Chapter 698: Delayed Attack
Vienna is the capital of the arts.
Perhaps people always have the stereotype that art is something high.
This is not the case.
Art is often something that gains in value over time.
In the feudal era, many people did not have enough food and clothing, and they ran around all day for life, and they didn't care about art at all...... Just like the fame of oriental poets is often concentrated in the scholar class, even if Liu Sanbian is so famous, he is actually a frustrated person.
Five hundred years later, sitting in the hall and listening to a symphony orchestra is considered to be the ultimate pleasure, and going to Vienna's Musikverein to perform is also the honor of every top orchestra.
In fact, in the era of feudal dynasties, the status of artists was not high, because musicians were promoted by the aristocracy and high society...... Learned literary and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family, they are essentially no different from servants.
Those who can afford to consume art, whether it is music or calligraphy and painting, must be the elite class.
In Vienna, the status of artists is higher, because the social atmosphere here has a higher recognition of art, almost every household has the need to socialize through art, so the musicians here are the most popular, many aristocratic daughters, countesses will learn piano, through tutoring can get a stable income, and from time to time invited to participate in some banquets for performances, can get a fixed income.
Classical music for the elite and aristocracy is a product of an era and is not meant to be nobler than modern pop music; Or in the eyes of people at the time, classical music was a kind of pop music, but it was popular for a longer time.
Bai Yu had never been to Vienna in his previous life, and the Vienna he came to in this life, although the names overlapped, were obviously not the same place.
Vienna on Earth is located in Austria; Vienna is five times the size of the former in terms of geographical area alone, and it is like a principality.
However, there was no Grand Duke in Vienna, and although it was a duchi, it was not a fief given exclusively to a particular Grand Duke, but rather a Roman municipality.
As the art capital of Rome, Vienna was a place where the aristocracy and the new bourgeoisie gathered for pleasure, and the unprecedented development of art was indispensable for the support of kryptonite money from local tycoons from all over the world.
There are not many great nobles in the local area, and the Venus family is one of them.
"It should not be a new thing for the local nobles to marry."
"Yes or not, Angelica's Venus family is a marquis, so her marriage partner should be the sons of other nobles."
Riding in the carriage, her body swaying as the carriage bumped and undulated, Frederica reached out and secretly rubbed her ass.
When you came to Vienna, you couldn't drive, so in order to avoid swaggering, you had to change to a horse-drawn carriage, but the bumps and slowness of the carriage were unavoidable.
She had become accustomed to sitting in a soft seat that was ventilated and heated, and now that she had switched to the hard seat of the carriage, her ass had gone numb in just the past two hours.
Fortunately, this torture is coming to an end.
Get off the carriage and cross the bridge over the Danube to a direct view of Vienna's prosperity.
From a distance, all kinds of buildings are lined up, Baroque, Gothic, and Romanesque buildings are located in all corners of the city, the ground is paved with cobblestone roads, and various statues can be seen everywhere.
There is also the smell of feces.
Bai Yu glanced at the alley, and could only say that it was really the European Middle Ages, and the sanitary situation was really not optimistic, I heard that at first the nobles wore high heels to avoid stepping on in order to walk.
There were signs of this in Rome before, and in Vienna...... This hygienic situation makes people wonder if they are in Paris in 2024.
"Let's find a hotel to stay in first."
Crossing the street, you will arrive at the magnificent Grand Hotel Vienna, as the capital of the arts, many aristocrats will go here for recuperation, and of course there are all kinds of beautifully decorated luxury hotels, although the price is expensive, but you can only choose here.
In the fifteenth century, there were only two classes in Rome, the rich and powerful and the poor, and the middle class of small burghers could not find a place in the consumption hierarchy here.
If you don't want to stay in a big hotel for five Roman gold coins a night, you can only go to a hostel with no toilets.
Choosing the former will have a variety of intimate services and additional expenses; The latter is a sight to behold in the morning: early in the morning, you can see someone open the window and pour down a pot of dirt from the fourth floor, and the streets are flying freely, and the scene can only be said to be to the head.
So there's nothing to hesitate about.
If you don't want to stay with a public toilet, you can only choose a luxury hotel.
Bai Yu originally intended to book two rooms, but Fredrica insisted on changing to one......
Fredrica gives a straightforward reason - she doesn't want to spend more money, and she is almost penniless when she goes out.
It's just that in this day and age there is no difference between a double room and a double room, which means that Bai Yu will either sleep on a sofa, a carpet, or a lady Frey tonight.
