It didn't take long for the birthday feast to start, and the whole courtyard was full of people. The countrymen are poor, and many families can't eat meat a few times a year, so once they participate in the banquet, they must drag the family with all the people they can bring, so the square table that can only sit eight people is basically sitting eleven or twelve people, and they are crowded when they look at it. And these people are all staring at the dishes that are served, and often a dish can be eaten to the bottom of the sky within a short time of being served. Especially those meat dishes, as soon as they are served on the table, the people at the table will stretch out their chopsticks and desperately put them into their own bowls, each person only has two or three chopsticks, and a full plate of meat will disappear without a trace.

Shou noodles are only made halfway through the banquet, so Du Qiyue was also arranged to take a seat and sit at the table next to Zhang Wucheng. Du Qiyue's table is full of polite relatives who live far away, everyone doesn't know each other, and the food is not as fierce as other tables, but it also makes Du Qiyue look a little unappetizing. Some people don't clean things with chopsticks, and they reach into the plate with meat and pick it up when they are greasy, and they have to stain a whole plate of dishes with their own saliva before they are willing. The other two were eating and talking, and the spit stars splashed on the table, and most of the dishes were damaged.

"Du Langjun, you're welcome, eat, eat!" Zhang Renju, who was sitting at the next table, saw that Du Qiyue couldn't move his chopsticks, so he greeted him very enthusiastically.

Du Qiyue smiled dryly and perfunctorily, reluctantly sandwiched a large piece of the stewed eggplant in front of him that was almost forgotten by his peers, pretended to take a bite, and put the remaining half of the piece in his bowl, ready to use it again when he was greeted the next time.

Zhang Renju drank some wine, and his temperament was not as smooth as just now, seeing Du Qiyue so perfunctory, his face was a little unhappy, and he wanted to persuade him again, but he was stopped by Wu Momo, who was sitting on the side.

Wu Momo was born into a good family, and he naturally understands some basic etiquette at the dinner table, he knows that Du Qiyue is a scholar, and he grew up wealthy, although he is now down, but he is also a chef in the best restaurant in the town, and he has seen a different world, probably because he is not used to seeing the ugly eating appearance of countrymen. leaned into Zhang Renju's ear and whispered: "It's also that I didn't think about it thoroughly, Du Langjun is not a bad guy like you, I'm afraid that you can't get used to eating rural noodles like us, don't you have the temperament to make trouble." ”

Zhang Renju thought about it, Du Qiyue is a scholar, and he has always had a lot of things to do, not to mention that his brother is now an official master, even when he was not admitted to Xiucai before, he was never willing to go to a relative's house for a banquet, the reason is that he dislikes the countrymen for eating uncleanly. Thinking like this, Zhang Renju pursed his lips, and didn't care whether Du Qiyue ate or not, and waited for a while to stuff more red envelopes, not afraid that Du Qiyue would not be satisfied with longevity noodles.

Because there are only about a dozen dishes in total, the first half of the banquet passed quite quickly. Du Qiyue was really relieved when he left the table, he didn't have to eat dinner tonight if he stayed any longer, the empty plate was sticking to the vegetable foam and oily soup, and the gnawed messy bones spit out on the table, and he felt sick to his stomach when he thought about it.

The noodle soup for making noodles was brought by Du Qiyue from home, and it had been simmering in the kitchen of the Zhang family before, and Du Qiyue went into the kitchen to serve it. Wu Momo walked in behind Du Qiyue, took out a red envelope from his arms and handed it to Du Qiyue, and said, "I'll ask Du Langjun to bother with making noodles next." ”

Du Qiyue unceremoniously put away her wallet, stuffed it into her sleeve pocket and said, "Thank you, Zhang Jiafulang, don't worry about this, since you invited me over, you must make this noodle the best." I also asked Zhang Jiafulang to help me serve the dishes on the table, and I would have to come back again. ”

Wu Momo saw that Du Qiyue happily accepted the red envelope, and knew that he didn't care about the things at the dinner table, so he breathed a sigh of relief and helped bring the side dishes that Du Qiyue had prepared before and walked out.

Needless to say, Du Qiyue's noodle making skills naturally caused some amazement, and the extremely thin noodles made a group of farmers who had never seen the world widen their eyes in shock, and praised Du Qiyue's craftsmanship as ingenious. When Du Qiyue was measuring the length of the noodles, Zhang Renju walked up curiously and took a ruler and began to measure it, and the result was naturally impartial and exactly one hundred feet.

