Beautiful Peasant Girl: The Young Marquis's Beloved

It was dinner time, and the first and second floors were bustling with noise. When Liu Xu saw this, the smile in her eyes became even more intense.

With the base materials, the operation is simple and everyone will understand it without any demonstration.

Liu Xu instructed the cook to serve another hot pot of spicy soup to each table in their yard, and then she took Qiao Yun and He Lei back to the yard briskly.

The courtyard is not big, about 100 square meters.

What is different from my own courtyard is that when I push the door open, I see a path paved with bluestone and pebbles leading to the courtyard, where rockery, a small pond, green plants and flowers are arranged in an orderly manner.

There are also three main rooms, a reception room and a men's and women's lounge. However, the two sides are not wing rooms, but have been converted into open pavilions with curtains and gauze curtains, which are usually tied up and can be lowered if guests need them.

The pavilion is very spacious, with dining tables and chairs placed inside, and three large round tables on each side.

There is also a separate kitchen for making tea and toilet in the courtyard. When guests come in, there will be a waiter responsible for them. If they are not needed, they will wait outside the door. Therefore, it is especially suitable for large family gatherings.

There are snacks and tea on the table, which I guess were served by the waiter.

Farmers didn't have so many rules, so they didn't separate the men and women. Xu Hean and his friends followed the local customs. They were all chatting in the open pavilion on the left.

"I'm back! What are you guys talking about?"

There was a pause in the chatter at the sound of her voice, followed by a burst of laughter.

"Hahaha, little junior sister, everyone is talking about the embarrassing things that happened when you were a child!" Han Duoduo laughed the most happily!

Liu Xu widened her eyes and looked at Xu Ruolan with confusion and accusation.

Xu Ruolan felt a little guilty when she looked at her.

I don't know who mentioned the children first, but then they started talking about the funny things the children did when they were little, and Uncle An ended up asking about willow catkins.

Then...the people in the yard are all close to her family, so Liu Xu shouldn’t be given too much attention!

Everyone in Liujia Village has a role to play, and almost everyone can contribute to Liu Xu's childhood embarrassment...

"Don't listen to Sister Duoduo. If none of us suffer, we will all be implicated. I'll tell you about Sister Duoduo's childhood later!" Xing'er supported her little sister.

"Ah, Xing'er, don't say it, don't say it!" Han Duoduo rushed over when she heard it, and stretched out her hand to scratch Xing'er. Xing'er turned around and ran to the yard, with Han Duoduo following closely behind her.

The waiter who came in with the pot was so scared that he quickly dodged them for fear of bumping into them.

The adults saw this and quickly said, "Alright, stop making trouble, or you'll knock over the pot!"

Upon hearing that, Xing'er hurriedly stopped, but Duoduo didn't follow the moral code of martial arts. She just stepped forward, used her lightness skills to fly over, stopped Xing'er, and didn't let her go until she begged for mercy.

There was laughter in the yard.

Liu Xu asked the elders for their opinions and decided not to sit separately.

As the dishes were gradually served, everyone sat down one after another. Each table had two pots, with both clear and red soups. Everyone sat down according to gender, age and status.

Liu Xu was generous and also prepared a separate table of mushroom soup for the servants on the other side. However, there were not many people, so they could only wait until Liu Xu and the others had finished eating before taking turns to eat.

The two little ones were taken to the lounge, fed, and then handed over to Yue Niang and her daughter.

Liu Xu invited everyone to eat, but Xu Ruolan asked:

"Xu'er, isn't Young Master Chang coming over? How about we wait for him?"

"Yeah, didn't the young master say before that he would come back to drink?" Liu Changshun also asked.

"No, he has to deal with some guests outside. He will come over when he is done."

There are many people outside who are here for Master Chang. How can he come so quickly? If they wait for him, everyone will be hungry.

However, adults like Xu Ruolan would not listen to her nonsense. When someone invites you to dinner, you eat before the host arrives. How rude.

They all refused her proposal on the grounds that they had already eaten snacks.

Liu Xu had no choice but to ask He Lei to find Chang Yifei.

Not long after, Chang Yifei came with Qingfeng.

Seeing this, everyone stood up and greeted them. Chang Yifei bowed to everyone:

"Grandparents, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters, Yifei is late, please forgive me."

"It's okay. Business is more important! Are you done outside? If not, go ahead and do your work. We'll wait for you." Xu Ruolan asked with a smile.

"Yes, don't delay business!"

