Shanghai is prosperous

Chapter 259
Hearing the sudden loud crying from the room, the grandparents, aunts and aunts didn't know what happened, they thought it was something happened to Xiaoxiao's father, so they all got up quickly and gathered together Come in.

After seeing the situation in the room and listening to Xiaoxiao's mother's intermittent introduction, everyone in the room couldn't help sighing.

The eldest aunt was tearful, walked over to Xiaoxiao's father, choked up and said, my younger brother is really a miserable person.One person has worked so hard to secure such a large family business, and he has not enjoyed it for a few days, so he has suffered such a serious illness.

The second aunt walked over and supported Xiaoxiao's mother's thin shoulders, and said, Xiaoxiao's father is already like this, and we have to resign ourselves to fate.It may be that my brother was happy when he heard the good news about Xiaoxiao today, so he behaved like this for the better.

With the support of Zhu Xuying's mother, the two old people came over tremblingly and looked at their son's condition. The two old people stood by the bed with snot and tears.

For a while, the room slowly filled with bursts of crying.

The aunt made some adjustments to the pillow that Xiaoxiao's father put on, and tidied up the quilt covering her. She wiped her eyes and said, "Hey, we should be happy today. Why are the big guys doing the opposite?" Are you crying?
She said, first, Xiaoxiao's great joy finally had a good result.The second is the blessing of the Bodhisattva. With the blessing of the spirit of heaven, Xiaoxiao's father's condition has improved a lot today.These should be celebrated, why should we all cry?
Grandma laughed through her tears and said, my granddaughter is still good, and she brought good luck to her father.It seems that Xiaoxiao's father is also happy about today's great event.By the way, we should be happy, and we will celebrate this Duanyang Festival happily together.

It's time to eat.This Dragon Boat Festival family banquet, because of the adequate preparations and the sudden improvement of Xiaoxiao's father's condition, the meal was very lively and peaceful, adding to the festive atmosphere.

The meal was divided into two tables.As today's main guest, Wang Yiyuan was arranged at the main table to the left of Xiaoxiao's mother and grandparents, and Xiao Xiaoxiao was next to him.Xie Dong and Zhu Xuying, as introducers, were also at the main table.

Auntie is at the head of the second table.The dishes are very rich, and a large table is full.Xie Dong said that during the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhenjiang, according to folk customs, the "Twelve Reds" should be eaten during the festival.

Wang Yiyuan didn't quite know what this way of eating was, and looked at Xie Dong with curiosity.

Xie Dong went on to say that the so-called "twelve reds" are vegetables and fruits in season in May, all of which are red, such as loquat, red fruit, mixed cucumber, soy shrimp, soy radish, roast duck soup, jelly skin, Salted duck eggs, fried amaranth, braised yellow croaker, braised pork, realgar wine, etc.

Grandpa smiled and said that the "Twelve Reds" of the Dragon Boat Festival, one is the "red" color of this product, and the other is the color of "braised in red".There are banquets with four bowls and eight dishes, and there are banquets with mixed bowls and dishes.The so-called "four bowls" include braised yellow croaker, braised squid, braised beef, and braised chicken nuggets. "Eight dishes" are divided into "four cold" and "four hot".

Wang Yiyuan became interested, and listened to his grandfather continue to talk.

Grandpa said that the four cold dishes are: one salted egg, two sausages, three radishes, four smoked fish and so on.The four heats are: one stir-fried amaranth, two fried pork liver, three fried river prawns, four crisp fried shredded eels, etc.In addition, pay attention to others, and finally there is a hanging stove roast duck soup on the table, but if it is calculated in this way, of course it is not limited to "Twelve Reds".

Grandma smiled and said, Xiao Wang, these are old calendars.Now is the new society, so we don't pay much attention to these etiquettes.Come on, come on, you're all hungry, let's start eating now.

Grandpa picked up the small wine glass and said, "Xiao Wang, this is the first time we have dinner today. You are in Shanghai. I hope you can come to Zhenjiang to see Xiaoxiao's father, Xiaoxiao's mother, and the others. Let's drink this together first." A glass of realgar bar.

Wang Yiyuan and Xiao Xiaoxiao quickly stood up and said, definitely come, definitely come, and we will visit grandpa and grandma more often.We're done, grandpa, please drink less.

Everyone drank realgar wine.Xiaoxiao's mother greeted everyone to eat and add vegetables from time to time.She said with a smile, these rice dumplings, realgar wine, preserved eggs and duck eggs, and these fresh loquats were all brought by Xiao Wang, everyone should eat more.

Eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival has many meanings.The conventional method is to wrap glutinous rice dumplings with reed leaves, which come in various colors such as ham, red beans, broad bean valves, and pure rice dumplings.However, Xiaoxiao's family did it differently this time. When cooking zongzi, they cooked salted duck eggs and eggs together in one pot, so that the taste of the eggs would be more delicious when eaten.

Xiao Xiaoxiao peeled several zongzi, salted duck eggs, and preserved eggs, and put them one by one on a white plate, then pulled Wang Yiyuan's clothes.Wang Yiyuan understood, and the two took the plates and honored these things to their grandparents, Xiaoxiao's mother, eldest aunt, and second aunt respectively.

After passing through these essential ritual scenes, everyone is more casual.Xiao Xiaoxiao took Wang Yiyuan and toasted each table's guests one by one.After a round of beating, Wang Yiyuan drank a lot of wine.

The eldest uncle was fine, took the wine and was polite, and then finished drinking it kindly.On the other hand, the second uncle saw that Wang Yiyuan was able to drink, and became interested. He grabbed Wang Yiyuan and said that today is the Dragon Boat Festival and there is a big happy event, so he must have a few more full cups with him, so that he can have a good time.

After all, the second aunt is a cadre. Looking at the situation, I know that the second uncle's alcohol addiction has come up again.She said to the second uncle, what's the matter, are you still hungry for wine today?If it is not allowed, you have to drink it at home.Besides, when Xiao Wang came here for the first time, he drank a lot, so he can't be bullied.

The second uncle was a little embarrassed to come down for a while.Wang Yiyuan also didn't want to defeat the second aunt's drinking, and said with a smile, "Second aunt, let's do this, it's only three things, and my second uncle and I will drink two big cups."Second Uncle, can you see it?
After drinking two cups in a row, the second uncle raised his thumb and gestured to Wang Yiyuan several times, saying, "Xiao Wang is a good drinker, come to our house one day, we two have a good drink."

The second aunt said, okay, okay.Xiao Wang, eat more vegetables. This realgar wine is actually our Zhenjiang old wine. It is easy to drink. It will be better if you eat more food.

After sitting down, grandpa said with a smile, in the folk customs of our Zhenjiang side, the Dragon Boat Festival lunch is richer, generally regardless of rich or poor, you have to buy yellow croakers and "white turtles".

White turtle?Wang Yiyuan was puzzled for a moment, what exactly was this "white turtle". He looked at the dishes on the table, but he didn't seem to find any such dish as a turtle.So he asked inexplicably, why is there a white turtle?
Everyone at the table laughed.Xiao Xiaoxiao sneered, don't ask random questions if you don't understand, okay?The white turtle we are talking about here refers to the big white goose.

Xiaoxiao's mother greeted Wang Yiyuan to eat fish, saying, this is shad, Xiao Wang, you can try it.

Xie Dong said that shad is rare and expensive because it is not easy to catch in the Yangtze River and there are not many of them.Xiao Wang, do you know that Zhenjiang is the best place for Yangtze River shad, because this area of ​​the river is wide and the best section downstream.Here shad come and go, especially around the Dragon Boat Festival.

(End of this chapter)