Chapter 94: Is this an international metropolis? You must be kidding!

The next day!

Early in the morning, Sicong received a call from the club, saying that the competition would start today, and asked Sicong to cheer up the players. To put it bluntly, it was to popularize money strategies to the players.
Originally, he wanted to invite Su Chen to go with him. After all, Su Chen was also a shareholder of the club, and he wanted to meet the people under the club at the same time.

But after thinking about it, Su Chen declined. He planned to go to the city of Paris today to experience what the exotic and romantic customs were like.

Seeing that Su Chen didn't want to go, he had no choice but to leave the manor with his girlfriend Coco.

As for Chen Mengyan, she also left the manor early in the morning to go to work at the company. At first, she wanted to stay to accompany Su Chen, but was severely criticized by Su Chen, who told her not to come over recently and to concentrate on work.

Of course. Su Chen would never admit that he played too hard last night and his waist strength was temporarily damaged.

"Coffee on the left bank of the Seine, I taste your beauty with a cup in my hand, leaving lip prints on my lips."

Su Chen looked at the Seine River in front of him and Jay Chou's lyrics seemed to have deviated at this moment.

"Is this really the bank of the Seine? You're not mistaken, it's even worse than the stinking ditch in my hometown!" Su Chen frowned and looked at Jiang Hui beside him.

In his imagination, the Seine should be a beautiful place, with Gothic buildings dotted on both sides, cafes on both sides of the river, tourists strolling, street performers singing, and cruise ships rippling on the river.
But the result was that the entire Seine River exuded a bad smell, and Su Chen knew that it was the smell of manure and urine.

The cafes on both sides of the river have closed, and there are very few tourists around. Instead, there are "homeless people" lying on the streets everywhere!
"Ahem~Sir, Paris is no longer the Paris that people used to yearn for. It's almost becoming a 'shit city'!" Jiang Hui placed his right hand gently under his nose, as if he could block the unpleasant smell.

After Jiang Hui's brief explanation, Su Chen finally understood what was going on. There are more than 140 homeless people and more than stray dogs in Paris, but there are only public toilets in the entire city of Paris. This is a typical case of "supply exceeds demand", which has resulted in urination and defecation everywhere on the streets.

Whether it's humans or animals!
The Paris government did not pay much attention to this aspect and did not take corresponding measures. In just a few years, Paris became a modern and fashionable metropolis famous for its "stink".

"Let's go, this place is not a place for human beings to stay!" Su Chen covered his nose and turned to leave.

The 8th arrondissement is located on the right bank of the Seine. It can be said that it is a must-visit place when visiting Paris. It has rich historical relics and famous attractions. Famous attractions such as the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb and the Musee d'Orsay are gathered here.

Of course the most famous one is the Champs Elysees, because Jay Chou’s songs are so famous!

When he came to the Champs Elysees, Su Chen finally understood what the city of romance was. Every person passing by exuded a faint scent of perfume...

It was in stark contrast to the urine smell in the air.

Su Chen didn't spend much time here. After all, he had lost his curiosity about Paris. All he wanted to do now was to visit the Louvre and then go back to his manor.

In the city, he felt that every breath he took was a disrespect to his body.

The Louvre is not far from the Champs-Elysées.

Walk to the end of the Champs-Elysées, cross the Place de la Concorde, walk through the Tuileries Garden, and you will appear at the gate of the Louvre.

Only when passing by the Tuileries Garden did Su Chen stop for three or five minutes.

"Is this the Louvre?" After passing through the Arc de Triomphe, you can see the small pyramid-shaped glass curtain wall on the square, which is also the entrance to the Louvre.

As one of the four largest museums in the world, the Louvre has a history of more than 1204 years. The palace was built in and was just a castle of the palace of Philip Auguste II.

The palace is famous for its rich collection of classical paintings and sculptures. It is one of the most precious buildings of the French Renaissance. Its overall building is in a "U" shape, covering an area of ​​24 hectares, with the building area covering 4.8 hectares.

The Louvre has an art collection of more than 400,000 pieces, the most precious of which are the three world treasures: the Venus de Milo statue, the Mona Lisa and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.

The entire exhibition hall is divided into six parts: Greek and Roman Art Gallery, Egyptian Art Gallery, Oriental Art Gallery, Painting Gallery, Sculpture Gallery and Decorative Art Gallery.

