His predecessor failed

Chapter 153 Wedding Wine

While Su Zhuzhu was stewing pork ribs and winter melon soup, He Qiaojin and Lin Wu had already moved through the dense forest. As rigorously trained soldiers, they moved freely in the dense woods, their figures flashed by in a flash, and their skills were extraordinary.

The two checked all the traps and actually harvested quite a bit of game. The most abundant were definitely pheasants and hares, with four pheasants and six hares. The biggest harvest was a little wild boar, weighing only a few dozen pounds. It must have been attracted by the fruits in the trap and couldn't help but jump in, but after eating all the food it couldn't get out. This will become a dish at Su Zhuzhu and He Qiaojin's wedding banquet.

The two men killed the wild boar and took their other belongings. It was almost lunch time, so they went straight back down the mountain.

Now no one in the team cares about who goes to the mountains to hunt game. No one can catch a big wild boar, so whoever catches a small one belongs to him. The living conditions in the Red Star Brigade are better now, and no one cares about these things. It's not as rare as before when it was possible to taste meat.

Besides, the two people here today are Zhuzhu's people. Not to mention the two military uniforms, just the fact that they are Zhuzhu's people makes no one jealous, and some people even run over to help. Everyone in the brigade knows that Su Zhuzhu and Comrade He are inviting the educated youth and the brigade leader to dinner in the evening, not to mention that the young couple gave candy and cigarettes to every household, which was very generous.

However, this amount of stuff was no problem at all for He Qiaojin and Lin Wu. Xie refused everyone's help, and the two of them got the stuff back to the Youth League Institute without any effort.

"How is it, Brother Qiao Jin? It's fun here, isn't it? That mountain is like my home base. Ping An and I know it very well."

"Yeah, it's good. I'll stay for a while, so I can experience it all."

"Hey, that's fine. Tomorrow I'll take you to the river to fish and catch crayfish. It'll be more fun!"

When the two got home, Su Zhuzhu was making the last dish, a baked lobster with cheese, but it was made in the space. The program was set and all they had to do was wait.

In addition to the cheese baked lobster, there are also winter melon and pork ribs soup, cold braised beef, and braised eggplant. There are four dishes in total, but the portions are quite large and definitely enough to eat.

While waiting for the lobsters, Su Zhuzhu ran to see He Qiaojin and Lin Wu processing the game they had just brought back. There was even a little wild boar. She thought to herself that she was lucky because the meat of a little wild boar was not that tough, so it was just right to add to the dish for dinner.

The two grown men were well-trained and quickly cleaned up the pheasants and rabbits. He Qiaojin had been very comfortable with Su Zhuzhu's space since he entered it. He killed them all and then found a chance to have his wife put them in the space to keep them 100% fresh.

There was no time to deal with the wild boar, so Su Zhuzhu asked them to leave it alone and deal with it in the afternoon as there was still plenty of time.

While the two of them were cleaning up, the dishes were already on the table. Based on his understanding of Su Zhuzhu, Lin Wu's first chopstick went for the cheese baked lobster. This was definitely a great dish, and one he had never eaten before. He could tell by the unique aroma.

Sure enough, after taking a bite, Lin Wu's eyes lit up. What a fantastic dish! He liked it. Moreover, the meat was bouncy and chewy, and tasted great, a bit like crayfish, but the meat was in bigger chunks and tasted really good. He had also never tasted the light yellow sauce covering the outside, which had a strong milky aroma.

"What kind of meat is this? It's so delicious!" Lin Wu ate piece after piece, and finally found a moment to say something.

He Qiaojin didn't know what kind of meat this was, but he guessed it must be from the space.

"It was given to me by someone else. I don't know what kind of meat it is, so I just brought it here. I hope you enjoy it."

Sure enough, after hearing this, Lin Wu didn't ask any more questions and waved his chopsticks to eat hard.

The pork ribs and winter melon soup is delicious, the cold braised beef is also delicious, and the braised green eggplant is a seasonal dish. It is a combination of meat and vegetables, with some salty and some light, and some light and some spicy. Although three people can eat it, it tastes better when it is well matched.

