A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 58 Pre-study is important

Bring a friend along?
Zhou Qing replied: "Of course."

It's normal for a woman to call a friend to accompany her when she comes to meet a stranger.

He then asked, "What time do we have to meet tomorrow? Should we book a teahouse or coffee shop?"

Sweet Orange: "Ten o'clock, at this March Spring Teahouse."

Zhou Qing: "Okay."

The hotel is in a great location. The Fu River is in front of you when you go downstairs, and Xiangxiang Lane is behind you. Some people on the Internet said that this area is already Wangping Street.

He had the idea of ​​going to the March Spring Teahouse to "check it out", but it was already close to nine o'clock in the evening. Although he had eaten a box lunch on the high-speed train that even he thought was unpalatable, he was already hungry by now.

Xiangxiang Lane is narrow and filled with old-fashioned light boxes, its style a bit like the Hong Kong in old movies.

It's very lively with people coming and going.

Most of them are young people dressed fashionably, and there are also some foreigners.

Zhou Qing glanced around and lost interest. He walked out to the main road and chose a direction to walk forward. After a while, he saw a store selling cross-legged beef. As a carnivore, he immediately felt an appetite and walked straight in.

Cross-legged beef is a traditional Sichuan dish originating from Leshan.

Overall, this dish is a soup pot with beef and beef offal as the main ingredients.

Zhou Qing found a place to sit down. He was alone and didn't order any other dishes. He just asked for a 80-yuan beef set meal.

Soon, the waiter brought a bowl of soup. He took a sip and it was very hot, but tasted very fresh. It must be a soup made from beef and bones.

The main course was served soon, in a large porcelain bowl filled with real ingredients, and also with a dish of chili powder as a dipping sauce.

Zhou Qing picked up a piece of beef with chopsticks, dipped it in some red chili powder, put it in his mouth and chewed it. The beef was tender and juicy, and paired with the spicy chili powder, it was amazing!

He couldn't help but keep stretching out his chopsticks and eating with big mouthfuls. No matter whether it was beef, or other ingredients such as pig throat, tripe, tendon, etc., they were all very fresh and handled very cleanly. When he put them in his mouth, he felt that the cooking temperature was just right, and they were tender and delicious.

The weather has been getting hotter recently. By the end of the meal, especially after drinking a few more mouthfuls of soup, Zhou Qing was already sweating profusely.

He wiped it with a tissue and saw that the whole bowl was almost empty. He immediately took out his cell phone and took a picture of the bowl.

Open the WeChat Moments and edit the text: Chengdu is indeed the food capital. On the first day I arrived, I randomly chose a restaurant that serves beef in a pot and it was very enjoyable!
Attach photos and send.

Soon, before he even finished the rest of his meal, he had received more than a dozen likes in less than ten minutes.

This speed of collecting likes was something he had never imagined during his college years. When he clicked on it, he saw that most of the people who liked the posts were people he had met in the past two months. There were Liao Honghua and his wife whom Jiang Cheng knew, as well as several employees of their jade studio, a coach he had met at the shooting range, a real estate agent he had met recently, and so on.

The latest commenter was university classmate Sun Ke: "Damn, Mr. Zhou, you're even cooler than me. You've even made it to Chengdu!"

Soon, Li Wanxiu and her female landlord Lin Jiao also left messages.

Li Wanxiu: "I want to eat there too (drooling)"

Lin Jiao: "You have an incredible appetite. You finished this huge bowl by yourself?"

Before Zhou Qing could reply, Li Wanxiu, who had added Lin Jiao as their friend, had already commented on Lin Jiao's message: "Of course, our Zhou Qing has a big appetite, otherwise how could he be in such good health? (Tsundere) (Raised eyebrows)"

Lin Jiao replied: "(rolling eyes)"

Zhou chuckled, finished his last bite, scanned the code to pay, and then responded to everyone's messages one by one.

He came out of the restaurant, opened the map app, and searched for the teahouse that "Sweet Orange Orange" mentioned. After locating it, he found that it was only a few dozen meters away. He immediately followed the navigation and went to take a look.

It seems to be a very small teahouse with not many seats inside.

He took a quick look and left, then walked around a bit, tried some street food, and returned to the hotel.

As soon as I walked in, I received a WeChat message from Teacher Bai: "Are you going to Chengdu?"

Zhou Qing replied, took out his tablet from his backpack, and continued to watch the TV series "People in the Alley" while chatting with Teacher Bai on WeChat.

This TV series is forty episodes long. He has been busy looking for houses during the day and reading novels at night. He has less time to watch the TV series and has only watched thirty-two episodes so far.

The topic of conversation with Teacher Bai soon turned to this drama.

Zhou Qing asked her what she thought of the character "Wu Shanshan" and also talked about another person she knew whose childhood experience was similar to "Wu Shanshan". She was very dissatisfied with the author's "blackening" of this character.

"She thinks the screenwriter's writing, besides being inconsistent with realistic logic, also seems to be promoting the idea that 'rich are good and poor are evil.' Teacher Bai, what do you think?"

At the end of the conversation, the two were too lazy to type and started sending voice messages directly.

Teacher Bai said, "The person you know has had similar experiences, so it's hard not to identify with them. But there are many different people. Even if their experiences are similar, they're not the same person, so their choices will naturally be different. Even twin brothers and sisters who grew up in the same family can develop very different personalities, sometimes quite different."

……

Zhou Qing chatted with Teacher Bai until very late, and gained a lot from the discussion with her.

Teacher Bai can provide him with many perspectives that he had not thought of before.

Before going to bed, he started doing his homework. He took out his notebook, opened a new page, and wrote with a pen:

Several issues that we should try to clarify when we meet tomorrow:
1. In the novel, when Wu Shanshan grew up, she blamed her father. What about "Sweet Orange"? Did she blame her father?

2. In the novel, Wu Shanshan says she doesn't blame her stepmother that much, since she's not her biological daughter. What about "Chengzi"?

……

Big and small, through the previous stage of distracted research on the character "Wu Shanshan", twelve questions, or doubts, were distilled.

I wrote it down in my notebook and read it again.

Then I go to bed with a calm mind - just like when I was in school, if I have done the homework of the previous day well, I will be very confident about studying the next day and will not have any fear of class. On the contrary, sometimes I will even look forward to it!

Although he went to bed late, his sleep quality was high when he was in a good mood. Zhou Qing woke up at around seven in the morning and felt refreshed.

After going out to eat a bowl of Chengdu’s specialty pig intestine noodles, he returned to the hotel, brushed his teeth again, tidied up a bit, and when the time was almost up, he sent a message to “Sweet Orange”.

After a while, the other party replied: "Monk, we have arrived at the cafe."

Zhou Qing immediately took the room card and walked out, typing at the same time: "Okay, I'll be there in ten minutes!"

When he went downstairs, left the hotel, and turned into Xiangxiang Lane, the cell phone in his hand rang.

He originally thought it was "Sweet Orange" asking him where he was, but when he unlocked the phone with his fingerprint, he saw it was actually from Boss Ruoshui.

"Zhou Qing, are you also in Rongcheng?"

(End of this chapter)