After everyone finished celebrating noisily, it was time to get back to their respective business. Feng Qian was in charge of arranging for people to manage the celebration banquet that evening, while Su Wenqi and Xianyun returned to their homestead after finishing their daily tasks together.
Su Wenqi had already started preparing the dishes for the celebration banquet that evening, and the homestead warehouse was filled with snacks of blue quality. Xianyun was responsible for taking these snacks out and handing them over to Feng Qian.
That afternoon, the two of them stayed cooped up in the kitchen testing new dishes and made many more snacks, adding a lot of variety to tonight’s lavish feast.
Since the city lord was celebrating his milestone sixtieth birthday, the scale was even more magnificent than previous birthday banquets. The menu drawn up by the steward included eighteen hot dishes, eighteen cold dishes, six soups, six desserts, and the final, crucial longevity noodles.
Ever since he accepted this task, Su Wenqi had spent all his time in the kitchen except when he logged off to sleep at night, and he even took a trip back to Linlan Village in his spare time. After looking over the menu, Granny Wang examined each item one by one and offered suggestions, so his progress over the past two days was quite good, with five dishes already meeting the required quality standards.
At a little past 8:00 PM, the guild territory was filled with tables and chairs. With the guild level upgraded to the maximum level of 10, it could recruit one thousand players. Their guild was at the highest level with a population of about nine hundred and eighty people, stretching all the way from the guild entrance to the back mountain.
“Wow, this is so spectacular.” These tables were rented from the system mall, since after all, only the system could provide so many tables and chairs.
By this time, quite a few players were pulling friends they were close with to find places to sit, while the middle positions were reserved for the management team.
“Guild Master Chunri! Come sit over here, the food is about to be served!”
Seeing the two of them, Eat Eight Meals a Day directly called them over to take seats in the middle.
“We are coming right now,” Xianyun raised his voice and replied to Eat Eight Meals a Day, then said, “Chunri, let us head over,” before leading Su Wenqi toward the other person.
At their table were him, Xianyun, Feng Qian, the couple Eat Eight Meals a Day and Eat One Meal in Eight Days, along with three other group leaders.
At exactly 7:00 PM, the NPCs started serving the food. The scale of their celebration banquet was quite large this time; not only did they have the NPCs hired within the guild, but they also hired nearly twenty additional NPCs from the city to ensure the celebration banquet went smoothly.
Every player in the game had a fullness meter, which realistically simulated a player’s appetite in real life. Therefore, Su Wenqi prepared a total of twenty-four dishes according to the specifications of a banquet from his original world, which should be enough for everyone to eat, right?
He was still worrying in his heart about whether these would be enough for everyone to eat, when he felt his left hand being gently squeezed. Following the force, he saw Xianyun pick up a dish, put it into his bowl, and signal him to eat quickly.
He expressed his worries to the other person, and upon hearing this, Xianyun raised an eyebrow with a smile, leaned close to his ear, and said, “These are more than enough. I am even worried that everyone won’t finish eating and will ask to take food to go after it ends, and there is nothing I can do about that.”
Hearing his teasing, Su Wenqi frowned and said, “I am not joking with you. What should we do if there really is not enough to eat?”
Xianyun pushed the rice bowl closer to his front and comforted him, “Feng Qian also ordered food from a tavern outside. If anyone really is not full, they can go find him to get an extra portion. Alright, stop worrying and eat quickly.”
Only then did Su Wenqi set his mind at ease and start using his chopsticks.
“Wow, this is so delicious! It is my first time eating food made by Big Shot Chunri, truly worthy of someone with the Culinary God’s legacy!”
“Me too! I had never managed to grab any before, and moreover, I had something to do and did not participate in this league, so I did not get a share of the snacks. Those of you who grabbed some and ate them sent me a super large number of reviews after eating! It made me crave it so much that I got up in the middle of the night and drank several bottles of nutrient fluid! It pissed me off, but I finally got to eat it today!”
“Vice Guild Master! Our table has already finished eating, when is the second dish coming out?”
“Us too!”
“And us! Guild Master, hurry up and have the NPCs serve the dishes, the kids are about to starve to death~”
Voices rang out one after another from a distance. Su Wenqi raised his head and looked, seeing that many tables had already finished all their food. He looked a bit dazed, then looked at his own table and wondered why only a single dish had been served.
He inquired Xianyun about this question with a puzzled expression. Wen Shaochuan’s attention had always been entirely on Su Wenqi, and he hadn’t noticed the problem that there was only one dish on the table until Su Wenqi asked, at which point he managed to shift his attention back.
He raised his eyes to look at Feng Qian across from them and asked, “What is going on? Did I not give you all the dishes?”
Feng Qian replied with an innocent look, “I did not want this either. Who knows what is going on in Yuyun City recently? I went to the yamen to find the person in charge to hire people to serve the dishes and searched for a long time. I only managed to recruit enough people a few minutes before the celebration banquet started, so I hurried to serve one dish first so everyone could eat.”
“Look, aren’t they starting to serve dishes again?” He puckered his lips and motioned for his older brother to look at the NPCs, seeing that the NPC’s tray held four dishes and they were beginning to place food on their table.
At the other players’ locations, dishes also began to be served successively. For a moment, aside from the sound of moving chopsticks, the guild territory was exceptionally quiet, because once your hand moved too slowly, someone else would eat an extra bite!
This situation lasted until the banquet was halfway through and came to an end, at which point everyone also slowed down their chopsticks and started chatting.
