some confusion, "Auntie, are you moving your entire home to us?"
Aunt Liao said, "Nonsense, how can it be so easy to move out of my aunt's house? I don't have anything to offer, just some local products from home. This pork is purely grain-fed and tastes delicious."
, you can bring some back to eat, as well as the chicken and eggs. I think you quite like eating the sweet potatoes from my aunt’s house, so my aunt will also bring some for you to steam rice with.”
"Oh, Aunt, you are so good to me," Xiang Jin stretched out his arms and then coquettishly gave Aunt Liao a big hug.
Aunt Liao patted her on the back with a smile on her face, "That's because you deserve my aunt to be nice to you. Why don't you say that you are also nice to your aunt? In my aunt's eyes, you have always been nice to me."
She is my little girl, auntie."
Seeing her rare little daughter's cute expression, Xiang Jin's family members, including Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo, also had smiles on their faces.
Xiang Jin and her grandparents knew that this was a change of heart, so they did not reject it, but generously stepped forward to thank them and accepted it.
Then Aunt Liao said to Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo, "Aunt, uncle, I will give you yours later."
Grandma Mo said, "Oh, look, what do you want to take? No! We live together every day, why do we need to be so polite?"
Aunt Liao laughed and said, "I won't give you a New Year's gift, this will be treated as a New Year's gift! Don't refuse me, or I won't come to your family if you invite me to dinner in the future!"
"Okay, okay, okay, I can't beat you." Immediately, Grandma Mo seemed to have thought of something, then turned around and hurried into the house, and then brought out a small stainless steel basin.
The basin was covered with a clean plastic bag, and she handed the small basin to Xiang Jin as soon as she saw it.
"I almost forgot. This is the stuffing for the shrimp dumplings I made yesterday. I originally wanted to wrap the dumplings and bring you some dumplings back, but I didn't get around to making them, so you just bring this stuffing.
Let’s go back and pack them at home when the time comes.”
Xiang Jin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he still took it and said, "Okay!"
Then Grandma Mo said to Aunt Liao, "I won't bring you stuffing. I'll just bring you dumplings then. Come celebrate the New Year with us at noon tomorrow, and then help me make dumplings?"
Aunt Liao readily agreed, "Okay, then I will celebrate the New Year with you tomorrow!"
Everyone was chatting and laughing, and Aunt Liao’s mother-in-law, who was standing by, was all smiling. Then Grandma Mo said to Aunt Liao’s mother-in-law, "You will also bring some with you later."
Can you bring some of my vegetables back and I’ll pick them for you?”
The family of four naturally expressed their gratitude and thanks, and then Grandma Mo picked up a large bag of vegetables from the eaves of their house and handed it to the pickup truck driver, "Young man, take some back too!"
The pickup truck driver was surprised at first, then reached out to take it, and then politely thanked him.
Half an hour later, Xiang Jin and his family got into the car, and then they waved to each other. Xiang Jin told Yan Chen and Han Che, "Don't forget, you should turn the fish after marinating it for three days?"
"Okay, I got it!" Yan Chen and Han Che both nodded, and then Yan Chen stared at her and said, "When you get home, give her a call!"
"Okay! Grandma Mo, Grandpa Zeng, aunt, and uncles and aunts are leaving!"
"Okay, let's go, let's go, young man, could you please drive slower and be more careful on the road?" Grandma Mo waved to them, then stared at the driver and explained.
The pickup truck driver nodded towards her, "Don't worry, Auntie, I will drive slowly and steadily!"
"Oh, okay!" Grandma Mo nodded to him, followed the car up, and then the leather car loaded with a load of goods slowly drove away from the small courtyard of Grandma Mo's house.
Yang Weiwei stood on the street eaves of Lao Xiang's house and stared at the pickup truck that was driving away without blinking. Her eyes revealed endless envy and jealousy. Mrs. Zhang saw it, and then
His brows furrowed almost inaudibly, followed by a sullen look on his face.
"Look at it, that's my biological son, who do you think it is? What's your business? You won't let me in, and you get sick every three days. I think you are the senior who has a grudge against our old Xiang family, right?
You have to be reincarnated in my family in this life to bring trouble to us and seek bad luck for us?"
Listening to her words full of disgust, Yang Weiwei immediately lowered her head, then turned around and entered the house, staring at her back. Mrs. Zhang gave her an angry look and followed her gaze.
Looking at the pickup truck that was about to disappear, he immediately took a sip of water on the ground and cursed, "Bah, it would be better if the car overturned on the road and buried the person!"