Chapter 127: Strange Things Happen One After Another
The residential buildings of the English department are completely different from those of other departments.
The Ying family’s residential building is a huge three-story building in the shape of a Chinese character “口”, with hundreds of rooms. Most of the Ying family members live here.
The atrium of the residential building is paved with stone slabs to facilitate people to go in and out. There are many vehicles parked here, including bicycles, electric cars, everything from nostalgic classic cars to super sports cars, vans and small pickup trucks, but no carriages.
Behind the residential building is a green area, and further away is a green forest, and then the sea. Everyone enjoyed afternoon tea here. Originally, Hood suggested going to the garden in charge of Unicorn, but because there were too many people who signed up for afternoon tea, they decided to temporarily set it here, no matter how many people there were, they could accommodate them.
Su Xia had known a little about British afternoon tea before, so she was particularly interested in the cake stand.
He remembered the positions of afternoon tea snacks on the cake stand. The bottom layer usually contained savory sandwiches, which were small triangles and easy to eat. In the middle were scones, which were English muffins served with clotted cream and jam. On the top were sweets. It was indeed the case.
King George V of England was sitting next to Su Xia. She had been noticing him for a long time and asked, "What are you looking at, Admiral?"
"Nothing." Su Xia answered subconsciously. He paused, "I remember that the way to eat afternoon tea snacks is... from bottom to top, from salty to sweet?"
King George V of England smiled and said, "The traditional way of eating is like that... But the admiral can eat however he wants. Just be happy, there is no need to be so particular. As long as you don't eat while , which is really too much and exaggerated... People with status are polite no matter what they do, which is unique, unrestrained and informal. For people without status, no matter how particular they are, they are just being too particular."
Su Xia found it funny. He had never met anyone of status. He only knew that for the same piece of equipment, if it was given by a powerful professional player, then - don't ask, just learn; if it was given by a host who could never get over 8,000 points, then it was just a joke.
He couldn't remember where he had seen it, but traditions needed to be followed, but not rigidly and strictly required.
The Prince of Wales added: "The origin of afternoon tea is that the nobles lived in large houses in the countryside, had a very rich breakfast, a relatively simple lunch, and a formal dinner later. In the afternoon, they were hungry and wanted to eat, so afternoon tea was created. Afternoon tea is for satisfying hunger, not for eating something fancy or showing off one's status."
People with status don’t care, but people without status, or those who care about their status, will do everything they can to fear that others will look down on them or ignore them.
"Wow!" Hood sat opposite Su Xia and heard their conversation, "George, Wales... Why does the admiral eat whatever he wants, but when it's my turn, I have to pay attention to etiquette and tradition?"
The Prince of Wales picked up the red teacup, took a sip and said, "I have told you so many times about etiquette, etiquette, etiquette, but have you ever paid attention to it? Haven't you always done what you want?"
Hood snorted and picked up the red teacup to drink tea. The action of drinking tea was really elegant and impeccable, just like the posture of a noble lady, which made people feel ashamed.
The Prince of Wales looked at Hood and thought that as long as he didn't do anything stupid, Hood, not Hood, would be the well-deserved flagship of the Royal Navy and the glory of the Royal Navy.
Su Xia stared at the cake stand. After listening to what everyone said, he didn't really care about the order of eating snacks. He just had a little difficulty in making choices. Since those snacks were exquisitely made, they looked pleasing to the eye, and the color, aroma and taste at least accounted for two of them, he was not worried. He ate them until he fainted like he had eaten the dishes made in London in the morning.
Su Xia picked up a scone hesitantly with his hand and held up the cup of tea with his other hand. He suddenly thought of "sleepy tea" and laughed.
The Prince of Wales saw Su Xia finish her scones and asked, "How was it?"
"It's crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. The taste... is OK, it tastes good." Su Xia wanted to give a long review and praise it, like a gourmet, but she was really short of words. When a great poet looks at a waterfall, he thinks it's the Milky Way falling from the sky. When ordinary people look at a waterfall, they can only say - Wow, it's amazing.
Su Xia took another dessert and asked, "Who made these snacks?"
"It's mainly about reputation and counterattack..." said the Prince of Wales.
Su Xia looked around and said, "I didn't see them..."
His idea is that we can't just eat and drink here and teach other tasks to others. Of course, it doesn't mean that everything must be divided. Maybe Reputation and Counterattack like the work of maids, but they can't really treat them as maids. At least now that afternoon tea is in progress, he hopes everyone is present.
"It will be here in a moment." Prince of Wales said, "Who do you think we are, Admiral? She is the head maid, Admiral, your head maid, the chief steward of this tutelary fort. She just doesn't like to express her opinions, otherwise even we would have to listen to her. Little counterattack, she is my well-behaved sister."
Su Xia knew how close the relationship between the Prince of Wales and Counterattack was, and then he noticed that there was one person missing here, and asked: "Counterattack is your sister... The Duke of York, why can't I see the Duke of York?" He remembered the Duke of York, anyway, the character illustration in the game was superb.
The Prince of Wales was silent for a moment, then looked at her sister, King George V of England, and asked, "Sister, didn't you call me little sister?"
King George V remained calm and said without any embarrassment, "Didn't I tell you to call her?"
"You didn't tell me."
"some."
The two sisters looked at each other and looked away almost at the same time.
The Prince of Wales raised his hand, beckoned, and cried: "Vanguard . . . ."
"Yeah." A small round table couldn't accommodate so many people, so the vanguard had to sit at another table. She heard the Prince of Wales calling her and quickly responded, "What's the matter?"
"Didn't I ask you to inform everyone to prepare afternoon tea?" The Prince of Wales paused, "Nothing... just, you should inform York now... my sister, the Duke of York." One is the Duke of York, the other is York, it is easy to confuse the two people just by calling York.
Su Xia didn't pay much attention to the Duke of York and continued to eat snacks and drink tea. At this time, he received a call from Lexington, asking him about going to the cafeteria in the morning and eating food made in London.
Then, just after hanging up the phone with Lexington, he got another call from Mutsu, with the same question as Lexington. Not only that, Mutsu was trying to have a long phone conversation with him. Kongo's call, Bismarck's call, Richelieu's call...
King George V glanced at the Prince of Wales, who looked at Su Xia, who had just put down her phone and returned to her seat, and said, "Admiral, give us your phone, and we will help you reply to everyone... Otherwise, you won't be able to have afternoon tea like this."
Su Xia thought about it and handed the phone to the Prince of Wales, who then handed it to the vanguard.
The constant calls are just the beginning. It's just that everyone cares about the Admiral, nothing strange about that.
There was a faint shouting sound coming from a distance, what was going on?
The Glory with beautiful golden wavy hair kept looking for the Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales frequently left the table and once called King George V to join them. The three of them stood on the grass and discussed something. It seemed that Glory was not doing well at work, and was lectured and called a fool, and was dejected.
Su Xia drank black tea and watched all this calmly. Only Hood was leisurely petting the cat, eating snacks and drinking black tea. He felt that things were not simple.
