sinovels Chapter 1580 Wang Meilan ordered another hard dish, Chen Dalai and the other four gathered together
Chapter 1580 Wang Meilan ordered another hard dish, Chen Dalai and the other four gathered together
Chapter 1580 Wang Meilan ordered another hard dish, Chen Dalai and the four cowards gathered together
No one in the room objected to Wang Meilan's plan to recreate the traditional three-fresh dish at her son's wedding banquet.
What's there to object to? It doesn't cost any money anyway. The big lynx in the outer room can be used as tiger meat. As for bear meat and venison, to the Zhao family, they are no different from potatoes and cabbage.
Not only did Han Dachun not object, he also praised Wang Meilan, saying: "Sister-in-law, this dish is so good when it is served!"
"Yeah." Zhao Weipeng couldn't help but agree, "If sister-in-law hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known what the three fresh dishes were like."
"Did you see it?" Wang Qiang knocked Li Dayong's arm with the back of his hand and said with a smile, "My sister must be very knowledgeable, right?"
"What else can I say?" Li Dayong did not dare to offend Wang Meilan, and followed the praise: "Don't mention his Uncle Zhao. We grew up in this mountain area and have only heard of the local delicacies, but no one has ever eaten it."
"I'll let you try it this time." Wang Meilan said with a smile. Han Dachun smiled and asked her, "Sister-in-law, it's not enough for us to just talk about it. You have to know how to do it."
After saying this, Han Dachun looked at Han Daming beside him, then smiled and said, "We two brothers won't do that."
"Yeah." Han Daming joked, "My master didn't teach me either."
"Your master doesn't know either." Zhao Youcai smiled and said, "Let your master's wife teach you."
Everyone laughed, and then Wang Meilan said, "Actually, that thing is simple. It's just the meat of the big guy, the black bear, and the tiger cub. We need to use the bear's paw, too."
When it came to the word "also", Wang Meilan nodded, and then continued: "After boiling, the bones are shaved off for the black bear's palm, and only the meat is wanted. The same is true for the tiger cub, they all want only the meat."
"Slice it?" This was answered by Zhao Youcai. As expected of a master chef, when he heard about deboning the black bear's paw and tiger cub meat, he guessed how to do it.
"Yes, yes!" Wang Meilan nodded repeatedly and said, "Cut them all up and put the chopped green onions and minced garlic in the pan, stir-fry the meat and other ingredients, and thicken it with starch."
"That's easy." After listening to Wang Meilan's instructions, Han Dachun said, "We'll all come here a day in advance. Sister-in-law, you can prepare everything. You don't have to worry about anything else."
"That's great, Dachun." Wang Meilan said gratefully, "Then your brother and I will not care about anything and leave everything to you and Daming."
The day before Zhao Jun's wedding, there must be a lot of things to do at home. Maybe a few relatives will come, and Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan will also have a lot to do. Wang Meilan felt much more relaxed when she could leave the banquet to Han Dachun and Han Daming, two trustworthy people.
"Don't worry, sister-in-law." Han Daming also expressed his opinion, saying, "There will be absolutely no problems with eating and drinking."
Han Daming is Zhao Youcai's close confidant and still controls Zhao Youcai's secret fund.
He and Zhao Youcai thought that the matter was kept secret perfectly, but they didn't know that Zhao Jun, Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun already knew about it.
Wang Meilan praised Han Dachun and Han Daming. Zhao Youcai took out Shilin cigarettes and passed them around. Then everyone continued to discuss the meal for that day.
The staple food that day was rice and steamed buns, because some people here, especially the elderly, never eat rice, millet, or sorghum in their entire lives and only eat pasta.
Wang Meilan was also open-minded. She didn't even need two cups of flour that day. She just had plenty of rice and steamed buns.
The dishes are four cold and eight hot, with more meat and fewer vegetables. The ingredients are caught in the mountains, purchased in the city, and provided by Zhao Weipeng.
