Chapter 507: Hosting a Banquet
"To answer my question, young lady, I have some rough understanding of what you said. Let me tell you about it."
While Aunt Xie was still in a daze, Aunt Gui had already replied with lowered brows.
When Matron Xie saw Matron Gui's expression, she was stunned again.
This nanny serves the emperor, and now it seems that she is very respectful to Miss Wen?
Furthermore, Miss Wen wanted too much. Although everyone followed the old calendar, who could be so thoughtful and keep such comprehensive records?
For a moment, I even began to have some doubts about my abilities.
Nanny Gui glanced at Nanny Xie inadvertently, and she had some understanding of her current confusion.
Come to think of it, wasn't I the same as Aunt Xie before?
However, after working with Miss Wen for a long time, I found that she was extremely organized. As long as you have a reasonable and well-founded argument and can produce something, she will usually handle it fairly.
For example, before, she asked her to correct her palace rules, and she wrote them to her once. Although she went out with the prince and had no time to read them carefully, after she came back, she was indeed much better at observing the rules than before.
Lazy, indeed. But it is also hard to find fault with him.
Earlier, the Fourth Master asked her and Nanny Xie to help warm the wine and prepare the banquet. Nanny Gui thought that this girl would definitely ask about these things.
She went through some of the old rules and even copied down some rough guidelines, hoping to make her responses smoother. She did this a lot on a daily basis, so it was easy for her. It's better to be prepared, but she never expected it would actually come in handy.
After hearing what Aunt Gui said, Wenjiu nodded immediately and listened to her reply while eating.
In terms of the process, Wenjiu couldn't give any good advice, he just said to follow the old rules.
It's just that the meal list has been adjusted a little.
After all, everyone knows that the Fourth Master and the Ninth Master are doing business together, and who doesn’t know about the famous dishes of Zui Xiang Lou?
Now that they have come to dine at the Fourth Master's place, if there are no Zui Xiang Lou's signature dishes, I'm afraid the guests will feel that the Fourth Master does not pay enough attention to them.
Speaking of which, hot pot and boiled fish are now popular, and Jiu Ye's fried fish has already fetched a sky-high price. Putting such food at a banquet is both prestigious and easy to prepare.
Fortunately, Wenjiu had modified the menu a bit, removing dishes like boiled cabbage, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, beef in lantern shadow, and peony fish fillet, which required a lot of manpower, material resources, and money. Instead, she had her chopped pepper fish head, garlic prawns, boiled fish, and spicy hot pot, plus a freshly squeezed juice.
The peaches, pears, and watermelons in the space have all come out, and since they haven’t been eaten yet, I might as well use them up.
Ask someone to make some extra cakes as dessert after the meal.
If this goes well, maybe Zui Xiang Lou's business will be able to reach a higher level, which is truly a win-win situation.
Naturally, Aunt Gui had no objection to warming the wine and adjusting the meal. After all, some famous dishes were time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the guests would not find it too rare.
Speaking of which, most of the people who could come to the Fourth Master's residence for banquets were high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and they had eaten dishes that required a lot of effort. Take the palace banquets for example, these dishes were definitely not in short supply.
Nowadays, if you want to prepare a good banquet, you still need to have something new and interesting that everyone will remember.
Everyone has heard of the name of Zui Xiang Lou. It is naturally the best thing that the girl is so generous as to take out the Zui Xiang Lou signboard.
Wen Jiu went through the process twice with the maids, adjusting some details for everyone. He also finalized the design of the invitation with two maids before letting them go back to work.
When I looked up, the sky was getting slightly darker.
Wenjiu stretched, then stood up to stretch his legs. Wangcai, who had been dozing off beside him, suddenly jumped up and circled around Wenjiu, humming and groaning.
Wen Jiu couldn't help laughing when he saw its chubby appearance. He patted its head and said, "What happened to our Wangcai? Did he wait too long and is he hungry?"
Wangcai groaned twice, rested his head on Wenjiu's belly, and kept sticking out his tongue.
Wen Jiu found his expression somewhat amusing, so he took out a chicken drumstick from the space and said, "Here, eat quickly."
Wangcai is very human-like. He directly hands the warm wine to the dog with his hand without being afraid that it will bite him.
Sometimes I feed Wangcai a peanut, and he will hold it in his mouth little by little, never using any force.
At this moment, Wangcai glanced at the chicken leg, grunted, and took a bite out of courtesy. He didn't finish it, but just leaned on the warm wine belly, grunted, and stuck out his tongue.
Wenjiu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and touched its big head: "You guy, are you not hungry?"
When it was hungry, it would have eaten up this chicken leg long ago. Six or seven chicken legs at a time would not be enough for it.
Speaking of which, Wangcai always liked to rush over to warm her wine or pull her trouser legs.
Now that Wenjiu is pregnant, Wangcai seems to be a little cautious every time he walks next to her. Whenever someone gets close to her, he will stare at the person very vigilantly. Even the familiar little Douzi around him are no exception. He treats them as thieves and guards against them.
Seeing it acting like a spoiled brat, Wenjiu couldn't help but rub its big head a little more: "Our Wangcai, how could he be so sensible? He doesn't go out to play with Datou and the others, but just stays here to guard his sister, right?"
When Wangcai heard this, his ears moved and his eyes suddenly became bright.
It was obvious that it was very comfortable after being touched by Wenjiu. Wenjiu couldn't help but curl his lips. Big Head and Little Wolf seemed to be in a hurry all day, running around and playing in the yard all day long.
Wangcai has been staying by her side almost all these days. When the former director comes to cause trouble, it is her Wangcai who stands in front of them first.
Since I had nothing to do, I took some spiritual spring water and combed its hair with a comb.
When the Fourth Master came back in the evening, he saw this scene. He walked into the house with a slightly dazed look on his face.
"I saw Datou and the others running around outside, but why didn't Wangcai have any?"
"Master is back?" Wenjiu stood up to meet the Fourth Master, and said with a smile, "Wangcai is protecting me, afraid that I will fall. If I walk a little faster, he will step in front to stop me."
The Fourth Master glanced at Wangcai, who was wagging his tail happily in front of the wine, and couldn't help but curl his lips: "How could he understand these things? I guess he was tamed by your food."
Wenjiu shook his head after hearing this: "How can it not understand? Dogs have almost the IQ of a seven or eight-year-old child. What we can understand, it can understand too. Our Wangcai is even smarter than ordinary dogs, isn't he?" While speaking, Wenjiu touched Wangcai's head again.
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