Chapter 179: The Imperial Mansion
After three or four days of trekking, Zhou Ruocheng and his party finally came to the border of Huzhou City.
Getting off the long-distance bus, Hua Xijin rose up and stretched her body, which was a little hairy because of sitting for a long time.
"Well~~~ This is Huzhou, and it's not as prosperous as I imagined." Hua Jinjin looked around, and the surrounding scenery was also some low bungalows, and a long asphalt road in the middle led to the front, and in the distance were the endless jagged peaks.
"Silly girl, this is the outskirts of Huzhou, if we go to Huzhou City, we still have at least half a day to go." Zhou Ruocheng took the salute off the bus and smiled disgustedly.
"What?! There is still half a day to go! Make no mistake! My wife has been in the car for several days, and I really want to sleep in bed! It's like taking a hot bath! Hua Xijin began to complain.
"Young people don't want to be so delicate, how can we say that this is the first time we have left our hometown, and it is okay to bring a little bit of Jiangzhou people's consciousness?" Zhou Ruocheng said.
"The consciousness of Jiangzhou people? What is that? Can you eat it?! Hua Jijin hugged her arms.
Zhan Xiaoyan stepped forward with a bag on his back and a bag in his hand, and handed one of them into Hua Xijin's hands, "It's like this when I first came out, when I first went to Jiangzhou, I was also a local girl who entered the city, and this kind of life will be long in the future." ”
It seems that Zhan Xiaoyan has already felt this sense of disobedience when he sees new things.
Zhao Qingyuan also came out of Jiangzhou for the first time, looking into the distance, it seemed that all of this was so curious.
"Do you see the mountain in front of you?" Zhou Ruocheng pointed to the looming mountain peaks in the distance.
"Hmm. Huzhou is really big. Zhao Qingyuan nodded.
"Actually, that's the main city of Huzhou." Zhou Ruocheng said.
"What!?" The three girls widened their eyes and looked forward carefully, and the uneven and continuous peaks gradually had square water chestnuts, all of which were high-rise buildings made of steel.
"Those... Actually, it's all houses? Hua Jijin muttered a little.
"What do you think? Huzhou is also a Haikou city, where is there such a high mountain for you to see. Zhou Ruocheng replied.
Zhan Xiaoyan looked at this long group of buildings spreading from one side of the sky to the other, and felt a little incredible, "There are so many houses such a long time, how big is this Huzhou?" ”
"Huzhou can be said to be one of the largest cities in our Dahua, although its area is only as large as Jianghang and Jiangshao combined, but it is comparable to the economic productivity of Jiangzhou in its heyday, and there is only such a city, which is the cash city that countless Chinese people yearn for." Zhou Ruocheng swept the blindness to the three soil girls.
"In such a big place, when will we find the house that the emperor gave you?" Zhan Xiaoyan immediately felt the slow malice of the big city.
"You don't have to worry about this, naturally someone will take us there." Zhou Ruocheng said, pulling his suitcase and walking to the side.
Outside the long-distance bus, cars with a light on their heads were parked there.
Zhou Ruocheng stepped forward and knocked on the car window, "Master, do you want to go to the city?" ”
"What? Do you want to take a car? The driver, who put his feet on the steering wheel, sat up and looked at the boy in Hanfu.
"Yes, can you take us to Pudong?" Zhou Ruocheng asked.
"Pudong?!" The master looked at Zhou Ruocheng for a while, "What are you doing there?" ”
"Naturally, I came to Shanghai to make a living." Zhou Ruocheng replied tactfully.
"It's also strange, how can anyone go to Pudong District to beg for a living? It's a place for the rich. The driver said.
Feelings we don't look like rich people? Zhou Ruocheng thought to himself, "Does the master take us over?" ”
"Bring, why don't you do business if you have a business? Let's get in the car. After the driver finished speaking, he walked out and helped Zhou Ruocheng to stuff the trunk of the salute to me.
Ruocheng and his party got on the bus like this, and the driver quickly drove out of the station.
"Are these girls with you?" The driver looked in the rearview mirror, afraid that he had pulled customers for so long, and he had not brought so many handsome guys and beauties at one time.
"Well, we're all in this together." Zhou Ruocheng replied.
"Young man, it's okay to be young." The driver gave Zhou Ruocheng a thumbs up, "These three girls can all be stars, are you an agent?" ”
"Oh no, this is my wife, and these two are my family." Zhou Ruocheng replied.
"What?" The driver glanced at Zhou Ruocheng again, "It turned out to be a family." "Thinking so in my heart, I'm afraid that this kid is a young master from somewhere, what are you doing here with your wife and maid in Shanghai, no wonder you go to Pudong, that's the fat sheep, then you have to slaughter them well.
"Young man, do you have relatives in Shanghai?" The driver began to chatter, which is the usual trick of the driver, to confuse the passengers' attention by chatting, so that they can take some detours unconsciously to brush these strangers who are not familiar with the place.
"Well, no, it's just that I want to live in Shanghai after that." Zhou Ruocheng replied with his mobile phone.
"It's not so simple to live in Huzhou City, I won't tell you, the houses in Huzhou City are expensive, and ordinary people can't afford them!" The driver said.
"It's okay, we have a house!" Zhan Xiaoyan said.
"It's better to have a house." "But it's still a bit difficult to find a better job." ”
"Don't worry about that, I've already found a job here." Zhou Ruocheng replied with a smile.
"Oh, that's pretty good." The driver is also a little envious in his heart, I damn it, this life is a winner.
"Oh yes, master, do you live in Huzhou now?" Zhou Ruocheng asked.
