In terms of scale, the family dinner at grandpa's house was even more lively than the previous dinner at Yang Li's house.
Of course, if it were the original Wuse Family, the size of the family banquet would be not to mention that of the secular royal family. Even in the spiritual world, there would be many people who were greedy and wanted to sneak in and have a meal. That was the time when the Wuse Family was at its most prosperous.
It's just that the Wuse Family is in decline now. Although a lean camel is bigger than a horse, after flourishing for so many years, the Wuse Family has already spread its branches throughout the travel world. If you really want to count them one by one, it will definitely be a big project.
Not to mention that many branches can no longer be traced, some surnames have been changed, some genealogies have been lost, and some have even died without descendants.
But if we really want to be honest, only Heiyang and the others in Five Color City are left, plus some people from the royal capital, and then there will be no more.
On the contrary, the Qing family, which is not a very big family, has grown from scratch in the past hundred years, and its scale is actually larger than that of the Wuse family alone!
There were about a hundred people in total, and a dozen tables were set up. Seats were arranged according to seniority, which was a tradition passed down many years ago.
It is said that there are many reasons, but as they continue to be discarded, there is only one key reason left. People of the same generation will not be so reserved when eating together, and everyone can be happy.
Hei Yang Hongli felt nervous in front of her elders. In fact, most younger generations were like this when meeting their elders, and the elders knew it in their hearts.
Arranged with grandma and grandpa as the oldest generation, the two elders are at the table, surrounded by their children - except for a certain little redhead who doesn't know how to get in!
Naturally, her mother, Lan Yuying, was also at the table, while her father, Hong Xiaochen, was pushed to the table of the eldest uncle and the second uncle. A bunch of old men were toasting and drinking, which was quite enjoyable.
As for the junior Hei Yang Hongli who was at the bottom, they sat at the same table with the other six peers.
The couple Hei Yang Hongli was not very conspicuous, because in addition to them, there were two couples, one large and one young, at this table.
The younger couple was a cousin who was two years younger than Hongli, and he brought his girlfriend to the banquet.
The older couple is Hongli's one-year-old cousin, who, like Hongli, came with a man.
However, the couple had been married for more than two years and took the child with them. Hongli's eyelids twitched as she looked at her cousin's pregnant belly.
She stole a glance at Hei Yang next to her, then glanced at her cousin. She let out a soft "hiss" in her heart and couldn't help but shiver.
As for the other two, pure little brats, Hongli and Heiyang were leaning against each other. On the left of Hongli was her six-year-old cousin, and on the right of Heiyang was her eight-year-old cousin.
Although they are young, they are the same generation as Hei Yang Hongli and others. Their parents think that they can take care of themselves, so they let them sit at a table alone.
However, my mother, Lan Yuying, also told me to keep an eye on the two children and so on. Don't worry about anything, and help others if there is trouble.
There are a few little kids of the same generation as Xiao Huo, but they are very few and cannot sit at the same table alone. Except for Xiao Huo who sneaks into grandpa's table, the other kids are also brought by their parents.
Well, how should I put it. Although their Xiaohuo can sing, dance, fly, be cute, talk sweetly, and fight, and he also has some gadgets in his head that Hongli regards as trash, he is really not even one year old and is still a baby...
Hei Yang Hongli simply chose to ignore it. She picked up the juice in front of her expressionlessly and took a sip. It was great!
Ahem, they were so happy, but the two little kids next to them were drooling.
Their parents said it was cold and they might catch cold if they drank juice, so each of them gave a glass of boiled water and held it in their hands...
Tsk tsk, it looked so pitiful and so painful that Hei Yang Hongli couldn't bear it anymore and quickly drank all the juice in the cup.
Well, this way the children can't see it. What a good brother and sister!
As for giving them a drink, Hei Yang Hongli is not the family’s parent, so how will they deal with it if they really drink it to their stomachs?
Well, they can use their spiritual power to help resist, so that they can drink without getting upset.
But what if when they get home or a day or two later, their child has a stomachache due to other reasons, the first thing the parents will think about is "did they drink the juice and get cold?" Even if they don't say it, they will feel a little bit in their hearts uncomfortable.
