Hongkong.
It has always been known as the Pearl of the Orient.
It is not only an indivisible territory of China, but also the financial center of Asia.
After the plane landed at Chek Lap Kok Airport, everyone in the China Overseas Communications Group showed excitement on their faces.
Many young people traveling with us have longed for the Pearl of the Orient.
So, as soon as they got off the plane, they took out their film cameras and kept taking pictures.
Shen Lele bought a compact digital camera before she came. Although the pixels were not high, it was more convenient than before. She started taking pictures non-stop from the moment she got off the plane.
After everyone queued up and passed customs, Mr. Hu stared at the various signs in the airport arrivals hall and pondered.
Xu Yiyang stepped forward and asked him: "Mr. Hu, what are you looking at?"
Mr. Hu said: "I'm going to see how to get to the University of Hong Kong. I heard that there is an airport bus, but I'm not sure where to take it."
Xu Yiyang asked: "Is there no one from HKU to pick you up?"
"No." Mr. Hu shook his head and said, "Our official communication time is Monday. We will go directly to HKU on Monday morning."
Xu Yiyang asked in surprise: "I'm going to HKU on Monday morning. Where are we going now?"
"We are also going to the University of Hong Kong." Mr. Hu said: "The hotel booked by the school in advance is near the University of Hong Kong. Let's go there and check in first. We will rest and adjust today and tomorrow."
Xu Yiyang was astonished: "Mr. Hu, let's go to the University of Hong Kong for exchange, won't the University of Hong Kong give us a place to live?"
Mr. Hu said: "HKU's own dormitories are relatively tight, and we are only here for more than 20 days, so HKU does not provide accommodation. Moreover, this exchange activity, after all, we have reached a high level. It is good to get an invitation. How can we not have too much? Ask for more.”
Xu Yiyang sighed. From Mr. Hu's words, he could probably understand that the conditions for this exchange should be relatively difficult.
After finally figuring out where to take the airport bus, a group of twenty people dragged their luggage and boarded the bus to HKU.
The bus drove for nearly two hours before finally arriving at the gate of Hong Kong.
But when everyone got off the car, they couldn't go to HKU immediately. Instead, they followed Mr. Hu and Director Li around the neighborhood twice and seven times before they found the one the school had contacted in advance in an extremely dense residential area. That hotel.
It is said to be a hotel, but the actual hardware conditions are at the level of an old guest house in a county town.
Director Li allocated rooms. The hotel all had double rooms. Shen Lele and Ning Ruolin shared a room, and Xu Yiyang and a junior named Zhang Wei were assigned to a room.
Xu Yiyang entered the room, and a musty smell hit his face. Zhang Wei followed him. As soon as he entered the room, he sighed: "Fuck, what the hell does this smell like? It's so disgusting..."
Xu Yiyang found that the room was really small, so small that after putting the suitcase in, there was basically nowhere to put his feet.
He finally managed to get around the two small beds, which were only eighty centimeters wide, and opened the window. The air in the room was considered better.
At this time, Zhang Wei said again: "Oh, there's not even a bathroom, how can I go to the bathroom..."
Xu Yiyang said: "It should be a public toilet."
Zhang Wei sighed and said: "This is not as good as a small hotel in the suburbs of Zhonghai that costs ten or twenty yuan!"
Xu Yiyang nodded in agreement.
The hotel in this old shabby building is almost the same as the slums in old Hong Kong movies. The environment is really inferior.
To put it bluntly, this shabby hotel is not as good as the dark hotel that was on fire in Guangmingli.
At least the room in that dark hotel is much brighter than this!
Xu Yiyang came out of the room and found that other students were standing at the door of the room with collapsed faces. Shen Lele and Ning Ruolin were next door. They were standing at the door looking at me and me.
Seeing Xu Yiyang coming out, Shen Lele said aggrievedly: "Xu Yiyang, there are so many cockroaches in our room, they are so big!"
As Shen Lele spoke, she made a gesture with her finger. The cockroach she gestured with could fit half of her finger.
Xu Yiyang said: "It should be the American cockroach. This thing is also found in the sea."
Shen Lele asked in surprise: "How come I haven't seen it before?"
Xu Yiyang said: "There should be no dormitories in the school."
Ning Ruolin sighed helplessly and said, "Hey, the environment here is far worse than the dormitory... If I had known it was like this, I wouldn't have come here even to death."
Even Ning Ruolin, who had always been calm, sighed like this, which showed how disappointed everyone was with this place.
Many students who originally wanted to come and experience the prosperity of Hong Kong found it difficult to accept this huge gap.
The hardest thing to accept was the girls who were traveling with me.
Because they asked about it, there was no bathroom in the hotel room, so they had to go to the public restroom.
Bathing is even more troublesome. There are only two shower rooms on the entire floor, each with an area of only one square meter.
In an instant, everyone's hearts froze.
Mr. Hu also walked out of his room at this time, his face looking very ugly.
