Whether the child did it on purpose or not, the conversation was suddenly sidetracked. Second Uncle Bai was glad to see it, or else he would have been embarrassed on behalf of his younger sister and her husband.
The two sons-in-law were sitting right there, and beside them was his clueless sister. When guests arrived, she didn't even have the sense to take the baby to an outer room for privacy while feeding it.
'It would have been so much better if you'd just gone to the outer room. It's not like a grown man like Hu Manku would have made a big deal out of it. If you weren't there, maybe the two of them, brothers-in-law, could have struck up a conversation.'
Xu Changqing was unaware of her second uncle's thoughts. But seeing that her father and Shen Weimin had each had two bowls of wine and made all the requisite toasts, she went out to find her younger brother and sister.
