The Imperial Hotel is an old-fashioned Chinese garden house, two floors, with two big red lanterns hanging at the door, and two big characters on the plaque "Empire" showing domineering and solemnity. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As we entered the Imperial Hotel, a waiter dressed in Tang costume came up and led us to a table of four on the first floor of the restaurant. There were not many people in the restaurant at this time, except for our table, only there was a table in the corner, two Indians, who were waving at us.

The lobby manager of the hotel personally brought the menu, and the lobby manager looked in his thirties, wearing a black suit and royal blue tie, smiling and recommending dishes for us.

"Hello, do you know Gong Chuang?" I looked up at the lobby manager.

"Oh, I'm a fellow countryman with him, how do you know him!" He put down his professional expression and replied to me with a smile.

"Well, I've seen him twice, once in Tema, once in Cape Haihai, and it's just the matter of the past two days, and it's also the Imperial Hotel that he recommended, I haven't come to eat yet, so I'll take a look today." I stood up and shook hands with the lobby manager.

"Really? Gong Chuang is a good person, and I also take care of his business, and I buy all the lamps here from him. Since we are friends, I will give you a 20% discount today, by the way, my name is Hu Xiaobing, I have been in Ghana for ten years, and I have been in the Imperial Hotel. The lobby manager politely asked us for a discount, and took out a business card and handed it to me, which said "Imperial Hotel, Hu Xiaobing, Lobby Manager".

Then Hu Xiaobing recommended the two dishes of squirrel osmanthus fish and mapo tofu, "One of our chefs is from Hangzhou, the other is from SC, the taste is just a combination of light and fresh fragrance and spicy and refreshing, this osmanthus fish is Ghanaian freshwater fish tilapia, a dish is exactly two, you eat just right." There is also mapo tofu, which is fresh mushroom, which is not uncommon in China, but it is not easy to eat in Ghana. These two dishes, one is fresh and sweet, the other is spicy, how about a bowl of Cantonese seafood soup and a plate of loofah edamame? Hu Xiaobing's recommended dishes are quite professional, and he also saw that I and Bai Xi SH people like sweet, and Bai Yan HN likes spicy.

We readily agreed to Hu Xiaobing's recommendation, and he greeted him and went to the back kitchen. Bai Ying fiddled with her phone to check her daily legend reports and logistics data, and I stood up bored, and I saw an old-fashioned piano on the other side of the Imperial Hall, with a small podium, like the occasional resident concert.

On the other side, very conspicuously, there was a golden chair, which I walked over and looked at curiously. The waiter came over to me and said, "This is a replica of Ghana's famous Golden Throne, and it is the treasure of the Imperial Hotel!" It was given to the Imperial Hotel by Grand Chief Ashanti himself, and this imitation is more famous than the real thing, because the previous presidents came to the Imperial Hotel to sit for a while before the election and then won the election. Therefore, in Ghana, this chair has a great political symbolism, so that many Ghanaian officials rush to come to the hotel to sit on this chair. ”

"Oh? Can anyone sit? I asked the waiter, who shook his head and smiled.

"Brother Zhang, come on, come on, let me tell you, this chair is like that, copper, not gold, but you didn't say it." Hu Xiao, Bing came out and grabbed me and whispered, "The boss has made a gimmick, only those who have accumulated more than 10,000 Saidi are eligible to sit on this chair." ”

"Haha, your boss fooled the black people in a way, just like putting a statue of the Buddha in the black people to burn incense and worship the Buddha." I smiled and said to Hu Xiaobing, "However, the fact that the big chief can give your boss this chair shows that the friendship between the two of them is not shallow!" ”

"It's not clear about this, and we don't ask about the boss. But since the beginning of this year, the boss seems to have gone to Kumasi to invest in a gold mine, of course, I said it from the accountant. Now Ghana used to be engaged in construction, opening restaurants, and factories, and all walks of life have begun to invest in gold mines. Hu Xiaobing talked about the recent boom in gold mining investment.

"I also work in a gold mine, and my boss, GX, also owns a gold mine." I chimed in.

"Oh? How about digging for gold, I heard that it is very profitable? I discussed with Gong Chuang last month and asked him to inspect the gold mining business, and he went to invest some money in my shares, but this guy was not interested at all. Hu Xiaobing sighed after speaking, listening to his tone, he was also very interested in gold mine investment.

"Huh? Manager Hu: Do you also want to invest in gold mines? I stared at Hu Xiaobing next to me with wide eyes.

"Make money, in our Imperial Hotel, the Chinese who used to eat here were government officials, leaders of state-owned enterprises, or rich investment bosses, and recently, more and more gold mining bosses are also eating here." See, those two Indians are Ghana's special purchase of gold. Hu Xiaobing talked about gold, and his spirit was flying.

I looked at the two Indians again, it seemed that they did have a sense of déjà vu, yes, they were the one who bought the gold subsidiary next to KFC, it turned out that Yang Xiaoyin took me there! No wonder they greeted me, they remembered me, but I couldn't remember them.

"What's wrong?" Hu Xiaobing pushed me who was in a daze, I was wondering where Yang Xiaoyin went.

"It's nothing, I know them, the company is at KFC." , I replied.

"Yes, they're our regular customers, they come almost every day at noon, and they definitely order chicken curry and onion beef with red wine. You see that the people in the gold mine make so much money, so I must also think, right, I must think about making money, I have been in Ghana for ten years, and I have made a lot of money, but I have accumulated my salary, and I only go home once every two years, and my son doesn't know me anymore. Or digging gold to make money, I heard that you can make tens of thousands of dollars a day, is it true? Hu Xiaobing's topic returned to gold.

"It's about the same, but it's not a small risk." I want to tell Hu Xiaobing sensibly.

He immediately interrupted me and said: "There is no risk in what you do, Gong Chuang and I also have a fellow countryman, we call him a multi-worker, he used to be engaged in construction, and now he has also bought an excavator, and he is not directly digging gold, or renting it to gold diggers, and the monthly rent is more than 200,000 yuan!" The gold digging must not be more profitable, this has to be done for a year and a lifetime! ”

"Multitasking? Looks like I've seen him too, he's not tall, flat-headed, and has brown glasses, right? "I remembered the contractor I saw at Lei Liuer KTV.

"Yes, you know him too?" Hu Xiaobing looked at me very strangely.

"I don't know each other, I've seen it once." I said to Hu Xiaobing.

"Little brother, if you have a good opportunity to dig gold, remember to tell me that I can invest four or five hundred thousand shares. I'll ask Gong Chuang to help me buy shares when the time comes, and I'll talk to him about this matter when I go back, this guy is sometimes too loose. Hu Xiaobing said to me with a smile.

I had to say that I would tell him if I had a chance in the future, and he also asked for my phone number and WeChat. "By the way, you will also come to the Chinese Spring Festival Gala the day after tomorrow, right? I heard that there are a lot of beautiful girls this year, it is a very famous female boss, it is said that this boss is only in his twenties, and his subordinates are all beautiful girls, and they participated in a lot of shows at this party this year, like us who have been staying in the hotel, rarely walking around like you, and have been here for ten years in Ghana, haha. Hu Xiaobing said to me casually.

While talking, three Chinese businessmen came, and Hu Xiaobing immediately stepped forward to greet and entertain, and I saw at a glance that one of them was Lu Zhaozi.