"That, Mengzi, I drank too much last night, it's not like I just want to play by myself."
Xiao Peng looked apologetic, Yang Meng was very chic, and said cheaply: "It's okay, I'm definitely not idle, I came back with that dancing girl last night, of course, how can it be like you, tsk, rich man, I am happy with each other."
Speaking of this, Yang Meng also raised his voice: "The most important thing is that I was an authentic Englishman yesterday!"
” Xiao Peng slammed himself on the sofa and covered his forehead: "This is a big loss!"
I traveled all the way to England and found a professional practitioner from Eastern Europe. ” Yang Meng mended the knife and said: "The most important thing is that the price is expensive.
It's several times the market price!
You're looking for a premium call girl who specializes in high-end hotels.
But I looked, and the one you're looking for is pretty cheap, and it's also available for 35,500 pounds. ” Xiao Peng felt a little crazy: "Ahhh ” It has to be said that Britain is a rigid and avant-garde country.
For example, according to the law, the United Kingdom is not allowed to open J courts, but J women are allowed to do business in independent houses, but they are not allowed to go to the street to solicit customers.
Of course, this does not mean that there is no more on the street, but the street girls in the UK are different from other places, where they are dressed up in fancy ways, while the more ordinary the clothes in the UK, the better, so as not to attract the police.
However, British law does not prohibit the erotic industry.
Just look at the HO, there are clubs everywhere.
Of course, there are also police raids, but it is the tax police who go to investigate, and the men who are caught will be released, while the women will face charges of tax evasion.
Well, I learned it from Sweden, and Sweden did it until 1999, when Sweden started holding men accountable.
So this law succeeded in driving the erotic industry in neighboring Denmark: Swedish men went to Denmark to find women。。。。。。
Xiao Peng looked helpless: "I'll take a shower, and when I'm done, let's go to lunch, come back and sleep for a while after eating, and refresh myself to watch Arsenal vs.
Tottenham."
Hua Tian got us a ticket. ” 'Arsenal vs Tottenham?
So what are you waiting for?
Let's go, go there, I'm hungry to see that game!
Hearing that he could watch the Premier League live, Yang Meng couldn't be excited, and he couldn't wait to drag Xiao Peng away now.
Xiao Peng stretched: "There are no tickets now, do you?"
Okay, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.
I went to take a shower. ” As soon as Xiao Peng came out of the shower, he was speechless for a moment, there were already two big bags of fish and chips on the table, as well as two cups of coffee, Yang Meng said excitedly: "Hurry up and eat, go and watch the ball after eating!"
” Xiao Peng felt that he was about to go crazy: "Then you have to have a ticket!"
It's useless if you're in a hurry!
Made, you are in a hurry, you have bought so many fish and chips, you have to learn from the British and eat fish and chips for a lifetime?
” Yang Meng muttered, "Isn't it the most time-saving thing to eat this?"
” Xiao Peng sighed: "I shouldn't have told you about watching the ball, yes, let's go out for a walk." ” "Where to go?
Isn't it good to wait for Huashan honestly?
Yang Mengleng said.
"Go to Portebello Market!
He doesn't know when he'll come!
Let's go, let's go!
Xiao Peng threw Yang Meng's coat to him.
"Ugh."
Yang Meng sighed, grabbed a pack of fish and chips, stuffed it into his mouth, followed Xiao Peng, and the two left the apartment.
There are three great flea markets in London, one is the Old Spitalford Second-hand Market, which is an important hub for designers in London, where many artists are waiting to be discovered, second-hand clothes, groceries and old things.
There are also self-created brands, antique jewelry, and so on.
The other is Red Brick Lane.
It is a place full of thrift goods, and of course it is also a place where various specialty shops and dessert shops gather.
Young Londoners love to go there these days.
The most famous, of course, is Pottbello Market in Notting Hill.
The movie "Notting Hill" made the place famous, with more than 1,500 shops for you to eat, drink and be merry at one time.
Second-hand clothing stores, antique dealers, British fashion shops, accessories, furniture, and all kinds of food are all available, and you can't walk them all in one day.
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Especially since it's still Friday.
Every Friday, there are a lot of temporary stalls in the middle of the road, which makes it even more lively.
"Hey, isn't that the bookstore owned by the main character of the movie 'Notting Hill'?
How did it become a shoe store now?
Xiao Peng pointed to a shoe store and said.
"Huh?
What did you say?
Yang Meng looked confused.
Xiao Peng waved his hand: "Forget it, when I didn't say it."
"Counting on Yang Meng to watch romance movies?
Let's spare Xiao Peng.
"Damn, there's really everything for sale here."
Yang Meng looked at the fish and chips in his hand, only to find that there were many snacks for sale in this market.
Xiao Peng bought two Scottish eggs and stuffed them into his mouth one by one.
Scotch eggs are a British snack that is basically a kind of food that is wrapped in meat and dipped in flour and fried until golden brown, and then coated in egg wash and breadcrumbs until golden brown.
Anyway, Xiao Peng dipped in the spicy sauce and ate it with relish, and Yang Meng was drooling when he saw it.
"Oops?
