Chapter Ninety-Two: The Tea Party
Apricot Ogata went to school with dark circles under her eyes and was listless all morning. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Sakurako Kobayakawa quickly noticed, dropped the exercises during recess, and deliberately leaned over to Ogata's side, who was lying on the windowsill looking into the distance, and asked worriedly, "Apricot-chan, are you still not feeling well, do you want me to accompany you to the infirmary?"
Ogata Apricot was suddenly startled, seeing that it was Sakurako Kobayakawa, thinking of the dream last night, she suddenly felt very weak, her eyes dodged left and right and she didn't dare to look at each other directly, and whispered: "I'm fine, Sakurako-chan ......"
Sakurako Kobayakawa looked at her in a trance, very worried, and asked, "Xing-chan, is your injury really okay?"
Ogata nodded again and again, and said, "It really doesn't matter!" After a pause, she asked with wandering eyes, "That...... Sakurako-chan, human ...... No, Aihara won't be coming to school today?"
"Ah, Aihara-kun, he seems to have been very busy lately, and today he went to the tea party of the Aso family...... Does Apricot Sauce have something to do with him?"
When Ogata heard Sakurako Kobayakawa say this, she was a little flustered, and hurriedly said, "What can I do with him...... I can find him" and changed his words a little embarrassed, "It's a little something...... My mom was going to treat him to dinner and thank him for taking care of him at the hospital. ”
"That's it......" Sakurako Kobayakawa took out her mobile phone and said to Ogata, "Apricot-chan, I bought a mobile phone with Aihara-kun, I'll give you his phone number, right?"
Ogata looked at Sakurako Kobayakawa's phone in surprise, patted her chest, and sighed, "Thank God, you have finally stepped into a civilized society!" After finishing speaking, she took out her mobile phone and wrote down the phone numbers of Sakurako Kobayakawa and Li Ruhai.
After remembering, she looked thoughtfully at Sakurako Kobayakawa and asked, "Sakurako-chan, you just gave me his phone number?"
RB people are accustomed to using mail and line, and ordinary relationships will only give email addresses, and only if the relationship is quite close will give the number.
Sakurako Kobayakawa smiled with a pair of crescent moon eyes and said, "Apricot sauce, no problem!"
Apricot Ogata looked at the bright girl in front of her, and her heart felt sour! This poor girl, her best friend, did she know what was going on?
Her boyfriend is a big pervert, and while dominating her, he secretly covets himself!
Her best friend is a big jerk who actually has a crush on her boyfriend and has that kind of dream!
An Ogata muttered, "Sakurako-chan, you shouldn't have believed me so much!"
Sakurako Kobayakawa didn't hear clearly, and said suspiciously, "What are you talking about, Apricot Sauce?"
Ogata really wanted to vomit and tell Sakurako Kobayakawa everything as it was, but it was so embarrassing that she opened her mouth a few times, and she didn't know how to tell the story, and after a while, she hung her head and said, "It's nothing, Sakurako-chan!"
Sakurako Kobayakawa blinked with a pair of crescent moon eyes, not quite understanding what happened to this good friend who had always been very hearty, so strange today.
In order to avoid Sakurako Kobayakawa's sight, Ogata Apricot directly dialed Li Ruhai's number, and waited for a long time before it was connected.
As soon as she heard Li Ruhai's voice, she couldn't help but get angry, and shouted, "Why did it take so long to answer the phone?"
Li Ruhai was inexplicable on the other end of the phone, and he didn't know where he provoked this aunt, but after being in contact for so long, he also knew that this girl was so impulsive, and she was used to it, but she said helplessly: "It's you, class leader, what's the matter with me?"
Akota gritted her teeth with hatred for him, grinding her teeth and saying, "Come to my house for dinner on Friday!"
"I don't have time, I'm busy!" Li Ruhai refused without thinking about it.
Ogata said arrogantly: "I don't care, you have to come if you don't have time!" After playing a little game, I remembered that Sakurako Kobayakawa was still by my side, and my heart was empty, and I quickly explained in kind words: "It's for the hospital, you have to rush to pay the bill, and my mother wants to treat you to express her gratitude." ”
"This kind of trivial matter, it doesn't have to be like this, I won't go!"
Apricot Ogata is really angry, doesn't this scum admit it after wiping his mouth after eating?Ah, no, that dream is his own, it's none of his business...... The first time I had that kind of dream, I was confused.
