Although the Great Hall of the People looks similar to the one on TV, Zuo Jiang feels a great contrast when he is immersive, and as soon as he walks into the hall, he suddenly feels that he is in awe! The route to visit the City Hall is fixed, circled with ropes, and the inch-thick wool red carpet on the passage has been rolled up, probably for fear of severe wear and tear from too many tourists.

Walk to the front of the rostrum from the passage, and then pass through the provincial conference hall on the side of the rostrum, there are not many provincial halls open to visitors this time, only Fujian Hall, Liaoning Hall and Jilin Hall, the conference hall of each province is placed in the artwork representing the characteristics of the province, not to mention the value of the artwork itself, its symbolic meaning is extremely obvious.

Out of the Great Hall from the side door, there were many people in front of a mobile sales hall, all vying to buy something. Zuo Jiang stepped forward to take a look, it turned out to be a special sale of "Great Hall of the People" brand cigarettes, Zuo Jiang was interested, so he lined up to buy two, one for 5 yuan and 4 jiao, and a box of 5 jiao, Zuo Jiang did not expect that the "Great Hall of the People" brand cigarettes were so cheap at this time.

Seeing the Forbidden City from afar, George's family began to marvel, the camera "snapped" is a burst of slamming, approaching, the tall city wall and gatehouse are even more people look up, Zuo Jiang visually measured the height of the city wall, at least more than 10 meters, I can't help but think of some martial arts written by those martial arts masters who fly the eaves and walk the wall to enter and leave the palace as if they were in a no-man's land, in the face of such a high city wall, it is purely a kind of!

The tour guide Jia Xiaoqian is very dedicated, as soon as she arrives, she begins to talk endlessly, she speaks English, mainly to introduce to George's family, Li Biyu can't understand well. Zuo Jiang followed her and often translated a few sentences for her. There are a lot of foreign tourists in the Forbidden City, and tourists are not too surprised by foreign tourists, which is convenient for Zuojiang and his party.

It's a hot day, and most of the visitors are wearing shorts, skirts and half-sleeved T-shirts. All the way from the Taihe Palace, the Zhonghe Palace, and the Baohe Palace. Jia Xiaoqian's voice was a little hoarse. Zuo Jiang saw that there was a seller of cold soda in front of him. Beckon everyone to sit down and drink a soda.

Chilled soda isn't the kind of freezer or refrigerator that you use to calm down. Instead, a large piece of ice is used to directly chill the ground, this ice is 1 meter 2, 3 ground long, more than 50 centimeters wide, nearly 20 centimeters thick, placed on the pallet of the shelf, the soda is placed in two rows on the ice, the soda bottle melts the ice into a tailor-made ice trough, almost half of the soda bottle is embedded in the ice trough, the stall owner is shouting cold soda while pulling the soda bottle with his hand to rotate in the ice trough, and the melted ice water splashes around with the rotation of the soda bottle!

Zuo Jiang bought 6 bottles of cold soda. The stall owner tested the temperature of the soda bottle in the ice tank with his hands, picked out 6 bottles for Zuo Jiang coldly, and then took out 6 bottles of soda from the box under the stall and put them on, turning and drinking it twice. George found it interesting and took four or five pictures in a row.

After visiting the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace in the Forbidden City, George did not follow Jia Xiaoqian's prompt route out of Kunning Gate to go to the Imperial Garden, but pulled Zuojiang away from the mainstream of tourists who came here. Walking towards the more remote palace group on one side, Jia Xiaoqian could only follow them to the side.

George became more and more excited, and the more he walked to the side, the fewer tourists came, and finally when he came to a remote and uninhabited courtyard, Jia Xiaoqian couldn't tell where this was, she introduced it to Zuojiang according to the pattern of the house building, saying that this might be where the concubine lived.

In this courtyard, there are two houses of ancient architecture. The house is not big. It's about the size of three rooms, and it looks a little dilapidated. Zuo Jiang saw through the wooden railing, window, and floor glass that there was a bonsai that resembled a coral tree on the windowsill. Curiously, he climbed on the window and looked in.

Zuo Jiang didn't know what material the two coral tree bonsai were made of, it was like jade, agate, and jade, seeing that this thing was casually placed here, Zuo Jiang thought that this must not be something too valuable.

Looking in again, Zuo Jiang saw through the dim light that the area of the house was very small, and there was only a dilapidated carved ancient bed inside, which was the kind of ancient bed that was closed at the back and on both sides, and the curtain could be drawn in front, and the bed was bare at a glance.

Zuo Jiang thought to himself, is the emperor's concubine living such a life? It's no different from ordinary people! It is said that once you enter the royal palace, the resentment is as deep as the sea, and the woman who lives in this kind of place may not be lucky once in her life, and she will complain until she dies! It was already more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon when the group left the Forbidden City, and everyone was very tired after walking for a day, and they no longer had the interest of wandering elsewhere, so they got in the car and went all the way to the Great Wall Hotel. Zuo Jiang feels that the tourism industry at this time is very standardized, and the tourism environment is also very good, the entire Forbidden City, in addition to charging tickets, only the Qing Dynasty Treasure Museum charges 1 yuan for tickets, and other places are free, unlike his previous life, the Forbidden City in this and that museum, the tickets are frighteningly expensive.

