Chapter 54 No Need to Take Any Measures

After Hua's father and mother calmed down, Hua's mother asked, "Chunli, Xiali, Chunli was admitted to university. Do you want to hold a graduation banquet and invite everyone to come and eat?"

"Of course I have to do it. How can I see everyone's colorful faces if I don't?" Hua Xiali said proudly. Not only did she invite people to dinner, she also wanted to invite everyone in the village to dinner!

"You!" Hua's mother pushed Hua Xiali's arm helplessly, "It costs money to hold a graduation banquet, doesn't it? It's not easy for you to earn money!"

"Don't worry, I promise that I can hold a beautiful graduation banquet without spending much money." Hua Xiali patted his chest and said confidently.

Mother Hua took the calendar and flipped through it, saying, "The 25th is a good day, so let's hold the graduation banquet on the 25th!"

Hua Xiali nodded, "Okay, then Big Sister, call all the relatives and I'll take care of what's needed for the banquet."

There are still nine days left, which is plenty of time, so there is no need to rush.

The best time to pick bamboo fungus is June. Now it is mid-August, so there are naturally no bamboo fungus to pick. Hua Xiali doesn't have to rush to her fourth uncle's house every night, so she can now concentrate on preparing for the graduation banquet.

At this season, every household has no shortage of fruits and vegetables, but the fruits and vegetables in Hua Xiali's yard are all watered with spiritual spring water. She didn't want to give them away cheaply to irrelevant people, so she bought fruits and vegetables from people she had a good relationship with and asked them to deliver them to her house on the evening of the 24th, so that they could process them early in the morning of the 25th.

When Hua Xiali went to wholesale pig offal every morning, he would also wholesale some meat and put it in the Lingquan space for storage, and then take it out on the morning of the 25th.

In order to save money, Hua Xiali asked her uncle to go out at night to help her catch some frogs. Frogs are edible, and frogs were quite expensive in the vegetable market in her previous life!
Hua Xiali also asked her third aunt to go to the ridges and fields to help her pick purslane, amaranth and bittercress, so that it could be counted as three dishes and she could save some money.

Because it was Hua Chunli's graduation banquet, it couldn't be shabby. If there was meat, there had to be fish. But to have so many tables, a lot of fish would be needed. If she bought them, it would cost a lot of money. So Hua Xiali decided to catch them herself. So she carried a wooden bucket to the ditch only a few dozen meters away from her home to catch fish.

I don't know what's going on here, but few people eat fish, especially the small fish with many bones in the wild. So the fish in the ditch swim around in groups, looking particularly free and unrestrained.

Hua Xiali directly used the triangular net she made herself and scooped from one end to the other. When she picked up the triangular net, there were a bunch of small river fish and shrimps jumping in it, and even black-backed crucian carp as big as a palm. This was a good thing that money could not buy in the future!
These days, the aquatic resources in rural waters are very abundant. Even in a small puddle, there are many different kinds of fish.

In her previous life, Hua Xiali was able to raise her two sons by herself, which was actually inseparable from these aquatic products. Others were unwilling to buy small fish as they thought they were too troublesome to handle, so she would pick out the small fish, clean them and then sell them, so that people could just process them directly after buying them.

After all, eels are not that easy to catch in winter. How does she make money when she can't catch eels? Isn't it just these free things in the countryside?
Hua Xiali quickly caught a bucket of small river fish. She put the black-backed crucian carp into the space for preservation, and then carried the bucket of small river fish back home. Small river fish are not easy to keep alive, and there were so many in the bucket that they would have died of lack of oxygen, so Hua Xiali quickly took out the small river fish, washed them, and put them on a dustpan to dry in the sun, so that the dried small fish would not break when processed.

To hold a graduation banquet, so many tables of banquets were needed, and just this bucket of small river fish was simply not enough. So Hua Xiali took the bucket and went out to catch them in the cool mornings and evenings. She caught them for several days in a row, and she was exhausted.

On the 25th, Zhang Yongfeng no longer went out to set up the stall, and his family no longer did the braised food business. Everyone started getting busy in the morning.

The men helped to borrow tables, chairs, benches, pots, pans, and bowls from other people's homes, while the women prepared the banquet at home.

Hua Xiali made stir-fried frogs with green peppers, spicy dried fish, braised pork with potatoes, and scrambled eggs with leeks. The third aunt was in charge of braised eggplant, cold-mixed purslane, stir-fried white amaranth, and stir-fried bitter greens. The fourth aunt made smashed cucumbers, stir-fried shredded pork with beans, shredded potatoes with vinegar, and pork ribs and loofah soup. With this division of labor, a table of twelve dishes was prepared.

There are more than 300 people in their flower village, but all the young people are working in the city, so there are not many people left in the village, maybe only about 200 people!

There are eight people at a table, plus children, so about twelve people can sit at a table, so we need twenty tables. But now there are only ten tables, so they can only eat in batches. After the first group has eaten, the second group will come to the table to eat.

Hua Xiali didn't let her mother interfere, and asked her mother to take good care of her father. She and Hua Qiuli cooked together, and Hua Qiuli just helped her light the fire.

In the morning, Hua's mother cleaned up Hua's father and helped him sit on a chair in the yard with Hua Chunli. At around eight or nine o'clock, people started to come to visit.

Everyone who came shook hands with Hua's father and congratulated him. It was a double happiness: his eldest daughter was admitted to university and he could sit up. Looking at everyone's fawning faces, Hua Chunli found it funny. After all, she had seen with her own eyes how everyone treated their family before. Now looking at this scene, she really felt relieved!
It turns out that you don't need to take any measures to take revenge on others. As long as you work hard to live a better life and become a better person, this is already an invisible revenge on others.

Hua Xiali knew that if he accepted gifts at his family's graduation banquet, everyone would surely curse him in their hearts for being money-hungry and for having ugly eating habits. So when notifying everyone to attend the banquet, Hua Xiali made it clear that they did not want red envelopes or gifts, just come with their mouths to eat.

Everyone who came would first greet Hua's father, congratulate him, and congratulate Hua Chunli, and then find a seat early, wanting to be the first to eat.

There's nothing to do anyway, so just wait and chat with everyone for a while.

As the protagonist of today, Hua Chunli naturally joined his mother in entertaining the guests. Some people also asked his mother to introduce a partner to Hua Xiali. After all, Hua Chunli had been admitted to university, and would have a stable job after graduation. His life would be secure, and he would definitely help his sister then.

(End of this chapter)