Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2377 Stupefy (middle)

There was a Victorian English housekeeper who wrote a book called Housekeeping in which he brought up the art of cutting meat, which is largely overlooked, but cutting meat has a profound effect on every family. It is important to be comfortable and save money. The right cut of meat can not only satisfy the choice of each member at the party, but also make good use of the leftover meat for the next meal.

   The first thing you need to cut cleanly is a sharp knife, medium in size and not too bulky.

The second is to put the meat in a large plate that can be turned over, and the plate should also be firmly fixed on the table, close to the meat cutter, and the distance between the meat cutter and the meat cutter is just enough to put down the plate containing the barbecue. Can.

Third, cut the loins, **** and necks of lamb, lamb and veal properly before removing the guts, otherwise the most skilled meat cutters will be in trouble, and don’t load the guests’ plates when cutting the meat. full.

The meat has different textures. The strands of meat should be sliced ​​thinly. If anyone has eaten high-grade Spanish ham, they will see that it is usually cut into slices as thin as cicada wings. Easier to chew.

The ribs will be more tender and can be cut thicker, but the part where the bones and the meat are connected should not be eaten in your hand. Cut into thin slices with a boning knife.

  The most delicious meat on animals is under the ears, next to the side of the eyes and cheeks. Even for cows, there is not much meat in this part. The meat in this position is often given to the most distinguished guests at the table.

   So it doesn’t mean that a full plate is a sign of hospitality.

   Bonaparte used to have someone who cut meat for him, but he was not that "fine" and finished the meal in 15 minutes. This meat cutter was later sent to cut bread for war survivors, which was also a job, and his purpose was to create jobs, not like before the Revolution, when a large group of people lost their jobs without any relief, and food prices went up every day Up, can only rely on borrowing to get by.

   Now the situation is very strange, Bonaparte actually sits at the table to accompany Georgiana and Padma to eat slowly.

She believes that it is not difficult to find someone in the patrol team who can speak English and French and speak funny words to liven up the atmosphere of the table. It will not be as quiet as it is now. Awkward.

   "Not to your taste?" he said suddenly.

   Padma seemed to be frightened, and subconsciously looked at Georgiana, while Georgiana looked at Padma's plate, the meat in it didn't move at all.

   Obviously, Padma realized when he learned that the aggressive man was Napoleon. He had been dead for two hundred years. How could the dead sit here and eat? Not a Hollywood movie.

   "He asked why you didn't eat." Georgiana translated in a straightforward manner.

   "I'm not hungry." Padma said warily.

   "It's a local custom." Georgiana translated to Bonaparte "There are parts of India that don't eat beef."

   He looked at Georgiana with an incomprehensible look.

   Then she realized how difficult it was to keep smiling.

   "What tricks are you doing?" He asked when she was staring at her fidgeting.

   "Don't you have a lot of work to do?"

   "No hurry." He said leisurely, "I find it much more interesting here."

   "Who are you?" Padma asked Georgiana.

   "Remember what your partner Ron Weasley wore that day?" Georgiana laughed.

  Padma put his hands around his chest "That doesn't mean anything."

   "Let me think of something else, your owls test scores..."

   "Enough!" Padma stopped, "But I didn't see you at school."

   That's because she drank the potion, and of course it's possible that she was dreaming that she was a beautiful mixed-race veela.

   Her rich imagination thought she was the daughter of Cauce and Veela, the last heirs of the French Lestrange family, and Severus was happy.

   "What are you talking about?" asked Bonaparte aside.

   "We are a school." Georgiana replied.

   "I know, you have only one magic school in the UK." He said calmly, "Are you classmates?"

   "No!" she exaggeratedly said "Why do you think that?"

   "A woman's age is always a mystery, not to mention you are witches." Bonaparte said with a blank face, "Even though you all look in your twenties."

   "She's not like me, she's human," said Georgiana.

   He stared at her as if waiting for her to continue.

   "How did you come to this world?" Georgiana asked Padma in English.

  Padma looked her up and down with distrust in her eyes.

   "Or do you want me to leave and you two communicate?" Georgiana said in French.

   "Isn't this your plan?" asked Bonaparte.

   "What?" asked Georgiana in surprise.

