Chapter 648: The door number is expensive

Zhang Nan didn't bring a woman with her on this trip, all the core bodyguards were gentlemen, which made Charlize Theron very unhappy, because she was going to have a holiday in a few days, and Zhang Nan didn't take her to such a fun place in Austria. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"She ignored you in the morning?"

On the plane, Boss Guan flipped through a few aerial photos while chatting with Zhang Nan on the other side of the sofa.

"It will be fine in a few days, let her go to the Caribbean and promise to forget all the revenge. ”

Upon hearing this, Guan Xingquan shook his head, "You offended her miserably this time, and you didn't even give a reason to say the past." ”

Xiao Nizi was going, and Zhang Nan said that she was going to do something important and couldn't take her......

Xiao Nizi was very unhappy, feeling that Brother Allen was not good to her, and she didn't say why.

"It's tiring to keep secrets, Charlie is not stupid, even if she follows us over there for two more laps, she will probably know that we are not traveling over there.

It's still a good ...... not to bring with you."

After the idle talk, each looking for a place to sleep, the Boeing 767 flew directly from New York to Salzburg, which took a lot of time.

Thanks to the Earth's direction of rotation, the plane arrived at Salzburg International Airport before dark.

Six cars of all colors are waiting, rented in advance, this trip is not too exaggerated pomp, low-key is king.

As for private jets, after a few hours of refueling, they are flown back to the United States by a spare crew: the planes are big, and there aren't many places at Salzburg Airport for you to rely on and not to spend money on!

Lake St. Wolfgang is just over 20 kilometers away, and it will be there in half an hour. I didn't live in a high-end hotel, but a "large" family hotel with more than 10 rooms.

Good location right in the small town of St Wolfgang, but not by the lake, but at the end of the hill in the town.

Very pure Austrian architecture, said to be an old house built in the 90s of the 19th century. On the third floor, after several repairs, Zhang Nan, who walked into the old house, could see the historical relics of the last century, as well as many styles from the era before World War II.

My room is on the second floor, and there is only one bedroom and a small bathroom. The bedroom is connected to the balcony and is very narrow, and the railing is wooden.

Fortunately, the basic structure of the balcony should be reinforced concrete, and I don't know if it was first built a hundred years ago, or when it was repaired later, it looks very strong anyway.

Standing on the balcony, you can see most of the town, as well as Lake St. Wolfgang with a height difference of about 20 meters.

Like other glacial lakes near the German-Austrian border, Lake St. Wolfgang is elongated, about five or six hundred meters wide, and opposite is a smaller town called Abel.

Further afield are the mountains, typical of the Alps: valley floors and lakes are almost surrounded on three sides by mountains, leaving only a small exit.

However, this peak is not as high as the one in Berchtesgaden a few dozen kilometers away, many of which are casually more than 2,000 meters above sea level, and this side is basically between 1,200 and 1,400 meters.

As for the elevation of the town, it is about 600 meters above sea level, so the surrounding mountains still look a bit high.

Zhang Nan also had a small balcony next door, and he was advancing, and he saw Guan Xingquan coming out with a telescope.

Seeing that Zhang Nan was also looking at the scenery, Guan Xingquan said: "Baslon, do they live on the other side?" ”

He was referring to Aber.

"It should be, just don't bump into it. ”

"It doesn't matter if you run into it, can people still manage you?"

Zhang Nan shrugged his shoulders and went back to the room.

At six o'clock in the evening, it was time for dinner. The restaurant is on the first floor, which can accommodate more than 20 people.

The family hotel is run by a middle-aged couple and their son, as well as a hired helpwoman.

When booking a room before, Zhang Nan and his gang also said that they wanted to order food, and this is a service that family hotels here basically have.

For the first meal, according to the experience of coming to Austria before, there are all the specialties in the hotel, but there is a special reminder: less dessert and cream.

Austrian desserts are famous, but according to the usual serving habits, this dessert is too much, especially for Zhang Nan.

Long table, good dinner: the wine is a local brand, and there are many vineyards near the town and on some of the slopes behind the town.

Grilled pork ribs are a specialty dish in most of Austria, and it is also known as "the most suitable Western food for Chinese tastes", which is also indispensable.

Generally, the restaurant has a roast pork rib for two guests, and it is served on a wooden tray, and the meat is fragrant, not to mention the taste, but there is an appetite when you look at it.

The guys are all tall and big, so you don't need a pork chop for two people, choose this one person as the staple food to serve a large piece, and the big deal is that you can't eat it and take it back to the room for supper.

However, depending on your good appetite, there should be no need to worry about the leftovers, and it is estimated that there is still a bit of a shortage of Alyosha and the like.

