Chapter 111, Celebration in Arnus City (End)
Except for Yao Hai Tixiu, the female messenger of the dark elf who is about 300 years old, the other guests who came in with her couldn't help but feel a little confused when they looked at the dazzling array of pastries, drinks, and fruit dishes on the long table in the guest lounge. Dazed.
In the Falmat continent where productivity is not developed enough, things like buffets are still quite rare. Even if an ordinary family holds a banquet, everyone just sits together around a long table, and then the host's servants will come over with plates and serve everyone's plates in turn. If a guest encounters a dish he doesn't like, Or when you can’t eat anymore, you can also refuse it, so that you can eat it to the maximum extent. To avoid wasting food, if the host is stingy, he can also ask the servants to serve less dishes, or only serve the best dishes to a few distinguished guests, thus saving a little money - in France, which was still in the era of semi-feudal and semi-slavery system. On the continent of Ermat, food and wine are still relatively precious things.
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a buffet on Earth, but it is generally only possible to see it at the top palace receptions and garden parties. Moreover, they only provide some simple pastries and throat-soothing wine, which can hardly be regarded as a formal meal.
However, at this moment, the meals placed in the guest lounge are obviously not so simple - white, tender, fluffy and soft bean paste buns and custard buns, smooth and tender steamed dumplings with thin and translucent skin and Shaomai, trembling translucent jellies and puddings of various colors, crispy layer cakes, golden fried chicken nuggets, oily barbecue, coated with thick butter There are light yellow soft cakes, various animal or geometric-shaped jam sandwich breads, and some snacks they can’t name, such as twists, shaqima, leek boxes, snow-skin moon cakes, gold cakes, etc., like stacking bricks The same, stacked in rattan baskets and silver plates for everyone to take, the appearance and aroma alone are already addictive. Plus plates of apples, pears, pineapples, bananas, watermelons, and canned peaches, as well as juice, beer, and wine served in huge glass vessels from a small tap underneath. Finally, there are rows of crystal clear goblets, neatly arranged next to them, reflecting the dazzling arc light.
No matter which country in the Falmat continent it is placed in, dishes and drinks of this caliber are already considered a high-end feast, enough to make people talk about it for a long time. However, here, it is not even a banquet, it is just a casual meal before the formal dinner.
So, looking at this unexpected sumptuous meal, the guests who originally thought they could just take a few bites of bread to fill their stomachs were all stunned for a moment,
Next, after being stunned at the door for a moment, a young nobleman in a linen robe finally took the lead and rushed to the table, grabbed a piece of cream cake and stuffed it into his mouth. Seeing that his mouth was swollen from eating, but one hand was still stuffing it into his mouth, the rest of the people suddenly realized. They started to push forward hurriedly, fighting for the food on the table, making the scene chaotic...
Of course, although the guests present were relatively low-status, they were still more or less respectable figures. Although they couldn't help but start snatching each other out of surprise, they didn't get to the point of trampling on each other and fighting each other. With astonishing agility and jaw-dropping efficiency, he emptied every plate and basket containing food and ate with great joy.
Since the number of guests who came here to rest and dine was quite large, their appetites were particularly good as they followed the crowd. So even though there was a lot of food on the long table, it was almost all gone after just a few clicks. And Yao Hai Tixiu was a step late due to accident. When she finally reacted, she pushed aside the crowd and came to the table to take a look. She suddenly looked helpless: all the pastries and dishes had been swept away, and almost only the food was left. Fruit.
However, just when Yao Hai Tixiu picked up an apple he usually eats from the glass basin and prepared to make do with it to fill his stomach, he smelled an alluring fragrance. It turned out that when he saw the guests Their appetites were so good that they emptied the table in no time, and more people were coming over, so the waiter in charge called the kitchen and asked them to bring hot food in advance. The food is served.
First, there is a large pot of steaming shredded chicken soup. The clear soup is boiled with chicken skeleton. Shredded chicken is used to enhance the flavor. Then the starch is used to collect the juice and mixed into the soup. A little green onion is sprinkled on it. Although it looks very ordinary and does not use any special ingredients, it still gives Ms. Yao a big appetite. Next up was the heavily spiced pork sausage, which was seared to perfection and made a crunchy sound as soon as you bit into it.
What was then served was the fragrant grilled fish on the iron plate. The plump fresh fish was grilled until golden oil oozed out. After the snow-white fish meat expanded due to heat, the tight fish skin was stretched out with slits and strands. The alluring aroma of fish meat hits your nostrils, mixed with the smell of burnt fish scales, making people unable to take their noses away once they smell it. When I couldn't wait to eat it in my mouth, the remaining heat of the grilled fish had not dissipated. The fresh and tender fish meat slid past the aroma of the lips and teeth. The melt-in-the-mouth fish belly meandered on the tip of the tongue. Paired with the grilled onions and mushrooms, it was so delicious. The subtle yet complex taste is truly unforgettable.
