Time has passed, and Li Donggua and Chen, who didn't come back yesterday and rushed back today, also came back, bringing the God of Wealth ornament that Li Donggua carved by himself as a congratulatory gift.
Then other greeting guests from the town also arrived one after another.
The first to arrive was Song Wenzhi's family.
Following them was Fan Jin.
Song Qiu and the two elders of the Fan family have never stopped walking around, but the Fan family is an official, so the two elders of the Fan family will not come to drink in person.
Now Fan Jin is the chief steward of the Fan family, which is different from last year when he came to congratulate her on the opening of the inn.
He was sent here by the two elders of the Fan family.
Both families gave great gifts.
Song Qiu personally welcomed them in, took them to look around, and then invited them into the inner hall to sit and drink tea.
Immediately afterwards, Mr. Lu and Mrs. Lu arrived together with the shopkeeper and his wife.
Then shopkeeper Wu took his wife.
Song Qiu sent invitations to only these families, but unexpectedly, people who did not receive invitations also came to several families.
There are the shopkeepers of Fangji Grocery Store here, Qi the manager of Xianfulai, the owner and his wife of Luoji Cloth Shop, which Song Qiu often patronizes, and the owners and shopkeepers of several shops to the left and right of the dessert shop.
There were so many more people than expected, and Song Qiu didn't panic. Fortunately, she thought it would be better to have something than nothing, so she specially prepared two extra tables.
This time, there is no need to panic.
After Song Qiu received the guests, he sat with Xiao for a while, then got up and went to work in the large kitchen in the inner courtyard.
It was agreed that Mrs. Shen and the others would come and she would prepare the banquet herself.
Therefore, she prepared a few tables in the inner courtyard instead of eating with the big banquet in the outer courtyard.
She had already prepared a lot of troublesome dishes for the banquet yesterday, so today she just started to stir-fry them, so she could get busy quickly.
Then the Wang family was transferred to start the work, and Lin and Wang Chunxi were added to the work, and the work was also very fast.
The banquet started on time at noon.
More than twenty tables in the outer courtyard were served together, and the entire Songshan Village, young and old, came, and the seats were full. The twelve-course meal was sumptuous, and the men had enough to drink and drink.
Six tables were set up in the inner courtyard, and the seats were opened immediately.
There are also twelve dishes, but there are four more snacks.
Mr. Tang, the village chief, and Mrs. Mo were also invited to sit. Together with the Yuan family, the Hu family, and the Lihua family, three tables were filled.
The remaining three tables were filled with guests from the town.
Song Qiu sat with Ms. Shen and the other female guests at the table, drinking glasses and asking questions, expressing her gratitude to all of you for coming all the way today.
Then he got up and went to Song Wenzhi and the other two tables of male guests to toast them and let them eat and drink well.
A meal where both the guest and the host enjoy themselves.
After the meal, the guests in the town took their leave one after another, and Song Qiu saw each other off one by one. Song Wenzhi and his family stayed at a leisure place to drink tea and relax with Song Qiu. After a while, they said goodbye and left.
Everyone in the village helped clear the table, and the woman who helped also cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks before they each carried the remaining banquets home. There were still more, and the women who helped could not finish them.
Other families in the village carried it back separately.
The banquet is full of oil and water, so even the leftovers are good things.
Then only the Yuan family and the Hu family were left, and of course, Lihua.
Yuan Dashuan and the others were about to leave, but old Yuan insisted on letting them rest for one night.
When a new house is put on fire, lights are lit for three days, and relatives and friends stay there for one night, which is considered warm and popular.
You are not busy with farm work now, and staying one night will not delay things. In addition, the house is enough now and you are not afraid of being crowded, so Yuan Dashuan and Hu Yuanshi, the two elder brothers and sisters, nodded and agreed to stay.
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This was also the first time in thirty years of marriage that Mrs. Yuan had left her mother-in-law to rest. Mrs. Yuan was extremely happy. She spent the afternoon relaxing with her brothers and sisters. All she could say was sighing at her granddaughter's current ability and ability.
The comfort in her heart.
Yuan Dashuan and others also agreed. No one understands how difficult it is for her than her relatives.
Now, all the hardships have come to an end.
Such a big house and so grand, it is incomparable to any other house in town!
Talking about the house, Old Yuan was happy again and took everyone to stroll around the garden.
All in all, it was a good pastime for an afternoon, but I didn’t feel that much, and it was already dark in a flash.
In the evening, apart from my own family, there were only two families, Yuan and Hu. There were only a few people, but they were crowded enough to sit at two tables.
We had a lively dinner, then sat and drank tea and relaxed. It was getting late, so we arranged for accommodation.
There were about twenty people in the Yuan and Hu families, but they were not worried about not having enough room to live in. The six guest rooms in the east wing of the west wing of the courtyard were enough for them.
The lamp on the desk in the hall stayed on all night, for three days.
Today, there was a big banquet for the guests and they moved into the new house. Song Qiu finally felt a worry in his mind.
From then on, I lived in this new house.
The new home is big and comfortable, everything is in order, it’s really a pleasant life.
The residence for the three of us has been decided a long time ago. Now that the new ones have moved in, arrangements have been made for Zou and others.
Aunt Song lived in the west wing of Sanjin Courtyard, which was close to the old Yuan family and easy to talk to.
The Zou family, the Lin family, four in red, yellow, blue and green, and sisters Wang Chunxi, all live in the four-in-the-back room. The Zou family and Lin family live in a separate room, and the others share a room.
Du Chuanfu lived alone in the guest room in the outer east courtyard. When the time came to marry Mr. Zou, they would live together here.
The concierge Li Daqian and Mrs. Shi lived in the reverse-seat room next to the concierge. Wang Laifu and Mrs. Yu lived in the reverse-seat room in the outer west courtyard. Wang Chunzhu and Tian Ping also lived in the outer west courtyard.
In this way, there are still some servant rooms left, so if more people are added later, there will not be no room for them.
In Song Qiu and Aling's suite, there is also a small couch in the gauze cupboard where people can sleep.
But neither of them was used to having maids waiting for them, so Zou and Song Qiu mentioned that the four of them would take turns keeping watch at night, but Song Qiu refused.
But Mr. Zou taught them the rules. Even if they were not on duty at night to wait for orders, they were also scheduled to be on duty. Before Song Qiu and the others went to bed, they would all wait in the embroidery building to wait for orders.
So Song Qiu, Aling and Lihua came back to the embroidery building after talking to old Yuan. Lu Yan and Lan Yi were already waiting.
When I saw them coming back, I quickly fetched hot water for them to wash themselves.
After a lot of busy work, Song Qiu took Lihua, crossed the gauze cupboard, and went to the bedroom, lying on the huge huanghuali wood canopy bed. The bedside lamp was brightly lit, and the room was quiet and peaceful.
Lihua rolled over on the bed and laughed out loud with joy.
"This bed is so soft when you sleep on it!"
"Aqiu, do you remember that one night when I was a child, I was sleeping at your house and kicked you out of the bed by kicking the quilt. At that time, you said that you hoped to sleep in a big bed one day and have a good night's sleep.
I can't even get out of bed, even if the two of us sleep together, we can't squeeze in. Now, it's come true. Ah Qiu, you have a golden mouth, Xu's vision can come true!"
"If I had known you were so smart, I should have made you wish that I would become whiter and more beautiful when I grow up!"
He was a little far away when he was a child, and his memory is not very clear, but Song Qiu still laughed when he heard it, "Really? I am Jinzui, how about you let me make a promise for you in the future now?"