"Me? No, how can I have this condition, we all live outside the main city, where can I make so much money to buy a house in the main city by driving. The driver replied.
"Then it's not very convenient to go back and forth every day, right?" Zhou Ruocheng asked.
"Not really, it's mainly outside the main city, Lalasanke, like you." The driver said.
"Turn left ahead." Zhou Ruocheng said suddenly.
"Only when we meet people like you who want to enter the city will we go to the main city." The driver said as he turned.
"And what's the fun in this main city?" Hua Jijin asked.
"There are more fun places, since those foreigners came in, brought all kinds of strange things, what is called a department store, amusement parks and other places that do not pull and do not pull, there are countless, if you really give you time to play, this Shanghai every year and a half really can't play it." The driver said.
Zhou Ruocheng took a cigarette from the cigarette case and gave it to the driver.
"Oh, thank you." The driver naturally took the cigarette, and Zhou Ruocheng personally lit it for him.
"Then where else is there in this Shanghai besides Pudong District?" Zhou Ruocheng also lit a cigarette and asked.
"There is also a shantytown in Pudong District, Bund District, Jiangdong District, Jiangnan District, Pudong Bund is a group of rich people, even the government offices and other places in Shanghai are located here, and Jiangdong Jiangbei is where some medium-sized families live, and it is also where most of the people in Shanghai live, and there is a shantytown, if there is nothing to do, I still advise you not to go there, there are some uneducated people who gather here." The driver replied again.
"Who are the people in this shantytown? Won't the government take care of it? Zhan Xiaoyan asked again.
"Turn right at this intersection." Zhou Ruocheng said coldly.
The driver naturally followed Zhou Ruocheng's guidance, and was still answering Zhan Xiaoyan's question 1, "Most of them are migrant workers, and some are local ruffians and hooligans, because when there was a war, this fast place was equivalent to the black market back then, and there is no way to control it well now, so the public security is more or less poor, like you."
You beautiful girls, don't go to that kind of place alone. ”
"That's nature, who would run to that kind of place if they have nothing to do." Hua Jijin said.
"I didn't expect there to be such a shady place here." Zhan Xiaoyan muttered.
"Eh Zhan Xiaoyan, I can advise you not to run to that kind of place alone, there are not so many righteous companions in this world." Zhou Ruocheng raised his head and admonished.
"Oh, I see! Am I the kind of person who has no brains? Zhan Xiaoyan replied.
"I'm just worried." Zhou Ruocheng shrugged.
"Worried about what?"
"I'm worried that you will be arrested by the time come, and I will spend money to ransom you." Zhou Ruocheng replied cheaply.
"Zhou Ruocheng!! You can't say something auspicious! Zhan Xiaoyan stepped forward angrily, grabbed Zhou Ruocheng's neck and began to shake it vigorously.
"Eh, eh! Girl, calm down and be lighter. The driver was also a little uncomfortable watching them play in the car, this kind of scene of a winner in life is really a different kind of torture for a single dog, and now he can only make some protests here.
"Okay master, stop at that Ruku in front." Zhou Ruocheng said suddenly.
"Oh, okay." The driver was just about to recruit, but he was stunned for a moment: "Do you know the road?" ”
Zhou Ruocheng shook the mobile phone in his hand, "I navigated, the master chatted with us so happily just now, I was worried that you were driving the wrong way, so I navigated, and it was very close to where we were going." ”
"This..." The driver immediately felt that he was being tricked by Zhou Ruocheng, and looked at the odometer in his car, if he had the heart, he could sell it almost at a third higher price, and this kid seemed to have seen through his tricks unconsciously.
"What, master? Anything else to say? Zhou Ruocheng asked.
"No, it's nothing, I just sighed, I haven't been to the main city for a long time." The driver smiled awkwardly, and his heart was also extremely remorseful.
I don't know when I have opened in the main city, and the big sign in Pudong has long been marked in various places, and the original low bungalows have now become high-rise buildings, constantly cutting the blue sky above.
When the driver arrived at the destination Zhou Ruocheng pointed to, Zhou Ruocheng and his party got out of the car and put down their luggage, Zhou Ruocheng also smiled and said to the driver, "Thank you, master, for introducing us to the city of Shanghai." ”
The driver smiled awkwardly and drove away.
Zhou Ruocheng is the same as the hillbilly who has just entered the city, looking around at the surrounding scenery, although the furnishings here have also been seen in Jiangzhou, but it is only a very small part of the place, this kind of continuous buildings composed of the city, in essence, is distinguished from Jiangzhou.
Just when Zhou Ruocheng and his entourage were observing these high-rise buildings from a quiet distance, a person walked over not far away.
"May I ask if it's Mr. Zhou Ruocheng and Mr. Zhou?" A slightly feminine voice.
A few people looked over there and saw a blond, blue-eyed woman in a tuxedo standing there, her right hand on her left shoulder and bowing slightly.
"You are?" Zhou Ruocheng asked.
"My name is Stella, and I am the butler of Mr. Zhou's Imperial Mansion, and I have been waiting for you here for a long time." The woman replied.
"W-Could this be the legendary butler?!" Hua Jijin had stars in her eyes.
"Calm down! Calm down. Zhou Ruocheng patted her head, hoping to calm her down a little.
"So, let me show you the way." Stella made a gesture of please, and then began to lead the way with a neat turn.
"What is the emperor's mansion like? . . ." Zhou Ruocheng muttered in his heart.
After walking about two streets, and after a street corner, Stella stopped, "Everyone, your palace has arrived." ”
The group raised their heads and exclaimed in unison.
"Holy..."