A high-purity copper cauldron, as bright as gold, stood on three legs and stood steadily in the middle of the farmer's garden, which was also the place where family sacrifices were held.
The fine old pine wood underneath was burning with a blazing fire.
In the cauldron, mist rose.
And that strong fragrance came from this mist.
The cooks who were responsible for cooking and the housekeepers who were responsible for all other affairs around them were all suppressing their salivation, and just secretly swallowed their saliva.
fragrant!
It’s really so fragrant!
The most important thing is that the smell is strange and abnormal, so fragrant that it seems to arouse the deepest craving in the heart, making even a person with a full stomach feel as if he has been hungry for three years without eating.
I just want to throw my whole body into this big cauldron.
Fortunately, there is still reason.
The housekeeper scolded him from time to time, not only to remind himself, but also to remind others to cook well and make sure nothing goes wrong!
After a while, the fragrance coming out of the cauldron reached its strongest point.
"Okay!" the leading cook murmured.
His saliva seemed to come out of his eyes.
Generally speaking, when a cook cooks, he should taste it first. That is the right thing to do, but this is an exception.
Not only the cooks, but also the stewards nearby had no share at this time.
There was only one thing they did, and that was to share the food with the overwhelming aroma.
What was cooked in the big cauldron was an unknown beast. It was quite big, at least heavier than an adult. When it was processed before, half of the cauldron was covered with the meat of this beast alone.
But today, it is the thousands of guests who enrich it!
So in fact, basically at each table, everyone is assigned a small bowl only as big as a palm.
In the small bowl, there was just a mouthful or two of clear soup, and a thin slice of meat, really just a thin piece of meat!
But, no one is too little!
Xu Yishan got slightly more at this table.
Still the same small bowl.
It’s just that the soup in the small bowl is less than half a bowl, and there are as many as three slices of meat!
"Fifth-grade black hog meat." Xu Yishan sighed, "I didn't expect that even this grade of spiritual beast meat was taken out. Everyone, you need to be more careful about this dealer in the future."
"That's right!" Everyone present agreed.
"Fifth-grade spiritual beast meat is actually nothing. Mr. Xu, you must have enjoyed fourth-grade meat, right?" said an old man from the ground level.
"Mr. Jing, what you should ask is whether Mr. Xu has ever enjoyed the third-grade food." Another old man of the same rank said with a chuckle.
Hearing this, Xu Yishan also chuckled and shook his head, "Third-grade spiritual materials are only available to saints. Even those in the heavenly position may not have the opportunity to enjoy them. How can Xu be so virtuous and capable?"
, can you enjoy those heaven and earth spiritual things?"
After a pause, he continued: "It's true that Xu has enjoyed some of the fourth-grade spiritual materials, but in his spare time, he really doesn't have them!"
When he said this, everyone at the table laughed.
"Even if you are a fifth or sixth grade person, if you can enjoy a little in a year, I will be satisfied." Another earth-level old man said, stroking his long beard.
"This is the right truth! Even if the spiritual objects of heaven and earth are only of the sixth grade, they are rare treasures. Although we are not rare, we should not be scornful of them. What's more, at this time, these fifth grade things? Although, they are indeed a little missing.
"
Xu Yishan said, laughing, and then stretched out his hand and said: "Everyone, please!"
"Master Xu, please!"
For a while, there was only the sound of gentle tasting and sipping in the pavilion.
It’s really just a taste.
If you want to rely solely on spiritual materials to make a full meal, even if you are a disciple of a saint, you may not be able to achieve such luxury. What's more, here is just a seventh-grade family that has suddenly been promoted to fifth grade?
There are sixth-grade spiritual fruits and fifth-grade spiritual beast meat. Even if it is placed in the entire Nanzhou, it is enough to be called a feast.
And this feast is destined to be praised by all the guests in this trip.
At least, for the vast majority of the guests, they will probably never have another chance to attend such a high-level banquet for the rest of their lives.
Participate once and remember it for a lifetime.
It will even be recorded in their family tree!
A banquet was also held outside the banker's garden, and several streets were paved. Anyone in Qingshui City, regardless of locals or foreigners, could enter and leave the banquet at any time, and according to the person in charge, this
The flowing water banquet will last for three days.
Of course, there will definitely be no spiritual materials at this banquet.
But apart from the spiritual materials, whether it is fruits, vegetables or soups, they are all as rich as those in the garden, at most they are slightly inferior in quality.
They also smelled the strange fragrance.
Just because of this strange smell, everyone was hungry and ate as much as they could.
"Brother Lu, Brother Qin, etc., come here, cheers!" At a certain table of the flowing water banquet, a man offered soup instead of wine and said boldly to several big men at the same table, "In the future, I may have the opportunity to taste this.
Waiting for a sumptuous banquet.”
"Haha, come on, do it!"
A table full of wild and unrestrained behavior, a table filled with unbridled behavior.
Scenes like this appeared in many places on the water mat outside the manor.
And this banquet of the Zhuang family, the promotion of the Zhuang family from a seventh-rank family to a fifth-rank family, must also spread throughout the country along with the thousands and tens of thousands of people who participated in this grand event inside and outside the manor.
The news spread throughout Qingshui City and throughout Annan County.
It even spread to other counties and cities in Nanzhou.
The Zhuang Family, a rising middle-class family, will start its new path with such a reputation.
The first and most important step starts with a court trial.
In a sense, this will determine the pattern of bookmakers in the coming decades or even centuries.
The flowing banquet outside the manor is still going on, but in the garden of the banker, the guests have begun to leave one after another. For example, those from the surrounding cities who came to congratulate the family will leave today.
The two Mingshui families, who live in Qingshui City, may have to stay longer.
Xu Yishan and others were also kept behind. Firstly, the banker wanted to get closer to them. Secondly, the family members wanted to watch and witness a very important competition.
There is also the intention of introducing the elite children of the family to these big shots.
Xu Yishan and others responded smoothly.
The banker has been promoted to a fifth-grade family. In terms of grade, he will be on the same level as them in the future. There will be no shortage of dealings with them in the future. It is also appropriate to be more familiar with them at this time.
The next day, most of the guests who came to congratulate him had dispersed.
In the morning, the rather spacious martial arts training ground in the east garden of the Zhuang Family was busy but also solemn.
The Ming family, the Shui family, and some important family figures occupied the spectator positions on one side.
The banker occupies the other side.
Although Xu Yishan and others are guests, they actually occupy the position of the host's house, which is also the position with the best view.
This is not because they are arrogant, but because the banker has sincerely refused. The banker currently has no rank, so after their refusal was fruitless, they did their best to give in.
In the example of the banker's team, the owner Zhuang Zhiyuan stands at the front.
Opposite him were dozens of family children and teenagers ranging in age from several years old to teenagers.