Chapter 733: Returning to Nature (Part 3)

Two days later, the banquet was held as scheduled.

For a hotel of this size, there were at least three or more banquets held on the same day.

However, happy events like wedding banquets and birthday banquets were generally separated from funeral banquets.

The venue for Luo Xi's half-year birthday banquet was on the second floor, while upstairs was a newlywed couple, and on the fourth floor was an old couple's golden wedding anniversary.

The specific information was written on the red board at the hotel entrance, so guests could tell which floor to go to at a glance.

And Miss Luo Quan sat at the entrance of the banquet hall on the second floor, making records for all visiting guests, then distributing cigarettes and candies.

Generally, these things were left to adults, because only adults could recognize all the relatives, and they were careful and less likely to make mistakes.

However, her mother had to take care of her younger sister, and her grandparents had to greet guests. There was no one else at home, so only she could do it.

Fortunately, Wen Xia was by her side, so she wasn't in a rush.

As for those relatives, Miss Luo Quan didn't remember many of them particularly well.

But as long as she had met them, she would have some impressions left, more or less.

In addition, her mother was watching from the side, so she wouldn't be unable to call out when relatives came.

They were eating at twelve o'clock, and relatives arrived one after another at ten o'clock.

Those who came to the banquet this time were basically bringing their families along, with fewer bringing four or five people, and more bringing seven or eight people directly.

Here, Miss Luo Quan was truly glad that she had booked fifty-five tables; otherwise, it might not have been enough.

"Oh my, is this Miss Luo Quan? She's grown so big in the blink of an eye."

Miss Luo Quan was lowering her head to write down the guest's name and gift money when a slightly sharp voice sounded in front of her.

Raising her head, it was her great-aunt whom she hadn't seen for several years.

She was a relative from Grandma's side, who had invited their family many times before, and the relationship was quite good.

"Great-aunt, you're here." Miss Luo Quan grinned, revealing a bright smile, and stood up to greet her.

"There really aren't many young people nowadays who can remember us old folks." Great-aunt praised Miss Luo Quan happily.

Young people nowadays are all socially anxious. When they meet relatives they don't see very often, they are like wooden blocks, often saying nothing, which looks very impolite.

Actually, it's not that they don't want to call people, but mainly because they really can't remember what to call them.

Fortunately, Miss Luo Quan's memory was quite good, and she hadn't called anyone wrong so far.

After greeting Great-aunt, a group of young people followed behind, calling "Sister Miss Luo Quan" as soon as they came up.

Everyone was holding a phone, but they weren't asking to take photos with her. After all, which young person nowadays doesn't have their phone in their hand?

Miss Luo Quan had met these brothers and sisters a few times when visiting relatives before, so they weren't very familiar.

But calling so enthusiastically, Miss Luo Quan also greeted them with a smile, and each person was given a large handful of her favorite White Rabbit Creamy Candy and Alpenliebe.

This was standard in Yuzhou. Besides this, each family also had a box of zongzi worth 888.

This was a discount the manager gave her yesterday. He gave over a hundred boxes in total. She ate zongzi every meal until Luo Xi's first birthday and still couldn't finish them, so she simply did a favor and gave them to the relatives.

So far, the relatives who came here all belonged to ordinary families, and the gift money they gave was also around three or four hundred.

However, there were ordinary ones, and naturally there were super rich ones.

By eleven o'clock, a young man in famous brands led his family up the stairs and gave a red envelope of 100,000 as soon as he came over.

The young man looked only eighteen, but he was already holding a selfie stick and acting as a streamer.

Listening to his tone, various "Old Iron 666," "No Problem," he should be live streaming on Constable.

If you want to talk about where there are the most fun-loving people, it must be Constable.

She had watched quite a few videos stolen from Constable on Bilibili. Although they were earthy, they were also truly funny.

In the past, Bilibili users often mocked Douyin and Constable, feeling that the users of these platforms were low and plagiarized.

But since the "Hou Lang" video, there had basically been no such rhetoric.

Everyone was just for fun, but the platforms were different, so why distinguish between high and low?

"Sister Miss Luo Quan, do you have time to say hello to the fans in my live stream?" After giving the gift, the boy asked Miss Luo Quan politely, his camera still aimed at himself.

"No problem." After Miss Luo Quan recorded it, she let the boy aim the camera at her.

"Hello everyone." Miss Luo Quan waved with a smile, and the barrage in the live stream was instantly full of:

"Holy crap! It's really Miss Luo Quan,"

"The streamer is awesome, she's actually Miss Luo Quan's relative,"

"Amazing, whose banquet is this today?"