Soon, the lunch was cleaned up. Su Zhuzhu really admired the appetite of these two big men. The Australian lobster alone had a whole pot of meat, and they could finish it even with the other things. It seemed that she had underestimated them before.

Su Zhuzhu still kept the lobster claws and heads, planning to cook some seafood porridge for He Qiaojin as a midnight snack someday.

After dinner, He Qiaojin was the one who cleaned up the dishes. Lin Wu went to sharpen the knife, intending to kill the little wild boar as soon as possible.

There is no time to rest at noon today. Su Zhuzhu has to draw up the menu for dinner early and have someone come to help in the afternoon so that she can make arrangements. There is no shortage of people for two large tables.

While the two grown men were dealing with the little wild boar, Su Zhuzhu found a piece of paper and a pen and began to think about the menu for the evening. After all, it was a wedding banquet, and although it couldn't be compared with the wedding banquets in various big hotels in her previous life, everyone had to eat and drink well.

Now that the pheasants have been killed, they must be eaten. Two of them will be stewed with mushrooms. It just so happens that there are several bags of dried mushrooms that the team members gave me that have not been eaten yet.

The wild rabbits are fat, about five or six pounds each, just right for making double-pepper rabbit meat for one table. People in H Province are used to eating garbage, so they definitely need some spicy dishes to suit their taste.

There is quite a bit of wild boar meat, so have some braised pork and two bowls of stewed pig's trotters with soybeans.

Generally speaking, in rural areas of this era, an ordinary wedding banquet would only have four dishes, and one meat dish would be enough. There were not many people who had four meat dishes at once like Su Zhuzhu did. There was no other way. Su Zhuzhu and He Qiaojin were not from ordinary families and had the conditions. Moreover, these dishes were gifts from the back mountain. Su Zhuzhu was not stingy at all.

Next, there were two large portions of fish that Ping An had prepared in advance, and boiled fish, her specialty. This was the most popular and everyone could eat as much as they wanted.

The same goes for crayfish. A full pot of it might weigh about 7 or 8 kilograms. Make two pots of spicy crayfish, and the red color will make it look more festive.

He Qiaojin said that the pork ribs and winter melon soup was very good, so he arranged one of them. For the other dishes, Su Zhuzhu prepared a few vegetarian dishes. After all, there were already quite a few meat dishes, and the portions she had arranged were very large.

There were peanuts for everyone to go with the wine, and there were also cold-mixed cucumber and black fungus, tiger skin chili peppers, homemade tofu, and stir-fried rapeseed. After ordering, Su Zhuzhu decided to add a steamed rice cake as a snack, making it exactly twelve dishes.

There are four kinds of fruit plates for the reception, a plate of melon seeds, a plate of peanuts, a plate of candies, and a plate of seasonal fruits. Some peaches and loquats, forget about the plums, the ones in the space are too sweet and not suitable. There is no such excellent plum variety in H Province, and everyone will be exposed at a glance. Not to mention watermelons and grapes. Anyway, everyone is patient. This batch of watermelons in the field is growing very well. Looking at the big round green watermelons in the field, the team members have gone from being half-believing and half-doubting at the beginning to being full of confidence now, and are all looking forward to the harvest.

By the time Su Zhuzhu had finished making the menu, He Qiaojin and Lin Wu had also dealt with the wild boar, and everything was cleaned up neatly. Su Zhuzhu was directing the two men to cut meat and chop pheasants and rabbits when Ping An arrived.

Ever since Ping'an started delivering vegetables to Su Zhuzhu and collecting herbs for the processing plant, and with the fact that the brigade now has the conditions to provide subsidies to families in need, the living conditions of Ping'an's family have improved a lot. Su Zhuzhu often stuffs food into his mouth, and he seems to be growing taller by the second.

Ping An and his friends brought over two large buckets, which contained the big grass carp that Su Zhuzhu had ordered in advance, a bucket of crayfish, and some additional black fish, crucian carp, carp, small river fish, yellow eel, loach and the like. The two buckets were really full.

