It's almost 7 o'clock in the evening, Guangzhou is just sunset, the lights are on, Liwan District Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street people come and go, from the west to the east, from the street to the alley, from the Lianxianglou to the Shangxiajiu Square...... It's like a celebration.

In the midst of the noisy flow of people, Ye Wei dragged his suitcase and watched.

There are many shops on both sides of the arcade street, a time-honored brand, the street is full of classical bronze statues that tell the style of Xiguan, herbal tea stalls, children, Miss Xiguan, etc., stalls and ghost vendors are everywhere, selling clothing, selling snacks, selling such and that, dazzling.

It's one of his favorite aspects of China, and Westerners who haven't lived or traveled to China won't understand why every Chinese city never sleeps, and the Farmers Market in Los Angeles can't compare to that.

It's not a small place to be fenced off, it's not the same as the good areas of Brentwood or Beverly Hills, it's downtown, but walking down the street without worrying about being robbed, surrounded by a bunch of thieves, illegal immigrants or homeless people, and being held to the head with a gun pointed at your head.

If he were walking in downtown LA, or the Civic Center of San Francisco, his mother's hometown, his backpack and suitcase would have been gone, and his life might have been gone. So it's really cool, especially when I come back from Kenya, and it's even more precious.

Ye Wei is a "China expert", but he is far more than just a China expert, in his heart, he has dual citizenship of the United States and China. Many of the people he knew were dual nationals, Lily was British and American, Nina was Bulgarian and Canadian, and Lev was French and American...... He didn't.

When China launched this policy, he applied for it as soon as possible.

Ye Wei feels that he is very lucky, since he was a child, he has not had any troubles and confusion about the beauty of Chinese, all of them are well educated by his parents! Let him really understand his hometown and root culture since he was a child, and become one of the sources of self-confidence.

Looking for the long-lost aroma, I walked into a small alley, and I was full of various billboards marked with "Guilin rice noodles", "claypot rice", "sugar water", "fish skin" and so on.

There were not many tourists in the alley, Ye Wei didn't walk into any shop, and went straight to the first tricycle snack stall. He likes to eat these ghost stalls, and looking at the authentic snacks in Guangzhou such as fish balls, beef offal, and fish skin in the car, his saliva is about to flow out.

Swallowing his saliva, he gave the stall owner's grandmother a 50 yuan note and started to act!

I took a bamboo skewer and skewered fish balls, bit the first one into my mouth and ate it, after three years, it was as delicious as the Guangzhou fish balls in my memory, chewy, refreshing, just like the peeing beef balls in "God of Food".

Ye Wei couldn't help but sigh: "It's ......."

That's the taste, that's the feeling, it's right!

He closed his eyes in enjoyment, and ate a little bit of a shaking, he himself could be considered to have tasted the world's food, but once compared...... Food is also one of his favorite aspects of China. He can live in Guangzhou for a whole year, but he is afraid that he will be too fat to walk.

"Pretty boy, this one seems to be a fake field?" said the grandmother who was touching the banknote in her right hand.

"Scared?" Ye Wei stopped when he was about to bite the second fish egg. Grandma looked to be in her sixties, although her hair was half white, she didn't look old, and she was wearing a purple T-shirt and black wide pants, revealing a unique spirit of Chinese women.

"Scared, scared, scared, don't let it be a fake wild. Grandma was a little angry, and the old eyes glanced at the tall and decrepit tattoos, "Bad ghosts." ”

Ye Wei probably understood that Grandma said that the money was a counterfeit banknote, and she had exchanged some RMB at the airport before, and that one was the money that the taxi driver was looking for. He was about to explain: "Grandma ......" but for a while, his Cantonese is very limited, most of it comes from Hong Kong movies, and a small part comes from his life around him and his days in Scarborough.

was called grandma, and seeing that this guy wanted to deny it, the middle-aged and elderly woman suddenly became angry, pointed at him and scolded: "You ghost boy, you have good eyebrows and good appearance and sand lice!"

"What do you mean!" Ye Wei hurriedly apologized first, not only didn't want to quarrel with Grandma, but also understood Grandma, so hard to make some money and received counterfeit money, of course he was angry. He had no choice but to explain in Mandarin: "I'm sorry, grandma, I just received this money from the taxi driver, I'll change it for you." ”

"I don't know how to listen to your pot of winter melon!" Grandma was even more angry, and called passers-by to help: "Don't you go away!

Ye Wei twisted the string of fish balls, took out his wallet, took out a hundred-yuan bill, handed it to Grandma, and said in broken Cantonese: "Use this one." ”

Although Grandma took the money, because of those tattoos, she decided that this friend was not a good person, and suspiciously examined the banknote.

"It was redeemed from the airport, it's definitely true. Ye Wei said in Mandarin, put the 50 yuan back in his wallet, and continued to eat delicious fish balls.

The matter has attracted the attention of the people around, and a local middle-aged uncle came first, while looking at the offspring boy who turned over the port, he asked: "What's the matter, Aunt Liang?" Grandma said angrily: "Mi, this ghost boy Luo, compared to Zhang Fake Ye me, when I was Lulu." ”

A few more passing diners stopped to watch, and they were a little surprised by the tall and handsome boy who was born later, so they took a few more looks.

But when he saw clearly that his red short-sleeved T-shirt did not cover the tattoo on his hands and small arms, "Guilty of heaven, nothing to pray for", and English letters on his fingers, it was immediately unpleasant, his hair was very long, and he was so strong that his hands were spreading, and there were small holes cut up and down the knees of his jeans.

"Haha. Ye Wei laughed, felt that this incident was very interesting, and also remembered the "Uncle Bus Incident", which was a very popular Hong Kong video on YouTube this year.