In the end, Hei Yang and Hongli both had a thankless job and had to take the blame, so why bother.
I can take care of other people's children by myself, and a little help can be used, but I can make other decisions on my own...
However, my grandpa's house didn't have hot milk for the children to drink. Otherwise, there would be no need for them to drink boiled water. There was hot tea, but it was not for children.
This made Hongli realize how difficult it is to raise a serious child, but it was better for her family to have a small fire. Even eating a piece of ice cubes raw would not ruin her stomach!
(small fire:??????)
The cousin and younger siblings are more powerful. Under the awed gaze of Hei Yang Hongli, the young couple held wine bottles and drank cup after cup. Their momentum was not inferior to that of Hei Hong and his father!
As for my cousin, she must not drink alcohol, and she must have a moderate amount of juice. She is now more delicate than those two little brats.
The little brat fell down and got up and continued running wildly. You can ask your cousin to throw him down.
Probably to take care of my cousin's mood, my brother-in-law, who looked like an honest man, also quenched his thirst with boiled water.
Hei Yang Hongli was the only one sitting at this table drinking juice.
Different from the bustle of other tables, everyone at Hei Yang Hongli's table was eating their own thing. Apart from the sounds of cousins and younger siblings competing for their drinking capacity, there was only the sound of eating and drinking. The silent atmosphere was particularly special. different.
Hong Li was suddenly startled, turned to look at Hei Yang, and found that the other party had also looked over, their eyes met, and they suddenly realized.
[Hongli: I understand, except for the two children, they deliberately arranged three couples at the same table, right? 】
[Hei Yang: Tsk tsk, the elders actually know everything. 】
Hei Yang turned his head slightly and looked at the lively and joyful tables beside him, and couldn't help but smile.
[Heiyang: We are luckier than sloths and have the opportunity to see the beautiful side of the world. 】
[Hongli: She doesn’t even have a family anymore, and she doesn’t want to have a family anymore. It’s so bad. 】
Hei Yang Hongli shook her head, stopped thinking so much, and filled up the juice again!
But five minutes later...
"Ata..."
Hong Li suddenly murmured softly, and Hei Yang beside him raised his eyebrows, lowered his head and then raised his head.
[Heiyang: Hey, why are you stepping on me suddenly! 】
[Hongli: Well, look at them. 】
[Heiyang: Who? 】
[Hongli: It’s just them! 】
[Heiyang: Huh? 】
Hei Yang glared with a pair of dead fish eyes and followed Hong Li's gaze for a moment.
The cousin snuggled on her husband's shoulder, watching with a sweet look on her face as her husband helped her pick out what she could eat and what she couldn't, and kept being fed with her mouth open.
On the other side, my cousin and his girlfriend faced each other with bright faces, stuffing food into each other's mouths, and kept making such hateful sounds like "three two one, ah..."!
[Hongli: Have you seen it? Have you seen it? Damn it, it feels like my head is about to turn into a big lemon! 】
[Hongli: People’s hearts are not as old as they used to be, the world is deteriorating, and in broad daylight, the world is bright...]
[Hongli: No! feed me! 】
[Hei Yang: Ah, when we are eating, it is obvious that we can get the maximum benefit by attacking together. Okay, have you abandoned pragmatism, Xiaoli? 】
[Hongli: I don’t care, just feed me! 】
[Hei Yang: Hey, when will you be as mature as the two younger brothers and sisters next to us! 】
[Hei Yang: Look at my two children, eating peacefully and not making any noise at all.
This is what flowers should look like in the future, and this is what we should learn...]
"Little Chengzi, you can't eat the food here!"
The eight-year-old cousin held a small bowl and handed it to his little cousin.
"I picked some for you, hurry up and eat it while it's hot!"
"Thank you, brother Lele!"
The little cousin took it with a sweet smile.
"I'll also pick some delicious food here for Brother Lele!"
Hei Yang: "..."
Hongli: "..."
[Hongli: Future flowers have also been sent! (sad)】
[Heiyang: People's hearts are not the same as before, the world is getting worse, the sun is shining brightly, and the world is bright...]
