Chapter 13 Canton
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Chu Zhongtian felt that this was really amazing, since he played professional football, he had never traveled back and forth to China twice in a summer, and this time he actually did it. The first time was to return to China with www.biquge.info the European Champions Cup, and the second time was to follow the new owner to China to participate in commercial competitions.
Just before leaving for Spain, both China and Real Madrid informed themselves that they would be attending a number of business events at that time, and they hoped that he would cooperate. Real Madrid's coaching staff expressed concern about such an intensive schedule of commercial activities, believing that it would affect Chu Zhongtian's fitness. However, Chu Zhongtian told them that there was no problem and that they could handle it themselves.
Although Real Madrid is a bright star, but when it comes to China, Chu Zhongcai is the most dazzling one.
The same is true within the team, as soon as they hear that they are going to China, everyone will ask Chu Zhongtian in training to ask what fun and delicious places they are going to in the Chinese city.
Chu Zhongtian in Shanghai has been quite stayed, although he comes and goes in a hurry every time, he is completely unfamiliar with Guangzhou. But it doesn't matter, what era is it?
In the information age, there is no more convenient way to understand information!
Chu Zhongtian has Weibo and can surf the Internet. After training, he returned home and posted a Weibo: "Friends in Guangzhou and Shanghai, is there anything delicious and fun in your territory?" β
In less than a day, I got a reply tonight - at this time, the matter about Real Madrid's visit to China has been finalized, so although Chu Zhongtian did not say on Weibo that he was going to take Real Madrid's stars to visit Guangzhou and Shanghai, everyone also knew why he asked so, and one by one they rushed to be an enthusiastic host, introducing local snacks and fun places to Chu Zhongtian, and even some netizens asked to be a tour guide for free, as long as he took a photo with the stars of Real Madrid...... Fans in Guangzhou and Shanghai went crazy and gathered fans online, preparing to go to those popular spots to have a "miserable" onlooker of Chu Zhongtian and the Real Madrid stars.
Chu Zhongtian didn't care so much, wrote down those delicious and fun places, and then searched for the approximate location on Google Maps, even if it was basically decided.
Real Madrid came to China, how to say that he is also the host, and he has to be entertained.
In fact, Real Madrid's trip to China may not be a good thing for Real Madrid's team, because it will drain Real Madrid's energy and completely disrupt Real Madrid's pre-season preparation plan. However, for Chu Zhongtian, the trip to China is a good opportunity to integrate into the team. Here, he is the host, he leads everyone out to play, he introduces China to everyone, interacts with Chinese fans, and here he unconsciously has a kind of "I am the protagonist" momentum, which can help him quickly integrate into the team and stabilize his position in the team.
β»β»β»The Guangzhou side is fully prepared for this welcome to Real Madrid. From the moment the plane landed at the airport, the lively Real Madrid trip to China began.
While the plane was still hovering over Guangzhou, the players crowded to the porthole and looked down. The first impression of this Chinese city was "It's huge!" β
Madrid is the largest city in Spain, with an urban area of only 607 square kilometers and a population of about 3.1 million. Guangzhou's urban area is 3,843 square kilometers, with a population of more than 10 million. Madrid and Guangzhou are not at all the same level of cities.
So on the plane overlooking Guangzhou's dense buildings and criss-crossing connecting roads. "Big" is the first impression of these players.
When the plane landed at Guangzhou New Baiyun International Airport, the tarmac was already full of leaders, media and lucky fans who came to greet them.
The bus of the Real Madrid players is also directly driven to the tarmac, and the whole Real Madrid team can leave from the airport by bus instead of going to the airport building, where there are many people, the place is narrow, and it is easy to cause riots, which is very unfavorable for security.
The plane landed tremblingly, taxied down the runway, and finally slid onto the established tarmac.
Some players stretched their waists and did more than ten hours of airplanes, but they were still a little tired.
The order of getting out of the plane is also very particular, because it is a commercial activity, so it is natural that the players with large commercial value are at the forefront. C. Ronaldo deservedly became the vanguard, followed by Chu Zhongtian. If Kaka is there, he will be the third, but now the third is Real Madrid captain Casillas, followed by Benzema, Ramos, Higuain and others.
In fact, in terms of the quality of the stars alone, the second phase of the Galaxy Battleship is of course not as good as the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship, when the seven superstars gathered in Real Madrid, how shocking it was. Today's Real Madrid is full of superstars, in fact, only C. Ronaldo, Kaka and Casillas, and Chu Zhongtian, who has just joined the team.
However, Florentino is said to be on the lookout for Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, which is why he hasn't been aggressive in buying Adebayor. If he can bring Wayne Rooney to the Bernabeu, the stars of this team will shine even brighter.
Of course, this may be very small. Ferguson is unlikely to let Rooney go.
C. Ronaldo was at the head of the line, and as soon as he stepped out of the cabin door, he couldn't help but complain: "Wow, it's hot!" β
Yes, August is the hottest time in Guangzhou, and the humid and muggy weather in Guangzhou is not something that anyone can bear. Even Chu Zhongtian felt that his skin had suddenly become slimy, and his clothes were a little uncomfortable against his skin.
