Chapter 31 A Trip to Jiangnan Province

Out of the city bureau, I got rid of Li Rusong's entanglement and drove back to Huandao Flower Garden.

When I got home, I told Jiang Lina and Mengmeng about my plan to take them on a business trip to Jiangnan Province.

Jiang Lina behaved very plainly, saying that she could go anywhere with me. Mengmeng was very excited, saying that she had never been far away since she was a child, and she jumped up and down to sort out her suitcase.

In the afternoon, I received materials and two transfer records from Huang Xiaosong about Jiangnan Experimental Equipment Factory, one was 45,000 yuan on June 18, 2012, and the other was 65,000 yuan on July 6.

At 8 o'clock in the morning the next day, I first sent the "rice cake" to the security room, bothered the security guard to take care of it for two days, and gave the security guard 200 yuan as a hardship fee. Then he took Sister Jiang Lina and drove to Jiangnan Experimental Equipment Factory. Jiangnan Experimental Equipment Factory is located in Ningguo City, Jiangnan Province, 217 kilometers away from Shanghai. Founded in 1986, it is a state-owned enterprise, mainly producing all kinds of experimental and teaching equipment and appliances, and reduced the scale of production after the restructuring in 1998, but the foundation is still quite strong, and it has a certain reputation in Jiangnan Province.

I drove my two sisters on the highway, and the road was not in good condition on Monday today, and there was some congestion on the highway. I calculated the time, and estimated that it would be noon in Ningguo City, so I asked them to take a nap in the car.

At 11:20 p.m., we arrived at Ningguo City, and after leaving the toll booth, I parked my car on the side of the road. According to the contact number sent by Huang Xiaosong, I called Jiangnan Experimental Equipment Factory, explained my intention, and was transferred to Manager Zhang of the sales department. Manager Zhang told me that he is currently in the county and will not be able to come back until the evening, and asked me to go to the unit at 10 am tomorrow to meet with him.

After hanging up the phone, I told the two sisters that there was nothing to do this afternoon, and I would accompany them to visit Ningguo City. The two were very happy to hear this, and began to use their mobile phones to check the nearby attractions in the car.

Ningguo City has a history of more than 2,000 years, and was an important port in the Zhao Dynasty more than 800 years ago. I checked the nearby hotels, put up some money for myself, and booked a suite at a hotel called "Green Willow Villa". This hotel is located in the suburbs of Ningguo City, the environment is relatively quiet, and close to several scenic spots, it is not yet the tourist season, the price is more reasonable.

Half an hour later, we checked in at the front desk of Willow Villa and went back to the room to put our luggage. The room is a set of 2 rooms with a living room, I let Meng Meng and Jiang Lina live in a room with a window, and I live in the one by the door. After a little rest in the room, I took them downstairs to find a farmhouse near the hotel by the river, and ate something casually.

During the meal, we decided to go to the wetland park first, and then go to the pedestrian street on the side of the Chenghuang Temple, and have dinner on the pedestrian street by the way.

After lunch, we went back to the hotel to pick up the car, Jiang Lina said that she wanted to go back to the room to change clothes, and asked me to wait for her and Mengmeng in the hotel lobby. So I sat alone on the sofa in the lobby smoking a cigarette and waiting for them, and about 20 minutes later, Jiang Lina appeared in front of me wearing the dress I bought for her in Bailian, and Meng Meng was standing behind Jiang Lina wearing an embroidered round-neck long-sleeved shirt and a snow gauze skirt.

I watched them smiling in front of me, looked at my white crewneck shirt and black cropped jacket, and jokingly said to them, "It's okay now, I don't dare to stand next to you anymore when I look so good at you."

Mengmeng's physique has not been good since she was a child, and she basically has no chance to go out, but this time it is rare to be able to go out of Shanghai, and she is in a very happy mood. In the wetland park, I have been walking in front of Jiang Lina and me, looking at this for a while, and touching the busy one for a while. Jiang Lina and I held hands and followed behind the little girl, playing the role of nanny.

The three of us wandered around the wetland park and inadvertently walked under a chain bridge. Meng Meng looked at the chains that served as railings on the bridge and hung locks of different sizes and materials, and asked me curiously why I hung these locks on the chains. I was embarrassed to tell her, for fear that something would happen to her if she found out.

At this time, a stall on the side of the chain bridge, a little old man with a goatee, saw that Meng Meng was interested in those locks. So he came to her and told her that the locks that hung on the chains were called concentric locks. Meng Meng asked him why he was called Tongxin Lock, and the little old man squinted at the three of us, touched his goatee and told Meng Meng that this lock has a saying. If it is locked between lovers, it is eternal marriage, the lock between husband and wife is a hundred years of good union, the lock between sisters is sisters, the lock between friends is eternity, and the lock between families is family harmony, and the name can be engraved on the lock, representing the unswerving heart of the sea and rocks.

I listened to the little old man's serious nonsense with twitching at the corner of my mouth, and I felt that this TM was really a talent, no matter what the relationship between the three of us was, he could pick it up, and also provide value-added services "lettering"!

As I expected, Meng Meng was aroused by the little old man's interest, and pulled me and Jiang Lina to argue for a lock. After I nodded and agreed, Mengmeng picked two big locks and a small lock on the little old man's stall, and asked the little old man to engrave the names of me and Jiang Lina on the two big locks, and the names of their two sisters on the other, as for the small lock, only the word Mengmeng was engraved. I asked her suspiciously, why only engraved his name, Mengmeng said the secret, and didn't tell you first.

