Chapter 7
: Welcome Banquet ()
With the sound of footsteps, one person was in front and four people walked upstairs behind. Tang Feng could see at a glance that the person who was the first to be the third young master of the Wang family was Wang Dedao. He saw that he had a slender figure and looked a little handsome. He looked handsome. The only thing that made people feel abrupt was his eyes. These eyes were a bit frivolous, and he always had a condescending meaning when looking at people. When Tang Feng was observing this Wang Dedao, he was also looking at Tang Feng. When the others saw him, they hurriedly introduced their identities to the two. Tang Feng smiled and bowed to him, but Wang Dedao frowned, and then bowed to Tang Feng perfunctorily to repay the courtesy. After going upstairs, Wang Dedao was not polite, and walked straight to the upper position of the round table, while walking, he said, "Everyone, let's take a seat now."
At this time, everyone sat on the seat headed by Tang Feng. Since there was already someone at the seat, Tang Feng sat on the guest seat and the others took their seats. Seeing that the guests had all entered the seat, the people from Taibai Tower poured the wine one by one into the glasses in front of everyone. Tang Feng smelled the scent of the wine floating in, and knew that it was a rare good wine.
At this time, one of the people who came in with Wang Dedao raised their glasses and stood up: "We are really flattered to be able to attend this welcome banquet at the invitation of our people today. We will give a glass to the adults first." As he said that, he raised his glass and gave a sip of the wine. The others hurriedly drank the wine in front of them at the sight, but only Tang Feng and Wang Dedao did not drink it, which made everyone feel a little embarrassed.
"Sir, is this wine not to your taste?" Gao Ming said quickly as he said, and he repeatedly shook Tang Feng while speaking. However, Tang Feng just raised his glass and said, "I have always had a habit. This wine must be eaten in my stomach. Now my belly is empty. How dare I drink this cup? I wonder if the third young master also has this habit?"
Although Tang Feng said this, everyone knew that he was cursing Wang Dedao as he came too late and made everyone wait, but everyone couldn't say anything, so they had to remain silent.
A trace of anger flashed in Wang Dedao's eyes, but after a man next to him secretly pulled him, he endured it and said with a slight smile: "I'm laughing at you. I never drink alcohol, so of course I can't drink this wine with you." The person who toasted just now also said: "Please forgive me, my third young master has indeed not been able to drink alcohol since he was a child, so it's not that he doesn't give me such face." As he said that, he gave another gift to Tang Feng.
When people explained and politely tried, Tang Feng seemed a little stingy, so he laughed: "I am so careless." While he was speaking, he picked up a chopstick of vegetables and ate them, and then dried the wine. "I am punishing another cup to apologize." He filled another cup and drank it.
Everyone then calmed down and poured wine to accompany them. After drinking a few glasses of wine, everyone started to talk more and they were not as unfamiliar as before. They talked about each other, talked about business, or farming, and seemed very enthusiastic. However, Tang Feng did not participate in the topic of everyone, and he was thinking about something in his heart.
The banquet this time was to welcome him, but Tang Feng did not feel that they were respectful and flattering to him at all. Instead, he was very polite to Wang Dedao. Since the Wang family wanted to make friends with him, he would not send such a person who could not even drink, it was obviously embarrassing him. Thinking about the great power of the Wang family that I heard before coming, Tang Feng felt that this welcome banquet was more appropriate to call the Hongmen Banquet.
Tian Jing, who was beside him, noticed Tang Feng's silence, poured a glass of wine and said to him, "Sir, I'll toast you." After attracting Tang Feng's attention, he whispered: "Sir, don't think that the Wang family is looking down on him in this way. I have also seen many county magistrates here. When they came, the Wang family just sent a housekeeper and got it done. It's the first time that the third young master of their family came to welcome the people like this. Moreover, the third young master has always made friends with people above the prefect, and it has long been above the top. It's not intentionally embarrassing the adults."
Tang Feng slowly poured the wine into his mouth, listening with a smile on his face, but he was even more surprised. He didn't expect that the Wang family would give him face if he did this. Before Tian Jing finished speaking, he said: "The person who toasted was Wang Cai, the butler of the Wang family's foreign government. He is versatile and a powerful character. His status in She County is not inferior to other wealthy families. He has given him a great face to be able to apologize to the adults like this."
"Wangcai?" Hearing this very famous modern title, Tang Feng showed a smile on his lips. It seemed that people at this time were not used to calling their own dogs like this, but Wang Cai looked a bit like a dog slave. He slandered others happily, and Tang Feng's dissatisfaction fell.
