A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 57 First Time (asking for monthly ticket)
Zhou Qing replied: "Otherwise, I'm already buying the ticket."

After sending it, I felt that the other party seemed a little hesitant. I was afraid of scaring him away, so I quickly added: "Pick a time and book a teahouse or coffee shop. Then we can meet and have a good chat about 'Wu Shanshan'."

Give her the right to choose the time and place of meeting to increase her sense of security.

Sure enough, this worked.

Sweet Orange quickly replied, "Okay, let's meet on Wangping Street on Saturday morning."

"Okay."

Zhou Qing actually didn't know what Wangping Street was. He agreed first, then switched to the 12306 app to check the ticket information.

All the high-speed rail tickets from Tanzhou to Chengdu for tomorrow's daytime are sold out. There is only one train at 1:17 pm with three business class seats left.

He clicked on it and looked at the ticket price, which was two thousand and five yuan.

In the past, this price would have definitely discouraged him, but now he placed the order and paid without any hesitation - not to mention that he went to Chengdu to see "Sweet Orange" in order to complete the lucky trigger mission, even if he was going there purely for fun, he would not deliberately save the money if he had the conditions.

"When I didn't have money, I could tighten my belt and live a hard life. Now that I have money, I can enjoy a rich life calmly."

"A real man is one who can go up and down, and can get in and out!"

The bus he bought departed at 1:17 p.m. and arrived at 8:35 p.m., a total journey of seven hours and eighteen minutes.

The high-speed rail ride took more than seven hours, and Zhou Qing suddenly realized that the distance between Chengdu and Tanzhou was actually much farther than he had subconsciously thought before.

I searched for "Wangping Street" on the Internet again and found that it is a popular street in Chengdu. It is adjacent to Taikoo Li and not far from Chunxi Road. There are many popular restaurants, teahouses and coffee shops on the street. It is a geographical coordinate where handsome men and beautiful women like to check in.

He searched for hotels nearby and chose the Yaduo Hotel, which was close and looked good in all aspects. He booked a king-size bed room with river view for 560 yuan a night.

The train tickets and hotel were booked, and Zhou Qing suddenly felt a little excited.

"I'm trying to accomplish two things I've never done before in my life: meeting someone online and traveling!"

He rarely chatted online before, let alone met an online friend in person, especially a female one.

As for travel—Zhou Qing's life trajectory was simple. Before high school, the farthest he'd ever been was his grandmother's house in the next town over. It wasn't until high school that he went to school in the county, and then to the provincial capital for college. Later, for internships, he visited several counties and cities within the province. Recently, to sell a prize he'd won, he made three consecutive trips to Jiangcheng, the capital of the neighboring province, to visit Ruoshui.

It’s simple. We go to other places just to study and make money.

This time when he went to Chengdu, in addition to meeting "Sweet Orange", he planned to visit various scenic spots in Chengdu, which would be his first trip.

“You must definitely visit the giant pandas and the Samsung Museum.”

"There are also various Chengdu delicacies!"

Thinking about the high-speed train at noon tomorrow, Zhou Qing, like all those who are going to travel for the first time, began to frantically look up various travel guides on Douyin, Zhihu, and Xiaohongshu, collecting information about fun and delicious things there.

However, no matter how excited he was, he did not forget his business. Before going to bed at one o'clock in the morning, he set the alarm for eight o'clock in the morning. After being woken up by the alarm the next day, he immediately devoted himself to the final analysis of the character "Wu Shanshan" in the original novel.

His self-created "Three-step Intensive Reading Method" has now been fine-tuned:
The first step is to read the full text carefully in a “pull-tab” manner;

Step 2: Select the character you are interested in and conduct character analysis based on the original novel;
The third step is to step out of the novel and combine it with reality, that is, combine it with the situation of "lucky triggering task" to complete the reading experience.

...The first step is to read the entire text carefully, trying to pay attention to the details as much as possible. For a novel, this is time-consuming and laborious.

The second step, character analysis, was slightly easier. All he had to do was pick out the relevant content fragments about the chosen character for analysis. The character of "Wu Shanshan" didn't have much content in the book, and 90% of it had been completed. After Zhou Qing got up, he spent a little effort and finished the work in less than an hour.

I closed the notebook, stood up and stretched comfortably.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, when he called an online taxi to go to the high-speed rail station, he suddenly realized that in addition to the first time to travel with netizens and the first time to travel, he had to complete another first - riding in the business class of the high-speed rail.

People always tend to be cautious about things they have never done.

Zhou Qing was no exception, so on the way to the high-speed rail station, he used the power of the Internet to search for several videos of other people riding in business class.

When I arrived at Tanzhou South Station, I followed the video I had just watched and found the business class waiting area.

After entering, you first register your travel information and receive a badge, or a Taiwan card.

Then he went to the snack area to get a can of drink, found a place to sit down, put the sign on the table where it could be easily seen, and started playing with his phone.

There were far fewer people around than in the waiting hall outside, and many seats were empty.

When the time was almost up, a staff member came over and said that tickets could be checked, and then led Zhou Qing and two other business class passengers on the same train into the station through an exclusive passage.

When he got on the business class carriage of the train and lay on the spacious and comfortable leather chair, compared with the second class seats he had taken before, he once again felt the benefits of being rich.

At 8:30 in the evening, Zhou Qing, who had been on the train for more than seven hours, got off the high-speed train with ease.

During this journey, he spent half of his time playing with his mobile phone and half of his time sleeping. Now he is in very good spirits.

Follow the signs to the taxi stand in the underground parking lot and queue up for a taxi.

Zhou Qing quickly discovered the first difference between Rongcheng and Tanzhou: the taxis here are all green.

After he got in the car, he told the destination and started chatting about this matter with the taxi driver who was in his forties.

The driver told him that the local government is vigorously promoting electric taxis in order to advocate a green and low-carbon lifestyle.

While admiring the night view of the city outside the window, Zhou Qing chatted with the master surnamed Zhao with great interest, constantly asking about everything about the city, including Wangping Street where he was going to visit tomorrow.

After waiting for twenty minutes to arrive at the Atour Hotel in Taikoo Li, he still felt a little unsatisfied.

He found that he seemed to like getting to know a strange city, or a strange place, from scratch.

After checking in at the hotel and arriving at his room, Zhou Qing immediately sent a message to "Sweet Orange": "Orange, I'm already in Chengdu."

The other party replied after a while: "(Shh) My husband is still here, let's talk later."

Zhou Qing felt strange after reading it.

Less than five minutes later, just as he was about to go out to find something to eat and try some of Chengdu's delicacies, "Sweet Orange" sent another message: "Monk, can I bring a friend with me tomorrow?"

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(End of this chapter)