I, Hikigu, are contained by the evil god

This meal is octopus, grilled sea bream, vinegared sea bream and vegetables, crucian carp cooked sushi, vegetable soup, pickles and rice.In fact, just eating these would make Hikigaya very full, but the waiter continued to serve.

The second meal is runxiang (salted catfish viscera and eggs), sea cucumber and Japanese yam stew, abalone stew, grilled eel, grilled conger eel, carp soup, sea squirt cold soup.

Sanzen dishes include grilled chicken, stewed red snails, salty swimming crab, Japanese yam soup with crane meat, and sea bass soup.

The four meals are boiled dried squid, boiled mushrooms, boiled eggplant, and crucian carp soup.

The five meals are pomfret sashimi, ginger vinegar, roasted kelp, boiled burdock, and duck soup.

There are also four pastries.

These dishes are all exquisitely arranged, with all three colors, aromas and flavors, and even the small white porcelain dishes are exquisite and small, pleasing to the eye.

It may not sound like much, but in fact, it has been carefully arranged. Even an ordinary-sounding eggplant stew, that is, boiled eggplant, has been made by the chef to look like Bi Qigu can't afford it.

It’s okay for a dish to look like this. When all the dishes are like works of art, full of beautiful things and full of eyes, this kind of visual impact is really too strong, so strong that Bi Qigu doesn’t know where to pick up the chopsticks. I'm done.

——Hikigu suddenly and deeply realized the fact that "I really am a poor bumpkin".

There are so many dishes, it is definitely not enough to eat, but today is to entertain distinguished guests after all.

Who would consider CD-ROM or not when entertaining guests?

Isn't the basic operation of hospitality just to put more dishes on the table than you can finish, so that people are happy to see it.

"Hiss—I just noticed that monsters are particular." Amidst the music, Xia Zhiqiu narrowed his eyes and clicked his tongue in admiration.

Xiazhiqiu was sitting not far from Hikigu, she looked at Wushan in front of her, thought for a while, and suddenly realized something.

Hikigu heard Kasumigaoka's emotion and cast a puzzled look at her.

Kasumigaoka noticed Hikigaya's gaze, turned to look at Hikigaya, and explained to Hikigaya in a low voice to the sound of silk and bamboo dance music.

——God knows if her emotion has the purpose of attracting Hikigu's attention, just like an elementary school student deliberately making jokes loudly in order to attract the girl he likes.

"This banquet is exactly the same as the banquet that Oda Nobunaga hosted for Tokugawa Ieyasu in [-]."

"The monsters put their minds to it, this meal is indeed ingenious... It can be said that that banquet should be regarded as one of the most famous and grand state banquets in Japan."

Xia Zhiqiu sighed with emotion, his face was full of admiration,

"The menu of this banquet is recorded in "Continued Books... In fact, considering the lifespan of these monsters and the degree of integration into human society, it is difficult to say whether any monsters present have personally participated in the famous event at the beginning." banquet."

"I see. It seems that because of the long lifespan, the big monsters who have lived from the old traditional era to the present have always retained the habits of the past."

Hikigu squinted his eyes, looking at the dazzling array of delicate dishes on the table,

"However, to be honest, I prefer the current diet."

He spread his hands, and whispered to Xia Zhiqiu not far away:

"...Crepes, fried chicken, etc. How delicious."

Xia Zhiqiu almost laughed out loud, "You, it's your fault that you didn't say that."

Hikigu blinked his eyes with an innocent face:

"what happened?"

"Shall I tell you a story?"

Kasumi Hill thought about it, shook his head,

"Do you know who the chef of Antu Yuyan (Kan Yan) is, that is, the chef of that meal?"

Of course Hikigu didn't know, "Is there anything worth mentioning about his identity?"

"His identity is not worth mentioning, but the follow-up story is worth listening to."

Kasumi Hill continued to speak softly:

"He is the chef of Ashikaga Yoshiaki's younger sister-in-law Miyoshi Yoshiaki's successor family. He has served the shogun's family's food for generations. It can be said that he is very proficient in everything about the upper class. Even if she is half aristocratic... at least she still has a noble style in terms of arrogance. "

"Like Chekhov's general's dog?" Hichigu smiled, "Although it sounds ridiculous, it's really not difficult to understand."

"Yes." Kasumigaoka nodded appreciatively, tilting his head to look at Hikigaya with a little surprise in his eyes,

seems to say:

"Oh shit? You're not that illiterate, are you? You also know about Chekhov, not bad."

——This caused some black lines to creep up on Hikigaya's forehead.

Although it is not as comprehensive as your encyclopedia, and you can describe everything as common sense, my Chinese skills are still very good, okay?

How can it be repaired!This mean woman who never shows mercy.

...However, probably only good friends can tease and sarcasm each other casually without worrying about the other party's calculations, right?

Noticing Hikigaya's displeasure, Kasumigaoka shrugged and smiled happier, his eyes narrowed into crescents,

Therefore, the happy girl who came into Biqigu's eyes is just like the tenderness of peony blooming, which is too beautiful to behold.

The girl went on to tell:

"His story is recorded in "Wengcao" and "Changshan Jitan" in the Edo period."

"When Nobunaga wiped out Ashikaga Yoshiaki's sister-in-law, Miyoshi Yoshitsugu, he captured a chef from Miyoshi's family, Tsubouchi. Tsubouchi was proficient in the feast ceremony of General Ashikaga's family, so a retainer suggested to Nobunaga: "Why don't you pardon him and let the kitchen work Give him a try? "

"Then let him make a dish and try it out!"

