The upper room waited until Chen Xiucai and Huang Xiucai sat down before the banquet began.

The ladies held a banquet in the north wing, and Mrs. Chen was unhappy, complaining that the old man Chen did not discuss things with her.

Mrs. Chen sat in the upper room, she was unhappy to go to the north wing room for dinner, she couldn't take the initiative to go, she had to wait for the Li family's three urges and four invitations before going.

After everyone sat down, seeing that Mrs. Chen had not yet arrived, Li Shi understood after thinking about it, stood up and said, "I'll go to the room to invite my mother." ”

"Mother, I'll go with you." Chen Xuejiao naturally understood Mrs. Chen's stubble, she deliberately did not come, and it was her consistent ability to embarrass her daughter-in-law, she was afraid that Li would suffer, so she put down her chopsticks and took Li's hand and went to the upper room. If you want Chen Xuejiao to say, do you love to come, you are still happy if you don't come to eat, when she thinks of Mrs. Chen sitting on top with her face drooping, her appetite is half less. But she just said this once in her heart, she couldn't say it, and set up a reunion dinner in her son's room, it should be that the son invited the old man, and the daughter-in-law invited the old lady, and only the elders could have a banquet when they arrived, which was the rule in the countryside. Even if Mrs. Chen is unreasonable, the Chen family must abide by this rule, whether she comes or not is her business, as for whether she is invited or not is the matter of the big house.

The upper room had already brought a wine cup to toast and drink, and no one noticed the two of them coming in.

Chen Xuejiao and Li opened the curtain and entered the inner room, Mrs. Chen sat on the bed, drinking tea without a match, and when she saw Chen Xuejiao and Li coming in, she didn't raise her eyelids.

Chen Xuemiao raised her head, a pair of eyes stared hard at Xue Jiao, she had changed her clothes at this time, which was more luxurious than the one in the morning, and she wore a thumb-thick gold collar around her neck. The little girl stood behind with a handkerchief.

"Mother, everyone is seated, waiting for you." Li smiled and said.

As if she hadn't heard, Mrs. Chen continued to drink tea with a gloomy face.

"Niang" faced Mrs. Chen's gloomy face, and Li's heart unconsciously became timid.

"There is no room in the upper room, how can the rice be placed in the north wing, if this is passed out. People thought I was dead. "Old Mrs. Chen didn't have any good words as soon as she spoke.

Lee heard this. I was not convinced, but I didn't dare to refute it in person, so I had to continue to laugh: "It's my father's idea......"

Old Mrs. Chen exploded when she heard this. Cut off Li's words: "His idea, you are a dead man." Eldest daughter-in-law, you have always been a proper person, or I would not have handed over such a big banquet to you. Look at what you're a proper person doing, how can there be an old man and an old lady who hasn't died. The reunion dinner is placed in the son's room, spread out, where do you let my old face go? ”

Mrs. Chen clapped her hands, grabbed a gun and scolded with a stick. Li couldn't stand such a scolding, and his face turned red at the moment.

Chen Xuejiao really couldn't stand it, she was still eating and drinking outside. She scolded Li like this. Lee's soft temperament does not mean that he has no face. If there were only her and Mrs. Chen in the house, they would be scolded, but if it reached the ears of outsiders who were eating and drinking outside, how would the Li family go out in the future.

Mrs. Chen is also too vexatious. Originally, this table was all the silver from the big house, and the Li family did it himself, and it was thankless to contribute money and effort, which was too much.

In this era, the greatest authority of a family is still Mr. Chen, as long as the table led by Mr. Chen is placed in the upper room, and it does not matter where the other seats are placed.

Mrs. Chen hadn't made trouble to the big house for a long time, and she was deliberately using the excuse to give the Li family a horse.

Li's heart was timid, but Xue Jiao didn't eat this, and immediately refuted Mrs. Chen: "Isn't the reunion dinner already in the upper room?" The master is sitting upright, where is the reunion dinner in the north wing? According to the milk, the master is nothing. ”

Mrs. Chen is powerful, and she has to follow the rules of this era, this family is still in charge of Old Man Chen, and where Old Man Chen eats, which table is the reunion dinner.

"You girl, what is Hu Zou?" Mrs. Chen was speechless by Xue Jiao's refutation, and she was angry and afraid to hit the edge of the bed.

"I'm a girl who doesn't understand, my milk has lived for such a long time, you can teach me." Chen Xuejiao-for-tat, "It just so happens that Muramasa is also outside, so it's better to invite him to evaluate the theory." ”

Mrs. Chen glared angrily, she was also a good-looking person, no matter how she scolded her daughter-in-law at home, she still made a kind mother-in-law in front of outsiders, and she naturally refused to ask the village to come in.

"Milk, my mother and I came to invite you to the table in person, because you are an elder, if you don't want to go to our north wing room to eat, you can rest, and I will let the stone send you some of your favorite food."

After Chen Xuejiao finished saying this, she didn't even look at Mrs. Chen's face, and pulled Li out of the upper room.

"Xue Jiao, this is inappropriate." Li asked hesitantly.

"Mother, there's nothing wrong, it's the milk who doesn't want to come, let's invite it, she doesn't come, she can't complain about us." Chen Xuejiao comforted Li.

When she arrived at the North Wing, Chen Xuejiao explained to everyone the reason why Mrs. Chen didn't come: "...... I think my grandmother was so happy to see the second uncle's family come back, so I didn't have an appetite, so I would pick up a few things that milk loved to eat and send them over. ”

Everyone knows why Mrs. Chen didn't come, but they just didn't break it. Even Wen Yan didn't say anything, she was holding chopsticks and waiting for the banquet to begin. The table is full of good meat and good dishes, gold and silver elbows, fried prawns, vinegared pork ribs, pheasant cubs, these are relatively easy to make, rare is a big bowl of "clear soup", clear as water, delicious and mellow, by the old hen, duck, pork chops, ham, hooves by carefully boiling red and white fresh meat sweeping soup, slow hanging made.

