The waiter behind the supervisor was unambiguous. He turned around and ran back to the backyard after receiving the instructions. After a while, everyone in the restaurant who was working in the backyard was brought to the front yard by him in an aggressive manner. The chef and assistant who were in charge were still holding A big shovel and a kitchen knife for cooking!
A group of more than ten people stood behind the restaurant manager, shouting: "Who wants to default on the bill and eat the King's meal?"
Mrs. Wang was stunned by this sudden turn of events. She didn't have the arrogance she had just now. Don't be so shocked that she sat down on her chair and said tremblingly: "You, you, what do you want to do?"
Everyone who came to celebrate the birthday looked at the scene in shock. Chu Ren and Uncle Chu rushed over from the table where the male guests were entertained. Grandpa Chu and Grandma Chu also stood up.
When Wang saw her family coming over, she hurriedly grabbed Chu Ren's sleeve and sought shelter: "Aren!"
Chu Ren came to the head steward, saluted and said, "Uncle, please just tell me what you have to say. Isn't this behavior a little too much on a happy day for our family?"
Seeing that Chu Ren was somewhat polite, the steward snorted and replied: "Excessive? Huh, you are from this family too? This is the first time we have met at Xunxiang Restaurant. Even my elders wanted to refuse the bill for their birthday party. As long as you pay the remaining money, we will leave immediately!"
Chu Ren glanced at the people around him who were looking over here, and then turned to look at his wife, Mrs. Wang, complainingly. She even wanted to refuse the bill for hosting a birthday banquet for her elders. If this reputation spread, what would happen to their family in the future? Don’t even think about living in this village!
So he said to the steward more politely: "It is natural to spend money on hosting a banquet. My mother-in-law was just busy and confused just now. The steward should not be as knowledgeable as her. Mother, please pay off the money quickly!"
When Mrs. Wang heard this, she immediately became unwilling and took Chu Ren's arm to stop him: "Aren, you can't give it, you can't give it! Why should we pay for this!".
The chef in charge raised his shovel and pointed it at Mrs. Wang and asked, "Your parents are hosting a birthday banquet. If you don't pay for it, who will pay for it?"
The group of people in the restaurant were very angry with Mr. Wang, and they all shouted, as if they were about to rush up at any time: "Yes, the chef is right, no one will pay if you don't pay, and you are trying to default on the bill, and you are so shameless!" "
The surrounding villagers who came to celebrate his birthday were also talking a lot at this time. The Chu family was so generous in celebrating their old man's birthday this time. They thought that their family was completely rich and wanted to show off to the village. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, it turned out that I haven't finished eating yet, but because I don't have money to pay for it, a fight is about to start in the restaurant!
Chu Ren didn't even need to turn around to look, he could imagine the faces of the people behind him. They must be wishing that something big and scandalous had happened to their family so that they could talk about it to others, but what did he think of the villagers who were watching the fun? There was nothing he could do. Even the people in the restaurant opposite who were asking for wages could hardly be comforted, so his mother-in-law was still there to trouble him: "Mom!"
Mrs. Wang looked at her eldest son who suddenly stared at her with scarlet eyes and roared at her. She almost wondered if this was her usually calm and filial Chu Ren!
Mr. Chu's originally happy and prosperous day was brought back to his original state by this unexpected situation. At this time, he also glared at Mrs. Wang: "Ms. Wang, what are you doing!"
Uncle Chu, who was on the sidelines, also hurriedly tried to persuade him: "Old lady, what's wrong with you? How can you host a banquet for free!"
Perhaps only Mrs. Li can understand Mrs. Wang at this time. Didn’t we agree that Chu Yi and his wife would pay for Chu Yi’s birthday banquet? Why are they asking for money from their family now? In the current situation, she only dared to think about it in her heart, how could she dare to step forward and speak for Wang?
Mrs. Wang waved away Uncle Chu's hand holding her: "No, there are seven or eight taels of silver, are you crazy? We shouldn't have paid for this money. It was agreed at the beginning that Chu Yi and Mr. Shen would provide the money and effort. , Why do you want me to pay for it? You are going to find those two couples!"
When Chu Ren heard this, he suddenly felt that "it's true". He took two deep breaths to suppress the anger in his heart, and said to the group of people in the restaurant: "It seems that you have found the wrong person. In fact, To be honest, this is actually the residence of my third uncle and cousin, maybe you should ask them."
When the steward heard this, he said, "I don't care whose home it is.
It doesn’t matter who pays, as long as you pay, you will win! "
Grandpa Chu instantly transferred his anger to Shen Luzhu and Chu Yi. He wondered why he had prepared a big gift for himself. It was just to embarrass him. He shouted towards Chu Yi and Third Uncle Chu who were outside the crowd: "What do you mean? Is this how you give me such a big gift? Why don’t you come in and give the money to others? It’s a shameful thing!”
Uncle Chu Chu was confused by the situation in front of him. Why did his eldest brother and sister-in-law not pay for their father's birthday party? It was his fault! So he hurriedly led Chu Yi and others to clear away the crowd of onlookers from outside, and walked in: "Dad, what are you talking about? This eldest brother's family is hosting a birthday banquet for you, and we borrowed the yard and helped find people. Why did you end up like this? We still have to pay the money!"
When the people in the restaurant heard Uncle Chu Chu's words, they instantly became more excited: "I think you guys just want to eat for free, so stop pushing and shoving here. If you don't give me money today, I'll be careful to tie you all up." Send me off to the official!"
On the day of the birthday banquet, he was twisted and sent to the official, so how could he have the dignity to live!
