After being reborn in 70, she took back her huge family property and joined the army.

Chapter 193 Entertaining guests and counting the gifts sent by three family members

Aunt Huo hurriedly went to greet her relatives, and Qin Xiaoran followed her to act as a backdrop.

She watched and listened to Aunt Huo's greetings with her relatives, and also secretly looked at the relatives who came this time.

There were a total of five relatives who came this time, a very old couple, a middle-aged couple, and a young man in his twenties.

According to Aunt Huo's introduction, this is Mr. Huo's cousin's family, whose surname is Zhao.

After a few simple greetings, Mr. Zhao felt a little embarrassed.

"Something happened at home, which delayed us for a while, otherwise we should have arrived long ago."

"Look what you said, we are all a family, there is no such thing as morning or night. Come on in and sit and drink tea to warm yourself up. My old man has been thinking about us for a long time."

"Hey, hey."

It was getting late, so Aunt Huo and Qin Xiaoran took the five of them to Mr. Huo and Uncle Huo's place, and then returned to the kitchen to continue working.

Ye Minghua and An Ning also took the initiative to help. Fortunately, the Huo family's kitchen was spacious, otherwise there really wouldn't be room for so many people.

There were a lot more people eating together at noon today, but fortunately the Huo family had plenty of food and prepared a lot of New Year's products such as bacon and salted fish, so this was not a big problem.

Lunch was quickly prepared and the food was brought to the table one after another.

There was room at the Huo family's long table for the Huo family to eat together, but with nine guests, they couldn't fit in the room.

Fortunately, there was no shortage of tables in the Huo family. Two tables were brought from other rooms and put together, so they could sit open.

There were a dozen or nearly twenty people sitting together, and it was lively even if they didn't talk. What's more, how could there be so many people not talking. It was a big conversation to get to know each other, say hello, say hello, and exchange greetings.

Fortunately, the food was fragrant, and soon everyone's mind was not on talking, but on eating.

Mr. Huo was very happy to see his relatives today, and even more happy to see them attracted by Qin Xiaoran's cooking. He was so happy that people knew how good Qin Xiaoran was.

"Stop being restrained, just treat it like this is your own home, and eat freely. The food is cooked by my third wife and Xiaoran. It's delicious!"

Aunt Huo said humbly at the right time: "My cooking skills are average, mainly because Xiaoran is great. It is thanks to her that the food is so delicious. Come and try it!"

Under the greetings of the Huo family, everyone began to eat.

The Huo family has long been accustomed to Qin Xiaoran's cooking skills. Every time they eat it, they find it delicious, but they are not too surprised. They just feel delicious and happy.

Lu Zhiming, Hu Ruoyu, An Ning, and the others had eaten the food cooked by Qin Xiaoran before. This time they felt like it had been a long time since they ate it again, and they were finally late again. They ate hard, for fear of missing a bite.

This was the first time for the Zhao family to eat the food cooked by Qin Xiaoran. Although they realized it was delicious when they smelled the aroma, they didn’t realize how delicious it was until they actually ate it. I originally wanted to take a bite and praise it. A few words to express politeness, but once you eat, you can't stop, for fear of being snatched up by others and unable to eat, which seems to be a bit gobbled.

Mr. Huo was used to this kind of scene and just looked at it and smiled.

At his age and status, he only likes to see such scenes of family and everything being happy.

"Don't worry, eat slowly, there's still food in the kitchen."

Halfway through eating and drinking, the old man of the Zhao family came to his senses and began to praise the delicious food with a slight embarrassment.

"Brother, the food at your house is really good, even better than the chef in that state-owned restaurant! I have eaten a lot of good food during the past two days during the Chinese New Year, but now I know that the real good food tastes like What a feeling!"

"Haha, the things are just ordinary, mainly because Xiaoran's cooking skills are rare!"

Mr. Zhao nodded, "Xiao Ran's cooking skills are really good. Nian Ping is really lucky to have such a wife!"

Mr. Huo laughed.

Upon seeing this, Mr. Zhao picked up the wine cup and toasted Mr. Huo with a drink.

"Brother, let me toast you!"

"Okay! Come! Drink!"

The elders started to toast, while the juniors and women focused on eating.

