Chapter 186: Under the Palace New Year's Dinner

Until they returned to the banquet hall, the excitement of the people did not fade.

The main thing is that this scene is too shocking, and the scene of fireworks bursting at night is deeply imprinted in their minds, and it is estimated that they will not forget it for a long time.

Even the two old people, my grandparents and grandparents, have not calmed down after watching the fireworks show.

"Flandy, tell me what this firework is?" Grandpa asked a question that was common to several people.

"Grandpa, these fireworks you saw just now, but we made them in the magic tower for three days!"

"You made it yourself in your magic tower?" Grandpa didn't expect such beautiful fireworks to be made by his grandson himself.

"It's not just me, but also Gülen and his friends, more than 20 of us made it together, and it only took ten minutes to set off the fire. ”

"Ouch!" Abba Lawrence patted his head, he and Amya had been at the Marquis de Melward during the New Year, and had missed the opportunity to create such an unprecedented firework.

The second uncle, Lowry, hurriedly said: "It's all gone, is there nothing left?"

"There are still some small ones, and there are artillery battles, but all these ceremonial shells have been released. ”

"It's okay to be small, you can send some home tomorrow!"

"No problem, I'll send it tomorrow!"

Hearing Flandy's words, the second uncle was satisfied. Having such a nephew is really worthy of his pride. Waiting for tomorrow night will surely surprise all the New Year's visitors.

Uncle Kod pondered for a moment and asked, "Flandy, can the method of making this firework be passed on?"

"You want to sell fireworks?" said Flandy, who understood what his uncle meant.

"Yes, this kind of fireworks will definitely be popular in the Imperial Capital, and if the Melward family can sell it, it will definitely cause a sensation in the entire Imperial Capital. ”

Flandy thought for a moment and said, "Uncle, making fireworks requires a very important and dangerous ingredient, and the recipe of this ingredient is absolutely not allowed to be leaked. ”

"I see, since it's so important, forget it. ”

In fact, Flandi still wants to go back to the old scene where fireworks were set off all over the streets and alleys during the Chinese New Year, but gunpowder has just been developed, first, it is very important to the empire, and second, the amount is too small.

However, he didn't veto it all at once, but said: "Uncle, it's not impossible, but forget about manufacturing, I'll discuss with Gülen to see if it can be made by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and then you can help sell it." ”

The eldest uncle was overjoyed, he didn't actually want to earn more gold coins, the Melward family had too many gold coins, and he couldn't look down on this at all.

He wanted to sell fireworks mainly to increase the influence of his family, because he could see the status of fireworks in the hearts and minds of the aristocracy.

As long as the Melward family can sell the cigarettes, even if it is a loss of money, he is willing.

While the Flandies were chatting in a corner of the banquet hall, Gülen went up to the stage to say a few more words, and then the maids brought all kinds of delicacies and placed them on the tables one by one.

"Huh, what kind of fish is this, why is it so ugly!"

"What is this, such a thick shell, such a small amount of meat, can you eat it?"

"Mom, mom, look at this, it's so scary!"

"Wow, it's seafood, it's seafood!"

"Seafood? What is seafood?"

"Oh my God, it's all seafood, it's a seafood feast!"

There were bursts of exclamations from the crowd, and the people in the imperial capital could be said to have almost never eaten seafood, and they didn't recognize these things in the sea at all.

The imperial capital is also more than 2,000 kilometers away from the nearest coastline, and if you calculate the roads of this world, it will take more than a month to transport goods back and forth, and this is still on the premise that there are no accidents.

No matter what kind of seafood, it will all go bad on the way, so the imperial capital can't eat fresh seafood at all.

Although I have never eaten it, the smell of seafood wafting out of the seafood dish is a magnet for everyone.

Among the people here, only those from Psal Island were tired of eating seafood, and only a few of them had eaten or seen seafood, almost all of them had eaten in the Marquis of Melward's palace.

