Chapter 407 Wedding Banquet
As she spoke, she opened a basket that she had taken over. Inside were a few exquisite green bean cakes and rose pastries, as well as a bowl of yogurt with raisins, candied plums, etc.
The green mung bean cake, the rose cake wrapped in puff pastry, and the milky white yogurt will whet your appetite just by looking at them.
Yue Sizhu was not polite and ate two pieces of cake first, and then ate the yogurt in small bites.
Seeing that her lipstick was smudged, Xia Juanjuan helped her touch up her makeup.
I waited nervously and anxiously until eight or nine in the morning, when I heard a sound from outside.
Next, Fu Nanzheng came to pick up the bride, wearing a Zhongshan suit with a red velvet flower pinned on his chest.
The Yue family doesn't have many relatives or friends visiting now, so the noisy part about blocking the door and not letting in was omitted.
Xia Juanjuan took Yue Sizhu's hand and walked out of the inner room, then stepped aside.
Yue Sizhu first looked at Fu Nanzheng with a blushing face, then lowered her head shyly.
"Hug one! Hug one!"
Fu Nanzheng's friends and colleagues who came to pick up the bride started to make a fuss.
Fu Nanzheng laughed and without hesitation, he picked the person up and walked towards the car parked in the alley outside.
The car was the jeep that was allocated to Fu Weixin for his exclusive use. No one would say anything about it when he used it to pick up his son's daughter-in-law for his wedding.
The jeep started, and there was also a small truck with a rear end, which was naturally prepared by Luocheng.
The small truck was filled with wedding items such as a quilt covered with new flowers, a wash basin, a wash basin stand, a thermos, a sewing machine, a bicycle, an electric fan, etc. Someone was in the truck and would scatter peanuts and wedding candies to people he saw along the way.
Most of these were selected by Xia Juanjuan and Yue Sizhu.
Naturally, my father-in-law and mother-in-law were specially entertained by other people and were sent to the Fu family courtyard.
After picking up the bride, we arrived at the courtyard.
There were six tables in total in the main house and the side rooms in the yard, and the guests were already sitting there one after another.
The wedding ceremony started at around noon. The bride and groom kowtowed to Mr. Fu and Fu Weixin respectively, and then introduced themselves to the eldest and second brothers of the Fu family, as well as Xia Juanjuan, before the feast officially began.
In the backyard, two sheep had been butchered and their different parts were placed aside. Three or four large pots and two large steamers were all on fire at the same time.
There is also a special grill, which is managed by a dedicated person and is used to grill the six big fat ducks using the best fruit wood.
Serve the cold dishes first, including cold lotus root, cold celery and black fungus, cold fermented halogen, braised beef, etc.
Then the hot dishes were served one after another, including four-happiness meatballs, stir-fried meat with mushrooms, steamed prawns, stir-fried lamb tripe with green peppers, pickled beans and lamb offal, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, etc. Ten dishes.
Next, a hot and sour soup, a squirrel fish, a duck blood and spinach soup, a pork elbow, or braised pork with cubes, and other main dishes are served in rotation.
The highlight this time is the lamb and wood-roasted duck, which are placed at the back.
After the main course was finished, the dishes were changed and desserts and sweet soup were served.
There are two desserts, one is steamed glutinous rice, red dates and cashews, mixed with sugar, which is extremely sweet, and the other is fried red bean cakes, with honey-soaked red beans wrapped in golden dough.
There are also two sweet soups, one is stewed pear with rock sugar, and the other is a sweet soup made with apple slices, lily, red dates, lotus seeds and longan.
After drinking the sweet soup, the wedding banquet ended successfully.
The chefs of state-owned hotels have first-rate cooking skills. Xia Juanjuan picked up some roast duck, dipped it in a special sweet noodle sauce with cucumber and scallion shreds, and wrapped it in a dough as thin as a cicada's wing. When she put it in her mouth, the fragrance immediately lingered in her cheeks. It was not much different from the one sold in Quanjude!
Fu Nanzheng and Yue Sizhu went to each table to toast, this scene was really busy.
Xia Juanjuan brought all six children from her family. Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei were relatively quiet. The triplets were so happy that they went crazy. After eating for a while, they ran to play with Yuanchao Heping and the children brought by other guests.
At around two or three in the afternoon, Fu Nanzheng and Yue Sizhu came out to see the guests off.
As a relative of the groom, Xia Juanjuan had to stay to finish the ceremony, so she and Lizhan stayed behind and let Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei take the triplets home first.
The hotel chef was very satisfied with the banquet he prepared.
However, he also knew that he was able to prepare so many dishes so easily within a few hours, firstly because he and his apprentice were not good cooks, but more importantly, the ingredients were good.
In addition to the remuneration agreed upon in advance, the Fu family also prepared red envelopes. Xia Juanjuan came over and stuffed the red envelopes into the hands of the chef and his apprentices while seeing them off.
The chef couldn't help but ask, "Big sister, which markets did you order all these ingredients from? They are so fresh! And these Ningxia beach lambs are not that easy to order! Even our hotel has to order them one or two months in advance to get them!"
