Go back in time and be a chaebol

Chapter 1608 Overseas Visitors (First Update, Please Subscribe)
After the plane landed at the airport, the passengers got out of the plane one after another. When people were leaving through the boarding bridge, a group of three people attracted a lot of attention.

They were dressed in a somewhat peculiar way and were carrying somewhat quaint suitcases.

Soon when they were passing through customs, the customs officer checked their passports and took another special look at them.

"From Hong Kong Island?"

"Yes, we are here to do business."

Every day, many people come here through the international airport. They come here for various purposes, some for business, some for tourism, and some for studying.

Among these people, these three businessmen from Hong Kong Island are not special.

After the group of three passed customs inspection and walked out of the airport, the man in their group, who was nearly 50 years old, couldn't help but speak as he looked at the traffic on the street outside the airport.

"I never thought the images on TV were real."

The middle-aged man next to him also said:

"Yes, Director. I originally thought that TV shows were just for others to watch. I didn't expect this place to be as prosperous as it is on TV."

"Hum..."

A cold snort came from the other side, and the man with black-framed glasses spoke in a cold tone.

“Yes, this place does look very prosperous, but this is the base camp of capitalists. What is the basis of their wealth?

It's plunder and exploitation. Not only do they plunder weak countries and bully Asian, African and Latin American countries, but everyone here is working for that big capitalist.

Don’t think they work hard and live like cattle and horses. In fact, they have nothing. Their houses belong to capitalists, and their cars are bought with loans. They are basically a group of cattle and horses with nothing. "

When the man finished speaking, the expressions of the two people beside him also became serious. The leading director smiled and said:
"Yes, we came here to find out. After all, this is the only country in the world ruled by capitalists."

"The United States and the United Kingdom are both like this. They are both ruled by capitalists."

"Oh, reporter Xu, it's different. In the United States and Britain, they are ruled by representatives of capitalists, but the gentleman here is a big capitalist himself. Look at all this..."

The director pointed to the airport behind him and some buildings in the distance and said:

"Everything here belongs to that big capitalist. This is a country of monopoly capitalists."

"That's right. It's a country of monopoly capitalists, a big trust. They bully the weak abroad and exploit the people at home. The prosperity we see now is nothing but a hypocritical illusion."

"It's a very difficult situation!"

The man wearing black-framed glasses nodded as his colleagues finished speaking.

"The people here are living in dire straits, but they are so ignorant. Really..."

They sighed like this and then hailed a taxi.

The taxi then sped along the way. On the way to the city, the taxi driver glanced at the passengers in the car and said:
"From what I heard you say just now, it seemed like you were speaking in a rude way."

"Yes, my hometown is Linyi, Shandong."

"Oh, my hometown is in Jining, not far from Linyi."

"Not far away, right next to it."

No wonder the director, who met his fellow villager as soon as he arrived here, immediately started chatting with the taxi driver. After learning that he had been here for 20 years, he immediately asked curiously about his life in the past 20 years.

Like most people, taxi drivers who came here as ordinary immigrants started out in labor camps.

"…Life was hard back then. We went into the rain forest to chop wood every day. If we weren't careful, we could get malaria…"

Finally, the taxi driver kept chattering about life in the labor camp and how hard it was.

"Brother, hearing what you said, life was really not easy back then. I suffered so much and endured so much."

"That's not true."

The taxi driver nodded repeatedly.

"Young people today have no idea how much we suffered back then. Look at Chang'an City, it was all rainforest back then. How much did we suffer to reclaim that rainforest? Alas..."

The taxi driver sighed and said.

"At that time, we could only eat meat once a day. Life was so hard!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the middle-aged man wearing black-framed glasses sitting behind him said:
"What? What? You said you could eat meat once a day."

"It's not just one meal. Although there is enough rice, there is no meat. In fact, we don't eat pork, but fish. Living by the sea, we eat fish every day. Even when we open our mouths and talk, we smell fishy... Oh, how can life not be hard?"

For a moment, the three people in the car fell silent. As for the man with black-framed glasses, he looked at the taxi driver with a strange look and spoke after a while.

"You have meat to eat every day, but you still complain about hard times?"

He even took a special look at the taxi driver. Could it be that this guy was arranged?
The taxi driver glanced at the passengers in the car and said:

"I said, this is sEA,"

This is SEAs!

These words silenced the three people in the taxi.

It seems that this sentence explains everything.

Soon the taxi took them to the hotel, which was a very ordinary low-end hotel.

To save money, the three of them lived in the same room. Perhaps because of their experience in Hong Kong Island, they did not think there was anything special about the 24-hour hot water supply here.

