Chapter 15: Spectators of a Thousand Shapes

Xi Wenshi and his entourage of four brothers escorted two carriages of goods into the city, and the colorful packaging made the pedestrians stop and point along the way, and Zheng En was beaming like he had married a new daughter-in-law and rode a horse to the front.

When he arrived at Guo's Mansion, the housekeeper greeted him at the door early, and his attitude towards Xi Wenshi was very complimentary: "Uncle, please inside." ”

This change caught Xi Wenshi by surprise. This change, Xiwen Stone has only traveled less than two days, and it has only been two full days until noon today? Who would have thought that it would be so easy to get in touch with the high-level in ancient times.

The carriage entered the Guo Mansion through the side door, and the housekeeper waited for Xi Wenshi to arrange and moved the items off the carriage first. Xi Wenshi simply asked how many people can be deployed in the house, and after a while, in addition to Guo Wei's family, the maids and servants all stood in the small courtyard outside the inner hall, and Xi Wenshi remembered that the history books recorded that Guo Wei started from poverty, and he was still quite accomplished in politics, and this great cause was big, and there were still many servants, and there were forty-five servants with housekeepers. There are 20 maids, 8 kitchen staff, and 17 back hall servants. Other government staff are not counted.

Among them, there were five maids who helped at the banquet, and forty people were actually available.

The venue of the banquet was in the inner hall, with ten tables of guests. From the main entrance to the inner hall, there is a courtyard, and the guests are entouraged in a separate kitchen courtyard behind the inner hall, which is a small courtyard paved with blue bricks, a built-in fish pond and a small pavilion, and there are a few pear trees in it.

As for the drivers in the car, they directly arranged a simple meal such as a meat and a vegetarian and flatbread to eat in the small courtyard at the side gate.

Based on the experience of aragonite in later generations, aragonite divides the entire area into three functional divisions.

The area at the gate is divided into a reception area, and sergeants are arranged to guard the traffic control at the intersections on both sides of the main road, which is guarded by Chai Rong and Wei Renpu respectively, and the guests can only enter after screening the identity of the guests.

At the gate of Guo's mansion, the sergeants were arranged to spread out the red carpet brought by aragonite, and put up fake flowers and flower basket accessories in two. Guests enter through the main gate via the red carpet. Every time the guests entered the group, the sergeant opened two ceremonial tubes to express their welcome, and whether the group of VIPs were frightened or not was not something that Xi Wenshi had to consider.

The small courtyard where the shadow wall is located is the viewing area, fortunately, the courtyard area is still very large, there are hundreds of square sizes, a row of chairs are placed along the root of the wall, the SLR camera of the Western stone takes a group photo for all the VIPs on the spot, a small color photo printer, should be able to print the amount of 24 photos at a time, and quickly print it on the spot to let the VIP have one. In addition, in the small courtyard, four thunder fireworks are placed before the VIPs leave, and it is only a matter of a few minutes to watch the fireworks when they leave.

The inner hall area is simply as simple as each of the ten Eight Immortals tables, with a bottle of high liquor, a bottle of Coke, a bottle of Sprite and a pack of cigarettes. In order not to let the VIPs not know how to open the bottle and light cigarettes, arrange Chai Rong, Zhao Kuangyin, Zheng En, Wei Renpu, and Li Yu to sit at one table, Huang Sanlang and his Jinyang junior brother also sit at one table, Liu Chengxun to sit at one table, Xi Wenshi thought about whether he wanted to sit at a table, and the housekeeper reminded Xi Wenshi to sit at the main table with Guo Wei, so he arranged for Qingfeng and Mingyue to sit at the Khitan table. In this way, the guest guidance is completed.

The western stone was originally going to make an area in the inner hall as a dessert area, and the guests took it by themselves, but there seems to be no soil for implementation at present. First of all, these VIPs are used to being waited on by others, and it seems that they have not yet developed the habit of letting them take their own meals. Secondly, to put it bluntly, the beginning is to eat, and after eating, it is to talk about things. The dessert section is a bit of a stretch. In the end, I still considered arranging a dessert plate for each table before the opening of the table, unpacking the desserts, placing them in the dessert plate for the guests to take for themselves, and asking the servants to remove them before the official opening of the table.

At the banquet in the inner hall, each table is on top of the original dish, and a dish of braised pork is added.

The peanut oil, condiments and pans needed in the kitchen were arranged to be transported to the kitchen, and the chef taught the chef to identify the condiments and the use of peanut oil.

The small courtyard of the kitchen will receive the entourage of VIPs, and ten tables have been set up, which is a little crowded, and the food is not a matter of Western stone, let the kitchen add a braised pork stew to them with cabbage, and the extra braised pork will be arranged by Guo Fu himself, everyone will be full of braised pork at night, and each person will send one dessert, which is considered a mobilization before the banquet.

