The whole mountain is my hunting ground

As a few stir-fry dishes were cooked, the Zhao family's banquet officially began.

This is Wang Meilan's second time to hold a banquet at noon after Zhao Jun's ceremony, and the preparations were a bit hasty.

But with the increase in ingredients, the scale and quality of this banquet are far beyond those before.

Braised bear paws, this dish is one of the best in Manchu and Han banquets. The red bear paws are placed on the plate and the thick soup is poured on it.

The bear's paw was so tender that when picked with chopsticks, the tendons, skin, and flesh came out. Put it in your mouth and it melts in your mouth.

Hand-grilled horse ribs, horse meat shreds are thicker, and have a special taste compared to beef and mutton.

The horse ribs, cooked with mountain pepper and salt, are stacked one by one on a large plate.

The plate is relatively large, and in the empty space is a small saucer containing soy sauce, vinegar, chili oil, and minced garlic.

Beef with soy sauce and donkey meat with soy sauce are served on a platter. The meat with tendons in the middle is beef, and the meat with tendons on the side is donkey meat.

Grilled lamb strips, the one-year-old lamb itself is tender. Thinly made strips of grilled meat are placed on the plate, covered with thick soup, and sprinkled with chopped green onion and minced garlic. It is the best meal among meat dishes.

Chicken stewed with mushrooms, goose stewed in an iron pot, duck stewed with potato slices, and wood frogs stewed in sauce are all farm dishes from the Northeast. Usually if there is one on the table, it is for entertaining distinguished guests.

Braised miscellaneous fish, other people’s miscellaneous fish, or various small river fish, or fish that can be as long as one finger like old man fish or willow root.

The Zhao family's miscellaneous fish is a mixture of carp and crucian carp.

In a large enamel plate, the carp is in the middle and there is a crucian carp on the left and right.

Stir-fried three kinds of roe deer. The fresh, freshly killed roe deer heart, liver, and belly are stir-fried with soaked dried green peppers and carrot slices. It is the dish that goes well with wine.

Tear the roe deer into bones and meat by hand, pour it into a large pot of water, tear it into small pieces when it is cooked, and eat it with salty noodles.

Smoked pig's trotters are sauced first and then smoked, which is rare these days.

Twelve meat dishes, plus black and white vegetables, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and canned peaches.

There are a total of sixteen dishes, some meat and vegetables, some cold and some hot.

The Zhao family first stood aside in the room, and then placed a large tabletop borrowed from the Tunbu warehouse.

This large jointed tabletop is still left over from the big pot rice era.

The large tabletop, which can seat seventeen or eighteen people, is spliced ​​with dovetails in the middle.

As the dishes were placed on the table, the guests were dumbfounded.

When I walked in just now, I saw two women cooking outside. I have never seen so many good dishes.

The scale of this banquet was such that even Director Chu, who was well-informed, had never seen anything like this before.

Su Xianglian was even more surprised. When the table was being set, she was taken to the West Room by Wang Meilan.

In Su Xianglian's memory, when she was a child, her father would entertain guests in the house, while she, her brother, sister and her mother would eat outside.

In those days, people were simple and simple, and all the delicious food was available to the guests, but women and children could not eat much.

Su Xianglian thought Wang Meilan would be like this too, but compared to the discomfort of sharing a table with a bunch of men, she would rather eat less and would rather eat with women.

But when the food was served, Su Xianglian discovered that Yang Yufeng, Xu Chunyan, Zhao Ling, Xie Sun and others came in from the outside with two plates each time.

Then, one plate is sent to the east room and one plate is sent to the west room. This way of serving food is just like serving food at a table.

The quality of the food even surprised Su Xianglian. Growing up in the city, she had never had a banquet of this size.

"Clang!" This was the sound of the soda box falling to the ground. Wang Meilan opened a bottle of soda and handed it to Su Xianglian.

After Su Xianglian thanked her and took it, Wang Meilan gave Su Xianglian a big goose leg.

