The royal villa of Fortner Kingdom used to be used as a reception place for distinguished guests and envoys from other countries’ heads of state, but now times have changed and it has not been so lively for a long time. Princess Jinli also made great efforts for tonight’s welcome banquet and hired a dance troupe.
However, a few reporters who came upon hearing the news were blocked from the newly established first sentry post and did not even see the gate.
Reporters are said to be one of the most dedicated creatures in the world, but now most people think that the Fortner royal family no longer has much news value, so after being blocked from driving, they made a few protests and went home to make up nonsense behind closed doors.
It was a mess.
The welcome banquet was held in the main hall of the villa, which was the hall of Gonzu Chao Hall. In order to suit the banquet, the original sofa was moved away, the carpet was re-paved, and two small dining tables were replaced on both sides.
There are seats in the back, with African embroidered rugs on top. Needless to say, this arrangement is quite oriental in style.
The seating arrangement follows the seating arrangement of guests on the right and host on the left. The throne is naturally high up. Princess Jinli has not been crowned queen yet, so she can only sit on the side seat. Next to her is Yi Ge, who also serves as translator, Shaer.
Na was waiting behind me as a valet.
As the master, the people on the left side are relatively mixed. They can be regarded as Jinli's close ministers. However, most of these close ministers are old and are said to be the most loyal to the royal family. In fact, most of them are because they have no strength and use and can only serve in Jinli.
The princess is here to eat and wait to die. In the past, there were more people like this, but some of them were unwilling to live in peace and contentment, and relied on their old people to come up with random ideas. So with the acquiescence of Princess Jinli, Agent Jiang Chen's efforts
Next, they gradually disappeared, and the ones that remained became more honest.
The right-hand seat is the guest seat. The first seat is naturally Feng Nan. According to the military rank and official rank, the second seat is Guo Hui, and the next seat is Shi Changzhen. The remaining seats don't matter. Everyone is a warrant officer and they are not lining up.
, it doesn’t matter the order, but everyone still pushed Mu Wenguang to sit in the middle, because according to his habit of being low-key and humble, if you don’t care about him, he will definitely end up at the end of the line.
Before the reception banquet started, each person's dining table was placed with more than two types of wine and drinks, three to five different cups, and flowers. The black waitresses shuttled between the dining tables and poured wine for everyone.
Except for Feng Nan, because there is a full-time maid Suni behind Feng Nan, looking at the whole audience, only two people have this privilege. According to the royal family, Feng Nan is considered to be favored, but Feng Nan is not
Not used to it.
In fact, apart from being unaccustomed to being served, Feng Nan was also dissatisfied with alcohol. The 77 detachment arrived here without any success. Could it be that they had to get drunk first? But it seemed rude not to drink, so they had to
Let Yige tell Princess Jinli not to let his people drink too much. After all, they are not here for vacation.
Yige told him that Princess Jinli still had to maintain the dignity of a princess when others were present, so she just nodded to Feng Nan as an answer.
Finally, it was time for the banquet to officially begin. Of course, Princess Jinli gave a speech at the beginning. She spoke in the local language, and Yi Ge translated on the side. What she said were all clichés and not much new. Next came the representatives of her close ministers.
The speech was of course the same. After everyone had finished speaking, it was Feng Nan's turn to give a speech of thanks.
Feng Nan was not good at this, but fortunately Yi Ge had experience and prepared a speech script for him in advance. Because it was all clichés, and Feng Nan was young and had a good memory, so he memorized it several times without using the script.
I memorized it once, and everyone applauded after everyone finished speaking. This is not a speech contest, so it doesn’t matter what you said and whether it was done well or not.
After everyone made speeches and there were several rounds of toasts, the official occasion was finally over and the official serving of food began.
I heard that there were three main dishes at the reception banquet, and they were all famous for sea, land and air. This made Yang Liming very happy. He had not eaten anything good after a tiring journey, but after the painful experience of eating local dim sum, he was very happy about this time.
The dinner was a bit uncertain, and I heard that there were only three main courses, so I stole some biscuits from the maid room where Suni worked and put them in my pocket in advance, preparing to go back in the evening to "snake my hunger", but as the gong sounded
, when the first dish was served, he immediately changed his mind.
This dish is fish fillets, cut very thin, no less than the knife skills of Japanese restaurants. The fish fillets are placed on a square plate, and the square plate is placed on a tray, surrounded by five or six kinds of condiments, no matter your taste
No matter what, you can find the flavor you like in it. Judging from the texture and color of the fish fillet, it should be eel fillet. It is extremely fresh and plump, and it seems to have been frozen. It tastes very good when chewed in your mouth.
Cool and refreshing.
After one bite of eel fillet, Yang Liming's mental wound stabbed by local dim sum quickly healed.
Perhaps because they were afraid that the eel slices would be too cold and freeze the guests' tongues, the waitresses served some soft butter bread slices. Yang Liming was afraid that there would be good food later, so although he took two slices of bread, he didn't eat them.
What came next was a small soup pot cooked on an alcohol stove. The soup was already boiling white and was still churning. The fish segments inside were rolling up and down with the white soup. Yang Liming had seen this before.
