Cueillette de La Grange, which is the largest agricultural producing area in the surrounding area, is located in Province 77.
I don't know how the regions of Paris are divided. When Chen Xing talks about place names to others, they always seem messy. Sometimes there are districts and districts, and sometimes there are provinces and provinces.
In fact, arrondissements 1 to 20 all belong to Little Paris. In China, this Little Paris can be imagined as the main city. Districts 1 to 20 just divide the main city into small areas.
The postal codes of these 20 districts begin with 75, which can be recorded as 75 provinces.
With the Seine River as the boundary, when traveling to Paris, you should remember that south of the Seine River is basically a safe zone, but you cannot relax your vigilance. North of the Seine River, the further you go to the suburbs, the more chaotic the public security becomes, especially in the outermost areas of 18-20. Don't go there if you can.
There were recent demonstrations in Paris, and Chen Xing could hear explosions in the distance even at night.
Department 77 is an outer suburb. I said before that the further you get from Paris, the more chaotic you get to the suburbs. But if you get further away, as you get closer to leaving Paris, the security becomes better again.
It is said that many people in Province 77 do not know it, but there is one scenic spot here that 80% of people born after the 1970s know about it, and that is Fontainebleau, which was translated by Mr. Zhu.
The last time Chen Xing came here was to visit the Palace of Fontainebleau.
I just didn’t expect that a certain distance away was the barn picking base, the largest agricultural travel base in Paris.
There are more than a thousand acres of land here covered by farms, which is more than a hundred standard football fields. If people in Paris want to experience the life of a farmhouse, they will come here to travel. They come here in the morning and play until night before driving. go back.
There are more than fifty kinds of fruits and a large number of vegetables, basically waiting for tourists to pick them themselves.
Such a large area naturally does not belong to one person.
Otherwise, how rich would he be?
More than a thousand acres, enough to build a Forbidden City.
Aunt Lizzy and the others have about fifty acres of land here. Instead of growing fruits, they planted a large patch of sunflowers. At this time, tulips, lavender, and other roses have all withered, but the sunflowers that bloom in summer are especially beautiful.
The tour bus was driving on a road that was so straight that there was no end in sight. The one-day tour guide Chen Xing signed up for was introducing the land outside the window to them.
It is very cheap to find this kind of one-day tour in Paris. The price of 50 euros includes a lunch, round-trip transfer, and a warm introduction from a tour guide. The route is also very clear.
The current one-day tours in China are born out of this model.
but……
Just don’t say it.
"Outside the window on the left are lilies. The blooming time is almost over, but they still look bright. We will stop at this farm in a while. I hope all passengers will not step on the flowers casually. We are only responsible for explaining, not responsible Your compensation..."
The tour guide chattered endlessly.
Chen Xing said to Hedwig: "Is it here?"
He remembered that his aunt loved this flower.
"No... there aren't so many things in their farm, just a garden and grassland. I... I'm sorry, I don't remember the way." Hedwig said quietly.
She had no memory of how she got there.
Aunt Lizzie was sitting next to her, and her uncle drove the car. She remembered that there were five dogs, some cows, and a few beautiful horses on the farm. She also remembered that the flowers were beautiful and the air was fresh. As for the road, she couldn't remember it at all. .
Chen Xing sighed: "No wonder you don't go out. It turns out you are still a road idiot."
It’s not the first time I’ve been there, and I don’t know where it is.
As long as Chen Xing has been to a place once, he can basically find a way to it the second time. This is related to his regular training. Whenever he goes to a strange place, he will definitely bring his camera and go out to sweep the streets. When sweeping the streets, he doesn't know how to read the navigation at all.
You are wherever you go.
Then go back again.
I only use navigation when I really can't find my way.
Generally, people are road crazy because they don’t remember the features on the road. For example, some people are insensitive to the appearance of buildings, and they even cannot recognize some buildings that are completely different styles. That’s why they are road crazy. What kind of person is Hedwig? Condition?
She knows as much about architectural styles as Chen Xing.
The car continued to drive for a few minutes and stopped in a small parking lot. As soon as Chen Xing got out of the car, he saw Uncle Feida. His old antique car was very eye-catching. There are probably only one car like this on the road in Paris now. Not much.
Feida hadn't seen Chen Xing for a long time. He liked this young man from China very much. When he saw him and Hedwig get off the car, he came over with open arms. He laughed and hugged Chen Xing and said, "Hahaha, I've been waiting for you here for a long time."
