Chapter 0118 – The Qin Huai River

Zhuang Rui’s bank card only had more than half a million dollars on it. But Liu Chuan helped him brush forty-eight million, so Zhuang Rui still has more than one hundred thousand dollars, just compared to a month ago, but it is a lot of shrinkage.

After paying the money, a few people in the office waited for a while, probably to four o’clock when the staff of the car dealership can notify the car, Zhuang Rui drove his own Grand Cherokee, and Lei Lei and Liu Chuan each drove a car, Qin Xuan Bing naturally sat on the passenger side of Zhuang Rui.

The three cars successively drove out of the car dealership, and drove towards the side not far from the banks of the Qinhuai River, they had long ago discussed that they would first go to eat in the boat workshop over there, and Liu Chuan, who was also more familiar with Nanjing, drove the car in the front.

“Xuan Bing, help me dial a phone, I’ll ask my brother-in-law to come for dinner? By the way, you haven’t met my brother-in-law yet, right?”

Zhuang Rui said to Qin Xuan Bing while driving the car, his cell phone was next to the transmission, it’s just that there are more cars here. Zhuang Rui didn’t dare to be distracted, but he didn’t notice that what he just said made Qin Xuan Bing slightly embarrassed.

“I haven’t seen your brother-in-law, but I’ve seen your mother! Right Zhuang Rui, what did your mother used to do? The aura on her body gives off a very noble feeling.”

Qin Xuan Bing suddenly remembered Zhuang Rui’s mother’s gentle and generous appearance, and while holding her cell phone and dialing the number according to Zhuang Rui’s words, she spoke out and asked.

“My mom? She taught all her life ah, a teacher, nothing special.” Zhuang Rui casually replied, but his mother’s origin he himself is not clear, since childhood it seems as if his mother has never returned to her mother’s home, and never mentioned anything about his own family, Zhuang Rui just knows that his mother’s compound name is Ouyang, and her single name is a word Wan, and the rest of them don’t know anything about it.

“Hey, hey, is it Xiao Rui? Strange, how come a woman is talking?”

Zhuang Rui was a little distracted for a moment, but Qin Xuan Bing heard a man’s voice coming out of the cell phone, and hurriedly put the phone to Zhuang Rui’s ear.

“Yes, it’s me, brother-in-law, have you finished your business? It’s also dinner time, let’s eat together! It’s good to stay in a hotel at night as well.” Zhuang Rui came back to his senses and hurriedly said into the microphone, the skin around his ear and Qin Xuan Bing’s fingers came into contact with each other, and he only felt a little itchy.

“Have you guys bought the car? There’s no need for dinner, the customer on my side is going to treat us to dinner, so we’ll contact them again in the evening!”

Zhao purchased quite a few things this time, he was considered a big customer, the boss who supplied him, also wanted to establish a kind of long term relationship with Zhao, so he arranged a banquet in the evening.

Car from the Qinhuai River is very close, is also ten minutes of time, Liu Chuan will be driven into an open-air parking lot, Zhuang Rui hastened to follow up, from the car window to look out, you can already see the Qinhuai River.

Qinhuai River is known as the Huai Shui, the original name of the “Long Zang Pu”, the length of about 110 kilometers, the history of the extremely famous. According to legend, when Emperor Qin Shi Huang was on his eastward tour, he looked at the purple gas rising above Jinling and thought that it was the king’s gas, so he chiseled Fangshan Mountain and broke off the long ridge as a blasphemy. The river entered into the river, and later people mistakenly thought that this water was opened in Qin Dynasty, so it was called “Qinhuai”.

Since the Stone Age, there have been human activities in the basin of the Qinhuai River, and since the Eastern Wu Dynasty, it has been a prosperous commercial area for residents. During the Six Dynasties, it became a place where famous families lived, merchants gathered, literati gathered and Confucianism flourished. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, it gradually declined, but it attracted countless literati to visit the place, sighing “the old time Wang Xie Tangqian Yan, flew into the common people’s homes”. In the Song Dynasty, it gradually recovered as the cultural center of Jiangnan. The Ming and Qing dynasties were the heyday of the Ten Mile Qinhuai.

For 1800 years, the Qinhuai River has been one of the most prosperous places in Nanjing, known as the ‘Ten Mile Pearl Curtain’. Since ancient times, the Qinhuai River has been a place of humanities, merchants and businessmen, and has been known as the “beautiful place in Jiangnan”.

Zhuang Rui for the impression of the Qinhuai River, but from the school textbooks to recognize, that “paddle in the shadow of the Qinhuai River” prose, is the first time Zhuang Rui heard of the Qinhuai River’s beauty, deeper impression, naturally, is the courtesans on the boat workshop, just to the modern era, it must also no longer exist, right!

“Wood, let’s wait for a while and then go to the boat workshop to eat, wait for the sky to be a little darker, after the lights on the boat are turned on, that’s the flavor of it, by then there may be a show.”

Liu Chuan parked the car, in front of him ran the little black lion. Followed by Lei Lei, quite a bit of the boss, is that the pants are really some not long face.

Both sides of the Qinhuai River, all are some ancient buildings, flying eaves and windows, carved beams and painted buildings, but Zhuang Rui know, the original building has long been destroyed in the war, these should be built later, strolling along the Qinhuai River, such as through the vicissitudes of history, giving a person a feeling of serenity and relaxation.