She said loudly: "No, you have to come, if you don't come, my mother asks me three times a day, I'm going to be annoyed!"
Li Ruhai hesitated for a moment, the reason why Ogata Xing went to the hospital was also because he saved his girlfriend, and now because of this matter, he was not too embarrassed to sit idly by, so he promised: "Got it, I'll go on Friday." ”
After finishing speaking, he smiled and looked at Aso Yuyu who was smiling on his face on the side, and he didn't wait for Ogata to answer, he hung up the phone directly, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, Miss Aso, please continue." ”
Aso Yuu put aside the knife in his hand, and no longer introduced her collection, and said with a smile: "It's Ogata-senpai, it's really the most difficult to be beaulieving, Aihara junior!"
She listened with a half-claw, thinking that Akokata had called to ask for a date.
Li Ruhai shook his head and said, "It's not what you think, Miss Aso." ”
Aso Yuu naturally didn't believe it, that time she went to visit the patient, Ogata Xing teased her clothes in front of Li Ruhai and took medicine, and she looked at it right - isn't the relationship extraordinary, how can there be such a thing, isn't Ogata Apricot not a little reserved as a girl?
However, she is not interested in how many women Li Ruhai has, and her father is not a seed of infatuation, she has seen this kind of thing since she was a child, and she has seen it since she was a child, she asked: "It's almost time, now let's go to the tea room, Senior Brother Xiangyuan?"
Li Ruhai smiled awkwardly, seriously, he really didn't want to go. Before he came, he thought that the tea party was just a bunch of people getting together, drinking tea, chatting, getting to know each other, talking nonsense, and then what to do, but after being popularized by Maruko, he realized that the RB tea party was not the same thing at all.
First of all, to hold a tea party, a large courtyard is indispensable, the scenery should be elegant, this alone, it excludes ordinary people, as in ancient times, first of all, you must be a nobleman, a big merchant or a samurai and other wealthy class, this is the prerequisite for holding a tea party, the common people save it!
Secondly, the reason why the tea party is called a tea party is that it is necessary to drink tea, but drinking tea on an empty stomach is harmful to the body, so what should we do?
The so-called kaiseki cuisine is said to have originated in Zen Buddhism, where great monks carried hot stones in their arms to resist the pain of hunger, and later evolved into a simple meal used to listen to Zen. Later, the idea of "Zen" was introduced into the tea ceremony, and kaiseki cuisine became a part of the tea ceremony, and its form is mostly "one juice and three dishes", that is, one soup, one large dish (fish or meat), two side dishes (sea vegetables, soy products, pickles), and then served with the main food, mostly rice. Kaiseki cuisine is extremely delicate, both the tableware and the presentation of the food are aesthetically pleasing, and the portions are extremely small and the mood is emphasized, and is often regarded as a work of art.
Cushion your stomach with kaiseki cuisine, and then you need to distinguish between the host and the guest, and perform a series of operations according to etiquette. For example, we should "meet the tea set", "be optimistic about the charcoal fire", and have the attitude of "one meeting at a time" - take this tea party as if it were the only time we meet in our lives!
The host or tea master should light the fire, boil water, boil tea or matcha according to the etiquette, and present it to the host and guest in turn, and the guest should receive the tea according to the etiquette, thank you, taste the tea, and then appreciate the tea set, briefly describe the advantages and praise it, and be polite to make a song and sing praises.
Finally, after visiting the courtyard together and enjoying the view, you can only make small talk with each other.
The whole tea will not be less than four hours, the etiquette is extremely cumbersome, it is really going to die, and the tea drunk is in the words of the balls - that thing is for the dog to drink, and the dog will vomit!
But he can't go if he doesn't go, this tea party was held for him by the Aso family, and he was one of the guests and guests.
So, he said sincerely: "I'm really sorry, Miss Aso, I don't know much about the tea ceremony, I'm afraid it will be rude to participate in the tea party!" Aso Yuu helped him a lot, he was still willing to give face to the Aso family, if he participated in the joke, I am afraid that the faces of the host and guest will be a little ugly.
Aso Yuu had already prepared, and she didn't know that Aihara Shuzhong was a child of a middle-class family, she smiled and said, "It's okay, Senior Aihara, Maruko is trained, she will remind you." ”
Maruko nodded solemnly on the side and said, "Yes, Aihara-sama, you don't have to worry, everything has me!"
