The next day, after breakfast.
The village banquet masters had already arrived, and they'd brought a few helpers in charge of serving the dishes.
Some were cutting meat, some were killing fish; they all started busying themselves for the noon banquet.
If it's done by contracting the tables, then according to the agreed price, it's usually a few dozen yuan per table. The contracting side does all the work; the host family only needs to provide the ingredients and doesn't have to worry about anything else.
This type is called a small contract. There's also a big contract, where the host family doesn't even need to handle the ingredients; the contracting organizer takes care of everything, even down to cigarettes and liquor.
For that kind, one table often costs around five to six hundred, and can go even higher depending on the host's requirements.
