Anyway, it was not her family that was being laughed at, so Lu Ziwan didn't care and just stood aside and just watched the joke to relieve the anger in her heart just now.
"If your family has money, why do you want to give it to my family?" Mrs. He Gao's face didn't even turn red. "I can give as many gifts as I like. Mei Mei didn't say anything. What do you talkative women say?"
"Your sister Mei is embarrassed to call you a mother!" Hu Ziniang teased, "You brought fifteen eggs in a bamboo basket big enough to hold seventy or eighty eggs to give gifts, shouldn't you?
Are you thinking that you will be loading up with other food when you go back later? I heard a few days ago that when Zi Yuan’s mother just built her house, you, the mother-in-law, were so excited that she walked out of Henan Village late at night.
I came here to ask Zi Wan Niang not to build any house. I also heard from the daughter-in-law of the cattle drive uncle that you didn’t ask for money. When you went back, you took away the fish and meat from Sister Wan’s son’s second uncle’s house and even went to the cattle drive uncle’s house.
Let's go charter a car, and it will take you to Henan Village for fifteen cents, you are really generous, but in the end, you didn't ask Lady Zi Wan to give you the money?"
Lu Ziyuan did not expect that these things would be exposed by Hu Ziniang in front of her uncle's family at this time. She didn't care how Hu Ziniang wanted to ridicule He Gao, but He Guisheng was her uncle after all. After hearing these words,
He Guisheng also felt embarrassed.
"Mom, I think it's almost time. Let's take some aunts to work in the kitchen quickly. Don't delay everyone's dinner." Lu Ziyuan pushed He Chunmei and said to the aunts, "Aunts, today
My family has been working hard, and it’s almost time, so my aunts should go to the kitchen to help my mother.”
"Hey, let's go. We are all here to help, not to chat. Go quickly." Tiedan Niang also wiped a cold sweat. If she had known that Hu Ziniang was so troubled, she would never have told her
Bringing it would embarrass Lu Ziyuan and her family.
Seeing that everyone had left, Mrs. He Gao hummed, sat down at the seat closest to the table, waved to He Hong, and said, "I asked you to remember to bring your cloth bag before I went out. Did you bring it?"
"Take it with you, mother!" Chen Hong nodded and took out a neatly folded cloth bag from her cuffs. It was called a cloth bag, but actually it meant a cloth bag. It was the most common container in this dynasty.
"Take the melon seeds back. I have nothing to do recently, so I can have some at home." He Gao waited for Chen Hong to spread out the bag, and poured the whole stack of melon seeds into the bag.
Lu Ziyuan raised her eyebrows and said, "Didn't you see that the melon seeds are gone? Why don't you hurry up and replace them!"
"Grandma, the melon seeds I bought are bigger than the ones you didn't bring. No matter how much I try to mend the pile, it's still empty. Why should I waste my efforts to mend it?" Lu Ziyuan rolled her eyes and said to Lu Banxia and others, "
Let’s go to the yard and help set up tables and chairs.”
Lu Banxia and the others nodded, and then followed Lu Ziyuan out of the house and into the yard. It was already autumn, and the sun had lost its harshness in summer, and the morning breeze blew warmly on people's bodies.
After the children went out, He Guisheng said angrily, "Mom! We are here for a banquet, how can you bring a cloth bag with you! Isn't it embarrassing! When I went out in the morning and asked you what gifts you were going to give, didn't you say you were ready?
Fifty eggs? Why did it turn into fifteen eggs when we came here? We are Mei Mei’s natal family, but we embarrass Mei Mei as soon as we enter the house!”