Grandpa Chu didn't care who organized the birthday banquet or who helped. He only knew that he was embarrassed in front of the whole village because of this matter. He angrily yelled: "Third brother! You don't want me to pay for you?" ?」
Who would have thought that Uncle Chu, who had never resisted his parents very much and was even a bit submissive, would continue to talk back: "Dad, this money is a lot, but your son, I am not so poor. Even my own father's birthday banquet I have to withhold money, but that’s not the way to go!”
In the eyes of everyone in the restaurant, the behavior of the Chu family was that of defaulting on their debts. The cooks behind the steward no longer had the patience to listen to the family in front of them blaming each other, so they decided to arrest Uncle Chu and the two who were standing at the front first. Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Wang was so frightened that she screamed again and again. When she was struggling back, she suddenly caught a glimpse of Chu Yi and his wife, shouting hurriedly: "Look for them, look for them, they will arrest me! I didn't find you. Why?" Why are you asking me for money?"
Wang's words seemed to remind the manager. He waved his hand to the person behind him, and then said to Chu Yi: "You came to us, you pay for the money!"
Chu Yi was very calm: "It is true that I went to the town to invite you all, and the money will definitely be given to you without any difference. It's just that there is some controversy about this matter in the family at the moment. If the person in charge can be trusted, then Wait a moment."
The manager looked at everyone in the Chu family. He really didn’t want to get into a fight because of this little money. Plus, he was present with so many people and he was in their home. He was not afraid of them running away. Then he nodded and motioned to his men to let Chu go first. The uncle's couple.
As soon as Mrs. Wang was freed, she immediately rushed towards Chu Yi and his wife, shouting: "You two evil-hearted people, please give us money quickly, you will make us lose face!"
Chu Yi subconsciously took a step back and protected his wife behind him. Shen Luzhu poked his head out from behind Chu Yi and replied with a shocked look on his face: "Mother, I'm so weird. You are organizing a birthday banquet for grandpa yourself and don't want to give me any money. Why?" Can you blame me and Chu Yi!"
Mrs. Wang's face was full of disbelief: "What a fart! It was obviously you who went to the family shop to tell me that day, and you were the one to hold the birthday party, but now you actually want to deny it!"
When Mrs. Li saw this, she also stepped forward to help: "If my brothers and sisters didn't want to fulfill their filial piety to grandpa, they could have stopped boasting about Haikou that day. What my brothers and sisters said in the shop that day was not only heard by my mother and I, but also by my mother-in-law. The folks who were paying for the coffin paper at home also heard about it. Now that these people have been invited, the banquet is almost finished, and my brothers and sisters came out to rake the coffin. I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate!"
Shen Luzhu ignored Li's weirdness at all, looked around with his feet on his feet, and accurately found the villagers who were watching in Uncle Chu's shop that day in the crowd, and called a few of them to the middle: "My cousin-in-law said Who are these?"
Although Li was surprised by Shen Luzhu's behavior, she still nodded subconsciously when she saw a few people.
"Okay, then let's reminisce about how we decided on that day. Aunts, aunts, and this uncle, please tell the villagers what happened that day!"
A few people really didn't expect that they were just watching the fun that day, and now they became key witnesses. Then they began to recall the situation that day in detail, some of them commented and others added.
, and actually recounted most of the situations and conversations that day.
The onlookers around me started to feel more and more uncomfortable: "Ms. Wang, the eldest uncle, doesn't feel like she's deliberately cheating those two juniors out of their money!"
"Yes, isn't the Chu family divided? The old couple of the Chu family belong to the Wang family. How can we organize a birthday banquet for our old man and let the younger generation of the divided family contribute money and effort? !」
"If you have money, I'll give you more. Why?"
Mrs. Wang listened to the comments of the people around her and turned around without thinking, and said back: "They are the grandchildren and they are paying for half a birthday banquet for their grandpa. That's not what they should be!"
Shen Luzhu didn't pay attention to the comments of the people around him. He just listened to the memories of several people attentively. From time to time, he would look at Mrs. Li and ask, "Do you think my cousin is wrong in her retelling?"
With so many witnesses present, and the retellings of those few people being indeed correct, Mrs. Li could not dare to retract her confession on the spot, so she could only nod her head suspiciously while wondering what Ms. Shen wanted to do.
This was the part where those witnesses had already learned about Shen Luzhu's compromise, but Shen Luzhu reached out and interrupted: "The aunts and ladies are probably tired too, so why not do this? I still remember what happened at that time. Let me tell you what happened." It sounds different from what it was back then!”
Seeing a few people nodding, Shen Luzhu repeated her final compromise words that day: "I said at the time: It's still not easy to overtake my aunt, but I really have to make my grandpa happy. Otherwise, aunt, please It's still in charge. You said we can handle it for you. I don't know how many tables my mother-in-law plans to host. I'll do it in the yard of the old house. It won't save me having to go back and finish the work. Grandpa, grandma and my mother-in-law still have to clean up. Yes, right?"
Shen Luzhu not only repeated what she said that day word for word, but even her expression seemed to be exactly the same as that day. Seeing this, several people nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, that's what the Chu family's little daughter-in-law said that day. of!"
Shen Luzhu smiled and saluted the aunts and aunts who had testified, then scolded Ms. Li with a straight face and said, "I clearly said that I was going to help my aunt, but why did I change my mind when I got to my cousin today? Auntie, my cousin wants you! If you don’t want to fulfill your filial piety to grandpa, you don’t have to brag about Haikou that day. What else can you say? It’s natural to do it in a big way. There is nothing wrong with this matter. Fulfill your filial piety. Don’t be stingy about your affairs. Now that these people have been invited, I’m afraid it’s inappropriate for my mother-in-law to come out and rake them!”
