"Very good, very good. Mr. Yuan has such an awareness. He is already better than many others. Mr. Yuan, don't worry. Now that I have received the instructions from the president, I will definitely do my best to teach Mr. Yuan well." Wang Huaiqing felt more and more in his heart.
He was proud of himself, and his words became more and more casual. Not only did he mention "this is the president's intention" from time to time, but he also showed a condescending identity.
"Then thank you in advance, Mr. Wang. What are you waiting for? Hurry up and take your seats. Today I will take care of Mr. Wang."
No matter what everyone present was thinking, they still had to do enough on the surface, so under Yuan Su's greeting, everyone immediately joined in lively. Wang Liotong ordered the restaurant to serve the dishes quickly, and called all the gentry to sit down.
Su Ze took Wang Huaiqing's arm and personally invited him to sit down at the table, while he sat beside him.
In the blink of an eye, all the large boxes in the banquet hall were filled with laughter and laughter.
Although Wang Huaiqing is the commander-in-chief of a town, Changli cannot compare with Luanzhou after all. Whether it is food or drink, it is naturally slightly inferior. Tingfeng Xiaozhu's seven or eight special dishes were just served, which immediately whetted his appetite.
Coupled with the adulation surrounding him by Wang Litong, Yuan Su and the members of the Consultative Bureau, he suddenly felt like the moon was surrounded by stars, and gradually he became overwhelmed with pride.
"Come on, Lord Wang, this is Tingfeng Xiaozhu's unique secret brew, eighteen-year-old Fengqu wine. Come on, let me pour it for Lord Wang."
"Tsk tsk, what a good wine, what a good wine. Haha, come on, let's drink together, drink together."
"Everyone, let's have a toast together, Mr. Inspector. From now on, we will have to rely on Mr. Inspector to take good care of you."
"It's easy to say, easy to say, come on, pour it again and pour it again."
Not only was the main banquet hall filled with people drinking and noisy, but in the small banquet hall next door, Chen Wennian, Du Yu, and Guo Wenyuan were also drinking and drinking with the officers of the patrol camp. At first, these officers were worried that they were drunk.
It would be a mistake, but people like them who are in the military camp all year round rarely have the opportunity to drink. What's more, what is in front of them is a secret brewing wine that has been brewed for eighteen years. After three or five glasses, they can no longer control themselves.
"Come on, brother, let's go one."
"Do it, do it, where are you raising the goldfish? You have to be punished, you have to be punished!"
"Wait a minute, drink it up, drink it up, let me eat a piece of meat."
"Come on, brother, I will pick up a piece of meat for you, the best braised pork belly, and keep it for you. You will regret it when you have teeth after eating it."
After the third round of drinking, the officers of these patrol battalions suddenly got drunk. They did not expect the officers of the security regiment to be so enthusiastic. In addition, they were so drunk that they soon put down all precautions and put their arms around each other.
Holding hands and calling each other brothers, they are like old comrades who have been through life and death for decades.
While eating, drinking, and chatting, a few words of complaint occasionally came out, about how stingy Wang Huaiqing was.
However, everyone still has some sense of rationality. Whenever this is mentioned, there will always be someone trying to persuade me to drink or make some dirty jokes.
After the food and wine in the main banquet hall and the small banquet hall were fully served, the restaurant began to prepare meals for the soldiers of the patrol camp. Although the dishes in the first two banquet halls were a few grades lower than those in the first two banquet halls, after all, there were hundreds of people.
We were here, so we still put in a lot of effort. The steward of the restaurant came to the gate with a few workers and asked the soldiers to divide into three teams and take turns to enter the courtyard for dinner.
These soldiers had been on the road all afternoon and were already tired and tired. At this time, several officers in charge were eating and drinking in the house. The few team officers who stayed outside to lead the team did not buy each other's opinions.
After finally arranging their meals, everyone was vying to go in and eat first.
The housekeeper and the laborers could not stop them, and more than 300 people poured into the courtyard at once. Fortunately, there were still more than a hundred people who were kind enough and did not rush in together, otherwise the entire mansion would have been crushed.
Go. In desperation, the housekeeper had no choice but to add tables and chairs in the west and south courtyards. When the courtyards were full, corridors were added, and when the corridors were full, porches were added.
At a glance, the entire west and south courtyards were like hot cakes with their fillings exposed, a scene that was overcrowded. But no matter what, we finally managed to get more than 300 people to sit down. Anyway, these soldiers were also
It has no style, no matter how crowded it is, I won’t mind it.
Meals were served on the table one after another. The soldiers had no eating rules at all. They grabbed rice when there was food, vegetables when there was food, and meat when there was meat. Basically, the last dish was eaten up, and the waiter served another one.
It was just in time to take away the empty plates from the previous course.
Everyone was eating and chatting, and the scene was equally lively.
I don’t know who it was, but he suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs: “Let’s serve wine. How can we go to a restaurant without drinking?”
Following this call, other people around him began to cheer.
"Serve the wine, serve the wine, serve the wine quickly."
"That's right, I've been on the road for a whole day, so let's take a sip of wine to moisten our throats."
The team officers and sentry officers were not in charge, but instead started making noise along with the soldiers.
Naturally, the restaurant didn't dare to neglect them. These people were all carrying guns, so they quickly prepared some second-rate soju and brought it to them.
Soldiers don't have certain worries like officers. Once the wine is served, they drink it without any scruples. After all, everyone drinks. As the saying goes, the law does not punish everyone, and adults will not punish everyone.
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Not long ago, the guests in the main banquet hall and the secondary banquet hall were still drunk, but these big-headed soldiers started to stagger around one by one.
