Great time travel

Chapter 60, The Middle Ages Totally Collapsed

December 1348, 12, Oxford, Kingdom of England, "Hogwarts School of Divinity"

The cold wind blowing from the boundless permafrost glaciers of the Arctic Ocean and the Scandinavian Peninsula passes through the leaden-grey foamy surface of the North Sea in the middle of winter every year, screaming and sweeping across the whole of Great Britain. Island, howling and swaying the endless breath of frost on the heads of every Scot and Englishman.Due to the relatively low terrain of the island and the lack of steep mountains that can block the cold current, even Oxford, at the southern tip of the British Isle, cannot avoid the wind, snow and severe cold—earlier, with the cold current and snow Landing on the beaches of Britain together is often accompanied by the leading clippers of the Vikings.However, the English people of this era don't have to worry about the Vikings anymore: because the Plantagenet Dynasty, which currently rules them and will continue to rule until the 21st century, is a group of descendants of Vikings.

In the first thousand and 340 years after the birth of Jesus, the winter in this dark year when the great plague swept across the continent of Europe seemed to be more difficult than in previous years. As soon as November entered, a few small snowfalls fell intermittently.Even on days when there is no snow, the sky is always covered with dark and heavy clouds, covering all the sunlight. Even though it is just after noon, it is already as dark as after dusk.

Just after Christmas, an overwhelming snowstorm roared in. The snow powder in the leaden sky was almost thick and sticky, covering the fields, forests, mountains and cities with a thick white coat. Under the eaves of the buildings in the city are densely packed crystal clear ice edges.Even the surface of the Thames was covered with ice overnight.The snow piled up on the streets of Oxford required all the students of Hogwarts to mobilize and use fire spells together to complete the basic cleaning work.As for the wild roads, it is completely impossible to drive.

However, although the weather outside can be said to be freezing cold, in the banquet hall of Hogwarts College located in an ancient tower, red charcoal fires are burning in the huge fireplace, so that everyone who attends the New Year banquet, All feel warm as spring.

—even if they are living in a miserable world on the verge of death and destruction!
Since the entire learning content is only 400 spells, this cottage version of Hogwarts College has become a two-week short training class. By the end of the year, the fifth batch of regular students has successfully graduated—and this The number of students in the batch quickly expanded to as many as [-].

As for the literacy class opened by the remnant teachers and students of the former Oxford University, it has recruited nearly a thousand students in one breath, from loli Zhengtai to old men and old ladies. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the knight's armor and sharp sword have been eclipsed by [Pyroblast] and [Dragon Break]. "Knowledge is power" has become an ironclad fact...

In the same way, after teaching the first batch of students, the traversers basically got rid of the heavy teaching work, and directly appointed some graduates to serve as Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slater. The dean and tutor of the fourth branch of the forest, the natives of this time and space, taught spells and incantations to the younger students in the form of "old students leading new students", and the teaching effect seemed to be pretty good.

—Joan, Queen of England, as Landlord and first graduate of the "Angel" Professor.Plantagenet himself served as the first head of Ravenclaw.As for the dean of Gryffindor, the Pope appointed his physician Jolick to serve.Queen Joanna of Naples is very interested in mastering Hufflepuff College because she is also a graduate of Hufflepuff College. Unfortunately, her country is in disarray and has many affairs. So Sister Louise, one of the "Paladins" Li Wei, got the favor of Doraemon because she was good at playing with cats, and became the first head of Hufflepuff in one step. equal status...

Finally, there is a position of head of Slytherin, which the Venetians originally wanted to take.But others think that the Venetians have taken advantage of this plague crisis to greatly expand their sphere of influence, and they have taken too much advantage. They must be humble in this matter... In the end, after some debate, Bocca of Florence actually took advantage of it. Qiu, a libertine and great writer, made him the head coach of Italian male therapists!
Of course, as a guy who earns his living by writing and talking, Boccaccio is indeed one of the best masters of "spells"...

