Chapter 21 twenty

The "Love and Meaning" event was very impressive, and it quickly became popular in the industry. My face was as bright as wax, and I had a deep understanding of what creativity is.He was also polite and said that he wanted to eat Shanghai cuisine, so I invited him to eat at Ye Shanghai. I told Xiao Han that the last time we had a drinking idea, the implementation was very successful, and the participants had a second idea for this idea, which brought "deep affection and long meaning" to the extreme, which not only reflected the collective wisdom, but also brought into play Individual ingenuity, an award-winning event that stomps the surrounding audience.

Xiao Han ordered a dozen small bottles of Tsingtao beer, and then said with a half smile: "Do you know where this idea came from? It was plagiarized. But it doesn't matter, it was copied from a lottery in the banking industry.". "It's okay to copy a good idea." I said, "Isn't it very ridiculous when Super Coke came out? It was a bit of a plagiarism, but when the Chinese nation was at its most dangerous, Super Coke came in handy. That time everyone had to drink Coke for dinner , the boss said Coca-Cola, we were very angry at the bombing of our embassy in South Africa by NATO headed by the United States, we quit Coca-Cola and changed to Super Coke, which actually tastes good! If there is no Super Coke, what should we drink?"

"Okay, let's not talk about state affairs today. Drink." Xiao Han didn't drink draft beer, but only bottled beer.After a bottle of wine went down, Xiao Han said with a stern face, "I'm treating guests today." "Didn't it be agreed that I would come? Is there anything good?" I wondered. "It's not bad, I'm going to go for a walk in Australia next month." Chauhan said as he opened the bottle, "He never asks the waitress to open the bottle." "I heard you say it last time, what are you going to do?" "Interview. It can be regarded as the Chinese delegation." Xiao Han said with a grin.

"represents what?" "Chinese retail." "Why did you go to the retail industry again, the retail industry is selling tobacco, alcohol and non-staple food!" "What's wrong with the retail industry? The retail industry is at stake. Last year, Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the United States, was among the top 500 in the world, with a turnover of more than 100 billion U.S. dollars, three times more than Microsoft." "What does retail have to do with computers?" I wondered. "You are narrow-minded again! The streets are full of retail businesses. If you see a barcode scanner, it is a computer. Of course, that is only a small part. Chain stores cannot operate without computers. There are also high-end membership stores, which rely entirely on computers. Only by tracking and managing customers can we win the return rate of customers. Of course, China is in the learning stage and it is not widely used, but this is a general trend."

After Xiao Han said this, I felt a little bit wrong in my heart. Computers will surround us one day. Two weeks later, Xiao Han, as a member of the Chinese delegation, attended the retailer exhibition in Adelaide, the art capital of Australia. I had a phone call with Kang Cheng, and he said that he would change his department soon, and why he changed his department if he did a good job was decided by the board of directors. Xiao Han's group was led by a director of the Ministry of Domestic Trade, media reporters, and the bosses of well-known domestic shopping malls Xidan, Dorset, Lufthansa, Hualian, and Wushang also went.

After the plane stopped in Tokyo for 4 hours, it flew on the sea for another 9 hours. Xiao Han was sleepy with a blindfold on, and after a while he heard the foreigners chattering around him. He wondered how energetic the foreigners were, waking up to chat in the middle of the night.He slowly lifted up the blindfold, revealing one eye, startled himself, it turned out that the sky was bright, everyone was busy eating breakfast, and he was the only one wearing a black blindfold dreaming Huang Liang's dream, jet lag came right away, Look at the earth below the plane, it is full of sea. The plane circled over Sydney for a week and was about to land soon. The white Sydney Opera House looked like a child's toy dropped by the sea.

At the airport, there was a short foreign old man who was a member of a local travel agency to greet everyone.The old man was short and reserved, and looked petty. Except for the team leader, everyone ignored him. Xiao Han took a Sydney brochure in English, Japanese, and Chinese from the INFORMATION (information) at the airport. There were a lot of Sydney written in the book. After a closer look, it turned out that the brochure was made by Taiwan compatriots, translating Sydney into Sydney. . The foreign old man said that as long as there is a big "I" letter mark, it means that it is an information center, and it is the same in Sydney.

