Chapter 209 Be careful of being cheated by men
Xu Chen looked back and found that Fang Jun had just wandered to the other side.
"Let's go shopping separately, and we'll call you later." Xu Chen said.
Fang Jun was stunned for a moment, but still responded.
Xu Chen turned around and walked quickly in the direction of Xie Bingran.
On the bench under the big tree, Xie Bingran was holding her backpack in a daze.
Her two long legs were stretched forward, half leaning on the back of the wooden chair, and she seemed to be sitting in a casual and domineering posture.
Despite the tourists coming and going around, it still looks a bit "alone".
Perhaps feeling someone approaching, Brother Bing showed a hint of alertness.
Turning around, he saw it was Xu Chen.
She immediately showed a hint of joy, folded her legs and wanted to stand up, but sat back with her backpack in her arms and gave up the seat next to her.
Xu Chen smiled and sat down next to Xie Bingran.
"Why are you alone? Where are Wu Feifei and Huang Qianqian?"
Xie Bingran: "They went to the bathroom."
Xu Chen: "Is it because they don't let you play?"
Xie Bingran: "No...they are very good to me."
Xu Chen: "Are you hungry?"
Xie Bingran: "It's okay...are you hungry?"
As she spoke, she took out her backpack and took out a "nut energy bar".
This seems to be from the training team as well.
Xu Chen smiled: "I'm not hungry, but I want to eat."
Xie Bingran gently held the nut bar in his hand, and it cracked into two halves.
Then he tore off the wrapping paper with a "chila" sound and handed it to Xu Chen.
Xu Chen picked up one of the pieces with a smile, threw it into his mouth, and chewed it.
Xie Bingran smiled and threw the other half into his mouth.
Xu Chen said vaguely while chewing: "It tastes better than the protein bar last time!"
Xie Bingran: "If you like to eat, I will stock up on more."
Xu Chen: "I used to give you cookies, but now it's the other way around."
Xie Bingran: "Isn't this bad?"
Xu Chen: "Okay, I just find it interesting."
Xie Bingran suddenly turned his head and looked behind him, then said:
"Let's change places..."
Xu Chen didn't know why, but he still stood up with Xie Bingran.
The two quickly walked through the groups of tourists, went around to the other side, and found another empty bench under a big tree in the corner.
Xie Bingran lifted her short hair from her forehead and said coldly:
"They are probably coming out soon, let's hide for now."
Xu Chen shook his head helplessly. It turned out that he wanted to stay alone with himself for a while.
"Are you thirsty?"
Xu Chen asked as he took out a bottle of mineral water from his backpack.
I just got this from that Odyssey.
Xie Bingran took the water and unscrewed the cap of the bottle.
She was about to drink, then after thinking about it, she raised her head and hung the mouth of the bottle in the air, then poured the water into her mouth.
Then he handed the remaining half bottle of water to Xu Chen.
Xu Chen took it with a smile and drank it all.
Xie Bingran wore a white sports quick-drying T-shirt and a pair of light gray sports trousers on the lower body.
Xu Chen looked down, thoughtfully.
Xie Bingran looked a little weird when she was stared at like this. She pulled her brown backpack and held it in front of her chest.
Xu Chen: "I'm going to make a sports brand for you. I think I mentioned it to you before."
Xie Bingran: "Oh... you seem to have told me once."
Xu Chen: “You still hold shares, and your name is ‘Ran Bing’.
When I went to college in Shanghai, I began to think about this matter. ”
He looked at Xie Bingran and said seriously:
"If we can go public, we will both be very rich!"
Xie Bingran blinked his big eyes, as if he didn't understand, and just said "oh".
Xu Chen continued:
“The company Ranbing has been spun out by my father alone.
It may involve financing in the future, but the major shareholders are you and me. ”
Xie Bingran pursed her lips: "You and I... are two of us?"
Xu Chen: "I said, I will make you very rich!"
Xie Bingran lowered his head slightly, and his eyes seemed to waver again:
"You have already made me very rich, and Director Cheng sent me a message today...
I won the championship this time. The province, city, and team will all give me bonuses, which are almost 300,000 yuan.
Three hundred thousand, I don’t even know how to spend it..."
She looked up at Xu Chen:
"How about...shall I give it to you?"
Xu Chen was speechless: "You are really a silly girl, be careful of being deceived by a man!"
Xie Bingran: "No, I only trust you."
She lowered her voice and muttered, "Unless you lie to me..."
Xu Chen: “Keep the money for yourself, don’t borrow money randomly, don’t listen to anyone’s investment advice, etc.