As for the headmaster of Hogwarts with the highest status, it seems that only the Pope is qualified to be the headmaster in this era. Of course, His Majesty the Pope is busy with many affairs and affairs, and cannot stay in Oxford all day, so it is just a name.In fact, all academic affairs are still handled by the four branches.

At this moment, the four deans and their teachers are sitting on the teacher's seat on the high platform of the banquet hall, listening to the principal's speech.

"...cough cough, the past year was a dark year, a sad year. Millions, even tens of millions of Christians were called by the Lord in the catastrophe of the great plague and left the world The terrified people lost their minds and even mistakenly believed that the end of the world was coming.

In the past tragic year, no matter which country in Europe, it has suffered a century of pain and destruction. From Denmark to Sicily, every once-prosperous region is devastated.Cities were turned into ruins, and countryside into wilderness. Whether poor or rich, nobles or serfs, they could only hopelessly wait for death to come.Even now, the situation in this world is still not optimistic.The area that has been saved is only a small part compared to the whole of Europe.In Denmark, Hungary and Bohemia in the east, the terrible plague continued to rage.Even in Britain and France around us, the plague was not extinguished in every town in time.Thousands of believers of the Lord are still struggling in despair and pain, waiting for the salvation of Almighty God..."

Standing in front of the high platform of the banquet hall, the first honorary headmaster of Hogwarts College, His Majesty Pope Clement VI coughed slightly, with a haggard face. After the rush in Rome and Avignon, he published today The third New Year's speech - with the help of the magical [random door], the medieval dignitaries temporarily have miraculous fast-moving abilities, but it also increases their workload a lot invisibly.

"...But this is also a miraculous year, a glorious year, a great year! When our world fell into darkness and destruction, the Supreme God finally heard the pious believers' cry for help and sent a holy The angel of God, bestowed divine grace to save us! Not only healed our sick bodies, but also purified and sublimated our souls! As an unprecedented great grace, God even generously bestowed divine power on mortals, It is these magical spells that you have mastered! This means that an era of miracles is about to come...

The past year was unfortunate but also memorable. The omnipotent God not only used the great plague to test the world, weeded out those who were too cowardly or misbehaving, but also gave us the necessary courage, wisdom and talent to overcome All the evils of the world!You must carefully use the power given by God, and use them as much as possible to serve the Lord, instead of just thinking about self-interest and using God’s power to satisfy your selfish desires. Such behavior simply fails God’s grace , is a great crime of blasphemy, and after death, you must go to Hell..."

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After finally waiting for the Pope’s lengthy speech emphasizing the importance of the church and faith to end, the fifth graduates of Hogwarts College, who had been waiting a little impatiently, lined up and took the stage one by one. He took the cat ear hairpin and the toy cat tail which represented the graduation certificate, and put them on happily—of course, this cat tail was hung on the belt instead of being inserted into a certain part of the buttocks, otherwise It’s okay in summer, but once it’s winter, these guys’ butts will be frozen into lumps of ice because they can’t fit their pants!
Next, the band, which had already been prepared, began to play cheerful music with lutes, flutes, and snare drums.The servants brought in the dining tables nailed with large strips of oak boards. The tabletops were covered with linen tablecloths, which were very rare. It was not dim and choking torches or oil lamps that provided lighting for the banquets. The [Light Art] performed in shifts...the metal cutlery and plates reflect brightly, which is very pleasing to the eye.The wine packed in wooden barrels and the local mead in large pottery urns also have some rustic charm.

But these medieval British dishes on the table made Wang Qiu, the "angel", stare straight at his eyes, and lost his appetite instantly. Modern people who are familiar with European food know that Northern Europeans rely on potatoes for food, and Southern Europeans eat potatoes. They depend on tomatoes for food, and they cannot live without these two.And Britain is a sad country famous for its potatoes and gays.Since childhood, Wang Qiu felt that the British people’s food imagination was extremely lacking, because from British dramas and British classics, it seems that what they eat every day is: boiled potatoes with beef, boiled potatoes with mutton, boiled potatoes with pork, roast beef Potatoes, Roast Lamb Potatoes, Roast Pork Potatoes, Beef Potato Soup, Lamb Potato Soup, Pork Potato Soup…

And the only world-class famous dish in the UK seems to be grilled fish with chips... It's the stuff written in middle school English textbooks.

