Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 279: A Night of Delicacy: Celebration of Mountains and Seas
National style tavern.

The moment the wooden door of the cellar was pushed open, the warm yellow light wrapped in the sweet fragrance of persimmons hit me in the face - Yao Yao was standing on tiptoe to wipe the celadon wine jar, the belt of her peach-red double-breasted jacket hung around her waist, forming a playful arc with her movements.

It was New Year's Day, and she was dressed festively. Knowing that Li Xiang would come to get wine today, she had been waiting here early.

"Brother~" Yao Yao's voice is so sweet, most people can't call her so charmingly.

"How's the wine?" Li Xiang asked.

Yao Yao smiled triumphantly, and when she turned around, the silver butterfly hairpin in her hair fluttered its wings. She snapped her fingers, and more than 98.3 wine jars glowed faintly. Thumb-sized Yao Yaos poked their heads out of the jars and raised their white porcelain spoons to claim credit: "The fermentation rate of the wine yeast is %! The degree of spiritual energy fusion is % higher than expected!"

Li Xiang was stunned: "When did you create so many clones?"

Yao Yao chuckled: "Didn't you help me with this, brother?"

Li Xiang: "Be serious."

Yao Yao then said seriously: "Brother, you forgot that you advised me to eat more before, and gave me a lot of beef and venison. I have good nutrition, so I eat more raw, no, I give more."

"Can it be bigger?" Li Xiang asked.

Yao Yao smiled brightly and said, "Sure, brother, what size do you like?"

Li Xiang: "..."

Changing the subject and asking about some details of winemaking, Yao Yao spoke very clearly and used many professional terms.

In order to make wine, she bought a lot of professional books and portable testing instruments, and she put in a lot of effort.

Li Xiang couldn't help but give a thumbs up. Suddenly, he felt something moving in his trouser leg, so he bent down and grabbed it, and caught a little Yao Yao.

"What are you doing?" Li Xiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Needless to say, this little Yao Yao was not honest and actually tried to sneak into his pants.

"Ouch, you pinched me." Little Yaoyao acted coquettishly, and Li Xiang threw her to big Yaoyao.

Dayaoyao collected this clone and said, "You have no sympathy for women at all."

"Let's go to the bar." Li Xiang took a few steps and leaned over to check the dragon-patterned jar in the center.

"Brother, try this——" Yao Yao took the opportunity to come closer.

What she shared with Li Xiang was the "cocktail" she had just mixed, which was a mixture of persimmon wine and spirit wine to be precise.

Li Xiang took a look and saw that in the small transparent glass wine glass, the wine was flowing in layers. The upper layer was translucent persimmon gold, while the lower layer was filled with emerald-like essence of the elixir.

The appearance alone is very good, not to mention the fragrant aroma of wine.

He took it, tilted his head back and drank it all. First the sharp plum scent exploded in his throat, then the persimmon scent, and then the warm honey scent. His spiritual power flowed through his meridians like a spring stream.

"Great! You really have a talent for brewing wine." Li Xiang took several sips, still wanting more.

"Brother, if you like it, I can make you some more." Yao Yao felt refreshed and went back to work.

About half an hour later, Li Xiang left the Guofeng Tavern with the liquor prepared by the eight gourds.

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On the morning of New Year's Eve, Li Xiang set the atmosphere at home.

He swept the front and back yards clean, and then hung many big and small red lanterns.

The little red lanterns are either single or in strings of six or eight. Long strings are hung on persimmon trees, wintersweet trees, peach trees, war drum pavilions, under the eaves... In addition, there are some handwritten blessings and auspicious poems, which are full of atmosphere.

Li Xiang also used crystal veins to arm his supernatural powers and condensed many small crystal and jade ornaments, which he hung throughout the house and around the necks of his pets, creating a festive atmosphere.

The courtyard has been completely renovated and is full of brilliance.

Under a blooming winter plum tree in the corner of the west wall, there is a three-dimensional sculpture of "Abundant Harvest" about one meter high, made of old pit oil green jadeite. It has a built-in LED light strip, and the orange-red halo flows slowly.

Oily green jadeite is not valuable, but it is good for making large sculptures like this. If it is used with glass-type Yang Green, it would be too flashy.

Then he started to be busy with other tasks such as pasting Spring Festival couplets. Li Xiang pasted Spring Festival couplets not only in the main house, kitchen, war drum pavilion, utility room and shed in the courtyard, but also in the dog shed, chicken coop, duck house, back door of the yard, moon door on the side, etc., as well as the bamboo house of the pandas on the back mountain.

