"This ...... How does this work? ”

Yao's family was a little embarrassed, although Ji Shuhua was only the wife of Dali Siqing, and her husband's position was slightly lower than that of the chief ladies and princesses, but she herself was the emperor's cousin and the lord of the county, how could she dare to slack off?

But Mrs. Yu Ye Qinxiang has no fate, so it is impossible to arrange it in the chief.

"Ah, you Nizi, is it possible that you are not familiar with me anymore?"

It was the princess of Lin'an County who spoke, Ji Shuhua's sister-in-law, who was looking at her with a smile at this time and said: "I thought that you would definitely come today, so I looked for you everywhere when I entered the mansion, but I didn't expect you to only talk to your sister-in-law, and ignore my sister-in-law." ”

"Sister-in-law, what are you talking about?"

Ji Shuhua smiled and said: "Didn't I meet Qinxiang as soon as I entered the door, did I forget the time after saying a few more words, since my sister-in-law said so, isn't it okay for Shuhua to accompany my sister-in-law?" ”

"That's it, who dares to ask you to apologize?"

The princess of Lin'an County waved her hand in disgust and said: "You just sit down and talk to me, you have such a noble status, you don't sit as the chief, how can you let the master arrange a seat for you?" ”

"That's what Princess Lin'an said."

Mrs. Yu blessed her for a while, and said to Ji Shuhua: "You just sit down here, I'll go find A-Ning and Xinmei, and take care of a few children." ”

"If you have children, will I have no children? I'll take care of my own children. ”

Ji Shuhua glanced at Mrs. Yu with disgust, and then smiled at the Yao family and Princess Lin'an: "You came by yourself and it is quiet, but I still have a child, and it is inconvenient to throw the child to Qinxiang to take care of alone, you just sit on yours, I have Qinxiang here to take care of it." ”

"This ......, it's good that the county lord doesn't blame it."

Yao was a little embarrassed, glanced back at his mother-in-law, and had to instruct Mrs. Yu: "Since the county lord insists, you must entertain Qinxiang." ”

"Yes, sister-in-law, don't worry." Mrs. Yu was slightly blessed.

Seeing this, Yao raised his hand again and beckoned Yu Weiyong to come over, asking him to arrange a seat for Mrs. Yu.

As soon as Ji Shuhua heard it, he knew that the family had no intention of letting their sister-in-law sit at the table, so they frowned for a while, but at this time, it was just inconvenient.

Yu Weiyong already understood what was going on, so he naturally didn't dare to be contemptuous, and arranged Ji Shuhua and Mrs. Yu in the second seat together.

Then Yu Wanning and Ye Xinmei, who came over, were arranged to sit down at this table.

After a while, Yu Wanyao and Yu Shaoyuan also came over, and was called by Mrs. Yu to take a seat, and then there were still four vacant seats left at this table.

It was seated by four other dignitaries and noblemen.

There are also some female dependents of the Yu family's side branches, who can only sit in the seats in the far corner.

As for some of the daughters of the Yu family who have no fame and ordinary families, they don't even have the qualifications to enter the table, so they can only help people work outside.

Because today is the birthday of the highest-ranking housewife of the Yu family, the female relatives who came to congratulate the birthday were arranged to sit in the hall to accompany each other. Such a childish person as Yu Shaoyuan, because of his young age, also sat with his daughter.

After all, in the consciousness of the world, taking care of children is a woman's business, but men will not take children.

As for the male guests, regardless of their status, they are seated outside the hall.

It's just a few seats with distinguished status, and tents are set up on them, and those officials and men with slightly lower positions can only sit in the open air.

Fortunately, the weather has warmed up recently, but it will not make people freeze.

The maids and servants served the fruit plate first, and then the Yu family entered the hall to worship their birthdays according to their generations.

Therefore, the seats in the front hall, except for the chief who sits in the middle of the old birthday star, the rest of the seats are placed in the middle of the two, and there is an empty space in the middle for the juniors to kowtow to their birthdays.

First, Yu Dehai and Yu Deling took their children and nephews into the hall to kowtow and congratulate them on their birthday.

Then there are the grandchildren, under the leadership of Yu Dehai's eldest son Yu Shaolian and Yu Deling's eldest son Yu Shaoting, they kowtowed, and Mrs. Yu signaled that Yu Shaoyuan also followed. After that, the grandchildren and nephews.

Because Mrs. Yu has only one daughter under her knees, who is the current Queen Yu, her grandson is the prince, so the procedure of paying homage to the grandson of ordinary people is exempted, and only the nephews and grandchildren come forward and kowtow.

After the men's descendants finished their birthdays, it was the turn of the female descendants of the Yu family.

Yao's and Ye Qinxiang and other daughters-in-law and nephews got up and kowtowed, and then it was the turn of Yu Wanning's granddaughters.

Yu Dehai has a daughter under his knees, named Yu Shuning, who is eleven years old this year, three years older than Yu Wanning, so the granddaughters take her as the elder and take their cousins to kowtow to their grandmother.

Speaking of which, Yu Shuning is the eldest sister and the daughter of the Yu family's sister-in-law, older than Yu Wanning, and more noble than Yu Wanning.

But today, Mrs. Yu was stained with the light of the lord of Shuhua, Yu Wanning and Yu Wanyao and Yu Shaoyuan's sisters and brothers were under ten years old, so they were stained with Mrs. Yu's light, and the seats that were arranged were actually higher than Yu Shuning, which made Yu Shuning very unhappy, so when she saw Yu Wanning's sisters and brothers, she didn't have a good face.

After all, a junior like her who is over ten years old can no longer sit with her mother, she can only sit in the last seat, and the front seat, but they all have to sit next to the ladies first, only Yu Wanning's sister and brother are stained with the light of the county lord, and they sit in the second seat after the chairman, and no one else can find a reason.

It's just that Yu Deling is setting up his own door outside, Yu Wanning doesn't go to Yu's mansion a few times a year, and it is rare to see this cousin.

Yu Wanning had long been used to it, and she didn't pay much attention to her.

just followed Yu Shuning's right back, stepped forward and kowtowed to his grandmother, said Shoubi Nanshan, then got up and turned his head to sit down, without even looking at Yu Shuning.

Seeing Yu Wanning so arrogant, Yu Shuning was even more congested, but such a day, such an occasion, and her father and mother taught her to be graceful, so that she was no longer comfortable in her heart, and it was not easy to declare it, let alone argue with Yu Wanning, so she had to swallow that breath into her stomach silently.

After getting up and sitting down, she looked at the few cousins next to her who were not even as good as Yu Wanning, competing to take the fruits in the fruit bowl to eat, and she was even more depressed.

As soon as the junior finished his birthday, he heard a shrill voice outside shouting: "The holy decree is ......"

For a moment, everyone inside and outside the front hall got up.

After all, it was the queen's mother's birthday, and it was expected that there would be a reward for the grace, and no one would be surprised.

The Yu Mansion arranged for people to wait outside the door early in the morning, and all the things such as the incense case used to receive the order were prepared early in the morning.

Therefore, before the servant who delivered the decree arrived at the door, Yu Dehai had already received the word, and immediately went out to greet Yu Deling.