Chapter 11: The Dinner Party and the Maiden
116 Feth Street
The entrance to the Carl family mansion.
Li Si, who was wearing a black evening dress, got down from the carriage, and the waiter on the side hurriedly greeted him and led Li Si to the main hall of the banquet.
Li Si loosened the elastic neckline, and he was still a little unaccustomed to such a complicated dress.
Follow the waiter into the banquet hall, hundreds of square meters of the venue is extravagantly arranged, countless polished crystal crystals spliced into a huge magic crystal hanging directly above the hall, exuding a soft light, and the table on the side has been full of fragrant food and wine for guests to take, there are already some guests holding wine glasses in the staggered bargain.
The Carl family is worthy of being the actual controller of the Golden Wisteria Chamber of Commerce that can rank among the top five in the Fezy Kingdom, and has enough strength to "buy" the baronial title from the kingdom, and the mansion purchased in the aristocratic district is also quite luxurious, which shows the strong financial resources of the Carl family.
Li Si looked with interest at the guests in gorgeous dresses scattered around the dance floor, because the predecessor rarely attended similar parties, so even if these should be the gentlemen and ladies of high society in Fez, they looked strange and unfamiliar to themselves.
At this moment, Mora Carr, who had just finished dealing with an earl with his father, happened to see Li Si, who was a little maverick not far away, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly told his father and walked towards Li Si.
"You guy, why didn't you come to me when you came, are you really our honorable viscount? Just stay there and don't talk to anyone else. ”
Li Si shrugged: "You know, I basically never attend this kind of party, I don't know these people, how can I talk?" I saw that you weren't talking to that old man just now, so I didn't look for you. ”
"What that old man, that's His Excellency Count Dion Duval, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Kingdom!"
Mora looked at Li Si speechlessly, he really didn't expect that he didn't even know this person, so he simply pulled Li Si to introduce him to the distinguished guests around him.
"This is Arsene Harder, the youngest son of Duke Hader's family, and I have heard that he has been very much appreciated by His Majesty the King lately."
"It's Monte Auraya, the president of the Auraya Chamber of Commerce, who is not worse than my family's Chamber of Commerce, but he has a very good relationship with my father."
"That's Lady Pasha Coy, the famous courtesan of the Shining City, you have to be careful not to be smehered!"
Mora secretly pointed to the woman in a purple fringed dress who was talking to a few men with a smile on her face not far away, and picked an eye at Lis.
Li Si looked at it carefully when he heard this, hiss~ Sure enough, he was very powerful, and carefully looked at it with an academic eye, and came to the conclusion that it was indeed genuine, worthy of being a famous courtesan, and I learned it!
For the first time, Mora had an academic exchange with Li Si with deep sympathy, and the two sides got to know each other on the same page.
"You guy, you can't have done a field trip a long time ago, right?" Lees looked suspiciously at his friend who was shining on the side.
"I'm just appreciating art, okay, she's almost old enough to be my mother!"
The questioned Mora almost jumped to his feet and swore a poisonous oath to prove his innocence, although in Lis's eyes, this person was almost dark from the inside out.
"I won't tell you." Seeing that her father was waving to her, and it seemed that there was another distinguished guest to greet her, Mora hurriedly walked over, "I'll come back to you later, don't sneak away!" ”
After all, it was Mora's birthday dinner, and although most of the people came here to communicate with each other and socialize with each other, as the host, he still couldn't be absent for too long.
Li Si was also happy, whether he was not familiar with the other guests, no one came to disturb him.
Lees listened as Mora's father, Wim Carr, led him to thank all the guests at the banquet and spoke as he walked to the long table and picked up his plate and chose the food.
Grilled lamb chops, braised snails in herb sauce, beef tenderloin with foie gras, Berdych sweet shrimp salad, chicken steak with cheese ham, hazelnut caramel cake, shredded coconut cherry pie......
Li Si was satisfied with the selection of a whole large plate of food, ignored the somewhat surprised eyes of the waiter on the side, walked to the corner of the banquet hall and sat down, and enjoyed the food to the fullest.
It is worthy of being one of the five major chambers of commerce in the kingdom, you must know that Berdych sweet shrimp only lives in a few areas of Berdych in the eastern coastal kingdom of the Fanor continent, and such a fresh taste is really rare, and I don't know how it was transported from the seaside thousands of miles away to the Fez Kingdom in the interior.
In the game of my previous life, I had never seen it in the Fez Kingdom, and I went to Bertiage on a mission to eat this ingredient after a mission, which is indeed tender and elastic, and the best among the seafood.
"Wow~"
Just when Li Si was enjoying the food, a dinner plate was placed on the table next to him, and Li Si glanced at it, good guy, there are more than he can pack!
The two lamb chops were stuffed with all kinds of food, and at the end there were two hazelnut cakes, and the crumbling appearance made people a little worried.
Just as Lees was focusing on the "tower" of the plate, a figure appeared from behind the plate and sat on a chair to the side.
Lees glanced at the guy who didn't socialize on the dance floor like the other guests, but instead huddled in the corner with his plate and enjoyed the food.
Wearing a fiery red off-the-shoulder evening dress, the same long red hair is simply draped around the waist, the well-cut design outlines the girl's perfect curves, and the layered hollow patterns and delicate tassels reflect the whiteness, the girl's appearance is a little ordinary, but the gray-purple eyes reveal a very smart flying.
The girl glanced at Li Si curiously, as if she didn't expect to meet a dry rice man who was as "different" as herself, smiled lightly at Li Si, and began to enjoy the delicious food in front of her.
Although Li Si felt as if there was an inexplicable sense of familiarity, he didn't care, after all, he might have seen this in the game in his previous life!
Immediately, the two began to charge towards the "two mountains" in front of them, and although they did not stop, the etiquette at the table was impeccable, and the food on the table was decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Obviously, it was Li Si who started first, but the two of them solved the food in front of them almost at the same time.
"Squeak~"
The chairs were pushed away, and the two of them got up at the same time, ready to go to the table to restock again.
"Poof~"
A silver bell-like laugh rang in Lis's ears, and when he turned his head, the girl chuckled and looked at herself with curiosity.
"You're such a weird person, don't ordinary people come to this kind of party to get to know those dignitaries, why do you hide here to eat?"
Li Si looked at the plate in the girl's hand, and said a little speechlessly:
"It's not the same with you, I'm too lazy to praise each other with those people."
"I'm different!" The girl waved her hand, "I came with a friend to see what to see, and I heard that the Golden Wisteria Chamber of Commerce specially arranged a caravan to go to Berdych in the east to purchase a lot of precious ingredients for this party, I don't want to miss it." ”
What the girl said at first was quite normal, but then her words revealed the fact that she was a foodie.
"Well, that Berdych sweet shrimp salad is good, I'm going to have some more."
As soon as she talked about food, the girl's eyes even lit up:
"yes, yes, it's awesome, you can't buy it with money!"
Li Si also came to talk:
"But I think Berdych sweet shrimp should taste better as golden shrimp balls."
The girl was a little surprised:
"Golden shrimp balls, what's that? Is it a dish, I don't see that you can cook? ”
"Of course!" In his previous life, Li Sike, who grew up in an orphanage, has developed good cooking skills.