Chapter 54 No Need to Take Any Measures
After Hua's father and mother calmed down, Hua's mother asked, "Chunli, Xiali, Chunli has been admitted to university. Do you want to hold a graduation banquet and invite everyone to come and have a meal?"
"Of course I have to. If I don't, how can I see everyone's colorful faces?" Hua Xiali said proudly. Not only did she invite people to dinner, she also wanted to invite everyone in the village to dinner!
"You!" Hua's mother pushed Hua Xiali's arm helplessly, "It costs money to hold a graduation banquet, doesn't it? It's not easy for you to make money!"
"Don't worry, I promise that I can hold a beautiful graduation banquet without spending much money." Hua Xiali patted his chest and said confidently.
Mother Hua took the calendar and flipped through it, saying, "The 25th is a good day, so let's hold the graduation banquet on the 25th!"
Hua Xiali nodded, "Okay, then Big Sister, call all the relatives and I'll be in charge of the things needed for the banquet."
There are still nine days left, there is plenty of time, no need to rush.
The best time to pick bamboo fungus is June. Now it is mid-August, so there are naturally no bamboo fungus to pick. Hua Xiali doesn't have to rush to her fourth uncle's house every night, so she can now concentrate on preparing for the graduation banquet.
At this time of year, every household has no shortage of fruits and vegetables, but the fruits and vegetables in Hua Xiali's yard are all irrigated with spiritual spring water. She didn't want to give them away cheaply to irrelevant people, so she bought fruits and vegetables from people she had good relationships with and asked them to deliver them to her house on the evening of the 24th, so that they could process them early in the morning of the 25th.
Every morning when Hua Xiali went to wholesale pig offal, he would also wholesale some meat and put it in the Lingquan space for storage, waiting to take it out on the morning of the 25th.
In order to save money, Hua Xiali asked her third uncle to go out at night to help her catch some frogs. Frogs are edible, and frogs were quite expensive in the vegetable market in her previous life!
Hua Xiali also asked her third aunt to go to the ridges and fields to help her pick amaranth, white amaranth and bittercress, so that it could be counted as three dishes and she could save some money.
Because it was Hua Chunli's graduation banquet, it couldn't be shabby. If there was meat, there had to be fish. But with so many tables, a lot of fish would be needed. If she bought them, it would cost a lot of money, so Hua Xiali decided to catch them herself. So she carried a wooden bucket and went to the ditch which was only a few dozen meters away from her home to catch fish.
I don't know what's going on here, but few people eat fish, especially the small fish with many bones in the wild. So the fish in the ditches swim around in groups, looking particularly free and unrestrained.
Hua Xiali directly used the triangular net she made herself to fish from one end to the other. When she picked up the triangular net, there were a bunch of small river fish and shrimps jumping inside, and even black-backed crucian carp as big as a palm. These were good things that could not be bought even if you had money in the future!
These days, aquatic resources in rural waters are very abundant. Even a small puddle can contain many different kinds of fish.
In her previous life, Hua Xiali was able to raise her two sons by herself, all thanks to these aquatic products. Others were reluctant to buy the small fish as they thought they were too troublesome to handle, so she would pick out the small fish, clean them and then sell them, so that people could just process them directly after buying them.
After all, eels are not that easy to catch in winter. How does she make money when she can't catch eels? Isn't it just these free things in the countryside?
Hua Xiali quickly caught a bucket of small river fish. She put the black-backed crucian carp into a storage space for preservation, and then carried the bucket of small river fish home.
Small river fish are difficult to keep alive, and there were so many in the bucket that they would have died of lack of oxygen long ago, so Hua Xiali quickly took out the small river fish, washed them clean, and placed them on a dustpan to dry, so that the dried fish would not break when processed.
To hold a graduation banquet, so many tables were needed for banquets, and just this bucket of small river fish was not enough. So Hua Xiali took the bucket and went out to catch them in the cool mornings and evenings. She caught them for several days in a row, and she was really tired.
On the 25th, Zhang Yongfeng no longer went out to set up the stall, and his family no longer did the halogen business. Everyone started to get busy in the morning.
The men helped to borrow tables, chairs, benches, pots, pans, and bowls from other people's homes, while the women prepared the banquet at home.
Hua Xiali made stir-fried frogs with green peppers, spicy dried fish, braised pork with potatoes, and scrambled eggs with leeks. The third aunt was in charge of braised eggplant, cold amaranth, stir-fried white amaranth, and stir-fried bitter greens. The fourth aunt made smashed cucumber, stir-fried shredded pork with beans, shredded potatoes with vinegar, and pork ribs and loofah soup. With this division of labor, a table of twelve dishes was prepared.
There are more than 300 people in their flower shop, but the young people are all working in the city, so there are not many people left in the village, maybe only about 200 people!
There are eight people at a table, plus children, so about twelve people can sit at a table, so we need twenty tables. But now there are only ten tables, so we can only eat in batches. After the first batch eats, the second batch will come to the table to eat.
Hua Xiali did not let her mother interfere, and asked her mother to take good care of her father. She and Hua Qiuli cooked together, and Hua Qiuli just helped her light the fire.
In the morning, Hua's mother cleaned up Hua's father and helped him to sit on a chair in the yard together with Hua Chunli. At around eight or nine o'clock, people started to come to visit.
Everyone who came shook hands with Hua's father and congratulated him. It was a double happiness: his eldest daughter was admitted to university, and he could sit up again. Looking at everyone's fawning faces, Hua Chunli found it funny. After all, she had seen with her own eyes how everyone had treated their family before. Now looking at this scene, she really felt relieved!
It turns out that you don't need to take any action to take revenge on others. As long as you work hard to live a better life and become a better person, you are already taking revenge on others invisibly.
Hua Xiali knew that if they accepted gifts at the graduation banquet, everyone would definitely curse them in their hearts for being money-crazy and having ugly eating habits. So when notifying everyone to attend the graduation banquet, Hua Xiali made it clear that no red envelopes or gifts were accepted, just come and eat with your mouth open.
Everyone who came would first greet Hua's father, congratulate him, and congratulate Hua Chunli, and then would find a seat early, hoping to be the first to eat.
There's nothing to do anyway, so just wait and chat with everyone for a while.
As the protagonist of the day, Hua Chunli naturally joined her mother in entertaining the guests. Some people also asked her mother to introduce a partner to Hua Xiali. After all, Hua Chunli was admitted to university, and she would have a stable job after graduation. Her life would be stable, and she would definitely help her sister then.