Zheng Zheng pondered left and right, and in the end, he could only entrust Xiao Huang to Wang Di, who came over to get the key to Gu Xuan. Although I don't know much about Wang Di's love for small animals, Wang Di has money and leisure, and he can't treat Xiao Huang badly.

This Xiao Huang also has a big temper, and when Wang Di wanted to tentatively touch Xiao Huang, it almost scratched Wang Di with one paw. However, Bai Xiaoxue touched Xiao Huang's head, pointed at Wang Di and chatted with Xiao Huang for a while, this Xiao Huang obediently ran to Wang Di's feet and lay down, and Zheng Zheng and Wang Di on the side were amazed.

Xiao Huang's matter is the last thing, after this matter, Zheng Zheng and Bai Xiaoxue have nothing to do in China. The two left Huayin City and boarded a flight to Italy.

The plane is fast, but no matter how fast it is, it can't be instantaneous, and you have to spend a rather boring time in the sky. Zheng Zheng was afraid that Bai Xiaoxue would be bored, and he was afraid that she would not be comfortable, so he chatted and laughed with her, which could be regarded as relieving boredom and diverting Bai Xiaoxue's attention by the way. If you want to talk about this paragraph, Zheng Zheng really has a lot of savings in his stomach, but unfortunately most of them are jokes from the antique shop. However, after Zheng Zheng pinched the head and removed the tail, and then added, deleted and reduced, it was not a problem to amuse Bai Xiaoxue.

But even so, there was still some worried look between Bai Xiaoxue's eyebrows. Zheng Zheng can understand, after all, this is going abroad for three years, and the place of life is not familiar, and it is normal for the little girl to feel pressure. However, after deciding on this matter, Zheng Zheng patted Bai Xiaoxue's chest, telling her to rest assured that everything was with him. However, although this chest was slapped, Zheng Zheng was also a little panicked in his heart.

If nothing else, let's just speak the Italian language. Although the popularity of English in Europe is quite high, the main language of Italy is Italian after all, and this Zheng Zheng doesn't understand anything at all, so he can only hope that the people he meets can speak English.

However, if the other party speaks English with an Italian accent, and then speaks English with a Chinese accent, and the other party speaks a little faster, then how difficult is it to communicate...... Zheng Zheng pondered that this would not be much less difficult than the communication difficulties caused by the other party using Italian and using his own Chinese......

The plane landed at the airport in Rome, and through the window, Zheng Zheng looked at the completely unfamiliar city outside, feeling a little excited and a little uneasy at the same time.

What awaits you here?

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Zheng Zheng had checked the information about Rome before he came, but after arriving in Rome in person, Zheng Zheng was still shocked. Although he knew that Rome was the center of the Catholic Church in the world, after coming to Rome and looking at the churches and monasteries, Zheng Zheng really felt a "sense of history".

It is no wonder that Zheng Yonghe would say that there was a very famous European collector in Rome. In Zheng Zheng's view, if he chooses to settle abroad, regardless of other factors, from the perspective of a practitioner in the antique industry, nine out of ten will choose Rome as a place of settlement. Because this ancient city, which has a history of more than 2,700 years, is itself a huge antique.

Although it was fresh when they first arrived in Rome, they were sleepy from the journey, Zheng Zheng and Bai Xiaoxue didn't bother to go shopping at all, and directly found a hotel to stay in. When checking into the hotel, Zheng Zheng chatted with the waiter without saying anything, and Zheng Zheng was still more pleased: his English for a month was still quite effective, and his English level was quite okay when chatting with Italians with more standard English......

I took a break in the hotel and spent a little more than a day with jet lag. Zheng Zheng didn't waste any time this day, and when Bai Xiaoxue was jet lag, he went to the lobby to chat with the waiters who were fine. Practicing his spoken English is one of Zheng's goals, but his more important goal is to inquire about places like flea markets in Rome. He gave enough tips, and the waiter naturally knew everything, and it didn't take much effort for Zheng Zheng to know the information he wanted.

Back in the hotel room, Zheng Zheng checked all the place names that the waiter told him. After removing the places that may have been used to pit tourists, there are still three places left, which Zheng Zheng thinks are the most likely flea markets with genuine goods.

The difference between antiques and antiques is not too big, the top ones are some high-end atmospheric auctions or something, the middle end is the private antique shops, and further down, it is a flea market where fakes can be more than genuine goods. In the unreliable flea market, it would be good if one of the hundred antiques was real, and one of the real antiques would be considered good luck if one of the hundred pieces could have a normal price. Although the price is also a bit of a pig killing, it is more peaceful than the obvious pit people robbing money.

