"After a little wait of two minutes, I also invited a special guest. The old man asked Durin to freshen up, and when he came back, he told Durin that there was another guest who would dine together, and he didn't care much about the old man's invitation to Durin without permission.

First of all, this is the old man's place, he has the right to invite guests to dinner, and secondly, Durin also has a trace of anticipation, whether it will be another big man like the speaker, the more people participate, the more sure he will be about the next action. The gates of the strongest castles are always opened from the inside, and if one person is not strong enough, then there are more people, and this is a good thing.

But it was clear that Durin would be disappointed, because the old man had invited a girl.

"Wait a while my youngest granddaughter will come over ......", the old man looked at the momentary astonishment on Durin's face, and couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Yes, you're not mistaken, I'm using a very despicable trick, I hope you can fall in love with my granddaughter, so that there may be more opportunities for cooperation between us in the future." The old man seemed to say with some emotion, "There is nothing more reliable than blood relationship, I believe that you can feel it more clearly on the side of the empire than here!"

The old man is very right, marriage is always the most reliable cooperation "contract" between the two forces, many middle and low classes feel that marriage is just a marriage contract, including Du Lin once thought so, but as he began to enter the upper class, and as time went on, more and more people came into contact, he finally understood why the marriage that was considered meaningless by the middle and low levels of society, and the vast majority of people, was widely existing in the high-level, and people still believed in marriage.

Because the basis of all interests is not in the essence of "marriage", or marriage is not a real marriage, the two parties to the marriage do not need the younger of the two families to marry, that is of no value, what they need is the offspring born of these two people, or the mixture of two blood inheritances, a mixed race with the blood of two families flowing in the body. All the benefits will be based on the presence of this half-breed, which is definitely a lucky one, but it is also possible that it is an unlucky child.

It is a terrible thing to say that he is the lucky one, because from the time he was not born, there will be a lot of property in his name, and he or she will have two large patrilineal and matrilineal families as backers. Even if he doesn't need to do anything after he is born, he can enjoy the wealth and power that the ordinary class may not be able to accumulate for dozens of generations, maybe from the moment he was born, the purpose of his existence is to squander money, time, and life!

It is said that he is an unlucky child, because if one of the two families is obviously backward in the future development, and the relationship is getting farther and farther apart, then this will become a necessary "failure" in the process of family development and growth, because he has impure blood flowing in his body, so even if he is rich and noble, he is an idle person in the family who will never grasp power. Of course, although he is not valued and has no power, it also leaves him with the basis of envy and hatred of others, and if his ability is excellent, he will also have a great future.

The nobles introduced by Maggs to Durin were willing to marry Doolin, but they did not place their bets on Doolin's body, but on Doolin's next generation. They will vigorously support Durin to develop, to develop, to seize profit and power, these things will only be left to his child in the end, and at that time, without a strong paternal line to rely on, this child will eventually return to the arms of the nobility.

As long as he married a cousin, the child took his mother's surname, and everything that Durin had became aristocratic, which was what Durin resisted the most.

The things he struggled for can be given to anyone, even if he donates them to the country when he is dying, it doesn't matter, but he absolutely does not accept such calculations, and it is his bottom line not to bow his head and not compromise on issues of principle!

When he heard that the old man said that he wanted to tempt himself with his granddaughter, and that he had said it so blatantly, Durin did not get angry, but laughed with the old man. A successful person, a person with wisdom, who always knows when to lie and when to be sincere. If he didn't say anything, Durin might be disgusted, but when he said it, Durin thought it was funny, the old man was funny, and even had a hint of anticipation, how good his granddaughter was, and actually wanted to fall in love with her?

This glimmer of expectation is the "conspiracy" of the old man, he does not guarantee that Durin will do what he thinks, but why not give it a try? There is still a possibility of success if you try, even if it is very slim, but if you don't try, you can only accept the doomed failure.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the girl appeared in Du Lin's sight, wearing a bright green solid color dress, with a certain light blue and white-edged sunhat, looking seventeen, eighteen or nineteen years old, her delicate facial features are indeed very good-looking, and the vitality of youth under the crystal clear skin is about to come out.

