After Mo Qingze took his seat, everyone else followed the original seating order and sat down as well. Mo Yan was about to start eating when she saw Tang Xin awkwardly standing on the side without joining the table; she pointed to a few empty chairs by the wall and said, "Tang Xin, there are no outsiders here, move a chair over and eat with us!"
Tang Xin was startled and then a bit flustered as she waved her hands and said, "No, no, I can eat later."
She understood her own status. Once she went to the Government Office to change her household registration, she would become a servant of the Mo Family. Although she did not know the exact rules a servant should follow, she did know that servants should not eat at the same table as their masters.
