Lin Yilong really admires those girls who go to nightclubs in the harsh winter and are very thinly dressed. Except for the Yeon sisters, who covered a little tightly during the birth, at other times, Katie, Nadia, and Vera were attending occasions such as welcome receptions, and even in the coldest of January, they had to take the maxim of "beauty fights the cold" to the extreme—at this time, Lin Yilong was wearing thick warm pants under his pants, and the warm clothes were also covered under his shirt—and Amy was the same.

Rather, for an informal occasion like a bank New Year's reception, there seems to be no more suitable outfit for Amy other than the generic "cocktail party dress". In order to keep warm, Amy only put a gray-black cotton coat on top of the dress, which in some places resembled the pattern of tires.

"Who are you?" Lin Yilong saw Amy and said, "I'm waiting for a beautiful girl, not a village girl with tires!"

Amy pouted in displeasure.

"Who made Brother Yilong talk so happily with that sister today, so there is only the village aunt today. Amy said.

"Does the village aunt have any recommendations tonight?" Lin Yilong followed Amy's words and asked.

"I've always wanted to go to dinner at the Shilla Hotel!" said Amy without hesitation.

"You booked a place?" Lin Yilong asked.

"No ......," Amy whispered.

Lin then made a phone call to his concierge company to inquire about possible reservations. After all, it is a three-Michelin-starred restaurant, and the seats are still very popular, but the answer on the other end of the phone is yes.

Gotta explain the concierge company. It is said to be a concierge company, but the so-called concierge is not so much the contact person himself. They have priority channels to help their customers fulfill their wishes, such as booking an already overcrowded hotel or a whimsical meal like Lin Yilong's. When it comes to lifestyle-related services, they don't say they can't do it – the price is very high. For example, if Lin Yilong had the idea to go to the premiere two days before the premiere of the film, the concierge company would have gotten the tickets, and the £75 tickets would have suddenly increased by 150 times to £11,500.

But since Amy wants to go, Lin Yilong won't have a problem.

"I have a question. The two got into a taxi and headed for Silla, and Lin Yilong switched his language to English, "Why are the taxi drivers and ambulance drivers here retirees?"

"Guest, I can speak English. The driver reminded with some dissatisfaction.

"Sorry, disrespectful. Lin Yilong saw that he had failed to avoid the driver, so he asked the taxi driver this question very politely, "I have been to Hanyang several times to take a taxi, and I have never seen a young person driving, even a person in his fifties like my father. Most of them are annuity earners like the driver. ”

"This question is very simple, there is no money!" The driver saw Lin Yilong put his posture very low, and still replied, "I used to work in a small club, and when the year was at its best, I could get 2.5 million a month in 91-93 - maybe you don't know what 2.5 million meant at that time - let me tell you, at that time, I could buy a beautiful house with a garden in Jiangnan after earning my salary for five years, but now 2.5 million is nothing." ”

"Don't you still have a pension?" Lin Yilong asked.

The driver glanced at Lin Yilong from the rearview mirror and probably understood that he was a foreigner.

"The pension in this country is not the same as in other countries, and there was no pension before. Children usually support the elderly, but the financial crisis has changed all that – especially the so-called 'individualism' from the United States. When education empties our wallets, we find that today's children have no idea of supporting the elderly. In the past few years, because of Jinhui's pension policy, I can get 200,000 yuan a month in state support, and I retired before that, and I no longer have any source of livelihood - so I can only come here to drive a taxi.

"Don't look at me like this, it's better to be able to afford a taxi - better is to buy a house and land here in the years when the national economy took off, they make money through the rent of the house, 5 million a month, than I drive a taxi now, only 2 million a month when it's good, but I need to work nearly 15 hours a day. The taxi driver continued to introduce Lin Yilong's current pension situation, "The employees of the big chaebol are better, but the employees of a small club like ours are miserable." You don't live in JN, do you?"

"No, I live in JD. Lin Yilong replied.

"Do you have a recycling bin downstairs?"

"Yes. ”

"If you look closely, the people who come to collect garbage around 10 o'clock every day are elderly people like me. The taxi driver said, "1.6 million a month barely survives." ”

"It's miserable. Lin Yilong replied, "What about the employees of the big chaebol?"

"75% of the average salary in a month. The taxi driver replied, "So, they're okay, and they have medical reimbursement from big companies, so they don't have any worries at all." ”

The taxi driver then angrily criticized Green House for allowing the chaebols to exploit small businesses, but his speech didn't last long before Lin and Amy's destination arrived.

"Is this true?" Lin Yilong asked, not to mention the pension issue, just talking about the fact that they have a dual-income family, it is not only stronger than here, but also stronger than the elderly in most European countries, not to mention that the economic situation of the two has always been good, even if their income is compared with that of workers in other Western countries, their income is also "considerable".

"I guess so. Amy replied, "My grandmother lives on the small shop she runs for a month, and sometimes I can give me 10,000 yuan in pocket money or something." ”

Amy's words made Lin Yilong ashamed, before he came here to transit, Lin's mother would give him 200,000 "pocket money" every time they met - this is already the monthly living support of many Korean elderly people.

His exclamation ended here, no matter how ashamed Lin Yilong was, he was limited to sighing - the more money he had, the more choices he had.

"Change your mood and go eat. Lin Yilong said to Amy, who was waiting beside him, "Anyway, tomorrow will be more challenging, so let's cherish today and try the so-called palace dishes." ”

Amy and Lin Yilong entered arm in arm, walking past a "Luo Yan" poster - the price of the whole meal, more than 500,000 yuan per person.