Point on a cigarette, sitting on the river under the willow, looking at the slight rippling of the river, running and playing the little white lion, and the side of the beauty of the company, Zhuang Rui a moment of suspicion of a dream, the previous self, but all day shuttle in the subway bus station, then what ever thought that they can have all this in front of them.

Qin Xuan Bing is also whispering with Lei Lei, only Liu Chuan bored in teasing the little black lion, this little guy is not slow, although than the size of the white lion to be a small circle. But compared to the rest of the dogs that are about the same size, it appears to be developing much faster, especially the black lion’s head, which is now taking the shape of a tiger’s head, it looks naive with a sense of majesty.

“Mu, Mu!”

Liu Chuan shouted twice, seeing that Zhuang Rui didn’t pay attention to him, he picked up a lump of earth from the ground and smashed it at Zhuang Rui, only to find that the white lion was glaring at him and let out a low roar in his throat, frightening Liu Chuan and raising his hands high. He didn’t dare to move anymore, he knew that although this little guy wouldn’t really bite him, but if he tore his pants again, he would really have no face to see others.

“What is it?” Zhuang Rui woke up and summoned the white lion into his arms to pacify him before looking at Liu Chuan.

“Buddy to you ah! Both of us, brothers, are out of luck at night.” Liu Chuan came over and whispered in Zhuang Rui’s ear.

“No play? Nothing to play ah?” Zhuang Rui listened to some inexplicable, voice also dialed up a few degrees.

“You lower your voice ah! I said no play, is that they finished dinner, stroll a while to go back, the night to set up the showroom, tomorrow is the day they participate in the jewelry show.”

Liu Chuan a little frustrated, originally also and Lei Lei to go to the hotel to have a fling, just after getting this news, this buddy immediately from Viagra into atrophy.

After hearing Liu Chuan’s words, Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but cry and laugh a little, although he also once dreamed of having some super-friendship relationship with Qin Xuan Bing, just in reality, the two of them hadn’t even held hands a few times, and he didn’t dare to hope that it would develop to the extent of opening a room so soon.

“Go! Go to eat, after eating to the Fu Zi Temple to stroll around, buddies now have no money, go to take a chance, see if you can find a good object not.”

Zhuang Rui stood up, Liu Chuan’s buttocks kicked a foot, but not prevented by Liu Chuan twisted to the ground, the two tumbled on the grass, the two are used to playing since childhood, just look aside the mouth of the small white lion can not stop emitting a “whimpering” of the low roar, but do not dare to bite the mouth, look aside Lei Lei and Qin Xuan Bing! “Giggle” straight laugh.

From this childhood often play tricks, Zhuang Rui felt a trace of affinity. Although now he is rich, but life is still the same, friends remain unchanged, not only Liu Chuan, I think the boss in Zhonghai, including a few brothers have been dispersed to various parts of the country, is also the same.

Pat the body stained grass, a few people to the nearest boat workshop to go, in the Qinhuai River, large and small boat workshop no less than a hundred, some are specialized in taking tourists night tour of the Qinhuai River, there are some, but it is the boat dock food workshop, according to the needs of the guests, will be the boat to the heart of the river, but also can be docked at the shore, business is very good, a boat can probably put down more than twenty tables, basically full of guests in some of the boat, even a show to watch. In some boats, there are even performances to watch.

At this time, both sides of the Qinhuai River, are lit up, Zhuang Rui them on the boat, lighting design is very clever, antique lamps, inside the bright light as burning candles in general, the whole boat illuminated lights.

The table in the cabin has been filled with seven or eight guests, Zhuang Rui and others chose a table by the window and sat down, looking at the boat wave, oars and lights, if then there are singing and dancing, there is more of a “six dynasties of smoke and moon of the district, the gold and powder collection of the flavor of the”.

On the boat, naturally eat fish in order to respond to the scenery, Liu Chuan ordered a big head chub a fish to eat, is a fish made of three dishes, fish head with tofu, ham slices, parsley stew, fish tail with a little salt, cooking wine, marinated in a frying pan after the dry burning of the body of the fish body naturally to be made into a sweet and sour fish block, this way of eating is extremely popular in the north of Jiangsu Province, Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan in the time of the Pangcheng, but also is often eaten this way.

In addition, Zhuang Rui to the two women ordered some Jinling snacks, like the eight best of the Qinhuai duck crispy pancakes, beef pot stickers, etc., although not the most authentic, but in the field is also very difficult to eat.

Not much General Assembly, a few people ordered the dishes on the send up, fish soup looks creamy and thick, drink a mouthful of extremely tasty, sweet and sour fish is crispy sweet and sour, fragrant and delicious, Zhuang Rui is to come to a small bowl, pick out the fish spines and then mixed with the fish, placed at the foot of the white lion ate it up, his move is to let the side of the tables of guests to look at some of the sidelong glances, but there is a Liu Chuan this ancient evil to the general look of the people in the, but also No one came up to find fault.

After eating and drinking, and so Liu Chuan finished the account, Zhuang Rui stood up, said to the two women: “Xuan Bing, let’s go to Fuzimiao antique street around, you are not in a hurry to go back, right?”

Qin Xuan Bing slightly some annoyed white Zhuang Rui a glance, so beautiful, not to say and their own walk to the river, but to go to that crowded place, she is not aware of, Zhuang Rui has long heard of the temple’s reputation, this time to go to the real is holding back, ready to go to pick up a few big leaks.