Chapter 466 Wooden Blocks
In fact, this Roland's lack of money far exceeded Zheng Zheng's expectations, because less than ten minutes after Zheng Zheng hung up the phone with Zheng Yonghe, Roland's phone called.
The content of the call was very simple, that is, Roland informed Zheng Zheng, that Zheng Zheng saw that Nicolas Anna, a well-known fat sheep in the European collecting world, was still very interested in Roland's "archaeologist from China", and was going to meet Zheng Zheng tonight.
For Zheng Zheng, this is definitely great news. Nikolai Anna is willing to meet Zheng Zheng, which shows that Zheng Bei has not used his connections to make trouble in this matter. As for why, Zheng Zheng really doesn't know. Could it be that Zheng Yongming's subordinates did not report the news? Or is Zheng Yonghe's relationship just too close to that of Nikolai Anna? Zheng Zheng does not know, but Zheng Zheng can be sure that something must have gone wrong, otherwise with Zheng Bei's enthusiasm for doing this matter against him, if he can make trouble in this matter without making trouble, it will really be the most unlikely thing.
Roland is very worthy of Zheng Zheng's money, and after telling Zheng Zheng about this matter, he told Zheng Zheng about this Anna's likes and dislikes. Including what he likes to eat, when he likes to chat and when he doesn't like to chat, what his expression is when he hates a topic, and what small actions he will subconsciously make when he is interested in a topic...... Such seemingly fragmentary, but helpful to Zheng Zheng tonight's conversation with Anna, Roland told Zheng Zheng one by one.
After saying this, Roland suggested that Zheng Zheng buy a suit, because although this Anna is not very good-looking, he likes to attend in formal clothes when talking about things, and he will have a better impression of people who are also dressed in formal clothes, and it is best to match them with one or two low-key but meaningful trinkets, so as to bring out the temperament of Zheng Zheng as an "archaeologist".
Although he didn't have much research on suits and anything, Zheng Zheng had heard Wang Di sell this knowledge to him when he was usually bragging with Wang Di. Although you can wear a suit in a general store, it is difficult to match the shape of the human body completely, and although it looks like that, it is always almost meaningful. The more high-end suits that need to be worn on important formal occasions are either tailor-made or bought in high-end brand stores and then modified according to their body shape. Only after such modifications can this suit be considered to be able to wear the effect.
This can also explain why different people wearing suits of the same brand will have completely different effects after wearing them. In addition to the hardware condition of "looking at the face", whether the suit has been cut and whether it fits is also an important factor.
I'm going to have an interview with Anna in the afternoon, and if I go to order a suit now, the daylily will be cold when the suit is ready. However, the next best thing to do is to use a hasty solution, that is, to find a high-end suit store, buy the suit and then let people cut and modify it. That's almost a day, and that's enough.
For Zheng Zheng, who is now an "archaeologist", he has a jade handle on him, or an antique ring or something, which can further explain his identity and is more convincing. If it was in China, Zheng Zheng would not be able to stop this matter at all. But now abroad, Zheng Zheng didn't bring antiques with him when he went abroad, which made Zheng Zheng go where to find them for a while?
Although there are some real things in the flea market in Rome, Zheng Zheng is not good at taking a European work of art, right? His current identity is "an archaeologist from China", and he does not have Chinese antiques as one of the ancient civilizations, but he has a European antique ring or something...... Although it is not a big deal, but in this way, the identity of "archaeologist from China, an ancient civilization", has exploded.
pondered left and right, Zheng Zheng didn't come up with a way, so he simply didn't ponder. He had something to eat with Bai Xiaoxue, and after inquiring with the hotel about where there was a more high-end suit store, he went straight to the suit store.
Zheng Zheng has always hated things like shopping for clothes, one is because he is lazy, and the other is because he has no time, so Zheng Zheng has always worn a few clothes back and forth. Zheng Zheng himself felt that there was no problem, but Bai Xiaoxue was not very satisfied with Zheng Zheng's rough problem, and always wanted to take Zheng Zheng to go shopping to buy clothes for Zheng Zheng. However, Zheng Zheng is indeed busy, and occasionally goes out shopping with Bai Xiaoxue a few times, and he plays with Bai Xiaoxue, and he doesn't have the time to buy clothes for Zheng Zheng at all. Therefore, Bai Xiaoxue's plan to dress up Zheng Zheng has always been a plan and has never been successfully implemented.
