Chapter 706, Coffee Shop
Hao Ming pretended to be an ordinary woman from a full house, brought three or five palace maids as maids, and it was the inner court guards who drove the car, and there were also many servants dressed as family guards in front of and behind the car. Of course, these are just the number of people on the surface, and I don't know how many people are following secretly.
The most lively thing in Tianjin is naturally the newly established trading street, which is the "commercial street" built after Lei Ting took office, the street is very wide, can accommodate eight carriages in parallel, the street is naturally paved with cement, clean and tidy, and strong and durable.
There are many shops on both sides of the street, such as teahouses, restaurants, restaurants, pawnshops, gold shops, money houses, silk villages, and antique shops...... There's also a coffee shop -- a lot of them, of course.
I remember that when she was in college, she also pretended to be petty bourgeoisie and ran to the coffee shop near the school to sit down when she had nothing to do - in fact, she didn't like coffee at all!!
Now I really want to taste that familiar taste. The coffee shop is very deserted, and you can know that it must have been opened by foreigners, but the running hall is a local person, and when you see someone dressed as a noble lady coming in, it is also very warm, and Ma slips up to entertain you. Although the coffee shop is deserted, there are a few people who come in fresh every day to taste it, and they are often the wives of the eunuchs, and the rewards have always been very generous. So the running hall is very humble.
Mei Gu hugged and said, "Master, the things here are very unpleasant, so don't taste them." ”
Yu Ming glanced at Mei Gu: "What, have you tasted it?"
Mei Gu said in a low voice: "Earlier, a foreigner gave the old man a few boxes of coffee, which smelled burnt, but it was bitter to drink!"
Na Runtang smiled and said, "Then you must not have added milk and sugar!"
Mei Gu was a little dumbfounded, "Do you want to add milk?add sugar??"
The mouth of the running hall bloomed lotus: "Add enough sugar, naturally it will not be bitter, and when you add milk, the aroma of the coffee will be brought out, and then it will be called a must!"
Bo Ming couldn't help but roll his eyes, saying it was better than singing, what coffee tastes like, anyway, it's not for the taste buds of Orientals - don't look at the many Orientals who drink coffee in later generations, but most of them are pretending to be ......
This coffee is not cheap, a pot of silver or two, a mug of sugar, a mug of hot cows - for this kind of round-bellied cup with a handle, I am quite interested, the cup in the palace...... They are all cups, with lids and supports, so there is no need for handles.
The porcelain is also very beautiful, with a white background, and a bouquet of elegant roses painted on it, gilded and colorful, but quite beautiful.
She silently poured a full amount of hot milk, and then added sugar spoonful, spoonful, spoonful—she wasn't sweet either, but if the coffee was added without sugar, she really couldn't drink it. Sweet is sweet, it's better than bitter.
After adding it, he then took a small spoon and stirred the coffee, then glanced at the plum bone who was still standing aside, and said, "Why don't you drink it?"
Mei Gu swayed her head into a rattle, completely in a posture of not drinking. At this moment, a small tender hand with whirring flesh reached out sneakily towards the cup of fragrant coffee in Ming's hand......
"Forget it, if you don't drink it, you won't drink it, anyway, I'll just taste it fresh. He smiled and was about to reach out to pick up the coffee, but he didn't have it! When he looked down, he realized that his hand was empty! All he had left was this incomparably small spoon in his hand......
Before he had time to taste the fresh taste of coffee 200 years ago in the Qing Dynasty, he was preemptively tasted by his own son!
After stirring for a while, the coffee was no longer hot, Yongyao pinched the handle of the mug with his small hand and took a sip as if he were like.
Mingming looked straight ahead, just waiting to see his son's jokes!
Unexpectedly, Xiao Yongyao's eyes lit up, "Eniang!
Ming: "......" - his son's taste buds are so strange......
Yong Yao's appearance didn't seem to be fake, he drank a cup of coffee cleanly, and then he licked his lips and said coquettishly: "Eniang!
Hao Ming said seriously: "Children can't drink too much coffee, otherwise they won't be able to sleep at night!" -- this is something she felt deeply in her previous life, and the taste of not being able to sleep for half a night is really uncomfortable...... It's all to blame for her pretending to drink too much coffee.
Yongyao pouted, her appearance was obviously unbelieving.
Seeing this, he had to pick him up, and said in a good voice: "There are more fun places here, why don't we go to the watch shop next to it?"
Mei Gu also hurriedly agreed: "The clocks and watches there are all shipped from overseas, and there is a kind of pocket watch, which is extremely small, less than an inch!" - Mei Gu's tone was full of envy, she had always wanted one, but the smaller the clock, the more expensive it was, and Mei Gu had always been reluctant to buy it...... What's more, on her birthday last year, the lord already had her a Western table clock.
Coaxed like this, he took Yongyao to the watch shop next to him, but before he stepped into the threshold, he heard a scathing woman's voice coming from inside: "When my cousin gives birth to a son-in-law for Nalan Da, what is that fox of the Shi family?!"
She was stunned for a while, and it sounded a little familiar for a while, and suddenly saw Mei Gu's face behind her pale, and she suddenly realized, she almost forgot that Mei Gu's surname is Shi, and her full name is Shi Mei Gu.
Mei Gu bit her lip and said, "Master, let's change places." ”
Hao Ming was curious, and glanced inside, it was a young woman in an orange and red silk flag suit, combing her two hairs, full of pearls and exquisiteness, but unfortunately her back was facing the door, and she was laughing and giggling with another woman in a green and soft satin flag dress who was a little older, "Don't you see her usual pretense! Isn't she just a concubine! It's my cousin's soft persimmon-like temperament, if I change it, how can I allow her to flatter her husband and swagger around!"
The woman next to her smiled and teased: "Now that the saint is stationed in the prefect's yamen, Meng Jia's sister's sour words are just muttering a few words in front of me, and you have to take care of your mouth when you go back." Otherwise, you will go to the queen mother to sue you, but you will drink a pot!"
That Meng Jiashi sneered, and his tone was a little more scathing: "She dares to ?!! my cousin is the master mother of the prefect's yamen, if she is interested, she will honestly shut her mouth! If she is not interested, run to complain, and when the emperor and queen are gone, I have all kinds of ways to make her life worse than death!!"
The woman next to her couldn't help but be afraid, and laughed.
After all, the door of the watch shop still didn't go in, but went to the teahouse opposite, picked a clean private room, ordered a pot of Biluochun, and a few plates of snacks.
Hao Ming then asked: "I heard it really, that Meng Jia's very powerful mouth is the cousin of Ilgen Jueluo?"
Mei Gu nodded with red eyes.
Hao Ming asked again: "Does she live in the prefect's yamen?"
Mei Gu nodded again, "Living in the West Cross Courtyard, Madame's cousin-in-law is temporarily borrowed because he went to Tianjin to work and has no suitable residence." (To be continued.) )