"9 pounds 15 pence. ”

"No need to look for it. ”

Handing out a 10-pound sheet, Xia Yu took the coffee and sandwich.

As a famous food desert, in addition to fish and chips, Yingguo is also the birthplace of sandwiches, and afternoon tea is also good, and then there is no more.

"I'll tell you, I know a good Indu restaurant, let's go eat tonight. ”

Ji Yang nibbled on the hamburger in his hand and said to Xia Yu.

The most famous cuisine in Yingguo is foreign cuisine, and as the most dazzling jewel in the crown of the Daiei, Indo's cuisine is also popular in Yinglun.

"Okay!"

Xia Yu responded directly, the last time he ate curry was Xiao Jiang together, and it has been half a year.

After eating and getting in the car, the two of them left in the dust, London is very large, nearly half the size of Berlin, so they have to continue driving towards the city center from the highway.

Tonight is staying at the Oriental Mandarin Hotel in Hyde Park, London, Xia Yu Oriental Mandarin lives less, this time I want to try it in London, so I booked the Mandarin Oriental Loft.

The high-end suites of the Oriental Mandarin have a cultural loft and an Oriental loft, and the Mandarin Oriental Loft is a combination of these two suites, compared with the presidential suite, which is not even a hundred square meters, it is a bit in vain.

Driving to Hyde Park, the two parked their car in front of the hotel, got out of the car and someone helped drive the car away, and they walked into the Edwardian building.

"Mr. Xia, Mr. Ji. ”

Feng Manxue had already arrived first, waiting in the lobby of the hotel.

"Let's go, let's go to the room first. ”

Feng Manxue, who had already completed the check-in procedures, led the two of them directly to the Mandarin Oriental attic.

"Speaking of which, I've never stayed in such a good hotel in Yingguo for so many years!"

"That's because your dad bought you a house in Oxford. ”

Xia Yu ruthlessly exposed Ji Yang, the children of rich families studying abroad, it is still very common to buy a house directly next to the school, and they can sell it again when they can't live after graduation.

"I'm going to have to stay in a hotel in London!"

"Do you have to spend money to stay in an Accor hotel?"

"Why not, at most a little discount. ”

It's the kind of discount and broken bones, Xia Yu has rubbed a lot of discounts during this time, but it was also because he was tired of rubbing that he wanted to change his taste and chose Dongfang Wenhua.

The two of them packed up and prepared to go out for dinner, as far as the Yindu cuisine that Ji Yang said, not to mention it, it looked mushy and tasted pretty good.

After dinner, it was still dark, and they walked all the way to Hyde Park to eat.

"Xiaoxue, help me take the piano down. ”

Xia Yu was interested, and made a phone call to Feng Manxue, and soon the stunned cannon was sent over.

As the sun set, the sound of cellos sounded in Hyde Park, located in a corner of the city, and Ji Yang listened to a free concert with local residents and tourists from other places.

This time he came to Yingguo for a promise, a promise about music.

At this time, a plane from Italy had just landed at London Heathrow, and many of the passengers were carrying piano cases.

They are all members of the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, and this time they came to London for an exchange performance, and Maria was at the head of the line, and she was already the principal violinist of the orchestra.

"Maria, tomorrow afternoon everyone will go to the Albert Hall to rehearse, and the official performance will be in the evening, so there can be no mistakes. ”

"Yes, Superintendent. ”

Maria and the orchestra director said.

As principal violinist, she not only has to deal with the work but also the travel arrangements of the members.

This time I came to London for exchange performances, and the itinerary was no different from the past, all of which were to check in first, rest for the night, and go to the concert hall to rehearse in advance the next day to prepare for the evening performance.

The show will not be just one day, two or three at the least, more than a dozen, and they have arranged three shows in three days this time, hoping that everything will go well.

"Lao Xia, your level is rising!"

It was completely dark, and on the way back to the hotel, Ji Yang and Xia Yu said.

"I have a vision, but I'm still a little hot before I start a solo concert, so I have to keep working hard. ”

If you want to do it, it is the best, it is a little difficult for Xia Yu to hold a solo concert, but it is really not too difficult to achieve a solo concert, he already has a certain popularity in the circle of Chinese symphony, and now it depends on foreign countries.

Back at the hotel, the two of them had a master bedroom, and they quickly fell asleep, and when they opened their eyes again, it was already the next morning.

