Chapter 89 Guan Yongying is Pregnant (Please read on)
The relationship between relatives in Deng Shirong’s family is very simple, not complicated at all.
His mother was a child bride, which was quite common during the Republic of China period. She was taken home by his grandmother to be raised when she was still a baby.
Therefore, he has no relatives on his mother's side.
By Deng Shirong's generation, his third sister was the only relative he had left, and he only had slightly more relatives on his deceased wife's side.
There's no need to list these few relatives, he can just name them off the top of his head.
As for the villagers, there was no need to write invitations. They could just go door to door to greet each household. The list of people to be invited by Deng Shirong mainly consisted of his friends from other villages.
The social circles of people of this generation are basically limited to the upper and lower two or three villages. Even Deng Shirong, who is much more sociable than ordinary villagers, does not have many friends in other villages. So it took him less than an hour to make a list of all the friends he could think of.
After going over the list in his mind several times and confirming that all the people to be invited were on the list, Deng Shirong rode his bicycle to the Macun Production Team next door and asked Deng Yunsheng for help in writing the invitations.
Deng Yunsheng is over 50 years old. He is a rare educated person in Bangjie Brigade. He has beautiful handwriting. Whenever someone has a wedding, they will basically ask him to help write the invitations. They also ask him to help write the Spring Festival couplets during the Chinese New Year.
As soon as Deng Shirong explained his purpose, Deng Yunsheng agreed immediately.
After dealing with the invitations, Deng Shirong started to get busy with other things, such as asking villagers to reserve chickens and ducks.
Before, no one dared to raise more chickens and ducks. It was not until this summer when the brigade announced that it would divide the land and work on its own that people began to raise more chickens and ducks. However, the normal raising time for domestic chickens is completely different from that of feed chickens in later generations that pursue growth rate.
That kind of feed chicken can be sold in just one or two months.
Nowadays, the chickens raised by rural people basically take about ten months to a year to raise.
Therefore, for those families who started raising more chickens and ducks this summer, it is not yet time to sell them. If Deng Shirong wants to buy a dozen or twenty chickens and ducks, he has to find at least a dozen companies to make reservations.
In addition to chickens and ducks, you also need to reserve two pigs.
The reason why so many things are needed is that not only Deng Shirong's family will have a wedding banquet, but the bride's family will also have one. According to current marriage rules, the wine and food needed for the bride's family's wedding banquet must be borne by the groom's family. That is, on the first day of the wedding, the groom has to send cakes, wine, rice, pork, chicken, duck and other foods to the bride's family.
In fact, how much of these things to give must be agreed upon in advance through the matchmaker. If the man's family cannot buy so much pork, chicken, duck, etc., they can also discuss converting these things into money and let the woman buy them herself.
Now, Deng Shirong is not only a matchmaker but also the boy's parent, so many things are difficult to discuss face to face.
However, the woman may not make any requests, but Deng Shirong knows the rules, so he will naturally take the initiative to discuss with the woman. No matter how many tables the woman wants to host, they will provide enough food and wine to make the woman satisfied.
It has to be said that no matter whether it is getting married in this era or in the future, it is a test for the parents of both the bride and groom, because there will be a lot of various chores involved in holding a wedding banquet, and after a wedding, many parents can lose several pounds.
Fortunately, Deng Shirong has extremely rich experience in this area.
After all, he had organized weddings for his four sons in his previous life, and he was very familiar with all the wedding procedures.
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Deng Changfu's home.
Guan Yongying is making lunch.
In the Shuangwang realm, the diet at this time is still white porridge in the morning and evening, and a variety of grains at noon.
Those who are better off have white porridge in the morning, whole grains at noon, and rice in the evening.
The Bobai people's habit of eating white porridge in the morning has remained unchanged to later generations.
The habit of eating coarse grains at noon was maintained until the late 1990s.
The miscellaneous grains mentioned here generally refer to things like sweet potatoes, cassava, yams, sweet potatoes, and taro.
