Chapter Ninety-Four: A Thousand Flavors of Food
"Hehe, Wang Gongzi is really bold enough. Su Xiangyi laughed, looked around at the guests and said, "Everyone is free, it's okay to sit elegantly or casually, just feel comfortable." ”
Everyone laughed and said yes, saying that, among the dozen or so guests in the audience, only Wang Ming sat alone.
Ouyang Haoran, Yuan Zikang, as well as Go player Xue Yi and painter Yu Zhenyun...... The invitees are all the hottest young talents from all walks of life in Jiannan Province, each of them is an idol, and if a girl breaks in, she may immediately faint with excitement.
"Everyone, Princess Shenjing often hears that Jiannan is a hero, and this time I want to take advantage of this banquet to get to know everyone. ”
Su Xiangyi said with a smile, with a natural sense of nobility, not arrogant, but it made people suddenly realize the difference in identity.
"It's an honor. Ouyang Haoran said, he was dressed very handsomely today, and his tone obviously suppressed the excitement in his heart.
"I've admired Princess Shenjing for a long time. Yuan Zikang also said, sincere and eager.
But not every guest was so happy, Yu Zhenyun had a solemn face, as if coming to the banquet was just a last resort.
Everyone knows that in all dynasties, the saddest horse is the Tang Dynasty horse...... Because the Tang princess is the most fierce Tang girl in the world. Think of Princess Gaoyang, Princess Taiping, Princess Yicheng...... When the horse is rich and noble at any time, it will cause the disaster of killing first.
Therefore, in the ancient Tang Dynasty, many scholars and handsome guys avoided the princess of the Tang Dynasty and were recommended to the emperor as a concubine, but they hated the recommender to the bone.
"It's terrible to marry a woman and get a princess. - Tang proverb.
In this day and age, it's certainly not that bad, as long as you believe it......
"What about Princess Shenjing?" Wang Mingzhi asked, he just wanted to see the princess with his own eyes, but what about her? The atmosphere here is too restrained and weird, where can it compare to their feast on the Cold Festival. No princess, he's leaving.
Everyone was shocked again, this Wang Mingzhi! A tone of wanting to see an iron-eating beast, is he crazy?
"I'll take a look. Su Xiangyi remained silent and walked out.
Sitting here, everyone was cautious in their words and deeds, and Wang Mingzhi did not speculate with them, and for a while there was only melodious classical music in the banquet hall.
After drinking tea, there was silence, and after a while, suddenly a guard shouted: "Princess Shenjing has arrived!"
Yuan Zikang and Ouyang Haoran were in great spirits and stood up one after another, and Wang Mingzhi also got up and looked at the door.
I saw two beautiful maids opening the way in front, and in the middle, Su Xiangyi and several women were surrounded by a girl in a wide-sleeved skirt, followed by two maids holding honor fans. The girl looked at the fairy bun with a jade hairpin orb, between the two thick black eyebrows, pasted with a luxurious peony flower, her eyes were like stars, her jade nose was high, and her lips were vermilion......
Although he has seen so many beauties in the two worlds, Wang Mingzhi can't help but praise in his heart: "Ouch, it's so beautiful." ”
The emperor marries a beautiful woman, and the next emperor marries a beautiful woman...... There is nothing to say about the genes that have been passed down for thousands of years, she is a little beautiful, and her figure of 1.7 meters is also amazing, but the clothes she wears are too wide and fat, and she can't see the curves.
The amazing everyone noticed that Princess Shenjing's sleeves were so wide that they were still dragging on the ground, definitely more than one foot and five inches.
In the ancient Tang Dynasty, wide clothes were once trendy. At that time, the princesses competed for the width of the sleeves, which contributed to this trend, and the spread of the court could not help but take action to restrict, and "the sleeves shall not exceed one foot and five inches" is one of the regulations.
Although there is no such law now, this is a rule that has been passed down by the royal family for thousands of years, and it belongs to etiquette.
But Princess Shenjing's clothes show that she doesn't pay attention to those rules at all, and even deliberately violates the ban.
"Aren't you tired of wearing clothes like this? Wang Mingzhi thought again, "It's quite tiring to have two ring Teletubbies on your head." ”
At this time, Princess Shenjing glanced at him casually, but for some reason, he was a little cold.
Princess Shenjing walked to the upper seat and sat down, waving her robe with her right hand, "Everyone, please take a seat." Su Xiangyi sat next to her, and two maids holding honor guards stood behind her, this graceful and luxurious style was just like in ancient times.
At that moment, everyone sat down again, and Wang Mingzhi sat down again. Princess Shenjing was obviously informed, and it was not surprising that she said, "This palace doesn't know what dishes you like, so I just prepared a thousand flavors." ”
She clapped her palms lightly, and Yale suddenly made a loud noise and began to serve the food.
The guests showed surprise on their faces, even Yu Zhenyun opened his mouth, and when he heard this word, he was already salivating.
This is not an empty word, but refers to more than a thousand different delicacies, regardless of the season, nor the high or low. In ancient times, it was a term that could only be enjoyed by the royal family, and in today's time, it is limited to the powerful and powerful.
There were young and beautiful palace maids who walked into the banquet hall, each holding a small silver plate with delicacies on the plate. They put small silver plates on the guests' dining tables.
All of a sudden, the aroma is everywhere and the luster of the food is overflowing!
"You can eat whatever you like, don't eat if you don't like it, save your stomach and eat the next one. Princess Shenjing smiled lightly, just picked up the golden bottle and drank, not planning to eat the stewed venison on the table in front of her.
Everyone moved with emotion, maybe they can enjoy the royal food once in a lifetime.
Over the next two hours, the maids will serve at least a thousand dishes at a rate of about nine dishes per minute. Each dish is served for a dozen people. It is conceivable how much manpower and material resources have been used behind this.
This Yue Wang Building, not only the top floor, but the entire place today has been requisitioned.
There are constant maids coming and going, one dish after another, beef, pork, roe meat, seafood, vegetables, melons and fruits...... It didn't stop at all. The dining table is only enough to put three silver plates, that is, the time for each dish to be selected by the guests, less than half a minute.
In this case, even if you like to eat a dish very much, no guest will eat it, and it is all a shallow taste. Sometimes a dish has been taken away by the maid before it has been eaten, and a new dish comes up.
But after two hours, everyone must be too full to walk.
Ouyang Haoran is eating, Yuan Zikang is eating, and Yu Zhenyun is also eating......
Wang Mingzhidu was stunned, he didn't move, he really wanted a thousand dishes?
"Wang Gongzi, aren't these appetizers to your liking?" asked Su Xiangyi over there.
"Uh......" Wang Mingzhi really has a problem in his heart, there are so many dishes, everyone can't eat them at all, so there are only dozens of flavors, and there are more than 900 flavors, big brother, he didn't eat those silver plates at all. He asked, "What will happen to these leftovers?"
Everyone was stunned and looked at him, and Ouyang Haoran laughed.
Princess Shenjing was also slightly stunned, and after making sure that he was serious, she said, "Naturally, it was poured out." ”
"Pour it out!?" Wang Mingzhi exclaimed, "Why not...... Give it to someone who wants to eat it?"
"Oh, why have I never thought about it?" Princess Shenjing blinked, "but I am feasting on all the princes, and how can these foods fall into the mouths of the laity?"
Damn!!How clever Wang Mingzhi is, he has already felt it, no matter what the reason is, this is a Hongmen banquet!