"What's the point of all that trouble? Why not just say it all at once? If we go in order, we'll be here till who knows when?"
Old Madam Huang pulled her hand away from Huang Zhong's, her tone a mix of grievances and showing off. "I've already cooked the food and warmed the wine. It's the New Year—are you trying to make His Majesty eat cold food and drink cold wine?"
Huang Zhong could hardly lose face as the head of the household in front of an outsider. Adopting the demeanor of an old patriarch determined to reassert family discipline, he retorted, "You old woman, have you no respect for propriety? If we don't go in order, how will it show that the sons of the Huang clan understand etiquette and rules? This person here is the King of our Shu Han; our children need to show some manners so they can get big red envelopes, don't they? Hurry up and go inside and call those stinking brats out to pay their New Year respects."
Chapter 86