Chapter 106 Guests (I)
Manila.
Austin Hotel, two tourists, a man and a woman, stayed here.
The man was a black-haired white man in his twenties, wearing an earring on one side. He sat on the sofa, looking at the phone screen with a helpless expression:
"Luzon intends to start implementing a restriction order starting tomorrow for a period of three months."
After taking a shower, the blonde woman who was drying her hair with a hair dryer said nonchalantly: "Just think of it as a trip here."
"Christine, tourist attractions may be temporarily closed. We can't always stay in the hotel then, right?"
Christine turned off the hair dryer and asked with a seductive look, "Are you not satisfied with being in the hotel with me all the time, dear Anthony?"
"No, I just stayed in the hotel all the time and felt like I was in prison." Anthony seemed to recall some bad memories.
Christine took out a lady's cigarette, lit it, and lay on the sofa, looking through the Luzon travel guide on YouTube.
Anthony twitched his ears slightly, closed his eyes and sat on the sofa, as if listening to something. After more than ten minutes, he opened his eyes:
“There are so many cockroaches here.”
Christine was very calm about this: "Huh... Where are there no cockroaches? Unless it's the South Pole and the North Pole."
"Is there any place you want to go?" Anthony changed the subject.
"Let's go to Bonifacio Street first! I heard there are many Spanish colonial buildings there, and it's also a famous commercial street."
"OK!"
In the afternoon, around three o'clock.
The two people, wearing shorts and short-sleeved shirts, appeared on Bonifacio Street with their arms around each other.
Anthony, holding a camera, took pictures everywhere until they came to the entrance of San Agustin Church, which was built during the Spanish colonial period.
The two of them went straight into the church.
There were many local people praying on the rows of benches inside.
Anthony and Christine sat on the bench in the back, quietly listening to the hymns played on the tape recorder. Several priests were baptizing a newborn baby.
The two did not make any other moves. Half an hour later, they quietly left the church and continued to visit various attractions in Manila.
In a shop selling small toys.
Christine was like a little girl, holding a bamboo kitten and asked with a smile: "Anthony, this kitten is so cute!"
Anthony , with a helpless look on his face , leaned against the checkout counter and said, "I can hardly lift it anymore."
Christine seemed not to hear Anthony's complaints and continued to play with various small toys in her hands.
The toy store owner is a middle-aged man with a constant smile on his face. There are two employees in the store, one male and one female.
Anthony asked with a smile, "These toys are very nice, but it's a pity that they are not available in California."
The boss smiled and replied: "These toys are all hand-woven or carved locally, but they are very rare."
"Oh my god, are these all handmade works of art?" Anthony asked in surprise.
"Haha, not entirely. Many of those bamboo and wooden products are handmade, while plastic and resin products are produced in factories," the boss explained.
Anthony picked up a bamboo cat bed and said, "What a pity! If I take this cat bed to California and sell it, I think I can get $100."
"Really? That's indeed a pity." The boss's expression didn't change much.
Anthony did not continue speaking, but looked at his watch and called out, "Dear, it's almost dinner time."
Hearing that it was dinner time, Christine could only reluctantly take her three favorite bamboo toys and go to the counter to pay.
After the two men left, the boss was still busy with his head down.
Inside the room at the Austin Hotel.
After dinner, the two of them lay on the sofa again.
Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see the night view of Manila Port.
"What did you get?"
Christine shook her head: "The church is very clean, the jewelry store doesn't have the styles I like, and the toy store is just so-so!"
"How about going to Limanan ? I heard there are a lot of beach projects there." Anthony suggested.
"airplane?"
Anthony shook his head and pointed to the tourist map: "Take the train there and visit the scenery along the way."
"OK, you arrange it!"
The next day, the two bought train tickets to South Lima.
The slow train is not much different from the one in America. The whole journey is about 300 kilometers and takes about four or five hours.
Christine sat next to the car window, observing the scenery and city along the way.
As the train passed through the city of San Pablo, the scenery on both sides began to change significantly as they began to enter the territory of the Fernando family.
Around Manila, both cities and rural areas are densely populated areas.
But after passing the city of San Pablo, there was a sense of disconnection.
The rural population here is not large, but the urban population is denser than that of Manila.
The two of them temporarily canceled their trip to the South City of Lima and planned to stay in the upcoming Lucena Port for a day.
After leaving the train station, Christine stretched, while Anthony looked for a taxi. However, the situation here was different from what they encountered at the Manila airport. There were no swarms of taxi drivers surrounding them.
It was not until they walked out of the train station and onto the service street that they saw green taxis lined up on the side of the road, with the drivers all in their cars.
Many passengers simply opened the door and got in, and then the taxi started moving.
Anthony pulled his suitcase and walked to a taxi. He knocked on the window and said, "Hello, driver. How much is it to go to a good hotel nearby?"
The driver, who had a green dragon on his left arm and a white tiger on his right, showed his big yellow teeth and said, "A good hotel nearby? Then it's the Hotel des Anglais, 86 pesos."
Anthony looked at the other taxis again and found that the other drivers had no intention of coming to grab passengers, so he nodded: "OK."
The two got into a taxi.
Dahuangya stepped on the accelerator and drove quickly towards the Fengrao Hotel.
Anthony asked curiously, "The taxis here are different from those in Manila?"
"That's about the same!" Big Yellow Teeth replied perfunctorily.
Anthony didn't ask any further questions about this. After all, sometimes asking too many questions can easily arouse the other party's suspicion.
And 86 pesos is indeed not high. The two of them were charged 500 pesos at the Manila airport.
At the traffic light, Anthony saw that both sides of the street were very new, there were no potholes on the road, and no one ran a red light.
Of course, that could also be the reason why several traffic controllers on duty were carrying assault rifles.
Anthony's first impression of this place was that the infrastructure was quite good, followed by that it was well organized, unlike the .
Another impression is that a large proportion of people in the city are very busy.
After a while.
After passing the traffic light, the taxi stopped in front of a nice-looking hotel.
"Here it is. 86 pesos."
Anthony gave the money and went into the lobby of the Harvest Hotel with Christine.
Anthony was quite satisfied with the interior decoration of the hotel. At least the taxi driver did not just send them to a small hotel.
However, the two of them did not know that the taxi company and the Fengrao Hotel were actually one family. When they were soliciting customers, they would naturally give priority to their own business.
If Anthony said he wanted to find a restaurant, B&B, hospital, cafe, bar, supermarket, etc., Dahuangya could also match it with his own business.
As long as you enter the control area of the Homo sapiens system, it is basically impossible to avoid the industries of the Homo sapiens company.
Anthony and his companions soon checked into the Hotel Abundance.
