Of course, it was Mingyan's castle, Gu Nanze knew that one of Song Ruyi's classmates was British, and there was a castle at home, so he was silent for a long time and asked: "I remember that a few years ago, you and your roommate went to Beidaihe for a vacation, and her family didn't seem to be ordinary, and now this one is too."
There are less than 20 students in your class, are the students in your school from such families, or are they just like this in your class?"
Song Ruyi replied to him: "It depends on what your standard is, but one class seems to be different from other classes, and every classmate's family background is no worse than ours, and some are even better." ” "But Su Su's family, oh, it's my roommate, her family doesn't look like rich, it's very low-key."
There was no answer on the other end of the phone for a long time, and Song Ruyi asked uncertainly: "Is it true that you are asking about this, or is it something else?"
” Gu Nanze didn't know how to evaluate it, but said, "You go to the UK to have fun." ” "Oh," "Pay attention to safety abroad, and the security abroad is not as good as in China."
"I will."
Song Ruyi assured.
After arriving in England, everyone entered the country from Heathrow Airport, and the Wellington family sent a butler to pick them up at the airport, which was a gold-plated Bentley.
It was raining in the sky, all the way to the city of London, and looking out of the car window, you could see the towering top of the church and the vicissitudes of brick walls at both ends of the road, many buildings full of vicissitudes.
After all, this is a city with a long history, although it cannot be compared with Xi'an and Luoyang in China.
But two thousand years ago, it was also the capital of Rome, founded by the Roman Empire, and is still one of the most popular cities for foreign tourists.
But after getting out of the car, four boys and girls stood in front of a white bungalow with a garden in the center of Kensington.
It's a quiet neighborhood, mostly red or white, separated from each other, some with gardens and some without.
There are also many cars parked on the side of the road, including Ferrari and Lamborghini, but most of them are ordinary cars, and Bentley is the most.
However, Li Su, who was wearing a sleeveless floral dress, looked at the house in front of him and whispered, "This doesn't look like a castle." ” Ming Yan sighed, as if he couldn't do anything about her, Qiao Rui smiled comfortingly at the two girls: "Believe me, Ming Yan took us to live here, it was definitely for our good." ” Li Su was puzzled, but she was still happy and ready to take her luggage from the car.
Unexpectedly, the waiter who went out to greet a few people had already taken their luggage in.
Li Su sighed in a low voice: "I wanted to say it at the airport just now, it's the first time I've seen a British-style housekeeper with my own eyes, and it looks so professional." ” The housekeeper was a middle-aged man, with a white shirt and a black suit, with a straight posture, and his gray blonde hair was combed smoothly to the back of his head, and he thanked her politely: "Thank you for your affirmation." ” Li Su was petrified, and she stammered to Song Ruyi: "I heard it right, he said Chinese." ” "Yes, he spoke in Chinese."
After Song Ruyi replied, he turned his head to look in the direction of the corner of the street, where someone had been looking at them.
When I looked over, I realized that it was two young men in security uniforms, and when they saw her gaze, they immediately turned their heads, looked at the sky and the earth, and then fixed their eyes on a nearby tree, as if it would grow flowers in this way.
This is too obvious, paying more attention to strangers is not considered the professionalism of security guards "My mother is Chinese, I have studied in China for so many years, I have to take care of my housekeeper, and I don't know how to speak Chinese."
Akihiko took a few people into the house, and it couldn't be seen from the outside, but it was very luxurious inside, and it had a heavy sense of age.
Because Akihiko had brought his friends home, and two of the ladies had never been to London before, the housekeeper made very careful arrangements when he knew how many people he would have to entertain.
Although London is a city that can be played non-stop for two months, Li Su's main concern is to stay at the castle for a day.
Akihiko looked very unbearable: "How do you remember the castle?"
"That's because I said I was going to go in the first place."
"Why don't we spend a day at Windsor Castle, where there are state suites available."