The old man looked at Doolin, and Doolin looked at the girl, and the girl looked at the old man, and they all laughed at the same time.

"Alright, go clean up, we're going to have dinner soon. The old man instructed, and then invited Du Lin to sit at the table, "The food and cooking methods here in the Federation are very different from those of the Empire, if you haven't tasted it, I think this is the most suitable opportunity!"

Soon the girl changed into a set of home clothes and appeared next to the table, because this is a "family feast", whether it is the Federation or the Empire, the family feast has a special meaning, it can be said that the guest is accepted as a family friend or even "own person" performance, the dish can be less grand, but itself is of great significance.

The girl sat upright like a very standard vase, always with a very sweet smile on her face, she had two dimples, and when she smiled, she gave a very funny and cute feeling. But neither the old man nor herself took the initiative to introduce her information, if Du Lin was interested, Du Lin would take the initiative to ask, if they took the initiative to introduce, it was obviously a little too entangled in the surface, and there was no girl at the beginning of this meal, she was just a halfway joiner.

As many dishes were placed on the table one by one, Durin was surprised to find that there was no fish, which was a very interesting ingredient, very ordinary, not so ordinary.

At the end, the cook finally brought the fish to the table.

In the Empire, fish was a recipe for deep-sea fish, and freshwater and shallow fish were mostly pureed into cutlets, fried and served on a plate like steak. This is because there will be some small spines in the meat of freshwater fish and shallow sea fish, more or less, which is not in line with everyone's eating habits of eating meat.

There are more practices for deep-sea fish, because deep-sea fish have fewer fish bones, and you can eat meat in a big gulp without worrying about being stuck by the fish bones, and there are often some practices such as barbecue and smoking.

But the dish in front of Durin was obviously a little different from the Empire's, because it was raw.

Under the skillful skill of the chef, a fish less than a foot is coiled on a plate like a delicate peacock, and its meat is cut into almost transparent fillets, just like the peacock's feathers after opening the screen. What's even more interesting is that between each slice of fish is the same paper-thin red thing, which, according to the chef, is a five-year-old refined raw ham, which is more expensive than gold!

The old man used a knife and a fork together, took a part of it and dipped it in some sauce, and nodded with satisfaction, "You can try it, it's very delicious!"

Duhrin took some and tasted it and didn't touch the dish, which made the old man very curious, he had received many people from other countries, and they all liked this dish very much, including the young Maggs used this dish in the Kaile Hotel, and gave it a high evaluation!

This made the old man very curious, and he couldn't help asking, "Doesn't it have your dining habits?"

Durin shook his head, "The taste of ham is too strong, it completely obscures the deliciousness of the fish, I only taste the taste of ham, but I can't find the taste of fish!", he smiled, "If you can, you can give me a ham when I leave, I will be happier!"

There are two types of ham, one is beef ham, this kind of ham is more common in the empire, but it does not taste good and tastes bad. There is also a kind of Hao meat made - Hao is more like a pig in the Durin dream world, there is no large-scale breeding on the Imperial side, mainly because the Empire's Hao breed is very poor, it has not been domesticated and optimized for many generations, and the taste is not as good as beef. On the contrary, the Federation has introduced some fine varieties from other places, which have completely got rid of the image of long thorns on their bodies, and the meat is more tender and fatty, which is the most suitable for making ham.

A good ham, which requires at least three years of curing and fermentation, is sealed and stored in a very strict environment and can be eaten raw. With good curing materials and careful management, a tightly controlled environment, a five-year-old ham can even be more expensive than the same weight of gold!

The old man didn't refute after listening, he took some more and put it in his mouth, he carefully tasted it with his few taste buds, and then nodded approvingly, "You're right, this dish looks like it needs to be changed!"

He smiled meaningfully and said, "It's like this country!"