The mission's dinner was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in the center of Jiangning.

Super five-star treatment not only means attentive service and delicious food, but also a décor design that is perfectly suited to the owner.

The red carpet is from Turkey, the velvet of the drapery is from France, and there are even beautiful pre-Renaissance artworks on the walls, which the members of the mission brought from their own treasury and are now displayed in the hotel lobby.

Even Chen Yi, who was born in a family, had never attended such a high-level banquet. Like many gentlemen who have just entered the door, he stood there and said, "What exactly does the Vatican want to do?" ”

"Preach." Han Jie stepped on small broken steps and happily spun around on the ground, making the corners of her skirt fly, just like her mood at the moment.

"Hopefully that's all there is." Chen Yi said, slowly walking inside.

Unconsciously, keeping a secret seems to make people calmer.

Most of the people who come to the dinner are middle-aged and elderly, and even if young people occasionally appear, they are often accompanied by elders. Chen Yi looked around, except for a few gentlemen who he recognized but didn't know, there seemed to be no one who needed to be greeted.

He was so happy that he sat down on the edge, whispering to Han Jie while observing others.

The handsome foreign guy appeared alongside another retired handsome guy, who was dressed in a formal priest's black robe, holding a Bible, and talking cordially to the crowd in the center of the hall, sometimes in Chinese, most of the time in muttering foreign language.

They talked for almost 20 minutes, and by this time the main guests of the banquet had arrived, and the handsome man had a visibly relaxed expression, and at the same time saw him walking towards him.

"Mr. Chen Yi, Miss Han Jie." Steinecker was as polite as ever, and said, "Do you know anyone?" ”

"None know me." Chen Yi is not stage frightened, and he is very indifferent, he is only 18 years old, no matter whether the Chen family is strong or not, it is not his turn to know others.

Steinecker smiled, and said to Chen Yi and Han Jie at the same time: "I'll take you two around, there are many artworks in the hotel, which are usually not seen." ”

"Brought from Italy? It's all the hard work. Chen Yi praised it, presumably the handsome guy couldn't hear the irony.

Steinecker looked at Han Jie and said with a smile: "It's the Vatican." We are preparing to hold a series of art exhibitions in Asian cities, and Jiangning is the first stop. Believe me, many of these works of art are the first to appear in the world, and they are important works of art. When many scholars heard about it, they were willing to make a special trip. ”

Art exhibitions are the standard upper route. And unlike the collection in the safe, the public display of art is extremely expensive, up to one-tenth of the estimated value of the artwork, with the Papal States nearly a thousand years of history, the amount of insurance may make the average collector bankrupt.

The church is rich!

Chen Yi was surprised and quietly followed behind Steinecker, listening to him explain the artwork in the intricately transparent glass frame. In the whole world, the only thing that can compete with the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris is the Vatican Museums, which basically rely on the benefits of early rule and the support of wealth in the later period to pile up the largest treasure trove in human history. If they hadn't hidden so many rare cultural relics and art treasures underground, the price of ordinary works of art on the world market would have fallen to the point where everyone could afford them, and the so-called modern artists would have been reduced to the point of selling coolies -- treasures worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars were classified according to their warehouses.

In contrast, Han Jie is much simpler-minded. Listening to the explanation and looking at the real thing, it is even more leisurely.

Early European art is easier to understand, and although the church's collection, especially the ones they put on display, are relatively monotonous, the names that are so loud still shine through.

Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Angelico, Caravaggio...... Occasionally, these people can shock the world with one or two paintings or two in exile, not to mention the many sculptures, tombstones and inscriptions from the Roman and Greek eras......

Now, the hundreds of works on display in the hotel may be a fraction of the Vatican's limits, but they are definitely top-notch exhibits, perhaps the highest level of exhibition in Asia, as the handsome guy said.

Han Jie has received a good appreciation education and has watched it with relish. Chen Yi quickly burned out, although he was also a child of a family, but his parents never thought that artistic edification was beneficial to him, so he did not know how to appreciate it, all these works of art are more like a pyramid scheme that continues the history of the world - they do have some value, but in addition to the impulse to increase in value forever, the value of the value still needs to be discussed.

