Mrs. Lu returned to the house on the evening of the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Three days ago, she sent Mama Yao next to her to Su Xi and handed over the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet to Su Xi.

Su Xi, who heard the news, was at a loss, she had never held a banquet, although it was a family banquet, but there were fifty or sixty people in the Lu Mansion, and she had no clue how to arrange it.

Mama Yao saw her worries and said, "Young grandma don't worry, everything in the house has rules to follow, and there will be no mistake if you follow it." Madame also ordered the old slave to help, and the young grandmother had anything to do. ”

Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "That's really going to trouble Mama, I don't know how to get the Mid-Autumn Festival in previous years?" ”

"It's nothing more than giving some gifts to relatives and friends, and the whole family eats together to admire the moon at night, which is no different from ordinary people." Mama Yao replied.

Su Xi asked for the account books of the Mid-Autumn Festival and banquet expenses in previous years, and looked at it carefully. She has no pressure to look at the accounts in the shop now, and this little account in the house is nothing.

Su Xi asked Mama Yao after reading the account book: "The second sister and the third sister are okay, but the eldest sister is in the capital, which is too far away, and now there are only three days of effort, I am afraid that it is too late to give a gift." ”

Mama Yao said: "Over there in the capital, the young grandmother doesn't need to take care of it, Mrs. has already sent someone to send it over, and I want to come here in the next two days." ”

Su Xi nodded, thinking about it, the only thing Mrs. Lu values is her own pair of children, how can she ignore it.

She learned about the Lu family's personal contacts in previous years, so she instructed Mama Yao to add a new Su family according to the preparations of previous years, which is the same as sending it to the two married sisters-in-law's families.

Then the menu and supplies of the day were drawn up to buy in advance, Su Xi met with the kitchen manager and the manager in charge of procurement in the outer courtyard respectively, and the three of them discussed it carefully.

Although it was the first time for Su Xi to do this, he had heard a lot of Pei's nagging before, and Mama Yao had mentioned it on the side, and it looked decent to do.

After the discussion, Su Xi went up to the second floor of the study, where Lu Youzhen wrote. Lu Youzhen's handwriting is very beautiful, Su Xi doesn't know how to write, he only knows that when he sees his words, he seems to be able to feel his smile.

"It's so beautiful," Su Xi praised without hesitation.

"Sycophant," Lu Youzhen sneered at her unceremoniously.

For literature, Su Xi is half a bucket of water, although she also reads, but her reading is different from others, others are a book from beginning to end, Su Xi is good, she casually turns a page, reads if she is interested, and reads another page if she is not interested.

Reciting poems to the moon with his wife and talking about the dream of poetry and songs, Lu You really felt that he would not be able to realize it in this life.

Su Xi smiled, she picked up her pen and copied it according to what Lu Youzhen wrote: When is the bright moon, ask Qingtian for the wine. After copying, she threw the pen, compared it to her own handwriting, shook her head and said, "It's really a lot worse." ”

Lu You really likes to practice calligraphy when he is fine, whether it is an ancestor or a great Confucian in the world, he will copy some. Su Xi only likes to copy the words written by Lu Youzhen.

"If you want to write well, you have to practice every day, you have to fish for three days and dry the net for two days, how can you write well?" Lu Youzhen educated her seriously.

"Okay, I'll be with you when you practice calligraphy in the future." Su Xi was the most impatient to meditate, and it was rare to be willing to accompany Lu Youzhen to practice calligraphy together.

Lu Youzhen nodded and asked her, "Have you dealt with the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet?" ”

"It's all arranged, and it shouldn't be a problem to stare at it for the past two days."

"Well, how about we practice a word now?" Lu Youzhen believed in Su Xi's ability to handle things, so he didn't ask much, and directly divided the desk into two, spread two pieces of paper, and invited her to write together.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Su Xi and Lu Youzhen went to the room early in the morning to greet Mrs. Lu, who still had that indifferent expression, but her complexion was better than before.

It seems that her mother-in-law doesn't like to stay in the house very much.

Su Xi invited An and reported the arrangements for the dinner to Mrs. Lu, and Mrs. Lu only said "um" after hearing it, and said "hard work", and then there was no follow-up.

However, after listening to Aunt Bo's report, she didn't even get the "hard work", so she was relieved. Aunt Bo is the aunt of the third brother Lu Youqi, and she is considered an old man next to Master Lu.

Aunt Bo's attitude towards Mrs. Lu has long been accustomed to it, and she returned the cards and keys in the house and retired, and Lu Youzhen and Su Xi also left together.

The dinner party in the evening was held in the main hall of the inner courtyard, and Su Xi didn't really know how many concubines his father-in-law had until today.

Twenty-eight, the youngest is only twenty years old, which is not counting the early death of a thin man.

Su Xi was secretly speechless, but I heard Lu Youzhen say that when Master Lu was in the capital, he was considered to be clean and self-conscious, and in addition to his mother, there were only Aunt Bo and two rooms.

Later, in order to reassure the emperor, he put his mind on women, and accidentally accepted so much that Su Xi couldn't roll his eyes when he heard it.

The dinner was silent, the Lu family was not like the Su family, they firmly implemented the rule of eating without sleeping or talking, and the fifty people ate silently like this, Su Xi felt extremely boring.

finally dismissed, Su Xi didn't want to stay for a moment, but she was in charge of the dinner, so she had to patiently direct the cleaning up of the mess.

When I returned to the room, I saw Lu Youzhen and Jiang Wumeng sitting at the stone table in the courtyard, drinking to the moon, to be precise, Jiang Wumeng was drinking, and Lu Youzhen was drinking tea.

Jiang Wumeng laughed when he saw Su Xi, and said while pouring wine for her: "My sister came just in time, Ah Zhen refuses to accompany me to drink, let's drink." ”

Su Xi stepped forward to see that there was only a pot of wine and a pot of tea on the table, so he said: "Isn't it boring to have wine without food, Xianglan, ask the kitchen to fry two appetizers." ”

"It's better to be a sister, unlike some people, who are stingy, and even I have to bring my own wine." Jiang Wumeng glanced at Lu Youzhen with resentment.

"I shouldn't even give you a stool." Lu Youzhen said viciously.

"Good brother and sister, look at him-" Jiang Wumeng turned his head and complained to Su Xi.

Su Xi laughed wildly, she held Lu Youzhen's hand under the table with one hand to smooth his hair, and held a wine glass with the other hand to drink happily with Jiang Wumeng.

"Shipping business has been bad lately, I remember you sent a ship a few months ago, did you come back?" Jiang Wumeng asked suddenly.

"Not yet, if it goes well, I can come back around the end of the month." Lu Youzhen said, "Isn't the situation at sea bad? ”

"It has nothing to do with the sea, it's the huge profits that some people are jealous of, my ship came back a few days ago, and the government actually wanted to collect forty percent of my taxes, millions of taels of silver, where did they come from such a big mouth."

Jiang Wumeng looked angry, doing shipping is a gamble on luck, if you are lucky, you can bring back wealth, if you are unlucky, you can only be buried in the belly of a fish.

"You gave?"

"How is that possible! What did the brothers eat when they gave it? If you can't get to Minggang, can't you go to Dark Harbor? Jiang Wumeng sneered, "I'm just reminding you, if your ship comes back and sends someone to inform me, I'll call someone to pick it up." ”

"Thank you."

"Don't be too busy thanking me first, my brother will settle the accounts, but I have to collect the salary."

"You're losing money."

"You know what, it's called the joy of life."

Su Xi Meizizi took a bite of food and drank a sip of wine, this is the atmosphere that the Mid-Autumn Festival should have.