Section 1    Left Bank Coffee House

I don’t know if my secretary is efficient or if Jiang Sijia is eager to come to Paris. I just finished msn with her yesterday, and she actually arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport today.

"Brother Xiao Qi——"

Before I could see Jiang Sijia from the crowd, she had already seen me, so she waved her hands greatly and shouted at me. She didn't have the image of a lady at all, which was really a standard Nut-Chinese style.

So I walked over with a smile and wanted to help her carry her bag. Who knew that as soon as I got to her, she pointed to my hair and said, "Brother Xiao Qi, your hairstyle today is so ugly."

"It's hard to look good if your hat is good?"

This is the first conversation between us after Jiang Sijia came to Paris. Next, we went to help her arrange a hotel. This kind of thing should not have been done by me, a foreigner who speaks a very bad French, but in order to show her attentive reception, I personally helped her. After arranging the hotel, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening local time. However, Jiang Sijia was not sleepy at all, so she pulled me and said, "Let's go, Brother Aqi, go to the Louvre."

I slapped her on the hat on the head and cursed with a smile: "Are you crazy? It's time now, and the Louvre is already closed."

Jiang Sijia looked up at the window and said with some disappointment: "Yes, it seems dark, it's really, why is it so easy for the weather to be dark in France?"

However, after only a moment, she said happily again: "It's okay, I'll go to the Louvre tomorrow. Now I'll see the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower first. This will never be closed, right?"

Although Jiang Sijia is actually not much different from me, because of Jiang Wei, I treat Jiang Sijia as a junior in my heart, so I also have a bit of a coaxing child in my words, "Jia Jia, look at what time it is now. Even if I drive out to see, I can only see a piece of black and smearing. It's not interesting. Tomorrow, I will ask for leave from the crew tomorrow, and I will go with you all day tomorrow."

However, Jiang Sijia, a child, is not easy to coax. After hearing what I said, she immediately took out a huge poster from her luggage, which was painted with the Eiffel Tower that was glowing all over her body. "Look, this is the night view of the Eiffel Tower, it is not at all dark, it is simply extremely bright."

Now, I have no choice, "Okay, I'm afraid of you, put on my coat, I'll take you there."

"Yeah..." Jiang Sijia shouted happily, quickly put on her coat, and rushed to the door. It was difficult to find a place elsewhere, but there was no problem with the Eiffel Tower. In less than half an hour later, I took the God of War where the Eiffel Tower was located.

Like many travelers, the first sight I saw when I came to Paris was the Eiffel Tower. I had the chance to pass by many times in the future, but it was all during the day. Because I saw a lot of large buildings, I didn’t have a strong experience of the grandeur of the Eiffel Tower. However, when I accompanied Jiang Sijia to the Eiffel Tower at night, I saw brilliant light radiating from it. Against the backdrop of various street lights at the base, I felt like a brilliant princess. No wonder the romantic French called her "Shepherd in the Clouds".

Just as I was sighing at the beauty of the Eiffel Tower in the night, Jiang Sijia, who was leaning against the car with me, also rubbed his hands happily and exclaimed. Usually, in front of beautiful women, I would have a strong desire to express myself, which is already my instinct in my life. So, when I saw Jiang Sijia's amazing look, I couldn't help but ask: "You only know that the Eiffel Tower is beautiful, but do you know why it was built?"

Jiang Sijia turned her head, shook her head, and asked, "I don't know, do you know?"

I raised my head proudly, "I would like to say, I tell you that the construction of the Eiffel Tower was built to welcome the Paris Expo in France in 1889. Before the World Expo was held in Paris, London had already held once in 1851. For this purpose, it was specially built for the famous modern architectural masterpiece Crystal Palace. The French wanted to surpass the Eagle Nose, so they also planned to build a more amazing masterpiece. They sought plans throughout France for this, and the fifty-three-year-old Alexander Gustav Eiffel won the bid."

I said, pointing to my feet, "The place where we are standing now is called the God of War Field. This was the training ground before. In ancient times, many large-scale celebrations in France were held here. Eiffel's plan was to build the Eiffel Tower here. Do you know? At that time, this plan was attacked by many humanists and almost couldn't be done."

"How could it be?" Jiang Sijia asked in confusion, "How come someone still objected to such a beautiful masterpiece?"

I smiled and said, "You think so, but the French didn't think so. In 1889, the mainstream architectural style of Paris was still imitating the Renaissance classical style. Most of their buildings at that time advocated dome roofs, and Notre Dame and Arc de Triomphe were all dome roofs. But the tower was different. It was a standard modernist work, and its top was pointed, which greatly violated the mainstream fashion of architecture at that time. So many people criticized it at that time."

When Jiang Sijia heard this, she shook her head and sighed, saying, "I didn't expect there would be so many boring people in France."

When I heard her say this, I burst into laughter, "No matter when, there is always no shortage of boring people in the world."

After watching the Eiffel Tower with Jiang Sijia, I took her some food and sent it back to the hotel. It was already twelve o'clock in the evening.

"Go to bed early, I'll drive to pick you up at 9 o'clock tomorrow. There are still many places to go tomorrow." Before leaving, I said to Jiang Sijia.

When Jiang Sijia heard this, she asked me in confusion: "Brother Xiao Qi, why didn't you arrange my room with you in a unified hotel? How troublesome is it to take you to take it."

