The place where Yumei drove Xiao Peng and the others was called Tongerren, well, it was a 'city', a 'city' with a population of only 30,000 people.

The whole of Belgium is not as big as Harbin, so it is divided into ten provinces, and this province is about the size of one of our districts, so how big can the city be there? Tongerren is a city in the Belgian province of Limburg. (PS: There is also a province of Limburg in the Netherlands)

It is the only Roman administrative capital in Belgium and the oldest town in Belgium, with the Gothic-style Tongeren rectangular congregation built in the 13th century, the Beguinburgh which is listed as a World Heritage Site, the Gothic Church of St. Catherine, the Gallo-Roman Memorial, and even the Roman walls built in the 2nd century AD and some medieval defense towers!

But these are not the things that surprised Xiao Peng the most, the most surprising thing for him, it was Sunday morning when they came here, and it was full of people!

When you go to other cities on Sundays, the roads are basically 'ghost towns', okay? Why are there so many people here? It's strange, you know, the weather is raining again without any surprise!(It's interesting to say that although it rains all day in Belgium, there are far more people who don't wear umbrellas than umbrellas, is this a habit of getting used to it?)

After Yumi parked the car, several people followed her with their dogs, and finally knew why Yumi had brought them here, it turned out that this was also a flea market. There are still a lot of merchants, despite the rain, the merchants just park their cars in a row, put up their sun umbrellas and start business, there is an indoor market and a circle of open shops around it, there are really not many places in Belgium that can be so lively on Sundays.

Yumei explained to everyone: "I see that you like to visit flea markets, so the flea markets in Belgium must be visited, after all, this is the center of several countries, so it is also a commodity distribution center, and there is naturally no shortage of old goods and antiques." You can always buy a variety of good things here. ”

Xiao Peng looked around: "There are indeed a lot of interesting things." It's just that the weather is too sinful. It's raining in the winter, and it's not comfortable. Do you want to eat it?" Xiao Peng took out a piece of 'elephant' chocolate and asked the three girls, the three girls shook their heads together, they also love to eat chocolate, but they don't dare to eat more, for fear that they will become fat, but the two dogs, 'Elizabeth' and 'Elizahei', are wagging their tails desperately around Xiao Peng, and they want to eat it.

Xiao Peng smiled and shook his head at the two dogs: "You can't eat this thing, this is not Huaxia chocolate, eating it will kill your dogs!"

Chocolate is a good thing, but dogs can't eat it. This is because chocolate is processed from cocoa beans and contains a variety of derivatives of methylxanthines. For example, calamine-caine, theobromine, etc.

If humans eat them, they will have a sense of euphoria, but dogs will vomit and diarrhea if they eat them, and if they eat too much, muscle spasms and even shock will be fatal.

Of course, although many dogs will get sick after eating chocolate, there are not many dogs who really die directly from chocolate, and the toxic effect of chocolate on dogs is more like a chronic process, but that can't make dogs eat chocolate!

Many chocolate dogs produced by Huaxia ate but were fine. This is because many chocolates in the Chinese market, including handmade chocolates, are made from cocoa butter substitutes. This kind of cocoa butter substitute is an oil refined and hydrogenated from animal and vegetable oils, such as the cocoa lotus, Oreo chocolate bar, Nestle crunchy shark, etc., which are commonly eaten in China. Although the packaging says 'chocolate', it has nothing to do with chocolate, and can only be said to be 'chocolate'.

Thanks to the national regulations, if the cocoa butter substitute exceeds 5% in such "chocolate products", the words "cocoa butter substitute" must be marked, which allows consumers to make better choices. However, there is no such regulation for handmade chocolate, so many handmade chocolates in China are more expensive, but the ingredients in them are cheaper cocoa butter substitutes.

Even if Ferrero, Lindt, Dove, Golden Emperor, Kinder and other chocolate brands, there is a gap, those imported brands have a cocoa butter content of more than 22%, and domestic chocolate like Dove, the cocoa butter content only reaches 18% of the national standard, for chocolate, the higher the cocoa butter content, the more expensive the cost, the better the taste, and the higher the price.

Take the Belgian Lindt chocolate and Dove as a comparison, the cocoa butter content of the Lindt milk chocolate part is not less than 26%, the cocoa butter content of the dark chocolate part is not less than 25%, and a hardcover gift box of 415 grams costs 350 yuan, while the Dove chocolate hardcover gift box of about the same weight, the cocoa butter content of the milk chocolate part is 17%, and the cocoa butter content of the dark chocolate part is not less than 20%, and the price is a little more than 100. In addition to the brand and other reasons, the most important price gap is the cocoa butter content.

