Chapter 75 Dinner and Promotion Meeting
Feeling Joey's gaze that could kill a giant dragon immediately shocked Prince Batenberg. After glanced at the expressionless Mary beside Joey, the son of the deposed Hesen-Cassel lord, whose political IQ but high EQ immediately understood the whole story of the matter and knew that he had just left the wrong person.
Considering that he still wants the Hohenzollern family in Bulgaria and the support of the Prince of the Palace, Prince Batenberg immediately raised his wine glass slightly to Joey and lowered his head to apologize to show that he had no intention of his mistakes.
Mary was still always ignoring Prince Batenberg's favor, but she was quite fond of Joey's actions to stand up for her. She raised her nose and said to Joey with a smile, "Joey, continue to tell Harry's story. Then on the duel night, I want to hear it, hurry up."
Joey shook his head and wagged his tail and took a sip of juice. In Mary's gradually impatient gaze, she lowered her head and continued to tell the adventure story of the magic boy honestly.
Time flies very quickly, at least to the people who talk about it, it seems so fast.
Soon, the second starter at the French dinner, the French seafood cold cut, was pushed up. On the dining cart pushed by many waiters, there were various ice sculptures carved. Only Franz saw the chef pushing to the main table. The ice sculpture on the dining cart was the largest and most conspicuous. This was a beautifully carved white swan. The red cherry was its eyes, and the pink petals were its feathers, which were refracted by the candlelight of the dinner.
Beneath the swan ice sculpture, there is a circle of oysters, which are decorated with these petals of tender yellow fresh lemons cut open.
Queen Eugenie was extremely surprised when she saw her and sincerely thanked Queen Augusta, "Oh, dear Mary, you are so worried about the dinner tonight!"
"Maria, do you know that these are actually prepared for you, but they will be ruined by these blue-skinned monsters tonight. But fortunately, I have been careful. Have you seen other tables? Those blue-skinned monsters eat shrimps, only this table is oysters. In addition, my name is Mr. Franzken, and I have kept some. At the private dinner tomorrow, we will taste the best wine and then taste it well." Queen Augusta said with a smile at her best friend.
On the main table, everyone's meal plate was soon placed with oysters and chopped lemons. Looking at the oysters in front of him, everyone's face was different, with surprises and loves, fears and disgust.
Joey loved French oysters very much in his previous life, especially with dry and astringent dry white wine, which is a great life pleasure for eating oysters. Of course, today there are only oysters, not dry white.
Joey skillfully poured lemon juice on the oyster meat, then pinched a corner of the oyster, poured the oyster meat and soup into his mouth, and chewed it gently. The salty taste of the sea water accompanied the sweetness of the oyster meat, constantly stirring the taste buds on Joey's tongue.
After swallowing the oyster meat, Joey nodded gently and exclaimed, "It's indeed the San Hua oysters from Normandy, delicious!"
When he turned to look at Mary, he saw that Mary looked at herself in a daze, and then heard Mary ask in surprise, "Joy, do you like oysters too?!"
"Jojo, why don't I know that Mom, do you like to eat oysters?" The Crown Princess's confusion sounded.
Looking at the dining table with a surprised gaze, Joey then realized that he was the first person on the dining table and could not wait to eat the oysters. The others were either preparing or hesitating.
Joey said with confidence, "Grandma, she is the most famous foodie in Germany and even the world. I have eaten everything from Grandma. Grandma has taught me all kinds of French oysters and the feeling of each oyster when they are in. There are also detailed descriptions of the encyclopedia of French culture, diet and fashion. I can have nothing to understand, right, Grandma?"
"Well, I am worthy of being my beloved baby grandson. Grandma, I didn't love you in vain!"
After hearing Joey's praise, Queen Augusta nodded to everyone with a proud and reserved attitude, then proudly poured a portion of fresh oyster meat into her mouth. Finally, she used a French gesture to praise delicious food, pinched it with her thumb, index finger and middle finger, kissed her fingers with her mouth, and signaled to Chef Frankenz, thanking him for bringing the delicious food.
Queen Eugenie and Mary, who ate the oysters together, immediately paid tribute to Chef Franzken.
Elizabeth had blind confidence in the fashion queen and was eager to eat the oysters in front of her, but the traditional eating habits made her ask for help from William. William looked at the request of his lover, closed his heart and tried the oysters. After a while, he said to Elizabeth with a melancholy face, "Aira, I accidentally swallowed it. This thing didn't taste, but I promise, it didn't smell at all, and it should...it might be delicious."
Then everyone started to eat it again. Queen Eugenie glanced at the old prime minister who was still hesitating and said proudly, "Sir, compared to the sausage duel you experienced before, this French oyster from France will not kill you. You must know that every French woman in France will not be afraid of an oyster!" Queen Eugenie especially emphasized the two words French woman.
Amid everyone's laughter, the old prime minister blushed and forced himself to swallow the oyster in front of him. The prime minister once again suffered from the bitterness of grudges!
Then came French foie gras and seafood soup, as well as a basket of French breads that were served with them. Compared with the oysters just now, this food was widely accepted.