However, Nobunaga was very angry after eating Tsubouchi cuisine.

"The taste is too bland, how can I eat it. Kill him!"

Tsubouchi begged to let him cook it again.Nobunaga agreed to his request and tried again.

As a result, because the taste was well adjusted, Nobunaga immediately changed his mind and kept Tsubouchi.

Tsubouchi had this to say afterwards:

"The first cooking is the first-class taste of the Ashikaga Shogun's family served by the Miyoshi family for five generations. The second cooking is the third-rate taste of the country style (describe heavy taste)."

"--Oh, I get it."

Bi Qigu suddenly realized.

"You guys are mocking me again."

"Well." Xia Zhiqiu spread his hands, smiled without saying a word.

"But." Hikigu stuck out his chopsticks, picked up a piece of grilled chicken, and put it in his mouth.

"Just like Nobunaga likes things with a salty taste, I also prefer things with a stronger taste."

"After all." Bi Qigu swallowed the grilled chicken in his mouth and shrugged, "I was originally from an ordinary mud-legged background, so why pretend to be an upper-class person?"

"Well, that's how it is...but today's Mr. Hikigu is not from an ordinary mud-legged background."

The corners of Kasumigaoka's mouth curled up, and he tilted his head to look at Hikigaya,

"Look at the dozens of hosts and guests here, all of them are gorgeously dressed, dignified, have a long heritage, and are noble... But no matter how powerful they are, they still have to be dominated by you."

"Just like Oda Nobunaga wants to eat something with a stronger taste, then the chef has to change the taste, and no one will say that Oda Nobunaga's status is not valuable."

"Just like today, even this dish is specially inquired about your eating habits, and more salt, spicy and other seasonings are specially added to make them not so tasteless."

"……who do you think You Are?"

Xia Zhiqiu's eyes are full of smiles, and there is also a little inexplicable look,

"If you don't go, the mountain will come, and if the mountain comes, it will be you,"

"The place where you are is the best world."

"what……"

I don't know if it's because Xia Zhiqiu's eyes are too gentle, or whether Xia Zhiqiu's sudden sarcasm made him unaccustomed to it.

In short, Hikigu opened his mouth and let out an "ah", but forgot to say anything.

Raising his fingers to scratch his cheeks that seemed to be hot, Bi Qigu looked up at the upright old man Nuliang who was sitting upright.

"Deputy Chief, this meal is quite particular, so do I have to offer it three times?"

Bi Qigu just knew this.

Shi Sanxian is a kind of wine ceremony at a formal banquet. Since the monsters are preparing such a grand and luxurious banquet, it seems that he also needs to do as the Romans do and talk about some complicated etiquette.

The so-called “three offerings” means that a glass of wine is served along with the food table, and the guests have to drink it in three sips.

——Honestly speaking, it's quite troublesome, and it's a bit uncomfortable for Bi Qigu's personal senses, but after all, people value it so much, it's better for him to "do as the Romans do".

Face is all given to each other.

"This... etiquette?"

Blinking his eyes, Nuliang looked at Hikigaya, and in Hikigaya's astonished gaze, he spread his hands half helplessly and half slyly,

"I don't know that."

"You can't ask me this question, because it's Master Yuyihu's idea for this meal."

"Her old man is an old traditional person."

The old man pointed at himself with his right hand again, took up a glass of wine with his left hand and downed it, then grinned,

"As for me, I'm more like an out-and-out veteran."

Hikigu could even see the wine flowing down the old man's beard,

Although it was a bit against the harmony, Hikigu really felt naughty on the old man.

... as naughty as a child.

"I really don't know much about these etiquettes."

"..."

After the old man's words made Hikigu silent for a while, the corners of his mouth curled up.

Say it earlier.

There is no need to observe etiquette, and eating casually will make him very happy.

Although he said that he prefers to eat fried food and street snacks, the countless delicacies in front of him are simply once in a thousand years, and he couldn't hold back just looking at them.

If you're happy, let's celebrate.

After thinking for a while, Hikigu picked up the wine glass on the table in front of him.

——He doesn't like to drink, and he hasn't touched a drop until now.

But it's okay to drink a little.

Bi Qigu raised the ladle to Nuliang, then raised his head and drank it all in one gulp.

The wine was very strong, as expected of the wine drunk by monsters.

"Cough cough cough..."

Maybe not too chic and unrestrained, because after drinking, Bi Qigu's face turned a little red and he coughed.

A little embarrassed, but inadvertently narrowed the distance with the monsters.

At least, they looked at Hikigu less alienated.

Some even showed knowing smiles.

But Hikigu didn't know this, he finally stopped coughing, and then gave a thumbs up to Nuliang Yupiao who didn't know what to say and was looking at him in a daze, and opened the corners of his mouth, revealing his white and neat teeth,

"Good wine!"

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Chapter 6 The present is not what it used to be, the big demon sees me like a god (two in one)

Hikigu's actions made the atmosphere of the banquet much warmer, and the banquet continued in a harmonious atmosphere.

During this process, more than a dozen monsters present also made a toast with Hikigu and others,

So Hikigu had a preliminary acquaintance with these monsters.

In the Yaozu, besides the chief Yuyihu and the deputy chief Nurliang, there are six fourth-stage people who have the title of "big monster".

For example, the three big monsters who are famous and widely circulated among the people have seen their true faces at a closer distance than Qigu today.