The Pentium Era - South to North

Mr. Qiao and Mr. Yang also stayed at the Jinling Hotel. Meng Ping rented a small conference room here, and they negotiated in the conference room in the afternoon.

After eating, everyone went back to the room to take a rest, and the meeting started at three in the afternoon.

Liu Ligan called Xu Jiaqing and Li Yang aside, handed his car keys to Li Yang, and told them that your task in the past two days is to accompany Mr. Zhang and ask him not to show up in this hotel again, and leave now. .

Liu Ligan said this to them again, and both of them said they understood.

Xu Jiaqing and Li Yang went to Zhang Chen's room. Xu Jiaqing asked, Mr. Zhang, have you ever been to Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum? Zhang Chen said no. He had been to Nanjing several times, but he really hadn't gone anywhere.

"It really comes in a hurry and leaves in a hurry." Xu Jiaqing pointed at Li Yang and said to Zhang Chen, "Let's go, Mr. Zhang, let's go to the Presidential Palace first, and then to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, so that he can stay in this authentic Nanjing." B takes us to play."

Li Yang kept laughing on the side, and Zhang Chen also laughed and said: "Do you, Xu Jiaqing, also want stupid B?"

"He also calls me Dumb B. We are a pair of Dumb B's and we have the same chemistry." Xu Jiaqing said, and Zhang Chen laughed.

Zhang Chen stood up and was about to leave, but then he remembered again and asked, "Don't we have a meeting in the afternoon?"

Zhang Chen thought to himself that he would have to attend a meeting in the afternoon. If Mr. Qiao and Mr. Yang had any problems with the internal structure and functionality of the building, he knew best and could help answer them.

"It won't open. The two people from Shenzhen said they are a little tired. They need to rest in the afternoon to recuperate. We will start driving tomorrow morning."

Zhang Chen nodded, and the three of them went down to the parking lot and got into Liu Ligan's handsome car. Li Yang got excited and said, "Damn, this car."

Xu Jiaqing urged: "Hurry up and drive."

Li Yang said okay and left. Zhang Chen was surprised and asked, "It's just the three of us."

"The pole is on Lao Meng's car," Xu Jiaqing said.

They arrived at the Presidential Palace, walked around and came out, but did not see Meng Ping or Liu Ligan. Xu Jiaqing said that they went directly to Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.

When they arrived at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, they still didn't see Meng Ping and Liu Ligan. Xu Jiaqing stood there, looked around, and cursed, Qian Fang, this idiot, agreed to wait in the parking lot, where did they go? Forget it, stop looking for it. Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is so big. Who knows where they went. Let’s play by ourselves.

Zhang Chen took out his big brother and said, I will beat Lao Meng.

Xu Jiaqing shook his head: "Stop fighting, there is no signal here, big brother, let's go up by ourselves."

They went up and down and returned to the parking lot. It was already evening. When they got to the car, Xu Jiaqing said, "Mr. Zhang, have you ever been to Xuanwu Lake? How about we go to Xuanwu Lake?"

Zhang Chen shook his head: "I've never been there, but I've seen it before. When I took the train, the broken lake in front of the train station was Xuanwu Lake. What's so fun about it? It's the same as West Lake. The water is smelly. There's no West Lake yet. Fun.”

"You don't know, he is a foreigner after all." Xu Jiaqing said with a smile, "Xuanwu Lake is not for fun, but for watching. It is interesting to watch Xuanwu Lake while eating."

"Let's go to Xuanwu Lake Hotel." Xu Jiaqing and Li Yang said.

Zhang Chen asked: "Lao Meng and the others also came here to eat?"

Xu Jiaqing did not answer, but talked to Li Yang who was driving in front. She and Zhang Chen were sitting in the back seat together.

Zhang Chen took out his mobile phone and wanted to call Meng Ping. Xu Jiaqing took the phone over and said, "I'll call."

Xu Jiaqing dialed Meng Ping's phone and said to Meng Ping, Lao Meng, we were on the way to the Xuanwu Lake Hotel. Mr. Zhang asked where you were... um... okay, you tell Mr. Zhang.

Xu Jiaqing handed the phone to Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen asked: "Meng Ping, where the hell have you been all afternoon?"