Joey directly asked for a baguette, clamping the baguette with one hand, and skillfully smeared the butter on the broken piece of bread with the other hand, and then putting foie gras and sour apricot kernels. The skillful movements of this glutton-level foodie made Mary happy and couldn't help but ask with a smile, "Joey, you eat so well in French. Is Grandma Augusta always teaching you to eat French food?"
Joey was stunned and thoughts floated to his previous life. Yes, he was a foodie who liked food in his previous life. French, Italian and Spanish food are all his favorites. As for how to eat, I may really learn it without a teacher in this life.
"Hehe, I don't know why I am so skilled. Maybe this is fate in the dark." Joey's feelings about his foodie life in his previous life had a strange emotion in Mary's ears. Under the dining table, he stepped on Joey with the cover of the tablecloth, and then said in a low voice, "Don't talk nonsense."
"I'm wronged!"
"Dear Princess Alba, don't you know that the dishes tonight are your taste?" The Crown Princess noticed the strangeness here. As the hostess of the dining table, she always pays attention to the situation of each guest. This is her duty.
Mary immediately straightened her already straight waist, put down the bread in her hand, touched the corner of her lips with a napkin, and replied softly, "Dear Crown Princess, if you can, please call me Mary. Each dish at the dinner was very delicious. I really didn't expect that I could taste the taste of my grandmother's hometown in Germany. Thank you very much for your hospitality."
Joey looked at Mary who changed instantly, then looked at her mother with an elegant smile, and wisely used a small baguette to dip it in seafood soup, and immediately blocked her mouth.
"Mary, oh, I'm sorry, I accidentally heard the gypsy topic you and Joey discussing just now. I want to say, I really like your thoughts." The Crown Princess looked at Mary with a smile.
Mary's face turned red and she lowered her head slightly. When a standard lady heard the praise, Joey glanced at the corner of her eyes and instinctively told herself not to listen, not to read, not to spread. Only in this way is the basis for her to settle down.
"Mary, do you like to do charity?" The Crown Prince gracefully put a small piece of bread into his mouth, and seemed to ask inadvertently.
"Dear Crown Princess, my aunt often takes me to the Red Cross in London. We often go to the East End of London to donate clothes and food." Mary replied truthfully.
"Mary, what do you think of those who need help?" the crown prince continued.
"Dear Crown Princess, I think before helping others, I need to be a kind person, a person who should be full of awe and love for life, and then I must remember that helping others is more meaningful than what I get from others. Finally, it is to do what I can do for others within my own ability." Mary answered sincerely to the Crown Princess.
"I know how to respect life, know how to help others, and know how big I am, and how big I am. Although this child is young, he has a smart head, not a beautiful vase." The Crown Princess commented in her heart.
"Dear Crown Princess, I actually have some small opinions on charity." After getting the Crown Princess's promise, Mary continued to talk about her views on charity, "In my opinion, it is important to be a person in the cause of charity, but it is also equally important to allow more people to participate in this cause."
"This child is even more interesting." The Crown Princess was delighted and smiled and signaled Mary to continue.
"I think everyone can participate in charity. For example, in the East End of London charity organized by my aunt, some people are good at socializing and organizing, they go deep into the slums of East London and give food and clothes to the poor, and some people are not used to the dirty air of East London. They use another way to fund it, such as providing education for the poor in the West End of London, and even finding ways to learn a craft of making a living."
"Every kind person has a charitable heart, and charitable people need to find a charitable path that suits them for these hearts that want to do charity, and let everyone participate in charity, which is the most important thing." Mary still concluded with a shy look on her face.
"Oh my God, I'm starting to like this child a little." The Crown Princess looked at Mary with a look of surprise.
Being able to say these insightful words shows that Mary is a person who is dedicated to charity. The more the crown princess looks at Mary, the more she likes it. Everything is happily discussed by the two, and everything becomes natural.
Finally, the Crown Princess asked Mary with a smile how long Queen Eugenie and she were going to stay in Berlin. When she knew that she would only stay for one week and would return to London next Wednesday, the Crown Princess said with grief, "Mary, you and your grandmother have been in Berlin too little. I really hope that you will live longer next time."
Mary blushed and said that she would have the chance to come to Berlin again in the future, and would definitely visit the crown princess at the crown princess. The crown prince looked at Mary with a embarrassed look and laughed heartily.
The old emperor William I, who was sitting directly opposite, also clearly heard the conversation between Mary and the Crown Princess, and quipped with a smile, "Mary, don't just come to the Prince's Palace, remember that Charlottemberg Palace also welcomes you."
The laughter across the dining table also attracted the attention of Queen Eugenie and Queen Augusta.
"Maria, it seems that my daughter-in-law likes your baby granddaughter too!" Queen Augusta smiled and joked at Queen Eugenie.
"My baby granddaughter has been strictly educated since childhood. If this cannot be liked, wouldn't it mean that my grandmother's education is a failure?" Queen Eugenie's complacent tone was obviously relaxed, and then half-jokingly said to her best friend, "Your emperor and husband seem to be raising a glass to greet us, don't you give me a reply?"
