Reincarnation Of Audemars - Chapter 137

“There won’t be rice for lunch and dinner today and we have to feed 100 guests today. So please choose your pick for lunch, mid-afternoon snacks, dinner and supper for tonight. I let you decide 5 minutes because time is precious.”

When the time is up, they’ve decided to make Spaghetti Meatballs and Sausages for lunch, followed by Chicken Bandits for mid-afternoon snacks, Classic Hawaiian Pizza dinner and Thai Chicken Lettuce Cups for supper.

“Alright ladies, we have less than 3 hours to prepare and serve lunch today for 100 pax. One person attends to the spaghetti noodles, another prep the fresh tomato for the grave, another prep the onions and garlic, oregano and all the spices and herbs, another decide to have chicken, beef, mutton or pork balls today since today menu is talking about chicken… Cluck… Cluck… Cluck…”

I clapped my hands and got everyone to work in a frenzied manner and see how they would work under pressure and see how well they could cope. Even myself was like a frenzied madman, gathering all the trays, firing up the rockets stoves to boil 25 packets of spaghetti in water that had been mixed with a bit of oil and salt.

I explained that we don’t have to wait for the water to boil and then soak the spaghetti. They’ve decided to have chicken for the Meatballs and I took out 10 chicken from my storage bag and three cooks went about it.

I told them don’t throw away the skin because it could be made into crisps when rubbed with salt and then deep-fried. This crisps would be used to sprinkle on top of anything we want to dish up.

The chicken was deboned and then pass through the meat grinder. Once it was complete herbs and spices were mixed and hands started to knead the meat to properly marinate it and were made into balls which would be deep-fried. To hold the balls together, a bit of flour and egg is used to dip them and fried over.

The spaghetti sauce was poured into the pan together with the noodles and sprinkled with shredded mozzarella, parmesan and cheddar before it was covered by one row of balls and halved sausages and then the process is repeated. It looked like morse code once it is ready.

5 trays of spaghetti were being baked inside the earthen oven and it was already 1 hour before lunchtime. “Time to make garlic bread. Someone prepare finely chopped garlic about 10 large cloves. Another churn up the butter. One gathers 50 medium loaves of bread. Another get ready the rosemary, thyme and oregano leaves. Add some salt inside it.”

I took the French loaf and began to slice lengthwise about 4 slices without cutting through it. All the ingredients were mixed in a bowl and I took a pastry brush and brush the insides of all the spaces that I had cut inside the loaf of bread.

“1 loaf stayed inside the oven for 5 mins. Use a large tray and arrange a load of bread inside it. Spread open the slices before you put them inside so it would be fully baked. 5 minutes per loaf, ladies.”

“You can load 5 at one time and make sure its crispy on the outside and soft and brown on the insides. Go… Go… Go… ” I clapped my hands once more because I had led them by example on the first few loaves and everyone followed.

It was simply chaotic in the fairly large kitchen but everyone was smiling and giggling when I clapped my hands halfway midair like a mariachi dancer and was stamping my foot like a half-horse kick.

“Luckily its 10 interns and 2 cooks. I was half thinking to hold a class of 20 interns before.” I thought as I looked at the war-torn battlefield of chopping boards, knives, food and pots and pans.

Fortunately, they learnt that after each preparation, the utensils would be washed and kept. At least the sink would always be free of any stuff and the utensils would be ready for the next use.

“10 minutes before lunchtime, get the bread ready to be cut. I show you once and you repeat the rest.” I picked up the medium loaf of bread and it felt warm and nice and the spread of butter and garlic inside it was properly baked and was slightly brown in colour.

I halved it across and began cutting up the garlic loaves into bite-size sticks. I laid them in a small wicker basket that was lined with a linen towel. “That’s how it’s done. Hurry, everyone starts cutting. I will prep the food trolley.” The 2 cooks who were the original ones working there began to assist to bring out the baking trays of spaghetti and I cut to make 20 equal portions.

Everything was loaded inside the food trolleys and were pushed out just in time to see our 60 merchants entering the compound and our members coming back. Everything was served as the members washed up and had seated themselves.

“Wow… Another creation by the master chef in the house. This should be wonderful, it looks like a pie to me but this is sure looks like spaghetti pie to me.” Patricia forked the food in front of her and I told her to flatten it with her cutlery because it was baked.

It looked pretty normal but the taste and the cheesy texture made it seems out of this world. I looked at the everyone while they eat and find that they had all levelled up one more level higher than yesterday.

Our children were now level 6, the rest of the members have all reached level 4 and Patricia had just reached level 5. “Time for the last injection of points to Trish”, I thought to myself as I walked up to where the merchants were seated and having their lunches.

“There are some changes in our Operations later so I do hope you would be able to voice out your thoughts later to me. I will attend to the adventurers first and then I would get back to you. This is going to be fantastic.”

I enunciated to them and they nodded their heads in apprehension. Furthermore, they knew my responsibilities so it would be attended to those who require the priority.

After lunch, the members were gathered and 100 allocation points each were given to 21 of them, including Patricia where they had allocated their points into their attributes accordingly. “One more level to go, guys, from then on, your direction would be at the Southern District for your battle and gathering Quests. The seniors are all waiting for you to Level up and hope you would achieve it by tonight.”

‘Our House ranking is #1 for the top completion number of Quests and the second is slightly behind us. Once we had gone to the Southern District, I don’t think the #2 would be able to chase us.” I believed this is the case since the seniors are now 2 levels away from our members and our members are 2 levels away from other adventurers from the rest of the Houses.

It was an inevitable win for the Castle of Keating-Macleod once the members had gone to the Southern District because the Quests there involved the venturing into the Southern Plains and Wastelands.

God knows what awaits them there. Only 5 gathering Quests and 10 battle Quests were known to me but I’m sure there are more than 10 battle Quests to accomplish. I looked at them and little did I realise I had turn boys into men and girls into fighters in their own class.

After the injection of new allocation points to the junior members, they decided to finish up the remaining Quests in the central and northern district and then move on to grind. They decided to skip the mid-afternoon snacks but when I announced that we at shaving pizza, they cancelled their plans immediately.

“Guild Master, since we are having pizza later for afternoon snacks, we decided to return back here. Heh heh… Could we take away instead so we could eat on our way when we hit the Northern Forest?” Rodney inquired and was given an affirmative answer by me and everyone whooped in joy.

“Yeay… We are going to have pizzas for our afternoon break… Love you, Daddy…!!!” Kayla was excited as she heard that pizza would be served and she opted to have two pieces with her. One to eat on the way there and one to eat while grinding.

Well, the word ‘pizza’ sure worked out their enthusiasm to achieve higher than what they are right now. Furthermore, levelling up for them is like a walk in the park while hundreds of other adventurers were struggling to get past each level.

“Daddy, just now when I was searching for a quest, some of the members of the House of Grundy approached me and head me in a corner.”

“They wanted how come I could level up faster than them and I told them I killed hundreds of wild beasts day and night until the next morning just to reach to where I am.”

“They believed my bullshit and they wanted to do it 24 hours a day as well because their house rules don’t actually allow them to leave the grounds after 6 pm. So boring, right Daddy?” quipped Jane as she got ready to leave to complete the last few quests and then off to grind.

“Well, that’s not boring… Its too rigid and disallows its members to grow. If they follow our free and easy concept, I’m sure they could go to the night safari if the Northern Forest and enjoy gathering more resources than just wild boars, deer and rabbit.” I simply stated the fact and everyone agrees.

“Well, we better be going now Daddy, see you later at 3 pm.” Ingles pronounced and assembled the rest and marched out of the Castle grounds.

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