After waiting outside the airport for a while, a Chinese who looked like Hong Kong star Cheng Kui'an came, with a pleasant face. The two of them were talking and searching with their mobile phones, and they were almost nose-to-nose. Desperate but without glasses. The old man handed over Xiao Han and others to Dasha.Dasha took out his mobile phone, pulled out the antenna, and spoke terrible English for a long time, and then let Xiao Han and others get into the car. There is a small tow box at the back of the car. We put our luggage in and got on the car. Dasha drove the car, and the whole group remained silent, as if they had run into a gangster.

The car pulled Xiao Han and others to the Sheraton Hotel, and everyone met the people sent by the inviting party: a bearded foreigner and a shy lady who saw Chinese people.Dasha left a phone number for Xiao Han and others, saying that he can make that number if he wants to go out. In the hall, I also met compatriots from Taiwan who came to the meeting. Sydney is their masterpiece.Everyone greeted each other politely and went back to their rooms. After a while, everyone said that they wanted to go out for a while, and dialed the number of ALBERTLAY left by Dasha. ALBERTLAY said in English on the phone that he would come right away.After a while, ALBERTLAY's car was waiting at the door. Everyone came out to see that ALBERTLAY was an authentic Cantonese. When they saw Xiao Han and others, they asked them in Cantonese Mandarin where they wanted to go.Some people talk about the Sydney Opera House, some say Lover's Bay, some say go to the wealthy district, some say there are kangaroos, some say there is Chinatown.There are different opinions and no consensus. ALBERTLAY said: "Let's go for a drive around this city first, and roughly turn around the places we are going to go tomorrow." Everyone listened to ALBERTLAY, and let's take a quick look at the flowers first.

A minibus pulled everyone to the street. Seeing the Sydney police patrolling the street, they whistled one past. ALBERT LAY says Sydney has no police on foot. ALBERTLAY hung a megaphone around his neck, and explained to Xiao Han and others while driving: There are many Chinese in Sydney. There are 400,000 Chinese in Australia, and Sydney alone has 200,000. ALBERTLAY said that he has been in Sydney for 9 years and worked as a tour guide for several travel companies with piecework. Walking around and walking around, to the rich area of ​​Doublebay, ALBERTLAY said: "Doublebay, Doublepay, the land price in the rich area is very expensive." Looking back, I found that no one responded, and I saw that everyone was so tired that they were screaming in the car sleep.

