Hearing the young man's command, the driver answered, turned around and walked to the trunk of the car, took out a box of wine and four cigarettes from it, the wine was the best Wuliangye, and the cigarette was soft-shell Chinese cigarettes, and followed the young man into the courtyard.

"Well, why are there so many people?" the young man was startled as soon as he stepped into the courtyard with his front foot.

Yao Jun's old house is not big, not small, four gold house, according to the standard ruler, is only 400 square meters, the two doors of the hall are opened, and the courtyard is together, but there are nearly 200 square meters, can put more than a dozen tables, but it seems a little crowded.

At this time, Lao Yao's house was crowded with people coming and going, and the whole courtyard was extremely lively, even more lively than the Spring Festival market that lost the flavor of the New Year.

Every table is full of people, and there are a few young people carrying plates back and forth between the tables, putting the dishes on the tray on the table, the dishes are very rich, the fragrance is overflowing, the table has been placed on the abalone ginseng wings, beef, mutton and fish, all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas, there are already 12 plates, but the person who said that the plate is still going back and forth, it is obvious that this is a feast of 16 plates or 24 dishes.

Although the young man has not lived in Chaoshui County for a long time, he is still deeply impressed by the custom of setting a table in Chaoshui County, after all, when he was a teenager, what he looked forward to the most was which family would set up a red and white banquet, and they would be able to have a good meal.

According to local customs, the general red and white banquet is only 12 plates, and the wedding of the newlyweds and the newly moved households are all like this, and if you can put 16 plates of banquets, you have to be the head of the village to do a big birthday red banquet of more than 80, or a funeral banquet over 90 years old, as for the banquet of 24 plates, young people have only heard of it and have not seen it.

It is said that someone is glorifying his ancestors, and when he feasts the whole village, he is qualified to put 24 plates, although he is now considered a successful person, and he also has the money to put 24 plates of banquets, but he is not qualified to put it like this, otherwise he will definitely be gossiped about, and even 16 plates, if he puts it, there are many people who will not be convinced.

In the face of customs and traditions, sometimes money is really not everything, and it can't be said that if money can't solve the problem, it can only show one problem, that is, there is too little money, there is really enough money, the status is enough, what traditions, what customs, all can be broken with money, and you can even formulate your own traditions and customs, which is not only at home, but also abroad.

Of course, first of all, you have to be rich enough, and if you have money, you have to have status.

At this time, the courtyard was full of people, very lively, jubilant, the young man stood there in a daze, his face changed constantly, although when eating in the restaurant, I heard some diners say that the old Yao family in Hutao Village now seems to be engaged in the breeding of wild animals, but he did not take it to heart, if this thing can make much money all year round, it is estimated that it is also very hard.

That is, there is not much difference from other people's chickens and ducks, even if the scale is larger, he is still a hillbilly, he never thought that this hillbilly's birthday banquet would be so lively.

The young man's insight and vision are quite extraordinary, just a few glances at the dishes, smell a few times, he recognized that this is the county's "Zuixian Pavilion" products, according to the price of the Zuixian Pavilion, this table of dishes will have to be tens of thousands of yuan, these ten tables are placed, it will be 100,000 yuan.

He talked to customers about business two days ago in this "Zuixian Pavilion", although it is a small place, a restaurant in a small county, but the taste is no worse than those high-end restaurants with Michelin ratings.

At this time, the young driver, holding cigarettes and alcohol, walked up to him, and asked in surprise: "Mr. Yao, why are there so many people?"

The young man was also a little puzzled, and muttered: "Even if Li Chang only celebrated his birthday before, there was no such big movement, why did this old man celebrate his birthday with so many people?"

Li Changcai is the father of Li Dafu and Li Dagui, and he is also the previous village chief of Hutao Village, when Li Changcai had a big birthday, he set up more than 20 tables, looking at the movement is very big, but the things on the table are not comparable to the ordinary people in the village who have a big birthday, he is a big movement, but people, compared to this time, there are less.

At the beginning, Li Changcai had a big birthday, there were 20 tables, and 8 people sat at each table, and Yao Laohan's birthday banquet, because of the small place, only ten tables were placed, but there were at least 12 people at each table, and more than 15 or 6 people were crowded together, and it was full.

The young man couldn't believe his eyes, thinking that he had made a mistake, so he retreated, and looked left and right at the courtyard gate to make sure that he had not gone to the wrong place.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw the alley not far away, and suddenly smiled dumbly: "These are all interesting people, don't pay attention to them!"

Driver Zhang followed his boss out, followed the eyes of the young man, and saw a row of electric cars parked in the alley, and they were half-old and not new, basically cheap little sheep, very dazzling.

The driver laughed in a low voice: "These people look like dogs, why do they all go out on electric cars? I can't even afford a four-wheeled car, these electric cars are still so old......

The reason why the people who eat in the courtyard will bluff them is because they are also dressed very formally, almost all of them are suits and leather shoes, but there are a few different people, and they are also extremely outstandingly dressed.

The young man looked at those electric cars, couldn't help but laugh again and said: "They are probably residents of the neighborhood, and now that they have caught up with the time, they know that following the pace of the development of big cities, participating in the birthday banquet has also become official, how can you say that...... Life should have a sense of ritual!"

The driver nodded and said, "It turns out that the surrounding villagers are wearing clothes that look like famous brands." ”

The young man pulled the washing label of his suit, smiled and said, "Actually, the quality of some fake brands is still good!"

I don't know if the two of them have ever thought that if those people in the yard are really villagers from Hutao Village, how can they still ride a little sheep after a few steps?

In fact, because of the relationship between the people sitting in the courtyard, the people in the village originally wanted to come over to celebrate Yao Laohan's birthday, but they basically put down their gifts, turned around and left, except for Yao Laohan's two elder brothers, there were no guests from Hutao Village today.

Qiu Su and Chen Yao heard the news of Yao Laohan's birthday, and originally wanted to come over to celebrate his birthday, but Yao Jun did not agree for the sake of safety, although he didn't think that those people sitting in the courtyard would dare to cause trouble with him, but they were not afraid of 10,000, just in case, if they drank too much wine and started to drink crazy, people would completely ignore it.

Yao Jun also felt a little inexplicable melancholy in his heart, these people didn't know where they came from, not only the master who would hold the banquet was invited from the "Drunken Immortal Pavilion", one or two came without empty hands, they were all greeted with famous wine, famous cigarettes and tea, and they were all polite to Yao Jun's family.