People these days are more reserved. Unless you are sitting at a table, it is not embarrassing to go to other people's homes to eat or drink.

Especially at this table, she was the only one from outside.

But as the women chatted, Su Xianglian gradually let go. The main thing is that there are enough dishes and enough meat, so you won’t feel embarrassed if you take two more bites.

Su Xianglian was like this, let alone the men in the east room.

Xifeng wine was poured into the cups in a gurgling manner. The men pushed the glasses to change and drank happily.

As she ate and ate, a pile of bones piled up next to Su Xianglian's bowl. But that's not all what she ate.

Because there are many dishes today that have only meat and no bones.

"Come on, my dear daughter, you can grow some chopsticks." Wang Meilan greeted Su Xianglian, but after using her chopsticks, she never picked up food for Su Xianglian.

"Yeah, yeah." Su Xianglian bit the middle wing of the chicken and nodded repeatedly: "Auntie, I'm eating."

"Eat more!" Jin Xiaomei also greeted, saying: "We still have some in the West Room!"

They are currently in the west room of the Zhao family, and further west is the Li family.

At Wang Meilan's signal, Xu Chunyan opened another bottle of soda for Su Xianglian. The table is full of meat, and you can drink soda to relieve your tiredness.

Wang Meilan took the soda bottle, put it next to Su Xianglian's hand, and said, "Drink, my daughter."

"Yeah, yeah." Su Xianglian, who was nibbling to the key point, could only nod.

At this time, Mrs. Xie Sun smiled and said: "The atmosphere in their house is quite lively, but our house can't do that!"

"Xiaomei!" Wang Meilan said to Jin Xiaomei: "I will call your family Ruhai in a moment."

Today, Li Ruhai couldn't squeeze into the men's table or the women's table, so he simply went back to his house to eat with the children.

"Then why do you still need to summon me?" Jin Xiaomei said with a smile: "When he is full, he will come by himself."

Su Xianglian blinked her big eyes, thinking that the person Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei were talking about should be the young man dressed very smartly.

"Come on, girl!" At this time, the old lady raised a plate with soy sauce donkey meat and soy sauce beef, and asked Su Xianglian to pick up the vegetables.

The table is big and there are many dishes. The dishes on the opposite side are definitely out of reach for Su Xianglian sitting down. She was still embarrassed to stand up.

The women at this table are very particular and would not pick up food for her even after using chopsticks, but they would pick up the plate far away and let Su Xianglian pick it up.

Seeing the old man passing the food to her, Su Xianglian quickly thanked her and stretched out her chopsticks to pick up two pieces of donkey meat and two pieces of beef.

This meat was braised by Mr. Zhao himself, and it tastes really good. When dipped in the sauce mixed with chili oil, it's very fragrant.

While eating, Su Xianglian suddenly frowned. She felt as if she had forgotten something.

These women were also able to eat, and they ate for more than forty minutes before putting down their chopsticks. But they didn't get off the table and chatted around the table.

They also chatted with Su Xianglian, chatting about how old Su Xianglian was, how many people there were in her family, whether she had a partner, and so on.

They chatted and chatted, and at some point, Li Ruhai sneaked in.

After Li Ruhai sneaked in, it became even more lively.

When Li Ruhai opened his mouth, he could tell clearly whether the old lady in the east family was the master and the west family was the son in the west family, whether the old lady didn't wash the dishes, the mother-in-law said the daughter-in-law was lazy, or the old man couldn't take care of the broken shoes.

How can a woman not gossip?

Su Xianglian was not from this village, and she chatted happily with everyone.

"Cough! Hmm!" This was the eighth time that Jin Xiaomei pretended to cough and clear her throat. The previous few times, the conversation was in full swing, but no one paid attention to her.

This time it was also a coincidence that Li Ruhai turned his head and glanced inadvertently, meeting his mother's eyes.

Seeing Jin Xiaomei's sharp eyes, Li Ruhai secretly thought that something was wrong, and then he used the topic he had just talked about to say to Su Xianglian: "Sister Su, the little widow didn't do anything. Her husband is sick, and medical treatment costs a lot of money.

