Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, the one that people most often talk about, is also the one that is the default.

The full name is Frankfurt am Rhine to distinguish it from another German city, Frankfurt am Oder.

It's a city that people love and hate.

People who love this place love Frankfurt are called dead and alive.

And those who don't like this place avoid this place like a snake and scorpion, and they can't wait to see this place again for the rest of their lives.

Not only tourists, but also native Germans, Frankfurt is a city with extremely polarized evaluations.

The reason lies in her city skyline and the outside of the city.

Frankfurt is one of the few cities in Germany that is particularly modern.

You'll find towering office buildings in this place, and there's more than one.

Many Germans felt that the city had tarnished German traditions.

For example, the highest peak of a city should be the tradition of church spires.

It's also the only city in the German side that doesn't look much like Germany.

As for those who like her, they naturally like her modernity.

After all, how many cities like Frankfurt can be as different as Germany?

As the financial center of Europe, everything she shows is indeed as magnificent as Wall Street, the financial center of the beautiful country.

But the same ......

The dirt hidden in the city's underground is also outrageous.

Frankfurt's main train station is one of the largest in Germany, but the chaos here is more than double that of other train stations.

Many first-time visitors to Frankfurt have a psychological shadow around Frankfurt's main train station.

It's not because of how ugly or unbearable the building is.

One thing to say, the architectural sense of Frankfurt's main fire is actually quite good, under the steel and iron mesh, the train locomotives piled up at the station head can even make people feel the iron blood of the 40s.

But......

Around Frankfurt's main train station, shrouded by the Iron Curtain, are some of Germany's most chaotic neighborhoods.

Garbage and debris piled up everywhere.

Drunkards and homeless people lying unconscious on the ground.

and the group of poisonous insects whose eyes are scattered and their whole person is languishing.

Together, they form the most notorious main fire area on the German side.

And the police department in Frankfurt still didn't help even if they threw a heavy number of officers.

They can only make those poisonous insects less crazy.

And for those thieves running around, they don't have much to do.

After all, many of them are not even native residents of Germany, but refugees.

People from the Middle East as well as Turkey.

Men are kept by the government while begging on the streets, holding a toy dog and saying it is their pet, as a way to increase the donation of a pet foundation, so that he can earn more than 1,000 euros a month by lying still.

As for the women, they either marry and leave, or they go directly to the red light district and pay a lot of foreign exchange to the German side.

You'd be hard-pressed to see them around the train station.

This group of people hid in the corners of the city like moths, sucking the blood of the city.

The only safe place around the train station is only the place where there are more people.

You'll have to quickly follow the flow of people from around the train station to the red light district ahead, and then you'll really be in the heart of Frankfurt's financial center.

It's also here that you can really feel the bustle of the city.

As for the main train station, that is, where everyone gets off the train......

That place had become a complete quagmire, and no one could get out of it.

Fu Tiao carried his luggage, watched the car slowly stop on the platform, and then stepped off the car.

He received a text message on his phone from the Bolshoi Theater in Frankfurt.

The text message told him not to leave through the main entrance of Frankfurt, but to go to platform one, walk inside from platform one, go to the small door on the side, and come out from there.

Fu Tune followed the message on the text message casually.

In Frankfurt's main train station, it can barely be regarded as a clear window.

You can't even see much of the stain on the ground.

Only inside the track can you see a large amount of bird poop piled up on the blocker, no one to clean it.

As for the shops on both sides of the walkway, they are brighter than the other.

If you have seen the darkness outside the station, it will be even more obvious if you compare the inside of the station with the outside of the station.

It's like the light and darkness of the city.

However, Fu Tiao has no idea about this.

He just touched his stomach and felt slightly hungry, and since he left Berlin in the morning, he has not eaten anything other than coffee.

So he stopped and habitually bought a quick meal at the deli next door.

Like the deli counter in the supermarket, the fast food set here is very cheap.

About a pound of mashed potatoes and half an arm's length of pork belly, slice it in a box and hand it to Fu Tuo.

Sprinkle a little tomato sauce on top as well as yellow mustard.

It doesn't taste great, but it's definitely filling.

After all, the weight is here, so many potatoes and pork, the heavy takeaway box is just an appetizer.

The price of so much food has not increased because of the train station, it is about the same as in the supermarket, only about 5 euros.

There is also a classic German roast pork knuckle with mashed potatoes on the side, which is not expensive, only 9.9 euros.

However, Fu Tiao is just filling his stomach, so naturally there is no need to buy such a package.

And those roast pork knuckles at the train station just look at them, and they don't have much appetite.

He went out and walked to the glass house store in front of him, bought a simple large cappuccino on the way, 1.5 euros, and then took the coffee and the takeaway box, and came to the side door of the station according to the prompts in the text message.

It is a very small iron gate, and there are not many people walking this way, mainly the residents of the neighborhood.

Therefore, this side is much cleaner than other doorways.

Especially because there is a hotel opposite, the street scene you see when you go out is not too much garbage.

