In the evening of this day, the Shen Mansion held a family banquet in advance to entertain these relatives and friends who came.
There were three tables for the banquet, which were placed in the main hall of Mrs. Shen. The doors on both sides were wide open. The three tables in the middle were the Shen family, Shen Yunong, Mrs. Shen, Mrs. Shen, and Miss Shen Xiurong. , Mrs. Shen Shao, the second aunt and her twins, and Aunt Zhou and her little tiger head. The little tiger head was held by Aunt Zhou at the beginning. The head of the little tiger is more than three months old. He is fat and has a round face. Round and cute, wearing a little tiger-headed hat, tiger-headed and tiger-headed, just taking advantage of his breast name.
The second concubine was originally the maidservant of the maidservant of Mrs. Shen's Huangfu Haoyue's family, and her parents and friends all stayed in the old house of Huangfu to the south. Therefore, no one from the second concubine's family came over for this Hundred Day Banquet in Little Tiger Head.
Only Liu Qiqiao has many family members, big and small, almost sitting at the same table.
Because Jiang Cuicui had to sit next to Liu Qiqiao, she had to sit at the table of Liu Qiqiao, while the second young master Shen Yuyuan sat next to Shen Yunong at the middle table.
The rest of the aunt and family are all at the remaining table.
The dinner began. The well-trained maidservants walked in from the outside one after another with trays in their hands. Every time three people came in, the dishes were divided into three parts and placed on three tabletops.
The family members of these aunts, especially Liu Qiqiao's family, saw this battle for the first time, and couldn't help but stare with surprise on their faces.
Aunt Zhou looked at Liu Qiqiao's table, and she was secretly mocking. Fortunately, she didn't have such a family member who couldn't be on the table. Otherwise, it would be really hard to sit here and lose face.
At this moment, a roast duck was served. The skin of the duck was grilled shiny and shiny. Liu Tiezhu's child, who was only a few years old, finally did not hold it back. He stretched out his hand and timidly picked a piece of duck meat before he could pass it into his mouth. , His mother stretched out her hand and slapped him on his hand. His hand shook, and the piece of duck meat fell on the table. Liu Tiezhu curled his mouth, but fortunately, he didn’t cry. Duck, swallow directly.
Liu Qiqiao heard the movement and looked over. She saw the stepmother carefully picked up the piece of duck meat, and then carefully put it back on the roast duck, feeling Liu Qiqiao looking at her, she looked up and turned her face. , Smiling at Liu Qiqiao, so embarrassed.
Liu Qiqiao also felt a little embarrassed. She nodded gently, smiled, don't open her face, and looked at the contemptuous glance that Aunt Zhou had swept over. Liu Qiqiao was startled. Recently, Aunt Zhou always smiled. It is rare for Liu Qiqiao to have such a tricky expression. Liu Qiqiao looked back as he hadn't seen it, and came up one by one. Each dish was exquisite in style and smelled like a fragrant smell. This made the two little ones, Liu Tiezhu and Liu Xiaodie kept swallowing saliva, which made Liu Qiqiao’s stepmother excessively nervous, either glaring at the youngest son or winking at the youngest daughter, for fear that she would not pay attention to the two young ones. Will stretch out five fingers to grab something to eat.
Fortunately, the scene that Liu Qiqiao’s stepmother was worried about did not happen. The dishes were finally served on a table full of dishes. The last thing on the table was a plate of dumplings. The dough of the dumplings was crystal clear, and the folds were made like jade. The thin skin can almost see the filling inside.
Rao’s Liu family’s conditions are better nowadays, and he often eats dumplings, but he has never seen such exquisite dumplings, which made Liu Qiqiao’s stepmother partly opened his mouth in surprise, and waited to realize that he After losing her attitude, she hurriedly closed her mouth and wiped the corners of her mouth subconsciously. Fortunately, she didn't drool. She looked at Liu Qiqiao again, for fear that she might discredit Liu Qiqiao because of her lack of knowledge.
Liu Qiqiao was fine. Out of rules, she couldn't tell her two younger siblings to start using chopsticks now, but she still smiled and said to her younger brother and sister, "You can eat it later!"
The sound is very small, only two small ones can hear it softly.
Liu Tiezhu and Liu Xiaodie nodded violently, motioning for them to understand.
When the dishes were ready, Shen Yunong stood up and signaled the servants to fill up the glasses in front of the guests. He smiled and said: "Thank you all for coming to the Children’s Hundred Days in your busy schedule. At the banquet, I will prepare a little wine at the banquet. They are all relatives. I usually neglect to walk around. It’s not right to go. In the future, I beg you to come to the mansion more. We are all real relatives. It’s more lively and prosperous. Come on, let’s make a toast to you all from afar. I’m all guests from afar. Shen Yunong will do it first!” After finishing speaking, Shen Yunong drank the wine in the cup. Below, I took a sip with everyone who could drink. Then a maid came over and filled Shen Yunong and everyone's cups. Shen Yunong went on to say, "My relatives said, I don’t say much. In a polite way, the wine and food are not good, you will just have some..."
