Chapter 330 You are also part of Shanshui Village
Shui Qing thought it was pretty good.
Lunch is dry rice. Although it is not rice, what is there to choose from brown rice? Dinner is basically fine food, and the size of this village banquet is quite good for the current Shanshui Village villagers.
She looked at the women choosing and washing vegetables in the yard, and thought that in China, preparing for a banquet for hundreds of people would have to start several days in advance. No wonder Sister-in-law Guifen was nervous.
"Sister-in-law, the weather is cold now. I think the pork will not go bad even if it is left for three to five days. Why don't I ask my father to kill the pig later? You can also cut it into pieces and shred it this afternoon. Just put it in the pan and stir-fry it tomorrow morning.”
Wang Guifen's eyes lit up and she kept nodding: "That's perfect! Shui Qing, please trouble your father."
She first thought that it must be the freshest. In the past two days, she discussed with each household the number of tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks for the village banquet of the Twelfth Moon in Winter. After hurriedly discussing it, she thought about what to eat for the two meals. It was not easy. It’s finalized. Hurry up and prepare the dishes today.
I just realized that there is a lot of time and a lot of work involved in preparing this dish!
The money spent on the village banquet was deducted from the 20 taels of silver from the public house, so the vegetables were not delivered to each household but bought, but directly from the villagers.
There is a huge demand for radish and cabbage, and no one family has so much. They also need to save vegetables for the winter, so it is impossible to sell them all, so each of the dozen or so families buys some.
The price of our own village banquet is much cheaper than outside, and it can’t be more affordable!
The roots of cabbage must be cut off, and the roots of radish must be removed, and then washed and sliced. At the moment, five or six women are responsible for this large amount of radish and cabbage.
Winter bamboo shoots are dug from the bamboo forest on the mountain. After peeling off the shell of a large bamboo shoot, there is not much bamboo shoot meat inside. However, the winter bamboo shoots are sweet and delicious, and they are even more delicious when used to stir-fry shredded pork. I arranged for a little expert to search for winter bamboo shoots in the village two days ago. Several large baskets came back.
At this moment, three or four women in the yard were peeling winter bamboo shoots with kitchen knives. The wooden basin next to them was piled like a mountain, and a woman at the other end was cutting the bamboo shoots and rice into thin strips.
The pickled peppers are soaked in the jar in autumn when the peppers are at their peak. When you take them out, the peppers are all translucent and light yellow. The rich sour taste rushes to your nose, and you can't help but salivate in your mouth.
These are also bought from various households in the village and need to be cut into shreds.
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Wang Guifen only felt that her previous idea was too simple, thinking that it would take more than half an hour to cook a meal at home.
There are many people at the village banquet, but there are also many women to help. Generally speaking, it is the same as cooking at home. Didn't the Shuiqing family just do it on the same day when building a house? Still in time.
It was only when I started preparing the dishes this morning that I realized it was completely different!
The Shui Qing family built a house for only a few dozen or at most a hundred people to eat, and there was enough time for twenty or thirty women, but the village banquet suddenly grew to more than three hundred people, and the amount of preparation required was even more than I had ever seen before!
She said worriedly: "Shui Qing, don't laugh at my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law has never seen this kind of battle. She is so busy that she doesn't touch the ground and is afraid of messing up."
"Sister-in-law is joking. It's your first time to organize food for the whole village. It's very good. Actually, think about it again. Now that you have this experience, will you become more proficient and handy next time you organize it?
So don't panic, don't be confused. What you encounter now is to accumulate experience later. "Shui Qing enlightened me sincerely.
There are still mobile phones in Hua country, which can search and learn from other people's experiences. Even if it is not good, you can also ask people around you for precautions. However, the number of times the woman from Shanshui Village has left the village can be counted on one hand, and she cannot see how outsiders prepare banquets. , and there is no one around to ask.
To be honest, it is already very good that Wang Guifen took over this difficult job and managed it with care and style.
People grow up quickly when they encounter problems, so there is no need to put too much pressure on yourself in the process.
Wang Guifen didn't know why, but she always calmed down strangely every time she talked to Shui Qing.
As if this is no big deal, if you do it well and work hard, you will get better and better...
Shui Qing chatted for a while, and after guessing that the warehouse was full and they had almost driven away the eldest brother and the others, they headed back.
As soon as they reached the uphill section, they saw Li Dani running towards her in a hurry.
Li Dani also looked at Shui Qing, ran over quickly and said breathlessly: "Madam, Fan Qian's family was kicked out. Your mother-in-law and we didn't even touch a finger. After lunch, she came back cursing. She He said, he said that she would come back to eat after tomorrow, and then we would let our herbal medicine shop prepare it for lunch.”
She came to the madam to say that she was gone, that she could go home safely without having to avoid her, and that the madam could be mentally prepared for her mother-in-law.
Shui Qing didn't feel strange at all after hearing this, and he didn't even frown.
What a joke, if she said it was rounded, it would be rounded?
She also needs to shout to open the door of the medicinal shop.
The people in the medicinal shop include people from every household in Shanshui Village. With six hundred cash a month, they take care of food and distribute warm clothes to keep out the cold. Who is willing to lose this job? The medicine shop was closed, and no matter how much trouble the mother-in-law made or how much she went to the village to cry out and seek alliances, no one would side with her.
"I understand. Just be determined not to open the door from the day after tomorrow. By the way, Sister-in-law Guifen asked me to come back and tell you that you will also attend the village banquet tomorrow."
Li Dani was originally worried that her wife had a difficult mother-in-law, but this mother-in-law came again after a rest. She was stunned when she heard that they could also attend the village banquet tomorrow, and asked slowly: "We, too? Can we?" , We don’t belong to the villagers of Shanshui Village, right?”
She heard the women in the herbal medicine shop talking about how good the food would be tomorrow! It would cost several taels of silver.
They were servants, not villagers of Shanshui Village. Sister Guifen asked them to participate. Would the villagers agree?
Shuiqing saw Li Dani's worry, patted her rough and cracked palms soothingly, and comforted her: "Sister Guifen said it was the old village chief's idea, and the old village chief consulted the men and women in the village, and everyone agreed.
I specifically said that you are also part of our Shanshui Village, and you must be in place tomorrow, no one can be left behind."
Li Dani's nose was sour and her eyes were warm.
The women agreed, it must be the people who worked in the herbal medicine shop who spoke for them; and the men agreed, it should be because they went out together.
Shui Qing understood the feeling of being recognized and agreed: "You are all very good people, so you are recognized by the villagers. Don't underestimate yourselves."
The last time they went out to fight bandits, Feng Da was injured. This is a life-and-death friendship with the men in the village!
She heard Fan Jin say that there are four people to share the silver, so what is a meal?
What's more, the village's shared funds also have the contributions of Feng Da and the other four. No matter what the reason is, they will agree.