293。 Caught up in the rain

Before I could hear anything more, the dining room had arrived, and when I looked in from the outside, there were a lot of busy people, the sound of clanging dishes, and the smell of food.

"Those three stinky boys, let them help, but they are getting in the way of others." Mu Tong really couldn't look at the way his three sons were swaying in a group of maids and servants, and most of the Qi family could help lay down the dishes, and his son of a Beihou was useless no matter how he looked at it now.

Qi Mingluan just smiled softly, and stepped forward to help his mother, Qingxi had already welcomed his grandmother into the main table, and Qiushui had just taught his eldest brother how to place his mother's dishes and chopsticks.

"Cheng'er, sit down, just let Qiushui do these things, what to do with these." The Xu family was busy asking Qi Shaocheng to put down those butterflies and bowls, who was a young master doing these maids' things.

"It's already set, Mother come and sit here." Qi Shaocheng dodged his body slightly, pulled out the chair for Xu's, and helped Xu's to sit down first, Xu's was still looking at Mrs. Qi's side, and didn't dare to enter the table first, but Mrs. Qi didn't mind this, just let Xu's sit down by herself.

"You three, thank God when I can pour you dad and me a cup of tea." Mu Tong saw that Qi Shaocheng was so filial and respectful to the Xu family, and by the way, he once again belittled his three sons. The three brothers of the Mu family were pouting at the same time, where is there such a father, who brought his son to someone's house as a guest, and rushed to work for others, but in the end he didn't end up with good words.

"Master Hou, please take a seat too." After Qi Houru settled his wife, he went over to greet Mu Tong.

"I said that Brother Qi should not be so polite, looking at the taste of Xiao Mingluan's food, he can't even look at the food in the palace, but it makes me curious about how good the chefs of the Qi Mansion are." Mu Tong was completely unceremonious, and sat on the other side of Mrs. Qi, and the three sons sat down in turn.

"Where is it, the wheel is old, Hou Ru is still younger than Hou Ye, if it is Hou Ru, it should be Hou Ru who calls Hou Ye a brother."

"Haha, that's how it should be, there is no Hou Ye or Hou Ye here now, you are Xiao Mingluan's father, and I am Xiao Mingluan's father-in-law, they are all fathers, and they are very equal."

"Yes, yes." Qi Houru returned to Mrs. Qi and sat down with her own Ran'er, taking care of both sides, filial piety on one side and affection on the other.

Qi Mingluan sat next to the Xu family, listening to the two fathers, who were almost a hundred years old together, greeting each other, if there was no Hou Ye who was not a Hou Ye, then what kind of Fengluan County Lord was she.

At the position of the main table, there were four ancestors and grandchildren of the Qi family and four fathers and sons of the Mu family, a total of eight people.

"Old lady, the fourth young master, the fifth young master, the third young lady and the sixth young lady are all here, and they are waiting in the side hall." Qingxi waited for Mrs. Qi to sit down before replying.

According to the rules, if the concubines and concubines are not ordered by the elders, they cannot eat in the same room with the distinguished guests, but even the treatment enjoyed by the fourth brother Qi Shaoyuan has been reduced.

In the past few months, Qi Mingluan has not only cared about Xu's pregnancy, but he has been dispensing medicine in the embroidery building, but he has not been distracted to care about the situation of the fourth brother and others in the Qi Mansion.

"Grandmother, father, mother."

"Grandmother, father, mother."

"Greetings to grandmother, father, mother."

Qi Mingluan only looked at the fourth brother's spirit, which didn't seem to be very good, but now in this situation, she couldn't ask directly, and looked back at Xiao Qiao behind her, Xiao Qiao's eyes were evasive, and Qi Mingluan also understood a little bit in her heart.

"Come, I've seen Beihou and the three sons." Old Madam Qi raised her hand and beckoned, and asked a few grandchildren to come forward to greet Beihou.

"I've seen the Marquis of the North."

This time, the salute was a lot louder.

"Fourth brother, is it okay to sit next to Xiao Qi?" Qi Mingluan jumped off the round stool and jumped to grab Qi Shaoyuan's arm, Qi Shaoyuan was stunned, he didn't express any feelings, but looked at his mother and father with an inquiring gaze.

"Fourth brother hasn't brought novel gadgets to Xiao Qi for a long time." Qi Mingluan didn't care, and while dragging Qi Shaoyuan, he asked Da Qiao to add a pair of chairs, stools, dishes and chopsticks or something.

"Cheng'er, you can also sit, a table of ten people, it is also a complete circle, and the meaning is good." Xu rarely took the initiative to say something, and after Qi Shaocheng responded, Qi Fu added a round stool between the fourth young master and the third prince of Mu, and Qi Shaocheng happened to sit in the room.

In this way, the other table seemed to be much empty, there were only three people, Qi Shaoguang, Qi Minglan and Qi Mingyue, even if the table was originally small and a big circle, it was still empty, as if the concubine was clearly divided all of a sudden.

The dishes for dinner began one by one, and Mu Tong praised them vigorously from beginning to end, saying all the good things about the color, flavor, and unique taste.

Qi Mingluan looked at Qi Shaoyuan was still too quiet, as long as he sat beside him in the past, he must have been desperately trying to pick up vegetables for himself with chopsticks, talking about a lot of new things he encountered outside.

"Fourth brother, you love to eat this dish, but I haven't cooked it at home for two months." What Qi Shaocheng sandwiched for Qi Shaoyuan was a scallion oil chicken leg, although it was not the taste of Qi Shaoyuan's favorite thick oil red sauce, it was also a chicken leg.

