ebookland Chapter 1121 Opening the Banquet
Chapter 1121 Opening the Banquet
After the orderly left, Li Mo'er and Chen Zhihao carried the plaques into the main hall and looked around for a suitable place to hang them. Finally, they found a spot on the east wall near the entrance.
This location is quite prominent; hanging the plaque here will make it visible to everyone who enters.
Staff member Bao brought over a ladder, and Chen Zhihao, carrying a hammer and cement nails, climbed up the ladder himself and began hammering nails under the watchful eyes of the guests.
Apart from Vice Minister Hao and Old Man Wei, who had just come out of the private room, no one present could guess who had given them the two plaques.
I don't understand why the deputy director of the National Security Bureau left the guests aside and went to hang up two plaques first.
After the nails were in place and the staff hung the plaque up neatly, those with sharp eyes were astonished when they saw the vigorous calligraphy and the signature below. They opened their mouths in surprise and also realized why Li Mo'er had ordered the plaque first.
The guests whispered amongst themselves, realizing how important Li Mo'er was in the eyes of the two former leaders. They had personally written congratulatory messages and even described her as a pillar of the nation.
Vice Minister Hao, Old Man Wei, and the rest of the National Security Bureau team certainly understood, but they would never reveal it.
After the plaque was hung up, Li Mo'er gestured for Chen Zhihao to go up and speak.
Chen Zhihao nodded and walked confidently onto the stage, saying, "Today, our Wetland Park office building is officially open. Thank you to all the guests for your presence and guidance. We will repay the support of all our new and old friends with the best service. We have prepared a small banquet for you today. Please enjoy and offer your feedback. If there is anything that is not in the best of our hospitality, please forgive us. Thank you all!"
The guests gave Chen Zhihao a warm round of applause.
Li Mo'er did not go on stage to speak. After all, Chen Zhihao would be the one in charge here in the future, and she needed to give him enough room to perform, while she would remain behind the scenes.
After the applause subsided, a large group of handsome waiters began serving dishes on trays. The first dishes were cold appetizers: mantis shrimp, crab, conch, jellyfish salad, braised beef, and cold Sichuan-style chicken salad.
Apart from the jellyfish, everything else was sourced from the space. Each table had two bottles of Moutai and two large, unpackaged bottles of beverages.
During construction, Li Mo'er instructed Chen Zhihao to build a pond of about five acres, filled it with seawater transported from Qinhuangdao, and also added a lot of spiritual spring water and installed an oxygen pump to ensure that the seafood could survive in it.
A few days ago, Li Mo'er used a large iron tanker truck to transport seafood from the space several times, and secretly added a lot more to the tank to ensure the hotel's monthly supply.
Freshwater fish are easy to catch; with a thought, the freshwater fish and turtles in the space will appear in the wetland lake. If you want to eat them, just cast a net to catch them.
She had added a lot of spiritual spring water to the wetlands. The advantage was that the fish basically wouldn't get sick, with a survival rate of 99%. The disadvantage was that it attracted far too many birds.
The staff had to set off a few firecrackers every now and then to scare some away. Especially that large flock of cranes, they were very bold, they weren't afraid of the firecrackers, they would fly away for a while and then fly back.
After the cold dishes were served, the waiters began to bring out the hot dishes one by one. The first dish was steamed sesame swordfish, two per table, followed by braised ribbonfish, braised beef brisket with tomatoes, braised pork belly, and cumin lamb.
The vegetables are all grown in the wetlands, including scrambled eggs with cucumber, braised eggplant, stir-fried shredded potatoes with vinegar, stir-fried potatoes, green peppers, and eggplant, etc., for a total of eighteen dishes.
The aroma that filled the entire hall made everyone's mouths water. Those who had eaten the vegetables from Li Mo'er's space were a little better off, but those who hadn't were so eager to swallow their tongues.
Especially the factory directors and deputy directors, they could swear on the lamplight that this was the best meal they had ever eaten in their lives.
After the meal, almost half of the people were holding their stomachs and burping.
The meal was a great success, with everyone enjoying themselves immensely. Many people said that from now on, this would be their only place to eat, as the food they had eaten at other restaurants before was just garbage.
Li Mo'er had long anticipated this result; it would be strange if ingredients produced by the space didn't have this effect!