[Infrastructure] Rose kissed Barcelona

The bonfire was fierce, and the outside of the cold glass bottle soon saw fine and dense drops of water.The drops of water flowed into a sparkling stream, stimulating the cold palms that were held. Is there a more suitable touch for a hot summer night?

The transparent glass reflected the firelight, clearly revealing the light brown emulsion inside.The crystal clear pearls collide and jump during the stirring of the straw, turning up a piece of yellow pudding or a few ruby-like red beans from time to time.

With bursts of colorful fireworks in the night sky, the glass bottle is also lit up, and the small bottle is also a carnival no less than a midsummer night.

Vision is already a feast, but people will never have the patience to appreciate it, and must take a sip in a hurry.

The first thing that comes into your mouth is a silky and icy taste.The warm sweetness ignites a fresh flame on the tip of the tongue, and the thick milky aroma and slightly astringent tea aroma immediately overflows between the lips and teeth.

Before the brain can adapt to this novel taste, the tender pearls and soft and delicate red beans can't wait to slide over the tip of the tongue, teasing the taste buds playfully.From the cool chewiness to the smooth and tender egg aroma, the rich taste is perfectly blended with the right sweetness, and the smooth and icy slides into the throat all the way, and the spontaneous sense of happiness rushes straight to the brain.

"I finally understand why everyone is so crazy." Antonio couldn't help taking another sip, and looked at Joey, "Aren't you going to drink?"

Joey smiled bitterly: "No, no, no."

Recently, in order to try the taste and texture of milk tea and ingredients, she almost ate milk tea as a meal, but now she is scared when she sees milk tea.

Not only her, but almost all of Ada, Pascal, and the milk tea stall employees who were recruited to help by her side had ingested excessive sugar and starch in the past few days.Even the future king and the little prince Alfonso, who is now under strict supervision, is no exception-Joy has focused on educating and squeezing the culprit, so that he understands the hard work of making money.

From being amazed at the beginning to everyone scrambling to taste it, until now Alfonso chews a pearl, even if it is soft, bouncy and fragrant, he will only comment mechanically: "This tastes good, just follow this method.  … No no, no matter how delicious it is, I don’t want to eat a second one!”

Antonio was lucky to escape, as he had been at the Earl's House this week presiding over the finishing touches on the roof remodel.

Coincidentally, most schools in Barcelona start a few days after Midsummer Eve, so as the deadline given by the city hall is approaching, he, like other students, has entered a state of frantic homework rush.

Joey was as busy as a spinning top in the previous week. Now that the preparations have been completed in the early stage, the carnival has officially begun, which seems to ring the bell for getting off work.

She repeatedly emphasized to Alfonso that she must never come out to join in the fun at a carnival night full of people and eyes, and she also specifically explained that Pascal helped her keep an eye on the little prince so as not to be recognized by others.Then, he slipped onto the beach with Antonio.

There's no way, she's just a little transparent princess, and she's the future crown prince.How can a crown be worn easily?

Midsummer's Eve bonfires and fireworks will last all night.Under the cover of the dark night, Joey did not wear a tutu skirt with a thin waist and big butt that strangled people, but a slightly loose silk dress. One reason was that he expected that there would be crowds and fires on the beach this day, so he wore With so many layers, it would probably be too hot, and secondly... Unfortunately, she couldn't fit the original skirt.

It's not because of being fat.She's just been under a lot of stress lately, and she's a little swollen.

However, it turned out that this decision was very wise-it was too hot by the campfire.

It was a hot summer night, and the licking fire radiated heat unscrupulously to the surroundings, baking people's excited faces red and hot.Everyone was constantly wiping off sweat, and the ladies fanned themselves with little rose fans.

After people gulped down the cool drinks in their hands, they were in a hurry to buy new ones.As a result, the milk tea stalls ushered in wave after wave of repeat customers.