   He put his arms on the table and turned to face her.

   "Your 'little plan'."

   She didn't realize what "little plan" he was talking about.

   Bonaparte tilted his head to signal her to look at Padma.

   She thought about it for a long time, and then realized that if she really had a "small plan", she should leave at this time and let the two of them "communicate" alone.

   She was so angry that she lost her mind.

   "I wouldn't do that to my students."

   He smiled sarcastically, "You don't want to know my opinion?"

  What, Your Majesty, are you satisfied with what you see?

She knew she shouldn't listen to Caroline's bad ideas. She didn't want to bear it any longer. She covered the unfinished lunch with a napkin and ordered Padma to leave with her, leaving Bonaparte alone in the dining room. .

There is an opera called "Mrs. Butterfly", although it is only an opera, a geisha named Jo Jossang was introduced by a broker to "marry" a U.S. Navy officer who also had a wife in the United States, and later the two He came to Nagasaki and took away the child born by Qiao Qiao Sang.

   If it was replaced by a disobedient woman, Qiao Qiaosang should try to figure out what transaction the naval officer had done with the Japanese, and use it as a threat to tell the US consulate, newspapers, etc. when the American couple came to steal the child.

   As for the wife of the US military officer, she also chose to endure in order to maintain her marriage. It is possible that she could not have children herself, so she adopted the children born by her husband and other women.

  Josephine was reluctant to accept the offer, and she was accused by Lucien. The seemingly "sensible" Georgiana shot herself in the foot now, and they didn't go too far, that is, at the door of the restaurant.

   "You go back to England right away."

   "Why should I listen to you?" Padma put his hands around his chest in a defensive posture.

   When she said "I'm here for your own good", she couldn't listen.

   "Do you remember how you came into this world?" asked Georgiana.

  Padma recalled.

   "If you find a way to leave, go back to England to find clues, and I will find someone you can trust to help you."

   "What about you? What are you doing?" Padma asked.

   "People who have been looking for letters, do you know how hard it is to find such people?"

  Padma made no sound.

  Georgianna thought of Wilberforce, not only because of his abolition work, but also because he was disabled and could not be a threat to Padma even if he wanted to do something wrong.

   But Wilberforce was a friend of William Pitt Jr., she didn't know what the Muggle was thinking, and she didn't want Padma to get involved.

   "I was patrolling the museum," Padma said. "Some people said they saw a running mummy in the subway."

  Georgianna froze for a moment.

"When the Arabs occupied Egypt, they found a sarcophagus. They didn't know what it was used for, so they removed it and used it as a baptismal basin. They made several round holes in the bottom of the coffin for drainage. People at the museum bought it back, and when I checked the mummy, I saw water all over the ground, and the water came out of the sarcophagus."

   "Water?" asked Georgiana in surprise.

   "How could he still be alive?" Padma said to Georgiana in a low voice, "or is there something wrong with my memory."

   "You remember correctly, he did die." Georgiana said to Padma, "The people of this world are neither really dead nor alive."

"what?"

   "Do you know whose sarcophagus it belongs to?" asked Georgiana.

   "Son of Pharaoh Ramses II, a prince named Hamvas." Padma said, "He is the fourth son of Ramses II."

   She was a little surprised, this was the Gryffindor she knew?

   Then Georgiana asked, "What's so special about him?"

"There are many legends that in the book of Exodus, the pharaoh who chased Moses to the Red Sea was Ramses II, but it is more likely that it was Merenputa, the third son of Ramses II, the eldest son and His second son is already dead, and if Melenputa is dead, it will be Prince Hamwath's turn, but Hamwas doesn't want to be pharaoh."

   "What does he want?" asked Georgiana impatiently.

   "He's looking for the Book of Tut." Padma said in a low voice, "As long as this book is found, even Muggles can use magic."

   "He found it?" asked Georgiana.

   "On his stone coffin was written 'He recited a mantra on the water, and the water appeared in its original form'."

"Georgianna!" cried Bonaparte impatiently.

   "I must go back," said Georgiana.

   "Go back?" Padma said incredulously, "Are you crazy?"

  Georgianna couldn't explain it to her and turned back to the dining room.

   (end of this chapter)