Out of the rich area, someone proposed to buy leather clothes, ALBERTLAY took a group of people to a very remote place, it turned out to be a leather clothing factory, the boss inside was from Shanghai, China, and the whole family was there.In addition to leather clothes, the things sold include lambskin, sheep oil, and Australian gemstones.Everyone took a look, the leather clothes were average, and the style was very earthy, but the very well-tanned snow-white lambskin made everyone very appetizing. Everyone rolled a few pieces of lambskin like a big pancake, put them in plastic bags, and pumped them with air. The machine is evacuated and taken away.A large amount of lanolin, a specialty product, was bought in packages.Everyone Le Diandian came out with big bags and small bags, and found that ALBERTLAY's car was gone. After a closer look, the police wrote in chalk on the ground where the car had been pulled. ALBERTLAY was very calm, with no panic on his face, took out the phone and spoke Cantonese English, and then stood by the roadside with Xiao Han and others to chat. ALBERTLAY said that this place is very remote, and there is no suitable parking place.Just as he was talking, Dasha drove the car over. ALBERTLAY said, this is the car of the travel company, Dasha just drove the car after paying the ticket. Everyone got into the car one after another. While driving, Albert Lay began to explain the history of Australia to Xiao Han and others. He said that Captain Cook of the United Kingdom discovered this treasure land, which later became the place where British prisoners were exiled.The history here is not long, so Australians value history very much.Just as he was talking, Xiao Han saw dilapidated houses on the side of the road, and some houses had only one wall left, with some support around them. Albert Lay pointed to the ruins and said: "This is a cultural relic protected by the Australians, an old house less than 200 years old." Xiao Han said with a smile: "In Jiangsu and Shanxi, houses like the whole street are not so dilapidated. Australia People are pitiful too!" Everyone moved to Lover's Bay, and Albert Lay said he would take everyone to the Casino to have a look. When everyone entered the Casino, it felt like they had entered a supermarket in China. 80% of them were yellow people, and it was full of slot machines, roulette wheels, and poker.The crowd didn't seem to like the atmosphere inside, they all reached the door and came out quickly. The car circled a bay, and everyone saw the Sydney Opera House.Soon someone took out a camera and snapped a few pictures. Albert Lay said that there will be a special arrangement to enter the opera house later, so everyone is not very eager to climb the steps of the opera house. The next day, the group set off for Adelaide.There was a welcome reception that day, and an Australian lawyer distributed business cards to every yellow-skinned person from the mainland. Xiao Han took a look and saw that the title was Lawyer of the People's Republic of China, a true Chinese.Xiao Han turned around and threw the business card into the wastebasket, muttering: It doesn’t matter if all the people I meet for a few days are Chinese, there is no reason to come to Australia to file a lawsuit! (continued28) The 8th Asian Retailers Exhibition opened at the Adelaide Convention and Exhibition Centre.The opening ceremony was truly spectacular. On the stage of sound and light, the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and the Premier of South Australia made warm speeches respectively.The conference has set up a special exhibition area and special report area.Senior figures from Japan's largest retail organization, Korean businessmen, and Australian retail circles made many wonderful reports in the lecture hall. Xiao Han had a full agenda for the meeting on the first day. A, B, C, and D four exhibition halls, first glanced at the flowers, and then got into the crowd to listen to the special report. The conference was in four languages: English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Simultaneous translation eliminated language barriers Yes, Xiao Han took a lot of notes densely.On the first day, he carried more than 10 kilograms of materials back to the hotel. In the evening, in order to thank all the guests who participated in the exhibition, the South Australian government hosted a sumptuous dinner at the City Theater in Adelaide.Xiao Han is very allergic to Western food, so he eats roast veal and drinks Coke for the whole dinner.When we were full, we entered a small theater with golden walls one after another. The towering pipe organ on the stage was magnificent.A group of people sat there, listening to the Australian tenor singing opera there, listening to it whether they understood it or not, and the music ended at 12 o'clock in the evening.Xiao Han kept trying to cheer himself up, fearing that he would accidentally fall asleep in the theater. Xiao Han's plan for the next day was to look at the booth. IBM and Fujitsu have very large exhibition areas there, and all kinds of advanced retail machines are dazzling.Israeli merchants are mostly small retail machines, such as cash registers and handheld scanners. A big company like IBM talks about profound things, such as supply chain management, item identification, online shopping, etc. There is also a robot next to it, which keeps saying hello to people passing by: You are