"I heard that we are hosting a banquet for Master Zhou and Confucius tonight to welcome Master Zhou and wash away his dust."
Li Zheng asked.
Xu Zhengxiang said sheepishly: "Yes, they are all temporarily decided.
The third child didn't even ask his family, so he decided on this matter himself!
But the child was also excited for a moment.
Anyway, Mr. Zhou happened to be back today, so it was better to choose a random date, so we decided to make it today! "
"Okay! I think it will work today!" Li Zheng was also very happy.
"It just so happens that I still have some fresh meat at home, and I'll ask my Xiao Duo to bring it all over in a while.
I just don’t know what to make for dinner at night? "
Xu Zhengxiang said with some embarrassment: "I originally wanted to make hot pot, but with so many people, it is a bit inconvenient to eat hot pot. Since everyone has brought dishes, let's just have a hodgepodge and eat whatever is served. ,How about it?"
"Okay! What's wrong with this!"
While the two were studying, Ye Luoxin came over.
She said: "Mom, I took a look just now. Everyone brought vegetables, some raw, some cooked, some dry food, and some cakes. It looks like there are enough vegetables, but there is a little less meat. Otherwise, I and I Xiao Mu is driving the carriage to the city to buy some now, right?"
Xu Zhengxiang looked at the sky and said with some hesitation: "Let's go now. When you get to the city, I'm afraid all the butcher shops will be closed!"
“Then let’s think of a way to buy some from the restaurant.
The business of Zhuangyuan Building is so big, we can always give some to us! "
"Okay!" Xu Zhengxiang couldn't think of a better way.
Xiao Mu went to the horse pen to lead the horse. Before he could get out, he heard screams coming from the front yard.
He was most familiar with Ye Luoxin's voice, and he heard Ye Luoxin shout: "Yuanbao, where did you get this? This is too big!"
Xiao Mu tied the horse again and walked over to take a look.
In the yard, Yuanbao was well behaved, sitting in the yard with his front feet together.
It held its head high, with a tiger squatting on its head, and a half-human-long wild boar lying at its feet.
The wild boar was missing one of its tusks, and there were two deep bloody holes on its neck, which were still bleeding out.
The villagers all gathered around the wild boar and pointed, obviously no one thought that this tiger could catch a wild boar that was similar in size to itself.
"This tiger is so powerful!"
"I've never seen it hunt before, and it can catch such a big prey!"
"Yeah, this wild boar is almost as heavy as it is!"
"This tiger is very human. He has been in our village for so long, but he has never harmed any livestock. Is this tiger here to repay his kindness?"
"Yeah yeah!"
Seeing the wild boar, they finally figured out what to eat tonight.
"Boss and Second Brother, hurry up and boil the water. This will take off the wild boar's hair. Let's study some dishes!"
Xu Zhengxiang said happily.
The villagers are also very excited.
In all my life, I have never tasted wild boar.
Now, with the help of the Xiao family, even the wild boar can be eaten!
"Mom, look, today is really a good day, even Yuanbao and Huzi know how to add food to us!" Xiao Jing said proudly.
"Jicai is also the credit of Huzi and Yuanbao. Why are you asking for credit here? Just leave it to me!"
Xu Zhengxiang pretended to be angry and drove Xiao Jing away.
Then Yuanbao and Huzi's family were rewarded with an egg.
Then I went to do other things.
Yuan Bao put the egg in his mouth and quietly sneaked into Ye Luoxin's room while no one was paying attention.
In the room, the white fox was lying leisurely in the cage licking its fur.
Seeing the tiger coming in, the fox's fur stood up nervously and he whined.
Yuan Bao stopped after some distance.
It spit out the egg, put it on the ground, and rolled the egg around and around with its paws in front of the fox.
At first the little fox didn't want to pay attention to it.
But it is the nature of foxes to eat chickens. When they see eggs, foxes are also greedy.
After a while, saliva started flowing out of its mouth.
Yuan Bao seems to have been observing the changes in the fox.
Seeing that the little fox was staring at the egg and refusing to move away, it finally stopped playing with the egg. Instead, it picked it up in one bite, crunched it into pieces, and then ate it with satisfaction.
The juice from the egg flowed out from the corners of the tiger's mouth.
The fox looked anxiously and saw the tiger sticking out its thick tongue and licking it, and all the juice was licked back!
Now the fox was completely angry.
It hit the cage hard to express its dissatisfaction.
The tiger turned around triumphantly, wagged its tail at the fox, and then walked out triumphantly.
In the yard, everyone was busy working, and no one noticed that in this corner, a fox's eyes were red with anger.
When Yuanbao walked out, Huzi was waiting for him outside.
Seeing Yuan Bao coming out, the tiger huffed and spread its wings and jumped on the tiger's head again.
Satisfied, the bird and the tiger went to patrol the backyard.
…
The skin of wild boar is very thick and the meat is relatively coarse.
Xu Zhengxiang thought for a moment and divided the wild boar into several parts.
Cut out two strips of meat from the abdomen and chop them for stuffing. Then make pork and cabbage ball soup.
Cut four pork legs into small pieces to make braised pork legs.
Remove the ribs and make sweet and sour short ribs.
The meat from the back spine is cooked in a pot together with the pig head and trotters, and is reserved for platters.
The dinner that was originally not sumptuous suddenly became rich.
The Xiao family's pots were not enough, so Osmanthus arranged for everyone to take some of the dishes they brought home and cook them before bringing them over.
At the same time, she also gave up her own pot to cook the bones for the Xiao family.
"It's just a matter of spending some firewood. I have plenty of firewood at home!"
The village suddenly became lively.
The road was full of villagers walking back and forth.
Everyone who has children studying in school at home wants to come and do their part to support Master Zhou.
She has no children at home but has a good relationship with the Xiao family and is willing to come and help.
At that time, almost two-thirds of the families in the village came, and all but one of the neighbors close to Xiao Changhe's home came.
That household is Xiao Changshui's family.
Ever since Li Cuihua was scolded by Xu Zhengxiang last time, she never had the face to come to Xu Zhengxiang again.
Originally, she expected to see the second child's family making jokes, but as a result, their family's life got better and better.
Not only is the business booming, but the people who come to the family are also big shots.
Li Cuihua's face turned green with jealousy.
She refused to come without telling her, and she also refused to let Xiao Changshui and her brother's house go around.
Slowly, the two families lost contact.
Xiao Changshui was holding his anger in his heart, but now that Xiao Changhe's house is so lively, but he can't show up, he is even more angry.
He stood at the entrance of the courtyard and watched the people coming and going.
Li Cuihua shouted at the kitchen door: "What are you looking at? Come back and eat quickly! It's none of your business if people are busy!"
Hearing this, Xiao Changshui seemed to have decided something, and said angrily: "You can eat it yourself! I'll go out for a walk!"
