As soon as noon arrived, the dishes began to be served.
The villagers of Xinghua Village are very friendly. Except for the hungry child, they basically let the guests from the city sit down first.
One of the dishes for lunch was longevity peach, which was made of flour.
The way to make the buns is just to shape them into peaches.
This is a simple thing. Not only Cheng Wen can learn it in one go, but the older sisters-in-law and aunties from the village who come to help in the kitchen can also learn it in one go.
The red bean paste filling inside the longevity peaches was made by Cheng Yue early in the morning.
Ten per plate, one per person.
The birthday peaches were served, and after everyone took one, a special person came to each table to collect the plates.
The second dish is pastry, a small cake, a rectangular shape, with only one side exposed, and the other sides wrapped in greaseproof paper.
This was made by Cheng Yue and sent by Du Xifeng and Xie Shi at Xinyue Dessert Shop, one for each person.
The cake had not yet been launched in the dessert shop, so no one present had ever eaten it. Everyone was extremely surprised after trying it.
Both adults and children love to eat it. Some children even clamor for more after eating one.
The third dish was fruit, which Cheng Wu personally brought back from a trip, apples.
It is not as good as modern apples, and is a bit sour, somewhat like the wild fruits Cheng Yue had eaten before.
After these three dishes were finished and the plates were cleared away, the main course began to be served.
Cheng Yue prepared seventeen dishes: spicy chicken, steamed fish, sour radish and duck soup, twice-cooked pork with chili peppers, braised pork knuckle with kelp, a braised food platter, and garlic pork...
Almost every table had eaten nothing.
Fortunately, I prepared it yesterday and steamed a lot of rice.
The weather is a bit hot now, and many people in the city go home after eating. They are too embarrassed to come for dinner anymore.
There were indeed no more than a hundred tables for the luncheon, with only ninety-nine occupied.
Everyone in the village congratulated Cheng Shun with a smile, calling him a long-lived old man. They hoped that on Cheng Shun’s 99th birthday, they could still enjoy the wine made by Cheng Yue and Cheng Wen!
Cheng Shun was very happy to hear this. Who doesn’t want to live a long life?
He just turned 50 today, so of course he hopes to be 100 years old.
The luncheon dinner was over and many guests left.
In the evening, only the Jiang family and the villagers had dinner.
Cheng Yue simply prepared thirteen dishes, and everyone enjoyed the meal.
After dinner, I started helping to clean up.
Xue Hanyu didn't go to bed so early tonight and started helping to count the gifts and cash.
A total of 385 households came, and a total of 974 taels and 900 wen of cash gifts were received, including tea, silk, cloth, golden longevity peaches, etc.
The valuable gifts were all sent by Ji Mingxuan, the Xie family, the Huang family, the Tao family, and the He family, which had a vague relationship with the Cheng family.
According to the account book, the He family was a landlord family in the neighboring Guihua Village. It was said that when Cheng Shun was still the young master of the landlord family, their family was just an ordinary farmer. The old man of the He family was the same age as Cheng Shun’s eldest brother Cheng Kang, and was three years older than Cheng Shun.
These five families not only sent gifts, but also each sent 200 taels of silver notes.
In other words, apart from these wealthy families, the others only had a little over 170 taels, which was considered a lot.
If the villagers knew about this, they would talk about it for years!
Cheng Shun no longer cares so much about money, so he lets Cheng Yue take care of it all. He asks Gu Xuelan to keep a record of all the gifts sent by each family, and to follow this when returning the gifts in the future.
Cheng Shun asked Cheng Yue to take out some money and give red envelopes to the children.
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