The ceremony of worshiping the gods before the official cellar is definitely very grand.

For Zhang Chao, although he did not believe in God, he respected these traditional customs. He also intended to take this opportunity to make his father happy. Building a cellar is a rare event in life for many people of this era, especially for some ordinary people, and even more important than getting married.

After all, almost every man will get married, but many people may not be able to build a new cellar for several generations.

My father was not from Zhangjiagou. He settled here and started over again. It turned out that they lived in someone else’s old cellar, but now they have built a new cellar by themselves, and they will be the real Zhang family from now on.

Ask Taoist priests to calculate the auspicious day and invite people to dance Nuo dance. Of course, they also have to hold a banquet and drink, and they have to kill pigs and sheep.

"Set up the flowing mat, not only the cellar repairers need to invite them, but also the helpers who repair them need to invite them." My father attached great importance to this matter. He squatted on the foundation of the new kiln, looking at the rammed foundation and looked excited.

Zhang Chao also squatted aside and nodded from time to time.

"Dad, I think we might as well invite all the people in the village."

"The whole village is invited? It's okay." My father hesitated for a while, and finally agreed. Inviting so many guests was quite expensive, but thinking that he had made money by making pastry during this period, my father didn't think about stinging. It was rare to be lively, so he just became more lively. It was also a thanks to the villagers in the countryside. From now on, the Zhang family officially took root here and scattered their branches and leaves.

"Or why we invite all our tenants to have a meal," Zhang Chao said again.

Before traveling through time, Zhang Chao always thought that the relationship between the landlord and the tenant farmer was tense and insoluble. The landlords should be characters like Huang Shiren and Zhou Papi, and they wanted to suck blood and peel. The tenants must have hated the landlords in their hearts, but when he came to the Tang Dynasty and became a member of the landlord family, he realized that things were not so absolute.

The relationship between landlords and tenant farmers is more like the relationship between company bosses and employees in later generations. There must be such landlords like Huang Shiren, just like some very harsh and stingy bosses in later generations. But in most cases, the relationship between landlords and tenant farmers is still good.

The tenant rents the landlord's home, farms and pays rent, and usually has to undertake some tasks, such as doing some work for the owner's home. The landlord does not only have rights, but also has obligations to the tenant.

For example, if you encounter a tenant who has three disasters and two diseases, you have to help you when you need to help. Sometimes the landlords even have to give gifts to the tenant farmers to express their opinions. The tenant farmers usually have some fresh vegetables, so they often pick some and send them to the landlords' home.

For example, if a family catches a few fish and catches some wild game, they will sometimes be sent directly to the landlord's house. The landlord's house will not ask for it in vain, and they usually spend some money to buy it.

Zhang Chao's family had more than 500 acres of land, and they had all left. They also signed a contract with the tenants and changed the physical rent to a fixed quota rent. In fact, the rent was greatly reduced. The tenants were very grateful to the Zhang family and his son.

Zhang Chao plans to develop cattle raising business in the future, hand over the cattle to the tenants and lend them to them for use when farming. This is also a mutually beneficial way to kill two birds with one stone. In addition, many of the Zhang family's businesses also require manpower. There are not so many migrant workers these days, and many times they still have to rely on these neighbors nearby.

Many large enterprises in later generations paid attention to corporate culture, focusing on the attractiveness of a company and the ability to retain people. Zhang Chao also hopes that he can have a better relationship with tenants and neighbors, and be mutually beneficial.

Inviting neighbors and tenants to have a meal is not much, but it can strengthen the relationship between the two parties.

More than 500 acres of land were also rented to dozens of families in several villages.

"Yes, let's invite them to have a meal together. They will start renting our land from next year."

Zhang Chao roughly calculated that after the Zhang family recruited a full range of employees, there would be about 500 people, of which about 300 villagers in Zhangjiagou, and about 200 were from other villages. In addition, if you invite all tenants, you would probably have as many as 700 to 800 people.

"Kill a few more pigs and we will make eight big bowls on the table."

"Just have three meals, the morning is a temporary meal, the afternoon is a regular meal, and the afternoon is a single meal."

"Okay, it's time to buy pigs, it's time to buy sheep, we're not confused this time." The father nodded, "By the way, I'll send a post to your adoptive father and others in advance, and ask them to come and sit there. It's best to send a post from the Cui family."

After roughly the negotiation, Zhang Chao began to go back to write the menu.

Since it is lively, you can't be afraid of spending money. The people in the countryside are like this. Even if they live a tight life, once they are building a house and getting married, they still have to be a big show.

Many people have simple and simple ideas, thinking that people will live a face for the rest of their lives. When they should be particular, they must not be stingy or lose face.

The eight big bowls of mats are already beyond the standard of mats in the countryside.

Zhang Chao planned to use all four ying and four su, and all of them were big bowls.

Spread out the white paper, Zhang Chao wrote down the Siying, chicken, duck, fish and meat. It is simple, but not without losing its atmosphere. Each table is Siying, and chicken, duck, fish and meat are just Siying.

