Chapter 306 Jiangling Dinner
"Captain, Miss Lian, it's time to eat." The two people who were talking suddenly knocked on the door of the reception room and woke up to open the door with Xin Qi, who had been following the cold front. Chen Zhu was talking outside the door.
In the afternoon, even Xingyue was discussing the factory in Jiangling. According to the plan, Zhangye's investment in Jiangling is only the first stage of the first phase, and there are the second, third and fourth stages after the first phase. If the effect is good, the second phase and the third phases will continue to come.
However, time passes quickly. Today's dinner is Ye Liu's first dinner after returning to Jiangling. Of course, it is of great significance. As the hostess, Lian Xingyue, of course, can't be late.
"Then let's do this first," Lian Xingyue stood up. Lian Xingyue cleaned up the information on the table and returned it to Xin Qi. Ye Liu and I will stay in Jiangling for a long time. Let's talk about these things later.
"Yes." Although he has not been formally engaged, the cold front is very clear about Lian Xingyue's future status in the Count's Mansion in Jiangling, so it is natural that Lian Xingyue's dialogue is an order. Lian Xingyue is not uncomfortable about this. She just smiled and walked out of the door of the living room.
The Earl's Palace in Jiangling is a large castle with a long history, and the banquet hall of the Earl's Palace does not have many windows, so the light depends entirely on the chandelier on the ceiling, but this chandelier seems to have been in service for a long time, and now the light is relatively dim.
However, as a hereditary aristocracy that has been passed down for a hundred years. Although the Ye family is in a relatively difficult situation now, there are still many good things, such as a large number of exquisite gold and silver utensils on the dining table. In the Empire City, this kind of antique thing has long rarely appeared.
When Lian Xingyue walked into the restaurant, she saw Guan Zhuyun holding a bone porcelain cup and carefully studying it. He didn't care about the strange eyes of the people around him.
"Where's Ah Ye?" The position of Lian Xingyue is naturally the first position on the left side of the main seat, and this place is also specially available for her to sit.
"It should be to see the housekeeper Sha." Asked by Lian Xingyue, Guan Zhuyun finally found that he was not at home, but in Zhang Ye, so he pretended not to care and put the cup back on the table.
"I didn't expect Ye Liu to collect a lot of good things here." Ye Liu also took the two women around all afternoon and introduced the main locations of the Earl's Palace to the two. However, this ancient castle was like a variety of rooms like spider webs. The corridors and corridors gave the two women a headache. For a long time, without Ye Liu's leadership, it was estimated that they would not dare to go out.
"Doryu take you to the gallery?" Lian Xingyue said with a smile.
"Gallery?" Guan Zhuyun seems to have no memory.
"No. Then I'll take you to see that there are many rare treasures. Where are the paintings of every master of the empire for 300 years?
"Is that so?" Guan Zhuyun is looking forward to it.
The number of people who participated in this dinner was not large. In addition to Ye Liu, the three daughters of Lian Xingyue, Leng Feng, Xin Qi, Chen Zhu, Dongxing, these four members of the guard of the Count's Palace, and three others were white-haired and white-bearded old men, who were at least 80 years old. Now they are bowing their heads one by one. Because of the cover of their eyebrows, even Xingyue can't see whether they are awake or asleep now.
These old people don't even know who Xingyue is from the Ye family. They have seen them at the Ye family's banquet before. In the past ten years, there seems to be no change at all. They should be old servants who have served the Ye family for many years. Lian Xingyue can only make this kind of guess.
Ye Liu is not a person who likes to be late, so when the ancient clock in the banquet hall pointed to six o'clock, the only member of the Ye family now appeared in his seat on time and followed him was the housekeeper Sha.
If you follow the procedure, a formal dinner will take a long time, there are many rules, and the food you eat at each stage will be different. For Ye Liu, if the food is not served at one time, it is simply stabbed on him with a knife. This kind of thing is absolutely not allowed to happen in his home.
In fact, it seems that the Ye family has always been such a tradition, and the meals should be served at once. Therefore, after Ye Liu arrived, although he still looked a little weak, the red-faced sand housekeeper nodded, and Xin Qi, who was at the head of the table, left her seat and walked out of the door.
Not long after, several dining cars were pushed out by several middle-aged people in clean chef's uniforms. Master Xia. Seeing one of them, Lian Xingyue couldn't help but blurt out his name. Lian Xingyue's voice was not small. The chef surnamed Xia smiled at Lian Xingyue after hearing it.
However, Lian Xingyue lowered her head shyly after the other party looked over. When Lian Xingyue was a child, every time he came to Ye's house, Ye Liu was unlucky. Although bullying Ye Liu could give Lian Xingyue the best pleasure, it did not mean that Lian Xingyue would not change his appetite. So the master who often stays in Ye's kitchen will be pranked every once in a while.
Soon, the table was full of food, and the ingredients were very ordinary. They were all specialties next to the Earl's Palace, such as fish, venison, pork, rabbit meat and honey. Vegetable soup. At this time, the quality of the food depends entirely on the chef's craftsmanship, and the chefs of the Ye family obviously did not disappoint Guan Zhuyun and Long Daner, who ate here for the first time.
Especially Long Daner, after tasting a small golden pie, her eyes immediately glowed and asked Ye Liu whose work was it. Even Ye Liu, who was stuffing things into his stomach, answered this question.
