My travels can open treasure chests

Chapter 392 Cheap second-hand clothing store

When Ingrid's intensive review had no time to pay attention to Han Qi, he found time to come to Iceland.

Now the two paintings have been completed, and they will be oiled and preserved by the girl Delgraty who is familiar with Han Qi's painting method. The two paintings can be delivered for use in mid-June.Of course he has time to run around.

Reykjavik, Iceland.

The streets of Reykjavik are the most lively in summer. They just passed a festival called First Day of Summer more than ten days ago. Translated into Chinese, it can be called the first day of summer. This is the most intense festival in Iceland. one.

The season-long polar night in the whole country is very difficult, and only a small group of people in the world can feel the depression of not seeing the sun.

Therefore, Iceland is also one of the very few countries in the world that celebrates the arrival of summer with major festivals.

Not long after the festival, Icelanders are still in a festive atmosphere. The faces of the elderly and children are filled with happy smiles. The children are running on the streets where the snow has not yet melted. The elderly are dressed in fashion or traditional dress. Walk slowly Standing, basking in the sun.

Han Qi came here with a very simple bag on his back. He didn't even bring a change of clothes, only his precious Pimple camera and mobile phone.

Of course, a passport is also indispensable for traveling outside.

He came here to find someone, an old man named Kevin.

It was whoever gave a tree house to Han Qi.

Iceland is the place that attaches the most importance to ecological protection in the world. This kind of protection is even sick. For example, the small tree that Han Qi knew was given way by the road was actually what he saw in Iceland.He really didn't understand why he had to go around that tree.

Anyway, he is a layman, and he may not have the opportunity to feel the gift of nature to human beings.

Before coming here, he had contacted Kevin once, and Han Qi wanted to invite him to be his helper to jointly build the central island of Elsk.

For the past few days, he has been thinking, since he can't cut down the trees to build the Chinese garden in his heart, how about building an elf garden where the forests live next to each other?

Although doing so will not satisfy Han Qi's obsession, but if he can build a different kind of scenic spot and become popular, he himself will not be said to be an architect with only one work.And using this place to show his strength, there may not be a suitable space for Han Qi to show his strengths in the future.

This is also a helpless way, he can't take the risk of being reported to cut down nearly one-third of the island's forests.

Don't say that he and Ingrid are not married yet, even if they are married.Forcibly doing so may result in countless reports, impeachment, and even extreme emotional people rushing into the palace with a gun in their hands and beating Han Qi.

And Kevin is the best helper he can think of.

Kevin's father has studied tree houses all his life, and before he died, he gave Kevin a huge white oak hotel, creating a huge tree house that will not be damaged for decades while preserving the existing environment.

And Kevin's deceased wife was a very good woodblock painter. Han Qi saw the works left by her when he lived in the hotel, and they were paintings that could make Han Qi feel amazing.With such a wife and such a father, Han Qi couldn't believe that Kevin was just an ordinary old man who didn't understand anything and had been guarding the tree house for decades.

Guardianship is real, but ordinary is not necessarily so.

So Han Qi made an appointment to meet him today.

Han Qi has money now, and it’s in cash. He can redecorate the tree house and reopen the business. The income from a few paintings and works from the past two years and books has given him close to a small goal of Euros in the Norwegian bank. Now that they can't make any big moves against Elsk, the money will be useless for the time being.

The interest is enough to decorate the tree house.

And if according to Han Qi's current thinking, most of the buildings are made of local materials and the house is repaired with wood bought from other places, which will not cost much.

When he arrived in Iceland, Han Qi called Kevin again.

"Mr. Kevin?"

"Han, have you arrived in Iceland yet?"

"Yes, I am at the door of the cathedral now."

Reykjavik is a small place, and there are no particularly tall or particularly conspicuous buildings in the entire city.The top of the cathedral's tens of meters high tower makes him the central symbol of the entire Reykjavik. People who live here want to date, and they basically meet near the cathedral.

Han Qi also called Kevin when he got here.

"You came so fast, I thought it would take you a day or two to come from Norway." Han Qi heard the sound of a car driving on his side, and he could also hear the car playing an old jazz band.

Sure enough, Kevin was in the car at this time, and he said, "I'm still on my way home, and I may not arrive in Reykjavik until tonight, shall we meet tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow? Yes."

