Although there are many questions, Yang Chen is not a particularly gossiping person, and has no plans to ask anything.
After the banquet started, Guo Xuehua handed the Hua carved wine porcelain bottle taken by his servants to Lin Ruoxi's hand, motioned with his eyes, and let Lin Ruoxi be responsible for pouring the wine.
Lin Ruoxi was startled for a moment before remembering her current identity. It seemed that this kind of work should indeed be done by herself. Although she was a bit unaccustomed, she still blushed and started pouring the wine one by one from Yang Gongming.
Yang Chen smiled and said, "My wife, this is the first time you pour me a drink."
Lin Ruoxi looked at his rogue appearance and became angry, snorted and ignored him.
Seeing this in his eyes, Yang Gongming smiled and asked: "I heard your mother say, are you coming back this time, are you planning to have a wedding?"
Yang Chen grabbed a chicken leg while gnawing, and smiled and said: "Old man, I have spent a lot of money to prepare for this wedding. I mainly come back and want to ask you to sponsor it."
"You are quite straightforward," Yang Gongming sipped his wine and said leisurely.
Lin Ruoxi kicked Yang Chen's calf under the table, how could he not be more serious if he only hated this guy, he would be short of money
If it weren't for the bride to pay for the wedding by herself, she would want to give it to her.
Yang Chen didn't take it seriously, "After all, it's a family, and yours is mine. Even if you don't have money, you can send a few pieces of "Home" treasures to please you."
Yang Gongming did not answer, but said: "After dinner later, you follow me to the Yang family's ancestral hall and kowtow to the ancestors. In the afternoon, there will be some patriarchs of our old Yang family's direct family, who will come together with you. Meet me. If you want money to be treasured, and let them approve it, it will naturally be yours."
"It's so simple? Once you approve it, this entire Yang family will belong to me?" Yang Chen asked with a smile.
Yang Gongming glanced at him and said, "Naturally wait for me to go west, otherwise you will be allowed to ruin it?"
Yang Chen bite hard. Chicken "I knew that you old fox were not so kind."
“Don’t think I don’t know what you are drawing, but it doesn’t matter. It’s better to have a plan than nothing. It’s human nature.” Yang Gongming sighed, “It’s just that there must be rules. It has to be done. As for what process you will choose, I don’t care, I just need to see the result I want."
Yang Chen pondered for a while before he said: "You said so profound, so you won't let your granddaughter-in-law become stupid?"
With that, Yang Chen snarled at Lin Ruoxi.
Lin Ruoxi was indeed in a daze, because she didn't know how the grandfather and grandson communicated.
After being teased by Yang Chen, his pretty face smashed a fist and smashed it on Yang Chen's face!
Yang Chen didn't avoid it, and continued with a smile, and stuffed Lin Ruoxi's red lips with the half-eaten chicken thigh on his hand.
"Yeah! Disgusting!!"
Lin Ruoxi couldn't take it anymore, and hurriedly fled to the seat next to Guo Xuehua, glaring at Yang Chen with anger.
Yan Sanniang pursed her lips and smiled: "Master, it seems that Master Chen and his wife are very affectionate."
Yang Gongming nodded in agreement, "Indeed."
Guo Xuehua on the side listened, and the corners of his mouth twitched a little.
Next, Yang Gongming asked about some recent events, most of which were trivial matters in life. Yang Chen only cared about eating and drinking, and Lin Ruoxi answered most of them.
When it was almost drinking, a maid from Yang Gongming beckoned.
The servant knew it, and soon he brought a small bowl of noodles and put it in front of Guo Xuehua.
Guo Xuehua was stunned, only then did he remember something.
"Xuehua, today is also your birthday, but after all, it's not a young man anymore, so I have prepared simple longevity noodles for you, which is a good hope," Yang Gongming said kindly.
Guo Xuehua was immediately moved and smiled: "Dad, I didn't expect you to remember it. I haven't had a birthday in the past few years, so I didn't think of it."
"Who makes you go home often, naturally no one thinks of your birthday" Yang Gongming pretended to be displeased.
Guo Xuehua smiled blankly, but his eyes were full of gratitude.
For the big family, the status of women is actually not as high as in ordinary families. After all, the concept of respect and inferiority is relatively strict.
Therefore, as a father-in-law like Yang Gongming, he can still remember the birthday of his daughter-in-law who has never done anything, and he also specially prepares longevity noodles. Guo Xuehua will inevitably be especially grateful.
Seeing this scene, Lin Ruoxi, who had prepared a birthday gift long ago, was a little nervous, suddenly felt that the gift Yang Chen bought was really unreliable, should he take it out
No, Yang Chen had already spoken and grinned: "Mom, happy birthday, Ruoxi said just now that today is your birthday, and specially bought you a present."
Guo Xuehua smiled and looked at Lin Ruoxi with relief in his eyes, "It's still your child who is interested, Yang Chen may not have that concept at all. In fact, there is no need to buy any gifts, just one meaning, after all, there is nothing missing."
"Mom... I wish you a happy birthday too, that gift... gift..." Lin Ruoxi hesitated, got up quickly, and said, "I'll get the gift over, in the travel box."
When Lin Ruoxi ran to pick up the present, Guo Xuehua asked Yang Chen doubtfully, "Did you kid fool Ruoxi or something? Why does she look weird?"