And the Bob lobster?
Xiao Peng saw a food truck, and ran over with great interest, this bob lobster is also a rare delicacy in the UK, it is a mobile food truck, fried lobster rolls, fried tuna meat.
Fried shrimp and fried potato balls are just wrapped in flour and fried anyway, and there is one taste all over the world, so it is not unpleasant.
Yang Meng cried with a sad face: "I knew that I wouldn't have brought fish and chips out." ” Xiao Peng shrugged: "I didn't bring it."
You can't eat it quickly, and it's not that you can't finish it. ” This bit of fish and chips is enough for Yang Meng to stuff his teeth, but there is one thing to note, although British french fries are thick, they should be called potato 'sticks', but they can't be grabbed on the road and stuffed into their mouths, right?
At the end of the day, you still have to eat them one by one.
What a waste of time.
Yang Meng was depressed, and when he saw a bench on the side of the street, he sat on it: "I'm not leaving, I'll leave when I'm gone." ” Xiao Peng shrugged his shoulders and did it too, eating lobster rolls there.
"Hey, Xiao Peng, what's there for sale there?
Wholesale faucets?
Xiao Peng looked in the direction of Yang Meng's finger and was also happy.
I saw a stall with a complete set of bronze statues of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace!
This should be one of the most well-known relics of the Old Summer Palace among Chinese.
It was also made into a movie by Jackie Chan to tell the story about the head of the beast.
Yang Meng said that they are faucets, but he was not wrong.
Because the head of the zodiac animal was the red copper fountain outside the Haiyan Hall of the Old Summer Palace, which was designed by the Italian Lang Shining, a court Western painter during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and presided over by the Frenchman Jiang Renyou.
At that time, Lang Shining wanted to build a nude sculpture with Western characteristics, but Qianlong directly rejected it, which was immoral!
Ordered him to redesign.
Lang Shining thought about it for a long time, and then took out the final design of twelve seated statues wearing robes and holding animal heads in a figure-eight shape spraying water.
However, this zodiac fountain is not just a fountain, at that time it was called a 'hydraulic clock', it is a fountain clock designed according to the Chinese zodiac, every hour, the biological clock belonging to the hour will automatically spray water, and at 12 o'clock at noon, the zodiac will spray water at the same time.
The design is extremely sophisticated.
It was one of the top designs and productions of the time.
However, in 1860, when the Eight-Nation Alliance burned the Old Summer Palace, the heads of these twelve bronze statues were cut off and taken away.
In recent years, thanks to the efforts of all parties, eight of the twelve beast heads have returned to China, but four more are missing: chickens, dogs, sheep, and snakes.
What is sold on the stall is a replica of the twelve bronze heads.
Xiao Peng laughed: "This is definitely the most expensive faucet in the world, if these are true, then it will be true!"
"The price of the head of the zodiac beast is modest to say that it is going up with a fight, and it is rising on a rocket!
In 1985, an American antique dealer bought the three heads for $1,500 each after he accidentally found the statues of a horse, a cow and a tiger from a private home in California.
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When it appeared at auction in 1989, the highest price was a horse's head, which was $250,000.
Ten years later, at Christie's Hong Kong and Sotheby's Hong Kong's auctions, the head of the ox, the head of the monkey and the head of the tiger appeared at the same time.
The three beast heads together fetched more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars.
In 2007, Sotheby's auctioned horse heads with the theme of 'Eight-Nation Alliance-Relics of the Old Summer Palace', which caused protests and was ineffective.
In the end, Dr.
Stanley Ho, a patriotic entrepreneur from Hong Kong and Macao, spent 69.1 million Hong Kong dollars to buy back the horse's head and donate it to the country.
And just two years later, in 2009, this number doubled again, and the rat and rabbit heads reached a sky-high price of 14 million euros!
This bronze statue of the Old Summer Palace has increased 120,000 times in 24 years!
It is definitely the highest and fastest cultural relics in the history of the world.
Of course, this is too expensive from the point of view of the pure art auction market.
To put it bluntly, these twelve beast heads are building components, if they are not connected with the Old Summer Palace, if they are not linked to the British and French forces, the value cannot be very high.
And now that it is linked, it has become a symbol of national shame, and naturally the price has skyrocketed.
Yang Meng was curious, leaned in and asked the price in broken English, and came back with a pout: "Just tell me five hundred pounds a special souvenir, this girl is poor and crazy, right?"
” Xiao Peng said with a smile: "Who let everyone know that the Chinese are rich now?"
It's absolutely right to sell to the Chinese for a high price!
” When Yang Meng heard this, he ridiculed: "Well, that is, some people have a lot of money and have nowhere to spend it, so they go to the UK to spend money to find Eastern European girls, and they don't want cheap ones, they have to pick expensive ones." ” Xiao Peng's old face flushed: "Don't mention this, we're still good friends!"
I'm really turning my face when I mention it again. ” Yang Meng looked at Xiao Peng's expression, and he was even more happy, but he still didn't continue to talk about this topic, but pointed to those fake beast heads and said, "You said that just some bronze heads, why are they worth so much money?"
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