The boys all wanted to try fishing with Ye Shiqi’s rod, hoping to catch a big fish.
To indulge them, Ye Shiqi wasted the fish bait she had made herself.
In half a day, the fishing was so fast that everyone was pleasantly surprised and got a chance to try it.
However, the small guests, attendants, and waiters who ca along didn’t have this privilege.
The family mbers who followed along heard the lively laughter from the fish pond and the sounds of conversation, so they ca over to see and gained so experience.
Ye Shiqi then invited them to dine at the estate, asking the chefs to prepare so of the fish they caught and allowing the guests to take the rest ho.
In this gathering of guests, she learned that only Si Ma Roui and her companions were new to Tang Shunyan’s circle, while the others were childhood friends of the wealthy second-generation Tang Shunyan.
The wealthiest families from the city brought their children with them to this place.
Despite being just a small county, there were many hidden tycoons here, such as the Tang Family, who owned investing shops across the country and supplied goods to the palace.
Others, like the Tang family, appreciated the pristine landscapes and preferred the mild weather of the Southern region.
Cultivation and business were easier here, and choosing to live here was safer than other places, with no floods or fierce animals.
They returned to the house to drink tea and eat fruit, praising how delicious the fruits were. Yesterday, these friends had all received oranges sent by Tang Shunyan.
They finished the ones sent to them very quickly, and now, seeing more, they couldn’t hold back their cravings.
After waiting for less than half an hour, the feast began.
n and won sat separately—the family mbers, guards, and attendants ate on the other side, and their food was quite good too.
Ye Shiqi dined with her five sisters, Si Ma Roui, and two other little girls.
Only three little girls ca this ti, while many adults and maids filled over a dozen tables.
The dozen tables were split between two private rooms and the main hall; the hosts dined in the private rooms while those accompanying them ate in the hall.
The maids watched their masters eat well before daring to sit down for their own als.
Seeing such a lavish spread of fish dishes, the guests and their companions were especially delighted.
Li Zhijun and the waiters served the dishes and tea attentively.
Serving a dozen banquet tables certainly cost a lot of Silver, especially today’s main course of fish, with every dish prepared differently from a single large fish.
A single fish could nearly cover a whole table, supplented with various vegetables and braised ats, all delicious and substantial.
He, along with the waiters and chefs, ate quickly at the end, finishing almost simultaneously with the guests, then hurriedly cleared the tables.
During the al, Li Zhijun had tasted the fish farm-raised at ho, which all the waiters and chefs praised.
The fish al was so delicious, not because the chefs were overly confident in their skill, but because their cooking skills had improved.
The chef thought that maybe the fish were bigger and tastier because they were raised in such beautiful, clean water, which seed better and fresher than fish raised elsewhere.
As the chef pondered this, he gossiped and asked Steward Li a question:
"Steward Li, I heard that this estate has been open for half a year and that it used to be a fish farm, and the fish were raised for several years, right?"
Li Zhijun gave a mysterious smile, his aura of mystery making others think he had fish farming skills, "This place used to be rice fields."
The chef... was amazed and could hardly imagine how such large fish were bred in fish ponds and how the owner made money from this!
"It used to be rice fields, so these fish have only been raised for half a year? How big were the fish fry when put in?"
A new waiter, a disciple of the chef and not as experienced as other waiters, voiced the chef’s curiosity.
"Heh, you newcors wouldn’t know. We old employees helped dig the fish pond.
We also helped stock it when our boss bought over a thousand fry, each the size of two fingers, various types of fry."
Hearing this, the chef and his disciple looked up to Li Zhijun with imnse admiration, thinking how thoroughly thoughtful he was as the owner’s uncle.
They managed the owner’s estate so well and did such an excellent job with the fish farm.
They began to imagine — over a thousand fry of various kinds, so maybe even more expensive, weighing over ten pounds, not to ntion they might have reproduced by now.
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