Seeing her, Old Mrs. Song became even more arrogant: "Your family is having a banquet, a double celebration, and everyone in the village can come, even people from other villages can come, but our Song family can't come? Isn't this slapping our family in the face in front of everyone? It's not appropriate to go to such lengths on such a joyous occasion."

"Yes, can't we even come to share in the festive atmosphere? It's not like we're not going to eat and drink for free without giving gifts," Shen said, rolling her eyes.

Of the two families in the village with the worst relationship with the Qiao family, the Shen family certainly wouldn't come, but the Song family would.

Originally, Old Lady Song wasn't planning to come, but after hearing something, she was determined to come into the courtyard.

More and more people were looking over here. Madam Feng hesitated. It was indeed not good to stop people on such a day. They had already come, and if they were not allowed to enter, even if they knew about the Song family's past behavior, some people might say that the Qiao family was stingy.

Arguing here would spoil the guests' enjoyment.

"You guys really will accept gifts, you really won't be messing around?"

"You're so prejudiced. We're here to enjoy the banquet, what are we doing causing trouble?" Boss Song frowned. "Make way."

Madam Feng hesitated for a moment, thinking that it was her son's wedding and she didn't want to make things ugly, so she stepped aside to let the Song family in.

The entire Song family arrived. As soon as they entered the courtyard, Song Ruier, who had slipped away to the mountains a few days earlier, appeared behind them and followed them in quickly.

These days, Song Ruier goes to school during the day and doesn't go home after dark. She looks like she's lost several pounds from hunger.

When Song Lao Er saw the person, his face flushed with anger, and he couldn't help but want to grab him and beat him up, but he had to give up on that idea.

If they dare to cause trouble, the Qiao family will have the soldiers drive them out.

They came specifically for this meal, knowing that a banquet hosted by the Qiao family would certainly be excellent.

Old Song went straight to the gift table.

The usual amount for a gift is one hundred or two hundred coins. If the relationship is better, the amount can be five hundred coins, or even one or two coins.

General Guan, General Chu, and two captains, these people of high status, each gave fifty taels, thirty taels, and ten taels of silver, and also presented them with gift boxes.

Old Song glanced in the direction of the kitchen. With so many people, even a spacious kitchen couldn't keep up with the workload. So, in the yard behind the kitchen, he built several large brick stoves and placed several large pots.

He could vaguely see prawns, braised pork, pig's trotters—so many meat dishes! There was also a long fire pit with charcoal burning, and on it, strips of lamb were roasting, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with an irresistible aroma.

Boss Song's eyes lit up immediately.

Sure enough, it was even better than what the people in the town did.

He originally planned to pay 100 coins, but to feel at ease eating here, he took out 200 coins.

When Wang Xiucai was writing up a gift list for the Qiao family, he noticed that the Song family had donated two hundred coins and glanced at him with some surprise.

Many members of the Qiao family did not approve of letting the Song family members in, but since they were already in and obediently went to pay their respects, no one interfered much, but they were still wary.

As soon as Old Lady Song entered, her eyes searched through the crowd.

Of course, she also wanted to attend the Qiao family's banquet. The Qiao family always ate fish and meat at every meal, and the banquet would definitely be even more lavish. Coming here for a big meal would be like winning the lottery.

But that wasn't her main purpose for coming.

What she cared about most was her son's future.

"I heard that General Guan's daughter, Miss Guan, has also come. Where is she?" Old Mrs. Song asked a villager.

The villager gave Old Lady Song a disdainful look: "What, you think she's your daughter-in-law? You want to bother her? Your son is in this situation, you're too old to be sensible."

Looking at the warm and harmonious family of General Guan, and then thinking about Song Laosan's current situation, he has been excluded by the family.

"You're being so rude. I think you're just jealous of me for having such a high-status in-law and daughter-in-law. You don't want to admit it, do you? It's not like I can't find someone else."

The Qiao family compound was very large. After searching around twice, Old Lady Song finally found Guan Yuqin by the artificial hill and pond.