Chapter 84 (1/2)
The vehicles first drove to the company's headquarters in downtown Mumbai, where Li Yiru was ready for a reception. Zhang Heng didn't refuse. Although his body didn't respond, Thompson and Zhao Qing, who were with him, must have had a long journey. It's reasonable to let them rest for one night.
The traffic was moving slowly along the potholed road.
Looking from the window, the suburban area is yellow on both sides of the land, occasionally there are small shed houses, almost no buildings and factories can be found, until soon into the urban area, the building type buildings gradually appear.
After entering the city of Bombay, Zhang Heng has only one feeling, that is, messy and poor!
There is no left and right road in the urban area. Buses, cars, tricycles and motorcycles are crowded together, and wherever there is a gap, you can go there. Even, Zhang Heng still saw an ox cart on the road ahead!
Where the cart passed, rows of yellow and green cow dung were scattered evenly, and then flattened by cars, like a piece of grass cake stuck on the road.
Before returning to consciousness, a large truck whistling past with deafening horn almost grasps Zhang Heng's Benz.
Everyone in the car took a breath of air-conditioning, and only Fang Hao, who was driving, laughed bitterly, ”boss, this is the style of India. You will get used to it when you walk around the street.”
Zhang Heng rubbed his ears quietly. He closed the window and turned on the air conditioner. He felt better. At least, it was not as noisy as the environment outside the car. However, the car could only move slowly at the speed of walking, and there were always cattle and sheep in the way when walking together.
The most wonderful thing is that Zhang Heng even saw a bus refitted from a World War II allied military vehicle, even the steel bars on the window were still there. This is not enough to marvel at. What is amazing is that when the bus enters the platform, it does not stop, and the passengers above jump off the window. At the same time, those who want to get on the bus are following a trot for a while and then jump up!
Zhang Heng and Thompson were stunned by the marvelous scenery along the way. The two cars stuttered and finally entered the city center more than an hour later.
Compared with the edge of the city, the center of the city is much more normal. The bright high-rise buildings and clean billboards make people feel like they are returning from ancient times to modern times.
In the center of the city, the company rented an office building as its office location in the city to serve its customers. Next to the office building is a three-star hotel.
For convenience, Li Yiru set up a reception banquet here.
After getting off the bus at the door of the hotel, Zhang Heng was shocked. He knew that there were slums on the edge of Indian cities. However, he didn't expect that Mumbai was even more ridiculous. The slums were directly crowded with the city center.
A large number of plastic sheds are piled up around the hotel and on the roadside with no buildings on both sides. Beside the hotel, there are small workshops for plastic recycling, leather products and pottery products. The pungent smell of curry rice and sewage still wafts in the air.
”Zhang Heng, this way.” Just when Zhang Heng was speechless and choking, Li Yiru's voice came from the front. Zhang Heng looked back and saw that Li Yiru was wearing a white T-shirt and a pair of light blue jeans under his body. He did not make up much. It is estimated that in such a place, it is possible to get away from the local women more than ten blocks without making up.
Zhang Heng also waved to Li Yiru with a smile, and then they all entered the hotel under the warm reception of the waiter in front of the door.
The hotel in the center of the city is magnificently renovated. The huge and luxurious revolving door, the neat and clean door welcome, the luxurious red carpet inside the door and the splendid chandelier are like two worlds with the dirty outside.
”Have you been used to it for half a month?” Several people were welcomed into the reserved luxurious private room. Zhang Heng sat down first, and then all the people sat down in turn. Seeing Li Yiru sitting beside him naturally, Zhang Heng asked casually.
”Not bad.” Li Yiru white Zhang Heng one eye, ”in addition to the beginning of a little not used to, now has adapted to a lot.”
”Oh?” Zhang Heng looks at Li Yiru in surprise.
In fact, he had been in India for a few hours, and could not bear the environment here. He did not expect that the pampered Li Yiru could better adapt to this kind of messy and poor country than himself.
”Who's this? Why haven't you met him?” Suddenly, Li Yiru looked at Adam, who had been silent from beginning to end, and asked in a low voice.
”This is the security guard I hired in Singapore. In the future, he will be responsible for the security of pharmaceutical factories.” Zhang Heng casually played a ha ha to fool the past.
A meal passed in a hurry. In fact, everyone didn't eat well. Zhang Heng, in particular, discovered for the first time that the so-called world-famous Indian cuisine was nonsense.
Indian cooking, curry is sweet, chicken, duck, fish is also sweet, vegetables are sweet. When he finally finished drinking tea, he found that even tea was sweet
Fortunately, this is an Indian Hotel, otherwise Zhang Heng thought he had come to the land of sweet party.
After that, Zhang Heng disbanded the people and asked them to rest in the hotel for the time being, while he and Li Yiru, Fang Hao and Adam drove to the pharmaceutical factory in the suburbs.
Along the way, Zhang Heng saw the magnificence of India, surrounded by villas or small buildings, with green grass and shady trees. The owner in gorgeous clothes occasionally went out for a walk, enjoying the sunshine lazily. But what's more, it's dirty and poor in India, a country where the gap between the rich and the poor is even greater than in China.Too many poor people make the whole country poor.
Finally, the car drove into a place similar to a vegetable market. Because it was after work in the afternoon, both sides of the street were occupied by small stalls. Countless Indian women wore the rumored ”Sari” and swayed around in front of the car slowly. Even honking to death would not work.
In fact, the so-called Sari is a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped around from top to bottom, tightly wrapped up and down. The belly part is not wrapped, and circles of black and fat meat are dangling around in front of the car window.