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The boy didn't take up too much of Miss Luo Quan's time. Saying "say hello" just meant saying hello.

Sitting for a whole morning, at twelve o'clock, the banquet started on time. Hot dishes were brought out from the back kitchen by waitresses in cheongsams with beautiful faces.

With cups and dishes clinking, everyone started eating the banquet with smiles.

Grandpa, Grandma, and her mother had already held her younger sister and gone on stage to speak and thank the relatives and friends. Miss Luo Quan stretched her neck and looked downstairs.

"There shouldn't be any relatives who haven't arrived, right?" Miss Luo Quan muttered to herself.

Saying that, she lowered her head and played with her phone.

Although there was no one left, she couldn't leave now.

In case other relatives came later and there was no one to greet them, that would be too impolite.

As the host, she certainly had to wait until all guests had finished eating before starting.

I don't know if it was the credit of the brother who was live streaming just now, but "Miss Luo Quan hosts a banquet" made it to the Weibo hot search.

"No wonder she hasn't live streamed for the past few days. It turns out she was hosting a banquet."

"I see this scale is at least fifty tables. With this decoration and these dishes, lunch and dinner together probably cost a million!"

"Ridiculous, a banquet in our hometown costs less than 100,000."

"This is a five-star hotel. How can it be on the same level as a rural flowing banquet?"

"Speaking of which, who is this for?"

"Miss Luo Quan's younger sister, Luo Xi, half a year old."

"So grand at half a year old, won't she host a hundred tables when she turns one?"

"People have money, and it's not illegal. What's wrong with that?"

"Indeed."

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In the Weibo comment section, one could hear that some people were still slightly sour.

And under the relevant news on Bilibili, one-third said they wanted to come to the banquet to join the fun, one-third wanted to see the younger sister, and one-third urged her to quickly organize a farmhouse fun for everyone.

The so-called farmhouse fun was actually not farmhouse fun in the conventional sense, but a happy time in the rural countryside.

Didn't she say before that she wanted to film farming videos for everyone? Now that she had returned to her old home in Yuzhou, everyone wanted to see as soon as possible how Miss Luo Quan would reclaim the wasteland.

"Don't be anxious. I'll enter the mountains tomorrow. Let's finish this banquet today first." Miss Luo Quan replied quickly in the comment section and synchronized it to her dynamic.

Before long, the fans who had been paying attention to her would push her to the front row.

"Great, finally I can watch Miss Luo Quan digging soil."

"Speaking of which, when doing farm work, will you wear ancient costumes or modern clothes?"

"Ancient people with long clothes fluttering aren't clothes for farm work either. Ancient farmers actually wore shorts and short sleeves."

"Speaking of which, Yuzhou is so hot now, what are you planning to plant?"

"Watermelons, easy to plant and delicious."

"Good idea, but I want to see Miss Luo Quan plant some high-difficulty crops."

"Then tomatoes."

"Haha, then the technical content is too high. Many old farmers can't plant this thing well."

"Doesn't that show that our Miss Luo Quan's technology is high?"

"Expecting..."

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The fans talked to each other, mainly teasing.

As for Miss Luo Quan herself, she really didn't know what to plant.

She could only make a decision after arriving at her old home and seeing the environment.

However, before going, she needed to prepare all the equipment for sleeping in the open and bring it in.

Grandpa said the old house had collapsed, so there would definitely be no place to live if she went directly.

Water might not be lacking, but gas and food all needed to be prepared in advance; otherwise, she would have to come out in disgrace as soon as she entered the mountains.

She had already bought everything. As for how to bring it in.

Considering the mountain paths were difficult to walk, motor vehicles probably wouldn't be easy to drive.

The capacity of a bicycle was a bit small. Looking at it this way, a tricycle should be the best choice, and it didn't require a driver's license or anything.

While thinking, her mother came out holding her younger sister: "Go in and eat. There shouldn't be any relatives coming."

Hearing this, Miss Luo Quan and Wen Xia stretched together and came to the banquet table where the host family was sitting.

Besides Grandpa and Grandma, Wen Xia's mother and her grandparents were also there.

The two families had lived together for over a decade. Although they weren't one family, their feelings had long been inseparable, even closer than any relatives.

Seeing Miss Luo Quan and Wen Xia coming over, the whole family also quickly pulled chairs and handed chopsticks.

