Chapter 455: Group Wedding
What Shui Qing wanted was for eleven men to get married together, which was equivalent to a collective wedding, especially since both parties participating belonged to their own families. Although it couldn't be made elaborate and grand, at least it couldn't be too shabby!
But let’s listen to Dani Zhou Yu’s plan first, “What kind of dishes did you plan to cook for the wedding banquet?”
Li Dani wiped the sweat from her forehead and spoke out the menu that the five people had discussed: "Madam, our in-laws are mingling with each other. I thought that when people come all the way, we will entertain each other regardless of each other;
There are more than a hundred people, and if the children don't occupy seats, twelve tables can be squeezed together to sit down. Each of our four families has three old hens and three fat rabbits, so that every table has a stewed old hen. Chicken soup, rabbit and two large meat dishes, then use eggs and goose eggs to make a dish, stir-fry a few vegetables, and the staple food is steamed buns or pancakes made of white flour mixed with corn flour. "
Shui Qing nodded while listening.
This dish is indeed the best one can produce for four families, and Ding Ding does not treat each other lightly.
"Careful."
Li Dani rubbed her hands and said happily: "This is what you are willing to do, madam, otherwise we servants wouldn't be able to do it even if we have this intention."
They couldn't afford it as servants because many families in the village couldn't afford it.
"That's because you are diligent." Shui Qing made the distinction very clearly.
Like rabbits, she just provides the cubs. They build rabbit nests, cut grass, feed them, clean rabbit nests, etc. They do the same for chickens, ducks, and geese. It’s just because they are diligent that they can take them out at once during weddings. Many.
There is also white flour rice. The quantity she gave is there. If you are greedy and greedy, you will have finished eating the fine grain first. Even if you haven't finished it, how can you be willing to take it out for others to eat?
Especially the in-laws whom I have never met before.
Fan Dazhu's family also has old hens, but they are only willing to keep them for themselves. They raise rabbits in front of them. As long as they exchange them for hens, she has no objection, but they either don't think it's cost-effective, they don't feel dirty, or they feel tired. , in short, it didn’t develop in the end.
When it came time to get married, he didn't even have any meat or dishes, but he still had to have a banquet. To put it bluntly, he just wanted to receive gifts. It had nothing to do with him whether the people who came would eat or not, and it was even better not to eat.
If a happy event is held like this, who would really want to go to the banquet?
Li Dani and the other five people knew clearly that this was not a matter of diligence or lack of diligence. They were also diligent in the past.
I worked so hard from early to late and only managed to get enough food and clothing. Now I am not as tired as before, but the life is completely different!
It’s so important to follow the host’s family.
By the way, "Madam, why don't you ask Feng Da and the others to catch some more fish and make them into fish?" This is also a meat dish.
"Okay." Shui Qing added: "There are at least ten people per table. Everyone came here overnight, and they are all farmers. They have a good appetite. An old hen, a rabbit, and a few stir-fried vegetables may not be enough;
Let's do this. My father will go to Fucheng to collect pig hair on the 15th, and ask him to collect more than 20 pig's trotters along the way, and add a dish of stewed trotters to each table;
Buy another pork thigh and stir-fry those vegetables with shredded pork to add a meaty flavor;
Buy more than 20 kilograms of tenderloin and make a sweet and sour tenderloin, which is sweet and sour and is loved by the elderly and children;
Slaughter another sheep and stew it with radishes, one for each table;
Add goose eggs and leeks to make a leek omelette; if you have eggs, you can make steamed eggs;
Rice is the staple food, and white flour and corn flour are used to make wedding cakes. I think you have made good friends with many families in the village, especially the men who go out together have different emotions. They will definitely come over to celebrate the occasion. We don’t care about the food or the gifts. , but sending a wedding cake is still necessary, what do you think? "
Most of the food in the village is brought by the whole family. If people from Zhulin Village cannot come, it is actually possible to invite the villagers to join in the fun. But with more than a hundred people, the villagers have no choice but to go. There is no way to entertain them, otherwise both parties will be easily neglected.
But regardless of whether you accept the congratulatory gifts or not, since everyone from the same village has come here, it is not considered disrespectful to give out a wedding cake.
Listening to Shui Qing's orderly words, Li Dani's eyes gradually turned red.
They all come from poor backgrounds, how could they not know that one chicken and one rabbit are not enough to eat? It's just that there's only so much that can be taken out - after getting married, the family still has to live.
We can only work hard on vegetables and cook more.
Madam added several meat dishes at once, and each dish was of sufficient portion. She also added meat to the vegetables, making it semi-vegetarian. This meal was better than ever before!
Even the problems that had been bothering them were solved.
They are friendly with many women in the village, especially those who work together in the workshop. They see each other every day without looking up, and the same is true for the men. The relationship between the partners who go out is naturally extraordinary. How can they not come to get married?
Even if you don't accept congratulatory gifts, you can't just say hello when someone comes over. That would be too rude, but if you want to entertain someone, besides tea, what else can you give them?
The wedding cakes that the madam mentioned really solved the problem they had been having for days!
The five people replied in unison: "Madam, you are too thoughtful. Do as Madam said."
Shui Qing warned: "Okay, let's make the wedding cakes on the 15th. It won't be a problem to keep them for three to five days in this weather. Make more, otherwise it will be embarrassing if there are not enough by then."
"Hey, okay!"
They can't wait to start preparing now!
After the wedding banquet was decided, everyone in Shui Qing became busy.
First of all, there weren’t that many tables and chairs. We only had seven at home. We went to the familiar families in the village to make an agreement and borrowed them for a day on the morning of the 16th. The four families had good relationships and it was easy to borrow them. At the same time, everyone in the village knew that the eleven men, Hong Mancang and Hong Manku, were all going to get married!
And on the 16th.
Fan Dazhu got married before, and the people in the village were okay. Hu Wenhua had given the betrothal gift, and the people of the same age were a little anxious. Now the eleven men were going to get married in the next two days, and they were completely panicked.
I wish my family could get married immediately, and there were complaints about being urged to get married!
Fan Xiaoliu was the first to bear the brunt, and he just hoped to go out and deliver the goods as soon as possible.
Mancang and Manku didn’t feel the resentful eyes of their friends, and continued to prepare for the wedding with high morale.
Although there were not enough bowls and chopsticks, there was no need to borrow them from everywhere. At the beginning of the village banquet, each family brought their own bowls and chopsticks. Later, when there was more money in the public treasury, the old village chief and several elders decided to buy a complete set of coarse pottery basins and bowls, more than 400 in total!
Guifen's sister-in-law was responsible for keeping them. It was agreed that more than 100 bowls would be borrowed on the 15th and cleaned in advance for use.
Early in the morning of the 14th, Feng Da and Feng Er took wooden barrels to fish. They caught more than 20 big fish in a row and kept them in the pond, waiting for the 16th to eat fresh ones.
At dawn on the 15th, Hu the butcher took more than a dozen men to the city to buy pork and other things.
Li Dani and others also got up early, kneaded the dough, fermented the dough, and baked it to make round and soft dough cakes, with a red dot in the middle of each one, which was very festive.
Hu's mother Qin Yilin helped wash the bowls and chopsticks.