It is a very happy thing to have someone treat you to a bar. Chen Xing has always felt this way.
This reminded Chen Xing of the first time Zhou Peng took him to the bar, when he didn't understand anything. After a few years, he seemed to have become an experienced driver.
He smiled, nodded and said, "Okay, I just have nothing to do."
We talked about the camera just now, and it will take at least a month or two to get it. Chen Xing is planning to go to Norway in the next two days to see what Oslo is like, which is so good in the magazine, and the legendary Norwegian forest.
, how will it be different from the Swedish forest?
But at least he's free tonight.
Nathan was also very happy when he heard Chen Xing agreed, and said: "Okay, I will pick you up from downstairs of your hotel at six o'clock in the evening, and I will call you then."
"ok!"
Before the car arrived at the hotel, while on the road, Chen Xing saw that the sun had gone too far, making people's shadows very long. The warm light shone on every passerby, giving every passerby an ambiguous mood like a lover.
I just want to walk on the street by myself.
So he said: "Nathan, would you like me to get off here?"
"Here? But it's still far away from your hotel?"
"But it's still a long time before the time we agreed on, isn't it? Don't worry, I will appear downstairs in the hotel on time when the time comes."
When Nathan heard what Chen Xing said, he quickly said: "No, I'm not worried about the party at night. I'm just thinking that it's a long way just to walk. If you want to go shopping, I can take you to several other commercial streets.
Go, it’s all around the hotel.”
"That's all."
Chen Xing has seen a lot of commercial streets, including high-end ones like those in Paris, and also busy and lively ones like those in China.
It's better to just walk around the streets of this Gothenburg residential area.
Nathan hesitated for a moment, then pulled over and asked, "Do you need me to follow you?"
"Haha, that's not necessary. You can go about your business."
Sometimes Chen Xing is still very literary. In such an environment, of course he has to walk slowly by himself, looking at the fallen leaves on the ground that are warmly red by the sun, and watching the Nordic girl wearing a scarf walking with her head in her pocket.
However, this feeling cannot be ruined by a car following you.
"Let's go, let's go." Chen Xing continued to urge.
"Okay, then I'll go back to the company first. Chen, you can call me at any time. I'll pick you up then. But don't go into the alley, I'm afraid I won't find you."
"No problem." Chen Xing agreed and got out of the car.
It is already very cold in Sweden in mid-October. That is to say, Gothenburg is close to the ocean and still in the south. The roadside is not covered with snow like where Chen Xing was looking for meteorites before. But the occasional clusters of cold wind passing by are like
Like a loach, it wants to burrow in through Chen Xing's neck.
I quickly put on the scarf I took off in the car.
Chen Xing walked forward with the camera in his hand, and Nathan also drove the car a little further forward, then opened the window uneasily and said, "Don't go to a place with few people. Sweden has not been peaceful in the past few years.
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"Don't worry." Chen Xing said again.
Of course he knows that Sweden is not peaceful and the refugees it accepts are all of low quality. This is one of the things Chen Xing doesn't like about Sweden.
Then Nathan felt relieved and drove back.
Chen Xing looked around.
This is a thoroughfare. After all, they are going out of the city and into the city through this avenue. It is impossible to pass by some small road in the middle, and there are no traffic jams in Gothenburg.
But the main street is right, and there are no shops on both sides.
The people of Gothenburg really like to build that kind of building with four houses surrounding a square, just like a modern version of a courtyard house, except that the four sides have been raised many stories, full of modern feel. This kind of building is popular in Chen Xing
It seems very strange.
When he was in the hotel before, he saw someone playing basketball inside. Now that he was passing by, Chen Xing found a building and walked in.
Walking into the flat ground in the middle of the building from the street, there is a passage in the middle. The light is not as bright as it was at noon. It is a bit dark when you walk in. I don't know if there are no lights or they are not turned on.
There is a lot of graffiti on the walls here.
Chen Xing's level seems to be very high, but it was not drawn by one person. These graffiti include characters, lines, and text... both in English and Swedish.
In front of a graffiti text that read in English, 'Eagle's eyes are not afraid of fog, and the light of truth is not afraid of being shrouded', there were two people smoking against the wall, looking at Chen Xing since he walked in.