I understand the psychology of a woman until now. No matter how indifferent she says, or knowing that the other person is difficult to be loyal, when she sees her with her own eyes or hears her likes sleeping on the same bed with others, she always feels uncomfortable. This is why I would rather run around than place Jiang Sijia in a hotel different from me. I live with Han Rong now, which is naturally nothing for Jiang Sijia, but what if she misses her mouth and tells Jiang Wei?

However, I could only say this to myself in my heart. It was impossible to say it to Jiang Sijia, and I could only whisper: "The rooms in our hotel are already full."

In the next week, I would take Jiang Sijia around as long as I had time. I went around the Louvre, Notre Dame Cathedral, Versailles, Fontainebleau, Strasbourg, Mont Saint Michel, Castle of Chamborde, Place de la Concorde, and Champs Elysees. Next, there was almost no place to go except La Defense.

Of course, because I am born with a love for appearance, whenever I go to a scenic spot, I will tell Jiang Sijia very much about the origin of this scenic spot and some of the humanities and history related to it. Jiang Sijia seems to be very helpful to it, and has even formed a habit, that is, whenever I go to a scenic spot, I will pester me to tell stories about this scenic spot. Whenever I see her admiring gaze or hear her say, "Brother Xiao Qi, you really know a lot." I can't help but feel that my image becomes tall in an instant.

While I was busy filming, Jiang Sijia was busy shopping in Paris. After confirming that the maximum purchase limit could be as high as 100,000 euros, Jiang Sijia's eyes emitted green light. In an instant, a kingly aura that wanted to buy the entire Paris was emitted from her body, which scared me so much that she was creepy and chilled. Women are women. No matter where they grew up, shopping and shopping are always the themes that can stimulate their potential for life.

Before I knew it, the date came on August 13th. After I took an important shot with Jack Lee in the morning, I drove Jiang Sijia to Ladfense in the afternoon. Jiang Sijia seemed to have no interest in Ladfense, which was filled with various commercial organizations and offices. Therefore, after only an hour of shopping, she shouted bored and asked me to take her to other places.

After thinking for a while, I asked, "Then I'll take you to the Left Bank Cafe to have a walk?"

"Left Bank Cafe? I have heard many international students from China mention this. They seem to be obsessed with this place." Jiang Sijia said, nodding, "Okay, then go. Since you said you want to go, it must be a interesting place. However, you will introduce me to the benefits of this place later."

I smiled and took Jiang Sijia into the car, and then started talking in the car, "In French, 'coffee' and 'coffee shop' are the same word. In French, 'left bank coffee' refers to the cafe on the left bank of the Seine River in Paris. These cafes are famous because they have many amazing humanists who have been there. Sartre, Shelley, Hemingway, Voltaire, etc. have spent a lot of time here. Now some cafe waiters can tell you that Sartre was sitting in that seat back then. In fact, it is that simple to say. But in our China, Left Bank Coffee has been rendered into a brand and a lifestyle full of petty bourgeoisie interest, which is very meaningless."

Jiang Sijia smiled and said, "Oh, so that's the case. Well, just go and have a coffee. I heard that baristas in Paris, France are all great, so let's see it."

I smiled and said, "Since I'm going, I'm not just having coffee, I might as well go around, there's nothing to do anyway."

Jiang Sijia smiled and nodded, saying, "Okay, no problem."

Finally, I parked my car on the Galande Road in the fifth district of Paris, and then walked with Jiang Sijia, "The cafes in the 13th, 14th, 15th districts of Paris, and the 5th, 6th districts of Paris can all be called the Left Bank Cafe. We started walking around here. When we saw any coffee shop that we liked, we stopped. Is it okay?"

"Yes." Jiang Sijia smiled and nodded in agreement.

Walking on the Boulevard of Montbach Naz in Paris, you can see the overall silhouette of Notre Dame Cathedral. Not far from this ancient building is a cafe called Little Bridge Coffee.

I pointed to this cafe and said to Jiang Sijia: "What did this cafe with a warm name do in the past?"

Jiang Sijia smiled and shook her head, "Your question really seems to be the question asked by the host in the Zhengda variety show I watched when I was a child, and it makes people unable to touch it at all."

I smiled and said, "This cafe used to be a fortress, but it was even more exaggerated before the fortress. It was a prison."

"Ha? Do you know this?" Jiang Sijia asked in disbelief.

I smiled and raised my head, "Of course, is there anything in the world that I don't know?"

Actually, this is what Han Rong told me, haha.

After walking for a while, we came to St. Germain Street and saw a place called "Flower Coffee". It is said that Sartre and Camus were regular guests here. When I was about to introduce this coffee shop with a long history to Jiang Sijia, I suddenly heard a song coming from the coffee shop. The rhythm of the whole song was light and bright. But I always felt that the pure voice of this singing girl always had a little sadness. There was another strange thing about this song, that is, she only had one lyric from beginning to end - dar Ling.

More importantly, I don’t know why, and I always feel that this song has some connection with me. So I turned my head and said to Jiang Sijia: "Jiajia, I am a little tired from leaving, so let’s choose this cafe. This is a cafe that many celebrities love."

When I saw Jiang Sijia's spirited look, I knew she wanted to go there again. But when she saw the proposal, she nodded quickly and said, "Okay, I just happened to be hungry and I want to eat something."

I smiled and said, "Then I suggest you order a ham and cheese toast, which is the specialty of this cafe. Even Kate Moss and Raff Lauren are full of praise for this delicious dish."

"Is that so? Then I really have to try it." Jiang Sijia said, unable to wait to push open the door of "Flower Coffee". When I saw the store full of the beautiful decoration style of the 1930s, I suddenly had a magical feeling, as if someone familiar had appeared here.
Chapter completed!