[Hongli: Hongli is vain today, please satisfy her vanity quickly! 】
[Hei Yang: OK, OK, my eldest lady. 】
Hei Yang couldn't help but laugh, stood up and bent down to hold the big spoon, filled a bowl of delicious fish soup for Hong Li, and gently handed it to her side.
"Um?"
Hongli resisted the temptation to raise the corners of her mouth, but raised her brows and looked away.
"snort!"
Hei Yang: "???"
[Hei Yang: What's wrong, sister? Do you want me to open your mouth and pour it in? 】
[Hongli: I won’t tell you, just figure it out yourself! 】
[Hei Yang: Wow, the Riddler must die soon! 】
[Hongli: Humph~]
"Tsk, tsk."
Hei Yang looked at Hong Li's deliberate pretense in amusement. Did Xiao Jiujiu still need to guess in her heart?
Hei Yang shook his head and laughed. He gently scooped up a spoonful of fish soup with a small spoon and brought it to his red lips.
"uh-huh."
Hongli: "!!!"
Seeing Hei Yang's appearance, Hong Li's facial muscles almost cramped, and she tried not to laugh out loud. She gave Hei Yang another look and said, "Hey!"
"Xiao Li drinks the soup, it's nutritious and delicious!"
"Hey hey hey."
Hongli felt that if she had a tail, it would be raised at this moment, and she opened her mouth with a smile.
"Ah...um! It's delicious!"
"As long as you like it."
Hei Yang smiled helplessly, forgiving him for not being able to resist his girlfriend's open mouth, waiting to be fed.
"One more spoonful. Don't leave until you finish."
"Hehe, ah..."
Everyone at the table could clearly hear and see, but they all agreed not to disturb each other. It turned out that Hei Yang, who was sitting on Hong Li's right, changed places with her little cousin on her left and ran to Hong Li's left.
And the little cousin got her wish and sat next to "Brother Lele"...
Sin, sin, forgive my complicity...
Hei Yang whispered in his heart that he was not a cadre and could not resist this temptation.
"Hey, that's great!"
After a bowl of fish soup, Hong Li felt warm all over her body. She licked the corners of her mouth and smiled happily at Hei Yang.
"Hmm, it's my turn."
Hong Li picked up the chopsticks, she was going to feed Hei Yang!
Hong Li stared at the plate of beef on the table, thinking that she would be able to reach it by standing up and bending down. However, she found that she jumped off the stool and became shorter out of thin air, so she no longer had to bend down.
"Eh eh eh..."
Hongli stretched out her arms and told Hei Yang while picking up vegetables.
"I'm telling you, this beef is..."
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly heard someone calling her.
"Xiao Li!!!"
"Oh my goodness!"
"Snapped!"
Hong Li was so frightened that her hands trembled suddenly. She turned around and saw her mother waving to her.
"Come here, your grandma is calling you."
Lan Yuying explained.
"Oh, come right now, come right now, eh?"
Hong Li suddenly realized something, looked at the dining table again, and found that everyone was looking at her in confusion, with big doubts in their eyes.
"Huh?"
Hong Li's expression gradually disappeared. She lowered her head and saw that her chopsticks had caught the beef. To be precise, it had penetrated the beef, then pierced the plate, and finally pierced the table.
Hongli: "..."
"that……"
Hongli said weakly: "I said I didn't mean it, will you believe it?"
"Xiao Li?"
"Hey, it's coming!"
Hongli quickly ran over.
"Hahaha, I'll explain that to you when I get back!"
"..."
"Ahem..."
Hei Yang pretended to be calm and reached out to pull out the chopsticks and ate the slices of beef on the skewers with an expression of enjoyment on his face.
"Well, this beef is delicious!"
Hei Yang sneered twice: "You are all watching what I am doing. Everyone, eat it while it's hot!"
Hong Li: "Hei Yang, I want you to come with us."
"Hey, it's coming!"
Hei Yang ran away, his two chopsticks clattered on the table and trembled, and finally he lay motionless.
Tablemate: "???"
"..."
"What are you doing..."
