Chapter 6: Everyday Life Before the Storm
"Sorry to wait, let's continue. β
After hanging up the phone, George said after making an apologetic gesture to the fitness trainer who was standing a meter away.
"Please come with me. β
The fitness instructor was noncommittal about George's apology, thinking that he had seen a lot of things like George.
In the following time, George spent an hour and a half on the treadmill, rally and other sports, and at the end, George took the towel handed over by the coach and wiped it hard on his face, then put the towel on his head and sat down, panting heavily.
"Your body is very empty, today we just exercised your muscles and bones a little, let him relax, this situation needs to be maintained for a week or so, after a week, I think you can increase the amount of training. β
Looking at George, who was sitting on the ground gasping for breath without any scruples, the fitness coach said with a smile on his face, as if he was very happy to see George's sin.
"Okay, just follow your plan, I'll rinse it off, leave today, and come back tomorrow. β
After saying that, George nodded to the one-on-one fitness trainer arranged by the gym and said.
Listening to George's words, fitness instructor Emily turned around and left without speaking.
Looking at the twisting buttocks and the hot body, George's heart was hot, but there was only a trace of reaction on his body, which made him very annoyed.
Again, countless people who couldn't be contacted before can be contacted at will, there is nowhere to do things that were not qualified before, and now there are conditions but can only watch but can't do it, it is impossible to say that he has no grudge against the dead George.
After taking a shower, George did not return to the apartment, but took the elevator downstairs.
He wanted to take a good look at the appearance of Xiangjiang, which had just returned not long after its return, and at this time Xiangjiang was not the one in later generations because of the huge energy of economic reporting after China's accession to the WTO, and gradually developed and grew in some port cities along the coast, and did not need Xiangjiang as a transit station, and Xiangjiang was already in decline.
In the previous life, Xiangjiang was like an old man who was about to enter old age, full of twilight, although when Zhang Yang came, he was still a paradise for financial tourism, but the people of Xiangjiang walking on the street were still indulging in the glory of the past and unwilling to accept reality.
He hailed a taxi at the door, threw the driver a piece of Hong Kong paper worth 500, and asked him to drag him around at will.
Sitting in the co-pilot, looking at the hurried Xiangjiang people on the side of the road at this time, and recalling the same hurried and energetic Xiangjiang people he saw in his previous life, George sighed in his heart.
There is a close difference of more than 20 years, but it is these more than 20 years that have made a prosperous city gradually decline due to various reasons, and its glory is not there.
Listening to the chatter in the driver's seat introducing the taxi driver of Xiangjiang to himself, George's heart couldn't help but feel a trace of sympathy for him.
Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, Xiangjiang, which has just experienced the 97 financial turmoil and has not yet recovered, will face another storm, although the blow to Xiangjiang this time is not very severe, but it still makes millions of shareholders and Internet-related enterprises based on stock speculation suffer heavy losses, and pours cold water on the newly emerging Internet in Southeast Asia.
In George's view, this is bound to happen, and since Clinton took office, he has continued to promote the information superhighway, which has created the prosperity of the Internet.
Since the birth of Yahoo and its great success, all Internet-related companies have begun to gain traction from investors and the market
Even if many companies are just an empty shell, with only one ideaγγγγγγ
The most taboo thing to do investment is to lose your mind, but the peak of a stock market is crazy, and the investor is crazy, so that the whole market has nothing to lose.
Maybe everyone knows that the bubble is coming, but they just don't want to admit it, and many investors have a lot of news channels, and some big investment banks don't get the news, and these people may get it.
It's just that they don't want to wake up, or they don't want to admit it until they have the chips in their hands and they don't find the next home to throw them away.
Just yesterday, many Canadian newspapers in the United States, even those with far-reaching influence, were still promoting the new industry of the Internet and counting the benefits it was about to bring to life.
George just sneered at such reports.
In the face of this era when the news was not very timely, the newspaper still held the supreme authority in the hearts of the people, even with Yahoo, an instant news portal to deliver news, but because there were countless interest groups on his board of directors, there was no difference between the interests represented by the newspaper.
"Xiangjiang is such a good place. β
After a circle around Causeway Bay and finally stopped at Victoria Harbour, George exclaimed in fluent Mandarin as he looked at Victoria Harbour, which was already brightly lit when it was dark.
"Sir, everyone who comes to Victoria Harbour will say this, Victoria Harbour, Central, Causeway Street, Polan Street are shown to you who come to Hong Kong.
If you really want to understand and integrate into the city, then you have to go to Yau Ma Tei, Temple Street, Apliu Street and other places
That's where the local people of Hong Kong live,,,,,,"
On the road, watching the people of Xiangjiang thinking about the changes of Xiangjiang in the past few decades and the road of decline in the next twenty years, the driver was originally interested in telling George about the human geography of Xiangjiang without listening to it, but he did not expect that at this time he seized this small space to introduce him to him.
"These places you mentioned are indeed the real places to experience Xiangjiang, siu mai, double skin milk, egg tarts, and all kinds of beautiful soups make people have an infinite aftertaste. β
George listened very carefully this time and agreed with the driver's words.
In the past, he was like this, every time he went to a scenic spot or place, the first thing he thought of was to go to the old city, and only there could he really taste the real taste of a city.
"Let's go to Temple Street, as soon as you say this, the gluttonous worms have been hooked again, and you can't eat authentic siu mai in Chinatown. β
Looking at the Victoria Harbour where the flow of people did not decrease but increased, his stomach rang slightly at the right time, he looked at the time on the watch on his left wrist, and then said to the driver.
"Is it worth starving for an hour for a good meal?"
Because it was off-duty time, the road was very crowded, and nearly an hour had passed when I arrived at Temple Street.
γ "Sir, I have no way of judging whether your choice is right or wrong, but I know that some people would rather fly from Singapore to Hong Kong in order to have a sip of porridge, and some people can fly from Hong Kong to Italy in order to eat a bite of fresh truffle.
Everyone's hobbies are different, but in my opinion, it's worth it to take a bite of pure Hong Kong-style siu mai and a sip of porridge made with decades of uninterrupted soup. β
Originally, I didn't expect to get a reply, but I didn't expect the driver to say it again, and it seems that the taxi drivers all over the world are a family.
At the intersection of Temple Street, George took out a few bills in his wallet and handed them to the driver, these few hours of wandering, it turned out to be a thousand Hong Kong papers, think about the self that he saved before, and look at his own squandered now, in less than a day, it has changed so fast, and then think about what he thinks when he faces Andy and the fitness coach today, it seems that it is really an eternal truth that men become bad when they have money.