The master said so, Li Ruhai couldn't refuse anymore, so the three of them walked towards the tea room. On the road, Aihara Shuzhong looked at the small and serious Maruko, and asked Aso Yuu with a smile: "Maruko has been weird these two days, and she is no longer messing around, what do you think is wrong with her?"
Aso Yuu covered his mouth and chuckled: "Maybe after transferring to the Prime Minister's family, I feel that I am a serious samurai, and I can't be like a child before!"
Li Ruhai smiled and asked Maruko: "Is that so, Maruko?"
Maruko rolled her eyes, but soon realized that this was wrong, and immediately put on a serious face again, and said seriously: "I am now an old man of the Aihara family, of course I have to be serious!"
Old?
Li Ruhai was stunned and asked, "What is the old family?"
Aso Yuu couldn't help but smile and said: "The family elder is the title of the Warring States Period, the first of the retainers, second only to the head of the family, and it is generally held by the most meritorious person in the family - Maruko is not wrong to say so, Aihara Junior only has Maruko as a retainer, she is naturally an old family!"
After finishing speaking, she couldn't help it, laughed, rubbed the head of Maruko's bun and said, "Maruko, you are so cute!
Maruko said angrily: "People are the old people, people have shed blood and fought hard for the Aihara family, and they have been born and died for the Aihara family, is it too much to be an old man?"
Aso Yuu smiled slightly, and said pointedly: "Yes, Maruko followed Aihara's junior brother and fought with Ninojiedo, and it is indeed meritorious...... By the way, Senior Brother Aihara, isn't Maruko going to learn art from you? What's going on now?"
Li Ruhai said with a smile: "What can I do in only two days? But the pill has a good memory, much stronger than Nanako!"
Maruko was slightly proud, and her little nose tilted up to the sky: "Of course, I'm not as stupid as Nanako, it takes so much time to remember something!"
Li Ruhai frowned, and said dissatisfiedly: "Nanako is your elder, you are not allowed to be rude to her, I don't want to hear similar words in the future." ”
He can say Nanako, because Nanako is his junior sister, but this doesn't mean that Maruko, who is a generation shorter, can not respect his elders.
Maruko let out an "oh", lowered her head and muttered a few words in a low voice - she is now half of Li Ruhai's apprentice, Nanako has naturally become her uncle, and even Sakurako Kobayakawa has been upgraded to a master, she is a generation shorter, very dissatisfied but there is nothing she can do, so she can only grit her baby teeth and admit it.
Soon, the three of them arrived at the tea room, and Aso Katsuya was standing in front of the door waiting, and when he saw Li Ruhai's eyes lit up, he laughed and said: "This is the young hero Aihara-kun who shocked Tokyo, and he is really beautiful!"
Maruko solemnly introduced on the side: "Lord Aihara, this is Lord Aso Katsuya, the head of the Aso family!"
Li Ruhai glanced at her helplessly, this bear child pretending to be a samurai is addicted, but he doesn't have time to care about her at this time.
He smiled and nodded to Katsuya Aso and said, "It's over, Mr. Aso." ”
Strictly speaking, as a nominal junior, it is very rude for him to greet him like this, but Aso Katsuya didn't see a little mind, his angular face was full of a generous smile, he held Li Ruhai's hand tightly, and said enthusiastically: "I often hear Yu Chiyo mention you at home, Yu Chiyo is a little withdrawn, and there are not many friends who can be often talked about by her, I hope Aihara-kun can continue to guide me a lot in the future, this unangry daughter......"
Hachiyo, Aso Yuu? Li Ruhai was slightly surprised, if the memory in Ainohara Xiu is correct, this should be a boy's name, right?
Aso Yuu saw his doubts, his face flushed a little, and he said embarrassedly, "That's my nickname." ”
Aso Katsuya laughed: "Yu Chiyo was more naughty when she was a child, she liked to dance with knives and guns, so she was simply raised as a boy, and after calling her for so many years, she got used ......to it" He looked at his daughter whose face was flushed, and sighed a little more in his tone, "But she has grown into a big girl now, it seems that it is not appropriate to call her like that anymore, right?"
Aso Yuu smiled slightly: "It's okay, father, I like this name very much!"
Their father and daughter chatted about these family routines in front of Li Ruhai, but the atmosphere of the gathering of friends was good, at least Li Ruhai was in a much relaxed mood, he was looking at it with a smile, but he heard two more people walking out of the tea room, one of the middle-aged men stared straight at him with a pair of eagle eyes, and asked in a deep voice: "You are Mr. Aihara?"