Someone echoed below, and the host and the host enjoyed themselves. Shen Yunong took the cup again, table by table, and toasted by individuals. First, he went to the tables of Sanyiniang, Siyiniang, and Liuyiniang. Others just said kindly congratulations. If it is, only the cousin of Liu Yiniang, Yan Zukang, got up very proudly, and opened his mouth to tell Shen Yunong to do: "Brother-in-law, you are... you are too polite, come here, and your uncle will come to offer you a glass..."
Shen Yunong grinned unnaturally, while Gao Feifeng also looked happy: "Msang Gong, cousin respects you!"
Shen Yunong had to take a sip. He usually does not drink very well. At this time, he was afraid that others would follow the trend and come to toast his own wine. He was busy pressing Yan Zukang and sat back in his position: "I will pay for it tomorrow. If there is a big banquet, I can’t drink too much. Otherwise, if I drink too much, I won’t be able to get up tomorrow, but I missed an important event, Brother Yan, you drink by yourself, how much you drink, and tell the maids to pour it out, and do your best!"
Hearing what he said, Yan Zukang felt that he had a lot of face, so he drank the wine in the glass, then turned his head back, pointed to the little maid behind him and said, "Come on, pour the wine!"
Shen Yunong reluctantly recruited the little maid to come over: "Fill Master Yan!"
On this side, Yan Zukang was drinking with a smile, and Shen Yunong got rid of him and walked towards the table where Liu Qiqiao and her family were sitting.
Father Liu saw that it was Shen Yunong who was here, and he stood up in a hurry, "The big... the big young master is here!"
He stood up, and at this table, his wife, his two sons, and their women all stood up in a hurry. Only Liu Qiqiao and Jiang Cuicui were talking, speaking warmly and enthusiastically. Seriously, they didn't stand up, but Liu Qiqiao saw Shen Yunong approaching at a glance, and then frowned. Both father and stepmother stood up, and she said helplessly, "Sit down!" "
No one listened to her until Shen Yunong said politely: "What do you do when you stand up, Master Yue Zhang, Master Mother-in-Law, Little Son-in-law are polite!" Shen Yunong bowed respectfully and bowed to Liu. Waved his hand and said: "I can't use it, I can't use it!"
Liu Qiqiao was thinking in her heart that her family respected him too much, but she felt that someone was stabbing her around her waist. She turned her head, and Jiang Cuicui said with a smile, "You are here, can you ask him, is it okay?"
Shen Yunong asked strangely: "What can I do?"
Liu Qiqiao laughed: "Cui Cui thought of sleeping with me in my house at night. She was afraid that you would come over at night, so she asked if you could?"
Shen Yunong looked at Jiang Cuicui with a smile: "Of course, I won't be there. Also, you have to pay attention to protecting the little child in your stomach. I have heard what my grandma said, so happy for you and your second brother! "
Jiang Cuicui said in a nutshell, "What's so happy about it, but is it going to have a baby? When a woman gets married, she will give birth..." At this point, she seemed to think of something, and looked at Liu Qiqiao, carefully up and down. Look, it makes Liu Qiqiao straight hair: "Why are you staring at me like this?"
Jiang Cuicui said strangely: "Hey, you are more married than me, why have you never been pregnant with a baby?"
Liu Qiqiao didn't expect that she was going to say this. She still looked at Jiang Cuicui seriously. At this time, she felt that at this table, her family, and Shen Yunong, all looked at herself curiously. To embarrass her, she wished she disappeared immediately, but the banquet had just begun, and she shook her head hastily: "Having a baby is also fate, so you have to cherish it!"
Everyone told Jiang Cicui to be careful with her stomach, because her character is too active, but only what Liu Qiqiao said made her feel uncomfortable. She nodded and gently stroked her stomach: "I will. The Second Young Master is so good to me, I want to give him a few more children. He always seems to be unhappy. I think, with children, he might be happy..."
These few words of her surprised Liu Qiqiao. She thought that Shen Yuyuan, who got Jiang Cuicui's wife, would change her temperament. At least, she would not look so depressed anymore. I don't want to, listen to Jiang Cuicui's words, he Still the same, Liu Qiqiao subconsciously looked at Shen Yuyuan, who was sitting next to Mrs. Shen, at another table. He didn't want to. Shen Yuyuan was looking at him because he was worried about Jiang Cuicui. The two eyes met each other in the air, and Shen Yuyuan's eyes sank. Shen, Liu Qiqiao’s appearance before and after the new year was much different. During the New Year, Shen Yuyuan brought Jiang Cuicui. Liu Qiqiao was still like a careless child. The corners of his eyes and eyebrows were slightly immature, but when he came back, he found her. Obviously changed, the corners of the eyebrows are no longer immature, but a kind of style, affection, and the gentle affection of a woman. In the emotion of lowering her eyelids and turning her face away, Shen Yuyuan smiled sadly. Laughing, looking at his wife again, the corners of his lips showed gentleness. Jiang Cuicui was sitting there, in an emerald green dress. From the back, she was still very thin and could not be seen at all. She was a young woman Jiang Cuicui who was three months pregnant. Up.
Everyone is changing, and many people have changed their appearance when we didn't realize it.