The next day, Meng Xue found Chen Zining again to discuss the location and details of the banquet. Chen Zining was surprised when he heard that Meng Xue wanted to invite more than ten guests.
Like him, the only two people he knew well in the college were Du Tao and Miao Shufang. Meng Xue had only been in school for more than two months. In his opinion, there were only a few people to invite, and the so-called birthday dinner was not Just everyone found a restaurant to have a meal.
Now after listening to Meng Xue's arrangement, she actually wanted to invite more than ten guests. Meng Xue explained to him that she had just joined a student group called Women's Club, and the people she met in it were all good friends.
Chen Zining thought of Shen Yingyang's group and thought that if they were included, one box might not be able to accommodate so many people, so he simply said: "Why don't you go to Shuiyueju that I rented? That place is big and you can be more casual. Then we can just order some food and drinks from the restaurant."
Meng Xue smiled and said: "You also rented a yard outside? In fact, my parents wanted me to go to my house with you to celebrate your birthday. I was worried that you would feel restrained in my house, so I didn't agree. It would be better if you have a place. That’s it, take me to see it first.”
So Chen Zining took Meng Xue to visit Shuiyue Residence first. Meng Xue suggested: "I didn't expect the place you rented to be so big. Let's just have a barbecue party. It will be more interesting and the classmates will like it more."
Chen Zining didn't have any objections, and said with a smile: "Okay, you are more familiar with this. Can you make a list and see what you want to buy? I will ask someone to buy it, and I will prepare the drinks when the time comes to ensure that you are satisfied."
He once asked Luo Nansheng to buy all kinds of wine in Qinghua City, which was the first fifty jars of various wines put into Qiankun Immortal Mansion. They had been stored in the quiet room for nearly a year, and they were completely considered low-grade. Treat them with spiritual wine and drink as much as they want. Such a dinner is luxurious enough.
On June 15th, Chen Zining once again filled fifty rainbow flowers in flower pots, then moved them to the backyard, and then called Luo Nansheng and Shen Yingyang to go to Qichun Flower Shop to sell flowers together.
Luo Nansheng's carriage couldn't fit the fifty pots of flowers. Chen Zining asked Luo Nansheng to find another carriage and they went to Qichun Flower Shop together. This time, Yue Tong received them again.
As soon as they met, Chen Zining said: "Senior, have you found the flower seeds I asked you to help find last time?"
"You're lucky. If others really can't find it for you, I have an uncle who has collected it for decades and planted a little bit of everything. I spent a lot of effort to get it for you. I just wanted to give it to you. Send it over, how many pots of flowers did you bring this time?"
Yue Tong couldn't help but smile when she saw Chen Zining. Qichun Flower Shop is the largest and best in the entire East District, but if she wants to further open up the market, she also needs some spiritual flowers to support the facade. Although her family also has a dedicated flower garden She has a spiritual land, but she has never been able to grow high-quality spiritual flowers. She benefited a lot from the ten rainbow flowers that Chen Zining sold her last time.
"We have a good product this time, a seven-color rainbow flower! The only one grown in the sacred land of my house." Chen Zining and the three of them moved together to move the flower pots on the carriage, and then pointed to one of the pots, which was still a flower bud. Hua smiled.
"Really! That's great. This potted flower can be used as a treasure for my store." Yue Tong was also very happy. Rainbow flowers are not uncommon, but the real seven-color ones are rare. She saw them last time When I was fourteen years old, I was in a relative’s flower garden.
Chen Zining introduced Shen Yingyang to Yue Tong, then calculated the price of fifty pots of rainbow flowers, and deducted the cost of seeds for fairy grass, worry-free flower and nine-nine evil orchids, and finally sold them for 1,150 gold coins.
Then Chen Zining took the two of them to the black market and bought forty second-grade spiritual fruit cat's eyes, each worth twenty-two gold coins, for a total of eight hundred and eighty. Shen Yingyang saw it and said with a smile: " Zining, are you going to hold a fruit tasting party tonight?"
Chen Zining nodded and said: "Speaking of it, today is my first birthday party. In previous years, I would just have a delicious meal with my family and forget about it. Since I have to celebrate it, I will have a fruit tasting party. Anyway, it is all about food. Our own people.”
Shen Yingyang sighed: "You are so willing. This is the first time I saw more than a thousand gold coins, and I spent them again in the blink of an eye."
The so-called fruit tasting conference is actually to use spiritual fruits to entertain guests. The dignitaries of aristocratic families entertain guests, especially at banquets such as weddings and birthdays. They also collect gifts from guests. In order to show their strength and reward guests, they use various kinds of gifts. Spiritual fruits are used to entertain distinguished guests, and the cost of spiritual fruits often exceeds the guests' gifts, so as to show the grandeur of the host's family. Over time, such a trend has been formed.
In Chen Zining's Immortal Mansion, there are first-grade Red Scale Fruit, second-grade Black Jade Fruit and Cat's Eye, third-grade Fierce Sun Fruit, fourth-grade Jade Fruit and fifth-grade Crimson Fruit. They are all still small saplings now. The fastest The red scale fruits and black jade fruits have just sprouted small flower buds now, and only the blood dragon fruit is mature. Thirty-nine blood dragon fruits, Du Tao and Miao Shufang ate six, and still There are thirty-three left, which is just enough to entertain the number of people for this birthday party.
But the fourth-grade spirit fruit is not an ordinary thing. The worst ones cost more than 350 gold coins. Even the lord of a city or the head of a noble family can use it to entertain distinguished guests. If Chen Zining uses the fourth-grade spirit fruit, If he comes to entertain a group of students, or twenty or thirty, I am afraid that the next day the news will spread throughout the school, and then throughout the city, putting him in the public eye. Maybe among the younger generation, there will only be princes and princesses, heirs of aristocratic families. , only the true disciples of the sect and other such figures would have such a pomp.
Back at Shuiyue Residence, Meng Xue and Chu Hanyue arrived and were waiting in the house. When they met Chen Zining, Chu Hanyue said with a smile: "You two are really destined to have the same birthday. Xiaoxue invited them to this session of the Women's Society. The top ten beauties are all at an advantage to you."
Chen Zining smiled and said: "It's not a business, how can you get the advantage?"
He turned back to Meng Xue and said, "You're here just in time. I want to hold the party in the backyard. What do you think? The front yard is bigger, but it's too monotonous."
The backyard is not only large enough, but also has a much better environment. There is a small pond with a few water lilies, a weeping willow tree next to the pond, and dozens of pots of flowers and plants dotting the other two corners. It’s a full moon again tonight. At night, there is nothing better than admiring the moon there.
Meng Xue obviously thought of this, nodded, and said: "Let's go and see if there is anything missing?"
As soon as the three of them entered the backyard, Chu Hanyue screamed and looked at the west side of the yard with a look of surprise on her face. Meng Xue also showed a look of surprise.