With a shout, the guys lined up into the front hall carrying the grand finale, attracting the attention of all the guests.
According to the rules, the dishes on each table must be ordered according to the status of the guests. The table of the prefect's wife is naturally served first.
Agui, who was waiting at the table, secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the fish being served. He had just vomited out all the anecdotes, ancient myths, and street gossip he had accumulated in his life, just to prevent the prefect's wife from getting bored waiting.
.If the fish doesn’t come up again, he may have to go to the stage to sing a few lines himself.
However, when he saw what was on the plate, he felt relieved again.
Thick oily red sauce is poured on the fish and garnished with green onion, ginger and coriander. If you look at this dish alone, it can be said to be excellent at least in terms of appearance and aroma.
But this is the finale of a banquet!
"Yueqinglou is famous for its Lingnan flavor. The dishes served before were all made with original flavors. Why did the finale dish turn into heavy oil and heavy sauce?" Agui was worried, and he thought of the reason as soon as he rolled his eyes, "I said
Why did this fish take so long? There must be something wrong with the kitchen. The ingredients that were originally prepared could not be used, and the temporary replacement ingredients were of average quality, so we had to use this method to cover up... This dish is so abrupt, can the guests accept it?
”
He felt that his throat was tight. If the fish could not satisfy the customers, all the previous efforts would have been in vain. And with Meng Xingyuan's character, he would definitely pass the responsibility to outsiders like them...
“Smells, it smells so good!”
“It’s still comfortable to eat this kind of food.”
"Master Wei, please give me a little more..."
After hearing the comments from the guests, Agui finally felt relieved.
The prefect's wife tasted it twice, covered her mouth with a handkerchief and said with a smile: "Oh, I'm still used to this kind of taste. The food at Yue Qinglou is a bit too bland."
While Agui was chatting, he thought to himself: The master at Yueqinglou would definitely not take such a risk, that is...
Xue An, I really belong to you.
After the last snack was served, the waiters removed the cups and plates, replaced them with tea cups and fruits, and then blew out the lights under the stage, and the troupe finally started singing.
"You are the queen of the eunuch - a high-class character -"
As expected of Sun Jiaban, who is famous in the capital, when he appeared, the audience burst into applause; when he opened his voice, the audience was completely silent again.
While singing, Zhou Shi hunched over and came to the table on the left under the stage.
"Mr. Jiang, you have brought something from home." He whispered to a guest.
"Huh?" Jiang Rui, a fellow magistrate and official of the prefecture, was immersed in the play and was interrupted by Zhou Shi. He said impatiently, "What is it?"
Zhou Shi opened the folding fan in his hand and said, "It's in the backyard, please move."
Jiang Rui's eyes fell on the fan, and his eyes widened instantly.
A beauty lay on his knees and said coquettishly: "Sir, let's go to the backyard..."
He wiped his saliva, stood up on the table, and said to Zhou Shi: "Let's go, let's go..."
The people at the same table didn't pay attention to his departure.
Jiang Rui stretched out his hands, trying to catch the "beauty" in front of him, and followed Zhou Shi into the backyard.
"Hey, beauty..."
Zhou Shi closed Xianwang's fan with a snap and gave him a pillow.
Suddenly, Jiang Rui collapsed like a broken sack and was supported by Zhao Xuan behind him.
"Okay, is this your trick?"
"...Yes." Zhou Shi decisively chose to abandon the gossip, quietly put away the false fan, took out the yellow beam pillow, "Proceed as planned."
"Okay."
With the help of Huang Liangzhen, he quickly entered the dreamland of nothingness and opened the door to Jiang Rui's dreamland.
"By God's blessing, the emperor has issued an edict. Jiangdu has learned that Jiang Rui has done a great job in protecting the emperor, and he has been promoted to the crown prince and tutor. I admire this!"
"I accept the decree and thank you!"
Zhou Shi looked helplessly at Jiang Rui, who was kneeling in front of his father-in-law to receive the imperial edict, and said in his heart: What a clichéd dream...
He has long thought that as the saying goes, what other people dream about is not what he can decide. If there is no useful information in the dream, then there is no point in dreaming.
However, Huangliang Pillow can switch dreams.
Thoughts were turning and the scene was distorted. Jiang Rui, dressed in plain clothes, and other students were anxiously waiting for the recruitment announcement.
"This is when he won the lottery, this time the dream is a memory again..."
Seeing Jiang Rui cheering under the banner, Zhou Shi decisively switched to a dream. This time it was his mother's dream to see him off and take office in Jiangdu.
Change again, change again...
Finally, Wu Zhaokun appeared in the dream.
In the Jiangdu Yamen, Wu Zhaokun was sitting behind the desk, drinking tea and saying:
"I'm going to send a ship of birthday gifts to Quanzhou soon, and then go north by sea. Please ask the shipping company to make it easier."
"Yes." Jiang Rui said respectfully.
Zhou Shi thought to himself: It seems that "giving birthday gifts to my father-in-law" is Wu Zhaokun's rhetoric to the outside world... As an official of the prefecture, Tongzhi is also responsible for shipping work. Since Wu Zhaokun wants to make it convenient for Jiang Rui, it seems that the so-called birthday gift must be something
Weird...
The smell of rice penetrated his nose, and Zhou Shi quickly escaped from the dream and returned to the cold ground.
"How is it?" Zhao Xuan asked, holding a bowl of braised pork.
"Let's just say we have gained something... next."
Jiang Rui was also awakened, but Huang Liang Zhen erased his memory of a short period of time before going to bed. In addition, Zhao Xuan and Zhou Shi hid aside, so he naturally thought that he was out to enjoy the breeze, but he got drunk and fell to the spot.
Fall asleep.
After confirming that no one saw his gaffe, Jiang Rui staggered back to the front hall.
When he returned to his seat, the song had already been singing for a quarter of an hour, and someone at the Bashu Chamber of Commerce table on the stage couldn't sit still. He had just sat across the table for a toast, and at this time, the strength of his drink was swelled, and he had to find a place to vent his anger. He looked at the stands, made some calculations, and felt that he could get back before the critical part of the song, so he got up and walked to the hut.
"Borrowed, borrowed..."
He opened the door curtain and stepped into the backyard with one foot. He felt a cool breeze blowing behind his head, then his vision went dark and he fell to the ground.
"Huh, I didn't expect someone to come to the door on their own, so I don't have to take action."
Zhou Shi, who was standing behind the door, turned the man over so that Zhao Xuan could see his face clearly through the faint light coming from behind the door curtain.
"The boss of Rongkang Company, Wei Yanxing, is from the Bashu Chamber of Commerce." Zhao Xuan knows all the people in Jiangdu very well.
"The boss? A native of Bashu?"
"Yes. Rongkang Company is mainly engaged in the timber business, and 30% of the timber produced in Bashu is theirs."
"Why did this big boss come to Jiangdu?"
"He came to Jiangdu half a year ago, in the name of being a representative of the Bashu Chamber of Commerce, to investigate the management of the Jiangdu branch, and to explore the markets around Jiangdu and manage interpersonal relationships." Zhao Xuan replied, "Do you want to see this?"<
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"It's just a change of order, look."
In the dream, Wei Yanxing looked down at the body lying on the ground and picked up a few pieces of writing paper from the desk.
After confirming that it was correct, he drew the internal password of the Bashu Chamber of Commerce on the lower right corner of the paper, then opened the door and left.
Zhou Shi lowered his head and saw the scholar's body lying on the ground with round eyes.