Su Chen and his group arrived at a very opportune time, and there weren't many tourists there.

After the group of four bought the tickets, they waited in line for two or three minutes to enter the venue, and then headed straight to the Oriental Art Museum.

As for visiting the Louvre for Sal, it was an idea that Su Chen came up with on the spur of the moment yesterday.

When Su Chen came to the Oriental Art Exhibition Hall and saw the dazzling array of Chinese exhibits, a nameless anger surged in his heart, "These are a bunch of robbers!"
When Jiang Hui, Chen Fei and others heard this, they consciously separated Su Chen from other tourists.

"Lao Jiang, do you think there is any chance for these cultural relics to return to the country?" Su Chen muttered in a low voice.

Jiang Hui, who was standing by, felt nervous and said quickly, "Sir, I believe that day will come!"

"Haha~ I hope so!" Su Chen smiled and didn't continue.

Su Chen spent almost two hours wandering around the Oriental Art Museum and finally finished it. He also saw many precious Chinese cultural relics.
When coming out of the exhibition hall, there was no expression on Su Chen's face. Even Jiang Hui and others who were following him could feel the chill.

After coming out of the Louvre, Su Chen went straight to his car. He no longer wanted to go shopping.

"Let's go back!" Su Chen sat in the car with his eyes closed and his hands pinching his eyebrows!

"Yes, sir!"
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When Su Chen returned to the manor, he unexpectedly found that Sicong had also returned.

Looking at Si Cong who was sitting on the sofa staring at the ceiling blankly, he asked, "Huh? Didn't you go to watch the game? Why are you back so soon? Is the game over?"

After hearing Su Chen's voice, a hint of emotion appeared in Sicong's lifeless eyes!
"Ah!" A sigh sounded.

Sicong said with a wry smile: "Haha~ The LPL region suffered a disastrous defeat. All three teams were defeated in the first round, especially the seeded team LGD, who were beaten so badly that they lost their fighting spirit!"

“IG lost too?”

"Yeah!" Sicong nodded silently. He didn't expect that the Jinyuan tactics would fail today.

Thinking about his club's defeat in a life-and-death game, Sicong was filled with anger. After watching the game, he had no mood to stay and came back directly. As for the other people in the club, someone would naturally be responsible.

"Don't think too much. Victory and defeat are common in the military. What's more, the domestic gaming environment has just improved. Many people with gaming talent are more or less restrained by their families, and they just haven't shown it yet!"

"What you need to do now is to make the e-sports industry bigger and stronger, so that everyone understands that playing games is not a waste of time and can be treated as a job." Su Chen patted him lightly on the shoulder and said.

Hearing Su Chen's words, Sicong looked at Su Chen in some surprise. He never expected that he would say such profound words.

"You're right, the e-sports industry has just started, and a temporary setback will only make us work harder!" Sicong looked full of fighting spirit, as if he regarded the future of the e-sports industry as his goal.

Sicong suddenly changed the subject and looked at Su Chen curiously, "By the way, didn't you go to Paris to experience the charm of the romantic city? How come you are back so soon!"

"It's fine if you don't say anything, but once you do, I'll be so angry!"

"What kind of romantic city is this? I think it's more like a 'shit city'. People are urinating and defecating everywhere on the streets. Every breath of air you take smells like urine. How can you still be in the mood to go shopping?"

"Uh~ No way? This is Paris, it can't be that dirty!" Sicong hasn't been to Paris for several years, and his impression of Paris is still that of the romantic capital of the past.

Hearing Sicong's doubt, Su Chen glanced at him and said, "Why don't you go for a walk and see what an international metropolis is!"

Upon hearing this, Sicong quickly shook his head. He didn't have the hobby to breathe such air, but he didn't expect that Paris would become like this after just a few years away from home. He felt a little sad.

Su Chen also leaned weakly on the sofa. He originally wanted to experience the coffee on the left bank of the Seine and be the protagonist in Jay Chou's song. He didn't expect that his first experience would be so bad.

"Well, I'm going to stay in the manor peacefully these few days. After the private jet air show is held, I'll buy the plane and return home!" Su Chen sighed with some melancholy.

