Chapter 608 The Meaning of Travel (4)
Chu Qingmian was silent for a long time and chose to continue firing at Butler Han.
“Next question, Uncle Han! Since you were forced to come here with a mission, why do you look so happy! You love being a kid!”
“ No, no, no, miss, listen to me, this is what happened."
Butler Han still held his head in his hands and tried to speak for himself.
"After careful calculation, I have been working in the Chu family for twenty years. Just before you were born, I took over from the previous old housekeeper and officially joined the job.
At that time, Mr. My career has just improved a bit, and my wife is not as strict as she is now. I am too talkative.
Miss, what I want to say is that in the past twenty years, I have never had a chance to take a vacation except for the Chinese New Year! Three years later!”
Speaking of this, Butler Han's tone already sounded a little broken.
If you think about it, the job of being a housekeeper is very tiring. To be able to work continuously for twenty years is simply torture.
After working overtime for twenty consecutive years, Su Chengyi couldn't help but feel some empathy from the bottom of his heart.
"Huh?"
Chu Qingmian frowned slightly and then said:
"Uncle Han, how do I remember that you have a vacation? That one always comes to replace you. My uncle at work, I still remember that he has a big mole on his face!”
“That’s my dad, Miss. I call him to take over when I’m sick.”
Butler Han said sadly with a bitter look on his face.
“.I’m sorry.”
Chu Qingmian covered her face and apologized sincerely:
“Then haven’t you thought about suing my dad through labor law or something? ? This is too labor-intensive!"
"Actually, I have a holiday, but I can't worry about many things. The Chu family is too big, and the daily chores don't seem to be important. , superimposed together, it’s a bit hard to imagine.
My wife is very particular about people. Most of the time, I really can't worry. Occasionally, if my dad comes to take over the shift, I have to be prepared for everything in advance. No joke, even if I am in the hospital, I have to keep an eye on the news from the employees to feel at ease. "
Butler Han sighed and told about the difficulties he had experienced over the years. He couldn't explain the bitterness of it, but he just cried every word.
"Why don't you say goodbye? "
Uncle Gao in the driver's seat adjusted the back of the off-road vehicle and said slowly.
"Woof! ”
Fu Rui, who was in the back seat, also yelled twice, as if he was cooperating.
“.”
So the tears that Butler Han had just brewed up were driven back again.
Yes, this is a very real question.
It’s so hard, why don’t you give up? Could it be that he has masochistic tendencies?
Of course not.
Just because the salary given by the Chu family is too high, no one will say no to such a monthly salary and extremely generous year-end bonus.
"How much is Butler Han's monthly salary?"
Su Chengyi tilted his head and asked curiously.
He asked this question to Chu Qingmian, who thought about it and whispered a more conservative number in his ear.
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Su Chengyi instantly put away all his sympathy.
We are all social animals, and he is a core employee who graduated from a prestigious school and joined a large factory. His salary is like a joke in front of this manor housekeeper.
"That went up later! There weren't so many in the beginning!"
Butler Han waved his arms to defend himself.
"Okay, okay, so Uncle Han, although you are working hard, this is no excuse for you to be a young boy!"
Chu Qingmian knocked on the back of the seat and said sternly.
"No, no, what I want to say is, I just want to take this opportunity to take a vacation and have fun!"
Han Butler said with a sad face.
“Huh?”
The other three people in the carriage uttered this questioning syllable at the same time.
If it weren’t for the fact that the dog couldn’t understand human words, it would probably express its confusion with a “Oooh?”
"Really! Don't believe it! Northern Europe has always been my favorite place to travel!"
Butler Han sighed and raised his hand to signal them to look out the car window.
Su Chengyi raised his eyes in response. The outside world was a land of ice and snow, and the sky was dark and gloomy. The most iconic building, Hallgrímskirkja, reflected a warm yellow light.
It is indeed a rare sight in China.
"This is a rare opportunity, and I really want to come and see it. I just have such an opportunity. It's a trip at public expense. If you don't come, it will be in vain."
Speaking of the second half of the sentence, Butler Han couldn't help but think. Feeling guilty, his voice gradually became as thin as a mosquito.
Chu Qingmian was lying on the edge of the car window, looking at the ice flowers condensed on the glass. She didn't know what she thought of, but she suddenly bent her eyes and smiled.
“Okay, accept this reason!”
"Eh."
