Li Mo looked up at the tall and thick palace walls. The walls were covered with mottled traces of time, and even the oldest traces of the war were still preserved.
"Mr. Li, shall we go in now?"
"Now is not the time. The influx of many tourists at this point will affect my judgment. Ms. Juliet, I see there is a street over there. What is it for?"
"The main winery chains there are chain stores. The top ten wineries in the country have all opened branches there, but the truly top-notch collection-level red wines are all in their respective wineries. Mr. Li, do you want to take a look? ?I can recommend a few to you.”
Juliet felt that she had to show off more, but Li Mo felt too mysterious to her, so mysterious that she was very scared.
“I need to collect some of the finest wines.”
"Then let's go take a look?"
"Let's go."
The signboard at the door of the winery branch on the old street is quite decent. At first glance, it is all in French, but I don’t know what it means. In addition to winery branches, there are also fruit shops, snack shops, etc., which are similar to domestic scenic shopping streets, and are all aimed at tourists.
"Mr. Li, this is Romanée-Conti, one of the wineries in the country."
Li Mo nodded and was about to walk in when he saw the door of a shop selling snacks and specialties not far away was pushed open. This tall man from the Far Kingdom grabbed a woman's hair with his right hand and violently dragged her out. He roared and punched and kicked.
Then I saw two men and one woman rushing out to attack the violent man and try to save the woman. Unfortunately, there was a clear gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides.
"Uncle Junior, they are Chinese."
Li Mo turned around and said in a deep voice: "Brown Bear, save them."
The brown bear immediately rushed forward and slapped the Faguo man hard on the face with his generous right hand, then grabbed his shoulders and struck him with a cruel knee, which seemed to crush his internal organs.
This is another man from Faguo who rushed out with a stick and smashed it on the brown bear's back.
The brown bear let out a low growl, arched his chest and took a hard blow, but it didn't seem to cause any harm to him. Then he made a move of "turning back and looking at the moon", and hit the man's face hard with his elbow again.
Two screams rang out one after another. The latter's nose was broken, his teeth were broken in his mouth, his face was covered in blood, and he looked a little bloody.
Several more Faguo people walked out of the shop, each holding various weapons and staring warily at the oriental man who was even bigger than them.
Yuli just subconsciously reached out to touch the gun, but Li Mo turned his head and glared fiercely. He couldn't help but tremble. At that moment, all the hairs on his body were fried. Even in June, he could feel a deep chill from the bottom of his heart. rising.
Li Mo walked over, glanced at the beaten woman, and shouted in surprise: "Liu Fei!"
Surprisingly, I met Sirui's friend here, and I helped their family preserve the porcelain from the official kiln of Ru Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty worth nearly 300 million. She herself is a well-known actor in China, and her parents are well-off, but she didn't expect to be beaten up here.
The corners of his mouth were bleeding and he looked miserable.
"Professor Li, help me." Liu Fei, who was still in shock, heard a familiar voice. When she looked up, she felt like she had found a backbone. She dragged another woman and ran to Li Mo, her face full of prayers.
This time, several oriental faces with unkind expressions appeared again, and now they suddenly became quiet.
"Don't panic, what happened just now?"
"Professor Li, we were going to buy some snacks to eat on the road, but this man touched me. Not only did he slap my butt, but he also grabbed my chest. My instinctive reaction was to slap him, and then he Furious. Fortunately, you showed up in time, otherwise I don’t know if you would have been beaten to death by him."
Li Mo looked at the man who was lying on the ground and curled up with a gloomy face, and then looked at the people with weapons in their hands. Their exposed skin was covered with tattoos, and they wore various accessories on their ears. , at first glance, he is not a normal person.
"Mr. Yuli, should I handle this matter or should I?"
Li Mo asked calmly.
"Mr. Li, how about leaving this matter to me?"
Juliet took the initiative to take over the matter.
"It's up to you."
Li Mo walked into the shop, which was lined with shelves along the walls filled with various snacks. There were also tables with boxes of snacks of different flavors.
What made him speechless was that there were actually more than a dozen varieties from China. It makes sense when you think about it, this is also an authentic imported snack. What surprised him even more was that there was a row of porcelain placed on the shelves against the east wall, including exquisite and beautiful tea sets, small and exquisite coffee sets, and majestic blue and white porcelain jars. A total of seventeen types of porcelain were displayed. , coupled with the lighting, it is also pleasing to the eye after seeing it.
