Liu Lang changed the address of the wedding banquet to the temporary settlement of the people in Chengde outside Peiping City.
This time, it was no longer just a dozen banquets, but running water banquets, enough for nearly 30,000 Chengde people in the temporary settlement to eat for a day.
This was Liu Lang's return gift. He invited all the people in Chengde to attend his engagement banquet and have a delicious feast. He didn't mean to get back the money they gave.
Liu Lang's meaning is very obvious. You have your heart towards the bright moon, and the bright moon will never shine in the ditch. Inviting you all to participate in such an important event in Liu Lang's life is undoubtedly the most sincere gift Liu Lang can give at the moment.
Not only were dozens of cooks and hundreds of helpers from Wangyuelou, the largest restaurant in Peiping, all dispatched, but Boss Ji, who wanted to return the favor for his future son-in-law, even invited five other large restaurants, a total of 180 cooks, 600 helpers and more than 600
The guy is here to make this extremely rare large-scale flowing water banquet.
Because the scale was so large, Boss Ji went to the military and political departments in Peiping to report it. After all, the gathering of tens of thousands of people was still very powerful.
Any country or government is always wary of such large gatherings, especially in Peiping, where the war has just calmed down.
In fact, running water mats is nothing new for rich families. It is not uncommon in the countryside to invite folks from all over the country to hold flowing water mats for three days and three nights to show the wealth and generosity of the host family, but in this city
It is extremely rare to invite 30,000 people to set up a large banquet.
How big are the people in the countryside? If you put together all the villages in ten miles and eighty miles, there will only be a few thousand people. But this city of Beiping is a big city with a population of nearly 2 million. Let alone the whole city, just one-tenth of it, let alone
If you eat it, even one sip of water can empty your well.
Of course, with the current prices in Peiping, one ocean can buy six pounds of good quality pork. A decent banquet costs only four oceans. Even if you come to host a table for 100,000 people or 10,000 people, it only costs four dollars.
Wan Dayang, a wealthy family can't afford it.
However, when the number of people reaches a certain level, it will be a disaster. If there is any movement or crowding, the happy event may turn into a waste.
Therefore, it is the first time for the Ji family to have a large-scale flowing water banquet in this city.
But fortunately, it was mainly outside the city, and the banquet was also held for 30,000 Chengde people in the temporary settlement. Of course, the more important thing was that the popular Captain Liu was engaged. This was the main reason. So the military and political affairs in Peiping
The department didn't do anything to make things difficult, and they all let me go easily.
On the first night, more than a thousand troops stationed at the temporary residence of Chengde people, completely igniting the atmosphere.
Hundreds of large pots were set up throughout the temporary settlement, and bonfires were lit, for no other reason than to process the various ingredients that were constantly being delivered.
Although it is said that it is food, it is better to call it meat. Although it is spring and there are many kinds of vegetables, the only vegetables that are shipped are vegetables such as cabbage and green onions. The rest are all meat.
Because Liu Lang's requirements for the several big restaurants that hosted tens of thousands of people this time were very simple. The dishes didn't need to be exquisite. They just wanted to give me big fish and meat so that everyone could enjoy it.
Having experienced the desire for meat among the sallow and skinny soldiers under his command, Liu Lang knew very well the huge demand for meat among people at the bottom of society in this era.
It's not like the citizens who were tired of eating meat more than 80 years later started clamoring for green, non-polluting vegetables. Having never experienced hunger and material deprivation, it was difficult for them to understand the huge appeal of meat to people of this era.
So what was shipped was all domestic duck and fish meat. The pigs did not need to be killed. They were slaughtered by several major slaughterhouses in Peiping. The fat pigs weighed more than 200 kilograms in clear water, and the white fat and fat made people look at it.
I have the desire to take a bite.
Peiping is short of water, so the fish were caught from a large lake hundreds of miles away and put in a large water tank after running for a day and night before delivering five or six kilograms of fat-headed fish.
Not to mention chickens, ducks and geese, all have one word in common: fat.
Although the chefs are slightly dissatisfied with Liu Lang's request, which is a bit weird for them, wouldn't it be full of meat that doesn't show off their superb skills? You know, let alone treating guests to a wealthy family like Ji Mansion,
Even if an ordinary family has a banquet, they still have to pay attention to how many meats, vegetables, plates and dishes are matched. How can anyone do it like Liu Lang and serve me big fish and big meat? But the fact that the customer is God does not mean that it was ignored in the Republic of China.
It was thrown out of the sky, and the chefs who could carve out radish and make tofu with meat flavor could only work hard on a pile of meat.
I heard that Liu Lang was engaged to have a banquet with the Chengde people in the temporary settlement. The Chengde people were so excited that they did not regard themselves as outsiders at all. The men lit a bonfire, and the women helped the chefs who arrived in advance to kill chickens, geese, and fish.
Setting up the banquet scene is just like they are getting engaged.
No matter how much food you have, it just costs more money. Things that money can solve are not big things for Boss Ji.
Plates are okay, there aren't many other restaurant owners, but this is quite a lot. If six restaurants work together, they can barely get seven or eight thousand plates out. The bowls and chopsticks are even simpler. If you come to eat on the flowing banquet, each person should bring his own bowl.
Chopsticks, take them away after you finish eating.
The difficulty lies in the tables, chairs and benches. Although it is a flowing seat, no matter how flowing the seat is, you must have at least five to six thousand people sitting at a time! If there are ten people at one table, then there will be five to six hundred tables and thousands of chairs.
But where can you find so many tables and chairs temporarily? No matter how many people there are, since you are treating guests, you can't just let the guests squat on the floor to eat with their rice bowls! That will not only bring shame on Boss Ji, but also on the six major restaurants.
His face will be completely humiliated.
You know, there are not only a few large restaurants that can host such large banquets, but also many "banquet places", which are the kind where a large number of chefs are registered to come to serve banquets for guests. In recent years, they have occupied a large area in Peiping.
The city buys most of the banquets.
If Boss Ji hadn't thought of going to such a big move to book Wangyue Tower in advance, then the unprecedented large-scale flowing water banquet in Beiping City might not necessarily be caused by several big restaurants.
Zhao Ergou, who came to inspect the venue, took the opportunity. There were many troops, but he didn't say that everyone gathered around the square table when eating. They just used some kind of long table with people sitting on both sides, and this kind of table and chairs were easy to make.
It's simple, just use a hard board and four legs.
When several restaurant managers heard Zhao Ergou's proposal, they thought it was feasible. In addition to transporting a dozen Eight Immortals tables from the restaurant for some distinguished guests to sit on, the rest were all made with wood purchased on site.
It was so lively now that the entire Chengde people's temporary settlement stayed up all night. It was like a big construction site, with truckloads of ingredients brought in to be cleaned, sorted and sliced, and truckloads of wood brought in. Hundreds of carpenters gathered overnight to build long tables on site.
bench.
In order to drink Liu Lang and Ji Yanxue's engagement wine, tens of thousands of Chengde people stayed up all night. Half of them were excited and happy, and the other half were helping with the work.
However, they soon discovered that Liu Lang's gift in return was more than just two banquets. Liu Lang's gift would far exceed their imagination.