Chapter 473: Dinner
Xiao Bu walked forward while holding the bun basket on the rune carriage, and at the same time sent a message to Lao Mu, who was pulling the trailer in front: "Lao Lang has been out for so long and hasn't come back, nothing will happen, right?" β
Lao Mu secretly paid attention to the movements along the way, and at the same time replied with communication skills: "Don't worry about him. He's alert and cautious, and he's usually fine. β
"I'm afraid that if he gets caught bald, he will be bald and then pull out the two of us. Do you think we should come up with a better excuse beforehand? β
"You just said that Lao Lang was a stray pet you picked up yesterday, and you saw that he was pitiful, so you adopted him by your side. All the bad things he does have nothing to do with you. Lao Mu joked.
The two talked and walked, and finally came to the door of the restaurant, Lao Mu stepped forward and touched the alloy contact on the side of the rune door, and sent a rune to the inside, notifying the people inside that the meal had been delivered. In a moment, the rune door flashed and disappeared, Lao Mu glanced at the scene in the restaurant, turned around and adjusted the height of the rune extension to be level with the many tables in the room, and then he and Xiaobu stood on both sides of the extension board, holding the extension board through the door and walking towards the restaurant.
There were more than 30 people in the restaurant, and they sat in two rows, facing each other on silk straw mats. In front of each person there is a waist-high dining table with trays and bowls and saucers on the trays. This formation is the standard dining etiquette when the Pink Star nobles use light meals, and it is said that it comes from the etiquette used by the royal family of the Xiongshan Empire when they rewarded courtiers with light meals. Of the more than 30 people present, 22 belonged to passengers and engineering technicians, four were officers, and the other seven or eight were managers of spacecraft. Ordinary crew members are not not sitting here, they have another restaurant.
When these people saw a large basket of roasted buns, a large pot of barbecued meat, and two large pots of vegetable mixed mix on the pallet, many people exclaimed directly on the spot. Manager Yue turned his head to look at Captain Zhang Yushu, who was sitting in the first place, and said in a strange manner: "Captain Zhang, when will the catering culture on your ship be changed to a rural style, you should notify us in advance, and we can cooperate and find some countrymen to wear clothes." Or you can at least give one of us a sweat towel and let us put it on our shoulders or wrap it around our head, which is also good for the occasion. β
Before Zhang Yushu could speak, another lady also spoke: "Captain Zhang, we paid a lot of money for the ferry ticket for this space trip, you don't want me and my niece to eat this kind of country food, right?" β
Zhang Yushu smiled awkwardly and looked at the two country cooks. The young cook had obviously never seen this kind of pomp and grandeur of the nobles' meals, and was looking at the people in the restaurant in amazement, a little at a loss. The older cook, who was much calmer, looked back at the captain and nodded confidently at him.
Zhang Yushu calmed down for a moment and said, "Everyone, I have long been tired of eating the food cooked by the original chef on the ship, and I have always wanted to change the taste. I think it's not just me, but everyone here is probably the same, who are waiting in the house every day, and they are not bored of it! Two days ago, I happened to hear people chatting in the villages near Throat Mouth, and they were complimenting these two chefs on their cooking! So I thought, why not let everyone taste the different flavors and appreciate the flavors of the countryside on this trip. So I did everything possible to dig these two people into my ship, but I didn't expect you to appreciate it. β
At this time, a young girl next to the noble lady spoke, "Auntie, what the captain said also makes sense, why don't we taste it first." β
Her voice was as clear as a stream in the hollow valley, and it was very beautiful. Xiaobu couldn't help but turn his head to look at her like everyone else. At first glance, this woman's appearance can only be regarded as beautiful, sitting there with a smile, her waist is straight and her shoulders are flat, the golden hair on her temples is windless, and her dress is naturally sagging, which seems to be ordinary, but under careful study, you will find that every undulation and every ripple on the costume is so perfect and harmonious. Xiaobu couldn't help but turn his gaze back to her face, and found that there was a faint halo on her white jade-like face, and her beautiful face became more and more beautiful, making people gradually dare not look directly.
"Ahem!" Lao Mu reminded him, and then woke Xiaobu up from his stupor. Lao Mu reached out and touched his wrist, and at the same time said, "Don't look like you've met a celestial immortal, she uses a holistic makeup charm." β
Xiaobu hurriedly stepped forward to assist Lao Mu in dragging the food to everyone. He was responsible for picking up the tray on the table in order and handing it to Lao Mu, who handed the food to the dishes on the tray, and then he put the tray back on the man's table. Xiao Bu thought that he might be more nervous when serving food to the bald captain, Xiaodou, Xingguang, or Liu Xieyang, but he didn't expect that when he was serving it to the fairy-like girl, the dishes on the tray would make a gurgling sound. The girl and the crowd laughed. The fairy girl waited for him to stabilize the tray, then she restrained her smile and said softly, "Thank you!" β
The beautiful voice sounded in Xiao Bu's ears, making him feel like a heavenly sound, and before he could say a word of "you're welcome", Lao Mu hurriedly apologized on the side: "We are all countrymen, I have never seen this kind of pomp and circumstance when you people in the city eat the night, I have been growing up in the countryside, and I have seen some girls who work in the village with big splendors, and I have never seen such a handsome girl as you......" As soon as his country dialect came out, it attracted laughter from everyone.