It's just that this time is different from the past, Zheng Zheng was caught by Bai Xiaoxue today. After the two of them entered the suit shop, Bai Xiaoxue's eyes lit up, and when she looked at a good one, she asked Zheng Zheng to come over to try on clothes. This suit store is indeed high-end, although the suits are almost the same route, but each suit is slightly different, and the feeling is different. Bai Xiaoxue is good at looking at this, and it's good to look at that, directing Zheng Zheng to keep trying on clothes. Poor Zheng Zheng's physical fitness after taking this medicinal bath is strong, but after putting on and taking off his clothes, he has been going back and forth for so many times, and Zheng Zheng is a little unable to stand up.
After picking back and forth for nearly an hour, Bai Xiaoxue finally picked a suit she liked. From Zheng Zheng's point of view, he really couldn't see how much difference this suit could be from other suits, and how much difference could there be between the curvature of the neckline opening and the curvature of the neckline?
After buying the suit, Zheng Zheng asked the waiter in the suit store if the store provided cutting services. It stands to reason that this kind of relatively high-end suit shop provides tailoring services, although Zheng Zheng has not personally experimented with it, but Wang Di said that he has a nose and eyes when he bragged to him before, so he asked such a question.
The waiter said that this suit shop does provide tailoring services. But unfortunately, the tailor is on vacation today. If Zheng Zheng wants to cut a suit in the store, he can wait until tomorrow to come, and tomorrow the tailor will go to work.
Zheng Zheng is going to see Nicolas Anna this night, where can he wait until the evening? So after hearing the news, Zheng Zheng frowned. Seeing him like this, the waiter at the suit shop pointed out a clear path to Zheng Zheng, saying that there was a small shop on the opposite street, which specialized in tailoring, and if Zheng Zheng was in a hurry, he could go there to make cutting and modification. Of course, this costs a lot more than cutting and modifying it in-store.
That's good news in the bad news. After inquiring about this clearly, Zheng Zheng took Bai Xiaoxue out of the suit store and looked for it along the street from shop to store.
While looking and inquiring, Zheng Zheng and Bai Xiaoxue walked for half a street, and then found the small shop that the waiter of the suit shop said.
The shop is really small, at most about 60 square meters, and the sign is simple, with the words "Old Jon, the Tailor" written in English and Italian. Suits hung on the walls of the shop, and in the center was a table about the size of a bed, on which were all kinds of patterns, cloth heads, rulers, needles and threads, and so on.
When Zheng Zheng and Bai Xiaoxue came in, an old man was sitting on a recliner at the table, holding a book and reading it.
"Hello sir. Zheng Zheng greeted the old man politely and asked, "Is the tailor in the shop?" ”
The old man put the book down and said in a rather authentic English, "I am old Jon, and I am the tailor in this shop...... Well, where's your suit?"
Zheng Zheng handed over his suit, the old man took out the suit and looked at it in front of him, looked Zheng Zheng up and down, and asked nonchalantly, "Is it urgent?"
"I'm going to use it tonight. Zheng Zheng didn't hide it from old Jon.
Old Jon nodded, still in the same tone that was not salty or light: "Hurry up and hurry, two hundred euros, it can be completed before five o'clock this afternoon." Put on this suit and show me. ”
The old man spoke quite politely, but Zheng Zheng didn't feel uncomfortable listening to it. For example, this kind of food that relies on its own craftsmanship, people don't play with you, and the customer is God's set, because people don't fight the service attitude, only the craftsmanship, and there is no fear of no business if you have this craft. Like this kind of craftsman who is not very enthusiastic and can even be said to be cold, Zheng Zheng has seen a lot of them in China before. Although some of them pretend to be cold, most of them still have the ability.
Zheng Zheng changed into a suit and measured it up and down and left and right by old Jon. Because a specific cutting plan has to be made according to Zheng Zheng's body shape, Zheng Zheng can't move when old Jon is measuring here, and can only stand there like a wooden stake, which is quite boring.
Zheng Zheng was bored, so his eyes looked at the store. After looking left and right, Zheng Zheng's eyes were attracted by a palm-wide wooden block placed on the table in the store.
The block was purple-black, almost a palm's width and three fingers thick. The block was not carved too carefully, as if it was made with a simple rectangle, and nothing else was carefully carved. Underneath the block was a stack of patterns that looked like Jon Sr. was using as a paperweight.
Zheng Zheng looked at the wooden block from a distance for a while, pondered it for a while, and then said to the old Jon on the side: "Mr. Jon, can you sell me the wooden block on the table?"
Old Jon put down the ruler and chalk in his hand, took off his reading glasses and wiped them, then put them on, and looked at Zheng Zheng carefully through the lenses.