Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Sister Ju felt very guilty about Yu Ru's vomiting. She wiped Yu Ru's face with a tissue and said self-reproachfully: "Madam, it's all my fault. Those dishes looked so disgusting. I should have taken you away in time. Now you have to suffer so much and vomit here."

Yu Ru waved her hands, "It has nothing to do with you. It's actually good to vomit it out. I didn't have much appetite to begin with, but now that I've vomited out everything I ate, I feel like eating something."

"Okay, okay." Sister Ju nodded repeatedly. "Madam, this time we won't eat those randomly presented dishes. How about we go eat foie gras? There should be a lot of meat there."

Yu Ru nodded.

Sister Ju has been to France, but not many times, so she is not particularly familiar with the place, but she knows how to get around and she also knows some of the popular local restaurants.

For the second stop, she took Yu Ru to a century-old traditional French restaurant in the center of Paris. This is a restaurant that the locals love to eat at and it is also a check-in spot for many foreigners. It shouldn't be a big mistake to choose this place.

I thought this restaurant sold foie gras, but when I sat down to look at the menu, I found that it was not foie gras that was sold here, but duck liver. She didn't know French, but she knew a few words, which was just enough to read the menu.

Foie Gras means fatty liver in French, and specifically refers to goose liver, or possibly duck liver. If you want to say duck liver or goose liver, there will be a suffix after the two words, and the menu you see now basically says Foie Gras de Canard, which is duck liver.

Goose liver is white in color and light in taste, while duck liver is yellow in color and strong in taste. Yu Ru likes to eat things with stronger flavors, so it doesn't matter, she can eat it.

Sister Ju seemed to have discovered the problem here. It was not selling goose liver, but almost all duck liver.

She pointed at the menu with one finger, looked at Yu Ru and asked nervously: "Madam, it seems that they don't eat goose liver here. It says duck liver. Do you eat duck liver? If you don't like it, I will take you home to rest. I will go out to buy food and bring it back for you."

Yu Ru shook her head slightly, [It doesn't matter, since we are here, let's try it.]

They ordered a Burgundy red appetizer and a bottle of white wine to go with the meal.

Sister Ju was scared by the food that foreigners eat. She had only heard of this restaurant but had never eaten there. She had only seen it on the Internet. She was worried that none of the dishes here would appeal to her, so she ordered a lot of dishes after asking Yu Ru for her opinion to avoid leaving again.

They ordered duck liver ravioli, pan-fried duck liver, roasted beef bone marrow, baked eggs, duck salad, confit duck legs, and salmon platter.

Yu Ru didn't like eating liver, she thought it was disgusting, but she could eat it. Although almost every dish in this restaurant was liver, which she hated, it was much better than the food in the previous restaurant. She liked the duck salad and the two duck legs in the confit duck leg, and she also thought the beef bone marrow was not bad.

But all these things are a bit greasy, and they always need to be paired with cheese sauce, mustard sauce, sweet and spicy sauce, etc., and you have to drink some wine to relieve the greasiness. Yu Ru hates wine, especially the white wine she is drinking now, which tastes sour. She can eat sour food, but she doesn't like sour things.

As she ate, Sister Ju cut large pieces of duck liver for her. "Madam, is this ok? It looks pretty good to me."

Yu Ru nodded.

"That's good." Sister Ju placed the cut duck liver in front of Yu Ru and asked, "Madam, the white wine you drank seems a bit sour. Would you like some dessert? There is a very popular ice cream shop here, called Berthillon. There is a long queue as soon as it opens. I have eaten there and it tastes good. If you want to eat it, I will buy some for you. It is super big, like a big head."

"It's this big." Sister Ju put her hands high and low to measure the size of the ice cream.

Yu Ru shook her head, put down the knife and fork in her hand, and gestured, "No, thank you, Sister Ju, these are enough, we will go home later."

Yunjixing has a house in France. When he comes here on business trips, he usually lives in his own house, so it is not an exaggeration to call it his home.

"Yeah." Sister Ju nodded.

……

There is a saying on the Internet: If you don't steal, you are not Italian. If you don't rob, you are not French. If you steal and rob, you are not Eagle Geely. If you rob, you shoot and rape. If nothing unexpected happens, Yu Ru and Ju Jie still have an accident when they are outside. They met a robber.

The other gang committed the crime, which consisted of three men and two women, two of whom were black and the rest had ordinary European faces. Probably because they had Asian faces and were relatively thin, the other gang didn't take them seriously at all, and stood in front of them arrogantly, blocking their way and asking them to hand over their bags.

The first person to attack them was a black man. He stretched out his hand to block them and said fiercely in English: "Give me your bag and other valuables as well."

