Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

Chapter 317: Toasting and Pretending to be Drunk

Zhao Yuanzhen looked around.

In the flower hall, many ladies gathered in twos and threes, chatting.

Zhao Yuanzhen asked the maids to be smart and serve tea, sugar water and money at any time.

She had put all these things in a specially cleaned room early on.

The servants can just go and get it at any time.

It's the same at the stage. If you need anything, just wave your hand and the maids will bring it to you.

"I've heard that Zhang's sweet soup is delicious. I didn't expect it to taste so good."

"Well, look at this, Tremella fuciformis and bird's nest. Look at the quality, both Tremella fuciformis and bird's nest are of good quality."

"Yes, this taste is of good quality. It feels better than the white fungus I bought in my house."

The Zhang family is really too arrogant. This white fungus and bird's nest usually costs more than ten taels of silver per portion, but now it is free to eat, and there are so many of them on display, it seems like you can eat as much as you want.

"You can buy the white fungus in your house from the Zhang family's food shop. The white fungus is big and thick, and the quality is good."

"I didn't even know that the Zhang family had a food store!"

"Yes, it has been open for several years. The ingredients in the shop are all top quality, and there are fresh vegetables in winter."

"Then I'll have to go check it out tomorrow."

"Well, go ahead, there are so many good things."

The maids pushed small carts and walked back and forth beside the flower corridors, tables, and stages.

If anyone needs sweet soup or drinks, they will be provided for them.

There are four plates of dried fruits, walnuts, almonds, pecans and almonds on each table.

Four plates of fruit: grapes, strawberries, cherries, and loquats.

There are also two plates of pastries: cream puffs and matcha mochi.

The maids would check back and forth and add some to the tables that were short of food.

The wedding banquet started at 11:58 in the afternoon.

Butler Xiao arranged each table very well, and everyone seated was satisfied, and every table was harmonious.

As expected of Butler Xiao, he is awesome.

When the wedding banquet started, Zhang Xinshu began to toast the tables of male guests, and he toasted every table.

On the female guests' side, Zhao Yuanzhen, Qian Xiaohui and Li Zhijuan came to toast.

Thank you all for coming to the Zhang family’s wedding banquet.

There were 81 tables in total.

More than Zhao Yuanzhen expected.

Fortunately, the kitchen prepared a lot, so there was no shortage of dishes.

The wedding banquet selected 18 dishes.

Cold dishes: braised food platter, roast duck, cold rabbit, braised beef in soy sauce, hot pot and spicy chicken.

Hot dishes: Rainbow lamb chops, garlic scallops, boiled shrimps, steamed sea bass, grilled sea cucumber, rich lion head, braised pork elbow with abalone sauce, hairy crab, salt-baked conch, steamed egg with black truffle and scallops, mint fried spareribs, crispy pigeon.

Example soup: Cordyceps and black chicken soup.

Although the food in each mansion is usually good.

But in this season, many ingredients are out of stock.

I don’t know where the Zhang family bought it from.

This crab is too big.

Sea cucumbers and abalone are all incredibly large.

Everyone once again witnessed the arrogance of the Zhang family.

He was even secretly trying to establish some relationship with the Zhang family.

Zhang Xinshu's alcohol tolerance is just average and he can't drink too much.

But there were too many people coming today. Fortunately, I took the sobering pills my mother gave me in advance.

Otherwise, he would have fainted by now.

Although there was nothing wrong with his body, Zhang Xinshu looked as if he was dizzy and about to faint. Zhang Zijin supported him while he staggered while toasting.

Seeing him like this, no one made things difficult for him and just let him show some appreciation.

Even so, the male guests, who were at more than 40 tables, drank a lot.

Zhao Yuanzhen also half-pretended and half-reluctantly walked away from all the drinking tables.

After the toast, Zhao Yuanzhen quickly took the lunch box that had been prepared in the kitchen and walked towards the backyard.

"Hello ma'am!"

In Zhang Xinshu's courtyard, the little maid guarding the bridal chamber saw Zhao Yuanzhen coming and quickly saluted.

"Well, give this food box to your young mistress. Let her eat some. Don't let her get hungry. I'm afraid they will come to the east bridal chamber to make trouble later."

"Yes, ma'am."

Zhao Yuanzhen gave the food box to the maid and left.

She didn't go in, fearing that the bride would feel uncomfortable.

The little maid gave the food box to Fan Qingqiu's personal maid, Xier, and asked her to take it in.

"Miss, Madam just sent a food box over, asking you to eat something, don't go hungry."

She heard everything Zhao Yuanzhen said in the yard.

My mother-in-law is really nice.

She was indeed a little hungry, after eating those dumplings in the morning, and it was not even 6 o'clock yet.

"Okay, put it up."

Xier opened the lunch box quickly. The lunch box was very large, with four layers. Each layer could hold four dishes, but the plates were relatively small.

Zhao Yuanzhen brought them more than ten dishes.

Basically, they were all easy-to-eat foods. I didn’t take the troublesome ones like snails and crabs.

