Chapter 82: Overeating
After visiting the eldest son's house, Deng Shirong took the Zhang family to visit the houses of his other sons.
Although the main thing to look at when visiting the house is the house where the male protagonist lives, Deng Shirong has not yet divided the property among his sons, and the houses are newly built, so naturally every house has to be visited by the female party.
The layout of the five sons' houses is two bedrooms and one living room. Although each room only has a simple bunk bed and a large wardrobe, the large number of them can still give people a big shock. After all, in this era, rural people may not have even the simplest wardrobe, let alone a high-end wardrobe.
Deng Shirong's house has more than a dozen rooms, and each room is equipped with a large wardrobe, which is simply outrageous in its luxury.
Not only that, after visiting the five 90-square-meter houses, when they came to visit the 130-square-meter house, they found that two of the rooms also had dressing tables, which they knew were prepared for Deng Yuntai’s two younger sisters.
After reading this, the Zhang family was stunned! When they came here, they knew that the man's family was well-off, but they did not expect it to be this well-off.
In addition to being envious, Mrs. Zhang Da and Mrs. Zhang Er were also very happy in their hearts. Since their sister-in-law had married into such a family, they, as the sisters-in-law, would naturally benefit.
After visiting all the houses, Deng Shirong greeted them and went to the kitchen to start working. There were many dishes to cook today, and his eldest daughter's cooking skills were not yet up to such a large occasion.
As for the Zhang family, they were naturally greeted by their relatives and Deng Yuntai and others.
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The most time-consuming part of cooking is actually the preliminary preparation work. When you actually start cooking, as long as the pan is big enough and the fire is strong enough, it can be done quickly.
When Deng Shirong went to pick up the Zhang family, he had already instructed everyone to prepare the preliminary work. Dishes that were more time-consuming, such as egg rolls, meatballs, and braised pork, had already been prepared in advance as early as midnight yesterday. Dishes that needed to be stewed, such as bone soup, sweet soup, and various white dishes, were all assigned to dedicated people to prepare.
To stew the soup, you just need to tell the other person how to do it in advance, and then you can season it yourself at the last step.
As for boiled pork, it is one of the dishes that Bobai people are best at. Basically, anyone who has been in the kitchen can make it, and people with a little experience can control the heat very well. The key to whether boiled pork tastes good, in addition to the ingredients themselves, is the sauce (dipping sauce), which is the soul.
Therefore, Deng Shirong only needs to season the soup, prepare a universal seasoning dish, and then stir-fry the vegetables.
So, in less than an hour, Deng Shirong announced that the meal could officially begin.
At this time, it was already half past twelve in the afternoon. The Zhang family and their group had eaten something early and set off. After walking such a long way and drinking a bellyful of tea when they got here, they were now starving.
One by one, they walked towards the dinner place under the guidance of the man with great anticipation.
Although Deng Shirong did not hold a grand ceremony for this visit, he still invited many relatives and friends to come for dinner. Together with the thirteen people from the woman's side, the number of people reached sixty or seventy. If we counted them as ten people at each table, there were six or seven tables.
When the Zhang family arrived at the long table, they saw that it was filled with all kinds of dishes. The color of each dish was very good, which made people's appetite increase. There were all kinds of chicken, duck, fish and meat. It was really rich!
Deng Shirong washed his hands and came over to greet them, "Everyone is hungry, so let's not waste time on polite words and sit down to eat!"
That being said, the elders on the woman’s side must also be polite and cannot just sit down and eat.
After some polite exchanges, everyone started eating.
Then, as expected, every one of the Zhang family members were stunned!
The deliciousness of the dishes before them was beyond their imagination. These were the most delicious dishes they had ever eaten in their decades of life. Even the humble fire tube dish (rolled green vegetable) tasted much better than what they usually ate.
As for the meat, they ate so much that they wanted to swallow their tongues.
Zhang Xiuping's family is not well off, and her relatives are not much worse off than them. They seldom eat meat once a month. Now, when they encounter this delicious delicacy, except for the heroine Zhang Xiuping, no one else can control their mouths, and they all eat too much without realizing it!
By the time they realized what was happening, they were so embarrassed that they wanted to find a hole to crawl into.
Anyone who has overeaten knows that if you get up and walk without taking a short rest, your posture will be completely different from your normal walking posture. You won’t even dare to walk fast, and you will have to be as cautious as a pregnant woman.
If they left the table now, their abnormality would definitely be noticed.
There was no other way. In order to hide the embarrassment, the relatives and elders of the Zhang family could only use chatting to distract other people's attention and buy some time for digestion.
"Uncle Jiu, I just heard from Yuntai that your family is now growing lychee trees in an orchard?" Aunt Zhang sat up straight and asked.
Deng Shirong nodded and said, "Yes, the orchard has been half reclaimed. It will be ready by the end of November or early December. I have also reserved the lychee seedlings, and we will be able to plant the lychee trees in early spring next year."
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Aunt Zhang Qi continued, "Uncle Jiu, you are such a capable person. You run a tile factory, act as a matchmaker, and now you are cultivating an orchard and planting crops. You are really amazing!"
"I'm just trying to do this for nothing. It's hard to say whether I can make any money." Although Deng Shirong doesn't care about others following his lead, he doesn't want to brag about how profitable lychee planting is before the orchard is established.
He encourages others to do something before there is any result. If it succeeds, everyone will be happy. But if something unexpected fails, others will definitely blame him. He doesn't want to do such a thankless task.
The Zhang family was entertained at a long table that could seat forty or fifty people. After Aunt Zhang brought up the topic of the orchard, everyone started chatting one after another, and soon more than ten minutes had passed.
With this time buffer, the Zhang family’s stomachs were finally not so uncomfortable.
So, after finishing talking about this topic, they left the table.
Because it was a long way from Poxin Village to here and it was getting late, the Zhang family and their group just took a short rest before saying goodbye to Deng Shirong.
Deng Shirong politely tried to persuade them to stay, then took out the red envelopes and five spices that he had prepared long ago and gave them to the Zhang family members one by one.
Each of the five flavors weighs about two kilograms. The red envelope given to Zhang Xiuping was 18.88 yuan, and the rest of the people received 8.88 yuan.
(End of this chapter)