Chapter 51: Chinatown

Zhao Qi, who hadn't slept well for a long time, finally spent an extremely solid night in his hotel room in Lisbon, and it wasn't until the next day when the sun was three o'clock that Zhao Qi opened his eyes in a daze.

Looking at the alarm clock in front of the bed, it was already past nine o'clock in the morning.

"Why do you oversleep every time you make an appointment with someone else?" Shaking his head that was still in a daze, Zhao Qi quickly got up, little Bailey probably had been waiting for a long time.

After washing, Zhao Qi put away the room card and walked out of the door.

As soon as he came to the front hall, Zhao Qi saw that little Bailey was sitting on the sofa in the hall in a bored daze, and it was estimated that he had been waiting for a while.

"Brother Qi, good morning." As soon as Little Bailey saw Zhao Qi, he jumped up from the sofa mountain and shouted happily.

"I'm sorry, I slept so hard last night." Zhao Qi scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

"It's okay, I've just arrived for a while." In fact, little Bailey had already arrived at eight o'clock in the morning, but he had been sitting in the hall since Zhao Qi didn't get up.

"It's not early, let's hurry up." Zhao Qi patted Little Bailey's head, and after explaining to the front desk that his room did not need to be cleaned, he walked out of the hotel.

"Brother Qi, are you going to Chinatown today?" Little Bailey asked.

"Well, how can I say that it is also the territory of the Chinese, how can I not go to see it as a Chinese?" Zhao Qi stopped a taxi, and the two sat on it.

……

Sitting in the taxi, looking at the nearby buildings and all kinds of people through the window, Zhao Qi flipped his right hand, took out two thousand rolls of fritters from his sleeve, and handed one to Little Bailey.

"Brother Qi, what is this?" Little Bailey asked, looking at what looked like food.

"This is the breakfast I brought from my hometown, you can taste it." Zhao Qi said and took a bite of the thousand rolls of fritters in his hand.

Little Bailey also took a bite like Zhao Qi. Moment. The unique Chinese taste poured into Little Bailey's mouth.

"Wow, it's delicious, this must be expensive, right?" Little Bailey asked.

"In our one, it sells for five cents a piece, and when converted into euros, it's about 0.15, do you think it's expensive?"

"It's too cheap, and in Lisbon, a burger costs a euro at the cheapest, which is much better than a burger." Little Bailey, who had never been to China, was shocked by the price of goods in China. Zhao Qi, who was watching it, smiled.

……

"Little Bailey, Chinatown is not far away?"

"It's not too close, and it's a bit congested during peak hours. It takes about an hour, and like the current time period, it only takes about thirty minutes. Little Bailey replied fluently, and it seemed that he was very familiar with Lisbon.

"Do you know who built this Chinatown?"

"I heard that a group of Hong Kong and Macao businessmen raised more than 20 million US dollars to build it, but this more than 20 million US dollars only built a Eurasian Dragon-Chinatown commercial center, which occupies only a small part of Chinatown, and most of the rest are Chinese who have come to settle down." Little Bailey explained.

"Oh, I see, I thought someone had taken it all." Zhao Qi nodded.

……

It's about half past nine. Lisbon is like little Bailey said, it is not very congested, just around ten o'clock, it is already in Chinatown.

Zhao Qi paid the fare. As soon as I got off the bus, I saw a plaque with ancient Chinese style standing in the middle of the street, and the houses and buildings in the south of the Yangtze River in China next to it looked very kind.

"Brother Qi, this is Chinatown." Little Bailey pointed ahead. said excitedly to Zhao Qi.

Zhao Qi nodded, looking at the many Chinese shops next to him, as well as the Chinese inside. Zhao Qi also had a trace of excitement in his heart, after all, in the past two months, he had either seen a foreigner with blue eyes and blonde hair, or he had seen a strange-shaped monster, and none of them looked like people anyway......

I saw so many "fellows" at this time, and it would be false to say that I was not excited.

The majority of the Chinese in Lisbon Chinatown are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, accounting for about 80 percent of the total number of Chinese, and most of them are mainly clothing and textiles, as well as leather bags, small ornaments, glasses and other products. They imported large quantities of high-quality and low-cost shoes, jewelry, textiles and other goods produced in China to Europe, and then sold them wholesale, making a lot of profits.

Of course, in addition to wholesale, Chinese businessmen will also retail, plus some Chinese restaurants, Chinese medicine clinics, beauty salons, etc., which make up the whole of Lisbon's Chinatown.

Zhao Qi and Little Bailey strolled through Chinatown, and Zhao Qi also looked at the Chinese shops around them one by one.

