mtl008 Chapter 565 New Year’s Eve Dinner
Chapter 565 New Year’s Eve Dinner
After that, Wenxi began to prepare the dishes. She chopped the onions, ginger, and garlic and put them on a plate. She also chopped the pork and potatoes, blanched the pig heart and lungs, and cut them into pieces. She also took out a handful of pickles from the pickle jar, washed them, cut them, and put them on a plate.
Then I heated up the oil in a pan and started to cook the braised pork and potatoes. After that, I cooked the pig heart and lungs...
When Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue came back and saw Wen Xi busy in the kitchen, they hurried over to help. When they saw that Wen Xi was almost ready, they were both shocked.
"Xiaoxi, your speed is too fast!" Shen Jiaojiao exclaimed.
"I've almost prepared everything when I got up this morning, so it's naturally quicker to do it now." Wen Xi said with a smile.
We had agreed to have the New Year's Eve dinner at noon, so there was no need to worry about everyone coming early. There were several dishes that just needed to be heated up, which was not troublesome, so Wen Xi was not in a hurry. She asked Jiang Yue to keep an eye on the pig heart and lungs in the pot, and then started cooking the fish in the separate iron pot.
She first poured the chopped pickles into the pot and fried them until fragrant, then poured a bottle of hot water into it. After the hot water boiled, she poured in the white and tender fish fillets.
After the fish fillets were ready, Wenxi made a braised crucian carp, which was used for plating, and then made a dish of crucian carp stewed with tofu.
After Wang Xinru washed the vegetables and brought them into the kitchen, Wenxi made lotus root stewed with pig's trotters, scrambled eggs with cucumber, water spinach with garlic, braised eggplant in oil, stir-fried meat with green pepper, loofah meatball soup, stir-fried amaranth, stir-fried beans, and tiger skin green peppers.
Including the dishes brought out from the system kitchen, there were a total of twenty dishes, but Wen Xi did not plan to serve all of them on the table at noon because some dishes had to be saved for the New Year’s Eve dinner in the evening.
After the dishes were ready, several people carried the kitchen table to the living room and merged it with the living room table, so that it should be able to accommodate those who had lunch.
By half past eleven, everyone started to arrive one after another. Those who came to the village cadres' homes were all couples, and they did not bring their entire family.
After all, it is just a New Year’s Eve dinner, not a wedding banquet, and it is not appropriate to bring the whole family, young and old, or even more than a dozen people, to eat.
Since not everyone was there at the beginning, Wenxi made tea for them and asked them to sit down and chat while drinking tea.
When everyone arrived, Wenxi and the other three began to bring the dishes to the table. Zhou Bai and Wenxi were old acquaintances, so when he arrived he did not wait there, but went to the kitchen to help Wenxi.
Soon, delicious dishes were placed on the table, including pig's trotters stewed with lotus root, chicken stewed with potatoes, fried meatballs, scrambled eggs with cucumber, water spinach with garlic, stir-fried meat with green pepper, loofah meatball soup, crucian carp stewed with tofu, braised crucian carp, fish fillet soup, braised pork, and braised heart and lungs, a total of twelve dishes.
Aunt Meihua and Captain Qian didn't say anything when they saw so many dishes. They must have prepared so many dishes specially because today's meal was the New Year's Eve dinner. They definitely didn't eat like this on normal days.
Wenxi brought sweet potato rice, steamed potatoes and steamed sweet potatoes to the table, and then everyone sat down to eat.
"Dear uncles and aunts, thank you for taking care of us over the past year." Wen Xi stood up and expressed his gratitude to everyone with tea instead of wine.
To be honest, if it weren't for Captain Qian defending them, the villagers would probably compete with them for the business of growing watermelons.
Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue also stood up and said, "Thank you, uncle and aunt, for taking care of us."
Captain Qian smiled and said, "Please sit down. Actually, we should be the ones thanking you. You have made so much money for the team and made everyone live a better life. We should all thank you."
"We are all from the Fengshou Brigade, and we go to the countryside to contribute to the construction of our motherland, so it is our duty to contribute to the Fengshou Brigade." Wen Xi said with a smile.
After that, everyone started to eat. Wen Xi asked Wang Xinru and Donghua to help themselves to the food and not to be too reserved. If they were too reserved, they would not be full and would be mistreating themselves.
Time flies so fast. Donghua not only survived with Wenxi's help, but she will soon be twelve years old and is also studying. Although she is too young to catch up with the college entrance examination, as long as she is willing to study hard, her future life will definitely be good.
The meal was a great success for both the host and the guests, and all the dishes on the table were eaten up.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and left, Wang Xinru and Zhou Bo stayed to help wash the dishes. After all, there were many people eating today and there were quite a few dishes.
After everything was done, Wang Xinru and Donghua also went back.
Wenxi and her friends ate some fruit after dinner to relieve the greasiness, and then began to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening. There would be four people, including the three of them and Qin Mi, for the dinner, so they only needed to cook a few vegetarian dishes. The meat dishes were in the cupboard and could just be heated up in the evening.
Qin Mi came back in the afternoon. Wen Xi was a little surprised. "He came back so early? I thought he would come back in the afternoon!"
"Let everyone go home for the reunion dinner." Qin Mi nodded and sat behind the stove. "I'll light the fire."
He didn't say that he was helping Wenxi. After all, he had to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. How could doing things for himself be called "helping"?
Isn't that how it should be?
At noon, the ginger duck, iron pot stewed goose, fried prawns, lamb chops stewed with radish, and steak hotpot were not served, so they were served in the evening. There were also braised crucian carp, fish head stewed with tofu, fish fillet soup, fried meatballs, and a special light loofah soup to help relieve the greasiness.
When eating the New Year’s Eve dinner in the evening, we still use tea instead of wine.
Although Wenxi bought a lot of Moutai liquor, it was better not to drink when there was one man and three women together, so as to avoid any accidents that would hurt everyone.
They started eating the New Year's Eve dinner before it got dark. After finishing the meal and cleaning up the kitchen, Wenxi and Qin Mi went out for a walk. Today is New Year's Eve, and the village is already very lively before night, with children setting off firecrackers from time to time.
After all, the village made money this year. Under the arrangement of the team leader, all boys and girls who were five years old or older were sent to primary school to register for school.
Some favored children went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy small firecrackers and set them off from time to time. Fortunately, no one set off cow dung. There were only two cows in the Harvest Brigade, and any cow dung was excellent fertilizer. How could they be allowed to do that?
Some people make small lanterns out of wood. Many children in the village are running around the village carrying the small wooden lanterns made by their families. The laughter of children can be heard everywhere, which shows that everyone is having a really good life this year.
The two of them walked outside for about half an hour and then turned around to go back. Before they reached the door of their home, Wenxi saw a figure flash past from the alley next to their house. Wenxi didn't take it seriously.