Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 171: Entertain

TN: Merry Christmas, guys! I hope you enjoy the chapters.
Sorry if there are mistakes, I haven’t had time to proofread, haha.
I will go back and clean things up later this week and hopefully have another set of chapters for you as well!

As soon as a few people entered the room, it suddenly felt much more narrow.

Lian Fang Zhou hurriedly introduced Cui Shao Xi to Third Aunt and called Lian Che to come forward to greet him.

Cui Shao Xi smiled politely when he saw this.
He took the white jade ring off his finger and gave it to Lian Che as a meeting gift.
He smiled naturally and asked him to call him ‘cousin’.

Lian Che glanced at Lian Fang Zhou and when he saw that she had no objection, he thanked him.

Because Lian Fang Qing had passed on Lian Fang Zhou’s message, Third Aunt and Lian Che were not surprised when they saw Cui Shao Xi’s appearance and behavior.
Their manners were very decent.

Lian Fang Zhou smiled and said, “You sit and keep our guest company! Third Aunt and I are going to prepare dinner! Young Master Cui will stay at our house for dinner tonight!”

Call him Min Zhi? Lian Fang Zhou would only call him this if she was stupid!

“My beautiful cousin wants to eat with us? Great!” Lian Fang Qing smiled happily.

Cui Shao Xi almost tripped backward! Couldn’t you delete those two words from the front….

Cui Shao Xi looked at Lian Fang Qing, his expression dumbfounded.

“Really?” Third Aunt’s eyebrows raised in surprise and she blurted out, “Will you be leaving after dark?”

“I won’t leave, I’ll stay over at your house for one night!” Cui Shao Xi smiled again and again.

“But we don’t have anywhere for you to sleep in our house!” Third Aunt said, looking at Cui Shao Xi.
She couldn’t help but smile.
“Our family doesn’t even have some decent bedding, wouldn’t this be wronging someone like cousin?”

Cousin…

Cui Shao Xi said happily, “Not at all!” Lian Fang Zhou was speechless.
After a moment, she pulled Third Aunt out and said, “Let’s start cooking!”

Third Aunt was drug into the kitchen by Lian Fang Zhou.
She was still twittering and sighing, saying that Cui Shao Xi had been born so handsome and that his dress and voice were all very good.
She really didn’t know how God had created such a character, so perfect!

Lian Fang Zhou was silently flabbergasted at Third Aunt’s words.
She replied that he was a young man with good etiquette and his family’s rules were not bad.
How could he be bad, coming from a large family!  

“This young man is really a talent! Alas, I don’t know who would be lucky enough to marry him as his wife in the future! That would really be falling into the honey jar!” Third Aunt said, sighing with a smile as she bustled around Lian Fang Zhou.

Her meaning was very clear.

“Third Aunt!” Lian Fang Zhou immediately opened her eyes to pin her with a vigilant look.
Expression serious, she said: “Young Master Cui treats us politely to give face to cousin and her husband, Young Master Su.
We don’t have the same understanding, how is this something we can think of? If our thoughts are messy and Young Master Cui finds out and makes a joke, will we still have the face to see cousin and brother-in-law in the future? What do you say?”

Third Aunt was startled and her face turned pale as she stammered, “I, I, I was just speaking casually, only casually! I know the seriousness here, don’t worry! I won’t say what can’t be said, it won’t be said!”

Thinking about it, what was the identity of Young Master Cui? What was their identity? How could he look at Fang Zhou? Ugh, even if he liked her, would Fang Zhou be willing to be his concubine? She wasn’t that kind of person!”

More importantly, this would annoy the Su family and ruin the business relationship they had created.
They would never help them in the future so it would definitely not be worth it!

“It’s fine if you understand!” Lian Fang Zhou saw that Third Aunt was pale and upset.
She had obviously been frightened by Lian Fang Zhou’s words, so she said again: “He is a guest at our house, we will do our best to entertain him but that’s it! You don’t need to act like his slave and try to fawn over him, there is no need for that sort of thing!”

“Oh…” Third Aunt nodded.
Where would she dare to think more? Lian Fang Zhou had said what needed to be said.

“There are no other ‘cousins’” Lian Fang Zhou sighed, “let’s just call him Young Master Cui! Qing’er and the others are still young, its fine for them to play around and call him as they like, but we can’t mess with etiquette! What are the Cui’s to our family? How can you call him ‘cousin’?”

“What you said is correct, I was just confused, confused!” Third Aunt smiled, explaining: “I’m not looking at cousin— oh, no, I mean Young Master Cui’s appearance like that! I just like it in my heart and thought that calling more intimately was better.
Now that you’ve explained the matter clearly, I understand! Young Master Cui, Young Master Cui, this is definitely correct!”

Lian Fang Zhou nodded.
“Just be sure to remember this!”

Third Aunt added, “Young Master Cui is also a distinguished quest, though, so we should entertain him well and serve some good dishes tonight, right?”

“Naturally,” Lian Fang Zhou said, nodding.
“You go buy a chicken and a duck! We can make chicken stewed with mushrooms, a taro duck with green onions and egg, some fried pork with garlic, and fry some strips of cabbage.”

Third Aunt let out an ‘aye’ and then said with regret, “It’s a pity, if he had come a few days earlier, he would have been able to eat pheasants and wild rabbit!”

Lian Fang Zhou smiled: “It’s rare that you didn’t make a comment about wasting too much! Pheasants and wild rabbits are not so rare for him, so its not a pity.
Whatever we can get now, is fine! Let’s just do our best!”

Who was the Cui family? What kind of wild game couldn’t they eat?

Third Aunt laughed and said with a smile, “How is this the same, Young Master Cui is our distinguished guest! I will go buy the chickens and duck, you boil the water.
I will kill them when I get home!”

Lian Fang Zhou agreed and started to boil the water after Third Aunt left, washing the rice and steaming it.
While she waited, she sat on a small stool near the fire.

Soon, Third Aunt returned and Lian Fang Zhou greeted her, taking the chickens from her hands.
She smiled and said, “Let’s get inside, its cold today!”

Third Aunt had no objections.

They killed the chickens and ducks, plucking out the feathers, and carefully washing them.
They cleaned up very quickly.

Third Aunt sliced open the bellies and Lian Fang Zhou washed the insides, cutting them up for later.

When the birds were ready, they started cooking.

For  the stewed mushrooms, Lian Fang Zhou chose mainly shitake and tea tree mushrooms, with a few others for seasoning.
Putting the chopped pieces of chicken into a small pot, she added the water and stewed the mushrooms.
On the side, she marinated the duck meat.

After half an hour, she started to stew the vegetables with the chicken and mushrooms.

Afraid that Cui Shao Xi would be cold, they lit a big charcoal fire.
There was a lot of broken pieces of charcoal around the house, so they weren’t afraid of being wasteful.

Cui Yi felt very pleased when he saw this and couldn’t help but give Lian Fang Zhou a look, thinking: Miss Lian is so generous, she is trying her best!

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