Chapter 1: Florence

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N43°46′10.42" N, E11°15′20.93" E - Florence, Italy

As the birthplace of the European Renaissance, art and culture continue to evolve in this retro city, combined with modern civilization to create a unique spark, the quiet Arno River crosses the quaint old bridge to divide the city in two, stone towers, garden churches, fountain sculptures dot this ancient city, creating its unparalleled beauty.

However, a city can attract many tourists, and food is an indispensable part of it, and Florence once topped the TripAdvisor European food list, home to many famous Michelin-starred restaurants, and on the spacious Piazzale Michelangelo, a restaurant called Starry Sky is now crowded with guests waiting to enter.

The soft pale yellow light with soothing and soft piano music is just right in the quiet dining room, and the surrounding wallpaper content is Renaissance oil paintings, under the overall modern decoration, there is no sense of disobedience, but complements the huge dark blue starry sky wall lamp overhead, causing people to infinitely reverie about that period of artistic prosperity, each table is lit with a white candle, reflecting the silver-white medieval candlestick, and the bright crystal bead curtain separates the guests of each table from a private small space of their own.

At the middle of the table, the owner of the restaurant is entertaining visitors from the East, and he is very proud to promote his restaurant culture, and happily introduces the restaurant's design concept, decoration style, variety of dishes, and diners' evaluation...... But he seemed to be too happy, and he was unprepared in advance, completely forgetting the point of his words, and as he spoke, he talked about the tourism in Florence, to the Renaissance in Europe, and then from the Renaissance to the famous Italian cuisine, and he was full of energy, spitting, and did not see that the frequency of the brow twitching of the Oriental woman who kept smiling all the time had reached the warning line of 120 times per second.

Finally, after 3 rounds of guests at the next table, the restaurant owner's personal speech ended after his gift to his son was a mountain bike last Christmas, and the bald owner's uncle happily shook hands with the two oriental visitors in English to say goodbye, feeling that he was a speaker who was delayed by the catering business, and was able to move the cameraman to tears.

Encore walked out of the restaurant and crossed his waist to inhale a big sip of the cool air, and then spit it out hard, only then did he feel that the whole person was happy, and then came out of the radar carrying a few pounds of camera, yawned sluggishly, clumsily took out a few pieces of paper from his pocket that had just been pulled out in the restaurant, wiped the tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes, Anke looked back and saw him clumsy and wanted to laugh,

"Xiao Lei, this is the first time you yawned? I felt sorry for you in the restaurant just now. ”

Radar scratched his head embarrassedly, "Sister An, did you hear it too?" I have lowered my voice very low, but I will cry when I yawn. ”

"I've opened my eyes today, the first time I've seen that I can still answer the wrong question, this off-topic is not a roller coaster, it's all a plane. Encore couldn't help but complain.

Radar's stomach grunted very appropriately, Encore was stunned at first, and then couldn't hold back his laughter, just like a student preparing for the college entrance examination who couldn't stop laughing when he heard someone else farting, after the boring conversation just now, Encore's stomach cramped after laughing all the time before he barely stopped.

"Sister An, you're too uninteresting, I carried the camera there for two hours, and you still laughed at me!" Radar raised a small flag of protest, and the baby's fat face turned red.

"Oops, oops," An Ke squatted down ridiculously, "not good...... Meaning, I was wrong...... Fast...... Give me a hand, I'll stand ...... Don't get up", Encore was pulled up by the radar while holding his cramping stomach.

"Sister An, let's go eat something delicious, if it wasn't for the inhumane menu just now, you must be invited to eat there." ”

Encore and Radar went to the hotel first, put down all the equipment, Radar originally wanted to go to a popular restaurant nearby to eat authentic Italian food, however, the name Radar seemed to have exhausted all the guiding nerves in his head, after some twists and turns, he didn't even see the shadow of a restaurant.

Both of them made a terrible protest in their stomachs because of the abuse, and the two men finally agreed to go in at the next corner, whatever they saw as long as there was something to eat, and finally, the kind old man KFC stretched out his hands to them with a smile on his face.

The path you choose, you have to go down if you climb!

Encore ordered a spicy chicken thigh burger, a cup of fresh fruit tea, a chicken wing, a fries, a chicken corn, a red bean pie, and finally a vegetable salad and a cold cola.

