The Pentium Era - South to North

Xiangnan pushed the necklace box aside, crossed his hands on his chest, and watched Zhang Xiangbei eating with relish. Zhang Xiangbei looked up at her and said:

"It's so delicious, I'm starving for it."

Xiang Nan smiled and said, "How pitiful. Are you a starving ghost who came back to be reincarnated?"

"It's true, I feel like I haven't had enough to eat in the United States for a year." Zhang Xiangbei said.

"Okay, then you should eat more."

Zhang Xiangbei said yes, I will definitely not be polite, sister, you will eat too.

Xiang Nan nodded.

Xiangnan drank watermelon juice and occasionally picked up some vegetables. Zhang Xiangbei ate for a while. When he saw Xiangnan sitting across from him and didn't seem to move his chopsticks, he asked curiously: "Are you losing weight?"

Xiang Nan shook his head.

Zhang Xiangbei said: "Then why don't you eat?"

"I'm not very hungry." Xiang Nan said.

Zhang Xiangbei nodded, and Gu Zi continued to eat. After eating for a while, he remembered that he had just ordered all six dishes in one go, leaving no chance for Xiang Nan to order. These six dishes are all very spicy. Xiang Nan doesn't want to lose weight, but she has to protect her throat. She can't eat very spicy food.

Zhang Xiangbei looked up at Xiangnan and said sheepishly: "I just forgot, can I add some non-spicy dishes for you?"

Xiang Nan said: "If you add more, it will be a waste. I can eat it, and you can eat yours."

Now that everything was said, Xiang Nan simply asked the waiter to bring her a small bowl and a bottle of pure water. She poured the water into the small bowl, picked up the vegetables with chopsticks, washed them in the bowl, and then Putting it in her mouth again, she said:

"Look, this won't solve it."

Zhang Xiangbei chuckled.

The two of them ate for a while. Zhang Xiangbei had already satisfied his craving and his stomach was a little full. The movements of his hands began to slow down. Xiangnan and Zhang Xiangbei said:

"Zhang Xiangbei, report on your studies. Did you just plant vegetables in school instead of studying hard?"

"No, no, I regard growing vegetables as a practice and learn while practicing. I also used my own vegetable growing experience to write a paper, which was praised by the professor." Zhang Xiangbei said, "Do you know Robert Shiller? "

"I don't know." Xiang Nan shook his head.

"A very awesome professor just won the Nobel Prize in Economics this year. In his spare time, he likes to watch us grow vegetables. I just showed him the paper and he appreciated it very much." Zhang Xiangbei said.

"You can grow vegetables and write papers, are you bragging?"

"Of course not. Vegetables are a barometer of supply and demand. The rise and fall of vegetable prices and sales can directly reflect the rise and fall of the overall economy. Especially for a certain city, this is more accurate than the CPI index, just like every A stock market index is composed of a series of heavyweight stocks, and I also selected heavyweight vegetables among vegetables."

"I don't understand." Xiang Nan said.

"The rise and fall of the prices of which vegetables can form my vegetable index. Using my vegetable index, I can accurately predict the coming of inflation or stagflation. Think about it, vegetables are what everyone needs every day. And the amount we need every day is often determined by our wallet. If we study it in depth, it can reflect too many consumption behaviors."

As Zhang Xiangbei spoke, he introduced his thesis to Xiangnan. He said that all economic phenomena, eliminating the false and retaining the true, simplifying the complex, can actually be explained by growing potatoes and buying and selling potatoes. The supply of potatoes exceeds the demand and the price skyrockets, which is inflation. , otherwise it is stagflation. Then he used potatoes as examples one by one to explain economic phenomena to Xiang Nan. Xiang Nan smiled and said:

"If you explain it with potatoes, I'll understand."

"In my vegetable index, potatoes are the weighted vegetables, as are onions, lettuce, cauliflower, endive, carrots, parsnips, etc. Each vegetable has a different proportion and has different meanings." Zhang Xiangbei Said, Xiang Nan chuckled.

The two people were in high spirits, completely immersed in their chat, and turned a deaf ear to everything around them. A man walked past them and then came back. He seemed to look at them in disbelief. After confirming, the man shouted:

"To the south? To the north? Why are you here?"

Xiangnan and Zhang Xiangbei came to their senses and saw Huijuan standing beside them. Xiangnan smiled and said:

"Zhang Xiangbei just came back from the United States. I picked him up at the airport. He said he wanted to eat Tuxiangyuan dishes, so we came here."

Huijuan was surprised. She said, "You are here, why doesn't anyone tell me?"

Zhang Xiangbei said with a smile: "We got our numbers at the door and waited in line for more than 40 minutes before we got our turn."

Huijuan scolded: "What do you two mean, you didn't call me when you arrived at your hotel, or do you want to come to privately visit me privately, and then you can file a lawsuit against me later?"

Xiang Nan chuckled: "No, no, Aunt Huijuan, we didn't know you were here. If we knew, we would definitely come to trouble you. We don't know anyone in this store except you."

"Yes, yes, wouldn't it be boring if we went to tell the waiter ourselves who we are?" Zhang Xiangbei also said.

