A group of Chinese people filed out of the terminal. They were wearing uniform suits and pulling trolley cases of the same specifications. Even the reserved and uneasy expressions on their faces were the same. The one at the front was a group of Chinese people.
A somewhat wealthy man in his 50s, and next to him was a pretty and pleasant female translator.
"Director Zhu, please go this way... there seems to be a special passenger passage!"
Huang Liwei, a female translator who had just graduated from a language college less than a year ago, was going abroad for the first time, but she had to pretend to be familiar with all the rules and reminded Zhu Xiaofeng, director of the Hongyuan Provincial Department of Foreign Trade next to her, from time to time.
"As expected of a well-established developed country, this airport... tsk tsk... is really big and luxurious." Zhu Xiaofeng looked around and made nonsensical comments. He had gone abroad several times, but due to the language barrier,
I can't say I have any impressions of the countries I've visited, and I can't summarize any characteristics, so I just use "big" and "luxurious" to evaluate them.
"Director Zhu, look, that's the person from the embassy who came to pick us up." Huang Liwei spotted a big sign with "Hongyuan Province" written on it at a glance among the people picking up the plane, and immediately shouted excitedly in a low voice. Honestly
She said that if there was no one to receive them locally, she really didn’t know where to take the team.
"Is it Director Zhu? I am Wang Zheyi, the third secretary of the Chinese Embassy. I have been assigned by Ambassador Luo to greet you." A girl about the same age as Huang Liwei came forward with a smile and nodded to Zhu Xiaofeng.
"Oh, Secretary Wang, thank you Ambassador Luo, thank you Secretary Wang." Zhu Xiaofeng quickly stretched out his hand to shake hands with Wang Zheyi. The smile on his face was a bit humble. He knew that even though he was a powerful director in the province, he could
It means nothing if you go abroad to make noises. The embassy usually receives central leaders and ministry officials. He is a local official. They don't care at all.
Wang Zheyi smiled slightly, shook Zhu Xiaofeng's hand lightly, and then stretched out his hand to signal: "The car we chartered for you is outside, please come with me. The hotel booked for you is called Mellon Palace Hotel. When you arrive at the hotel
, I will write its name and phone number to you."
"Thank you so much. The embassy is really a caring person to us." Zhu Xiaofeng praised.
"You're welcome, this is what we should do." Wang Zheyi replied politely.
From the moment she saw Wang Zheyi, Huang Liwei's eyes never left her. She carefully observed Wang Zheyi's clothes, pants, shoes, bracelets, hairstyle, makeup, and even secretly sniffed and smelled the scent of Wang Zheyi's body.
The smell of perfume, and I keep this smell firmly in my heart.
Wang Zheyi's clothes are actually very ordinary, but his charm lies in the free and easy expression that he inadvertently reveals. This is a temperament that can only be cultivated by long-term foreign affairs work. Looking back at this foreign trade delegation in Hongyuan Province, everyone wears
They were all specially made suits before going abroad, but they all looked extremely awkward. No wonder some people said that no matter where they saw a delegation from mainland China, they would never mistake them for people from Hong Kong or Taiwan.
When Huang Liwei was in school, she was very envious of those teachers who could dress themselves up like foreigners. These students neither had enough financial strength to buy fashionable clothes nor enough vision to match their own clothes. Now, in
A blueprint appeared in front of her that she could refer to. How could she not study it seriously?
"Xiao Huang, Xiao Huang, what are you looking at!" The people next to her started to give warnings. Huang Liwei just stared at Wang Zheyi and almost bumped into others.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Director Jiang... I, I was just thinking about how to say in Spanish what Secretary Wang said about Mellon Palace Hotel." Huang Liwei quickly covered it up. She is also responsible for the organizational and administrative work of the entire delegation.
Everyone in the group knows each other. The person she just reminded her of is Jiang Huanwen, the director of the Hongyuan Province Steel Plant, who is the big financier of this trip.
The Foreign Trade Department of Hongyuan Province organized a delegation to come to Spain this time. The main task is to negotiate for the Hongyuan Province Steel Plant to introduce a set of steelmaking equipment that reaches the level of Europe in the late 1970s. After several years of hard work, the Hongyuan Province Steel Plant has
Finally, he persuaded the Ministry of Metallurgy to agree to this introduction project, and spent a lot of effort. He asked Hongyuan Province to allocate funds to realize this introduction. Naturally, if he wanted to introduce equipment, he had to go to the site for inspection first, so Jiang Huanwen called the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade.
Report and request to organize a group to go to Spain.