Many people say that eating chocolate makes you fat and cholesterol rises, but in fact, it is caused by eating cocoa butter, and the real cocoa butter scout not only does not raise cholesterol, but also lowers blood cholesterol, and eating a moderate amount will not make you fat.

However, for dogs, eating fake chocolates made of cocoa butter substitutes, their health is fine, but if they really eat these pure Belgian chocolates, it is definitely not far from ascending to immortals, how dare Xiao Peng let them eat chocolate?

You Mei touched the heads of the two dogs as comfort, and introduced to Xiao Peng and others: "There are many kinds of flea markets, there are 'day jumps', 'week jumps', 'half year jumps' and even 'annual jumps', in the whole of Europe, only one flea market near Brussels South Station is a 'day jump', the level is relatively low, and the most popular is the 'week jump', like the 'flea market' we walked through in Gaul, in fact, even if it is a 'week jump', Belgium's most famous 'week jump' is here and Waterloo, both held on Sundays,' The 'Half-Year Jump' is more famous for the Namur Flea Market and the Sinai Flea Market, while the best 'New Year Jump' in Belgium that we have already missed, that is the Donpurou Flea Market on the last weekend of August, and the largest 'Year Jump' in the world is Lille in Gaul, where you go there every year on the first weekend of September and the whole city is a flea market!"

Xiao Peng was stunned: "You Mei, why do you know so much about the flea market?"

Yumi smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, my brother is in this business. When I was a kid, I set up a stall behind my brother's ass. But he's been at the flea market at Waterloo, which is closer to my house. ”

Xiao Peng just wanted to ask her, how can a big model like you let her brother do such a business, but the words were stopped again.

The view of white Westerners is different from that of Orientals, and no matter how well you live, it is your own business. Just like 'Sister Fruit', her parents are both pastors, and when she was a child, she followed her parents around the country every day to start a church, and there was a time when she could only rely on food stamps and the church's food warehouse reserves to make a living, and when 'Sister Fruit' became a big singer, his parents were still living the same life as before. And there are countless similar columns.

Xiao Peng has no doubt that Youmei's brother will definitely ask his sister for help when he is really in trouble, and he has no doubt that if one day, Youmei and his brother can't get along, Youmei will definitely help him, or buy a good gift for his brother, but he will usually go his own way.

Unlike Oriental people or blacks, they are all the type of 'one person gets the way and the chicken dog ascends to heaven', especially the black brothers, one is rich, it definitely means that a bunch of people are rich, even a superstar like Iverson can let his 'brothers' be dragged down, watching black stars go out, they are all in groups, face is the most important, it is not okay if there are fewer people, and they usually take money to raise a group of 'helpers'. Although the Chinese people do not raise 'helpers' like the blacks, they will also try their best to take care of their relatives and friends.

Xiao Peng looked at this small city, although it has a population of only 30,000, but now this Sunday is really lively, all kinds of old men and old ladies set up stalls here, even if the weather is bad, no matter indoor or outdoor, as long as there is open space, it will be crowded with stalls. After all, it's a 2,000-year-old town, and there are a lot of antiques for sale here.

The Dutch, Germanic, Gauls and even the Stars and Stripes came here in search of their favorite objects!

However, what satisfies Xiao Peng the most is that perhaps due to the remote location and not very famous here, there are not many Chinese tourists who come here. Well, if there are more tourists in China。。。。。。 You know.

Xiao Peng walked around here, what furniture, porcelain, bronze, wood, musical instruments, toys, tableware, tools, that is everything, only you can't think of it, there is nothing you can't buy. And a lot of things, although they have little value, have a sense of history.

For example, the old iron, made of copper, is very similar to the current iron, with a copper shelf underneath, and the heated iron can be placed on the shelf when not in use. The pattern on it is very beautiful.

Yali laughed, "Honey, why are you staring at an iron?" Haven't you ever seen an old iron like this?"

Xiao Peng replied with a smile: "I just haven't seen an iron like this, it's too stupid, right?"

"What do you mean?" asked Yumi on the side, puzzled.

Xiao Peng explained: "In fact, in our country, there have been irons since the Shang Dynasty, but at that time they were used as criminal detention and punishment for prisoners, and later in the Qin and Han dynasties, this iron was used to iron clothes. But our irons are not as stupid as you, and they have to be heated, our irons in ancient times were like a frying pan, and you put charcoal directly in it, and you can heat it, unlike you who have to heat the iron with an open flame, and it burns black, how dirty!

Jimma Ward showed everyone what he was holding as if he were offering a treasure, "Look, what did I buy?" 'Miss Peach' vinyl record!"