You can buy whatever you want, even a car or a house! ”
Xie Bingran: "Oh."
Xu Chen: "If you want to buy something big, you can discuss it with me first and I will help you with your advice."
Xie Bingran: "Okay..."
She looked up at Xu Chen and said seriously:
"What do you want? I'll buy it for you!"
Xu Chen found it a bit funny and couldn't help but reached out and touched Xie Bingran's head:
"Finally you are no longer that pitiful deskmate who couldn't even eat. Now you have money to buy me things.
What a little rich woman! ”
Xie Bingran: "I'm not kidding you, whatever you want, as long as I can afford it!"
When she said this, there was some eagerness in her eyes.
Xu Chen was silent for a moment, but something soft was still touched in his heart...
"Silly girl, I'm not short of money...
Don't spend your money carelessly, just save it first. ”
Xie Bingran blinked his big eyes, and then said "oh".
……
"You two are actually hiding here!"
Suddenly there was a voice behind me, and when I looked back, I saw it was Wu Feifei, Huang Qianqian, and Fang Jun.
The three of them met at some point and happened to bump into Xu Chen and Xie Bingran.
Wu Feifei showed a wicked smile: "What are you talking about in a whisper?"
Xu Chen: "I'm talking bad about you!"
Xie Bingran: "..."
Wu Feifei: "Xu Chen, you are here! Come and take us out to play and eat delicious food!"
Xu Chen: “Where do you want to go?”
Wu Feifei: "It doesn't matter, you have the final say."
Xu Chen: "You should have been to Old Xiguan, but you don't seem to like temples for middle-aged and elderly people?"
Wu Feifei: “There’s no way I don’t like it!”
Xu Chen: "Liurong Temple and Guangxiao Temple are both nearby, and you can walk there.
When it gets dark at night, you can go on a night cruise on the Pearl River..."
Huang Qianqian showed excitement: "Okay, okay!"...
There are four major Buddhist jungles in Yangcheng, among which Guangxiao Temple and Liurong Temple are next to each other, near the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.
What binds these two ancient temples together is Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor of Zen...
Xu Chen took a few people and walked to the closer Liurong Temple.
Looking up and seeing the simple signboard, Teacher Fang Jun said:
"It's still Su Dongpo's inscription..."
Xu Chen, as a free tour guide, also briefly popularized the relationship between Su Dongpo and the Six Banyan Trees. For example, when he saw the six banyan trees in the temple, he mentioned the word "Liurong", and then the name "Liurong Temple" came... …
As soon as you enter the temple, you will feel a strong religious atmosphere.
Looking up, the "Flower Tower" stands tall.
This flower tower can be climbed up to overlook the entire Laoyang City. This is the main reason why Xu Chen wants to come here.
But when he looked up, he found that the entrance to the flower tower had been blocked.
Unexpectedly, I was reborn in 2006 and still failed to climb this tower...
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Liurong Temple is not big, and there is an endless stream of pilgrims.
Fang Jun, Wu Feifei, and Huang Qianqian still felt it was new. They went to worship in various halls and seemed to be very pious.
Xu Chen is an atheist at heart and only treats it as a tourist attraction.
Xie Bingran looked like she was just looking for something new and followed Xu Chen all the way.
Wu Feifei sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect that there is such a quiet ancient temple in the bustling city..."
A few people wandered around and arrived in front of the "Sixth Ancestor Hall".
What is enshrined inside is the bronze statue of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng. It was erected in the Northern Song Dynasty and has traveled through history to appear in front of everyone.
Huang Qianqian looked at the introduction in front of the hall and muttered in a low voice:
"The bodhi tree has no tree, and the mirror is not a stand. There is nothing in the first place, so how can it cause dust..."
Xu Chen suddenly felt a bit like a "middle-aged man".
Although he is an atheist, the wisdom of Buddhism and Zen can still help people resolve some spiritual difficulties.
Wu Feifei looked up at the plaque:
"There should be no place to live... What does this mean?"
After saying that, she turned to look at Xu Chen.
Xu Chen was stunned: "Why are you looking at me?"
Wu Feifei: "Among us, if anyone can understand, it's you!"
"..."
Xu Chen actually knew a little about these allusions, so he simply explained:
"'There should be no abode, but the mind should be born' is the most important sentence in the Diamond Sutra.
At that time, the Sixth Patriarch was just a woodcutter and didn't even know how to read, but when he heard others reciting these words, he became enlightened and later entered Zen Buddhism..."
Wu Feifei smiled: "I said you must know!"
Fang Jun: "There should be no place to live...what does it mean?"
