I do fortune-telling in ancient astrology

Chapter 28
The New Year's Eve banquet was held in the second uncle's yard, because Taigong Lin said that he didn't want to move, and he could rest after eating.

Fortunately, Mrs. Hou had no objections, so she listened to Taigong Lin and moved all the things that had been prepared in the banquet hall of the Hou Mansion to a small hall in the second uncle's courtyard.

Thanks to the thinness of the Lin family, otherwise there would really be no room for this small banquet hall.

Mrs. Lin blamed Taigong Lin for having many faults, and instead of sitting in the good lobby, she insisted on sitting in this crowded place.

Mrs. Lin didn't want to go to the eldest daughter-in-law's yard at first, so he found an excuse to rest after eating and didn't move his head. But seeing everyone sitting crowded, and it was not convenient for the servants and servants to serve food, he felt a little regretful. His eyes were sour, even if Mrs. Lin complained, he didn't dare to speak back.

Lin Huaiyue, the third son, said: "Mother, don't complain, I still think the lobby in the elder sister-in-law's courtyard is too cold. It's cold, so squeeze it together to keep you warm."

Mrs. Pei glanced at him, and reproached him in a low voice: "It's not that there is no charcoal fire for you to roast, father of father always has trouble with his elder sister-in-law, and he doesn't want to go to the main house even on New Year's Day. Have you ever seen someone's banquet held in a side courtyard?" Yes, fortunately, the eldest sister-in-law didn't mind and moved here happily."

The charcoal fire for the winter is the wood Mrs. Pei transported from the mountains of her natal family, and it was burned in the country farm before being moved to the mansion for the whole family to keep warm.

Lin Huaiyue twisted her leg lightly, her lips did not move, and her voice came out from between her teeth: "Speak softly!"

When the family is reunited, the juniors are afraid that the old couple will make the whole family unhappy because of a trivial matter, so no one dares to complain openly, so they can comfort Mrs. Lin.

Taigong Lin, as the respected man of the Lin family, held up a wine glass and said a long series of New Year's greetings and expectations for the future, and said some words of sustenance to the three grandchildren, and the Lin family's New Year's Eve banquet officially began.

The next process is New Year's greetings. First, the eldest daughter-in-law, Madam Hou, kowtows to Zunqi's family aunt to pay New Year's greetings. Next, the couple Lin Laoer and Lin Laosan take over the pressured money from Lin Taigong and Lin Laotai, and then Sit back to your seat.

Finally, there are three grandchildren, who wish all the elders a new year. Lin Xingwei is not as experienced as the two cousins. She prepared a big money bag in advance to hold the money. into his arms, bulging, his abdomen was so big, it was very ugly.

Mrs. Hou gave her a disgusted look, and Mrs. He hurriedly knelt down and asked Lin Xingwei to turn her back. She took out all the small purses from the neckline and put them into the big brocade bag provided by Mrs. He.

Lin Chengan said: "Ran Ran, if you can't fit it, I can lend you my brother's purse."

"It's fit, it's fit." Lin Xing smiled slightly, shrunk the brocade bag, and then tied it to his belt. It was very heavy and huge. He patted it twice happily, and raised his wine glass to sip it embarrassedly. Take a sip of wine.

Lin Tingyu bumped into Lin Cheng'an lightly, and said in a low voice, "Didn't you realize that my grandfather gave Ran Ran more money than both of us."

Lin Cheng'an clung to his elder brother's ear and whispered: "Ran Ran has behaved well recently, grandpa rewarded her."

Lin Tingyu immediately corrected his expression and sat upright, as if I wanted to behave well.

The next procedure was to watch the singing and dancing performance while eating. The performers were the two uncles and three grandchildren of the Lin family, as well as several servants.

The venue was narrow, but Lin's second child still walked among the seats with a drunken red face and holding a wine glass, while singing words that Lin Xingwei had never heard before, he clinked glasses with everyone at the table...

