Chapter 597 In the Mood for Love

If the weather is bad, like raining or snowing, anyone would want to be indoors in the warmth, who wants to stay out in the open?

Pomona closed "A Dream of Red Mansions" and looked at the rain outside the window. London is always cloudy and rainy, which makes people feel gloomy, but the tea restaurant is warm and harmonious.

Now it is approaching late at night, and it is not dining time. The tea restaurant is still open. Customers can choose the hot and cold drinks provided by the tea restaurant, such as coffee, various teas, juices prepared on site, milk tea, etc.

Milk tea does not originate from British black tea with milk, nor from Chinese clear tea, but the daily drink of northern nomads. When traveling in Mongolia, Pomona and Severus were entertained by the locals.

They live in a tent called a yurt, but they still have many traces of modern civilization.

Those people were kind and simple, and it was hard to imagine that they were descendants of the Mongols who almost conquered Europe.

The conditions of the yurts are neither good nor bad. Their fuel is not cow dung and hay, but also liquefied gas and briquettes. Most of the young people choose to stay. The older generation rides horses, and sometimes they graze on motorcycles. They can freely choose a piece of land equivalent to one hectare in the area designated by the government, and the ownership is permanent. And medical care and education are free. The level of national education ranks 49th in the world. It is actually very easy to find a good job in Mongolia. Even if it is manual work that does not require any technical content, if it is done well, it is quite profitable.

The yurts of the rich are very luxurious. They are almost immobile. In Stalin’s words, Mongols are a group of aliens among Asians. He will overturn all European impressions of Asians. They are the least Asian Asians. people.

The general characteristic of Asians is diligence, but Mongolians are very leisurely. If a Mongolian is diligent enough, it is easy to get ahead in this country, but they prefer to enjoy life. In that country where there are more animals than people, totem worship still exists. The vast majority of Mongolians believe in Tengger and wolves. It is written in the three major historical works of Mongolia: Mongols are a combination of gray wolves and white deer.

In the Mongolian plateau in the 11th century, the west was grassland and desert grassland. There were Turkic people with wolf as their totem. They were good at riding horses but not good at making ironware. In the east is a small part of grassland and large-scale forest. There are Xianbei people who use deer as their totem. They are good at handling iron tools but not good at taming horses. Probably in the latter part of the 11th century and the beginning of the 12th century, the two tribes had a political marriage. The main content is that a Xianbei princess married a Turkic prince. This marriage gradually merged the two tribes and became the predecessor of the Mongolian tribe.

Later, the Turkic prince who married Princess Xianbei became the leader, and they gave birth to the first ancestor of the Mongolian tribe. In ancient legends, the combination of the wolf and the white deer, with the wolf as the father, means that the patrilineal lineage of the Mongolian tribe is inherited from this Turkic tribe with the wolf as its totem.

The Inuit people have an Animagus legend. A white arctic fox turned into a maiden and spent a beautiful aurora night with a lonely hunter. The "fox spirit" is actually not that annoying, she just Just to repay the favor.

Wolf words seldom repay kindness, and Chinese people use Zhongshan wolf as a metaphor for a person who repays kindness and revenge, and is ungrateful. When the new immigrants came to the New World, the Indians gave them help and taught them how to survive in the New World, but what did the new immigrants give back to them?

The United States is a wolf-like society, without the constraints of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith, and without the constraints of Christian faith. The rampant freedom, this is the wolf nature, the more cruel the easier it is to stand out, but the kind and innocent people are easy to be eaten as food.

The warning brought by the movie the day after tomorrow has no effect at all. They still live in a wasteful way. The agriculture in the United States is developed, resulting in no appreciation or even waste of food. If the Manhattan policeman followed the young man's warning and stayed in the library, food was the primary problem they faced, survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest, most of them would freeze to death and starve to death on the way out of New York, "The road has frozen bones" is like that.

Bullets are of course used to deal with wolves. It is a world that believes that there are no rich and powerful in front of bullets. It is a paradise for adventurers and speculators. All civilizations and cultures will be like Mongolian milk tea in that melting pot, smashing the original tea leaves , Put it in a pot of white water and cook. After the tea is boiled, when the tea is thicker, remove the tea leaves with a colander, continue to burn for a while, and use a spoon to lift the tea while boiling. After it is concentrated, add an appropriate amount of fresh milk or milk powder. Nothing left, just a little... something specious.

Milk tea originating from Hong Kong is called "Western tea" to distinguish it from "Tang tea".