As a result, the man didn't keep her, so he lost both his personal and financial resources. She has a hard time eating, and it's hard for her to walk around with two kids. What do you think she can do about it? "

"Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!" Su Xianglian shook her head and smacked her lips, saying, "Ruhai, you are right to say that!"

"No way!" Li Ruhai said: "We, my sister and my brother, have been saying that she needs some money, but she won't take this step."

"Yeah!" Su Xianglian nodded, raised her neck and drank the remaining soda in the bottle.

"Hey? Xiao Su." At this time, Wang Meilan called Su Xianglian, and then asked: "Just like the things in our village, can you finish filming them and put them on TV?"

Wang Meilan's original intention was that no matter what Su Xianglian said next, she would try to let Su Xianglian take pictures of these families.

"Huh?" Su Xianglian was startled when she heard this, and then stood up suddenly.

"Oh my god!" Su Xianglian exclaimed, and with everyone's puzzled eyes on her, she stood up, opened the door and went to the opposite room.

The east room was not closed. When Su Xianglian came over, she saw Liu Guihai and Wang Qiang holding their arms around their shoulders and gesticulating about something they were talking about.

"Brother, if you go to the city again, you will find your brother Liu!" Liu Guihai's tongue was stiff from the drink, and he spoke in a low voice: "Your brother Liu knows people wherever he goes!"

"Uncle Liu, Uncle Liu!" Su Xianglian shouted several times at the door. Liu Guihai didn't even listen. Zhao Jun pulled him twice and then pointed at Su Xianglian who was standing at the door.

"What are you doing, Xiaohua?" Liu Guihai frowned and asked Su Xianglian, "Drinking!"

Su Xianglian curled her lips slightly. Her father and Liu Guihai were growing up and they often drank together. After drinking too much, they looked like this.

When it comes to peace, Su Xianglian really doesn't care about him. But today, Su Xianglian had to say: "Uncle Liu, we haven't finished filming yet."

"What the hell?" At this time, Liu Guihai's face was red and his eyes were red. No matter who said anything to him, his brain would automatically clear it immediately after receiving the information.

"We haven't finished shooting the movie yet!" Su Xianglian stamped her feet anxiously. She came from the city to the mountains with a mission.

As a result, I spent a whole morning shooting here and took some shots, but I didn’t take any shots of the main characters, such as General Fuhu and Hound. How can I do business when I get back?

But what Su Xianglian said, Liu Guihai seemed not to hear, turned around and asked Wang Qiang: "Brother, where were we chatting just now?"

"Where's Lao?" Wang Qiang frowned and thought, "Nao, I'm going to the city!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Liu Guihai continued to repeat what he said before, "If you enter the city again, you will find your brother Liu..."

This is what happens when you drink too much, saying the same words over and over again.

"Uncle Hou!" Su Xianglian wanted to ask Hou Jinglin for help, but at this time Hou Jinglin and Li Laowu were fighting fiercely.

"I'm telling you, there are none near our forest area." Li Laowu clapped his fingers and said to Hou Jinglin: "Wild boar meat and roe deer meat, if you are willing to eat them, that's enough!

Well... if you have time a year ago, you can go to our place. We have everything at home. I will get it for you when you get there! "

The most serious thing after drinking too much is to make blind wishes after drinking.

"Really?" Hou Jinglin said drunkenly: "If you say that, I'm going to go! My little wife is most happy to eat dumplings stuffed with roe deer and meat."

At this time, Su Xianglian's voice came, and Hou Jinglin threw his head and said angrily: "You come up and pull me away! You guys are drinking, what are you yelling about, little girl?"

Su Xianglian clicked her eyes, not caring about being angry with Hou Jinglin. She thought about what she had just heard, as if she had heard some special message.

"Daughter! Daughter." Wang Meilan appeared behind Su Xianglian at some unknown time. She put her hands on Su Xianglian's shoulders and said, "Let's go back to our house and don't get involved with them."

