Chapter 281: Preparing for the New Year Banquet

Since there was nothing to do today, General Xie asked Yun Gan and Xie Mi to come to the food street together.

The three of them bought drinks and decided which restaurant to go to for lunch.

Xie Mi bought a blind box milk tea, and after buying it he had to queue up to draw a blind box. General Xie and Yun Gan went to the selected store to wait for him first.

They came into the restaurant, ordered their food, and sat down to wait.

General Xie took a big sip of the Bamboo Fragrance Oolong Milk Tea and immediately felt refreshed.

The tea fragrance is lingering, the bamboo fragrance is elegant, and the milk fragrance is rich.

After taking a big sip of milk tea, the complex sweet fragrance instantly spreads from the mouth to the heart.

Really delicious!!

Yun Gan also sipped the grape Bobo milk tea happily, chewing the grape pulp and the Bobo inside from time to time.

No wonder they say food has the power of human heart. Every time he takes a walk around the food street, Yun Gan always feels that his heart has become a lot more relaxed.

It seemed as if all the burdens that were originally weighing on my shoulders were slowly disappearing in the midst of these delicious foods and drinks.

Just like this cup of milk tea now, it is sweet and sour and delicious.

He felt that he would never get tired of drinking it for the rest of his life.

General Xie was drinking Bamboo Fragrance Oolong Milk Tea when he suddenly remembered something.

"Yesterday I received a letter from Wei Liang. He said that the situation in the northwest is normal and we don't need to worry. He also said that he has arranged the annual banquet, just like in previous years."

Wei Liang was another deputy general of General Xie. This time when Xie Yanqing returned to Beijing to get married, he did not go with him, but just sent a gift.

In previous years, when they were in the northwest, they would prepare a sumptuous New Year's banquet at the end of the year to reward the soldiers.

At the annual banquet every year, General Xie would also reward some soldiers who had made meritorious contributions.

Originally, Yun Gan was in charge of preparing the New Year banquet, but with the permission of Emperor Jingning, General Xie and Yun Gan's family will stay in Beijing to celebrate the New Year this year and will not return until the beginning of next spring.

Therefore, the task of preparing the New Year banquet for the soldiers also fell on Wei Liang.

Yun Gan nodded: "I am naturally relieved when Wei Liang does things."

"It's just that," Yun Gan looked at General Xie and said, "General, this year there are also many soldiers staying in the capital with us. Should we prepare a New Year's banquet for them as well?"

In fact, apart from this matter, there is something more important that he has not yet said.

Yun Gan was from the northwest, so preparing a banquet for the soldiers in the northwest was naturally a piece of cake.

Now that he had arrived in the capital, he was powerless even if he wanted to prepare a banquet for his soldiers.

If we really want to prepare a New Year's banquet, we can only leave it to General Xie.

General Xie paused while drinking his milk tea; he almost forgot about this matter.

This year, it is because of Xie Yanqing that these soldiers stayed in the capital. We can’t let them miss the New Year banquet.

"You are really thoughtful. The annual banquet must be held."

General Xie thought for a moment and said, "It's just that we are now in the capital, not in the northwest. We need to find help to arrange the banquet."

Yun Gan: "General, what do you mean?"

General Xie smiled and said, "Since we are celebrating the New Year in the capital this year, we should let them experience the unique New Year banquet. Ah Gan, don't worry, I will arrange this matter."

It's a special person for a special task. It's most appropriate to let Princess Yinghua to host this New Year banquet.

It just so happened that he had been thinking of talking to County Master Yinghua about expanding the food business to the northwest, so it was fine to discuss these two things together.

Yun Gan was relieved to see that General Xie knew what was going on.

"It is most appropriate for the general to make the arrangements. There is no reason for me to be worried."

General Xie nodded and smiled, then continued drinking his milk tea.

Although the Xie and Yun families became relatives, Yun Gan still strictly observed etiquette in front of General Xie and did not dare to overstep the line in his words or actions.

General Xie once said a few words to Yun Gan, telling him not to do so all the time.

Yun Gan is a stubborn person and will not easily change his mind once he has made up his mind.

Seeing that Yun Gan insisted, General Xie followed his lead.

"Brother, General Yun, have you finished ordering?"

Xie Mi excitedly came to the seat next to General Xie and sat down, holding the milk tea he had won and the gadgets he had just bought in his hands.

General Xie: "Of course I have ordered everything. I have ordered everything you mentioned."

He was very interested in the milk tea that Xie Mi drew: "What did you draw today?"

Xie Mi looked very proud: "Cake and milk tea, this is what I wanted, and I won it right away."

As he spoke, he took out an exquisite little ornament.

"Look at this, I just bought this next door after I finished smoking milk tea."

"What's this?"

"You will know after you take a look."

When General Xie saw Xie Mi's look, he thought he had bought some treasure in the food street.

But when he took it and looked at it, it turned out to be just a wooden box ornament.

Although the material of this ornament is good and the workmanship is exquisite.

But there's nothing special about it.

Xie Mi has always been picky. General Xie really couldn't imagine what was so special about this ornament that it caught his eye.

But after looking at it for a while, General Xie felt that the ornament looked familiar.

I just can't remember where I've seen it.

Yun Gan also came over and said, "Thank you, sir. Could this ornament be the wooden box for the milk tea blind box?"

Rumors about the wishing box were spreading like wildfire in the capital, and Yun Gan knew about it.

He is a fan of folk legends and is naturally interested in these things.

Ever since he read the storybook about the wishing box, Yun Gan became even more curious about the wishing box in the food court.

If he hadn’t come with General Xie today, he would have definitely gone to draw the milk tea blind box.

Xie Mi smiled: "General Yun is really smart. He saw it right away."

General Xie raised his eyebrows slightly: "Is this ornament made according to the wishing wooden box?"

No wonder it looked familiar.

Xie Mi: "Yes, it was made according to the wishing wooden box. The store had just opened not long ago, and I was lucky enough to see it as soon as I arrived. Many people bought it. Fortunately, I went early, and they were sold out in a short time."

Although it is not a real wooden wishing box, it would be nice to buy it and put it on your desk as a decoration.

General Xie took the wooden box ornament and examined it carefully.

Well, although it is a little smaller, it is indeed made according to the wishing box.

Princess Yinghua and Miss Zhou are really good at doing business.

After hearing about the food street making wishing wooden box ornaments for sale, General Xie became more confident about persuading Shen Huazheng to open a branch in the northwest.

Judging from these deeds, Shen Huazheng and her two partners are very smart and know how to run a successful and big business and maximize profits.

In this case, they should not refuse anything as long as it can make money.