The Story of the Seventh World (11)
The restaurant is in the innermost corridor opposite the bar, the original restaurant is in the current location of the bar, but some time ago the hotel underwent a small renovation, the original restaurant was a little small, so the bar that was conceived for a while was rebuilt there, and the restaurant was changed to the other side, where it was originally the internal working area of the hotel, and now it has become a restaurant.
Su Hang came to the restaurant on the first floor, watching the bright sunlight shine through the window into the bright yellow restaurant, and felt that the whole person was in a good mood. Corporal Lynn said yesterday that the restaurant at the Goering Hotel was the designated venue for the upper class of aristocrats, and the grandeur of the restaurant was self-evident. Of course, now that there is a bar, some people will go to the bar for a meal, which is quieter than the morning side of the bar here.
Walking into the restaurant, Su Hang saw that there were already many people eating breakfast, but even so, he still saw Corporal Lynn and Yaheng sitting by the window, chatting about something, as for the soldier, he didn't see it, God knows where he went!
Seeing Su Hang coming, Corporal Lynn waved his hand to the waiter not far away, and the waiter came over and said, "Sir, is there anything wrong with you?" ”
"A Danish roll, potato wedges, roasted tomatoes, cereal, that's all." Corporal Lynn said that the drinks had already been served on the table, and breakfast was missing, so in order to wait for Su Hang's arrival, he asked for milk in advance.
"Replace the Danish rolls with toast and burnt them a little." Yaheng looked at Corporal Lynn and said.
"My steak is going to be cut into slices, and I'll have a glass of juice and a serving of bacon, I'm sorry for you!" Su Hang looked at the waiter standing next to Corporal Lynn and said.
"Yes, sir," the waiter finished, and walked off into the distance.
"Today's weather is really good, it's rare!" Su Hang said.
"The weather in London changes three times a day, one moment the sun is shining, and the next moment it is rainy." Corporal Lynn finished the milk in the glass, called the waiter again, and added a glass of juice as well.
"What were you guys talking about?" As soon as Su Hang entered the restaurant just now, he saw Corporal Lynn and Yaheng chatting.
Yaheng casually picked up a copy of the "Times" from the table by the window and handed it to Su Hang, looked at the newspaper in Su Hang's hand and said: "This is the newspaper of this month, I brought it when I passed by the front desk, and I saw that it took up a lot of space and reported that 'Mussolini formed a cabinet and realized the unification of Italy', mainly to say that he made outstanding contributions to Italy." ”
"You're talking about Benito Mussolini! I remember him as if he was now the current Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy. Su Hang opened the newspaper and said while reading.
"Mr. Chu, you also know him, Mussolini, a wandering migrant worker, is now the prime minister of Italy. It can be seen that the upper echelons of Italy are all people, and it is estimated that the chef can be their prime minister. Corporal Lynn said sarcastically.
"Mussolini was a very hard worker, and it is said that he used to work in all walks of life, worked as a substitute teacher, and also worked part-time jobs. Later, he joined the Socialist Party and served as editor-in-chief of the Socialist Party's organ newspaper, Forward, and even served as a soldier for a time. ”
"The Times had a time promoting Mussolini's experience, saying that his success was unique." Yaheng said seriously.
While listening to the small talk between Corporal Lynn and the two on the side, Su Hang looked at the newspaper in his hand, which said that Mussolini had been working day and night for the sake of Italy's state affairs, and he had been seriously ill some time ago, and he had not yet recovered.
Looking at the news in the newspaper, Su Hang drank the juice that the waiter had just served, the color was bright, and there was a natural fragrance in the taste. After a while, breakfast was placed in front of Su Hang, the steak was cut according to Su Hang's requirements, small particles of chili pepper grains could be seen on the steak, and a faint steak aroma spread to Su Hang's nose, and the appetite was greatly boosted!
Su Hang forked a piece of steak with a fork in his mouth, and began to chew, first the slightly spicy breath filled the mouth, and immediately there was a feeling of open pores, this spicy taste is not choking, and there is a little salty taste left between the tongue, and then the sweetness of the sauce on the steak perfectly matches the initial taste of the steak, the beef is extremely chewy, chewed a few times and swallowed, there is no feeling of stuffing teeth.
"This steak tastes great, it's different from what you usually eat, it's more chewy, and it's perfect when you pair it with red wine." Su Hang swallowed the steak in his mouth and told Yaheng and the two of them how he felt.
