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As soon as he got off the car, Yang Jing was shocked by the busyness in front of him.
Generally speaking, as long as Chinese people have experienced the Spring Festival travel rush in China, it is difficult to be intimidated by foreign train stations. However, Paris Gare du Nord is different. Although Yang Jing has been studying at Jinling University for four years and has experienced four Spring Festival travel rushes, he was still shocked by the busy Paris Gare du Nord.
Paris Nord Station is the most visited railway station in Paris and the leading railway station in Europe. Every year, 180 million passengers are sent from here, which even exceeds the number of passengers sent from Yanjing South Station and Yangcheng South Station in China.
Following the crowd and the signs, Yang Jing walked out of Paris Nord Station carrying a backpack.
This station is not the largest in the world, but it is definitely one of the most densely populated. In addition, the temperature in Paris in early October was quite good, and Yang Jing was sweating after walking for a few minutes.
After walking out of Paris Nord Station, Yang Jing took a deep breath.
After living for 25 years, this was the first time that Yang Jing set foot on the land of Paris. It would be a lie to say that he was not excited. After all, Paris is so famous. Now he can finally set foot on the land of this world-famous city. Even though Yang Jing has been in London for two years, he is still a little excited.
Looking at the still clear sky, Yang Jing smiled slightly and thought to himself: "If I had a video call with my mother at this moment and told her that my son is standing in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, I guess my mother would be filled with envy and jealousy!"
Taking out his cell phone, Yang Jing turned around and took a few photos of this magnificent station. He then raised his phone and took two selfies of himself with the station as the background, and then put the phone back in his pocket.
Just as he was about to leave, he saw a policeman not far away waving to him in a friendly manner.
Yang Jing walked over in confusion, and the policeman asked very politely: "!@#¥%......"
French, I don’t understand!
Seeing Yang Jing's confused look, the policeman smiled and randomly switched to not-so-fluent English and said, "Sir, please pay attention to your belongings, especially the cell phone in your pocket and the backpack on your back. There are a lot of thieves here, so you must be careful."
After hearing the policeman's advice, Yang Jing subconsciously looked back. Surprisingly, there were indeed two or three guys hanging around over there, and they didn't look like good people at first glance.
"Thank you for your advice. I will definitely pay attention to it." Yang Jing thanked the conscientious policeman, put his backpack on his chest, took out his mobile phone from his pocket and put it directly into the small bag of the backpack.
Seeing Yang Jing being so reasonable, the policeman smiled and waved at him. Yang Jing held the bag with both hands, nodded slightly, and walked towards the main road over there.
There is no way. Although Paris is a world-famous city with good things everywhere, this city also has a dark side, especially the thieves in this city, which are really terrifying.
There are many foreign immigrants in Paris, so the public security in Paris has not been very good. In particular, the large number of blacks and Middle Easterners have become the number one factor that undermines the public security in Paris.
This is not discrimination against blacks and Middle Eastern people. It is just that most of these people are refugees or smuggled here. They have no source of income in Paris, and the local Parisians are quite hostile to them, which makes it even more difficult for them to find jobs.
People can't just starve to death, so these blacks and Middle Eastern people, who were not well educated to begin with, reached out to foreign tourists.
Paris is a world-famous tourist capital, with as many as 16 million tourists visiting Paris every year. In the eyes of those idle black men, Middle Eastern people and gypsies, these people have become their source of livelihood.
Especially the 17th, 18th, 19th arrondissement and the 93rd department of Paris, which are the hardest hit areas for thieves.
It is no exaggeration to say that when you walk on the street, black people or Middle Eastern people will follow you, and if you are not careful, your wallet or mobile phone in your pocket will disappear.
The most terrifying are the gypsies. Those guys are the epitome of shamelessness. If you are targeted by gypsies, either you go directly to the police for help, or quickly find a shop to go into and then call the police. Otherwise, those gypsies will really rob you on the street!
Of course Yang Jing had heard about the security problems in Paris when he was in London, but he really didn't expect it to be so serious. Even the police took the initiative to remind him.
Both are capitals of the same country, and Paris and London are not far apart, but when it comes to public security, London is really half the Atlantic Ocean away from Paris.
Yang Jing's goal in coming to Paris this time was to visit the flea markets. There are dozens of flea markets in Paris, but the flea market Yang Jing is going to today is the largest and most famous flea market in Paris, the Saint-Ouen flea market.
It is not far from Paris Nord Station to Saint-Ouen flea market, only about 2.6 kilometers, which takes only half an hour to walk.
Originally, Yang Jing really wanted to walk from Paris Nord Station to Saint-Ouen Flea Market, but when he looked at Google Maps on his mobile phone, he found that this market was located at the junction of the 93rd Province and the 18th Arrondissement. In order to walk from Paris Nord Station to Saint-Ouen Flea Market, one would have to pass through the 18th Arrondissement of Paris.
Both the 18th arrondissement and the 93rd department were areas that were heavily infested with thieves. After thinking about it, Yang Jing did not dare to walk there. He did not even dare to take the bus. Even though the bus from Paris Nord Station to Saint-Ouen flea market runs every ten minutes and the ticket only costs 1.9 euros, Yang Jing still took a taxi for safety reasons.
The taxi driver was obviously a mixed-race man, and looked a bit like Sami Nasseri, the French actor who played the leading role Daniel in "Taxi".
This guy was very good at chatting, and he started chatting as soon as Yang Jing got on the car. However, after learning that Yang Jing didn't understand French, he decisively switched to English, and his English was much more fluent than that of the policeman just now.
"Haha, you may not know this, but many customers who take my taxi for the first time think I am Sami Nasseri. In fact, I also think I look a lot like him. Unfortunately, just looking like him is not enough, because he is a famous movie star. I can only drive a taxi."
"Wow, you are from China? China is beautiful, isn't it? My lifelong dream is to take my family to travel to your China. I like the Great Wall there, and I like the roast duck there even more..."
"God, you're going to the Saint-Ouen flea market? Well man, you have to take my advice, you have to protect your backpack and wallet there. There are more thieves there than those damn fleas..."