Just when he was thinking about it, the handsome guy took them to another area, which was full of ancient Roman collections, and all kinds of three-dimensional historical breath full of natural transformation flavor came to his face.

Steinecker is very professional, using oratorical grammar: "God tells us that everything that human beings acquire comes from ......"

Suddenly there was a noise next to the largest Roman column, which had been placed in the middle of the front.

Chen Yi and Han Jie couldn't help but follow the prestige, and the handsome guy's explanation had to be suspended.

The noise was made by two foreigners. What are they arguing with some foreigner.

Foreigners are fat, rosacea, and have a double chin, and they look very friendly. Foreigners dressed in the clothes of the organizer are not good, thin lips, high nose bridge, muscular as old-school European knights, must have been handsome in their early years.

As a man, although Chen Yi could not understand their language, he still sympathized with the foreigners. walked up unconsciously, and Han Jie followed closely.

Steinecker had no choice but to follow, and whispered: "On the right is Alphonse, Swiss." The other two should be guests. They speak German. ”

The permanent population of the Vatican is very, very small, basically within 1,000 people. So the church guards, the envoys, etc., all like the neutral Swiss.

Chen Yi didn't understand, so he had to ask, "Can the host make a big noise with the guests?" ”

"If things matter, it is related to the honor of the Holy See." After explaining, Steinecker paused and continued: "These two German gentlemen accuse this Roman cylinder of being a forgery. You know, the Satsuma Column is a relic of the former Pope, and Alphonse is preserving the honor of the Holy See. ”

It was only 10 years after the Apollo moon landing that the church recognized the moon as a satellite of the earth, and Chen Yi could not see that their honor had anything to do with falsifying such a thing as science.

He shrugged his shoulders and decided to continue watching. Many people have made the same decision, and these gentlemen and ladies, who had previously been immersed in a sea of tranquility and incomprehensible aesthetics, now behave no different from the ordinary people they despised.

The scale of the dinner was very large, but there were not many people invited, and everyone stood loosely in the small hall, while pretending to admire the works of art, and admiring the foreigners' polemics on the other - the three of them were quite calm, except that their voices were slightly louder than normal speech, and on the whole they were reasonable.

However, it is precisely because it is reasonable, and the viewing surname is much worse. The situation in front of him is equivalent to the Inner Mongolian wild ass discussing the problem of grass in front of the Texas bison, not to mention that Chen Yi does not understand, countless gentlemen who claim to be upper-class people are still staring at each other.

Of course, more than half of the people are willing to see and move more than boring sculptures and paintings.

Just as the foreigners and foreigners were about to fail to reason, a huge figure moved out from behind the Roman column.

"Professor Lang!"

Chen Yi screamed unconsciously.

"Oh, Chen Yi. When I see you, I think of Tang Linze's bottle. "Professor Lang is about the width of a Roman cylinder, and the thick flesh looks like a replica of it. He still remembered Chen Yi's name, so he smiled friendly.

"You're here alone?"

Professor Lang shook his head embarrassedly, and Nunu said: "Two German friends happened to come over and come with them to see the Vatican's artworks, but I didn't expect everyone to be more real people." ”

He said and nodded to Steinecker. The costume that marked the surname was known to everyone to be a member of the church.

The handsome guy smiled beautifully, and immediately persuaded: "Professor, Alphonse is a priest who adheres to principles, maybe you can convince your friend to ......"

"Carl is also a man of principles." Professor Lang's round face was not round at all.

The handsome guy had to keep his mouth shut.

"How can there be an argument?" Han Jie's voice was crisp.

Professor Lang looked at Steinecker and lowered his voice: "Blame us, two old men have been in China for several days, used to others not understanding German, when they saw this Satsuma cylinder, they discussed, who knows that the Swiss can understand, people are born with four Chinese." ”

As he spoke, he laughed, but Chen Yi was curious, and his hand secretly reached into the hidden pocket of his trouser pocket and tore open a perception scroll.

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