Siheyuan: The Ambition of Sanzang

Chapter 293 249. Resolve
Sanzang looked helplessly at the bald-headed janitor who was doing things straight in front of him, shook his head, raised his left hand to look at his watch, turned his head and said to Dodo: "It's almost lunch time, why don't we take a rest after eating?" come over?"

"Okay." Dodo felt happy to be alone with Sanzang, and was not in a hurry.

The gatekeeper saw that Sanzang was dressed luxuriously and was a cadre driving a car. He felt that what he had done just now seemed a little unreasonable, so he quickly said: "If not, Director Chen will come to work later, and I will tell her , you have come to find her."

"Alright, I'll just thank you first." After Sanzang finished speaking, he took Duoduo's jade hand and prepared to leave.

"Leader, wait a minute!"

"What's the matter?" Sanzang turned around and looked at the gatekeeper suspiciously.

"Look, isn't Director Chen coming?"

"Which one?" Sanzang didn't realize it all at once, and he had never actually met Director Chen.

"Just the one in front, wearing black clothes and hanging a red scarf." The gatekeeper didn't doubt it all at once.

"That's right! I haven't seen her for so many years, she has changed a lot." Sanzang came to his senses now, and quickly spoke out to make amends.

"Master, thank you." Sanzang took Douduo to the door to greet him, so as not to reveal his secrets when talking to Director Chen later.

"Excuse me, are you Director Chen?" Sanzang stopped the middle-aged beauty in black clothes, red scarf and big earrings.

"My surname is Chen, what is your name?" Director Chen was interested in talking to Sanzang when he saw that Sanzang was dressed in luxurious clothes, handsome and imposing, and he didn't look like a bad guy.

"Here, here is my work permit, please have a look first." Sanzang thought to himself that it would be better to win people's trust first.

"So it's you." Director Chen took the work card and looked at it suspiciously, then handed it back to Sanzang with a smile.

"Oh, Director Chen knows me?" Sanzang himself was a little puzzled.

"Hehe, I don't know you. I heard from my friends that you are the famous third master in Yandu. You also helped my old comrade-in-arms, Commander Zhu Wen, a lot, right?"

"Haha, some bad names can be spread here. In this case, everyone is not a stranger. It is almost lunch time now. Can you give me a favor? I invite you to have a light meal and ask for your help."

"Hmm..." Director Chen glanced at his watch, "Okay!"

"Then you wait here a moment, I'll drive the car over." After Sanzang finished speaking, he walked into the courtyard of the song and dance troupe.

"This..." Director Chen was a little surprised.

Sanzang drove the car in front of Director Chen and Duo Duo, "Get in the car, Duo Duo, sit in the back"

"Eh!"

"Director Chen, how about you sit in front and lead the way?"

"Ok."

Sanzang waited for Director Chen to fasten his seat belt and asked, "Director Chen, do you know how to get to Astor Hotel?"

"I know, hey, don't you want to invite me to eat there?" Director Chen gasped.

"Yeah, haha, don't worry too much about it, I've heard about it for a long time, and I finally have a chance to see it today—excuse me, you're just passing it along."

Director Chen chuckled when he heard this, "Your speaking style is really... I don't even know what to say?"

"That's right, you don't have to be too restrained, I have something to ask you after dinner."

"The so-called courteous people must ask for something, the means of taking people, and the short mouth of eating people, it seems that I really can't refuse you later."

"Haha, this is a trivial matter for you, how to get to the intersection ahead?"

"turn left."

"Got it."

"Brother, is the Astor Hotel that you told Director Chen just now famous? How come I haven't heard of it?" Duoduo, a life rookie, interrupted.

"Haha, Director Chen, you have lived in Haijin for many years, and you can be regarded as the landlord here. Please give her some science."

"Well, the Astor Hotel was built in 1863, almost 120 years ago."

"Hiss, is it so old?" Dodo shouted in surprise.

