rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 358 The beer is gone

Talking about the impression of Germans~ Chen Li in his previous life only had some understanding of them from TV and news media.

Therefore, before he got to know real Germans, Chen Li's impression of Germans was just like the media propaganda.

Rigorous ~ serious ~ punctual ~ old-fashioned ~ conservative, etc., etc.!

Chen Li once heard a story from a friend who studied in Germany, saying that he went to a bank to open an account.

If you are in China, the procedure for opening an account is very simple and it basically only takes about half an hour at most.

But in Germany, this time may take one to two weeks.

The whole process is indeed rigorous and flawless, but the efficiency is also very low.

And similar things are common in all walks of life in Germany.

But even so, Chen Li's friend still likes to brag about Germany, and he tends to attribute this situation to rigor.

Hmm~ It's really rigorous! But I can't appreciate this kind of rigorous presentation.

Chen Li's friend is half a virtuous person, but Chen Li actually understands him quite well.

After all, although this guy went to Germany to study, the university was actually just average.

Studying in Germany itself is not considered popular. This guy went to an ordinary university, so he seems a little bit...!

So this guy always likes to brag about Germany as a whole. He can brag about all kinds of things from all walks of life.

In short, according to this buddy, Germany is a country with high-quality citizens, epoch-making technological development, and even awesomeness in everything!

To be fair, Chen Li naturally wouldn't believe these things.

In those days, "foreign" bragging was no longer popular in China. After all, we were in the information age, and it was meaningless to blindly brag about foreign countries.

But even so, Chen Li will be influenced by this buddy to some extent.

At the very least, Germany was indeed a pretty awesome country in the eyes of Chen Li in his previous life.

But now, Chen Li has learned German himself and has met an authentic German like Hannah, so he naturally has a new understanding of Germany.

It is undeniable that as a developed country, Germany is indeed awesome in many aspects.

But it’s definitely not what Chen Li’s friends brag about!

For example, it is said that Germans are most famous for their strict punctuality~ but in fact, delays in German trains and even subways are simply a common occurrence!

This is completely different from the impression that Germans always give people.

Another example is Chen Li’s friend who boasted that Germans are of high quality and all of them follow the rules.

The friend also told Chen Li a story, saying that on a snowy night, when there were no cars on the road in the dead of night, a German stood quietly under the traffic light, patiently waiting for the green light to come in spite of the heavy snow.

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This sounds quite similar. At that time, this guy also denounced the behavior of many Chinese people in the country who like to rush across the road.

To be honest~ At that time, Chen Li also felt that the Chinese people did have some problems with this matter, because this situation really existed and was not a minority.

But in fact, both Hannah and Hannah's father had done this kind of thing.

In the words of Hannah's father, on a snowy night, when facing a traffic light with no one and no cars around, the person who really stops and waits probably has a quarrel with his wife.

Because I don’t want to go home, I would rather stay on the street on a cold night than go back to that warm home.

In fact, from this point of view, we can see that Germans are not as old-fashioned, rigorous or even humorless as Chen Li thought before.

This is the real world. Just like those foreigners these days, they always like to make foreign countries seem like utopias, but in fact, this guy may not even understand the country he is talking about.

Just like in the past life, there are always people bragging about the country where they lived a good life, saying that they love to be clean and there is not even a bit of garbage on the streets.

But in fact, there are not only garbage on the streets, but also drunks and even idiots.

Therefore, this kind of bragging can still deceive the Chinese people in an era when information is not very developed.

In the future information age, Chinese people will be able to learn about the customs, customs and other details of the world without leaving home.

But although Chen Li's friend is indeed a German braggart, he even often likes to brag about Germany.

But there's one thing - Chen Li's friend really didn't brag.

That is. Germans like to drink beer!

This can be seen from Lucas’s previous complaints about the bad taste of cowardly music.

Actually, Lucas is a pretty good guy, and he can be considered a well-informed and polite foreign guy.

But when it comes to beer, this guy's previous high emotional intelligence disappeared instantly. This shows that beer is really a good thing for Germans.

Not only Lucas, but also Lucas's father Philip.

After tasting Shennong Beer, the first thing Lucas did was not to continue drinking. Instead, he took the bottle of Shennong Beer and went directly to his father's table.

Yes~ As the speaker of this negotiation team, Philip naturally sat with the leaders of domestic manufacturers.

Of course~ Lucas and Laura were originally going to be placed at that table, as well as Professor Lu, a master in the field of translation.