Su Xianglian turned her head and saw Wang Meilan's hand on her shoulder, with the golden stud on her ring finger.

Su Xianglian followed Wang Meilan back to the house in a daze, but after sitting down at the table, Su Xianglian jumped up from the stool instantly.

"No, I have to call them!" Su Xianglian said, "We haven't finished shooting yet!"

"If we haven't finished shooting yet, we can't shoot now." Wang Meilan held Su Xianglian with one hand, pointed to the east room with one hand, and said to her, "Look at your two uncles drinking like that, they will smash your machine again!"

Su Xianglian heard that, and the picture instantly appeared in her mind, and she couldn't help but shudder.

The video recorder is expensive, and the video recorder of Shanhe TV Station is not a good brand, and it costs less than 10,000 yuan.

If this one is broken, I can't afford to pay for it!

"If they drink like this, you probably won't be able to go back tonight." Jin Xiaomei smiled and said, "Why don't you stay here today? There's room."

"That won't work!" Su Xianglian said anxiously, "Then I can't tell the director when I go back."

"You girl." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "Just say you're filming a TV show in the forest area, that's all."

"That won't work either, auntie, you don't know." Su Xianglian said, "I'm only filming these few things, and the leader will think it's not right! Can you only film these few things after two days?"

"Then you can film more." Xie Sunshi said at the side.

"Auntie, what am I filming?" Su Xianglian asked, Wang Meilan smiled and put her hand on her chest, saying, "Film us!"

"What do you have to film?" Su Xianglian told the truth when she was worried.

"Why didn't we take pictures?" Wang Meilan stretched out her hand in front of Su Xianglian, shook her arm and hand twice, and said, "Girl, after GK, our life in the forest area has changed so much from before, isn't it worth taking pictures?"

This was taught to her by Zhang Yuanmin. It's said that Zhang Yuanmin has a good brain. Since he was discharged from the hospital, he has only come to the Zhao family twice. He lay on the kang in the west room and listened to the news broadcast on the TV in the east room. He could understand something.

"This..."

Just when Wang Meilan was fooling Su Xianglian, Zhao Youcai was talking about hunting intentionally or unintentionally, and talked about the rich wild animal resources near Yongxing Brigade.

Hearing him say this, Chu Anmin, who had been to Yongxing Brigade, also followed suit.

"Brother Zhao, Anmin, come to my place someday." Tao Dabao said to the two, "No need to drive Fatty Zhao back, he'll be gone after the New Year, let's get together first."

"Forget it." Zhao Youcai said with a wry smile, "I embarrassed the old man last time I went back."

"Huh?" Tao Dabao's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he hurriedly stopped Zhao Youcai from talking.

People have the habit of preconceived ideas.

Just like Wang Dalong and Li Mingxiang's wife Qiao Xiaoli had an affair, when people in Yong'an knew about it, they would say that Wang Dalong had raped someone else's wife again.

And when people in Yongxing Brigade heard this, they would firmly believe that it must be Li Mingxiang and his wife who set a trap for Wang Dalong.

Tao Dabao thought so too, and he felt that this happened in their brigade, which was a very shameful thing.

So, Tao Dabao was afraid that Zhao Youcai would spread the matter.

But the more you fear something, the more it will happen. Chu Anmin asked Zhao Youcai curiously: "What happened? Why did you embarrass yourself?"

"Nothing, nothing!" Tao Dabao quickly took over the conversation and said to Zhao Youcai: "Brother Zhao, let's forget about the past. If you come to our place again this time, you will see how our team will treat you."

"Oh, is that okay? I feel embarrassed to see Uncle Li." When Zhao Youcai asked this, Tao Dabao's face changed immediately and said: "What's the matter? It's not your fault, but the bastard in our team.

Well, Brother Zhao, if you don't have anything to do recently, come to our place to play for two days!"

"Okay!" Zhao Youcai agreed happily!

I will update at this time tomorrow