After being bound to the learning system in my mother's womb, I became the empress

Chapter 343 The Lin Family Dinner

"Ah Erxi, come on, it's pinched my hand! It hurts!"

"I told you not to reach out and tease them, but you didn't listen."

When Lin Xi and Lin Wushang stepped into the house, they saw Jiang Min (original name Zhu Min, later changed back to her mother's surname) raising her hands pitifully.

Her fingers were suddenly clamped by the giant pincers of a cricket.

Erxi brought a chopstick and lured the cricket to let go of Jiang Min's fingers and clamp the chopstick instead.

He treated the wounds on her hands again.

Jiang Min turned his head and saw Lin Xi and a smile on his face.

"Xibao Xiaojiu, you are back. Come and see the crickets, we are in for a treat tonight."

In the open space next to the well, there are many fresh crickets in a large basin.

Crayfish are similar to crayfish, but they are native shrimps.

It is green in appearance and only lives in rivers and streams with excellent water quality.

Even without any seasoning, it tastes delicious.

It can even be sliced ​​and eaten raw.

Lin Xi and Lin Wushang each brought a pony over and sat by the basin to help clean the crickets.

Crickets are delicious, but the preliminary preparation work is time-consuming and laborious.

But for the sake of delicious food, this trouble is still bearable.

Erxi asked Lin Xi: "Xibao, how do you want to eat the crickets?"

Lin Xi: "Make part of it into sashimi and make a sour and spicy dipping sauce."

Jiang Min agreed very much: "On this hot day, I like to eat cold food the most. The fresh and sweet cricket meat is rolled in the hot and sour water. It is very beautiful just thinking about it."

Lin Xi: "Make another spicy cricket."

Jiang Min: "This is good too. The spicy crickets made by Erxi are so fragrant and spicy that people can't help but twitch their fingers after eating them."

A few people were discussing the evening menu when Lin Chunniang came back from the farm, holding a large lotus leaf in her hand to shade them from the sun.

The bamboo basket on her back was filled with lotus pods and a bouquet of lotus leaves. As soon as she walked in, she brought the refreshing fragrance of lotus.

The other hand held a bamboo basket, which contained live chickens and ducks, freshly cut pork belly, ribs, and a bass just fished out of the fish pond.

Lin Chunniang put down the things, took out the lotus pods, and brought them over on a bamboo fruit plate.

"Come and eat the lotus pods, I just picked them from the lotus pond."

Then he peeled a lotus seed and fed it to Lin Xi.

The lotus seeds are tender, sweet and delicious.

Erxi took the ingredients into the kitchen and came out and said, "How about making lotus leaf chicken, steamed sea bass, and cherry meat tonight?"

Several people have no opinion.

The sun was setting, and large swaths of sunset appeared on the horizon. Orange, red, purple, gold...were intertwined together and were so gorgeous that it was intoxicating.

Beautiful as a painting.

Cuiniang and Sanfu also came back one after another.

Yuniang was the last one to come back. The sky was already dark, and there were a few stars twinkling in the sky.

As for Lin Dayou, he was far away in the capital and could only miss the dinner at home.

"I'm sorry I came back late. I performed an operation on a patient while I was off work."

As soon as Yu Niang entered the yard, she went to the sink to wash her hands, once with clean water and once with soap.

After she washed her hands and entered the room, Cui Niang handed her a cup of herbal tea.

"It's not too late, the last dish hasn't been cooked yet."

Yu Niang drank the herbal tea and looked at the table, which was already full of delicious food.

Crab sashimi, spicy crab, lotus leaf chicken, cherry meat, sweet and sour pork ribs, chopped cucumber, pickled lettuce, the staple food is beef cold noodles.

"Ah, it smells so good." Yu Niang took a deep breath of the aroma of the food, and her stomach began to growl.

Erxi walked towards the kitchen, "If Yuniang is hungry, eat first. I'll steam the seabass. It'll be ready soon." Although Yuniang was very hungry, Yuniang didn't use her chopsticks first.

Instead, I ate two pieces of pastry to cushion my stomach.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Erxi returned to the main room with a plate of freshly cooked steamed seabass.

"Come, it's time to eat." Lin Chunniang greeted everyone to the table.

They are all a family, and they don't pay attention to seating arrangements. They sit in a circle casually.

On Lin Xi's left is Lin Chunniang, and on her right is Lin Wushang.

She immediately picked up a piece of cricket sashimi, dipped it in water and put it in her mouth.

The taste was so fresh that her eyebrows almost fell off.

While eating and talking, the atmosphere at the dinner table was very pleasant.

Three years have passed, and the Lin family has grown up. Even the youngest Yu Niang is seventeen.

But except for Erxi and Jiang Min, who got married, the others were neither married nor engaged.

First, Lin Xi has been subtly promoting the benefits of late marriage (and later) late childbearing in recent years.

If a woman is not mature enough and her body is not fully developed, how can she get married?What kind of child?
The mortality rate of children in this era is so high. A large part of the reason is that women get married too young.

Women get married early and get pregnant early. How can they give birth to healthy children if they don’t have a fully developed mother’s body?
Lin Xi not only preached verbally, but also set up practical benefits.

She set up a late marriage and late childbearing reward fund in the village to provide bonuses to women who get married in the future.

And this bonus is not paid out all at once.

When getting married, a dowry of more than ten taels of silver is given.

When pregnant, a maternity fee of no less than one tael of silver per month will be paid.

After the child is born, child care fees, etc. will also be paid.

It is paid until the child turns one year old.

With the development of the economy, Mingshui Village has become more and more prosperous and has been upgraded to a prosperous town, becoming more and more open and inclusive.

People are gradually accepting this idea of ​​late marriage and late childbearing.

In addition, there are bonuses on the line, so more and more women are marrying later and having children later.

Several sisters from the Lin family were naturally included.

Therefore, even though the youngest Yu Niang is seventeen and the eldest Lin Chun Niang is 21, they have not become aliens in the eyes of others and suffered all kinds of rumors.

Another point is that the Lin sisters all have their own careers, and this career is something they love and are good at. They live a fulfilling and happy life every day.

In addition to their careers, they also have a rich entertainment life.

Read story books, watch dramas, listen to operas, go shopping, skate, play Cuju, etc. Don’t have too many fun and interesting things.

With sufficient material and spiritual support, they naturally don't have much yearning or yearning for marriage.

Of course, young girls still have some fantasies about love.

It's just that they haven't met the man who makes them attracted and want to spend their whole lives with them.

Fortunately, there are no elders in the Lin family, so no one is urging the marriage.

They just have to go at their own pace.

After dinner, everyone came to the pavilion in the courtyard.

Either sit on the beauty's back, lie on a lounge chair, or simply sit on a mat spread on the ground.

In short how comfortable how to come.

On the table were fruit juice, lotus seed and white fungus soup, milk tea, as well as various snacks and fruits.

Mosquito repellent incense is lit around the pavilion, so you don't have to worry about mosquitoes biting you.

There was also a circle of ice mirrors, and the ice cubes continuously released cool air, making the pavilion very cool.

The stars are shining brightly in the sky, there is a faint fragrance in the courtyard, and a few fireflies come to visit from time to time.

Lin Xi lay on the recliner, swaying leisurely, feeling that the atmosphere was particularly comfortable.

(End of this chapter)