"Du Langjun, your hand today, I, Zhang Renju, can be regarded as convinced." Zhang Renju patted his chest and said loudly after putting down the ruler, when he heard others say that Du Qiyue could make this hundred-foot longevity noodles as thin as hair, he thought that others were exaggerating, but now when he looks at it, he is convinced.

Zhang Wucheng's eldest son Zhang Rende returned to Zhangjia Village with his family two days ago, and his wife's name is Luo Jingzhu, who is an official lady in Dadu who he married after the title of the gold list. Because of her delicate birth, this lady was pampered and grew up since she was a child, and naturally disliked the countryside and had a hard time, so since she married Zhang Rende, she has returned to Zhangjia Village twice in a row to pay homage to her birthday. This time I came back, this lady was also unwilling, and I have been unhappy in my heart for the past two days. Seeing Du Qiyue making noodles today, he finally became interested, and no matter that Du Qiyue was about to go down, he said: "I see that Lang Jun's noodles are very fine, can you bring them over and let me take a closer look."

When Du Qiyue came, Zhang Renju told him that they pay attention to the time when they eat longevity noodles in Zhangjia Village, so Du Qiyue is looking at the following hours, and Zhang Wucheng's daughter-in-law wants to see the noodles at this time, so it is necessary to delay the time below. Du Qiyue's movements in his hand stopped, looked at Zhang Renju, who was still standing next to him, and asked him with his eyes if he wanted to take the noodles down.

Zhang Renju didn't know what to do, so he also looked at Zhang Wucheng with his eyes. Zhang Wucheng was angry when he heard Luo Jingzhu's words, but Luo Jingzhu's maiden family in Dadu was powerful, and Zhang Rende would have to rely on them for promotion in the future, so he had to hold back his anger and said with a smile: "Then Du Langjun will take down the noodles and show us them, and let the old man see it." ”

Du Qiyue didn't care about the housework of the Zhang family, so he immediately took the noodles and walked to Zhang Wucheng's table to show Zhang Wucheng and them. Luo Jingzhu thought that Du Qiyue's side was interesting when she looked at it from a distance just now, but now she felt even more strange when she looked at it closely, so she said: "Du Langjun, I'm afraid you can thread a needle like a silk thread, right?" ”

"Mrs. Zhang, of course you can thread the needle on this side, and fold a few sections of the needle." Du Qiyue is very confident about this, and when his master tested his noodle making skills, he used embroidery needles to test. The more a needle is threaded, the better the noodles are, Du Qiyue's best score is that a needle can pass through twenty-six ramen, and the noodles are as thin as spider silk. But now Du Qiyue can't make such fine noodles, after all, the flour he used at the beginning was refined, and each particle was ground very finely, and the flour here was ground out with a stone mill, and no matter how many times it was grinded, it would not be fine, and the flour particles alone were probably coarser than spider silk.

"Really?" Zhang Wucheng asked.

"If the old birthday boy wants to, you can take a needle and give it a try." Du Qiyue nodded and said.

When Luo Jingzhu heard this, she immediately beckoned to Wu Momo and said, "Brother-in-law, go get a needle and try it, go quickly!" ”

Being ordered by his sister-in-law to take things in front of so many people, Wu Momo felt a little embarrassed, but when he saw Luo Jingzhu's clothes and the shiny jewelry he was wearing, Wu Momo lost his temper, and quickly glanced at his father-in-law, and saw that Zhang Wucheng had no intention of objecting, so he ran back to the house and took an embroidery needle out.

"Du Langjun, is this needle okay?"

"Yes." Du Qiyue took Wu Momo's needle, rinsed it with wine, and then threaded the noodles in his hand against the needle, and then folded the noodles six times in a row, and said when he saw that it was almost done: "The noodles have been folded six times, and the old birthday star will definitely have a smooth family in the future." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Wucheng clapped his hands with laughter, and the people on the side also laughed accordingly, Du Qiyue saw that everyone was laughing, Luo Jingzhu couldn't speak, so he immediately went back to the stove and threw the noodles in his hand into the pot.

The noodles were ready quickly, and Du Qiyue showed his carving skills again, calming everyone present, and then returned to his position just now.

Zhang Wucheng ate longevity noodles, his heart was very happy, seeing that everyone had eaten almost all the dishes on the table, he beckoned a few mothers-in-law who invited to help to clean up the empty plates and bones on the table, and then put on a few large meat dishes in the back, and a few large jars of wine, and the atmosphere of the whole birthday banquet was even more lively.