"Really, I'll have a copy of that too!" Yaheng beckoned to the waiter and asked for the same steak as Su Hang.
Su Hang asked by the way that the taste of the steak was different from what he usually eats, the taste was very good, and the waiter said that there was a new chef in the back kitchen, and this steak was made by him, which was very popular with the guests.
Su and Hangzhou chatted about Mussolini in the newspaper while eating breakfast, and breakfast was quickly passed in small talk.
After the meal, Su Hang and Corporal Lynn went to several old shops in London that they frequented, Yaheng fully embodied the old Chinese saying "shop around", for the tableware to be purchased style, material, decoration and other aspects of comparison, and Su Hang also suggested that the newly purchased tableware should be around three aspects, "practicality, easy to understand, personalization" to buy.
In two days, Su Hang and his entourage compared the goods required by the hotel from door to door, Corporal Cheng Lynn and the soldiers followed by him, acting as 'bodyguards', and from time to time also put forward some of their own opinions, after all, soldiers like them sometimes go to the hotel to spend the night, and Corporal Lynn, a customer, said his feelings about the hotel he had stayed in, and gave Yaheng some suggestions to facilitate the subsequent development of the hotel.
After comparing the goods of several stores before and after, Yaheng decided to buy the hotel furniture and replaced some old furniture so that the hotel would not give a bad impression to the tourists.
The owner of the store is very welcome to such a "big customer" like Yaheng, since finalizing the goods and paying 1 check, the boss's smiling face has not changed like a blooming flower, and even put the goods to be sent by Yaheng to the front, and reduced the freight by five pounds on the original basis, in exchange for Yaheng's impression of their store, so as to facilitate long-term business in the future. Su Hang estimated that before they returned to the town, the goods would arrive at the hotel before them.
1 Checks, which appeared widely in North America from 1659 to 1840, were first used by a restaurant called "supper clubs" to allow his members to have an easier way to pay when they finished eating in the restaurant, and then it was widely used in the surrounding area. After Su Hang finalized the purchase of furniture in Yaheng, several people began to buy tableware and got busy, Su Hang and Corporal Lynn followed Yaheng to run the store for a day, and ended the day's task in "you come and go" with the store, and Yaheng decided to rest and adjust the next day.
This also made Corporal Lynn breathe a sigh of relief, this day he felt more tired than Yaheng, listening to their "bargaining" almost fell asleep, hearing that the next day he could take a break, but Corporal Lynn was very excited, the continuous "shopping in the store" these days is too tiring, more tiring than a day on the battlefield.
The only difference is that he doesn't have to worry about his life, after all, he can't use knives and guns when he buys things, and he won't die people.
The reason why Yaheng decided to take a day off is because he has always bought tableware in two frequented stores, and compared all aspects of tableware in the two stores. It's not that these two shops are the only ones in London that sell tableware, but the quality of these two stores is better than the others, and the tableware is also diverse, even in Asia. It is also very famous in the city of London, but the prices of the goods in these two stores fluctuate greatly, and the arrival time is uncertain, sometimes a few days late.
Yaheng often buys tableware in these two houses, so it has basically become a regular customer, and one of them went to the furniture store on the first day, the price of the store's kitchenware is more expensive than expected, ready to see the other one is making decisions, and the other has been closed for three days and does not know where to go, there is a message paper left at the door of the store, which says to go out for a week, there is something to open the door next Monday to discuss in detail, the paper also says the latest number to come back, and the day after tomorrow is the day when the store opens, Yaheng is ready to rest for a day.
Since it was the first time for Su Hang to come to London, Yaheng was going to take him around the capital of the Sunset Empire with Corporal Lynn. St Paul's Cathedral was their first stop, and this is where London made its first impression of Suhang.
In the early morning, the whole world was clear, the weather was good, much better than the day before yesterday when I went to buy furniture, at least it was not cloudy, there was no fog.
After breakfast, Yaheng and his party took a carriage booked in advance to the hotel to their destination, St. Paul's Cathedral.
Several people drove on Queen Victoria Street in a horse-drawn carriage, and Su Hang listened to the introduction of St. Paul's Cathedral by Corporal Yaheng and Corporal Lynn, while looking at the architectural features on both sides of the street. After a few days of getting along, Su Hang found that Corporal Lynn was a talker, as long as he was in a good mood, his mouth was like a train, but fortunately, Yaheng and Su Hang were not annoying, and occasionally cooperated with his "speech". According to his own words, after entering the army, he was punished for physical training, and it was because of that mouth that the soldiers jokingly called him "gramophone".