Now it was Butler Han's turn, who originally thought he would have to spend a lot of time convincing his eldest lady, to be stunned.
“But you still can’t be a kid, Uncle Han.”
Chu Qingmian blinked.
Looking from Su Chengyi's perspective, her pupils in the reflection of the car window were as beautiful as the crystal ball in the hand of a fortune teller.
"This"
Butler Han sighed and hesitated to speak.
"Don't worry, when my dad arranged for you to come over, he already knew that there would be a scene like this where you would be questioned. If I didn't ask you anything, he would feel something was wrong."
Chu Qingmian said slowly, with the attitude of "knowing your father better than your daughter".
"He sent you here just to tell me that even if I go to the ends of the world, everything I do will still be under his nose. At the same time, he also wants to tell me that I can't forget my identity. Well, just That’s all.”
Uncle Gao in the driver's seat silently turned on the air conditioner in the car, and the glass windows gradually became foggy due to the temperature difference.
Chu Qingmian casually drew a smiley face on the window, turned around and looked at Su Chengyi with a smile.
"But I don't care."
"Really."
Her smile was so dazzling that Su Chengyi couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth and said with a smile.
"Yeah!"
Chu Qingmian nodded heavily, and then said seriously:
"The question I care about now is what we are going to eat at night!"
"Before, we were I saw it in the travel brochure on the plane, and there was a local specialty restaurant." Su Chengyi thought for a while and replied.
"What's special about it?"
She was no longer sleepy when it came to eating. Chu Qingmian couldn't help but ask curiously.
"There is a restaurant called Grillmarkaurinn, which is quite popular. Its specialties include grilled lamb chops, lobster soup, and..."
Speaking of this, Su Chengyi deliberately prolonged his tone, as if Appetizing.
Miss Chu, who was very good at catching fish, quickly took the bait and asked with her eyes open:
"And?"
"And, whale burger."
Su Chengyi suppressed a smile and gave this answer that sounded like a joke from hell.
“!!!”
Chu Qingmian gasped in shock and couldn’t help but move closer and wanted to cover his mouth to stop him from talking.
But after the latter dodged her control skills, he continued to say slowly:
"Whale Steak."
"Su Chengyi!!!"
"Grilled Whale Skewers. .”
“I’m ignoring you.”
Seeing that the eldest lady was really getting anxious, Su Chengyi stopped teasing her and took out the specially prepared camera from her backpack with a smile.
“Look at the camera, Miss.”
Chu Qingmian, who had turned aside angrily when she heard him ask this, couldn’t help but turn around and cooperated with Yang. He smiled and raised his scissor hands unconsciously like two playful rabbit ears.
The focus of the camera is full of the youthful atmosphere of a girl. Su Chengyi paused with her fingers before pressing the shutter button.
Chu Qingmian in the camera always has the temperament of a literary and artistic movie heroine. Her cold bones are matched with a bright smile. The smiling face just painted behind her is a very wonderful composition.
Su Chengyi looked at this casually taken photo and thought it looked like a still of the heroine in a movie. Audiences with rich imaginations can make up a long plot of tens of thousands of words at any time.
With the click of the shutter button, people can feel that this journey to the ends of the earth has truly begun.
Finally, a few people came to the Grillmarkaurinn restaurant. The translated name is called BBQ Market, which specializes in some Icelandic specialties.
Under the pressure of Chu Qingmian’s cold eyebrows, everyone only ordered more normal food. The grilled lamb chops and lobster soup were naturally indispensable.
It is said that the mutton here is tender and has no smell. Many people who did not eat mutton will change their minds after eating it.
Butler Han was such a person, but after he plucked up the courage to eat a piece of grilled lamb chops, he unfortunately saw the sheep's head cooked by some people next door. He almost vomited it and lost his appetite.
So his portion of lobster soup was happily taken over by Uncle Gao.
Su Chengyi flipped through the menu and said with great interest:
"Actually, there is another dish here that is said to be more exotic than whale meat, fermented shark."
"Fermented shark?! It always feels like a dark dish!"
Chu Qingmian's little face wrinkled up, obviously she couldn't imagine what it smelled like.
“Fermented shark is a traditional delicacy in Iceland. Icelanders usually enjoy it on important festival days. However, many tourists who come here cannot accept such a taste.
Because from Scientifically speaking, these meats have a strong ammonia-like odor and are humanoid The content is - a strong smell of urine. Therefore, those who have never eaten it but are curious can imagine that they are eating jelly made of urine.