[Private Chat] [Pure Love Kitten]: {Picture} Look at our guild’s celebration banquet, it is all made by Big Shot Chunri, super delicious, and everything is completely cleaned out!
[Private Chat] [Can’t Beat Me, I Run First]: Damn! Do you guys eat this well?
[Private Chat] [Pure Love Kitten]: Uh-huh, absolutely. I told you to come with me to Embrace the Wind and Wine back then, but you refused to come no matter what. Tsk tsk tsk, look at our treatment now.
[Private Chat] [Can’t Beat Me, I Run First]: Is it still too late for me to regret it now?! I was young and ignorant back then and missed this opportunity! If time could flow backward to the past, I would definitely join Embrace the Wind and Wine with you!
[Private Chat] [Can’t Beat Me, I Run First]: Hmph, too late. We will not let anyone in for the time being this week, since Big Shot Chunri’s skills are simply too heaven-defying, we have to wait until the storm calms down.
[Private Chat] [Can’t Beat Me, I Run First]: Adoptive Father! I beg you! Recommend me when the guild recruits people again!
[Private Chat] [Pure Love Kitten]:Are you really this devoid of integrity?
[Private Chat] [Can’t Beat Me, I Run First]: Is integrity as important as eating? No! By the way, after it ends, can you bring me a portion to taste?
[Private Chat] [Pure Love Kitten]: {Clean Plate Picture} What do you think?
[Private Chat] [Can’t Beat Me, I Run First]: What about the other tables?
[Private Chat] [Pure Love Kitten]: {Empty Plate Picture} Forget about it, none of them have any.
[Private Chat] [Can’t Beat Me, I Run First]: Since the big shot has such good culinary skills, does he have any intention of opening a shop? What is your relationship with the big shot like? Can you help us ask our vast community of foodies?
[Private Chat] [Pure Love Kitten]: My relationship with the big shot is average, the big shot usually stays with the guild master, but he is a very nice person, I will help you ask if I get the chance.
[Private Chat] [Can’t Beat Me, I Run First]: Good brother, I will treat you to a meal at Qianli Zhai this weekend!
[Private Chat] [Pure Love Kitten]: Better not, the stuff in there is not even as delicious as what Big Shot Chunri makes, going there to eat would purely make us utter suckers.
[Private Chat] [Can’t Beat Me, I Run First]:Really or fake?
[Private Chat] [Pure Love Kitten]: Of course it is real, I am not talking to you anymore, more food is being served!
[Private Chat] [Can’t Beat Me, I Run First]: Hello hello hello?
No matter how many messages he sent, the other party did not reply, leaving him behind all by himself to look at the picture and let his imagination run wild.
Thinking about it again, he couldn’t be the only one who could see it but couldn’t eat it, so he directly posted the picture on the game forum and heavily expressed that the food made by the other person tasted better than Qianli Zhai, which brought a minor trouble to Su Wenqi.
The atmosphere of this celebration banquet was extremely harmonious, and soon the banquet was nearing its end. Su Wenqi raised his head to look around his surroundings, discovering that everyone liked the food he made very much, and he could not help but feel happy as well.
However, he subsequently noticed that at those tables on their right side, several people were clearly missing, including Su Qingqing, a friend he had recently made. Perhaps the other person had something to come up and left early. Thinking that Su Qingqing also quite liked the food he made, he decided to mail some food to her before logging off, since he still needed her to help keep his secret.
After the banquet ended, Su Wenqi also added some players who had been relatively active in the guild channel and looked familiar to him, among whom was Pure Love Kitten.
He hurried over and asked Su Wenqi, “Big shot, your culinary skills are so good, do you have any intention of opening a shop?”
Some players who had already turned around to leave heard this question and silently retracted the foot they had stepped out of the guild territory’s main gate, stepping backward and pricking up their ears to listen to Su Wenqi’s answer.
This banquet made them realize what earthly delicacies truly were. How regrettable would it be if they could only eat this once? But if the other person opened a shop, it would be different; they could eat it anytime! (That might not necessarily be the case.)
“Um… the tavern is already under renovation, and it will probably take about half another month.” At that time, Zhao En directly took charge of the tavern matter and guaranteed to hand over a fully equipped tavern to him within half a month.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were going to open a tavern.” Suddenly, a gloomy voice came from behind him. Su Wenqi turned around and saw Xianyun’s resentful gaze looking at him, as if silently accusing him of being heartless.
Other guild members also showed great tact by looking at the sky, the earth, flowers, and grass, simply refusing to look at the two of them. Even if they were blind, they could all see the ambiguous relationship between these two people. The guild master had been serving dishes to Big Shot Chunri the entire banquet, and furthermore, later on they were going to.
Su Wenqi could only coax this person throwing a temper tantrum first: “Weren’t you busy with the guild league matters earlier? I was thinking of telling you after it ended, and I just hadn’t gotten around to telling you yet.”
However, the other party simply did not accept this reason: “We were together all afternoon, and you didn’t plan to tell me either.”
Su Wenqi had a bit of a headache; he simply did not know how to coax people. He had only coaxed the younger brothers and sisters at the orphanage before, and children’s tempers came and went quickly, requiring no great effort.
Moreover, his previous roommates would not throw tantrums at him like this either. Su Wenqi felt a bit overwhelmed and looked at Wen Shaochuan in a dilemma.
Wen Shaochuan also understood his personality and still couldn’t bear to continue making things difficult for him: “Then you will come with me to a place later.”
“Okay.” Su Wenqi quietly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the other person stopped dwelling on this issue.