For everyone's applause and praise, Lucy just nodded slightly to everyone, with a faint smile on her face, at this time, she was elegant and noble like the goddess of life who brought spring to the earth.

At this time, Xu Xincheng's eyes saw Albert come to the door of the study, and glanced at Prince Anderson, who nodded to him slightly, and then told everyone that the dinner was ready, and everyone was invited to move to the dinner hall next door. So, everyone walked out of the study and into the dinner hall while chatting.

At this time, the banquet hall is brightly lit and splendid, the five golden and bronze European chandeliers hanging on the ceiling have been lit, and the long dining table is placed with five golden European-style retro candlesticks, each candlestick is lit with twelve red candles, the candlelight is flickering, like the dancers who cheer up the dinner, they dance happily, adding a cheerful and elegant atmosphere to the dinner.

Nine sets of European-style gold-inlaid and white-bottomed cutlery were neatly placed on the pure white tablecloth on the table, and Xu Xincheng immediately recognized that this was a full set of standard cutlery for the highest specification of French dinner, with a total of 15 items, a napkin, a harpoon, a main dish fork, a salad fork, a main dish plate, a soup cup and soup base, a main kitchen knife, a fish knife, a spoon, a bread and cream plate, a cream knife, a dim sum spoon and a dim sum fork, a water glass, a red wine glass and a white wine glass.

Prince Anderson first invited Mrs. Knapp to sit on the right side of the host's seat at the table, he gentlemanly invited her to sit down personally, pulled the chair open for her, moved the chair forward as she took her seat, and after she was seated, Prince Anderson invited Lucy to sit opposite Mrs. Knapp, that is, to the left of the host's seat, and he also invited her to take a seat, and after both ladies were seated, Prince Anderson invited the other five guests and Xu Xincheng to take their seats, and the six of them took their seats with the assistance of their respective male attendants。

After all the guests had taken their seats, Prince Anderson took his seat with Albert's assistance.

Heo sat on Lucy's left, diagonally opposite Madame Kleknapp to the right, directly opposite the Minister of Economy, diagonally opposite the Minister of Industry, and then the two presidents of the manufacturing companies, while the president of the BMW Group sat to his left. To be honest, sitting in this position made him feel pressured, and he hurriedly took a deep breath and quickly adjusted his state.

After taking his seat, on his left-hand side, in front of the napkin, Xu Xincheng saw a beautifully made menu with gold letters on a white background. Like other guests, Xu Xincheng also picked up the menu and looked at it carefully, and to his surprise, in addition to German and French, there was also a Chinese translation on the menu, which showed the host's care for the dinner and respect for the two Chinese guests.

Tonight's dinner is a standard French meal, with a total of thirteen courses, which are:

The first course is a salad with caviar and appetizer

The second course soup, French onion soup

The third course is a hot appetizer appetizer with French cheese and snail baked

Fourth course: fish, white wine, cream, truffle, salmon

The fifth course is the black mushroom foie gras steak for the main course

Sixth course: Hot plate: French chicken braised in red wine

The seventh course is a cold cut, French oysters

The eighth course is fruit sorbet and mango ice cream

Ninth course salad fruit salad

10th course vegetables

The eleventh course dessert is Black Forest cake

Twelfth course: savoury French cheese ham sandwich with quail eggs

The thirteenth course dessert is a macaron meringuin

This is Xu Xincheng's first time eating French dinner, but he has a bottom in his heart, because when he was told by Lucy to wear an evening dress, he had already guessed that the specifications of tonight's dinner would be very high, so just in the room, after consulting Prince Anderson's information, he also checked the relevant information of French dinner, and remembered the names of all the tableware, the specific appearance, the specific use and the detailed dining etiquette.

Of course, he also knows very well that he is just cramming at the door, although he has memorized the main points, but he has no practical experience at all, but he still has a way, that is, to learn while watching, and to learn and use now. The rest of the room must have been accustomed to French cuisine, and they were his best table manners teachers, and he only had to look carefully at the two ministers sitting across from him, carefully watching how they ate, how they used the different knives, forks, spoons, and wine glasses, and then drawing a scoop from the gourd, all in all, although it was the first time, he believed that he should still be able to handle it.