"The air show will be held in four or five days!" Sicong said as if he had thought of something, and quickly sat up and asked, "By the way, Lao Su, doesn't your manor have a hundred-acre vineyard? How about we go take a look?"

"Vineyard?" It seemed as if he did have a vineyard.

Su Chen quickly called the manor's housekeeper over.

The butler of the manor is called Buwei, who is almost fifty years old this year and is also a genuine British butler. It seems that most wealthy people in Europe like this kind of configuration.

"Sir, do you have something to talk to me about?" Although Bu Wei was old, he walked quite briskly.

"Well~Buwei, is the vineyard of the manor far away!" "Sir, it's not very far, about ten minutes' drive. The fruits in the vineyard have ripened recently, and we have started picking them today. Sir, are you going to Portugal to take a look?" As the steward of the manor, matters such as picking grapes would be reported to him.

Moreover, the handling of the grapes would also be reported to the owner of the manor through him, but Su Chen just arrived yesterday and went out early this morning. Buwei has not had the opportunity to report these things to Su Chen.

"Well, I have nothing better to do, so I'll go take a look and see how this wine is made!"

Upon hearing this, Bu Wei immediately went downstairs to arrange a car.

It is worth mentioning that the manor is equipped with ten cars, nine of which are Mercedes-Benz, and one Rolls-Royce is prepared for Su Chen to travel.

Since the roads leading to the vineyard were all dirt roads, Buwei specially arranged three Mercedes-Benz G-Class cars, and a group of seven people drove the three cars straight to the vineyard.

"Wow, this scenery is so beautiful!"

Even Shicong, who is used to seeing the scenery, couldn't help but sigh when looking at the vineyard in front of him.

In addition to the beautiful scenery, there is also the oncoming aroma of grapes. Su Chen took a deep breath, and it seemed that his body and mind were relaxed a lot.

"Old Ike, the master is here to inspect the vineyard!" Buvet shouted in an authentic Gallic accent towards the people in the vineyard.

After a while, I saw a tall old man carrying a basket of grapes walking out of the dense grape forest.

"Good morning, Butler Buwei!" Old Ike greeted Buwei, his eyes full of confusion, especially when he saw the figures of Su Chen and others. He just heard Buwei say that the gentleman was here. Could it be one of these people?

As an old man in the manor, he naturally knew that the old owner of the manor gave the manor to a foreigner, but he did not expect that he would come to the vineyard.

"Old Ike, this Mr. Su is the new owner of the manor!" Buwei quickly introduced Su Chen.

Old Ike glanced at Su Chen and said in a Gallic accent, "Good morning, sir!"

"Good morning, old Ike!"

When Su Chen spoke with his authentic Gallic accent, everyone present, except Si Cong, was dumbfounded. They didn't expect Su Chen's Gallic accent to be so authentic.

Old Ike was also stunned for a moment. He thought the new owner of the manor would not tell the truth, but who knew that he told it more authentically than himself.

"I wonder what instructions the sir has!" Old Ike's attitude changed 180 degrees, and he spoke much more respectfully.

"Haha~ It's okay, we just came here to take a look at how wine is made!"

Su Chen also briefly learned about the current situation of the vineyard from Old Ike. There are nearly twenty employees in the entire vineyard, most of whom are responsible for planting and picking, and only a few four or five are responsible for winemaking.

The equipment used to make wine in the vineyards is all mechanical, unlike the old days when wine was made by foot.

The vineyard under the estate is a high-yield vineyard. The grape varieties are introduced from Bordeaux and the yield is quite high.

The yield of one acre of vineyard is about 4,000 kilograms, and the yield of one hundred acres is about 400,000 kilograms, which is a full 200 tons.

80% of the grapes are sold to Bordeaux vineyards, and the rest are picked by Paris residents themselves. Only about tons of grapes can be used to make wine.

One ton of grapes can produce about 720 bottles of wine, and 20 tons means about 14,400 bottles. These wines are basically consumed internally. After all, the vineyard belonged to Arnault before, and the wine needed by the group every year is purchased from here, and only a small part of it is sold!
The annual net profit of Su Chen's vineyard is only about one or two million euros, most of which comes from grapes sold to Bordeaux.

"Is there any wine produced previously in the vineyard now?" Su Chen was also curious about what the wine that even Arno approved was like.

