Chapter 466: Wedding Banquet (Part 2)

With a command, the servants became busy, and the fire was lit in the fireplace, and the warm breath filled the hall, dispelling all the moisture and cold.

Since it is winter, the table on the dining table is covered with thick cashmere. This comfortable enjoyment is very cheap and makes the guests happy.

More than a dozen long dining tables have been prepared.

The guests followed the butler's arrangements one by one, first, the nobles with high status, followed by the older gentlemen, and finally the wife and the lady.

After a while of turmoil, most people sat down at the dining table, and servants served appetizers and aperitifs.

Then, batches of dishes came up.

In addition to stewing and baking, the meat is also chopped and processed into seasoned meat sauce. In this world, there is a famous dish called "Blank meat sauce". This dish is made of chicken pureed, mixed with almond milk, and stir-fried sugar into a paste. After heating, it is made with fried almonds and fennel.

Another famous dish is "small meatballs", which means chopping fish or chicken, adding soup, eggs, and breadcrumbs into paste, squeeze them into small meatballs with your hands and cook them in water, which can also be made into fried meatballs.

And the sauce was also served, which was made of wine, grape juice, vinegar, green onion, ginger, pepper, saffron and cloves. It was used during cooking to make the dish more delicious, and cinnamon and mustard were also on the table. These are very expensive ingredients, making the guests feel satisfied as soon as they see it.

Barracuda, crab, crayfish, oysters, and eels are also very popular on the dining table.

The servant served bread, butter, wine again.

The etiquette on the dining table is very complicated, and each procedure has its own definite rules. There are regulations and strictly enforced from how to spread the tablecloth to how to cut bread, where the plates are placed, the order of serving dishes, how to serve the lord and guests for meals, etc.

All the guests knew that at night there was cod fish, which was cooked in a strong sauce.

There are also mullets, herring, thunderfish, flounder, butterflyfish, salmon, cod, trout, sturgeon and other fish. Whales and dolphins are precious seafood. They were even called "Wang Family Fish" in the past and were only for kings and queens to eat. Ordinary people can only salivate. Even now, only nobles are qualified to eat.

Of course, there is a banquet only at night.

However, it was not a regular banquet at noon. Even so, it was enough for these to come, and the guests were already very satisfied.

Even the nobles had only three or four entries at noon, and this time it was quite sumptuous.

After lunch, some guests went to take a nap, while others went to entertain.

They danced with beautiful waltz or played the "hot cocoa" game in the living room: a man kneeled on the ground, blindfolded his eyes, and others walked by him, allowing him to touch a part of the blindfold's body to identify who they were.

There is also a "blind" game where one person's face is covered with cloth and others hide. He wants to try to catch the hiding person.

There are also some people who play backgammon, chess, dice-roll gambling, etc.

Whenever Romon saw them, he felt that they had too few games, and they were not as colorful as the modern earth.

However, at this time, Romon was talking to Baron Rocas in a side hall.

"Sir, you seem to be tired?"

"Daughter, this time I went to your sister's side and I almost couldn't come back." As he said, without pretending, the tired look on his face was naturally brought out.

"Father, is something wrong?" Alini came over to ask when she saw her father showing a tired look at this time.

Baron Rocas sighed and said, "You also know that your sister and brother-in-law's master's house live in the west of the county, which is closer to the inland. The inland demon disaster is very serious, and the people are displaced, and even the nobles cannot be safe. But your brother-in-law has to support the master's house, but fortunately nothing is happening yet."

"Inland Demon?" To be honest, since marrying Romon, due to the busy reconstruction of the territory, Alini has indeed not paid enough attention to such things. She chatted with the noble lady and lady on weekdays and said nothing more than some interesting things in the county. At first glance, she couldn't help but worry: "Is brother-in-law and the others okay now? What about the demon demon? Are there any measures?"

"Don't worry, your brother-in-law has supported the master's house. The situation is fine. There are rivers next to the master's territory and they have boats. If it's really not possible, you can't walk by land and evacuate by water. But your sister...ah, it's okay. Although your brother-in-law also has two new ladies, they are both the daughters of the little nobles. Your sister is still alright now." Speaking of this, Baron Rocas glanced at Romon, who was sitting beside him, with a hint of almost invisible satisfaction in his eyes.

This time Baron Rocas went out and saw his eldest daughter's life. Although she did live the life of a noble lady, she was obviously not very happy.

Her husband was decided by Baron Rocas at the beginning. As a daughter, she didn't even dare to object. Although she didn't like her future husband very much, she also obediently married her.

As a result, she was not as good as her sister, Elini, and she did not do very well in pleasing her husband, so she didn't even say hello to her, so she married two other daughters of little nobles.