Huijuan saw the necklace box on the table and seemed to understand. Xiangnan saw Huijuan's eyes staring at the necklace box. She panicked and it was too late to put it away. She quickly took the napkin on the table and threw it away. On top of the box, his face was already red.

Huijuan smiled slightly and said, "You are not honest. In fact, you want to live a world of two people, right?"

Xiang Nan's face turned red, and Huijuan continued to ask, "By the way, did I disturb you?"

Zhang Xiangbei quickly said no, Xiangnan was a little annoyed and shouted: "Oh, Aunt Huijuan..."

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore. When will you go back to Hangzhou?" Huijuan asked.

Zhang Xiangbei said: "Go back after lunch."

Huijuan said, okay, I’ll treat you to this meal.

Xiang Nan quickly said: "No, no, Aunt Huijuan, this is what I asked Zhang Xiangbei to do."

Huijuan smiled slightly: "Okay, then I won't ignore your kindness. You can afford it anyway."

Huijuan patted the two people on the shoulders, smiled and walked away.

Xiang Nan blushed, stared at Zhang Xiangbei and cursed: "It's all you who want to come here to eat."

Zhang Xiangbei argued: "Why is it me? I just said that I wanted to eat Tuxiangyuan's food. It was you who told us to come to Huaihai Road. If we go to Pudong, we won't run into Aunt Huijuan. Hey, we will." It’s her turn, so what?”

Zhang Xiangbei looked at Xiangnan with searching eyes, and Xiangnan said in his heart, well, wasn't it just a necklace box that Aunt Huijuan saw? So what if she saw it, anyway, even her mother would see it if she wore it in the future. When asked, of course I would not lie. I must have said that Zhang Xiangbei gave it to me. Otherwise, whoever gave it to me would accept it?

"Have you eaten well?" Xiang Nan asked.

Zhang Xiangbei nodded: "Okay."

"Okay, do I pay the bill?"

Zhang Xiangbei said yes.

Xiang Nan raised her hand, and the waiter came over. Xiang Nan asked her to pay the bill. The waiter smiled and said to her:

"Your table is already free of charge, as ordered by our general manager."

The general manager is the general manager above the general manager of this store, and that is Huijuan.

"Didn't we agree that we should pay for it ourselves? I'll go find Aunt Huijuan." Zhang Xiangbei said.

Xiang Nan patted him and cursed: "Don't be troublesome, let's go, let's go."

The two of them went downstairs, got in the car and drove out of the city. After circling the Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway, Xiangnan held the steering wheel and said to Zhang Xiangbei:

"You can call grandma and grandma and tell them we'll be home in two hours."

"No fighting," Zhang Xiangbei said.

Xiang Nan looked at him and said, "You don't need to fight if you take the high-speed rail back alone. I'll pick you up and you'll have to fight."

Zhang Xiangbei understood that if he took the high-speed rail back home, his grandma and grandma would at most scold him for being ignorant. If he went back with Xiang Nan and carried out a surprise attack, then even Xiang Nan would be scolded for being ignorant.

Zhang Xiangbei stretched out his hand: "Give me the phone."

"what?"

"This is an American mobile phone with an AT\u0026T card. I haven't changed it yet. The phone bill is very expensive. One call can be worth ten calls." Zhang Xiangbei said.

"Yes, Zhang Xiangbei, you really know how to live. The phone is in my bag. You can take it yourself." Xiangnan said.

Zhang Xiangbei took out her mobile phone from Xiangnan's bag. She needed a password to turn it on. Zhang Xiangbei asked, "What's the password?"

Xiang Nan hesitated and said, "Your birthday."

"Haha." Zhang Xiangbei laughed.

Xiangnan scolded: "Don't be proud, Zhang Xiangbei, I used your birthday because you are in the United States and no one around me knows your birthday."

"I know, I know." Zhang Xiangbei said, "Anyway, my power-on password is also your birthday."

Xiang Nan stared forward, pursed his lips, and fell silent.

Zhang Xiangbei dialed her grandmother's phone number. After the phone rang twice, her grandmother's voice came through: "Nannan..."

"Grandma, it's me." Zhang Xiangbei called.

"Beibei? Hey, isn't this Nannan's phone number?" Zhang Xiangbei's grandma was surprised.

"Yes, it's my sister's call. My sister is driving. She picked me up at the Shanghai Airport and we are on our way home."

Zhang Xiangbei heard his grandma shouting excitedly on the other end of the phone: "Beibei is back, Beibei is back, and is already on the way!"

Zhang Xiangbei could imagine that scene. After hearing this, grandma must have run towards grandma. If grandpa and grandpa were still making models in the shed behind the house, they would definitely put down their work and walk in the door. Come on, Zhang Xiangbei couldn't help laughing.

"Beibei!" Zhang Xiangbei heard the voice on the phone again, it was his grandmother's, and then his grandfather's voice sounded in the background.

Zhang Xiangbei called out one by one, and finally asked: "Where is my sister? Let her call my brother."

"Idiot, Xixi is only a few months old. How can you speak at such an old age?" Xiang Nan cursed. The person on the other end of the phone also heard it and everyone laughed.

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