After leaving Su Tai's house, Shen Ying went straight to Liujiazhuang. On the same day, he bought 40 acres of wasteland next to the Wei family's land and also said hello to Wei Laoqi.
Everyone in the Wei family knew that Shen Ying had just found his abducted little daughter. When they heard that this was something he had prepared for his future son-in-law, they all expressed their willingness to help take care of her.
Shen Ying also asked about Ringo's situation.
Wei Laoqi opened up all of a sudden, "I say Shen Yi's wife is amazing. Last year, the apple tree was nothing special, but this year it feels a little different. It has a tendency to bloom, but the weather is not good, and I don't know if it can bear fruit, and what it will bear. Fortunately, we still have strawberries and watermelons, so we are not afraid of losses, but it's different for other people in the village.
The crops haven’t grown well this year. If the apples don’t bear fruit, we’ll all be crying!”
Shen Ying had a clear idea in his mind, so he went back and told the villagers about the situation.
It was the day of the buffet.
More than half of the villagers came to help.
Su Tai even provided two hundred fresh large fish, which excited the villagers who had not eaten fish for a long time.
They all asked where she got the fish.
Su Tai lied with her eyes open, "I asked someone to help me get it. How could I be so capable!"
There were several ox carts going back and forth to Su Tai's house every day, so no one doubted what she said.
In order to let everyone have a good meal, she also provided a large pot of oil, prepared to fry the big fish, and then added sweet and sour sauce to thicken it, so that the villagers could have a good taste of what sweet and sour fish is.
Everyone in the village knew that Su Tai was a good cook, so when they heard that she was going to cook fish, they were all looking forward to it.
Xu led her two daughters-in-law to roll up their sleeves and cut the pork.
The pig was slaughtered by their family, so it was most appropriate for them to handle it.
The men gathered together to kill sheep, cut meat, and chop wood to make fire.
Haruko and the others had never experienced such a reassuring and lively atmosphere, and they all looked around curiously.
When Su Tai started to fry the fish, a strong aroma spread and a group of people gathered around, watching Su Tai work.
Even Ke Yunyun, who was helping Su Tai look after the children, couldn't help but come over to join in the fun.
The children watching from the side were drooling.
Su Tai looked at them with amusement, scooped out a ladle of lively prawns from another bucket, put them into another pot to blanch them, and took them out when they were almost cooked.
In a large wooden basin.
"Yue Zhang, bring the other brothers and sisters over to help, carry this pot of shrimp to the side and eat it, don't run around here and get in the way."
When the villagers heard this, they wished they could sit at the same table with the children and try the new food.
Fortunately, everyone has some dignity and is not willing to snatch food from the children.
While working, Su Tai glanced at Shen Yuezhang and the others. She saw more than a dozen children sitting around a table, eating shrimps non-stop. They were so well-behaved that she couldn't help but smile.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw Chen Xi, who was being held tightly in the arms of Mrs. Zhang not far away, almost drooling with greed. She paused and scooped some more shrimps to cook.
It was served only when it was almost cooked, and Chen Tian, who was standing beside him, brought it to Mrs. Zhang and her grandchildren.
Mrs. Zhang was flattered. She looked at Chen Tian and then at Su Tai, and quickly stood up with the child in her arms, "No, no, no."
Su Tai smiled and said, "It's okay. These shrimps are just extra and are specially prepared for the children."
The people around advised Mrs. Zhang to peel shrimps for the child to eat.
Seeing that the child was so greedy, Mrs. Zhang could only accept Su Tai's kindness with a blushing face.
After a while, the fish were fried and Su Tai immediately started to prepare the sweet and sour sauce.
When everyone saw her put a lot of snow-white sugar into the pot, their eyes widened. When the sweet and sour sauce was poured on it, everyone immediately dispersed and sat down, eagerly waiting for the food to be served.
The same goes for Haruko and the others.
The first dish served was braised pork cooked by the Xu family. It was a full pot, very generous in portion, and wrapped in a pancake. It was so delicious.
The second dish was the sweet and sour fish made by Su Tai. The sweet and sour taste hit everyone's poor taste buds and opened up a new world of food for them.
Everyone gave thumbs up while eating.
The third dish is stir-fried vegetables and meat.
The first two dishes were big fish and meat, and eating some vegetables can also help to relieve the greasiness, which is just right.
The fourth dish is a big meat bun, as big as a man’s fist, with thin skin and big fillings. When you take a bite, the juice splashes everywhere.
It really opened the eyes of Chunqin and the others.
The fifth dish was braised mutton, which Chunqin and her friends had never eaten before. The villagers knew their situation and enthusiastically gave them a bowl full of mutton and urged them to eat quickly.
Many of them were so moved that their eyes turned red.
The sixth course was soup, mutton soup with some radish and meat slices. After drinking a bowl of it, my whole body felt warm.
The seventh dish is milk tea. After eating so many salty foods, a bowl of sweet one is just right to moisten the throat.
The last dish is a cake dessert prepared by Su Tai.
This buffet not only filled everyone up, but also broadened Chunqin's horizons.
If they had not been optimistic about Dongfeng staying to farm before, they now began to envy Dongfeng. Living in such a wealthy village is better than wandering around.
The next morning, Chunqin and a few others said goodbye to Chunxiang and Dongfeng.
Shen Ying asked someone to take them away in a ox cart and also gave them fifty taels of silver out of consideration.
Chunqin was shocked and quickly refused.
Shen Ying said, "You are all children, and it's not easy for you. The fifty taels of silver is a small token of our appreciation. Spend it sparingly and get by on your daily life first."
Chunqin was touched and silently shed a tear, "Uncle, no one has ever been so kind to us since we were little. If you need to find a troupe in the future, just come to the county to find me. We will be there whenever you call."
"Sure, sure!"
The sky was turning pale, and Chunqin and his group followed the ox cart away.
After the noisy incident with the opera troupe, everyone came to their senses and found that autumn had already arrived.
The autumn harvest is approaching, and everyone is turning their attention to the fields.
At the same time, the fighting on the border became more intense.
The team led by Zhu Yixuan suffered two consecutive defeats and lost a lot of people, which brought him great pressure.
On the other hand, without the restraint of Su Chunlin and others, Shen Yi became more and more adept. He performed very well in the two battles and had a tendency to dominate the game.
This made Zhu Yixuan very aggrieved, and he secretly regarded Shen Yi as his rival.
Seeing that Zhu Yixuan was in a bad mood, Bai Feng also started to curse, "It's really hateful that Shen Yi stole the limelight again this time! If I were you, you should have taken advantage of the victory just now. If you could kill the governor before Shen Yi, you would have been the first to achieve the credit!"
"It's all because of you! If there wasn't any trouble over there, I wouldn't be distracted." Zhu Yixuan frowned in dissatisfaction.
Bai Feng immediately shrank his head guiltily, stiffening his neck to argue, "I have been following you the whole time. It was those damned enemy troops approaching that made me lose my composure. I didn't do it on purpose. Forget it, I won't say any more. I'll go see how the others are doing."
Bai Feng fled in panic, and a man unexpectedly came to Zhu Yixuan's camp. (End of this chapter)
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