Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1167 Louvre’s Fairy (4)

  Almost every museum and scenic spot on the planet will launch its own style of souvenirs.

  Of course, the Louvre also has its own souvenir shop. It is located between the glass pyramid and the inverted pyramid. It sells multilingual visitor guides, copies of artworks, and derivatives of the collection.

   Mona Lisa bag, Mona Lisa eye box, Mona Lisa t-shirt, Mona Lisa socks.

  Pomona bought a yellow rubber duck with a Roman helmet and uniform on its head.

  This kind of rubber duck is also sold in the British Museum, but at the souvenir shop of the British Museum she bought the Anthony and Cleopatra One Day Love Perfume, which was co-branded by the museum and Bing Xili.

  Severus stopped using it after using it a few times, and now he is using a custom-made perfume in Venice.

  French people hate the glass pyramid because they feel that it is incompatible with the surrounding buildings. Similarly, people in other countries also feel that houses with European aesthetics are placed on their homeland and are incompatible with the surrounding buildings.

  Westerners like to conquer, such as Caesar and Anthony, but they were all conquered by Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.

   Anthony was even so confused that he gave the eastern provinces of Rome to the queen, not just because he was confused by the queen's methods.

  Rome is full of intrigues, murders and assassinations. Relatively speaking, Egypt is a free and easy place.

  When Anthony and the Queen were rafting on the Nile River, he could not only enjoy the breeze on the river, but also see the slaves and civilians on the distant shore kneeling towards the Queen’s boat across a long distance.

  He didn’t need to think about the conflict of interests between the nobles, nor did he need to think about the miserable situation after Caesar was assassinated.

Partitioning the wealthy eastern part of Rome to the Queen of Egypt, her and Anthony's children can inherit in the future, this is a very cost-effective business for Anthony personally, but for the Roman soldiers who smashed this land through bloodshed, it is simply mediocre. .

   Anthony suddenly became a national traitor and dictator. He regarded the Roman Empire as Anthony’s own possession, and he gave it to whoever he wanted.

  What is good about being a soldier? There are not only refreshing fruit wines on the Queen’s dream boat, but also a drowsy Nile tune. Silk used to keep out the cold may be a bit colder, but it is very comfortable to lie on it to sleep in the heat.

  The gilded boat is surrounded by lotus flowers in full bloom. The fragrance of this flower is accompanied by the benzoin and frankincense burning in the incense burner on the boat. It is inhaled into the nose, making people not want to smell the smelly smell of the military camp.

  So, who conquered whom?

  A scholar once wrote that in trade with the East, Westerners rely heavily on Eastern silk and tea box porcelain, while Easterners have no interest in Western products. The West has always used precious metals in exchange for silk and spices, and precious metals seem to be concentrated in the hands of the East.

  In 1680, silver was once very scarce. The Spanish colony produced about 100,000 to 130,000 tons of silver, of which 80% was exported to regions outside the Americas, and half of this silver went to China.

  At that time, China was in the Ming Dynasty. Compared with Westerners who love to spend money, Orientals preferred to hide money. A lot of silver was stored, waiting to be buried as funerals in the future, or left for their own children and grandchildren.

  Silver mines are not inexhaustible. When Peru's silver mines are exhausted, precious metals are transported to the east. The silver shortage caused silver prices to soar.

  The Spanish believed that the Chinese emperor could build a palace with silver bars shipped from Peru.

  Some people think that Eastern and Western civilizations are complementary and can make up for each other’s major shortcomings and deficiencies.

  But in fact, European conquerors prefer to move other people’s palaces over, regardless of whether this civilization has the same roots as themselves, or grew up from other roots.

  There is a famous painting called "The Grand Palace Girl" in the Louvre, and this painting also has many souvenirs for sale in the shop. The court lady in the painting is dressed as a Turk, which is what most people in the West thought of as the East at that time.

  However, this painting is painted in accordance with the Western aesthetics of the "Eastern". The face of the court lady in the painting is completely copied from the face of the Virgin in the chair painted by Raphael, and is not a real Turkish woman.

  In order to pursue the smooth beauty of the picture, the artist made the woman's upper body a lot longer than normal, which does not conform to the anatomy. For the sake of beauty, people become impractical.

  Heaven is beautiful, but it is useless to indulge in illusory dreams and forget the reality. Anthony forgot, and the nobles who were singing and dancing in the Palace of Versailles, they all lost everything in the end.

   "Beep!!!"

  Pomona directed the rubber duck she just bought at Severus, making it make a sharp cry.

  As if he saw some terrible creature, he frowned and stepped back.

  She smirked when she saw him.

   "What's interesting?" Severus asked impatiently.

   "It's so cute." Pomona pointed the duck to herself "I will put it in the bathtub next time I take a bath."

   "How old are you? Still playing with this kind of children's toy." Severus said with a stiff face.

   "No matter how old I am, you can't stop me from liking the little yellow duck." Pomona said cheerfully, "I want to build a little yellow duck museum."

   "Are you drunk?" Severus asked.

   "I want to form a fleet of ducks. Have you ever seen the mother duck swimming with ducklings in the water? It's so cute. The seas all over the world are actually connected, like a big bathtub..."

  Before she finished speaking, Severus took her directly and apparated her in an unobtrusive place.

  They returned to the auction house a few hours later than the agreed time. The old goblin had already left, and Gong Saiyi was still appraising it in his cubicle.

   "Where is the fairy?" Severus asked.

   "It has gone back." Gong Saiyi said, "How much does it offer you?"

   "It has nothing to do with you." Severus said unkindly.

   "Can that crystal ball be repaired?" Pomona asked.

   "That was indeed an alchemy item." Gong Saiyi rubbed his hands and said hesitantly, "It is not something ordinary people can do to completely repair it. If it loses its original function, it is a very ordinary ornament."

  Pomona was about to ask as planned, only to be pinched by Severus secretly.

   "I only heard that it can sing, what else can it do?" Severus asked.

  Gonsai did not speak.

   "What do you want?" Severus asked.

   "We are all human beings." Gon Saiyi said, "The goblin is very greedy. I can't tell it some news. If it is suspicious, it will not give us the topaz ball so easily."

  Severus did not speak.

  "When you get the ball back, I'll tell you the story." Gong Saiyi picked up the magnifying glass again and looked at the jewelry box on the table. "The premise is that what you got back is the genuine one."

   "We?" Severus curled his lips and smiled playfully. "Is this what you want?"

   "I knew you were much smarter than many people I met, sir." Gon Saiyi looked at the magnifying glass and said, "I know there is a very good oyster shop on Montgill Street. How about we go there for dinner?"

  (End of this chapter)