Two more girls who looked like high school students came around, and he felt that he was going to be recognized this time, but no, no one knew him.

"Pretty aunt, what are you talking about?" the middle-aged uncle asked, dissatisfied with the laughter of this rotten boy but closed his tone, this rotten cow is tall and big, and initiates the rotten scum black boy distance.

Ye Wei explained to everyone seriously: "No, this is a misunderstanding. I just came to Guangzhou, I came to Shangjiu for dinner, the fake money was given to me by the airport taxi driver, I don't know, I have already changed one for Lianggu. ”

Everyone who knew Mandarin understood, and when they saw that Grandma was indeed holding a 100 yuan in her hand, a few people immediately left. The middle-aged uncle translated to Grandma: "Aunt Liang, the people and the land are not Tedengga, and the distance is all the Quiz Kunzuoji. ”

"I know what Zhang Jianliu?" Grandma couldn't believe it.

Ye Wei looked at the passers-by next to him suspiciously, and asked what their grandma meant. One of the two maidens with a goose-faced face boldly said, "She is doubting the authenticity of that money." He nodded: "Understandable." Girl...... Pretty girl, please help me tell Aunt Liang, I really don't mean to lie, it's actually very simple, you keep an eye on me, just check which store Aunt Liang will go to with the money detector. ”

"Good. The girl's voice was a little excited: "I asked you to go to check the money, and I will confirm him." Another round-faced girl was peeking at the pretty boy, feeling that this person looked like a star model, and the idols he remembered couldn't be compared, so tall, is he an athlete?

Grandma accepted this suggestion, let everyone take a good look at this ghost boy, and walked to the "fat mom claypot rice" next to her.

"Thank you. Ye Wei thanked him with a smile, and then took a bamboo skewer and ate the offal. Everyone around was surprised, no one moved to stop it, the middle-aged uncle said: "Hey the young boy......" Ye Wei hurriedly said: "All counted, I bought five strings! This is the second string." ”

The two girls were secretly looking at him, whispering one after another, "Tie it?"

Ye Wei didn't finish the string of offal, and the grandmother came back soon, and most of her anger had disappeared, so she found money for him neatly, and complained: "The gentleman who lives in the shade has to go." ”

The matter was resolved satisfactorily, and the middle-aged uncle and other well-wishers left. The two girls nodded in discussion, and the egg-faced girl stepped forward and asked, "Handsome guy, which star do you seem to be?"

"It's not ......" Ye Wei was stunned, it was a movie, a TV series, and I heard that there is a phenomenal movie called "Crazy Stone" being released in the mainland. Unrecognized, he was a little lost this time, and shrugged: "I'm not a star, my name is Ye Wei, Ye of Ye, the only one." ”

That movie genius, Brother Wei, do you have any impressions?

Not a star. The two girls couldn't hide their disappointed looks, but they always felt that this person was not ordinary, a ghost and a dead type...... Ye Wei: I seem to have heard it again.

"Hey, nice to meet you guys. Seeing the way they were thinking, Ye Wei made the mistake of teasing the girl again, and couldn't help laughing: "Two beautiful girls, I said my name, you don't say it, isn't it rude?"

"Huh. They looked at each other and smiled, but they didn't say their names. Since he is not a celebrity, this tattooed muscular man may be a tricky boy...... They didn't dare to pay attention to his accosting, and they didn't want to go like that.

Grandma looked at the boy with a vigilant cold eye, and reminded: "Sister, you don't have to keep a distance, the Dilao guy is inhuman." ”

"I'm not a bad person. Ye Wei shrugged his shoulders and grimaced, in fact, he really didn't just tease the girl: "That's the case, I want to take some travel photos in Guangzhou, I want to ask you to be my model, right here, right now, take a set of street photos, is it okay?"

Seeing that they were stunned, he explained: "I-think girls are one of the important features of every city, and girls in Guangzhou and Los Angeles and New York have a completely different feeling. Guangzhou girls have a unique and beautiful temperament in southern China. You're great, you're going to be photogenic. ”

"You're from a foreign country?" asked the round-faced girl, who they all heard in his natural English.

"Yes, but I'm Chinese. Ye Wei smiled and said, "How about it?

The two girls whispered a few words, and after laughing, they walked quickly to the outside of the alley, ignoring "Ye Wei", and said that they were engaged in pyramid schemes.

"Hey, OK. Ye Wei looked at them helplessly, what's wrong with me? Grandma drove him away and said: "Just eat properly, stop the sun, and no one will dare to help." He didn't quite understand, but he took the suitcase and left, and continued to eat elsewhere!

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That night, Ye Wei ate a full meal in Shangxiajiu, eating all kinds of stall snacks along the way, and finally went to Yinji Rice Noodles to eat a bowl of slippery chicken porridge, beef rice rolls and shrimp rice rolls.

The tattoo caused him a lot of trouble, and everyone seemed to be on guard against him. He knows that it is due to differences in social concepts, and the United States has certain reservations about tattoos, while people with tattoos in China are usually not good people, and it is most normal to have this vigilance. I have to wear long-sleeved clothes to go out tomorrow, I can't help my fingers, and I can't wear gloves in such a hot weather.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the Pearl River View Executive Suite, Ye Wei looked at the bright night view of the city outside, and there was a beautiful cruise ship slowly passing by on the Pearl River River.

Compared to the summer of '03, the whole city has developed again, and the old country is getting stronger and stronger, which is great.

Today's big ship is sailing in the long river of history, sailing towards a better future, endlessly.

This is the charm of China, and he wants to feel more.