Han Qi can just return to Norway at the end of the month. During this time, he has nothing to do in the palace. The two oil paintings are finished, and Ingrid is too busy studying to pay attention to him.

If he wanted to make money, he actually had two orders for oil paintings.

But it is too tiring. Han Qi has been the most tiring two months since he graduated. Anyway, he is not planning to draw new works this year.In the second half of the year, when Ingrid is admitted to university, he plans to find a country where the summer is not hot and take a good rest for a few months.

A traveler must look like a traveler, and Han Qi has never publicly stated that his main occupation is a painter.

He never said it was a part-time job.

Since the person who made the appointment has not arrived, let's take a stroll around this famous city first.

When it comes to traveling in Northern Europe, Iceland is undoubtedly a better place than Norway.Before Han Qi became Ingrid's fiancé, the proportion of domestic tourists visiting Iceland was 70.00% higher than those visiting Norway. That is to say, if [-] people went to Norway, [-] people would come to Iceland.

This ratio is exaggerated, but it also shows that Iceland is a better tourist city than Norway.

Han Qi looked around. There were streets on both sides. He knew that there was a road leading to the square, and a road leading directly to the sea.

A cold current that seemed to escape from winter suddenly hit the street in front of the cathedral, and blew past Han Qi's ear, which made him shrink his neck involuntarily, and walked into a restaurant called ódr notu verslun in front of him. clothing store.

The title is in Icelandic. Although Han Qi knows a few words of greeting when Icelanders meet each other, he doesn't recognize these words.However, even people with hundreds of degrees of myopia should be able to tell what kind of store it is from the display in the store.

This is a small traditional Icelandic sweater shop filled with clothes.

Iceland provides free heating all year round, and Han Qi felt warm all over as soon as he walked in, and rubbed his hands together.

He didn't know that the spring in Iceland was colder than in Norway, so he only wore the sweater he wore in Norway recently. Obviously, such thin clothes are not very suitable in Iceland. The sea breeze from the Arctic Ocean blows the city standing by the sea. Cool down on a volcanic island.

Yes, volcanoes.

Iceland is an island country with many volcanoes and frequent geological occurrences. It sounds familiar, right?China's neighbors are also such a country, but Iceland is different from them in that although there are many hot springs in Iceland, none of them can be used.

At the same time, Iceland is also the place where the best woolen sweaters are produced in the world. Han Qi has bought many expensive sweaters, and their raw materials are written - from Iceland.

"Hello, is anyone there?" Han Qi said something in Icelandic.

Iceland's English penetration rate is not bad, but there are many people who can't speak English. Han Qi prayed in his heart that he would not let himself meet a boss who couldn't speak English.

At this time, the boss also heard Han Qi's voice, and poked his head out of the pile of clothes.

"I'm here!" she said.

This is a 30-year-old woman, with freckles on her face, but she looks like a mature woman. She is wearing a rough Christmas-style sweater, and there is still sweat on her cheeks... She was looking for something just now, and she has been looking for it for a long time .

"Is this a clothing store?" Han Qi changed into English.

"Clothing? Well... yes, it's a clothing store here." The woman said, her English is very poor, probably not as good as Huaxia's college students, but as the owner of a clothing store, clothing is obviously in her English vocabulary list.

"That's great, I need enough to buy a piece of clothing." After Han Qi finished speaking, he began to choose on his own.

He also doesn't need someone to speak and direct beside him, his eyesight can see how these clothes look on him.

"Buy? NO, you can't buy."

The boss frowned, thinking about how to explain to Han Qi that the clothes here were all second-hand, because she saw that Han Qi was wearing very good clothes, and she didn't want to be someone who would buy second-hand clothes.

The title of the store says it all.

ódr notu verslun
low price second hand store
Won't let me buy it?Why?I think the clothes here are pretty and nice. Is it discrimination?
Han Qi looked at her with a puzzled expression...he hated discrimination the most.

"This is a second-hand clothing store." She tried her best to explain to Han Qi in English.

Of course she doesn't discriminate, and in her opinion, Han Qi is quite handsome, and he is three points similar to the Norwegian prince in the news recently. This makes the boss naturally have a good impression of the customer in front of him, but here Most of the items are used by others.