"Alright, alright! You don't have to explain it. We know that you don't know any aristocratic etiquette, and no one says anything about you, just do your job well. The captain commanded from a distance.
Lao Mu said yes again and again and continued to distribute food to others. When Xiao Bu distributed food to the bald captain, Xiaodou, Xinghui, Liu Xieyang and others, he didn't find anything unusual about the other party, and he felt that these people should not suspect his identity. After dividing the food, the two stood by the side to see if anyone needed to increase the amount after eating.
In accordance with etiquette, the crowd first gave a flat salute to the food, as a sign of reverence for the pioneers of the Pink Star who cultivated the land and grew food under difficult conditions. Then everyone took out their own utensils and began to eat. According to the aristocratic tradition of this world, only the inferior and vulgar people would use public utensils, and the nobles used their own utensils. Every nobleman brings his own tableware, and there is no unified style requirement for the nobleman's tableware, and he can make and carry what kind of tableware he likes.
At this time, everyone also took out their own utensils and began to eat. Now on the tray of everyone's table, there is a baked bun, two bowls of different flavors of vegetable mix, and a bowl of roasted yellowish meat pieces. I saw that the head of the moon casually popped out a cold and shining knife from his wrist, and with a wave of his hand, he cut off a piece of meat from the meat piece and handed it into his mouth. Some people took out a lot of tableware, spoons, knives, forks, tweezers, and some people only had a handful of tableware, but the functions were very complete, such as Xiziya used a spoon with a blade on one side, which could not only scoop vegetables and drink soup, but also cut meat and remove bones. The most exquisite is the fairy girl, her tableware is all carved from high-grade rune bones, there are more than ten pieces of all kinds, each of which is beautiful. Obviously, this set of things is not something that a girl from a small family can buy. I saw her pick up a slender rune bone, and with a slight stroke, the rune power passed, and a large piece of roasted bone on the plate turned into a small square of equal size, and she forked one of the pieces with the tip of the rune bone and gently sent it to her mouth.
"Wow! Delicious! β
After seeing everyone's first bite of food being brought to his mouth, Lao Mu listened to the heartfelt admiration with relief. His cooking skills are already good, coupled with Lao Lang's reprocessing of ingredients, which makes the food form a delicious pinch of light and dark in the taste, and he believes that everyone who has eaten it will at least leave a deep impression on this meal.
"I didn't expect anyone to be able to make ordinary food into a nutritious drink, which is a bit incredible." Xi Ziya couldn't help but admire. He knew that in order to brew the necessary brewing drink for the construction of his Xifu, how many rare materials were used to make a slight success. It is not easy for these two country cooks to achieve the effect of low-grade nutritional drinks with ordinary food.
"Yes, yes. The efficacy is comparable to that of the lowest nutrients. What's even more rare is that it does taste good. It seems that Captain Zhang, for this trip, also took a lot of effort. I didn't expect two chefs from the countryside to be able to concoct such effective and delicious food. I have to say, the master is in the folk! In the past few hundred years of development, our pink star has bred many strange people hidden in the countryside, and we don't know. A handsome young man said in a low voice. This person was dressed in the latest fashion of Xianglong City, and glanced at the three girls present from time to time as he spoke. He mostly looked at the fairy girl beside the noblewoman, Liu Xieyang was second, and Yun Rouxia received the least attention.
"Yin Dashao won't be writing poems, right? Can you wait for us to finish eating, I'm afraid we'll throw up and spoil such a good food. Another young man sitting across from Yin Dashao said. This man was tall, a head taller than everyone present, and his muscles bulged out the muzzle he was wearing. When he spoke, he always looked at Yin Dashao opposite, and did not give any glance to the three beautiful girls present.
Yin Dashao ignored the majestic young man opposite, he raised his head and peeked at the girls, and scolded in a low voice: "Rough! β
Among the three girls, the performance of the fairy girl has always been like a spring breeze. She would politely nod her head in agreement with the elder's remarks, listen to Yin Dashao's words with a smile, and hide her mouth and snicker at the words of the strong young man. Liu Xieyang looked ignorant and naΓ―ve, listening curiously to everyone's conversation. Yun Rouxia was a little restrained, and from time to time she had to dodge the groping pig hand stretched out by Starlight sitting next to her.
In the lounge just now, after the star investigator had communicated privately with Xi Ziya with his communication technique, he called her over and asked some inexplicable questions about memory charms in front of Xi Ziya. She replied truthfully that she didn't know. But she couldn't understand why Xinghui suddenly changed from an arrogant boss to a pervert who harassed female subordinates. I don't know what kind of illness this guy is committing, the more crowded the place, the more he will reach out and touch her hand from time to time, or press her head affectionately. It's as if there was some illicit relationship between them. There is a stream from the cliff on the side, and she is not good at acting too out of line, so she has been swallowing her anger and enduring it silently.