After traveling through time, the restaurant I opened became a big hit

Chapter 94: Preparing a Banquet

The next day was the formal wedding ceremony. Jiang Li came very early and prepared the materials in advance.

Because there were more than a dozen tables today, Jiang Li also used his points to redeem a temporary substitute robot in the system mall.

888 points can be used for six hours, which is enough for a banquet.

According to the villagers, they were employees who came to help temporarily today.

After preparing the ingredients, Jiang Li also went to the bridal room to join in the fun.

When getting married in the countryside, people just do their own makeup in a simple and rough way.

There is no professional makeup artist, the bride does it herself.

Generally, the makeup techniques here are simple and rough. First, paint the face white, then draw eyeliner, and finally apply red lips.

But it is obvious that the bride also attaches great importance to her marriage and gets up early in the morning to prepare everything.

So she started to draw eyebrows and apply powder, and her technique was quite good.

The painting is very detailed, and I don't pursue a white face or red lips.

Instead, we pursue a natural and beautiful look.

Maybe it’s because it’s in the countryside and everyone is so lively. As soon as the bride puts on her makeup, everyone gathers around her.

Everyone was amazed at the bride putting on makeup.

Young people are really amazing. The little face becomes so beautiful in an instant.

Soon, the sound of music was heard from outside.

The bride's mother glanced at her watch and saw it was just after seven o'clock.

Immediately, the bride's mother couldn't help laughing and said, "It must be that group of boys who are making trouble. They can't stand it anymore and want to marry their daughter-in-law home as soon as possible!"

He Quan's younger brother walked around the village playing music for a full hour.

Everyone in the village woke up and came out early to watch the fun.

It was just daybreak when people started knocking on the door and heard people playing and laughing.

After some polite banter, He Quan's brother took the bride into the wedding car.

Everyone enthusiastically surrounded the newlyweds and went to He Quan's house to make their wedding declaration.

Jiang Li was at the man's house, so she didn't see many interesting scenes.

I have been listening to the aunts and uncles chatting here. They are indeed the most well-informed people in the village.

Jiang Ligang just listened for a while, and it seemed like he knew all the gossip in the village.

For example, a girl from a certain family and a boy from a certain family are secretly in love.

Which family's child secretly picked vegetables from which family.

There are many more like this, which really satisfy Jiang Li's desire for gossip.

As soon as the bride left home, He Quan told Jiang Li that she could start preparing the dishes.

The banquet prepared this time is the "Erba Banquet", which is the most common banquet in rural areas.

The Erba Banquet mainly consists of eight bowls and eight plates, with a total of sixteen dishes.

Bowl dishes are usually served with rice, while plate dishes are served with wine.

Among them, eight bowls of dishes include four kinds of red meat and four kinds of white meat, commonly known as red and white atractylodes comb back and red and white scissors.

Hongbaishu Shubei refers to frozen tofu covered with meat strips, while Hongbai Jianzi refers to frozen tofu covered with meat chunks.

Jiang Li makes some common dishes, including square meat, strip meat, tiger skin eggs, braised chicken, braised carp, north and south tofu, four-happiness meatballs, etc.

Among them, square pork and strip pork are must-try dishes because they are tender and delicious, fat but not greasy.

The eight dishes are divided into four cold dishes and four hot dishes, with a combination of meat and vegetables. For the cold dishes, Jiang Li made sausage platter, cold tripe shreds, cold dried tofu, spicy lotus root slices, etc.

For the hot dishes, there are stir-fried shrimps, mu shu pork, slippery pork slices, and stir-fried shredded pork with garlic moss.

These dishes are mostly made of seasonal vegetables, and there are no strict restrictions on the dishes, so they are suitable for most banquets.

In addition, after consultation with He Quan's family, it was decided to make steamed buns the staple food, with red dots on them as decoration.

Each table has eight seats, which just fits the nursery rhyme saying “eight buns with red dots”.

In general, Erbaxi’s dishes are rich and varied, including traditional meat dishes as well as refreshing vegetable dishes.

This was also decided by Jiang Li and the He family after consultation.

This "Erba Xi" can not only satisfy people's pursuit of delicious food, but also reflect the characteristics of local culture.

Jiang Li's movements were also very quick. She stood in the busy kitchen like a conductor, leading the rhythm of the entire kitchen.

Jiang Li's movements are not only smooth but also elegant, as if every subtle gesture contains profound cooking skills.

Her hands are flexible and powerful, like the hands of a craftsman who has been tempered by thousands of hammers.

Whether it's chopping vegetables, stir-frying or seasoning, Jiang Li can do it with amazing speed and precision.

The kitchen knife in Jiang Li's hand seemed to be an extension of him. Every swing was extremely precise, cutting the ingredients into evenly thin slices or strips.

There are many local people from the village in the kitchen, all of whom want to help pick vegetables, cook, take things and so on.

It turns out that they are of no use in this kitchen.

With just two people, they can cook all the dishes, and they taste especially delicious and look tasty.

Jiang Li's eyes are bright, focused and sharp when she is cooking.

She always pays attention to the changes in the heat and constantly adjusts the cooking rhythm.

Moreover, his eyes kept wandering between the stove, pots and seasonings, and he could notice any slight change anywhere.

Not only that, Jiang Li's sense of taste and smell are also extremely keen. She can accurately distinguish the taste and aroma of each ingredient.

This allows the proportion of seasonings to be accurately adjusted so that each dish can achieve the best taste and flavor.

Perhaps due to her superb cooking skills, Jiang Li always has a confident smile on her face, as if everything is under control.

Her figure moved around the kitchen like a beautiful landscape, attracting everyone's attention.

Many guests who were attending the ceremony outside smelled a fragrance as soon as they entered the gate.

Some of them had come to eat yesterday and knew that Jiang Li would cook again today.

So he didn't even bother to watch the ceremony and quickly took a seat at the table.

Anyone who has lived in the countryside for so many years has probably had several banquets.

It was my first time attending a wedding, and I didn’t notice how pretty the bride was or how handsome the groom was.

Everyone's attention followed the fragrance in the air.

If they weren't worried about being impolite, many guests would have already run to the table and sat down.

The wedding vows are simple, but there are also various group photos and other activities.

By the time the ceremony was over, the dishes on the table were almost ready.

This large table of dishes was impeccable in terms of color and the combination of meat and vegetables.

Now many people have privately asked He's mother for Jiang Li's contact information, hoping to find them next time they have a banquet or something like that.

Jiang Li thought that hosting a banquet might help increase his popularity.

But after many things happened later, she never imagined that her restaurant had developed into such a state.

(End of this chapter)