Chapter 138 Satisfying
Zhou Mingyuan and Li Yuqin are cousins and have a very close relationship.
Zhou Qinglan was an educated youth in Qianchuan Forest Farm, and she ate and lived at the Tang family's house, so she already owed the Tang family a favor.
Now that Tang Fengying is getting married, Zhou Mingyuan and his wife will definitely have to give a generous gift.
We also need to bring some gifts for the Tang family; it's normal to exchange gifts as a matter of courtesy.
Of course, the Tang family had to be polite to them.
After exchanging pleasantries, the Tang family accepted the gifts and arranged for Zhou Mingyuan and his wife to rest inside.
With such a lively scene outside, how could Zhou Mingyuan and his wife sit inside without helping out?
So they put the two large backpacks and other things in the west room of the Tang family's house, and then the couple came out to help with the work.
Logically speaking, the Tang family is marrying off their daughter, while the Gao family is taking in a wife; the Gao family is the one who should be busy.
But the Tang family and the Gao family lived next door to each other, separated only by a road.
The two families had a very good relationship, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to pair Tang Fengying and Gao Haining up.
The two families have already discussed the wedding arrangements.
Nowadays, we don't care about those old customs. We might as well separate the two families, hold the banquet together, and have them jointly entertain the guests.
This is both convenient and cost-effective, and it's easy for everyone.
So at that moment, someone took pliers and other tools and dismantled the garden canes of the two houses, opening up the courtyards.
Now the place was much more spacious, and everyone was busy going back and forth, making it very lively.
Over there, a group of wives and mothers-in-law were washing the pig offal and putting it in a pot to cook.
Some people even burned the pig's head and trotters with fire.
After singeing off the pig hair, scrub it clean with a brush, and once everything is ready, put it in the pot to simmer.
The head chef and his team are currently preparing minced meat and dough, getting ready to fry meatballs, sliced meat, mushrooms, and other ingredients.
The Gao family had gone to great lengths to buy some meat, but not much, so they only ordered fried four-happiness meatballs and mushrooms, not meat slices.
Didn't Sheng Xiping and the others bring over some meat? After discussing it, Gao Haining's parents decided to add some more substantial dishes, like sliced pork.
We're just frying something anyway, so let's make a lot; it'll look better at tomorrow's banquet.
The two families had been saving up oil for who knows how long, and this time they poured it all into the big pot.
The chef then dipped the marinated meat, frozen mushrooms, and other ingredients into the batter, rolled them in it, and then fried them in oil until cooked.
There's usually a specific way to fry things: you fry other things first, and then fry the meatballs last.
Fried what needed to be fried, and stewed what needed to be stewed.
The roe deer, pheasant, and rabbit that Sheng Xiping and his group brought over a couple of days ago, thankfully the weather is cool now, so with a little salt on them, they can last a few more days.
Now take them all out, soak them in water to wash away the salt, and put them in a pot to simmer.
When the Gao and Tang families held their weddings, many people from the forest farm came to help.
Everyone chatted and laughed, and finished the work in no time.
"Hey? Have you heard? Something strange happened to Li Dabai this morning."
For some reason, when they were cooking over a fire in the morning, the kang (a heated brick bed) suddenly bulged up.
Good heavens, the entire surface of the kang (heated brick bed) is cracked, and a large section of the edge of the kang has collapsed.
I heard that even the stove cracked, the pot was crooked, and the whole room was covered in ash.
Li Dabai was talking about how his wife almost got roasted by a leaping flame.
Among the helpers, there are always a few who are particularly well-informed.
Now, they started talking about Li Dabai's talk about what happened this morning.
"Huh? What happened? You were cooking and tending the fire, how did you manage to make the kang (heated brick bed) bulge out?"
"They're burning sawdust? That can't be right. Who uses sawdust to heat a kang (heated brick bed)? That stuff is only used for stoves."
People are naturally gossipy, and when someone brings up a topic, others immediately crowd around to inquire.
"I don't know what happened, but I happened to be out gathering firewood to start a fire and cook at that time."
From a great distance, I saw Li Dabai talking about his chimney, and suddenly a plume of black smoke billowed out.
That's quite different from the black smoke we usually see when cooking; it just billows out in a big, dark cloud.
I was just curious, so I specially sent my son to his house to take a look.
And guess what? My youngest son came back and said, "Don't even mention the Li family now."
Good heavens, the whole room was belching smoke, but it was also covered in ash.
That kang (heated brick bed) in his house, we don't need it anymore, it all has to be torn down and rebuilt.
There are many residents in the forest farm. Although the Li family lives in a remote area, some people can still notice something unusual.
"Oh, no wonder. I heard that Li Dabai went to the cafeteria to get his lunch today."
Li Dabai was still cursing nonstop. Oh dear, it turns out his kang (heated brick bed) is bulging.
"Wow, that must have taken a lot of firewood to make the kang (heated brick bed) bulge!"
"Hey, what do you guys know?"
Li Dabai said that his two sons went into the mountains early this morning and came back dragging a dead pig.
I reckon they went up the mountain and found someone's pig, then quickly cleaned it up and planned to stew it for dinner.
"Maybe he was too eager to eat meat and stuffed the stove full of firewood, and as a result, he messed it up and the kang (heated brick bed) bulged up."
With so many people in the forest farm, there are bound to be some gossipy types.
They gathered together and started discussing it animatedly, creating quite a spectacle.
The conversation on the other end became increasingly lively, and the voices grew louder and louder.
Meanwhile, Wang Jianshe, Chen Weiguo, and others who were working on the other side were increasingly convinced that something was wrong as they listened.
Li Da Baihua's house? The kang (heated brick bed) is bulging? Black smoke suddenly billowed out of the chimney?
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