In the old days, to do white wedding, there are often many vagabonds and beggars to dine, the host family can not be driven away, to specialise in arranging tables and chairs with the same dishes to entertain them, tobacco and alcohol are not lacking, enough food.
Before the concept, the tramp and beggar can come to eat, is the host family goodness and virtue of the embodiment.
There is also a saying that a caller coming to the door for a red and white wedding means good luck.
So, even when Li Tiezhu was small, his old man Li Fugui when he organised the banquet, often have to prepare a few more points of backup dishes, in order to cope with this “occasional need”.
Once the beggars came, and the chef could not get the dishes, that is to hit the host’s face.
The good thing is that now there are no beggars and beggars in China, but also save this link.
Li Tiezhu discussed with Lao Jiu some things to do, the time came to four thirty.
Li Tiezhu with Lao Jiu to go in the condolences, a few other artists do not dare to go, because, they just know that Li Tiezhu their side of the spirit of the time is not cover the coffin.
In the spirit of the hall, incense and wax is burning, Taoist priests and monks practice chanting, the coffin in front of the table with fruit and peanuts, but also put a bowl of meat and rice two chopsticks inserted vertically in the bowl, next to the family members in the spirit of the hall wearing mourning lying in the grass to observe the spirit.
The so-called lying grass is to sleep on a straw mat, symbolising the last filial piety, because it is a happy funeral, all the family members shall not cry, at least not in the hearth.
Li Tiezhu burned some paper money in the basin and walked to the coffin to see the old man.
At this time, the old man had already shaved his head and changed into his birthday suit, his expression was peaceful, and his kicked white beard had grown out some.
Lao Jiu followed along and said proudly, “He walked in his sleep, and didn’t suffer at all.”
This is indeed a thing to be proud of in the countryside, the father to ninety years of age without disease and death, is a very difficult thing, can be called “longevity”.
Li Tiezhu looked at this “old nephew”, but do not quite remember dealing with him, because Li Tiezhu was very young, he was very old.
“People go to stay fragrant, people go to stay fragrant …… This life material can be!”
Lao Jiu proudly said, “The third coffin! More than twenty years ago began to do his coffin, are shelved rotten two, this one is cypress, the best. My coffin is also made of cypress wood!”
Rural elderly people to do their own life in advance, is a normal thing, when Li Tiezhu’s grandfather or their own hands to do their own coffins.
From a certain point of view, Li Tiezhu is a very old-school person, learnt from his father’s travelling all over the world, which is one of the reasons why he is always unable to integrate into the modern society and showbiz.
He said to the old man in the coffin, ”At ease! Lao Jiu and his brothers are running the show well, my old man’s health is not good, so let me help you organise the banquet, and I’ll make sure it’s done properly.”
Lao Jiu: “Thank you, Master!”
Hosting a banquet is not a kind of business, but a kind of friendship.
Lao Jiu originally called Li Tiezhu’s old man Li Fugui, but Li Fugui’s body could not do it anymore, so he recommended his son, who was in the village anyway. Lao Jiu was also worried about disturbing Li Tiezhu, after all, he is already a big star, but I did not expect Li Tiezhu agreed, but also do not charge money.
After the condolences of the deceased, Li Tiezhu and Lao Jiu have talked and laughed out, in the optimistic and open-minded Chuannan not Xing sad and miserable that set.
Pop-up screen:
“My day? Directly in to see?”
“Not afraid?”
“Tiezhu grew up following Li Laohan around to organise seating, should have seen a lot.”
“The programme team is good, didn’t go in to film, the cameraman is always outside the spirit hall.”
“Making a coffin before you die?”
“It’s all like that in the countryside! Many old people also guard the quality and materials themselves.”
“In the city, Li Tiezhu looked like a fool, but back in the countryside, he felt like an all-rounder.”
“That’s why he’s out of place, right?”
Outside the door, a few old women were chatting in a chorus, lamenting that time had passed too quickly, and then naturally talking about their own afterlife. Some were showing off their coffins, some were talking about the graves they fixed in advance.
