Aunt Liu wanted to persuade the person to come back, but she didn't know how. The person was right, it was important to go back and take care of the elderly.
"Aunt Liu, I have something to do later, so I won't keep you here." Zhang Xingrong saw the guest off.
Aunt Liu didn't force herself to stay. Besides, since she couldn't help teach her son anymore, what was the point of her staying?
"Then I'll go back first. If you have any problems, come and find Aunt Liu. We all live in the same compound, so it's only natural for us to help each other!" Aunt Liu said politely.
Zhang Xingrong smiled and sent the person out.
The two of them quickly tidied up the house. Zhang Xingrong thought that not many people would come in the future, so she simply went to the backyard to pick all the vegetables in the vegetable garden, put some in the space, and made the rest into dried vegetables or pickled vegetables, so that Aunt Dazhu wouldn't have to work any more.
Zhou Jie is also a good worker. The two of them worked and chatted together, and before they knew it, it was noon.
Aunt Dazhu came over and asked everyone to go home for dinner.
"Are you going to pick all the vegetables?"
"Mother Rongya has to go back to take care of the elderly at home and will seldom come over, so she picked the vegetables!" Zhou Jie wiped the sweat off her forehead and helped answer.
"It's my duty to take care of the elderly!" Aunt Dazhu nodded. "I'll help you this afternoon and pick all the vegetables for you. You can take them home to dry or make sauerkraut. They're both delicious!"
With that, the three of them walked towards Zhou's house together.
Aunt Dazhu cooked a table full of dishes, most of which were meat dishes, such as stewed chicken and duck, stir-fried pork belly, and pork belly stewed with potatoes. Except for one vegetable, the rest were meat. She cooked the meat dishes in different ways!
This amount of food couldn't be purchased in a single day. The Zhou family must have been preparing for a long time, and the food on the table must have cost them a fortune. With chicken, duck, and plenty of pork belly, this was as much as the wedding banquets of the less well-off families in the village.
Some families are so poor that there is no meat at the wedding banquet, and they only invite a few relatives to eat vegetable dumplings!
She didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Uncle Zhou, Aunt Dazhu doesn't need to make so much. I can't eat it all!"
"Not much, not much. If you can't finish it, take some back later!" Aunt Dazhu had already filled her meal.
Zhang Xingrong didn't feel comfortable letting her elders serve her food, so she grabbed it herself.
Aunt Dazhu was already prepared. When her bowl came up, she immediately piled it with meat, chicken legs, and duck legs. When her bowl was full, she would get her another one!
Zhang Xingrong was at a loss for words and tried to stop him: "I can do it myself, Aunt Dazhu, you're welcome."
Aunt Dazhu finally stopped pretending and said, "Okay, don't be polite. Eat more. There are so many dishes, if you keep them, they will go bad!"
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Zhang Xingrong didn't hold back during the meal and ate heartily. If she didn't eat, Aunt Dazhu and the others would be unhappy.
"Aunt Zhu, your dishes are so delicious!"
Aunt Dazhu was very happy: "Then come to our house often for dinner. I will cook whatever you want!"
"Thanks!"
"You are such a polite child." Aunt Dazhu said with a smile.
After eating, they chatted for a while. Aunt Dazhu took Zhang Xingrong to the room, took out a package wrapped in red paper and handed it to Zhang Xingrong.
Without even looking, Zhang Xingrong knew it was a red envelope, and a thick one at that. Nowadays, red envelopes are wrapped in paper, unlike the small red envelopes sold specifically in later generations.
Zhang Xingrong pushed the red envelope back: "Aunt Dazhu, I can't accept this."
"Why not?" Aunt Dazhu pushed the red envelope forward. "You have to take this. You have helped so much. We don't know how to thank you. You have to take this!"
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