When people think of the North American continent, which city comes to mind first: New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Toronto, Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver, Chicago?

In this vast land, a magnificent kingdom has been successfully established in just three hundred years, but it is still not enough to precipitate and nurture a long and long historical glory. The prosperity and hustle and bustle of those cities are more accompanied by the rise of the economy and the changes in politics/governance, after all, there is still a lack of charm and style, and you can't see the grace of Havana, the fanaticism of Buenos Aires, the splendor of Paris, the heaviness of London, and the style of Rome......

As for the answer to the Blue Rite? New Orleans.

On the mailing address of the letter and postcard, "New Orleans, Louisiana", the abbreviation of the first two capital letters in English is "nola", which makes the locals affectionately call the city they love "Nora" as if they were their closest lovers.

In fact, New Orleans is arguably the most distinctive and charming city on the North American continent, with sharp outlines of character, like a unique and vivid person, with his own personality and temperament, his own preferences and habits, and his own soul.

Just as most cities in the United States have names that are closely associated with European culture, New York is a variant of Yorkshire, England, Los Angeles is a Catholic nickname for the place from the time of the Spanish maritime supremacy, and New Orleans is no different, a city that is only 300 years old, and in 1718, through the guidance of the Indians, the French officially settled on the only high ground near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Louisiana got its name from Louis XIV of the Bourbon dynasty of France, while New Orleans got its name from the Duke of Orleans, the regent of Louis XV.

There is also a small rumor in history about "New Orleans". In French, every word has attributes, feminine or masculine or neutral, "Orleans" is masculine, "new" is feminine, and the adjectives of different attributes cannot be used side by side, but the two are matched together Legend is that at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the feminine extravagance prevailed among the French aristocracy, and the Duke of Orleans was famous for his love of grease and powder, and women, so the words of two different attributes collided together and derived the current city.

Whether the rumors are true or not, one thing is for sure, New Orleans is indeed a complex of contradictions.

The earliest Old Town of New Orleans was the French Quarter next to the Mississippi River, and the first inhabitants of the city were quite chaotic, with paddling slaves, hunters, gold diggers, bounty hunters, cleaners, and women as all body servants, and although a large number of nuns and missionaries later came in, the land was destined for a wild and uninhibited character from the beginning, very different from Boston in New England.

What's more, the French court's top-down poverty and extravagance have made New Orleans a North American base camp for the extravagant and corrupt French nobility, like a comfortable nest for outsiders, and is nicknamed "big-easy" by people.

Although it is nicknamed "The Great Pleasure", the city has suffered many vicissitudes in its 300-year history, and the bitterness and pain of the scars still leave clear traces to this day

From the French to the Spanish, it was returned to the French, and it was constantly harassed by pirates in the Gulf of Mexico, and then it was sold to the Americans by the French, becoming the first front of the peasants, and then it became the "Second American Revolutionary War" The last position, precipitation brewed into a paradise for the southern aristocracy, and then became the base camp of the black slave faction, and became one of the important bases of the southern camp during the American Civil War.

The vicissitudes of the European continent and the ups and downs of the founding of the United States can all be found in New Orleans.

The former French Quarter has been burned to the ground by the Spaniards, but the style/flow/glitz of the French aristocracy has become the object of imitation by the owners of the southern estates, and as a former colony, the mixed composition of the inhabitants is also a major feature, pirates, beggars, prostitutes/women, peasants, and black slaves surrounded the nobles from the European continent, inheriting the cultural essence of Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Ireland, and forming the "New Orleans" in the eyes of everyone now”。

In order to distinguish them from the first generation of immigrants who migrated from the European continent, the second-generation immigrants born in the Louisiana colony were all called "Creo-people", even the second-generation half-generation.

Different from the cultural integration of the East Coast or the West Coast, the land of New Orleans is very protective of traditional Creole culture, just like the stubborn insistence on the black slavery system during the American Civil War.

This unique cultural fusion has given birth to some of the finest jazz and soul music in American history, as well as the largest Mardi Gras festival in North America.

Sadly, in 2005, New Orleans was struck by Category 5 Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed almost everything in the city, and riots, looting, fleeing, and panicking enveloped the entire city like the end of the world, and finally completely reduced to ruins.

Now, nine years later, New Orleans has fully rebuilt itself as Louisiana's most economically prosperous and developed city, but some of the damage is irreversible, such as population. Before the hurricane, the city had a fixed population of nearly 800,000, but now only about 370,000 remain, making it the second city to plummet its population after bankrupt Detroit.

When it comes to the North American continent, Lan Li can't help but think of New Orleans.

It's not because he likes it here, on the contrary, in fact, Lan Li doesn't like this city, because Creole culture always devours foreign culture almost savagely, refuses to change and refuses to accept new things, and the traditional and old posture always reminds him of those stubborn aristocrats, but because he is curious about whether the British hereditary aristocracy is forced to accept new things in the new century, whether they will eventually evolve into New Orleans, and those foreign cultures are always integrated into Creole culture in a special way, but they can't tell whether it is dross or essence, so they stay, and they have their own unique charm in the faint way。

You can dislike New Orleans, but you're bound to be impressed.

This was Lan Li's second visit to New Orleans, but when she arrived at the airport, she was still a little uncomfortable. Maybe it's because of psychological factors, maybe it's the fate of people and people, and the same is true between people and cities, for example, Lan Li likes New York more than Los Angeles, obviously the weather in New York is worse, the population is more dense, life is more compact, and even people are more indifferent, but Lan Li still prefers to live in New York.

When arriving at New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport, the appearance of the "Jurassic World" crew did not cause any crowds or panic, at least the noisy reception scene did not appear, and the crowded airport did not seem to notice Lan Li and his party at all, still focusing on their own lives.

This is a good thing for Lan Li and for the crew, they can go to the crew smoothly and devote themselves to the next filming work step by step.

But Lan Li's footsteps stopped at the door of the arrival hall of the airport, and he saw a familiar figure from a distance, he raised his hand to the rest of the crew and said hello, "You guys leave first, don't worry about me." ”

"What's wrong?" Colin looked around in confusion, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary, not even the number of flights landing at the airport at this time of year, and the people around him weren't busy, so he didn't catch anything out of the ordinary.

Lan Li just showed a smile and didn't explain, "I won't be late, I know that the crew has a welcome party tonight, and I will be there." ”

Colin didn't know why, but he still noticed Lan Li's alienation, and he didn't ask much in interest, nodding in affirmation, "Then be careful on the road." ”

Lan bowed his head and took a step forward.

Colin turned his head and noticed the "abandoned" Nathan and Roy, "Why are you ......" Colin didn't turn the corner, "I thought you were walking with Lan Li ......"

Nathan raised his chin and gestured in the direction of the exit, "That's Lan Li's butler, he came here to pick him up." ”

"Nathan!" Roy reluctantly stopped, Lan Li didn't explain, that means Lan Li didn't want to explain, although it wasn't a shocking secret, but Nathan's mouth was really ...... I can't control it.

Nathan immediately realized his mistake and quickly shut his mouth firmly.

Roy then added, "Let's go with the crew, don't worry about Lan Li, he will arrive." ”

Everyone didn't break the casserole again and asked the end, but their eyes all looked in the direction Lan Li left: Butler?

Only a small number of people immediately thought of the answer: the butler of the hereditary nobility! So, what does the butler of the hereditary nobility look like?