After finally getting rid of the warm hospitality of the two Cheya boys, what was left for Vidia was an even bigger problem.

In order to entertain these guests, Duke Cheya's servant actually brought a barrel of wine.

This caused the men who were still eating snacks at the table to put down their work and turn their eyes to this magical drink.

The emperor's purchasing caravan did not include the use of wine.

But Duke Cheya seems to have bypassed these rules, and he doesn't know where to find a way to get a bucket.

Looking at the fiery eyes of the guests at the table, the servant who came to deliver the wine couldn't help but reach out and wipe the sweat from his forehead.

"This is a pre-dinner drink that the Duke has sent to entertain you, to make up for the mistake of not being able to entertain you himself. ”

According to etiquette, several nobles at the table should be grateful for the duke's hospitality, but for some unknown reason, these people just pushed their gazes forward calmly without expressing any opinion.

This made the attendants even more flustered.

He stumbled and said, "Adults...... Wine, not only this barrel, but the Duke has already commanded, saying that there is another program at the banquet, and it is not suitable for everyone to be too drunk, when, of course, if you have any needs, then the Duke has also entrusted me, saying, I must do my best to meet the needs of the adults. ”

The nobles who had just met at the table exchanged glances with each other, and finally said in unison:

"Then why don't you go to those drinks!"

Since the establishment of the empire, farms have sprung up, whether the people are full or not, but the nobles have saved up surplus, which makes the winemaking industry more and more inflated.

The Church of Sardinia itself had to repeal the ban on alcohol consumption a few years after the establishment of the empire, and even later, because the Church had mastered the best wine-making technology, it became the largest producer of wine in the country, they cooperated with merchants, and even drunk during religious ceremonies, and some clergy even claimed to be drunk.

"In the gardens of Sardinia, everyone walks every day with a glass of wine, and that wine is a rootless wine that can never be drunk. ”

This eventually led to the fact that almost everyone in the empire became "drunkards".

Of course, it was good for the nobles to have a territory near the river, but if there was no river flowing through the territory, then if he did not drink alcohol, he could only dig wells with the untouchables, or collect rainwater from some pond to drink.

Not only did it taste salty and bitter, but it was also so susceptible to illness that drinking alcohol became a symbol of civilization in some areas with fewer rivers.

And the Northlands happen to be the area with the fewest rivers flowing through the empire.

It is precisely because of this that drinking has become the greatest common pleasure of the nobles of the Northland.

However, in the legions of the Empire, the "decree to reduce the consumption of alcohol in the army" is still enforced.

That is: do not drink if you win, and do not drink if you fight.

Once on the battlefield, only soldiers who had won battles were allowed to drink alcohol, and it was forbidden in the army if there was a threat of war at any time.

Just kidding, how did you get the feats of war if you weren't on the front line?

How can we encounter a "guaranteed situation of no war" on the front line?

Therefore, these soldiers of the Northern Expedition, especially the nobles who served in the army, all had a feeling of suffocation.

But there was really no wine in the army, and the merchants came all the way to bring wine, and the price did not know how much it would have to be doubled, and the emperor refused to pay for the wine, so they naturally had few opportunities to drink.

And the knight of José, although he has only recently participated in the war, has not tried this magical drink for a long time.

The barrels were served, and several nobles poured them into the cups in front of them, and they didn't care what they ate and drank for a while.

Drinking has become a social way entirely, and it seems that only Vidia, who doesn't like to drink too much at the table, has become a heretic.

Fortunately, they had little interest in paying attention to whether an attendant had drunk much or not.

Of course, Vidia also likes to drink, but he doesn't like to drink bitterly, and he is born with the virtue of moderation, so it is not that he is not a bad drinker.

While the counts, barons, and knights of José were touting each other, Vidia tasted all kinds of snacks with the "cutlery" in front of him.

When the banquet really began, an "unidentified" attendant like him could only sit at the end of the long table and eat some leftovers, not to fill his stomach now, for fear that he would not be abused by hunger at night.

Anyway, José Knight's education to Vidia has always been to advocate eating more.

The José knight was not a tall man, and he attributed the source of the problem to the fact that he ate too little when he was young.

Growing up in this "cramming" education, although he did not develop into a fat man with a big stomach bag, he eventually developed a good digestion, that is, he could digest as much as he ate, and even felt as if he had not eaten it soon after eating.

This eventually led to him having to look at the sun to decide when he should have eaten and when he hadn't.

In this way, Vedia ate without eating, and the guests drank without finishing, and in a short time, five or six empty barrels were left in the hall of the banquet, and the plates were piled up like a hill.

Speaking of plates, this is a fairly new thing for Vidia.

At least in the past, he used more crockpots, but that kind of tableware couldn't better present the dishes.

And the plate solves this problem appropriately.

It is said that this is also a Wiegand gizmo.

During the First Northern Expedition, the Weygans were found eating on flattened boards.

This made the nobles who discovered these things at that time laugh at the Wigand people, as if only in this way could they show that their Great Pruss were more civilized.

However, there were also interested nobles who wrote down their shapes, which were eventually fired into fine pottery and sold in the markets of Abbaschia.

When the nobleman who had returned from the expedition woke up and found that his wife had just made a mysterious expression and beautifully placed the steaks of dinner on the plate, he barely smiled:

"My dear, where did you buy this...... What about special items?"

