Chapter 67: A trip to Amsterdam
With the passage of time, through the efforts of all aspects, the attention of Longyi's lawsuit has been very high, and the words "Long Jiping", "Longyi", "200 billion", "Shanlin" and "civil prosecutor" have become hot search words on the Internet.
When Long Yi left Amsterdam International Airport, the guide Guo Ziqiang picked up the plane, a newly graduated international student from Guangxi, a boy who was in a hurry.
Ryuichi: "Why did you fly for so long and it was still dark?" And it's much colder than back home. ”
Guo Ziqiang smiled: "It's not strange, it's time difference...... The difference in winter time is 7 hours, and the difference in summer time is 6 hours, which means that time has been turned back by 7 hours, and you boarded the plane on the 15th, but now it is still the 14th...... Let's take you to the hotel to rest! It's still early in the morning! ”
Ryuichi: "That's it! Didn't take these into account, it's too much trouble for you, big night. ”
Guo Ziqiang: "Don't talk about this, the customer is God!" As long as you are satisfied, don't be polite if you need anything. ”
Ten minutes later, Long Yi arrived at the hotel where he was staying, and Guo Ziqiang left after completing the formalities.
After dawn, Guo Ziqiang arrived in the hotel lobby early to wait, wearing a crimson windbreaker, a scarf, and his hair sprinkled with mousse, looking very energetic.
Ryuichi: "Ah Qiang...... Early! It's in good shape! ”
Guo Ziqiang: "It's changed today, it's going to snow, you're not bad, the sheepskin coat is ......"
Long Yi smiled and said: "It's all prepared for me by my wife, and I still said I couldn't wear it, but I didn't expect it to be so cold here." ”
Guo Ziqiang: "Let's go have some breakfast first, and we'll set off when we're done." ”
It was winter, and the leaves were withered and falling, and it was a little bleak. Guo Ziqiang took Long Yi to a restaurant, ordered some fries and coke, and simply coped with breakfast.
Guo Ziqiang: "Dutch Flanders french fries are very popular, try it and see how it is different from China. ”
The dragon said as he ate, "There is a lot of sauce here, unlike most of our Chinese who like tomato sauce...... By the way, this time, I'm not here to play, I'm looking for someone to ......."
Long Yi put a copy of Long Jiping's newspaper taken from the newspaper and put it on the table, and said, "That's it, this photo was found from a newspaper in 1947, his name is Long Jiping, and he is my grandfather's grandfather...... Nothing else is known. ”
Guo Ziqiang looked at the photo carefully and said, "This is not easy!" People who are more than 100 years old, but you can go to the embassy, immigration office, police station, and Chinese area to ask. ”
Long nodded: "It's good for you to arrange the itinerary, but you have to hurry up, I really don't have much time, and I will appeal to the court soon." ”
Guo Ziqiang nodded and said: "The embassy is not in Amsterdam, it is in The Hague, it takes about an hour by train, and the headquarters of the Immigration Bureau is in Reiswijk, and today is the weekend, so I shouldn't be working......"
Long Yi said regretfully: "Then go to the Chinese area today to inquire, there should be someone on duty at the police station, you can also go and ask." ”
Guo Ziqiang: "OK! Don't be in a hurry, it's all here anyway, relax in your mood, this place is beautiful, you can see more. ”
The Netherlands feels like a relatively safe place for Ryuichi. Uncle police officers ride bicycles, riding horses on the streets, basically helping pedestrians and assisting with traffic. However, because Amsterdam is not a large city and has more tourists, it is a bustling city, and the corners are a little dirty, but the overall is still very pleasant.
Long Yi walked for a while and said, "Ah Qiang...... I found a problem, foreigners are quite tall! I don't really have much confidence when I walk down the street. ”
Guo Ziqiang: "Uh-huh! It is said that the average height of a man is 1.9 meters, and it is true that there is no comparison between eating rice and eating bread. ”
After walking around, the two came to the front of the Royal Palace of Amsterdam, in the impression of Ryuichi, the Royal Palace has always been a favorite creative theme of the painter, and it is still full of vitality to this day, and the exit rate is too high for people to be unfamiliar with.
Long Yi asked, "Ah Qiang, this is the palace, right?" Is the main material used for the building white marble? ”
Guo Ziqiang: "It's the palace, some people say it's white ashlar, similar to marble, it's not clear, but due to the influence of the climate, it's almost unrecognizable." ”
Long Yi looked around the square, the floor paved with stone slabs according to a certain arc, countless pigeons, countless tourists, Long Yi said: "This piece is very classical!" Let's just say that although this palace is old and even black, it is still very beautiful! ”
Guo Ziqiang: "The palace has been around for 400 years, and we call it Dam Square, the center of the city. The royal palace is said to have been built on a former dam and 13,659 tree stumps support the building......"
Long Yi expressed his exclamation after hearing this: "The wisdom of human beings is really beyond imagination, and it can only be said that it is beautiful......"
Suddenly it was drizzling, Long Yi hurriedly found a place to shelter from the rain, and Guo Ziqiang didn't seem to take it seriously and walked slowly, and there were many people on the street who didn't have the intention of sheltering from the rain at all.
