Chapter 208: Will you accept it?
"Of course I do!"

Katyusha gave the answer without hesitation.

However, she glanced at Alexei who was standing next to her and suddenly said, "It's a pity that Alexei is not a pastor, and this is not a church."

“It’s such a shame.”

Wang Deming was very happy with the first half of the sentence, but felt that the veins on his forehead were about to pop out when he heard the second half. Are all these old Russians so fierce? He replied angrily: "Katyusha, your husband is still here, you should be careful!"

"Oh, haha," Katyusha turned around and asked her husband: "Andrei, what do you think?"

The short and fat Mediterranean didn't even turn his head. He shook the test tube in his hand steadily and observed the floating situation. Hearing this, he replied: "De, it seems that you don't believe in religion?"

"Oh my god, it seems so!"

"De, why don't you believe in religion? Your home is so close to the Orthodox Church?"

"No, actually I believe in religion!" Wang Deming said seriously, "It's just that I believe in too many things, so whenever I see a church or temple, I will go in and worship."

He spread his hands and said, "You can also understand me as a pragmatist."

"But what I believe in most is the East is Red and the Sun is Rising!"

"Oh, then our beliefs are still very consistent!"

"Okay, Alexei, it's time to test you." Wang Deming looked at Alexei with a kind smile, "Let's try which flavor you like best?"

“Freshly squeezed.”

"belch!"

As Alexei occasionally burped, Wang Deming announced loudly: "The first phase of research and development of plant energy supplements and dietary nutritional supplements has been successfully completed!"

"Done!"

Comrade Wang Deming, as the representative of the Chinese Medicine Factory and the Chinese Medicine Association, delivered an enthusiastic speech: In this unprecedented era, in this era full of opportunities and challenges, in this era of everyone's striving for progress.

Comrades must be brave enough to be the trendsetters and pioneers of the times, fearlessly overcome difficulties, and continue to move forward towards the light!

There was silence in the audience.
How does this work?
Wang Deming finally waved his hand and prepared a celebration banquet! It had to be a big feast! It had to be a big feast!
"Good!" Suddenly, warm applause rang out like clouds in the sky.
What is a feast? It must be bear paws, shark fins, and an abalone!
Nowadays, apart from the imperial court banquet, that is, the Manchu-Han banquet, there is also the representative of official cuisine: Tan family cuisine!

To be honest, the greatest contribution of "A Courtyard Love" is to let the general public know that there is an awesome high-end official cuisine: Tan's cuisine. It's really informative.

I never thought that officials in the feudal era were so corrupt that they created an entire cuisine just for a bite of food.

In the previous life, it was nothing more than special supplies of rice, white flour, cooking oil, pork, mutton, beef, and various vegetables, right?
The funniest thing is that the Tan family restaurant is not in the inner city now, but in the outer city, outside Caishikou, in a courtyard house in Guozi Lane, next to Mule and Horse Street, and it is struggling to run. When Wang Deming went there, the chefs were so happy, because they finally got another big job!
Chef Peng held Wang Deming's hand tightly and refused to let go. He introduced enthusiastically: "Comrade, how many tables do you want to arrange? I will arrange them for you! One serving of bird's nest in clear soup and braised shark's fin per person is the most basic, right?"

"I'll make you a bear paw dish: A palm decides the outcome; I'll make you a dragon paw dish: Flying dragon with black bean and pepper; I'll make you a braised abalone dish with abalone; others: braised fish lips and braised fish nose, arhat prawns, and large yellow croaker in soup; and finally a vegetable stew, and finally a portion of millet sea cucumber to nourish your stomach, that's all."

"What do you think?"

That passionate look gave Wang Deming goose bumps. He used a little force to shake off Master Peng's hand and asked in surprise, "Master Peng, is it really that serious? Tan's cuisine is so famous, shouldn't there be only one table a day, and people can come or not? Shouldn't you reserve a table at least a month in advance?"

"Take your room for example. It is decorated in an antique style with an elegant style, a mahogany round table, an official hat chair, tableware from an official kiln, and landscape paintings by famous artists."

"Hey, Comrade Wang! What year are you talking about? We are just like donkey dung with a shiny surface! Come, I'll take you to see." Master Peng took Wang Deming to the kitchen, lifted the lid of the big pot, and pointed at the steamed bread and cabbage stew inside. "I'm not afraid of embarrassment. Take a look at what kind of life we ​​old people are living now."

"Do you think it's still like the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China when bald men were in power? There are so many government officials and wealthy businessmen. If we really wanted to do business, we wouldn't have to move to another city."

Master Peng looked at Master Ding who came in and smiled bitterly, "If it weren't for Master Ding's excellent skill in steaming buns, we would probably have to starve."

Wang Deming looked at the steamed bread in the pot, then looked at the chefs one by one. After thinking for a while, he nodded and said, "Master Peng, your arrangement is very good. Let's do as you said. Arrange four tables."

"Ah, four tables! Haha! That's great!" Chef Peng and the other chefs looked at each other with shining eyes. They laughed happily and quickly said, "Comrade Wang, don't worry. I guarantee that your guests will be satisfied with the meal."

"I will personally contact you to buy the ingredients and guarantee to buy the best!"

"Okay, thank you for your help. However, I'm not inviting any distinguished guests. We are inviting technicians and chefs from our Chinese medicine factory, as well as several comrades from the Soviet Union to celebrate the success of our technological research."

"Oh, you're here!" Chef Peng gave a thumbs up. "This is the first time I've heard of inviting ordinary comrades to eat Tan's cuisine."

Then he rubbed his hands together and said with a smile, "Well, Comrade Wang, do you think you can advance the money for buying the ingredients?"

"No problem? How much do you want?" Wang Deming was very straightforward and took out his wallet.

Master Peng smiled with wrinkles all over his face, and tentatively raised a finger, "It's not much, just give me 1000 yuan first."

"Uh, OK!" Wang Deming was secretly shocked. He knew this thing was expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive? According to the dollar, it would be nearly 100 dollars. This is just the deposit. I wonder if it will be returned later?
You have to know that at this time, if you go to a restaurant in the city, a table of just over ten yuan is already very sumptuous, with chicken, duck, fish and meat.
But you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a kid.
Fortunately, I won some rubles playing mahjong from Alexei before coming here.

He took out two rubles, one with a 50-yuan ruble with a picture of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on the front and various intricate patterns on the back, and one with a 100-yuan ruble with a picture of Lenin on the front and a view of the Kremlin from the Moscow River on the back. He shook them and asked, "Will you take the rubles?"

Master Peng took it and held it up to the sun, then passed it to other people to see.
"We can go to the Bank of China to exchange our money, but we will lose a lot. The proportion of the black market is much higher. The Soviet Union stipulates that 1 ruble is equivalent to 0.98 grams of gold and can be exchanged for 1.1 US dollars."

"By the way, Master Peng, I don't think your courtyard is spacious enough to accommodate four tables. How about we go to the place I arranged?"

Wang Deming smiled particularly brightly, "Yongkang Hutong No. 11!"

(End of this chapter)