People came to the house early in the morning. They were here in advance to help with the banquet, but everyone came to look around the house first.

    When the house was built in the past, there was no wall outside, and everyone could stand on the ridge outside to watch it, but when the wall was built, it was too embarrassing to walk in to see the house.

    If the man of the family helped to build the house, they could come in with an excuse to have a look. It would be bad if they walked into someone else's house without relatives, let alone a big family. Others would say that it was like the landlord family in the village, if you stayed outside their house for a while, the servants in the house would pour out a basin of water.

    "This house is great. It's bright and strong. You don't have to worry about it even if it's windy and rainy in summer."

    "The blue brick house is so beautiful, and the bricks were neatly arranged."

    All important places were locked today, and the other places that weren't locked were left for the guests to watch at will.

    Dabao and Erbao were full moon, so Xu He could also go out to entertain the guests outside the confinement period.

    Originally it was said that it was a family banquet and he would cook the dishes himself, but Zhang Fangyuan wanted him to have a good rest. Besides, in this kind of big banquet, if the host family would cook, there would be fewer people to greet the guests. It made sense when Xu He thought about it, so he just entertained the guests today.

    In the early hours, everyone was still cleaning the vegetables, and in the afternoon, the guests came to eat and drink.

    The two children were one month old, and because it was still in April, the weather was very comfortable. Xu He got up early in the morning, he changed the clothes and also put on a small hat for the two children, because the previous clothes were only prepared for one child, so Erbao wore different clothes today.

    When the relatives came, they had to hug the two little guys. When the children were full moon, the relatives and friends often came to hug the children separately.

   "The first time I held them, they looked small with the small quilt, but after changing clothes, I found that they are really heavy when I hold them. The arms and legs are full with flesh."

    "Let me see if Ah Jin is heavier or Ah Li is heavier."

    A group of women and fulangs played with the two children together, enjoying themselves happily.

    Xu Shaochun came in the afternoon. She entered the house and took a look around. Although there was envy in her eyes, she was much calmer. After all, she could see the progress when they built  the Zhang family's big house everyday when she went out to do farm work. So when the house was finished, she was not as surprised as when she just heard that the Zhang family would build a big house.

    On the contrary, when she looked at He ge'er's pair of children, her heart was full of envy.

    Today she asked Fei Lian to come over to the banquet, but he didn't come, and so did her mother-in-law. Probably because they were afraid that they would quarrel again when they saw her mother, so they didn't want to come. It was okay if they didn't want to come, but they still asked her to bring some food and wine back when she went back, she was so angry and wouldn't do what they asked.

    "Shaochun, come over here to take a look at the children, hold the child, maybe you can get the blessing and can have your own child, but it will effective."

   Xu Shaochun couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when she saw Liu Xianglan who was twisting and jumping happily with her grandson in her arms and saying this kind of thing in public, but she still went up to take a look. She really wanted to have a child.

    Xu He and Zhang Fangyuan greeted the guests at the door, most of them were from the village. They didn't need to go around and exchange polite words, they just greeted them to come in and sit down.

    The things given by the farmers were not rare, they were golden pheasant, ducks, and so on, unlike the brocade box treasures and rare animals in the city. This time the banquet was so big that it was estimated that the gift money wouldn't be able to return the money they took out for the banquet, but Zhang Fangyuan was happy for the two children, regardless of spending hundreds of thousands copper coins.

    When they saw that there were no other people who would come later, the couple was about to go in for a banquet, but suddenly they saw a bullock cart approaching this side from a distance, and only after getting closer did they realize that there were three people from his sixth uncle's family.

    When Zhang Fangyuan saw the people who were coming to his house, he felt very strange. The couple failed to invite the sixth uncle's family back when they got married.

    "Fangyuan, your house is so magnificent!"

    The man walked along the stone road outside the house, he stretched his neck to look at the house and never retracted it, it was almost turned into a duck's neck, and when he was about to reach the gate of the house, he was pulled by the wife beside him before he retracted his neck.

    "Imposing, very imposing, there are still some advantages living in the village, the house can be built as big as you want, it's not like in the city, it's just a pot of land that can't be moved, even if  it's moved it will involve several families. "The man didn't have the strange feeling of not returning home for a long time. Instead, it was as if he just met Zhang Fangyuan yesterday, and his tone was full of familiarity: "You spent a lot of money on this house, right? Did you spend this amount?"

    The man stretched out his two fingers.

    "Sixth Uncle and Sixth Aunt are here, hurry up and sit in the room." Zhang Fangyuan didn't answer the question like checking the household registration, and introduced Xu He to the couple and the boy who was holding their hands.

    Xu He only saw the sixth uncle of the Zhang family when he was a child, and it was even rarer after he moved to the city and never went back to the village.

    The uncles of the Zhang family all inherited the appearance of Grandpa Zhang. They all had long faces and high nose bridges, their appearances were very similar but they had different body shape, tall, short, fat and thin. He often saw the eldest and fourth uncle of the Zhang family, so he felt very familiar when he saw the sixth uncle Zhang.

    After all, he moved to live in the city when he was still young. Compared to the villagers who worked in the field all year round in the countryside with their faces turned to the loess and their backs turned to the sky, the sixth uncle's face was obviously much younger than his elder brothers, even though he had some advantages in age, he still looked younger compared with his peers in the village.
[黄土 huáng tǔ: loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)]

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