"Don't worry, everyone. The boss is outside! I'm the boss after all, so everyone please sit down." Chang Yifei went to the man's table.

Before the meal started, everyone raised their wine glasses and tea cups to congratulate the opening of Zhenxiu Pavilion, and hoped that customers would come in large numbers and the business would increase.

After the scene was described, everyone happily started eating.

Chang Yifei could no longer contain his eagerness, as he had never tasted the spicy base made by Liu Xu.

He quickly picked up a piece of beef and gently put it into the red soup. The tender beef, cut as thin as a cicada's wing, rolled several times in the steaming, bright red soup, then spun in the seasoning bowl before being slowly put into his mouth.

Gently chewing the beef in his mouth, the unique spicy taste instantly exploded in his mouth, stimulating his taste buds, as if a carnival on the tip of his tongue had begun. His eyes lit up slightly, and he picked up a few more pieces to try one by one, the light in his eyes getting brighter and brighter.

"Xu girl, I have a feeling that this spicy one might be more popular than the mushroom one! It's spicy and numbing, and I can't stop eating it!"

"It's good stuff. Not only does it taste great, but if my guess is correct, there are also many medicinal herbs in the soup that can promote digestion and remove dampness and cold." Doctor Meng swallowed the food in his mouth and exclaimed.

"It actually has these benefits? That girl Xu said that eating too much of this will cause getting a sore throat?" Liu Dashan has liked it since he ate it yesterday, but his granddaughter doesn't let him eat more.

"What the girl said is true. Eating too much will indeed cause internal heat. Eating it occasionally with a glass of heat-reducing tea is still okay!"

Liu Xu had heard it, and she could imagine the old man's expression without even looking...

With Doctor Meng's advice, Liu Dashan's mood instantly became much better. "Brother Meng, can you make me some of that fever-reducing tea later? I won't ask for it for nothing. I'll buy it from you."

"Hahaha, no problem, I have some at home. Don't worry about whether you want to buy them or not. They are just common herbs that can be found everywhere. They are not worth much!"

"That's great, thank you very much..."

Xu Ruolan's table was also bustling with activity. It was Zhuang Dani's first time eating hotpot, and she praised Liu Xu for making it.

"I didn't expect that our mushrooms and tofu bean sprouts can be eaten this way. Whether it's the mushroom soup or the spicy one, the taste is really good. Xu girl is really smart."

Xu Ruolan asked Ye Miaoyin to try the red soup. Yesterday, Ye Miaoyin and her daughter went to Dr. Meng's house and didn't get to eat it.

As a result, after tasting the flavor, the mother and daughter never used their chopsticks to eat the mushroom soup pot again.

"Junior sister, you are so smart. It turns out that chili peppers can really be eaten. I love the taste! It would be great if I could eat them every day!" Han Duoduo looked excited.

"You're so happy. There's only so much chili pepper at home. I have other uses for it! If you eat it every day, you'll get a sore throat and get pimples all over your face. You won't even have a place to cry!"

"Why worry about getting angry? Grandpa Meng is here!"

Willow catkins: ...

Everyone was eating and chatting, the sounds of laughter and conversation were intertwined, it was very lively.

At this time, there was a noise outside the door. Everyone stopped eating and looked at each other, wondering what had happened.

Chang Yifei frowned and winked at Qingfeng, who nodded and walked out.

Soon it became quiet outside. After a while, Qingfeng came back to report, "Master, it was the servants from the houses outside who said they smelled the fragrance coming from our house. They asked the waiter and found out that it was a new flavor, so they wanted to ask if the young master could serve them a pot."

Chang Yifei frowned slightly, put down his chopsticks, thought for a moment and looked at Liu Xu: "Sister Xu, if I reduce the amount, will the taste be much different?"

Liu Xu stroked his chin and thought for a while, "It will definitely be a big difference if the gap is reduced like this."

Chang Yifei was a little disappointed. Just when he wanted Qingfeng to reply, he heard Liu Xu continue, "But it's not impossible to reduce the amount. If you reduce the amount of broth at the same time, the taste won't deviate too much."

"How to do it?" Chang Yifei's eyes lit up.

Liu Xu rolled her eyes at him across the table and said, "It's definitely not possible today, Third Brother Chang, go back and tell them that the ingredients are limited and that you can only make this pot. You are testing the taste today and it's still a little lacking. After you've adjusted it, please let everyone taste it."

"As for the rest, let's talk about it after dinner!"

After saying that, he didn’t care anymore and told everyone to continue eating.