The hazy night covered the small town of Hivaler with a thin velvet blanket, and in the dusk of the wilderness on a winter night, there seemed to be some extraordinary tranquility settling down.
Fan Ning and his entourage arrived at the Marquis MacAdam's residence a little early. He originally wanted to walk around the countryside first to relax his respiratory tract that had been tortured in the industrial city for a long time, and also to search for the "First Symphony".
》creative inspiration.
But Roy stayed with her until dark, and she took her to visit every place worth stopping inside and outside the mansion, from the country roads with open scenery to the mills, from the hunting forest to the balcony cafe, from the back garden to the greenhouse plant room.
, and then from the underground wine cellar to the McAdam Family Gallery.
"Miss Roy, distinguished guests are arriving one after another, are you sure you don't want to go and entertain them?"
"Mom will make all the arrangements. The guest assigned to Roy is you."
During this period, she and Fan Ning met several times because of rehearsals, but she didn't know if it was because of the conversation they had at the Bologna School after the Professor Browne incident. She felt that Fan Ning was getting along with her.
It's becoming more and more "formal politeness".
Compared with the first meeting, his attitude towards him was still kind and gentle, but there was a lot less chatting and joking. The subtle atmosphere that existed in the eyes of both parties during the first rehearsal that night also disappeared without a trace.
In Roy's mind, tonight's music salon is an opportunity to improve the relationship between the two parties.
A few people finally walked out of the top-floor listening room filled with gramophones and gummy resin records. Fan Ning looked at the riverbank wetland in the distance. The tall pine trees there that were previously bathed in the sun now looked like a row of dim and fuzzy giants.
, silently and calmly waiting for the dark night.
In the brightly lit banquet hall, Fan Ning saw Marquess MacAdam, who was wearing a red palace-style dress. She had a quiet temperament, a kind face, a straight back, and her black hair was tied up high.
The Marquise responded to Fan Ning's hat tip, and then ushered him, Sheeran, and Joan to her right side in turn, where banquet table cards were already written on the top three seats.
At the dining table lined up in a row, Fan Ning greeted the familiar professors across from him and Roy, who was sitting next to him. Then he nodded to Lou Adair, the fourth person on his side, and said hello. Then he sat down and put his cane in his hand.
and the top hat were handed to the attendant.
This seating arrangement attracted the attention of gentlemen and ladies. It was easy to understand that Lu was positioned relatively near the front, but almost no one knew Fan Ning and the two beautiful girls next to him.
However, many keen-thinking guests have begun to speculate. They know why those professors can sit on the left hand side of the hostess. Since Fan Ning can appear at the guest seat equal to them, does that mean...
Well, let’s wait for the introduction session at the salon to learn more about this young gentleman’s origins…
The golden wall clock struck 6 o'clock in the evening, and the Marquise spoke casually and naturally: "Dear guests, the formal dinner takes too long, and our salon needs to start at 7 o'clock, so we can only have a casual meal, which is not a good reception.
, please forgive me."
The number of people in the banquet hall was not large, and the Marquise's Music Salon strictly controlled the quota of 50 people. This made the guests who were eligible to attend almost all influential figures in the Ufranser music world. At this moment, again
Including the MacAdam family's own accompanying personnel, the number of people dining was only in their early 60s.
After the Marchioness announced the start of the dinner, about 20 chefs, 40 catering helpers and 40 other service staff came in one after another and began to serve the guests. They first provided small portions of fruit and soup, and then continued to serve the dishes in three rounds.
The program provides guests with rich food.
Fan Ning clearly remembered the etiquette and knowledge he had acquired in the aristocratic public school in the past few years. Although he studied a lot and practiced it rarely, it was difficult for him to become familiar with it, but at least he could maintain his words and deeds in line with his current status.
Facing the various silver forks and spoons on the plate, he used a tined fork to pierce the lemon peel juice and squeeze it into the sweet tea, used a sardine fork to take out the greasy and shiny meat from the can, and used a hollow flake spoon to strain out the juice from the diced tomatoes.
juice, and use a strangely curved butter pick to dig out the butter in the bucket, and twist it into beautiful and elegant shapes on pancakes and rolls.
Fan Ning first ate the fruit ice made from citrus, prunes and peaches, and drank a cup of scalding scallop and oyster bisque. Then as the meal progressed, he tasted the cheese-baked lobster, pickled wild lobster and so on.
Pork, tongue, bacon, pan-fried steak, grilled venison shank, roast rabbit, steamed lamb, grilled mushrooms, vegetable crepes, sardines in white rolls and cod in egg cream risotto - these are just a few of the dishes to sample.
A third of the variety, but he felt almost full.
The guests were then led into the salon hall, which was originally a ballroom in the mansion, but now it abandoned the overly luxurious and shiny decorations and instead pursued a refined and elegant home feel.
At the same time, the layout has also been carefully adjusted. The stage has been removed, and the neat and square seats have been disrupted. They have been replaced by sofas, armchairs, hanging chairs, stools and other furniture that are combined in threes and twos. They rely on other decorations or pianos to be placed naturally, allowing guests to
When you sit down here, you can feel the freedom of moving around various areas in your own home.
The ladies were given priority to sit down. They wore dresses of various colors held up by skirt hoops, with bare white and delicate shoulders. They held gorgeous fans, wore various shawls, and silk ribbons dangled on their wrists, like a group of butterflies with fragrant wind.
Float everywhere.
Fan Ning saw familiar dessert styles in several areas, such as lemon almond cake and red velvet cake, but they were in the form of a tall round tower of layered cakes, and the metal shelves next to them were filled with cake combs for convenience.
Guests take it. In the other direction, candied fruit smoothie cups and vanilla cream cakes are lined up for several meters, and cherry crushed red wine puffs are piled into a hill on a shiny silver plate.
"So how much did the president make from this order?" The figures of the ladies shuttled back and forth in Fan Ning's field of vision, but he always stared at the cake towers, trying to combine the small snacks he bought last time with them.
Do price conversions.
Roy is responsible for the introduction of the guests. Each one has a detailed and unique copy instead of a templated fill-in-the-blank question. It not only introduces the guest himself, but also points out the inviter.
Some guests invite more than one person, and everyone needs to be reported to show that they have extensive connections in upper class society.
Holding such a music salon is a display of strength and heritage for the McAdam family, an extremely important record of artistic activities for attendees, and an important writing material for mainstream art media.
They will do their best to explore their shining points, including hosting grand events, outputting results, performance records and tidbits.
Therefore, in the total duration of 4 hours, this session alone lasted 45 minutes. The little hostess did it so carefully to meet the participants' needs for long exposure in front of celebrities.
Fan Ning's introduction position was first, followed by the professors, which meant that they had equal status, one guest and one host.
The expression used by Roy was first "Mr. Fanning from the Guidance School", which confirmed everyone's suspicions, and then the expression "a student of the Conservatoire of the University of San Lenia and a young composer" made many
A thoughtful person "is so".
If he has such a public status, then this young gentleman can be regarded as having contact with both parties. No wonder he appears at the home salon of the Bologna School.
There were many guests at this time, and Fan Ning had already been ranked as the first social target.
"Ladies and gentlemen, tonight is the 80th Music Salon organized by the McAdam family. Our frequency is based on quarters, and the number of events is as small and precious as the number of guests. But thanks to your love, over the past 20 years, we have jointly paid tribute to Theo
The Lane art world has exported many precious things.”
"Then I propose an initiative for discussion tonight. Everyone can speak freely about it, but there is no need to be too rigid about it."
Just by hearing the Marquise's mellow voice, one can think of the elegant smile on her face: