There was an endless stream of guests in front of the Song family's gate, and when Bai Shan and the others arrived, most of the guests had arrived, and the group arrived at the last minute.
Master Song originally met the guests in the lobby. After all, he was the birthday man, and his sons and grandchildren stood at the gate to welcome the guests.
But as soon as Bai Shan and his carriage arrived at the intersection, the servants arranged by the Song family early in the morning ran back to notify them, and Master Song went out to greet them in person.
The Song family is probably the richest man in Beihai County. They have a lot of land, so they know a lot of people.
Every year in Lizheng, there are also wealthy families in some relatively affluent villages. Every year, many people come to celebrate his birthday. Master Song invited this one, so he couldn’t help but invite another one. This year is especially special. He dare not reveal a little about the Song family The situation of being suppressed came.
So whoever he invited in previous years, he will invite again this year.
Everyone is not without doubts, because everyone knows that Master Song's birthday is in August, but he celebrated his birthday in June...
Although it was said that it was because there were too many things last year, so they made up for it this year, but they still felt weird.
Seeing Master Song welcome him out, many people craned their necks to watch the excitement.
When the carriage arrived in front of Song's house, Bai Shan got off the horse first, then turned around and helped Zhou Man get off the carriage, Bai Erlang jumped off the carriage next to him, turned around and helped Ming Da down as well.
After Yin or got off the other car, Bai Shan turned to ask the three of them to go first.
Master Song came out to see him, so he couldn't help but look up at Mingda and Bai Erlang who were standing in the front, but he didn't dare to look too much, he just lowered his head with just one glance, he quickly went forward and knelt down to salute, "Greetings, Princess and Bai Erlang." Consort."
Mingda was taken aback by his action, and quickly raised his hand and said, "Excuse me."
She looked sideways at the servant at the side, and the servant stepped forward to help him up, and said with a smile on his face: "Master Song, you are welcome, you are the birthday star today, so there is no need to be so polite."
Master Song responded repeatedly, and then turned around to salute Bai Shanzhouman, bent sideways and said: "You two adults can come, it really makes my Song family flourish, princess, son-in-law, Mr. Yin, please come inside quickly please."
Bai Shan responded with a smile, and a group of people followed Master Song into the room.
As soon as I entered the gate, I saw many tables in the yard, and many guests stood up to look at them.
The Song family is actually not small, but there are many people living in it, and there is actually not much open space. The banquet is divided into inside and outside, with male guests outside and female guests inside, completely separated.
Most of the children are inside with the female customers, not to mention, there are quite a lot of people.
When Ming Da and Man Bao followed the female family members of the Song family to sit at the main table of the female guests behind them, they saw that there were only two or three adults on a table, and the rest were all children, and there were fourteen or five people sitting at a table. Surprised.
She carefully sat on the first seat, thanked Mrs. Song for the sweet wine, and could not help whispering to Zhou Man, "Why are there so many people sitting at one table?"
Man Bao took a look and said in a low voice, "You want to ask why there are so many children?"
Princess Mingda nodded repeatedly.
Man Bao also glanced at the guests sitting in the room, and said in a low voice: "I have given so much gift money, of course I have to bring some more people over to eat enough."
Mingda: ...
Man Bao said: "It's not good for adults to come too much, but it's okay for children to bring a few more. Don't look at them as young, they actually eat a lot. If you open up and eat, it's almost like an adult."
Mingda never thought about the problem of having enough money for a banquet at home.
She looked at Zhou Man suspiciously, "Really?"
Then if they also want to eat enough, how much will they have to eat to get back their money, and... "Isn't there a reward?"
Man Bao sighed and said: "This place is different from the capital city. For example, you and the Song family, this time you came to the Song family's birthday banquet and gave gifts. Do you think your family will have to travel thousands of miles to give Song a wedding banquet in the future?" Do you send a post?"
Mingda shook his head, "... I don't need this return gift."
Man Bao thought about it, and felt that his example was inappropriate, and then whispered: "The Song family is the richest and most powerful family in Beihai County. Let's see how many people his family has invited this time, but these families really have A happy event or a funeral may not necessarily send a letter to the Song family."
"Why?"
"Because I know their family won't go."
She didn't know why, anyway, it was like this, she searched hard in her limited life time, and finally found a suitable example, "For example, Master Bai and the governor of Mianzhou, um, they are Bai Er's biological father, Your father-in-law."
Man Baodao: "I remember that Master Bai would go to the birthday banquet of various people in Mianzhou Governor's Mansion every year, but if there is anything in Master Bai's house, people who are never called Mianzhou Governor's Mansion will only be invited to our Luojiang County at most. magistrate."
She said: "Look, Master Bai has given out so much gift money, but he never got it back once."
Mingda thought about it, looked at the people in the room, and said in a low voice: "So I have to eat it back!"
Man Bao nodded fiercely.
Mrs. Song personally brought up a wine bottle, and said to Princess Mingda and Zhou Man: "Princess, my lord, this is the fruit wine in our house, I don't know if it suits the princess's taste, if you are not used to sweet wine, why don't you eat it?" this?"
Mrs. Song's eldest daughter-in-law immediately stepped forward to change the glass in front of the princess, and carefully poured fruit wine with her mother-in-law.
Mingda felt a little uncomfortable. Mrs. Song's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are both quite old, and she is very uncomfortable being entertained by them like this.
Zhou Man smiled and said to them: "Let's all have a taste and leave it to the servants. Madam, please sit down."
Only then did Mrs. Song sit down on the chair carefully. She was also very uncomfortable, and smiled awkwardly at the princess and Zhou Man. When she heard the call to open the table, she immediately said: "Hurry up and get someone to serve, princess, our family I specially bought some sea fish from the beach this time, you have to taste them well, and if they taste good, I will send you some later.”
Mingda responded with a smile, but couldn't help looking forward, seeing nothing through the door and the yard.
Mingda couldn't help lowering his voice and asked Zhou Man, "Aren't we going to celebrate his birthday?"
Man Bao whispered: "We are here to celebrate our birthday."
Mingda: ...
Sure enough, she was greeted by Mrs. Song and her daughter-in-law the whole time, and she couldn't see Mr. Shou Xing.
Mingda simply relaxed and ate and drank with Zhou Man as the Romans did, and then chatted with the ladies at the same table, listening to them talk about some weaving and dyeing housework was also very interesting.
In the middle of the meal, most of the people were full, and everyone couldn't help but relax a little bit. They felt that although the princess was beautiful and proud, there were echoes when talking to her, so everyone was not too scared, so they started to ask some questions. The matter of the capital is coming.
For example, how big is the capital
Mingda is not very good at bragging, she can only describe it as, "It's quite big."
Man Bao on the side couldn't help but pursed his lips into a smile, and said to everyone: "If you only look at it from the gate, one gate in the capital is as big as four in Beihai County."
The ladies couldn't help being amazed.