welcome! Xiao Han became very interested in robots, and went up to shake hands with him, had conversations, and took pictures as souvenirs.Another reporter asked the blond girl standing next to the robot if the robot was real or fake, and the girl said of course it was fake.Xiao Han suddenly felt bored, saying that the reporter was really old-fashioned, and the robots were not all dummy, so he turned and went to other booths. Australia's computer retail technology is not very good, but the retail industry is very developed, especially the wine and some native products in South Australia, which are all attractive.A group of reporters paid for it while watching, and if anyone found a delicious thing, they would quickly spread it to each other, vying to be the first to pay for it.The Australians are very generous, and they are afraid that the audience will not come to pay, so they greet anyone near the booth. Xiao Han has no interest in snacks, but he is fascinated by Australian deep red wine. He happened to meet a beautiful wine girl at a booth, so Xiao Han chatted with her.The girl slowly told Xiao Han that this is the wine made by her family, and her family has a large area of ​​vineyards, which reminded Xiao Han of the movie "Walking in the Clouds", and he became more interested, drinking glass after glass .The blond girl didn't show any stinginess, she just poured wine for Xiao Han with a smile.I don't know if it's because he drank too much or he was not intoxicated. Xiao Han felt a little dizzy and sat on someone's wooden wine barrel with a snap.The wine seller looked at Xiao Han with straight eyes and flushed face and couldn't stop laughing. Xiao Han squeezed out a few smiles, collected himself, finally got up from the wine barrel, and said goodbye to the girl obediently. After the exhibition, journalists from the Asia-Pacific region gathered for a one-day excursion, mainly to see Australian animals.Journalists from the Asia-Pacific region come from China, Taiwan, Japan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and of course Australia.The wind was breezy, the foreign country, everyone was very relaxed, and after another two days of busy work, the reporters gradually chatted together on the road. A Japanese reporter who looked a lot like Diao Deyi greeted Xiao Han: Hey, I'm here to hang out.The Japanese speak English like the Chinese speak Russian, with a carrot in his mouth. Xiao Han didn’t fully understand the Japanese’s English, thinking that he was just speaking politely like the Chinese, so he nodded very humbly: , I also came out to hang out.The Japanese opened their eyes wide and said: Wow!You are also out to mess around!Then very humbly took out the business card and handed it to Xiao Han with both hands.Xiao Han took the business card, one side was in English, the other side was in Japanese, but the Japanese was almost all in Chinese, and it said Japan<>Reporter came out Hao.The name of the Japanese is Chuihao, not a polite way to hang out, just now I misunderstood the meaning of the Japanese, Xiao Han blushed to the neck, quickly took out his business card, and said with a smile: IMNOT come out to hang out, JUSTAJOKEJUSTNOW! It was just a joke) The Japanese reporter nodded in a daze, took Xiao Han's business card seriously, and yelled, but he still hadn't figured out what Xiao Han's joke was.The two got acquainted with each other like this, and they searched for common English topics along the way. The most frequently spoken word was Yes, because everyone who is not fluent in English knows that the chance of answering Yes is 100 times less than that of saying NO. The travel program of the day is all about the zoo. Australia's animals are so docile and weird, with long fur on their bodies, long leather pockets on their stomachs or backs, sleeping during the day and looking for food at night. First, everyone went to a zoo built on the hillside. The skinny old lady in charge brought out a dog and told everyone about the dog’s genealogy for half an hour. Became an ornamental animal?The people present were a little impatient, even a tengu didn't need everyone to watch it under the sun for half an hour.Everyone slowly withdrew to a shady place, and only a few tourists who probably had never seen a dog were listening to the old lady tell the history of Australian dogs, or they were dog experts. Half an hour later, everyone came to the kangaroo garden, people's interest was high, and many people rushed to take photos with the kangaroos.At this time, a Malaysian reporter suddenly exclaimed, I don't know how he humiliated the kangaroo, but the kangaroo actually slapped him.Everyone became nervous about the kangaroo, and many people gathered around the Malay reporter to inquire carefully.The old lady of the Animal Management Park looked suspiciously, looked at the kangaroo with strange eyes and said: Neverhappenbefore!There has never been a kangaroo slapping a tourist before, and no one can figure out whether the kangaroo is in a bad mood or the tourists have misbehaved.The old lady administrator chatted endlessly, took out a red leather notebook from her pocket, and recorded the incident in her management log. Everyone's greatest interest is to see wombats, animals unique to Australia, also known as koalas.Koalas sleep 23 hours a day, sleeping during the day, no matter how much tourists harass them, they don't open their eyelids, ignoring the existence of humans. Swimming