Chapter 004: Celebration Feast
Two months later, on a weekend, Han Ming, Yang Xukuan, Huang Hua, Shen Hu, Lao Su, Lao Li, and Li Yanxue sat around a round table in the hot pot restaurant.
Han Ming poured himself a glass of wine and stood up: "Everyone, if you didn't look up to me, support me, and trust me, I wouldn't dare to take the lead in opening this hot pot restaurant, and the hot pot restaurant would not be able to get on the right track so quickly.
Han Ming raised his wine glass and tilted his neck, and "gooo" dried the wine.
"Hey, I said Han Ming, why do you drink it yourself? This adult does big things and writes big words, if you don't have that ability, we won't join the gang, since we have already joined the gang, you still tell us this? Let's not see each other, let's come together!", Shen Hu said, and got up and raised his wine glass.
This Shen Hu is Han Ming and Yang Xukuan's junior high school classmates, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a face like purple jade, a straight nose and a square mouth, big ears and arms, two silkworm eyebrows, a pair of tiger eyes, two eyes and a star, dripping and turning, indiscriminate.
"That is, the tiger is right, as the so-called people gather in groups, if you don't have that ability, we can't pee into a pot, since we are all brothers, then let's not be polite, everyone together!".
Lao Su, who was sitting next to Shen Hu, also said, this Lao Su, called Su Lei, is a super myopic eye, wearing a pair of thick myopic glasses, but this old Su is not very good-looking, the head of the gatehouse is teased forward, the eyes are pulled in, the garlic nose is thin, and the ears are enough to move forward, and he looks a little like a senior brother.
"Oh Lao Su, we're eating, what can't pee?Okay, everyone stop being polite, let's go together", a crisp female voice sounded, it was the only woman at the table, Li Yanxue.
This Li Yanxue is also everyone's good friend, one of the best friends, a pair of autumn wave eyes, two willow eyebrows like pen strokes, a little cherry mouth in the red, corn silver teeth shine, she works in the tax bureau and is a civil servant.
"Yes, yes, everyone together", Lao Li, who had been sitting next to him and had not spoken, also stood up.
This Lao Li is the oldest of the people, black and thin and doesn't like to talk, he and Shen Hu and Lao Su are doing audio trading in the electronic city in the north city, and the audio equipment in this hot pot restaurant is provided by them.
"Okay, since everyone is so happy, then I won't say anything, come, let's go together."
Han Ming filled his wine glass with wine again, and then raised a glass with everyone and drank it all.
The people sitting here today are all Han Ming's good friends, that is, the group of sworn friends who drank and sang with him that day, he wants to open a hot pot restaurant, and everyone has naturally become a small shareholder, and today the hot pot restaurant is on the right track, of course, we have to celebrate, so, after all kinds of polite words, everyone began to feast.
This feast, that's really, the beasts in the mountains, the swallows in the clouds, the land cattle and sheep in the sea, there are the fish in the East China Sea, the yak tripe in the West Mountain, the mountain chicken in the South Mountains, the wild boar legs in the North Valley, meat and vegetarian matching, raw and cold hot and fried, look at the eyes are yellow, white, red and verdant, smell the nose is spicy, sweet and sour, salty, all kinds of signature dishes, enough.
A full meal of wine and food, everyone's topic stayed away from opening a store, and drifted to all kinds of world, sea, north and south, scenery gossip.
"Hey, I said Liangdan, what game have you been playing lately? Warcraft or Dark? Don't you tell me you're playing that? That alliance that only elementary school students play?", Han Ming's face flushed, and he asked Huang Hua with a snort of wine.
"I haven't played for a long time, I want to play, but I don't have time, besides, there are pig teammates like Lao Niu, and I often want to vomit", Huang Hua said while shaking his head.
The old cow in Huang Hua's mouth is actually a big beauty, and she is also one of the minority shareholders of Han Ming's good friend hot pot restaurant, this old cow, named Deng Liu, because of the homonym of the name, everyone jokingly called her more, and later called her more cow, and then screamed, I don't know how it became an old cow.
"Let me tell you, my interest has been sublimated, I basically don't play games anymore, I like to read books now, especially the kind of esoteric and difficult ancient books of Chinese culture, for example, well, I Ching".
Huang Hua reached out and took a toothpick, and while picking his teeth, he also replied to Han Ming with the same smell of wine.
