When Feng Yiping arrived at his grandfather's house, he was in a hurry, and today happened to be the birthday of an old man of the same generation as his grandfather. The old man is 75 years old this year, he has a lot of children, and there are more guests who have relatives and relatives, plus the people in the village, a total of more than 40 tables have been set.

Unlike many places where the table is set up in a centralized manner, such as in the barreshing floor, where the tables are all placed together, the tradition here is that the banquet is placed in the homes of the neighbors.

The dishes and chopsticks are unified, and there are always several families in each village who have bought hundreds of dishes, and several families are together to make the general banquet sufficient. These people who have come out of the dishes and chopsticks, whether they give gifts or not, the host of the service must take the initiative to ask, what about the gift money, how much to give back.

But another major item of the banquet, tables and chairs, is very problematic, and it can only be made up by each family. But to be honest, every family has a table for eating, and it is not easy to put together ten neat chairs that can be used to entertain guests. Plastic tables and chairs are not common in the countryside at this time, and ordinary people can't afford to buy them, so slowly, many families have asked carpenters to make large tables, with four benches and a few high chairs, so that the tables and chairs that entertain a table of guests at home will be alive.

However, new problems arise. Sitting on the bench, you should also pay attention to coordination, more than once, someone got up, forgot to say hello, let the person sitting at the other end fall on the stomach.

Sitting at a banquet is a very important social occasion in the countryside, and relatives who have not moved around for a few days also take advantage of this occasion to contact their feelings. Therefore, the clothes are the most good outfits, it turns out that there are even many people, when they sit at the banquet, they find someone to borrow watches, borrow leather bags, hair and beards, they may not care about it, and they have to be carefully sorted out at this time.

In this way, dressed very brightly, dressed neatly, in front of relatives from all walks of life, suddenly fell on a big horse or four feet in the sky, that embarrassment, who is not happy. Fortunately, at the wine table, it is also an occasion to pay attention to manners, in front of outsiders, some people even if they have opinions in their hearts and are scolding their mothers, they are also very easy-going at this time.

There are also some people who are different, they have a bad temper, they see that they are ugly in front of outsiders, and if they drink a little wine, they will do it on the spot.

If the unlucky host's family is not good, a banquet will sometimes encounter several such incidents.

Therefore, later, a Linglong person close to the host's family will be arranged at each table, not only to greet the guests to eat and drink well, but also to greet the guests from causing disputes between them.

There were two tables in the grandfather's house, but the grandfather was not there, he should be sitting with the birthday star Weng on the chairman, and the third uncle in the family watched, and he wanted to come to the uncle's house and set up a few tables.

There were ten people at a table, and when he entered the door, the third uncle added a stool to his own table and added a pair of chopsticks. Feng Yiping didn't want to eat white food, so he asked the third uncle if he wanted to make up a gift, and the third uncle said that his grandfather had already handed over the gift money for Feng Zhenwu and them. Feng Yiping thought that too, for such a relative's birthday, his family must give gifts, and if no one arrives, the gift will also arrive.

This table is not an outsider, there are from the village, and the remaining two are the elder brother of the third aunt, the one sitting in the main seat, the third uncle taught Feng Yiping to call Uncle Cousin, plus Feng Yiping is a child, no one objected.

Speaking of location, this is another problem that is a bit of a headache for the owner. Now everyone has already sat down, if Feng Yiping comes back, the banquet has not started yet, it will be annoying to him.

For this position at the table, mainly the chairman and the second seat, a table of people humbly let in, will definitely be engaged in a long time, for example, the table is scheduled to open at eleven o'clock at noon, and some tables are pulled until half past eleven, and everyone has not yet decided.

However, humility is humility, if some people feel that they should sit in the main seat, but they arrange him in the accompanying table, then I'm sorry, people want to face the tree and bark, I can't afford to eat this table of wine at your house, so I walked away on the spot.

It's good, but it's even worse, someone flips the table on the spot.

Anyway, don't talk about a village, just a single one, every year, there are always a few banquets, such things are not every time, but a year, you can basically watch them all.

Now that the banquet has been open for a while, the disturbances that will definitely be there before the banquet have passed, even if there is such a mess, Feng Yiping can't see it, hehe, this is also a benefit of being late.

The dishes of the banquet are served one by one, and at this time there have been four dishes, and there are some residual soup left in the bowl on the table, and everyone's tableware is placed next to it.

The cutlery is simple, a pair of chopsticks, a spoon, and a wine glass. Pad plates, bone plates, flavor plates, soup bowls, chopstick rests, all of them are not worked. Some people also think that chopsticks and spoons are unhygienic to put directly on the table, so they ask for another chopstick, horizontally in front of them, and put the chopsticks and spoons on top when not in use.

Feng Yiping wanted to go to the cupboard to get a bowl, but after thinking about it, forget it. Everyone uses chopsticks to clip, and you store the whole bowl, which is not fair.

