How can I go back to the past?

Chapter 37 New Year’s Eve Dinner

"No, I'm used to the old one. I'll use the old one."

After Li Le finished speaking, he carried the rice and flour into the kitchen and poured the rice and flour into the rice jar and flour jar in the kitchen.

Seeing Li Le like this, Zhao Yanran and her sister knew that Li Le had made up his mind, so they didn't say anything else and went into the house with their things.

Li Le brought the pheasants and rabbits into the house, and started to boil water to remove the pheasant feathers.

Li Le had just added water and put it on the boil when Zhao Yanran and her sister came to the kitchen, having already changed into their newly bought cotton-padded clothes.

"hiss!"

After putting on the new clothes that fit them well, the two sisters felt much more beautiful, which made Li Le, a normal man full of vigor and vitality, feel a little itchy in the nose.

"Brother Le, you go and take a rest! Leave the kitchen to me and Yanhan." Zhao Yanran hurriedly came up and took over the work from Li Le's hands and said.

"Yes! Brother Le, just leave this to me and my sister, you just take a rest!" Zhao Yanhan also said.

Li Le thought about it and said, "Okay, I'll leave it to you. Just prepare these ingredients!"

The ingredients Li Le prepared were sufficient, including pheasants and rabbits, as well as eggs, pork, and of course, the dumplings he had made in the morning.

"I got it, Brother Le. Don't worry! Yanhan and I both know how to cook." Zhao Yanran said with a smile.

"Ok!"

Li Le nodded, then came out of the kitchen and came to the main room. He made himself a pot of tea and drank it while waiting for the meal.

After finishing a pot of tea, Zhao Yanran and her sister also prepared the food and started to bring it into the main room. The first thing they brought in was the braised rabbit meat.

Then there were scrambled eggs, hot and sour cabbage, cold shredded radish, a pot of chicken soup, and finally three bowls of dumplings with soup.

Regardless of whether it tastes good or not, it looks very good. At least it has color and fragrance. If it tastes good too, then it will be perfect.

"Are you done?" Li Le asked.

"Yes, Brother Le, isn't this enough?" Zhao Yanran asked.

"It's enough, but it seems there's still one piece of pork missing."

Hearing Li Le say this, Zhao Yanhan said in advance: "Brother Le, I was originally planning to make another pork vermicelli, but the dumplings are stuffed with pork, so I didn't make it."

Li Le thought about it and said, "That's right! Then let's not make it. These are enough for us to eat."

It wasn't just enough to eat, it was too much. Not to mention the three of them, even if two more people came, they wouldn't be able to finish it.

"Okay, I'll go set off the fireworks first, and then we'll eat."

After Li Le finished speaking, he stood up, went into the house and took out a string of firecrackers, the kind that would fire 10,000 times, and they were very long.

In this era, ten thousand gunshots meant ten real gunshots, unlike in later generations, when ten thousand gunshots were considered good if there were three or four thousand.

Li Le came to the yard with firecrackers, opened them, walked around the yard, spread them out, and then lit them.

There was a crackling sound and the smell of gunpowder entered his nose. Li Le hurriedly pulled the two sisters back into the house.

Although the firecrackers had not yet been set off, Li Le still said, "Okay, let's eat."

"Yeah!" Zhao Yanran agreed.

They agreed, but the two sisters were still a little hesitant. Their chopsticks were either picking up cold shredded radish or hot and sour cabbage.

Seeing this, Li Le put down the bowl of dumplings, and then picked up some rabbit meat and chicken for the two sisters and said, "Eat more meat. You two are so skinny."

"Brother Le, we can do it ourselves, you should eat quickly!" Zhao Yanran quickly pulled Li Le and said.

"Okay, I'll eat, but you have to eat too. Remember, this is your home from now on. You don't need to look at anyone's face."

Li Le said this deliberately because he knew that the two sisters had just arrived and didn't know what Li Le thought of them.

"I understand, Brother Le." Zhao Yanran said with red eyes.

"Thank you, Brother Le!" Zhao Yanhan also said. Seeing that the two sisters still hadn't let go completely, Li Le picked up the wine glass that had been filled with wine and looked at the two sisters.

"Okay, today is New Year's Eve, and it is also the last day of this year. Let's throw away all the unhappy things and welcome the new year."

For this New Year’s Eve dinner, Li Le specially opened a bottle of Lotus White.

It’s not that Li Le can’t bear to give up Moutai, but Moutai is a sauce-flavored type, which Li Le is not used to, and the alcohol content is also high.

Lotus White is different, because it is a kind of tonic wine with a low alcohol content and the aroma that Li Le likes.

Of course, it’s also because of the Zhao Yanran sisters. Girls can easily get drunk if they drink alcohol that’s too strong.

"Here, have a drink."

"Ok!"

The two sisters nodded and picked up their cups.

The three of them clinked their glasses, and Li Le drank it first, saying, "You two can just take a sip."

"Brother Le, this wine should be a toast to you from the two of us." After saying that, he drank it in one gulp.

As soon as I drank it, I started coughing.

"I drank it too."

Before Li Le could say anything, Zhao Yanhan drank it in one gulp and started coughing too.

"I'm telling you two, if you can't drink, stop being stubborn and eat something to calm your nerves."

The two of them drank so fast that Li Le had no time to stop them and could only quickly pick up some food for them.

Fortunately, the alcohol content of this wine is not too high. If it was Erguotou, it would probably not be just a few coughs.

"Thank you Brother Le."

"Okay, don't be polite. Let's eat first and drink the wine slowly." Li Le shook his head after saying that.

When Li Le drinks, he likes light aroma, strong aroma, and even phoenix aroma, but he just doesn't like the sauce aroma.

This doesn’t mean that Li Le doesn’t drink sauce-flavored liquor, he just doesn’t like it. If there is no other liquor, he will drink it, but not too much.

Halfway through the meal, Zhao Yanran picked up the wine bottle and poured a glass for Li Le, herself, and Zhao Yanhan.

Then he picked it up and said, "Brother Le, Yanhan and I toast you with this glass of wine."

"No, no, what's there to toast? Let's just clink glasses." Li Le said quickly, picking up the wine glass.

"Brother Le, this won't do. This glass of wine must be toasted."

Seeing Zhao Yanran's determination, Li Le did not refuse and said, "Okay! This one."

"Ok!"

Time passed little by little, and by nine o'clock, the meal was completely finished.

We cooked a lot of food, but at least half of it was not eaten.

Zhao Yanran stood up and said, "Brother Le, I'll go clean these up. Let Yanhan make you a pot of tea. You can have some tea and take a rest."

"I won't drink the tea. You two can clean up together! I'll go clean up the bedroom."

Li Le had already drunk a lot of tea while eating just now. Now that he was about to rest, he didn't want to drink any more, otherwise he would have to get up at night.

"Okay! But let Yanhan clean up the bedroom! You take a rest."

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