Back to the Great Wall Hotel, after a simple Western meal, we went back to their room to rinse, after washing away the dust of the day, Zuo Jiang lazily leaned on the sand in the big living room to watch TV, almost 7 o'clock, George came to the big living room coolly, saw Zuo Jiang watching TV, and sat down to chat with Zuo Jiang.

Seeing that George was the only one coming out, Zuo Jiang asked, "Uncle George, where is Aunt Stephens?" ”

George shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands with a helpless look and said, "Zuo Jiang, Stephens is so tired today, her feet hurt so much that she almost didn't dare to walk, so she took a shower and went to bed!" ”

"Where's Harvey?" Zuo Jiang asked again.

"I guess I'm too tired to get up, otherwise he would have run out." George said, "Your Lee is not the same, otherwise she would have been here watching TV with you." ”

Zuo Jiang smiled and nodded his head as a tacit acquiescence, and then said, "Uncle George, where are you going to go next after Beijing?"

George said: "I was going to go to Shanghai and then to Suzhou and Hangzhou, but after listening to your introduction, I didn't want to go, and I didn't know where to go for a while, Zuo Jiang, do you have any good suggestions?" ”

Zuo Jiang smiled and said: "Uncle George, my suggestion is that you go to my hometown Songjiang to have a look, and when you get to Songjiang, I can take your family to Changbai Mountain to have a look, and watch the beautiful and spectacular Changbai Mountain Tianchi and Changbai Mountain Waterfall, as well as Jinjiang ......" This time Zuojiang paused, he woke up and wanted to talk about the Jinjiang Grand Canyon, but suddenly thought that the Jinjiang Grand Canyon had not yet opened at this time, so he stopped talking.

George didn't hear anything, for him, Changbai Mountain he only knew from Zuo Jiang, those attractions didn't have any awareness in his mind, just a name, but his geographical knowledge was still relatively rich, after listening to Zuo Jiang's introduction, he asked: "Changbai Mountain Tianchi?" So it's a volcanic lake? ”

Zuo Jiang said: "Yes, Uncle George, it was formed after the eruption of the volcano hundreds of millions of years ago, because the top of the mountain was covered by the volcanic rock that erupted, and finally it was all white, so it was named Changbai Mountain, and the center line of Tianchi is also the dividing line between China and North Korea." ”

George thought for a while and said, "Zuo Jiang, do you have any other good things there?" ”

As soon as Zuo Jiang heard this, it was obvious that George was not very satisfied with Changbai Mountain, Zuo Jiang invited him to Songjiang mainly for the matter of Tongjiang No. 1 Pharmaceutical Factory, and if he didn't go, everything was equal to zero, not only was he a little anxious, but his head turned sharply, thinking that George was a pharmaceutical expert, he said in a hurry: "Of course, Uncle George, Changbai Mountain is China's natural Chinese herbal medicine base, where many rare and precious medicinal materials grow, Changbai Mountain Sanbao ginseng, gastrodia, and immortal grass are even more famous in the world!" "Zuo Jiang was in a hurry and changed the three treasures of Changbai Mountain into medicinal materials.

George is an expert in pharmaceutical research, and he is very familiar with medicinal materials, and he knows the effects of ginseng and gastrodia, especially wild ginseng and gastrodia. So he asked: "Zuo Jiang, you said that Changbai is China's natural Chinese herbal medicine base, that means there are a lot of ginseng and gastrodia there?" ”

Zuo Jiang just wanted to answer George's question, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the TV news, there happened to be an old farmer-like person holding a child-shaped ginseng in his hand to be interviewed, listening to the news content is to introduce the Changbai Mountain ginseng agricultural ginseng, hurriedly asked George to watch TV, and pointed to the TV screen to introduce him.

This TV news is to introduce the Chinese ginseng hometown Funing to support ginseng farming, the TV picture on the slope of the mountain neatly lined up rows of ginseng sheds, ginseng farmers in the ginseng sheds busy, ginseng harvested from the field on the ridge side, a ginseng plant is very eye-catching.

Zuo Jiang knew that George could not understand Chinese, so he introduced while translating for him: "This place in the TV is Funing County in our Songjiang Province, the hometown of the famous Chinese ginseng, and tens of thousands of people are exported every year, Uncle George, think about it, ginseng such a precious medicinal material can produce so much here in a year, and the whole Songjiang is even more, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Changbai Mountain is China's natural Chinese herbal medicine base!" Hearing this, George was finally moved, and he said: "Zuo Jiang, I am very interested in this place, I must go and see it with my own eyes, I can produce my ginseng in a year, God!" It's incredible! ”

Zuo Jiang smiled secretly in his heart when he heard this, I have worked so hard to ask for you to come, as long as you come, my plan can be implemented step by step, and a good start is half the success!