Chapter 288: Borrowing Light

"Other dishes are easy to do, boiled fish is not easy to divide, right?" Yungang Town has neither scenic spots nor large units, let alone traffic arteries, and rarely comes to foreigners, and the restaurant owner is a little nervous when he sees three real foreigners coming in. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"Find four bowls, one bowl per person! By the way, tell the cook, the fish bones must be cleaned, foreigners are stupid, they won't spit out the thorns, so bring us a pot of tea first." Hong Tao patted the boss on the back and signaled him not to bend his waist too low, master, when I came, you were always ordering with a stomach, why are you hunchback now.

In fact, these three foreign experts, engineers, and technicians are all masters who have traveled from south to north all year round, and O'Connor has even been to Africa twice, so what to eat is not too novel. However, the three of them are all coming to China for the first time, and they are a little unfamiliar with various dishes and curious. Hong Tao was not too troublesome, and told them about the general ingredients and methods while eating, and the meal was quickly finished.

Seeing that the time was just past 12 o'clock, Hong Tao did not take the three foreign experts back to the station, and there was no place to rest on the station, where to go? It just so happened that there was a teahouse in Yungang Street, and the place was quite clean, so let's drink tea, which was not only a lunch break but also allowed them to experience China's tea culture. Anyway, it's not that they pay for it themselves, how much they eat and how much they spend, they only need to take the invoice back, and the unit will reimburse them.

"The Chinese peppers are so strong, and the tea is delicious!" said Marx, who complained about lunch, boiling fish that filled his beard with soup and kept his mouth open for a long time. But the quiet teahouse was very interested in him, especially the fancy tea mixing process of the tea master, and he complained that he didn't bring a camera.

"The shredded pork rolls are delicious, but the amount is a little small, and I want to eat them again tomorrow. "Akyol is a foodie, especially interested in meat, and he only ate one bowl of rice, and he doesn't seem to be very full. It's a little difficult for him to drink tea, mainly because he feels too bitter, and he asks the tea master for sugar, Hong Tao simply didn't translate for him, Turkish turtle!

"I heard that there are a lot of delicious things in the capital, can Mr. Hong Tao help me be a guide and take me out for a walk after work, of course, it's free......" O'Connor is the least outside, she has no opinion on Chinese food and tea, and prefers to discuss the topic of taking advantage.

"Free guided tours are available...... "Anyway, I won't let you go home, Hong Tao can take time for nothing, but you can't take money anymore." The salary subsidy of these expatriate engineers is N-high, and they are obliged to make them pay more taxes to China.

"Okay, we'll leave at half-past five, and I'll treat you to dinner. Marx, are you two together?" "There is such an advantage to talking to Europeans and Americans, go straight, play together if it is suitable, and they will not say that you are slamming the character or anything, and you don't have to think about so many people's feelings and sophistication.

"Of course, I don't want to be alone in a hotel, Marx, what do you say?" Akyol was intrigued by O'Connor's proposal, and if he had a reliable guide, he would be much more comfortable these days in a foreign country.

"Mr. Hong, if you can, can you take me to the museum on my day off, the fastest way to understand a country should be to visit the museum, right?" Marx did not say that he would not go, but he was far less interested in playing than he knew about China, and he still had his own set of theories.

"Museum...... I suggest you can take a look, but don't use it as the only way to understand China, it won't do much. The situation in our country is a little different from yours, the cultural inheritance is not coherent, and the display in the museum only represents the previous China, or is it an official expression, and there is a big gap with the current China. If you want to understand China, you have to go among the people, and you can't be confined to one city. ā€

Hong Tao understood Marx's mode of thinking, but did not agree with it. That might have been the case in Europe, where religion was a big part of their culture, and several foreign teachers at my father's school had said that if you traveled to a European city, no matter how big or small, you only had to go to the local churches and museums to get a general idea of the local past and present.

But this method may not work in China, and since foreigners want to understand China, Hong Tao feels obliged to let them see the real China, both good and bad. Let them judge for themselves what is good and what is not.

"Of course, if you can walk around casually, wouldn't it be safe?" Marx certainly did not object to Hong Tao's proposal, but he was not very worried about security.

"Marx, I think you should be the safest in the world in China, even more than your hometown. That's not normal, I'm not a nationalist, and I don't have much great-power chauvinism, but it's true. ā€

There is no malice in Marx's question, and the China he has come into contact with should only stay in propaganda, which is not something he can choose and decide. But Hong Tao is not so good-tempered, you can't take advantage of it and sell well, and it's not the first time you've gone abroad, so you can understand if you compare it with other places. Will other countries give you such a high salary? Who is not good to their own citizens first, and then foreigners?

