Chapter 7: Jokes
"Your Royal Highness Princess, drink a bowl of winter melon and kelp pork rib soup first, and then we will eat vegetables. This soup is fragrant and appetizing, and I like Jonas the soup the most. ”
Kate Kim was one of the people who arrived early, and she smelled the fragrance when Zhou Nan was cooking soup in the afternoon. At this time, I couldn't wait to scoop a spoonful with a soup spoon, put it to my lips and blow gently, and drank it with full enjoyment.
Marita held the small bowl, sniffed it intoxicated, and said with a smile: "I haven't drunk it yet, I'm already a little fascinated, it's so fragrant." ”
She took a sip and immediately exaggeratedly said, "Oh my God, is this really made of pork?" I can't believe that pork can make such a delicious soup. ”
Hearing her praise Zhou Nan's craftsmanship, Audrey was the happiest, and immediately couldn't wait to introduce the food on the table to her. "This is pork knuckle, but the processing technology is not at all different from German pork knuckle, Jonas also adds a little honey, sweet and delicious, not greasy at all. This Kung Pao chicken is my favorite dish that I can eat every day, but Jonas rarely has time to cook. This is mapo tofu, which melts in your mouth and is only slightly greasy. ”
Audrey is like a proud child, eager to show her proudest husband in front of her little friends, and introduces a large table of dishes one by one.
Marita is also quite face-saving, no matter what the dish tastes first, she tastes a bite or two, and then she is completely obsessed with Chinese food.
Unlike Audrey, she doesn't like those sweet and sour dishes, sweet and sour tenderloin Audrey likes to eat it very much, but she eats a piece and doesn't want it anymore.
She likes the boiled fish dish very much, especially the soybean sprouts inside, she took it upon herself and put a small bowl with a spoon, sucking her mouth spicily, and eating it with relish.
In the small dining room, only Zhou Nan and Audrey, Lady Hemstra, Marita and Kate King were seated, Kelly and Glevin insisted on refusing to be seated, and Zhou Nan was afraid that they would be restrained in front of Marita, and then let them eat in the big restaurant.
Zhou Nan made nine dishes and one soup today, which means perfect. There were only five of them, so the portions weren't huge. In addition to that, he also made dumplings.
The five of them swept the dishes almost clean, and by the time the cooked dumplings were served, Marita was already touching her stomach.
She said that she was too full, but under Audrey's persuasion, when she also ate a dumpling, she couldn't control her appetite anymore and ate four in a row.
"Jonas, yours are just so knowledgeable, your music is so beautiful, and the food is so delicious now, I feel that you are almost an all-rounder. Your presence makes almost everyone feel like an idiot, is there anything else you wouldn't? ”
Zhou Nan just ate a dumpling, and when he heard her say this, he replied seriously: "I won't have children......"
Kate King, an up-and-coming socialite who is famous for her elegant aristocratic temperament, was defenseless and unrestrained, and just took a sip of soup and squirted out at once.
Marita paused for a moment, and laughed out loud, laughing breathlessly, without the slightest princess demeanor. "Oh my God...... You're so funny, Jonas,...... No, I'm out of breath.
Audrey couldn't help laughing, but her little hand pinched Zhou Nan's thigh, and hurriedly said: "Your Royal Highness Princess, Countess, Jonas is actually very humorous, but you are still a little unaccustomed to it." ”
Mrs. Hemstra glanced at Zhou Nan with some disgust, and helped Katekin change the cloth in front of her. "Countess, are you alright?"
Mrs. Katekin was a little embarrassed to see someone, and covered her blushing face with a handkerchief and said, "It's me who is so rude, I need to go back to my room to change my clothes, please forgive me for being rude." ”
Zhou Nan is also a little speechless, this is the limitation of the times. An almost outdated joke in later generations can play such a big role in this era.
It took a moment for Marita to stop laughing, perhaps too excited, or perhaps a little shy, and her face turned a little red. Glaring at Zhou Nan, she said arrogantly: "Jonas, Mrs. Katekin has never made a fool of herself in public, but you have disgraced her today." And I've never gaffled at the table, it's all your sin. ”
Zhou Nan shrugged his shoulders and asked, "So...... My flattery turned into a sin? ”
She snorted and said, "I'm going to punish you for telling us three more...... No, five jokes. ”
It was already twenty minutes before everyone gathered in the small living room. Because I was afraid that drinking coffee and tea at night would cause insomnia, everyone came with a glass of wine.
Although there are still small snacks baked by the court pastry chef, at this time, everyone has lost their appetite.
Marita and the others were originally drinking whisky from Scotland, but Zhou Nan and Audrey, including Lady Hemstra, poured a glass of rice wine.
Marita tasted it curiously, and asked for a glass of rice wine for her, and specified the high level of rice wine that Zhou Nan wanted to drink.
