After the new house was built, Zhao Zhengan and Zhong Ziqi spent two days going back to buy daily necessities, ranging from furniture, wooden bed dresser, to small pots and pans.
After everything was done, the two decided to find a date to move in.
It is customary in the village to invite relatives and friends to eat when moving into a new house, and then officially enter the house at noon on an auspicious day.
Neither of them knew when the auspicious day was. Zhao Zhengan drove the carriage to the town to find the day that Mr. Wang had counted. Coincidentally, there happened to be an auspicious day in these two days. I bought them all back.
As for the meal at An's family, Zhao Zheng'an and Zhong Ziqi would definitely not invite the Zhong family and the Wang family. Instead, they can invite Zhao Amo and the others to come over for a meal. It's just that Zhao Amo and the others are so busy that they probably don't have time. .
"It doesn't matter, whoever can come, it's just a ceremony, remember to bring Li Zheng and his wife too." Zhong Ziqi said.
Zhao Zheng'an nodded: "Yes, I will go to Zhao Amo's house in a while and ask him if he can spare some time to help you with his busy work, so I can help."
"En." Zhong Ziqi nodded.
When Zhao Zhengan went to Zhao Amo's house, they were having dinner.
"Zhengan is here, have you eaten? Have a bite at Ahma's house." Zhao Ahma greeted Zhao Zhengan.
Zhao Zheng'an greeted Zhao Ah and Zhao Baogen and sat on the kang and shook his head: "Ah, I've eaten, you eat yours, don't worry about me."
"Zheng'an, when will your family move? Have you found a lucky day?" Zhao Ah asked while eating.
Zhao Zheng'an smiled and said: "Coincidentally, I was just about to talk to Uncle Baogen. I've checked with my husband. The day after tomorrow is an auspicious day, so the day after tomorrow, you and Uncle Baogen, come over if you have time."
"Who have you been looking for?"
"I didn't look for anyone. I looked for Lizheng's family, Second Uncle Zhao, Amo Huang, and the others. I don't know if they have time. There are less than ten people."
Amo Zhao nodded: "I'll go the day after tomorrow. Let your uncle go to the town. He has a stuffy mouth and doesn't know how to cook. He just sits there. I can help Ziqi get busy."
"Ah, look at what you said about Uncle Baogen. Uncle Baogen doesn't like to talk a bit, but it's good to go and help me drink with Lizheng and Uncle Zhao." Zhao Zhengan said funny.
Zhao Ama covered her mouth and smiled: "With his drinking capacity, he will pour it out after a few drinks. You might as well go into battle by yourself."
Zhao Baogen was hurt by his wife for a long time, so he gave him an embarrassed look, and said in a muffled voice, "I'll eat your meal soon."
"Okay, okay, I won't talk anymore, eat, eat."
Zhao Ning and the others watched from the sidelines and laughed endlessly.
On this auspicious day, Zhong Ziqi got up early in the morning to get busy, and Zhao Ama came over early, because she had to eat before noon, so she had to cook and eat early.
"Ziqi, how many dishes should you cook?" Zhao Amo rolled up her sleeves and came over to help.
"How about the eight dishes?" Zhong Ziqi asked Ah Zhao while chopping vegetables.
"Eight dishes are enough, and there are not many people, so I can't eat them all."
"If you can't eat it, leave it." Zhong Ziqi said with a smile, mainly because the number eight is auspicious.
When the sun rose about seven or eight o'clock, Li Zheng and the others came one after another.
Naturally, Zhao Zheng'an would stay in the house and talk with Li Zheng, Second Uncle Zhao and the others, and Li Zheng's family also came into the kitchen to help.
"Yo, you're here too, didn't you go to your shop?" The guy from Li Zheng's family said in surprise when he saw Amo Zhao.
Zhao Amo chuckled: "It's a happy housewarming, besides, Ziqi is inconvenient now, so I, who is an amo, have to come here anyway."
The guy from Li Zheng's family heard the words and immediately looked at Zhong Ziqi: "What's wrong, Brother Qi? Are you sick?"
Zhao Amo answered with a smile without waiting for Zhong Ziqi to reply: "What else can you say!"
The guy from Lizheng's family was puzzled at first, and then said with comprehension: "Could it be that brother Qi is happy?"
"Isn't it? It's just that you're happy. It's been several months."
"Really, this is a good thing, why didn't you hear that boy from Zheng'an?" the guy from Li Zheng's family said happily.
"Ah, it's not a big deal for me and Zheng'an to think about it, so we didn't talk about it." Zhong Ziqi rubbed his nose and said with a smile.
