3. Noisy at the banquet

The next time was extremely busy, and even if Man Qing wanted to calm down and grieve for a while, he was already exhausted. Chai Niangzi had already told Manqing what to prepare before her death, but the family's money was really limited, and Manqing only took the time to go to the town twice, so many things were incomplete. Fortunately, the two elders helped to come forward, and everyone else also looked at Manqing's face, and finally got through the first day of panic.

There are seven days of stops in this country, and if they are in the summer and the poor people's homes, most of them will only stop for two days, and on the third day, they will be sent up the mountain. It is now the end of spring, and the Gao family is poor, so they are ready to be sent up the mountain on the third day, so the second night is the main meal, and it is necessary to entertain the friends and neighbors who came to help and the relatives and friends who participated in the funeral. If you are a particular person, there are eight big bowls and ten bowls of the banquet on this day, but the Gao family is almost a family with four walls, so they barely fight two or three meat dishes, and the dishes made of tofu are four or five.

This noodle was made by Grandma Sun and asked the third sister-in-law of Ma San, who made tofu in the village, to make it. Originally, this banquet had to be made by someone who specializes in banquets, but the Gao family was poor and couldn't make a few meat dishes, so they simply invited the third sister-in-law of Masan, who made tofu deliciously. Ma San's sister-in-law is best at stewed tofu with mushrooms, which is just in line with the last dish at the funeral, boiled white tofu - meaning that this is the last feast, let the former go innocently.

Gao Siliang and Liu Datou took up their seats early, and sat at the table near the gate in the courtyard of the Gao family - if someone chased them, they could slip with their legs raised, and if no one rushed them, they would slip away when they were full...... In general, there are very few people who will drive people away at funerals, and this Gao family is all distant relatives and neighbors, who can help them get ahead!

Just as he proudly signaled to Liu Datou that there were only five or six of them at this table, and they could grab more food for a while, suddenly a few women with children and daughters rushed in from outside the door, like hens looking for food with their heads held high, cooing and about to rush in.

The woman who took the lead was the sixth aunt with a loud voice. She has been helping the Manqing family a lot in the past two days, and she has just finished the work here, because she didn't have time to go home to cook, so she hurriedly went home and brought the three small ones from the family. She thought to herself that she had helped the Gao family so much, and she didn't want to do anything, so that the three little ones had a meal, and no one said anything.

But the sixth aunt was not the only one who thought so much that night. But it was not good to let the child sit down at the table early, so they all pinched the point where the food was about to be served, and quickly brought the child over, and even if they had an opinion, it would be difficult to say anything, wouldn't they?

But as soon as they came in, they found that the five or six tables set up by the Gao family were basically full, although the children did not occupy the seats - hey, there were still three or four empty seats at the table at the gate of the courtyard, so they sat down three or four adults and seven or eight children at once, and the most deserted table was crowded at once!

Gao Siliang and Liu Datou might as well have a sudden change for a while, and their eyes suddenly turned red with anger! If the two of them were jackals who had been hungry for several days, then these half-grown children who were growing up would be reincarnated as hungry ghosts! And there were so many hungry ghosts at once, and the two of them still had their share?

Liu Datou stood up suddenly, pointed at one of the half-sized boys with a red face, and roared viciously: "I'm blind!

The originally noisy seat was silent for a moment, and then the kid was frightened by Liu Datou's strange appearance, turned his head to look at his mother, and cried with a "wow"!

This sound is like frying a frying pan, and suddenly the children are pushing and shoving, the adults are scolding, Liu Datou continues to be vicious, and the high school is helping ...... It wasn't until the sixth aunt yelled that I could hear a few people talking.

"Liu Datou, you are a dead ghost, I didn't see you when I was doing things, but now I see you when I am fishing, you still have the face to chirp for the old lady here?!"

Liu Datou is not surnamed Gao, and there is no pressure to claim to be grandpa and ancestor in front of this group of people surnamed Gao, "Grandpa, I am willing to come to eat the banquet of Aunt Firewood, Gao Lao didn't say anything, what qualifications do you have to say me? !

"Okay, I don't care about you," the sixth aunt was also so angry that her face turned red, "Then I have worked hard here, what does it matter to you that I let a few children come to eat something, and what qualifications do you have to take care of us?!"

"I don't care about you, if this monkey boy hadn't bumped into me, I wouldn't have left you dragging your family to eat-"

"How old is he a child, how can he bump into you? Are you made of tofu or pinched by tofu dregs? Liu Datou, let me tell you, don't go wild here, the old lady is not afraid of you!"

Several women on the side of the sixth aunt also participated in helping from time to time, although the senior two were more concerned about eating, but they also interjected two sentences from time to time to help the good brothers.

Just when the people at this table were about to turn a good funeral into a market, suddenly a clear and somewhat hoarse voice sounded in the crowd, "Please let the aunts let me go a little and serve the food!"

Hearing the words "the food is served", everyone looked at the comer, and then they were ready to grab it. When the sixth aunt and the others saw the person serving the food, they all smiled wryly, and then stood up one after another and said politely: "Manqing, why did you come out to serve the food by yourself? You are a filial son, these jobs -- hehe, why don't you hurry up and take it over! How can a little girl in Manqing move such a heavy bowl? -- Oh, you give me a light, if you fall and see me beat you!"

The sixth aunt was also arranged to serve food, but she was in a hurry to bring a few of her children over for dinner, so she forgot about it. Moreover, these big bowls were all borrowed from her family, and if they fell, they wouldn't hurt her to death!

Man Qing smiled slightly wryly, first steadily put the first big dish bowl with a few pieces of chicken on the table, then took a few steps back, slowly knelt on both knees, and kowtowed to everyone - it is also the rule here for the filial son to kowtow to the person who eats the banquet in front of the main banquet, "I know that everyone has worked hard, our family has nothing, if it weren't for the villagers, our family would be even a banquet - the great kindness is not thanks, Man Qing has it in mind!" I don't know it's like this, but our family is like this now, and I hope that all the aunts, brothers, brothers and sisters won't be surprised!"

She didn't say a word about the confusion just now, but only talked about her guilt -- what did she have to feel guilty about, she was a little girl's family, and she was not her old old father who had lost her family! Everyone immediately began to laugh, and the dish had already been served, and there were still a few pieces of chicken meat -- everyone bowed to her, said a few polite words, "You're welcome," and began to grab them with a bunch of small ones!

Manqing endured the bone-piercing pain in his knees, slowly got up, and took a few steps back to see the fierce battle at this table. Liu Datou, who shouted the most fiercely before, grabbed the most fiercely, and the sixth aunt did not show weakness, as well as those half-sized children...... That bowl of food will soon be at the bottom.

Let's hurry away, Man Qing can't bear to see the scene where he snatched it up in the end.

It stands to reason that filial piety only needs to kneel in front of the spirit, but in the past two days, she has no time to kneel except for the late night when everyone is gone. The kitchen, the hall, the yard, wherever she needed manpower, she went. What's more, where is there any reason for her family now?

Man Qing didn't care about what others said, now she was hungry, her knees were swollen high, her eyes hadn't slept much for many days, and she had cried too much, and now she couldn't hold it anymore...... She couldn't think about it that much now, she just wanted to find a place to lie down and live.

When she turned to leave, she didn't see it, and Gao Siliang, who had been shouting a lot, was staring at her back in a daze, and even forgot to grab the chicken that she hadn't eaten for a long time.