The lunch that Guan Yongying is making now is made with the largest amount of sweet potatoes.
In Shuangwang Territory, there are generally the following ways to cook sweet potatoes:
1. Steam it directly, peel it and eat it. This is also the most common way to eat it nowadays.
Second, peeling the skin and using it to cook sweet potato soup is too luxurious. After all, sugar was still a very expensive thing for rural people in that era.
3. Wash the sweet potatoes, cut them into pieces and dry them. When you want to eat them, grab a few handfuls and cook them. You can add sugar or salt. If conditions permit, the taste of the ones cooked with sugar will naturally be the best.
4. Braised sweet potatoes in oil: peel the sweet potatoes, cut them into pieces, stir-fry them with oil, add appropriate amount of salt and water, and if conditions permit, add appropriate amount of sugar to enhance the flavor. Then braise the sweet potatoes over low heat while drying up the juice. The sweet potatoes made in this way are very sweet and delicious.
What Guan Yongying is making now is the fourth type - braised sweet potatoes in oil.
If it were any other time, Guan Yongying would not have gone to such trouble and would have just steamed it and eaten it. But now, not only her husband, but also her parents-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law and relatives were all working hard to cultivate orchards on the mountains, so naturally she had to give them something oily to eat.
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Originally, if conditions allowed, she should have cooked, after all, in addition to her family, there were relatives helping out! But she was pregnant now, and the fetus was not stable in the first three months of pregnancy, which was why her family kept the news a secret. Her husband and parents-in-law didn't want her to do too much, so they asked her to simply steam some sweet potatoes at home at noon, and then cook dinner in the afternoon when her mother-in-law came back.
However, Guan Yongying had been working since she was a child, so making braised sweet potatoes was not a difficult task for her and she did not find it tiring, so she decided to do it.
Soon, the aroma of sweet potatoes came from the tightly covered pot. Guan Yongying listened carefully and knew that it was almost cooked, so he turned off the fire in the stove without opening the lid of the pot. He continued to simmer the sweet potatoes with the residual heat, which also helped to keep the sweet potatoes warm so that they would not cool down too quickly.
Things like braised sweet potatoes are better eaten while hot.
More than ten minutes later, Guan Yongying's sister-in-law Deng Changjuan came back sweating and asked, "Sister-in-law, have you steamed the sweet potatoes?"
Guan Yongying said, "I made braised sweet potatoes, which are still in the pot to keep warm. I'll serve you a bowl first. Eat up quickly and then take it to your parents."
Because they had to hurry to cultivate the orchard, Deng Changfu and his companions did not come back for lunch at noon to avoid wasting time on the road. They just had someone deliver the potatoes to the mountains. After all, they were just sweet potatoes and there was no need to be picky about the place to eat them.
Deng Changjuan's eyes lit up when she heard this. She originally thought that she would have steamed sweet potatoes for lunch, but she didn't expect that her sister-in-law would make braised sweet potatoes. It was really a pleasant surprise. She immediately said, "Sister-in-law, please sit down and have a rest. I can do it myself!"
After saying that, she washed her hands and took a large bowl to the stove.
When she opened the lid of the pot, thick steam immediately rose up, and the aroma of sweet potatoes mixed with oil went straight into her nostrils.
It's easy to get hungry when doing physical work, and having white porridge in the morning made her hungry even faster. When she smelled the fragrance, Deng Changjuan couldn't help herself, so she picked up the spatula and scooped herself a bowl, then couldn't wait to eat.
“Mm, it’s delicious!”
Deng Changjuan ate three pieces of sweet potatoes in a row before she moaned in satisfaction. Then she smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, you haven't eaten yet, right? I'll serve you a bowl."
Guan Yongying smiled and said, "I can do it myself. By the way, put the sweet potatoes in the basin and cover it with a vegetable basket. When you are done eating, you can take it to your parents to eat."
Deng Changjuan nodded in response and continued to eat her bowl of fragrant braised sweet potatoes.
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