After discussing and writing, they decided on eleven dishes.
"There's still one dish missing." Zhao Youcai picked up a pen and pointed at the menu, saying, "What else do you want?"
"How can that be called dealing with it?" Wang Meilan was unhappy when she heard it. Han Daming knew that was his master's colloquialism, so he quickly helped to smooth things over, saying, "Sister-in-law, how about we stir-fry some pickled cabbage noodles? We have so many meat dishes, how about adding some vegetarian ones?"
Sour cabbage noodles are stir-fried noodles with sauerkraut. The dish is delicious when mixed with chili oil. Due to the shortage of supplies, sauerkraut noodles are a must-have dish for every winter banquet in Yongantun.
But Wang Meilan was not satisfied with the dish. She shook her head and said, "We have fish, but what about a whole chicken?"
There are abundant water resources near Yong'antun, and there are also many fish. If you dig a hole in the ice now, you can dig out any fish.
But when setting up the feast, you can't put small fish, you have to put big fish. Carp, crucian carp, silver carp, etc. are all available. But when you catch them, not only are they big and small, but you can't even put the same ones together.
There are 40 to 50 tables in total for the banquet. You cannot use three kinds of fish together. You have to serve all the same kind.
This is difficult to do, so in recent years, Yong'an does not serve fish for banquets. But the Zhao family has special conditions. If river fish is not available, then Shanghai fish will be used. Boss Zhao waved his hand and announced that he would buy all the fish for that day.
After the fish was arranged, Wang Meilan wanted chicken.
This is also difficult to deal with.
There is no professional broiler farming these days. The Yongxing Production Team does raise quite a few chickens, but the chickens they keep over the winter are not killed for meat, but kept for laying eggs and breeding.
Given the relationship between the Zhao army and the Yongxing Brigade, they couldn't afford to eat just a few, but if they wanted forty or fifty, the Yongxing Brigade wouldn't be able to handle it.
Wang Meilan also knew that the matter was difficult to handle, so she wanted to take the money and go to Xishantun to smash the place. But that day, the old lady and Jie Sun came back from selling beef and told Wang Meilan that all the beef had been bought by the people of Xishantun.
He also said that in Xishantun, every household had no vegetables to eat. All kinds of dried vegetables, even potatoes, were bought by the Zhao family.
If Wang Meilan used money to force it, Xishantun would definitely be able to gather fifty chickens, but in the next year, Xishantun might not even have many chickens.
"Huh?" Wang Meilan suddenly thought of something and immediately slammed her hand on the table.
When Wang Meilan raised her hand, she pointed at the menu and said, "Flying Dragon Mushroom Stew!"
There is a famous dish in Northeast China called stewed chicken with mushrooms. In fact, this dish is the same as the three fresh vegetables in the city, both of which were modified later.
The first dish was flying dragon stewed with mushrooms. The scientific name of flying dragon is Hazel Grouse, which is a perfect match with hazel mushrooms. The taste of this dish is amazing!
"Where are you going to get those flying dragons?" Even Zhao Youcai, who wanted to go up the mountain every day, couldn't help but say, "I can't go there for you!"
There are no broilers these days, so the small, stupid chickens in the Northeast have more meat, and roosters have more meat, but after bleeding, plucking, and gutting, there may not be three pounds left. Hens are even lighter, and if they weigh two pounds after cleaning, they are considered big.
But a male flying dragon, with fur on, weighs no more than eight taels. After bleeding, removing the fur, and disemboweling it, it would be good if four taels were left.
If we follow the standard of one hen per table, we need at least four flying dragons. If there are fifty tables, we need two hundred flying dragons. No wonder even Boss Zhao begged for mercy.
"No need for you!" Wang Meilan raised her hand to signal Zhao Youcai not to speak, and said, "I'll find someone to beat the ball for me."
Ever since she made friends with the gang of hooligans in Xishantun, Wang Meilan has become more confident in what she says and does.