It’s just that this time Professor Lu came mainly to visit friends, not to translate, so he took Laura directly to the next table.

Needless to say about Chen Li, his status on the table was based on Professor Lu's face.

But because Lucas became friends with Chen Li, Chen Li brought "good" beer, so Lucas followed Chen Li to the next table.

Then, Lucas took the bottle of Shennong beer to the main table, and then the bottle of Shennong beer disappeared.

Not only was the bottle of Shennong beer gone, but also the box of Shennong beer that Chen Li brought back was gone.

In the end, Lucas shared a bottle of beer, full of resentment!

This guy actually miscalculated! He thought that Chen Li brought out the wine, and Chen Li must have some more.

In fact, Chen Li did still have some, but Chen Li was unwilling to take them out.

The reason is simple. Chen Li is a bit "stingy"!

This stinginess does not mean that Chen Li is reluctant to part with this beer. Although the beer is expensive, it is paid in Chinese currency, so Chen Li cannot afford it.

With Chen Li's current income, he can afford to drink Shennong beer every day.

It's just that in order to exchange for Shennong beer, Chen Li paid a full 500,000 in the mall's currency credit limit.

This makes Chen Li feel a little distressed. No, it's not a little, it's so distressing that he can't breathe, okay?

The main reason is that Chen Li has never thought about entering the beer industry, so the 500,000 credit line is really just used to install a fork.

When facing foreigners, Chen Li is actually very happy to pretend.

But I don’t feel happy spending half a million of my credit limit to pretend to be a fake person!

So ~ Chen Li is actually a little unhappy! If he is unhappy, naturally he doesn’t want to see Lucas happy.

If Lucas, the little brat, hadn't "provoked" him, he wouldn't have thought about installing that fork. If he hadn't installed the fork, he wouldn't have spent the five hundred thousand mall currency credit limit.

At this moment, Chen Li seemed to have transformed into Mrs. Xianglin.

But unlike Mrs. Xianglin who could only complain, Chen Li could do something.

For example, if he is depressed, he can make Lucas depressed too!

A box of Shennong beer ~ a total of twenty-four bottles.

Moreover, this Shennong beer is not packaged in 500ml which is popular in China, but in 330ml package.

Therefore, a box of Shennong beer will be completely consumed in this dinner.

And because he only got one bottle, Lucas pestered Chen Li for Shennong beer after dinner. Then...

"It's gone~ It's really gone!"

"This beer was given to me by a friend of mine. There were originally two boxes. I drank one box myself before."

"There's only one box left, and it's all for you!"

"You want to show it off to your father. Who can you blame if the wine is all gone?"

"Looking for me? I can't even conjure it up for you!"

"How about it? Our Chinese beer is no worse than your German beer, right?"

There was a hint of cunning in Chen Li's eyes. Seeing Lucas's "unsatisfied" state, Chen Li suddenly felt a little happy.

Ahem~ It’s a bit unkind to base your happiness on the unhappiness of others, but it’s really cool!

"Chen~I must admit this!"

"Your Chinese beer~is quite good!"

"But... too little!"

"Chen~ Is there any way you can get some more?"

"It's okay if I don't drink it, but after drinking one bottle, I can't drink any other beer."

The "other beers" Lucas mentioned here actually refer to other domestic brands of beer.

Because there was just a box of wine for dinner, but there were more than ten people in the team from Germany alone, and twenty-four small bottles of Shennong beer were definitely not enough.

Lucas only got one bottle, and the rest of the beer was shared by others.

Later, because Shennong beer was no longer available, the hotel served other beers.

Qindao~Yanjing~Snowflake all brought some over, but after drinking Shennong beer, drinking these beers feels like drinking water.

How to describe this feeling? If you use a wine glass that you have drunk liquor to fill with water, you can probably understand the feeling.

To put it bluntly, it’s like drinking water with a bit of alcohol flavor!

If there is no Shennong beer, then these Germans will just drink ordinary beer. After all, the customs of each country are different.

Chinese people just like to drink this kind of relatively light beer. When Germans come, they naturally have to adapt to the local customs.

But ~ Shennong beer was in front, which made these Germans a little excited.

They didn't expect that they could drink such good beer in China.

But the only disadvantage is that there are too few ~ too few.

When it comes to drinking, you are not actually afraid of drinking too much and getting drunk. What you are most afraid of is not drinking enough!

That feeling of not having enough is even more uncomfortable than the uncomfortable state of drinking too much!

After drinking enough and having a good time, everyone will be satisfied.

