Chapter 34 The Boat Crossroads

"In Xia Luo Youde, the son of the Luo family in Qiongzhou, I don't know what to call a strong man, where is the person?" On the roof of the stern is a small platform with a half-circle of seats on it, and a low table in the middle. Hong Tao couldn't tell whether this kind of decoration was the regulation of the Song Dynasty or not, and he had never seen what the Song Dynasty's homes were like, and the Tan family basically had no interaction with the ethnic groups on the land, and that dynasty had no meaning to them.

"I am not from the Great Song Dynasty, my surname is Hong Mingtao, and I am from Australia...... My ancestor is from the north of Dengzhou, and I don't know exactly where it is. Hong Tao can only continue to make up nonsense, as for whether this Australia can cover the maritime merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, it depends on luck, this person is obviously the master who has seen it.

"Australia? Forgive me for being stupid, where is this Australia? Luo Youde obviously hadn't heard of this place in Hong Tao's mouth, and he was a little confused.

"There is a continent thousands of miles south of Nanfan, which is very barren, only in some small cities along the coast, where there are some displaced people from various countries who live, and the customs and habits are completely different from those of the Central Plains. Hong Tao searched his stomach and found a few words that sounded like the ancients to deal with, set the tone first, and then it would be easier to talk.

"Oh! There is still a continent to the south of the southern countries? Is it an island or a continent? Luo Youde didn't react much to the abnormality of the language habits of what Hong Tao said, but he was very enthusiastic about the Australian continent that Hong Tao said.

"The mainland, a continent larger than the Central Plains, I haven't traveled all over it, it's too big, and the transportation is inconvenient. Moreover, the hinterland is mostly desert Gobi, which is very hot and difficult to pass. Hong Tao gave Luo Youde a general explanation according to the actual situation in Australia, even if he heard about it, it doesn't matter, it's all facts.

"Shhh...... Wonderful! There is also a mainland in the south of Nanban...... Brother Hong, can you point to Zai on the chart? "This Luo Youde doesn't seem to be too deep in the city, or he doesn't plan to talk to Hong Tao about anything serious, and his personality is more casual.

"Ah Lang, can you order tea?" At this time, three young women with trays came up the stairs, the skirt was very long, the waist was also very high, the cuffs were like a small trumpet, and they were very short, and when they raised their hands, their elbows were exposed, and there were undergarments under their robes, which could not be said to be low-cut, but not high-cut either. They all have their heads crossed, and they don't know what style Hong Tao is, anyway, there is a hair ring on one side of their heads, like wearing two bagels.

"Oh, little bit...... Go and ask Ah Cai to bring up the chart, go quickly! Luo Youde was still immersed in the southern continent described by Hong Tao, frowning and pondering, and couldn't think of where Australia would be.

"Huh...... It's quite fragrant, I thought there was no perfume in this era. Hearing the command, one of the women turned around and walked down, and the two women put the tray in their hands on the low table, and stood beside Hong Tao and Luo Youde and began to make tea. Hong Tao shrugged his nose and smelled a musky smell on the woman in front of him, this spice Hong Tao was most familiar with, because many fish baits in later generations were also added.

At first, Hong Tao thought it was making tea, but he didn't expect that drinking tea in the Song Dynasty would be so troublesome. The woman first took out two thumb-sized pieces of tea bricks from a small black clay pot on the tray in front of her, and then put them into a stone mill for grinding Chinese medicine, and began to push and pull them on, and soon ground the two small tea bricks into pieces. At this time, he picked up a very small basket and filtered the broken tea bricks, and the slightly coarser ones had to be re-grinded.

When the tea is ready, can this still be called tea? It's more broken than the high crushed ones that Beijing people like to drink! At this time, she took out a small black cup, put all the pieces into it, and then left the low table, and picked out a porcelain bottle from a wooden box behind her with an iron ring with a handle, poured the water into the teacup, and while she was pouring, she also held a small spoon in front and a small knife in the back, and stirred it quickly, like beating eggs.

At this time, a miracle occurred, and a layer of white and delicate foam appeared on the water at the end of the tea leaves, especially like the cappuccino coffee of later generations. The maid also used the small spoon to paddle back and forth on the foam a few times, and when the foam became a landscape painting with a very meaningful meaning, she took out the spoon, bowed to Hong Tao and Luo Youde, and walked backwards.

"It's not worth mentioning, carving insects, painting is the lowest level of tea-ordering technology, it is said that Lin'an City has begun to be popular in the tea soup to write poems...... Brother Hong, please! Luo Youde didn't take painting on the tea foam seriously, he took a sip of the teacup, so that his beard was full of foam, and he didn't wipe it.

"Please, please......" Hong Tao has a little brain short-circuit, isn't this called ability? This thing will belong to the world cultural heritage 100% in the future! What the? Writing poems on tea soup? Is this Nima still something that a flesh man can do? Immortals!

"You deserve to be a dead country! Let others knock down half of the country, don't you think about how to counterattack, and Nima will compete with this tea water! When the tea was in his mouth, Hong Tao didn't know what it tasted like. Originally, he still identified with the Great Song Dynasty a little, this is an era of a hundred flowers blooming, this is the era of the most relaxed government, and this is a society of the whole people...... But this cup of tea made his heart cold, and the poor man must have something to hate!

"Ah Lang, the chart is still here!" At this time, the middle-aged man who was bargaining with Hong Tao just now walked up with two male servants carrying a coffee table-like thing, put the coffee table down, and slowly unfolded a roll of silk cloth.

"Brother Hong, please look, at this time, my Luo family's chart, dare to ask, where is the Australia you are talking about?" When Luo Youde saw the silk roll, he immediately came to his spirit, squatted next to the coffee table, and looked at Hong Tao with a blank look, that pitiful appearance, so that Hong Tao couldn't bear not to tell him.

"This is Vietnam?" Hong Tao's spiritual head is also here, this is the first time to look at the charts of the Great Song Dynasty, what will it be like? As soon as you stick your head out, it's all over, this is not a world map, at best it is a sketch of Southeast Asia.

"The top is Cochin, and the south is Champong......" Luo Youde didn't understand what Hong Tao meant by Vietnam, he divided Vietnam into two parts, two countries.

"This is Luzon?" Hong Tao pointed to the location of the Philippines and asked, there are the most green spots here, which should be the ports of call along the way.

"Little Luzon!" This time, Luo Youde nodded in agreement.

"This is Malay?" Hong Tao saw that Luo Youde did not reject communicating with himself, so he didn't bother to think about the ancient names of these Southeast Asian countries, the problem was that it was in vain, and there was nothing in his head.

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