Many seafood lovers quickly looked around with his scout eyes and found that there were at least five or six kinds of fish in this small soup pot, including cuttlefish and small squid, eels, tuna chunks and other unnamed fish species.
Yang Liming is a lover of delicious food, so naturally he will not let it go. He also thought that this should be the second dish. It was time to move his fingers, so he opened his cheeks and had a full meal. Finally, he still wanted to eat the food he had just eaten.
I tore the bread into pieces and ate it with fresh soup.
Finally, the waitress brought out another steamed fish. It should be a kind of deep-sea fish. Yang Liming had never seen it before, but it was nearly a foot long and tasted good. Yang Liming thought to himself: Didn't it mean the sea, land and air sign? How come it's up to now?
The three dishes are all fish. But then I thought about it, and I remembered that I heard that the royal family of Ford was almost bankrupt, and this place is close to the sea, so eating seafood is naturally an economical and affordable choice. Thinking of this, everything came to mind
, and ate more than half of the steamed fish, and felt a little bloated. At this time, someone was toasting again, so he picked up the cup along with the crowd, thinking that it was the last party wine. Unexpectedly, as soon as he put down the cup, he heard
With the sound of a gong, the ladies stepped forward to remove the plates, and Yi Ge announced on the stage that the first course was finished.
"It turns out this is just the first dish!" Yang Liming was shocked. No matter how miserable the royal family is, it is still a royal family. Looking around, everyone else eats the fattest parts of the first dish. Only he,
After eating the first dish, he couldn't bear it. How would the rest of this go... So he secretly cursed the brothers around him for being unjust. Why didn't anyone remind him...
Fortunately, this kind of banquet is not just about eating. There are some other programs arranged between each course for entertainment and boredom. During the banquet, the guests will also walk around toasting each other and chatting. This makes Yang Liming
'Digestion' time.
Although Feng Nan was born in the Marine Corps, his knowledge of seafood was not as good as Yang Liming's. Although he had a high-ranking father, he lived the life of a poor boy. He ate in student cafeterias and military cafeterias, and he never saw anything good.
I learned about the identification of sea fish in survival classes, but at that time I only learned two things: what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten, because some sea fish are poisonous. As for other fish, I know very little about them.
Behind him stands Suni, the valet. It seems that Suni has completed the transformation from a little girl in a tribal village to a valet of the royal family in the past few months. Every time a dish is served, she will put the fattest part on Feng Nan's plate.
Here, he was very polite and considerate. But Feng Nan was really not used to being served by others. When he saw that the minister opposite was giving food to the maid, he took a dinner plate and chose some food that looked good to him.
Suni ate and asked her to sit (actually kneel) beside him. In his eyes, letting such a little girl serve his food was not only unaccustomed, but also a bit cruel. So not only did he let her sit beside him
I ate next to her and chatted with her for a few words, but the two of them didn't speak the same language very well, and the most pronunciated word was Uncle Frank.
Speaking of Uncle Frank, Feng Nan actually really misses him a little. After all, they have gone through life and death together. Although this Frank has many shortcomings, he also has many virtues. He is very upright and can be regarded as a good person.
Brave. Without him, it would be difficult for Suni and the other three children to survive with Feng Nan's protection alone. But as soon as this guy arrived in Wangdong City, he asked the consulate for help and fled back to Europe as fast as he could.
But then again, as a tourist, this place is not a playground, so it is best to leave as soon as possible.
Suni finished eating the food on the plate and wanted to stand up several times, but Feng Nan didn't want her to serve her anymore, so she hugged her and prevented her from standing up, but all this was seen by Princess Jinli who was sitting on top.
Yige also winked at Feng Nan, but Feng Nan pretended not to notice, and thought to herself: After all, this is a kingdom, and there are really class distinctions.
At this time, the first course was all finished, and the waitresses came up to collect the plates. Suni wanted to do it, but Feng Nan found a big plate, picked some good ones from the uneaten portion, and put them on the big plate.
, put it aside and said to Suni: "Take these back for Yage and Olina to eat."
Yage and Olina are also the children of Sharna's relatives. They escaped together at the beginning, but they were still young. Yage was about ten years old and Olina was more than seven years old. Although living in this villa, they had no worries about food and clothing, but like today
I'm afraid good food is still rare.
Feng Nan placed the food, and then Suni handed the rest of the plates to the waitresses to take away.
After the gong rang, the performance between the two dishes began. A group of black dancers came into the hall, twelve in total. Two of them bowed and then sat down in the hall, and one of them beat the African drum.
, the other played a squeaky piccolo, which was said to be made from the bones of an eagle.
Another ten dancers began to dance. They wore bird feather phoenix crowns on their heads, and had colorful cloth bracelets on their wrists and ankles, with small bells hanging on them. They made crisp sounds whether they walked or danced. On their necks
Wearing a metal collar, divided into two colors: gold and silver. There are colorful ribbons with metal rings hanging from the top and bottom of the collar. It is semi-fixed at the position of the last rib by a waist chain connected with a metal ring. This is
The tops of the dancers are in compliance with the sexy principle: "Everything seems to be exposed, and everything seems to be covered."