"It's Master Xia," Lian Xingyue said,
"Then can I learn how to make dessert with him?" Long Daner was a little uneasy. Dessert is a cooking skill that Long Daner has always wanted to learn but has not learned. This time, she was able to find such a master figure in Jiangling, which was very unexpected. Even Zhang Ye's chef, Long Daner did not admire it so much.
"Well, you can ask Ye Liu at night." Lian Xingyue said.
"Hmm." Long Daner nodded vigorously. For the rest of the spring break, Long Daner will have nothing to do.
Guan Zhuyun didn't feel much about the good or bad cooking skills, but when the Ye family ate, it was still quite interesting. Looking at the group of people in front of them, they buried their heads and ate a lot, Guan Zhuyun felt very bad. It turned out that she thought that Ye Liu's meal was just a case. I didn't expect this to be a family habit.
For good, the Ye family is very good at cooking, and they are also very polite. These more than a dozen people eat together. Except for the occasional sound when the chopsticks and spoon touch the cutlery, the whole banquet hall is very quiet. At the same time, there is no waiter here, and all dining matters are done by the diners themselves.
Lian Xingyue often ate at Ye's house with her father when she was a child. It was not surprising, and Long Daner did not feel abnormal. Only Guan Zhuyun, who grew up in a large family, felt very fresh.
"Are you not hungry?" Lian Xingyue saw that Guan Zhuyun's eyes rarely rested on her dinner plate, but was more interested in the characters and objects in the hall, so she asked. No one will prepare supper for you at night.
The Ye family has always had three meals a day. There is no such thing as afternoon tea or night snack. If you don't get hungry at meal time, you will be hungry. Either you are a patient or you are a child, otherwise you can only solve it by yourself. This morning, I bumped in the car for a day, and I simply ate some lunch in the car. In the afternoon, I walked with Ye Liu for a few hours. Lian Xingyue was afraid that Guan Zhuyun would not eat now and couldn't sleep at night.
"No, I'm just curious." Guan Zhuyun answered with a smile,
"You will get used to this in the future." Even Xingyue also looked around, "Actually, it's not bad. It's very comfortable when eating."
Gun nodded and agreed, just like others, in this way that he had never tried before. Although the Ye family's dinner was not luxurious and grand enough, the food was still very rich and the taste was also wonderful. Everyone at the table was very satisfied.
The time of happiness always passes very fast. Unconsciously, the bones and shark fins that Ye Liu ate suddenly turned into a hill. Touching his slightly bulging stomach, Ye Liu exhaled with satisfaction.
"Shara." Seeing that others had basically eaten, Ye Liu wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin.
As a special person of the Ye family, Sha Lao ate at the table with Ye Yu when he was a child, but as a housekeeper, he still had to do some work.
Although Ye Liu only said two words, Sha Lao already understood what he meant. After clapping his hands, someone immediately began to clean up the table at the door. Clean up the rest of the food.
After all this, Ye Liu cleared his throat and was ready to start talking.
"Uh..." When he came to his mouth, Ye Liu suddenly found that his long-prepared speech suddenly became completely unable to express his current feelings. After a short pause, Ye Liu decided to say what he thought now.
"Uncle Leng, Mr. Sha," these two people are the most familiar people at Ye Liu's family and loyal to the Ye family. As few guests for this special dinner tonight, their importance in the Ye family can be imagined.
"During this period, my father has not heard from him. The things in the family are thanks to the care of the two elders, otherwise Jiangling doesn't know what it has become now."
Although Ye Liu said that it was true, the cold front and housekeeper Sha could not sit in a chair and listen leisurely. Even a person quickly stood up and said that this was what he should do, and his ability was limited and he didn't do it well. I'm afraid he would disappoint Ye Liu and so on. Ye Liu first advised the housekeeper to sit back, and then let Leng Feng return to his original position.
"The sudden disappearance of his father caused a lot of problems in Jiangling," Ye Liu shook his head and expressed helplessness about Ye Yu's bad behavior without saying goodbye. "But the Ye family can't be ownerless for a day. Jiangling needs someone to manage, and the earl's palace also needs to take care of it."
"In the future, I will still have to go to school in the Empire City, and Jiangling can only come back occasionally, so I will continue to ask you about Jiangling."
The Ye family has always had a tradition of not having children. In this generation, Ye Liu didn't even know who his uncle's family was, and he couldn't find help. If it hadn't been for Xingyue's side to help Jiangling with many things, it's really a no wonder if Ye Liu could have the heart to continue to go to school in Tianfu now. Accurate things.
Leng Feng and Sha Lao have been doing Ye Liu's requirements, but it can be said that the name is not right before. Most of the time, the two have nothing they can do without such a nominal unity. Now with Ye Liu's formal entrustment, the situation will be much better.
"Don't worry, young master, when you come back next time, Jiangling must be different." Leng Feng stood up and accepted the task assigned by Ye Liu.
"Hmm." Ye Liu nodded. Since Leng Feng said so, Ye Liu believed that he would be able to do it.
During his absence, entrusting Jiangling to Leng Feng is the most important thing for Ye Liu to do when he comes back. The second one.
"After returning to the Imperial City, I will be engaged to A Yue and Daner, so in the future. I'm not the only one in the Ye family." Ye Liu announced the news with a smile.
Although it had been expected, after hearing Ye Liu say it himself, several people in the banquet hall were still overjoyed, and even the hair of the old men who were about to become wax figures moved. Of course, this is great news. Long Daner's engagement with Lian Xingyue not only means that there are two more family members, but also means the alliance between the Ye family and the Lian Long family.