Everyone takes advantage of the break between the dishes, they are smoking, and they are also recuperating, this kind of banquet, especially when encountering that kind of good food, has always been fast and slow. The two tables at my grandfather's house are okay, except for Feng Yiping, they are all adults, and if they meet someone who brings a child to sit at the table, it will be lively.

The most fearful thing about eating this kind of banquet is to sit at a table with women with children. Seeing that there are good dishes that she loves to eat, she will row to herself in the name of the child's favorite food, and other people are not good at worrying about a woman with a child, of course, she is not happy, that is for sure.

After a while, the young man who served the food trotted in with a tray, and everyone helped to carry the empty bowl and asked him to put the food on the tray on the table.

This time, there are two dishes, one fried carrot with meat and one fried lotus root clip. The adults said a few polite words, and the third uncle beckoned everyone to drink a circle of wine, and then started with chopsticks one by one.

The bowl is the kind of blue and white vegetable bowl - don't think too much, of course it's not that kind of blue and white. It is the largest container for vegetables in the average person's home, but there are ten people at a table, one person holds a chopstick, and the meat and carrots are bottomed out in an instant.

This situation reminded Feng Yiping that after participating in the work, the company organized everyone to travel for the first time, climbed the mountain for a morning, and at noon, the scenic restaurant was too busy, and the dishes were also on the way.

The young guy in Yishui was hungry, and there was a tomato scrambled egg, and in an instant, there was a little tomato juice left on the plate, and as soon as the meat was put on the table, there were only a few slices of green pepper left, mapo tofu, and the fast action could scoop a spoon, and the slow action could only scrape the bottom .......

Sometimes, it is just the rush to have an appetite, and after eating six or seven dishes, the people at several tables, including the table with more girls, are the same, but they feel more hungry and urge the dishes vigorously. Or the tour guide saw that this was not good, went to the kitchen and said, a table came to a plate of Yangzhou fried rice and fried rice cakes, and the remaining dishes were not served one after another, fried and served together, and this was normal on the table.

Today's situation is the same, Feng Yiping is very proactive, he doesn't need the help of his third uncle, he himself grabbed two chopsticks, now is not the time to be polite, you are polite, the dish is gone, as long as you don't eat too ugly, no one laughs, everyone is almost the same.

The guy who ran the hall trotted in again, and he couldn't do it without trotting. At the banquet, everyone should start quickly, and the kitchen is the same, at the beginning of the loading of dishes, the amount must be sufficient, each spoon is rounded, and later, when the chef loads the bowl, the spoon will always buckle some, all the tables are finished, and there must be some left for each dish.

This is because sometimes there are those guests who are far away, or some people are delayed on the way and can't make it to the table, and these late arrivals have to open another table, and they must have the dishes they should have.

Also, after the guests are gone, the chef himself, as well as the boys who help with chores in the kitchen, and the boys who run the hall, also have to eat, and they can't stay less.

There are still four bowls on the tray, two bowls on one table, this time the two bowls are the same, red bean soup, it is sweets, for sweets, Feng Yiping has never been cold, and he only scooped a spoonful of meaning.

When the bowl was collected, the young man who ran the hall looked at the wine bottle, shook the clay pot containing rice wine, and said to the third uncle, "Uncle Guoxing, you also beckon everyone to drink more, so far the rice wine has basically not moved, and the liquor has only opened two bottles, everyone is welcome, not only to eat well, but also to drink well." ”

The cousin who was sitting on the throne smiled and said, "This is true, I originally wanted to have a few drinks, but you didn't accompany Guoxing." ”

When the third uncle heard this, he immediately picked up the wine bottle and filled his glass, "Everyone knows that I don't have much alcohol, but since you said so, then I will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman today, come, the two of us will do one first, and everyone will do it." ”

The two eldest brothers of the third uncle, one drank liquor and the other drank rice wine, and they were all gearing up at this time, "Don't worry, Guoxing is down, and there are two of us, today our three brothers must let you drink happily." ”

The cousin was also joking, he had a toast with the third uncle, accompanied the third uncle's two brothers-in-law to have a toast, and toasted the whole table, and then he begged for mercy.

However, there must also be such a person at the wine table, and the atmosphere will be lively.

In this way, one after another, after the eleventh dish was served with fried fish, the young man who ran the hall came, this time walking a little slowly and very steadily, because the four dishes on the tray seemed to be heavier, and this time the dishes were different from the previous ones, and there was a bowl upside down on each bowl.

When you see this, you will understand that there will be a total of 24 dishes today, because when the bowl dish is served, it means that the banquet is halfway through.

There is still fried fish, after putting these two dishes on the table, the young man who ran the hall did not rush to leave, stood aside to smoke a cigarette, took a breath, the third uncle brought the fried fish over, and he took a few pieces.

These two dishes were placed on the table for the time being, and everyone did not move.

Gradually, there were firecrackers not far away, and then there was a commotion, and just like that, the sound of firecrackers and the noise got closer and closer.

I am very excited and very happy, I will continue to make persistent efforts, and I hope that everyone will never give up!