The Evil King's Favorite Concubine: Genius Perfumer

Chapter 55 New Year's Eve Dinner ([-])
"Let's eat, let's eat!"

It was completely dark.In the increasingly lively small town, people began to gather at the dinner table to start the last and happiest feast of the year.

The New Year's Eve dinner is the most important family dinner for ordinary people.

As the saying goes, one thousand for beating, ten thousand for scolding, one meal for thirty in the evening.

Tan Yushu had arranged the tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks long ago, and was waiting for the "New Year's Eve dinner" that Gan Tiantian had predicted with confidence.

"There are so many dishes!"

Listening to her little uncle's praise, Gan Tiantian, who was busy serving dishes, raised her face proudly, but her little uncle smiled and raised his hand to wipe off a piece of ash on his nose.

"Huh?" Gan Tiantian saw the traces of ashes on the back of his little uncle's hand, and immediately blushed: "I was busy cooking and didn't pay attention...Elder brother and second brother, you didn't remind me!"

"Okay, okay, I know you've worked hard. Sit down, uncle will pour you stuffed fruit, and let the two of them serve the food."

Tan Yushu pulled Gan Tiantian to sit down, then smiled and said, "What kind of food do you have?"

"Hee hee hee, these dishes are all learned by me now, and I stole from Master Xinghualou... In fact, there are none, I just figured it out on my own."

On the evening of the 29th, Yujinfang ordered a few tables from Xinghualou to entertain everyone. Gan Tiantian tasted every dish seriously.

It happened that she was sitting next to Lin Weilan. Lin Weilan had been in the workshop for several years, and she ate a lot of this kind of New Year's meal. She often went to the big kitchen to help the cook, and she was quite interested in cooking.

That night, she and Lin Weilan ate and exchanged cooking experiences for a while, but Lin Weilan, who was always strict, smiled a few times.

In fact, this sister Weilan is also a person with a cold face and a warm heart, and she has high prestige in the hearts of the sisters in the East Small Courtyard. Otherwise, how can she be convinced by her qualifications alone.

"The food is ready!"

After Gan Dong cheerfully served the last dish, the four uncles and nephews sat down safely and began to prepare to enjoy this sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.

"Come on, eat this first, 'good luck'!" Gan Tiantian said, pointing to a dish.

Originally, the elders and younger were orderly at the dinner table, Tan Yushu should have asked them to eat, and it was in accordance with the etiquette rules for them to serve food quietly.But that's the practice of a big family. In the Gan family, this is not a problem!
The New Year's Eve dinner is to be lively!
"The name of this dish is good! Is it chestnuts?" Tan Yushu asked with a smile, "It smells so good!"

"Yeah, roasted chicken with chestnuts, isn't it auspicious?" Gan Tiantian giggled and said, "I put a lot of onion and garlic to saute, and then added bean paste and simmered over high heat. You guys have to try it!"

It's a pity that she only bought crude salty sauce made from soybeans, otherwise it would be better to cook it with soy sauce.

"Really delicious!"

Before Gan Tiantian could finish speaking, Gan Dong couldn't help but put several pieces of chicken and chestnuts into his mouth, even though his tongue was scalded to hiss, he still started chewing quickly.

"Eat slowly, brother, there are so many dishes." Gan Tiantian introduced another dish: "This is 'Golden Jade Mantang'."

The so-called "full of gold and jade" is actually shrimp and egg.There are no live shrimps at this time, so you are very lucky to be able to buy dried shrimps, and they are quite expensive!But for Chinese New Year, I just want to eat something different from the usual dishes.

Shrimp with eggs looks simple, but it requires high furnace temperature. A warm pot can easily scramble the eggs.Thanks to the fan of the bellows, he was able to achieve the effect Gan Tiantian wanted.

"Good luck, full of gold and jade, good omen!"

Tan Yushu picked up his wine glass and took a sip, looking at the three children laughing and grabbing food in front of him, feeling very satisfied.

