The Li family bought four pigs for the wedding banquet this time.
Two laborers who had learned how to butcher pigs came to Jueweizhai and helped with the killing of the pigs. Chang Zhan also came and helped with the cooking.
Chang Zhan cut the pork into pieces and stewed it using Jueweizhai's braised pork recipe. He also had someone clean the pig's internal organs and use them for separate dishes.
Li Qingzhi actually didn't invite many guests. He killed four pigs at once so that he could distribute some meat to the villagers later. Plus, there were many people helping out... Chang Zhan wasn't that busy.
He quickly prepared the dish, and by then the braised food was also ready. He cut the food and served it on the table, and then the feast could begin!
Li Qingzhi did not sit at the same table with Jin Xiaoye this time, mainly because Zhu Qian, Zhu Xunmiao, Xu Qifei, Li Xiucai and Wu Baichuan were all there.
Together with Du Yongning and Chang Zhan... Li Qingzhi sat at the same table with them.
As for Jin Xiaoye, she sat with Jin Xiaoshu and Fang Jinniang.
Mr. and Mrs. Jin didn't come today. They were busy looking after the braised food shop in the city.
In fact, the couple opened a braised food shop together, and after deducting the rent, they only earned two taels of silver a month, but they were already very happy and didn't want to miss a day.
Originally they had agreed that Jin's father would come to the Li family to help, and Jin's mother would open a shop in the city, but later on they learned that there were many people helping, so Jin's father did not come.
While eating, Li Laogen started bragging again.
"Did you see the scholar in blue next to Li Qingzhi? His uncle is a high-ranking official in the capital! He comes to see Ah Qing every day. Ah Qing is very powerful now!"
"Master Zhu and his men have also come here specially!"
"Although Magistrate Wang didn't come to Ah Qing's banquet this time, he sent a gift!"
"If you have any problems in the future, you can come to me and I will definitely help you."
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Li Laogen shook his head while speaking, his pointed and monkey-faced face full of complacency.
In the past, when Li Laogen boasted like this, the villagers often didn’t believe it, but now Li Laogen boasts like this…
Thinking about the fact that Li Qingzhi actually brought County Magistrate Wang here after the incident at Jin Xiaogu's home, the people in Miaoqian Village no longer thought that Li Laogen was bragging.
Li Qingzhi is really amazing, they can’t compare to him!
Li Laogen is so lucky, and Jin Xiaoye is also lucky.
Why didn't they realize how powerful Li Qingzhi was at the beginning? If they had realized it earlier... they would have recognized Li Qingzhi as their father or married their daughter to him...
Yao Chengong and his wife were even more depressed as they sat at the same table with Li Laogen.
They had always thought that their son would pass the imperial examination and become a scholar, and they had even thought about what to do with the banquet when the time came. But in the end... they could only attend other people's banquets.
That would be fine, but their son and daughter-in-law didn't come to eat... What a pity! Mr. and Mrs. Yao were feeling depressed, and someone with a bad mouth deliberately asked Mr. Yao: "Old Yao, is your son willing to work now? You are so old now, he should be the one to do the autumn harvest, right?"
Yao Chengong's face turned black.
His son... he definitely won't want to work in the fields.
The noises around were very chaotic. Du Yongning and the others couldn't hear clearly what the people around them were saying, but Li Qingzhi could roughly understand what they were saying.
But he didn't pay much attention to the people around him, his attention was still on the food.