However, for Zheng Zheng, there is a difference between the foreign antique market and the domestic antique market, and the biggest difference is that for Zheng Zheng, there is no black market in the foreign antique market.

If you want to say that the black market specializes in shady business, there are basically everywhere, but there are more or less shadows of the black market in all profiteering industries. Antiques, as a lucrative industry that can be sold for several times the price of another sale, are the hardest hit area of black market activities.

If you want to say whether there is a black market in Rome, then you don't have to think about this, as long as you say that antique dealers want to make more money, then the formation of this black market is inevitable. It's just that for Zheng Zheng, whether there is a black market in Rome or not is not for Zheng Zheng, because even if there is a black market, with Zheng Zheng's current situation, he will not be able to enter the black market.

There is a threshold in any circle, and only those who have the strength to cross this threshold have the right to enter this circle. This principle applies everywhere you go. When Zheng Zheng was in China, let alone Huayin City, even when he was in the Western Capital, it was not much difficult for Zheng Zheng to come into contact with the black market as long as he wanted to. Because Zheng Zheng has this level here, he also has a reputation and reputation, and the black market is also willing to have such a reliable buyer.

But in Rome, who knows which green onion you Zheng Zheng is......

The first destination was Rome, and Zheng Zheng had his own considerations. First, he wanted to find the rather large collector, and second, he wanted to use this place as a starting point to experience and understand the art and antiques trade in Europe firsthand.

Therefore, entering the local antique art trading market first is a double thing for Zheng Zheng: he can have a preliminary understanding of the antique trade in Europe through this, and he can also get more information to see if he can find clues about the collector from these news.

Although the auction is high-end and high-end, and most of the artworks in it are real, there is very little information that can be obtained from it. For Zheng Zheng's current needs, this is not much help.

Right now, Zheng Zheng's best choice is to go to those flea markets. However, in Zheng Zheng's view, this is not a particularly good choice. After all, finding that collector is the most important thing, and I don't have any news about that collector at the moment, so I can only rely on luck to run into it, how big can this success rate be...... It's really hard to say.

After repairing in the hotel for a day or two, at ten o'clock in the morning, Zheng Zheng took Bai Xiaoxue out of the door and rushed to the flea market he had selected before.

When she first arrived in a foreign land, after the initial nervousness and anxiety gradually subsided, Bai Xiaoxue became a curious baby, and she felt fresh when she saw various buildings and murals in Rome. Fortunately, Zheng Zheng had made preparations before, and it was not too much of a problem to answer Bai Xiaoxue's various questions. However, sometimes Bai Xiaoxue's questions are really tricky, and Zheng Zheng is asked a lot of times.

When he arrived at the flea market, let alone Bai Xiaoxue, even Zheng Zheng was a little dazzled for a while.

This market is said to be a market, but it is actually a small neighborhood, except that there are small shops selling art and antiques. The storefronts of these shops are not very large, and if you look at them, they are quite bad, but the abundance of art in this flea market completely offsets this bad impression.

Zheng Zheng didn't come here for sightseeing, so the problem of poor appearance was not a problem for him at all, he was more concerned about the flea market itself. And the abundance of artworks in this flea market is indeed a bit beyond Zheng Zheng's expectations. Just the artworks in the stores that Zheng Zheng saw were probably dozens of kinds.

In fact, this is also the result of different concepts, not that the flea market is much higher than the domestic antique market. It's just that in the domestic antique market, what you do professionally is what you do. For example, they specialize in jade antiques, and their goods are basically all jade antiques, and there are few other things. Even if there were, it was something that could be associated with jade, such as stones, statues, and the like, and those who specialized in books, calligraphy and paintings, would not touch jade antiques. It's not that I don't want to make this money, it's just that because of the limited manpower, it is not easy to understand a very deep understanding of one of the antiques, let alone other things.

Antique dealers like Zheng Zheng, who have a general understanding of all antiques and do not have any special tendencies in any line, are mostly classified as "miscellaneous", which means that they have a little bit of antiques, but not much. To put it simply, it's like an antique dealer who specializes in one type of antique is like fishing, experienced, and knows where to catch good fish. And Zheng Zheng is like this, that is, he probably knows where there are fish, but it is not clear whether there is one, put aside the big net to catch fish, no matter the size as long as it is a fish.