The Tang Empire also had a headache for the Turks, a nation that believed in wolves, and even Anlu Mountain, which launched the Anshi Rebellion, was a mixed race of Turks and Sogdians. Discrimination against race in that country is not as deep-rooted as in the West. The main contradiction is against the rich and the privileged class, which is ahead of other countries. There is also a lot of ethnic hatred, but it is mainly against the near It was caused by the modern Qing dynasty. Domestic dogs are also domesticated from wolves, and Turkic wolves are very loyal after being domesticated. When Tian Khan was buried, there were Turkic people who died for others. For the Tang Dynasty, not only the Chinese, but also Asians had a "dream". Chinatown was called Chinatown, why not Hanren Street or Mingren Street?

Even in terms of Wenzhiwugong, the Tang Empire was not perfect, but it represented a kind of tolerance. Tang Taizong had Wei Zheng, Tang Xuanzong had Han Xiu, civil servants could speak up and speak out, even if the emperor was so angry with these officials, he still didn't do anything to them. As rulers of foreign races, Manchu Qing was far inferior to Li Tang of the Xianbei tribe.

Yongzheng experienced "Nine Dragons Conquering Heirs". This person was not only cruel and mean to his fellow citizens, but also merciless towards his close ministers. Nian Gengyao and Longkodo are the most prominent examples. He is almost the same as Hu Hai. It's just that Qin Shihuang was already dead at that time, but Kangxi was not. God knows if his wolf-hearted son killed his father like Emperor Sui Yang did.

Filial piety is also a kind of gratitude, thanking parents for their upbringing, which is generally not found in northern nomadic peoples. The decline of Turkic and Mongolian is largely related to the wolf culture in Turkic tribes. There are endless internal struggles between brothers and blood relatives for Khan status. People are like beasts. Han Fei believes that all social relations are immersed in the relationship of interests. He said: "The ruler measures the animals and the ministers, and the ministers measure the affairs of the emperor. The relationship between the monarch and the ministers is also calculated. It is harmful to the country, and the minister does not." To make the country rich and benefit ministers, the ruler can’t do it. The affection of ministers harms the body but no benefit; the affection of the ruler harms the country without relatives. Those who are rulers and ministers are also those who plan to cooperate.”

This kind of statement is very hurtful. A normal person's idea is that in addition to the interest relationship between people, there is also family, friendship, and love. The idea is beautiful, people in big cities are strangers to each other, who has time to talk about these "emotions" with a stranger? The most direct thing is the interest relationship. The interest relationship must be protected by law, and the human relationship is indifferent. Otherwise, there will be no order in this reinforced concrete jungle.

In short, don't treat yourself as a human being, but as a beast, you can do all kinds of legal loopholes and speculate without conscience, and eat others as food, and you will live a much better life than people with conscience, just Your family lacks nothing but morality. When things are good, everything is fine. When times are bad, who will come to help?

If you get right, you will get more help, but if you lose your right, you will get little help. Who helped the Tang Dynasty to quell the civil strife after the Anshi Rebellion broke out? The Uighurs also had conditions to help the Tang people, and they looted Luoyang. If the nobles and rich people at that time were not so extravagant and extravagant, they would have paid the taxes they should have paid, and given the rewards they deserved to those warriors who guarded the frontier in the desert and bitter cold north, there would not be that mutiny.

Compared with the bustling London, Liverpool is much more remote. If London is the jewel in the crown, then Liverpool is just a cushion for the crown.

Most people like the prosperity of the city, as well as the daily news and new ideas, and are not so interested in the abandoned city.

Pomona didn't know whether Kingsley would arrange for the Aurors to go there.

She took a sip of Hong Kong-style milk tea, which is much richer than English-style milk tea. These black teas are all imported from Sri Lanka.

During the day, there are many young people in Chinatown holding bubble tea. It is Taiwanese milk tea with tapioca balls in it. You can drink it while shopping and traveling. Hong Kong-style milk tea should be drunk in booths.

A Hong Kong-style tea restaurant with a beautiful environment will definitely attach great importance to the arrangement of booth sofas and restaurant tables and chairs. This tea restaurant uses retro decoration, red soft-covered sofas, and red and white checkered tablecloths on the table. There is a gilt seasoning rack for salt and pepper.

Generally speaking, tea restaurants are not operated 24 hours a day, because Hongmen needs to "do things", and the neighbors will help as much as they can.

The hourly worker in charge of cleaning has left, and there is a fat yellow, white and black tricolor cat leisurely patrolling her "territory". Pomona looked at the cat in disbelief, how could it grow so fat?

At this moment, music sounded in the quiet tea restaurant. It was a very melodious and casual waltz. There was a man in colorful clothes standing at the bar.

"Have you heard this song?" Ma Youxuan asked.

"No."

"This is an episode of a movie, directed by Wong Kar Wai, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung." He said as he walked towards her, "You and your husband danced that day, do you like that song?"