During this time, Lawrence and Amya often sent seafood to their grandparents' house, and sometimes they would share it at banquets.

Of course, all the seafood was taken from the island of Psal, and Gülen worked hard for his first New Year's dinner as emperor.

At first, people tasted these seafood with some hesitation, and the umami that belonged to the sea made their taste buds very satisfied.

"That's what seafood tastes like!"

"Yes, I will never forget this time. ”

"What's this called, it looks like it's baring its teeth and claws?"

"I heard that this is called lobster, and after peeling off the shell, the shrimp meat inside is very tender!"

"Yikes. It's so scary, I don't dare eat it. ”

"Come on, come on, I'll try!"

A stout nobleman was more daring, and twisted the lobster's head off at once. Revealing the crystal clear, snow-white lobster meat inside.

Originally, the appearance was so hideous, but I didn't expect the shrimp meat inside to be so delicate, the stout aristocrat swallowed, and broke the shell of the lobster's body a few times, and the larger shrimp meat was exposed.

An extremely fresh flavor wafted out, and the stout aristocratic stuffed the whole shrimp meat in his mouth in one bite.

Suddenly, the thick aristocrat's eyes lit up and he sped up his chewing speed.

"It's delicious, it's delicious!"

After eating one, I went to get the second one, and after breaking it open, I gave it to a little girl who just said that lobsters were so scary.

It was his daughter, and the little girl looked at the lobster meat timidly, looking like she wanted to eat it but didn't dare to eat it.

In the end, I couldn't resist the smell of umami, and I took a bite lightly with my eyes closed.

Immediately after that, the little girl's eyes lit up like his father, and she took the lobster meat and ate it one bite after another.

After the seafood was served, the people had just begun, and they saw several more teams of maids each carrying a large glass.

"Miss, do you need juice?" asked the palace maid tenderly to the stout nobleman's young daughter.

"Fruit juice, is it the kind you drink when it's hot?"

"Yes, there are Ping'an fruit flavors, akane melon flavors, and not that fruit water flavors, which one do you need?"

"Wow! Is there still one? I want one with the taste of akane melon, pour me a glass!" the little girl was overjoyed, but she did not expect that the juice of the fruit that she drank in the summer was also here.

Of course, there is juice in this world, but it can only be drunk during the summer fruit harvest season, and now that the blizzard season has just passed, where is the existence of fruit?

It is only produced in Flandy's glass greenhouse.

Gülen had given fruit to many ministers, so it was not surprising that there was juice at the New Year's Palace banquet.

The men drank spirits, the women drank mint and the like, but the children were not allowed to touch alcoholic beverages, so Gülen simply made a lot of fruit to squeeze into juice and give it to the children.

After a while, it was the palace guards who appeared, and every four guards carried a huge plate, which was four meters long, and a large fish was placed in it.

Because the plates are too large, there is no way to serve them at every table, so use shelves to put them in the gap between the dining table.

"Wow, that's a big fish!"

"This ...... This...... Is this really a fish?"

"Where did Your Majesty get such a big fish?"

"There is really such a big fish in the world, I have only heard it before, but I didn't expect to see it today. ”

Of course, the nobles of the imperial capital are not short of fish to eat, and there are many fish in the river of life in the east of the city.

But how can river fish compare with marine fish, the largest fish in the river is only one meter long, and these sea fish transported from Psalar Island are more than three meters long.

In fact, this is not a precious fish species, but the common "dragon fish" in the sea is certainly not the largest.

Generally, this kind of sea fish is caught and eaten little by little, and in order to surprise these people who have never eaten sea fish in the imperial capital, Gülen specially requires that the fish must be a whole piece, and it is not allowed to be divided.

In order to stew this big fish, the Ministry of Industry specially customized a lot of super cauldrons for the imperial chefs.

After several attempts, the chefs finally mastered the method of stewing the fish without seeing.

His appearance at the New Year's Palace banquet really surprised everyone.