And the confidence is: as long as I spend money, nothing is impossible.
Zhao Youcai took a deep breath, then gasped and said, "Who can help you with this? Who can you find?"
As he spoke, Zhao Youcai raised his hand and pointed outward, saying, "How many guns are there in Xishan Village? How many can I give you?"
As expected of a couple who eat and sleep together, Zhao Youcai understood Wang Meilan’s thoughts in one sentence.
Seeing that Wang Meilan didn't say anything, Zhao Youcai continued, "How many days are left before our son's wedding? Can I spank you enough? If not, what's the point of spanking you?"
"I'll get them the guns." What Zhao Youcai didn't expect was that Wang Meilan waved her hand and said, "Whoever can shoot twenty flying dragons for me, the air gun will be given to them."
"You..." Zhao Youcai was about to say something when he heard Zhao Weipeng say, "Sister-in-law, how much is that air gun?"
"We hired someone to make it, it's cheap." Wang Meilan said with great wealth and generosity, "Once the dragon stewed mushrooms are served, the feast will be settled! I'm risking my life!"
After hearing what Wang Meilan said, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Zhao Youcai's chest rose and fell, and he did the math in his mind. That is, he would need ten air guns to exchange for two hundred flying dragons, and if he sold those ten air guns, he could sell them for seven hundred yuan, while the cost was still more than three hundred yuan.
But Zhao Youcai didn't dare to say this. Just last night, when he stopped the mother and daughter from buying a camera, Wang Meilan mentioned the incident of him beating Lao Niu.
Since Zhao Youcai kept silent, no one else spoke either. After all, no one wanted to offend Wang Meilan.
Seeing that no one objected, Wang Meilan smiled and said, "That's fine, it's settled!"
As she spoke, Wang Meilan waved her hand happily and said, "Dachun, Daming, why don't you walk for lunch? Eat at home, and I will pick out the right dishes for you!"
After saying this, Wang Meilan didn't even give Han Dachun and Han Daming a chance to refute, and went straight out to the outer room to prepare food.
There was no need for Wang Meilan to cook. While they were discussing the menu, Jin Xiaomei led the team to get busy. The women had a clear division of labor. Some cooked, some grilled.
The lynx skin was hung up, and the lynx meat was cut up and deboned. Knowing that the lynx meat was reserved for the Zhao army's banquet, no piece of it was touched. It was all put into a large basin and covered with a curtain to prevent it from drying out.
As the saying goes, scarcity makes things valuable. After dinner, we have to take the lynx meat to the Zhao family’s new house and freeze it in the refrigerator.
As soon as Wang Meilan arrived at the outer room, she heard two dogs barking outside. She looked outside and saw the Liberation truck parked outside her yard.
“Yan’er!” Wang Meilan saw this and quickly called out to Xu Chunyan, who was closest to the bowl rack, “Hurry up and get a basin, a knife, or something!”
"Hey, Second Auntie." Xu Chunyan responded, but Lin Xue asked, "Can we fight back? Isn't that cannon egg quite powerful?"
Lin Xue was a new member and didn't fully understand the strength of the Zhao Family Gang. She asked this question after seeing Zhao Youcai return empty-handed twice.
"Oh!" After hearing Lin Xue's words, Wang Meilan smiled and waved her hand, saying, "It depends on who goes. If our army goes, there will be no problem."
Wang Meilan really didn't mean what she said. After all, in the past year, all the wild animals that others couldn't knock down were beaten by her son.
But the speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. The "sensitive" Zhao Youcai in the room suddenly looked gloomy.
"Dachun, Daming, you two sit down. I'll go out and take a look." Zhao Youcai got off the kang as he spoke, and Li Dayong also stood up.
Seeing this, Wang Qiang quickly found topics to chat with the Han brothers.
Zhao Youcai followed Wang Meilan out of the house and heard hunting dogs running from outside the yard into the yard.
Seeing the dogs’ bulging bellies, Zhao Youcai quickened his pace and overtook Wang Meilan.