Looks pretty new though.

Nowadays, online shopping is so convenient that many people buy clothes and put them aside, or don’t want to wear them after wearing them once. She won’t accept the old ones with traces.

"second hand?"

Han Qi understood.

That's the way it is, but the clothes here are indeed very beautiful. It is precisely because she can take over the clothes that many people buy and don't wear here, that leads to a variety of clothing styles here.No matter how picky people are, they can always find one or two things here.

He thought about it, and it seems that there is no need to care about it, second-hand is second-hand, and it is not because the person wearing the clothes has any disease.

Han Qi told the boss that he understood, and continued to look at the clothes.

Hearing what Han Qi said, the female boss finally showed a smiling face to the customers. She wanted to introduce the hand-knitted sweaters to Han Qi, but she thought that Han Qi was a foreigner who did not understand Icelandic. He didn't say anything, and let Han Qi see for himself.

Han Qi searched for those few sweaters of hers.

This is the most famous striped rough-threaded sweater in Iceland. Although they talk about thick-threaded sweaters, they are actually woven with very fine wool into thick-threaded sweaters. It's as soft as touching a British short hair.

"That's all." Han Qi said.

Although this dress doesn't look very fashionable to the outside world, it depends on who is wearing it. Han Qi likes a more traditional dress.Some time ago he was running around wearing Tibetan costumes.

As long as you look good, you can look good in anything.

"Really? Do you think this dress looks better?" The female boss was ecstatic.

It has been more than half a year since she completed her studies and became a teacher. She has sold none of them since winter is coming to an end.But now this good-looking foreigner finds his own work as soon as he comes in. Isn't this just his vision?

"how much is it?"

The English of this sentence is too simple to be understood by any educated person.

The boss shook his head crazily: "No, no, I won't charge you. I made this dress myself. I'm very, very happy that you like it, so I gave it to you."

"what?"

"Give it to you!"

The happy look on her face couldn't be concealed, and she took the clothes Han Qi picked out and ran happily to find the packaging. Although she was a woman who was close to 30 years old, her expression at this moment was the same as that of a young girl.

Han Qi lay on the cash register and watched her busy.

Tsk, she's pretty, are you married?
The woman suddenly raised her head and asked, "Have you tried it yet? Oh yes, you don't know what we say." She took out the clothes again and gestured for Han Qi to put them on.

Han Qi looked around, walked into the changing room, took off his hoodie, and put on this colorful lined sweater that looked like an Icelander.If he had put on a woolen hat, he would really look like an Icelander.

Or rather, the herders who lived around Iceland.

Han Qi took a photo, she was indeed beautiful, and she should be dressed warmly.

The female boss's eyes were full of splendor, and she wanted to communicate with Han Qi but had no choice. Suddenly, she thought of the translation software on her mobile phone, took it out and tapped on the mobile phone, and then said to Han Qi:

"The dress you are wearing is woven by myself. It is so beautiful and beautiful. I will not charge you for this dress, but can I have a request, can I take a picture of you, You are the first customer to buy the clothes I make."

Han Qi finished reading the words on her phone and looked at her again.

It doesn't look like he recognizes himself.

Han Qi also took out his mobile phone to find the English and Icelandic translation interface, and typed: "You want my photo, do you want to hang it on the wall?"

"No, I just want to keep it as a souvenir."

The first customer to wear the clothes she wove herself, look, how meaningful it is.

Han Qi suddenly smiled, and a gentle smile appeared on the soft face of the Asian, which made the female boss who felt that she was a big sister fluttered. , forget it, of course I will give you the clothes for free."

"No." Han Qi shook his head, "I am willing to be your first model, and I hope that more people will choose to buy your clothes after seeing the photos of me wearing a sweater, because it is really beautiful, and you are a very beautiful person." Talented and discerning fashion designer.”

Han Qi left a photo with her here, and he also took a photo of the store with a SLR.

It's a great surprise, I recommend it to my fans.

Han Qi asked about the price of clothes in this store, and it was definitely the cheapest that Han Qi had seen in the whole of Northern Europe. Some clothes were even worse than the price of a meal in Iceland, as long as people who come to travel should be able to afford them, And the quality of the clothes is really good.

(End of this chapter)