"Hmph, I haven't talked to me for almost fifty years. I want me to forgive him if I raise a glass of wine? No way!" Queen Augusta turned her head and said angrily.
After the appetizer, the French meal served significantly faster, and a baked salmon with white sauce was quickly placed in front of everyone.
After taking a sip of lime water, washed away the smell of other foods in the mouth, everyone began to feast on the main course. It was still authentic French, which made all the guests present praise the main course.
After an exquisite French mousse dessert and fragrant and delicious coffee, the dinner that lasted more than an hour finally came to an end, and the dance at the Prince's uterus was officially approaching its end.
In the last hour, it was basically the time for guests to move freely, and it was also Joey's most important promotion meeting. When the servant told himself that everything was ready, Joey turned his head and asked Mary, "Mary, I'm going to hold a private promotion meeting. Are you willing to come and have a look?"
"Private Promotion, Joey, what does that mean?"
"Well, my teacher's research institute recently learned some drugs. I asked my mother's secretary Sir Stockma to invite some bosses from famous drug dealers and pharmaceutical factories in Berlin, and I want to recommend these drugs to them."
"Joy, your teacher?" Mary asked in confusion.
"My teacher is Mr. Professor Koch! The greatest medical professor in the world today." Joey proudly announced to Mary.
"Greater than Professor Pasteur? I don't believe it!" Mary said with some dissatisfaction.
"Oh...yes! In this matter, Mary, I'm an honest person..."
"So, you are dishonest in some things?!"
“……”
William Mester, the head of the company Mester and Lucius, wanted to take advantage of this free time after the dinner to find his colleagues in the German pharmaceutical industry and exchange recent news in the industry. Although many pharmaceutical factories are concentrated in the western part of Germany, many famous research centers in medicine are in Dublin, and the first-hand medical research information at home and abroad has also spread from Berlin to Germany.
After walking around the corridor and the card table for a few laps, Mester saw a strange phenomenon. The colleagues who were eating together at the dining table seemed to suddenly disappear from the air...
Mester had attended many dance parties and dinners for nobles and wealthy people, but had never seen such a terrifying scene. Mester only felt his neck was a little cold. Just when Mester scared himself to the point of being terrified, a familiar figure suddenly appeared and hurried into a room.
"Isn't this my colleague, Old Fertenberg from Weinheim Codbo Company? What is he doing in such a hurry?" With a question from his head, Mester quickly walked to the door of the room, but a waiter was standing at the door. Mester was about to step into the room, but was stopped by the waiter.
"Dear sir, entering this room requires a special private invitation, otherwise you will stop." The waiter reached out to stop.
"Invitation, what private invitation?" Mester asked in confusion.
"Dear sir, it is Prince Waldma's private invitation." The waiter whispered.
"Ah, I have..." Mester hurriedly flipped through the inner pocket of his shirt, and then he remembered that he threw it away while playing cards before the dinner.
Mester sighed, shrugged, and was about to leave helplessly. A thought suddenly flashed in his heart. This thought was always a story when Mester bragged many years later.
"Mr. Merck, I mean Mr. Merck from the Merck family in Hamburg, is he in the room?" Mester turned around and asked anxiously to the waiter.
After the waiter nodded and admitted, a surprising scene appeared. A well-dressed gentleman began to search for the trash can of the prince's uterus. After going through a lot of hardships, the gentleman finally ran into a room with a closed door in a series of surprising loud laughter.
After Mester rushed into the room, he was immediately attracted by his colleagues, including Mr. Merck of Merck, Mr. Fertenberg of Codbo Company, Mr. Fredrich Melz of Berlin, Mr. Ernest Solvey of Suewe Medicine, Mr. William Berlane of Berlane Medical, Mr. Ernst Solvey of Scherling, Mr. Ernst Solwen of Scherling, Germany... and more than a dozen people who knew or didn't know were crowded in a small room, listening to what a half-grown boy on the stage was explaining.
There was a beautiful girl next to the boy. She was following the boy's prompts, and she tore off the white paper sticking to the wall from time to time. The huge size of the white paper was written with a prompt. The lines of words on the white paper quickly attracted Mester's attention.
“What are the diseases that plague humans?”
“What I think is the three golden drugs.”
“The ten most profitable drug analysis in the future.”
......
Before I could hear what the boy said, the topic written on white paper completely attracted Mestre's eyes.
Afterwards, the only thing Mester remembered was that in the young man's slightly immature voice, he was completely brainwashed by the bright future of the medical world that Joey had prospected. In the auction competition for the medical distributor rights of Joey divided into five regions (Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, Northern Europe and Germany), he lost Western Europe. With the noise of the crowd and the blood of the auction, he finally obtained the market monopoly of several special drugs in the Southern European market.
The next day, when Mester signed a monopoly agreement, he saw the amount he paid last night's hot-headedness, Mesta's hand signing the check was trembling. Years later, Mester's hand counting the bills was still trembling. The only difference was that the first one was afraid, while the second one was purely tired.
Chapter completed!