On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Chen family, who were old friends, were hosting a banquet. They had formally invited Grandpa and Grandma. Grandpa Tang and Grandma Tang attended with Xiao Man and Hao Hao, and from the Gu family came Grandpa Gu, Granny Gu, Shaoling, and Shaoyu. Gu Shaojun and Shaoshan Shaojin had spent the previous night at the Tang Mansion. At ten o'clock, as Xiao Man and the others were getting ready to leave for the party, Gu Shaojun also headed out, but he drove toward the Kyoto Restaurant.
He and Xiao Man had a plan: he would stay at the Kyoto Restaurant for half an hour at most, then meet up with some friends for lunch. At two o'clock, he would wait for Xiao Man at the Chen family's gate. If Grandpa and Grandma had also left by then, he could take the two elders out for a walk. If they didn't come, he and Xiao Man would go off and have fun by themselves.
