Chapter 1168 The Elf of Louvre (5)

Compared with the magnificent Louvre Museum, Montgil Street seems very civilian, full of restaurants and outdoor cafes.

After buying the broken crystal ball from the goblin, Pomona and Severus went to the restaurant Gongsei mentioned.

Severus should have gone back to London, whether it was to deal with the werewolf problem or to find scholars who knew hieroglyphics in the British Museum. He should have gone back.

But now he stayed in Paris, waiting with her in the tavern for the appraiser who pretended to be mysterious.

Even ordinary people in Paris, the most romantic city in the world, are no different from ordinary people around the world. They still have to go to and from get off work. Coupled with the bad road conditions, Parisians waste more time commuting than ordinary people in other cities.

Excluding time for work, transportation and sleeping, the time that can be used for meals is compressed. Some people will choose to rent an apartment in an apartment in a big city. This kind of apartment is certainly not comparable to the luxury apartment in South Kensington.

Comparison of.

Montgil Street is in the "medium" range. Monet once painted a street scene here, and there is one on the wall of this restaurant. The scenery of the entire street when viewed from the window of the restaurant seems to be different from that of more than a hundred people.

It was no different a year ago.

Breakfast for French civilians is usually freshly baked bread and cereal, which are eaten on the way to work. Lunch is a variety of quick meals. It does not take two or three hours to eat like a real French meal.

Start eating the appetizers.

Dinner is a formal meal for French people. Ordinary families usually make pasta, paella, or eat at a more affordable restaurant downstairs.

There is a street market on Rue Montquier, but it does not look dirty at all. After all, this street is not far from the Louvre. It would be too unseemly if it was discovered by tourists wandering around.

Eating French food is not just about the food you eat, the environment is also very important. Looking at the scenery outside the window and thinking about Monet is much better than thinking about the open-air market with garbage everywhere and dirty water flowing across it. Especially eating oysters.

Seafood is grown to be eaten raw. If mosquitoes and flies are flying everywhere inside and outside the restaurant, you will have to worry about diarrhea if you eat oysters in such a place.

In short, Montgil Street is a very life-oriented place, with some French elegance and romance, originating from life but having nothing to do with life, just like Monet's Impressionist oil paintings.

While waiting for Gongsei, Pomona ordered a fruit panna cotta with plum filling, and Severus ordered a cup of black coffee. They came before the meal, and they were the only two customers in the shop. The boss and

The waiter was behind the counter, chattering in French about how to prepare the store for the French Bastille Day in the middle of next month.

Although few people believe astrologers say that stars can affect people's fortunes, yesterday was not only the summer solstice, but also a full moon.

The sun and the moon are the two stars that have the greatest influence on the earth. The superposition of various coincidences makes it difficult for people not to care. Tonight may be a "particularly lively" night. Drinking something refreshing can help people stay awake.

Everyone knows the curse of the Pharaoh, but things that come from Egypt do not necessarily have to come from the cemetery to be so weird.

When the Dendera Constellation Board was being transported to Paris, I heard that it had encountered an accident.

It is very tricky to remove the stone from the ceiling without destroying it. You need to build a slope along the house, and then use rolling logs to remove it from the ceiling little by little, otherwise it will fall to pieces.

Blocky.

As a result, the rolling rods quickly wore out, and the French had to rely on leverage and brute force to transport the constellation board onto the sled.

Finally, the sled reached the river. When the French tried to transport the constellation board along the slope onto the ship, it fell entirely into the soft mud of the Nile.

After the French spent a lot of money and Egyptian workers to fish out the constellation board from the water and put it on the ship, the ship began to leak again.

People worked hard to seal the loopholes, and finally the danger was saved.

It happened that at this time, the captain refused to sail the ship. He claimed that this was a warning from the gods and that he would not allow the constellation board to leave Egypt.

At this time an American ship passed by.

Sir Wilson once mentioned in his biography that the people he needed to guard against in Egypt were not the locals, but people from Europe and the United States.