Lin Laosan held his right hand empty, and danced a sword dance without a sword in a vigorous and agile manner. Even though he had no sword, he could still make everyone imagine a sword, light and sword.

Old lady Lin smiled from ear to ear, and gave the old man a sneaky look. If the old man hadn't insisted on sitting in this small hall, my youngest son would be able to dance even more vigorously.

As for the three grandchildren, with Lin Tingyu as the head and Lin Xingwei as the tail, they performed a Nuo dance with their hands, legs and waist twisted. Several servants sat outside the hall to play drums and gongs to accompany them, and Luo Fu beat the drums so that they flew From then on, Lin Xingwei was afraid that he would break the drum surface.

Mrs. Lin said very inappropriately: "Okay, be careful, don't kick the food table over..."

Mrs. Lin even gave him a look of hatred, and cursed softly: "If it's in the lobby, why are you so restrained!"

Lin Taigong was wronged and dared not speak.

Lin's second child also invited the Nuo dance, and when it was time for the child, they would dance a circle around all the Lin family's houses. The three grandchildren couldn't wait any longer, and after eating quickly, Lin Chengan took the two brothers and sisters Light the firecrackers.

As soon as the three children left, Mrs. Zhen said: "There is only Ran Ran in this house. Seeing that she is mature and dignified, she is capable and quick in doing things. She doesn't look like a young girl at all. Now that she is following behind her two elder brothers, she just thinks about it. She is the youngest child in our family."

Madam Hou's expression was indifferent, since Wei Mingji came to the door to talk about the engagement, she has always felt unhappy in the past few days, and when the family was reunited, she actually felt inferior.

In terms of background, she is far superior to her two sisters-in-law, but in terms of current life, she is far inferior to those of Zhen Shi and Pei Shi who live in peace and security.

They have husbands and sons, and she has only one daughter, and she still has to marry Wei Mingji, as long as she gets married, she will be lonely and don't know how to live in the huge Hou Mansion.

Madam Hou was depressed and drank all the wine in the glass in one go.

Suddenly, Luo Fu trotted to report: "Mrs. Hou, General Wei is here, and he is coming to the second master's courtyard."

Everyone in the hall froze, Mr. Lin held up his chopsticks and didn't know whether he should drop it, Mr. Lin got up and went out to greet him with a surprised expression, Mr. Lin swallowed the wine vigorously, then put down his glass and sat upright.

The female relatives were very uncomfortable. Usually when Wei Mingji came, they would avoid them except Mrs. Hou, but now they would run into each other when they went out. Sitting here facing a titan, they felt terrified.

Madam Hou looked as usual, and asked, "Where's Ran Ran?"

Luo Fu said: "The Eldest Young Master thinks setting off firecrackers is boring, so he proposed to rub new year pictures. The Princess and the two Young Masters went to the Eldest Young Master's study."

While he was talking, footsteps came from outside, and a group of Yangdi soldiers in masks and armor had already stood on both sides of the entrance of the banquet hall.

Wei Mingji came in from the outside, his body was cold, like a silver icicle, he took off his mask and handed it to Bao Shang as soon as he entered the door, then fell to the ground and bowed: "Junior Wei Mingji sends New Year greetings to the Lin family's grandfather, grandmother and all the elders."

There was no sound in the hall, Taigong Lin put his hands into his sleeves, glanced at him and hummed softly, and ignored him.

Old lady Lin smiled slightly, and said: "General Wei, get up, come, let's set a table for General Wei!"

Wei Mingji got up and looked around, only to see that there was no one behind the three used messy dining tables, and asked, "Why don't you see the two sons of the Lin family and Princess Youning?"

Madam Hou said indifferently: "The three children are going to play, General Wei can sit down."

Madam Hou didn't mean to call Lin Xingwei to meet Wei Mingji, and Wei Mingji didn't ask any further.

The maid cleaned up Lin Tingyu's food table, put on new bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses, and re-served the dishes. Wei Mingji sat here, took off his helmet and put it beside his legs, and hid the sword at his waist in the behind.

(End of this chapter)