What's worse is that these drunken soldiers didn't even consider that there were people waiting outside the gate to enter the hospital for dinner. Some people continued to eat and drink heavily, some were drunk and fell asleep at their desks, and some others took advantage of the drunkenness.
I hid in the corner and played dice.
The restaurant greeted him several times, but no one paid any attention to him. In desperation, he had no choice but to let these soldiers occupy the courtyard.
But the soldiers who were still outside the gate could not ignore them. After thinking about it, they could only move some tables and chairs to the street outside the gate, and arranged some meals to be delivered outside the gate.
The soldiers who had been waiting outside the gate for several hours naturally felt uncomfortable, but when they thought about the adults inside, if a trouble broke out, they would probably end badly, so they could only make do with it in the street in silence.
Eat and drink.
Yuan Su stayed with Wang Huaiqing throughout the night. From the beginning of the banquet at eight o'clock until ten o'clock in the evening, the atmosphere in the entire box did not diminish at all. Everyone remained in an excited state and continued to encourage people to eat and drink. The restaurant was replenished three times.
Although many people had already eaten and drank enough food and wine, they still had to keep up their spirits due to the atmosphere.
Even though Wang Huaiqing is used to big fish and meat on weekdays, it was his first time to eat at the most famous restaurant in Luanzhou, and he still felt novel, especially the secretly brewed wine that had been brewed for eighteen years. It tasted very smooth, and he did not care about the old wine for a while.
With great stamina, he drank one or two kilograms one after another. Not only that, Yuan Su on the side continued to drink, and he himself was unambiguous. He always drank up the wine with Wang Huaiqing.
However, after drinking for two hours, Wang Huaiqing was more or less dizzy, but Yuan Su still remained sober. He and Wang Huaiqing drank the same wine, and he drank as much as the other. But as a twenty-one-year-old
As a time-traveler, he naturally knows some tricks about drinking at dinner parties better than Wang Huaiqing. What's more, he is young and in his prime, but the other party is over half a century old and already full of energy. There is no suspense in drinking together.
Yuan Su did not intend to get Wang Huaiqing drunk, his only purpose was to keep Wang Huaiqing at this dinner table.
At the same time, in the wilderness next to the official road in the suburbs outside Luanzhou City, the Dezi camp where Wang Huaiqing stayed outside the city had set up dozens of tents. There were either bonfires or braziers around the tents. Soldiers from the patrol camp
They had been traveling all afternoon, and had been busy setting up camp for several hours. They were all exhausted. After finally packing everything up, they sat on the ground in twos and threes around the campfire, taking out dry food to eat.
While gnawing on the hard steamed buns and drinking the cold water, some people couldn't help but complain. Everyone thought that when they came to Luanzhou to take over military affairs, they would definitely be able to show off their power in the city. At the very least, there should be a place to have a warm meal.
Food, there is a barracks where you can stay overnight. Fortunately, now, it has become more like a refugee. The weather in early spring is still very cold, and it is really aggrieved to eat such food when you are tired and tired.
"According to me, our Lord Wang must be eating and drinking in the city. Alas, it is so hard for our Dezi camp to stay outside the city. What evil has been done?"
"Mr. Wang, what kind of place is Luanzhou? This is a big place with three counties and six towns. Anyone who comes to the city with Mr. Wang can definitely enjoy the delicious food."
"Damn it, you have to deduct three points from your daily salary, and you don't have enough to eat or sleep with. What kind of life do you live like?"
"The top is tied in the middle, and the middle is buckled down. This is our fate."
As they talked, some people couldn't help but complain, thinking that being a soldier in Tongyong Town was really not a good thing. The army elsewhere only had a maximum deduction of two points per month, but serving as a soldier under Wang Huaiqing had to deduct three points.
Not to mention having a tooth festival during the New Year and festivals, in the middle of winter we don’t even have a decent quilt.
Others also echoed a few words, but everyone is understanding, so it is better not to say such things, so they gradually became silent. But even so, everyone still felt a sense of frustration in their hearts. This anger
It’s not just a day or two anymore. Seeing that the official’s pocket is getting fuller and fuller, who can be convinced?
"I heard that Luanzhou has a joint military-civilian defense. As long as you participate in the training camp, you will be given a new set of cotton-padded clothes. Look, their militiamen are better than our soldiers."
"Oh, who says it's not the case? There's nothing we can do about it if the opportunity is bad."
"Actually speaking, I have also heard that the adults in charge are always complaining privately that the benefits they get are not much, and they are far worse than other places. The real fatheads are all taken by us, Mr. Wang.
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At this moment, sporadic sound of horse hooves came from the official road in the direction of Luanzhou City. The soldiers on duty outside the camp raised their torches high and looked in the direction of the sound. Soon they vaguely saw a horseman under the black screen.
They were galloping towards this side. The soldiers on duty did not have any sense of alertness, they just thought it was Wang Huaiqing who sent someone to carry out some order.
As the cavalry got closer and closer to the camp, the soldiers on duty could finally see clearly the other party's clothing, but the other party did not seem to be wearing the new military uniforms of the patrol camp, and they couldn't help but be confused for a while.
After a while, the cavalryman slowed down and gradually stopped at the intersection of the camp.
"Who are you?" Several soldiers on duty quickly gathered around, and one of them shouted loudly.
"Where are your grandsons?" The man on horseback asked calmly.
"Master Sun is in the camp, what do you want?" The soldier from the patrol camp answered smoothly without thinking too much.
"Take me to see him." As he said that, the man on horseback turned over and dismounted neatly. First, he put the reins into the hands of a patrol battalion soldier, and then took out a bundle from the saddle bag and twisted it in his hand.