Chapter 196: Receiving the Reward
The banquet of the Dong family lasted from noon to three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and when they left, Li Yao and the three of them received a bag of fine tea, which was a gift prepared by the Dong family for the guests.
Dong Xiangwen and his wife and Dong Tianyou personally sent Li Yao and the three of them to the door, Dong Tianyou was very reluctant to see that Li Yao was leaving, but he also knew that it was too late, he heard that Li Yao's family lived far away, if he didn't leave, it might be dark when he got home, so he reluctantly said goodbye to Li Yao.
Not long after Li Yao left the Dong family, Niu Fengzhen pulled Niu Dazhu and went to the Dong family with the Dong family's subordinates.
Niu Fengzhen went to the porridge shed early today, as two days ago, and worked there for a day, and in the afternoon, the steward of the porridge shack said that the stall should be closed earlier, and she asked why, and the steward said that this was the birthday banquet of the old lady of the Dong family, and they had collected the stall earlier and went back to receive a reward.
She was not well at the time, and after waiting for another day, she told her this?
When Niu Fengzhen entered the Dong Mansion in her previous life, the old lady of the Dong family was no longer there, so she naturally didn't know the birthday of the old lady of the Dong family.
The housekeeper was afraid that everyone would go back to the house to receive the reward in a hurry, and he didn't have the heart to work, so he asked everyone early not to talk about the old lady's birthday banquet when they were working, causing Niu Fengzhen to just know the news.
In view of the fact that Niu Fengzhen has always helped with work these days, the steward kindly invited Niu Fengzhen to go to Dong's house with them to receive the reward.
Although Niu Fengzhen is not from Dongfu, but in the past, when the old lady had a birthday banquet, there were poor people who didn't know who went to Dongfu to say auspicious words, and they could also get a reward, so it didn't hinder the steward to invite Niu Fengzhen to go.
Niu Fengzhen was in a better mood when she heard this, thinking that she might be able to meet Dong Tianyou by taking advantage of this reward, so she went to the street and found Niu Dazhu who was looking at the shop, and pulled Niu Dazhu with her.
At this time, the banquet had ended, and there were basically no guests in the Dong Mansion, so the Dong family began to reward their subordinates, and some guys from various shops in the Dong Mansion rushed over, and finally gave the old lady a birthday.
As a result, when Niu Fengzhen came, the old lady had been entertaining guests for a day, and her spirit was not very good, so she rested in advance, Zheng Qiuyue and Dong Tianyou saw that the old lady was gone, and they all went back to the backyard, leaving only Dong Xiangwen and the housekeeper here to arrange for the rest of the people to give rewards and things.
Dong Xiangwen didn't ask much about unfamiliar faces like Niu Fengzhen and Niu Dazhu, there were also many poor families in their Dong family in previous years, as long as someone came to say something auspicious, the Dong Mansion didn't care about these rewards, and it could be regarded as helping the old lady gather blessings.
Niu Fengzhen was very frightened in his previous life, this old man of the Dong family who seemed to be kind and actually very shrewd, couldn't see Dong Tianyou, and there was nothing to do in the face of Dong Xiangwen, so he had to honestly take a small bag of copper coins and a bag of longevity cakes with Niu Dazhu alone.
Niu Fengzhen came to the Dong Mansion with expectations, and when she left, she was depressed, but Niu Dazhu was in a good mood, after all, she got the reward and snacks for nothing.
However, when he was in the Dong Mansion, he saw that the purses prepared by the Dong Mansion were not the same, some of the purses were bulging, and they looked very heavy, and some of the purses were deflated, and there were not many copper plates at a glance, because he and his daughter's faces were not familiar, and the people of the Dong Mansion gave the two of them the kind of purses that were deflated. As soon as he came out of Dong's mansion, he opened his purse and counted them, there were only eighteen copper plates in it, but this also made Niu Dazhu very happy, plus his daughter's purse and two snacks, plus one is worth one hundred and eighty yuan.