The topic discussed most at the banquet was naturally the lifelong events of Miss Luo Quan and Wen Xia.

Girls, and in their early twenties, with no need to worry about studies and careers, the family could only work hard in this regard.

However, Miss Luo Quan had told her family long ago that she wouldn't consider these in the short term. As for how short this short term was, no one knew.

And Wen Xia, her statement was that she wanted to look and wait a bit more. Currently, she hadn't met anyone who made her particularly heart-moved.

She didn't plan to consider people in the entertainment industry, but she was in contact with people in it all the time, so she fell into a deadlock.

She could only wait until she had time later.

Hearing the answers of these two, the old people also sighed.

After raising their granddaughters, they all wanted to raise their great-granddaughters.

Luo Ni and Wen Xia's mother, An Ran, also wanted to hold their granddaughters, but unfortunately, these two daughters didn't plan to give their mothers such an opportunity at present.

Every time they returned to their hometown, lifelong events were the topics the family liked to nag about most. This was unavoidable.

However, the two could always find the best way to deal with it, which was the "drag" tactic. Everything could be dragged, and after dragging, a year would pass.

Dragging and dragging, half a lifetime would pass.

Of course, their lives had just begun. There were too many things waiting for them to do. If it was just for the sake of continuing the family line, it would be too feudal.

Halfway through the meal, the uncles and aunts among the relatives who had good alcohol tolerance all came over with wine bottles and glasses to toast.

This situation was when Grandpa showed his skills.

Seeing him refuse no one, everyone filled their small wine glasses and drank them down in one gulp.

Others became dizzier the more they drank, but he became more energetic the more he drank. Everyone who came to toast left behind a sentence of "good alcohol tolerance."

To be honest, Miss Luo Quan looked at Grandpa's heroic spirit of swallowing the sea and really envied it.

This was probably her only weakness. It was said that many wine table cultures in Huaxia were dross, but wine culture had a long history. If she could really be like Li Bai and drink wine and write a hundred poems, leaving behind a heroic legend, it would also be a beautiful thing.

But now, she could only watch Grandpa show off his power.

"Come, let's fill up too." Wen Xia poured soy milk into her and Miss Luo Quan's bowls, looking like she wanted to fight Miss Luo Quan.

"Eat food. Can you get full drinking this?" Miss Luo Quan said so, but still raised her glass and clinked it with Wen Xia, then drank it in one gulp.

The dishes prepared by the hotel this time were all fish and meat.

Among them, there was a Buddha Jumps Over the Wall that she specifically ordered. It was said to be made by a famous chef in Cantonese.

As a contributor to this recipe, the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall she made was still a legend in the Huaxia chef circle.

Because no matter how later people imitated or cooked, and no matter how they buckled all the details to the extreme, they couldn't see the golden light the moment they opened the lid.

The Buddha Jumps Over the Wall made by Miss Luo Quan could. People analyzed that it was an illusion caused by the heat and soup reflecting the light. Normally, it could be seen every time.

However, only the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall made by Miss Luo Quan had that faint golden light, and according to diners who had eaten both types of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, the one Miss Luo Quan made herself and the one others made were completely different worlds.

After eating the one Miss Luo Quan made, eating others was simply like chewing wax, hard to swallow.

Unfortunately, Miss Luo Quan said that making this dish was too exhausting and she wouldn't cook easily again. The original Buddha Jumps Over the Wall would probably become a swan song for a long time.

However, although the one she made herself belonged to delicacies, the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall carefully made by other chefs according to this recipe also deserved the title of Huaxia's first dish, fresh and refreshing to the extreme.

This time, Miss Luo Quan specifically ordered one, just wanting to let relatives and friends taste it.

Too many abalones and lobsters were boring, but if there was none, the standard would be a bit low.

And a pot of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall included over a dozen kinds of seafood, and the taste also met the public's preferences, so there was no problem with letting the hotel serve this dish directly.

It's just that I don't know how the chef here made it.

At the end of the evening banquet, the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall was finally served on the table.

All guests held bowls and served themselves a spoonful of this dish with a great reputation.

After taking a sip, everyone showed a satisfied smile.

At this time, how much difference there was between this dish and the one she made didn't matter. As long as the guests liked it, it was fine.

After all, not everyone in the world can eat the so-called ultimate delicacy.

Ordinary delicious food is the majority.

The younger sister's banquet ended, and Miss Luo Quan also took several workers and rode a tricycle into the mountains more than ten kilometers away. ===== CHAPTER 734 =====