Valkyrie Europa

Chapter 26 Banquet Preparations
When he came to the Earl's Mansion, Earl Marceau was waiting for him in the study in casual clothes.

Seeing Zhang Ang coming in, Earl Marceau said: "Sophie will be back tomorrow, probably at noon, isn't your 'hotel' almost ready, prepare carefully, and give Sophie a good job." Reception feast."

"Okay, I will definitely do it well." Zhang Ang quickly agreed.

"Wait until you go to the housekeeper to get a sum of money. Make sure you make the reception banquet beautiful for me. I have already sent out the invitations. Don't embarrass me." Marceau instructed again after all.

Zhang Ang also agreed again and again.

After struggling for a while, Zhang Ang still asked the question that he had buried in his heart for a long time: "My lord, there is one thing that I have never understood. Why are you willing to marry Miss Sophie to me? My family is in trouble. His strength is not good, except that he can make some food and earn a little money, there should be nothing special about it. There are many people in the city who are nobler than me, better than me, and stronger than me. Why don’t the Earl choose the right one? .”

Earl Marceau's voice immediately cooled down: "Why, do you want to regret the marriage?"

Zhang Ang thought of the poor Lord who was photographed as a pig's head during the martial arts competition, and quickly explained: "Of course not, I couldn't be more satisfied with this marriage contract, but because of the huge difference in status between the two parties, I feel a little inferior."

Earl Marceau's voice eased slightly: "Oh, that's right, I thought you wanted to learn from Lord Troplow, you don't have to worry about this, as long as you can satisfy Sophie, I will definitely support you. As for In terms of status, I am only a daughter of Sophie, and she will definitely inherit the title in the future. You are the honorable husband of the count. You just need to stay in the mansion and raise the offspring for our Marceau family. Don’t worry about other things .”

Zhang Ang couldn't help but feel very discouraged: Earl Marceau seems to have made up his mind to marry his daughter to him. It seems that he has kept his virginity intact in the past and present, so he will give it to a strong big horse for cheap.

According to Zhang Ang's observation, all the women in this world who have achieved success in martial arts are all big-bodied, muscular, boundless in strength, and fierce in temperament, no worse than men at all.

And since Earl Marceau confirmed his daughter as the heir, he sent her to the famous Rose School of Swordsmanship in France for further studies. This Miss Sophie must look similar to the world bodybuilding lady he saw in his previous life, and she must be very skilled in martial arts.

If such a real female man uses force on himself, he will definitely not be able to resist. Do he want to hide in the corner of the wall, put a knife on his neck, and yell at the strong woman, "You come on again!" Take the first step, and I will die for you!"

When Zhang Ang thought of such a scene, he felt a headache.But all my wealth and foundations are in the city of Luntu, so I can't resist Earl Marceau at all, so now I have to take a step forward.

Holding the 2 gold francs given by the housekeeper, Zhang Ang left the earl's mansion.

Since Earl Marceau decided to hold a reception banquet in his hotel and invited all the nobles in the city, Zhang Ang decided to seize such a good opportunity and strive to make the Jinniu Hotel famous.

And now that I have money in hand, I naturally want to hold this banquet in an extremely luxurious way, high-end, foreign style, and upscale, so as to elevate the banquet level of the entire Luntu City to a higher level.

The first thing is to choose the banquet hall. Zhang Ang chose the banquet hall of the "Moon Hall". This hall is not only spacious and bright, but also has a very comfortable and warm decoration theme, which matches the theme of the city lord's daughter coming home.

Then it is to create the atmosphere of the banquet. The first decoration is flowers. The Earl Marceau family is the owner of the largest flower field in Luntu City. The rose perfume produced by the Marceau family has been selling well all over the continent. With the help of the Marceau family, a large number of fresh flowers were shipped overnight, and the whole venue was decorated.

The second one is music. This is a noble gathering, and a little dance is inevitable. Zhang Ang sent people to ride fast horses day and night to invite the most famous nearby music performers, bands and bards.

The third is the utensils. In addition to the modern European-style tableware, candlesticks, tables and chairs made of heavy gold, there are also exotic wool carpets and a long red carpet specially customized, which can be spread from the "Moon Pavilion" to the Outside the hotel.

There are also servants and servants who serve, each of which has been specially strengthened according to this banquet.Each of them is required to remember the appearance preferences of all the participating nobles, adopt the "one-to-one" policy, so that every noble who participates in this banquet has a dedicated service staff, of course, some local tyrants who are specially marked Nobles or important nobles enjoy the special service of many people.

Finally, and the most important thing, of course, is the delicious food at the banquet, and Zhang Ang is responsible for this part.

Zhang Ang decided to make it in the form of a buffet, and put a huge long dining table between the venues, and put a few smaller ones next to it, so that it can be easily removed after the meal and used as a dance venue.

Zhang Ang decided on the menu for the dinner, so he went to the market to order a large number of fresh and plump ingredients, and asked them to deliver them all to the Jinniu Hotel.These ingredients have to undergo strict pretreatment by Zhang Ang, some are marinated, some are matured, some are smoked and roasted, and some are fermented.Zhang Ang has to teach those young and beautiful cooks how to deal with it.

The most important thing is to deal with the wine. On the whole continent, the most common wine is barley wine and wine. They are all packed in large oak barrels and sold by special wineries. Everyone simply pours them out and drinks them. .In Zhang Ang's view, this is very stupid.

These first brewed wines are not only turbid, but also have different tastes and low alcohol content, so they are really not good wines.

What Zhang Ang has to do is to reprocess the wine bought from the winery.

The first step is to filter, pour out all the wine according to the variety, and filter it several times with gauze to minimize the residue in the wine.

The second step is steaming. The filtered wine is steamed to remove excess water, increase the alcohol content, and enhance the taste of the wine.

The third step is to let the wine stand for precipitation to remove some fine suspended residues in the wine, and then remove the floating foam on the wine to make the wine clear and clean.

After these three steps, the barley wine turns an attractive brown color, and the wine turns a mellow rose red.It is completely different from those strange and muddy colors before.

Zhang Ang then took out a part of the distilled wine that was distilled during the cooking of the wine, added various fruit juices, and made cocktails of various colors and flavors. The processing of this wine was declared complete.

Although Earl Marceau's family gave great help, Zhang Ang was still busy until midnight to complete all the preparations, so that he could catch up on a little sleep.

On the second day, everything was ready, just waiting for Miss Sophie, who had never met before, to arrive.

(End of this chapter)