The sweltering heat in Guangzhou gave Real Madrid's players a disadvantage, and playing in such an environment was more uncomfortable than playing in the sweltering heat.
But C. Ronaldo only complained a little, and there was a smile on his face again. There are a lot of people below, but he pays a lot of attention to his image.
After each Real Madrid player walks down the gangway, he receives a garland and flowers from the beautiful hostesses, with the garland hanging around his neck and the flowers in his hand. Guangzhou has the nickname of "Flower City", and offering flowers can reflect their urban characteristics.
However, Chu Zhongtian received special preferential treatment, he had three garlands around his neck alone, and his left hand and right hand were full of flowers, and he was almost unable to hold it.
This did not make Real Madrid's teammates feel jealous, but let out a burst of laughter after seeing him completely overwhelmed with flowers. The fatigue of the journey and the discomfort of the sweltering heat melted away in the laughter.
Real Madrid's arrival at the new Baiyun International Airport was broadcast live on TV, which is certainly one of the ways for Chinese brokerage companies to make money. As a result, many Chinese fans were able to see the arrival of Real Madrid's players in Guangzhou through live TV or online TV broadcasts.
Real Madrid then took a bus to their hotel, the White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou.
The time of arrival in Guangzhou was 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was almost 5 o'clock after settling in the hotel. Don't look at the Real Madrid players looking forward to this trip to China, in fact, they don't have much free time, and tonight is one of them. Other times they attend training, attend press conferences, and participate in business events and charity events.
So as soon as they put their luggage in the room, a group of people shouted, using Chu Zhongtian's room as a meeting point, asking Chu Zhongtian to take them out to taste Chinese food.
In fact, the hotel has prepared a grand welcome dinner for them, but everyone's mind is in the legend of which is not well-known, but very good to make the small shop. I was not interested in the welcome dinner provided by the hotel. In fact, Chu Zhongtian can imagine that according to the traditional etiquette of Chinese entertaining distinguished guests, they must come up with their most proud and skilled food here. However, in order not to ruin the fun of his teammates when they go out at night, he still told his teammates not to eat too much at the dinner party for a while...... The dinner was quite decent, after all, this is a five-star hotel, and after the hotel owner said a few words, he let everyone move his chopsticks. Many people don't know how to use chopsticks, so Chu Zhongtian taught them to use chopsticks. C. Ronaldo successfully picked up a cow pill with chopsticks, and he proudly showed it off everywhere, but as soon as he was happy, the cow pill broke away from his control, flew out, and hit the assistant coach Karanka in the back of the head, Karanka was beaten and turned his head but didn't know what was going on, touching the back of his head with a confused look, while the other Real Madrid players laughed breathlessly.
Although before coming to Real Madrid, I always felt that Real Madrid's players were arrogant, in fact, they were indeed very arrogant when playing against many small teams, such as C. Ronaldo would disdainfully ask the opponent: "How much do you earn", Ozil and Di Maria would scold the opposing players when they pulled their shirts, "Don't defile this shirt with your hands".
But when you're on a team with them, you'll find that it's just a bunch of ordinary young people, who just make a little more than the rest of the young people.
Fun-loving and joking, no different from other young people.
There are also some people who don't know how to put something in their mouths with chopsticks, so they can only lift the chopsticks high, then open their mouths, put them under the chopsticks, release the chopsticks, and let the food fall freely into the mouth.
One by one, they ate in and out of the foreign phase, but they were very happy.
They may not be impressed with how the meal tasted, but they were happy.
Chinese players are now playing Weibo, and foreign players are also playing, but they play Twitter.
"Hey! Clear! Khedira's voice rang out.
Chu Zhongtian turned his head to look over.
"Take a picture for me!" Pepe held chopsticks and carefully held a wonton, while he held a mobile phone in his other hand to greet Chu Zhongtian.
Chu Zhongtian went over to take a picture for him, and then gave it back to him.
"I'm going to tweet it and I'm going to say I've learned a new skill too, haha!" Pepe shook his phone to show off.
After the dinner, the players were given free time to stay in their hotel room or go out on their own. Except for a very small number of players who were unwilling to join in the excitement or felt tired, most of the other players followed Chu Zhongtian, intending to visit the lively Guangzhou night market and see China's nightlife.
However, so many people, if you take a taxi, it is obviously inconvenient, only you here understand Chinese, and you may not be able to understand Cantonese or anything, you can only communicate in Mandarin. Not to mention those foreigners, if someone cheats them, it will be a big deal.
So Chu Zhongtian went to the hotel manager and asked them if they could provide a minibus to take the Real Madrid players to visit the night view of Guangzhou.
Such a request naturally has to be fully satisfied, and the hotel is eager to please this group of Real Madrid stars, so without saying a word, it found a Toyota 20-seat Coaster. Chu Zhongtian had seen this kind of yellow bus in China before, and it was a special car for the leaders. It is said that Deng Xiaoping liked it very much at first, and later the people below followed suit, and it became a special car for leaders.
