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"Squeak!"

In the end, it is the bloodline of the military vehicle, and even the sound of the brakes is so domineering and tasteful, Atletico shook Tang Jiayi, who was a little drowsy in his arms, "Hey, hey, wake up!

"Huh?" the latter reacted, stood up and tidied up his clothes, and subconsciously asked, "It's finally here?"

I didn't do my homework before, and when they came out, they just caught up with the rush hour after work, and the speed of the car couldn't get up, coupled with the excellent texture of the human flesh sofa under them, and the hypnotic effect of the local language in her ears, she fell asleep directly in the second half of the journey.

Well, Tang Jiayi quickly realized that this was really a stupid question, just for a moment, the sound and smell of the waves had penetrated through the empty window frame into the carriage, what could be more proof than this familiar sound and salty smell?

Now the time is November 19, after 10 days of recuperation, Atletico Madrid's injuries have all healed, and he was able to be discharged from the hospital and fly to the Philippines, which is adjacent to the South China Sea.

A little embarrassed, Tang Jiayi hurriedly pulled Atletico out of the car and left the fancy car with a green body, a red roof, a blue tail, and a yellow nose with a self-made Mercedes-Benz three-pointed star logo.

In the first half of the last century, the Philippines was the only U.S. colony in Asia, where the latter left a lot of traces of American culture, such as McDonald's and Kaifeng cuisine, and the Jeepney jeepneys converted from these retired military Jeep jeeps.

On October 20, 1944, MacArthur waded into the Philippine island of Leyte in high spirits under the photographic lens, and shouted "I'm back" in the rain. With the announcement of Japan's surrender the following year, the U.S. troops who fought back with Lao Mai soon put Nanshan swords and guns into storage, producing a large amount of war surplus materials.

It is said that it was a shrewd musician who first saw the business opportunity, and lengthened and modified the large jeep that the US military did not want, painted it in colorful colors and turned it into a so-called Jeepney bus, and put it into Manila, which had just become officially independent and had insufficient public transportation. Later, due to the large number of imitators, this kind of car with a jeep front face and colorful paint modification also became a characteristic sight of Manila.

The military vehicle that could have pulled a squad of soldiers was removed from the seats and put on a bench, and if necessary, it could be sold as a "hanging ticket" like an Indian train, and the carrying capacity naturally doubled.

In essence, there is no difference between jeepney and the minibuses in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth tier cities in China, which are full of streets and stop just to make more money, and they are also dynamic private and private public transport forces. However, jeepneys are famous for their distinctive and never the same livery, and have become a famous sight in Manila, which is very popular and loved by crooked fruits.

It's just that today's jeepneys are all assembled by special factories using Japanese imported engines, bending imported tires, and self-made bodies.

And the drivers of these cars have also changed from private owners with brains to taxi drivers who pay 900 pesos a day.

The Philippine peso is not worth much, 900 pesos is equivalent to about $19, and the per capita income here is also low, with a per capita GDP of $2,800 and a per capita annual income of $1,500. For foreign tourists, low currency and low income mean that local prices are low, they can eat more and live better, and they are naturally willing to come to travel and spend their holidays.

But in the same way, low per capita income is also a breeding ground for crime, after all, it is popular in the world to hate the rich and hate. In particular, the Metro Manila area, with a population of 10 million, has become a world-famous kidnapping capital because the CBD is located in the same place as the slums, and the huge gap between the rich and the poor. Of course, this selection is only for the normal well-known tourist cities, such as Damascus, the capital of Syria, and Tripoli, the capital of Libya, which are mired in the smoke of war, and will only appear on the list of the most unlivable cities.

Since September last year, because of a series of vicious kidnapping cases, the Philippines has been issued a tourism warning by five countries, including China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Korea, and the local tourism economy has been significantly hit by the decrease in tourists.