Behind the grilled fish on the iron plate, there are several equally delicious hot dishes, such as Kung Pao Chicken, Tofu Pancakes, Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs, etc., which are served one after another. Many guests have gradually become numb in the endless surprises. , just enjoying the delicious food with full color and fragrance, completely intoxicated and unable to extricate itself. Unfortunately, most of them had already eaten a lot of pastries at the beginning, so their stomachs and intestines were soon stretched to the limit, and they could no longer eat any more food. The novelty dishes kept sighing. Those guests who came later unfortunately missed the dishes that were served earlier. Only the female dark elf Yao Hai Tixiu ate from beginning to end, but after she tasted all twelve hot dishes, she leaned back on the back of the sofa and patted her round belly. Not wanting to move at all.
Hey, it’s true, I really indulged a little today. I don’t even remember how long it’s been since I experienced this feeling of overeating!
However, now that it’s just a casual meal at noon, it’s already of this quality, so what will the formal banquet tonight be like?
Hehe, just thinking about it makes people involuntarily look forward to it...
At this moment, she seemed to have forgotten the heavy mission on her shoulders, and was just immersed in the satisfaction brought by delicious food and a full belly.
However, just as Yao Hai Tixiu was caressing her bulging belly and daydreaming about the grand dinner party, the two beautiful female attendants who followed her into the city also sneaked into a paradise full of food without any knowledge. Here, they feasted to their heart's content, and not surprisingly caused a riot...
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Arnus City, outer city, an indoor garden
This is a huge greenhouse. Although it is indoors, it is still full of vegetation, flowers, and clear pools and fountains. Taking into account its closedness and elegance, the town hall selected it as one of the places to house the entourage of guests. While the guests were attending banquets and socializing in the inner city, their servants and entourage were sent here for temporary accommodation and under supervision to prevent any trouble. Like other guests, when Yao Hai Tixiu was there While enjoying the hospitality at a luxury hotel in the inner city, the two female dark elves who followed her were sent here.
At this moment, two dark elf beauties, Semi and Nayu, wearing light leather armor with their arms and legs exposed, were sitting on a bench in the indoor garden, doing nothing. The bright sunshine poured down from the crystal-like glass dome above, but it did not make them feel hot because four snow-white ancient Greek stone pillars supported a shelf covered with vines above where they sat. above the bench. The dense vine branches and leaves not only block the midsummer sunshine, but are also covered with beautiful seven-color flowers. The surrounding flower beds are also filled with all kinds of beautiful exotic flowers and plants, which are fragrant.
"...Well, this place is quite beautiful, but it's too quiet? And the plants feel weird..."
Nayu sat and looked at a clump of vines with light blue flowers in full bloom, and muttered casually, "...It seems to be distorted and very unnatural."
"...Hey, a garden built by humans, how can you expect it to be the same as the Schulze Forest in your hometown?"
Sammy tilted her neck back disapprovingly and slumped on the bench in the most laziest posture, "...It's a pity, no matter how beautiful this garden is, it can't satisfy my hunger!" She rubbed her hands. His belly growled and complained, "...By the way, Nayu, do you have any black bread with you?"
"...Of course I'm just like you, I didn't bring anything to eat! Who could have imagined such a thing? You have to prepare your own food for a banquet. This really makes people don't know what to say... By the way, Sister Yao is here We're having a big meal in the alien's palace, do we have to go hungry here?" Nayu looked up and looked around at the servants and attendants wandering in the indoor garden, and couldn't help but lament.
——In fact, when the city hall accommodated the entourage of these guests, it was not that they did not consider their dietary issues while waiting, but also prepared free sandwiches and mineral water for them, which were piled on a table in the corner. On the top, a sign was erected for them to pick up.
But the problem is that as a time traveler, the organizer obviously overestimated the moral standards and self-control of these guys. After the first few noble servants who arrived noticed this, they immediately took advantage of the lack of attention of the guards and staff and quickly removed the plastic bottles of mineral water and free mineral water piled on the buffet table in the corner. The sandwiches were all divided up in the blink of an eye. By the time Semi and Nayu, the two dark elf beauties, were delivered by the electric bus, there was nothing left in the place where the self-service food was originally stacked.
Fortunately, although the two dark elf beauties are not familiar with each other here, they are at least pretty enough. And the beautiful faces themselves are a lot of capital, and they have some intangible advantages when communicating with others. . Soon, Nayu, who has a lively and active personality, successfully caught a young werewolf "naturalized citizen" security guard with his talent. Under his guidance, Nayu disappeared from the indoor garden for a while. When she came back, she held two oily small paper bags in her hands, and then she and Sami shared one equally.
Smelling the alluring aroma coming from the small paper bag, Sammy opened the bag curiously, and immediately saw the rolled-up pancakes coated with yellow and white egg paste and delicious sauces, and sprinkled with various spices. , the inside is wrapped with delicious ham slices, green coriander and golden dough. The pancakes are still very hot at this time, but as soon as you take a bite, the wonderful taste that echoes on the tip of your tongue is really full of happiness and wonderful.
