Zhou Jiashen was having a banquet, Mrs. Liu and Master Bai also came over and set up two tables in the next yard.
Originally, they wanted Zhou Man to greet the princess and they had dinner in the courtyard, which was clean and quiet, but who knew that Yin or took a fancy to the table on the road, so he went to see Zhou Man, "Let's go out to eat."
Zhou Man looked at Mingda, "Do you want to go out, or use it in the yard?"
Mingda was also very interested in the dining table on the road, so he nodded quickly, "Let's go out."
So the people at their table sat outside.
Inviting the whole village to eat, the Zhou family's kitchen is not enough. There are a lot of ingredients in the yard, and the kitchen is requisitioned from the homes of two good neighbors, which is enough.
Naturally, the tables could not be placed in the two yards of the Zhou family alone, so the entire road in front of the door was set up with tables.
Each family marked their own tables and benches and put them out. The country people did not have too many rules when eating banquets. Except for the tables in the house where the elders should sit, the other tables were all casual.
Originally, Mingda and the others should have dinner in the side yard, but they had to sit on the road, so Qian could only temporarily arrange a table for them.
The table had already been set at the entrance of the village, and Zhou Man took a fancy to the coolness under the banyan tree, so he dragged them to sit under the banyan tree.
Bai Erlang clicked his tongue and said: "It's just your house, other houses don't have such a grand banquet..."
Mingda asked curiously, "Don't we have wine in our house?"
Bai Erlang turned his head and asked her, "Do you want to serve wine to welcome you back?"
Mingda: "Can you?"
"Okay." It doesn't cost much to have a meal, and his parents are probably very happy, but... "My family shouldn't invite so many guests."
Mingda was puzzled, "Don't we invite the whole village? Zhou Man's family invited them."
Bai Erlang: "Our family is different from theirs. Most of the people in Qili Village have the surname Zhou, and they are all related to their family. Even those who don't have the surname Zhou have a good relationship with their family, and they are all related to the Zhou family, so Please, our family…”
Why did their family invite the whole village to eat together
Mingda: "Do you still need to find a relationship with the people? Just say please eat the flowing water table."
Bai Erlang's eyes widened in surprise, "Since when did you start to like ostentation?"
Mingda: "I just feel happy. Seeing them happy makes me happy too."
"Okay, since you're happy, then please," Bai Erlang said with a smile, "I'll talk to my father when I get back in the evening, but besides them, there are some relatives and friends in our family who want to invite me."
Like his uncle's family.
His uncle's family is in Mianzhou, a little far away, so it might take two or three days to prepare in advance.
Mingda thought it could be done, so she turned her head to look at the endless tables and crowd, and couldn't help smiling, "You Qili Village is really interesting."
She has grown up so much, she has never eaten such a mat, and it really is just like the literal, it is a flowing water mat.
Yin Ru is also very novel, and also enjoys watching it.
When they sat down at the table, people from the village looked over, but because Mingda was there, she had an air of dignity, and she was a princess, so everyone hesitated for a moment, but still didn't come up.
Zhou Man got up to pour tea for everyone, and the person at the next table spoke to her, "Man Bao, is the princess sitting next to you?"
Zhou Man smiled and said yes, everyone stood up and bowed to Mingda, looking at her curiously, "The princess looks like this, she is so pretty."
"Yeah, it looks better than Man Bao. I really didn't expect the second young master to marry a princess. Back then, I touched fish for the second young master..."
Mingda originally lowered his head and smiled shyly. Hearing this, he raised his head and looked curiously at the speaker. Seeing that it was an elderly woman, he couldn't help being curious, "Fishing?"
Seeing that the princess took the initiative to talk to him, the other party was very excited, and immediately replied, "Yes, yes, the Bai family used to not allow the young masters to go near the water, and the second young master wanted to learn how to cook fish. Please let us go down the river and help him catch fish."
Zhou Man interjected, "A chivalrous man."
"That's right, that's the customer." The other party narrowed his eyes with a smile, "Touching a fish, regardless of its size, costs ten cents. It's a pity that this business was disrupted by Zhou Zhoulang and the others."
She looked at Zhou Man, "Man Bao, your fourth brother did a lot of bad things for us before."
Zhou Man chuckled, "Why didn't sister-in-law beat him then?"
That also requires her to be able to hit people, Zhou Zhoulang is like a loach, no one can hit him except his parents.
"But Zhou Zhoulang doesn't need money to catch fish for the second young master. Man Bao, I wanted to ask you a long time ago, did you let your fourth brother come to steal our business?"
Zhou Man looked puzzled, "Is there any, I don't even remember."
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang lowered their heads and held back their laughter. After a while, they tried their best to raise their heads and said with a straight face: "Yeah, I don't remember these things. When we were young, we still roasted fish? I remember the adults said that we are not allowed to play with fire." of."
Convenience thought they had really forgotten, and quickly told them more things to remind them, "Yes, you stole firewood from our house at that time, and you lit a fire by the river to grill fish, but the fish It was roasted black, and the faces of the three of them were covered with black charcoal, but they kept saying it was delicious... "
Yin Or couldn't help but lower his head and laugh, and said softly: "Do you still remember that the guest is a knight, but you don't remember the matter of catching fish?"
The three parties just pretended not to hear.
For the people of Qili Village, Man Bao and Zhou Zhou Lang were the ones who surprised them the most.
One is the girl they grew up with. Who would have thought that a golden phoenix would fly out of this mountain nest, and not only become a high official, but also a princess. It was unbelievable twenty years ago. Even now, there are still people in the village who wonder if the Zhou family is bragging.
The one they watched growing up was mischievous and mischievous. It was rumored that Bai Erlang was punished by his husband from time to time. He was even more surprising. Who would have thought that he could marry the emperor's daughter
Twenty years ago, the young master who fought wits and bravery with his servants and would go to the river to touch mud; or the young master who went to the mountains with a group of naughty children, found a big rock, and competed with others to pee in the wind. Lang Jun; Bai Erlang, who was scolded by his father every now and then, and punished by his husband to copy books, suddenly turned into a son-in-law...
In contrast, no matter what achievements Bai Shan has made, the villagers are not surprised.
After all, although he is mischievous and even takes the lead in many things, he is smart. Isn't it natural for smart people to have achievements
However, the villagers now agree that Bai Shan is not as good as Bai Erlang, and they discuss in private, "Is this young master of the Bai family not as old as the children said when he came back, so he must not be good?"
Of course, they only dared to say it in private, not in front of the Zhou family and the Bai family.
Not only the villagers think so, but Mrs. Bai also feels this way.