Antonio was drinking iced milk tea comfortably, and when he turned his head, he saw that the girl's strands of black hair were wet with sweat, winding and sticking to her fair neck.A thin layer of sweat hangs glisteningly on the skin next to it, shining like broken diamonds in the brilliant fireworks.

He couldn't help asking, "Don't you really want to drink something?"

Joy waved the little rose fan, looked around, and spotted an ice cream cart. "I want ice cream."

Because it is a festive sale, the price of ice cream has also doubled several times.A ball costs eight pesetas.

Joey began to reflect on whether he had set the price of milk tea too low.But she thought about it again, the launch of the product pays attention to an instant hit, not to mention that this is milk tea, I guarantee that the people of Barcelona will never forget it after drinking it, and they will never quit it again.It's a marketing cost.

She turned her head in a good mood, and then saw the peddler wearing a dark blue turban taking out one from a large pile of distorted glass bowls, rolling up his sleeves and preparing to scoop out ice cream balls with a small round spoon.

"Wait!" She quickly stopped him, "I don't want to use glass bowls. Don't you have paper plates?" These small glass bowls don't look very clean.

Others finished their ice cream and threw their bowls into the nearby sink, while the peddler's wife with a thick voice washed them out and threw them back into the big basin full of glass bowls, which were then recycled.

"Sorry, Miss, I've run out of paper plates!" said the peddler gruffly. "Only the glass bowls are left."

Joey frowned.

Now that plastic has not yet come out, her own milk tea stand has no plastic cups available, and uses paper cups and glass bottles.For the latter, she strictly requires the recycled glass bottles to be put away and not reused until they are boiled and sterilized.Of course, she expected that most people would drink milk tea while shopping, and she was too lazy to return the glass bowl, so she prepared enough paper cups.

But no matter what, washing with water is too perfunctory, it is simply a hotbed of infectious diseases.Is food safety awareness so weak in this era?

"...Don't you have any cones?" She asked unwillingly.The campfire was so hot, she was really craving ice cream right now.

"Cones?" Antonio was taken aback.

"Tube?" The peddler also looked up at her strangely, "Are you going to roll the newspaper into a tube for ice cream? The paper will get wet soon, and it will rot immediately."

Uh... certainly not a newspaper can.

Joey realized that ice cream cones might not exist yet.

Wait, she seems to have read the story of the invention of ice cream cones in a Chicken Soup for the Soul extracurricular book she read when she was a child.

At a World Expo, an ice cream vendor ran out of paper plates for ice cream and teamed up with a nearby vendor selling egg crackers to roll up the crackers for ice cream.Unexpectedly, this way of eating was unexpectedly popular. Since then, cone ice cream has become the top dog in the ice cream industry, and has always occupied half of the country.

very good.Joey wasn't upset when he didn't get any ice cream.She added one more actionable business idea to her to-do list.

Inventor of the ice cream cone?This title sounds exciting.

Make her feel like a sweet little cutie.

"San Juan fireworks are coming!" The crowd on the beach burst into cheers.

boom!boom!Whoosh - bang!

Countless gorgeous fireworks bloomed on the sea surface, reflecting the smooth mirror-like sea level colorfully, and the water seemed to ignite a grand colorful flame.

"Happy Midsummer's Eve!" shouted a drunken young man.

"Happy Midsummer's Eve!" More people began to shout wildly and rejoice.

This is Midsummer's Eve in 1873 - the beach, the waves, the bonfire, the fireworks, the crowd, the grand cheers, the splash of golden wine, and almost everyone's glass of bubble tea.

Accompanied by gorgeous fireworks and roaring bonfires, Barcelona people revel in the night and spend the shortest night of the year.

The moon, dyed colorful by fireworks, staggers down the sea like a drunk, and the brilliant sun rises with bursting enthusiasm, heralding a new beginning—after the summer solstice, schools reopen, factories resume work, and people welcome life for the second half of the year.