I also brought some staple food.

"Wow, miss, that's a lot!"

On weekdays in the Taifu Mansion, if they did not go to the living room to eat, they would have only four dishes for a meal in their own courtyard.

The lady took a dozen of them, and each one looked good and delicious.

"Ah."

Fan Qingqiu also saw that her mother-in-law brought a lot.

"Miss, please come over here and I will help you take off the crown."

The crown was too heavy, so he had taken it off before. But after hearing Zhao Yuanzhen's voice, Fan Qingqiu hurriedly put it on again.

It's time to eat now, and it would be too uncomfortable to carry it with me.

I was under so much pressure that I couldn't even lift my head.

Fan Qingqiu sat beside the table, took off her crown, took the tableware that Xier had arranged, and started eating.

Although she was very hungry, she ate elegantly and did not wolf down her food.

I ate a little and felt that I had enough, so I stopped eating.

Don’t eat too much, what if you want to go to the toilet?

"Miss, why do you only eat so little? Eat a little more. You don't know when to eat in the evening."

There will be a bridal chamber disturbance in the afternoon, and I don’t know when it will be over.

"Don't eat."

Fan Qingqiu was still concerned and afraid of going to the bathroom.

"Miss, are you afraid of going to the bathroom? The maid in the mansion told me that there is a bathroom in the son-in-law's room. It's a flush toilet, very convenient."

They also have that kind of toilet in their house, but it is located outside and not in the room.

"Huh? Where?"

After she entered the room, she sat obediently on the bed without studying the room.

"I'll go check it out, miss."

"Wait a moment, eat something first and then go. Go after you are full."

Fan Qingqiu has very good eating habits. He always uses public chopsticks and moves his food in an orderly manner without picking things up randomly.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with giving it to Xier.

And Xier doesn't mind eating the young lady's leftovers at all. This is a blessing, they are all delicious.

The lady smells so good, how could I dislike her?

After she finished eating, she cleaned the table and put the dishes and leftovers into the food box. The bridal chamber would be coming soon to make trouble, so the room couldn't be so dirty.

After everything was cleaned up, I went to check the layout of the house for the young lady.

Xier opened the door of the room she saw and took a look.

Zhang Xinshu's room is one of four large rooms in a row.

The wedding room is the master bedroom, located on the east side of the house, and is quite large, about 50 square meters.

This area of ​​more than 50 square meters is divided by a screen, and the bed, wardrobe and dressing table are separated inside.

There is an octagonal table and chairs outside.

Various flower stools, piano stands, embroidery stands, chests of drawers, desks, bookshelves, Luohan beds, screens, antique shelves, flower tables, incense tables, potted flowers, fresh flowers, curtains and other decorations.

The room Xier opened was the inner door, and the one facing west was a main hall.

The front half of the main room is the reception room, which is very large, more than 40 square meters. Behind the reception room, near the north side, is a washroom and a toilet.

To the west of the main hall are two small bedrooms, which are used for the maids or servants who stay with the family at night.

But Zhang Xinshu has never let anyone live here.

Xier explored around and checked all four rooms in this big house, then returned to the master bedroom on the east side.

"Miss, I saw that bathroom. It's clean and there's a faint fragrance. Do you want to go to the bathroom?"

Fan Qingqiu thought about it and decided that there was no one around at the moment, so he should quickly take care of his physiological problems. It would be embarrassing if he went back in the afternoon when someone came to make trouble in the bridal chamber.

"Okay, you stay here and watch. I'll go over there."

"Okay, miss, go ahead."

Fan Qingqiu walked through the compartment and went out, then he saw the door of the room that Xier mentioned.

There are two small doors, the first one is the washroom and the second one is the toilet.

However, this bathroom is a little different from the one installed in my own home.

The ones I own at home were also bought from a bathroom shop, but they are all squat toilets.

This one looks like a sitting position? Like a chair.

She looked at it in confusion and saw a pamphlet next to the toilet.

【Guide to using the toilet】.

I took it down and looked at it. It turns out this is also called a toilet.

The usage inside is a simple and clear four-frame comic format.

A chubby, cute little maid in a Q version teaches how to use the toilet.

She lowered the toilet lid and sat on it according to the picture.

Then continue flipping through the pages.

There is a place for toilet paper at the back, and you can throw the toilet paper directly into the toilet after use, or into the trash can next to it.

When you are done using it, just press that button.

There are also things that cannot be thrown into the toilet, which are marked.

The following also records how to use the bathroom shower, hand sanitizer, soap, etc.

This must have been specially prepared for myself, it's really thoughtful.

After Fan Qingqiu took care of his physiological problems, he went out to the washroom according to the booklet, washed his hands, and used hand sanitizer, which really smelled good after use.

It smells good.

He wiped his hands and went back.

"Miss, you are back."

"Well, do you want to go?"

"Okay, I'll go in for a minute, miss, you sit here."

"Well, pay attention, first look at the little book next to the toilet."

"Um, yes, miss."

Although I don't understand why you have to read a book before going to the toilet, what the lady said is right.