"Thank you, Grandpa, thank you, Grandma....."
"Thank you, Dad, thank you, Mom..."
"Thank you, Second Uncle..."
"Thank you, Great-Grandpa, Great-Grandma....."
...
As they bowed their way down the line, acknowledging each family member, Shitou and Lu Yun also incidentally collected quite a few red envelopes.
Originally, the change of address during the engagement only required acknowledgment before the parents and, at most, the grandparents to receive some red envelopes, and that would have sufficed. Yet, the elders present wouldn't have it any other way and insisted on joining the fun.
Since this was the general consensus, as the younger generation, Shitou and Lu Yun had no "right to resist." Thus, with Pei Qingyuan and Lu Yun's Second Uncle smiling in tacit approval, all they could do was obediently address each person one by one.