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1451, Xia Xue's guide diary 2

The next day, after breakfast, our group of three began to visit the world-famous Danfeng Bailu Palace.

Danfeng Bailu Palace was a palace where the French royal family had been leisurely and holidays and horse-riding hunting. It was a bit like the Old Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty. Like many famous castles and churches in Europe, it had several ups and downs during the period, and even experienced the destruction and looting of war. After several generations of people invested huge amounts of funds, manpower and material resources, it was able to present the current grand view. During the construction and decoration of Danfeng Bailu Palace, it received the passionate contribution of many Renaissance artists. Therefore, it once became a gathering place for French Renaissance artists, leaving countless wonderful works for world art history and future generations.

Stayed in Danfoyer Palace for a morning and had lunch in the town. After lunch, we started to rush to our next destination, Bordeaux, southwest of France.

Bordeaux is 500 kilometers away from Paris and is an important industrial and commercial center in southwest France. In history, it has served as France's accompanying capital three times (French-Prussian War, World War I and World War II). In this sense, it is a bit like the Shuangqing where Wang Bo lives. They both fight and retreat, resist aggression, and save the nation's dangerous rear. In terms of politics, economy and military, it is of great significance to the French. For example, Bordeaux is not only a center for European military and aviation research and manufacturing, but also the core of French strategic nuclear bombs and high-energy physics experiments. It has many high-end technical institutions such as the Atomic Energy Research Center and the Megajou Laser Project.

Wang Bo is not very interested in France's strategic nuclear bombs - if you are interested, people will not let him visit. What he is interested in are those beautiful and well-preserved medieval castles, as well as thousands of vineyards and wineries connected to the vineyards. As the world's largest wine country, Bordeaux grape planting area ranks first among the three major wine producing areas in France. There are more than 9,000 wine gardens and wine castles here, with an annual output of 70000 bottles of wine, which shows its huge scale.

For example, in countless movies and countless novels, the rich people often shouted "A bottle of Lafite from 1982" when showing off their wealth, which comes from "Lafite Winery", one of the five famous wine estates in Bordeaux.

If the distance of 500 kilometers is in Germany without speed limit, it will take two or three hours to achieve the stability of the Mercedes-Benz S600.

However, French expressways, like most European countries, also require speed limits, generally not exceeding 130 kilometers.

Moreover, even if there is no speed limit, Brother Yang probably won’t dare to drive the express train? In this way, when we arrive in Bordeaux, we will probably have to go for dinner and visit the winery, and we will only make plans for the next day.

Unlike yesterday's enthusiastic look at the scenery on the roadside, shortly after getting on the bus today, Mr. Wang started to take a nap, his head sometimes swayed left and right, looking like he was sleepy. After lunch, the interior of the Mercedes-Benz was too luxurious and comfortable to sit down. Don't say, in this difficult-to-detect, swaying like a cradle, I gradually became a little sleepy, wanting to put the seat down, and then close my eyes and take a nap.

However, before my sleeping plan was completed, I heard Brother Yang next to me say:

"Xuexue, Mr. Wang is asleep. He is prone to colds if he doesn't cover his clothes. Otherwise, I will park the car on the side of the road and go to the trunk to get a piece of Mr. Wang's clothes for him to put on his chest?" said Brother Yang.

"Okay, Brother Yang." I nodded.

So Brother Yang slowly lowered the car speed and stopped the car in the emergency parking lane.

I opened the passenger door, walked around to the rear of the car, opened Mr. Wang's travel bag, and carefully searched for his coat. Mr. Wang's travel bag was not big, and the luggage was quite simple, including a set of sleeping clothes, a pair of casual trousers, a short-sleeved shirt, two pairs of socks, a jacket and some personal toiletries.

I took out my jacket and was about to zip the travel bag when something suddenly fell on the floor of the trunk. When I looked closely, it was a small inner warehouse of colors.

I was stunned and subconsciously reached my hand to the small inner warehouse of the color, intending to pick it up and stuff it into my travel bag, but when my hand was about to touch the small piece of fabric, my upper right was standing in the air, and I couldn't get it. My heart was thumping, and inexplicably began to beat rapidly, and my face began to turn red and hot. I hesitated, not knowing whether I should go to get it, or to touch the small piece of fabric with different meanings.

"Xuexue, have you found the clothes? If not, there is a suit in my plastic bag." At this moment, Brother Yang's inquiry sounded in front of me. I suddenly woke up from the daze.

"I found it, Brother Yang, I'll be here soon." I responded, no longer hesitated, turned my head to one side, spread my middle finger, ring finger and little finger, only bent my thumb and index finger, stretched it in the direction I remembered, twisted the piece of fabric on the trunk floor, quickly stuffed it into Mr. Wang's travel bag, then zipped it up, and covered the trunk.

When all this was done, I found that my heart was beating very fast, and sweat was coming out of my vest, which was wet.

What an embarrassing scene!

He covered Mr. Wang's jacket with him in the Hungarian entrance, returned to the passenger seat again, and after a few minutes of stopping, the Mercedes-Benz started to set off slowly, accelerated, and once again flowed into the traffic ahead.

With such a small episode, the little sleepiness that was not long ago seemed to disappear. I started chatting with Brother Yang, the scenery on both sides of the expressway, and the destination we were traveling a long distance this afternoon, Bordeaux, which we were preparing to go to.

Brother Yang told me that two years ago during the summer vacation, he and two Indian students went to a vineyard in Bordeaux to cut grapes for local vineyards. 40 euros a day, including food and accommodation. They had to get up just dawn every day, and then worked until the sun sets. The work time was as long as 12 hours a day, which was very tiring, but there was also an advantage, that was, the grapes were enough, and they could eat whatever they wanted, and drink wine at night. Brother Yang said that during that summer vacation, he had to eat several kilograms of grapes almost every day, and his alcohol content turned from drinking one or two to not getting drunk at the bottle behind him. Then, now he was bored when he saw grapes.

"Interesting experience", I thought, "If it is possible next year, I will come to Bordeaux to cut grapes for a month or two, make money, exercise French, and help Mr. Wang find out the market of Bordeaux vineyards and wineries. It's a win-win situation! That's it, I will come to work as a long-term worker next summer vacation!" I made up my mind secretly.

Just as I was thinking about it, Brother Yang suddenly reminded me that Mr. Wang’s jacket fell off and asked me to climb back to the back row to cover Mr. Wang again.

"I'm sorry, Brother Yang, I just thought about a question a little out of my mind, but I didn't notice Mr. Wang's place. I'll go to the back row now." I stuck out my tongue, a little embarrassed. Brother Yang had to drive and care about Mr. Wang's condition. I'm really a bit incompetent.

"Haha, it's okay. Isn't it convenient for you? I just glance at the rearview mirror." Brother Yang said indifferently.

I climbed from the handrail in the center of the front row to the back row, then turned sideways, and re-covered the jacket that Wang Zongxun dropped on his chin. After covering it, I was worried that the jacket would fall down again later, so I didn't go back to the front co-pilot, so I sat down in the back row.

I fastened my seat belt and looked around. I found that the seats in the rear were wider than those in the front. Not only did I have a separate screen in front, but I also had leg support at my feet, which was comparable to the first class cabin of an airplane.

Now, I finally understand why it is called "moving a BMW by Mercedes-Benz".

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