Maniel and his entourage appeared quietly at the Capital Airport. At his request, the staff of the Dubai embassy drove a few inconspicuous cars and took them to the reserved hotel - Capital Shangri-La Hotel.
When Prince Abdullah arrives with his delegation in a few days, they will stay at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
Several advance team members with different tasks chose to stay in hotels outside.
Although the overall conditions of the State Guesthouse are the best, they are not comfortable. The Dubai royal family is rich, so everyone is hanging around outside. After the official owner arrives, it will not be too late to stay inside the State Guesthouse.
Sun Dahai's Jiayi International Capital Hotel had not yet opened, so he introduced Maniel to Shangri-La. This is currently the most upscale hotel in the west of the capital.
The Friendship Hotel, where food was originally the order of the day, has become somewhat outdated in just a few years in the face of the influx of luxury hotels, which is a bit sad.
After Maniel completed the check-in procedures, he first went to the Dubai Embassy. The embassy would greet him and arrange some work tasks for him. Who made him fly directly from the University of Chicago to the capital instead of returning to his country.
Sun Dahai met Maniel at the hotel early the next morning. He was still jet-lagged and looked like he was sleep deprived.
Sun Dahai knew that the more he was allowed to sleep in this state, the more unbearable it would be, so he took him out to play.
Maniel did not come alone. He was in great ostentation. He was accompanied by not only his business director Dejaminha, but also an assistant, two young female secretaries, and two bodyguards.
Dejaminha was also an old acquaintance of Sun Dahai. After the two hugged and chatted for a few words, they were ready to set off.
After coming out, Sun Dahai realized that he had underestimated Maniel's "trendy" nature. As they walked out, several more people walked out of the hotel lobby and joined them.
This is the manpower specially arranged by the embassy for Maniel yesterday, including one driver, one bodyguard, and one full-time liaison officer assigned to him by the embassy.
In addition, the embassy actually assigned him two translators, one each from Chinese and Dubai.
Sun Dahai was a little confused after hearing this. Did he not believe in the professional ability of the translator, or did he have too much money and no place to spend it?
It can be seen from this that the "trench" nature of Maniel can be said to be a fine tradition of Dubai.
However, in the country, especially in the capital, is it necessary to go out with three bodyguards? You are just a college student who has not graduated, and you have no inheritance rights. Looking at the capital, besides me and the people from your embassy, who else can you have?
How many people know who you are?
Sun Dahai asked his question, but Maniel didn't take it seriously. In his eyes, having many followers around him meant that he was dignified, which was the symbol of a wealthy person.
As for the number of bodyguards, Maniel is a little embarrassed. Now that he has no inheritance rights, he only has these few bodyguards. Otherwise, when he goes abroad, he will be accompanied by at least seven or eight people, either openly or covertly.
Sun Dahai looked at himself. He was alone. That day, Risong was about to drive, but he was not with him. In the eyes of a wealthy man like Maniel, he was not as good as his butler.
The last time they went to Xiangjiang together, Sun Dahai noticed that there were three or four followers accompanying his butler Ludman at any time.
A large group of people, no, Maniel's group and the lonely Sun Dahai walked to the door of the hotel lobby, where Risong was waiting there in a Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit.
This car was allocated to Jiang Xiuping, but she thought it was too eye-catching and usually only used it to receive VIPs. She always asked her driver to drive her old Volvo out.
Sun Dahai ordered a total of three copies of the same Silver Spirit. It was at the beginning of 1986, and Sun Dahai relied on many connections to get it as soon as possible.
As a result, these three cars did not arrive until the end of 1987, by which time the new version of the Silver Spirit had already been released. Sun Dahai was so angry that he cursed, saying that with this work efficiency, his huge reputation was really wasted.
No wonder anyone who sold it to me in my previous life couldn't get rid of it.
In addition to the three cars for Jiang Xiuping, there is also one for Mr. Huang.
The last Silver Spirit, Sun Dahai borrowed the name of the patriarch Sun Weiguo and gave it to Huang Feifei to thank her for her hard work over the years.
It's just that among these three cars, only Huang Feifei's car is used daily, and Huang Lao's car has also become the company's courtesy car. These old people really have nothing to say.
Today he was going to pick up Maniel, a wealthy man, so Sun Dahai asked Narisong to drive Yinling out of the company. Who would have thought that he would bring so many followers.
Fortunately, the entourage had their own cars, two Mercedes-Benzes, and an 11-seater luxury van, all with ordinary black plates. They should have been transferred by the embassy from some company stationed in China.
The only people sitting in Yinling were Sun Dahai and Maniel. On that day, the liaison officer sat in the passenger seat and the others took several other cars.
The driver assigned by the embassy to Maniel was from the capital. He approached Narisong and asked where he was going. Narisong replied: "Xi'an Restaurant in Xinjiekou."
The driver seemed to be familiar with this area of the road. He replied: "Okay, I'll clear the way. Just follow me. Remember to turn on the double flashers."
He drove a Mercedes-Benz to take the lead, followed closely by Narisong's Yinling. Another Mercedes-Benz and a van followed behind, and a super luxury convoy was formed.
In 1989, there were more and more cars driving on the roads of the capital, but real luxury cars were still rare, let alone cars of the Silver Spirit level.
Just when we were about to pick up people at the hotel entrance, the doorman took the initiative to help divert traffic, so that they were the only ones waiting at the porch with a few black-brand cars (Sun Dahai's cars in the capital were all black-brand cars, as they were foreign-funded enterprises.)
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The convoy passed through many intersections along the way, and even the traffic policemen on duty would look sideways when they saw it. If it had been four or five years earlier, the traffic policemen would have saluted.
Old Xi'an Restaurant is not far from Sun Dahai's home. This is a northwest-style restaurant that opened after liberation.
Here are the Qing soldiers and generals from three time-honored brands in the northwest: "Lao Sun Jia", "Tong Sheng Xiang" and "Hou De Fu". It was first called "Xi'an Canteen" and later changed its name to "Xi'an Restaurant".
The most famous thing here is the beef and mutton steamed buns. There are also many traditional halal dishes, and the chefs cook them very authentically.
Before he left, Chef Cao liked to drag Sun Dahai here to eat steamed buns. The two of them chatted while breaking the steamed buns, and then ordered a mutton steamed bun and a beef steamed bun.
After waiting for the steamed buns to be served, ask the waiter for two empty bowls. Half of the two bowls of steamed buns are placed in the empty bowls. Each person has two and a half bowls of beef and sheep steamed buns, which are freshly baked.