To attend such kind of banquet, it was generally an exchange of business interests. The invited guests basically acquiesced in sending their own representatives, unless the Lu family had a high status. A family of three meant respect for the host of the banquet, and it was the honor of the host.

As for ye family, it was far less important than Gu family in North City. There were six people in the family at a banquet. All the old and children had come. People who didn't know it would think that ye family had gone bankrupt and couldn't have enough food to eat, and they would ask the whole...