Still, looking at the German Vice Chancellor, the two ministers, the three presidents of the world's leading companies next to him, and a prince sitting at the same table in the splendid and noble European dinner hall, he still felt that what was happening at the moment was really unreal, as if he had traveled to a court dinner in the European classics he had read.

The "Court Dinner" is about to begin.

Prince Anderson turned slightly sideways to give Albert, who had been standing to his right, Albert nodded to him slightly, then moved to the right side of Prince Anderson's seat, and respectfully bowed to the crowd, saying, "Your Royal Highness, Madam Vice-Chancellor, Lady Lucy, Dear distinguished." guests， may we?” ("Your Royal Highness the Prince, Madam Deputy Prime Minister, Madam Lucy, dear distinguished guests, shall we begin?")

Prince Anderson first asked for advice from Deputy Prime Minister Klenap with his eyes, she smiled and nodded, and replied in the affirmative, and the prince asked Lucy with his eyes, Lucy also smiled and nodded, and the prince looked at Albert slightly sideways and said, "Yes, Albert, we may." ("Yes, Albert, yes.") ”）

As soon as he finished speaking, Albert raised his right hand and gestured to one of the male waiters who had been standing by the door. The waiter nodded and bowed and exited the room, and a moment later, nine male waiters in crisp white dresses walked in with silver plates.

The dinner officially began, and the test of Xu Xincheng also officially began.

The first dish served is a caviar salad, a fresh salad topped with black caviar like a black pearl. Caviar melts in your mouth and has an endless aftertaste.

This is the first time Xu Xincheng has tasted the best caviar, which is said to be comparable to gold, and he feels that his taste buds are 100% opened for the first time at the moment of contact with the extremely delicious caviar.

The second course is a French onion soup. Xu Xincheng knows that this dish will be a huge test, first, when eating a French meal, you have to sit upright all the time, even when drinking soup, you can't bow your head, your upper body can only lean forward slightly, and you can't hold the plate up to drink, the only correct way to drink is to scoop spoon by spoon with a spoonful of spoonful, straighten your waist, and send the soup to your mouth spoonful by spoon; second, you can't make any sound in your mouth when drinking soup; third, when scooping soup, it's best not to touch the plate with the soup spoon, even if it touches the plate, you should gently and skillfully not let the soup spoon make a little sound when it touches the plate。

Although the taste of the soup is really delicious, Xu Xincheng feels that the process of drinking the soup is simply an extremely long ordeal. Ladies can only take a symbolic sip or two of soup when drinking it, but in general, in order to show respect for their host, men should drink as much as they can, preferably all of it, so Xu Xincheng, like the other five men, put the soup into his mouth spoonful by spoonful. Like all of you, I pinned the napkin to my neckline from the beginning, but even then, it would be embarrassing to let the soup drip onto the napkin while drinking it.

"Okay," Xu Xincheng immediately adjusted his mentality and said to himself, "I'll just take it as a challenge! A challenge that must be overcome!" Thinking about it, he became energetic, not only did he not feel that it was suffering, but he also found it quite interesting anyway. In order to prevent the soup from dripping, Xu Xincheng only scooped half a spoonful at a time, and after scooping the soup, he would gently wipe the soup spoon on the onion to wipe off the soup at the bottom of the soup spoon, so as to ensure that no soup would drip down.

After Xu Xincheng drank the second spoonful of soup, he realized another big problem, the silver soup spoon used for scooping soup is very shallow and the spoon surface is not large, so he can only scoop a little bit of soup at a time, that is to say, to finish scooping the soup, you need to repeat it dozens of times, and there can be no mistakes every time.

He thought to himself: "The only reason why the French design the soup spoon like this and the etiquette of drinking soup like this must be to test the patience, perseverance and carefulness of the diners, and to challenge the limits of table manners, but I really can't think of any better and more reasonable reason." ”

Xu Xincheng felt both a little helpless and a little funny about his somewhat ridiculous and humorous idea. He said to himself, "Okay. Then I'll take on the challenge. ”

Fortunately, Xu Xincheng has been very patient, persevering, and careful since he was a child, so although it was a little difficult, after drinking it for about two minutes, he still finished the soup very decently, and did not drip a drop of soup or make a sound during the whole process, which made him feel a joy and pride in overcoming a small challenge in his heart at the moment he finished drinking the soup.