"Just use saliva chicken, roast duck for duck, pickled fish for fish, and braised pork. The four dishes are all delicious." Zhang Chao said while writing.

As for the four vegetarian food, it is simple. You can use pork ribs to stew winter melon, pork stew vermicelli, radish tofu, and meat tofu.

These four dishes are not vegan dishes, but can also be considered meat dishes.

After four yin and four vegetarian dishes, you can also make eight dishes, which can be cold dishes and dried fruits.

Tofu skin, thousand shredded shreds, sour radish, mixed with bamboo shoots, fried broad beans, fried soybeans, sunflower seeds, pine seeds, and eight dishes.

After writing the menu, Zhang Chao calculated that the most ingredients were pork, and the other chicken, duck and fish were just one serving on each table.

After all, two meals in the morning and evening are not considered regular meals. Just order pigs and vegetables in the morning, and then add some fried meat or something left over for lunch.

"Five hundred kilograms of pork may not be enough, so just make a little more budget. Killing three fat pigs with about 300 kilograms is almost enough."

Qin Gan closed Zhang Chao's menu and looked surprised, "It's a big show when it comes to serving 1,000 people. The pork alone costs more than 1,000 kilograms, and there are 100 chickens, ducks and fish. There are not many families in Chang'an City that are so generous, with eight bowls and eight plates."

Cheng Chumo looked at the dishes such as pickled fish, salivation chicken, and braised pork, and were very puzzled, "What kind of dishes are these? Have you never heard of them?"

"Don't worry, you will like it after you're guaranteed to eat it. Now, Brother Gan, take a few people to the nearby village to buy chicken, duck and fish, and I'll go to collect pigs."

Almost every family in the countryside and villages raises chickens and ducks, so they can just go to the door to collect the fish, and the fish must be booked in advance at the Ba River, Wei River and other sides, so that the fish can be fresh.

As for pigs, almost every family raises them in the countryside.

After the division of labor, Zhang Chao took Shuanzi Xiaoba Xiao Shisan and others to collect pigs in the village. Zhang Chao went to see each house. He only had a large fat pig of more than 300 kilograms. Such pigs were raised for a long time and were the fattest.

Without much effort, I found three suitable pigs.

Pigs are cheaper, but they are not as cheap as mutton. Recently, the price of grain has been falling, and the price of pork has also begun to fall. Zhang Chao directly purchased the pig price in Chang'an City.

The price of live pigs is much cheaper than that of pork, which is almost half the price of pork.

Nowadays, the price of rice in Chang'an City is 150 cents of rice, which is about fifteen cents per pound. The price of pork is about four pounds of rice. The current market is 60 cents per pound of pork, while the live pig is only 30 cents per pound.

The big carp sold in Chang'an costs more than three pounds of pork, and a live fat chicken costs about 100 cents per person. The duck is a little cheaper, but the goose is more expensive. A big goose can be worth three chickens.

This price has fallen quite sharply. Since Chang'an Changping of grain, various prices have been falling rapidly.

Selling pigs is also a lively thing, and the pig owner calls his brothers to catch the pigs together.

In the narrow pigpen, there were ears, tails, and feet. After a while, the pig was tearing and screaming, the pig finally fell down and tied the pig up successfully with a hemp rope. Everyone carried the pig out of the pen.

Outside the house, the big pole raised the pig to weigh it, and a group of men, women, young and old stared at the star.

Zhang Chao didn't think about taking advantage, so he asked the tail to let go and immediately sink. After everyone recognized the pounds, they would register the number.

"Three hundred and twenty-eight and a half pounds."

"A pound of pigs is 30 cents per catty, which is exactly 9,855 cents."

A big fat pig was sold for half an old crossbow horse. After hearing the numbers, the pig owner laughed loudly, and the mistress of the family also smiled with relief. Several siblings who often went to find pig grass were also laughing together.

This pig is a fruit of hard work for the family for more than a year. It took a lot of money to buy piglets. The family carefully took care of them. The children pulled pig grass every day, and the wife also had to cut grass and cooked pig food every day to feed them. She also had to clean the pig pen and take care of them every day. After more than a year, she finally left the crowd and sold it.

Although the price of pigs has been reduced, they can still get more than ten cents of money, which makes them very pleased.

"Brother Wenyuan, they heard that you were going to collect pigs. They just cooked another meal of pig food and fed it to the pigs, and added at least ten kilograms of extra servings." Ke Xiaoba reported to Zhang Chao with a look of distortion.

Zhang Chao just smiled. This is a characteristic of Chinese farmers. It is just a cleverness of farmers, but Zhang Chao doesn’t care. Just take a little advantage.

"Nine,855 coins, Uncle Xiliu, you can come to my house to pay the money in a while."

"Can you pay the money today?"

"Well, let's get it today." Zhang Chao could take out a few chunks of money at any time, so there was no need to drag it. He raised a pig for almost two years, which was also very hard.

"Let's carry the pig home and kill the pig!"
Chapter completed!