But half of the drink is gone. This is equivalent to lifting people's hearts, which is called a tangle!

So ~ when Chen Li was looking happily at Lucas's dissatisfied look on his face, a man suddenly came over.

"Xiao Chen~ I heard that you brought the wine here tonight?"

The person who came was a person in charge of a domestic manufacturer. To be precise, he seemed to be the director of the factory office, who was mainly responsible for logistics and so on.

The purpose of this person in charge's visit is very simple~it is to rush for the box of Shennong beer that Chen Li brought in the evening.

He has never doubted whether there is such a beer as Shennong Beer. After all, China is so big that many places have their own specialties, whether they are beer, liquor or even drinks.

He just thought that this beer might be produced by a small factory somewhere, and it probably wouldn't sell well.

In fact, he also drank a glass of Shennong beer in the evening.

But he thought the beer was average, even a little tasteless!

This is actually quite normal. As the office director of a domestic manufacturer, he drinks liquor most of the time.

If you want to talk about liquor, this person can probably tell you everything from wine making to wine tasting. He can even tell you what kind of wine it is as soon as you drink it!

This is not nonsense! Some people drink alcohol and ordinary people drink alcohol, which are actually two different things.

Ordinary people drink, either for socializing or because they like to drink!

But some people drink ~ that’s work!

Pay attention~ work and entertainment are actually two different things!

In his previous life, Chen Li knew a professional sommelier. How awesome was that guy?

The director of the factory office can taste what kind of wine it is, which is actually quite impressive.

But the sommelier Chen Li knows can tell you directly whether the wine is good or not, which year it was produced, why it is good, why it is not good, and even the story of the wine back then.

Chu.

What is this called? This is called professionalism!

You ordinary people drink wine~it’s just a hobby at most!

Isn’t there a saying? Don’t use your hobbies to challenge my major?

Hmm, okay, that's a bit far off topic, let's go back to the factory director.

This person's knowledge of beer is very limited, at best a little more than the average person.

However, as the director of the factory office responsible for logistics work, the purpose of coming to Chen Li was very clear.

For Shennong Beer!

To be honest, if this guy came to see Chen Li first, maybe Chen Li would have been given to him.

Chen Li told Lucas that he had no more wine~ It was because Chen Li saw that Lucas was uncomfortable!

But this is just a bit of Chen Li’s bad taste!

Chen Li could be happy because he had a little bad taste and deliberately saw Lucas's discomfort because he didn't drink enough, but he was not willing to let this incident affect the cooperation between the two companies.

After all, this is business, and if the negotiation fails because of such a trivial matter as not having enough wine, then the fun will be huge.

Of course, this is actually just Chen Li’s personal thoughts.

Because Chen Li had actually seen this kind of thing with his own eyes.

When some people in China talk about cooperation, some of them like to go to entertainment venues to talk. In the end, the talks fall apart because of some trivial matters. Chen Li has actually seen more than one of them.

But in fact, this time Lucas’s family’s business and domestic cooperation will not be affected by a few bottles of beer.

In fact, the cooperation between the two parties has already been achieved.

The German team came here this time, firstly to sign a contract, and secondly to guide the domestic team.

So whatever Chen Li’s idea is, it’s actually a bit ridiculous.

But regardless of whether it was ridiculous or not, Chen Li was not willing to affect others at will because of his nonsense.

Therefore, when facing Lucas, Chen Li could simply say that Shennong Beer was gone.

But when facing the person in charge, Chen Li couldn't say that.

"Director Liu~! I did bring this wine."

"However, this wine was given by a friend. There is only this one box left, and I drank it all tonight."

"I know why you're here~ In this case, I'll call my friend and ask him if there's anything else over there."

"If there are~ I'll ask him to send some over!"

"But~ Director Liu, I have to tell you in advance. This wine is not cheap!"

"It's easy to talk about money~it's easy to talk about money!"

When Director Liu saw Chen Li being so polite, he immediately laughed!

The price really wasn't an issue, after all, he didn't pay for it himself.

"Then this matter will trouble Xiao Chen!"

"By the way~ This is my business card. If there is anything I can do to help you in the future, Xiao Chen, please don't be polite to me!"

The two exchanged pleasantries, and finally Director Liu handed Chen Li a business card and left.

Holding this business card, Chen Li's eyes began to shine.

After this day of contact, Chen Li discovered that Director Liu is actually quite capable!

What a talent~ I really want to dig it out!

(End of chapter)