A long time later, some nostalgic people sorted out the old newspapers in 1873 and found that since the turn of spring and summer of this year, many novel gadgets appeared in Barcelona.

For example, on Midsummer's Eve this year, a fresh beverage called "milk tea" swept across Barcelona with lightning speed.

On the night of the bonfire carnival in San Juan, which has always been dominated by the cava family, its sales even surpassed this traditional holiday special sparkling wine, and it suddenly became a new star in the beverage industry in Barcelona.

Facts have proved that Barcelona people are quite passionate about chasing trends-a small group of visionary people have already considered their follow-up blessings before the end of Midsummer Eve, and hurriedly asked the nimble young girls at the milk tea stand before dawn , Where to go to buy milk tea in the future.

To this, they got a unified answer - in a few days, the main store of Rose's milk tea shop on La Rambla will open bustlingly, and branches will also be set up in many bustling streets.There is a discount for buying milk tea three days before the opening, welcome everyone!

And for those with a more sensitive sense of business, they have even thought about it in the long run - it's just milk, tea and sugar!Whoever doesn't earn money with such no technical content is a fool!

Thus, for the first time, the people of Barcelona saw the astonishing speed with which business opportunities spread.Overnight, almost all cafes started serving milk tea.

However, these fast-moving cafe owners soon discovered that the perfect combination of milk and tea is only the basis of everything.

Normally in a cafe, it takes more than ten minutes to prepare a drink.Why can Rose House serve out a cup of milk tea with precise ingredients within a few minutes?

Someone soon found out that this was because the tea in their shop did not use the traditional cumbersome filtering method, but directly used mass-produced tea bags, which greatly improved the efficiency of tea making.

So cafe owners who discovered the wealth code flocked to order tea bags.

Then there are the ingredients in the milk tea.

What about pearls?Although various shops quickly stole the recipe from Rose's and found that it was just tapioca starch and sugar, but for some reason, after trying many recipes, the pearls they made were not as chewy as their home's tender shells.

Pearls are a novelty that cannot be conquered, so the pastry chefs have to focus on pudding and red beans.Pudding is a traditional dessert, and each family has its own specialty; red beans can also be boiled in a large pot.

However, when they brought out the pudding red bean milk tea that tasted almost exactly like Rose’s, they found that Rose’s had a new ingredient, mashed taro.

Taro can still be eaten like this?Everyone's jaw dropped in shock.

This kind of clumsy-looking thing was rejected by everyone when it first entered the European market.After all, it has doubled its value across the ocean, but it can only be cooked like potatoes and mashed, sprinkled with salt and pepper and rosemary as the staple food, and it is far less refreshing and versatile than potatoes, and the noodles are delicious Dry.

It turns out that its charm can only be brought into play when it is paired with sugar and milk!

The cafes quickly arranged taro mash.Then I found out that there is a new thing called "taro balls" in Rose's house.

——How is this thing made of taro? !

Oats, rye, mochi, mung beans, milk jelly, and even Southeast Asian-style coconuts... endless patterns flow out of the milk tea shop of Rose House, bringing fresh flavors from all over the world, and becoming " Introduce a new ingredient every week" fixed gimmick.

The lace tabloid "Barcelona Star" even opened a special quiz column for this purpose.Veteran gourmets offer up their options for what they think will be the most likely ingredient to be launched next, and readers can wager like a lottery ticket, where the right bet often wins a fortune and the wrong bet loses only a few pesetas .If readers feel that the options given by Gourmet are unreliable, they can also nominate and place bets by themselves.

The event was surprisingly popular.Every day, all sorts of weird nominations snowflake with stakes of a few or dozens of pesetas to the editorial offices of The Star of Barcelona, ​​where editors and journalists have lived their daily laugh ever since. To a life of mindless work—

"What the hell is ham?"

"The raisin is a possibility. I'm going to bet on it, too."