In other words, it is. You're right, it's dark cuisine."
Su Chengyi closed the menu and said with a smile.
Obviously, after he said these words, Miss Chu's appetite was about to be extinguished. She silently put down the knife and fork in her hand and began to nibble on the piece of bread.
Uncle Gao was left eating his huge plate of grilled lamb chops without changing his expression.
Yes, for a professionally trained special forces soldier like him, he must have eaten more unacceptable food in a more extreme survival environment, probably similar to the food in "Wild Survival", come to think of it Even less worthy of mentioning at the dinner table than fermented shark.
So, obviously only Uncle Gao, who had experienced many battles, and Su Chengyi, who had a bad taste, enjoyed this meal.
Seeing this, the enthusiastic waiter also offered them the "Black Death Wine" that every crooked nut will try when he comes to Iceland.
Su Chengyi had also heard about this wine with a weird-sounding name, but he only read about it in some books about the traditional culture of Nordic countries.
Wine-making pays attention to raw materials. Iceland’s geographical location is destined to not have very good conditions, so the "witty" human beings had a flash of inspiration and thought of using potatoes and coriander to make wine.
This is how Black Death Wine was born, and its taste has been described as "rye bread soaked in gasoline."
The outrageous combination of black death wine and fermented shark is regarded by many as a ritual to come to Iceland, or as some kind of proof of one's own strength. It is also used by local Icelanders to provoke, One of the fun ways to tease visiting tourists.
Su Chengyi thought it was just like people in Beijing tricking people into drinking bean juice, and Yunnan and Guizhou tricking people into eating Zheer roots.
Facts have proved that although the regions are thousands of miles apart and the cultural backgrounds are completely different, the bad tastes of human beings are relatively consistent.
Spurred by the waiter's affection and the phrase "come and come" engraved in the DNA of the Chinese people, the four finally decided to have a bottle of the so-called black death wine.
Of course, Miss Chu almost "yue" just after smelling the smell. Butler Han covered his mouth and nose and hid 800 meters away on the pretext of waiting to drive.
In the end, only Uncle Gao and Su Chengyi were left, staring at the mysterious liquid in the cup in trance.
“Do you really want to drink, uncle.”
Su Chengyi asked expressionlessly.
“It doesn’t matter if you try it.”
Uncle Gao grabbed the cup and thought nothing more than this.
He is a tough guy who drank high-concentration vodka in the cold wind of Siberia. How can it be so bad to make wine with just potatoes and coriander?
“Do it!”
Uncle Gao picked up the cup and clinked it with Su Chengyi.
Adhering to the sentiment of "real men never keep fish", the two raised their heads and took a big sip.
No kidding aside, Su Chengyi felt that it was his best effort not to slap Uncle Gao in the face.
This thing cannot be called wine at all. It is not an exaggeration to say it is poison. Perhaps pesticides will not bring such exaggerated sensory stimulation to people.
Uncle Gao on the opposite side didn't look too good either. The tough guy's facial muscles twitched stiffly several times, and he couldn't swallow the sip of wine in his mouth.
"Hey, hey, hey, Su Chengyi, are you okay?!"
Chu Qingmian came over with a worried look, but quickly backed away because of the pungent and unpleasant smell of alcohol.
Su Chengyi looked at Uncle Gao across from him without changing his expression. The two were in a stalemate for about ten seconds, and both saw the same message in each other's eyes:
Help.
No more.
vomit?
Spit! ! !
The two lowered their heads in tacit understanding and spit all the wine in their mouths back into the cup.
Even so, the irritating and diaphragmatic feeling in the mouth still lingered. Su Chengyi wondered for a moment whether it would be better if he swallowed it quickly. Before his body could react, at this moment After holding it in my mouth for so long, it felt like every cell was filled with alcohol bubbles.
Chu Qingmian handed over her own cup, which contained the lemonade she had asked the waiter for in advance. Su Chengyi took it and drank several sips before she could calm down.
"You idiot! Who asked you to take such a big sip!"
Chu Qingmian tugged on his ears angrily, pouting with worries in her eyes.
Su Chengyi shook his head and said:
"I finally understand why some people say that if you are eating fermented shark meat at this time, then maybe take a big sip of black death wine and faint quickly. That’s the right choice.”
(End of this chapter)