Children are very forgetful, and they may have forgotten what the family's New Year's Eve dinner was like last year.

At that time, Father Gan had just died of a serious illness.When he was sick, the family had spent all their savings to get medicine for him, and even pawned everything they could pawn.

And burial and funeral are a big expense. For this reason, Gan's family had to grit their teeth and borrow money, and owed money to several shops.

By the time of Chinese New Year's Eve last year, the family had no money to buy new year's goods.It was Tan Yushu who took some ledgers and came back to copy them day and night, and Gan Qiu went all out to carry bags for others at the pier, only to collect some copper coins, enough to buy two catties of brown rice and a piece of pork skin.

In order to make more dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner, Gan Dong secretly went to the market to pick up rotten vegetable leaves discarded by others, washed them one by one, and cooked them into vegetable leaf soup.

The New Year’s Eve dinner originally consisted of two dishes—fried pork skin and boiled vegetable leaves.

It just so happened that afternoon, when Tan Yushu went to the restaurant that hired him to copy the account books to deliver the goods, he saw that the waiter from the familiar restaurant was carrying a tray of half-eaten fat elbows, braised yellow chicken, and fried bamboo shoots to the back kitchen.Tan Yushu, who was usually very thin-skinned, had the guts to hold back the guy in private, begging him to pack up those few dishes of leftovers and take them away...

He will never forget the cheers of his children when they saw him bring back so much "good meat and good food", and he will never tell them the profound humiliation he felt that afternoon.

Fortunately... the children in the family are very sensible, especially Tiantian is so capable.To be able to get the favor of the old lady of the Fang family by chance, brought about earth-shaking changes in the whole family.

"...Na na na, eat this, this is delicious." Gan Tiantian continued to proudly introduce the fruits of her labor: "This is 'good luck'! Eat it for a year and you will be lucky!"

"Hahaha, little sister, you are too good, every dish has its name."

"Yeah, you can tell the flowers of fried fish heads, hahahahaha..."

"So you see, I am popular and drink spicy food in Yujinfang, right? Don't give me something every time, with an expression on my face that I am eating bran and swallowing vegetables, so that the masters can see How bad it is."

Gan Tiantian took the opportunity to brainwash his family again, making them believe that he was doing well.

"There is also this dish, which must be eaten, 'Niannianyouyu'! Although they are all fish, the taste is different. Try it..."

A fat red carp was fried in sesame oil made from lard residue, and it was so fragrant, but the inside was tender and slippery, I don't know how beautiful it is.

"Oh, at last we can eat live fish again during Chinese New Year, so we don't have to be like last year... Uh, brother, don't hit me!"

Gan Dong shrank his neck, avoiding the slap on the back of his head from his elder brother.

The appropriate "fish" at their New Year's Eve dinner last year was a "wooden fish" borrowed from the neighbors.Poor people can't afford live fish, but they must have this dish during the Chinese New Year, so many families have wooden fish on the table.

In the past, they had their father to support the family business, and they were able to get by, eating was never a problem, and there was no wooden fish at home.

Those who go to borrow wooden fish from the neighbors still talk about jade books.

The eyes of the neighbor with pity and contempt when he took out the wooden fish were so similar to the eyes of the restaurant guy who packed the leftovers for him.

"Okay, okay! Let's not talk about the past, our family will get better and better!"

Gan Tiantian was busy trying to smooth things over, and Tan Yushu raised his glass first: "Come on, drink up!"

"Our family will get better and better!"

"That's right!"

"I will study hard and be admitted as a scholar!"

"I will take good care of the farm rent collector!"

"I will take good care of you two monkeys." Tan Yushu patted them on the shoulder alone, and Gan Tiantian looked at the happy smiling faces of his family members and felt that all his sacrifices were so worthwhile.

Outside the house, the sound of crackling firecrackers gradually sounded.

New Year!
(End of this chapter)