Chapter 2: The Last Gege I
"Yun An." A beautiful girl walked over, she was Yun An's second sister Yun Ping, and the two of them also had a big sister Yun Kang. Three people have the same father, different mothers. Yun Kang is four years older than Yun An, has a tough personality and yearns for freedom, and when their father wanted to find Yun Kang's in-laws two years ago, she ran away from home.
Yun Kang's behavior had a great impact on the younger sister below, especially Yun Ping. Yun Ping is one year older than Yun An, gentle and well-behaved on the outside, very ladylike, but strong on the inside, and yearns for freedom like Yun Kang. She may not have had this dream of freedom before, but Yun Kang's departure has revealed her deep-seated desire. Since Yun Kang left, she has secretly modified and sneaked out of the house to play. This time too, Yun Ping was wearing his maid's clothes and combing a long braid, looking like the civilian women outside the mansion.
"Okay, wait for me, I'll go change my clothes too." Yun An stood up, her relationship with this sister was not bad, and Yun Ping would come with her when he went out.
Yun An returned to his room, also changed into a maid's clothes, and the two of them sneaked out of the palace through the back door. In fact, Yun An felt that their father and Chang Fujin must have found out, but because of Yun Kang's matter, the two relaxed their discipline and pretended not to know about them sneaking out of the house to play.
The streets are bustling with people from the Qing Dynasty wearing long robes and traditional dresses, as well as foreigners in suits and dresses, and Toyo ronin in kimono yukata. These foreigners flaunt their power in the territory of the capital, and it is clear that there is still a little emperor in the Forbidden City, but this capital seems to no longer belong to the Qing Dynasty. Even if the two people who are as expensive as Wangfu Gege, they may suffer a loss against the Oriental ronin who is like a villain.
Yun An faithfully recorded all this. The studs on her earlobes are the ones that connect her mind, and the things and images in her mind can be stored in the studs as words.
"Yun An, I heard that there is a foreigner's coffee and coffee ...... on the side of East Street."
"Coffee?"
"yes, yes, coffee shop, shall we go and have a look?" Yun Ping's eyes flashed with curiosity. Yun Ping has seen all the old-style restaurants and teahouses in the capital, but it is the restaurants and cafes of foreigners that make her feel novel.
Yun An nodded, she also wanted to see how the café in this era was different from the café more than a hundred years later.
Yun Ping introduced Yun An as he walked: "This café and café have not been open for a long time, but the coffee and food in it are very authentic, foreigners in Kyoto like to go there, and many Eight Banners children also like to go there in order to show their differences......
Yun An: "How did you know about this café?" ”
Yun Ping replied: "It was Xue Rou who told me that some time ago, she followed her brother once, saying that it was not only a good environment, but also very delicious. ”
Yun An: "Didn't Chang Eniang not let you meet Xue Rou?" ”
Yun Ping frowned and said, "Xue Rou is very good, I really don't know why E-Niang doesn't like her." ”
Yun An: "Because of Xue Rou's background. Although her family is rich, her family is just a family of merchants, Shinong and industrialist, and her status is already dripping, if it weren't for her brother doing things for foreigners, their family would not have used the power of foreigners to enter the upper circle. But even so, veteran aristocrats like Xiang Eniang also look down on their family, and they don't want their children to associate with their family. ”
Yun Ping's face turned bad: "Why do you want to judge whether a person can be handed over or not based on his identity?" Why can't we learn from foreigners and make everyone equal? ”
Yun An sneered, looking at this second sister as if looking at a silly white sweet: "Second sister, foreigners' things are not necessarily good, foreigners are also divided into nobles and commoners, and the status of nobles is much higher than that of commoners, but they worship money more now,"
Yun Ping said dissatisfiedly: "Yun An, your words are really ugly. ”
Yun An said: "No, I'm just telling the truth. Second sister, because of the relationship between the eldest sister, you are too blindly trusting foreigners and foreigners. You must know that 'those who are not of my race will have different hearts.'" Less than a decade after the invasion of Kyoto by the Eight-Nation Alliance. ”
Yun Ping: "......"
After a long time, Yun Ping sighed and said, "You're right. I almost forgot about the foreigners' glossy appearance and disguised kindness. At the beginning, Ama and Eniang fled in a hurry with us, and almost didn't escape, dying at the hands of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Now it's really good, the scar forgets the pain. ”
Yun An: "It's because the eldest sister described foreign countries too well in her letter. ”
Yun Ping: "How did the eldest sister lie to us?" ”
Yun An said: "I think the eldest sister didn't lie to us, she really had a good life in a foreign country, and she saw the good side of foreign countries, and she didn't pay attention to the foreigners' coveting of our Qing Dynasty at all." ”
Yun Ping's good-looking eyebrows wrinkled again, and said to Yun An: "Third sister, let's go back, don't go to the café." ”
Yun An: "How can you not go?" Of course I want to go. We can't veto the good things of foreigners just because they are bad. And when we went to the café, we could be served by foreigners, of course. ”
As he spoke, he grabbed Yun Ping's wrists with both hands and dragged her forward.
