Everyone chatted for a while in the front courtyard as the Wang family servants came forward to help set up the tables. By the time the casual conversation in the front yard wound down, the servants had arranged the carved round tables, and the dishes were gradually being served in full.
Gathering around the carved round table, amber honey wine was poured into celadon cups. As each dish was brought out, Wei Wan stood on tiptoe to identify them: the honey-steamed pork belly was pierced with small sugar-painted flags, crab roe tofu concealed syrup-formed ingots, and even the green celery and tofu soup floated with little cut-out lotus leaves.
At that moment, a house servant walked in and said to Wang Qian, "Er Niangzi, there are two gentlemen and two ladies at the door claiming to be your friends. Would you like to go have a look?"
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