in the park until the evening, Australian animals mostly come out at night, so at night everyone followed the zoo management park with a flashlight, wandering forward like a treasure hunt. The three meals a day, morning, afternoon and evening, are all eaten in the zoo, and the last meal is in a domed shed in the zoo, which is like a circus shed.buffet.Xiao Han followed an Australian reporter with a plate, and the team crowded in front of the shrimp. The Australian reporter turned around and chatted with Xiao Han. She called her a reporter from the "Sydney Herald".When Xiao Han heard her call her "Xiao Han Teng", he endured a few moments, but still laughed, panting, he quickly added: "Nice tomeet you! Iam Xiao Han, China." Xiao Han Teng looked lively and sensitive, grinning Mouth smiled.Xiao Han couldn't bear the freckles on the tip of her nose, so he didn't eat at the same table with her. After dinner, all reporters from the Asia-Pacific region boarded a cruise ship.Everyone was blowing the fresh wind of the Murray River, sitting on white beach chairs drinking and chatting.An Indian journalist who looks exactly like Saddam Hussein became very interested in Ms. Zulia Lin from Taiwan. He went up to give Zulia Lin a loud kiss on the face, put his arms around her shoulders and insisted on drinking with her.Ms. Lin is naturally a beauty who has seen the world. She gave a familiar smile to the rudeness of the Indians, but she felt that she was too drunk, so of course she turned to her compatriots in mainland China for help. Xiao Han had already seen this in his eyes and was angry in his heart. He had no choice but to be angry with Zulia Lin and lament her misfortune. He wished to slap her once and then the Indian guy three times.There is no other way, we have to extend a helping hand to Taiwan compatriots in times of crisis, and at the same time wait for an opportunity to teach Saddam a lesson. Soon everyone joined the drinking ranks.The Indian reporter with light bulb eyes is a burly man, and he claims to be good at piano conversation. His two major hobbies in life are fine wine and beautiful women, and he has drunk countless times.But he was a little timid when he saw many people in Xiao Han, so he wandered around on the cruise ship and caught two journalists from Malaysia and Thailand whose skin was very similar to his. Tournament. In order to make wine drinking interesting and to be able to compete with each other, Chinese journalists invented a method: guessing age.The rule is to guess the age of the other party's bartender, if the age difference is 1 year or just right, it will win, and the guessed party will drink. If the age difference is more than 1 year, then drink as many drinks as there are years difference.Because everyone doesn't know each other's age at all, so of course it's a gentleman's game. "Come out Hao" and "Xiao Nao Teng" also came to cheer for Xiao Han, Xiao Han touched the tulip cup with them first, expressing that everyone is in the same camp from now on. At the beginning, the people on Xiao Han's side frequently guessed wrong, and half of a bottle of wine was drunk by the Chinese side.In order to fight back, everyone put the old-fashioned Xiao Han on the stage last.When it was Xiao Han's turn to play, it happened to be an Indian reporter who was playing against Xiao Han. Seeing Xiao Han, who was as thin as a sugar cane, his eyes were full of frivolity that would win, and he kept frowning and challenging Xiao Han. The elephant standing in front of him was not Xiao Han, but a fighting monkey. Xiao Han always kept a good smile. Rather than saying that it is the professional quality of the bartenders, it is better to say that it is the Chinese Taoist culture. The Indian reporter couldn't wait to guess, and Chauhan suddenly spit out Saddam's age number: 35.The Indian reporter laughed out loud, stretched out three fingers and said: Thrity three! You will drink! Xiao Han drank two glasses without saying a word.There was a huge noise on the field, and everyone said "wow, oh yeah" when they won or lost. Xiao Han waited until the onlookers with different skin colors calmed down, then nodded to the Indian reporter to guess.The Indian guy tilted his head left and right, Xiao Han seemed to be a hedgehog under the dog's mouth, and the Indian guy didn't dare to guess. He tilted his head about ten times like this, and slowly stretched out a 6 words, say "Thirty six".Xiao Han curled his lips and smiled slightly, and said, "I'll give you another chance." The Indian reporter was a little nervous, and looked at the brown-skinned "compatriots" around him. Some said 34, some said 28, the difference is very big, Sada Mu felt that everyone's opinions were simply interference signals, and he no longer believed them. He turned his head and stared at Xiao Han for a few seconds, raised a corner of his lips covered with a bristle-like hard beard, and said loudly: "Thirty eight!" "Are you Serious?" Xiao Han asked calmly, with a mysterious smile on his face all the time. The Indian reporter stared at the fish eyes and thought for a while, and said "Yes!" very definitely. Xiao Han picked up the bottle and said: "The left wine belong to you!" All the wine belongs to you, 10 years difference!The eyes of Indian journalists are like dead fish. The biggest achievement of Xiao Han's trip to Australia, he said, was eating a huge crab, which was so big that he couldn't believe it was a crab.