"Sorry, there might be some traffic jam in Paris today."
"I'm not referring to today. I haven't seen you for months. Now you are so awesome. I can find information about you everywhere when I search on the Internet. It's great. A photo can really sell for tens of thousands of euros." ?”
When Hedwig signed a contract with a gallery, they were surprised that a painting she painted for two or three weeks could sell for two to three thousand euros. Later, I heard that Chen Xing costs several thousand euros to take a photo. My family is like a dragon, right?
Brother Asan burst into tears at the scene...
But they don’t care, they are Kshatriyas!
Now it’s even more impressive, a photo worth tens of thousands of euros?
When his wife came back and told him a few days ago, he didn't believe it yet, but when he looked up Chen Xing's name on the search software, he believed it. Some lesser stars didn't have as many entries as Chen Xing on the search software. .
Chen Xing said hello to the tour guide, and the two got into Uncle Feida's car.
There is no way to sign up for a tour group and come by car.
Taking a taxi in Paris is very expensive, and you can usually just take a taxi for short distances, such as the journey from the airport to school. But the cost of taking a taxi on the road from Little Paris to Province 77 is so expensive that it makes Chen Xing feel a little heartbroken.
I have a little bit of money, but my thinking about spending money is still the same as before.
If he doesn't travel or buy anything big, his current living expenses are about 3,000 euros, which includes accommodation, meals, occasional nightclubs, shopping, etc.
It is already considered very superior. An average international student can use it for a few hundred euros for a month.
But then again, those who can study in Europe will not have ordinary family conditions. Even if the family does not support it, there will be scholarships. Even if the situation is not good enough, you can still work part-time. Therefore, 1,500 euros is considered the standard consumption for international students.
Chen Xing knows a few Chinese people who came to Paris to study purely because of their good grades. They work in a fast food restaurant for one day on weekends and earn one or two hundred euros.
During this holiday, Chen Xing did not have time to travel to other countries in Europe, but these people were reluctant to pay for air tickets back to China, but they were very willing to travel to other countries. It is estimated that they should come back by now, after all, school is about to start.
Back to business, after another ten minutes' drive, we arrived at the manor belonging to Uncle Feida and Aunt Lizzy.
In this large comprehensive farm, only one main road in the middle is a specially built road. From this road, you turn into each small farm, which was built by the farmer himself. Feida's classic car doesn't have good shock absorption, so it's a bit bumpy when driving on such a road.
But the scenery on both sides is very good.
After they came in from the previous fence, the place they saw now belonged to them. They saw cows and sheep in the windy grassland... Here they saw cows and horses. There were only cows in this farm, no sheep.
Feida held the cigarette rod in his mouth and said, "Sooner or later I will have to repair this road again."
Chen Xing said: "It should just be filled with some soil, right?"
"The soil is not good. We can only use the car to fill the soil. But sometimes industrial vehicles will drive in here, and the vehicles will run away as soon as they press the soil. Even sometimes when it rains, the soil will also escape. We still need to be serious again. build."
Hedwig pulled Chen Xing and asked him to look out the window.
There are sunflowers outside the open window.
Chen Xing asked curiously: "Uncle Feida, other people's homes are growing roses, lavender, and tulips. Why are there sunflowers here? Is it more profitable to grow these flowers than other flowers?"
"No, this was planted by the old man before," he said.
This farm didn't belong to them before, it belonged to Aunt Lizzie's father.
The old man has a son and a daughter. Neither of them wanted to inherit his farm before. As an ancestral property, the old man also didn’t want to sell it to outsiders. Seeing that he was getting older, he was about to become depressed and ill because of this matter.
But who knew that my grandson had an accident.
The daughter who had no worries chose to return to the land where she grew up.
This made the old man so happy that he packed up his things and took his wife out for a trip overnight.
As for why he was so happy when his grandson had an accident?
Chen Xing didn't know either. Uncle Feida didn't say whether he was happy or not. He just said that the old man was currently traveling in Italy. Chen Xing made up everything else.
Europeans’ family values are not as strong as those in China. Many times, when children grow up, their mission as parents is relieved.
The family Chen Xing met in Vernon was just an exception.
There is also an idiom in China that deceives the master and destroys the ancestor.
The car finally parked under a large villa that looked like it was made of wood. Chen Xing liked the parking area they had built alone. This is a pavilion that is fixed to the house at one end and supported by two steel pipes at the other end.
The top is not a reinforced concrete roof, but a thick layer of glass plates.