Li Mo looked away, and just as he was about to turn around and leave, his steps stopped again. He turned around casually and looked around, and finally returned to a large porcelain jar on the shelf.
It was a large pot made of blue and white glaze and red plastic flowers.
"Hello sir, what do you like?"
Li Mo looked back and saw that this young male clerk was from China. His expression was very unnatural, and he kept trying to dodge his eyes, not daring to look directly at him.
"Who are those people from?"
"They charge protection fees and are very powerful locally. We can't afford to offend them."
To put it nicely, they are collecting protection fees, but to put it bluntly, they belong to underground forces and are engaged in shady business. No wonder he is so arrogant, it turns out he has confidence.
"Did you call the police?"
"No." The clerk shook his head slightly, "To be honest, there is no point in calling the police. They are in the same group."
"Your boss isn't here?"
"He...he hasn't arrived today yet."
Li Mo knew he was lying just by looking at his expression. He sneered a few times, reached for a sky blue glazed willow leaf vase on the shelf and threw it to the ground, making a crisp and shattering sound.
Debris all over the floor.
"Is your boss here?"
Li Mo asked while continuing to smash. The tea sets and coffee cup sets on the shelves were smashed to pieces.
The people in the shop suddenly panicked, and three people rushed in from outside.
"Is it true that your boss is not here?"
Li Mo has already smashed the sixth porcelain, and has taken out the seventh one in his hand, which is a pastel moon bottle. He is about to smash it on the ground again to hear a sound.
A fat man hurriedly walked out from behind the secret door, sweating profusely. Before he could say anything, Yuli had already stopped him and took out his work permit from his pocket and handed it to him.
The two communicated for a while, and Yuli walked up to Li Mo with a headache and said, "Mr. Li, the boss here said that you must pay for anything you break, otherwise he will definitely call the police."
"Compensate? Humph, he means that I can smash all the porcelain if I buy it?"
As soon as Li Mo let go, the pastel moon bottle in his hand fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
"Xiaojun."
Chen Xiaojun came over, took out a stack of brand new euros from his backpack and threw it on the table. He looked at Yuli and said, "Ask the boss, is this enough money?"
Yuli frowned slightly, turned around and spoke to the boss, and saw the fat man nodding his head repeatedly.
"Xiaojun, take out the remaining porcelain and smash it."
After Li Mo finished speaking, he walked to the shelf aggressively, personally took down the large blue and white glaze-and-red plastic flower pot and walked outside.
Chen Xiaojun took out the remaining two porcelains and smashed them on the ground. The scene of throwing money at porcelain made many people secretly stunned. Are all rich people so willful?
After Chen Xiaojun finished smashing, he looked at Li Mo and saw him standing there leisurely, holding the large can with the lid in his arms. His heart moved slightly, so that was it.
"Uncle Junior, I'll take it."
Li Mo handed him the large blue and white underglaze red jar and whispered: "It's very valuable, be careful."
Chen Xiaojun nodded, 10,000 euros was a big mistake.
"Juliet, is the matter settled?"
"Each person will lose one finger and the victim will be compensated 50,000 euros. Are you satisfied with this, Mr. Li?"
"Liu Fei, what do you think?"
"I'd better ask Professor Li to help me make the decision."
Liu Fei is very sincere.
"Fifty thousand euros, that's it." Li Mo glanced at Juliet, "You still need to discipline your subordinates. I didn't expect this place to be in such chaos."
"Mr. Li's lesson is that there is no problem with compensation. Don't worry, I will handle it right away."
"Liu Fei, it's better to return to China as soon as possible. You are in a very bad state now."
"Yes, thank you Professor Li."
Li Mo nodded, turned and left.
"Uncle Master, what dynasty is this porcelain from?"
Li Mo walked more than ten meters before taking the porcelain from his hand and appreciating it carefully. The large jar was about 33 centimeters in diameter and 41 centimeters high. This pot has a neck-tie neck, sloping shoulders, symmetrical double animal ears, a bulging belly that gradually shrinks, a shallow circle of feet, and an exposed bottom foot. The fetus is tight and hard, and the repair is rigorous.
The body of the vessel is decorated with blue and white patterns of clouds and dragons, and the middle part is decorated with underglaze red flower patterns and blue flower patterns with leaf patterns. The sculpting technique is skillful, and the flowers and leaves are full of spirituality. After hundreds of years of vicissitudes, the maker's exquisite porcelain making skills can still be felt.