Meng Ping laughed: "We are looking for you too. The phone is not working in that damn place. Zhang Chen, you and Xu Jiaqing go to dinner. That Mr. Yang, who is so crazy, insists that we accompany him to Confucius Temple?" , we are going to pick him up now, so we won’t come over. What fun is there in this broken Confucius Temple? There is really nothing we can do.

"Zhang Chen, we will have dinner at the Confucius Temple to kill some time. They may also want to eat duck blood vermicelli. Foreigners are like this. You can eat yours. That place is nice."

Zhang Chen said okay.

They arrived at Wanghu Xuan Palace on the 20th floor of Xuanwu Lake Hotel. They had obviously made a reservation. Xu Jiaqing walked to the door and told the waiter, who took them to the side near the floor-to-ceiling glass. Outside was Xuanwu Lake, but at this time, It was already dark outside, and it was pitch black.

Zhang Chen asked Xu Jiaqing, is this what you said about seeing Xuanwu Lake?

Xu Jiaqing and Li Yang laughed.

Xu Jiaqing said: "I can't see it anymore, so let's eat it."

When the food arrived, maybe he was hungry. Zhang Chen felt that the food and snacks here were really delicious. Xu Jiaqing asked, "How is it, Mr. Zhang?"

Zhang Chen kept nodding, Xu Jiaqing said, is it a worthwhile trip?

Zhang Chen still nodded.

After finishing the meal, he went downstairs and got in the car. Li Yang drove the car, but instead of going back to Jinling Hotel, he went to an unknown place, an antique building, and parked the car in the yard. As soon as he got off the car, There was a pungent smell coming from the side.

Xu Jiaqing and Zhang Chen said: "This is the Qinhuai River."

Zhang Chen walked to the edge and took a look. There was a river about four or five meters wide outside. It was called a river, but it was actually a ditch. The odor came from this ditch, and passed through it on both sides. Looking at the light reflected in the house, Zhang Chen saw that both sides of the ditch were lined with dilapidated and low-rise dwellings, and the buildings were quite old.

Opposite there is a small pier built with stone slabs, and there is a woman scrubbing the toilet on the pier.

Zhang Chen walked back and asked Xu Jiaqing in disbelief: "This is the Qinhuai River? The famous Qinhuai River? You won't lie to me, a foreigner, right?"

"How could I lie to you, Mr. Zhang?" Xu Jiaqing said.

Zhang Chen looked at Li Yang, and Li Yang nodded. Zhang Chen had to believe it even if he didn't believe it. It turned out that this was really the Qinhuai River. Zhang Chen felt that he heard the sound of broken dreams, but aren't dreams meant to be broken? , no matter how beautiful a dream you have, the result that wakes you up will always be bad.

Li Yang led them inside, and Zhang Chen asked curiously: "What are we doing here?"

"Foot massage and pedicure are all performed by masters from Yangzhou. I guarantee that after you have your pedicure done, you will definitely come back next time. You can't find this place even if you are not a local in Nanjing." Xu Jiaqing said.

They entered a room on the second floor. There were four recliners in it. The recliners were covered with white bath towels. They looked very clean. The window on the lake side was open. Xu Jiaqing said to the master, close it and quickly close the window. Close it, it stinks.

The master walked over and closed the window. When he came back, his nose seemed to be dull, so he twitched his nose twice and told them that for some reason, the river water had been particularly smelly these past two days.

Xu Jiaqing said: "I don't know how the people living on both sides of the river can bear it?"

"You just need to get used to smelling this kind of stuff. People who come here say it smells bad. We work here every day so we can't feel it."

Zhang Chen almost laughed. No wonder your nose is dull.

The three people lay down on three deck chairs, and two more masters came in. They all spoke with the same accent. Zhang Chen asked the masters, are you speaking Yangzhou dialect?

"Talk on the street." The master said to Zhang Chen.

"Talk on the street? Where is the street?" Zhang Chen asked.

"In the suburbs of Yangzhou, people who don't know outside may think that what we speak is all Yangzhou dialect. In fact, we Yangzhou people can still tell them apart. We Yangzhou people will only call the dialect in Yangzhou city Yangzhou dialect, and the dialect in the suburbs Yes, as the saying goes, we are all from the suburbs of Yangzhou."