Although these retail things are all Chinese goods, such as some clothes, shoes, glasses, etc., but they are not famous brands, some brands Zhao Qi has not even heard of, it seems that the profits made by Chinese businessmen are also because of China's cheap labor and low production costs.

"Little Bailey, you said yesterday that your family lives here?" Zhao Qi suddenly asked.

"Yes, my mom and dad work here, so they live in Chinatown." Probably thinking of his father's body, little Bailey's tone was a little low.

"Oh, your dad isn't in good health, so what is he doing now?" Zhao Qi asked.

"My mom and dad are now clerks in a clothing store, but my sister is very good, she just graduated from college and is now a researcher in a pharmaceutical company, and my sister told me that if she works for a few more years, she can let her mom and dad live in a new house, and no longer have to live in the current home." Little Bailey was quite proud when he talked about his sister, and it seemed that in his heart, his sister was a very remarkable person.

"I see, then I wish you to live in a big house as soon as possible." Zhao Qi said with a smile. Little Bailey nodded heavily.

After the two walked around Chinatown, it was almost eleven o'clock, and Zhao Qi thought about finding a Chinese restaurant. But the strange thing is that after going around for so long, I didn't see a restaurant.

"Little Bailey, do you know where there is a Chinese restaurant around here? Why haven't you seen a restaurant after walking around for so long? Zhao Qi asked strangely.

"Brother Qi, there is no restaurant here, the restaurant has to go to that side." After Little Bailey finished speaking, his mouth opened, as if he wanted to say something to Zhao Qi, but he seemed to be scrupling about something, so he didn't say anything.

"Little Bailey, what's the matter?" Zhao Qi looked at Little Bailey and asked.

"Brother Qi, you gave me five hundred euros yesterday, and when I went back in the evening, I told my father. My dad wanted to ...... I'd like to invite you to my house for lunch. So ......" Little Bailey said it in a hurry, which made Zhao Qi smile.

"What's so bad about this, since there is a free lunch to eat, isn't it better, lead the way." Little Bailey knew that the eldest brother Qi in front of him was either rich or expensive, although he didn't have the slightest idea about himself, but he always felt that his family's food was a little unclassy, so he didn't say it from morning to now.

As soon as Zhao Qi heard Little Bailey's words, he knew why Little Bailey couldn't say anything, but although he was very rich, he didn't pay so much attention to it, more than 20 years in his previous life plus 18 years in this life, his life was not still like that, and he didn't change anything because of the increase in his wealth.

However, although Little Bailey's father has been away from the country for so many years, he has not forgotten the Chinese custom of helping his own family to invite a meal back, and Zhao Qi thinks it is still very good.

Xiaobei first ran to the side and picked up the public phone to say it to the house, and then took Zhao Qi's hand and walked towards his home.

"Brother Qi, my parents are already ready at home, let's go back quickly."

Zhao Qi shook his head, with a wry smile on his face, and let Little Bailey pull him to rush home.

……

Little Bailey's home is a little near Chinatown, in a relatively dilapidated bungalow, and Zhao Qi saw many Chinese living in it along the way.

"Mom and Dad, we're back." Little Bailey walked into the house and began to shout, and Zhao Qi also smelled the familiar taste of Chinese food in Little Bailey's house.

After walking into the door, I saw a middle-aged man holding a cane and chopsticks, thinking that this should be Little Bailey's father.

"Hello uncle, my name is Zhao Qi, and I'm going to disturb you at noon today." Zhao Qi stepped forward and said politely to the middle-aged man.

"Hello Mr. Qi, it's just a daily routine, nothing troublesome, I also want to thank you for taking care of little Bailey." Little Bailey's dad spoke Mandarin very well and was not forgotten because he went abroad for decades.

At this time, two women came out of the back room, one of them was a middle-aged Portuguese woman, who should be Little Bailey's mother, and the other was a woman about twenty years old, with a pair of black-framed glasses, with a Chinese appearance, which should be the sister of Little Bailey.

Zhao Qi politely greeted the two ladies, and as a result, both ladies communicated with Zhao Qi in familiar Chinese, which surprised Zhao Qi.

"Hehe, after all, am I a Chinese, teach them some Chinese when it's okay." Little Bailey's father explained with a smile, pressed Zhao Qi to the main position, and picked up a bottle of unopened Erguotou from the side.

Seeing this bottle of Red Star Erguotou, Zhao Qi's head was a little big, but the family was so gracious, he didn't shirk much, and let Little Bailey's father fill himself with a cup. (To be continued......)