"Yes, sir. We cellar a batch every year. The oldest one is almost fifty years old!"

When he heard the term fifty years, Si Cong looked at Su Chen with shining eyes. After listening for so long, he finally understood that this vineyard used to be the private wine estate of the Arno family, so the quality was definitely guaranteed.
This means that the fifty-year-old wine is still drinkable, and even particularly delicious.

Looking at Sicong who came close to him, Su Chen gave him a speechless look and said to Old Ike, "Let's go and take a look!"

Su Chen was also curious. Fifty-year-old aged wine was not a product of the 1974s. He just didn't know which one was better, the Romanee-Conti he had drunk before.

Don’t underestimate the taste of these big families. A winery that has been used by the Arnault family for so many years must have its own special features.

There are three houses in the vineyard, one dormitory, one warehouse, and the other is the vineyard's winery.

Su Chen took a look outside and saw four or five people inside who were busy operating the machines and adding grapes.

They are all modern equipment and do not require much operation from you. Just pour the grapes into the machine, go through a series of procedures, and then put them into wooden barrels for fermentation.

"Old Su, stop looking, let's go to the warehouse first!" Seeing that Su Chen was very interested in the wine-making process, Sicong couldn't help but shout.

"You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. The wine is there and it won't run away!"

Although Su Chen said this, he still walked towards the warehouse.

When he entered the warehouse, Su Chen discovered that the situation inside was not quite what he had imagined.
There were basically only dozens of new barrels in the warehouse, and the labels on them were all from today's production. As for the previous wines, they were nowhere to be found.

Just as Su Chen was about to ask, Old Ike led everyone to a corner, and an elevator appeared in front of everyone.

"Sir, everything above needs to be fermented. Once fermented successfully, it will be moved underground."

When Su Chen walked into the elevator, he discovered that there were three floors underground!
After learning more about it, I found out that the entire warehouse is built with special materials, and the underground temperature can be maintained at a constant temperature of 12~18 degrees, which is also the best temperature for preserving wine.

The elevator went directly to the bottom floor. As soon as I got out of the elevator, dozens of wooden barrels appeared in front of me.

I don’t know where Old Ike got the glass cups from, but he gave one to Su Chen and the others.

Sicong, who was familiar with this area, looked in front of the wooden barrels and stopped only after finding seven or eight barrels.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it really is from fifty years ago. I wonder if it's still drinkable!"

As he spoke, Sicong placed the wine glass at the wine outlet under the wooden barrel, gently moved the switch, and a stream of amber liquid flowed out.

The air was also filled with a strong aroma of grapes, which made everyone present swallow their saliva.

Sicong took half a cup and closed it. He held the cup up to the light and examined it. He did not find any sediment. He then gently shook the glass. The wine swirled gently in the glass and the aroma became more intense.

Under the gaze of the crowd, Shicong took a sip.
He drank the wine, tore the onions, and closed his eyes, seeming to be savoring something.

"Stop bragging, what's the wine like?"

Su Chen's words directly broke the atmosphere that Si Cong had created with great difficulty.

"It's delicious, even better than the Romanee-Conti 1974 I drank at your house before!" After saying that, he took two more sips.

Seeing this, Su Chen went up and poured himself a cup. As for the others, they could only watch, especially Sicong’s girlfriend Keke, whose eyes seemed to be filled with longing.

After taking a quick taste, I found that this wine indeed tastes very good and rich!
"Old Ike, what's up with the wine on this floor!"

“Sir, these are all aged over 40 years, and there are only three barrels of each type. Especially the 50- year old ones, there are less than two barrels!” Old Ike said with some melancholy. You know, he has dedicated his whole life to the vineyard, and many of the wines here are brewed by him personally.

Su Chen also understood what Old Ike meant, which was that he hoped he wouldn't be too wasteful.

Su Chen didn't have the habit of eating alone. He waved his hand and asked Jiang Hui and others to take half a cup to taste it.

After staying in the vineyard for three or four hours, everyone was a little tipsy and then returned to the manor.

On the way back, Su Chen specifically asked Old Ike to fill two bottles of nearly fifty-year-old aged wine for him.

The greedy Sicong's eyes never left the two wine bottles!
　My cold hasn't gotten better yet, so I took some medicine. I'll pay you back when I get better!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)