There was nothing planned for the morning, they planned to go to the nearby Dayei Museum, which opened at ten o'clock in the morning, and the two were the first tourists to enter the museum.

"It's not the first time I've been here, but every time I come, I have to sigh that there are so many good things here. ”

Ji Yang said with emotion.

"Definitely, after all, it was once an empire on which the sun never set, and it was colonized and expanded for centuries, and it was impossible to say that it was impossible to talk about it without a little family background. ”

Xia Yu said from an objective point of view.

Far from it, don't mention it first, the vote of the Old Summer Palace alone is enough to fill half of the Oriental Art Museum, not to mention the Egyptian Museum of Cultural Relics, which was a colony for most of the previous half a century, and how many mummies have been pulled into the museum.

"If you fall behind, you will be beaten, I was thinking that if I were 007, it would be good if I snatched all our good things back. ”

"Stupid, 007 is from Yingguo, and the blame thief Kidd is about the same. ”

One is Bond and the other is Kidd, and the positions of the two are completely different, but even Kidd is himself.

The agent equipment in Xia Yu's hand is enough for him to make a cameo appearance as a thief, but it doesn't make sense.

Whether the country is prosperous or not depends on the national strength, not the usefulness of grabbing two antiques back, which is why the state has always discouraged high-priced bidding for cultural relics lost overseas.

Spend tens of millions of dollars to buy a few faucets and donate them back, it is really better to use this money in a more meaningful place, rather than letting the robbers make another profit.

The two walked and looked at it, and walked to the Egyptian Pavilion, which is divided into two pavilions, mummy and Egyptian architecture, and it feels eerie to walk inside.

"It's so miserable, I have to be pulled out of the exhibition when I die. ”

"These mummies are either priests or pharaohs, and when they died, they didn't expect to be dug up thousands of years later!"

Xia Yu said with some emotion.

He used to like to watch tomb robbers, that is, the tombs robbed by the protagonist are all domestic, and the pyramids are rarely involved, except for the infinite stream of "The Legend of Gods and Ghosts".

"So it's better to be cremated when you're dead, and you don't have to worry about what happens after you. ”

Ji Yang said his thoughts, and he was more in favor of cremation.

"You're not romantic, we can only die once in our lives, and we can't make it more important, be romantic?"

"Hey, tell me how grand and romantic, I want to hear about it. ”

Hearing Xia Yu say this, Ji Yang was also interested.

"Let's take cremation as an example, what is the meaning of entering the crematorium incinerator, if you want to be cremated, you have to launch the body into space with a rocket, and fly to the sun in a resolute attitude. ”

"!"

Ji Yang thought a lot in an instant, but there was only this one word on his lips.

"Didn't you say you wanted to do commercial aerospace, and the result was this, space funeral services?"

"Develop more profitable projects, the current funeral service is just to launch the urn, that is not space junk, and there is no problem when it is launched to the sun, because it will vaporize as soon as it is close. ”

Xia Yu replied seriously.

"Then you can make suggestions to Musk, and people may be able to toss out the special services of Apollo carrying the coffin and Amaterasu funeral. ”

"Then I have to register a patent first. ”

The two of them talked nonsense seriously, and the time soon came to noon, and they ate and walked around until half past five in the afternoon.

"It's also a bad time, it's open until half past eight in the evening on Fridays, and I usually get off work at half past five. ”

"Even if it's Friday, we'll have to go now, and there's something else going on in the evening. ”

Today's agenda is not just about visiting museums, it's more important to schedule it in the evening.

"What's the matter?"

"We're going to an auction. ”

Ji Yang and Xia Yu have participated in more than one auction, most of which are auctioned cars, and today's one is more special, it is an auction of antique musical instruments.

"Didn't you mean to be stupid?"

"Didn't buy it for me. ”

Xia Yu didn't buy it for himself, he bought it for a friend.

"Maria, do you remember her, she was just promoted to chief some time ago, and I think it's time for me to fulfill my promise. ”

There is no high or low music, but there are musical instruments, good instruments are worth millions of dollars, not everyone can buy them by themselves like Xia Yu, and many excellent musicians only got the first good piano after they became famous.

The piano is provided free of charge by relevant charitable associations, musical instrument museums and music-loving tycoons, with the aim of making antiques more than just antiques, allowing talents to be displayed, and melodious melodies to be endless.