However, the two egg pancakes that Nayu brought back from nowhere were actually not very big. After Semi took a few bites of his egg pancakes, he felt greedy because he was aroused. My stomach is even hungrier, and I am even more coveted for the delicacies of people from other worlds...
So, under Semi's pleading, Nayu took her out of the indoor garden again. With her agility, she turned left and right along the corridors, bypassing the alien soldiers guarding the door. Finally, he got through the back door and entered a huge kitchen filled with all kinds of food.
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"...Wow, so many delicious smells! It's great. Is this... the kitchen of someone from another world? It's so bright and clean!"
As soon as she entered the back door of the kitchen, the dark elf beauty Sammy couldn't help but deeply inhale the aroma of food in the room. She finally came back to her senses and raised her eyes to look at the various utensils around her. Suddenly, he was extremely surprised and couldn't help but reach out and cover his mouth.
In his hundreds of years of life as a dark elf, it’s not like Sami had never been to the kitchen of a noble’s house or a tavern before. It was usually the darkest room at the back of the building, with chicken feathers, bloodstains and black stale materials all over the floor. There are rows of dirty and smelly buckets stacked in the corner. The windows were opened very small, and the main source of lighting came from the swaying fire. Two or three huge saucepans hung on the fire, emitting bubbles. There is a long roasting fork on the fire pit, with more than a dozen barbecues on it, a long sturdy table piled with ingredients, and a dozen aunts with bucket waists, long aprons, and tied hair covered in stains and greasiness standing there. He was wielding a kitchen knife and ax next to the table, like a blacksmith striking iron, slashing and slicing at salted fish, bacon and brown bread. There are also muscular men with beards carrying oak barrels, walking back and forth between the kitchen and the dining room, shouting orders to the cooks from the diners - the scene in the kitchen is roughly the same whether in the city or in the country. , the difference is just that some of them will be dirtier.
However, the large kitchen in the alien city in front of me looks completely different. The bright fluorescent lamps cast a soft white light, and there are white matte anti-slip tiles under the feet. The walls are also painted in eye-catching white. Everything is Spotlessly clean. Rows of metal boxes of unknown purpose are neatly arranged in the corner. On a long silver table, also made of metal, various ingredients and dishes are placed in plastic trays of various colors. Next to them is a handful of Polished kitchen knives of different sizes. The entire kitchen was very quiet. Except for some strange machinery that had red and green lights on from time to time, there was only an old man wearing a one-piece smock, sitting on a bench in the corner, snoring and dozing.
In view of his stomach that was constantly squirming in protest, Sami just took a rough look around this incredibly clean and bright kitchen, and then focused his main energy on foraging again. The next moment, I saw Nayu, who had been here once before, skillfully opening the wooden circles (steamers). Along with a burst of white steam, a tangy fragrance almost made the hungry Sammy instantly. knock down.
He tiptoed over to the open steamer, and there were all kinds of exquisite xiaolongbao, bean paste buns, water chestnut cakes, purple sweet potato glutinous rice, glutinous rice chicken, radish pancakes, tea bowl steamed rice cakes, steamed meat buns... Immediately Sammy looked at it. It was so dazzling, and I couldn't stop drooling - even though the two dark elf beauties Sami and Nayu were looking at dishes that they couldn't name, they all looked delicious without a doubt. .
The next moment, the two dark elf beauties instantly entered the gluttonous mode. They grabbed the food with their hands and stuffed it into their mouths without any etiquette or grace. While devouring the food, they did not forget to pour a few glasses of beer to stop themselves from choking. throat... But the problem is that while the two dark elf beauties, Semi and Nayu, were eating Haisai, they did not notice that the other ones were thrown in The idle servants and attendants in the indoor garden also followed them sneakily like thieves, got into the kitchen one after another, and then began to eat without ceremony, and even fought with each other. Finally, there was a loud noise, and it woke up the old chef who was napping on the bench in the corner...
"...Eh? Who?! You...what are so many of you doing here?!"
Next, the big kitchen, which was already overcrowded, suddenly started to explode with noise...
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So, just as Miss Yao, who had had a delicious meal, was lying comfortably on the leather sofa in the guest lounge, thinking about how to present treasures and negotiate next, she was interrupted by a stern-faced alien. The official shouted out, telling her the sad news:
Her two female dark elf followers, Semi and Nayu, had just maliciously disturbed public order in the outer city. They led a number of outsiders to rob a large kitchen that cooked flowing mats for the citizens. They not only stole a lot of food, but also stepped on injuries. They killed the chef and damaged the kitchen utensils... Therefore, the two of them have been arrested by the urban management team of Arnus City in accordance with the law and put in jail, waiting for the owner, Miss Yao, to claim and release her on bail after the banquet...
Hearing this unexpected bad news, poor Miss Yao Hai Tixiu's eyes suddenly went dark and she almost stumbled and fell down on the spot. "... Semi! Nayu! You two damn Xiao Bichi!! Why did you get into trouble again at such a critical time?!"