Even more people came to Zhao Qingbei's housewarming party.

After attending Zhao Qingyang's housewarming party, someone had a sharp tongue and wanted to show off, and others, upon learning they were attending the son of the imperial son-in-law, were also affected.

Not only can you make connections with powerful figures and meet the eldest grandson of the emperor, but you can also enjoy a variety of delicious foods. It would be foolish not to attend.

It's a win-win situation, nothing could be better.

Fortunately, the Zhao family prepared enough ingredients, otherwise it really wouldn't have been enough for these gluttons.

Even Zhao Minggeng, a big eater, was impressed by the amount of food these people could eat.

He then pondered whether the value of the gifts these people had sent was enough for them to eat.

Although this banquet didn't include the previous whole roasted lamb and roasted suckling pig, it was filled with wild game.

Python meat, in particular, tastes completely different from what they usually eat.

The python was as thick as a water bucket, so the stewed snake meat was cut into very large pieces. When everyone was eating it, they had no idea that it was python meat.

This snake meat is quite old; it was found by Zhao Qingyan not long after she transmigrated here, when she went into the mountains with Zhao Minggeng and Huang Shi to find a valley.

At the time, because there were many things to do, and Zhao Qingyan was constantly smuggling things out of the country, the Zhao family had no shortage of food, so Zhao Qingyan forgot about the giant python.

During the hunt, they removed the snake's gall and sold it, and made whips from the snake's skin. The snake meat was left there and could still move.

Coincidentally, when Princess Yan Yue bought cooks for the Zhao brothers, she found one from Lingnan who claimed to be skilled at cooking snake meat.

Zhao Qingyan vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a large snake in the space that hadn't been eaten yet, and it had been dug out.

Their family prefers to eat beef, lamb, and pork; they rarely eat snake meat.

My younger brother is hosting a banquet, so let's make it a little special.

And I must say, the python meat was cooked to be incredibly delicious by the chef. If the dish wasn't described as snake meat, most people might mistake it for some kind of fish.

When the food was almost completely eaten, someone asked,

"That dish tasted absolutely delicious. I wonder what kind of fish it was made from?"

As he spoke, the man pointed to the large earthenware pot containing the snake meat.

Zhao Minggeng stared blankly at the person who spoke, then at the casserole dish.

"That's not fish meat at all, it's python meat."

This python is tens of meters long and as thick as a water bucket; it is extremely ferocious.

They hunted deep in the mountains. To prevent the fish from spoiling, they immediately skinned it, removed the gallbladder, and cut the meat into appropriately sized pieces, which were then placed in an ice cellar on the estate and preserved with ice.

Later, as the weather turned cold and the snow froze the snake meat, it was transported back in batches.

When it happened to be the time for a children's housewarming party, we brought it out to share with all the adults.

Besides this snake stew, the casserole contains wild boar meat, sika deer meat, and pheasant meat.

The ingredients used in today's banquet are all wild game.

The taste is quite different from home-raised pigs; I wonder if everyone is satisfied with it?

Zhao Minggeng's words made all the guests feel like they had gotten a great deal.

In particular, they were almost convinced that Zhao Minggeng was lying about his description of the python. How could such a large python have been captured?

Could it have been killed while the python was hibernating?

Which mountain is it? I've never heard of it before. All sorts of questions were raised.

Zhao Minggeng smiled faintly, "If you don't believe me, I will definitely give you an extra piece of python meat in your souvenirs later."

Well, all of you gentlemen are civil officials, and your sons are all scholars, unlike our Zhao family, which comes from a farming and scholarly background.

Besides studying and making a living, our family's favorite activity is hunting.