"husband?"

"It means husband in Chinese, can I sit here?" Ma Youxuan asked, pointing to the booth opposite her.

"Please sit down." She said indifferently, now the whole tea restaurant is dark, only she has turned on the light, under the warm light, this mysterious oriental has a pair of shining black eyes, and Severus That kind of empty black is completely different, but it has the same power to attract people's souls.

"You haven't answered my question, do you like that song?" he continued after sitting down.

"I like it very much." She replied politely, hoping to be graceful and decent.

"Are you watching A Dream of Red Mansions?" He said, looking at the Chinese book in her hand.

"I've finished watching it, and now I'm rewatching it."

"I don't like Cao Xueqin. To be precise, it's Jia Baoyu. I believe you should know that some people say that the Jia Baoyu he wrote is his own incarnation. The plots of those stories are all experienced by him."

"I'm just looking for something to pass the time." She raised the tome in her hand. "All I can do now is wait."

"I didn't expect that one day we would become the targets of werewolves." Ma Youxuan took out a pack of 555 cigarettes, lit it, and began to puff, "Is your husband so relieved to let you alone?"

"I also participated in the war, and I also dealt with werewolves alone." Pomona said a little unhappy, "The West is different from your East. Women are independent."

"Do you think I won't underestimate you by saying that?"

"No." She said uncomfortably, "Can you forget about him?"

Ma Youxuan laughed, and his smile was not at all as honest and simple as a farmer in Henan.

"Do you know what you're drinking?"

“Hong Kong style milk tea.”

"It also has a name called silk stocking milk tea. The tea must be thick enough and the milk must be thick enough. The color of the tea will be the same as a woman's stockings. It doesn't mean that it needs to be filtered by stockings. If it really needs to be filtered by stockings, I guess No woman will drink."

"Why do you say that?"

"Do you know how much men like women's stockings?" Ma Youxuan smiled even more happily.

"Rogue." She cursed in a low voice.

"I was originally a gangster." He shrugged indifferently, "Do you know what this movie is about?"

"What?" she asked suspiciously.

"This movie directed by Wong Kar Wai, Su Lizhen and Zhou Muyun, they are neighbors, and they are both married." Ma Youxuan took a puff of cigarette and said slowly, "Have you ever been to Shanghai?"

"No." She said intuitively.

"In Shanghai, there is a place where Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman used to live. There is a silk stocking milk tea that is very good. When I drank it for the first time, I asked my grandmother if you really use silk stockings to filter the tea. She told me, Silk stocking milk tea is not really filtered through silk stockings, but the color of the milk tea is like stockings, Zhou Muyun likes to lie on Su Lizhen's lap and touch her legs wearing stockings."

"You said they were all married..."

"Extramarital affairs." Ma Youxuan's smile became more ambiguous. "The men and women in the office are well-dressed. They are both working and socializing, so I dislike women coming out to work. Your husband is very considerate."

"That's because we are different." Pomona picked up the book and was about to stand up, but was stopped by the horse.

"Just kidding, why are you so stingy."

"Can this kind of joke be messed up?" She said angrily.

"Then what kind of joke do you think you can make?" He asked jokingly.

Pomona opened the book, intending to continue burying herself in the text.

"How about dancing with me?" Ma Youxuan said casually, "Can you dance the waltz?"

"I'm not interested." She refused fiercely.

"Can you still read the book?" the bastard Qi who interrupted others' reading was reluctant to ask.

"what on earth do you want?"

"Dance with me, and I won't bother you after you dance."

"Everywhere I dance is going to be bad luck, don't screw up other people's business," she said resignedly.

"Without you, the business would be impossible." Ma Youxuan looked at the rain outside the window and said, "Why were those werewolves forced to do this?"

Pomona thought of the tent in the Forbidden Forest before, and Remus who was driven to a desperate situation by the Werewolf Act. If Albus hadn't invited him to teach at Hogwarts, he might still be alive now, but he Will we meet Tonks again?

Love is a poison that kills.

But even if they know it is poison, some people will still be tempted to drink it.

"Su Lizhen's husband cheated first." Just as she was thinking, Ma Youxuan put a cigarette butt into the milk tea she was drinking, "If one day you are bullied like her. You can be like Valentina Come to me, and I can help you get justice."

Pomona temporarily lost her ability to think, so she didn't react when he leaned over to salute her.

"I think we are friends now, and if we are friends, we should help each other." He whispered in her ear, and then pulled away.

She watched his back leave, and after he left, Pomona waved her magic wand and destroyed the music playing machine.

The tea restaurant full of retro style immediately fell silent, only the cigarette butts floating on the milk tea proved that someone came just now.