Including Zhang Dai, who was used to seeing big scenes, they all felt shocked, especially standing in front of the protrusion. The feeling of not being exposed to the wind and rain, but feeling like they were outside, was something they had never experienced before.
Outside the large, clear glass plate, there were flowers as vivid as before, with butterflies flying on them, and dappled sunlight falling through the wisteria trellis. He couldn't help but reach out to touch the flowers outside the window, with his fingertips.
Blocked by the glass, Zhang Dai was stunned for a long time before he let out a sigh.
Zhao Yingong had already expected that such a large all-glass bay window, which is almost the same as a sunroom, has not been built in Lingao or Guangzhou. Even in the 21st century, it is not everywhere. The elders will know it when they see it.
I find it rare, let alone the natives who rarely see large-format glass.
The guests and guests were seated on the Victorian-style armchairs. A small maid came to serve tea with a red Japanese lacquer plate. Zhang Dai has always been a "beautiful maid" and thought that Mr. Zhao's style must be cultivated in his family.
They are all rare beauties in Guangdong, and they have the custom of "keeping maids" and "caring for maids". I didn't expect that I would be greatly disappointed when I saw them. The girl in front of me is not amazing in appearance, ordinary in the extreme.
Judging from the way he walks, he is even more natural. I feel very strange.
Fenghua served tea. Everyone thought it was probably a drink similar to the "Australian water" just now, but they didn't expect that what was delivered this time was serious tea. A fragrant and fragrant tea fragrance floated in the air——
The aroma is completely different from the Longjing, Shuizhu and other teas they often drink on weekdays, and is more intense.
The tea leaves are placed in a very small glass teapot, which is almost full. Next to it are four small bull's-eye teacups, also made of glass, which have been filled with tea. The tea is not the usual light blue color either.
But a deeper amber color.
"Here, please drink this tea while it's hot." Zhao Yingong said.
Wu Zhixiang boasted that she had seen all kinds of "Australian enjoyment" at Ziminglou, but this was the first time she saw this almost black tea. When she smelled it, she felt that the aroma was strong and refreshing. She picked it up and took a sip.
Taking a small sip, I only felt that the tea tasted mellow and sweet, with a faint orchid fragrance.
Everyone tasted it and were amazed. Zhang Dai said with a smile, "I think I am the most delicious person in the world. I have tasted all the specialties in the world, but I didn't expect that there is such a tea in the world!"
Zhang Dai is well-known among scholars in Jiangnan for his delicious food and good taste. In particular, he is also keen on "tasting all over the world" and spares no effort in collecting specialties and famous foods from all over the world.
Zhao Yingong had read his "Memories of Tao'an Meng" and saw the long food list he had listed, so the food he brought out to serve his guests were all things that would never be seen in the local area.
This tea is oolong tea that Wu Nanhai commissioned the trading department to purchase from Fujian, and recruited more than a dozen tea workers to make it according to modern tea-making techniques. Black tea is also made.
Oolong tea is a semi-fermented tea. Its taste is lighter than that of fermented black tea, and it is more suitable for the taste habits of Chinese people. Wu Nanhai specially brought a few kilograms for Zhao Yingong to promote locally. Once the promotion is successful, he will prepare to go through Wanyouda
Large-scale sales of "Hainan Oolong Tea".
Zhao Yingong smiled and said, "This tea is called oolong tea and it comes from the top of Limu Mountain in Qiongzhou."
The climate in Hainan is not suitable for growing tea, and the tea leaves obviously come from Fujian, and Lingao just processes them. But Wu Nanhai, Si Kaide and Li Mei all know that tea must have a certain geographical gimmick. Of course, Fujian tea is better than
A place like "Limu Mountain in Hainan Island" would be a great place to imagine.
"Oh?" Sure enough, Zhang Dai heard that tea came from a barbaric land, and he immediately became interested, "Qiongzhou is a barren state in the southern border. It is said that the people there are Liman, so how can there be tea? Do Liman also grow tea?
?”
Zhao Yingong had already prepared a whole piece of advertising soft-text in his stomach - it was not his writing, but the writers of the Great Library who had first pulled the Li Mu Mountain into such a state that the clouds and mist shrouded it like a wonderland in the wilderness.
, then went on to exaggerate something. There is a solitary rock surrounded by cliffs in the deep forest of Limu Mountain. There are 500 wild tea plants on it. However, the mountain is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, and there is always a miasma that hurts people. Only in spring and autumn every year
There are a few days each day when the clouds clear and the fog disperses, so tea can be picked. The able-bodied people among the people will try to climb up the rocks and pick nèn leaves.
"...It's just that the time is very short. When the Li barbarians see the fog in the mountains, no matter how much they collect or how little they collect, they must immediately descend the rope and exit the valley. If they are a little late, they will be caught by the miasma.
, it means certain death.”
The nonsense was told so clearly that everyone was entranced and sighed from time to time. Zhao Yingong thought to himself that such articles were of no distinction between ancient and modern times, China and foreign countries. He immediately started talking nonsense again about what tea is called.
