The Zhou family was having a banquet, and Mrs. Liu and Mr. Bai also came over and set up two tables in the yard next door.
Originally, he wanted Zhou Man to greet the princess and the others to eat in the courtyard, which was clean and quiet. Who knew that Yin might have taken a liking to the table placed on the road, so he went to see Zhou Man and said, "Let's go out to eat."
Zhou Man looked at Mingda, "Do you want to go out, or use it in the yard?"
Mingda was also very interested in the dining table on the road and nodded quickly, "Let's go out..."
So the people at their table sat outside.
The whole village was invited to have a meal, but the Zhou family's kitchen was not enough. They put a lot of ingredients in the yard, and they also commandeered the kitchens at the homes of two close neighbors, which was enough.
Naturally, the tables could not be placed in the two courtyards of the Zhou family, so the entire road in front of the door was set up with tables.
Each family marks its own table and benches and puts them out. Countryside people don't have many rules when it comes to banquets. Except for the tables in the house where elders must sit, everyone can sit at other tables casually.
It was originally understood that they should eat in the side courtyard, but since they had to sit on the road, Qian had no choice but to temporarily arrange a table for them.
The table had been placed at the entrance of the village. Zhou Man took a fancy to the coolness under the banyan tree, so he took them to sit under the banyan tree.
Bai Erlang clicked his tongue and said, "It's just your family. No other family has such a grand occasion to invite you to drink."
Mingda asked curiously, "Don't we serve wine at home?"
Bai Erlang turned to her and asked, "Do you want to serve a drink to welcome you back?"
Mingda: "Is it okay?"
"Okay," he said. The meal cost nothing, and his parents were probably very happy, but... "My family shouldn't be able to invite so many guests."
Mingda was confused, "Don't we invite the whole village to our family? We all invited Zhou Man's family."
Bai Erlang: "Our family is different from theirs. Most of the people in Qili Village have the surname Zhou and are related to their family. Even those who are not surnamed Zhou have good relations with their family and are related to the Zhou family, so
If you can please, our family..."
Why did their family invite the whole village to have dinner together?
Mingda: "Do you still need to find a relationship to have fun with the people? Just ask for a free meal."
Bai Erlang's eyes widened in surprise, "When did you start to like ostentation?"
Mingda: "I just feel happy. Seeing them happy makes me happy too."
"Okay, since you are happy, then invite me," Bai Erlang said with a smile: "I will tell my father when I go back in the evening, but besides them, our family also has some relatives and friends who want to invite us."
For example, his uncle's family.
His uncle's family is in Mianzhou, which is a bit far away, so he probably needs to prepare two or three days in advance.
Mingda thought it would be fine if it could be done. She turned to look at the endless tables and crowds of people, and couldn't help but smile. "Your Qili Village is really interesting."
She has never eaten such a banquet in her entire life. It is just like the name, it is a flowing water banquet.
Yin You was also very curious and watched it with great interest.
As they sat down at the table, some villagers looked over, but because Ming Da was there, she had a noble air and she was a princess, so everyone hesitated for a moment, but still didn't come up.
Zhou Man stood up to pour tea for everyone, and the person at the next table spoke to her, "Man Bao, is this the princess sitting next to you?"
Zhou Man responded with a smile, and everyone stood up and bowed to Mingda, looking at her curiously, "The princess turns out to look like this, she is so beautiful."
"Yes, it's more beautiful than Man Bao. I really didn't expect that the second young master could marry a princess. I even fished for the second young master back then..."
Mingda lowered his head and smiled shyly. After hearing this, he raised his head and looked curiously at the speaker. Seeing that it was an older woman, he couldn't help but be curious, "Fishing?"
Seeing that the princess actually took the initiative to talk to him, the other party was very excited and immediately replied, "Yes, yes, in the past, the Bai family did not allow the young masters to go near the water. The second young master wanted to learn how to grill fish and said he wanted to learn how to be a guest, so he
Please let us go down to the river to help him catch fish."
Zhou Man interjected: "Xia Ke."
"Yes, yes, that's the customer." The other party smiled and narrowed his eyes, "If you touch a fish, no matter how big or small, you can get ten cents. Unfortunately, this business was later disturbed by Zhou Lang and others."
She looked at Zhou Man and said, "Man Bao, your fourth brother did a lot of bad things for us in the past."
Zhou Man chuckled, "Why didn't sister-in-law beat him up then?"
Then she must be able to hit people, Zhou Lang is like a loach, no one can hit him except his parents.
"But Zhou Lang catches fish for the second young master for free. Man Bao, I've wanted to ask you for a long time, did you ask your fourth brother to steal our business?"
Zhou Man looked confused, "Is there any? I don't even remember it."
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang lowered their heads and suppressed their laughter. After a while, they tried to raise their heads with a straight face and responded: "Yeah, I don't remember these things. When we were children, we grilled fish? I remember the adults said we are not allowed to play with fire.
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The other party thought that they had really forgotten, and quickly told them more things to remind them, "Yes, you stole firewood from our house at that time, and lit a fire by the river to grill fish, but the fish was
It was roasted so dark that the three of us had black charcoal on our faces after eating it, but they kept saying it was delicious..."
Yin You couldn't help lowering his head and laughing, and said softly: "Do you still remember that the guest is a knight, but don't remember about catching fish?"
The three parties involved just pretended not to hear.
For the people of Qili Village, the most unexpected ones were Man Bao and Zhou Erlang.
One is the female doll they have watched since childhood. Who would have thought that a golden phoenix flew out of this mountain nest and became not only a high official, but also a princess. Not to mention that it would have been unbelievable twenty years ago.
Even now, there are still people in the village who doubt whether the Zhou family is bragging.
They also watched Bai Erlang grow up, but he was naughty and mischievous. According to rumors, he was punished by his husband from time to time. He was even more surprising. Who would have thought that he could marry the emperor's daughter?
Twenty years ago, the young man who battled wits and courage with his servants and went to the river to touch a handful of mud until death; or the young man who went into the mountains with a group of naughty children, found a big rock, and competed with others to pee in the wind.
Lang Jun; Bai Erlang, who was scolded by his father every now and then and punished by his husband to copy books, suddenly turned into a prince-in-law...
In contrast, it seems that no matter what achievements Bai Shan achieves, no one in the village is surprised.
After all, although he is also naughty and mischievous, and even takes the lead in many things, he is smart. Isn't it natural for smart people to achieve success?
However, the villagers now unanimously believe that Bai Shan is not as good as Bai Erlang, and privately discuss, "Is this young master of the Bai family the child who came back and told me that he is no longer good at all?"
Of course, they only dared to say it in private, not in front of the Zhou family and Bai family.
Not only the villagers think so, but Mrs. Bai also feels this way.