Their family took up one table. Counting Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang, there were exactly ten of them. They had also been seated inside Tianhou Palace, in an open area just below the opera stage.
Fifty tables had been set up inside Tianhou Palace, with several dozen more outside. People from their own village were generally given priority for seats inside, and only those who could not fit were seated outside.
People from the surrounding villages who had come for the blessing feast were also seated outside.
There were villages all around, none very far away, and quite a few people had made a special trip over for the feast.
With the roof beam going up on the new temple and Mazu's birthday falling at the same time, everyone was happy to spend the money.
Even from villages farther away and the area around town, many people had heard the news and come.
Although they had planned on a hundred tables, they had added another dozen or so over the last two days, because the opera performances had drawn villagers and fishermen from farther away, including the area around town, to join the fun.
Once they knew about the birthday celebration and the hundred-table banquet in the village, how could they not come?
Many people were even willing to acquire a small Mazu statue, bringing Tianhou Palace quite a bit of extra business at short notice.
So today, there appeared to be more than a hundred tables inside and outside Tianhou Palace altogether. People streamed back and forth in a sea of humanity, with even more visitors than during the opera performances in the village over the past few days.
The two children each occupying a seat looked a little out of place to the villagers passing by, but they