The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Chapter 144: Reunion New Year's Eve Dinner

After the ancestor worship, it was time to pay New Year's greetings to the elders. First, the old men and women brought their children and grandchildren to kowtow to Grandpa Shen and wish him a happy New Year.

After that, it was Shen Zhiqiu and his generation who went to pay New Year's greetings to the old men and women, one level at a time. Little kids like Shen Youyou also had to kowtow to their parents and uncles to wish them a happy new year.

Every kid got a copper coin. Don’t think it’s too little. No matter how little it is, it’s a token of our appreciation. At least we didn’t lack anything in this New Year.

After all the steps were completed, Mr. Shen announced cheerfully: "Let's eat!"

When they heard that dinner was about to start, the little kids cheered and quickly climbed onto the kang. Because there was limited space in the cave, the quilts and mattresses were removed from the kang and small square bamboo tables were placed on it.

The whole cave, the kang, the floor, and the activity area were filled with small bamboo tables, each with ten dishes. If there were not enough plates and bowls, bamboo bowls were used.

Everyone sat down. Seeing that no one was eating, the leader Shen Zhiqiu asked, "What's wrong? Are you eating? What are you looking at?"

Shen Fugui, Shen Mazi, and many other men, all had smiles on their faces, their eyes fixed on the food on the table, their mouths drooling uncontrollably.

But what I was thinking was, "What kind of conditions do we have? We are eating ten of these hard dishes that are all meat?"

Even before fleeing the famine, we couldn't eat such food, right?

In the past, during the Chinese New Year, we would stew chicken or fish and make dumplings made from a mixture of various grains and flour, and that was considered pretty good.

Look at what is happening before us. They are fleeing famine and living in caves, yet they can eat a table full of food like this, with eight out of ten dishes containing meat.

They really don't know how to use chopsticks.

The men laughed and said, "I don't know which dish to eat?"

"Yeah, there are so many meat dishes. I've never seen them before."

Everyone is still a little bit unbelievable. There are so many meat dishes. In previous years, when the village got married, they couldn't even prepare such a feast.

It is really unimaginable that they are just celebrating the New Year and eating some meat and vegetables. It is too mysterious. They feel like they are still asleep.

Shen Zhiqiu laughed and scolded: "Don't talk too much, eat quickly, the food will get cold soon, it's important to eat it while it's hot."

Li Jingshu also called on her sister-in-law and brothers-in-law to eat quickly.

Shen Youyou and her sisters took bamboo tubes and poured sparkling water into the elders' bamboo cups.

I really don't dare give everyone the few bottles of wine we have now, and now we can't go into the city to buy wine. In case someone gets injured, we'll have to use this wine to disinfect.

The whole circle was full, and Shen Youyou sat down with a smile on her face. She sat next to her brother, with her mother and grandmother on either side of them. She felt extremely happy before she even started eating, because she could have the New Year's Eve dinner with her grandparents again.

Children's favorite is the sweet potato with sugar, which is soft, sticky and sweet.

Shen Luming's little fleshy hand grabbed a bamboo chopstick and inserted a piece of candied yam, insisting that Li Jingshu eat it first: "Mom, this is delicious and sweet!"

Li Jingshu took a bite with his son's chopsticks and nodded: "Mm, it's really sweet. Good son, you eat it too."

It was probably because he was eating ten dishes. He was really too excited. Shen Fugui suddenly stood up and said, "No, I want to shout a few times!"

Everyone was confused. What was he shouting about? What happened?

Many people are still confused and don't know what's going on with men.

Shen Mazi said: "Just shout, thank you Lao San for taking us all the way, thank you Lao San for your hard work, I will feel uncomfortable if I don't shout."

The men from every household also stood up and felt the same way after hearing this: "Yes, just shout, thank you, third brother!"

Some also shouted: "Thanks to Xiao Sanzi."

For a moment, the man's voice echoed throughout the cave.

Shen Luming chewed on the candied yam, held his little face high with pride, and followed the group of kids in shouting, "Thank you, third brother."

Shen Youyou heard: "Cough cough cough!"

What's in my mind: Lulu, do you dare to say thank you to the third brother in front of our dad?

Li Jingshu moved closer to Shen Youyou. She had to because the noise was too loud and she couldn't hear anything unless she moved closer.

Those guys were really yelling at the top of their lungs!

Now he is not only thanking Shen Zhiqiu, but thanking everyone there, thanking the grandfather for taking charge of everyone, and thanking the old men and women for their support along the way.

Thanks to Li Quan, Da Hu and Er Hu for protecting us along the way.

Li Jingshu approached Shen Youyou but before she could say anything, Shen Zhiqiu also joined in, sitting cross-legged on the man's heated kang.

Suddenly he raised his bamboo cup and raised it towards the woman's kang: "Thank you, my wife, for your hard work and taking care of the elderly and children."

Aunt Song sat opposite Li Jingshu and winked at her: "Sister-in-law, the third brother thanks you, please say thank you!"

Before Li Jingshu could say anything, the men followed suit and said, "Thank you, my wife, for all your hard work and taking care of the elderly and children."

Li Jingshu immediately blinked at her sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, don't be jealous. Did you hear me? My brother also thanks you. My brother is the loudest and I heard it clearly."

After all, Song was a person of ancient thought and had never been thanked by her man before. She blushed and pretended that the food was delicious and stopped talking.

In fact, it was not just Song. It was the first time for other women to be thanked by their men. Not to mention, they felt warm in their hearts and felt that their lives were getting better and better.

Only then did Li Jingshu have the chance to say to her daughter, "Just wait and see, these few glasses of pine needle sparkling water will make them drunk. I think they are about to get drunk now."

Shen Youyou laughed: "It's not the wine that makes people drunk, it's the wine that makes people drunk. The atmosphere is like this. Maybe after a while, when they are drunk and happy, my dad will even sing a song!"

Li Jingshu wanted to go back to her previous life to celebrate the New Year. After eating and drinking, Old Shen would hold the microphone and sing in the living room for most of the night. She smiled helplessly. Old Shen in her family was a microphone master and sang beautifully.

Fortunately, their house has its own door and yard, otherwise there would be countless people complaining to them.

Old Lady Hua said: "What are you two doing whispering to each other? Why are you so talkative? Stop whispering and eat. There are so many delicious foods. Can you get full just by talking?"

Li Jingshu likes to eat fried yam, which is fragrant and crispy, and the delicious bamboo shoots really suit her taste.

Old Lady Hua picked up a large piece of sweet and sour black fish and placed it in her bamboo bowl.

He took another piece for himself and thought as he ate: "The third son's wife is stupid. She won't eat the meat but only eats the vegetables. Oh my! Why is this fish so delicious! It tastes sour and sweet, and the meat is fresh and tender."

"Slurp!" The old lady took another sip of the fragrant and sweet pine needle sparkling water.

In fact, at the same time, as if they had telepathic connection, Old Man Shen also ate a piece of sweet and sour black fish and took a sip of soda. The old man really drank the soda as if it tasted like white wine.

He happily watched his children and grandchildren making noise, and shouted to Grandpa Shen and his old brothers:

"Come on, brothers, let us also pay our respects to Uncle Seventh, and wish him good fortune like the long-flowing waters of the East China Sea, and a long life like the evergreen pines of the Southern Mountains."

The whole scene was very lively, with more than a dozen pots of food, and everyone ate everything up.

Even the soup was eaten cleanly by dipping it in the yam and kudzu root steamed bread.