Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Li Qingfeng noticed Wu Lirong's expectant eyes. He also wanted to come to Wu's house to celebrate the New Year with Lirong, but he had already made an appointment with his master, so he could only refuse: "Aunt, I won't come. I have made an appointment with my master to have New Year's Eve dinner at his master's house on New Year's Eve."

After hearing this, Wu Lirong felt a little disappointed.

Wu Chenggui didn't say anything, just nodded to show that he understood.

Only Wu's mother said to Li Qingfeng: "Qingfeng, since you have already agreed with your master, I will not let you go. Just come to our house for dinner often when you have time."

Li Qingfeng said politely: "Yes, I will, aunt."

After they chatted for a while, Li Qingfeng stood up and prepared to leave, saying, "Uncle, aunt, I'm going back first."

Wu Chenggui nodded and said, "Okay. Qingfeng, go slowly on your way back."

Li Qingfeng nodded and said, "Yes."

Mother Wu said at this time: "Lirong, Songsong Qingfeng."

"I understand, Mom." Wu Lirong and Li Qingfeng walked out of the house and slowly walked to the gate of the yard.

Li Qingfeng saw Wu Lirong lowering her head and ignoring him, so he smiled and said to her, "Lirong, you are angry."

Hearing this, Wu Lirong looked up at Li Qingfeng, shook her head and said, "No, I'm just a little disappointed!"

Li Qingfeng gently rubbed Wu Lirong's head twice and said softly, "Lirong, I've made an agreement with Master this year that we can celebrate the New Year together next year, okay?"

After hearing this, Wu Lirong was not an ignorant person, so she smiled gently at Li Qingfeng and said, "Brother Qingfeng, you must keep your word."

Li Qingfeng nodded and replied: "Don't worry, Lirong, I will definitely keep my word."

The two chatted and laughed for a while, and then Li Qingfeng walked away with his hands behind his back.

After seeing the two of them leave, Wu's mother looked at what was in the backpack. When she lifted the rag on the backpack, she immediately showed a look of surprise and said to Wu Chenggui beside her: "Boss, look, Qingfeng brought us a lot of things!"

As you said this, you took everything in the backpack to the table.

Wu Chenggui was also surprised for a moment when he saw the things on the table, and said, "Qingfeng is also a capable person."

"Go to Qingfeng's house more often in the future and help the two brothers clean up the house."

Mother Wu nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go there often." After that, she happily packed up the things on the table, called her son who was reading a book, and said, "Dajun, take the backpack to the kitchen."

"I understand, Mom." Wu Dajun carried the backpack with both hands with great effort and slowly went to the kitchen.

Li Qingfeng did not go home directly. Instead, he took out a piece of meat, a chicken, and ten pounds of flour from the space and sent them to Liu Chuanzhi's house. He chatted with Liu Chuanzhi and Wang Shenghua for a while before leisurely walking home.

When Li Qingfeng returned home, he saw that the door was locked. He didn't think much about it and thought that she must have gone out to play with He Yuzhu again. He went to the kitchen to boil a pot of water, then went to the main room to make tea and continued to read leisurely.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is New Year’s Eve.

Li Qingfeng and his younger brother Li Qingshan got up early, washed up and had breakfast, and then they cleaned the house inside and out.

It was almost noon, so I fried two random dishes and served them to the customers for lunch.

After resting for a while, Li Qingfeng asked his younger brother to put the snacks on plates, while he went back to the room to take out his mother's tablet, placed it on the altar, and placed three plates of snacks.

The two brothers burned incense for their mother and said many auspicious words in their hearts.

Then the two men came to the kitchen, took out the chicken, duck, fish, ribs, and a braised pork elbow that Li Qingfeng had prepared, and took another 20 kilograms of flour. Then the two brothers locked the door and walked towards the master's house.

No matter who they met along the way, they would say some words of blessing to each other. The two brothers also followed the crowd and said words of blessing, all to wish for a happy new year.

After walking intermittently for about an hour, we arrived at the master's house, which was longer than usual.

Seeing that the master's door was open, the two brothers walked in directly. As soon as they entered the yard, Li Qingfeng found the master lying next to the stove in the main room with the door open. Didn't the master feel cold?

When he reached the entrance of the main hall, Li Qingfeng greeted him and said with a smile, "Master, Qingshan and I are here."

The younger brother also said: "Okay, Master."

Quanfu narrowed his eyes and said, "Yeah! You came quite early."

Li Qingfeng first asked his brother to put all the ingredients into the kitchen, then he smiled and said to his master: "Master, aren't we here early to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner? So that you can taste my cooking skills and see if they have deteriorated."

Quanfu said, "Okay, stop teasing me and get busy!"

"I understand, Master."

Li Qingfeng replied and went to the kitchen. Seeing his younger brother picking and washing vegetables, he nodded, gave him a discerning look, and then started to get busy.

First, chop the meat, add various seasonings, mix well, and set aside for later use, waiting to make dumplings in the evening.

Looking at tonight's dishes, Li Qingfeng tried his best, with his brother helping him.

Braised pork, pork rib soup, braised carp, braised lamb, chicken stewed with mushrooms, stir-fried lamb with green onions, heated pork elbow in sauce, spicy and sour shredded potato, mapo tofu, smashed cucumber... ...seven meat dishes and three vegetarian dishes.

There are ten dishes in total, symbolizing perfection.

After working until dark, all the dishes were ready. He asked his brother to bring the dishes to the table. Li Qingfeng went to the main hall and said, "Master, the food is ready. Let's take a seat first!"

"Row."

Quanfu and Li Qingfeng came to the dining room and asked the master to prepare first. Li Qingfeng took the wine and poured it for himself, the master, and his younger brother, saying, "Master, let's drink first, and then make dumplings when we are almost done eating."

"Row."

Then the three of them had a great time together. They were so happy!

Li Qingfeng saw that they had almost finished eating, so he pulled his brother Li Qingshan to kowtow to the master and wish him a happy new year: "Dong! Dong! Dong!"

He was still saying words of blessing.

Li Qingfeng said: "I wish Master a happy new year, good health, and all the best."

Li Qingshan smiled and said, "I wish that Master a happy New Year, may all his wishes come true, and may everything go smoothly."

"Okay, okay. Get up!" Quanfu said with a beaming face, then he took out two red envelopes that he had prepared long ago from his pocket and handed them to the two people respectively, saying, "Qingfeng, keep them. I wish you success in your career in the future."

Then he said to Li Qingshan: "Qingshan, take the red envelope and study hard in the future."

Li Qingfeng took the red envelope and said with a smile: "Thank you, Master."

His younger brother Li Qingshan also took the red envelope and thanked him happily: "Thank you, Master."

The red envelopes received by the two brothers were ten dollars each, which was more than Li Qingfeng's monthly salary at the police station.

Afterwards, Li Qingfeng and his younger brother Li Qingshan began to knead the dough and make dumplings. Today the dumplings had only one filling, pork and green onions. They were chatting and laughing while making the dumplings.

The master sat on a chair at the dining table, smoking a cigarette, looking at the brothers with a smile, and occasionally saying a few words to them.