293. Yu'er Succeeds
293. Yu'er succeeded
Before I could hear anything, the dining room had arrived. Looking inside, there were many people busy, with the sound of jingling dishes and the smell of food.
"Those three brats asked them to help, but they were in the way of others." Mu Tong couldn't stand the way his three sons were stuck in a group of maids and servants, and the eldest son of the Qi family could help set up the dishes. No matter how he looked at him, he was not useful.
Qi Mingluan just smiled softly and followed her to support her mother. Qingxi had already welcomed her grandmother to the main table. Qiushui had just taught her brother how to place her mother's bowls and chopsticks.
"Cheng'er, just sit down. Qiushui can do these things. What should I do?" Xu was busy asking Qi Shaocheng to put down those butterfly bowls, and who is the young master of the family to do these maids' affairs.
"It's already arranged, let's sit here." Qi Shaocheng dodged slightly, pulled up the seat for Xu, and helped Xu sit down first. Xu was originally looking at Mrs. Qi, and did not dare to join the elders first, but Mrs. Qi didn't mind these things, so she just let Xu sit down.
"You three, thank you when will you pour some tea for your father?" Mu Tong looked at Qi Shaocheng as filial and respectful to Xu, and once again demoted his three sons. The three brothers of the Mu family pouted at the same time, and there was no such father. He brought his son to other people's houses as guests and rushed to work as a helper for others. In the end, he didn't end up with good words.
"The Marquis invites you to sit down." After Qi Houru settled his wife, he went over to greet Mu Tong.
"I said Brother Qi not to be so polite. Judging from the taste of Xiao Mingluan's food, I don't even look down on the food in the palace. But I wonder how good the chefs in Qi's house have." Mu Tong was completely unpolite, sat on the other side of Mrs. Qi, and the three sons sat in turn.
"Where is where, what's the age, Hou Ru is younger than the Marquis. If you think about it, Hou Ru should call Marquis a brother."
"Haha, that's what it should be. There are no marquis here now. You are Xiao Mingluan's biological father, and I am Xiao Mingluan's adoptive father. They are all fathers, and they are very equal."
"Yes, yes." Qi Houru returned to Mrs. Qi and her own Ran'er to sit down, taking care of both sides, filial piety and affection.
Qi Mingluan sat next to Xu, listening to the two fathers who were almost 100 years old together greeting each other. If there was nothing that the marquis was not a marquis, then she would be the princess Fengluan.
On the main table, there were eight people sitting in the Qi family's grandparents and grandchildren, including four fathers and sons of the Mu family.
"Old lady, the fourth young master, the fifth young master, the third young lady and the sixth young lady are all here and are waiting in the side hall." Qingxi waited for Mrs. Qi to sit down before replying.
According to the rules, if the concubine's son and daughter were not ordered by the elders, they would not be able to eat in the same room with the distinguished guests. But why did the treatment that the fourth brother Qi Shaoyuan enjoyed was reduced?
In the past few months, Qi Mingluan was not only concerned about Xu's pregnancy, but also used medicine in the embroidery building. She didn't care about the situation of the Fourth Brother and others in the Qi Mansion. She always believed that Qiao Xiao and Xiao would tell her if there were any changes in the mansion.
"Grandmother, father, mother."
"Grandmother, father, mother."
"Please to my grandmother, father, and mother."
Several uneven levels of greetings were greeted, and the elder brothers and sisters standing in front of the hall were lined up. Qi Mingluan only looked at the fourth brother's spirit, and it seemed that it was not very good. But in this situation, she couldn't ask directly. She looked back at Xiao Qiao behind her. Xiao Qiao's eyes were dodging, and Qi Mingluan also understood a little in her heart.
"Come on, I have met the Beihou and the three young masters." Old Mrs. Qi raised her hand and waved her hand, asking several grandchildren to come forward to greet the Beihou.
"I've met Mr. Bei."
This time, the greeting sounds were quite a lot.
"Fourth brother, is it okay to sit next to Xiaoqi?" Qi Mingluan jumped off the round stool and jumped to take Qi Shaoyuan's arm. Qi Shaoyuan was stunned and did not express any emotions. Instead, he looked at his mother and father with inquiring eyes.
"The fourth brother hasn't brought Xiaoqi any novel gadgets for a long time." Qi Mingluan ignored it, and while pulling Qi Shaoyuan, he ordered Da Qiao to add a set of chairs, stools, bowls, chopsticks, etc.
"Cheng'er, please sit there too. Ten people are all round and full, and the meaning is good." Xu's rare order took the initiative to speak. After Qi Shaocheng agreed, Qi Fu added another round stool between the Fourth Young Master and the Three Young Master Mu. Qi Shaocheng happened to sit in the same place.
In this way, the other table seemed much empty, with only Qi Shaoguang, Qi Minglan and Qi Mingyue. Even if the table was originally a small circle, it was still empty, as if the legitimate and illegitimate children were separated clearly.
The dishes for dinner began to go one by one, and Mutong kept praising them from beginning to end, saying all the good things, such as the colors, fragrance and taste, unique taste, etc.
Qi Mingluan saw that Qi Shaoyuan was still too quiet. Whenever she sat beside her, she would definitely pick up food for herself with chopsticks and chopsticks, saying a lot of things that happened outside.
