117 Invitation

The next day, the villagers' wives came to the Xu family early in the morning to help. Inviting a village's oldest and youngest over to eat is no small sum, and if you don't come over early to help, you don't know when you'll be able to eat your fill!

At noon, Mrs. Wang's and Mrs. Li's maiden families came over, and this time they brought all the family members.

From afar, you can see the smile leaking from the face of the eldest daughter-in-law's maiden family, and Mrs. Wang's in-laws is even more smiling, his grandson passed the examination, how can he not be pleased.

Mrs. Wang also came forward, smiled and said: "Why are the in-laws here today as well? I haven't even sent anyone to inform you!"

Mrs. Zhang's mother, Ms. Chen, replied: "That need you to inform, Chunxi has gone back to tell us, his father hasn't slept a wink!"

Mrs. Wang also smiled and said: "Don't talk outside now, go inside and sit down to talk."

The group of people came to the front hall and sat down. Mrs. Zhang saw her two nephews from her maiden's family also coming, so she quickly pulled them to her side and said: "Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang, come, Auntie brings you delicious food."

The older boy is only eight years old this year, and the younger one is five years old. They have been looking around curiously since they entered this big house. They had never seen such a nice looking house before.

Hearing his aunt's voice, the older boy named Da Zhuang said shyly: "No, Auntie, we're not eating."

Although Er Zhuang seemed to want to eat, he refused: "Auntie, don't eat, I'm not hungry."

Mrs. Zhang touched his head and said: "Who says you can only eat when you're hungry? I'm sure the food I got is what you two little devils like to eat."

At this time, Zhang's younger siblings came over and said with a smile: "Big sister, you don't have to get busy for the two of them, I'll just keep an eye on them, you've got other things to do!"

Mrs. Zhang smiled and said: "Brothers and sisters, it's hard for you to come here. Of course, eldest sister will entertain you well."

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Zhang brought a plate of flower cakes and placed it in front of Da Zhuang, Er Zhuang and said: "Have you finished eating what I brought back for the New Year?"

The two boys' eyes lit up. They loved this food the most, and they quickly thanked her: "Thank you, aunt."

Mrs. Wang family was chatting with their in-laws, and all they heard were words of congratulations.

Qibao was a little troubled at this time, because there was a little follower behind her, who was the niece of the Li family. She wore two through braids, bit her fingers and was not afraid of being unfamiliar, and kept following Qibao and calling her sister.

Qibao had no choice but to turn around and say: "You little brat, why are you always following me?"

When the little girl saw Qibao talking to her, she suddenly smiled and said: "Sister, let's play."

Qibao's eyes rolled and said: "Come on, I'll take you to the other children to play with them."

The little girl stepped forward and took Qibao's hand, planning to go wherever Qibao went.

Qibao found Brother Liu and handed the little girl over to Brother Six. She also lied to her that she would go to the toilet and be back soon, then turned around and ran away.

Xiaoliu looked at the little girl in front of him, who was blinking her eyes at him, he hadn't played with girls except for his younger sister, and he didn't know what girls usually played, so he could only take the little girl to find other little friends in the village to play with.

Qibao breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the front hall, thinking to herself that children and such were the most troublesome, and she was not willing to play with a little kid.

Just as she entered the front hall, she heard the voice of her second uncle's wife ringing out: "Where did my Niuniu go? How come this girl ran away without a trace in a single turn?"

Qibao immediately explained: "Niuniu is at the door while other children in the village are playing!"

"This girl is just unrecognizable, and she didn't say anything when she left."

As soon as the words fell, a little girl with tears and snot running down her face ran in and immediately jumped into the arms of Mrs. Li's sister-in-law.

"Niuniu, why are you crying here?"

Niuniu sobbed and replied: "They pulled my pigtails!"

Xiaoliu also ran over at this time. Seeing Niuniu crying like this, he was afraid that his parent would scold him, so he quickly explained: "We just touched it, we didn't use any force."

But Niuniu didn't want to play with these boys anymore. She ran to Qibao, still in tears, grabbed Qibao's clothes and said: "Playing with my sister."

Mrs. Wang watched from the side and said: "Qibao, Niuniu is still young, so just play with your sister for a while."

"All right..."

Qibao never thought that a little girl could give her such a headache, so she had no choice but to pull Niuniu out of the door.

Niuniu stopped crying. From time to time she would pull two weeds from the roadside and give them to Qibao, looking at Qibao with an innocent smile.

Qibao looked at this little girl and also felt quite cute and adorable, reaching out her hand to touch her little face, which didn't have much meat.

Qibao took the little girl into her room and asked her to sit on a stool. She then turned behind the screen and took out a few large strawberries from the space.

She walked up to Niuniu and said: "This is for you to eat, but you can't tell others that sister gave you delicious food. This is a secret between us, do you understand?"

Niuniu's soft and waxy voice recalled: "Yes, I won't tell anyone, not even my mother, not my brother." But her eyes were fixed on the strawberry.

Qibao took one and put it in her palm and said: "Eat it!"

Niuniu took the strawberry, opened her mouth wide and took a bite. The sweet and sour juice overflowed in her mouth.

Niuniu narrowed her eyes and said vaguely: "It's so delicious!" The juice from the strawberry flowed out of her mouth, and Qibao took out a handkerchief to wipe it with her.

Niuniu immediately became even more happy: "Sister is good, I like sister."

Qibao smiled when she heard this, she didn't hate children or anything...

Qibao felt that it was really too noisy outside, so she took Niuniu to play in her room. Niuniu was also very obedient and would not touch anything she was curious about. She was very sensible and never cried or made trouble.

It wasn't until it was almost time to eat that Mrs. Wang came over to find Qibao and led them to eat.

Qibao came to the front hall. There were many tables set up in the open space in front of the house. They were all borrowed from nearby villagers' houses. Everyone was now seated and waiting for the food to be served.

After the old man gave an order, Mrs. Wang and the women from the village who came to help began to serve the dishes.

When the dishes were all served, the old man picked up his wine glass and spoke in a loud voice, and everyone gradually became quiet.

"First of all, I would like to thank everyone for coming to my Xu family today. Today's banquet is specially organized for my family Wenwu and the village chief's family Shitou. Both children are excellent and can get such good results in this exam. To be able to get such a good result in this examination, the two children are still studying in the academy today, and I can't personally thank all the elders one by one, so please bear with me!"

"What are you talking about, old man! The child's education is the most important thing, we are here today to dip our hands in the joy. It's also the first time that Xujia Village has produced two scholars, and with the skills of the two children, they will be able to pass the Xiucai exam in the future, so we're waiting for it!"

"Yes, Wenwu and Shitou are capable, and the future will be bright!" A village elder shook his head and said, with his hands still behind his back and his eyes closed.

Qibao almost couldn't hold back when she looked at him, this village old man even started biting off more than he could chew, and she didn't know who he learned this stance from.