Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Li Qingfeng supported his master and returned home soon. As soon as he entered the yard, he found that his younger brother Li Qingshan had already returned.

She said to him, "Qingshan, why didn't you go to the streets to celebrate with your classmates?"

"Master!" Li Qingshan greeted Quanfu, then said to his eldest brother, "Brother, I just came back from the street with Zhuzi."

"Oh!" Li Qingfeng helped the master sit under the grape trellis, made a pot of tea for the master, and then said to the master: "Master, you drink the tea first, I will go out to buy some ingredients."

Quanfu nodded and said, "Yes! Go ahead!"

Li Qingfeng then said to his brother, "Qingshan, wash some vegetables first and fry them when I come back."

"Got it, brother." Li Qingshan replied and went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables.

Li Qingfeng first went back to the house to change his clothes, then took his backpack and went outside for a walk. Walking on the street, he looked at the citizens passing by. They all had happy expressions and their eyes were full of energy.

Li Qingfeng walked around the alley for a while, smoked a cigarette, came to an empty alley, and took out a hen, a goose, a piece of pork belly, a rib, and a whole lamb rib from the space.

He put everything in the backpack and walked towards home with happy steps.

When he returned home, Li Qingfeng found that his father-in-law's family and Liu Chuanzhi and his wife had already arrived. He greeted them one by one and went into the kitchen to prepare the ingredients in the backpack.

Wu's mother and Wu Lirong also followed into the kitchen. Sister Wang Shenghua wanted to go into the kitchen to help, but was persuaded by everyone.

Li Qingfeng saw that it was getting late and didn't bother to chat with Wu Lirong beside him. He used his hands to skillfully use the knife to prepare the ingredients, which dazzled Wu Lirong and her mother.

The three of them worked for two hours, mainly Chef Li Qingfeng, while Wu's mother and Wu Lirong helped out, doing things like blanching the meat, cutting vegetables, passing plates, and serving dishes.

After all the meals were cooked, Li Qingfeng lit a cigarette and wiped the sweat from his head with the towel hanging around his neck.

Looking at the dishes on the table, there were chicken stewed with mushrooms, braised pork, stewed goose, clear-boiled lamb ribs, sweet and sour spare ribs, shredded pork with fish flavor, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, fried peanuts, and vegetable and tofu soup. The staple food was the corn tortillas that were used when stewing the goose.

There are exactly ten dishes, which symbolizes perfection.

The green beans were brought to the dining table. Li Qingfeng brought four bottles of wine and asked his younger brother to entertain the master, his father-in-law's family, and Liu Chuanzhi and his wife.

There were nine people sitting around the table, those who could drink tonight sat to one side, and the rest sat to the other.

Li Qingfeng filled the glasses for the drinkers, raised his glass and said to everyone: "Today is the day when the Japanese surrendered. It is a day worth celebrating. Let us drink a glass to celebrate the victory of our motherland."

Those who were drinking raised their glasses, and those who were not drinking raised their glasses of water, and they all said, "Okay, let's celebrate the victory of our motherland."

After saying that, the nine people in the room drank the wine or water in their glasses at the same time.

Li Qingfeng filled everyone's glasses with wine and said, "The second glass of wine is for the prosperity of our motherland."

Everyone raised their glasses and said at the same time: "Okay, I wish our motherland prosperity."

Li Qingfeng was thinking about asking his master, father-in-law, or one of Lao Liu to say the honorific for the third glass of wine, but everyone followed him and asked Li Qingfeng to continue.

Li Qingfeng filled his glass with wine and was pulled up by his elder brother-in-law and Lao Liu on both sides. He raised his glass and said with a smile: "The third glass of wine is to wish the people of the whole country happiness and health, and happy families."

Everyone raised their glasses and said at the same time: "Well, I wish all the people in the country happiness, health and a happy family."

After drinking three glasses of wine, Li Qingfeng called the four people who didn't drink, namely Sister Wang, Mother Wu, Wu Lirong and his younger brother, to eat their dishes first.

The remaining five people, including himself, began to raise their glasses frequently, drink, and express their grievances or annoyances.

It seems like he just wants to get it off his chest.

In the end, the five of them drank a total of 6 bottles of Lianhua Bai. Some of them only drank alcohol and ate little, so there were quite a few left over. When the party ended, Li Qingfeng packed up a few uneaten dishes and asked his father-in-law or Liu Chuanzhi and his wife to take them away.

Before leaving, Li Qingfeng asked his younger brother to send Liu Chuanzhi and his wife home, while he first helped his master to his room to sleep.

The father-in-law was not drunk and was supported by his eldest brother-in-law. Li Qingfeng was also worried about the safety of Wu's mother and Wu Lirong, so he followed his father-in-law and his family back home. He and his eldest brother-in-law helped his father-in-law to the bed. After he let him lie down, he chatted with Wu Lirong in private for a while, said hello to Wu's mother and eldest brother-in-law, and then left the Wu family and walked home.

When they got home, the younger brother came back first and was cleaning up the kitchen. Seeing his older brother coming back, he asked, "Brother, will these leftovers go bad if we leave them out overnight?"

Li Qingfeng said, "Don't worry about these. I just wanted to eat for a while because I wasn't full. When I'm done, put them in the basket and hang them in the well. The well is cool and the food won't go bad."

Li Qingshan nodded and said, "I understand, brother. I'll go back to my room and sleep first."

"Well, go ahead!" Li Qingfeng nodded in response, then lowered his head and took the discus in one hand and picked up food with chopsticks in the other.

After eating and drinking, Li Qingfeng lit a cigarette, found a basket and put the remaining food in it, then went to the well, hung on the rope, turned the drum tower of the well to the bottom, stuck the rope, washed his feet with water, and went back to the room to sleep.

The next morning, Li Qingfeng got up and practiced his martial arts several times, then went to wash up.

Then he went to the well and pulled up the leftover food from last night. He carried the basket into the kitchen, heated up the food, cooked a pot of millet porridge, and called the master and his brother to get up and eat.

After the three of them finished their meal, the master lit a cigarette, put his hands behind his back, and left.

Li Qingfeng sat on a chair, lit a cigarette, and thought to himself whether he should take advantage of the few days of free time to renovate the yard and prepare for the wedding in advance.

After finishing a cigarette, Li Qingfeng told his brother his idea and said, "Qingshan, what do you think about me finding someone to fix up the yard so that we can prepare for the wedding in advance?"

Li Qingshan nodded in agreement: "Okay! Brother, the house needs to be repaired."

Li Qingfeng left the house and walked towards the home of Master Lei, who was repairing the house.

He came to a large compound, walked to the door of Master Lei's house, knocked on the door, and asked loudly: "Is Master Lei home?"

"Here you are!" Master Lei opened the door and found that it was the owner who had asked him to repair the yard two years ago. He smiled and asked, "Are you looking for me?"

Li Qingfeng took out a cigarette, handed one to Master Lei, and lit one for himself. He smiled and said, "Master Lei, I'm getting married in about a month, and I wanted you to go to my house to fix up the house."

"Okay! Please wait a moment, I'll go into the house to get some tools." Master Lei went back to the house to get the tools, and followed Li Qingfeng to Nanluoguxiang.