Chapter 70: Beauty and the Beast

(Thank you ChelesaKaKa, Klarkxy10000, Lone Survivor 222 for the reward)

(Many people have never heard vaporwave music, so I recommend one - "Tokyo Confusion and Love" Netease Cloud)

Cheng Xiao listened to the analysis of the silence, and felt really amazing, his eyes were wide open, like a curious baby, his apricot eyes were round, and his delicate lips opened slightly: "Then what music do I like?"

Cheng Mo glanced at Cheng Xiao's eyes that shone with curiosity like gems, and replied expressionlessly: "Little sister, I'm not a fortune teller, deduction is a scientific logical reasoning method, its generation needs sufficient conditions, and its inductive judgment also needs sufficient conditions, just like the topic of mathematics, physics and chemistry, if you don't have enough conditions, it's completely nonsense if you want to solve it..... The reason why I can tell that this classmate likes vaporwaves is because the conditions she provides are ....."

Cheng Xiao didn't understand Cheng Mo's shirk at all, and continued to ask with interest: "Then I'll give you two hints, okay?"

Cheng Mo said in his heart: Fortune telling also costs money, my time is very precious, and I don't have the time to toss around with you here to delay time. So he said directly and casually: "You like ancient music...."

Because Cheng Xiao was singing an ancient song just now, Cheng Mo was completely perfunctory here, and he didn't fully analyze it at all, just to quickly get rid of the topic, but he didn't expect Cheng Xiao to applaud incredibly and replied: "It's amazing..... You're really as amazing as a fortune teller....."

Cheng Mo twitched the corners of his mouth twice, was very speechless, took the mobile phone from Yan Yitong's hand, and said, "You guys talk!" and turned around and left without giving them a chance to stay.

Yan Yitong saw Cheng Mo running away, and said with a smile: "I'll find Cheng Banxian to calculate his fate, I don't believe he doesn't understand...."

Xie Minyun didn't speak, just turned around and began to pick up the fork to deal with the salmon sashimi on the plate, the silver fork shone in the sun, like the decoration on her white wrist, her movements were quiet and elegant, like a giraffe in the mottled jungle.

Du Leng said in his heart: Even if Xie Minyun's background is not so deep, pursuing her is not a loss. He looked at the salmon on Xie Minyun's plate and asked the waiter to take a bottle of Chardonnay brewed by Sansell in the Loire Valley.

Then he said to Xie Minyun: "This white wine with oak flavor is the most suitable wine for creamy salmon, its fuller body and oak flavor will echo the weight and texture of salmon, which will definitely make you have a more different experience." ”

Xie Minyun didn't seem to hear it, Du Leng didn't mind, and he wasn't discouraged, so he turned his head and said to Cheng Xiao: "Xiao Xiao, do you want to eat something?"

Although Cheng Xiao is stupid and sweet, he also knows that he can't be a light bulb at this time, and said with a smile: "I'm going to bake something to eat by myself, I haven't had a BBQ for a long time, and the company doesn't allow us to eat meat, to be honest, I have long wanted to eat meat and want to go crazy....."

Du Leng said: "Okay, then I'll come to you later." ”

Cheng Xiao hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about me, I'm a little more relaxed by myself...."

Du Sneered and didn't speak, Cheng Xiao turned around and walked towards the oven, Du Leng looked at Cheng Xiao's slender waist swaying like willows in the breeze, and a pair of plump and white legs looming in the slit cheongsam skirt, thinking: This is also a pure natural stunner, but it is not suitable to do it at this time, and after I go to college, I must not let go of such a girl.

Du Leng turned his gaze back, asked the waiter in the long table for a plate and fork, stood beside Xie Minyun, asked for a few pieces of salmon, and said: "I always knew that you sang very well, but seriously, today you shocked me....." After a pause, Du sneered: "Of course, it would be more perfect if it wasn't "Beauty and the Beast" ("Beauty and the Beast") ("Beauty and the Beast") ....."

Xie Minyun said: "Thank you for the compliment, I just like this song, so I just sing this song....."

Du Leng naturally knew what Xie Minyun meant, don't think too much, I have nothing to do with you when I sing this song. He naturally won't give up because of Xie Minyun's persuasive words, in his plan, Xie Minyun and her family background are things he can't lack, and Xie Minyun also meets all his expectations, and even far exceeds, after all, even if Xie Minyun is not beautiful and her grades are not good, Du Leng will pursue her.