"Ahh......h
"I said bright eggs, don't tease me, you read the Book of Changes? You're afraid of reading it, I'm afraid it's the Jade Maiden's Heart Sutra, right? No, you wipe your head with tissue paper while reading it."
This Han Ming is really bad, he doesn't believe that Huang Hua reads the Book of Changes, but he not only sprayed Huang Hua's beer, but also took the opportunity to ridicule Huang Hua's behavior of wiping his face with a napkin.
"Damn, you spray my spray, as for it? I'll tell you, don't believe it, I've been fond of ancient Chinese since I was a child, and when I was in school, classical Chinese or something was my forte, and now I don't just read the Book of Changes, I read all the books that tell about ancient anecdotes, esoteric and difficult to understand, have you heard of "Tui Bei Tu"? I've been reading this book recently."
"Push the back? I still push the chest? You just continue to blow, I said bright eggs, if even a person like you who has not graduated from elementary school can understand the "Book of Changes" and "Push Back Diagram", then I would have been able to see through the mosaic a long time ago."
Han Ming didn't believe it when he was killed, and he still had a mocking face.
Huang Hua was teased by Han Ming's beer, and he was a little depressed, but he was not angry, because they were not only dead friends, but also a group of bad friends, and he had long been used to this chat style.
"You just didn't graduate from elementary school, believe it or not, anyway, I just like all kinds of ancient books now, what "Sou Shen Ji", "Mountains and Seas", "Yin Fu Jing", I like Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, oh yes, in addition to reading, I also like to collect Buddhist beads and bracelets, you see, how about this bracelet of mine?".
Huang Hua raised his hand after speaking, revealing a strange bracelet on his wrist.
"yes, why is this bracelet of yours so strange, it doesn't seem to be Bodhi?
As soon as Han Ming stretched out his hand, he directly took off the bracelet on Huang Hua's wrist and took it into his hand.
"I don't know what this thing is made of, I just think this bracelet looks like jade not jade, like bone not bone, although the color is dull, the surface is uneven, and the size of each is not the same, but that's it, I think it's very special, but this bracelet is not what I bought, I picked it up when I traveled to Tibet last time."
When Huang Hua said this, he snorted with a smug face.
"What? You picked it up, you just keep blowing it, why can't I pick it up?", Han Ming didn't believe it.
"Really, don't lie to you, last time I didn't drive to Tibet with my friends, I originally planned to take National Highway 318, first to Nyingchi and then to Lhasa, but at that time the Tongmai Bridge to Nyingchi happened to be broken, so we could only change to National Highway 317, Nagqu first, and then Lhasa."
As soon as Huang Hua mentioned the situation of traveling at that time, he immediately became interested, and he talked to Han Ming more and more.
"Tibet, Tibet is a place I've always wanted to go, but I haven't had time, hey Huanghua, why don't you tell us about your last trip to Tibet today."
A bull's head stretched out from the horse pen, and Shen Hu, who was sitting on the side, suddenly interjected with excitement on his face.
"Yes, yes, a few of us have already had a plan to enter Tibet, but we haven't had time, Huang Hua, you seem to have only gone the year before last, hurry up, hurry up, talk to us well", this Lao Su also interjected.
Suddenly, everyone fell silent and began to look forward to Huang Hua telling about his trip to Tibet that year.
"Well, well, since you want to hear it, then I'll talk about it, but everyone's route to Tibet is different, I can only talk about my route and feelings, it was like this at the time, we had a total of two cars and eight people, starting from Spring City ......", Huang Hua took a sip of wine, and then began to talk about it.
"Later, when we came to Dingqing County, we found that the time was still early at five o'clock in the afternoon, and it was only one hundred and twenty kilometers away from the next town of Rongbu, so we decided not to stay in Dingqing to continue to hurry, but after leaving the city, we found that the road conditions after that were extremely poor, all of them were dirt and stone roads that were winding mountains, looking forward and steep and bumpy, looking back at potholes, looking left at the narrow road surface, looking at the collapse to the right, looking up at the wind and clouds, Looking down, it was smoky, as long as there was an opposing car, we had to dodge and retreat, it was really the first way for the army to enter Tibet, so when we arrived at the next town of Rongbu where people could live, it was already more than two o'clock in the night."
Huang Hua paused at this point, and then continued.