Girlfriend's Fortune

Chapter 11 No.11: Banquet Gossip
At Song Qiu's table, besides herself, old Yuan Shi and old Deng Shi, there were five other women, and the village chief's wife happened to be at this table too, so it was even more lively when they were free.

The village chief's wife is also of the same generation as the old Yuan family, about the same age, and has more to say.

"Landlord Cheng's old lady celebrates her [-]th birthday, and she said that she will not only invite the opera troupe to sing a three-day opera, but also hold a three-day running banquet! Everyone in ten miles and eight villages can go to the banquet at will! At that time, we can Gotta go early!"

In their area, anyone who can live to eighty is a long-lived person, and the Cheng family is even more blessed. I heard that Landlord Cheng's grandmother is still alive, and she is almost a hundred years old now.

The Cheng family is well-known in Panshi Town for several generations, and the population is prosperous. I heard that there will be ten or twenty tables for the New Year's Eve dinner.

Who doesn't want to be part of the Cheng family's fortune?

Those who have nothing to do often go around Cheng's house, hoping to get some luck and leave.

Not to mention the running water mat, which is destined to be crowded by all the people in the ten miles and eight villages.

When the village chief's wife said this, everyone at the table became excited.

"Last year, Landlord Cheng held 79 for his mother, and it was very lively. I remember it was around this time, but I can't remember the exact time. I don't know what day it was? I'll remember it so I don't miss it. Three days! We don’t have to cook!”

Guixiang, Wang Orhu's daughter-in-law, grinned, and asked the village chief's wife for details.

The three of her family hunted all year round, so life was not difficult, but the Cheng family's running water mat was not an autumn breeze, and it was a blessing to eat it. If you don't go, you won't go for nothing!
The village chief's wife laughed and said: "Zhengsheng is April 22, and there are three days of running water seats. From 22 to 24, there are seats set up all day long. If every table is full, a table will be given away. It is enough to eat, as long as you I can eat it, and no one will talk about it if I squat there all day!"

"This is really extravagant, such a flowing water mat, how much money would it cost!" Sun Datie's daughter-in-law Jin Juhua couldn't help but click her tongue.

Mrs. Deng couldn't help laughing when she heard this, "You are lamenting blindly. We are a hundred miles away. Who doesn't know that the Cheng family is very rich? What is this little water table? The Cheng family's food and clothing costs a day More than these!"

These words are not adulterated, there are so many people in the Cheng family, and they employ so many servants, and there are countless long-term workers, the expenses in and out of the day are not small.

Jin Juhua said curiously: "I heard people say that the grandmother of the Cheng family used pearl powder to apply her face every day, but the powder was made with genuine pearls. It is said that one pearl is worth 20 taels of silver, auntie, The Donggua brothers have worked in the Cheng family for so many years and know a lot, is this true?"

Zhang Donggua and the Chen family worked long-term in the Cheng family, helping the Cheng family to farm the land. How did they know about the Cheng family's inner house?
Besides, Zhang Donggua and his wife only come back during the Chinese New Year and holidays throughout the year. How can they have so much free time to talk about these things?
The old Deng said: "I don't know about this. The two of my winter melons are both saw-mouthed gourds, and they work hard. How can they pay attention to other things?"

Everyone in the village knew that she didn't like this son very much, and Jin Juhua was also very winking, so they stopped asking.

He just turned off the topic with emotion, "We have worked so hard all year round that we can't even match a single pearl. This is how people compare with others, and they are incomparable!"

The people at the table only listened to her click her tongue, and no one answered her words. Just a few words are enough, but it's not easy to chase after her. What if someone accidentally heard it?
Those who know know that they are envious, those who don't know think they are not good at seeing others!

However, although Cheng's family is very rich, they are also a legitimate family that started several generations ago, and they did not come from stealthy, robbing and doing bad things.

In the leisure time, the food started to be served, and everyone just focused on eating, and no one talked any more.

The ordinary rice noodles in the village are either good or bad. There are eight dishes, four meat and four vegetables.

For the four meat dishes, there is a plate of fried pork with courgettes, a plate of braised carp, a plate of roasted chicken with beans, and a plate of braised duck.

Si Su has a plate of stir-fried long beans with eggplant, a plate of fried loofah, a plate of shallots mixed with tofu, and a plate of fried chrysanthemum.

I invited the big spoons specially prepared by Shili Bacun for serving noodles. The taste is not bad, but of course it tastes better than homemade ones.

Song Qiu tasted them one by one, and the stir-fried dishes were all okay, better than those made by her milk, at least the stir-fried pork with courgettes was not from firewood.

After all, it is a large spoon specially used to clean the noodles, and the skill of this cooking is also sophisticated.

After tasting these dishes, Song Qiu has some confidence in his cooking skills.

After the feast, Song Qiu and Zhang Lihua, who happened to have lunch, went back to the mountains to pick up mushrooms.

Zhang Lihua grew up so big that she had never eaten at a banquet, so she had to drag Song Qiu to ask questions.

"Aqiu, how is the dinner at Aunt Caihua's house today? Are they all delicious?"

"It's okay, there are meat, chicken, duck, and fish." Song Qiu's evaluation was pertinent.

Zhang Lihua listened, and her saliva was about to flow out, "It sounds delicious, but unfortunately, I could go to have a banquet like my grandpa's house, but my grandpa's house is far away, and I can't go there even during the New Year's Eve." Yes, it's really hard to get a seat!"

It's a custom in ten miles and eight villages that if you don't have close relatives, you can go to other people's homes for dinner at most, and adults are not enough to go, so how can it be the turn of the younger generation?
Zhang Lihua is not greedy for banquets, but for the excitement and meat.

Song Qiu looked at it, and then told what he heard from the village head's wife at the banquet today, "Wait 22, let's go to Chengjiazhuang together, the flowing water mat, you can eat whatever you want, and you can also watch a play!"

It's a matter of not eating for nothing, and Grandma Deng wouldn't care about Lihua if she thought about it.

Zhang Lihua's eyes lit up as soon as she heard it, and she couldn't wait for it in an instant, wishing that tomorrow would be 22.

"It's a good feeling! Go to dinner, and you can meet my parents."

It's busy farming season, her parents haven't been home for a long time, she misses them all.

It's just around the middle of the ten-day period, and there are still a few days before the 22nd, and the immediate matter is the most important thing. As they went up the mountain, the two seriously picked up the mushrooms.

There are also mushrooms that were sent out in the afternoon, or those that were not picked up in the morning. Most of the cats are still fresh under the shade of trees, and some are wilted and ugly. .

After picking up two mountains, almost half of the baskets were filled, and the sun started to set.

The skirt was swept back and forth, causing a lot of lice, dragging on the skirt, looking scary,

Halfway down the mountain, the two of them simply sat in one place and began to pick up the lice on their skirts. Where they couldn't be picked, you pick them for me and I pick them for you. It took a long time before they were cleaned up.

After the lice were all cleaned up, Song Qiu and Zhang Lihua put on their baskets and continued down the mountain.

　Can I have a collection?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)