Fu Tiao stood at the door and glanced at his phone.

There was no reply from the phone, it seems that the driver has not arrived because of the ban on parking for a long time here and the bus behind it.

Fu Tiao took the takeaway box in his hand, put the coffee and his luggage aside, and slowly chewed the pork and potatoes in his mouth to fill his hunger.

Although this thing is a bit cheap and doesn't taste very good, the taste is actually quite good.

The mashed potatoes are like a cloud, with a bit of a vague heaviness, and they seem to be extraordinarily firm, but they melt directly with your tongue.

As for the pork......

It doesn't taste like much, and it's basically purely flavored by ketchup and yellow mustard.

It belongs to the ability to fill the stomach, but if you really live on this thing every day, except for the Germans, no one else should be able to stand it.

At the very least, Fu Tiao couldn't stand it.

Fu Tiao inserted another piece of mashed potatoes into his mouth, thought of one thing, and couldn't help laughing.

But then again, I am almost earning 3 million euros, and eating is still so simple......

Are you too simple?

Three million, if you eat this 5 yuan pork set meal at once, you shouldn't be able to eat it until you die, right?

I can't finish eating, I can't finish eating, I can't finish eating for a lifetime~

Fu Tiao couldn't help but snort twice when he thought of this, and after inserting another piece of potato into his mouth, he stirred the remaining potato pork and sauce thoroughly, and stuffed it into his mouth a few times.

Then I picked up my coffee and drank it down.

The coffee I bought at the convenience store next to me relieved the heaviness in my mouth, and I felt a sense of relief.

"Tsk, this thing is cheap, but this thing is really full."

Fu Tiao picked up the napkin he brought when he bought takeout before, wiped his mouth and said happily.

He casually packed up all the garbage and threw it into the trash can, and then stood there and waited.

He didn't have to wait long, a luxurious vehicle with the MM mark stopped in front of him.

The pitch-black car paint is like coming out of the night, which is particularly abrupt in this dirty and messy city.

Such an abrupt vehicle completely attracts the attention of the surrounding passers-by.

Almost all of them froze, staring at the extremely luxurious car with puzzled minds.

Under the gaze of everyone, a man in a black suit walked out of the cab, ran quickly to Fu Diao, reached out to take the bag on Fu Tiao's side, and apologized in a low voice.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Fu, it's too difficult to park here, and if you park here for a long time, it may obstruct traffic, so I just walked around the circle and made you wait for a long time, I'm really sorry."

"It's fine."

Fu Tiao smiled and comforted: "Deutsche Bahn is actually a long time late, and he hasn't waited here for a long time. ”

"Huh?"

The driver was a little stunned, then smiled slightly awkwardly: "Although Deutsche Bahn does...... But Mr. Fu, you don't need to comfort me, we have a notice from DB here, and we can actually see the specific arrival time. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the surrounding vehicles, and immediately led Fu Diao into the car and opened the door.

"Mr. Fu, please hurry up and get on the bus, we can't stop in this place for too long, I'm really sorry."

"Okay."

Fu Tiao followed the driver's guidance and walked into the luxurious car.

He didn't know exactly what the car was called, but he saw the two MM markings.

It seems to be a very luxurious brand on the German side.

And looking at the eyes of the people around you, this car should not be cheap.

As for the interior of the car......

Fu Tiao can't say it, but it feels quite comfortable to do, at least the butt is warm.

It seems that the cushion has an automatic heating function?

Blowing away the winter chill a lot.

The driver quickly got back into the car, pulled the car out of the station door, walked out of the surrounding lanes, and after several circles, finally drove into the city of Frankfurt.

Instead of driving the car to the dirty spots around the station, he followed the traffic across the Rhine and to the other side of the Rhine.

Fu Tiao looked at the scenery outside the window with a little curiosity.

He passed Frankfurt's notoriety from many people's mouths.

Especially my classmates in Berlin, when they talk about Frankfurt, they all have a feeling of lingering hearts.

But he looked at the scenery around him, and it didn't seem so ugly?

As soon as you drive along the river, the banks of the Rhine are lined with pleasure boats and a children's playground.

There is no end in sight to the long green road.

The road is also lined with trees.

But the only thing that makes him uncomfortable is that the city always feels gray.

Seeing this, Fu Tiao couldn't help but ask.

"That...... I've heard a lot of people say that the environment here in Frankfurt is very bad, is it true? ”

The driver didn't expect Fu Tiao to question him, and he still asked about Frankfurt, so he hesitated for a moment and said slowly.

"Well, it's true, but the main thing is that it's in the very center of the city, the area out of Frankfurt's main train station, and that area is a bit messy, and if you don't have to, it's better not to go from there, but ......"

He hesitated, thought about it and spoke.

"But you're Chinese, aren't you? There are a lot of Chinese restaurants over there, and it's hard for us to get used to it, but for you, it seems to be very authentic? Especially hot pot, I heard that there is a very famous hot pot restaurant and Chinese restaurant in your Chinese circle over there, but I haven't tried it. ”

"Are all the Chinese restaurants over there?"