Yang Chen said awe-inspiringly: "Am I that kind of person? Besides, I don't have the guts. Who doesn't know that I am a strict wife?"
Yang Gongming interjected lightly, "Well, it's a good thing for young people to have self-knowledge."
Yang Chen had to admire this old man, although he was very old, but still very flexible in his mind.
Not long after, Lin Ruoxi hugged a gift box about one foot high, came to the table, and gently sent it to Guo Xuehua's arms.
"Mom, I bought it hastily, so I don't know if you like it or not. If you feel bad, I'll buy you one again" Lin Ruoxi said seriously.
For her who has always been careful and meticulous in doing things, giving gifts to her mother-in-law is a serious matter.
Guo Xuehua was also curious about what was inside, stood up, and just opened the box on the spot.
When he saw the "real body" inside Guo Xuehua, his face became weird on the spot.
Yang Gongming and Yan Sanniang also looked a little bit dumbfounded, and Lin Ruoxi, who gave the gift, was even hotter than the ears.
I saw a large, round and plump pottery figurine doll painted by colorful hua, standing on a porcelain cushion in a naive manner.
Although this doll looks very eye-catching in green and huahua, it looks like a beer bottle. It is really weird as a gift to Guo Xuehua.
Guo Xuehua couldn't help smiling and said, "This doll looks like she's pregnant, isn't it a pregnant doll? Ruoxi, mom thinks it's appropriate for you to keep it."
Lin Ruoxi was even more shy, gritted her teeth and looked at Yang Chen, all because of this guy.
"I look pretty good, Madam, why don't you keep it," Yan Sanniang said with a smile.
Yang Gongming asked Yang Chen, "Since you chose it, why don't you talk about why you chose this gift?"
Yang Chen was using his chopsticks to fight a rock sugar pig's trotters. Hearing this, he curled his lips and said reluctantly: "Of course there are reasons, but this kind of thing is meaningless."
"No, I have to say it." Guo Xuehua was very interested. "Today's mom's birthday, you choose a pregnant baby doll for me. What is it, is it possible that I still want my younger siblings?"
Yang Chen looked embarrassed and said hurriedly: "Come on, I said, I said, your words have squeezed all the goose bumps out of my whole body."
Everyone couldn't help laughing, and even the servants not far away couldn't help laughing.
Yang Chen wiped his mouth and pointed to the naive baby: "This kind of Russian doll named Matroska actually has a mystery in it."
"Mystery?"
"Not bad" Yang Chen leaned forward and picked up the doll from the base.
Everyone was surprised that after the doll was removed, a small but identical Russian doll appeared inside.
Lin Ruoxi stepped forward with interest and removed the doll, not wanting, but a smaller doll appeared below!
Everyone here understands this time.
Guo Xuehua picked up two more and found that there were five dolls in total, which were put together!
"It's interesting, it's all interlocking, the doll has a doll inside, it's really good," Yang Gongming praised.
"This should have any special meaning," Yan Sanniang asked.
Yang Chen nodded and said with a smile: "Matroska Russian doll, in Russian, means'mother doll'. It is made layer after layer, and the implication is that the mother protects the child layer by layer. in… "
This time, no one laughed anymore, they all looked at the doll silently, with lots of thoughts.
Guo Xuehua's eyes were red and shiny, looking at Yang Chen with relief, and silently put the doll away and put it in the box.
"Okay, Mom accepted this gift, but I won't be allowed to buy this kind of gift in the future. Not only does it look strange, but it also makes it easy to cry," Guo Xuehua quipped.
While Lin Ruoxi breathed a sigh of relief, she also gave Yang Chen a bit of anger, clearly knowing the meaning of the doll, but was stunned and refused to tell her in advance.
A lunch, although it was the first gathering at home, everyone in Xiaojiazi ended happily.
After the meal, Guo Xuehua with a deep smile on his face led Lin Ruoxi back to her room in the backyard.
And Yang Chen, following Yang Gongming in the ancestral shrine, but resignedly kowtow, in fact, kowtow is nothing, but when someone sees him kowtow, Yang Chen feels quite shameless.
When she came out of the ancestral hall, Yan Sanniang came forward and said, "Master, as I said before, the patriarchs of the direct family have already arrived in the front hall, waiting for Master Chen to meet them."
"Oh, they are on time," Yang Gongming said with a smile.
"But..." Yan Sanniang said a little worriedly: "In addition to our Yang family's direct family, some other neutral families from Yanjing, as well as many opposing military figures, are also here."
Yang Gongming squinted his eyes, and said with a sneer: "Is that right? Come on."
After that, Yang Gongming turned his head and said to Yang Chen: "You know, old men are easy to get sleepy. You can do the next thing. I'm going to take a nap."
Yang Chen always felt that there was a bad feeling, listening to the meaning of Yan Sanniang's words, it was obvious that someone came to find fault.
But he was not the one who was afraid of things, and said indifferently: "What if someone dies?"
Yang Gongming laughed a few times, and a few gleams of light flashed in a pair of old eyes, "Dead people are dying every day, the key is, who is dead."
"You said it earlier" Yang Chen snapped his fingers, nodded knowingly, and said to Yan Sanniang: "Mrs. Yan, lead the way."