However, Alini's sister has never made any big mistakes on weekdays, and with some influence in her family, her husband has not shaken her status as the first lady, except for neglecting her.

Originally, Baron Rocas always felt that he chose the best for his daughter. Although he made all his decisions, he had his own little plan, but for their own good.

But when he saw his eldest daughter's situation, if he did not compare his second daughter's happy life, he could comfort himself that all noble ladies live like this.

But when compared with my second daughter’s current life, the situation where the eldest daughter is ignored and neglected is really sad.

Romon and Alini are different. Although Romon has another wife, one is that Lingling does not live with them, and the other is that Romon and Alini have feelings for him and treat Alini's wife very considerate and interesting. In this world, there are basically few men who can do it.

Since it was about the situation in the inland area, Romon would not waste this opportunity to increase his knowledge and chatted with Baron Rocus. Seeing Romon talking with his father, Alini smiled and ordered the maid to prepare the room and let his father stay today.

In the afternoon, Romon obtained a lot of useful information from his father-in-law's chat, and it was obvious that a lot of information could not be known by just inquiring. Romon was very satisfied. He also knew that his father-in-law was deliberately revealing it to him. The other party investigated the news and definitely put in some effort.

So, Romon briefly mentioned that he wanted to send someone to "plunder" the population in the inland area, and promised to divide a part of Baron Rocas at that time. Upon hearing this, Baron Rocas finally smiled.

"Very good. The population in the territory is indeed lost. I don't want many people. Just transport three hundred households to me!" Baron Rocas said with a smile.

The reason why I collected this information was not planned to go by myself.

Looking at his father-in-law's smile, Romon smiled bitterly: "Well, okay, three hundred households are only three hundred."

This number is not very large, which shows that my father-in-law is still responsible.

The two of them stared at each other for a while, and suddenly, they all shook their heads and smiled.

But at this moment, a horn suddenly came from outside.

Romon was stunned and asked, "What's the matter?"

The guards who followed him heard this and left.

After a moment, the guards came in in a hurry: "Sir, the king's special envoy is here."

"Oh?" Romon stood up suddenly.

"It must be a reward for fighting pirates." Baron Rocas said, "Let's go out together!"

Romon nodded and led the people out, and the people who were playing in the garden, walking on the lawn, and playing cards upstairs gathered in surprise.

For a moment, the door opened, and with the horns and music, the King's envoy came in.

Behind the King's Special Envoy, follow the Earl of Shusenya.

The king's envoy was an old man with a pale face and extraordinary demeanor. He was standing on the steps of an elegant nobleman, and was holding a gold plate in his hand.

On the plate is a book of awards, a medal, and a dagger.

The King's Inspector, seeing Romon and everyone out to greet him, nodded: "Baron Tatshaw, ladies and sir, as the envoy of His Majesty the King, I have arrived in this territory to express His Majesty's respect for Baron Tatshaw's heroic and meritoriousness. It is precisely because of the loyalty and courage of Baron Tatshaw and Earl of Sousyya that the raging pirates were driven out of this beautiful sea. Hereby, His Majesty the King granted Romon Tatshaw the title of Viscount, and possessed the sovereignty of Treasure Island and a badge of loyalty to the Kingdom. In addition, it also granted the status of the governor of the Fifth Fleet of the Hereditary Kingdom of the Tatshaw family."

After saying this, the king's imperial envoy waved his hand and a servant handed all the dishes to Romon: "Congratulations, Lord Tatshaw, I wish your family prosperity."

Everyone let out a loud noise for the king's generous reward.

Romon half-kneeled to show his respect for the king, and accepted the letter of honor, the badge of loyalty in the kingdom, and the dagger representing the position of the governor.

The discussions and noises of the crowd were not only not eliminated, but instead expanded. Thinking about the situation where there were two viscounts in a nearby area, it was difficult for anyone present to hide his surprise.

And Baron Rocas, who was standing beside him, had a pair of eyes that were almost gone.

"Sir, please come in." The special envoy came, of course, and there were some benefits. Even the banquet was indispensable. Fortunately, the food was prepared very exquisitely, and even if the king came, he could entertain him.

In other aspects, Romon was not stingy with instructions and gave him a thousand gold coins and ten tea bricks later. It would be very hard for the other party to come once!

After the king's special envoy entered, the Earl of Xiusenya came forward and the two began to discuss.

"...Okay, we decided so. In the future, a fleet will take turns to protect everyone, and a fleet will take turns to go out to the sea to catch refugees in the two nearest kingdoms." Romon said.

"Refugees are not difficult, but they also have to express certain gifts to the local nobles and kings. In this regard, they should pay according to the population ratio?" Earl Shusenya said, "I will send a fleet tomorrow."
Chapter completed!