In Atletico Madrid's view, at least Manila should still be relatively safe now, after all, the leaders of more than 20 APEC member countries and more than 900 entrepreneurs are gathering here to participate in various meetings these days.

So when Ms. Tang asked not to bring an assistant bodyguard, and the two of them came out to live in a two-person world, he nodded and agreed without hesitation. Anyway, with his open body, as long as he is not sniped and shot in the head from afar, ordinary knives, guns and sticks can completely deal with it, not to mention that the bodyguards are not really magnifying the fake, they are driving the car and falling behind.

If you want to spend a holiday with a local flair, of course, you can't wait to experience a jeepney.

It's a pity that although these cars look colorful and different, full of a small and fresh literary atmosphere, the feeling after really sitting on it is not too good. Not to mention the jingling sound of the car wall when driving, just the layered and unique flavor of the carriage when there are many people makes people lose interest in riding.

The car they are riding in now is a chartered car that Atletico asked a local businessman to get, and it has been carefully checked by bodyguards and himself before getting on the bus to make sure that it will not break down halfway or harbor ghosts. In fact, the other party is worried that there is nowhere to pull the relationship, and the inspection is just a routine just in case.

Speaking of which, this is also the first time Atletico Madrid to participate in the summit of the CEO of the Asian Economic Cooperation Co., Ltd., as a bridge of communication between entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific region and national executives, the qualification review of participating entrepreneurs is still relatively strict, not the world's top 500 at least the national top 500, or even the most influential in the industry and the region.

Last year, the 500th American Raytheon (Patriot missile manufacturer) had an annual revenue of $700 million, and although the bee's revenue skyrocketed due to the surge in mobile phone sales, it was still a small distance from the $10 billion in revenue. In the first half of the year, ATBM was collectively added to the list of the top 500 enterprises in the country, and then the two Ma bosses appeared in the Asia-Pacific Business Leaders Summit.

It's just that the cat factory is a business leader who sits on the stage and talks and laughs with O8m, while Atletico Madrid is still just an ordinary audience who stays in the audience.

In fact, for Atletico Madrid, this kind of forum summit is more of a gathering of traditional enterprises is really limited to him, anyway, he is not a real estate developer who has been focusing on meetings for 15 years, and people give him the nickname "international conference professional", Tang Xinzheng, who has limited interest in various conferences. However, since the CCPIT was sincerely invited, he didn't want to casually destroy the honeymoon relationship with the official, and he wanted to take advantage of the good opportunity of the Philippines' "political harmony, safety and stability" during the APEC period to travel, so Atletico Madrid agreed to it.

As a result, Atletico Madrid, who only planned to travel with ears and business card holders, received several cooperation intentions one after another, but also responded to the old saying that unintentionally inserted willows and willows.

The current location of the two of them is the location of Manila Bay in the west of Manila, and it is said that the sunset sea view here is the best in the world, and it is a pity not to see it.

It's just that because of the delay on the road for too long, when the two of them got out of the car and looked west, they could only see a glimmer of bright sky and red clouds, but the sun was nowhere to be found.

Although it was a little disappointing to miss the beautiful sunset, Tang Jiayi's interest was still very high, even the canoe returning to Hong Kong in the afterglow of the sunset could make her as excited as discovering a new world.

This is also a local characteristic boat type, called banca boat, which translates to crab boat, because it has several sets of curved rods sticking out parallel to each other on both sides of the fusiform hull, which looks like crab legs. The end of the curved rod on both sides is connected with a small pontoon parallel to the hull respectively, which can play a role in increasing buoyancy, reducing roll and improving driving comfort, and the structure and principle are somewhat similar to the popular trimaran in recent years, but the side pieces on both sides of the crab boat are reduced to two small pontoons.

Crabs of different sizes and powers are used as fishing boats, pleasure boats, and passenger boats, making this type of boat very common in the Philippines, and more will be seen when they visit other islands in the future.

Atletico found a fairly flat rock and sat down, put Tang Jiayi's high heels aside, and looked at his wife not far away.