His apprentice also echoed: "Master, I noticed it when I came here this morning. There are water droplets on the leaves!"
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "It's just that I have someone I know who can help me get the freshest and best ingredients."
When the chef heard this, he knew that Xia Juanjuan didn't want to reveal anything, so he didn't ask any more questions and said:
"Well, we at Hongxingju are going to entertain some very important guests in the next two days. Sister, ask your acquaintances if they are willing to provide us with food. Money is not a problem. We will definitely give them a better price than what they get at the market!"
Xia Juanjuan's heart moved, but she did not agree immediately. She smiled and said, "Okay. I'll ask them what they mean. I'll get back to you then, Master."
The chef said, "Then if you want to find a good chef, just go find Chef Wu."
After the deal was settled, Chef Wu took his apprentices back home.
The Fu family also hired a few people to help with cleaning and washing dishes.
Lizhan helped to put away the tables, chairs, etc.
After Xia Juanjuan saw that there were no problems in the finalization, she went back with Li Zhan.
Fu Nanzheng came over to take a look. Originally, the dishes were enough for one table, and now there were some ingredients and dishes leftover.
Fu Nanzheng took the initiative to distribute it to his favorite guests.
As for Xia Juanjuan and Li Zhan, Fu Nanzheng directly let them take the remaining raw lamb leg, as well as the pork elbow, roast duck, roast chicken, etc. prepared by the chef back home.
Xia Juanjuan thought about Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru at home, as well as Shen Wanxue, Rong Zhenbang, and Chunyan, who had not come to the banquet. Bringing the food back would be a good opportunity for them to have a taste, so she did not refuse.
Xia Juanjuan mentioned that she wanted to go to the Northeast.
"I'm thinking of going to the Northeast during this winter vacation."
Li Zhan was stunned for a moment: "Going to the Northeast? It's so cold there, what are you going to do in winter?"
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Let's go and have a look. Also, aren't the furs, medicinal herbs, and hazelnuts there famous? I want to go and have a look."
Li Zhan looked at her and said with a smile, "Okay. If you want to go, I'll go with you."
Xia Juanjuan put her arm around his and said with a smile, "Li Zhan, I knew you had to go with me."
In fact, Xia Juanjuan had another idea, which was to go there to see the trading environment with the northern neighbor, the Russians.
The Russians have developed heavy industry, but not light industry, and the natural environment is poor.
Therefore, we can sell domestic light industrial products to the Russians, and at the same time buy heavy industrial waste products such as steel from them.
This phenomenon only started to increase after the development of domestic light industry in the 1990s.
Xia Juanjuan knew the future direction of these things, so she would definitely start earlier than others.
Li Zhan and Xia Juanjuan returned to the courtyard and put all the things they brought back in the kitchen.
In the evening, we heat up these dishes and eat them around the table.
During the days since Chunyan came, she has had meat almost every meal, and she eats mixed-grain steamed buns or white flour steamed buns. Her complexion has improved a lot, and her face has become much more rosy.
Looking at the delicious food on the table, she couldn't help but ask, "Aunt, how much does this much meat cost?"
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Why do you worry about money? Just eat what your family eats, and don't worry about it."
Chunyan blushed and said, "Hey!"
The next day, Xia Juanjuan took out the lamb leg and stewed radish and lamb soup. She took out the lamb and cut it into pieces, and used the lamb soup for the following dishes.
When Chef Wu asked for ingredients, Xia Juanjuan felt it was embarrassing and agreed. Chef Wu made a list on the spot and asked Xia Juanjuan to deliver it on the third morning.
On the day of delivery, Xia Juanjuan took the things out of the space in the morning, and then asked Xia Shuangshan to ride the cart and deliver the things with her.
It was Chef Wu's apprentice who inspected the goods. After confirming that they were correct, he gave Xia Juanjuan 300 yuan for the ingredients.
Later, Chef Wu proposed to Xia Juanjuan to provide long-term supply, but after thinking about it, Xia Juanjuan refused.
With so many ingredients in her space, it would be easiest to start with the catering and hotel industry.
It doesn't make sense. Now, just for some money, supplying your own unique ingredients to other hotels, isn't that just making enemies for yourself?
After the wedding, Fu Nanzheng and Yue Sizhu still lived in the house that Fu Nanzheng was assigned.
After some discussion, everyone decided to rent out the Fu family's small courtyard house.
However, the Fu family is not short of the money, so they just want people to keep an eye on it. The most important thing is to find a tenant with good character.
Yue Sizhu finally found a job as a nurse in a hospital.
However, she hadn't done her old job for a long time and was under a lot of pressure, so she went to the bookstore to buy relevant books and read them until late at night every day.
Every time, he would only put down his book when Fu Nanzheng forcefully carried him to the bed.
At the end of October, Xia Juanjuan finally found a suitable store to sell clothes. It was on Wangfujing Street. The location was good, so the prices were also high. It cost three thousand yuan to buy it.