"Fourth brother, you like this dish, but you haven't made it in two months." Qi Shaocheng picked up a chicken leg with scallion oil. Although it was not Qi Shaoyuan's favorite flavor of thick oil and red sauce, it was also a chicken leg.
"Eat it, your elder brother is thinking about what you eat, do you remember what your elder brother likes to eat?" Only when Xu spoke, Qi Shaoyuan raised his head, looked around the table, pointed to a plate of fried cashew nuts that had just been served, and signaled to put them in front of Qi Shaocheng.
"Brother likes to eat this, and he also said... what kind of fruits are these, they are all for brain-nourishing." Qi Shaoyuan said a few words, and his head drooped again.
"It's called nuts, just like walnuts, etc., but you don't like to eat them all, so you look a little stupid now." Qi Mingluan's curiosity has become more. Did the fourth brother make something wrong and make his parents angry? Not only did the father not say good things for the fourth brother, but his grandmother also turned a blind eye. What kind of thing did the fourth brother do, but the result was so serious.
"Your fourth brother is not stupid, how can you keep bullying me?" Qi Shaocheng still had a gentle smile and took Xiaoqi to joke. Xiaoqi became bigger and bigger, and he looked even more cute when he pouted his little mouth and looked angry.
"Then the eldest brother is the second best, smarter than Xiaoqi, so he came to bully Xiaoqi?" Qi Mingluan really wanted to throw a meatball over. In front of so many people, the eldest brother, who is famous for his pampering younger sister, went there. It seemed that there were people on the table, and only the eldest brother protected the fourth brother a little. It seemed that the eldest brother knew what the fourth brother had done wrong.
"Hmph, Xiaoqi ignores my elder brother. Mom, this steamed fish is very fresh. Mom needs to eat more, so that the baby in her belly can grow well."
Taking advantage of pleasing Xu, Qi Mingluan continued to wink Xiao Qiao and threatened her slightly. How could the fourth brother not report such a mistake to her?
Xiao Qiao was glaring from Qi Mingluan's eyes and turned to Da Qiao for help. Da Qiao pursed his lips and said that he was helpless. His task was very heavy at the moment.
The eldest young master originally met the Prince of Beihou. The two of them had a great relationship from poetry and prose to astronomy and geography. Later, for some reason, the third young master Mu Jianping also came over, and for some reason, the eldest young master, a literati, could also talk about it together with the martial arts master Mu San master Mu.
Moreover, I had already seen Master Mu San’s enthusiasm at the palace banquet, and I kept having to clink glasses with the eldest master to drink. The eldest master didn’t like to drink, so I pushed him, the temporary follower, out to stop the wine.
So now, Da Qiao, the follower of Princess Fengluan, who appears, must undertake this task.
"My mother knows it's good to eat more fish, but this fish is not that easy to buy every day. I also have fish for every meal at noon and night. I make it for me in a variety of ways. It's all my mother-in-law and the master who bothered Ran'er."
Qiu Shui picked up a piece of fish for Xu, carefully picked up the fish bones before he put them into Xu's bowl.
"Now I don't worry about not being able to eat fish anymore. Ran'er, you forgot. Cheng's daughter-in-law is the princess of the Donghou family. Shuilin Country produces fresh fish. Cheng'er is thinking about your body and goes to the market to buy it every day. In addition, the relationship between her in-laws is not a big deal."
Mrs. Qi gradually loved to eat fish, and she also loved to eat the meat on the neck behind the fish head, so Qingxi also picked up 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 she would not take good care of him. Now, seeing that Cheng'er has grown up and gained fame and soon will get married. In my heart..." Xu's sentimentality broke out again. As she spoke under the stimulation of progesterone, tears were almost coming out of her eyes, which made Qi Houru very anxious.
"Oh, look at you, why do you feel sad as you say it? Why do you treat Cheng'er's mother and I know that they treat him as your biological son. Sometimes I watch you take Cheng'er and be more close than Yuan'er." When Qi Houru became angry, he couldn't speak anymore and easily told the story of the eldest son of the Qi family.
"Oh? This young master turned out to be...you brother and sister?" Mu Tong was shocked. He originally wanted to say that Qi Houru was the same as him, but later he thought that it was enough to be a surprise to Xu Shangshu marry his daughter to a businessman, and it was even more impossible to marry someone else's re-string.
"Cough cough." It was too late when Qi Houru came to his senses. He could not tell the confused thing he had when he was young at the dinner table, not to mention that Shaocheng's biological mother had passed away. Besides, things were not suitable back then, and he was even more worried about colliding with Ran'er, who was pregnant.
"Oh, just talking, the dishes are going to cool down." Mrs. Qi was very satisfied with the fish and asked the people on the table to eat together, "Hou Ru, please serve me a bowl of soup, don't always be rash. I think Yuan'er's temperament is following you."
Qi Houru stood up awkwardly and started to serve the soup. As for Qi Shaoyuan who was named, he was covered in rice.
This... Qi Mingluan kept thinking, and grandmother's words seemed to have a deeper meaning. What would this mean when she said the fourth brother followed her father? After looking back at Xiao Qiao's eyes again, Xiao Qiao finally approached and used the skill of cloth vegetables to stick it to Qi Mingluan's ear in a very low voice, and Yu'er succeeded.
Chapter completed!