After being picked, it could not be transported out of the mountain. Later, I don’t know what method the Australians used to transport the tea out of the mountain.
Wu Zhixiang was doubtful when he heard this, because he had never heard Pei Lixiu say anything about "wild tea from Limu Mountain", and Ziminglou had never tasted it. If he hadn't known it with 80% certainty, he would know it.
This Mr. Zhao is probably an "Australian", and I almost think this is a fabrication pretending to be Australian.
However, others listened with gusto. Fenghua came over from time to time to refill the tea. Zhang Dai felt that although this maid was ordinary in appearance, she was elegant in manners, very well-rounded in her movements, and her eyes were flexible but not coquettish. She had obviously spent a lot of effort in training her.
Looking around, this glass room is filled with many treasures that have never been seen before. The most eye-catching one is of course a mechanical clock on the desk against the wall; it is made by a jewelry craftsman in Guangzhou and is inlaid with gold and silver.
, a shell of ivory, pearls and gems, a complete set of movements brought from the 21st century. The joint production of the two time and space is now ticking. Western-style pendulum clocks have entered China in small quantities at that time, and Wu Zhixiang certainly saw it
However, Zhang Dai was not surprised. But in addition, there were many things they had never seen before; a model of the "Victory" handmade by Wen Desi and Wang Luobin, which was covered in a glass cover, with all the gun ports
It was open, exposing the black hole of the muzzle, and what was hanging was of course not the British flag, but the Morning Star flag of the Senate and the blue and white flag of the Army of the Red Army. A lotus-shaped phonograph......
Several people seemed to be Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, constantly turning their sparkling eyes. Although they tried hard to be pretentious, there were still expressions of surprise and joy on their faces from time to time.
When the host put down the tea cup and sent out the invitation with a smile, they immediately stood up and walked towards the object they were most interested in. From time to time, they asked a series of questions mixed with exclamation. Zhao Yingong stood with a smile on his face, taking the trouble to answer all their questions.
I was very busy when suddenly there was a panicked "ouch" sound, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
Everyone turned around and saw that it was Wen Huai who was tying up his hands with a look of panic on his face. Zhao Yingong took a look and saw that what fell on the ground was a pictorial - a Japanese "Shui Zhu" magazine. Lando
Thousands of similar physical books were added to the Great Library from the shipwreck.
When Zhang Dai picked it up and looked at it, he took a deep breath and almost dropped the book. It wasn't the exposure of the three-point "wet" girl on the cover that scared him, but the terrifying realism. Where is this?
A painting is simply a living person fixed on paper!
On the paper, the woman's body is so vivid, and the slender thighs seem to be extending out of the picture. However, when the fingers touch it, it is a real flat surface.
Zhang Dai has seen a lot of figure paintings, not only various meticulous and ink figure paintings by Chinese painters, but also oil paintings painted by Western priests. In his opinion, the realism of Western oil paintings has reached an incredible level, but with
Comparing this Australian painting, it is simply thousands of miles away.
"This... this is so amazing!" His face was pale, and for a moment he thought it was some kind of Australian magic.
"Brothers, don't panic, this is just a kind of picture." Zhao Yingong reassured, "The Australians have a way to use a glass mirror to fix the image of a character on the paper. I can't understand it at all.
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"It's appalling, it's appalling." Wen Huai stroked his chest and hurriedly sat on the chair, seemingly frightened, "It's simply a witchcraft!"
Sun Chun said, "This method should be regarded as Australia's secret method. It may not necessarily be a witchcraft..."
"How can we fix a portrait on paper without sorcery?" Wen Huai looked at the pictorial, looking like a poisonous snake and a beast, "Please burn it with fire.
"There are so many wonderful things in the world, how dare we claim to know everything?" Sun Chun was also surprised. But he always did not believe in the theory of ghosts and gods. He shook his head and said, "Not to mention this Australian, he is the Western method that the court talks about.
Firearms, astronomy, geography, arithmetic, if Matteo Ricci and Tang Ruowang had not traveled across the ocean, how could we have known about them?"
Zhang Dai also didn't believe much in the theory of witchcraft. He picked up the magazine and flipped through a few pages. He noticed that the woman in the picture album was tall, plump, with curvy front and back. Although her vital parts were covered with extremely thin pieces of cloth,
, but it’s no different from being naked... One by one, they put on very beautiful and attractive postures, some postures are simply shameless to the extreme.
The women in the painting all have plump breasts, slender waists, big tunics, and natural feet. According to the aesthetic point of view of the time, women with such figures were not considered women at all. None of these families lacked beautiful concubines and maids. But in the middle of the chest,
But there was a faint fire, and I felt my cheeks were slightly warm.
Zhang Dai was afraid of losing his composure, so he calmed down, shook his head and said with a smile, "Where is the magic in this picture album? I think it's the secret magic in the room." Several people smiled... which diluted the tense atmosphere a lot.