At this moment, she stepped on the sand with a pair of white and tender feet, pulled the corner of her skirt with her left hand to avoid being wet by the waves, her eyes chased the undulating waves, and tried to find the beautiful shells that accidentally washed ashore, as if someone had slashed her in the waist on her age number, making her look not at all like a mother of four children, but more like a 14-year-old innocent girl.

As for the reason why she returned to the age of 14 after being a child, Atletico Madrid is naturally clear, and naturally has something to do with the bodyguards a few hundred meters behind her.

It was also the first time he realized the pressure Tang Jiayi was usually under, and some guilt couldn't help but emerge in his heart.

As soon as he thought of it, Atletico Madrid also took off the shoes and socks on his feet, ran barefoot towards the other party, and launched a wave and sand ** offensive against her.

Although the sun sets in the sea, the sea water is still slightly hot, and it does not feel cold and uncomfortable on the body, but the light dress is not waterproof at all, and it suddenly becomes wet after being splashed by water, and it is extremely uncomfortable to stick to the body. Tang Jiayi simply took it off and smashed it into a ball as a weapon at Atletico Madrid.

"You're cheating!" Seeing the light-colored and simple swimsuit on the other party's body, Atletico immediately understood that Tang Jiayi had already prepared to go into the water, otherwise she would not have put the swimsuit on her body in advance.

Looking down at himself, there were several documents in his trouser pockets, and he was not wearing swim trunks inside, so naturally he couldn't take off his clothes and throw them as weapons like the other party. Therefore, after Tang Jiayi switched the form of swimsuits, the two of them were instantly offensive and defensive transposition, and Atletico just now had to dodge left and right to dodge the opponent's seawater sand attack, so as not to get wet and cause trouble.

The only good news is that Atletico Madrid's reflexes are outstanding, and Tang Jiayi can only return in vain despite her efforts. She attacked back and forth more than 20 times, and finally only relied on the "splash attack" to add some water and mud spots to Ma's trouser legs, and there was no impact at all above the knee.

After a long time, he couldn't overcome it, but he was tired enough, Tang Jiayi didn't do it anymore, stomped his feet and said: "The sea water is a little cold, don't play!"

With that, she walked straight to the boulder where her shoes were placed, and Atletico followed like a fart, and sat down next to her, and the two of them sat side by side looking at the darkening clouds in the western sky.

"By the way, Ma Cheap, what kind of words did you use to talk to the driver just now? I don't understand a word. ”

"Cebuano almost became a Filipino language back then. ”

The Philippines has 7,100 islands, more than 1,000 of which are inhabited, and the natural geographical separation makes the Philippines rich in "island languages", or dialects. It is full of tribes, cultures, and languages, and the arrival of Han, Arab, Spanish, and American people brought their languages and cultures with them, changing the local society to a greater or lesser extent. Filipino, the current official language, was established in 1935 during the U.S. colonial period, and its predecessor was the Tagalog language popular around Manila, while Cebuano, spoken by Atletico Madrid, was the more popular language in the Southern Islands.

At first, Tang Jiayi could still hear Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, and English, and she didn't feel anything about what the two of them were talking about, not only did she not feel it, but she was also very hypnotic, which directly made her sleep all the way here.

In fact, just as the vendors outside domestic attractions will say "dollar-ok, ten" in simple English, this driver, named Tamar Augustine, still knows some foreign languages, such as money and the multi-Chinese language of famous attractions. But if that's the case, Atletico Madrid won't be able to chat happily with him, you must know that the two of them talked about a lot of things along the way, from the weather and climate, road conditions and traffic, to the president, public security and international shape, both of them have enough content to say, which fully proves that the phrase "the first - the driver can speak" is actually applicable to more countries.

Talking about what he had just heard, the sea in front of him became darker and deeper, and only a half moon appeared in the western sky at some point, illuminating the sand at their feet.