So Du Leng pretended not to mind Xie Minyun's indifference at all, and said gracefully: "I like this song very much, but I still feel a little difficult to let go of the thought that this fairy tale is a dark adult story (Note 1)....."

Xie Minyun said meaningfully: "Aren't humans so good at disguise?"

Du Leng said softly: "In order to survive, you always have to learn to disguise, but I think there is always someone in this world who can make you defenseless, let you completely remove your defenses, and fade your disguise....."

His voice is very magnetic, like the whispers of the narrator in a documentary, he is handsome and tall, like the male protagonist in an idol drama, Du Leng, who has opened the winner mode in life, is still very moving.

However, for Xie Minyun, who was also born to be a winner in life, she has seen too many people like Du Leng, and she has long been immune to such a person, although Du Leng is good enough, it is really far less attractive than Cheng Mo.

For her, Cheng Mo is like a difficult problem that she can't understand.

Xie Minyun didn't follow Du Leng's words, quickly finished the salmon on the plate, handed the plate and fork to the waiter, wiped his mouth with wet wipes, turned his head slightly to Du Leng who was standing aside, and said lightly: "I'll go to the bathroom ..... for a while."

At this time, the waiter came over with wine and a cup and asked, "Young Master, do you want to wake up or drink it directly?"

The gentleness on Du Leng's face slowly degenerated into stiffness, and the focus of his gaze was on the figure behind the young waiter, Xie Minyun, who was gradually moving away, said coldly: "Does this wine need to wake up?"

The waiter didn't know what he had done wrong, so he hurriedly said, "Then I'll pour you a drink now....." and then asked cautiously: "How many glasses do you need?" He didn't know if Xie Minyun would come back.

Du Leng resisted the urge to hit someone, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, take it back....."

The waiter bowed and said, "Yes....", and quickly left Du Leng, who seemed to be in a bad mood.

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Note 1 – The evolution of Beauty and the Beast has a long history, starting in the 18th century, beginning in 1740, when Madame Gabriel-Suzanne Villeneuve wrote a 200-page novel Beauty and the Beast based on a story from her favorite Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphosis.

She was a great inspiration to another writer, the French writer of the 1750s, Madame Jeanne-Marie Riplins Beaumont. Villeneuve's audience was mostly adults, while Beaumont was children, so she made a big deal of adaptations of the story.

One of the most crucial things is what the beast asks every night: "Will you sleep with me?" Changed to "Will you marry me?"

The former is primitive X desire, the latter is naΓ―ve fantasy, and no matter which of these two forms, there are people who are fascinated by it and believe in it.

Year 1771

French writer Marmontel and French composer GrΓ©tri collaborated on the operatic version of Beauty and the Beast, Zemire et Azor. Later, there were many movies based on Beauty and the Beast, but most of them were dark horror versions. It wasn't until 1991 that it was adapted into an animated film by Disney, and this Disney version of "Beauty and the Beast" was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Film, and it was also the first animated film to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture. Since then, Beauty and the Beast has become a fairy tale.

In fact, there is another theory that "Beauty and the Beast" is based on a Spanish boy named Petrus Gonsalvus, who was born covered in hair in 1537.

The scientific name for this condition is Amblas syndrome, also known as congenital hirsutism. It is an extremely rare genetic disorder that often runs in families, is caused by autosomal aberrations, and has a tendency to be inherited from one generation to the next.

Only 50 cases of the disease have been recorded since the Middle Ages, and Petrus was the first "half-werewolf" to be recorded with hirsutism.

At that time, European royalty and aristocrats used to possess a special species as a status symbol. Petrus' father decided to present his 10-year-old son as a gift to King Henry II of France.

The nobles of the French royal family were completely shocked when they saw Petrus, they had never seen such a half-man, half-beast. On the one hand, he was curious, and on the other hand, he was very worried that Petrus would become a beast.

So they decided to keep Petrus in captivity at the Royal Zoo.

They hoped that the "half-orc", who was still a child, would soon show his fangs and explode into his bestiality, so that they could use Petrus as a pastime just like watching a beast fight. However, when they found out that the child was nothing more than a hairy man, they found it no fun, so they taught the child knowledge and etiquette, and made him a monster who knew civilization.

In order for this hairy "monster" to have offspring and give it as a gift, the Queen Mother insisted on finding a wife for Petrus, and later found such a woman who broke the prejudice of the world, but the end was miserable, and four of the children born had Ambulas syndrome, which were given to other European nobles.....