At this time, another waiter brought the dishes in. As soon as these dishes were put on, Tang Feng was attracted by their exquisite appearance. Seeing Tang Feng's appearance, a trace of contempt flashed in his eyes, but then he returned to his original smile and said to Tang Feng: "I heard that the lord is from Shanyin. I think I am not very familiar with the dishes in Huizhou. Let me introduce it to you." As he said that, he pointed to a plate of golden color and cut into small pieces of things, "This is the most famous food in She County called edamame. Someone once wrote a poem saying: 'Eat edamamememememe people every day, and become a Huizhou person for a long time'. This is what he said." He pointed to a chicken in a big bowl and said, "This is a flower.
Mushroom and stone chicken is another dish in She County. This flower mushroom is a specialty of Huangshan Mountain delicacies. Stone chicken is also available in this county. This dish is fragrant, sweet, crispy, tender and refreshing, and has a long aftertaste. Please give me a try." Then he introduced several other dishes to Tang Feng, such as "Ham stewed turtle", "Pickled fresh mandarin fish", "Ask for the political affairs" and so on, which are all famous dishes in Huizhou. From time to time, he added some introductions and poems, which also showed his extraordinary knowledge. Tang Feng smiled and listened to him introducing these dishes, and tasted a few. It was indeed delicious, and he praised: "Hui cuisine is indeed good, which not only opened my eyes, gained knowledge, but also made me full of my taste. Good!"
Seeing that Tang Feng was finally happy, Tian Jing and Gao Ming on the other side breathed a sigh of relief, and the banquet became even more lively for a moment. But there was still one person's face not as happy as everyone else, that was Wang Dedao, the third young master of the Wang family. He was worried about Tang Feng's questioning of him just now. He never took such a small seventh-rank county magistrate in his eyes. Today, his father made him reluctantly come to see the new county magistrate. He didn't expect him to give him face so much, so he decided to make things ugly. But in front of everyone, he couldn't make things difficult for this county magistrate. After all, the other party was also the top leader of his county, so his hatred became deeper.
Just when Wang Dedao was trying to find a way to humiliate Tang Feng, someone brought in another pot of famous dish Zhonghe soup from Hui cuisine. Because the bowl in his hand was very big and heavy, the waiter was very careful when he walked, for fear that he would knock it over. Seeing this person coming, Wang Dedao was calculating. He gave another follower who came with him. The man named Wang Li immediately understood that his intention was to spill the pot of soup on Tang Feng himself. But he knew that Tang Feng would be very embarrassed as a county magistrate, so he hesitated for a moment. Wang Dedao glared at him fiercely, and he had no choice but to take action.
They thought that their behavior was very subtle and no one would notice, but unexpectedly, one of them had noticed their every move. This man was standing behind Tang Feng to solve the doubts. Seeing these two young masters who wanted to plot against him, a trace of murderous intent appeared in his eyes when he solved the doubts.
Wang Li took out a small iron bead from his arms, held it between his fingers and shot towards the knee of the waiter who had just walked to Tang Feng. He was very confident that once his iron bead hit the man, the person would fall, and the soup would pour his head on Tang Feng. But then there was no situation he thought would happen. The waiter continued to move forward, but his hidden weapon disappeared. Wang Li knew that there was another martial arts man here blocking his attack and was helping Tang Feng. He immediately did not dare to take action. Just because he couldn't even see what kind of person he used to do, Wang Li knew that he was far from the opponent's opponent.
But the matter was not settled because of his failure. The moment the waiter put the Zhonghe soup on the table, the big basin suddenly jumped up from Xiaoer's hand, and then splashed the basin and the bowl at Wang Dedao.
This move was beyond everyone's expectations, including Wang Li, who had failed to take action just now. He thought it would be fine if the other party broke his own plot, but he didn't expect that the other party would have counterattacked. This time he was a beat slower. When he wanted to save Wang Dedao, it was too late. The hot soup splashed Wang Dedao's face and his whole body, which made him scream in pain.
All this happened so quickly that everyone hadn't figured out what happened, and Wang Dedao fell to the ground. The few people who followed him hurriedly came forward to check, and the others also stood up and rushed over. Everyone was very surprised, why did the pot of soup splash on Wang Dedao's face for no reason.
At this time, Wang Dedao's handsome face was covered with blisters, and he fainted from pain. The four of them did not dare to neglect him, so they hurriedly raised him and went down, not even saying a word on the scene, leaving only a group of inexplicable people. Only Wang Li looked at Tang Feng deeply when he left. When he thought that only this person had the motivation to do this, he had long selected the boy to solve the problem.
Chapter completed!