The Department of Foreign Trade approved the report and required that the delegation must include personnel from the Department of Foreign Trade in order to check the introduction policy of Red Steel. Of course, Jiang Huanwen could not refuse such a request, so there were
Director Zhu Xiaofeng, translator Huang Liwei, the director of the Provincial Government General Office, the wife of the director, the director of the Metallurgical Department... On the list submitted to the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office for filing, Jiang Huanwen and several middle-level cadres from Honggang were ranked last
How many of them.
Before getting on the plane, Jiang Huanwen finally got the good news, that is, they were no longer at the bottom of the list, and two new members had added their names after them. These two people were named Chen Hongcheng and Qin respectively.
ocean.
When Chen Hongcheng was the director of the Department of Materials and Materials, he had dealt with Jiang Huanwen, but the relationship was relatively ordinary. This time, Chen Hongcheng squeezed into the foreign trade delegation of Red Steel through his relationship with the Department of Foreign Trade, making Jiang Huanwen feel more comfortable.
What is surprising is that the travel expenses of Chen Hongcheng and the little follower named Qin Hai were borne by Chen Hongcheng himself and did not cost Honggang. The only advantage he took was to get two extremely precious places to go abroad at the time.
During the training before the delegation's departure and during the process of departure, boarding, transfer, etc., Chen Hongcheng used his dancing skills and quickly became enthusiastic with everyone in the delegation. In comparison, Qin Hai seemed dull.
More often than not, he has always maintained a taciturn attitude, following Chen Hongcheng closely, like a bag-carrier.
As for Qin Hai's identity, people in the group had some speculations. With the information conditions at that time, Qin Hai's name was not enough to spread to Hongyuan Province, so no one knew who he was. Chen Hongcheng introduced to everyone
When Qin Hai, he only said that he was a staff member of Red Sea Company, but what everyone found strange was that Chen Hongcheng's attitude towards this subordinate seemed a bit too equal, and this subordinate seemed to have too little discernment.
As a result, officials with rich political sense and gossip mentality made various conjectures about Qin Hai. One of the more concentrated views was that Qin Hai might be a child of a family related to Chen Hongcheng, and was arranged to hang out in Chen Hongcheng's company.
Days. With this understanding, everyone's attitude towards Qin Hai became enthusiastic. Although this young man is stupid, who knows which temple his father is a god in?
Under the guidance of Wang Zheyi, everyone got on a bus and arrived at the Mellon Palace Hotel. This is a three-star hotel located in the center of Madrid. It is surrounded by several commercial streets and the transportation is relatively convenient. Every time domestic
When similar business delegations come to Spain, the embassy will arrange them in several similar hotels to facilitate the members of the delegation to go shopping.
In recent years, more and more domestic delegations have gone to foreign countries to carry out business activities. Some delegations even just go out to travel and shop under the guise of business. For these groups, what the embassy can do is help rent cars.
Pick them up at the airport, find a hotel to drop them off, and leave the rest to them. If every group comes and someone from the embassy has to accompany them all the way, then the embassy won’t be able to do anything else.
Something happened.
The process of checking into the hotel was naturally overwhelming. Most of the people in the delegation didn't even understand English, let alone Spanish. Everything had to be guided by Wang Zheyi and Huang Liwei. These people are somewhat famous in China.
Yes, I don’t know what order is at all. When something happens, I yell and scream, hoping that the translator will solve it immediately:
"Xiao Huang, please come over and see what this thing is for..."
"Xiao Huang, why can't I turn on the lights here..."
"Secretary Wang, can you find someone to change the pillow? My wife can't sleep on such a soft pillow..."
The Spanish waiters in the corridor were all smiling, standing aside and looking at these old-timers from the East, indifferent. They only moved when Wang Zheyi and Huang Liwei asked them for help. Since this hotel became a Chinese hotel
After the embassy designated the hotel to receive the Chinese delegation, the waiters were used to this scene.
"Director Zhu, Xiao Qin and I will go out for a while, so you don't have to wait for us to have lunch."
In the chaos, Chen Hongcheng took Qin Hai to Zhu Xiaofeng's room and asked for leave from Zhu Xiaofeng.
"You...where are you going? Do you know the way?" Before Zhu Xiaofeng could say anything, Wang Zheyi, who was helping to instruct various electrical appliances in the room, was stunned and couldn't help but look back.
Seeing this, Wang Zheyi remembered that when everyone gathered around her to ask questions, the two people seemed to have said nothing. After she distributed the room keys, the two people had already carried them before anyone could find the elevator.
The box disappeared without a trace. At this moment, most of them were still busy familiarizing themselves with the room, but the two of them seemed to have packed up. The older one seemed to have taken some time to wash his hair and blow dry.
The wind makes the hair look quite smooth.
"Where are you planning to go? Also, don't you need to bring a translator?" Wang Zheyi asked strangely.
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