I weave my destiny in parallel time and space

"That's it for tonight."

Isabel picked up the tablecloth on one side and wiped her mouth.

"The current situation is really not a suitable place for eating and chatting."

She looked at Ekaterina and said softly, "My child, come with me."

Ekaterina turned back and glanced at Char.

And Xia Ya nodded towards her.

She also stood up slowly and followed Isabel to the doorway into the living room.

But when she was about to reach the door, she turned back and glanced at Char and Alicia who was sitting next to her and continued to enjoy the food.

Then without any further hesitation, he turned around and followed Isabel and left here.

"That child's eyes are very strange." Eugenia lowered her head and used a knife and fork to eat a piece of duck leg.

That’s also duck confit, one of France’s famous dishes.

Confit, or Confit, is a meat preparation method originating from southwest France.

In winter, a large amount of duck or goose meat is marinated, soaked in fat and roasted slowly at low temperature for a long time, then cooled and directly sealed in oil, and a small amount at a time is pan-fried and served with potatoes. Under relatively low temperature conditions, the shelf life can be up to half a year.

In some northern areas of China, pork is also processed in a similar way.

Later, people no longer used oil seals to preserve freshness, but for its unique taste.

Confit duck has also become a signature dish of France and can be seen in restaurants of all sizes. But many French fast food restaurants like to use canned food directly, heat it for ten minutes and serve it.

It takes two to three days from pickling to finished product, which is quite time-consuming and labor-intensive. If possible, buy a dozen duck leg confits at a time to save fuel and last longer. It can be kept in the refrigerator for half a year. The longer the time, the more bacon flavor the duck legs will have, and the shorter the time, the more tender the taste.

Different from the texture of pan-fried duck legs or braised duck legs, confit duck meat is slightly dry and soft, similar to teriyaki chicken steak and BJ roast duck. It is full of flavor and becomes more fragrant the more you chew it. If a duck leg is served with pulpy or stiff meat, it is not up to standard.

When she was in the palace, apart from the Chinese food cooked by her mother, Eugenia's favorite food was confit duck.

"Why is it weird?" Alicia said doubtfully.

"Ambitious and sharp, there is no trace of confusion or hesitation in her eyes. She is very clear about what she should do in the future."

She raised the corners of her mouth slightly, "It's so interesting. If she wasn't a seven-year-old child, I would have even thought she was a hero from somewhere or the emperor of a country."

Alicia frowned and recalled for a moment, then said with some confusion, "She wasn't like this just now, she was just a child of this age."

"The change occurred after he gave something." Eugenia looked at Char.

Xiaya said nothing, just shook the goblet in his hand, and quietly stared at the city below.

"What did you do to her?" Alicia asked.

Xia Ya raised the sparkling wine in his hand and took a sip, sighing, "Destiny is so dramatic sometimes."

He placed the wine glass in his hand on the table and then stood up slowly.

"Want to follow me down there and take a look?"

"I won't." Eugenia slowly stood up holding the skirts on both sides, "I'm not interested in things in the world."

She looked at Xia Ya, her eyelids were slightly closed, and she joked, "I am very interested in that girl."

Xia raised her eyebrows, and Eugenia slowly left here.

He looked at Arthur, "Do you want to go down with us?"

Arthur breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Forget it, it will only increase the boredom."

"I thought you would ask me what exactly I have changed." Xia Ya said quietly, "Alicia asked me that."

"I'm over a hundred years old, teacher." Arthur said.

"Are you used to it?" Xia Ya teased.

"I'm not used to it, I'm just no longer naive." Arthur turned his head and looked at the black smoke in the distance, "It is very difficult to completely eliminate human internal friction and rely on today's productivity.

Because there are only so many resources, as long as the problem of resources cannot be solved, humans will not be able to break out of the rules of nature. "

He slowly raised his head and looked at the sky above and the stars embedded in the night sky.

He knew that the stars one after another were worlds like theirs.

“This is only possible unless human beings leave this land and wander the boundless sea of ​​stars.

Otherwise, any type of political system or economy will only delay the war for a period of time.

After this war ends, a new war may begin in the next hundred years.

By then, the intensity will be even more powerful, and one weapon may be able to kill hundreds of thousands of people. "

He slowly stood up from his seat.

"The person who can really change the world is not me, but Nikola Tesla and all the scholars including him who can help mankind step into the stars and the sea."

"The economic base determines the superstructure, but in turn, the superstructure also determines the economic base." Xiaya said, "So, if you want technological progress, it is also important to have a political system that allows technological progress. For example, Tsarist Russia, although With such a vast land, it is comparable to the population of Britannia, but its strength is not as good as that of Germany, which has a far smaller population and land area.”

Arthur seemed to have thought of something. He turned his head and looked at everything below, "So, this is why this war happened."

He came to his senses and said, "I'm leaving first too, teacher."

"Where are you going?" Xia Ya asked.

"Go find some old friends." Arthur whispered, "I don't know if that old guy is still alive."

With that said, he turned and left here.

Xia watched him disappear from his sight, and then he looked helplessly at Alicia.

"The two of us are left again."

Alicia showed a faint smile and returned to the living room. When she came out again, she was holding the little white tiger she brought back from Isabel.

"And there's this little guy."

Compared to the past, when it was somewhat unaccustomed to being in Alicia's arms, it is obviously much more at ease now. Alicia is very good at dealing with these small animals.

Xia smiled, and Alicia left here and came to the streets of Paris.

There were not many planes that successfully flew over Paris, but they carried a large amount of explosives. Char estimated that thousands of people on this street should have died in the bombing. Of course, this is a conservative estimate, and many people who were seriously injured or had limbs mutilated due to this bombing have not yet been counted.

The tram that was derailed by the air raid was still smoking, and the passengers who were killed were lying on the car.

The restaurant where Xia Ya went to order French food was bustling with people a few hours ago, but now it has become a haunted house with dead bodies lying everywhere.

There was blood on the sidewalk. Those who rescued the injured, those who covered the bodies, those who hid in search of shelter. Even the remains of many buildings are still burning.

"It's really unfair." Alicia looked at the corpses of a group of children lying at the entrance of the theater not far away. "It would take ten months for their mothers to bring them into this world, and there would be extreme pain. , but it only takes a moment for others to take them away from this world."