As for the several stores in the scenic area, they were closed for the New Year, but Zhao Xueqing, Yao Yao, and Lei Xiaohui had arranged in advance to post Spring Festival couplets and hang red lanterns, so Li Xiang didn't need to worry too much. Seeing that the time was almost up, Li Xiang went to Jiang's house and invited Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang to come to his house to cook New Year's Eve dinner together. Because there are more people, it's more lively.

If he prepared it and invited them to the banquet, firstly he would be too busy to handle it, and secondly it might not suit Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang's taste.

Anyway, they are not outsiders, so it will be more fun if we work together.

Jiang Caier had already persuaded her parents, so when Li Xiang arrived, they exchanged a few pleasantries and then set off.

The Jiang family is at the east end of the village, and Li Xiang's family is at the west end of the village. The four of them walked from the east end of the village to the west end together. It was inevitable that they greeted many people. When they talked about going to Li Xiang's house for dinner this year, everyone was very envious.

Some people even joked that the gift money had been prepared long ago and they wanted to drink at Xiangya and Caier's wedding, which made Jiang Caier blush.

She is still a little girl after all.

She is only in her third year of high school and is already planning to get married. She is probably the only one in the school who is like this.

Li Xiang is thick-skinned. After all, he is the village chief. He warmly invited everyone to drink a few more glasses. He will prepare wine to entertain everyone.

Jiang Jianguo, Aunt Jiang, Jiang Caier, Li Xiang, and Li Xiang's grandmother, a total of five people, were busy preparing the New Year's Eve dinner together.

Li Xiang brought out more ingredients this time, including delicacies from land and sea, which were so varied that everyone was dazzled. Many of them were not available in the county town.

They are sold in the provincial capital, but neither the size nor the freshness of the ingredients are as good as those here.

Jiang Caier has an intellectual advantage and is knowledgeable. She can be called a walking library. Therefore, she became the chief planner of the New Year's Eve dinner and was responsible for designing the dishes. Jiang Jianguo and Aunt Jiang were the chefs, Li Xiang washed and cut the vegetables, and Jiang Caier and her grandmother walked around, helping wherever needed.

The dishes designed by Jiang Caier were inspired by the menus of big hotels, and the names are all quite auspicious.

For example, there is a dish called "Deer Calling in the Spring Dawn": pan-fried deer steak with hundred-flower honey, served on a green jade lotus leaf plate.

There is also the "Beef Turns the World Around": Wagyu short ribs with truffles.

There are plenty of black truffles in the mountains near Li Xiang's home. He is not interested in selling them now, but occasionally uses his ability to sense the earth veins to pick up some when he has time.

Truffles are buried in the soil, making them difficult for most people to find. But for Li Xiang, who is proficient in earth-related abilities, it is like "not wearing clothes" and he can easily get a lot of them. He is too lazy to dig for those of slightly lower quality.

There is also the "Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate": bluefin tuna sashimi piled up in a pagoda shape, surrounded by green embellishments such as lettuce and broccoli.

“Whale waves stretch thousands of miles”: the squid ink whale balls float in the clear soup like a long voyage.

"Phoenix Perched on the Wutong Tree": Charcoal-grilled king crab legs are arranged in the shape of spread wings, and the crab shell is carved with an image of hundreds of birds paying homage to the phoenix.

"A perfect match": abalone and sea cucumber soup.

There are a total of eighteen dishes, each of which is very filling, so I won’t list them all here.

Not only did Li Xiang prepare a New Year's Eve dinner, he also didn't forget the cute little pets.

For example, Erhuang has “Wangfu Bones”: beef bones with meat wrapped in breadcrumbs and fried into the shape of gold ingots.

The little fox is "spiritual fruit jelly": fresh quail hearts embedded in raspberry jelly.

The five pandas had bamboo tube rice: Thai fragrant rice + rainbow corn + amber pine nuts.

The kittens are deep sea cod porridge.

The little hedgehog also has its own "hedgehog food plate": Cordyceps walnut crisps, arranged in an exquisite plum blossom formation.

The big rooster with red crown and colorful feathers looked at the dozens of big centipedes in front of him with great satisfaction, and quickly called the cute little hen to come and eat.

Li Xiang has an excellent ability to sense the earth's veins. When he is looking for black truffles, it is easy for him to dig up a few centipede nests at the same time.

The two little geese are the "Abundant Harvest Plate": corn crumbs, brown rice and sorghum rice are selected and steamed together until soft and glutinous, then piled into small hills on a shallow green bamboo plate. The cabbage hearts and tender spinach leaves are then chopped and spread into a "Ruyi Cloud Pattern", and the top is decorated with two cinnabar wolfberries, which means "good luck is coming".

As for the other ordinary chickens and ducks, there were ordinary rice and vegetables. Well, some of them were served.

As the medicinal properties of spiritual wine are too strong and not suitable for ordinary people, the drink at this reunion dinner was Feitian Moutai.

(End of this chapter)