Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 412 The Emperor's Afternoon Tea
Apart from Bai Mingxiu, there was probably only one person who was absent-minded during the entrance ceremony, and that was Su Wanxi.

She kept looking at the boy who came to school with her and confronted her father for her.But just because of her negligence, he disappeared. Su Wanxi even remembered with regret that she had not even asked him his name.

Su Wanxi really wanted to thank Bai Mingxiu face to face, and thank him for his courage to stand up for her.Moreover, a man with such a mind and concept is really easy to win the favor of a girl.Even a few female classmates asked Su Wanxi who that boy was, but unfortunately Su Wanxi didn't have any information to provide, only that he was also a freshman from the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Su Wanxi got ready and planned to find Bai Mingxiu outside the auditorium after the entrance ceremony.

But Su Wanxi's luck was really not good, because Bai Mingxiu sat in the back row, and Su Wanxi sat in the front and couldn't look behind blatantly.And before the entrance ceremony was over, Bai Mingxiu was informed by the guards who came in that His Majesty still had official business to settle, so he returned to the Taiping Palace ahead of schedule.

In fact, Bai Mingxiu also has a good impression of the girl who looks delicate but is persistent in her heart. It's just that some people's attributes are lonely. He didn't think about other aspects at all. When it's over, it's over. For him, national events are more attractive.

Poor Su Wanxi stayed outside the auditorium after the entrance ceremony, looking for a long time without finding anyone.

Su Wanxi's female classmate, Yang Yingluo, the short-haired girl who spoke to her at the school gate, said, "Didn't you say that she is from the Mechanical Engineering Department of our school? There are only more than 1000 people in the school. If you have a chance, go and ask someone. Ask, you can always ask this person."

Su Wanxi asked a little timidly: "But, it's not good for girls to take the initiative to ask boys."

Yang Yingluo smiled and said, "What's wrong, why can't girls pursue their love bravely?"

Su Wanxi hurriedly waved her hands and said, "Don't talk nonsense, student Yang, I just want to thank him."

Yang Yingluo nodded jokingly and said, "Okay, I understand, I just want to thank you."

Yang Yingluo is an Australian who specially came to Daming to go to school, so compared to other classmates, her ideas are more cutting-edge, and she is more open to things like free love.

Su Wanxi was a little worried about gains and losses, twisting the corners of her clothes unnaturally, her eyes were out of focus, and she only thought that there would be a chance to see that boy with a sincere smile again in the future.

The conversation was divided into two parts. After Bai Mingxiu returned to the Taiping Palace, he went directly to his bedroom to take a shower.When Bai Mingxiu came out, he saw several refreshments and a pot of black tea prepared on the small coffee table in the study.

Perhaps in the plane before he traveled, afternoon tea was a very British way of life, but in fact Chinese people also have afternoon tea culture.Especially in Suzhou and other places that are good at tea, there are sayings such as spring cake, summer cake, autumn cake, and winter sugar. Most Chinese tea drinkers like to serve tea with dried fruit and fruit.

There are two main types of English afternoon tea, one is High Tea and the other is Low Tea.The height here actually refers to the height of the table, not the grade.On the contrary, high tea is eaten at the dining table, and those who eat high tea are generally working class.The habit of Westerners is generally to have a rich breakfast and a simple lunch, while the working class needs to work continuously at night, and the dinner party of the nobles and upper class will be held after eight or nine o'clock, so there is a relatively long time between noon and dinner, and people are very busy. Get hungry easily.

The workers drink high tea, which is basically a dinner. The amount of food is relatively large. There may be a lot of fish and meat food. It is eaten with tea. After eating and drinking, they can continue to work.

The low tea for the nobles is earlier, around four o'clock, which is the gap between lunch and dinner.At first, a duchess secretly drank tea and had snacks in her boudoir. Later, she invited her girlfriends to drink tea, eat snacks and chat together. Finally, this seemingly casual and elegant activity expanded and formed a kind of activity.Because noble ladies and ladies drink tea on the tea table, sitting on the sofa, the tea table is lower than the dining table, so it is called low tea.

But in later generations, the afternoon tea in the hotel is basically high tea, but the refreshments used look much more refined.In Chinese culture, the morning tea habit of Cantonese people is actually somewhat similar to high tea. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the working people in Guangdong often had to eat before they could work, so there appeared on the street to prepare a pot of tea and make some Sweet and salty snacks are for people to eat. After eating and drinking, the laborers have energy to do things.Gradually, it has also evolved into an exquisite morning tea culture that never tires of eating and eating.Both Cantonese-style morning tea and English-style afternoon tea have one thing in common at the end, that is, the core is eating, drinking, chatting and gossip.

The habit of drinking tea has only gradually become popular in Britain at this time, so there is no such thing as high or low tea.Bai Mingxiu is a workaholic, and he often gets a little tired after working until the afternoon, so Bai Mingxiu wants to stop, drink some tea and take a rest.Later, his "Imperial Dining Room" gradually provided him with various refreshments, which can be described as a fusion of the essence of Chinese and Western dim sum and even dim sum from all over the world.From small mochi balls, shrimp dumplings, siu mai, durian crisps, to scones, cookies, cheese cakes, mille-feuille cakes, salmon sandwiches, etc., Bai Mingxiu usually does not use more than three small snacks at a time, and the amount is small. Not too big.It belongs to the kind of portion that can be eaten in a few bites, after all, Bai Mingxiu has to save his stomach to finish the meal.

As for the tea itself, Bai Mingxiu's taste is very tricky, but he can drink anything.For afternoon tea, he usually uses fermented tea leaves, mainly black tea, Pu'er tea, and occasionally white tea.Tea producers also listened to Bai Mingxiu's call. Europeans can't pick out good or bad tea, so Chinese people pick leftover tea leaves, add various spices, or use different frying and baking techniques to make tea. Tea leaves with spices are even packed in tea bags.Once this kind of tea was introduced in Europe, it was very popular, but in Daming, it was scoffed at by the old tea lovers.Occasionally, Bai Mingxiu would also drink spiced tea, which was a completely different experience.

Because Bai Mingxiu's chef was a top-notch culinary talent recruited by the system, and his skills were unparalleled. As a result, some thief ministers later allocated three or four o'clock in the afternoon to hold a meeting and report with His Majesty the Emperor.Because the emperor was having afternoon tea at that time, he would invite his ministers to have tea together, and everyone would eat along with him.

But the person who likes to rub the most is Sister Lion.She is still a British battleship, and she has many habits of British people, including afternoon tea.Sister Lion would show up to Bai Mingxiu no matter what she had to do, to drink some tea and chat.

Bai Mingxiu was quite helpless about this, but Miss Lion didn't just come here for food and drink today, she still brought something important.

(End of this chapter)