The only thing that looks valuable between Yu Ru and Ju Jie at the moment is Yu Ru's Zhuang brocade shoulder bag with a "卍" flower pattern, which is now on Ju Jie.

Sister Ju raised her hands to show her surrender, and then replied to the man in broken English, "Okay, okay, please don't hurt us, we will give you the bag."

She stared at the robbers in front of her with bated breath, and reached for her bag with both hands. When she was about to take the bag off her body, she suddenly raised her foot and kicked the black man in front of her.

At the same time, she stuffed the bag into Yu Ru's hand.

"Madam, leave it to me, don't worry!"

Sister Ju is a Wuying-level athlete who has won many national martial arts competitions. She has never lost a single match with either men or women in private, so she naturally has no problem with the people in front of her.

The kick she had just delivered was steady, accurate and fierce. The black man fell to the ground. She took the opportunity to kick him in the abdomen again, and he screamed in pain. The others were all a little dazed when they saw this, probably because they had never met an Asian woman as brave as her. They all stood there motionless with their hands and feet stiff.

This spectacular scene attracted some passers-by to stop and watch, but they all watched from a distance and did not come close.

"F*ck!" The men widened their eyes and cursed.

Sister Ju seized the moment of their astonishment and rushed forward to attack them with a set of boxing skills. She punched quickly, her movements were graceful and sharp, as fast as the wind. Every time she punched, the sound of a sharp object cutting through the air could be heard by the naked ear, and the two small fists left afterimages. Her fists were full of internal strength, and the robbers felt as if they were pierced by arrows. After a few hits, they could not resist, their bodies were shaky, and they cried out in pain, and they all rolled and crawled to the surroundings.

But since they have gotten in front of Yu Ru, how can Sister Ju, as her bodyguard, let them go easily?

She quickly grabbed one of the women's shoulders and kicked her knees. Before she fell to the ground, she used the force to jump up and kicked a man nearby.

At this time, she also let go and descended from mid-air, like an eagle spreading its wings, strong and powerful yet as light as a swallow.

The moment she fell, she flipped her body and jumped to another place, and used the Black Tiger Heart-piercing move to attack another robber. The man was hit by her and could not walk. He immediately knelt on the ground, holding his chest and howling in pain.

………………I am the dividing line………………

About Yu Ru’s Zhuang brocade bags.

"Zhuang people love colors, and all clothes, skirts, towels and quilts are made of five-colored velvet" - "Guangxi General Records" in the Qing Dynasty

"The velvet is white, with square patterns and large threads. It is similar to the silk gauze of Zhongdu, but it is beautiful and thick. It is truly the best clothing in the south." - Zhou Qufei, "Answers from the Mountains"

Zhuang Brocade:

As the name suggests, the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in my country is the stuff of the Zhuang ethnic group. First, let me introduce the Zhuang ethnic group. The Zhuang ethnic group is a minority with a long history. They have lived in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places in my country for generations. In ancient times, they were called Li, Liao, Zhu and Tu. Since the Song Dynasty, they were called Zhuang and then Zhuang.

What about Zhuang brocade? The Zhuang language of Zhuang brocade is mbaw laiz fax, which means "the page of heavenly pattern". It is said that Zhuang brocade originated in the Song Dynasty. The profound and unique national culture it contains and the culture it carries make it as famous as Nanjing Yunjin, Suzhou Songjin and Chengdu Shujin, and they are collectively known as the "Four Famous Brocades" of China.

Traditional Zhuang brocade uses cotton and linen as the ground warp and ground weft to weave in plain weave, and is used to make quilts, mattresses, straps, backpacks, hanging bags, aprons, etc. Zhuang brocade has vivid patterns, rigorous structure, and colorful colors. Common patterns include checkered patterns, word patterns, water ripples, cloud patterns, Huizi patterns, butterfly love flowers, phoenix wearing peony, double dragons playing with pearls, lions rolling balls, carp jumping over the dragon gate, etc.

(Zhuang brocade is a work of art that is cleverly interwoven with cotton yarn as the warp and various colored velvet as the weft on a hand-loom equipped with a support system, transmission device, heald device and jacquard device. It is made by using the method of passing the warp and breaking the weft. Zhuang brocade is also known as "Zong brocade" and "velvet quilt" and is relatively thick.)

The content in brackets is excerpted from the article "Zhuang Brocade - Inheriting the Source of Shu Brocade and Displaying the Soul of the Zhuang Family", an article published by the Department of Commerce of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

时间:2019-09-01 02:53

Source: Nanning, Baise, Laibin

Author: Nanning Baise Laibin