After getting off the bus, the old man ran to the window and reluctantly said to Lu Jiaxin: "Xiao Lu, you must come to see me when you get to Yangcheng."

Lu Jiaxin poked her head out and said with a smile on her face, "Don't worry, Grandpa Chen. I will definitely come to see you when I get to Yangcheng."

Uncle Chen was so scared that he quickly said, "This is very dangerous. Don't do this again next time."

"Okay, I'll listen to you, sir."

The train started moving, and Uncle Chen slowly turned into a dot and finally disappeared. Only then did Lu Jiaxin climb back to the upper bunk.

At this time, there were only two of them in the small room, and everyone else had gotten off the train. Gu Wenfeng asked, "Will you really go to Yangcheng to see him?"

"It depends. If I have time, I'll visit you. If I don't have time, forget it."

It was evening when they arrived in Pengcheng. After getting off the train, she looked at the simple station and couldn't help but sigh again at the rapid development of this city. Who could have imagined that a small town would become an international metropolis as famous as the Magic City of Beijing in more than 20 years?

Gu Wenfeng saw that she was standing there without moving, and her expression was hard to read. He didn't ask her what she was thinking, but directly reminded her: "It's getting dark, we have to find a place to stay."

After leaving the train station, Lu Jiaxin saw an old man and a child sitting under a tree on the roadside to enjoy the cool. She thought that the first thing she would do when she made money was to buy a camera. She wanted to take pictures of everything she saw. After thirty or forty years, these pictures would be invaluable.

There were no high-rise buildings at that time, and there were arcades on both sides of the street. It rains frequently here all year round, and the arcades with eaves can provide good shelter from the rain. Although this place is not prosperous, you can see advertisements on the street after walking for a while, which shows that this place has shown a new atmosphere.

Gu Wenfeng asked the old man who was sitting under the eaves to enjoy the cool air: "Uncle, where is the guesthouse?"

The old man looked at him without saying anything.

Lu Jiaxin went up to ask for directions in Cantonese. The old man smiled and pointed to the right, saying that there was a fork ahead and that the guesthouse was not far away after turning left.

Gu Wenfeng looked at her in amazement, and on the way to the guesthouse, he couldn't help but ask, "When did you learn to speak Cantonese?"

Lu Jiaxin didn't even need to make excuses: "My aunt married in Yangcheng. I lived in her house twice when I was a child, and I learned it from my cousins."

Children have a strong learning ability. After spending two summer vacations in Guangzhou, she could speak a lot of Cantonese. However, she learned quickly and forgot quickly, which made her no longer have to hide from others and find someone to learn from.

"Is your aunt in Yangcheng?"

Lu Jiaxin hummed and said, "My uncle is from Pengcheng. He transferred to Yangcheng and my aunt followed him here. But I don't know what happened seven years ago, and the two families stopped communicating."

It was her father who introduced her aunt Lu Chunhua to her uncle Duan Jiefang, and the two families had a close relationship. But later, for some reason, Lu's mother and Lu's aunt fell out. I asked Lu's mother about this, but she didn't explain and just said that there was no such relative.

The two walked for about ten minutes and arrived at the guesthouse. In fact, there is already a hotel here. It's just that the hotel is expensive, and Lu Jiaxin thinks it is unhygienic and unsafe. Now and in the future, Pengcheng is a mixed bag, and the public security is not good, so the guesthouse is the most cost-effective.

After entering the room, I found it was a standard room with two single beds covered with white sheets and quilt covers. There was a table and a chair in the room, and a kettle, a washbasin and a cup on the table. The room was clean, but there was a big problem. There was no independent bathroom. After giving the canvas bag to Gu Wenfeng, Lu Jiaxin took the washbasin and clothes to the public bathroom.

After taking a shower, Lu Jiaxin was hungry, so she went out for dinner. Seafood was the first choice here, and Lu Jiaxin ordered stir-fried shrimp, steamed yellow croaker, garlic oysters, and scallop and winter melon soup.

The yellow croaker that Lu Jiaxin ordered weighed nearly two kilograms. After it was served, she took a piece with chopsticks and put it in her mouth. Because it was wild and freshly killed, the meat was tender and delicious.

Gu Wenfeng knew from her cheerful expression that she liked to eat seafood, but when he was about to eat, Lu Jiaxin sighed. He asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this fish?"

Lu Jiaxin put down her chopsticks and scooped some soup into the bowl while saying, "The fish is delicious. I just thought of something and felt a little overwhelmed."

Due to environmental changes and overfishing, many fish are on the verge of extinction. That's fine, but forty years later, those beasts on the island countries still discharged nuclear waste water into the sea, which is incalculable harm to the sea.

Gu Wenfeng thought she was thinking about the things that Ding Jing had plotted against her, so he comforted her, "Don't think about the past. Look forward."

Lu Jiaxin knew he had misunderstood, but she didn't explain: "We have to eat it quickly, it won't taste so good if it gets cold."

Although seafood is delicious, it tastes much worse when it is cold. Nowadays, marine resources are abundant and the seawater is not polluted. When she makes money, she will eat top-quality seafood such as king crab, bluefin tuna, and Belon oysters.

Gu Wenfeng had been to Pengcheng once and had eaten seafood, but he didn't think it tasted as good as this one. And because Lu Jiaxin didn't eat much, he didn't want to waste food, so he ate too much. He was afraid that Lu Jiaxin would laugh at him, so he endured the discomfort even though he was a little full.

Lu Jiaxin actually noticed that he had eaten too much, but she just pretended not to know. On the way back, she took the initiative to talk about her plan: "Brother Gu, let's find an expert to appraise the painting first, and then find a buyer after getting the appraisal certificate."

There was no need to ask for help, she could just spend money to get the information from the experts. But her age was a disadvantage, so Gu Wenfeng had to do it.

Gu Wenfeng did not shirk his responsibility. "Okay, I'll go tomorrow."

In order to wear new clothes and shoes for the New Year, even if she had no money, she would still want to buy a piece of cloth to make some clothes. Lu Jiaxin thought that she must convert the painting into money as soon as possible, and then find a processing factory to make winter shoes and ship them back. If she sold them before the New Year, she would definitely make a fortune.

Seeing the guesthouse from a distance, Gu Wenfeng suddenly asked, "Miss Lu, how much do you plan to sell this painting for?"

"A painting by a famous artist in the ancient capital costs between 10,000 and 20,000 yuan, but it's definitely more than that in Pengcheng. We'll see how much it's worth when the time comes!" Lu Jiaxin said. Paintings by famous artists have always been loved by those who like to show off their tastes, and they can be sold at a high price. In view of the market conditions in the mainland, her psychological price is 50,000 yuan, 50,000 Chinese yuan.

Pengcheng refers to Shenzhen and Yangcheng refers to Guangzhou

(End of this chapter)