Rebirth of Minister Qi

Chapter 671: Food Hunting on the Bund

The two country bumpkins naturally refer to the two foreign guests. Chen Jin was also helpless. It would be troublesome if someone heard it. How could he say that foreign guests were country bumpkins?

Chen Jin didn't even say a word, staring at his boss. Qi Tongwei didn't hesitate, but instead glanced at the three competing teams, meaning what their arrangements were.

"Everything has been arranged. The three teams will dine in the same hotel, with each team having their own private room to avoid any accidents if they run into each other."

At this time, the translator came over and spoke to Qi Tongwei.

"Mayor Qi, Director Cai just asked me why you don't speak English."

Qi Tongwei seemed to have heard some mysterious words and turned to ask the translator.

"Did you hear him wrong? What else can I say in diplomacy if I don't speak Chinese?"

The translator was terrified. He was sent by the External Relations Department and was very familiar with diplomatic rhetoric. He didn't quite believe it when he heard it at first and hesitated for a long time before he dared to come over and talk to Qi Tongwei.

"Mayor, I dare not say anything nonsense. These are the exact words of Director Cai. He asked me to come here and say them."

Qi Tongwei looked up at Director Cai, who had a provocative look on his face. He had no idea what was going on in his mind and didn't intend to pay any attention to him. He went straight to today's heroes, the vanguards of the Special Police Corps and the Armed Police Corps.

Wu Changping was standing at the front of the team. When he saw Qi Tongwei coming, he stood up straight and saluted.

"Commander, mission accomplished successfully!"

Qi Tongwei was of course happy. Although they were playing at home and had a certain combat power bonus, they still won beautifully.

"Comrades, you did a great job this time! Hahahaha, we defeated our colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Department who were living a good life. We got first place ahead of the Flying Tigers of the Hong Kong Police Department, and brought glory to our country.

Lao Wu, please report to the department that our group of brothers have collectively won the second-class merit!"

Upon hearing this, the pioneers in the competition jumped up and cheered.

Chen Jin, who was standing by, pulled Qi Tongwei's sleeve and whispered.

"Director, Director, you can't speak like this in public. It will hurt the feelings of our international friends."

Qi Tongwei glared at Chen Jin with dissatisfaction.

"They can't hear me from such a long distance. Why bother with them? They are just a bunch of short guys who want to cause trouble. If I weren't the director, I wouldn't even have dinner with them tonight. They are all so ugly. What's the point of being so proud?"

In this era, the foreign policy is still mainly timid, because at this stage we are still trying to integrate into the international trade circle dominated by the West, which leads to these so-called foreign guests being more powerful than each other.

Of course, such a policy was based on the fact that the military strength at that time was much worse than that of America. There was no other way. Twenty years later, the military strength became stronger and stronger, and the country on the other side of the ocean felt that it had no opponent, so it began to relax and closed the factories producing aircraft carriers and F22 aircraft, resulting in stagnation for twenty years.

To give an example, the two are like a jungler who is offline for ten minutes while playing a game and can only hide in the jungle to develop secretly, while the opponent, because he is invincible and is five levels ahead of everyone else, starts to play badly and keeps lingering under the tower.

So we secretly developed in the jungle, quickly learned the opponent's strategy, and began to catch up in level and equipment. By the time the opponent began to feel something was wrong, the team battle was already evenly matched.

At that time, the diplomatic strategy began to change drastically, and we started to attack with a strong force. However, it was only 2004, and we were still in the stage of stealth development. Everyone subconsciously coaxed these foreign guests and was habitually spineless. This group of spineless people were still prevalent even years later. The Korean Go competition used shady tactics, and these spineless people in the Go Association actually considered the opponent's position.

"Brothers, let's go, take a shower, and go eat. You are the heroes today."

.........

At the dinner party at No. 18 Hotel on the Bund.

Zhao Mengsheng and Mayor Niu came over and showed their faces, toasting everyone with a glass of wine. However, Cai Yuanqi, who was standing nearby, started talking to them as if he had met his father, still speaking Mandarin.

Qi Tongwei started to chirp at the bottom.

"This Diao Mao is so snobbish. He keeps speaking English when he talks to me, but he kowtows and speaks Mandarin to Secretary Zhao.

He has a Chinese face but a spineless foreigner. ”

Chen Jin was helpless about his unreliable boss. This was a public place, and Wu Changping, who was sitting next to him, heard Qi Tongwei's complaints.

The dinner ended in a very boring atmosphere. Qi Tongwei's back hurt from sitting so hard and he looked very depressed.

At the entrance of the hotel, Qi Tongwei touched his belly. He had just seen off the guests and was about to go home. When he turned around and saw Chen Jin standing next to him, an idea popped into his mind.

"Oh, this crappy hotel is not even of the state banquet standard. I'm not full yet. Lao Chen, call Li Wei, let's go to the Bund and find a noodle shop to have a bowl of noodles."

Although Chen Jin felt that the boss's idea was very unconventional and not in line with his position as deputy mayor, he was not full just now and felt very tired after eating, as he had not eaten anything for several hours.

"Then Chief, let's change into casual clothes and go find a noodle shop."

Qi Tongwei waved his hand.

"Hey, why change into casual clothes? Just find three coats to put on and don't change the shirts underneath. That would take too much time.

Where is Li Wei?

Call him over quickly, this fat guy likes to eat in cheap restaurants, so he's the right person to go to."

After Li Wei came over to meet them, the three of them put on casual jackets and went to a noodle restaurant on the street. Before they sat down, Li Wei began to introduce them to Qi Tongwei.

"Boss, I've eaten at this restaurant once. I heard it's highly rated on blogs. It must have been open for decades.

Jiangzhou cuisine is too sweet, not at all like the light flavors of Dong'ou, but the crab roe noodles here are really good."

Qi Tongwei looked at the dishes on the sign and found it a bit difficult to choose. The crab roe noodles that Li Wei mentioned were ridiculously expensive, dozens of times more expensive than ordinary noodles. Food on the Bund is already a little more expensive than food in other cities, and this noodle is even more expensive.

"What's with the crab roe noodles? They're so expensive. Just choose something cheaper, like regular seafood noodles.

You guys order, you guys order, and two more side dishes to go with the wine, and let’s have a few glasses of wine.”

Qi Tongwei readily followed their lead and asked them to order directly. There were many diners in fire uniforms sitting at the tables inside, so Qi Tongwei nudged Chen Jin next to him and motioned him to look behind.

"Look at those guys. They must be back from some mission."

Chen Jin watched a group of young firefighters eating supper with laughter and joy, which reminded him of the time when he was still in the Dongou City Fire Brigade. Although he was just an ordinary cadre at that time, it was also the happiest time for him.

A smile appeared unconsciously on Chen Jin's face.