Chapter 346 The soup that needs to be chewed
A grand banquet for hundreds of people was held directly in the square leading to the hall. The seats were arranged according to everyone's identity and age, and there were two rows on the left and right. There was no need to be too long.
Liu Xie sat down at the head, and the three men sat on the second stairs. Tonight, the three of them were responsible for helping Liu Xie entertain guests. Before the guests finished sitting, the three of them could not sit down.
The elderly in the clan sat on the left seat, and even the vassal king could only stay on the right seat. Han respected Confucianism, which was headed by filial piety. Tonight it was a family banquet, how could they not take those elders seriously because of their different status?!
"Hey, am I in the last seat?" Liu Bei was a little depressed. How could he be in the last seat area?
"There is no way, the seat was ready, but I didn't expect..." Lu Zhi looked at Liu Bei with a little deeper meaning. She didn't expect that this disciple would be so lucky that his Majesty would be recognized as a relative.
In this way, they are considered serious royal relatives, but the problem is that they had already determined everyone's location last night. Today, there was a new Liu Bei coming out, and I don't know how to arrange it.
"Why don't you go up and sit with me?" Cao Cao suddenly appeared beside the two and asked Liu Bei for an invitation.
"This... let's forget it..." Liu Bei was a little moved, but when he thought of being watched by so many people, he was embarrassed to go up. Besides, he probably sat with Lu Zhi. Didn't he see that she looked a little unkind at the moment?
"I heard that Xu Du moved here around April this year, and the original imperial chefs were intercepted by Li Jue and Guo Si in Chang'an. The current imperial chef team has not even been gathered, and the position of the chef has been hanging in the air..." Prince Pei Liu Yao and the King of Pengcheng Liu He beside him chatted in a deep voice.
"I already have an imperial chef, and senior chefs are relatively easy to hire. But I heard that the leader is a little girl with an intermediate chef..." Liu He replied in a low voice.
"But I also heard that it is the granddaughter of the former imperial chef Yang Ci. It is said that Yang Xiu is already at the level of a senior chef, but there is no reference yet." Liu Yao said.
"The problem is..." The seat next to him was Liu Er, the King of Beihai. "I heard that the chef tonight was arranged by Sikong's Mansion, and he was appointed by His Majesty!"
"Who is such a great honor?" Liu Yao was suddenly a little surprised.
"I am an intermediate chef. It is rumored that I have come into contact with the threshold of a special chef, but I haven't had time to accept the assessment. I was discovered by Cao Sikong last year and then joined him. It is said that I have a good relationship with Your Majesty in private. However, this person's character is not very good. He directly married four women... No, he should be three wives and one concubine!" Liu Er whispered.
"This is really jealous... cough... a scum who makes people hate it!" Liu He said angrily. How many men hope to marry a few women openly. The problem is that there are too few women, they are so outstanding, and they are so weak, and often they are just thinking about it.
"If it weren't for Cao Sikong's maintenance, I'm afraid this person would have been beaten to death by sticks in the market long ago..." Liu Yao said with a smile.
"What can you do if you have good skills like this?" The other two responded one after another.
By the way, the guests had already entered the table one after another. Seeing that there was no problem, the three men also returned to their positions one after another. The waiters brought out the wine one after another, and there were some fruits before the meal.
Before the banquet officially started, Liu Xie was forced to get up and talk. Everyone had a drink, then talk about the history of the Han Dynasty, sighed at the achievements of his ancestors, and then said that he would work hard to make the Han Dynasty revival...
Whether you like it or not, this kind of procedure has to be done. The difference is that you really toast. Everyone drinks real wine, while Liu Xie drinks juice. It’s nothing more. Since you may be really pregnant in your stomach, it’s better not to drink wine or something.
"Then, repeat the kitchen and serve the dishes! Tonight's banquet begins!" After a basic procedure, Liu Xie began to give instructions to the side, and the latter immediately went to inform the kitchen and brought the dishes up.
All kinds of dishes were prepared and the insulation in special insulation vessels were in good calculations. Wang Yong calculated them just in time and sent them all over. After Liu Xie ordered the dishes to be served for only three minutes. In fact, Liu Xie saw that the dishes had not been fully launched, so he delayed Wang Yong for three minutes...
"Front soup, bouncing pig's trotter soup!" A shout came from behind, and waiters brought cantaloupe melons one by one to the diners. Each diner had a cantaloupe melon, and the scene was quite spectacular.
"Oh!" But there was a waiter who accidentally knocked over the cantaloupe when he was putting the cantaloupe. The guests and the waiter were shocked.
"Hey!?" I was worried that the soup would sprinkle, but I didn't expect that the soup would not be sprinkled, which immediately aroused the curiosity of the guests.
"What's going on with this soup?" Seeing this, a guest tried to put the spoon in, but the spoon popped out. To be precise, his hands shook, after all, when the spoon touched the soup, he obviously felt it was solid.
"This soup is actually solid!" Cao Cao also scooped a spoonful of them, looking at the jelly-shaped soup, and couldn't help but be curious.
"For the first time, I saw the soup that needs to be chewed." Lu Zhi was also very interested. But how did such soup be made? Is this soup delicious?
"Ah...um..." Liu Xie took the lead in taking a bite. A sweet and sour, fragrant and delicious taste came from the tip of his tongue, which was a very unusual taste, "very interesting taste!"
"It's really delicious, but I thought it would be a very outstanding taste, like this..." Liu Yao showed dissatisfaction. In fact, many vassal king families have senior chefs, and this level of soup is nothing.
"Sister, how about this soup?" Liu Qi looked at Liu Pan next to him.
"The taste of the soup itself is quite interesting, the sour and salty taste is mixed together, but the aroma of the pig's trotter is handled well. For this level of banquet, it can only be considered ordinary... The problem is that it is just an appetizer!" Liu Pan gave a pertinent answer.
"Yes! This is just an appetizer!" Liu Xun next to him suddenly realized, "The meaning of appetizer is to be appetizer, so if it is too outstanding, it will not make people look forward to the next dish. After drinking this soup, I will even subconsciously want to know what the next dish is!"
"Indeed, as for the previous soup, this soup is indeed very outstanding." Cao Cao also nodded.
But she didn't know that Wang Yong tried it several times in order to improve this soup. At first, he planned to use turtles directly, but later Hua Tuo told him that turtles would cause miscarriage to pregnant women... He was stupid and continued to use turtles!
I was too lazy to change other soups, so I simply changed the face with pig's trotters. Of course, salted plums were also changed to salty plums. After several adjustments, the finished product... was a natural style!
Chapter completed!