The Trianon, a palace full of rococo decoration, is now dressed in the Oriental style.

Couplets, lanterns, red silk cloth symbolizing festivity, and servants coming and going in Chinese dresses.

Of course, these servants are all Vietnamese maids and maids brought by Nguyen Phuc Kyung, and the children of the Ye family are not here, they are Ye Kai's selected future successors, but they are not here to serve in France.

Ye Kai was a little puzzled, according to this palace is Queen Mary. Antoninatte's favorite, usually without her permission, even King Louis XVI is not allowed to come in casually, how did he get here, before he could open his mouth, the queen's maid came, and the place of the banquet could be chosen in the Trianon, which is a bit too generous, right? An envoy of Quang Nam and a Seris don't have such a big face, right?

Before the banquet had even begun, a large number of French nobles and noblewomen arrived early, and they were judging all kinds of things full of Chinese elements.

Ruan Fujing brought several oriental-style landscape paintings, which attracted a lot of onlookers, worthy of being called the country of romance and art, and the French aristocracy at this time was not low in artistic accomplishment.

A slightly shabby-dressed man even wiped tears from his eyes in front of the painting, "Fifteen years later, I have finally seen the real chinoiserie that swept France during the time of Louis XIV, although the painter was not of high standard, but if it were my father François. If Boucher could see it, he would be overjoyed! ”

It turned out that this guy who wiped his tears was the famous Chinese style painter François. Boucher's son, it seems that he really appreciates the level of appreciation, what famous painters can there be in this shabby place in Vietnam, and these paintings brought by Nguyen Phuc King cannot be the best in the collection of the Quang Nam royal family, and the standard is of course limited.

Francois. Boucher was the chief court painter of Louis XV, president of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and is known as one of the most famous masters of Rococo art of the eighteenth century.

His masterpiece is the famous portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, in which Louis XV's favorite mistress, Madame de Pompadour, is dignified and elegant, wearing a dark green dress decorated with pink floral ornaments, showing her elegance and beauty to the fullest.

However, it is precisely because of being too close to the French royal family that François. Boucher was frequently attacked, and critics of his paintings were full of kitsch and low.

After the death of Madame de Pompadour, François lost his bosom friend and patron. Boucher could only resign as president of the Royal Academy of Arts.

His successor, Louis XVI, was not interested in painting at all, and Queen Marie did not want to see François because of her grudge against Pompaduff. Boucher so all these years François. Boucher's sons were also miserable, but they were able to get in, and it seemed that someone was helping them.

"Since Monsieur Jacques likes this painting so much, I will give it to you, thanks to Zenson François. Mr. Boucher, love and promote Chinese style! ”

Ye Kai asked people to roll up the painting, then put it in a special box, and handed it to Jacques with both hands with an exaggerated expression.

There were bursts of applause all around, and although the painting was of average quality, it was also brought from the far east.

There are not many Chinese landscape paintings of this kind in Europe, and this painting is still very useful for European painters to study oriental painting techniques, and it is precisely because of its rarity that it is precious.

And just to thank a François who has been dead for more than ten years. Boucher, Ye Kai's shot can be extremely generous!

The grateful Jacques left satisfied, he got a rare Chinese painting, Ye Kai won applause and admiration, a win-win situation!

"King of France, His Majesty Louis XVI and Queen Marie. His Majesty Antonette has arrived! The guard at the door shouted.

All the people in the banquet hall stood in dignity and bowed down together to greet the most powerful couple in France.

Today's banquet adopts a separate meal system, although this thing is very troublesome, far less than a table of people sitting together to eat and drink fun, but it is indeed more hygienic, and more importantly, the forced style of the meal system is much higher than the ordinary way of eating.

To force, in this era, the meal distribution system can actually be a well-deserved first, because at this time the Chinese have long been accustomed to eating around the table, and similarly, the Western food etiquette that seems to be very particular in later generations is still in a primitive state.

At this time, Western food did not have the habit of eating steak, even fried less, basically grilled and boiled, quite primitive, although the Europeans have colonized the whole world, but in these aspects, they are still the younger brothers!

"We are using a separate meal system, and this set of dining etiquette originated in the Spring and Autumn period of Seris about 2,500 years ago, which was a ritual used only by kings and nobles, and it is only fitting to entertain the great king and queen, and your noble nobles!" After the guests were seated, Ye Kai stood up and began to blow the conch.

"Look at this kind of cutlery, his name is chopsticks! This is a very difficult tableware to master, but it is also very convenient, if you are interested, you can practice it with me. Over, Ye Kai picked up a grape with chopsticks.

The French people present began to study seriously, but no one can learn it at once, but the use of chopsticks aroused Louis XVI's interest, and he followed Ye Kai slowly to learn.

When these French people had had enough, Ye Kai ordered to start serving, and the first dish was Zuo Zongtang chicken, but now Zuo Zongtang didn't know if Ye Kai was born or not, so he simply named this dish Ceris chicken nuggets.

The name of this thing sounds bells and whistles, but it is actually a chicken thigh cut and wrapped in pieces, fried in oil, and then served with a sweet and sour sauce, a bit like an unpalatable version of sweet and sour pork ribs or pineapple pork.

However, this thing is quite unpalatable in Ye Kai's eyes, this vote of French people is the same as the future generations of sisters, you look at people, eat with relish, the meat that the Chinese people pursue is tender and juicy, they completely ignore it, but also because the sweet and sour taste in this era is very rare.

Queen Mary ate three sweet and sour pieces of chicken in a row before putting down her fork, and Louis XVI next to her was already trembling and grasping things with chopsticks.

"Franz, you will ask the Marquis of Saigon for this recipe later, I like it very much!" The queen instructed Franz, the steward of the Trianon who was standing beside her.

Because it was a divided meal system, there were not many ingredients for a dish, and Ye Kai waited for everyone to eat some before letting the maids serve a bowl of tea.

A chubby French aristocrat sitting next to him was about to drink it all, Ye Kai quickly coughed dryly, then took the tea into his mouth, soaked his mouth and spit it out.

Duke Segur looked at Ye Kai's movements, his chubby head was covered with sweat, just now he almost drank this tea as a drink, and threw a grateful look at Ye Kai, Duke Segur and the other French people all finished their mouths following Ye Kai's example.

"This is the second course, sweet and sour pork ribs, please try it!"

Queen Mary looked at the ribs in the white disk in front of her, the flesh of the ribs showed a tempting honey color, I don't know where these Seris got so much high-quality cane sugar?

She gracefully forked a piece of ribs, "Hmm! The queen's eyes were crooked into crescent moons, and the sweet and sour pork ribs were more to her liking than the Ceris chicken nuggets just now, and the sweet and sour sauce wrapped the tender pork, the skin of the pork was fried quite crispy, and the inside was very tender.

She looked around, and all the people were enjoying the food with their heads down and squinting, and there was no sound at all in the whole banquet except for eating, which is really not common among the talkative French.