Li Su insisted: "I want to go to your castle to have a look." ” "Okay," Akihiko gave her a vaccination, "don't be too disappointed, Windsor Castle is actually good."
"Windsor Castle is the largest and oldest inhabited castle in the world today, and it is very well maintained.
Castles in the West are not reserved for kings, so there are quite a few castles in England.
A few people sat in the car, watching the car drive further and further away, and finally reached the sparsely populated countryside, and finally the car stopped in an open place.
"The castle you're going to live in."
Akihiko pointed behind him and said to Li Sudao.
Li Su: "It's so big," and after a while, he said, "It's so old." ” "The castle of more than 800 years ago was normal."
It is a castle in the Romanesque style with round towers, seven connected complexes, and two slightly lower ones in front.
The gray walls on the left were covered with dark green vines, and the tallest minaret was already surrounded by vines, some of which even covered the windows.
There were no other buildings or villages nearby, a castle stood alone, eerie and empty, and a few people stood here, looking at it as if they were looking at an abandoned haunted house that had been uninhabited for years, the deluxe version of it.
Akihiko agrees with the adjective: "That's right, the uninhabited kind." ” "The last time I came here to rent a castle to make a movie, I made a film about ghosts."
Li Su's little face was a little white, scared 1, she couldn't help but hold the amulet hanging around her neck, and asked cautiously: "Why rent your family's castle, is it because it has any history?"
Akihiko didn't know why, he guessed, "Maybe it's because it's cheap" A few people: "" "Except for the most important one, half of the other castles in my family have been sold, but now everyone is not wronged, its maintenance costs are too high, no one wants to take over, and it can't be renovated."
Akihiko said: "In the past few years, there have been many rich people from the Middle East who came to the UK to spend a lot of money to buy, but they only need big and expensive ones, and small castles are not eye-catching. ” "It's Marylebone that they're most interested in, when we went to Hyde Park the other day."
Li Su nodded excitedly: "A lot of little squirrels." ” Song Ruyi added: "Yes, there are many people in black." ” Li Suse shrank for a moment, obviously recalling: "Are those agents, the kind from the movie?"
Ming Yan was too lazy to deal with such an idiotic question, and Qiao Rui solved her doubts: "No, those are the bodyguards of the rich people in the Middle East." ” Li Su, who felt too much of a gap, was speechless for a while, but normal people wouldn't see the man in black and connect them with the agent, so it was her own fault.
Before Akihiko returned to the UK, he knew that his friends might have to stay here for one night, and the repairs had naturally been repaired, anyway, they had to be maintained every year, and they had to be inspected by the city government, so this year it was simply advanced.
Could it be that the British have a particularly low-key habit, like the villa in Kensington, which looks dilapidated from the outside, and the inside of the castle is not as bad as few people think?
With semicircular arches and roofs, the living room is covered with carpets with delicate patterns and reliefs carved at the ends, huge and exquisite crystal chandeliers and wall lamps along the road.
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Overall, the interior is much better than the outside.
When he went to bed at night, Li Su sat on the bed in his pajamas, and looked at Song Ruyi, who was sitting on the sofa reading a book, with his hands and knees: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't dare to stay alone in the room." ” The room where they rested tonight was large, with bright and warm lights, a camel-colored carpet on the floor, not only a large princess bed, but also a dresser, a small sofa, a windowsill, a coffee table, and even a lamp, all trimmed with magnificent gold.
Song Ru put a finger under the book and slowly turned the page, because there were some obscure words in it, so she didn't read it quickly, "You are also afraid to stay in such a room" Li Su nodded and whispered: "As long as I remember that only a few rooms have been well decorated, but the other rooms are very old, and in such a big place, only a few of us live here" She touched her arm: "More importantly, as long as I think that this is a suburb, there is no one outside except for the forest and river, I can't sleep." ” "I feel a little cold, you're not cold" As soon as the words fell, a voice whistled from the bottom up, as if some unknown creature was screaming violently, it should be the wind coming in through the unclosed windows downstairs, and the roof of the castle was very high, which made the sound a little terrifying.