Zhang Chen nodded and asked: "In Nanjing, do you have many people in Yangzhou?"

"Many, in barber shops, restaurants, bathhouses, and pedicure shops like ours, we bump into fellow villagers." The master said.

"That's right, aren't your famous three knives in Yangzhou, the kitchen knife, the razor and the pedicure knife? Master, have you been learning this since you were a child?"

"At the age of sixteen, if you don't want to study anymore, just learn this. It's hard to find a job, so you just learn a craft. If you don't learn this, there's nothing else to learn. All the masters you can find are doing this. But now, we have many factories there. Now, there are fewer people learning this.”

Zhang Chen nodded. When the master was talking to him, he kept rubbing, pinching, kneading, scraping, and pressing with his hands. Zhang Chen felt that he really felt very comfortable. He looked at Xu Jiaqing beside him, and Xu Jiaqing also While looking at him, seeing him turn his head, Xu Jiaqing smiled and said:

"Comfortable?"

Zhang Chen said, comfortable.

"I also need a pedicure. After the pedicure, I feel more comfortable." Xu Jiaqing said.

The master seemed to have heard Xu Jiaqing's speech. He then took out his pedicure knife and carefully trimmed the old skin on Zhang Chen's heels and toenails. After trimming, he also used a file to file it.

After getting his pedicure done, Zhang Chen stood up and said with a smile: "I feel like my feet are one size too small and I can hardly fit them in my shoes."

Xu Jiaqing, Li Yang and the pedicure master all laughed.

The three of them walked outside and got in the car. Li Yang asked Zhang Chen if he wanted to take a bath in the bathhouse and rub his back. The two Yangzhou masters he knew were very good at doing back rubs.

Zhang Chen said no, just go back to the hotel and wash it yourself.

"Okay, then let's go rub our backs tomorrow night." Li Yang said.

I started the car and drove slowly on the road. The street trees in Nanjing were the same as those in Hangzhou. They were all French plane trees. Although the leaves of the plane trees at this time had fallen off, their fine branches were no longer as sad as they were when it snowed a few years ago. , it seems that the branches are very tough and strong. Zhang Chen knows that for each branch, there will be a bud bursting in the spring breeze.

At this time, they are accumulating energy. Every branch will be green and strong. Those remaining branches have been blown away by the autumn wind and fallen by the snow.

They walked around on the road for more than half an hour. Zhang Chen saw that the street scenes on both sides of the road were vaguely familiar. I went, isn't this the road from the Xuanwu Lake Hotel in front, why are we back again instead of going to the Jinling Hotel?

"Are we going back to that eating place again?"

"Yeah, let's get something." Xu Jiaqing said.

Zhang Chen understood. It turned out that they left something in the restaurant when they were eating. But the three people and three bags seemed to be there, so they didn’t leave anything behind. However, the girls had a lot of things in their bags. Who knows if they would Zhang Chen couldn't ask questions if he left his lipstick or something.

The car stopped in the parking lot in front of the hotel. Zhang Chen and Xu Jiaqing said, I won't get in.

"Go up, go up, go up with me, Mr. Zhang, I know you are the best." Xu Jiaqing said, a bit coquettishly, Zhang Chen had to go down.

The three of them entered the elevator, and Xu Jiaqing pressed twelve instead of the twentieth floor where Wanghu Xuan Palace was located.

Zhang Chen was surprised: "Aren't we going to the restaurant?"

"Why are you going to the restaurant?" Xu Jiaqing was also surprised.

"Didn't you mean to get something?"

"Oh, go get it from the room."

"You live here?"

Xu Jiaqing nodded randomly.

"Not bad." Zhang Chen exclaimed, "The five-star hotel is used as a dormitory."

Xu Jiaqing still nodded casually.

Walking along the corridor to 1209, Xu Jiaqing took out the key card and opened the door. Zhang Chen was stunned for a moment. This was obviously a new house. It didn't look like someone had lived in it. What were you doing here?

Xu Jiaqing said: "Mr. Zhang, this is your room."

Zhang Chen was taken aback, stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "Xu Jiaqing, what are you doing? Why do you feel so weird this afternoon?"

Xu Jiaqing and Li Yang laughed wildly.

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