In front of me, she was facing away from me, looking up at the plaque with Chinese characteristics. She was wearing white pants and a light blue short-sleeved shirt, and her back looked graceful.
At this moment, I couldn't help but think of the words of the foreign driver just now, and immediately smiled bitterly: How is it possible? She can't really be like that, right?
She turned around and seemed to have noticed that I was looking at her from behind. I had already looked away the moment she turned around, and then looked at the plaque above.
She smiled and said to me: "I'm hungry. Let's go in quickly. I heard that there are dishes from all major domestic cuisines here. The raw materials are safer and the taste is purer than at home."
I said disapprovingly: "Isn't this unlikely?"
She smiled and said: "I heard this from the tour guide. It is said that Australia's entry quarantine is very strict. Not only will you be fined if you don't do it well, but you will be jailed in serious cases, so the food safety here is absolutely no problem. Plus coming here
In addition to us Chinese, more foreigners come here to eat, so the restaurants here pay great attention to the authenticity. Mayor Feng, tell me, how many things are authentic in our country?
Woolen cloth?"
I was silent for a moment. She was right. We do have big problems in the supervision of food safety in our country. In fact, it is not just a food safety problem. Someone once said: As long as the government regulates something, then this industry will
There will be problems.
Although it is easy for people to take such a statement out of context, and such remarks are a bit extreme, this phenomenon does exist. In the final analysis, this is a problem of too many management departments and involving interests. It can be said that our country’s administrative management
During the process, many issues were never clarified.
I am a mayor. Although I know the root of the problem, I still can't do anything about it. For example, the management of food safety involves several functional departments: the Health Bureau, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Bureau, the Agriculture Bureau, and the Public Security Bureau.
Bureau, Quality Supervision Bureau, etc. There are so many departments to manage, each department has its own different standards, coupled with the existence of various relationships, how can such things be managed well?
Even if I am the mayor, I cannot let certain departments below ignore their care. This is a problem at the level of the entire national management system.
We entered this Chinatown together. There were many people here, including many foreigners. And I found that there are all kinds of Cantonese, Sichuan, Hunan, Huaiyang, and even Xinjiang-style restaurants here.
I asked her: "What food do you want to eat?"
She thought for a moment and said, "Sichuan food."
I immediately laughed, "Why are you so confused? Tell me, what other dishes do you want to eat?"
She also laughed, "Xinjiang mutton skewers."
I smiled and asked, "What else?"
She smiled and answered me: "Forget the rest for now, let's eat slowly after we go back."
I immediately went to a Xinjiang-style restaurant with her, grilled some mutton skewers, lamb kidneys, etc., and then ate with her while going to a Sichuan restaurant nearby.
She smiled and said to me: "I didn't expect you, the mayor, to be so easy-going."
I smiled and said, "Who here knows that I am the mayor? If I were in Shangjiang City, I would not dare to do this."
She kept laughing.
We sat down at this Sichuan restaurant and I asked her to order. She ordered a spicy fish, a boiled beef, and a salt-fried pork. Finally, she ordered fried bean sprouts and spinach and tofu soup.
These dishes are very common and cheap. But I know that these dishes are difficult to make in Sichuan cuisine.
This is true of many things. The simpler something is, the more difficult it is to do it. It's just like calligraphy. The simpler the strokes, the more difficult it is to write well.
The dish was served and I started to taste it. The taste was really good and very authentic. The spicy taste of the boiled fish and the tenderness of the fish showed that the chef's skills were very exquisite. The same is true for the boiled beef.
Salt-fried pork is made by frying raw meat, then adding garlic sprouts and Yongchuan black bean paste. The raw meat should not be fried too much, nor should the time be too short, as the heat here is difficult to control.
There are no seasonings added to the spinach and tofu soup, not even salt or MSG. But the taste is very delicious. Such a practice is unimaginable in China. Almost any domestic restaurant uses a large amount of MSG for seasoning.
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We enjoyed this meal heartily. In fact, this is also a kind of happiness: we can eat the most delicious things for a small amount of money. The problem is that such a simple need is difficult to enjoy now.