When he was a little older, Wang Qiu saw the legendary British dishes "Looking up at the Star Pie" (countless dead fish heads stuck on the cake and looking up at the starry sky), "Chocolate Burned Eggplant", "Goat Milk Boiled Oranges" from the Internet. ", "Jelly Boiled Pineapple" and other dark dishes with unsightly shapes and unspeakable tastes, the status of British cuisine in Wang Qiu's mind has further risen from "ordinary" to "horrifying".

So, before American specialties such as potatoes, pineapples, and chocolates came to Europe, were the British's recipes a little more normal?
At least, Wang Qiu was looking forward to this New Year’s Appreciation Banquet carefully prepared by Hogwarts students—but after these dishes were served, Wang Qiu discovered with infinite despair that as early as in the distant In the Middle Ages, the British had already turned the technology tree in terms of cooking skills, and turned into a country of dark cooking that is extremely strange in the eyes of modern people!Both the Scots and the English!
Leaving aside those black breads that were hard enough to kill with bricks—in fact, even medieval white bread was as hard as modern French baguettes.Even if it was the main dish that was put on the banquet, Wang Qiu couldn't bear to look directly at it.

First of all, to be clear, medieval Europeans ate almost everything!In later generations, many well-off Europeans no longer bothered to care about things that were even considered cruel and disgusting, such as offal and offal, and the hungry and red-eyed poor people in the Middle Ages would eat them anyway.For example, haggis, the "national dish" served by Scottish students as a highlight at the moment, is made of lamb stomach stuffed with haggis... What's more terrible is that rough Europeans are not as willing to cook offal as Chinese people It takes too much work, and it is too much trouble for them to wash the large intestines and cut the kidneys. They only know how to chop them up and stuff them in some container, or throw them into a large pot for stewing, so that people can find a lot of dirty meat from the inside at a glance. Xixi things are really off-putting.

So, looking at the greasy goat stomach pouch filled with offal on the plate, and the offal soup overflowing with strange smell in the small pot, as a Jiangnan native who never tires of eating, Wang Qiu was stunned for a long time holding a spoon , I just didn't dare to put it in my mouth, and in the end I had to pay off a few salivating low-level servants.

The dishes of Scotland in the middle ages are so unpalatable, and the dishes of England seem to be not much better. First of all, there is the famous "Looking up at the Star Pie", where a group of dead fish heads are poked on the cake and stare at Wang Qiu.Moreover, the fish in the cake were not fresh fish, but stinky salted fish, so smelly that Wang Qiu thought it was from a can of stinky herring in Sweden, so he covered his nose and ordered the servants to bring it down and give it to the poor immediately... In addition, the imaginative chefs of medieval England also made in-depth exploration of the idea of ​​"Looking up at the Star Pie": not only the fish head, but also the whole crab and crab were poked on the hot pie crust by them. lobster! ! !

In short, Wang Qiu was almost dumbfounded looking at the hideous crab claws and lobster claws poking out of the pie crust, completely unable to understand the thinking of medieval English chefs-although China also has snacks such as crab meat and lion head, but Anyway, after peeling the crab meat, it is put into the dish. How can the whole crab and lobster be used as stuffing without peeling the shell?Do you have a grudge against diners’ teeth, or do you expect their lips and cheeks to be poked out by crab claws?
However, when he looked around in astonishment, wanting to see how other people enjoyed this dish, he was even more horrified to find that, except for some girls, most of the boys actually picked up these crab and lobster pies, Cracking, spitting out a few broken shells, swallowing the bread and the whole shrimp and crab together—well, the diamond teeth of medieval Europeans who were fully tempered by black bread comparable to stones every day , It really amazes me, a modern person with a delicate body and fragile teeth!

And then, the chefs in England racked their brains and presented an even bigger "surprise" to the "angels"...