Chapter 19 Traveling Together
Chapter 19 Traveling Together
There must be other restaurants, there must be other Chinese restaurants, there must be, there must be.
If not, then you're screwed.
Gao Yi looked at Xiao Hei for help. He thought for a moment and decided to ask in a dissatisfied tone, "Is there no other restaurant?"
"Yes, but this is the only Chinese restaurant, boss."
It’s difficult.
If the hotel is really just a shed like this, then all plans will be invalidated. There is not even a wall, and everything in the hotel can be seen clearly from the outside. How can we do anything?
Gao Yi didn't dare to show any eagerness. He thought for a moment with a look of disgust. Finally, he said helplessly, "Okay, let's eat here."
Xiao Hei smiled without saying anything. Gao Yi was about to get off the car when he suddenly felt something was wrong.
The restaurant owner didn't look like he was in a hurry to drum up business, and Xiao Hei didn't say that we could eat right away.
Gao Yi suddenly put down his hand that was about to pull the car door and said, "I'm eating, what are you doing?"
Xiao Hei grinned and said, "I'll be leaving first, boss."
Sure enough, Xiao Hei just wanted to coax him out of the car, and he didn't care whether it was meal time or not.
"Uh, I suddenly don't feel hungry anymore, so why don't you take me to the hotel first."
Xiao Hei didn't start the car. He just looked at Gao Yi and said with a smile, "Boss, you can rent a car. It's one hundred dollars a day."
How old is Suakoko? Gao Yi can walk on his own two legs, so why does he need to hire a car?
But judging from Xiao Hei's expression, if we don't hire a car, it seems that he will only be willing to drop us off here.
"I don't want to hire a car, please take me to the hotel first."
Xiao Hei thought for a moment and finally made a decision.
"Okay, boss. If you need a car, remember to contact me. The price is negotiable."
Xiao Hei started the car and continued driving on the dilapidated street. Gao Yi wanted to get some information, so he said in a disdainful tone: "Xiao Hei, don't you have any better restaurants here? Cleaner ones."
"Some bosses, there are four restaurants here, and they are all relatively far away."
"Clean, I said clean."
“Everything is very clean, boss.”
Are all clean?
Gao Yi thought back to the restaurant he had just seen. There was no way that it could be described as clean. If they were all clean, then none of them were clean.
The ominous premonition began to turn into reality.
Suakoko is a city of 50,000 to 60,000 people, but there are only four restaurants?
"What do you people eat here?"
"A boss who eats whatever he can get."
Xiao Hei still smiled brightly, and then he said politely: "Everything is expensive here, especially gasoline, so my car is very cheap, boss, you can ask, boss."
"Uh, let me think about it. I'll contact you if I need you. How can I contact you?"
Gao Yi meant to leave a phone number or something. This has become a habit for him, or an instinctive reaction.
But after taking out his cell phone, Gao Yi suddenly realized, is there any signal in this place? Sure enough, Xiao Hei smiled and said, "There is no electricity or signal here, boss. We don't have cell phones."
Gao Yi's face turned pale, and he said, "Didn't you say you could call?"
"Only the hotel has WiFi. The hotel has a generator. You can't make phone calls but you can surf the Internet. There is also air conditioning. The Huaxia boss lives there."
Bad news, the local infrastructure is in total collapse.
Good news, there is a hotel here that provides WiFi.
The bad news in the good news is that you can imagine that this hotel must be very expensive, very expensive!
Gao Yi silently prepared himself mentally to be slaughtered.
The car drove on the street for about ten minutes, and the speed was not much faster than walking, and finally stopped in front of a two-story building.
The gate of the small building was surrounded by barbed wire. There was a small pavilion at the entrance. A black man stood inside with a rifle hanging on his body, looking at Gao Yi and the others lazily.
Are there armed security guards when staying in a hotel?
Before Gao Yi asked, Xiao Hei took the initiative to say, "This is the hotel opened by the general. It's very safe. All Chinese bosses live here, boss."
After saying that, Xiao Hei turned around in the car and pointed in a direction, saying, "That's a store over there, also owned by your Chinese boss. It's very convenient to buy anything there."
Is this the hotel owned by Gray Horace?
Gao Yi knew he had to get off the bus. He picked up his backpack, got off the bus, and asked again, "How can I find you if I need a car?"
"Boss, I come here every day, just make an appointment in advance, boss, make a fortune, boss, goodbye."
Xiao Hei drove away, and Gao Yi had no choice. He looked at the security guard at the door and walked into the hotel with his bag.
The first floor of the hotel is a lobby of about ten square meters, let's call it a lobby, and there are seven or eight plastic chairs inside, and there is even a rotating ceiling fan above the head.
There were four people sitting in the lobby, and they were four Chinese!
Gao Yi, who had just walked in, seemed to have no idea how to continue, and the four people sitting there immediately stopped talking after seeing him.
A middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, not tall, fat, with thick lips, looked very honest. After taking a look at Gao Yi, he immediately said in Mandarin with a heavy accent: "What business do you do, boss?"
Who would ask someone what their business is as soon as they meet?
This place is full of weirdness. Gao Yi said casually, "Well, I haven't thought about it yet. I just want to see if there are any opportunities."
Several people laughed, and then a middle-aged man who looked very shrewd waved his hand and said, "We are all in the same business, brother, where can we make a fortune?"
Gao Yi really didn't know how to deal with the current situation. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Where do you bosses make money?"
The middle-aged man who looked very honest smiled and said, "I mainly make big boards in Minhou."
The shrewd man said, "I'm in Yuzhu, brother. We all come here to deal in wood. Let's make money together. You can sit down and talk to understand the market first, so as not to disrupt the market."
What does it mean?
Gao Yi thought about it, and then he roughly understood.
These people are all timber merchants. They are competitors, but they have also reached a price alliance. They want to suppress local timber prices, so they talk about these things when they meet.
Gao Yi looked at the remaining two people. The other two looked younger, and one of them looked a little fierce. They should be bodyguards or henchmen.
The plan needs to be changed. It seems that it is not feasible for the hotel to take action at the moment. Why don’t we pretend to be a timber merchant first, understand the situation and then make a decision.
After thinking for a moment, Gao Yi smiled and said, "I'll stay here first and we'll talk later."
(End of this chapter)