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about politics, it's boring, but let's think about what to eat and where to go in the evening. It's the first time I've enjoyed the free tour guide, will the service be discounted?"

Women are more sensitive than men in some ways, O'Connor heard Hong Tao's unhappiness, she really had no interest in these topics, and she didn't want to lose a free tour guide because of this, so she quickly interrupted Hong Tao and Marx to continue.

"Not only are there no discounts, but there are also free gifts. In the evening, I invite you to my grandmother's house as a guest and experience the life of ordinary people in the capital, okay?" Don't you not let me go home? We have the support of the foreign adults, it's not that I want to go home, it's the foreign adults who ask for it, do you dare to approve it?

"Is that okay!?" O'Connor did.

"Won't your grandmother welcome us?" said Akyol.

"Do we need to buy some gifts?" or Marx, who was more old-fashioned, said what Hong Tao liked to hear the most.

Whether you can go or not, Hong Tao said that it really doesn't count. The company attaches great importance to the living arrangements of these three foreign experts, and all major and minor matters have to be reported to Mr. Guo. Hong Tao said that he was an escort and a translator and driver, but in fact, he was also responsible for monitoring the task.

The results of the installation and commissioning of the company's equipment are not the top priority, but the safety of the three foreign experts is what Mr. Guo is really worried about. If something happens to them, it's a matter of diplomacy. Business can only be regarded as merit, even if these CEOs don't do anything, they sit firmly in their positions, but if there is a diplomatic problem, their hats will be hanging, so Hong Tao has to consult Mr. Guo on this matter.

"Stop, you must stop them! No matter what method you use, you can't let them out of your sight, and you must not let them go to a nightclub! I think in this way, you can open a room in their hotel and stay there, and the company will reimburse them, as long as you don't let them run around, it will be a great achievement!" Sure enough, when Mr. Guo heard Hong Tao's report that the three foreign experts were secretly discussing going out to the capital at night, he almost ate the phone.

"Mr. Guo, I have an idea that I don't know if it's easy to use or not, so I'll report to you first. The three of them are big people, and I'm not a police officer, so I don't have any deterrent, so I can't go to check the bed in the middle of the night. Since they want to go out for a walk, it's better to take them there, but we can't let them run around yet, it must be within our control. ā€

Hong Tao on the other end of the phone already has two horns on his head, he is a two-headed mask, and he has to satisfy both parties. This is the set of skills that the little uncle is best at, matchmaking in the middle, and he has to eat kickbacks on both sides, and in the end, both sides treat him as a good person.

"Do you have any good way to stop them from running around? It's okay to spend more money, as long as you can ensure their safety, this is the bottom line!" Mr. Guo couldn't care about any strategy, and directly confessed to Hong Tao.

"I didn't have to spend money, I tricked them all into going to my grandmother's house, and it was basically evening after eating, so in order to prevent them from returning to the hotel and being dishonest, I simply dragged them to my house for one night. I live alone in my house, and the house is enough. "Since the leaders trust themselves so much, they can't slip their shoulders, so hurry up and share the worries of the leaders.

"It's a good idea, but it's too hard for you, and you can't be idle day and night...... Then what about them going out tomorrow?" Mr. Guo felt that Hong Tao's method was very effective, but he still had concerns.

"The installation and commissioning work will start tomorrow, and they will not have the energy to do so after a busy day. If it's okay, I'll take them to my father's school's foreign teachers' club, where there are a bunch of foreigners, and their fellow countrymen, drink some wine and chat, and the night will be over again. And I have also arranged for them to visit museums on their rest days, so that they can fully understand the growth history of New China, and don't look at us with old eyes. "The pits are all dug, as long as you are willing to stretch your feet, Hong Tao will be willing to push it behind.

"Oh, Xiaohong, if everyone in the unit is as dedicated to work as you are, I, the leader, will be too comfortable. In this way, after getting off the station, I will ask Manager Zhao to wait for you in the company, and first borrow 10,000 yuan from the finance for you, and then return the more and make up for the less, and hand over the invoice to the finance. If there is an expense that cannot be invoiced, you can write a purpose, and I will sign it for you, and you can't be allowed to work and have to pay for it yourself. "Listen, with such a leader, what else can we say, help him spend money together!