"Well, I think corn is very promising, after all, oats and rye have appeared... But are fish roe serious hahahaha!"

Barcelona people have shown unprecedented enthusiasm for these fresh tricks.Even if more and more ingredients are added to a cup of milk tea, and it has almost turned into a cup of sweet porridge, they still enjoy tasting new tricks.

Unknowingly, the container of milk tea began to be fixed - three different types of paper cups with special paper lids.More portable than the original open paper cups or glass bottles, it is very suitable for people to buy a cup, take it to the beach to bask in the sun, or participate in various public entertainment activities.

After the painting "Girl Drinking Milk Tea at the Liceu Theater" by the famous painter Rapero was sold at a sky-high price of 600 million pesetas and ranked among the famous paintings, holding a cup of milk tea to the theater or concert hall became a young man from a good family. Man latest fashion.

In view of the huge hidden danger behind this behavior, the major opera houses and concert halls in Barcelona had to urgently post notices: milk tea is not allowed to be brought into the performance site!

Regarding this unprecedented event, the editorial of the "Barcelona Daily" said this--

“For the first time since the advent of wine, the discerning Barcelonans have so quickly expressed such a uniform obsession with a drink. From the nobles and rich people worth tens of millions, down to the porters of the port of Barcelona, No one is impressed by this drink that combines the mysterious softness of the East and the romance of the West."

Seeing such reports, some people have subtle emotions.

High society aristocrats.

——They actually fell in love with the same thing as commoners.This is really indecent!

For most of them, the first encounter with milk tea was at the Midsummer Eve party.You know, that day was the exception to the wealth-status divide—on the eve of the summer solstice, under the loving gaze of God, all had an equal right to party on the beach all night, nobility or commoner.

However, when the carnival fades away, it becomes unbearable to ask them to go to the street to queue up to buy milk tea like ordinary people, and tell others that noble people have the same preferences as ordinary people.

Unfortunately, it turns out that not drinking milk tea is a more unbearable thing.

One day, two days, three days, after they found out that their chefs really couldn't make milk tea with the same taste as Rose's, some people finally couldn't help but secretly sent servants to buy milk tea, and then went through the small door to enter their luxury restaurant. mansion.

It's really shameful for an elegant nobleman to become like this.

Who is the boss behind the rose milk tea shop?Come out, let's talk!

In the process, one thing is obviously not to be forgotten - this time, Miss Fernandez once again demonstrated the good fortune of Lady Luck.

The sudden soaring demand for tea has led to a rise in prices, and the new orders are still on the way across the ocean, so the lady is reasonable and elegant—only the price of tea is the same as that of other cities. by a third.

She didn't hoard goods to drive up prices, and her attitude was almost impeccable, but she still made a lot of money.

So enviable.

So, at another ball in Earl's Mansion, when Joseph asked Joey half-jokingly and half-inquiringly: "You can tell me the truth. Did you secretly open the rose milk tea shop?"

Whoosh, whoosh, all of a sudden, eyes from all corners with different expressions focused on the girl.

The author has something to say: Everyone at the dance party: it's her, it's her, it's her!

Mr. Mosquito continued to code while listening to his stomach growling in the middle of the night.

——Gentlemen, although milk tea is delicious, you will grow meat after drinking it.

Remember a little thing: I typed "Little Prince Alfonso" when typing, and when I slipped my hand and typed it out, it became "Little Bastard". I laughed so hard that I knocked over my teacup orz

——Help, Little Rose has become my keyboard master!

Thank you for the deep-water torpedo of Jiuxian, the grenade and 5 mines of Meow Chi Di Dong (what a magical split), the creme brulee medium rare, and the mine of Wenshan Thick Leaf Wood!

Thanks to Qige Dongjun, Wood, Chachajia, Pikachu, Schrödinger's Ouhuang's nutrient solution~

In order to repay everyone's thunder and nutrient solution, the author's mosquito legs have been squeezed dry! ! !