Most of the play has been sung, and the banquet has finally been set out. The first thing to be put on the table is the "four dried and four fresh", that is, four kinds of dried fruits and four fresh fruits, which are not for people to eat, and they are just to remind the guests that the banquet is about to begin. After the four dry and four fresh eight plates are removed, the hot dishes are served and the guests will start to take their seats.

After the four dried and four fresh dishes are served, the cups, chopsticks and dishes are also put on the table. There is something particular about this, and it is unlucky to not be able to set dishes and chopsticks on an empty table. But hot dishes require effort, so I will first put a few things that I don't like to eat.

It's just that although it's only used to look good, it can't be fooled. Anyone like a big family, in order to reflect their family's long-term inheritance and wealth heirloom, the more useless this kind of place, the more efforts must be made. Like the Tong family, although the family background is ordinary, they have also made some fortune in recent years, and they pay more and more attention to these details. Like these four stems, that is, black melon seeds, rock sugar red fruits, caramel walnuts, and sugar-coated almonds, they are all selected to be the most positive and colorful, and they are served like flowers. The four fresh ones are Beishan apples, Shenzhou peaches, Guangdong lychees, and Guilin horseshoe, all of which are even more bright and fresh, drenched, so that although people don't have to eat, as long as they look at it with their eyes, the appetite will be hooked.

Then, as soon as the cold and hot dishes are served, people will start to serve them too. Everyone is a well-endowed and well-mannered family, of course, they are not interested in shouting loudly and entering the table, which is the style of a small family.

Yao took several daughters and also a book-read-novel xstxt to her table. As soon as Yao sat down, Shi Niang also sat down beside Yao.

"Stand up!" Yao glared at her, looked left and right, no one paid attention to this side, and saw that she still didn't understand, so he lifted her up with his hand.

Shi Niang Gu Rui was confused, and asked in a daze, "Mother?" What's wrong? "She's always eaten with her mother, what's going on today?

"You serve to eat for your mother......" Yao was saying, and Jiuniang Gu Yu, who was standing behind her, couldn't help but change her face. The hands she was reaching for the chopsticks were only halfway out, and they retracted in embarrassment.

Gu Miao looked at it a little stunned and gritted her teeth. She also knew that she would definitely not be able to take her turn to serve her wife to eat, but she didn't expect that even Jiu Niang wouldn't be able to take her turn? Yao's person is really amazing at doing things! There is no chance left for a few concubines.

Zhao's stammering is not good, and Yao's stammering is useless...... She suddenly felt that her future was very dark.

Gu Ming didn't seem to see the turmoil between a few people at all, just looked at the few items of food on the table. Not to mention the "four dry and four fresh" just now, the Tong family is also polite, that is, an ordinary banquet, this level is already enough.

And now Siliang is more decent, there are raw fish fillets, cooked chicken shreds, warm fish bones, and fresh sea cucumbers. She couldn't help but remember her wedding in her previous life, the banquet was called a shabby, four cold dishes, raw mixed leek tofu, cooked mixed with vermicelli spinach, mixed with fungus, and warm mixed with pig lungs.

Because of these four dishes, in the following ten years, she made her sisters at home and the wives outside laugh at her countless times, until she became the lady-in-waiting, and the gossip about this aspect still did not stop.

So now those few people are scrambling to serve the Yao family, but she is not willing to move at all.

Yao's glared at his most beloved eldest daughter with some hatred, but in the end he was still reluctant to let her suffer. Serving the elders to eat is the basic skill of being a daughter-in-law, and she originally wanted her to show it in front of everyone, so as to show off her ability.

But this matter is really hard, not to mention, she is also worried about whether Shi Niang is really doing well, after all, she has not done anything when she was at home. If you don't do well after a while, and you show your ugliness, then it's called stealing chickens and not eating a handful of rice.

And among these three concubines, the one who has done the most and done the best is naturally the fourteenth mother......

If you eat enough for your own meal, then you naturally have to call Fourteen Niang to serve. But Yao's eyes only swept over Gu Ming, and he called, "Jiu Niang, come here today." ”

Jiu Niang was suddenly overjoyed, and tears were about to flow out. With such an opportunity to show her face, her mother asked her to come, is it because she is very satisfied with herself during this time?

She must behave well, and try to make all the ladies present appreciate her, and notice what a virtuous woman she is.

Gu Yuan's heart was also moved, it is not enough to serve one person when eating, one person specializes in disbursing vegetables, and another person has to hold tea. She can't grab the cloth vegetables, can't it be her turn to hold tea? Yao's family won't ask Fourteen Niang to hold tea for her, right? Has she forgotten about that shop and that Zhuangzi?

She forgot that she had given Yao a big faceless face in front of everyone just now.

Yao said again: "Shi Niang, you come to hold tea." "It's much easier to hold tea than cloth vegetables, although there are no cloth vegetables to show their faces, but it's better than doing nothing.

When the wives of each family bring their daughters when they are entertaining, it is also used for this purpose, so that people can know that their daughters are old and can start to say goodbye; Let people see that this girl is really good-looking, she is a Peugeot child; Let people look at this child, all the etiquette and words are taught in place; Let people know that this child will serve the elders, see the face, and be able to serve people comfortably......

If you have a heart, you will post again, ask someone to come to the door, and then observe it closely. If you have any intentions, you will ask your daughter to intersect with this girl, change handkerchiefs, embroider flowers or something together, see how the female celebrity is, and by the way, see how her temper is, whether she gets along or not.

In the end, I asked the matchmaker to come to the door to make a decision, exchange the eight characters, and take it to the temple and ask the monk to calculate whether it is a match. Generally speaking, as long as it is not a special circumstance such as the eight-character restraint, the marriage of this pair of men and women is decided in this way. The men and women could not meet for the first time until the night of the candles in the cave room and the red hijab was lifted.

What the Yao family is doing now is to give Jiu Niang and Shi Niang the opportunity to show their ability to serve their elders.

Gu Miao originally thought that she would be able to get a chance to hold tea, but she didn't expect that the Yao family didn't consider her at all, but handed over this relatively simple matter to her own daughter.

In several books, every lady who came to visit brought a daughter, either a concubine, or a favorite concubine. Occasionally, there are a few who did not bring their daughters, and there are also henchmen who serve them.

At this time, while the ladies were eating, they also had something to do, that is, to compare whose daughters were the most capable and able to serve; Whose daughter is the most stupid, clumsy, can't put the vegetables in the bowl, and the things that are sandwiched are not liked by the mother at all. If someone's daughter picks up the wrong dish, looking at the expression of this mother, it will be a little fun.

Over there, a lady threw a tantrum at her maid.