Xu Chen: "Buddhist scriptures are all translated, and Kumarajiva, the translator of the Diamond Sutra, is also from Tianzhu...
It crosses cultural and language systems, so the concept is still somewhat unclear and unspeakable.
Any explanation would be wrong. ”
Fang Jun: "You really talk like an old man."
Xu Chen didn't answer, just laughed.
……
After coming out of Liurong Temple, Xu Chen looked at the sky and suggested going to eat directly.
Several girls showed excitement:
"Teacher Xu Chen, what are you going to bring us to eat?"
Xu Chen: "I'll take you to eat jelly claypot."
Huang Qianqian: "What is that?"
Wu Feifei: “It tastes delicious as soon as I hear it!”
……
Miss Wu made a call, and the Buick GL8 came to pick it up.
The car headed east along Dongfeng East Road and stopped near the University of Technology.
When everyone got out of the car, they saw an inconspicuous street store with a signboard of "Hui Kee".
This restaurant is still inconspicuous now, but more than ten years later it was rated as a "Michelin Restaurant", and it is so popular that you can't even wait in line.
Yangcheng has this advantage. Many gourmet restaurants have been in business for more than ten or twenty years. Even the food menus will not change easily. The taste is still the same after a few years.
Of course, for Xu Chen at this moment, it is equivalent to eating years in advance...
Five people crowded into the window seat.
Xu Chen took the menu, took a pencil and started "drawing" it by himself.
Bullfrog jelly, octopus jelly, fried crab in typhoon shelter, braised squab, claypot rice with cured meat...
There are also ginger milk and black sesame ice cream as after-dinner desserts.
So after the table was filled with dishes, several girls perfectly interpreted "everyone eats without making a sound".
"What should I do? I really can't live without Yangcheng, this is so delicious!"
"What kind of magical method is this gelatin pot?"
"Who invented this clay pot rice? This rice crust is so good!"
"You still have to follow Teacher Xu Chen when eating!"...
Fang Jun was chewing a piece of squab and suddenly stretched out his arms.
Xu Chen was speechless:
"I'll give you a drink after we get on the boat. I can't handle you now that you're drunk."
Fang Jun's face was expressionless, but he was also hopeless.
Her phone suddenly vibrated. Fang Jun took it out and looked at it for a while, then said:
"Your dad's side... there's something going on."
The message seemed to have been sent by Li Rui.
Xu Chen was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but become curious.
Father Xu Zhiquan suddenly became mysterious, which was indeed quite strange.
Wu Feifei's face instantly became full of gossip:
"What's going on?"
Xu Chen: "..."
He glanced at Fang Jun and signaled him to talk later.
……
……
When we came out after dinner, it was completely dark.
Wu Feifei made a call, and the driver drove the car over.
After a few people got in the car, they drove directly towards the dock on the Pearl River.
……
Half an hour later, we were on the top floor of the Pearl River cruise ship.
Wu Feifei and Huang Qianqian stood on the bow of the boat, looking excited in the night wind and shouting towards the river.
Xu Chen and Xie Bingran were sitting in the bar area, looking at the lights on the river bank, both in a trance.
Zhujiang New Town is still under construction, and it is still a large construction site under the night.
From a distance, I saw that the "Yangcheng Tower" has not yet been topped out, and it should be more than half completed...
Because Xu Chen had seen it in its entirety in his previous life, now he saw half of the tower, and combined with the appearance of the surrounding large construction sites, he felt inexplicably like a "ruin".
This is a rebirth twenty years ago, but it also seems to be time traveled to an unknown number of years later.
As if in some sci-fi apocalypse, Zhujiang New Town has fallen into ruins, and the tall tower has collapsed over the years.
Xu Chen turned his head and found Xie Bingran blinking his big eyes and looking at him intently.
"What's wrong?" Xu Chen asked.
A gust of river wind blew by, ruffling the broken hair on Xie Bingran's forehead.
She lowered her head: "I remember you sitting on my right side like this when I was in junior high school."
Xu Chen: "At that time, I will give you biscuits under the table."
Xie Bingran smiled: "We don't dare to chew, we can only hold the biscuits in our mouths and slowly melt them..."
Teacher Fang Jun wandered over, holding a newly opened bottle of beer:
"You two are whispering again."
Xu Chen: "Teacher Fang, drink less, don't get yourself drunk again."
Xie Bingran turned to look at Xu Chen, his big eyes seemed to convey some information.
Xu Chen smiled, turned to Fang Jun and said:
"What else does Teacher Fang want to drink? I'll buy it for you!"
(End of chapter)