Du Qiyue hurried over early in the morning, the breakfast in his stomach had already been digested, he made noodles just now, and he felt very hungry when he smelled the fragrance. With the experience just now, Du Qiyue also learned to be obedient this time, and did not eat a bite and a chopstick, but put a few chopsticks into his bowl before the good meat and vegetables were not spoiled by the people at the same table, and then lowered his head and ate it by himself.

On the big meat, and there is good wine, the happiest is those men who can't eat meat and drink a lot on weekdays, now they can let them eat and drink freely, you are welcome, and after a while the yard was noisy, and several men who could drink also began to toast to relatives and friends they knew.

Du Qiyue thought that it was nothing to do with himself, after all, he didn't know any men here, but he didn't expect that before he had eaten a few bites of the dishes in the bowl, a man who was obviously drunk came over with a wine jar and poured a large bowl of wine into Du Qiyue's bowl, and couldn't help but say that he wanted Du Qiyue to drink it.

"Brother Qi Yue, our relatives live far away, and we don't see each other on weekdays, I Zhang Dazhu admires you scholars the most, this Du Langjun must enjoy his face and drink a bowl, otherwise he will look down on us illiterate people in the fields." Zhang Dazhu said babblingly.

Du Qiyue didn't know Zhang Dazhu, but when he saw Zhang Dazhu and that Yun Ge'er sitting at the same table just now, he guessed that Zhang Dazhu should also be Wang Guihua's family. Now listening to Zhang Dazhu's words, Du Qiyue slandered in his heart that he and Du Fujin's family were born at odds with each other, but he could only smile and pick up the wine bowl. It's really not okay if you don't drink this wine, on a happy day like this, it's not easy for others to refuse to toast, Zhang Dazhu said that if you don't drink, you look down on illiterate people, Du Qiyue will be embarrassed if you don't drink it, you must know that the people sitting in this courtyard are basically illiterate people.

In the Dafeng Dynasty, wine is a luxury, a good wine casually a small jar of price to use two units, although the Zhang family has money, for the guests to drink the wine can not be how good it is, the taste is really bitter and astringent, * spicy straight burning people's throat.

Du Qiyue couldn't wait to stick out his tongue after drinking a bowl, but he didn't feel so unbearable when he thought that he had finally dealt with Zhang Dazhu.

But when this big pillar saw that the bowl was empty, he immediately picked up the wine jar and poured another full bowl for Du Qiyue, and after pouring it, he patted Du Qiyue's shoulder and said: "Brother Qiyue, brother, I admire your craftsmanship, so instead of these villagers who also admire your craftsmanship, I will give you another bowl." ”

This bowl of wine that was forced by Zhang Dazhu to be admired by everyone in the courtyard can Du Qiyue not drink it, of course not, otherwise it will be all the people's faces. So Du Qiyue closed his eyes, raised his head, and poured another bowl into it. After drinking, Du Qiyue thought to himself that it should be over now, who knew that Zhang Dazhu actually poured another bowl, and after pouring it, he said: "I didn't expect that Brother Qi Yue's wine is okay, and he should be able to drink like this if he is a man." Come on, another bowl. ”

Is Du Qiyue a man, that must be true, so this bowl of wine must be drunk. As soon as Du Qiyue raised his head, he drank another bowl. This wine is inferior, but the degree is high, the stamina is enough, and the farmer's drinking bowl is big, so three bowls of drinking, Du Qiyue's face is hot, and the strength of the wine is up.

But anyone who can drink alcohol, when the wine comes up, the brain will turn fast, and the advantage of the original owner is inherited to Du Qiyue, so although Du Qiyue is a little confused in front of him now, his brain is abnormally clear. He quickly realized that Zhang Dazhu's purpose of toasting him on purpose was not simple, it didn't look like he admired him, but it seemed like he came to pour him wine on purpose, and then thought of Brother Yun'er's attitude just now, and thought that they might be a family, Du Qiyue's heart suddenly woke up.

Zhang Dazhu really came to pour wine to Du Qiyue on purpose, before Brother Yun was simply kicked out of the kitchen by Liu Xiaocao, so he went to Wei Lanzhi to say bad things about Liu Xiaocao, Wei Lanzhi pretended to talk about Liu Xiaocao and went into the kitchen to observe Du Qiyue. Du Qiyue's appearance Wei Lanzhi was naturally eye-catching, she quietly discussed it with Zhang Dazhu when she got out of the kitchen, and the two came up with a way to get Du Qiyue drunk and take her home as a relative to cook rice with Brother Yun'er, so Zhang Dazhu came to such a show.