The first two will not object, and the last one will directly acquiesce.
It's a headache.
Bai Yu always felt that he had already experienced many similar tests, and if he continued, sooner or later 2D would not listen to his eldest brother.
Ever since he was brutally extracted by the Nan sisters in Fusang, he felt that his willpower had begun to become weaker and weaker in some way.
"Mr. Bai?"
"Huh?"
"What are you doing?" Fredrica stretched out her hand and waved it in front of his eyes, "Did you hear what I just said?" β
"What did you say?" Bai Yu looks like a player who accidentally pressed the skip button.
"Then I'll repeat, Angelica's wedding was two days later, so we had to see her in those two days." Frederica held her chin and said, "To be honest, it's not an easy task, she definitely wants to escape from the marriage, but she can't escape so far, which has proved her family's determination." β
"You mean, she's locked up?"
"Even in custody." Frey said, "I'm going to visit her as a 'classmate' next, and it's best if I can get into the Venus house." β
"Yes." Bai Yu nodded: "Do you need me to accompany you?" β
"With Angelica's character, I think it's better not to, she's easily carried away, not brainless but not very smart." Fredrica commented in a rather rational tone: "Anyway, Angelica, where there is disappointment, will never disappoint. β
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"Next, I'm going to test her attitude, and also ask her if she knows Elyse's whereabouts."
"What if she really doesn't want to get married?"
"Hmm......" Fredrica looked out the window, and then said, "Then she, a nobleman, can be regarded as the head, rebelling against the family means abandoning her identity, does this eldest lady have this awareness?" β
This is also the other party's family matter, Bai Yu thought to himself, he is not easy to meddle as an outsider, and it is not convenient for him to intervene.
"That's right." Before leaving, Miss Frey turned back and said, "I have one more thing that I need to ask my husband for a little favor." β
"What's the little favor?"
"I'm going to dispel her beautiful illusions about living independently from a noble family, can you lend me your phone?"
Bai Yu carries his mobile phone with him.
It's the phone, not the leaves of the world.
Although there is no network, mobile phones that are not Nokia brands can't even compare to a brick, but they do have a camera function.
Fridrica is addicted to this novelty gadget, plays with it again and again, and has learned to take selfies without a teacher.
I took a lot of landscape photos along the way, and relied on these to pass the boring time on the road.
Bai Yu handed over the phone.
Fredrica took the phone very smoothly, and at the same time squatted down, opened the phone, and clicked, and there was a photo of face to face.
With a bright smile in her face, she didn't give any explanation, put her phone in her pocket, and stepped out the door with her high heels.
"I'm out of the house."
Bai Yu sat in the gorgeously decorated hotel, and he didn't know what he should do for a while.
"It's all here, do you want to go to the opera house and have a look?"
There are dozens of large and small opera houses in Vienna, and there are performances almost every day, and only the top Musikverein is very expensive.
Just as I was about to leave the hotel......
Suddenly, Bai Yu felt the hairs on his body stand on end.
An invisible but huge terror rose behind him, accompanied by a burst of intense tinnitus and palpitations, the whole heartbeat seemed to slow down, and the fingers became stiff, as if blocking the blood flow.
All of these reactions were due to the creature's fear, and all the strange senses were a reminder that something was happening, but the sixth sense didn't work.
It's just that all the reactions that arise from the back are one step faster than the soul and the will.
He turned his head sideways.
I saw a hole open behind me, like a pitch-black cavity.
In the cavity, a black claw covered in scales was squeezing out with all its might.
He turned his head and almost met the eyes hidden beneath the pitch-black claws, their amber eyes filled with violent murderous intent and murderous intent, like the blazing lava that flowed from the cracking of the earth.
γDragon Fetal Motherγ
Blood-red words appeared above the other party's head.
The life-and-death crisis suddenly came.
One of the canons had reached a distance of less than seven feet behind him.
Bai Yu had no doubt that he would be defeated in an instant, so he had already begun to transform, and the cat let out a high-pitched cry.
It was at the moment when the armor covered the body, just when the black dragon's claws were about to tear apart everything within a hundred feet.
Bangββ!
The dragon's claws and the pitch-black cavities dissipated like bubbles, like stereoscopic projections turned off, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Bai Yu, who was engrossed in waiting for the impact, looked at the room as if nothing had happened: "...... Gone? β
Mother of Dragons: This is ...... Dropped again?
(End of chapter)