But the air conditioner in the hotel was still a little beyond their expectations. Being in the cool room, the man in the black-framed glasses couldn't help laughing.

“I didn’t expect there would be air conditioners in a hotel like this.”

"It's a bit unexpected." As they were talking, another man picked up a poster from the bedside table. Looking at the colorful poster, he couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise:
"Oh, Director, look, there's a buffet here."

After taking the poster and looking at the dazzling array of food on it, the director said excitedly:
"The buffet is nearby? I'll take you guys there for a good meal later."

Have a good meal.

The other two's eyes lit up when they heard this, and the director emphasized:
"Everyone just eat as much as you want. Let me tell you, this buffet is the specialty here. Eat as much as you want."

"Even meat?"

"That's right!"

The director nodded and said:
"You can take as much as you want, that's what self-service means."

The director sounded very knowledgeable when he spoke. In fact, he had never been to a buffet restaurant, but he learned about it from other colleagues.

And in Hong Kong Island, I have also seen scenes of buffet restaurants on TV, but that was all.

After a simple packing, the three people left the hotel and quickly found the buffet restaurant on the poster.

After purchasing the meal coupons, the three people walked into the restaurant. As soon as they entered the restaurant, they were stunned at the same time.

What they saw before them now was food far beyond their imagination—all kinds of meat were placed in the refrigerator, including beef, mutton, fish, seafood…

To them it wasn't even a restaurant anymore, it was more like a market.

"Can I eat all this meat?"

"Why is it raw?"

“This is a barbecue restaurant.”

The director explained in a low voice, his voice was not loud, and it seemed to reveal his reservedness.

The waiter at the side seemed to notice this, so he walked over, asked them to sit down, and then heated up the baking tray.

"Sir, if you want to eat anything, you can go to the buffet area to get the food."

It has to be said that eating has always been an instinct. For some things, you just need to watch how others do it and you will know how to make it.

Soon the three of them brought plates of beef and mutton and started roasting them in an orderly manner on the roasting pan.

A moment later, when they were eating the roasted meat, the three of them's eyes suddenly lit up.

“It tastes really good.”

“The way to eat it is very special.”

“You can really eat as much as you want.”

The three of them chatted with each other while grilling the meat, and they started eating.

The meal lasted two hours, and when the three of them stood up, they realized that they were full. But even when they walked out, they felt a little reluctant.

When he walked out of the restaurant, the man with framed glasses looked back at the restaurant sign behind him and said
"I never thought there would be such a restaurant in the world. Will we go bankrupt by eating like this?"

"Haha, restaurant owners are afraid that their customers will eat too much. The more we eat, the more..."

The director hadn't finished speaking when he suddenly stopped talking.
"It seems that this kind of buffet restaurant is different from ordinary restaurants. We pay the same price no matter how much we eat..."

"Yeah, if a buffet restaurant like this opened in Hong Kong Island, it would have bankrupted him."

“That’s why there are no restaurants like this on Hong Kong Island.”

The man wearing black-framed glasses said, picking his teeth:

"I have never eaten so much meat in my life, and I have never felt so comfortable eating it..."

Suddenly the man realized that he seemed to have said something wrong and quickly spoke.

"This place is really corrupting."

Hearing him say this, the other two just laughed.

"Actually, this place is just like that. It just has two more pieces of meat than us."

"Yes, it's just a matter of eating two more pieces of meat. They can eat two more pieces of meat because the population is small and the burden is light."

They talked about their feelings about this place one after another. In fact, they had no feelings about this place at all. What they saw and felt was not worth mentioning in their eyes.

"In fact, this is the most confusing thing about these places. Just like the two extra pieces of meat we ate just now, it feels like we ate two extra pieces. But the reason we can eat more is because the population of this place is small."

"Yes, if they have a population of several hundred million, their life would probably be worse than ours."

When the words came out, others expressed their agreement.

At this time, the director looked at a passerby not far away and said:

"It's actually him!"

The director seemed very excited as he looked at his friend whom he had not seen for many years from afar. When he waved, the other party also saw it. He was stunned at first, then shouted:

"Qiyun, my dear brother Qiyun!"

Soon, the two who had reunited after a long separation held each other's hands and looked at each other. After a while, the director said:
"It has been seventeen years since we last met!"

"Yes, seventeen years."

"That year, when I entered the city, I heard that you left by plane. I felt very upset. I really didn't understand why you wanted to leave. After all, you were our friend back then! We had reserved a seat for you, but I never thought that in the end you would still leave..."

The director looked at his friend whom he had not seen for many years and said with emotion:
"Hey, I haven't seen you for many years. You have grown old..."

(End of this chapter)