Su Zhuzhu asked Ping'an and his grandmother to come over for dinner in the evening, but Ping'an refused and tried to leave before he could even finish his words. Su Zhuzhu grabbed him and could only stuff a bag of candy and snacks in each of the two children. The money for the fish had always been settled separately. Su Zhuzhu and Liu Yuanyuan would often go to Ping'an for settlement and usually keep a record of the accounts, sometimes once a week, sometimes once every two weeks, and sometimes once a month.

After a while of hard work, it was soon past three o'clock. Liu Yuanyuan and Duan Xiaoling, who had promised to come back to help, came back together.

Su Zhuzhu redistributed the work. Liu Yuanyuan and Duan Xiaoling brushed the crayfish, He Qiaojin and Lin Wu chopped the meat, and Su Zhuzhu steamed the rice cakes first. She poured the fermented rice paste into a large steamer, but it was a pity that there was no mold, otherwise it would not be so big. It still had to be cut after steaming. However, Su Zhuzhu still put a lot of red dates on the rice paste in order and steamed them together. Three red dates in a group looked like a flower, and they would look very beautiful when cut.

While steaming the rice cakes, Su Zhuzhu washed and cut the side dishes and vegetables. With everyone helping each other, everything was ready soon.

However, the few pots in the small kitchen were definitely not enough, so Duan Xiaoling and Liu Yuanyuan went to the big kitchen to light the fire. Su Zhuzhu seasoned the fried pheasant and mushrooms and put them in the casserole. They could just use a charcoal stove to stew the casserole.

Then there was winter melon stewed with pork ribs, which was cooked by Liu Yuanyuan and Duan Xiaoling in the big kitchen. After all, there were two tables of people, so they cooked a big pot. Stir-fried rapeseed, tiger skin chili peppers, and homemade tofu were also cooked by Duan Xiaoling and Liu Yuanyuan. They had been together for so long and had learned a lot of skills from Su Zhuzhu, so simple dishes were no problem.

Su Zhuzhu is the head chef, and the task is not easy, but she has many helpers. He Qiaojin and Lin Wu have already prepared the tables, chairs and benches, and they are now helping Su Zhuzhu in the kitchen.

As soon as the rice cakes came out of the pot, the fragrance of rice filled the whole kitchen, but Su Zhuzhu was too hot to move the steamer out. Lin Wuke, a foodie, couldn't wait any longer, so he took two pieces of cloth and moved them directly to the chopping board without fear of the heat.

This steamer was a huge one borrowed from the brigade. Lin Wu's mouth was watering as he looked at the white and tender rice cake dotted with red dates. He picked up the knife and was about to start cutting it, but was stopped by He Qiaojin.

"It's for entertaining guests. If you know how to cut it, just do it. If it's cut too ugly, how can you present it to the public?"

Su Zhuzhu found it funny, but now that it wasn't so hot anymore, she took the knife and cut it one by one according to her original plan.

Soon, diamond-shaped, triangular, and triangular-shaped rice cakes were cut out in even-sized pieces. When Su Zhuzhu put them on a plate, the two men were shocked. It was possible to do this! The plating was so beautiful!

Su Zhuzhu would definitely not treat her two men badly, and quickly put the leftovers on two plates.

"Eat it while it's hot. It tastes good hot, and it also tastes good cold. Send a plate to Liu Yuanyuan and the others. Everyone can fill their stomachs first."

Lin Wu picked up a piece of rice cake and stuffed it into his mouth, then ran out with a plate in his hand. It was so delicious, soft, sweet and fragrant, with a hint of the aroma of red dates. He had to send it back quickly and come back to continue eating. It was such a big pot, he had to eat enough today.

There are four plates of leftovers and seven large plates of cut and plated food. Two of them will be taken out later along with the melon seeds, peanuts, and candies, leaving five plates total. One plate will be left for the male educated youth, one for Liu Yuanyuan and Duan Xiaoling, and one for Ping An. There are still two plates of leftovers and two plates of cut food. Su Zhuzhu put them in the space to keep them fresh while Lin Wu was out, and saved them for the two men to eat. They will be hot when they are taken out again and don't need to be heated.

He Qiaojin watched his wife secretly taking out something and putting something away like a magic trick, laughing with joy, but his wife rolled her eyes.