The price of this thing is naturally not cheap, a table of noodles is three or four taels of silver, and this soup accounts for one tael.

Li brought up the big dish he made, and Wen Ying's stewed meat was placed on Old Man Chen's table, Old Man Chen loved to eat her stewed meat, so Wen Yan put the duck meat she brought on this table.

Although they are all women, Chen Xuejiao still took out the wine, naturally it is not a strong wine for men, but jasmine wine, as sweet as honey, Xueru brought a cup, put one in front of everyone, and Xuejiao poured it one by one.

As soon as she poured it in front of Zhang's family, Xue Miao came in, with a maid behind her.

Those who come are guests. Although Xue Miao still had a gloomy face, Li still enthusiastically pulled her into a seat, Xue Ru handed over the dishes and chopsticks, Xue Miao didn't answer, the maid behind her quickly took it and carefully placed it in front of Xue Miao.

Everyone drank a glass of wine and began to eat. Because they are all their own family. There are not so many rules, and it is lively to eat.

Others don't care, the whole table is pure Wenyan and Zhang. The chopsticks are like eyes, and they can't stick to the meat, so they stuff them into the mouth one by one. Sister Chun too, she is small. Just past the table, half of his body is leaning on the table. Wen Yan put the good meat and vegetables on the plate in front of her, and Sister Chun didn't use chopsticks, she just grabbed them with her hands and stuffed them into her mouth.

"Look at you, you also look like a mother. Sister Chun's sleeves were soaked with oil. Wen Ying poked the plate in front of Wen Yan with chopsticks, "You also slow down the dishes, and make a table of soup and soup for others to eat." ”

Wen Yan has always been like this. didn't blush, rubbing and rolling up Sister Chun's sleeves. He wiped her mouth with a handkerchief.

Chen Xuejiao looked at Wen Ying, didn't look away and laughed secretly, only Wen Ying could restrain this little aunt.

There was a roast chicken dish on the table, and Wen Yan tore off two chicken legs, one into Sister Chun's bowl and the other into a flush bowl. Sister Chun grabbed the chicken leg and gnawed her face full of oil, Xue Jiao sat on the side, she saw that the flowers on Xue Jiao's clothes were really the same, she stretched out her oily hand and wiped it, and the clothes were immediately stained with a few black finger prints, Xue Jiao felt sorry for the clothes that Chen Xiucai brought her, and said "oops".

Wen Yan put down his chopsticks and made a gesture to beat Sister Chun, but was stopped by the Li family, and he couldn't make a storm for a piece of clothing.

Xue Miao sat next to Jing Hao, without saying a word, holding chopsticks in her hand, and did not stretch out her arm to pick up vegetables, so naturally there was a maid behind her to serve. Xue Miao's eyes were aimed at which dish, and the maid used chopsticks to put it on the plate in front of her, and Xue Jiao only tasted one bite of each dish and didn't eat it, and the maid had to bring her a handkerchief to wipe her mouth and sweat.

What a big score, Xue Jiao sneered in her heart.

"Greasy elbow, who eats this." Xue Miao suddenly threw down her chopsticks and scolded the maid behind her.

The maid was startled, the chopsticks in her hand shook, and her elbow fell to the ground. The people at the table looked at Xue Miao, she was even more energetic, and pointed at the maid and glared angrily: "You pick up the elbow that fell on the ground and eat it." ”

The maid pounced on her knees and kept kowtowing: "Miss, I was wrong, there is no next time, Miss." ”

"Pick it up and eat it." Xue Miao was unrelenting, and stepped on the meat hard, "Oh, if you don't pick it up, I'll step on it for you to eat." ”

The people at the table were stunned, even if this girl was a subordinate, she didn't do this slut.

"Xue Miao, this girl didn't mean it" Li couldn't stand it and persuaded.

"Auntie, she didn't mean to say that she didn't say it, it was me who said, her maid, I taught my maid what was in your way."

Xue Miao stepped on the meat again.

Xue Jiao saw the fire, dropped her chopsticks at the moment, and said to Xue Miao: "Sister Xue Miao, this is our family, if you teach your maid to go back to your house to teach, who are you showing in my house, my mother is your eldest uncle, if you talk to my mother like this, it is not too much for my mother to beat you." I advise you, don't be too complacent, you have to be forgiving and forgiving, you teach your maid like this, not the maid's face, but let people say that you are a mean person. ”

Xue Miaoqi's face was flushed, she had tasted Xue Jiao's power, and what Xue Jiao said made sense, she couldn't refute it, she stood up and pointed at the maid: "Spare you once, you go to the yard and brush my shoes for me." ”

Stamped her feet and walked away, and when she walked away, the maid thanked Xuejiao with tears.

"You don't want to brush her shoes." Xue Jiao waved her hand.

Wen Yan and Zhang's envy Xue Miao's style, when they can use their own people, they must also play prestige when the time comes.

Xue Miao returned to the upper room, and Mrs. Chen saw that she looked uncertain, and she didn't ask the reason, so she opened her mouth and asked her, "Is the north wing room open?" ”

"It's on."

Mrs. Chen's angry teeth gritted and bitten, she wanted to cut the limelight of the Li family, take the strength, and let her come to urge her to invite her to the banquet, but she didn't expect that Li and Xuejiao didn't come to invite her after leaving the upper room, but asked the stone to bring her a few dishes, all of which were soft and rotten dishes, and these dishes were placed on the table, and she didn't move a chopstick.

"A family of damn things." Mrs. Chen clapped her hands and scolded. (To be continued)