After paying, the three of us walked up to the chain bridge, first locked the two big locks against the chains, and then fastened the small locks engraved with the word Meng Meng, and the locking rings that encircled the two big locks at the same time.

After hanging the concentric lock, the three of us counted one, two, three, and threw the key into the river. After completing this ceremony, Meng Meng giggled happily and said to us, sister, uncle and Meng Meng are all locked together, and we will never be separated.

The old man with the goatee was stunned and watched Mengmeng's operation, gave her a thumbs up, and said, "The little girl really knows how to play, and the old man has learned another trick."

A short walk from the Iron Lock Bridge, we came to a snack street. I looked at the stalls selling cotton candy on the snack street, and on a whim, I bought a marshmallow for each of them, and then under their strong protest, I asked them to stand by the river and let me take pictures, and after taking more than ten of them in a row, I picked a photo of two sisters standing together and biting cotton with their small mouths open as my mobile phone screensaver.

Meng Meng looked at me staring at the screensaver in a daze, glanced at me, and muttered "Stinky pervert!" ”

After taking the photos, I was satisfied and bought three cups of milk tea and an egg waffle, and sat with them in the rest area of the snack street to rest. Meng Meng sat in the middle of us and mischievously took apart the egg waffles one by one, and happily stuffed them into my and Jiang Lina's mouths.

After resting for a while, Jiang Lina proposed to find a place with better scenery and three people to take some photos together, so we discussed it according to the park signs and chose the place "Hundred Flowers Valley". Baihua Valley is still some distance from here, I was worried that Mengmeng's body would not be able to stand it, so I rented a self-service tricycle on the snack street, let them sit on, and I slowly rode to Baihua Valley with a hard pedal.

After arriving in the Valley of Hundred Flowers, we took a lot of photos inside, including the three of us, me and Mengmeng, their two sisters, and me alone and Jiang Lina. After playing in Baihua Valley, I saw that it was almost 4 o'clock, so I rode a tricycle back to the gate of the wetland park, returned the tricycle and drove directly to the City God Temple after returning the deposit.

On the way to the City God Temple, Meng Meng was resting alone in the back seat, and Jiang Lina quietly looked through the photos taken in Baihua Valley in the passenger seat, and asked me from time to time which one was good. I replied casually, "As long as it's you, any one looks good." ”

She lowered her head a little shyly and said, "Brother Cheng is talking nonsense." ”

I smiled and continued to tease her, "Brother Cheng, I never talk nonsense, our family Lina is the best-looking." ”

After listening to my words, Jiang Lina shyly turned her head and ignored me at the car window, I looked at the reflection of the window glass, and found that the corners of her mouth were slightly raised and she smiled secretly, for a while I thought this girl was sometimes quite cute.

In fact, there is nothing interesting about the City God Temple, the City God Temple is almost the same all over the country, we have no interest after a little stroll, and we went directly to the side of the pedestrian street.

Pedestrian street 10 years back is a sea of people, in recent years by the impact of online e-commerce gradually began to decline, there is a sentence very apt description of the current situation of the pedestrian street economy in recent years, that is, "the pedestrian street is really not a street".

Although there are not many people in the pedestrian street, we enjoy the feeling of shopping without hurry, no need to queue, no need to squeeze around, and the most important thing is that because there is less passenger flow, the service quality of the salesperson has been significantly improved.

We wandered slowly on the pedestrian street at random, and accidentally saw an advertisement for a silver building, which said that the opening reward, 8.5% off the whole site, and free labor fee over 3,000. I looked at Jiang Lina's neck next to me, and thought to myself that this girl has never had a good life for a few days since she was a child, and she didn't even have a piece of jewelry in her early twenties, and it was really not easy to bear her sister's life alone after her grandmother died.

So I thought it would be better to take this opportunity to buy them some jewelry, after all, Jiang Lina is also my woman anyway. But according to her saving character, she is likely to refuse, I thought about it, and said to Mengmeng, "Mengmeng, uncle, I remember that two days ago, March 14th, I still seem to owe you a gift, right?" ”

"That's to tease the uncle, do you remember?" Meng Meng asked me unexpectedly.

"Of course, how could the uncle deceive Mengmeng."

"Hehe, sister, uncle said he wanted to make up for us White Day gifts!" Meng Meng shook Jiang Lina's arm and said happily.

Jiang Lina gently tapped her cute little head with her index finger, and said dotingly, "You girl, you will make trouble for Brother Cheng." ”

"How can it be troublesome! Really, Uncle is a good man, and I'll give you gifts today, don't do it! I deliberately said to Jiang Lina with a straight face.

Jiang Lina sneered, "Okay, just listen to Brother Cheng." ”

She didn't think of what I was going to buy for them, she thought she was buying something to make Meng Meng happy, so she agreed.

"Hmmm! That's right, now Brother Cheng is in charge! I pulled Jiang Lina and Mengmeng into the gold shop while the iron was hot, Jiang Lina found out that she was fooled, and she was a little angry to go out, I grabbed her hand and said, "Say that you want to listen to me, don't regret it!" ”

Jiang Lina was helpless, and was reluctantly pulled by me to a cabinet that sold necklaces.