As for the special movie, it will be arranged after talking about things, and the viewing time will be arranged separately. After all, Xi Wenshi doesn't know when he can finish talking. The third movie promised outside the city can't be said not to be screened, so it can only be arranged by Xi Wenshi at the West Gate in advance before the unitary time, and let the computer play the amount of three movies in advance.

When arranging for the housekeeper to distribute desserts to the maids and servants of the Guo Mansion, the two maids looked at Xi Wenshi one after another, and the housekeeper whispered to Xi Wenshi that this was the maid of the daughter of the Guo Mansion, and it turned out to be the maid of the unfinished lady. If so, Xi Wenshi arranged for them to give them a box of desserts and asked them to bring them to Xiaoqing, anyway, they didn't come out to help, that is, to go through the motions, it is estimated that these maids are all coming to see the future uncle.

As a result, this favoritism and dessert distribution caused everyone in Guo Mansion to whisper and coax, and a few maids were ashamed of the two maids with their fingers, and there was no way for Xi Wenshi to arrange a braised pork meal for them at noon, so it could be regarded as calming.

After arranging the banquet, Chai Rong asked Xi Wenshi if he wanted to meet his aunt, that is, Xi Wenshi's future mother-in-law. But how do you meet them? Yes, let's show a movie to the future mother-in-law, and take a few extra desserts and drinks in the inner hall, and make it more formal next time.

Chai Rong took Xi Wenshi to the back hall with a familiar car, Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En carried computer objects, and the housekeeper carried gifts, this team was mighty, the maids followed behind with chatter, as for the two maids of the future lady of Xi Wenshi, they had already rushed back with desserts to report the news.

It is said that this mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she looks at it, the more she likes it, and Xi Wenshi is still nervous. was walking to the door of the inner hall, and met Guo Wei, who was about to come out, and Xi Wenshi was busy giving gifts. Guo Wei smiled and waved his hand and said, "It's going to be a family, so don't be so polite." ”

Saying this, Guo Wei welcomed Xi Wenshi to the back hall, only to see a middle-aged woman with a virtuous face reprimanding a young man who looked like a son, the young man looked sad, heard the noise and turned his head to see Guo Wei, happily ran to Guo Wei's side, and said happily: "Dad, didn't you say it?" How did you come back again? ”

Guo Wei touched the young man's head dotingly and said, "Your sister-in-law Xi Wenshi is here, and she wants to see your mother, so I'll come back." ”

turned to Xi Wenshi and said, "This is your brother-in-law Guo Tong, will you rely on you to exercise him in the future?" "Xi Wenshi was busy and saw Guo Tong.

This Guo Tong, as soon as he heard that Xi Wenshi was his sister-in-law, was very happy, took Xi Wenshi's hand and ran to his mother's side, and shouted as he ran: "Mother, my sister-in-law Xi Wenshi has come to see you." ”

Xi Wenshi's future mother-in-law was full of smiles and scolded Guo Tong softly: "Then why don't you go and invite your sister to come over and see your brother-in-law." Holding Xi Wenshi's hand was very happy, nodded vigorously, and said lovingly: "My family Xiaoqing will rely on you in the future, and I was worried that she would go to Taiyuan (the families of the generals of the Han Kingdom all asked to live in the capital Taiyuan, and they were actually hostages), and I was relieved to have you take care of her." "I think Guo Wei also told her that she has her own way to deal with it, and she has a way to crack the hostage arrangement.

Xi Wenshi hurriedly said: "Mother-in-law is serious, this is what Xi Wenshi should do." The butler brought desserts and drinks, and said, "This is a gift from my uncle, a few desserts and a few novel drinks." ”

"Looking at the politeness of Wenshi, they are all a family, why are they so polite. In the future, you can live at home and don't see outside. After Mrs. Guo finished speaking, she looked at the computers in the hands of Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En, and was very surprised.

Chai Rong stepped forward and said, "Auntie, this is the object that Brother Wenshi is going to show you a new shadow puppet, and it can still shine." After speaking, Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En skillfully placed the computer on a table against the wall in the back hall, and then looked at Xi Wenshi, after all, they don't know how to wiring.

Xi Wenshi stepped forward to complete the computer wiring, turned on the button to turn on, the projector was facing the wall, the sound of booting up got up first, scared a girl who just walked in from the door, only to see the girl's beautiful goose egg face, and shyly replied to hide behind the two maids who followed, Guo Tong pushed behind him, and shouted: "My brother-in-law is here, what are you still hiding, go in." ”

Guo Xiaoqing, who thought that it was Xi Wenshi's future wife, her face turned even redder, and she walked quickly in front of Mrs. Guo, and said shyly: "Mother, my brother bullied me again." He bowed to Xi Wenshi again: "I've seen Xi Gongzi." He hid behind Mrs. Guo.

The western stone is also super nervous, this is too fast. hurriedly said: "I'm here to show you a shadow puppet show, it's very beautiful." ”

The movie shown was "The Legend of the Demon Cat", and Xi Wenshi followed Guo Wei to the study to listen to the teachings and know the details of the afternoon banquet.