Chapter 43: The Family Feast
Blackbeard sat on the throne, Lin Qi sat on the cocked tail of the Black Tiger Throne with his feet crossed, Enzo was helpless, the hammer and the butcher's knife were both rough people, and Blackbeard was not a polite person, and no one moved him a stool or anything like that. So Enzo himself struggled to move a large oak chair at the dining table to the high platform, and talked to Lin Qi and his son.
As he moved the oak chair, Enzo realized how heavy it was. The whole oak cut out of the big chair weighs hundreds of catties, but in order to make these big chairs more durable, the ancestors of the Lin Qi family actually put an inch-thick iron plate under the big chair to prevent the chair from being destroyed by excessive friction between the big chair and the ground.
Therefore, the weight of this big chair reached seven or eight hundred catties, and it took a lot of effort to move the chair with Enzo's strength.
But he worked hard to move the big chair here, and the hammer and butcher knife, which had enough strength to move the chair easily, just laughed maliciously on the side, and Blackbeard and Lin Qi laughed so hard that their eyes wrinkled into a line. Enzo blushed, only to feel that he was really the No. 1 fool in the sky, how could he follow Lin Qi here?
This family is not a normal person no matter how you look at it!
Blackbeard is running for mayor of Dunerke, and in the future he is going to be the governor of the province, and his main goal is actually on the annual administrative expenses and tax revenue! The robber is really a bandit, it is really hard to imagine what Blackbeard will be like after becoming the administrator of a province in the empire, that province will be harmed by him.
Maybe those servants of the Black Tiger Family will be transformed into a regular army of the Empire? When the dragoons and bronze hats scurrying around the streets and alleys will become these murderous and arsonist heroes of the Lin Qi family? They will shout 'In the name of the Imperial Family' while breaking down the door and robbing the house!
The thought of that terrible scene made Enzo feel creepy.
It's so exciting and exciting, and if Blackbeard's father is unfortunate enough to be mixed with a noble title and be able to stand above the court in the future, it will be really interesting. It's hard to imagine what the empire would become if someone like him became an important minister of the empire.
There was the sound of pots and pans outside, and the rich smell of spices and meat kept wafting, and the servants of the Lin Qi family were preparing for a banquet. The day when Lin Qi returned home also happened to be the 'Stove God Festival', according to the customs of the Western continent, the Stove God Festival is a big day to worship the Stove God, and the whole family will gather together to eat and drink.
This is also the beginning of the people on the road to 'survive the winter', from today on, the snowstorm of the northern Odin ice field will ravage most of the continent, the people rarely go out, everyone stays at home to survive this long winter. Basically, as long as the family has some belongings, the Vesta Festival also represents the beginning of a series of feasts in winter.
After all, there is nothing to spend in the long winter, what else can you do but eat and drink at home?
Putting aside the matter of running for mayor for the time being, Blackbeard carefully asked Lin Qi what he had done in the past three years. Although Blackbeard had his intelligence channels, the lame shop would send some news of Lin Qi back to Dunerke every once in a while. But there are many things that Lin Qi can't be found out by a cripple, so Blackbeard asked Lin Qi about his experience over the years.
Lin Qi's inquiry about his father was to take care of him, and he never left the question that he was very 'poor', very 'down', very 'no money to spend', and very 'lack of money to spend'. Blackbeard was made purple and black by Lin Qi's face, and seeing the way he kept spitting smoke from his nose, he wanted to slap Lin Qi to the ground, and then kick him hard.
In the middle of the conversation between father and son and Enzo, the banquet was almost ready.
Because the little master of the family, Lin Qi, went home for the first time in three years, the banquet of Lin Qi's Stove God Festival this year was particularly grand. Not to mention the other dishes, there are 30 roasted whole lambs that are served as the main course alone!
Such a roasted whole lamb, in the high-end tavern of Boreley, can be sold for a sky-high price of two hundred gold coins. This is not only the value of the sheep, but also the spices sprinkled on the roasted whole sheep! The spices from the East, which have traveled tens of thousands of miles across the sea to the Western continent, are worth more than a dozen gold coins!
In addition to roasted whole lamb, there are also large pieces of fat steak, roast goose and roast chicken neatly lying on a large sterling silver plate, and the roast suckling pig is propped up by a sterling silver fork and neatly arranged in a row, as if walking in a queue.
In addition to this, there are also a variety of rare birds.
The nobility of the empire was particularly fond of eating a variety of rare waterfowl, such as black swans, white swans, mallards, larks, and more. At the banquet of Lin Qi's family, at least forty different kinds of waterfowl were served to the table. The fragrance was so strong that it was almost a visible cloud.
Hundreds of hideous-looking heroes attended the banquet, these people were all old men of the Lin Qi family, and they were old people who were qualified to appear in the banquet hall. In other places, there were a dozen or so smaller banquet halls, and other people in the ancestral house, including those handymen and maids, were feasting in those banquet halls.
More than 3,000 people attended a single banquet, a scale almost comparable to the emperor's state banquet at the Victory Palace.
And that's not all, because when everyone was feasting, there were at least hundreds of elite men on duty outside the ancestral mansion. This ancestral house of the Lin Qi family, it will not be wrong to describe it as a tiger's den in Longtan.
When Blackbeard pretended to recite a sacrificial prayer to the god of the hearth, he raised his huge pure gin glass and announced the beginning of the feast.
Hundreds of tall men in the hall raised their wine glasses and shouted in unison, 'Long live Blackbeard's father,' and then they shouted in unison, 'Welcome the young master home'! Amidst the shouting, laughing, and scolding, these heroes drank all the fine wine in their glasses.
Among these heroes, dozens of orc strong men who are obviously pure-bloods stand out. Elsewhere in the Western Continent, the Orcs were hunted down. But in the ancestral house of the Lin Qi family, these orcs and humans poured wine on each other's shoulders, and everyone ate and drank together, and the joy was like a family.
Lin Qi took Enzo, and the two of them each carried a barrel of wine everywhere to toast the old people of Lin Qi's family. Uncle so-and-so, uncle so-and-so, aunt so-and-so, aunt so-and-so...... All the old people were the kind of people who were covered in scars and hideous faces, but when they saw Lin Qi, they all showed a kind smile.
They only wanted Lin Qi to take a small sip at a time, but for Enzo, they unceremoniously poured him a big bowl every time.
So, less than a quarter of an hour after the feast began, Enzo collapsed in the dark.
An hour later, Lin Qi also fell to the ground in a smoke.
Blackbeard shook his head and walked out of the banquet hall with Lin Qi in his hand.
I woke up early today
I woke up hungry
Eat and code the word!
Seek demons