After dinner, we went shopping together. I think Hong Ya’s suggestion is the best, which is to buy a woolen scarf here for each person who needs a gift. This is not only simple but also easy to get. I put it
After I mentioned this idea to Guan Qin, she completely agreed.
Therefore, we quickly bought ten pure wool scarves, and we mainly considered two colors when choosing them: red and white. Because these two colors will not be disliked by anyone.
Later, I found that she was unwilling to leave in front of a cashmere coat. After looking at it, I found that this coat was very beautiful in terms of quality and style. It also had a mink fur collar, but the price was a bit expensive. It was quite expensive.
Nearly 20,000 yuan in RMB.
I immediately understood the reason for her hesitation, so I smiled and said to her, "You try it. Since you like it."
She whispered to me: "It's too expensive. It will be embarrassing if you don't buy it after trying it for a while. This is overseas, and it will be embarrassing for us Chinese people."
I couldn't help but laugh, "Even if you are a foreigner and feel it doesn't fit after trying it on, it won't be considered a shameful thing. Try it, I think it should look beautiful on you."
She was immediately moved and asked the waiter to take off the dress and try it on her. After she put it on, I couldn't help but exclaimed, "It's so beautiful. It seems like this dress was specially made for you."
I'm not lying, this dress looks very beautiful on her, and it makes her look even more elegant.
Some people say that in addition to cheongsam, there is another kind of clothing that is particularly charming when worn by delicate women. They can wear a long coat and cry like they are crying.
In addition to being tall and thin, the most important thing for such a woman is that her face should not have a trace of noisy vulgarity. If she is young, precocious and has a little bit of sadness, she will look better in her clothes.
If you imagine this: when she wears this dress and walks alone in the wind and frost, her appearance may be weak, but because of the depth of her heart, there will be an indecent feeling between her eyebrows.
temperament.
She looked at herself in the mirror and kept looking at her with satisfaction. At the same time, she turned sideways and turned to look at all sides of her clothes. The female foreign waiter next to her also took the opportunity to flatter her that she was beautiful.
But she immediately took off her coat and whispered to me: "It's too expensive."
She said it was too expensive, not that it didn't look good. I smiled and asked the salesperson, "Can I get a discount?"
The salesperson nodded and said, "You can get up to 10% off."
I said to her: "Okay, we will buy it."
Guan Qin hurriedly said: "Hey! Can I buy some clothes? It's so expensive, it's almost my monthly income."
I smiled and said to her: "I'll buy it and give it to you. It's my gift to you this time we go abroad together."
She looked at me with strange eyes, "Why did you give me such an expensive gift?"
Go and say to her in a low voice: "I'm here to please you. I hope you won't tell others about my coming to see my cousin after you go back."
She immediately laughed, "Is it that simple?"
I nodded and smiled at her, "Yes, it's that simple."
She smiled and said: "Then I have made a lot of money? I am not the kind of talkative woman. I understand whether some things should be said or not. And this is a matter of moral character, so I cannot accept this gift from you. I accept it.
Wouldn't it be suspected of blackmailing you?"
I didn't expect that she would say this, but to be honest, what she just said made me very happy, and at the same time I felt a sense of relief and touch. I said: "Well, first of all, I have to thank you for helping me with my graduate students, and at the same time
Help me with my scientific research project. Secondly, I want to make you a friend. For this reason, can you accept my gift?"
She tilted her head and looked at me and smiled, "The first reason is not good. The graduate student is also my own, and the scientific research project is our cooperation. You don't need to thank me, because I will also benefit from it. If you want to thank me,
I can only thank you. We are friends... I like this. Okay, thank you, I will accept your gift."
I smiled and said: "That's great."
But at this moment, I suddenly felt depressed in my heart: What kind of world is this? I spend money to give things to people and I have to beg them. But I know in my heart that I must win over this person, otherwise everything will happen.
It would be very uneconomical if something went wrong.
We continued shopping until after five o'clock in the afternoon, but she almost didn't buy anything. But she was very happy and spent the whole time in the mall with great interest.
Most women are like this, shopping malls are their paradise. (To be continued)