"This is a large pot with blue and white underglaze and red piles of flowers from the Yuan Dynasty. The fortunes of the Yuan Dynasty were only eighty or ninety years, and coupled with the conflict between foreign culture and our Han culture, the porcelain firing technology did not develop vigorously, and it was passed down. It is also extremely rare, so every piece of Yuan blue and white that comes out is valuable. The most famous one is the large Yuan blue and white jar with Guiguzi going down the mountain. The market auction price has exceeded 200 million. Although this Yuan blue and white jar with red underglaze is not that expensive , but tens of millions is still no problem.”
"Uncle Junior, I will arrange for someone to send it to the embassy immediately. It is too unsafe here."
"good."
Dashan took a few steps forward and whispered: "Mr. Li, are those people really organized by Juliet?"
"They should be peripheral members. How can the real core members still engage in such dirty ways of making money? Dashan, I haven't been calm in my heart these past two days. I always feel that something bigger is going to happen. You have to be with other people at all times. Keep in touch and wait for my arrangements at any time.”
"Is it dangerous?"
Dashan asked solemnly.
Li Mo looked up at the blue sky: "It may be more dangerous than we imagined. This feeling is very strange, as if some danger is slowly brewing, and when the power is accumulated, it will suddenly be released like a volcanic eruption, giving a party causing everlasting destruction to heaven and earth.”
"Mr. Li, maybe too many things have happened in the past two days, and you are a little nervous."
Li Mo nodded slightly: "I hope so."
"Mr. Li, I'm sorry for what happened before. Everything has been dealt with." Juliet caught up and said carefully.
"Actually, unfair things happen every day in the world. We can only help with one or two things in front of us. Ms. Juliet, I suddenly lost interest in visiting the winery branch. I'd better go to the Papal Palace. , finish early and leave early.”
Yuri, who had been following behind, sighed secretly. This mission was a failure. Thanks to Li Mo being a martial arts master in China, someone else would have been so scared that he would have returned home.
The Papal Palace is located on the bank of the Rhone River. It is a castle-like building built in the early 14th century and covers an area of about 15,000 square meters. Seven popes have lived here. The Papal Palace is divided into two parts: the old palace and the new palace. The old temple is simple and unpretentious and belongs to the Roman architectural style. The new hall is magnificent and is a typical Gothic building.
The Papal Palace stands at the highest point of the ancient city, overlooking its jurisdiction with a commanding attitude. The interior of the building is extremely luxurious and extravagant. The outside of the castle is defended by magnificent towers and heavily garrisoned. Ten towers dominate the surroundings of the palace.
Not grand.
"Uncle Junior, is there a clear direction for the core secrets provided by Faguo officials? Why do I feel that they are extremely unreliable?"
"When a blind cat encounters a dead mouse, he should just take a walk first."
Li Mo didn't have a clue. Since the official believed that there was a higher possibility of hiding treasures here, he would take a look first, just in case he really found something.
"Mr. Li, I have been to the Pope's Palace twice before. I think the most worth visiting are the Pope's Palace and the Stag Room on the second floor."
Juliet gives sound advice.
"Then go directly to the second floor."
As soon as he entered the Pope's Palace, Li Mo's eyes were attracted by the bright blue murals from the ceiling to the four walls and even the floor tiles. Perhaps this is the most warm and humane thing in the entire Pope's Palace. Room.
"There are many birds in the mural. There is a joke circulating here: It is said that if the Pope had insomnia and couldn't sleep, he would count birds instead of sheep before falling asleep."
Li Mo was not amused by this cold joke. He scanned the room several times with his strange eyes and found nothing.
"so so."
Li Mo shook his head and continued walking forward. Next door to the Papal Palace is the Stag Room.
"This room was originally the study of Clement VI and is recognized as the most beautiful room in the Papal Palace. The elegant murals in the room were painted when the palace was built, but now there are only pictures of fishing in the pond and hunting season on the walls. , only the legs of the deer that had been bitten by dogs were left, and the complete scene of the stag was no longer visible. The animal patterns in the Stag Hall were quite groundbreaking in the late Middle Ages, and became the object of imitation by the courts of various European countries."
Juliet Limo has the potential to become a qualified tour guide. Otherwise, if you just look with your own eyes, you really won't be able to find the beauty.
"Still nothing has been found."
If there is no treasure hidden in the most worth-seeing place in the Papal Palace, then it will be even more difficult to find the hidden treasure.
(End of chapter)
