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Chapter 64 The Li Family Banquet
The four-button dish is the highlight of the eight bowls. One is filled with pork belly, which is blanched and then sauce-colored and deep-fried in oil to make the skin wrinkled. The other one is braised and has the same idea.

After the pleats are formed by frying, let them dry and then cut into long slices about a finger thick. Use a knife in the middle to thicken the noodles. Fry the soybean flour and sandwich it between them. Put it upside down in an earthen bowl and place eight slices in a bowl side by side.

For the Shao Bai, just cut it into half finger-thick long slices. You can also put eight slices upside down and arrange them neatly in a bowl, with a handful of pickles made by each family on top.

Next comes the steamed pork ribs and steamed pork, both of which require rice flour. One is to chop the pork ribs into small pieces, and the other is to cut the pure fat meat into long slices half a finger thick. Season with rice flour and mix evenly before spreading. In the earthen bowl, turn it upside down as usual, and put sweet potatoes cut into pieces on top.

After all four bowls are made, put them together in a large steamer for steaming.

Li Jihe counted his relatives, friends and guests, relatives in the village, and thirty tables should be enough, but he usually made two more tables, just in case he didn't count them by then, in case there were too many guests. ? The other dishes will be ready at that time, and the steamed vegetables are an indispensable highlight, which cannot be prepared in a short while.

Even if the extra two bowls are not used, you can keep them for yourself when the time comes. Only when you are really poor and have no choice will you prepare the table.

Thirty bowls of steamed vegetables each, as well as fried tofu balls, were made by several wives, and it took them a whole afternoon to make them.

The other tribesmen helped to deal with other dishes that needed to be processed. Li Jihe ordered steamed whole chickens, a total of thirty chickens, and thirty fishes. It would take a lot of effort to kill them all.

While the tribesmen were busy and talking, they couldn't help but talk about Jihe and Dafang. This time it was the chicken! Like the clan banquets we had a few times ago, ducks were used.

After all, a chicken costs 545 to 55 cents, and a duck only costs about 30 to 35 cents.

Hosting a banquet costs a lot of money. Just looking at these thirty chickens and thirty fishes is almost three cents worth of money.

Naturally, the clan members who came to help today had to serve a meal. This meal was prepared by the Song family and Wu family's three sisters-in-law who came to help with their daughters. The dishes were not as good as the main banquet, but they still had vegetables and meat.

Li Jihe invited his father, uncle, and clan leader to have dinner together. At noon alone, there were three or four tables occupied.

After a busy day, the tribesmen who helped packed up all the things, and then they all went home.

In order to avoid the fire tomorrow, the Shiliu family temporarily moved back to the old house to deal with the fire for the night, leaving only Li Ji and his son to guard the grass shed.

The new house has also been cleaned by Ms. Song and the Pomegranate sisters from top to bottom, from the inside out, and the door has been closed. A blessing knot has been tied to the lock of the door, so that after the door is closed, it will be burned tomorrow. It cannot be opened before.

On the second day, the tribesmen came early to help.

Today, as the head of the family, Li Jihe and his family were extremely busy early in the morning.

When the expected auspicious time came, Li Rongzong was responsible for lighting the prepared firecrackers. While they were crackling, Li Jihe, the head of the family, personally opened the door that had been locked last night.

After the door opened, Li Jihe and Mrs. Song entered the door one after another. Mrs. Song went into the stove and put a torch lit from the old house into the stove hall, then put in firewood to light the fire and heat it up. pot.

Li Jihe went directly into the main room to burn incense.

Then, Li Rongzong's brothers and sisters and the helper Li Jiren and others entered the new house one by one carrying buckets, brooms, food, and other items. In addition, there is the Song family's natal family. Uncle Song and Uncle Song came early and brought two money trees. It is a custom in eight villages in ten miles that if a fire breaks out in a new house, the natal family will give them money trees.

The so-called money trees are dieffenbachia and cypress trees, with red strings and copper coins hanging on them. A tree full of them is a money tree, isn't it?
Of course, there are those from the natal family who are searching, and the copper coins hanging on a money tree can be seen at a glance. Like the Song family, the money tree hanging with countless copper coins made the tribesmen watching the ceremony marvel in admiration.

Even though she is as honest as the Song family, she feels happy when she hears the tribesmen's praise of the money tree sent by her brother. She feels that she has gained twice as much face!

Pomegranate looked at the copper coins in the tree. There were at least hundreds of them, and she felt that he was indeed her first uncle and second uncle. He really cared for his sister! Just willing!
A pot of water was boiled in the kitchen of Xinzhai. After boiling, Mrs. Song and Mrs. Wu rolled the glutinous rice balls with their hands, cooked a pot of glutinous rice balls, added sugar and fermented glutinous rice——

After cooking, take it out of the pot. Today’s breakfast is a bowl of glutinous rice balls cooked in a new house pot.

After breakfast, the helping tribesmen continued to be busy preparing the banquet. The chickens that should be steamed were steamed, and the hooves were stewed——

Li Jihe and his family were busy running around, greeting the tribesmen and villagers who came to congratulate them for moving to new houses.

The tribesmen didn’t come empty-handed. They were carrying tables, benches, and bowls and chopsticks. They were so huge and lively.

It is impossible for any family to have so many tables, benches, and bowls and chopsticks to hold a banquet. Therefore, there are three stakes for each fence and three gangs for each hero. Generally, the banquet is provided by the clan members who bring their own tables, bowls, and chopsticks. .

Arriving at the open space in front of the door, tables and benches were placed next to each other. The tribesmen each found a place to sit at a table of eight people. While waiting for the banquet to begin, they chatted and leisurely. Taking advantage of this moment, they went Li Jihe invited his son Li Jizu, the patriarch who was responsible for writing the ceremony, to write the ceremony. The whole new house was noisy. It was really popular!
Brothers Li Rongzong were responsible for carrying out the purchased wine. This was the rule for each table and jar.

What do you think if there is a table that does not drink? That can't be done!

This banquet rule also makes Pomegranate complain about it, that is, usually only two people from a family come, and they are the mainstay of the family!
How can any of you gentlemen not drink? My family is usually reluctant to buy wine, so when we eat at a banquet, we must drink openly!
After writing the ceremony, everyone sat back down and soon, as soon as the steaming steamer was opened, the dishes began to be served.

Mrs. Wu and her daughter-in-law who were helping brought the dishes to the table one by one. Eight large bowls were served on the table. The diners waved their chopsticks and devoured the food.

There were eight bowls of food, each with a generous portion, and there were eight people at each table. Some of them ate them all directly, while others put some in the bowls to take back to their families. These are common at banquet tables. Things are not surprising.

When the food is on the table, the host will only take the empty bowls away. The host will not say anything whether you finish the meal or take it away.

After the lively banquet was finished, as soon as the bowls were put away, the people who had brought the tables and benches took them away as they were brought.

The helping tribesmen also helped with the finishing touches, and Mrs. Song gave her daughters-in-law a bowl each of the leftover dishes from the prepared banquet. This was a token of gratitude for helping.

Today, the fire in the Shiliu family has come to a perfect end. Li Jihe sent away the elders and others in the clan one by one, and finally sent away Father Li and the others until everyone had left, leaving only Shiliu's own family and his family. Uncle Song and the others were deliberately kept back by Li Jihe from rushing home.

Only then can I take a good breath and talk about things in detail.

(End of this chapter)