After Lin Jiayue said this, she felt quite happy. She thought that everyone would look at her differently, but Jiang's mother just glanced at her and said nothing.
"Grandma, mother, it's time to take a seat."
After Song Wan came in, a group of people left together with the master's maid, and Lin Jiayue snorted coldly with a red face.
When the maid next to Jiang Xingjian came to look for her, Lin Jiayue followed her to the main hall.
The wealth of the Hou Mansion was beyond her imagination, but there were hundreds of delicacies on the table for a family banquet, as well as countless gold, silver and porcelain utensils.
She was speechless secretly, and had to curse a few words about arrogance and lewdness.
"Miss Lin, come with me."
"what's your name?"
The maid respectfully answered Huai Su and invited Lin Jiayue to the table.
Mrs. Jiang sat Jiang Mu on her left and Jiang Xingjian on her right. Song Wan did not sit next to him, but sat next to Jiang Mu.
Lin Jiayue saw that there was no one around Jiang Xingjian, so she sat down. Unexpectedly, as soon as she sat down, she attracted everyone's attention, and hundreds of pairs of eyes looked at her, making her feel like sitting on pins and needles.
Huai Su also blushed, not expecting Lin Jiayue to be so unruly. She lowered her head to the other person's ear and whispered: "This is Second Master Yan's position. Miss Lin, please come with me."
Lin Jiayue paused and turned to look at Jiang Xingjian.
Jiang Xingjian might be able to let her do small things, but this kind of ethical rule could not be broken even by Mrs. Jiang, who was the mistress of the house. Jiang Xingjian frowned and showed displeasure, and Lin Jiayue could not just Neng stood up aggrievedly and followed Huai Su.
Just when she thought she should sit next to Song Wan, Huai Su led her to the seat almost opposite the main seat. Even though she didn't understand the rules of the Hou Mansion, she still knew that this place was almost the lowest status.
Lin Jiayue gritted her teeth, her whole face turned red whether from anger or embarrassment.
When she got there, she wanted to sit down but was pulled back by Huai Su. She turned around and was about to explode when she saw Huai Su wink at her.
Lin Jiayue looked up and saw that everyone was seated one by one according to their status. She gritted her teeth and waited until the people around her sat down before sitting on the stool. Before she could sit down, she felt comfortable and relaxed. He tapped her back.
After holding her breath all night, Lin Jiayue felt that she was on the verge of collapse. She suddenly twisted her body and shook off Huai Su's hand.
A teenage girl next to her looked at her in surprise.
Lin Jiayue knew that her behavior must be very outrageous in the eyes of these wealthy ladies, but she just couldn't be bothered.
She simply picked up her chopsticks to pick up the food, but hesitated a little. She couldn't help but look up at the people on the scene, and found that except for her, none of the ten or twenty masters on the table used their chopsticks.
Her heart trembled, and San San retracted her hand.
After suffering a lot of losses, I started to think about how others behave.
After a round of observation, she felt even more uncomfortable.
She first saw the little girl next to her. She was sitting slightly on the edge of the chair. Her face was not facing the plate in front of her, but slightly turned towards Mrs. Jiang.
Strangely, as soon as she sat down, Huai Su nodded behind her, thinking there was something wrong with her sitting posture.
Taking a closer look, it turns out that everyone is like this.
Lin Jiayue pursed her lips and her face was very cold, but in the end she couldn't bear the awkwardness in her heart, so she leaned over and sat down gently on the edge.
There are ten or twenty masters in the Hou Mansion dining, plus the maids, wet nurses, and little girls serving dishes. There are hundreds of people walking back and forth in the entire main hall, but not a single cough or the sound of clinking dishes is heard. .
The dining environment was silent, which made Lin Jiayue feel awkward.
And after all, she hadn't learned all kinds of rules since elementary school, but after sitting for a while, she felt sore in her back and dizzy. In addition, she had been traveling with Jiang Xingjian for several days, and when she arrived at the Hou Mansion, she heard that he had a wife at home. She was exhausted physically and mentally after all the stress. Looking at the table full of delicious food in front of me, I can't help but feel hungry.
She glanced at Song Wan secretly and saw that she was eating. She relaxed and picked up a dish in front of her with her chopsticks. She didn't know whether it was a hoof or an elbow.
As soon as she put it into the bowl, the little girl next to her looked at her in surprise.
Just this glance almost made Lin Jiayue jump into rage.
"My family doesn't have to follow so many rules when eating, just enjoy it."
When Mrs. Jiang opened her mouth, she did not feel comforted. Instead, she felt ashamed of being exposed.
Lin Jiayue gritted her teeth and hesitated, holding on to her last bit of dignity and stuffing the chopsticks into her mouth. The meat is soft, tender and fragrant in the mouth, and the flavor is very unique, but it is no different from chewing wax.
After taking one bite, she couldn't eat anything more and focused all her attention on observing Song Wan.
I saw that Song Wan had not picked up any dish since the beginning of the meal, and every dish must be brought to Mrs. Jiang. After she tasted it first, the other maids serving the master would use exquisite bead-encrusted silver chopsticks to taste it. Using silver spoons, he picked out three or five dishes and placed them in small bowls in front of each master.
Except for the maid serving the dishes and her, no one used chopsticks to pick up the dishes. Lin Jiayue watched helplessly as all the female relatives took only three to five or seven bites before putting down her chopsticks, as if the number of dishes to eat was also regulated.
She felt like a thorn in her heart, especially when she saw that the servant who was passing the dishes brought all the dishes to Mrs. Jiang, except for the one she took. Her shame and anger reached its peak. It didn't disappear even after the meal was over.
“Tea for grandmothers.”
After the meal, Song Wan accompanied Mrs. Jiang to serve her tea, while Jiang Xingjian took Jiang Yan and other concubine brothers to see Uncle Xifu off.
The male family members left the main hall, and the room suddenly became more natural.
Mrs. Jiang took a sip of the tea handed over by Song Wan and said with a smile, "Is this tea brewed with plum water?"
Jiang's mother replied: "The old lady is really powerful. My daughter-in-law has never experienced it just now."
"This is indeed plum water. Wan'er collected it from the snow on the plum blossoms in the courtyard last winter. When used to make tea, it not only brings the fragrance of plums, but is also clearer and smoother than ordinary spring water."
Mrs. Jiang knew that she was a widow in the past and had nothing to do except read books and worship Buddha. She had no children and could not go out of the yard. She could only do these things to pass the days that were not easy to pass. She felt heartbroken just thinking about it, and she couldn't help but feel unhappy when she saw Lin Jiayue following Jiang Xingjian step by step.
She said to the eldest maid Baozhu behind her: "Go and ask the warehouse to send all the red candle blankets to the Lan courtyard. The dusty place there will make people tired of looking at it."
After Mrs. Jiang finished her instructions, she said to Song Wan: "Since Yi'er has come back, your mother and I will never let you be wronged again. Now you and Yi'er will get married, and we will give birth to a son and a half daughter in the future." , this Marquis Mansion is really up to you."
Song Wan's face suddenly turned red when she heard this. She was a little embarrassed at first, and then she frowned slightly.