It's not a malicious look, just curiosity.
A building built in this way is basically a small community. If there are no Asians living in the community, the sudden appearance of an Asian face will certainly arouse curiosity.
So, the two men held cigarettes and watched Chen Xing walk in.
This kind of scene has a composition similar to that in European and American TV dramas, which Chen Xing finds quite exciting, but it’s a pity that he can’t take photos of himself.
He smiled at the two people and continued walking inside.
After walking through the passage, there is an open space inside. There is a tree planted in the middle. There is nothing else. There are four benches under the tree. The benches stand on a piece of grass. The grass is relatively wide, and the outside of the grass is a square.
, next to the walkway of the building.
This walkway is only two meters wide, and you can see from here that the grassy area in the middle is quite large.
This house is quite tall, with five or six floors.
If you keep the tree here, can it grow taller?
The interior of the building is actually quite old. You can clearly see some heating channels. It seems that the buildings in this neighborhood have been repaired for a long time. Otherwise, modern construction methods would not make the heating pipes so obvious. How dangerous it would be.<
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After patting the tree, Chen Xing sat on the bench for a while.
People kept looking at him along the way. There were a few younger girls, high school students about 17 or 18 years old. They looked back and forth, but they didn't say anything.
This made Chen Xing uncomfortable and quickly stood up and left.
The people here in Gothenburg look a little nicer than the people in Stockholm, but deep down they are still quite exclusive. They chat with familiar people just as enthusiastically as Southern Europeans, but they can't communicate with strangers at all.
Very cold.
When he walked out of the passage, the two smokers were still there. Chen Xing looked at the cigarette butts there and fell into deep thought.
What deep topic are you two talking about?
However, I kept walking and walked all the way out of this dim passage and came to the street illuminated by the sun.
When the old man who smoked saw people leaving, he took out the spray paint and prepared to add something to the graffiti. One of the people asked curiously: "What do you think that guy came to take with the camera? He went in for a while and came out again.
Couldn't he be a reporter?"
"You think too much, what's wrong even if you are a reporter? Let's just spray something for fun, they won't come to arrest us."
"I'm just curious."
The guy holding the spray paint was actually very curious, mainly because the man looked very handsome, and even men would look at it a few more times.
I just don’t know what to draw.
Recalling it again, a new image was sprayed on the wall.
If you look carefully, you can see that he looks a lot like Chen Xing.
Just after the completion, before the two of them had time to take pictures, two people ran out of the building, shouting as they ran: "Little devil! We are finally here!"
"Run!"
The two of them ran away carrying a black bag on the ground, their movements very skillful.
If the bag hadn't been opened and it was filled with bottles and cans of spray paint, then based on the way they were running and holding the black bag, someone would have probably called the police and discovered the two thieves, or the robber or something. In the end, the pursuer got tired of running and went back downstairs to take a look.
Hey, isn't this the foreigner who was sitting on the bench with a camera just now? Well, this foreigner might be with them, foreigners are really bad.
But the painting was quite good. When they came back, there were already several young people taking pictures here.
Of course, Chen Xing didn't know what happened next. He looked at the navigation and found a general direction towards the hotel. He stopped looking at his phone and walked all the way. Sometimes he encountered a restaurant truck on the way, so he went to buy some European food.
snacks to eat.
There are no vendors setting up stalls on the streets of Sweden. They are all food trucks that look very valuable.
There are egg-filled pancakes, hand-made pancakes, and meat buns on the streets of China. What are they in Europe?
Chen Xing likes a snack called Sicilian cheese rolls. The golden crispy inner layer is chocolate, and the middle is wrapped with creamy light cheese. There are many flavors. He likes to add nuts in it. It is said to be a cheese roll, but it is cheese.
The taste is very light, more like thick cream, and the taste is very rich in one bite.
Anyone who likes cakes will definitely like it.
I'm tired of eating tasteless bread in Europe, so it's quite comfortable to eat this sweet snack occasionally.
What Chen Xing encountered here was a food truck selling chocolate sausage.
There is only one operator inside.
This person was not as sophisticated as the two Chinese people Chen Xing met before. He did not wear chef uniforms and white hats, but only wore a mask.
