Chapter 273:
The capital of Guangdong Province in the late 1950s was noticeably more "developed" than many current inland cities. Even washed by heavy rain, the neon lights on a rainy night seemed to transport Xiao Yu back in time. It seemed as if it had already revealed its future as a world-class commercial capital.
The car that met them at the station took them to the entrance of the Xinhua Hotel, where they would stay for the next three days. It was said that due to heavy rain for two weeks, the machines and production materials that had been scheduled to arrive at the factory were unable to enter.
The house originally arranged for Zhou Yan and others was also flooded due to heavy rain.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou. The leader said that he will try his best to arrange it for you." The person who met Zhou Yan and others at the station sent them to the door of the guest room and was very apologetic.
The continuous heavy rain had left the hotel's rooms extremely tight. Zhou Yan, along with the other engineers and technicians from the capital, were only able to book one room.
Zhou Yan didn't care about this. He was more concerned about: "If the rain continues, when can the equipment be brought in? We can't keep wasting time like this."
The receptionist paused and said, "Our leader said that the machine must be brought in within a week at the latest."
"……good."
"Well, it's raining so hard that many roads are flooded. We can't take any risks under these circumstances. We can only ask Mr. Zhou and everyone else to stay here for the next three days. After that, the leaders will arrange other accommodations for you. You can move around freely during these three days."
"Um."
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After seeing off the receptionist, Zhou Yan and his group entered the guest room. The room was small, but fortunately, it had a double bed, and it was quite wide. Aside from the child being a little awkward to fit, each bed was definitely enough for two people.
In addition, the hotel also provides food, but it was already past nine o'clock in the evening, and the few people who had eaten fish before getting off the bus had no appetite for anything else.
I made some applesauce with boiling water and drank it to refresh myself, then started washing up one by one.
No words were spoken that night.
The next day, the rain continued to fall. Zhou Yan and Gangzi went out to get breakfast and inquired about the other technicians, engineers, and professors who had arrived a day earlier than them. They were either staying in the guest rooms, reading or sleeping, or reading the newspaper, or heading to the teahouse or shopping mall next door with umbrellas.
Xiao Yu had no interest in shopping, but the room was too small and the weather here was stuffy. It would not smell good if four people and two children were huddled in there for a long time.
In order to breathe some fresh air, Xiao Yu didn't even eat a few bites of breakfast. He followed Zhou Yan and went to the shopping mall near the hotel with his child in his arms.
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"It is said that many things in the mall here do not require tickets." Zhou Yan held the largest oil-paper umbrella firmly in one hand, shielding himself, his wife and children, while speaking to Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu thought for a while and said, "It seems that we don't have anything good to buy?" The main reason is that the shopping malls nowadays are not as spacious as those in the future.
"Why don't we go to a teahouse? I heard the dim sum there is quite good."
Xiao Yu's eyes lit up and he nodded: Let's go.
Thinking of something, he asked Zhou Yan with his spiritual sense: "So, for breakfast, you deliberately bought so little?"
Zhou Yan smiled but said nothing. The hotel's environment was too bad, and the temperature here was also very stuffy. His fish were easy to raise, but they were a bit mysophobic at times.
The four people who just got off the train had a strong smell from the combined smell, even though they had showered last night, especially after being stewed overnight.
He thought of this when he bought food, so those foods were actually prepared for Gangzi and Monkey.
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The quaint teahouse was still elegant and quiet even though it was pouring rain outside. Xiao Yu followed Zhou Yan up to the second floor and saw many foreigners chatting and laughing while eating.
The family of four chose to sit by the window with a large pot of green plants next to them.
After that, I ordered a table full of meals and enjoyed them while feeding my child.
Taking advantage of the cover of the green plants around him, Xiao Yu asked the third and fourth children to come out to eat.
The two kids have already adapted to the sudden change of environment. Of course, they are even more accustomed to today's supplementary food.
The two girls only ate the egg from a bowl of steamed egg with shrimp, plus a little fatty meat from steamed pork with rice noodles.
They didn't eat the two eggs, but they did eat the steamed pork with rice flour, the meat porridge, the custard buns, and even a little cake. If Xiao Yu and Zhou Yan hadn't been afraid of overeating, these two guys with lightning-fast paws would have almost helped them clear the table.
"How old are they! They eat so much!" Xiao Yu muttered to Zhou Yan in his consciousness. The two boys who were exchanged back rolled around on the blanket, probably because they had eaten delicious complementary food. They even turned on music and entertained themselves happily.
Xiao Yu: -_-||Is this the legendary saying that when the tiger is away, the monkey becomes king?
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Listening to the sound of rain and quietly enjoying the delicious food, it was almost ten o'clock when several familiar figures appeared at the stairs.
——Long Xunhai, Luo Ziwei, Lei Xiangqian and two unknown people who were obviously traveling with the first three.
As soon as the first three came up, they noticed Zhou Yan and Xiao Yu. It wasn't because their positions were particularly eye-catching, but because these people had sharp reconnaissance abilities.
"Why are you in Guangdong Province?" Lei Xiangqian asked, his eyes scanning the table. "Are you done eating? You came quite early."
Zhou Yan looked at him and replied calmly, "Business."
Lei Xiangqian nodded as if he had just remembered something: "Where do you live?"
Zhou Yan frowned: "Xinhua Hotel."
"Okay, I'll come find you guys tonight. Don't go out."
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