Chapter 544: Liu Lang's return gift
Liu Lang changed the address of the banquet to a temporary resettlement site for the people of Chengde outside Beiping.
This time, it was no longer just a dozen tables of banquets, but flowing water seats, which were enough for nearly 30,000 people in Chengde to eat a day's flowing water banquets in the temporary resettlement site.
This is Liu Lang's return gift, inviting all the people of Chengde to participate in his own family banquet and eat a beautiful day, not to say that they want to eat the money they sent.
Liu Lang's meaning is obvious, you are to the bright moon with your heart, the bright moon will never shine on the ditch, inviting the big guys to participate in such an important event in Liu Lang's life is undoubtedly the most sincere gift Liu Lang can come up with at present.
Not only dozens of chefs and hundreds of helpers from Wangyue Building, the largest restaurant in Beiping, were all dispatched, but in order to help his future son-in-law return the gift, Boss Ji even invited a total of 180 chefs, 600 helpers and more than 600 guys from five other large restaurants to make this extremely rare large-scale flowing water banquet.
Because the scale was too large, Boss Ji also deliberately found the military and political departments in Beiping to report, after all, the gathering of tens of thousands of people was still very loud.
Any country or government has always been wary of such large gatherings, especially in Beiping, where the war was at an early stage.
In fact, it is not uncommon for the rich to invite the villagers of ten miles and eight towns to have a flowing water seat for three days and three nights to show the wealth and generosity of the master's family, but it is extremely rare to invite 30,000 people to put a flowing water seat in this city.
How old is that in the country? Ten miles and eight towns, you are full, and there are only a few thousand people. But this Beiping City is a big city with a population of nearly 2 million, not to mention the whole city to eat, it is one-tenth of it, and if you say that you eat, one person can drink a sip of water to empty your well.
Of course, with the current prices in Beiping, a piece of ocean can buy six catties of good pork, and a decent table of banquets can only be bought for four oceans, and you are only 100,000 people and 10,000 tables, but only 40,000 oceans, and the rich are not unaffordable.
It's just that when there are many people to a certain extent, it is a disaster, and if there is a slight movement, a little crowding, the happy event may become a white thing.
Therefore, it is the first time that the Ji family has set up a large flowing water seat in this city.
But fortunately, it was mainly outside the city, and the banquet was also for the 30,000 people of Chengde in the temporary settlement. Of course, what is more important is that the head of Liu, who is in the limelight, is married, which is the main reason. Therefore, the military and political departments in Beiping did not make any difficulties, and they were all readily released.
On the first night, more than 1,000 people were stationed in the temporary residence of the people of Chengde, which completely ignited the atmosphere.
Hundreds of cauldrons were erected throughout the makeshift settlement, and bonfires were lit, for nothing else, to process the steady stream of ingredients.
It's an ingredient, but it's actually more like meat. Although it is already spring, there are many kinds of vegetables, but what is transported is what kind of cabbage and green onions are considered vegetables, and the rest is all meat.
Because Liu Lang's requirements for several large restaurants that undertake tens of thousands of people to eat this time are very simple, the dishes don't need to be exquisite, just give me big fish and meat, so that the big guys can eat well.
Having experienced the desire for meat among the yellow-skinned soldiers under his command, Liu Lang knows the huge demand for meat among people at the bottom of society in this era.
It is not like the citizens who are tired of eating meat more than 80 years later, who began to shout about what green and pollution-free vegetables to eat, and who have not experienced hunger and material deprivation, it is difficult for them to understand the great attraction of meat to people in this era.
Therefore, it is all duck and fish meat, pigs do not need to be killed, it is transported after slaughtering several major slaughterhouses in Beiping, and the fat pigs of more than 200 catties of Qingyi Shui, the fat of Baihuahua makes people look at it and have the desire to take a bite.
There is a shortage of water in Beiping, and the fish is a fathead fish that was fished up from the big lake hundreds of miles away, put it in a big tank, ran for a day and a night, and sent five or six catties up.
Chickens, ducks and geese, not to mention, all the common characteristics, one word, fat.
Although the chefs were slightly dissatisfied with Liu Lang's somewhat strange request for them, it was all meat, didn't that show their superb skills? You know, not to mention the hospitality of a wealthy family like Ji Fu, even a table of banquets for ordinary people, you have to pay attention to a few meats, a few vegetables, a few plates and a few plates, how can there be a whole like Liu Lang, big fish and big meat for me? But the fact that the customer is God does not mean that it was thrown out of the nine heavens in the Republic of China, and the chefs who can carve radishes and make tofu can make meat can only fight for a pile of meat.
I heard that Liu Langding invited the people of Chengde to eat a banquet in the temporary residence, and the people of Chengde were so excited that they didn't regard themselves as outsiders at all, the men lit a bonfire, and the women helped the cooks who had entered in advance to kill chickens, slaughter geese, and cut fish.
No matter how many ingredients there are, it's just an extra cost, and the things that money can solve are not a big deal for Boss Ji.
It's okay to say that there are not many restaurants that open restaurants, but there are a lot, and six families can barely make up seven or eight thousand plates. The dishes and chopsticks are even simpler, and those who come to eat the flowing water mat should bring their own dishes and chopsticks, and take them away after eating.
The difficulty is the tables, chairs and benches, although it is a flowing water seat, but no matter how flowing the water seat, you must have at least five or six thousand people sitting at a time! Ten people at a table, that's five or six hundred tables and thousands of chairs.
Where can you find so many tables and chairs temporarily? No matter how many people there are, since you have a treat, you can't say that you can let the guests squat on the ground with their rice bowls to eat! It's not just Boss Ji's face that is lost, but the faces of the six big restaurants are all lost.
You must know that it is not only a few big restaurants that can host this kind of large-scale banquet, but also many "banquet places", which are the kind of chefs who register a large number of chefs to come to the door to hold banquets for guests, and over the years they have occupied most of the banquets in Beiping City.
If it weren't for Boss Ji who didn't expect to make such a big move and pre-set the Moon Tower, then there might not be a few big restaurants in Beiping City this time.
Zhao Ergou, who came to inspect the venue, made a move, and there were many troops, but when he ate, he didn't say what kind of long table he used to sit on both sides, and this kind of table and chair was also simple to make, and the hardwood board plus four legs was enough.
When the person in charge of several restaurants heard Zhao Ergou's proposal, they felt that it was feasible, except for a dozen eight-immortal tables shipped from the restaurant for some guests to sit, and the rest were all bought and made on the spot.
Now it will be lively, and the entire temporary residence of the people of Chengde will not sleep all night. Just like a big construction site, truckloads of ingredients are brought in to clean and sort out slices, truckloads of wood are transported in, and hundreds of carpenters gathered overnight make long tables and benches on the spot.
In order to eat Liu Lang and Ji Yanxue's wedding wine, tens of thousands of people in Chengde didn't sleep much all night, half of them were excited and happy, and half of them were helping to work.
However, they soon discovered that Liu Lang's gift was not just two banquets, and Liu Lang's gift would be far beyond their imagination.