I trade in both worlds

Chapter 30 Treat

Xu Jizong ordered Xu Youyin to take Xu Jin to go door to door to invite people to come for dinner. The kitchen also started cooking. When people arrived, Xu Youliang and Xu Xu began to serve the dishes to the table.

The clan leader looked at the meat dishes that were more than half on the table. Even the villagers might not have so many hard dishes for weddings, and he thought Xu Xu was capable. The others were very glad that they followed him yesterday, just for this table of dishes. From now on, whenever Xu Xu asked, they would not say a word.

Xu Jizong brought his two sons to entertain the guests. Xu Youliang handed a wine pot to Xu Youyin, and each of them sat at a table and poured wine for everyone. Xu Jizong saw that his two sons had poured wine for everyone, so he asked Xu Youliang to call Xu Xu out.

Xu Xu stood next to Xu Jizong holding a bowl of soup. Xu Jizong picked up the wine bowl and stood up to thank everyone: "On behalf of Xu Xu's family, I would like to thank you all for your help. I will drink this bowl of wine. Please feel free to help yourself."

The clan leader said politely, "Xuxu is from our Xu family. These are what we should do. It would be inappropriate to thank you any more. Xuxu, forget the bad things in the past, take good care of the children, live your own life well, and tell Second Grandpa if you have any difficulties."

Hearing this, Xu Xu was still very grateful, and bowed to the clan members: "Xu Xu listens to the teachings of Second Grandfather."

Xu Jizong patted Xu Xu and said, "Okay, Xu Xu, go back and eat, everyone pick up your chopsticks. Today's main point is to eat and drink well. If you don't have enough, just tell me."

Xu Jizong accompanied them to drink, while the Xu Youliang brothers took care of the food on the table, adding soup if there was not enough soup, and adding rice if there was no rice.

Second Aunt Xu took her daughter-in-law, Xu Xu and the children to a separate table in the kitchen. After finishing the meal in the kitchen, people were still drinking outside, and they probably wouldn't leave soon. Xu Xu looked at the sky and thought that if he waited until everyone left before cleaning up, he would probably be busy until very late.

So I suggested, "Second Aunt, you've been busy all morning, go take a rest first, I'll clean up the kitchen first. We'll just chat while we sit, why not chat while we work, finish the work earlier and everyone can rest earlier, we're all tired today."

Aunt Xu thought this was a good arrangement, but she was so exhausted that she just wanted to find a place to lie down. "Then you clean up first, Lihua can help. Erya has been busy all morning, so go and take a rest."

Lin Erya disagreed: "Mom, you go ahead. I'm not tired yet. I'll help them clean up. More people means faster work."

Seeing this, Second Aunt Xu didn't say much, and simply took the children out together, leaving Xu Xu and the others to work in the kitchen: "Old people are not as good as you young people. I'm going to rest first. If you are tired, you can rest and clean up, or leave it for tomorrow morning."

The three of them agreed in succession, but did not stop the work in their hands.

Just after cleaning up the kitchen, the party outside was over. Xu Jizong drank some wine at noon and was helped by Xu Youyin to go back to rest. Lin Erya and Chen Lihua cleaned up the dishes, Xu Xu washed the dishes, Xu Youliang and Xu Youyin swept the yard, Lin Erya scrubbed the table with wood ash, and Chen Lihua fetched water to rinse it.

Everyone worked together, and after they finished cleaning up, they were so tired that they couldn't even straighten their backs, and sat slumped in the yard, not wanting to move. Aunt Xu, who had rested well, saw this and laughed, "Xu Xu, come back after dinner. There's a plate of pork liver in the kitchen that hasn't been touched. Use it to make noodles with some vegetables."

Xu Xu was indeed too tired to move or even talk, so he nodded and agreed.

After eating noodles in the evening, Xu Xu took the children home to wash up. He saw that the clothes they took off yesterday had not been washed yet. After the children fell asleep, he sighed and went to wash the clothes they had taken off in the past two days.

It was almost the end of the evening when Xu Xu finished washing the clothes. He was so exhausted after the day that he lay down and fell asleep within seconds. He slept dreamlessly until noon. When he opened his eyes, he found that the children were all awake. The twins were playing with the Lu Ban Lock with Xu Qiwei on the couch opposite.

Xu Tiantian was also lying next to them playing by herself. Seeing the children playing quietly for fear of waking her up, Xu Xu's heart was filled with emotion. At this moment, she felt that no matter how hard or tired she was, it was all worth it.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xu Xu got up quickly because she was worried that the children would be hungry. "Are you hungry?"

Xu Jin heard the voice and asked happily, "Sister, are you awake?"

Xu Zhun nodded: "A little hungry."

Xu Qiwei touched his stomach and said, "I'm hungry. I'm hungry."

Xu Xu was a little annoyed. He didn't buy any snacks when he went to the market. Now the children were hungry, and he couldn't find anything to eat for them. "What do you want to eat? Braised noodles?"

It didn't matter what the children ate, they just wanted to eat as soon as possible. Xu Xu sped up the process and made stewed noodles with green beans in the morning. He cooked Xu Tiantian's noodles for a little longer until they were soft, then minced them and fed them to her.

After breakfast, Xu Xu braised the pig's trotters and prepared to eat pig's trotter noodles for lunch. He also boiled 8 eggs and put them in the stew later. He only rolled out half of the noodles he kneaded in the morning, and rolled out the rest of the noodles now, and cooked them directly in the pot at noon, which was simple and convenient.

Today, Xu Xu was going to clean up the house. Since his mother got sick, the house had not been cleaned up. The Xu family's house had five main rooms and two east and west wing rooms.

There are two rooms on the left and right of the main hall, one large and one small on the right. The small one is used as a utility room. The wing rooms are all one-bedroom and one-living room suites. The kitchen is located in the gap between the kitchen on the right side of the main house and the west wing, and a bathroom is built. There is also a stove in the main hall, which is usually used in winter when heating the kang.

Originally, Xu's mother lived with the twins in the first room on the left side of the main hall. Since she felt that she didn't have much time left, she moved from the main house to the east wing and no longer lived with the twins. Before Xu Xu came back, it was Second Aunt Xu who took care of Xu's mother and had to sleep with the twins at night.

After Xu Xu came back, he moved into the twins' room with his two children. Fortunately, the kang in Xu's house was big enough to accommodate five adults, not to mention one adult with four children.

There was only a bed and a chest of drawers left in the east wing. Xu Xu did not change the place where Xu's mother hid the money before, so that the east wing would be less likely to attract attention. Xu Xu did not plan to touch the money for the time being. He would tidy up the house in the next few days, and then go to the embroidery house in town to get some work to do, at least to find a way to maintain daily expenses.

Xu Xu pulled out a wooden box from under the bed. Inside the box were some of Xu Jizu's clothes and books. She took out all the books and clothes, then folded them one by one and put them back into the box. Looking at the half-full box, Xu Xu felt sad. It turned out that her father had so few clothes.

The chest of drawers mainly contained some clothes, as well as fabrics stored by Zhang Yunxiang, shoe soles she had knitted, and unfinished clothes and shoes. After clearing out all the things inside, Xu Xu decided to put away all of Zhang Yunxiang's unfinished clothes and shoes as a keepsake.