I'm reborn, so it's not too much to kill the one who traveled through the book, right?

It was Shen Rong's first time to host a banquet, so she didn't dare to be careless. After telling the old lady, she directly invited people from the four departments and six bureaus.

The four departments include the Accounting Department, the Kitchen Department, the Tea and Wine Department, and the Table and Plate Department.

The Accounting Department is in charge of banquet arrangements, including the bed curtains, tables, mats, curtains, folding screens, embroidered banners, calligraphy and painting, painted tents, and tablecloths.

The cook is in charge of the work in the back kitchen and is in charge of checking the raw and cooked food at the banquet, preparing the ingredients, cutting the ingredients, cooking and serving the food, etc. It is also called "watching the plates" or "watching the dishes".

There is also the Tea and Wine Department, which is responsible for ceremonial receptions. It is mainly responsible for helping the host to write invitations, welcoming and seeing off relatives and friends, serving tea and wine, passing messages and gifts, managing the gold and silver utensils at the banquet, directing and coordinating the serving of dishes, etc.

The last is the table and plate manager, who is mainly responsible for serving food, removing plates, washing dishes, etc.

The six bureaus refer to the fruit bureau, honey-fried food bureau, vegetable bureau, oil and candle bureau, incense and medicine bureau, and arrangement bureau.

The fruit bureau is responsible for packing clusters, placing buns on plates, checking fruits, seasonal fruits, and preparing toasts. In other words, it is responsible for fruit procurement, fruit plating, and fruit platter decoration.

The main job of the Honey Pancake Bureau is to develop various honey-fried dried fruit snacks for officials and nobles, which are candied fruits and desserts for banquets.

The vegetable department is responsible for buying groceries and preparing ingredients according to the kitchen’s menu.

The Oil and Candle Bureau is mainly responsible for lighting work. It is responsible for lighting, lighting, cutting candles, setting up tables, wall lamps, candle holders, and charcoal. If the banquet is held during the day, this is not necessary.

The incense and pharmacy bureau is mainly responsible for the incense, spices, and incense burners used in banquets.

The arrangement bureau is mainly responsible for the banquet venue layout, including chairs, tables, chairs, hanging paintings, flower arrangement, sweeping and cleaning.

Shen Rong selected the banquet layout and the dishes on the table, and then adjusted the other snacks and teas.

Throughout the capital, families who hold banquets usually ask the Four Departments and Six Bureaus to help organize them. It can be said that if the entire banquet is arranged according to the Four Departments and Six Bureaus, there would be nothing new.

Shen Rong thought that Baiweizhai's dim sum was popular, so she wanted to order some, but Baiweizhai's dim sum did not take reservations.

Shen Rong thought about it, and wrote another note to Chen Yuan to ask Shen Yuan to meet, and gave Chun Xing some instructions, asking her to deliver the two notes to Gu's house.

After receiving the post, Chen Yuan didn't want to see Shen Rong at all.

She stared at the post for a while, then said to Luzhu: "Go and reply to the person who sent the post, tell her that I am sick and ask her what's the matter."

"Yes." Lu Zhu left the house and came out of the east wing. When she came out, she saw the maid who was still waiting. She pulled the corner of her mouth and stepped forward and said, "My wife is sick. My wife asked me to ask, what does the marquis' wife want to see my wife?"

Seeing Luzhu's politeness, Chunxing also said politely, "It's like this. My family is going to hold a banquet soon. My wife saw that Baiweizhai's snacks are novel and delicious, so she sent a servant to ask if she could order some in advance and have them delivered to your house on April 16th."

Seeing that the people from Pingyang Marquis's Mansion came to ask about this, Luzhu flashed a smug look on her face and said, "This is really not possible. My wife said that the snacks at Baiweizhai must be bought from the shop on the same day. Reservations are not accepted."

Chun Xing was not disappointed. She just smiled and said, "My master and your wife have been friends since childhood. How about I go and ask your wife and then give you an answer?"

Lu Zhu's face froze. She suddenly remembered that her young lady seemed to be from the same village as the newly promoted Pingyang Marquis, and the relationship between Pingyang Marquis's wife and her own wife might really be like that...

"Then I'll go ask." Luzhu immediately changed her words and turned to go to the east wing.

Although the young lady spread some specious words when Marquis Pingyang first came to the capital, it seems that she did not do anything to Marquis Pingyang's wife. Maybe they really have a good relationship?

Chen Yuan felt a little pleased when she learned that Shen Rong came to her to order snacks for the banquet. She smiled and told Lu Zhu, "Promise her that you take her to Baiweizhai and let the shopkeeper personally negotiate. As for the price... raise it by 10%. Just say that you are rushing to work for the Marquis's mansion that day and you have to pay overtime to the snack chef in the shop. If the other party is not willing, forget it."

"Yes, I'll make note of it." Luzhu bowed, turned around and left the house.

After Chun Xing arrived at Baiweizhai, she saw that the shopkeeper had raised the price at midnight. She was a little undecided, but she was afraid of delaying her wife's business, so she agreed to it and asked for a deposit of two hundred taels before going home.

"Madam, Madam Gu is your close friend, and she has even raised the price of the snacks by 10%. I was afraid of delaying your business, so I took the initiative to agree to it." As soon as Chun Xing entered Guiyuan, she told Shen Rong about the ordering of snacks. At the end, she looked at Shen Rong with a nervous face.

Shen Rong smiled, praised Chun Xing, and said, "You did a good job. Baiweizhai's dim sum is indeed never reserved. I relied on our previous relationship and Mrs. Gu made an exception for me. Please charge a 10% higher price!"

Shen Rong thought to herself that Chen Yuan didn't make an exception for her because of their previous relationship, but because he saw that she was now the marquis's wife and still had things to ask of her, so he agreed. Maybe she was feeling very proud of herself right now!

Shen Rong doesn't care about her personal face in private, what is important is what she actually gets.

Other mansions cannot order snacks for banquets, but Pingyang Marquis’s mansion can order them in advance. What does this mean?

This shows that the Pingyang Marquis Mansion is not as useless as outsiders think.

Now the dishes and snacks have been determined, but this is not enough.

Now that summer has arrived, we need to prepare some delicious food.

Shen Rong not only prepared fruit juices of various flavors and refreshing yogurt made with honey and ice, but also watermelon juice squeezed from watermelons.

The fruits prepared by the Fruit Bureau were all grown in Shen Rong’s farm. In short, there were all kinds of summer fruits, including apricots, plums, peaches, watermelons, cantaloupes, cherries…

Shen Rong thought about it and finally added some apples and oranges which are easy to store.

Those red fruits look festive.

Shen Rong also ordered some health-promoting porridge according to the season, adding some coix seed and mung bean to make porridge, or lotus leaf and lotus seed porridge. After the porridge is cooled, add some honey to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, while also nourishing the body.

In this way, even if the banquet was organized by four departments and six bureaus, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that it was put into practice.

April 15th, the night before the banquet.

Shen Rong once again confirmed tomorrow's affairs with the maid in charge of various matters, and then dragged her tired body back to Guiyuan to rest.