Li Su trembled and stared at the direction of the door: "What sound, did you hear it?"
Song Ruyi helplessly held his forehead: "I said that it can be explained by scientific methods, do you believe it?"
After getting up the next day, Ming Yan looked at the two big dark circles on Li Su's face, and asked strangely, "Didn't you sleep well I remember that you rested very early last night." ” "Oh," Li Su looked listless, "Yesterday Ruyi told me a ghost story. ” The two eyes were cast on Song Ruyi, and she smiled at the two of them with a guilty heart, "Su Su was frightened by the sound of the wind last night, and in order to comfort her, I told a story that happened in the castle to seize power.
It is said that there are ghosts roaming the castle, and many people have seen it with their own eyes, but it is not confirmed that there are ghosts in the world, perhaps because the magnetic field there is different from other places. ” "For various reasons, there is gradually this kind of legend, in fact, most things in the world are to scare themselves."
When he was scared, he told her about the legend of the ghost and asked, "Are you talking about the Tower of London?"
Song Ruyi replied: "Maybe, I don't remember clearly. ” "I don't think I've taken you there, but I haven't been there myself.
I heard that countless people died in the castle from the beginning of its establishment, and there were all kinds of cruel torture instruments in the underground dungeons.
Tower Hill outside the fort is a well-known guillotine, so it is also called the Bloody Castle and has various ghost legends. ” Saying that, Mingyan himself was also a little interested: "Why don't we go and have a look." ” Li Su had been muttering to herself since they were talking, and Qiao Rui listened a few words closer, only to realize that what she said was: "Prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, I want to believe in science." ” Qiao Rui: "" After a while, he said: "I don't think Li Su slept well last night, so it's better to let her go back to the villa in Kensington to have a good rest." ” "How can you do something to isolate your friends when you go out to play together" Ming Yan hadn't finished speaking, but he saw Li Sushen nodding appreciatively, and pressed his forehead with his hand: "Yes, I'm so sleepy, I want to make up for sleep." ” Ming Yan glared at her, watching Li Su happily get in the car and go back, he suddenly said: "I don't think the effect of the speech contest is very good, it's just a tourist attraction, the kind that can enter after buying a ticket, she is so scared." ” Qiao Rui put a big brimmed hat on Song Ruyi's head, and then said, "I think she was simply scared by the two of you." ” Song Ruyi straightened his hat and stopped talking.
The Tower of London served as a fortress, armory, treasury, mint, palace, observatory, sanctuary, and prison, especially for the upper classes.
It was last used as a prison during World War II and is now a famous attraction in the United Kingdom.
Such a complex of buildings that have been continuously repaired for hundreds of years is not comparable to the small castle of the Akihiko family.
At this moment, it was only ten o'clock in the morning, and the wavy clouds filled the sky, as if within reach, and the low-pressure rain was coming.
"Perhaps to attract the attention of tourists, they deliberately played up the legend of the ghost in this place, and the struggle of the royal family."
Qiao Rui stood behind Song Ruyi and said, she had been standing at the guillotine for hundreds of years for a long time.
Above the narrow passage was the torture chamber, with mottled pulleys and thick ropes, the guillotines on top were tightly fastened by ropes, and the guillotine was below.
Even if you know that this must be a fake, you can still get a glimpse of the roughness and gore of that era.
There is also an axe in the corner, and according to the instructions, if the neck cannot be cut off immediately, the executioner will have to use the axe, of course, you can choose one or the other.
Song Ruyi took two steps back, turned around and walked down the steps, Qiao Rui stepped forward and reached out to help her down: "I didn't know you were actually interested in this." ” "Maybe there's a cruelty factor in her heart," a voice sounded behind her, "For example, someone's head is going to be cut off." ” Song Ruyi walked down the last step and looked up and said, "I just saw you go to visit those torture instruments, does that represent you?"
