Chapter 235: Expo Cars, Expo Love
A week passed quickly.
Friday arrived.
I called Ye Qian.
"Are you there?" I asked Ye Qian.
"In!" Ye Qian asked wonderingly, "What's the matter?" β
"I miss you!" I said with a laugh.
"Then you wait," Ye Qian smiled, "I'll send me over to you!" β
I happily put down the phone and opened a bottle of beer.
I was in a good mood.
About an hour later, Ye Qian came in a hurry.
"It's Friday!" I said and hugged Ye Qian tightly.
"Do you want me to take a bath," Ye Qianxing said with slight disgust, "and then spray some perfume, do you chew it slowly, or just gobble it up?" β
"I was kidding you!" I smiled and said, "What's going on this weekend?" β
"I haven't figured it out yet!" Ye Qian smiled.
"But I thought about it," I said earnestly, "I'm going to the Automobile Museum tomorrow, I'm interested in cars now!" β
"Okay!" Ye Qian said with a smile.
A night of lingering sorrow.
After dawn, Ye Qian and I drove to the Beijing Automobile Museum.
Beijing Automobile Museum is located in Nanhuaxiang District, Fengtai District, Beijing, which integrates the functions of science and technology museum, museum and exhibition hall.
"What do you think this museum looks like?" I asked Ye Qian as I walked.
"Like eyes!" Ye Qian smiled and said, "Bright eyes! β
"Do you know what it means?" I then asked.
"Driving with your eyes wide open, right?" Ye Qian said with a smile.
"The moral is," I smiled, "to look at the world and look to the future." β
Ye Qian pursed her lips and smiled.
Ye Qian and I chatted like this and came to the automobile exhibition area.
The various exhibits in the exhibition area are a feast for the eyes: the ancient Chinese guide car, the world's first car - Mercedes-Benz 1, the world's first Volkswagen car - Ford Model T, one of the first cars to enter China "Duria L", the former Soviet Union gave Mao Zedong the Guise 110, the "ugly duckling" Citroen 2CV, the "ladybug car" Subaru 360...... One-to-one scale replicas of these classic cars can be seen in the museum, as well as real cars.
Ye Qian and I walked along the tour signs in the museum, and a history of the development of the world's automobile told us.
I saw the original authorized replica of the Mercedes-Benz One from Germany, which is one of the treasures in the Automobile Museum.
"If I say it's love that creates cars, would you believe it?" I asked Ye Qian with a smile.
"Please!" Ye Qian smiled.
"The world's first automobile was born on January 29, 1886," I told Ye Qian earnestly, "and it was a birthday present from Benz to his wife." Benz's success was inseparable from the full support of his wife, Berta. Embarrassed by the cynicism of the 'stinking monster', Benz was so embarrassed that he no longer wanted to drive his car in a public place and leave it in a deserted workshop. But Berta was so convinced of her husband's career that she said to her two children one morning: 'Daddy doesn't have the courage to drive the car, so let's drive it.' So Berta took her 15-year-old son Eugen and 14-year-old Richard on a three-wheeled vehicle from her home in Mannheim to Forzheim. Along the way, the three of them traveled about 106 kilometers to finally reach their mother's home in Furzheimbelta, when the sun was setting. Three days later, they drove back to Mannheim. This long drive made them the first people in the world to travel long distances in a petrol car. At the time, no car in the world had ever covered such a distance, and prior to this historic feat, all car trips were short, experimental in nature......"
"Love can work miracles!" Ye Qian smiled.
"Car license plates are also born out of love," I said to Ye Qian, "the world's first car was without a license plate." In 1910, Rudolf Herzog, a big businessman in Berlin, Germany, drove a car with the word 'IA1' on it to a dinner party. A curious reporter saw it and asked him what his intentions were. He replied very seriously: 'IA is the first two letters of my fiancΓ©e's name, and her name is Jonah Ankel. As for the number 1, it means that I am loyal to her. Now, she's my first and only sweetheart. ββ
"Love is all about single-mindedness!" Ye Qian said with a smile.
"Do you want to know the love story of the Goddess of Flying Symbol?" I asked Ye Qian softly.
"Yes!" Ye Qian nodded lightly.
"London in 1902," I began to gush Ye Qian about, "the young girl Thornton was abandoned by her father since she was a child, and in order to treat her mother, who was dependent on her, she became a dancer in a nightclub. Thornton was naturally beautiful, and although there were many suitors, they were unmoved. One day, Thornton received a sketch of himself, and over the next five days, the portraits appeared one by one. In the portrait, she is charming, melancholy or innocent, and she vividly expresses Thornton's demeanor. It wasn't until the seventh day, when Thornton waited at the backstage entrance, that he met Montagu, the person who delivered the painting. Born into high society, Montague was not only the editor-in-chief of Auto Illustrated, but also a member of parliament for the Conservative Party. Montague paid Thornton's debt and made her his female secretary. Naturally, the love between the two of them will not be blessed, and Montagu's family forces Thornton, who is pregnant, and lies to Montague that it is Thornton's negative feelings. Heartbroken, Montague chooses to be dissolute and marries a noble lady. An unhappy marriage made him hang out in bars and live like years. Four years later, Montague met Thornton in a bar and secretly followed her to her residence, where seven portraits of the past were plastered to the wall in the slum, along with a child with eyebrows and eyes similar to his own. Even if he knew the truth, Montagu could only secretly renew his relationship with Thornton for the sake of his family's reputation. This shady love has become a statue on the front of a Rolls-Royce. At Montagu's request, Charles Sykes created a statue titled 'Whisper': a young girl, standing in the wind, letting her skirt flutter in the wind, gently resting her index finger on her lips, symbolizing the unspeakable secret affection between Thornton and Montagu. This statue of Montague placed on the front of the car has become a fashion that car owners are vying to imitate. On 6 February 1911, the silver-plated 'Flying Goddess' officially became the emblem of Rolls-Royce. Later, Thornton and Montagu were shipwrecked, Thornton was killed, and Montague was rescued, but he could not recover from the grief of losing Thornton. In order to appease his friend's wounded heart, Mr. Rolls began in 1915 to change the Rolls-Royce Thornton-based 'Flying Goddess' logo from silver to nickel alloy, to represent the unrivalled quality of Rolls-Royce cars and the unfading love between the two ......"
"If love lasts forever, a moment is a lifetime." Ye Qian said softly.
"Look, there's a motorcycle in there!" I said to Ye Qian on the second floor, "Historic motorcycles! β
"Have you seen Roman Holiday?" Ye Qian asked coquettishly.
"Yes," I said with a smile, "you mean the classic Vespa scooter inside, right?" β
"Yes!" Ye Qian smiled, "The heroes and heroines travel together on motorcycles and play together, and that little motorcycle carries their unknown love legend!" β
"I used to have a motorcycle," I said in all seriousness, "and it also carries our unknown love legend!" It's a pity that it always loves bad, and it's always broken in places where there is no store in front of the village and behind the village! β
"I really want to kick you," Ye Qianjiao said with a sneering face, "That broken motorcycle has made me miserable!" β
I smiled silently.
Ye Qian seemed to be smiling.