The slight inclination angle is probably used to drain away rainwater.
Only France, which is located in western Europe, can build houses in this way, because it rarely snows here in winter, so when repairing the roof, there is no need to consider whether it will be crushed by heavy snow.
In places like the north where there is snow, the roofs are all shaped like "people". This type of building is called a mountain shape, especially in northern China.
My aunt had heard the sound of the classic Feida car a long time ago and came over to greet her with a smile on her face. In the distance, there were employees who were looking here out of curiosity, massaging the cows while looking at them.
These cows enjoy it more than people.
"Chen, Hedwig..." Aunt Lizzy wanted to help them get something, but Chen Xing quickly said, "I'll do it myself, I'll do it myself!"
This kind of elder who hasn't seen him for a long time is so polite.
His box was a bit heavy, but it contained not clothes, but some photographic equipment, easels, paper, paints, etc.
The painting that Hedwig painted before has not been finished yet. It is now left at home to wait for the paint on the painting to dry naturally. They will play here for a few days and then go back to continue painting. It is estimated that Chen Xing will not see the finished product in a week or two.
This is the kind of oil painting she can sell for money.
Now when I bring my easel out, I just draw something randomly on paper. Otherwise, Hedwig, who has no other hobbies, really doesn't know what she can do.
Chen Xing carried the box into the house and put it away. Hedwig secretly followed Aunt Lizzie to watch her cook. Feida led Chen Xing to see the two empty rooms they had packed up for Chen Xing. On the way, he looked at Hedwig. Wei didn't follow and asked in a low voice.
"How about saying that we only cleaned up one room?"
Chen Xing was still looking at the decoration of the room, but his eyes lit up when he heard these words.
It's not an adjective of "brightening", but it's like a light flashed in my eyes.
Chen Xing touched his chin and sucked his teeth.
"walk slowly……"
The guest room was very clean, except for the bed and table, there was nothing else.
Chen Xing didn't know about the whole of Europe, but he knew that Parisians liked to invite others to their homes. The friends Chen Xing met in Paris took him to their homes for meals and occasionally stayed overnight.
But before inviting others to stay overnight, the bed and bedding must be washed, not to mention new ones.
He also went to see another room, which was similar. The windows of both houses could see the grass outside, but the sunflowers were a bit far away. Uncle Feida had previously heard that he wanted to plant lilies instead, because Aunt Lizzy like.
The couple is still very romantic and rarely fight.
During the time that Chen Xing lived in Paris, it was because of them that his views on marriage relationships improved.
Uncle Feida smiled and said:
"We all care about Hedwig and treat her as our own daughter. In the past few months, we have often discussed what Hedwig should do in the future. Now, it's up to you to figure this out."
They actually treat Chen Xing as their own child.
After his child had a car accident, a total of six guests lived in the house. Among them, Chen Xing and Hedwig had the best relationship with them.
Hedwig's temperament was so lovable, and their contact with Chen Xing also made them feel very comfortable and relaxed.
If these two people could get together, he and Li Zi would really be able to laugh out of their dreams.
It's just that Chen Xing's personality that loves to go out makes Feida a little worried.
"Just don't make her sad. Hedwig is very pitiful."
"Don't worry, uncle."
He is a man whose ex-girlfriend has zero bad reviews.
It had been a long time since I met my uncle. The two men walked and chatted as they walked out of the house and onto the grass outside. In addition to love and life, Feida is also very curious about Chen Xing's career. Because he had only been exposed to industry before, it was hard to imagine that a photo could be sold for tens of thousands of yuan now.
"Are the photos you took for us worth the money?"
Chen Xing shook his head.
"Actually, it doesn't mean that as long as I take the photos, they are definitely valuable. Those photos can only be converted into value after they are sent to the gallery and have a number."
After he became famous, many people studied his style.
Not to mention now, in the past, before he came to Paris to study, some of his photographer fans could already imitate a little bit of Chen Xing's color mixing style and shoot very tasteful Chinese-style works.
In this situation, how can one determine whether Chen Xing's work was actually taken by him?
First of all, it depends on your personal style.
Chen Xing's personal style is different from most European photographers on the market, so local French collectors can clearly tell whether this is 'Chen Xing's style'.
Then, the most important thing is the number of Perenna Gallery.
Only in the former case, others may only pay a few hundred or thousands, and it is not certain whether anyone else will own this photo. But if it's the latter, collectors are willing to pay ten times the price to buy such a work.
(End of chapter)