Behind him, Director Li kept rubbing his temples and muttered: "This is a terrible place. A room costs more than 200 Hong Kong dollars a day. Are you fooling around..."
Mr. Hu sighed: "Hong Kong has a lot of money, so it's understandable. There are still many people living in subdivided houses in Hong Kong. A few people in a family are crowded into a small room of five or six square meters. You can't even imagine that kind of life." come out."
Director Li sighed and said nothing when he saw students surrounding him.
When Xu Yiyang saw him coming out, he couldn't help but complain: "Mr. Hu, is the school saving enough money to build such a shabby place for everyone to stay for more than 20 days?"
Mr. Hu was also a little embarrassed at this time. He had thought that the conditions of the hotel booked by the school would be relatively poor, but he really didn't expect that the conditions would be so poor.
He looked embarrassed and helpless and said: "I don't know what the actual situation here is, but our school is very tight on funds right now. It seems that the new campus will be put into use in just one semester, but there is still a lot of time left. The big financial hole has not been solved, so I can’t wait to break it into a three-petal flower for every penny, so I ask for your understanding.”
Xu Yiyang said: "It won't cost too much to let everyone live in a decent place, right? All the rooms here are shady, damp and damp, and the rooms are small. The environment is really bad."
Mr. Hu said: "There are twenty of us and ten rooms. If one room costs three hundred yuan more, it will be three thousand yuan for one day and seventy or eighty thousand yuan for more than twenty days. And it does not include food and beverages, so we must save money." Spend some money!"
Xu Yanan couldn't help but said: "Mr. Hu, if our school is really so difficult, then why don't we just not come?"
Director Li hurriedly said: "Classmate Yanan, you are the president of the student union and a veteran cadre of the student union. At this time, you must carry forward your hard-working spirit and set an example for everyone."
Xu Yanan's eyes turned red with grievance: "Director Li, I can't follow this example. Go to my room and have a look. My sheets are in a mess. I don't know what they are. Do you know what I found under the bed? ?”
"What?" Director Li asked in surprise, "Why are you digging under the bed when you have nothing to do?"
"Put the box!" Xu Yanan burst into tears and said, "The room is so small and there is no place to put the box. How can we live there!"
Director Li nodded hurriedly: "Okay, okay, tell me what's under the bed?"
Xu Yanan hesitated for a while, then plucked up the courage to say: "It's the kind of thing I've used before! And there's more than one!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions were not very good.
Xu Yanan didn't need to explain more clearly, most people had guessed what she was referring to.
For a moment, everyone felt a little nauseous.
Director Li was also dumbfounded. After a moment, he said indignantly: "I went to the boss to argue with him. The money was paid a week in advance, but he treated us like this!"
Just as he was talking, a middle-aged woman in her forties walked over. Director Li hurriedly stopped her and said: "Say boss, don't you even clean up the house? At least clean it up for us?" "
The middle-aged woman spoke to Director Li in Cantonese, but she spoke so fast that no one could understand what she was saying.
Director Li hurriedly asked: "Can you please speak Mandarin? I can't understand what you are saying."
The middle-aged woman responded impatiently.
Xu Yiyang understood what she said in Cantonese, and the main idea was that I can't speak Mandarin.
So Xu Yiyang asked her in English: "Can you speak English?"
The other party waved his hand impatiently: "I don't speak English either."
After saying that, the other party hung a fully booked sign in front of the half-meter-wide glass door and left.
Director Li tried to stop her, but the other party ignored her.
Director Li, who looked sad, turned around and said to everyone: "Let's just make do with it today. I will communicate with her tomorrow and redo our hygiene."
Everyone complained for a while, and Director Li could only comfort him: "Let's put things away first, let's go out for a walk and find a restaurant to eat by the way, okay?"
Xu Yiyang asked him: "Director Li, how much is the meal standard set by the school for us per day?"
Director Li said: "It's 50 Hong Kong dollars per person per day."
"How much?" Xu Yiyang was stunned.
"Fifty Hong Kong dollars translates into more than fifty RMB. This food standard is what I strive for, so don't worry, everyone will not be wronged when it comes to food!"
Xu Yiyang shook his head helplessly: "Director Li, fifty Hong Kong dollars a day, three meals, nothing? You want us to come to Hong Kong to lose weight, right?"
Director Li asked in surprise: "Isn't fifty a day enough? Are prices so expensive in Hong Kong?"
Xu Yiyang was really helpless to complain, and said: "Are you thinking that you are at the China Overseas Canteen? Can you save two yuan and have a meal?"
Director Li asked: "No matter how expensive Hong Kong is, how can it be more expensive?"
Ning Ruolin said at this time: "Director Li, just eating a bowl of noodles on the roadside in Hong Kong costs ten yuan. The standard is fifty yuan. We girls are better off. Boys may not be full."
Director Li was surprised: "So expensive?!"
(End of chapter)