"These two children..." Lizheng's family shook his head and didn't say anything else. Their family's affairs were complicated, so he shouldn't inquire too much.
Three people are busy, that is, faster than one person. Soon, the eight dishes were ready before noon.
Then the three of them served on the table one by one.
There is a custom here that when there are many guests, as a brother, you are not allowed to serve the table, and you have to wait on the side for the meal.
But Zhong Ziqi didn't take it seriously, it's okay to divide the table, and he didn't want to eat with the rough men at that table, it was too noisy and he lost his appetite. He simply opened another table in the kitchen, and the three of them sat in the kitchen to eat. As for the problem of adding food to the room, it was left to Zhao Zhengan, and he believed that he could still handle it well.
"Ziqi, your dishes are delicious!" Lizheng's family praised in surprise, it was the first time he had eaten Zhong Ziqi's dishes, and the taste of the dishes he had cooked for decades couldn't match.
"I researched it all by myself." Zhong Ziqi said with a laugh.
"If you want me to say, you have to have that talent to cook. You see, the two of us have been cooking for so many years, and we are not as good as a child who has only learned two or three years." Zhao Ama shook her head with a sigh, and turned to Li Zhengjia said the mouth.
"That's reasonable, even if I do it for another twenty years, I won't be able to catch up with Brother Qi's craftsmanship." The guy from Li Zheng's family nodded in agreement. He had never heard of Zhong Ziqi's Am Shen family. There seems to be no explanation for Zhong Ziqi's culinary skills other than talent.
Zhong Ziqi just smiled when she heard the words, and then changed the topic without any trace.
Because they were in a hurry, the old men in the house didn't drink a lot of wine, and when it was almost noon, everyone dispersed.
Then the group went to the new house.
At noon, when the auspicious time had come, Ama Zhao got a brazier from somewhere and put it on the ground: "Ziqi, Zheng'an, you two step over first, Wangding."
"Okay." Zhao Zhengan and Zhong Ziqi nodded.
Zhao Zheng'an had long legs, he raised his clothes and was the first to step over, then quickly turned around and helped Zhong Ziqi to step over, and then Zhao Amali and the others also stepped over the basin one by one, and they entered the new house.
"You said that the two of you have such a big place, and you don't feel empty." Li Zheng's family said.
But Li Zheng shook his head and thought it would be better to have a bigger place, which is convenient for people to live in and to store things.
"Both of these children have a plan. They say they want to plant fruit trees around them. If you say that you have a good life, who can compare with it." Zhao Ah said.
"Yeah, this is also the reward of suffering."
Everyone nodded silently, remembering how difficult life was at the beginning.
"Let's not talk about this anymore, let's go into the house and have a look."
Zhong Ziqi said with a slight smile, inviting them into the room to have a look, inevitably got a bunch of compliments.
The furniture, tables and chairs are all beautifully made, with patterns and colors, and they look very beautiful. They know in their hearts that it will cost a lot of money.
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Lizheng and the others had been out for a long time, walked around Zhao Zhengan and Zhong Ziqi's new house and then went home, Zhao Zhengan and Zhong Ziqi stood outside the door to see them off.
"Ziqi, I'm going back too. There are still chickens at home." Everyone left, only Amo Zhao was left, and he couldn't stay because there were still things to do at home.
"Wait a while, okay?" Zhong Ziqi called to stop him: "There are a lot of food left at home, if you don't mind, take some home."
Amo Zhao waved her hand: "Keep it for yourselves to eat."
"There are a lot of them. The two of us can't finish them. If we let them go bad, we will be blind."
Zhao Amo hesitated and nodded: "Okay."
To say that he dislikes it, he is really not. If anyone in the village has a happy event, the leftover dishes will be distributed to some good people, so this is nothing more than normal, but Ziqi’s dishes are all good dishes. It's not too embarrassing to eat and take.
Zhong Ziqi and Zhao Zheng'an were completely relieved after sending Zhao Ah away, especially Zhong Ziqi had been busy since the morning and was already tired.
"Go inside and rest for a while." Zhao Zhengan led him into the house.
"Well... I need to take a break, I'm so sleepy..."
He slept a little late last night because of the madness with Zhao Zhengan, and got up early this morning, so he was really tired.
"Sleep for a while, I'll clean up the kitchen over there." Zhao Zhengan said softly.
"okay."
After Zhong Ziqi finished speaking, she collapsed on the kang of the new house, rolled up the quilt and covered her body, closed her eyes, and fell asleep after a while.
Zhao Zhengan shook his head dotingly, and went out.