Water two women see Li Tiezhu out, crutches on crutches came over, pulled Li Tiezhu to the corner of the yard, sneakily looked around, and then took out three corn sugar from the pocket, very poor quality kind of sugar.
Stuffed into Li Tiezhu’s hand, she said: “Zhuwa, you did not graduate from high school? I haven’t seen you come back for two years.”
She has been a bit confused, only when playing mahjong is the most awake.
Li Tiezhu said: “graduated, in college.”
“Oh yo! College students ah, broad to broad to …… le a, your old man back not?”
“Back, tomorrow back. I’ll do it, the old man’s body is not good.”
“Well, well, well, well. If I die in two days, you also come back to give me a banquet. You are good at hosting a banquet, and the flavour is …… good.”
“That depends on whether they invite me or not.”
“Hey ……”
The two families have a big grudge, the water two women and how to Li Tiezhu good, can not hold his children and grandchildren hate Li Tiezhu. Because they had offended Li Tiezhu before due to the issue of Li Tiezhu’s mother’s passing away, they were actually afraid that Li Tiezhu would retaliate against them, but Li Tiezhu’s gaze never looked at them.
Li Tiezhu helped Shui Erwu out of the courtyard and said, “You go sit down and get ready to eat, I’m going to do the dishes, your favourite crispy sausage must be fried so crispy and crunchy that you can bite the kind.”
Li Tiezhu tied on the apron to cook, seriously is inconsistent with the rules.
In the countryside, the chef of the banquet easily is not their own kitchen, unless it is to do the main seat surface, otherwise it is considered to fall, but …… Li Tiezhu he damn brought people to rub rice ah!
Besides, he is not a chef, more than ten years old is only Li Fugui’s second chef, only responsible for stir-fry and cold dishes, the most essential steamed vegetables, that is, the main force of the nine-double bowls, are Li Fugui is responsible for.
Therefore, Li Tiezhu had no psychological burden, and directly recruited his piggyback teammates.
“Brothers all learn from the helpers aunts, right? Tomorrow is a big battle, every one of us has to be on it!”
Li Tiezhu said to Nie Yao, Chen Chiji, Deng Chao, Deer Hani and Zhao Liya who was holding the dog.
The crowd jumped at the chance, hosting a banquet was heard to be an awesome thing to do.
They then followed the helpers to learn separately, Nie Yao, Deng Chao, and Deer Hani learnt to pass the food, Chen Chichi learnt to burn the fire, and Zhao Liya would chop the vegetables, after all, almost all of the foodies knew how to cook.
Chen Chi Chi learnt to burn the fire in order to be lazy, but did not expect to choose a job with the highest coefficient of difficulty, and was scolded by Li Tiezhu.
Four stoves burning at the same time, this side of the do roast vegetables, medium fire steady output, this stove is steamed vegetables to big fire, this soup fire to first big and then small, the last pot is stir-fried vegetables, the entire fire fierce burning.
Soya bean roast pig’s feet, steamed pork, steamed bacon, sour radish old duck soup at the same time, and the last pot put two pounds of oil, ready to fry.
The helpers washed and cut the vegetables to prepare them, and prepared four stir-fry dishes, which were authentic pig-killing dishes, namely liver and waist stir-fry, celery and shredded pork, fiery crispy intestines and back to the pot of pork, and finally a sour and spicy blood wanton.
“Brother Chi-Chi! Big fire big fire! The oil is cold!”
“Coming coming coming ……”
“Use the blower, the fire is too low! What’s the point of frying with this little fire?”
“Okay, okay ……”
Chen Chi Chi busy sweaty, finally or an older woman to help burn the other three pots, he specialised in burning frying pan, holding the electric blower has been blowing.
On the side, is “rehearsing” the knowledge of food delivery Nie Yao Deng Chao deer Hani laughed back and forth, let you want to be lazy, the!
