Chapter 49: Travel
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Zhenhua and Gu Jialiang began to be busy with the Spring Festival again, Gu Jialiang gave Wang Heli the car keys before going to work, and asked him to take the old couple and Gu Yiming around the neighborhood, and now the four of them are idle in the family.
Wang Heli got his driver's license the year he graduated from university, and when he was working in Guangzhou, he often drove the company's car to run errands, so he agreed.
Wang Jinshan and his son discussed for a long time, and there was no interesting place nearby, and the nearest one was the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and he had not taken Gu Yiming to it.
"You see that his grandmother followed his eldest son's family to Phuket for a trip to a foreign country for the New Year! We don't have that strength, it's good to go to the hometown of Confucius and Mencius to experience traditional Chinese culture!
"Okay, okay!" Gu Yiming jumped up and down, very excited.
It was only an hour or two to drive to Jining, Li Hui was about to bring some food, but was ridiculed by Wang Heli, "I said Mom, what age is it, why are you still here, how troublesome it is to bring so many things, have you not been out for a long time, do you know how far society has developed now?"
"It doesn't matter what stage of development it gets, some preparations still have to be made!" Li Hui and Wang Jinshan have lived together for a long time, and they are also a little stubborn, at her insistence, they boiled a bag of eggs and brought a few hams, which were issued by Wang Zhenhua's unit, and the fresh ingredients at home were also placed in the refrigerator to take up space, and they happened to be eaten on the road.
Before leaving, Wang Jinshan bought a few buckets of bowls of noodles in the small supermarket at the door, the fruits and roast chicken were brought from home, Wang Heli looked at the old couple busy, and shook his head helplessly.
The most important thing is that Wang Jinshan brought his most cherished military kettle, and put hot water in it, Wang Heli laughed at Wang Jinshan again, "Dad, there is a service area on the road, there is hot water and hot rice in it, just bring a cup, you look at your old couple as if you are moving!"
"Anyway, if you don't need a car, you can bring it back, what are you afraid of! Young people have no sense of risk!" Wang Jinshan sneered at Wang Heli.
After filling up the car with gas, Wang Heli took the family on a journey, and along the way, Gu Yiming sang and talked excitedly, asking all kinds of childish questions, making Wang Jinshan laugh.
"Grandpa, why did people in the past call Zi? You see that there is Confucius, grandson and Lao Tzu, is Lao Tzu grandson's father or grandson's grandfather? What is the relationship between Confucius and them?"
"Hahaha! Yiming, this question is too difficult!" Wang Jinshan's tears of laughter came out.
"Your grandfather can't answer if he is uneducated, grandma tells you, first of all, Zi is an honorific title......" Li Hui took the trouble to tell Gu Yiming about traditional culture and some famous allusions.
"Oh, I see, that's what happened!" Gu Yiming listened very seriously, his big eyes didn't blink, and Wang Jinshan was rare!
"Oh, my good grandson, he is really smart and studious, come to grandpa to award you a big apple!" Wang Jinshan took out a washed apple from the bag, handed it to Gu Yiming, and took out another one and handed it to Li Hui.
"Dad, you're too partial! I drive so hard, why don't you give me one?" Wang Heli commented.
"You concentrate on driving your car, what apples do you eat? Pay attention to safety, when you were preparing fruit at home just now, you still complained about me! And said that there is everything in the service area, and I don't know everything yet, so don't you need money? He can sell apples for five yuan a pound outside, and he can sell them for twenty yuan!"
"Yes, I didn't say it, I didn't eat the apple, this ear stuffed you!" Wang Heli was bored with himself, and quickly shut up.
Fortunately, the road was very close, and the family talked and laughed unconsciously.
Although it is the second day of the Lunar New Year, there are really a lot of tourists in Qufu City, Wang Heli found a parking lot, stored the car, and put some biscuits, fruits, ham sausages brought by Li Hui in his backpack, Wang Jinshan naturally carried his own military kettle, Li Hui put a few eggs in his small satchel, and led Gu Yiming into the scenic spot.
There are really a lot of tour groups from all over the world, and the tour guides are responsible for their own teams, and for a while all kinds of small horns sounded at the same time, and Wang Jinshan's family slowly walked into the Confucian Temple with the large army.
"Confucius was a famous thinker and educator in the late Spring and Autumn Period of our country, and was respected as the founder of Confucianism!" The tour guide next to him talked eloquently: "The big hall standing in front of us is the famous Dacheng Hall in the world, it is the main hall of the Confucian Temple, the central place to worship Confucius, and the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Tianzhen Hall of the Taishan Dai Temple, and is called the three major halls of the East!"
"Wow! Dacheng Hall is so big!" Gu Yiming raised his head and opened his mouth to sigh, "That's right, this is a treasure of the Orient!" Wang Heli took his little hand, pointed at various landscapes, and explained various allusions to his little nephew.
It was already more than twelve o'clock at noon when they came out of the Confucian Temple, and the family was hungry and ready to find a place to eat, and then go to the Confucian Mansion after a break at noon, but Wang Heli was dumbfounded when he inquired!
Slightly better hotels are all chartered by various tour groups, do not accept individual tourists, and smaller hotels are not open for business because of the Chinese New Year, what can I do?
"Boy, now you know why your parents are preparing things! Hehe!" Wang Jinshan patted his son's shoulder and smiled proudly.
"It's the Chinese New Year, I didn't think about it well and miscalculated during this special period!" Wang Heli patted his head in annoyance.
"But I thought about it!" Wang Jinshan scoffed.
"I've thought about it too!" Li Hui also looked at her son with a smile.
"Okay, I'll admit it, but all these things you brought are already cold, how can you eat on this cold day?" Wang Heli was still struggling.
"Find a place to order boiling water, soak the instant noodles, and then put the cold eggs in the boiling water, and then you can just put the cold eggs in the boiling water! In the past, when we were marching, we often encountered this situation, and we were very enthusiastic when we found a common people's home!" Wang Jinshan was confident.
"That was in the past, not necessarily now!" Wang Heli was deeply skeptical.
"Your thinking is wrong, how can you look at the revolutionary masses like this!" Wang Jinshan nodded his son with his hand and looked around.
Suddenly, he saw a very small noodle shop on the corner of the street, which seemed to be open, and Wang Jinshan hurriedly walked over with the family.
"Boss, can you give some hot water? Let's make instant noodles!"
"Oh! Brother, I'm here for a tour! Come in, come in, it's weird cold outside, what kind of instant noodles do you say to eat with your children, it's the worst for your stomach! I have everything here, I can cook a bowl of noodles in a few minutes, eat it hot, and feel comfortable!" The shopkeeper is an old man in his fifties, who looks very good.
"Yes, then have four bowls of shredded pork noodles!" Wang Jinshan said boldly!
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