Akihiko quickly changed his words: "I'm kidding." ” Song Ruyi smiled at him: "Anyway, you remember, if I think this about anyone, you will definitely be among the best." ” Akihiko: "" On the way back, it was already drizzling in the sky, and she lifted her hat: "It rains so often here." ” "London when it rains is the real London."
The driver brought an umbrella to several people, which was a classic black long-handled model, which often appeared in British TV dramas, and Qiao Rui opened an umbrella and shone it on the top of Song Ruyi and his head.
Ming Yan snorted and took the waiter's hand: "I don't need you, I can do it myself, you go to the car and wait for us." ” The attendants bowed and retreated, and a few of them walked down a wide avenue, flanked on two sides by the city walls, and to the north by the River Thames and Tower Bridge.
There are a lot of foreign tourists here, and there are also a lot of Asians, and Song Ruyi also heard a few people who spoke Chinese, "There are crows over there." ” The status of the crow in the Tower of London is transcendent, some people believe that it is a sacred bird related to the fortune of the country, and there is a special crow palace, not ordinary military service personnel are not qualified to take care of them.
The black crows here are large and fat, perched on oak trees custom-made for their roosting, in the posture of their uninhabited owners.
"Are they still flying?"
said Song Ruyi was puzzled.
A few people who spoke Chinese were standing beside her before, and when they heard the familiar words, they turned their heads to look at her and Mingyan Qiao Rui.
"Hello."
He said.
"Hello," Song Ruyi responded politely: "Are you Chinese?"
"Hong Kongers."
The other party said.
"I'm from Yanjing."
The other party wanted to say something more, but seeing that Song Ruyi had not responded, he walked away boringly, Ming Yan rubbed his hair, "Did you deliberately ignore him, but that person is not a good person at first glance, and he actually accosted a minor like you." ” Fortunately, the Hong Kong man had already walked away, otherwise he would have come up to argue with him.
"What are you looking at," Qiao Rui found Song Ruyi's gaze on the bottom of the wooden house where the crows roost inside the railing.
Song Ruyi took a few steps forward, looking like he was about to climb over: "Can I go in?"
The two hurriedly stopped her, and Ming Yan turned his head to look around, for fear that someone would notice this rude scene, and said angrily to her: "What are you going to do?"
Qiao Rui asked, "What did you see?"
In the end, several people called the guards on duty, in the past, the guards here were naturally the presence of the comfort of guarding the castle, and now the most useful is to maintain order and stability, as well as to take pictures of tourists.
Song Ruyi pointed to a few bushes inside the railing with purple rice-sized flowers on top of his head and said, "I want that."
After thinking about it, he changed his words: "Or tell me what kind of plant it is." ” "Isn't that a wildflower?"
asked Akihiko.
The guards thought so in their hearts, those bushes of flowers were very inconspicuous, if it weren't for the tiny buds on them, they would not be much different from weeds, but this is the Tower of London, and every grass and tree is private property, even if it is weeds, but weeds grow in the palace.
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Fortunately, there was a crow officer who could help with special care, and he came over to confirm the doubts of several people, even if Song Ru was young, he also called him a lady: "It's just an ordinary weed." ” "Can I buy these weeds, I love the flowers on them."
The crow officer touched his forehead in confusion, "You don't need to buy it, I can give it to you, anyway, every once in a while, we also have to clean up the weeds." ” Song Ruyi was very happy: "Thank you very much" But the crow officer whispered to her, "But you can't publicize it, or I'll not be able to bear it even if it's just a weed, if everybody comes to take it." ” "Of course."
Song Ruyi immediately agreed.
In the car, Ming Yan said to her with disgust: "In the past month, I have taken you to eat so many delicacies and see so many beautiful scenery, isn't it as good as this weed to make you happy?"
He sought Qiao Rui's sense of recognition: "It's been so long, I haven't seen her so happy as she is now." ” Song Ruyi held the flower pot and said to him: "I originally like plants, and you don't know that almost all of the books on the book wall in my Yucheng villa are plant illustrated books. ” "Then you should be a little more tasteful, too."