"Hmm, it is also the only national-level cultural relic protection unit in the hotel industry. It has an Italian (Italian) Renaissance-style carved bench that has been preserved for more than a hundred years.
The phonograph used by the last emperor and empress of the Qing Dynasty, the digital statistics machine used for more than 60 years, and the Odis elevator that has been in operation for more than 60 years, etc.

As for the British architectural style outside and the wooden corridors, carved arched windows, and garden atriums inside, you can experience it yourself. "

"This... isn't it just a meal for us, it's so complicated." Dodo was stunned when she heard this.

"Who told you to have a rich brother?" Director Chen glanced at Sanzang who didn't care, and was impressed by his demeanor.

Sanzang parked the car, led Duo Duo and Director Chen into the Astor Hotel, and immediately a beautiful waitress in red uniform came to greet him: "Hi, comrade! Are you staying or eating?"

"Let's eat, you find us a small private room."

"Okay, this way please, three of you."

Sanzang, Dodo, and Director Chen followed the waiter to the small private room and sat down. The waiter handed Sandan a thin cookbook, "What do you think you need?"

Sanzang took it and flipped through it casually, then handed it to Director Chen, "Today I am treating you to dinner, please order some."

Director Chen took it and flipped through it casually, then handed it back to Sanzang with a strange expression on his face, "You should order some, seeing the price here makes my heart ache."

"Haha, you are exaggerating." Sanzang took the menu and flipped through it, "Little girl, please remember, crab roe shark's fin, jade rabbit roast pork, fried green shrimp,

Bengbeng carp, Lao Baosan, a random fresh vegetable, a bottle of drink and a little after-meal fruit, rice for the three of them, that's all for the time being. "

"Okay, wait a minute."

Chen Duo waited for the waiter to go out, and said in a low voice: "Can we finish eating so many dishes you ordered? The food here is expensive. I appreciate your kindness. It really doesn't need to be so wasteful."

"It's okay, it won't be wasted, hehe, I have a big appetite."

"Okay, can you tell me now why you came here from Yandu to find me?"

"I won't hide it from you, the girl sitting next to me is Zhang Duoduo, a good friend of mine, and a dancer of the Yandu Workers' Song and Dance Troupe.

She is very talented, and her dancing skills are very good, but unfortunately she has encountered a bottleneck now, the harder she trains, the less she can improve her skills.
So we came here from Yandu to find you, hoping you can give her some pointers. "

"How did you know about me? Could it be from Captain Zhu Wen?"

"That's right, she recommended you to us."

"Brother, have you forgotten what our leader said?" Dodo tugged at Sanzang's clothes.

"Fool." Sanzang patted Duoduo's jade hand lightly, "Director Chen probably already guessed it in his heart, what's the difference if we say it or not?"

"Hehe, my old comrade-in-arms didn't say anything nice about me in front of you, did he?" Director Chen brushed the hair next to his ear with the little finger of his right hand.

"No, she has been praising you, saying that you can teach students better than her, and the students you teach are very famous. She also said that your dancing level is much higher than hers,

In fact, she admires you very much in her heart, and she also said that it is difficult to be a confidant or an enemy. In short, you are not a little better than her. " Sanzang began to talk nonsense.

Director Chen covered his mouth and giggled before he finished listening, "I'm dying of laughter, these words are all made up by yourself, especially this sentence, it's hard to be a confidant and hard to be an enemy, how could she say that with her level of education come out."

"That's not what she said in the original words, but that's what she means. In fact, she has long since put down the fight with you. In fact, she still admires you very much in her heart."

"Hehe, okay, she can put it down, she can be magnanimous, if I care about it again, it will seem very immeasurable, thank you! I understand what you mean, brother Bo is here, and when we meet and smile, we will have the opportunity I will go to Yandu to meet her."

"That's good, that's good. What about Duo Duo's apprenticeship?"

"I agreed, but there is no need to be a teacher. Since she is a student of Captain Zhu Wen, I should give her advice."

　thank you very much!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)