Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 118 Going out and meeting a bastard

Chinese immigration/study abroad/tourism in Australia is not very popular yet, but the Chinese community in Australia has formed its own ecosystem, with Chinese communities and Chinese schools. So before Li Qiutang came, she told her parents that she could still live well here even if she didn't know a word of English.

But when fellow villagers met, the three members of the Li family still encountered an incident of stabbing each other in the back.

After all, he was unfamiliar with the place, so Li Qiutang found an Australian agent who specialized in doing business with Chinese people to help him book hotels and routes.

After landing, the promised airport pick-up service was gone!
When I called the other party, the agent answered the phone, but said that the travel agency's cars were out and couldn't pick them up at the airport. Then he said in a nasty tone: "Why don't you take a taxi from the airport yourself."

There was no other choice, Li Qiutang had to take her parents' luggage and take a taxi to leave the airport.

After meeting up with the agent, he got into the car chartered by Li Qiutang without hesitation and took the three of them to the booked hotel.

As for hotels, Li Qiutang did some research on her own and specified that she wanted to stay in a family suite at a local four-star hotel.

But the agent kept recommending what he thought were good hotels: "The hotel you booked is not good. It's expensive and the experience is not good. I know a B&B run by a Chinese. The owner is from Shanghai. The price is cheap, the service is good, the environment is good, and it's quiet. You can see the sea when you open the window."

Just as Mother Li was about to ask a question, Father Li kicked her with his foot and Mother Li stopped talking.

Li Qiutang said: "No need, let's stay in a hotel."

Arriving at the hotel, the family checked in, and the agent took them to their room. Along the way, he kept saying, "Your China is still not good enough. The environment is too bad. Here, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. I have been here for nearly 30 years, and all the health problems I had when I was young in China have been cured."

"You Chinese still have low quality. You spit and throw garbage everywhere. Look here, the roads and streets are clean. I tell you, there are not even cleaners here."

"Your Chinese economy is not developing well, but the average wage here is five or six times higher than in China. You can live well by doing anything you want. People here live in small villas, you know? It's not like you in China, where everyone likes to live in high-rise buildings. High-rise buildings are for the poor at the bottom of society."

The family of three entered the suite. While Li Qiutang and her parents were inspecting the room layout, she began to curse:

"You Chinese, you Chinese, keep calling each other 'you Chinese'. If you have acquired foreign nationality, don't speak Chinese and don't do business with Chinese people."

"You...how can you be so uncultured!"

"You said that Chinese people are not good people, so I will show you that I am not good people."

"You...you, I'm telling the truth. You Chinese people just have no manners."

"No matter how low-browed you are, you're still better than me. You've been an immigrant for decades, you're almost 60, and you're still working as a travel agent. You must have gone bankrupt during the financial crisis? Can you afford a ticket back home?"

"You...you..." The old man was speechless after being confronted by Li Qiutang.

"You have to take care of your health. I heard that medical treatment is very expensive in capitalist countries. It costs thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. Oh, how much is it in Australian dollars?"

"You...you..." He wanted to curse but couldn't. He was really afraid of getting sick.

"Why are you still staying here? If you don't leave, I'll have something even more nasty to say."

The old man wanted to teach Li Qiutang a lesson, but the father and son of the Li family were both typical Northeastern men, tall and strong. He didn't dare to do so. He left in disgrace after saying some harsh words.

After closing the door, Dad Li cursed "idiot" and Mom Li cursed "bastard".

"It's unlucky enough to meet such a bastard when going out."

Fortunately, the family had a happy rest of the trip and soon forgot the unpleasantness of landing.

The family has plenty of time, so if they have fun in a place, they can stay a few more days. If they don’t have fun, they can come that day and leave the next day.

After many stops, the family finally arrived at the Gold Coast on the 30th and spent a different New Year with the Chinese who came here for vacation and leisure. Among the Chinese who came to the Gold Coast for vacation and New Year, there happened to be a couple from Northeast China. As soon as the two families spoke, they were like fellow villagers meeting each other, and the two sides had a very happy chat.

"Your son is filial, but we are not." The man in charge, who was a few years older than Li's father, complained while drinking, "When I was young, I wanted to send my daughter out to see the world and learn more. Now it's over. She married a foreign devil and she won't come back!"

"Ah? Marrying a foreigner?"

"If I had known this would happen, I would never have agreed to send her abroad. On the day she said she wanted to get married abroad, her mother cried until her eyes went blind. The daughter she had raised for 30 years flew away. It's better for children to stay by our side."

Mother Li also comforted her: "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. It is better than anything else if the children live well."

"Yeah, that's the only way I can comfort myself. Let's not talk about unhappy things. Come on, let's drink. What kind of job does your child do? He's very handsome."

"Well, I just graduated two years ago and work in a film company. Have you seen "No One" and "Famous"? They were made by my son."

"I haven't seen them." Not only have I not seen them, I have never even heard of these two movies.

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Liu Yifei also brought her mother to travel to Australia for the New Year. On the first day of the New Year, the mother and daughter left her cousin's house in Sydney and flew to the Gold Coast.

"Mom, I've found out everything," Liu Yifei likes traveling very much. "Although there are no Chinese people living in the Gold Coast, many Chinese Australians go there to travel. There will be a lot of Chinese people gathering there during the Chinese New Year every year. It must be very fun."

Liu Yifei kept talking all the way, telling her mother what she had seen and heard in Australia in the past few days.

"I gained weight in Australia, haha." He pinched his face as he said this.

After the plane was flying smoothly, Liu Yifei put on her eye mask and leaned back in her seat to take a nap, even though it only took a little over an hour to fly from Sydney to the Gold Coast.

Liu Xiaoli couldn't sleep. She looked at her daughter lying beside her, feeling mixed emotions.

The good news is that my daughter is 22 years old now. She has grown up and is a kind and sensible girl.

What's frustrating is that I still haven't taken good care of her, especially at work.

At the end of August 07, the filming of "The Forbidden Kingdom" was completed. It has been a year and a half now, and she has not been able to find a new job for her daughter.

In fact, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get film contracts.

In China, it is said that Huayi banned Liu Yifei, but Liu Xiaoli, as the person involved, knows that Huayi did not "ban" her, but only gave her a minor punishment.

A 22-year-old girl doesn’t have many opportunities in the industry. The leading actresses in the film and television industry are still those born in the 70s and early 80s.

In addition, Godfather Chen was affected by the financial crisis and was nearly bankrupt, and was no longer able to support Liu Yifei's development. All the above reasons combined led to Liu Yifei having no movies to shoot after "The Forbidden Kingdom".

But Liu Xiaoli still felt that she had not taken good care of her daughter.

What weighed on her the most was that she knew her daughter had learned to drink to relieve stress!
She knew what kind of public pressure her daughter had faced in recent years, and she cursed those who slandered and spread rumors in her heart, but what could they, an orphan and a widow, do?

I can only bear it. The Godfather is just a Godfather, not my biological father!
So when she knew her daughter drank, she did not try to stop her. She was afraid to do so because, as a mother, she did not know how to comfort her daughter. Every time she thought of this, she blamed herself for not taking good care of her daughter.

As I was thinking, we arrived at Gold Coast Coolangatta Airport.

(End of this chapter)