Hei Yang looked at Hong Li running towards him with a confused look on his face.
"Well, that..."
Hong Li was uncharacteristically shy. She walked to Hei Yang with her head lowered, took Hei Yang's hand and pulled him over.
Before Hei Yang could say anything else, Hong Li's words also made his heart beat faster.
"Grandpa and the others want to get to know you and see what kind of person my fiancé is..."
Hei Yang's brain was boiling with excitement, his waist was sore, his legs were aching, and his whole body started to feel sick even if it wasn't sick.
I want to meet the elders of the Hongli family!
This is actually somewhat different from meeting the parents, because no matter whether these elders are satisfied with Hei Yang, it actually has no big impact on him and Hong Li. Their marriage is a certainty.
However, this is a custom that has been passed down for a long time. Generally speaking, during the first New Year after an engagement, you need to take your significant other to recognize your relatives, and at the same time, let the relatives know what they are doing.
In this way, sending invitations to them when they get married will not seem too abrupt, and it also reminds them that they can prepare what they need in advance.
Traveling World During a wedding, unless there is something really important, the relatives of both the man and the woman will take time to rush to the scene and send their best wishes on the way to the wedding.
It can be precious jewelry or ordinary greeting cards. The value comes second and the quantity mainly depends on it.
A gift represents a relative. In addition to blessing, it also has the role of "support" and "supervision".
To support is to tell the other party: If you treat someone in my family badly after getting married, do you see so many thoughts? They will turn into an "iron fist to correct the relationship between husband and wife" and smash them down at any time.
The supervisor is very understanding: everyone is a witness to your marriage. If there is any disagreement or divorce in the future, it will be very ugly.
This is not to say that relatives will interfere with their marriage, but to add a psychological barrier to the couple.
What they send are their sincere blessings. Before you quarrel, do you think you are worthy of everyone's blessings?
There are also couples who have no confidence in each other and get married secretly in private. They will not tie themselves to death directly to leave a way out.
One possibility is that such a person has a character that leaves everything to one side. Another possibility is that like the former masters of the Five Elements Sect, the Medicine King Sect, their marriages are not supported by their family members.
Of course, the kind of guy who is thinking about how to run away before getting married does not count.
Hei Yang Hongli didn't need to leave any escape route at all, and she never thought about leaving any escape route. They didn't need anyone else to stabilize their relationship for them.
Their purpose is very pure, just for the sense of ceremony and to tell the other person that they value him or her.
Therefore, some people say that the more relatives come and the more lively it is during a wedding, it proves that the couple is more in love.
Although this is one-sided, there is some truth in it.
What Heiyang Hongli was about to do was meet with relatives and elders to advance blessings for the future.
This is a two-way promise. If the relatives don't specifically say anything dissatisfied after calling Hei Yang, it is an acknowledgment that they will definitely show up on the wedding day.
Even if something really happens and you can't get away from it, you have to ask someone to explain it, otherwise you will be blamed by some people who are blasphemous.
For example, if you don't show kindness to others or don't keep your words, your reputation will become bad!
Of course, after all, he is not his own child, so everyone just recognizes him as someone he looks familiar to, and will not use too strict standards to examine Hei Yang.
You will not appear to be very responsible if you are strict, but will leave a very cunning and mean impression on others.
You said that your original intention was to protect your child from being deceived, but few people felt that you protected her, and instead they hated you all together.
This is the same as Hei Yang Hongli not giving juice to her children. Interfering in other people's affairs will cause trouble.
To make it clear, Hei Yang didn't have to worry about meeting his elders. He just had to keep smiling and walk around in a circle shouting "Hello, grandma" and "Hello, grandpa".
But the truth is that Hei Yang is nervous. He is not the character "being scrutinized" even if he doesn't look at Hong Li. Is he still so nervous?
After all, they are still afraid that their elders will talk about their engagement issues. Even if it does not affect the outcome, they will still feel uncomfortable if they pretend as if nothing has happened.
The most hurtful words often come from the mouths of close relatives and friends. If a random stranger says bad things, there is still no fear of tearing up each other's genealogy!
