000072 Lavender of Provence

In the evening, Wang Nan had to go to the bar again, and shouted that he would not get drunk or return, but this time Shirley and Xiao Yifei did not do it.

"Alice, what's wrong with you, you wouldn't have said that before."

"That's it, you're a girl's family, your family must look very good, what's there to worry about, as for borrowing wine to kill your sorrows?"

"Oh, you don't understand, let's go, drink."

Xiao Yifei's face sank: "I said I wasn't allowed to go." ”

Shirley was not on her side, and the angry Wang Nan lay down on the bed and came to cover her face with the quilt.

After a while, it sounded like Wang Nan was crying?

Xiao Yifei asked Shirley: "What does her family do?" ”

Shirley didn't say anything, but Wang Nan in the bed spoke, "I said it myself." ”

It turned out that Wang Nan's family was an official, and the official was not small. Wang Nan's father is the third-in-command of a district below Yongzhou City, Zhijiang Province. Her father's old backer was out of power, and he was not in the same line as the new boss of their city, so he wanted to change his family. But where is it so easy to change the court, even if he succeeds for a while, he can't be trusted, so he thought of marriage, and planned to let Wang Nan marry the son of someone in the new boss's line, so that he can smoothly break away from the original faction and gain the trust of the new faction, maybe he can take the opportunity to be promoted to half a level and promoted to the city.

Because of this, Wang Nan didn't want to go home when he was just on summer vacation, so he took Shirley to travel to Europe, but he encountered danger, so he met Xiao Yifei. When she got home, her father really forced her to get married, but Wang Nan had already heard that person was very unbearable, and her father forced her to jump into the fire pit, just under the excuse of Xiao Yifei's side, she ran out, continued to travel in Europe, and returned to Canada directly when school started. My father couldn't go to school to arrest someone.

After listening to this, Xiao Yifei felt that what kind of person was this, for the sake of his own future, he even forced his daughter to jump into the fire pit. Don't he know how many years he has left on the stage, and who is he fighting so hard for? Can rights and status be taken underground?

"What about your mother? Your mother doesn't care? ”

"My mother doesn't even care about my dad raising a junior, she just enjoys it and only knows how to play cards."

Well, a strange pair.

Listening to Wang Nan's intermittent words, Shirley tried her best to comfort Wang Nan, but unfortunately her thoughts were completely different from Wang Nan's, and she couldn't comfort the point.

Xiao Yifei really couldn't stand it, although he didn't care about the second generation of officials because of some things, but the second generation of officials in front of him was obviously a little pitiful, he said directly:

"Okay, don't cry, it's a big deal if you don't go back."

"That's it, come to my house after the holiday, and we'll continue to travel."

Xiao Yifei joked:

"Don't make a mess. She was afraid that her father would cut off her living expenses. ”

Wang Nan exploded when he heard it, he couldn't care about crying, and holding the pillow was like beating Xiao Yifei.

Xiao Yifei hurriedly controlled her hand, and she actually wanted to bite. Shirley hurriedly pulled her away.

"Don't worry, brother is not short of money, I will lend you first."

"It's just you, and you still want to raise sisters."

Xiao Yifei was stunned, why is this also a problem, raised and raised all day long, it seems that Shirley was also instilled by her.

"I want to pay it back. If you can't do it yet, go to my vineyard and plant grapes, until it's finished. ”

After making a fuss for a while, Wang Nan finally stopped going to the bar.

When he got up the next day, Wang Nan was very embarrassed at first, but after a while, he started laughing again. Xiao Yifei said proudly: "Brother will take you to Dijon today and continue to taste Burgundy wine." ”

Wang Nan immediately wanted to raise his hand and cheer.

Xiao Yifei immediately mended the knife: "Don't get drunk." ”

Wang Nan immediately remembered yesterday, and immediately got up embarrassed, and pressed the back of Xiao Yifei's driver's seat with his foot. Seeing that there were no cars in front of or behind, Xiao Yifei fired back with one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake, until Shirley was worried about safety and stopped the two of them from messing around.

All the way south, they reached Burgundy, where they spent two days, and tasted Beaune all the way, and the two beauties refused to go.

Xiao Yifei is gone, his itinerary has been dragged down, and if he doesn't go, it will delay the rest of the trip. If you were alone, you would have left yesterday. So he could only make a trick.

"Don't, brother will take you to Provence to see lavender, it's the flowering season, think about it, the boundless lavender, the purple from the sky to the land, the fragrance everywhere in the air......"

"Let's go, let's go, right away."

(Actually, the best time to see lavender is July, and there are only small patches in August, so let's assume that the weather is cool this year and the flowering period is delayed.) οΌ‰

Xiao Yifei proudly drove the car on the highway.

When he arrived in Avignon, Xiao Yifei was a little stupid, let alone the two girls.

They had only seen it in photos and on TV before, but the camera could only shoot one side, and there was a real person standing here, and it was all purple to shock, this purple can only be described as the ocean, and even the sky seems to be reflected in purple. Rows of purple, white roofs in the distance, and shadowy mountains in the distance, all Xiao Yifei's sighs can only be turned into one word "beauty".

In fact, the lavender flowers are not big, but they can't stand much, the green grass leaves are on top of the long flower stalks, and dozens of purple-blue flowers are blooming on them, so that the air is filled with the scent of lavender.

Provence is known as a lavender paradise, where lavender has become an important local industry.

The flower spikes of lavender can be used to make dried flowers and ornaments. Lilac, scented flowers and buds can be used to make incense pots and sachets, and dried flowers can be sealed in a bag to make sachets, and the sachets can be placed in the wardrobe to make clothes fragrant and prevent insects. The commercial cultivation of lavender is mainly to obtain lavender flowers to extract lavender essential oil, which can be used as a fungicide and essential oil used in aromatherapy.

Lavender flowers secrete large amounts of nectar, which can produce high-quality honey, and countries around the Mediterranean are the main producers of lavender honey. Lavender flowers can be used to make lavender jam, and can be used as a material and decoration for pastry cakes. Lavender can be used as a spice in cooking, on its own, or mixed with other herbs to make a ProvenΓ§al spice.

In Provence, France, which is one of the hometowns of lavender, there is a love story about lavender: it is said that there is a young girl in the village of Provence, who is alone in the cold mountains picking budding flowers, but meets a traveler from afar but injured, as soon as the girl sees this young man, her whole heart is captured by his graceful smile.

So the girl invited him to her home, and insisted on taking care of him until he recovered, regardless of the opposition of his family, and after a few days, the young traveler's injuries had recovered, but the love affair between the two had spread rapidly, and it had reached the point of inseparability.

One day not long after, the young traveler said goodbye to the girl, but the girl who was in love insisted on leaving with the young man, although the relatives tried their best to stay, she still insisted on going with the young man to the hometown full of roses!

Just before the girl left, the old lady of the village gave her a bouquet of lavender, and asked her to use it to test the young traveler's sincerity, because legend has it that the fragrance of lavender can make unclean things appear.

Just as the traveler took her hand and was about to go away, the girl threw the lavender hidden in her coat on the young man's body, but unexpectedly, after a burst of purple light smoke came out of the young man's body, it disappeared with the wind! And the girl still seemed to faintly hear the hearty laughter of the young man in the valley, and in this way, the girl was left alone.

It wasn't long before the girl disappeared, some thought she had disappeared into the valley like the young man, and others said that she had followed the scent of lavender flowers to find the young man...... In any case, the legend of lavender has been passed down like this.

After staying here for two days, the two girls were still immersed in this overwhelming lavender and refused to extricate themselves, and they always refused to leave. Xiao Yifei said that if they didn't leave, they went on the road alone, and they were involved in Milan, Italy, and these two girls were willing to leave.

Next up on the itinerary is Cannes.

Cannes, most of us are familiar with him because of the Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, and the Berlin Film Festival are known as the three major film festivals in Europe.

Cannes is located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, is a common Mediterranean scenery, white sandy beaches, blue sea, tall verdant palm trees, wildflowers all over the mountains, the scenery is very common, except for the May film festival, there are obviously not many tourists here, and in addition to the red carpet to play, it seems that there are not many unique tourist places.

The next stop is another country, Monaco, which many people would be confused with Morocco. Morocco is an African country, Monaco is located on the European continent, it is surrounded by France from the east, north and west, and the Mediterranean Sea on the other side.

Monaco has changed from a poor country to a rich country because of the industry, so if possible, the country should open a special zone somewhere and establish a special industry, so that the casinos around the Chinese border can die. Otherwise, those countries enjoy the benefits brought by domestic gamblers, while scolding the Chinese for their low quality, etc., such people should let them taste how the big countries clean up the small countries.

Monaco has no personal income tax, making it a tax haven for many European businessmen who have migrated to avoid the high income taxes of continental European countries. This has also resulted in the world's second-smallest country, with a per capita GDP of $170,000. It has also caused the highest house prices in the world, with an average of 40,000 euros per square meter.

Here, after watching a few shows, visiting casinos, and changing to a Cadillac of an Italian car rental company, Xiao Yifei and his party entered Italy.

Coming to Milan, the world's fashion and design capital, the two girls were interested, they spent the first afternoon on the street, and woke up the next day to go shopping.