Chapter 50: The Annual Banquet
Sanniang remembered that when she first arrived at Wang's house, she also followed Wang Shilang to participate in a homecoming banquet. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
She didn't understand these rules, she drank the first tea directly, but she felt embarrassed to see everyone rinsing her mouth, and she used the second tea to rinse her mouth, but Qiao Shi used it as a joke for a long time.
Once born and twice cooked, this time she followed the rules of the Wang family.
Qiao's stared at her from time to time, for fear that if she couldn't see something wrong, Sanniang didn't see it.
According to the etiquette of Daye, the official family and the family set up a banquet, and unless there is a king attending the banquet, the dishes cannot exceed 40. This is still the rule set by Emperor Gaozu when he was alive, Emperor Gaozu was born as a commoner and suffered from poverty, in order to curb the vice of "Zhumen wine and meat smell".
The Wang family didn't dare to overstep the courtesy, and the dishes made up an auspicious number, thirty-six.
Thirty-six dishes are really not much, but the Wang family still spends a lot on them, and they are all rare foods. If you want to pick up the least valuable dish, it is the first main dish of bird's nest porridge.
After a while, the dishes were all ready, and a little servant stepped forward and said, "Old lady, the master said that he won't come here today, and he wants to go to Hongyuan Academy to get together with the old people." ”
"Then don't wait for him, let's move the chopsticks" She has long been accustomed to it, and there is no such person as Mrs. Wang in this family.
When everyone heard this, they picked up their chopsticks and picked up the vegetables.
In the end, it is a big family, the rules are hard, and the sound of chopsticks colliding in the house can not be heard very much, only the sound of "呑呑" from the clothes of the servants who serve.
Unconsciously, half an hour later, the sound of firecrackers outside alarmed everyone.
Wang Qiruo, the fourth lady from the second room of the "mother's ......", was frightened by the sound, nested in Aunt Xiao's arms, and did not dare to come out.
Aunt Xiao whispered: "Be good, don't be afraid, that's not lightning, it's the sound of firecrackers......"
Qiao's was bored listening to it, and he couldn't care about being polite: "I said you, can you teach Sister Ruo'er well?" What is crying on such an occasion? ”
Hearing Qiao's reprimand, Wang Qiruo cried aggrievedly, and Aunt Xiao patiently coaxed: "If you don't cry, if you don't cry, if you don't cry......" No matter how you look at it, this is the scene of the main room treating the concubine room poorly.
Qiao's was angry, and it was not good to teach this nasty mother and wife a lesson in front of the family.
"Mother, look at it, what kind of system is this?" She simply pulled Mrs. Wang in and gave her the master.
Mrs. Wang has lived for decades, how can she not understand Qiao's thoughts, Qiao's is a girl from her mother's family, of course she will be towards Qiao's.
"Take it out and coax it, and come in again if you don't cry." Old Madam Wang said to Aunt Xiao.
Aunt Xiao complained a lot: "It's not that I think of her like this, it's not that I blame that night, it's that Ruo'er is afraid of thunder and flashes......"
"Shut up!" Qiao Shi hurriedly interrupted her words.
Aunt Xiao also seemed to realize that she had said the wrong thing, and obediently led Wang Qiruo out, and then did not come in again.
For this little episode, everyone didn't care, and continued to eat vegetables.
The last dish is still tea, which is used to cleanse the intestines and moisten the mouth.
After the meal, the maids served some snacks and dried fruits, and the table next door gradually became lively, and the men began to talk nonsense.
The women's side was relatively deserted, and Mrs. Wang wiped her mouth with a handkerchief: "The grandmother in the ancestral hall just now, how can I look at this so much?" ”
Sanniang asked Mama Shen to change the hexagram cup back, and she should have gone back to the night house by this time.
"Back to the old lady, Mama Shen followed me from Hewei." Sanniang sat down and blessed the old lady of the king.
"Why don't you see her?" Old Madam Wang asked again.
"In the past, she had rheumatic pain in Hezhu, but when she came back, it was colder, and she had a problem, so I asked her to go back to the house."
Mrs. Wang didn't speak for a while, and looked at Sanniang again: "Well, you are a considerate person......
This thoughtful word is probably not the meaning of the face. However, Sanniang felt that Mrs. Wang would not be wary of her, but Mama Shen was working too hard today, which inevitably made her worried.
Sanniang pretended not to understand the deep meaning of these words, and only praised her really: "The old lady praised it falsely." ”
The half-grown girl really didn't know anything, and Mrs. Wang smiled in her heart.
"Is it still called the old lady? The matter is decided, in the future, you will count half of the Wang family, and then call it grandmother. ”
Yes, the righteous daughter can only be regarded as half of the Wang family, after all, she is not included in the sect, and she is just a name. She is reminding Sanniang of her identity, so that Sanniang knows herself.
Sanniang wanted to play the dullness to the end, and smiled very happily: "Yes, grandmother......"
is really a child who lacks heart, Mrs. Wang is happy to see the stupid appearance of this Sanniang, but this lack of heart and eyes is good! In the future, I can tell the long room to worry more.
Seeing this, Zhao was also happy: "Yaosheng will also come with Ah Lian to greet the old lady in the future, and do your filial piety." She thought that the old lady's relief was an affirmation of Yaosheng.
Who knew that Mrs. Wang didn't buy it: "Please be free, my place is small, and I can't put my feet in if I squeeze in more." ”
Everyone knows that Mrs. Wang's courtyard is the most spacious and luxurious place in the palace, and if the Nanshu courtyard is small, then the palace is not big.
Zhao knew that he was bored with himself, so he buried his head and stopped talking.
Sanniang sat down again, but was kicked by Wang Qilian on the side, she continued to squeeze her eyebrows at Sanniang, Sanniang understood at once, this is a reminder that she can withdraw.
Then, Wang Qilian frowned and made a solemn look: "Grandmother, I want to go back and rest first, but I suddenly feel very sleepy." ”
"What's wrong with you?" Zhao asked with concern.
"It's just that somehow tired." She said, rubbing her eyes.
Of course, Zhao felt sorry for his daughter, reached out and tried her forehead, and found that it was not hot, so he said to Liu Er, who was waiting on the side: "Help Miss Go back, take care of it." ”
Liu Er has been with Wang Qilian for so many years, how could she not know her young lady's trick: "Yes, Mrs. ......" After saying that, she went to hold Wang Qilian.
"Yaosheng, didn't you say you wanted my box of cinnamon-scented fat powder before? I'll give it to you before I sleep, so that no one will answer you when I'm late. Wang Qilian made another move to take Sanniang away.
The Wang family did not have a hard and fast rule that they should go and stay at this time, and everyone thought that it was Chinese New Year's Eve to stay and talk, and it would not be too much to leave.
Moreover, Mrs. Wang didn't care about the sesame things in the long house, and drank tea there by herself.
"Isn't it just box fat powder? I can't get it when I can't do it, I have to rush tonight. The Zhao family heard that Wang Qilian was going to pull Sanniang away, but she was not very happy, the ladies of the long house were the three of them now, and Sanniang left again, and she couldn't bear it in front of the people at this table.