His wife happily replied

"This is brought back from the market of Abbasquia by the merchants of the south, I heard that now His Majesty on the palace hill is using it, look, what a beautiful item, what a great idea, and a plate like this only costs one imperial silver coin, there is nothing more affordable than this, I bought half a carriage at one time, so that all the civilians in our territory can enjoy the benefits of this civilization, you shouldn't blame me, right?"

The nobleman's face turned from white to blue, then from green to red, and finally from red to white, and after barely listening to what his wife had said, he fell to the ground and fainted.

Of course, Vedia didn't know the history of that time, and after cleaning up the food on the tenth plate, he quietly took a look at the faces of the attendants around him.

They began to visibly scramble, and even after Vedia had finished eating the food on that plate, one of the attendants snatched the plate from his hand.

The casks that had been thrown by the nobles were neatly arranged and piled up in a corner of the room.

Seeing this scene, Vidia first glanced down at the slightly bulging belly she had eaten, and then handed over the tableware she was holding tightly.

Well, the lords are coming, so you might as well get acquainted with each other.

Just as he was about to sneak into the corner of the room and hide, several young men untied the blankets hanging from the entrance of the hall and walked in.

As they walked into the room, armor and swords hung over their bodies with a trivial "clanging" sound.

Not only that, when they walked into the room, they didn't know if it was affected by the wind and snow outside the room, or the inexplicable temperament emanating from them, for a while, the temperature of the entire hall seemed to change from a warm spring to a cold autumn in an instant.

What made Vidia even more worried was that the knight at the head also had a shiny scabbard pinned to his waist.

There is no way, the circle between the nobles of the Great Prus is said to be big and big, and small is also small, maybe the nobles who bumped into it two days ago can meet at any time.

This is also the reason why the nobles are generally reluctant to easily start disputes among themselves, and the higher they go, the more inclined they are to cooperate with each other.

On the contrary, it is the untouchables who live at the bottom, and their neighbors, or even just anyone they meet on the road, who will fight to death if they disagree.

Anyway, in the empire, they are the group with the least contact, but the group with the largest base is still them, and after any contradictions, the probability of encountering them is too low, and it is better to settle the grievances clearly at one time.

Especially when they are oppressed by the nobles and lords on weekdays, but they don't dare to admit it, they don't dare to resist, as soon as they see someone who is worse or almost miserable than themselves, as long as they anger them a little, they can quickly give birth to a "hatred that does not share the sky" in their hearts.

But fortunately, as his father José said, he is just a small squire, and it is estimated that he will not leave any impression in the hearts of others, and the knight Jose himself has not taken off his helmet at all, as long as he is careful to deal with it, he should be able to hide from the past.

Thinking of this, Vidia's nervous mood eased a little.

And at this moment, a drunken voice sounded in the room at the right time.

"Oh, isn't that the knight I met that day? you're nice, much better than the taller one and the shorter one, you really don't get along, and we still meet each other. This reminds me of a poem from the East, which the priest told me back then, 'Where will not meet at the ends of the earth,' and it should be us! Shall we have a drink when we meet again?"

Wine is a good thing, and it can turn simple-minded soldiers into flamboyant diplomats.

But even more alcohol can be bad.

Vidia couldn't help but pause as she ducked into the corner of the hall.

At this time, people who feel embarrassed don't know that there is a Vedia.

The knight, who practiced swordsmanship until he sharpened his scabbard, frowned deeply.

That day, he couldn't coordinate, so he left on the spot, meaning that even if he didn't want to get involved in the bad things between these low-level knights, he never thought that the knight who should have stayed in his hometown to farm at this age would bring it up at a duke's banquet at this moment.

This made several knight friends behind him cast him into puzzled looks.

"Echimon, do you know this man, why don't you introduce us to each other?"

The knight named Echmon scolded the José knight fiercely in his heart, but he still made a calm expression on his face.

He replied casually: "It's just that I met on the road, and we have traveled a distance together, and seeing that we are all brothers of the same faith, I have talked to him a few words, but it is not much friendship, and perhaps the host of the banquet in the hall is more willing to fulfill this honor for me." ”

The knights in the same circle as Echimon, even if not all of them were famous families, were people who had seen some scenes, and after hearing this, they closed their mouths quite knowingly.

To be honest, Vidia is a little envious of these people's tempers, and being able to treat what they have said as if they have not been said at all is an excellent skill in itself.

And the knight Jose, who had just spoken and wanted to get acquainted with Echmon, turned around and started talking to another Northland count.

Even Vidia was a little confused about the head of the José Knight.

On this expedition, he was too unusual.

However, Vidia still had time to learn about his father's affairs, and he was now more willing to focus on the unknown knight in front of him.

Judging from the flattery of the knights around him, he was obviously the central figure among the knights, but judging from the counts who drank with his father, they were not familiar with this boy in armor in the banquet hall at all.

And in front of them, there was not a wine glass in front of them, like the José knights, but a glass of expensive juice.

But as far as Vidia knows, the lords of the Northlands are not even as fond of fruit as cabbage.

Because cabbage can be used as a soup, its spicy and sweet taste can also be eaten raw as a fruit, and of course, for the nobles of the Northland, the most important thing is that it is cheap, which is a good thing for the poor.

But the knights who wore armor and went to the table drank with relish, and drank with peace of mind, without the shameful eating appearance of those northerners.

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