"No, I can't say that, I can only say that there are a lot of them over there."

The driver shook his head, stretched out his finger to the scenery on the side, and spoke.

"The central area is very chaotic, you didn't see it because after I took you out of the main train station, I turned directly across the Rhine and came to the other half of Frankfurt, although this side is not as prosperous as the north bank, but there is no special dirty mess here, and when we pass a few more traffic lights here, that is, when we are almost to the center of Frankfurt, we can turn directly and cross the river."

Fu Tune looked in the direction of his finger.

As the vehicle progressed, the obscured scenery gradually emerged.

The huge office building stands like a giant sword at the end of the line of sight, making it impossible to take your eyes off it.

After the vehicle turned and crossed the bridge, Fu Tiao saw what prosperity was.

A completely different scenery from the traditional German region appeared in front of Fu Tune.

The traditional wooden and tiled houses have completely disappeared.

Instead, towering forests of steel and floor-to-ceiling glass line the walls.

The light falls from the sky and is refracted between the lenses, scattering a rainbow of light.

It's hard to believe that the stone road that Fu Tiao saw when he walked out from the side just now is actually in the same city as the current asphalt road.

And the driver seemed to take Fu Tiao to take a look at the place they had just passed, so he took Fu Tiao to the edge of the old city.

The houses here are of uniform height, very traditional European architecture.

The road over there is full of potholes.

Even from a distance, you can see the streets full of garbage.

Sewage remained on the ground, and the sewers seemed to be clogged with something.

The streets were densely packed with poisonous insects, and they squatted on the ground looking at the sky weakly, and the whole person seemed to have lost his mind.

On every street corner you can see a few policemen, looking around and nervous.

The dense crowd of tourists and passers-by are looking at the dark parts of the city with a little curiosity and shuttling through it.

There are no homeless people here, only poisonous insects that have become almost equivalent to the waste.

Scantily clad dancers smoke and abuse on the side of the street, and when they see a lonely man, they will tell him to go up and have fun with a teasing tone.

The pink sign hanging in mid-air has been sitting for an unknown amount of time, and it seems to have dirt on it that cannot be erased.

It's like the dark side of the city.

Displayed in front of everyone openly.

You can visit everything here in great safety during the day.

It's like the Dog Town of Night City, it's the most central location, but it's hard to describe in words.

Fu Tiao looked at everything in front of him and was a little silent.

He finally knew what the driver meant.

He sighed and spoke to the driver.

"Is there water? I'm a little thirsty. ”

"Yes, there is a small Xiaoice cabinet in front, which contains three kinds of sparkling water, sparkling water, and pure water, which you can use at will."

Fu Tiao, according to the driver's guidance, took out a bottle of sparkling water from the cabinet on the side, drank half of it, and sighed.

The wheels are rolling, and the quality of the road surface doesn't seem to affect the driving of the luxury car under Fu Tuo's buttocks.

In silence, the driver slowly drove away from the area and headed for the nearby Bolshoi Frankfurt Theater.

And as the vehicle gets farther and farther away from the central area just now, the surrounding environment becomes cleaner and tidier.

It seems to have left the source of pollution.

Eventually, the vehicle stopped at the plaza near Main Street in the city center.

Old Theater Square.

This is where Fu Tune performed tonight, the seat of the Frankfurt Bolshoi Theatre.

The quaint stone-carved building lies quietly in the center of the square, gazing at the huge fountain in front of it.

The surrounding children played around the fountain, and some even walked into the fountain, laughing and having water fights.

The smiles on their faces contrasted sharply with the confusion of the group of people near the main fire just now.

For some reason, Fu Tiao's heart was full of emotion.

Frankfurt is a city like no other, and it shows you the best of your best and your darkest side.

How you face her ultimately depends on your own personal thoughts.

After all, it's still the same sentence.

Whether it is a German or a tourist, the evaluation of the city is always very polarized.

The one who loves her is called a dead and alive.

Hates her, hates her so much that it is a hate.

You can't evaluate the city from the most appropriate point of view, because it's too divided.

Even if you live in a different area, you can feel different about Frankfurt.

After all, this place is the financial center and the most capital-intensive city on the German side.

Fu Tiao rubbed his eyebrows and sighed.

Don't know what to say.

When the driver got out of the car and opened the door for him, he stepped out of the car and looked around at everything, not knowing what mood he was in now.

He finally just shook his head, turned around and walked towards the Grand Theater in the center of the square, stepping into the door of the Grand Theater step by step.

Inside the door, there were already a lot of people in straight suits who were already waiting over there, and when they saw Fu Diao coming, a smile immediately appeared on their faces, and they hurried to meet them, holding Fu Diao's hands, and said excitedly.

"Mr. Fu Tune, you're finally here! We've been waiting for you for a long time! ”

(End of chapter)