Chen Xing looked at the window and said, "Have one."
"Okay, there are benches over there. Do you want to sit on the bench and eat or take it away?"
"Then let's eat here. Do you have any wine here? Have a glass of brandy."
"Okay."
The chocolate sausage looks like a domestic sausage. It is still the kind of sausage with less lean meat and more and dense fat. But don’t be scared by its appearance. In fact, the lean part inside is chocolate, and the white part is like fat.
The meat is filled with nuts or biscuit crumbs.
Although this is Sweden, this delicacy is a typical French afternoon tea.
There are many cafes in Paris that have tables set up on the sidewalks. If you pass by here at two or three in the afternoon, there will be many people ordering this dessert under the umbrellas.
The boss cut some chocolate sausage and put it in a transparent box, cleaned a goblet, selected brandy from the many wines on the side, and poured half of the glass.
When opening a store like this, the biggest investment is probably the food truck.
The situation in China where you can start a business by just getting a few boards and dragging things with a tricycle basically does not exist in Europe, especially the charcoal-burning barbecue. If you start this business in Northern Europe, you will be fined.
You have to go bankrupt.
If you want to eat barbecue, you can just do it privately behind closed doors. You basically can’t eat it when you go out.
After receiving what the boss handed over, Chen Xing took a bench to the side and sat down.
The light shines from the side, dazzling the eyes a little, and the sun-exposed areas feel a little warm, giving it a warm feeling in this winter.
The boss cut the chocolate sausage into pieces, picked up one piece with his hands, ate it, and then took a sip of brandy.
Squint your eyes slightly.
Brandy has a soft feeling when drinking, and the taste is slightly similar to domestic Maotai-flavor wine, but only a little. When you drink it, you will find that the difference between foreign wine and domestic liquor is quite big. Wine cannot be distinguished by region.
Good or bad.
Good is good.
This cup is just so-so.
The taste of brandy is mixed with the sweetness of chocolate sausage, which makes it very refreshing.
Eating in small bites and looking at the Nordic girls passing by, Chen Xing felt particularly comfortable. He finished the box of chocolate sausages in a short time.
After drinking up the wine in the glass, Chen Xing went to return the glass to the boss.
The owner of the dining car took the wine glass and asked: "Does the guest think the taste suits your taste?"
"It's delicious." Chen Xing said.
The boss smiled and handed Chen Xing a note.
"Look on the right, there is a beautiful woman over there. This is her contact information. Handsome guy, if you become a couple, you should take care of my business more in the future."
Chen Xing took the note with a surprised look on his face and turned to look for the girl the boss was talking about.
One girl turned around and couldn't see her face.
"But I am a tourist..."
"I thought you were an international student, haha, then this girl might be sad, so I wish you a happy trip."
"Thank you."
Chen Xing looked at her again...
Eh?
It’s no longer in that position!
Running so fast!
I looked at the note and saw that it was a phone number.
Putting it in his pocket, Chen Xing continued to walk in the general direction he had planned before. Forget about this phone call. If he took the initiative to strike up a conversation while he was eating, he might chat with this girl about life, but his shyness made people pass.
Forget about the girl with the note.
Too pure to flirt with.
Chen Xing basically didn’t check his phone for more than half an hour. He was on the right track.
He didn't walk fast, but his speed was very steady. He gradually walked out of the residential area and arrived in the center of Gothenburg.
Most of Gothenburg's European low-rise buildings are mainly due to the small population in Europe. Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden, actually only has 900,000 people. There is no need for high-rise buildings, but there are still many CBD-like buildings in the city center.
Just not as high as China.
Compared with Paris, it looks more modern here.
When we returned to the hotel, it was almost the appointed time.
After taking a shower, I wore a shirt underneath, a down jacket I bought in Sweden, and a cashmere scarf.
When attending a party in Europe, especially in winter, you need to remember to wear something lighter underneath, either a shirt or a T-shirt. But don’t just go there wearing warm clothes and a sweater. You will probably make a fool of yourself then.<
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Whether it's a bar or a party in a private house, it's all heated, and there will be a room for you to put on your coat when you enter.
At that time, a single piece of clothing will be just right for making friends.