"You let go of me, I'll just go." Yun Ping hurriedly pulled his arm out of Yun An's arms and taught Yun An a lesson, "Pay attention to your demeanor on the street, what kind of body do you want to hug and hug?" ”
Yun An stuck out his tongue, almost forgetting that although he was wearing the costume of a maid, Wang Fu Gege, who had been carefully raised by Wang Fu Jin for more than ten years, although he was a little rebellious in his heart, he would never go wrong in terms of etiquette norms.
The two of them came to the door of the café, different from the local restaurant teahouse, the completely Westernized decoration made Yun Ping dumbfounded, but she quickly reacted, although her heart was still surprised, and the surface was indifferent.
Yun Ping led Yun An to the café, but was stopped by a waiter wearing a white shirt and black pants at the door.
"Two, this is not the place for you to get in." The waiter said. This is a Qing national, but now he works for foreigners, and his attitude towards his compatriots is obviously superior, and he looks down on his compatriots.
"Why can't we go in? Isn't a café, like a teahouse, a place to entertain guests? Why are you stopping us? Yun Ping's face was calm, and there was a hint of anger in his voice.
"This girl, our café is different from the teahouse, our café receives noble people, as for you, ......" The waiter's gaze fell on the clothes of the two people, and said with disdain, "The cheapest food and drinks in our café are just not affordable for the two of them." ”
"You ......" Yun Ping was really angry, "The dog looks down on people." ”
Yun An smiled and said to Yun Ping: "Second sister, I thought of a riddle poem. ”
As he spoke, he recited: "The tip of the head and the body are as white as silver, and there is not half a cent on the scale." His eyes are on his buttocks, and he only recognizes clothes but not people. Second sister, guess what this is? ”
When the waiter heard the last two lines of the poem, he knew that Yun An was sarcastic about himself, and he was annoyed and angry, and shouted: "Get out, if you don't get out, I'll let people drive you away." ”
"Hehe...... hearty laughter came from behind the two sisters, "this riddle is interesting, let me guess, is it a sewing needle?" ”
The two sisters turned around and saw two young men approaching. A man wearing a robe and horse coat made of brocade, a melon skin hat inlaid with a piece of good jade, and a fan of jade bones in his hand. The other man was wearing a suit that foreigners like to wear, but he had a pig's tail dragging behind his head, which made him look nondescript.
Both of them are very handsome, especially the man in brocade, although he is well dressed, he does not have any squeamishness, and there is a smile on the corner of his mouth, which makes people feel good. This is the same person who spoke before.
Yun Ping blessed the two of them with a beautiful etiquette, and said, "Childe guessed right, it is indeed a sewing needle." ”
The brocade man hurriedly replied and said, "The two of us are about to go in, is the foreigner's so-called coffee delicious, do you want to go in with us?" ”
Yun Ping realized the man's kindness, did not refuse, and said softly: "Then thank you two." ”
The man smiled back and made a gesture of please, and Yun Ping walked up to the man and walked with him to the café. Yun An walked to the side of the man in the suit and smiled politely at the man in the suit, who nodded lightly and did not speak.
The waiter watched the two sisters walk beside the two men who looked unusual, and no longer stopped the two, and only snorted coldly in his heart, and his eyes obviously showed a more lightweight look, thinking that the two sisters were mistaken for women who climbed high branches with their beauty.
The two sisters didn't pay any attention to the waiter and followed the two men into the café. The man in the suit should have come to this café often, and he was familiar with this place, so he took the other three people to find a four-seater and sit down.
A foreign waiter approached and asked in English, "What do you want?" ”
The man in the suit replied in English: "Wait a minute, I'll ask my companion for advice first." ”
After speaking, he changed to Huaxia and asked Yun Ping and the three of them: "What drinks do you three want to drink?" Something to eat? ”
The brocade man said, "Didn't you bring me for coffee?" I'm going to have coffee, and you can order whatever you want. ”
"What about the two young ladies?" The man in the suit asked Yun Ping and Yun An.
"I want coffee too." Yun Ping said, "Another strawberry cream cake." ”
The eldest sister said in the letter that the strawberry cream cake was very delicious.
Yun Ping: "Give me a cup of milk tea, and ask for another piece of tiramisu." ”
The man in the suit was surprised, these two sisters actually studied the diet of the café, and they didn't seem to be ordinary people, but the clothes they wore were too bad, right? Could it be that they specialize in these in order to be able to catch foreigners and people of wealth and status?
The man in the suit couldn't help but squint his eyes, and he was wary of the two sisters in his heart.