Every National Day, everyone will take out the flag and place it in front of their house. There are many apartments on Montgil Street. The residents living upstairs will plant the flag on the window sill and even wave it when the parade passes by.

Monet painted the Rue Montguerre during the festival, when red, white and blue flags were waving everywhere.

The American on the passing ship saw the Frenchman carrying the Dendera constellation board, and he also had the idea of ​​transporting it to his own country. However, he asked a British man to work around it, bribed the local officials, and asked the captain to follow the plan.

The Nile River floated down.

On the way to Cairo, the British agent of the Americans suddenly took an official document from the local government and prohibited the French from taking the Dendera Constellation Tablet out of Egypt.

The French directly raised the tricolor flag representing France and prohibited the agent from boarding the ship.

According to the provisions of international law, ships are "floating territories" and are completely exempt from the jurisdiction of any country other than the flag state.

The National Day held on July 14th every year is an important French holiday as famous as Christmas. This day is also called Bastille Day.

The "passion" with which the French captured the Bastille and sent Louis XVI to the guillotine was something that the British, who succeeded in establishing a constitutional monarchy, did not dare to emulate. The Americans were outraged. The obelisk is a representative of ancient Egyptian civilization, but above the world

Egypt is not the country with the most obelisks.

Italy, Britain, France, and the United States all have more obelisks than Egypt. Although transporting obelisks to the United States can cause a sensation, it may not be as eye-catching as when the first obelisk arrived in the United States.

The Dendera constellation board is different. The Egyptians actually know the twelve constellations of the zodiac. This will definitely create a topic and make that "Yankee" famous and wealthy.

Since the British agent was unable to do so, the Americans went to convince the Egyptian officials that he was the first to excavate the constellation board from the ruins.

But these were all in vain. At that time, Napoleon was sweeping across Europe and his reputation was at its peak. The Americans did not have enough influence in Europe and Asia. In the end, the ship with the French flag sailed to France, and it really caused a great sensation.

Ever since the firefighters of the Montmartre barracks opened their doors and invited people to celebrate in 1937, the firefighters' ball has become a traditional event, and the "arrangement" discussed by people in the store also involved this.

This reminded Pomona of the scene when girls were chasing Victor Krum when he walked to Hogwarts.

It can only be said that everyone has different hobbies. Some girls like Draco's handsomeness, while others like the "brutalist" one. What's more, the strong muscles these firefighters have developed are not just for showing off, they are going to

Putting out fires, that's enough to get girls talking about them.

There are beauties there, even boys who are not firefighters. What if they get lucky? The Firemen’s Ball is the day before the National Day. The problem is that the business in the store will be very good during the National Day. Wearing glasses

, the seemingly polite clerk angrily discussed the issue of vacation and overtime with his boss.

Young people all want to go to the Firemen’s Ball, but the boss retorts to him that with his appearance, he won’t be allowed in even if he queues up until the end of the National Day. Even if he gets in, he won’t meet a suitable girl, so he might as well work hard during the National Day holiday.

Work and earn more money.

"Merlin's beard." Pomona whispered. "Are all French people so direct?"

"What did they say?" Severus asked, pretending to be interested.

Pomona repeated what she had just heard.

"You can understand them when they speak so fast?" Severus was focusing on another topic.

"I guess I understand." Pomona said, "If it were you, what would you choose?"

"Of course, to do something meaningful." Severus said without hesitation, "What about you?"

Pomona smiled sweetly as she thought about the sweat-stained muscles of the young and handsome firefighters.

"I will choose to rest at home. There are too many people everywhere on National Day."

"You don't want to go to the Firemen's Ball?" Severus asked with a smirk.

"Hahaha." She smiled dryly, trying to fool around.

"Don't you like socializing?" He showed his yellow teeth and smiled maliciously.

Pomona stuffed a piece of pudding into her mouth.

"This is delicious. Would you like to take a bite too?"

Severus slapped her brains out mercilessly, and then continued to look down at Napoleon's biography.
Chapter completed!