"What is tasteful" Song Ruyi was in a good mood and patient: "I have seen so many plant illustrated books, I have never seen this before, so I want to collect it." ” Akihiko glanced at the flower pot in her hand, and even then he didn't feel tall, and he asked, "How many species of plants are there on the earth?"
"More than 370,000 species."
"And how much do you know," Akihiko asked again.
"Less than 20,000."
Akihiko: "" "In other words, there are at least 350,000 kinds of plants that you haven't seen, so if you see one, do you have to collect one?"
"How could I be, am I like that?"
Isn't that what you're doing?
Qiao Rui supported his chin with his hand, and suddenly said: "I remember that two years ago, if you went to my grandfather's house to celebrate his birthday, you also took away a pot of plants, which is also not good-looking, is it still there?"
The answer was Li Su, who was drinking black tea and eating cookies in the living room: "Yes, there are still new leaves growing on the balcony of our dormitory." ” Qiao Rui paused: "Can it live so long?"
"Ah, can't you live so long?"
Li Su asked back.
He shook his head: "I don't know, it's just that the flowers that are kept in pots are rarely good ones that can be taken care of, and the Retreat Grass is not suitable for potted plants." ” Li Su suddenly remembered the spirit gathering talisman hanging outside the pot of flowers on the balcony, and only wanted to use six points to express it in his heart, "Weeds, vitality is tenacious." ” Song Ruyi: "So you all think they are weeds, obviously they are one-fifth of the painkillers, and after finding this, the main medicine has been collected for two-fifths."
I was a little excited at the thought of making painkillers with no side effects, which was not hopeless.
It's just that she won't talk about the cause and effect, and she hides her merit and fame.
Akihiko said resolutely: At most, they are wildflowers, the kind on the side of the road.
Song Ruyi was not hit at all, and returned to the room with flowers in his brisk steps.
Li Su went upstairs and couldn't find her at first, only to find her squatting on the balcony taking pictures of the potted flowers.
"What are you doing?"
she asked, leaning against the balcony door.
So Li Su saw Song Ruyi on Twitter and posted photos of several well-known naturalist identification masters and botanists, asking what kind of flower this was.
"You don't even know what it's called" Song Ruyi retorted: "I know, I just don't know what it's called here."
"This is called cathode grass in the cultivation realm, it is not a place where yin qi is heavy, it can't grow, although it looks much smaller on the earth, but it is indeed the same kind.
There was no reply on Twitter for a while, and she was not in a hurry, she took the spoon on the table, sorted out the soil for the flower pot, and watered it a little.
Seeing that she didn't take out another spirit gathering talisman to hang on, I don't know why, Li Su breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, a few more times, no matter how many times she read it to believe in science, she couldn't convince herself.
Soon after returning to Huaguo, the school opened, and one day Ming Yan suddenly remembered the pot of flowers that were not good-looking, and asked Song Ruyi: "How is the flower called Purple Pearl?"
Song Ruyi got a botanist's answer on Twitter, on earth, this plant is named after its shape, because the flower bud is the size of a grain of rice, and it is purple, hence the name Purple Pearl.
It's clear that his appearance is not good, but his name has a sense of existence.
"Dead."
She replied.
"It's dead" Ming Yan looked at her in disbelief: "You spent so much effort to pass the security check and the epidemic inspection and bring it all the way to China, how long has it been now, you said it was dead" "Because according to its habits, pearl grass can only live in heavy yin and damp places, such as near cemeteries, it doesn't seem to be very suitable for the school environment, and it will almost wither when it comes back."
The Spirit Gathering Talisman was not saved, but fortunately she already knew where it was distributed.
Dark and damp, near the cemetery, Akihiko and Qiao Rui recalled the place where the pearl grass grew, and were speechless, although the Tower of London has a bloody history, it is not so exaggerated, it is not a cemetery, let alone a cemetery, is there really no wrong information Li Su breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that I didn't go with you that day, it turns out that it is so scary there." ”gd1806102: