If you don't take the train, you don't know how unpunctual Italians are! The train, which was supposed to leave at 7:25 a.m., was lying on the platform until 45 a.m., with no explanation from the train company or any eye-catching signs to warn passengers.

"Why don't we go and refund the ticket, change the plane, when will we go!" Hong Tao has never seen such a long departure time in China, domestic trains are generally late in the station, so there are those who are late before they leave?

"Wait, you can promise that you won't be late for your flight?" Pan was also tired of waiting, and replied to Hong Tao angrily.

"Are you going to Florence or Rome? Let me guess, you're supposed to be tourists from the United States, right? Don't worry, the porters at the train station are on strike, this week is the third time, you better not change planes, because the porters at the airport are also on strike. At this time, sitting opposite Hong Tao was a man who looked like the Italian football star Roberto Brown. Baggio's man in his 30s spoke at Hong Tao, and he spoke English.

"How do you know we're American tourists?" Hong Tao rarely meets people who are willing to speak English these days, the Swiss are reluctant to speak, and the Italians are really not good at speaking. Now that I have someone to talk to, no matter whether the other party's eyes keep flashing to Pan, there are still hours to go anyway, so it's not bad to chat.

"You speak good English, and you're not as rigid as the Brits, and you dress casually and don't look like Europeans, am I guessed right?" That "Baggio" is almost catching up with Sherlock Holmes, from the accent, the costume

There are a lot of things analyzed in the details of demeanor.

"Ha Lu haha, you guessed wrong, my name is Hong Tao, I am Chinese, this is my companion Wang Jian, also Chinese, this beautiful lady is also our companion. She is German. Hong Tao told the man the names of himself and Wang Jian, but Pan's name was not said, if she was willing to tell others her name, she would say it herself.

"Hello, I'm Pan." Sure enough, Pan himself said his name and reached out to shake the hand of the man opposite.

"My name is Bartolomeo. Benato. Baggio! From the Valle Dolce region, you can call me Baggio, you can call me BB, I love China. Many of my clients are Chinese, they are very generous, generous and often bring me gifts. Although this Italian man is introducing himself, his eyes are always on Pan, and his real surname is Baggio, can it be said that men with the surname Baggio have such a pair of peach eyes?

"This name suits him quite well, he can really BB, and he has made our BB American. It would be nice if he could give my BB another US green card. After listening to Baggio's name, Wang Jian directly communicated with Hong Tao in Chinese.

"Are you going to Florence? If so, you are welcome to visit my winery, where my mother makes a good steak. Authentic Florentine steak, it tastes great, it's my calling card. "This BB is a businessman at first glance, and three sentences are inseparable from sales.

"We don't go to Florence. We plan to go to Siena first and then find a farmhouse to stay in for a few days and experience the life of ordinary Italians in Tuscany. Hong Tao glanced at the business card that Baggio handed over. I was taken aback again, this guy actually has the phone number of the Chinese agent on his business card, and the area code should be Shanghai, it seems that he really didn't lie.

"Oh, you know Italy so well, there is no laid-back, beautiful, sweet in the Tuscan farmsteads, you can bask in the sun all day drinking Giandi wine, eating all kinds of food, and the Tuscan girls are as beautiful as the vineyards there, you have gone to the right place!" When Mr. BB heard Hong Tao's answer, he praised the beauty of Tuscany and patted Hong Tao by the way.

"Mr. Baggio, are you familiar with the farmsteads in Siena? Will they let us stay overnight for a few days, and will it be too expensive? Pan looked at the business card back and forth, and suddenly showed a charming smile uncharacteristically, and his speech became a little sassy and cute.

"Hahaha, even if you asked the right person, I didn't leave there for half a step before I went to college, don't worry, I will help you find a very comfortable farm to live in, this is on me, no charge!" As soon as Mr. BB grasped Pan's helpless hands, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, promising that he would definitely help Hong Tao and them find a suitable farm, he almost swore to God.

"Gao, this is called Gao, do you see it, people show a little smile, talk quietly, our food and accommodation problems will be solved, why does she fall in love with you? It's really flowers stuck in cow dung. Wang Jian looked at the scene in front of him and immediately felt something.

"Don't be cheap! You might as well just say she's seductive! Hong Tao glanced at Wang Jian, and then at Pan, the smile on her face at this time was not so charming, and she secretly squeezed her eyes with Hong Tao.

The train finally opened at 8 o'clock in a few minutes, and the speed was really not slow, but every time I entered the station, I rubbed for a while, and it was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived at Siena station, and the train timetable really became the ears of the deaf, ornament!

The Mr. BB conjured a double-door car from the parking lot in front of the station like a trick, and insisted on taking Hong Tao and his party to find a farmhouse to live in immediately. Since people are so enthusiastic, Hong Tao can't discourage his enthusiasm, although his eyes are a little squinted, but his words are still reliable, not like a liar.

Siena is a small city built on the top of a hill, a bit similar to Chongqing in China, except that there is no river or river near the city. In fact, as soon as the train passed through Bologna, it was basically considered to enter the Apennines, except that the tunnel was a bridge, and it was not until Florence that it was out of the mountains, but it entered the hilly area.

The entire Tuscany region of these 10 provinces can be said to be in this hilly area, but the hills here are only hills, there are no hills, the altitude is very low, the ups and downs are very gentle, from a distance it looks like a slightly undulating desert, of course, a green desert.

It wasn't until BB drove everyone out of Siena that Hong Tao figured out that his hometown was dozens of kilometers south of the city, and now his parents have 4 brothers and 2 sisters still living in their hometown, which is the place he said is called Valle Dolce, and the farmhouse he planned to introduce to Hong Tao is also his parents' home.

"Hey, this is really a field where fat water doesn't flow into outsiders!" Wang Jian also understood.

"Be content, if we find it ourselves, we may not be able to find this place! And didn't people say that there is no room fee. Hong Tao was already attracted by the scenery outside Siena, and he didn't have time to tease Wang Jian with poverty.

Coming down the hill of Siena, the car enters a vineyard as far as the eye can see, and the road is lined with vineyards and rows of cedar trees on the side of the road. As the car drives up a high slope, your eyes suddenly see far away, and unknown crops cover the entire ground, yellow and green, like a large, thick, undulating carpet.

The most beautiful places are not the farmlands, vineyards or woods, but the farmhouses or castles, which are mostly built on high slopes. They are like threads on this carpet, suddenly protruding from a calm undulation, and then a part of the red roof or brown stone wall reminds passers-by that this is not a wilderness, but that it is still inhabited.

"BB, what are those big castles and half-cut towers for?" Compared to the beautiful scenery here, the roads here are just dung! Hong Tao carried the camera and planned to lie outside the car window to take a picture of the scenery, but the bumpy road conditions almost blinded his eyes.

"Those are the ViaFrancigena, the ancient roads that used to connect Europe with the center of the Roman Empire, and the ones you see are castles, caravans, hospitals, monasteries, most of which have been abandoned, and it was along this road that pilgrims used to go from Europe to Rome." Speaking of the glory of his hometown, BB seemed very happy, didn't even look at the road, and directly twisted his neck and turned his head to explain loudly to Hong Tao, for fear that Hong Tao would not hear clearly and omit a little glory of their ancestors. (To be continued......)