Everything was arranged, and several people nestled opposite each other in the comfortable sofas, feeling the warmth coming from the fireplace, and watching the snow outside through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
"It's so cozy, Buckingham Palace is like a grand prison compared to here, and Windsor Castle was originally a prison. This glass wall...... It's so beautiful. ”
Mrs. Kate King had always been a little tsundere, but a scandal at dinner made her put down the shelf she had been holding and became approachable.
She is in her early Chinese New Year's Eve of a woman's golden age, very beautiful, well-maintained, and full of manners. At this time, the camouflage of hard and cold is removed, and the embarrassment is added by three points, which is even more charming.
Lady Hemstra saw that her gaze kept glancing at Zhou Nan's body, and she immediately became alert.
Marita never worried, because the status of a princess limited her. No matter how good Zhou Nan is, he is also a pagan and married, so it is impossible for the princess to have a reverie about Zhou Nan.
But a woman like Mrs. Katekin, nurtured by the upper class, looks pure on the surface, and who knows what's going on behind it. In the upper social circles, both men and women, are proud to find lovers.
Mrs. Hemstra couldn't be more satisfied with a golden beetle son-in-law like Zhou Nan, and she would never let this kind of woman affect the relationship between Zhou Nan and Audrey.
Although she is extremely confident in her daughter's appearance, what about a man...... Who is not greedy for freshness!
Zhou Nan began to tell stories, and in his memory, he remembered a lot of various jokes, but most of them involved men and women, of course, they couldn't be told at this time. What's more, storytelling must also conform to each other's cultures, just like if Zhou Nan told an oriental story, and they couldn't understand it, it would be embarrassing.
Zhou Nan thought about it and told the first story: In Austria, a young couple drove to Greece after getting married, and the husband did not let her drive because his wife's driving skills were not good. But she was fond of driving, and that morning his wife sneaked out of the hotel and came to the ruins of a Greek temple.
The wife asked a passer-by to take a photo of her in front of the ruins of a Greek temple as a souvenir, but she told her friends not to take her car into the camera.
"Why?" Passers-by asked.
"Because, in that case, my husband will say that I knocked it down again."
It was such a simple joke that several women couldn't help but laugh. Marita playfully said, "You must have made it up, how could her husband not know about the Greek temple!" ”
Zhou Nan said with a smile: "Jokes are originally small jokes that also come from life, and the pursuit of authenticity is meaningless." ”
She kicked her foot funny, glanced at Audrey and said, "Okay, count you in, you can say four more jokes, all of them will make us laugh." ”
Zhou Nan thought about it and talked about the second one: There is a girl who is very ugly, and she can't marry when she is very old.
In the end, she thought of a way, "It would be nice if she could be caught by the kidnappers and sold to someone else's family as a daughter-in-law." ”
So she wandered the most dangerous streets every night, and wherever she heard that a woman was missing, she went.
As a result, happiness really came! That night, two kidnappers blindfolded her, stuffed her in a car, and kidnapped her.
On the way to transportation, she has been immersed in happiness and joy, and she is very cooperative with the kidnappers. When she arrived at the kidnapper's stronghold, the two kidnappers pulled her to the chief, happy to take the credit!
As soon as the leader pulled off her mask, the leader froze!! I couldn't speak for a long time. Bang--Bang--He slapped one of them and yelled, "Aren't you ruining my reputation, send me back quickly." ”
So the chief personally took her back to the place where she was kidnapped with the two kidnappers. The car arrived at the place where she was kidnapped, but no matter what the kidnappers said, she did not get out of the car, she had to go with them.
"I want to get married!" The woman said aggrievedly.
The leader gritted his teeth, and finally said: "Don't want the car, let's go!" ”
Looking at Zhou Nan's serious nonsense, Audrey's smiling eyes narrowed, if it weren't for the princess beside her, she wouldn't be tired of being crooked in Zhou Nan's arms.
The princess was very happy to hear this, clapped her hands and laughed: "This is funny, but where can there be such an ugly woman, as soon as you hear it, you will know that it is made up."
Zhou Nan felt very helpless, in the later generations, everyone was just pursuing Leyile, who cares about being reasonable and true! But in this day and age, telling a joke is also about authenticity.
He thought about it for a moment and told another little story. 6 saw 9 and said, "You have nothing to do with a handstand." 0 saw 8 and said: Fat is fat, what kind of belt to wear. 7 And when he saw 2, he said: Do not think that I will marry thee when thou shalt kneel. 2 saw 5 and said, "Yo, I haven't seen you for a few days, why are you squeezing your chest so big?" ”
This kind of reasonable joke really made several uninformed women laugh uncontrollably, especially the last sentence, which made Mrs. Kate King unconsciously take back her tall chest, cover her mouth and pretend to laugh embarrassedly, but her eyes were full of Qiu Bo with Zhou Nan.