Chapter 3 Vegetables are good
As early as the late Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou Xiguan built the Shibafu and opened the Shisanhang, becoming the only trading port for China's foreign trade, attracting a large number of Fujian merchants to settle here, thus promoting the prosperity of this urban-rural fringe area, and gradually becoming the trade center of Nanhai County and even the entire Guangdong Province.
At that time, many wealthy businessmen built a large number of "luxury houses" in the Xiguan area, which are called "Xiguan Big Houses" by people now. The Xiguan Big Houses are tall and bright, with exquisite decorations, brick and wood structures, and blue brick and stone feet. They have the architectural characteristics and past style of Lingnan ancient houses. They are treasures of traditional Guangzhou architecture.
In this era, the most famous Xiguan house was "Liang Zizhengdi" located at No. 18 Baoyuan North Street, Deng Gong Baodi on Duobao Road and Zhongjia Garden in the middle of Baohua Road. Unfortunately, these famous garden houses no longer exist for various reasons. With the changes of the times, there are only a few primitive Xiguan houses, and local residents are basically not allowed to visit them.
Zhang Yunqi and his group were strolling on the ancient Baoyuan North Street. The weeping willows on both sides of the bluestone road were green. The sunshine in Guangzhou in July was very warm, but not hot. When I first saw him following Zhang Yunqi, I heard him telling the surrounding ancient sites and attractions, and couldn't help asking: "How do you know these?"
Zhang Yunqi smiled: "There isn't these knowledge books?"
When I first met, I laughed: "No matter how many books I read, I can't live a wise person. The path to life depends on walking."
That morning, Zhang Yunqi and his party walked a long way in Xiguan. Anyway, they had already finished the final exam. As for the grades and the class divisions for the next semester, they were thrown directly outside the sky. Everyone had fun, especially Wang Xiaokai, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Yang Wei, who were playing with jokes all the way, making the whole journey full of fun. And Ji Ling just took a camera, and every attraction was clamoring to take photos.
When I first met Ji Ling and Chunlan talked nonstop all the way, especially when I was quiet, Chujian was so happy that he not only laughed loudly, but even made a very cute and funny expression when taking a photo with Zhang Yunqi.
After taking the photo, Chu Jian asked Ji Ling: "When can I get the photo?"
Ji Ling was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Go and wash it immediately after you go back, and I'll give you the photos at that time."
At noon, I had lunch at Shangxiajiu, Xiguan.
More than 1,400 years ago, Indian monk Bodhidharma traveled to China to preach and landed on Xiajiu Road in Xiguan. Therefore, Xiajiu Road was also called Xilaichu. He also established Xilai Temple, founded Chinese Buddhist Zen Buddhism and Songshan Shaolin Temple, and also made it famous as the top ten tourist attractions in Yangcheng - Xiguan Business Park.
Nowadays, Shangxiajiu is one of the most prosperous commercial pedestrian streets in China, let alone food. One of the absolute symbols of Guangzhou cuisine, the saying "food in Guangzhou, taste in Xiguan" comes from here.
Zhang Yunqi chose the old brand of Shangxiajiu Ou Chengji, and ate fresh shrimp wonton noodles and boat porridge. Girls with a light taste like Ji Ling the most.
In the afternoon, I visited Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street and took a luxury cruise ship to see the night view of the Pearl River. The next day, the group climbed Baiyun Mountain, which is known as the most beautiful in Yangcheng, went to Yuexiu Park to see Zhenhai Tower, and lit incense and worship in the Ancient Temple of the Great Buddha.
There are three people who burn incense and worship Buddha in one round. Zhang Yunqi and his sister Chunlan have the first meeting. When it was their turn, Zhang Yunqi kowtowed three respectfully in front of the Golden Buddha, and then made a wish.
When she first saw Zhang Yun get up next to him, she saw that he was so pious, so she kowtowed three times respectfully. After going out, she asked Zhang Yunqi in a low voice: "What wish did you make?"
Zhang Yunqi said: "It's nothing. If you have a good health and good grades, your family will be happy. Where are you? You first meet."
Chujian blushed and said, "Can you not tell you now?"
Zhang Yunqi asked: "Then when are you going to tell me?"
The little face of the first visit was even redder: "I have to think about it."
Zhang Yunqi smiled and said.
This girl is not so serious, she is also quite cute.
On the third day, Zhang Yunqi finished his trip to Guangzhou and decided to go to Xiangshan to do a good job. He has admired Hu Zhibiao, who has been admiring him for a long time.
There were too many people, so Wang Guibing took a small bus to Xiangshan. Everyone was holding a brand new suitcase in his hand, and the big bags of things inside were all trendy goods bought from Shangxiajiu.
All of them were bought by Zhang Yunqi.
When we went out for a trip, everyone actually brought some money in their pockets, but except for Ji Ling and Chunlan, we were all children from ordinary families, and their financial strength was just that. On the first night of arriving in Guangzhou, Yang Wei found that the little money in his pocket was not enough to stay in the White Swan Hotel for one night.
Although he knew that Zhang Yunqi was quite rich, he only had a rough understanding. After several days of travel, he deeply realized how rich this low-key good guy in school is.
In addition to Zhang Yunqi himself and the first visit who had not bought anything, there were seven people left, each with a shopping quota of 2,000 yuan, which was 14,000 yuan. In addition to eating, drinking, sensation, living and playing, Yang Wei calculated in his mind that the expenses would not be less than 25,000 yuan, and the total salary of his father's six years of working.
I don’t know why, but Yang Wei suddenly felt that his ordinary life had opened a new chapter. He was not very good at his grades, he was not very old, only seventeen years old, but he also knew what height the people in his circle were, and to a certain extent it determined what height he was.
Wang Xiaokai was much more refreshed and direct. He served tea, water and bags on the road to serve all kinds of stinky feet. I guess if Zhang Yunqi's soap fell off, he would bow down without hesitation to pick it up. In short, in the eyes of others, no shameless things are in front of him, which made Zhang Yunqi doubt whether it would be a bit defiled by his spending money like this a bit.
On the bus to Xiangshan, Zhang Yunqi thought about it and talked about his personal experience when he opened a restaurant in his previous life. Of course, the form has been changed a little.
He said to the big guy: "Last night, one night, I had dinner at a small restaurant on Xinlin Road, and I met a young couple who came to eat the same meal. They should have just finished their work and looked very tired. At that time, the boy ordered 4 yuan per serving of braised pork rice, but the girl insisted that it would be better to have two servings of 2 yuan of vegetables. The couple quarreled for a long time, and finally the girl threw 4 yuan from the store owner. The two servings of vegetables and pushed the boy away from the counter."
Ji Ling was stunned and asked, "It's gone?"
"And," Zhang Yunqi continued, "After a while, the boy came over again, took out two coins from his pocket and handed them to the shop owner and said, "Give my wife a braised pork, I'll eat vegetables."
After Zhang Yunqi finished speaking, Ji Ling held his delicate chin in both hands and sighed: "This man is so heartwarming."
Chunlan said: "Is this kind of man rare?"
Wang Xiaokai said: "So, your women should use this as a standard when they find their husbands in the future, which is reliable."
Chapter completed!