Chapter 37 - To each his own place
Sunset politely thanked her, "Thank you, thank you, seniors, please!" The hall has already set up a feast, tables, bowls, cups, and drinks, just waiting for everyone to serve the food. The banquet tables are all square tables, with four benches, two people and one stool, and eight people around. The dishes on the table are all made of celadon, which is quite magnificent, and only large families such as Orchid Villa can afford to use it, and the poor people use pottery products. Jin Xu led the four of them to their seats and said, "Come, Brother Sunset, Fairy Yilan, please take a seat!"
Sunset and Yi Lan Qian gave in once, but because of the landlord's hospitality, they entered the upper seat, and then Jin Xu led Fang Yang and Jin Yu to sit next to his left, the two of them were also humble and sat down, Qin Xiang County Ling and a local gentry sat next to their right, Master and Mrs. Zhen Xu sat opposite Yu Hui Yilan, and the other gentry sat in the second seat, and the second seat was the brothers and sisters of Bi Luo Chun, and a total of eight seats were placed in the hall to greet each other.
At this time, Jin Xu stood next to Sunset in the passage between the banquets and introduced loudly: "Everyone, now I will introduce to you, this is Mr. Sunset, the new owner of Yiyuan, this is Miss Yilan, the fairy of Yiyuan, these two are Fang Yang Gongzi, the young owner of Sunflower Paiyunlai Inn, and his junior sister Miss Jinyu. There was a round of applause, and the four of them had already stood up to salute, and Sunset bowed to everyone and said, "Thank you for your hospitality!
Everyone got up and said, "You're polite! You can see the demeanor of the gods, and this life is in vain!" Jin Xu then said to the four of them: "Four, this is the official Gongqing County Commander of Qinxiang County's parents, and this is the old man Zhong Shi, a well-known local philanthropist, these two are the master and the mother. Sunset Fang Yang said: "Look up for a long time!" The four of them also bowed back together: "Fortunately, I will be happy!"
The master said, "The four of you have worked hard all the way!" The village is meager, and it is not a tribute to the little bread, and it is not a tribute!" Sunset thanked him: "The owner of the village is polite! Thank you for your hospitality!" The owner turned to the tables and said, "Everyone, please take a seat!" Everyone sat down together.
At this time, the owner of the village said to Fang Xu: "Xu'er, let's start the feast!" Jin Xu nodded, walked outside the hall, and asked a kitchen helper to pass the message to the banquet, and then went back to the Shihua place in the hall to take a seat. Shi Hua, Bi Luochun, and Animu sat down next to the upper seat.
After a while, two men placed a jar of old yellow vine wine on each table, and then the two helped pour the wine on the first two tables, and everyone was polite. Suddenly, the first dish "Qin Xiang Sanhe Soup" has been served on each table. At this time, Master Biluo Chunzhi got up and said to everyone: "Everyone, today's wine and food in our village are thin, and it is difficult to become respectful, please don't mind, please don't be polite, please pick up chopsticks!"
The owner said to the tablemates, "Come, guys, try this local soup!" and see what it tastes like?" Sunset stretched out his hand and said, "Please, everyone!" and everyone scooped a spoonful, and after tasting it, Sunset praised, "It tastes amazing!
The owner introduced: "This soup is made of beef shutters, braised beef, beef brisket and three main ingredients plus ingredients mountain pepper, red pepper, ten mile, anise, cinnamon, beef deboned soup, plus mashed garlic, ginger, green onion, salt, etc. The taste is spicy and rich, and it has the effect of relieving fatigue and dampness. After that, the owner raised his glass and said, "Come, everyone, try the old wine of Huangteng made by our village!"
Everyone took a sip of the bottle, and Sunset couldn't help but praise again: "Good wine! It seems that the world's best wine and food are nothing more than authentic specialties!" "And when I taste it, the taste is also wonderful. Followed by the third course "mutton and radish pot", the fourth course "mushroom chicken", the fifth course "soft-shelled turtle and black chicken steamed", the sixth course "hot and sour grass carp", the seventh course "lean meat glutinous rice balls", the eighth course "beef magnolia slices", the ninth course "stewed elbow with dates", and the tenth course "potato thread Chinese cabbage" were served one by one.
Although the dishes are all common, the dishes are cooked with a variety of fragrant ingredients, and the taste is not bad. And because the time was too rushed, I couldn't match a better dish for a while. At this time, I saw that the Gongqing County Commander pulled the sleeve of Zhongshi's old man's coat, and the two of them raised their wine and stood up, and the Gongqing County Commander said to Sunset and Yilan: "Come, the two of us will toast the two immortals first!" ”
Fang Yang, Jin Yu, and the owner of the village also got up together, and the owner of the village said: "The four of you are guests from afar, how can there be any reason to let the four of you toast, it is better for everyone to drink this cup together, I wish the world peace and health of everyone!"
At this time, the Gongqing County Commander asked, "I don't know what kind of food the two immortals eat in the sky?" Presumably, it must be someone who I haven't heard of as ordinary people?"
In order to add a little atmosphere, the owner said: "Since it is difficult to explain, it must be the secret book of the immortal family, and mortals can't get it, if not, mortals eat it, and become immortals at once, then it won't break the rules of heaven!" Sunset had no choice but to reply, "The farmer laughed, in addition to most of the food in the late life, some of the food is far less than the delicacies of this table!"
While admiring the afterglow, the old man Zhong Shi said: "It seems that the owner of the garden likes humility, after all, people and immortals are not the same, today I can have the honor to drink with the two immortals at the same table, it is really in vain!" Your immortal family can't start a family, so what will you do?"
Sunset suddenly realized that he was speechless, and he didn't know how to remedy it, and when he was helpless, Yi Lan relieved him and said: "He actually hasn't met anyone who has raised his own, he just likes to talk and laugh, you seniors don't have to take it seriously!" After that, people from other tables came up to toast one after another, and Sunset Fang Yang drank in turn because of his hospitality. After that, the four of them went to each table in turn to toast everyone, and there is no need to say more.
After the banquet, Gongqing County Ling and Zhongshi old man introduced to the four people that Qinxiang County is a large sericulture county, and said that now the neighboring counties have begun to raise silkworms on a large scale, and many families in and outside the county have small weaving workshops and needlework workshops, mostly to provide supplies for Orchid Villa, etc., and politely invited the four to the county government and the old man's house as guests.
In the afternoon, Bi Luo Chun and the others led the four to play in the village for a while, and then led the four to their weaving workshop and needlework workshop to read. Sunset Yilan saw that their various crafts were too backward and it was inconvenient to pass on the scriptures and send treasures, so he had to say polite words such as "not bad, not bad", and took them around the county the next day.
Jinyu's homeland is Qinxiang County, but her village is still thirty or forty miles away from the county seat, and she has never gone back when she has grown so big, although she still has some relatives and many neighbors in her hometown, but she doesn't know her anymore, so it is not easy to explain this matter, lest Yi Lan have to go to her hometown to see the high yard, and she is tired of everyone to accompany her.