In terms of the degree of love for pork on the European continent, if the Germans are the first, the Austrians are probably the second, and who let them have been next to each other, even the history and the national question are inextricably linked.

The twenty-somethings don't just order one staple food, Randy and Lin Man like beef as a staple food, and there are options here.

However, because it is not a big hotel, the manpower is limited, and there are only three choices of staple food every day, so as not to be too late in the kitchen.

Randy chose a few steaks, but they were very different from the steaks common in the United States!

Because steak is often available, fried steak is not!

While others grill steak, Austrians love fried steaks, which is one of Austria's national specialties.

Instead of using adult cows, three-month-old veal is selected and fried in breadcrumbs. Coupled with the special pickled salad here, looking at the eating portraits of Randy, it is estimated that it tastes good.

The grilled pork chop that Zhang Nan chose was the first to come up, and after a while, I saw the last staple food ordered by Zach on the table: the fried pork chop that was bigger than his face was not the long strip of the grilled pork chop in front of Zhang Nan, but round.

There are also grilled sausages on the table that are almost the thickness of an arm, and because this time the tenant has chartered the entire hotel, the grilled sausages are all whole, and there are knives on long wooden plates, so you want to eat them yourself.

"Boss, I feel like the Austrians eat a little rougher than the Germans. ”

It was Lin Ming who spoke, which was a complimentary complaint, because in West Germany, this guy from Huaxia also had a suitable soup to choose from for dinner, but on the menu of this hotel, except for a creamy soup, there was no other soup and water.

Although the hotel has a hundred years of history, there are still a lot of old photos and two oil paintings on the walls of the restaurant, but because the steak is fried, there is no soup that can be matched, although the taste is good, it just gives people a bit of a feeling of eating in Uncle Ken's fast food restaurant.

Zhang Nan hadn't spoken yet, Guan Lao Dao: "Eat yours, it's good to eat some, it's estimated that you will have to eat dry food tomorrow!"

Lin Ming smiled and buried his head in dealing with the pork chops in front of him.

This is not a training center in the Philippines, if you want to find something, it is probably the same as in Berchtesgaden, don't think about a hot meal at noon.

Zhang Nan also complained a little about Austrian cuisine: Chinese cuisine is the first in the world, and German cuisine can be regarded as the first in Europe, because German cuisine is known for its finesse.

“...... Austrian food is not good, I look at people who like meat more than Randy!"

The big guy is innocently lying on the gun, but it doesn't matter, after seeing the endless variety of delicacies that the boss's chefs can make, Zhang Nan's bodyguards are convinced.

As for the ten guys from the "United Forces", they have mixed a lot in the training camp and the canteen of the headquarters, and they have long known that the variety of Chinese cuisine can be staggering!

Chinese cuisine is heavy on oil and salt, which many Americans think is unhealthy, but in fact, the fried food that ordinary Americans often eat is called garbage.

And contractors will never complain about too much salt in their diets, the so-called scientific diet is for people who sit in the office, and contractors who often train and perform tasks will often become soft-footed shrimp if they still consume salt according to "scientific standards"!

Austrians are carnivores, so there are only a few vegetables on the menu, and today only vegetable salad and over-water broccoli are served. Fortunately, Zhang Nan brought some pickled radish, otherwise he would be tired of eating a meal.

......

Early the next morning, the contractors of the "combined forces" were left behind, and the others drove east in three cars.

Not far, less than a kilometre to pull over.

On the right side is Lake St. Wolfgang, and on the left is the mountain.

The two or three hundred meters of slope along the road are vineyards, followed by woods.

The mountain is about 200 meters above the lake, and when one of the small intersections is identified, a group of people abandon the car and walk.

When I was in the car, I looked at the map, and the small lake was on the other side of the hill: there was no name on the tourist map, just a very small piece of water.

Randy and Lynman were the "spearheads" and waited for the group to cross the path between the two vineyards, and before they reached the woods, they saw the broken sign that Baslond had mentioned: it was erected on an old cement pillar by the side of the road, and it looked a little old: Lake Svachenbach.

"Enamel, look at the thickness, this street sign should be something before the 50s. ”

It was Zach who spoke, and everyone was impressed: amazing, I have followed the boss for two years, and I can even see this!

A few are "in awe".

This trip is when tourists come to see, and this will be a relatively relaxed state of mind. Moreover, it is known for its good security, and the bodyguards do not have to be on high alert as in the United States, as long as they maintain a basic professional standard.

Zhang Nan said: "Awesome! I can't tell the difference between the ages of this enamel card, cow!"

Zach looked at everyone's reaction and knew that even the boss was a little misunderstood.

