The two couples parted ways at the fork in the road and went home. As soon as they got home, Zhou Yi went to the kitchen to make lunch, while Song Xi went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables. To make delicious food in the evening, she must prepare more ingredients!
The two simply ate a bowl of bacon shredded noodles and then began to prepare for the evening meal. Zhou Yi was responsible for cleaning all the ingredients, while Song Xi cut the ingredients into small pieces or thin slices and then skewered them.
The meat vegetable skewers include hairy tripe, chicken gizzards, duck gizzards, chicken hearts, chicken intestines, duck intestines, meat slices wrapped in celery, meat slices wrapped in lettuce, beef, mutton, bone and meat, and some seafood skewers, which are dried seafood sent by Xiao Qingcheng.
After soaking, they are strung on a skewer.
Many of them were semi-finished products that Song Xi took from the supermarket. Zhou Yi always thought that Song Xi was the reincarnation of a little fairy with some weird things on her body, but he didn't bother too much because after all, he was also a beneficiary.
When Song Xi and Zhou Yi were busy in the yard, they heard a knock on the door. Song Xi hurriedly ran to open the door and saw Ji Rufeng and He Xiachuan standing outside. She quickly called them in, "Why are you here?"
So early? Didn’t I ask you to come for dinner? Did Zhou Ping miscommunicate?"
"No, we wanted to come early to see if we could help." Ji Rufeng touched his nose, a little embarrassed, because the object of his heart became his cousin, who must be the most miserable person in his history!
"Teacher Song." He Xiachuan greeted Song Xi.
"Actually, there is nothing we need help with. You go to the main room and sit for a while first!" Song Xi made chrysanthemum tea for Ji Rufeng and He Xiachuan and placed it on the dining table in the main room for them to drink.
And she went to the stove house and started to make the base material on the coal stove. She first boiled most of the pot of boiling water in an aluminum pot, then she took a pack of Chuan Chuan Xiang base material from the supermarket, opened it, poured it in, and waited for the water to boil again.
Bring to a boil and put the meat skewers in first.
Since there were many people eating in the evening, Song Xi sat by the stove. After the skewers were cooked, he took them out and put them in a clean lard basin. Then he cooked the next pot and cooked them slowly.
Zhou Yi continued to wear strings. He Xiachuan and Ji Rufeng did not rest. They went to the well to wash their hands, and then went to Zhou Yi to help him.
There are more than ten people coming for dinner tonight, so we need to make more skewers.
"Who cut this bamboo stick? The knife skills are very good." Ji Rufeng picked up the smooth and round bamboo stick and couldn't help but sigh.
Zhou Yi raised his head and glanced at Ji Rufeng, but did not answer the question because Song Xi had brought back these signs and he would never question Song Xi on anything.
Because Zhou Yi didn't answer, Ji Rufeng felt a little embarrassed. At this time, a strong and overbearing fragrance wafted out of the stove, and Ji Rufeng couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
The Ji family is considered to be a famous family. He has eaten delicious food at home and abroad since he was a child, but this is the first time he has smelled such a fragrance.
He Xiachuan couldn't help but swallow his saliva, it smelled so good!
Realizing that he had lost his composure, he quickly glanced at Zhou Yi and Ji Rufeng, and saw that neither of them noticed him, so he relaxed a little.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Ping and Jiang Jiayi came over with Zhou Sijin, who had just turned six months old. Song Xi brought out the egg custard that had been steamed in advance and asked Jiang Jiayi to feed Zhou Sijin the egg custard.
Zhou Ping, Mo Jiaxiang, and Sheng Jiahe went to help Zhou Yi, but there was nothing that needed help now.
At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Yunying came over with 18-year-old Xu Bing, 16-year-old Xu Qing and 13-year-old Xu Yujie. Qian Xuefen also brought 14-year-old Qian Fangxia and 12-year-old Qian Luxia.
I came over and brought nine-year-old Xiao Tao with me. Next door, thirteen-year-old Zhou Xiaoshu and eleven-year-old Zhou Xiaohua also came over.
The courtyard of Zhou Yi's house instantly became lively. A group of half-grown children had a lively exchange with each other, while several female comrades came over to help Song Xi.
Song Xi didn't need their help, but seeing their eager eyes, she handed over the task of guarding the stove to Xu Yunying.
"Aunt Yunying, your Xu Bing is already eighteen years old and will be nineteen in two months. You should be quite anxious about him finding a partner, right?" Song Xi couldn't help but ask.
Xu Yunying seemed to have found an ally, nodding her head, and then said, "Although I am very anxious, I will not rush him. Let him find someone with whom he has a common topic. Isn't he going to go there next September?
Are you in junior high school? See if you can meet any like-minded girls in school."
"Aunt Yunying, if everyone had a high level of ideological awareness like you, there wouldn't be so many resentful couples in the world." Song Xi really admired Xu Yunying's idea.
This ideological awareness is really too high.
Many people start arranging blind dates when their sons are fifteen or sixteen years old. At such a young age, what do you know? Can you shoulder the responsibility of taking care of the family?
Wouldn't it be nice to wait until you get a few years older and your family conditions are better to start talking about dating?
Otherwise, if you marry a wife early and have children, it may seem that your family has more labor force, but in reality? Everyone’s life will be even harder.
It is also possible that the son chose a wife when he was ignorant. When he is older and sensible, he no longer likes her and will have to change his wife. Doesn't this cause great harm to others?
That's why Song Xicai thinks Xu Yunying is great. Let her son find a marriage partner later. The one he finds must be someone he likes. Even if his life is not good in the future, it is still his choice, and he cannot blame others.
Xu Yunying turned her head and looked outside, with a loving smile on her lips. Although her husband had cheated on her and she was divorced, she did not feel that she had failed because she raised her three children well.
Now that her children are older, she doesn't need to worry so much. She can enjoy happiness in the future.
Seeing that most of the skewers were cooked, Song Xi asked everyone to choose a seat and sit down. The eight children chose the old dining table brought out from the stove.
Because the dining table was relatively small, it was just enough for eight of them.
The rest of the people sit around as they please. There aren't that many rules here at Song Xi's place. Women can't eat at the table, men and women can't eat at the same table, etc. It's all nonsense here.
Men and women are equal and lesbians should be given equal respect.
Song Xi made honey grapefruit tea for everyone, and then brought the skewers to the dining table. Each dining table contained a pot of vegetarian skewers, a pot of meat skewers, and a pot of corn steamed buns. There were more in the kitchen, so we would finish eating outside.
Go inside and get it.
After everything was distributed, Song Xi called out Xu Yunying and Qian Xue, and everyone sat down at the dining table and started eating.