"Eat, your eldest brother is worried about what you eat, do you remember what your eldest brother likes to eat?" Only when Xu Shi spoke, Qi Shaoyuan raised his head, looked around the table, pointed to a plate of fried cashew nuts that had just come up, and motioned to put it in front of Qi Shaocheng.

"Big brother loves to eat this, and he said...... Saying what kind of fruits these are, in short, is to nourish the brain. Qi Shaoyuan didn't say a few words, and his head hung down again.

"It's called nuts, it's the same as walnuts or something, but you don't like to eat it, fourth brother, so it looks a little stupid now." Qi Mingluan's curiosity is one more thing, did the fourth brother make something wrong to make his father angry, not only did his father not say good things for the fourth brother, but his grandmother also turned a blind eye, what did the fourth brother do that was not tolerated, and the result was so strict.

"Your fourth brother is not stupid, how can he be bullied by you all the time." Qi Shaocheng's warm smile was still there, and he took Xiao Qi to make fun. Xiao Qi is getting bigger and bigger, and he looks angry with his small mouth, which is even cuter.

"That big brother is a role model, smarter than Xiao Qi, so he came to bully Xiao Qi?" Qi Mingluan really can't wait to take a meatball and throw it over, in front of so many people, where did the eldest brother, who is famous for pampering his little sister, go, it seems that the table is full of people, and the eldest brother protects the fourth brother a little, it seems that the eldest brother also knows what the fourth brother has done wrong.

"Hmph, Xiao Qi ignores the eldest brother. Mother, this steamed fish is very fresh, mother-in-law needs to eat more, and the baby in the belly can grow well if you eat well. ”

By currying favor with the Xu family, Qi Mingluan continued to give Xiao Qiao a look, with a slight threat, how could the fourth brother not report such a thing as making a mistake to her.

Xiao Qiao was furious by Qi Mingluan's eyes, and turned his head to Da Qiao for help, Da Qiao pursed his lips to say that he couldn't do anything, and his task was very heavy at the moment.

The eldest young master originally got acquainted with the prince of Beihou first, and the two of them were very close to astronomy and geography from poetry and writing, and then somehow, the third prince Mu Jianping also came over, and I don't know why, the eldest young master, a literati, and the third son of Mu, a person who practices martial arts, can also talk together.

Moreover, at the palace banquet, I had already seen the enthusiasm of Mu Sangongzi, and he wanted to clink glasses and drink with the eldest young master, but the eldest young master was not good at drinking, so he pushed him, a temporary follower, out to block the wine.

So now, he, the follower of Da Qiao, the county lord of Fengluan, must undertake this task whenever the third prince of Mu appears.

"My mother knows that it's good to eat more fish, but this fish is not so easy to buy every day, I still have fish here at noon and night, and I make it for me in different ways, and my mother-in-law and master are bothered by Ran'er."

Qiushui sandwiched a piece of fish meat for Xu's, carefully picked out the fish bones, and then sandwiched it into Xu's bowl.

"Now don't worry about not being able to eat fish, Ran'er, you forgot, Cheng's daughter-in-law is the county lord of the Donghou family, and the country is rich in fresh fish, Cheng'er is worried about your body, and goes to the market every day to buy it, plus the relationship between the in-laws, it's not a big deal."

Mrs. Qi gradually fell in love with fish, and she especially liked to eat the piece of neck meat behind the fish head, so Qingxi also sandwiched a piece for her.

"What my mother-in-law said is that I am very pleased that Cheng'er is so filial to me. In the past, I was afraid that I couldn't take good care of him, but now I see that Cheng'er has grown up and gained fame and will soon start a family, I ...... in my heart" Xu's sentimentality has been committed again, and under the stimulation of progesterone, the tears in his eyes are about to come out, which can make Qi Houru anxious.

"Oh, look at you, how do you talk and talk about it, you feel sad, how do you treat Cheng'er's mother and I know, discipline him like your own son, sometimes I watch you take Cheng'er closer than Yuan'er." As soon as Qi Houru became angry in a hurry, he didn't speak through his brain, and he easily told the life experience of the eldest young master of the Qi family.

"Oh? This big young master turned out to be ...... So brother and sister, you? Mu Tong was taken aback, and originally wanted to say that Qi Houru was the same as himself, but then he thought about it, it was unexpected enough for Xu Shangshu to marry his daughter to a businessman, and it was impossible to marry someone else's continuation.

"Ahem." When Qi Houru came back to his senses, it was too late, he couldn't tell the foolish thing about his youth at the dinner table, not to mention that Shaocheng's biological mother had passed away, and it was not appropriate to say that it was inappropriate back then, and he was even more worried about bumping into Ran Er, who was pregnant.

"Alas, just talking, the food is going to be cold." Old Madam Qi took a bite of the fish, very satisfied, and beckoned the people at the table to use chopsticks to eat together, "Hou Ru, you bring me a bowl of soup, don't always be reckless, I think Yuan'er's temperament is with you." ”

Qi Houru was stunned, and obediently got up and started to serve the soup, as for Qi Shaoyuan, who was named, he was full of rice.

This one...... Qi Mingluan's brain kept turning, and his grandmother's words seemed to have more profound meaning, saying that the fourth brother followed his father, what would this mean. After turning back to give Xiao Qiao a look again, Xiao Qiao finally came closer, and whispered in a very low voice in Qi Mingluan's ear with the help of cloth vegetables, Yu'er succeeded.

In an instant, Qi Mingluan's mouth suddenly opened!