Guo Ziqiang said with a smile: "There is a lot of rain in this place, and people have long been used to it. ”
Ryuichi: "It's revealed that I'm not a local." ”
Guo Ziqiang: "You see that it is strange that the Dutch do not use umbrellas in the rain, and they also feel strange about the Chinese wearing umbrellas in summer." In their culture, they especially like to bask in the sun, and it's best to get a wheat-colored tan. Another way of saying it is that if you don't go out to tan, then you are poor and don't have the money to travel and sunbathe. ”
Long Yi was surprised: "We don't Chinese not only umbrellas in the rain, but also umbrellas in summer, sunscreen...... None of them like to get tanned. ”
Guo Ziqiang continued: "The Dutch don't think umbrellas are sunscreen, and they don't know that we use sun umbrellas, or sun umbrellas are a very strange and rare existence in the Netherlands." ”
Long Yi can't say anything special, and occasionally he can think of the rippling water waves in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, but it does make you feel that time has stopped and the years are quiet. It always feels like a long time has passed, but it is only a few minutes to look at the watch repeatedly. Probably, it's so good that time stands still, that's how it feels.
Eminem has countless bridges, large and small, but the most common ones are probably bicycles. Whether it's on or off the bridge, or at the side of the street, the world is full of bicycles. Maybe some have been abandoned, maybe some have become one with the bridge, some are still in use, and some look special.
The most typical representative is the super-large bicycle parking lot that turns right after coming out of the train station, which is full of three floors, all bicycles, about 10,000 people. The Netherlands is a world of bicycles.
There are many Chinese Cantonese restaurants in the Chinese area, and the two asked many shopkeepers to no avail, so they were hungry and picked a restaurant to order some dishes to eat.
Long Yi sighed: "The city is very beautiful, I can probably understand why Long Jiping and so many people choose to live here, the buildings are colorful, different shapes, gorgeous and full of history, especially those rivers are very beautiful......"
Guo Ziqiang: "Of course, the title of Water City is not covered, Singall, Gentlemen's Canal, Emperor Canal, Prince's Canal and the outermost Singel Canal are spread out layer by layer, and its main attractions are concentrated in a radius of about 1.5 kilometers. ”
Walking around into the afternoon, there was no progress, the sky was full of dark clouds, and it seemed that a heavy rain was coming. Long Yihao ended the first day's trip, and sure enough, just returned to the hotel, it was pouring rain, and even Guo Ziqiang was trapped and couldn't go home......
Long Yi looked out the window and had nothing to do, and answered a phone call from Yu Bo, Guo Ziqiang turned on the computer and played the game boredly, and the rain kept falling for two hours before stopping.
Long Yi: "Ah Qiang, let's go to dinner, shall we?" ”
Guo Ziqiang turned off the computer and the two walked out of the hotel, the night was more beautiful, except for various bars, window women, and the streets and alleys at night became quiet again, the river beat the bank, and the city seemed quieter......
Still a Chinese restaurant, Guo Ziqiang introduced Amsterdam is an undersea city that has drained the seawater, and most of the area is below four meters above sea level. Since the 12th century, it has been built in the middle of a tenacious struggle with the sea. Public transport throughout the city is dominated by vaporetto and bicycles. Peculiarly, to prevent subsidence, all houses in the city were built on wooden stakes.
Ryuichi asked, "Why are there so many bicycles in this city?" ”
Guo Ziqiang: "This city is not inherently a city suitable for driving a car. Built in the 17th century, the inner city is entirely pedestrian, with narrow streets and a network of canals everywhere making it impossible for cars to run, let alone providing enough parking spaces and bicycles for an estimated ......"
Long Yi was puzzled as to why there were so many windmills throughout the Netherlands, which Guo explained were used to grind grain, coarse salt, tobacco, extract oil, roll wool, felt, paper, and drain stagnant water from the marshes. It is these windmills that constantly absorb and drain water, protecting two-thirds of the country's land from sinking and the threat of man-made fish and turtles.
Ryuichi asked, "Are windmills still that important in today's life?" ”
Guo Ziqiang: "Because the windmill uses natural wind power, it can be used without pollution and wind, so it has not only been used by the Dutch people to this day, but also has become a kind of new energy today, which deeply attracts people." ”
"There are about 2,000 windmills of all kinds in the Netherlands. The Dutch loved their windmills and often praised them in folk songs and proverbs. Windmill buildings are always dressed up as beautifully as possible. On grand festivals, windmills are decorated with garlands, national flags and cardboard suns and stars are hung. ”
On the way back to the hotel after the meal, Long Yi looked at all kinds of buildings, countless window women, and felt a deep sense of openness.
Ryuichi: "I feel that as long as the house is built with flowers, the place is relatively open, like Brazil or something." ”
Guo Ziqiang smiled knowingly: "Do you want to relax?" ”
Long Yi shook his head: "No! Go back to rest, tomorrow's trip must be quite tiring, thank you for being my guide, hard work! ”
Guo Ziqiang: "What's the hard work? Job! ”
Guo Ziqiang gave Long Yi the feeling that his appearance was unreliable, but in fact, he was not bad, and he walked a lot and told a lot about the whole city all day.