The pot only began to bubble, Li Tiezhu pig liver and waist in the basin seasoning code, another basin is a large onion, green and red peppers and shredded ginger, and so the oil temperature to the soon to be lit, Li Tiezhu pig liver and waist into the pot quickly stir-fried.
Boom ……
The pot lit up a blazing fire.
Chen Chi Chi, who was burning the fire next to him, was so scared that she fell into the pile of firewood: “What are you doing?”
Li Tiezhu added the side dishes in and continued to stir fry, “Shut up! No need to stuff the firewood, stop.”
Just after the words were said, Li Tiezhu picked up a wet towel with his left hand to lift the ears of the big iron pot, and with the other hand, he used a spoon to construct the ears, lifting the dozens of kilograms of the big iron pot together with the food, and took it to the ground next to him.
Chen Chi-Chi stared wide-eyed, “This is fried? Has it been a minute?”
Li Tiezhu: “Fiery Double Crisp, must be less than half a minute out of the pot. The one who passes the food over, serve the food!”
Today is not a proper funeral ceremony, no need to pay attention to the ceremony, just serve the dishes to the tables, the village people who came to eat today are less than thirty tables, it is still very easy.
Self-help chef brought Nie Yao and Deng Chao over to serve the dishes on plates, and then transported them on trays to each table in several courtyards.
Li Tiezhu, on the other hand, took a new pot and continued to put oil to have a high heat, preparing to fry celery shredded pork.
Pop-up screen:
“Chen Chi Chi is so miserable ……”
“It’s only Serious Brother who can subdue Chen Chichi, haha!”
“I’m happy to see Chichi being scolded.”
“Tie Zhu is a true professional!”
“The best thing about Xichuan’s dam feast is the steamed vegetables.”
“Truly, the most refined dishes of Sichuan cuisine are almost all steamed vegetables.”
“That’s right, Sichuan cuisine is not only spicy and numbing, in fact, the Sichuan cuisine that is not numbing and not spicy is the soul of Sichuan cuisine.”
“Is this popcorn really fried?”
“Pork liver and cashews are not good if they are fried for a long time.”
“This stuff is called Firecracker Double Crisp!”
“Eat the most tender Firecracker Double Crisp to hit the farthest javelin.”
“Sisal rope is so thin ……”
“Crap, you guys don’t say it’s so disgusting, it obviously looks quite tasty ……”
“Frying cauldron dishes is the most testing of craftsmanship.”
“Li Jia Village’s number one celebrity chef!”
“Li Fugui: I’m not dead yet!”
“Seeing a star of Li Tiezhu’s calibre cooking cauldron dishes is really grounding!”
After frying the celery and shredded pork, Li Tiezhu continued to let people pass the dishes, he went to check the steamed vegetables, no problem, on the table. Burning vegetables is still almost ……
Li Tiezhu roared, “Which soaked soybeans?”
A forty or fifty year old woman weakly said, “Little uncle, I soaked it.”
Li Tiezhu: “Next time use warm water to soak, cold water soak not rake.”
“Oh ……”
Continue to fry the vegetables, the hot small intestine is more excessive, only fried for twenty seconds out of the pot, when served on the table, more than twenty tables of diners have praised.
“Delicious!”
“Crispy!”
“Hiya, it’s still Little Uncle’s fault for stir-frying, his old man can’t even compare.”
“Yes, but Uncle Fugui’s steamed vegetables are even better.”
“Fugui good fortune oh, waerleng a competitive ……”
“I heard that Tiezhu earns one hundred million a year.”
“Hmph! Only one hundred million? Your dog said the dog chased motorbike, people a film is billions.”
“Leng chicken ferocious ah!”
“Hey! Do you think I’m going to be a pain in the arse for you?”
“It’s a blessing to be able to eat Tie Zhu’s dishes!”
The table of old women, no incisors of the water two women put the crispy intestines into the mouth to chew up, full of smiles: “Well well well …… or Zhuwa fried crispy intestines tender …… I died you all come to eat, I call Zhuwa to me to host the banquet! At that time you open your belly to eat, burn me a pair of mahjong over, haha!”