At this moment, Zhao Jun, who was standing on the back of the car, saw him and shouted, "Dad, call my Sixth Aunt, Hualong and the others have been picked by Paoyuanzi."
In the car, the injured Hualong, Dahua and Heilong were tied to the fence. In addition to the three injured dogs, there was also Qinglong lying next to Heilong.
Zhao Youcai paused when he heard this, turned around and saw Li Dayong, then waved at Li Dayong.
Li Dayong turned around and went back into the house to call Lin Xue, while Zhao Youcai continued to walk out.
When Zhao Youcai walked to the door, he saw Li Baoyu and Jie Chen dragging half of a wild boar towards him.
When Zhao Youcai saw the wire snare on the wild boar, he curled his lips and felt annoyed.
……
Although it was lunch, Wang Meilan also prepared eight dishes to entertain the Han brothers.
Because we were in a hurry, we cooked a lot of dishes, and one of them was wild boar meat with pickled cabbage, which was made with the wild boar tenderloin we hunted today.
When Wang Meilan served the dishes, she said to Han Dachun and Han Daming, "Dachun, Daming, if you don't mind the chicken and egg meat, I'll give you a thigh and half a rib before you leave."
"Sister-in-law, I don't want it." Han Daming declined and said, "Jianjun sent meat to my house that day."
"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was startled when he heard that. He looked at Han Daming and asked, "Where did Jianjun get the wild boar?"
At this time Zhao Jun felt something was wrong and even winked at Han Daming, but Han Daming didn't even look at him.
Then Han Daming responded to Zhao Youcai, "Wei Lai sent it to him, saying that he went up the mountain with our army to fight."
Zhao Youcai turned his head and looked at Zhao Jun, but saw that Zhao Jun was evasive. These days, everything about Huang Gui was kept secret from Zhao Youcai. Until now, Zhao Youcai still didn't know that Huang Gui had come to Yong'an Forest District.
Before Zhao Youcai could turn around, he heard Han Daming continue, "That day, they, and that guy called Huang something, knocked down ten wild boars."
"Ah?" Zhao Youcai's eyes widened when he heard Han Daming's words and he asked, "What?"
Han Daming thought Zhao Youcai was Huang something, so he explained, "What was his name Huang something? I can't remember. It was that year, before I became your apprentice, you brought him to our canteen for dinner. He made twelve big pancakes and put them in his pocket after finishing them."
"Huang Gui?" Zhao Youcai frowned, not quite believing it. He didn't believe Han Daming, but he didn't know Huang Gui was here.
"Ah! Ah!" As soon as Zhao Youcai called out Huang Gui's name, Han Daming nodded repeatedly. But when he was about to say something else, Han Dachun kicked him under the table.
"Huh?" Han Daming was stunned, but saw Han Dachun glancing to the side. Han Daming followed his brother's gaze and saw Wang Meilan giving him a meaningful look.
Han Daming said everything he should and shouldn't say, and it was too late for Wang Meilan to stop him. She smiled and went out to continue serving the dishes.
"No?" At this time, Zhao Youcai was fed up. He put his hands on the table and asked Han Daming loudly, "Is Mr. Huang peeing? How many wild boars did he knock?"
"That's ten." Even though Han Daming felt something was wrong at this moment, he had to tell the truth since his master asked him.
"Ten..." Zhao Youcai thought about his own battle record and suddenly felt a sense of crisis.
Wang Qiang saw that his brother-in-law looked unhappy, so he hurried to help and raised his glass to invite the Han brothers to drink.
……
"Come on, have a drink." At Chen Dalai's house in Yong'an Village, Chen Dalai raised his glass to greet the three people sitting at the same table, saying, "It's not a good dish, so don't complain!"
The people drinking at the same table with Chen Dalai were not his two brothers-in-law, but Zhang Laibao, Tao Ersheng and Tao Sansheng from the same village.
(End of this chapter)