Encore looked at the big pile in front of Radar, and couldn't help but reach out to support his chin, so as not to accidentally fall down there and cause a tragedy, Radar first drank a large sip of Coke, and then took a few pieces of chicken corn and sighed,

"Alas, I finally came to Italy for work, but the night before I went back, I ate KFC all over the streets of China"

Encore habitually divides the burger first, and then picks up the top slice of bread in order to eat.

"Actually, eating is to fill your stomach, so everything you eat is the same, but it tastes different when you put it in your mouth at the beginning, and it doesn't become the same nutrient in your stomach?"

Encore people, as a standard modern urban female white-collar worker, work as an editor in a magazine that focuses on food, live an indiscriminate cycle of 9 to 5 every day, and a pair of social elites Si Swen Wen outside, at home is lazy and dead to the end, can not get up without eating, can not go out without makeup, can order takeout without fire, pots and pans at home are readily available, but most of them are thrown in the corner of the wall ash, many just thought it looked good at the time and bought it impulsively, but when they got home, they were thrown into the corner of the corner that they couldn't find, and they didn't even open the packaging。

Whenever her cousin Lin Duoduo criticized her attitude towards life, she rightly threw the pot to the Chinese teacher in the primary school, thinking that the teacher had instilled too many stories of Zhuangzi in her early stage of thought, so that her mind was full of the idea of doing nothing, and I don't know how Zhuangzi and his old man would feel if he knew that he had carried such a big black pot for no reason.

Radar gnawed on a chicken wing and asked puzzledly: "Then Sister An, how did you write a food so delicious?"

Encore elegantly picked up a piece of lettuce, and calmly opened Chrysostom, "From talent." ”

Radar almost squirted a mouthful of Coke out of his mouth, made a parabolic motion in the air, and hurriedly stuffed a french fries to suppress the shock.

When the two of them were about to finish eating, there was still a vegetable salad left in the radar, and Encore was deeply passed on by her mother for many years of health care experience, so she immediately switched to the dietitian mode, and said earnestly on the educational radar: "Vegetables should be eaten before the main course, appetizing and digesting." ”

Radar said very sincerely: "I think after eating so much, I will gain weight if I don't eat some vegetables."

Encore: "......"

Well, Comrade Radar can be said to be very good.

Originally, Encore was responsible for the editing and promotion of some theme restaurants near China, and Radar was the camera who came to the company a year ago to partner with her, and this time the two of them were sent to Italy completely unexpectedly, because the original responsible for the editing of the Italian side had some temporary situations, and the company sent Encore, who had passed the English eight, to be a temporary substitute.

Because he will return to China tomorrow after finishing all his work, Encore is ready to take advantage of this rare opportunity, and it is worth the trip to feast his eyes, so after eating, he pulled Lei to Piazzale Michelangelo, and excitedly asked Radar to help him take a photo with the statue of David in the square.

Radar, as a child who grew up under the education of a traditional military family, the most deviant thing he did in his life was probably to go against his father's wishes and become a magazine photographer, although Michelangelo's masterpiece has become the standard in elementary school art textbooks, but looking at the nudity of his own kind in front of the opposite sex, he felt as if he had been stripped naked and was being viewed, uncomfortable, and his eyes could only be placed on the smiling bright Encore.

An Kexiao took the camera and looked at it, and his expression immediately changed to Exterminator, pointing to the photo and questioning the radar, "What about my David?

Radar: "......"

In the end, under the coercion and lure of Encore, Radar finally completed the second thing that could go down in personal history, looking at the naked statue of a man for a full minute.

Florence is a famous place for luxury brands, and although they are still struggling for a down payment on a house, they still underestimate the deep malice from this world, and walk around the square a few times, basically doing windowsshopping, looking for abuse for themselves.

Encore picked for a long time, and finally bought a Moka pot to give to his mother, and bought a few Italian chocolates for his cousin Lin Duoduo, Radar had no experience in this area, so he had to buy exactly the same thing as Encore.

Comrade Radar, as a young man with five good qualities, has always pursued the good character of diligence and thrift under the education of his father, and at this moment he feels that his dignity as a man has been severely hit by the price of luxury goods, so on the way back, he has been counting the advantages of socialism.

Encore, who had been walking in front and listening to his cynical balabala, suddenly pulled him by the arm, made a quiet gesture to him, and then dragged him to a side alley without saying a word, and said to him in a low voice, "Someone is following us." ”

Sure enough, there seemed to be a lot of one person's breath in the air in the alley for no reason.

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