"Ms. Ziyuan, your house is now the most elegant in our village. Your house is really beautiful, especially the thatched hut. It's very well made!" Tiedan Niang, the aunt next door, came in from the door.
He smiled and said, "This yard is big enough. Even if Brother Xia marries a wife in the future, it will be big enough to hold more than a dozen banquets!"
"How old is Banxia? It's still early for what aunt said. How many aunts have had breakfast?" Lu Ziyuan smiled and continued, and then called He Chunmei out of the back room.
It is a custom in the village that when other families move to a new house to host a banquet, everyone who attends must bring gifts. Even if the aunts are here to help, they still have gifts in their hands. This one brought a pound of new cotton.
The one brought twenty or thirty eggs, and the Iron Egg Lady even cut a piece of meat and brought it as a gift.
He Chunmei said a few words about the occasion, accepted the gift, and asked the aunts to go inside first to drink tea, knock melon seeds and sit down to do some work.
The aunts entered the back room and saw Lu Lan, Lu He, and Lu Banxia sitting inside. They looked at the new clothes on the three children with surprised expressions on their faces, "These children are all very good today."
They are all dressed very smartly. The fabric of these clothes is not cheap, but it is much better than the rough clothes we wear. They are very comfortable to wear, right?"
Lu He and Lu Banxia nodded. Lu He had been grinning from ear to ear since he put on his new clothes in the morning. He answered in a clear voice, "It's comfortable! My third aunt made it for me and my sister! It's great to wear!"
"Hey, Zi Wan Niang is really kind to you two sisters." The person who answered was Hu Zi Niang whom Lu Zi Wan had met on the bullock cart last time. There was a little bit of other meaning in her tone of voice, which came into Lu Zi Wan's mouth.
It feels a little harsh in the ears.
"Second uncle and aunt are also kind to us!" Lu Banxia answered obediently, which happened to be what Lu Ziyuan wanted to say.
"Look at what Hu Zi Niang said, not all people are a family. The four children are not watched by their elders when they grow up. Naturally, it hurts." Tiedan Niang glanced at Hu Zi Niang, with a hint of reproach in her eyes.
, Hu Zi Niang is not familiar with He Chunmei, but when she heard that Lu Zi Wan’s family was going to have a banquet, she pestered her to help introduce her to help. In fact, Ti Dan Niang also knew very well, although she came to help.
Everyone has to bring gifts, but after the banquet is over, the host will return a bigger gift to express his gratitude for everyone's help.
While they were talking, someone else's voice came from outside the yard. Lu Ziwan walked out. When she saw He Guisheng coming, she went out to greet him.
Because it was such a happy event as building a house, He Chunmei had specially explained it before, so today He Guisheng and his whole family came. He Gao and his daughter-in-law Chen Hong walked behind He Guisheng. He Gao was holding a
Behind them were the two brothers. Lu Ziyuan guessed that the older one was Tianfu, whom the He Gao family always talked about, and the younger one was his younger brother He Fusheng.
"Uncle, you are here. Come into the house. Mom is in the kitchen. I'm calling." Lu Ziwan welcomed a few people into the house, moved out all the stools borrowed from the aunt's house next door, and then called towards the kitchen.
He said, "Mom, uncle is here!"
"Sister Wan, what's the matter with you? Your aunt and I came in for a while and you didn't even call anyone. The same goes for Brother Xia, who knows where to eat!" He Gao started to lecture as soon as he sat down.
Lu Banxia was stunned for a moment before putting down the melon seeds in her hand and shouted, "Grandma, uncle, aunt, cousin Tianfu, cousin Fusheng."