In the middle of the meal, Aunt Huo and Mother Wang added more dishes, and everyone ate for a long time until they were exhausted.

After dinner, we drink tea and chat, telling each other about what happened in the past year, or about what we plan to do in the next year, or about the current situation of other relatives and friends.

Noisy, talking and laughing, half a day passed before we knew it.

The Huo family and Qin Xiaoran said goodbye to the relatives of the Zhao family, Lu Zhiming and his wife, and An Ning and his wife.

Most of the day passed in such a busy and fulfilling manner.

After seeing off the guests, Third Aunt Huo and Mother Wang began to tidy up the house, and asked Qin Xiaoran and Huo Sisi to count the gifts brought by the guests and record them for convenience in returning gifts later.

The two began to record the gifts in the order they were received. Lu Zhiming and Ye Minghua brought them first.

Two two-pound bags of milk powder, two bottles of Maotai liquor, two sticks of Chinese cigarettes, one pound of White Rabbit toffee, twenty feet of navy blue Doliang cloth, and a pile of cloth tickets.

Huo Sisi sighed in surprise while recording, "These gifts are too expensive! Why did Brother Lu send such expensive things!"

Qin Xiaoran made an estimate on the side, and realized that these things cost dozens or hundreds of dollars. Even if the two families were well off and had a good relationship, it was indeed too much to give them away like this.

"How did he give it away in the past?"

Huo Si thought for a while and said, "Brother Lu didn't come back last year. The year before last, he also sent cigarettes, alcohol and candies, but it didn't seem to be that much. After that, eldest brother also sent back quite a lot of thank you gifts. It seems that they were similar in previous years. Look."

Qin Xiaoran nodded. In other words, there was more milk powder and cloth this time. It was understandable that the milk powder was given, but it was unnecessary to give so many cloth and cloth tickets. This obviously had other ideas.

She thought about it and felt that part of it should be for the bacon, and part of it should be for the pot of flowers she had given to Ye Minghua before. They were expressing their gratitude, and the expression was a bit excessive.

But this is easy to handle. Just give them more bacon and flowers that Ye Minghua likes when walking around.

After recording the gifts from Lu Zhiming, Ye Minghua and his wife, and then the gifts from An Ning and Hu Ruoyu.

The things An Ning and Hu Ruoyu sent were much more down-to-earth.

Two pieces of frozen fish, two pounds of frozen meat, two large Qianmen cigarettes, a pound of fruit candies, a barrel of malted milk, and half a carefully wrapped old tea cake.

Qin Xiaoran picked up the tea cake and inspected it carefully. He estimated that it was also a good thing, otherwise An Ning would not have taken it. He put it aside and showed it to Aunt Huo and the old man. The old man took a look at the white tea cake that An Ning gave him last time. I like it very much, this should be something similar.

The things An Ning sent were not as expensive as those sent by Lu Zhiming and the others, but they were definitely not bad in terms of intention. As a new year's gift, this was definitely too rich.

She thought for a while, and the way to repay the An Ning family was to treat the An Ning family. In that case, then she would pay more attention to the An Ning vacation and visit more.

The last items counted were the gifts sent by relatives Zhao's family. They were also similar things, including tobacco, wine, sugar and tea, but they were of a slightly lower grade, but they were also very sincere. As a normal New Year's gift, they were definitely enough.

As soon as the two finished counting, Aunt Huo came over, and they showed the statistical results to Aunt Huo.

Aunt Huo was shocked when she saw it.

"Hey! There are so many things! I thought there were a lot of things! I didn't expect there to be so many! This..."

Third Aunt Huo has been in charge of the Huo family's human relations for so many years. Naturally, she knew at a glance that something was wrong, and she was probably asking for help from them.

Not to mention the two previous New Year gifts that were obviously too expensive, even the things sent by the Zhao family were slightly more than before. She felt that the Zhao family might be laying the groundwork to ask for help, let alone these two families. .

But she thought about it, what could these two families ask of the Huo family?

I'm afraid it's Qin Xiaoran who I'm begging for.

She looked at Qin Xiaoran slightly worriedly.

"Xiaoran, do you have a plan in mind when they send so many things?"

Qin Xiaoran nodded, "Don't worry, Third Aunt, I know what to do."

Aunt Huo said, "It's good that you know."