Corporal Lynn said that St. Paul's Cathedral is a "pathetic" building, which has been baptized by war fire several times, and was burned down by a fire hundreds of years ago, but fortunately, later architects spent a lot of time to let him be reborn, and his reconstruction made London's historical and cultural atmosphere stronger, and the sense of existence was strengthened a lot, after all, this is a characteristic building of London, and it is also very famous in the world. This was told to him by Dean Charles, and he told Su Hang.
The carriage wasn't very fast, but it didn't take long to reach St Paul's Cathedral, a historic building in the UK.
Several people from Suzhou and Hangzhou came to St. Paul's Cathedral, in front of the main entrance of the church, there are 22 steps. The whole church is 111 meters high and more than 70 meters wide, and people will have the illusion that they are very small when they stand in front of the church. Under the steps is a square covering a large area, in the center of the square at the back point, there is a stone statue of Queen Anne about 5 to 6 meters high, Corporal Lynn looked at the statue of the queen, and said to Su Hang: "This statue of Queen Anne was established in 1712, and this statue will be polished and cleaned by the guards of the British royal family every once in a while to ensure that there will be no problems." ”
"Su Hang, look at the row of taverns opposite St. Paul's Cathedral, it is rumored that the queen asked for the construction. The book records that Queen Anne was a heavy drinker, and in order to show her love of wine, a row of taverns was built opposite the church. ”
"Whether it's true or not, no one knows, the royal family has never recognized it." Yaheng looked at the tavern opposite the church and explained to Su Hang.
Looking at St. Paul's Cathedral in front of him, Su Hang felt that he was greeted with a sense of history, which was indeed very commemorative. Su Hang knew that St. Paul's Cathedral in front of him had been rebuilt, and along the way, Yaheng and Corporal Lynn almost told the relevant information about St. Paul's Cathedral, and even told the relevant folk stories in London.
The St. Paul's Cathedral in front of you was later designed by a famous British architect named Christopher Wren, which took 35 years and cost about 750,000 pounds to complete, making it the second largest domed church in the world, and this has attracted many foreign scholars to come to London to see this church.
Su Hang looked at the church in front of him, the plane of the church is in the shape of a Latin cross, looking at the church from the front, you can see that above the cross of the church stands a high drum base composed of two layers of circular colonnades, on which is a huge dome. On the herringbone wall above the main entrance of the church, there are carved pictures of St. Paul's missionary work in Damascus, and a small stone statue of St. Paul stands on the top of the wall, and the whole building looks symmetrical and natural.
"Look at these two bell towers, the northwest is the church bell, and in the southwest corner there is a 17-ton bronze bell, no one has ever seen it ring, it is said to be ringed when something of historical significance happens." Yaheng looked at the pair of symmetrical bell towers in front of the church and said to Su Hang.
"St Paul's Cathedral has a special place in London as it has been home to many members of the British royal family." Corporal Lynn looked at the church in front of him that had been there many times, and said to Su Hang.
"Let's go inside!" With that, Corporal Lynn led the way towards the inside of the church.
Walking into the church, there is a vaulted hall supported by square stone pillars, with resplendent heavy color paintings in every place, the windows are stained glass, and the walls on all sides have huge frescoes of Jesus, the Virgin, the Child, and the Apostles. Su Hang looked at all the decorations in the church hall and the carved carpentry of the choir seats, and he could see that it was an extraordinary skill.
The nave where the Suhang people are located is the place where major worship services are held, and it is also the main passage to the central dome of the church. There are many tourists in the church, and there are many people from other countries, which shows that St. Paul's Cathedral is famous abroad.
When a few people from Suzhou and Hangzhou visited the church, Corporal Lynn specially found a monk who was familiar with St. Paul's Cathedral to explain the surrounding mural stories and introduce the whole church. The west gate that they walked to Su Hang just now is the main entrance of the church, and it is generally only opened during important ceremonies, but during this time, the west gate must be maintained and inspected to ensure that there will be no damage, which is the reason why Su Hang and others can enter from the main gate.
On either side of the nave are three chapels of All Souls, St. Dunstan's Church and St. George's Chapel, and St. Dunstan's Chapel is frequented by Londoners, and it is a chapel dedicated to personal prayer.