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Chapter 1783 Northern Scenery (Third update, please subscribe)

The world is full of troubles, but for young people, the world in their eyes is completely different.

In their view, the world may be a better place.

"Hey, this place is really different from what we have seen in the past,"

Walking on the streets, although posters and broadcasts can be seen everywhere on the streets, reminding people that this land is different from any other place, for Edward and his group, they are more curious.

In the past half month, they have been to many places, including West Lake and Huangshan Mountain. The rice fields they saw along the way were a scene of bumper harvest. They saw magnificent mountains and rivers. When they saw the sailboats passing by in the Yangtze River, although they were surprised at the sight of the sailboats, they were also immersed in the beautiful sight of the white sails.

For these young people, everything they saw was beautiful. When they came, they were even worried about whether they could have enough to eat, but the delicious and abundant food in the hotel completely dispelled their doubts.

How could there be a threat of famine here?

At each station, Edward would run down to buy something. At the train station, he did not see the starving beggars mentioned in some newspapers. When he traveled to Hong Kong Island, Korea and Japan, he saw beggars everywhere.

Here, people seem to be happy.

On September 12, the group finally arrived at the final destination of this trip, Chuncheng, and stayed at the Friendship Hotel.

The room was spacious, with a clean floor and a balcony. It not only had air conditioning, but also hot and cold water was available 24 hours a day. If it weren't for the somewhat outdated layout of the room, Edward and his friends would even feel that there was no difference between this place and the hotel in SEA.

There was just no color TV and no wide variety of TV programs.

Although there is a TV, there is only one channel, which broadcasts only news for a few hours in the evening.

After putting his things in place, taking a shower and changing his clothes, Edward went to the restaurant downstairs to eat with his friends. The food tasted delicious.

After the meal, we bought a city tour map from the travel agency receptionist, and then we strolled along Renmin Street.

There were many cars on the wide streets, many of which were trucks loaded with goods. It was said that in order to prevent the invasion of the Soviet revisionists, many institutions and schools in Spring City were moving south. When they passed through the south, they saw that there was a lot of construction going on there, and there were construction sites everywhere outside the city. According to the locals, that place would become the rear area, just like during the Anti-Japanese War.

Originally, before coming to Chuncheng, he thought that people here would be in panic, but now it seems that all this has no effect on ordinary people, and people here still live their lives.

There were quite a few pedestrians on the street, and some were enjoying the cool under the big trees. It was really crowded. They were riding bicycles or walking on the sidewalk. When they passed by, there would always be people looking at them.

Like Guangzhou and other places, the streets here are full of state-owned sales outlets selling popsicles, and the people who run the outlets are unemployed women arranged by the street.

So they could keep eating popsicles along the way, while admiring the buildings on both sides of the street that were completely different from those in Chang'an. Of course, this did not mean that they had no regrets, because it was summer now, so they could not enjoy the northern scenery of snow falling for thousands of miles here.

But being able to come to this magical land is magical in itself.

If that's the case, why force anything else?

Sometimes they would be surrounded by people, asking where they were from. Those people wearing red armbands were very wary, but when they learned from the travel agency's accompanying staff that they were foreign friends, their attitude immediately became friendly.

Now they are used to having someone accompany them, and the travel agency's escorts can help them do a lot of things.

Sometimes when someone rides past them, they will even call out affectionately:
"Hey! Gringo!"

In response to their shouts, Edward often shouted back:
"Hey! Ride carefully and look ahead!"

Many people were shocked to find that a group of foreigners could speak fluent Mandarin, so much so that some people even specifically asked them if they were expatriates.

However, after seeing the accompanying personnel, they left in a hurry.

Although they felt a little disappointed, they bought a lot of fruits such as apples and peaches from the state-owned stores on the road and enjoyed them when they returned to the hotel.

That night, of course, we had another sumptuous dinner, which was still cheap, costing only a few dozen yuan.

The next day, early in the morning, after having breakfast at the hotel, the group took two taxis - the taxis here actually looked like Volkswagens, which was really unexpected.

However, I learned from the receptionist that this was a Soviet-made Lada sedan, the best car made in the Soviet Union.

"It seems to be a car produced using our imported technology."

Hank's casual remark startled the receptionist, who said in surprise:
"The Soviet Union wants to introduce your technology?"

Hank didn't know why the other party was so surprised:

"Is there anything strange about this?"

"Just, I just didn't expect it."

The receptionist shook his head and muttered in disbelief.

"The Soviet revisionists actually introduced technology from them..."

Soon, the group arrived at the destination of this trip, People's Park in the northeast corner of the city, and then hired a boat to go boating on the lake. The operator of the boat was a woman. Her husband worked in another government agency. Through chatting, I learned that the two of them earned about 100 yuan. Both of their children were in school, and the mother-in-law was at home to take care of the family. They could save some money every month.

"Don't look at my young age, but I have been rowing on Beihu Lake for ten years and often receive foreign guests, but I have never seen a foreign guest who speaks Mandarin so well."

