Chapter 205: Accidentally Drinking
"Thank you, Miss Su." Xing'an still thanked her politely.
"There's nothing else to do today. After you finish your breakfast, you can still sleep for a while." Su Yujin thought for a while and said, "What would you like to eat for lunch? I'll have someone prepare it early."
He Yanxiu thought for a moment and said, "How about hot pot meat?"
On a cold day, eating a hot meal around a charcoal stove is a perfect enjoyment.
Moreover, after He Yanxiu returned to Beijing, he asked the chef at home to make these things, but none of them tasted as good as the soup base prepared by Su Yujin. In addition, he hadn't eaten it for a long time and really missed the taste.
"Okay." Su Yujin responded with a smile.
After breakfast, Su Yujin asked Liu Mama and Ai Cao to prepare the meat, vegetables and other ingredients for the copper pot hot pot, while she cooked soup - sugarcane, houttuynia cordata, and water chestnut soup.
They are all things that can reduce internal heat, promote salivation, eliminate phlegm and quench thirst. Add some rock sugar when cooking. The soup will have a light orange color and is slightly sweet and delicious when you drink it. It is very comfortable to drink.
The weather is dry in winter, and people wear thick clothes to keep warm. They also eat mostly warm and nourishing food. So it is most suitable to drink some soup to reduce internal heat and relieve the greasiness of hot pot.
When it came to dinner, thinking about the large amount of meat eaten at noon, Su Yujin did not prepare any extra dishes in the evening. She only asked Mother Liu to cook porridge and make scallion pancakes, which were eaten with pickled pickles.
Light and tasty.
The next morning, breakfast was pan-fried dumplings, spicy soup and tea eggs. At noon, we had a steaming hot steamed noodle dish with bean sprouts, pork belly and cold vegetarian dishes. In the evening, we had delicious mutton stewed noodles...
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As the year draws to a close, Su Yujin is particularly busy.
He was busy collecting the New Year gifts and this year's profits from the farm, busy distributing the New Year gifts to the farm and various shops, and busy preparing the New Year's goods needed for his family's New Year.
Chicken, duck, fish, meat, various vegetables and dried goods, cleaning the house, frying things, steaming jujube flower buns...
In the blink of an eye, it was already the busy last day of the twelfth lunar month.
After having breakfast in the morning, He Yanxiu headed towards the capital.
Su Yujin also breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as he can go back to celebrate the New Year, it means that He Yanxiu's troubles have not reached the point where they cannot be solved.
Then there is still hope...
After a simple lunch, Su Yujin, Ai Cao and Liu Mama were busy putting up Spring Festival couplets, preparing the New Year's Eve dinner, the fillings for dumplings, and the gifts needed for New Year's greetings on the first day of the New Year.
By the evening, a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner was served on the table.
Steamed shrimp tails with vermicelli and garlic, braised pork with abalone, glutinous rice pearl meatballs, glazed fish with osmanthus and wolfberry, crystal meat jelly, four-happiness lucky bag, blanched rapeseed, and dumplings stuffed with three fresh meats, making up a total of eight dishes.
In order to celebrate the New Year, Mother Liu specially prepared a jar of plum wine.
"Ordinary people pay the most attention to perfection when they have New Year's Eve dinner. Is it against the rules for us to prepare eight dishes?" Ai Cao scratched his ear as he looked at the dazzling array of dishes on the table.
"Nothing is perfect in the world. It's just a blind wish. It would be better to have eight dishes and make fortune all the way. That would be more to the girl's liking." Mother Liu chuckled and even touched Ai Cao's forehead with her finger.
Don't you understand what your girl likes the most? Ai Cao suddenly realized it and took the wine cup in front of her, "That's right, I'm rude, I'll punish you with a glass of wine first."
After gulping down a cup of plum wine, Ai Cao took the wine pot and filled it up again for herself, "I toast to you, young lady. I wish you all your wishes come true in the new year, and may everything go well and money roll in!"
"Thank you, Ai Cao." Su Yujin responded with a smile, clinked his wine glass with the one in Ai Cao's hand, and drank it all in one gulp.
Plum wine is sweet and sour, not too alcoholic, and very comfortable to drink.
Mother Liu also raised her wine glass, "This old slave also toasts to the young lady..."
Su Yujin drank the second glass of wine.
When people toasted him, it was not reasonable for him to just drink without returning the toast. Su Yujin picked up the wine glass and toasted back one by one.
In this way, after the New Year’s Eve dinner, all three of them were a little tipsy.
Su Yujin was the master and had drunk the most at this time, and was already a little drunk.
"Miss, would you like to lie down for a while?" Seeing Su Yujin's blushing cheeks, Ai Cao went to make the bed.
The plum wine tonight was delicious, and Su Yujin knew that she had drunk a little too much. Her head felt a little heavy, so she lay down and fell into a deep sleep after a while.
Seeing that Su Yujin was fast asleep, Mama Liu and Ai Cao stayed outside for a while, talked for a while, drank the remaining plum wine while it was still hot, and then went to bed.
midnight.
It was almost midnight and the sound of firecrackers gradually became louder.
The knocking sounds on the door were mixed with the sounds of firecrackers, making it difficult to hear clearly, so even after ringing for a long time, no one came to answer the door.
"Second Master, it's midnight now and firecrackers are being set off. It's very noisy all around. I'm afraid Miss Su and the other two can't hear it. How about I climb over the wall and open the door from the inside?"
While Xing'an was speaking, he had already lifted up a corner of his long gown, tucked it into his belt, and was rubbing his hands together, eager to try.
"Nonsense!" He Yanxiu scolded, "How can you intrude like this?"
Xing'an was shocked at first, then he came to his senses.
That's right, Miss Su is not a slave at this time, nor is she the mistress of the Second Master, so it's fine for her to be a guest. If she climbs over the wall...
It is indeed inappropriate.
"I know I was wrong." Xing'an lowered his head and admitted his mistake sincerely.
"It won't happen again."
He Yanxiu raised his hand and continued to knock on the door patiently.
After knocking for about a cup of tea, the door was opened with a "whoosh" and a pretty figure appeared at the door.
By the light of the lantern in Xing'an's hand, He Yanxiu could see clearly that it was Su Yujin who came to open the door.
She was wearing thin clothes, without even a coat, and looked particularly thin and fragile in the cold wind.
He Yanxiu frowned, took off his cloak, and put it on Su Yujin, "Why didn't you ask before opening the door?"
Even if the person who came was not a bad person, it would be extremely inappropriate to open the door dressed like this.
"It's Second Master." Su Yujin squinted her eyes and looked at He Yanxiu, then grinned, "Second Master, are you here to drink? Unfortunately, we have already drunk up all the wine, so Second Master can only drink tea..."
The strong smell of alcohol coming out of his mouth choked He Yanxiu and made him frown again.
Did you drink so much?
It was probably New Year's Eve, I was so happy that I accidentally drank too much...
"Let's go back to the house quickly. It's cold outside." He Yanxiu ordered Xing'an to lock the yard door, and he helped Su Yujin into the house.
Su Yujin was still walking crookedly, and even kicked the shoes on her feet far away while staggering.
Su Yujin didn't wear socks when she slept, so her white and tender feet were completely on the ground.
It was freezing cold, and water turned into ice. He Yanxiu could see that Su Yujin's fair instep had turned a little red due to the wind.
Without any hesitation, He Yanxiu slightly bent his body, reached out and picked up Su Yujin sideways!
On New Year's Eve, just...sprinkle some sugar...
(End of this chapter)
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