Coaster's interior is spacious and comfortable, and more than a dozen Real Madrid players sit on it, which is just right. The bus is too big, and there are a lot of drills in many small alleys, so this kind of bus is very suitable for drilling those small places.
"Let's go!" C. Ronaldo shouted in the Chinese he had just learned with Chu Zhongtian, and Coaster slowly started in this shout.
Turned out of the parking lot of the hotel and drove into the night of Guangzhou.
β»β»β» Chu Zhongtian took them to Beijing Road and China Plaza business district in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, which is a famous commercial area in Guangzhou, and is close to residential areas, with many restaurants and many high-quality restaurants. And there are many shops lined up here, so how can you just eat food and not shop? Chu Zhongtian: This can be regarded as a contribution to the country's gross national product, right?
When eating in Guangzhou, you must not sit and eat in a store, you have to walk all the way to eat all the way, eat all the way from this end of the street, and then change the direction and eat back.
As a result, many Guangzhou citizens and tourists who were shopping on Beijing Road saw such a spectacular scene - a group of people who were obviously celebrities fought their way in and out of restaurants, and two diametrically opposed expressions of satisfaction and dissatisfaction appeared on their faces at the same time.
Someone recognized the men as Real Madrid players and screamed, pulling out their mobile phones and digital cameras to take pictures and videos. There were also more daring people who came up to ask for autographs and group photos, and these players had a good meal, so naturally they did not refuse. Chu Zhongtian was responsible for maintaining order, constantly reminding his compatriots loudly: "Don't several, don't crowd!" We're going to eat at the next one!! β
His words provoked bursts of laughter from the crowd of onlookers around him.
Someone else shouted: "Guangzhou D, is it right?" β
"Isn't Guangzhou so fun?"
However, with Chu Zhongtian's efforts, nothing happened that made the scene out of control. After all, Chinese have long gone abroad now, idol superstars don't know how much they have seen, Guangzhou is an open city, at the beginning of the reform and opening up, people here were the first to contact Western things, and it is not strange that they have long been used to it. Even Real Madrid fans, stars who like Real Madrid don't necessarily have to be as desperate as SJ fans, and everyone is quite restrained and polite.
But the happiest are the restaurateurs. Needless to say, the arrival of Real Madrid stars has boosted their visit, and savvy restaurateurs will pull them along for photos after dinner. Chu Zhongtian knew that the next day, there would be an extra photo of the restaurant owner and the Real Madrid star on the wall of this restaurant. The happiest thing for the bosses is that many fans who like Real Madrid come in and order more or less a meal to make their business boom.
They all took Chu Zhongtian's hand and affectionately called him "God of Wealth", they knew that these guests were actually brought by Chu Zhongtian - Chu Zhongtian brought his Real Madrid teammates, and the Real Madrid players called a large number of Real Madrid fans and tourists who like to watch the excitement...... of course, how can you just eat? If you come to China and don't shop, it's just in vain. You must know that many celebrities like to shop when they come to China, because the things here are cheap - not to go to those high-end business districts, but to go to places like Silk Street...... There is such convenience on Beijing Road, which is originally a bustling business district, and you can buy anything you want here.
A group of Real Madrid stars had eaten and drunk enough, and proposed to Chu Zhongtian that they wanted to buy something. Chu Zhongtian had already prepared and took them to kill only Beijing Road and China Square.
At first, of course, I took them to those fancy stores, but the stars showed little interest. Don't look at their annual incomes of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of yuan, but they are very stingy.
They want to come and pick up bargains...... Chu Zhongtian simply took them to Baiyun Road, which was full of counterfeit world famous brands, which was very in line with the requirements of this group of misers.
Sure enough, when everyone saw those famous brands such as LV and Gucci that could almost be fake, they all came to the spirit.
And don't look at this group of people as foreigners, but they are very good at bargaining, Chu Zhongtian can only translate for them...... When the stall owners saw the foreigner, they would habitually slaughter the foreigner, but this time they met an opponent.
Some people like to buy clothes and bags, while others are not interested in these and only like mobile phones and tablets. So after buying clothes, Chu Zhongtian took them to buy copycat electronic products next to the martyrs' cemetery.
A real Apple phone sells for almost a thousand euros abroad, and here it costs only a few hundred yuan...... Simply a model of good value for money.
Others are interested in those strange-looking knock-offs.
Higuain fell in love with a knock-off that he thought was a cassette recorder but turned out to be a mobile phone, because it had eight speakers in front of and behind it...... After buying it, he also took photos with his mobile phone and posted them on Twitter to show off the "treasures" he found in China.
"Do you know what this is? Ha ha! β
Don't look at the large group of people who are quite expensive, but they are very interested in this cheap knockoff. Chu Zhongtian had already told them that although this kind of thing was cheap, the quality was not very good. They don't care, they just buy toys and buy everything they like. Then compare yourself with each other.
When I finally left here and returned to the hotel, almost everyone returned with a full load, except for Chu Zhongtian...... He is used to seeing counterfeit goods, but he is not interested in buying a lot of knockoffs to show off......
(To be continued)