As the woman rowed, she looked at the foreign guests on the boat. Some of them looked European, some looked like locals, and some looked like both locals and foreigners.

And they can all speak fluent Mandarin, which is really strange.

Is SEA saying the same thing?
Although she was a little confused, she didn't ask any more questions.

Edward obviously didn't know what she was thinking, but asked her advice on how to visit the city, and she told them in detail where to go. While Edward and his friends went ashore, she sat in the boat knitting.

When they were boating on the lake, Edward and his friends couldn't help but cling to the side of the boat to play in the water. Looking at the beautiful scenery around them, they really had a feeling of "being a fairy in the boat".

The surrounding scenery is so beautiful, a completely different beauty from the tropical scenery of SEA.

After two hours of floating on the lake, Edward felt extremely satisfied. This feeling was completely different from other places, and he even felt like he was communicating with his mind.

Finally, the woman who rowed the boat took them to the shore and directed them to the Chuncheng Restaurant for dinner. Although this restaurant was famous, it was still very simple. There were square tables, round stools, and the guests were crowded, almost all the seats were full.

Although there were many guests, they still got a private room with the help of the travel agency receptionist. According to them, this was a room reserved for important guests, and as foreign guests, they were of course important guests.

The portions at Chuncheng Restaurant were huge, and after the group of ten people had their fill, there was still quite a bit of food left.

After dinner, they went to a nearby park. There was a small pavilion near the park where many people were sitting. There was a young man wearing shorts and a bicycle next to him, concentrating on painting watercolors.

After traveling for more than half a month, Edward felt a little tired, so he picked an empty bench to sit down and rest, while thinking about where to go next.

Where to go next?
Should I continue my journey or fly back to Hong Kong Island?
There seems to be a direct flight to Hong Kong Island.

Unlike SEA, the air in Spring City is refreshing and pleasant in the summer, with a cool breeze blowing on the face, making people fall asleep easily. When I suddenly woke up, I found that my friends had gone to nowhere, and only Sun Chendong was standing next to the painter. He also liked painting. So Edward also walked over.

At this time, they were chatting there, and when he learned that they were from SEA and told him about their life in SEA, Edward found that he was extremely unfamiliar with SEA, and even knew nothing about it. They only knew that SEA was a lackey and thug of the United States, always bullying weak countries.

It seems that this is what they know about SEA. As for satellites, manned spacecraft and moon landing, they are completely confused and even think that they are bragging.

"How is this possible? You must be bragging."

Edward was confused by the result. What was there to brag about?

Could it be that the other party's face was full of certainty, which made him feel so confused, why did they know nothing about this?
The next day, early in the morning, when Edward and the others were still asleep, they were awakened by a hurried knock on the door. When they opened the door, it was the hotel waiter. He said nervously:
"Hurry, hurry up, many people downstairs are looking for you..."

Hank wondered:
"What? Someone is looking for us? What do they want from us?"

"We are going to take you to the stadium for a meeting. Come on, leave now! It will be too late. You are really America's lackeys. You bully this country today and that country tomorrow. Why do you have to go and attack Libya? Now we are going to drag you to the stadium..."

At the urging of the waiter, the group hurriedly packed their luggage. Before they finished packing, bursts of slogans came from the other side. Without even having time to pack their luggage, they ran towards the fire escape. When they escaped from the hotel, before they could figure out what was going on, they ran into waves of people shouting slogans, which seemed to be related to Libya.

How is this going?

Before they figure out what's going on?

Suddenly someone shouted:

"Where are those SEA agents? They can't get far with a group of them!"

What's next?
Running all the way...

"where are we going?"

"Go to the airport, quickly, go to the airport..."

A group of people ran against the crowd in panic. At that moment, they finally understood what it meant to flee in panic.

escape……

From childhood to adulthood, Edward had never been so embarrassed. If the laces of his sneakers had not been tied tightly, this part would have fallen off long ago.

"I say, what's going on here?"

"Who the hell knows what's going on!"

Sun Chendong cursed, then looked around and said cautiously:

"Should we change clothes? Wear the same clothes as them?"

Same clothes?

"Yep……"

Fortunately, when they were traveling in other places, they bought local clothes out of curiosity, and soon they changed into the same clothes. However, Hank and Erich had some troubles because they were both European. As for Edward, although he had some troubles, it was not a big problem. Although he was mixed-race, his appearance was more like Asian.

Looking at Ding Peiyun who was wearing a large plaid shirt, Edward said:

"Peiyun, you should wear a big braid."

Ding Peiyun nodded and quickly started to braid her hair.

Afraid of attracting attention, they even threw away their backpacks and put their passports and banknotes in their pockets. Then they walked out of the alley carefully. Here, a huge crowd came over there, and deafening slogans came from the surging crowd, which were slogans in support of Libya.

Of course, there were also accusations against SEA. Seeing this scene, they were all shocked and pale. Just when they wanted to hide, someone pointed at them and shouted:

"Look, there are several international friends here, comrades, come together..."

Just like that, they were pulled into the crowd...

(End of this chapter)