To be honest, this practice is quite noble, and Xia Yu also wants to be a noble person, so he is ready to buy a good piano and lend it to Maria.

When Maria can no longer play the instrument, it will be passed on to the next musician along with this spirit.

"Isn't it really someone else's body?"

"Just kidding, we're called bosom friends, don't be so vulgar. ”

Xia Yu said righteously, but why didn't Ji Yang believe it, it must be that his cultivation is not enough, and it is necessary for him to help his friends strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization.

"Okay, I don't know where my bosom friend is, you're almost all together. ”

"A bosom friend is a bosom friend, a confidante is a confidant, a girlfriend is a girlfriend, a wife is a wife, Comrade Ji Yang, you can't mix them up!"

Ji Yang suddenly found that he didn't seem to be able to talk about Xia Yu.

"You're right, let's go to dinner!"

If you can't defeat it, join it, and then fill your stomach with the rest.

The two of them went back to dinner at the hotel, which has a two-Michelin-starred restaurant called Dinner by Heston Blumenthal.

There is a saying that Michelin is easy to step on thunder when eating Chinese food, but the experience of Western food is still quite good, and Xia Yu deeply agrees with this.

The foie gras orange in the appetizer is a famous molecular dish, and the orange peel has a realistic shape and rich texture, and the umami flavor is accentuated by spreading the cut foie gras on the crispy bread.

The main dish of slow-cooked fragrant pigeon is on the level line, and it will be better if you switch to pigeons produced in the domestic base, and the most amazing thing for Xia Yu is the dessert after the meal - slightly drunk cake.

After mixing butter, eggs, and flour, soak them in sweet wine, and then pour in rich pineapple sweet pulp, the taste is light and dense, and the roasted browned pineapple is sweet and sour, juicy, and after the layers are progressive, people are completely immersed in the beauty of dessert.

Alas, the human desire for high oil and sugar is engraved in the genes, and if there is no self-discipline, there is only complete indulgence.

Chew it and spit it out, you treat you as a female star!

Because they drank alcohol for dinner, neither of them drove and went directly to the auction site by taking the Rolls-Royce Phantom provided by the hotel.

The auction was organized by the auction house Ingles & Hayday, which was once the musical instrument division of Sotheby's, but split up in 2013 and operates separately today.

Xia Yu has only one goal on this trip, and that is to take down a team named Croall McEvan. McEwen's Stradivari violin, which was made in 1684.

In the year the master luthier Niccolò Amati withered, Stradivari continued his business and grew into a new master, and there are still 6 works made by Stradivari in 1684, 4 violins and 2 cellos, and the one on sale today is 1/4.

Xia Yu didn't care how much money he would get from the auction, he just wanted Maria to use this piano to play a song with him.

Where to find a soulmate at the end of the world, a song is enough!

"The starting price was £800,000 and everyone started bidding. ”

After auctioning off a series of antique musical instruments, Croall· McEwen was finally put on the auction table.

"900,000!"

"1 million!"

The pound was at a higher rate than the euro, and the price soon shouted above 1 million because it was worth this price.

"1.5 million!"

Xia Yu also raised his card to join the bidding, the price of violin is generally not as expensive as cello, but there are no absolutes in the world, and sound quality is the most important thing for musical instruments.

Every instrument is beaten, and a player plays it live. McEwen's voice was the most pleasing of all the violins tonight, and Xia Yu felt that this voice was also the most suitable for his dumb cannon.

"1.8 million!"

Seeing that 55,000 had increased to 1.8 million, Xia Yu decided to end the battle quickly.

"2 million!"

As soon as this price was shouted, the scene was instantly quiet, and everyone was thinking about whether to increase the price.

Stradivari made about 950 violins in his lifetime, and more than 700 violas, including cellos and violas, have survived, but only about 50 of them meet the quality standards of the concerts, which means that these preserved masterpieces can be sold for millions of euros.

Those who can afford it and are willing to buy it, just like Bugatti users, how many years have been that batch, almost all of them have a handful, and now they just want to buy another handful, it is normal to hesitate, but Xia Yu did not hesitate at all.

"2.05 million?"

"2.2 million!"

In the face of a tentative price increase, Xia Yu once again showed his ambition to win, and this time the audience fell silent again.

PS：(⊙o⊙)... The second one can't be written.,My fingers are so cold.。。。