Chapter 911 “Bite me”

For Egypt, which is dominated by agriculture, locust plagues and hail will definitely affect the harvest. In addition, the "red tide" will kill the fish in the Nile River, and the plague on animals will also cause a large number of livestock deaths. The year the Israelites left Egypt, Egypt

People must be living a very bad life.

Food is the most common thing that human beings take for granted every day, but the diet in peacetime is completely different from that in times of natural and man-made disasters.

The vampire Giovanni's family lives on the island of Giudecca. If the main island of Venice is shaped like a fish, then Giudecca is like a "fish plate" that is a bit too small. The transportation here is inconvenient. If you don't have yourself,

It is very difficult to get over the boat and water bus once it stops, which is very inconvenient for tourists who want to enjoy the nightlife in Venice.

Even counting several churches, it is difficult to find a conspicuous landmark on Giudecca, which is the least distinctive among a series of islands in Venice.

But before the 20th century, it used to be the back garden of wealthy people in Venice. Many palaces and private gardens were located on the island, used for summer escape, parties, etc.

Paul Veronese's painting of the Wedding in Cana may have been inspired by these rich people's banquets.

Beautiful and healthy figures, gorgeous costumes, splendid buildings, dazzling decorations and utensils are different from the regular and rigorous format and use of colors in religious oil paintings.

He even added clowns, drunkards, Germans, dwarfs and other folk objects to other paintings. Adding secular things to religious paintings would lead to the Inquisition. In fact, Paul Verone

Sai was also summoned.

In 1572, Veronese was accused of painting a dog in "The Banquet at the House of Levi," which he painted for the refectory of the monastery of St. Paul.

This was a huge blasphemy. The abbot of St. Paul's Abbey asked him to paint Mary Magdalene. For the honor of his art, he was willing to do whatever he had to do, but he did not understand why he painted it there.

The last Magdalene would be suitable.

The original theme of the painting was the Last Supper. Later, in order to avoid trouble, he renamed the painting "The Banquet at the House of Levi" to end a controversy.

In the painting of the dinner, Veronese also added a man holding his nose and bleeding. He wanted to depict a servant who had a bleeding nose due to some accident.

In the painting, there are two armed soldiers with halberds in their hands, dressed like Germans. One is drinking alcohol, and the other is eating on the nearby steps. The family who entertained Jesus and his disciples was wealthy and powerful, and should have

There were many servants, and Veronese thought it made sense to paint them.

There is also a man dressed like a clown with a parrot standing on his wrist. His existence is for decoration and expresses the painter's "poetic wantonness".

Compared with Titian's deep-thinking works, Veronese's works, which specialize in depicting joyful and lively scenes, appear to be full of life, very flashy and relaxed, and completely without the ascetic desolation of Rome.

There were several paintings by Veronese on the wall of the vampire Giovanni's house, some genuine and some fake. Although Veronese was already dead when he turned into a vampire, Veronese's paintings at that time were not as beautiful as they are now.

So expensive.

There are many collections in his home, including Egyptian ones, including not only sculptures but also coffins.

A vampire needs to sleep in a coffin, what better disguise could there be?

Even during the day, the windows of Giovanni's house are still closed, but the lights are brightly lit inside. The "blood slave" he raises, Simeon, is a very young and beautiful Slovenian boy. He has curly black hair, but he doesn't look like an ordinary boy.

Latin boys are also tanned by the Mediterranean sun.

He is the child of Eastern European refugees. Perhaps because he has experienced too much, his expression has a maturity that is different from that of his peers.

He has good cooking skills and his dream is to become a chef in a Michelin restaurant.

If a cow wants to produce good milk, it must be carefully raised. If a vampire wants to drink delicious blood, the blood slave must eat well and rest well. After being picked up and brought home by Giovanni, he finally ended his unstable life of wandering on the streets.

It's starting to develop in a good direction.

The main dish he is going to make today is charcoal grilled crab. Spider crabs freshly caught from the lagoon are grilled over charcoal and then eaten with a dipping sauce consisting of caviar, sea urchin and crab paste.

There are also meatballs. Mixing meatballs with pasta is an American way of eating. Their approach not only spoils the pasta, but also spoils the meatballs.

Simeon is made by mixing meatballs with chopped parsley, frying them in butter, then pouring them with chili and garlic sauce, and finally sprinkling them with fennel and lemon juice.

Pomona is responsible for helping him, and she lives with a vampire who is confused between morning and night. Simeon's biological clock is also different from ordinary people.

Pomona's lunch before was very perfunctory, but now she really feels the happiness brought by cooking and delicious food.

Giovanni had brought back a lot of wild porcini mushrooms, which Simeon planned to use in risotto, and now they were simmering with onions, asparagus, and pancetta, even though she wasn't very hungry.

, I also feel appetizing when I smell the smell.

Chocolate ice cream is classic, but the cherry wine flavored ice cream is also a wonderful experiment. It is sprinkled with nuts and placed in a handmade glass in Venice. It is perfect both in appearance and taste.

Both Italian and Chinese food are very complex, but the British have made them into cheap takeaways. It seems that apart from pizza and Kung Pao Chicken, these two countries have no other delicacies.

Then she remembered the scene where she had to insist on eating cuttlefish pasta, and she suddenly felt extremely embarrassed. No wonder the locals were not interested in that dish. Why eat noodles when there are better meals?

In the living room outside the kitchen, Giovanni was playing the piano, and he was playing Bach.

Accompanied by such music, she had an inexplicable feeling that she was making art.

Especially after the crabs were roasted and Simeon was plated, she never thought that roses could also be used to plate them.

When she left the kitchen and was about to call the two of them to eat, Severus was reading something in the study next to the living room.

"Come and take a look at this." He said with a smirk.

"What's this?"

"A manuscript written by a Franciscan monk. He seems to have encountered a marten." Severus pointed to his big nose and said, "It bit the monk's nose and it bled for several hours."

Pomona immediately took the Latin manuscript and read it:

While I was working in the herb garden today, I peeled back some perilla and discovered a large ferret. Instead of running away or hiding like a normal ferret, it jumped at me and knocked me flat on my back.

On the ground, he yelled at me, "Get out of here, bald man!"

Then it bit me on the nose and I bled for several hours. The dervish who was praying for alms did not believe what I said and asked me if I had drunk too much.

Because my nose was swollen, I couldn't go to evening prayers. Later, I met the painter who painted for the monastery in the cafeteria. We talked about it while having dinner. He laughed and said it was incredible. I didn't know him.

What are you laughing at? What’s so funny?

"Oh, my God!" Pomona exclaimed.

"What's wrong?" Severus asked confused.

Pomona wasn't sure whether this monk happened to be the guy with the bleeding nose in "The Banquet at the House of Levi," but this reminder reminded her of something.

In addition to discussing the Crusades, the International Wizarding Summit in 1692 also discussed the vexing issue of magical beasts and which animals should be hidden from Muggles.

At that time, centaurs and mermaids also reluctantly participated. Although they were divided into animals, after 7 weeks of discussion, a result was finally discussed. 27 kinds of animals from fire dragons to bandimang would be hidden from Muggles.

But the goblins didn't seem to agree, but they had to accept it when the vast majority of people agreed.

"It's time to eat." She stuffed the manuscript back to him.

Severus held the manuscript in confusion, as if he couldn't understand what she was thinking.

I read the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The original book was about the Franciscan Abbey in Worcestershire, England.

Sorry, this joke has been brewing for a few volumes, and it's only now coming out. However, my article is a fan fiction, and other fan fiction is more exaggerated than mine. Please forgive me.
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