When the two elderly people patted Hei Yang on the shoulder with a smile and said that Xiaoli of Yingying's family would rely on you to take care of her from now on, Hei Yang couldn't describe what it felt like. He just felt a little trembling in his heart but couldn't stop smiling on his face.
"Hello……"
Hongli blushed and pinched Hei Yang's waist, reminding: "Don't be in a daze, answer the question!"
There were no weird-tempered relatives among my grandpa’s family, so the trip went as smoothly as expected.
In other words, together with the relatives in the royal capital who have already met, she and all the elders in Heiyang have already agreed to this marriage!
Hongli blushed and lowered her head. She was usually casual, but now she was like a little daughter-in-law. No one dared to raise her eyes, half of her body was hidden behind the black sun, her face was hot.
As she got closer to Hei Yang during this period, she was no longer so shy when staying with him.
But now, with hundreds of relatives watching, she would rather stand on the competition stage and be watched by the crowd for a hundred consecutive victories or something!
Hongli felt very strange when she thought that not only her parents who gave birth to her and raised her had entrusted her to Hei Yang, but even her parents had also given her to Hei Yang.
Although she wanted to do it ten thousand times, she could no longer escape this feeling of being pushed forward. But it is different from taking the initiative to move forward.
Nervous, shy, secretly happy, excited...
Hongli couldn't tell how many emotions she felt in her heart at this time. One thing she clearly felt was that Black Yang brought her a sense of security, and her instinctive dependence on Black Yang had reached its peak.
In the past, when she was wronged and sad, she would always think of her parents first, but now, she first thinks of the boy next to her.
Does Hei Yang think the same way?
Does he feel the same way about himself?
Did you bring him a sense of security?
Could he be relying on himself subconsciously?
"Give me some encouragement, sister, I'm going to be out of breath..."
Hei Yang's weak voice came and gave Hong Li the answer. He did the same, hehe!
Hong Li felt happy and patted Hei Yang on the back gently: "Come on!"
With one shot, the power seemed to come back instantly.
Hei Yang took a deep breath, looked up at the two elders, and said seriously and confidently: "Don't worry, leave Xiaoli to me. No matter what happens, I will be by her side and will never abandon her!"
"Good boy."
The smile on grandma's face became even brighter.
"Don't forget our invitation, the old man and I are looking forward to blessing it!"
"Waiting for the wedding day..."
Grandpa looked at Hongli with a smile.
"Don't be so shy."
"Um……"
Heiyang Hongli agreed softly.
"Have you set a time?"
Grandma suddenly asked.
"Well, not yet, but it will definitely be this year..."
"When are you going to start planning and preparations?"
Grandpa said seriously: "It's not too much to plan this kind of thing half a year in advance. Don't wait until the time comes to rush and leave regrets in your life. That is one of the most memorable moments in your life!"
"Wait until I go back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow..."
Hei Yang said softly: "After the first lunar month and the Spring Festival, we will start formal preparations."
"It will definitely be done beautifully!"
Hong Li slipped out from behind Hei Yang and said seriously: "No regrets!"
"Don't put too much pressure on yourself."
Grandma smiled and comforted her again: "It is a happy day. Even if there are a few small mistakes, it is not harmful. Eighty-eight times in life are setbacks and difficulties, and it is normal to encounter obstacles."
"If anyone dares to hinder..."
Hei Yang's tone suddenly became calm.
"Then let it disappear forever!"
Hongli's expression disappeared instantly.
Grandma, grandpa and others: "???"
"Hahaha, I'm just kidding, don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously, haha..."*2
Hei Yang Hongli showed a cute smile again.
"Ah, that's it, hahaha, it almost scared grandma, hahaha."
"Okay, okay, they are indeed a couple, they just have a tacit understanding!"
"Hahahaha..."*n
………
"Hiss~"
My cousin, who was enjoying a drink with his girlfriend, suddenly trembled and held his heart, looking wary.
"It's bad. I'm afraid I didn't drink too much and finally got sick. I suddenly felt a palpitation just now..."
Girlfriend: "..."
Damn it, something seems to be wrong with her too!