But I was very proud: it turned out that the boss didn't know everything.

"Hehe" smiled, and Zach said as he walked: "My father worked in an enamel factory for 30 years, from an assembly line worker to a workshop director, until the enamel factory closed down.

At that time, it was not easy for a person of my skin to get the salary of a manager, he was considered self-taught, and there were many books and samples related to enamel making at home.

My father is nothing to think about, I will read those books as idle books when I read, and when I was young, I didn't go to the enamel factory to mess around, because the boss is good, and the family can go to the canteen to spend money to eat, cheap.

I can say that I grew up in an enamel factory.

The manufacturing process of this enamel street sign and door number looks similar, but in fact, the quality before the 50s is far better than now. ”

When Zach said this, Zhang Nan interjected: "Why?"

"Cost.

The bulk products of the enamel factory are generally basins, teacups, and bowls, and street signs and door numbers rely on orders. Before the 50s, the guy who ate was either porcelain or enamel, and the advantage of enamel is that it can be used for many years after falling.

However, after the fifties, enamel products seemed to be unpopular, and by the time they were ten years ago, they were almost unsellable, and the factory where my dad worked was finished.

I remember when I was a kid, my dad and they were always trying to figure out how to save production costs, and the result was that things were getting thinner and thinner.

For example, if a washbasin weighs three pounds, like the thickness of the street sign just now, it would only weigh two pounds ten years ago. ”

Hearing this, Alyosha quipped: "It's just cutting corners, profiteers!"

"If you don't do this, you can't do it, enamel is a cheap product, and there are more and more new materials in the past 30 years, which is forced to do this.

I still have a few enamel bowls and cups from more than 30 years ago at home, which are sturdy enough to kill people, but even if they are so strong, they can be sold for a few bucks now?......"

Enamel, Zhang Nan knows that the earlier the stronger, but how to divide the age is not clear: the variety of this thing collection is too narrow, and almost no one plays with it.

The enamel products in the special period of the previous life are collected, but they are just small plays, and for Zhang Nan, there are only three items in the collection that belong to the enamel products, which are two door numbers and a street sign.

The collection of door plates, which is an important item in the collection of enamel products, and the three things that Zhang Nan owns can be said to be the earliest door numbers and street signs in the collection of his hometown in Yan County.

This person has a lot of bad habits, such as often ignoring things that are too familiar: Zhang Nan's aunt, that is, Zhang Hui's parents' family lives in a township, in the middle of the old street in the big village where the township government is located.

Not to mention a few decades ago, even now in 89 years, that old street is still quite lively, because not only people in the village will pass by, but this old street is actually the only way for several villages to go to the county seat and district.

It is said to be a street, which is three or four meters wide, and there are two-story houses connected together on both sides.

Except for the aunt's house, which was rebuilt in the early 70s, the other houses are basically brick and wood houses from the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China: the first floor is a shop on one side of the street, a kitchen and a dining hall in the inside, and the second floor is inhabited.

Zhang Nan was too familiar with it when he was a child, and he never paid much attention to it, but he was a little interested in some old Taimen nearby.

When I grew up, it was relatively rare, and around 2009, I went to visit my aunt, because my aunt was 80 years old that year, and Zhang Nan sent a congratulatory gift to visit.

It turned out that I hadn't been there for a few years, and the large row of old houses opposite my aunt's house had collapsed in half, and one of them was still a wall gone, which looked weird.

When people are old, the familiar houses opposite have also fallen, and they are a little emotional, so they walk and recall some things many years ago: playing with their childhood friends in these old houses on the old street.

"This room used to belong to Qiu Ping's family, this section should be Xiaobaihua's family, and half of this should have been a ...... repairing clocks and shoes before."

Then Zhang Nan saw a blue enamel number on the lintel of the half-collapsed house: he had seen it at least hundreds or even hundreds of times before, but he never thought it was anything special.

But this time I found out that it was different: No. 28, Twenty-eight Du Street, the fourth district of Yan County.

This is a house number before the Anti-Japanese War, and this method of recording has existed for two years in the history of the county: from 1935 to 1937.

How did Zhang Nan know?

County Chronicles.

If you want to play antiques, you must be familiar with history, and if you want to play antiques with a certain regional characteristics, you must be familiar with all kinds of local chronicles.

The house number is as good as new, and the years don't seem to have left much of a mark on it.

The house has long been unoccupied, and half of it has collapsed, so Zhang Nan is not welcome.

I went to my aunt's house and brought a stool, climbed up and carefully pried the door number off.

The uncle-in-law came out to see that Zhang Nan was priing other people's house numbers, so he asked about the situation.

"This card works?"

"Useful, expensive, and memorable. ”