Chapter 258: Serious Guesthouse
How fast you eat this Western meal depends on how quickly the dishes are served. Basically, they are all eaten up as soon as they arrive, and then you have to wait for the next one.
When we paid the bill after the meal, we found that the meal cost six dollars and fifty cents, and I had to pay with food coupons for the small bread.
Not to mention Liu Ni, Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing both felt heartbroken.
Before leaving, Comrade Lin Guoqing tilted his head back and licked the last drop of coffee from the cup, then walked out with a frown on his face.
Chen Chunhua kindly handed him the remaining soda in her hand, "It will help relieve your pain."
"I just forgot. I should have ordered a small cake. Foreigners always have dessert after their meals." Lin Guoqing finished drinking the soda and smacked his lips. The cake is sweet, the coffee is bitter. This is a perfect match!
"I should have found a noodle shop earlier." Chen Chunhua said, "I don't even know what I'm eating with this Western food. Although it has a lot of meat and tastes good, but..."
But it wasn't filling! The bread and potatoes looked like staples, but they weren't big portions. Three people only got a tiny bit. It would have been better to just eat rice or noodles. Six dollars and fifty cents would have fed the three of them for several days.
"It's just about trying some Western food and seeing the world. Maybe one day the kids will ask if Western food is delicious, and you can brag to them about it."
The guesthouse we stayed at that night was the same one Lin Guoqing always stayed at when he came to Shanghai. He was familiar with the receptionist. When the young man saw him with two women, he was shocked.
"Brother... this is... a proper guesthouse... you can't..."
"What? You have an illicit guesthouse?" Lin Guoqing smiled and threw out three letters of introduction, as well as his and Shen Chunhua's marriage certificate, which left the young man stunned.
"Stop thinking about all that nonsense and get me a double room and a bunk bed."
"Oh...you brought your wife and children to play today...I was scared." The main reason was that Lin Guoqing always came alone before, or at most with two people, both of them were men. It was the first time I saw him with his family.
"Okay, a double room with a dormitory, seven dollars. Here's the key. The double room is on the third floor. Do you think I need to introduce you?"
"No, here, take the money, thank you."
Lin Guoqing took Shen Chunhua and Liu Ni upstairs. Liu Ni leaned over to Shen Chunhua and whispered,
“Why is it so expensive here?”
"Not a lot. This is the city center, just a few steps from Nanjing Road, so it's definitely more expensive." Lin Guoqing explained as he went upstairs, "Double rooms here have telephones, so the beds are three yuan each."
After thinking for a moment, he added quietly, "I heard that a double room in a foreign-related hotel in Shanghai costs 75 yuan a room, so we're considered a good deal here."
Seventy-five! Liu Ni's eyeballs are almost bald.
"Is that bed made of gold? Can sleeping on it for one night make you immortal?"
"Who knows!" Lin Guoqing laughed. "Foreigners are all rich, and rich people definitely want to spend money on comfort. Maybe one day we'll make a lot of money and won't feel bad about spending 100 yuan a night. Then we'll find a way to stay here for a night!"
Normally speaking, ordinary people like them cannot enter foreign-related restaurants, but after traveling all over the country to do business in recent years, Lin Guoqing has learned one thing, that is, nothing is impossible, it just depends on whether you have enough money.
Chen Chunhua did not refute his words. Prices were rising anyway. In another twenty or thirty years, there would be rooms costing hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of yuan. With 75 yuan, they could only stay in a guesthouse. They didn't have to think about anything else and should just work hard to make money!
The double room, which cost six yuan a night, did have a telephone and even a private bathroom. Although it wasn't large, at least I didn't have to squeeze into a shared wash area. The room even had a sofa and a dressing table. Although they were quite old, they looked much more upscale.
Chen Chunhua and Liu Ni instantly forgot the heartache they had just felt and sat down on the soft sofa.
It has been two days since they left home. The time they actually spent on work was actually only half of today's daytime. Most of the rest was spent on the road. If they still wanted to go shopping tomorrow, they still had to go to bed early today.
"Take a shower and go to bed. Do you want to have breakfast at the guesthouse or go out tomorrow morning?" Lin Guoqing asked the two people inside while holding the door.
Liu Ni quickly sat up from the bed and said, "How about we eat at the guesthouse?" The world outside was too expensive.
"I think it's better to stay at a guesthouse. The breakfast is the same inside and outside."
Chen Chunhua also said so, and Lin Guoqing nodded, "Okay, you can just sleep in late tomorrow, I will come to wake you up. Don't forget anything when the time comes. I will be back in the afternoon, and you will definitely not be able to find it if you forget it."
No words were spoken that night.
At around seven o'clock, Chen Chunhua and Liu Ni got up. They waited and waited for Lin Guoqing to come to see them, but he didn't. They thought something had happened.
When Lin Guoqing finally arrived, it was almost 8 o'clock.
"You said you'd come to wake us up, but why are you here now? It's almost 8 o'clock." Chen Chunhua muttered, "Don't you still have to go shopping?"
"...Didn't I tell you to sleep in yesterday? Why are you getting up so early? The department store doesn't open until 9 o'clock."
Well, for Chen Chunhua and the others, 7 o'clock is considered lying in bed.
"Just walk over slowly after breakfast. When you see something you like, buy it. Don't worry about the money."
Lin Guoqing was still rambling on and on. Liu Ni had been hesitating all night and finally spoke.
"Uncle and aunt...can you lend me some money? I'll pay you back when I get back!"
Prices in Shanghai are high. She calculated for a long time in her notebook, and after adding the bus fare for today's return, she was left with only two or three yuan out of the twenty yuan, not including today's food expenses.
If my uncle and aunt want to eat something more expensive... I can say I don't want to eat it, but they will definitely give it to me for free, so I have to eat it with them. The 20 yuan is just right. If I want to buy something for the family, I can only borrow money.
Chen Chunhua glared at her and said, "What you said, even if you don't want to return it, I have to give it to you!"
I wanted to tell her what I wanted to buy and she would take out the money, but after thinking about it, I took out five 10-yuan bills and stuffed them into Liu Ni's hand.
"Take it for yourself. Buy whatever you want later. If you don't have enough, ask me for more. Don't worry about us. We can definitely move it back by train!"
Liu Ni excitedly kept saying thank you to her aunt, and asked if her aunt wanted to buy anything, she could give it to Chen Chunhua.
This made Chen Chunhua laugh out loud.
"You have so many sisters at home, you should take care of them first! Your uncle and I don't need them."
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