Chapter 179 Brother Monkey

Meng Yuanyuan was very happy thinking about her thoughts alone, and then went back to the bedroom to rest.

She plans to take her mother to meet relatives and friends in Hangzhou in the past few days, and then see the scenery of Hangzhou, and then go to Southeast Asia together to relax and let her mother enjoy life together.

However, her mother was right to remind her that from now on she would have to have a facial spa, bodybuilding classes, and yoga classes every other day. She had to keep herself beautiful all the time, so as not to be disliked by others.

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Li Zhuo stayed with Xie Wenxi for two days, and then he received the visa and other information for Indonesia from his secretary.

So, on the morning of the third day, he made an appointment with Didi and asked Didi to take him to Xiaoshan Airport with a suitcase.

I won’t drive this time. In the past, I parked for several days at a time and the parking fees were quite high.

There are no direct flights from Hangzhou to Surabaya, but it’s okay. Jakarta is not far from Surabaya. Both are on the island of Java, and it’s easy to get there by plane or train.

The distance from Hangzhou to Jakarta is nearly 5,000 kilometers, which is still quite far.

Fortunately, his secretary helped him buy a first-class seat to Jakarta, Indonesia.

The plane was operated by China Southern Airlines, and the service was pretty good. The food in the first-class cabin was also good, and because of the long distance, in addition to providing two meals, they also distributed snacks several times.

The staple food of one meal is noodles with chicken and fir oil, which tastes delicious. The staple food of another meal is rice, but it is paired with Beijing onion and fish, which is also delicious.

The flight attendant was very attentive and provided blankets and other items. Li Zhuo ate and slept as usual, and it took about 7 hours before he successfully arrived in Jakarta from Hangzhou.

After getting off the plane, at the exit of the hatch, he saw a greeter from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel waiting for him holding a sign with his name on it.

It is more comfortable to stay in a global chain hotel like this when you are away from home. They can help you check in, which is more convenient.

This staff member was of Chinese descent, and although his Chinese was not very fluent, it was enough. He shook hands with him politely, then helped him pull his suitcase and went straight to the parking lot.

There, Li Zhuo got on the welcome car sent by the hotel and went straight to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

The distance to the hotel is very short, the straight-line distance is only 7.7 kilometers, and the car he was in arrived at the hotel in a short time.

The secretary helped him book an Oriental king-size bed suite with an area of ​​140 square meters. The price plus tax is 16.5 million Indonesian rupiah per night, which is equivalent to about 7,500 RMB per night.

Li Zhuo went in and took a look at the room. He felt that it was still very tidy. Only the carpets in the living room and bedroom had a bit of an Islamic style. The rest were standard modern facilities.

This hotel has an attached Chinese restaurant called Lai Fung.

After checking in, Li Zhuo walked to this Chinese restaurant for dinner.

A Chinese waiter came over and greeted him in Chinese.

After Li Zhuo sat down, he looked at the menu handed over by the waiter and felt that the Chinese food here should be authentic, not improved. The price is too expensive, and there is a service fee.

But that’s normal. It’s rare to be able to eat authentic Cantonese food in Jakarta.

Li Zhuo ordered nostalgic imperial roast duck, abalone and sea cucumber, orange peel beef, shrimp dumplings, and fried rice noodles.

The dishes are coming one after another, but the taste is a bit hard to describe.

The roast duck is relatively average, obviously inferior to the craftsmanship in Imperial Capital, and even worse than the craftsmanship of any roast duck restaurant on the roadside in China.

The dishes are all relatively sweet, especially the beef with orange peel, which is not very appetizing.

But the shrimp dumplings were good. After eating, he paid the bill and then took a walk near the hotel.

Jakarta is the largest city in Southeast Asia with a population of over 10 million. It is a seaport city that was famous for its spices and pepper production hundreds of years ago. Overseas Chinese call it Coconut City.

Historically, it has been a place where different cultures met. Chinese culture, Indian culture, Arab culture, and Dutch culture all had an impact on it.

Of course, it is also explained from the side that it has been colonized many times in history, especially because of spices, and was successively occupied by powers such as Portugal and the Netherlands.

Li Zhuo walked around here and unexpectedly saw many Wuling Hongguang cars.

This car is very familiar to Li Zhuo. His father had one before. Seeing them in foreign countries shows that domestically produced cars are rising rapidly.

In addition, prosperity and poverty here are closely combined. The street he walked on was very prosperous and modern, but if you turned a corner and walked around, you could see a large number of low-rise tiled houses mixed with high-rise buildings.

between.

It is really poor. The alleys are only four or five steps wide, no one cleans up the garbage, and the nearby river water is seriously polluted.

It feels like a small Chinese city in the 1990s, which is still not developing well. It is said that Indonesians are generally lazy and therefore relatively poor, but they are willing to be poor and do not want to change, which is really hard to understand.

Li Zhuo took a walk and went back to the hotel without daring to go too far.

Early the next morning, he checked out of the room and took the hotel's courtesy car to the airport.

The distance from Jakarta to Surabaya is about 800 kilometers, and it takes about an hour by plane.

The name of the city Surabaya is very unique. There is a county called Surabaya in China. It is said that this was the name given by the Chinese. In order to commemorate the Sizhou Buddha, the Chinese who came from afar built a Surabaya temple, which gradually evolved into the name of the city.

After getting off the plane, Li Zhuo walked out of the station and took a taxi.

The driver has a Chinese face, speaks pretty good Chinese, and speaks Mandarin, so the two of them can communicate easily.

The two chatted for a while, and the Chinese explained that he knew he was Chinese, but he only remembered that his ancestor's surname was Chen, and he probably came from southern Fujian. It had been two or three hundred years since his ancestors came here.

He said that in the 1950s, in order to avoid persecution by the locals, his grandfather registered himself as a Batavian. After two or three generations, he basically could no longer speak Chinese. He himself also learned Chinese by himself because the Celestial Empire became stronger:

"I know that I am of Chinese descent, and more and more mainlanders are coming to do business, which is also an opportunity for me. When I went to the Chinese class, I told myself that it would be too shameful if I couldn't even learn the words of my ancestors.

It turned out that I did learn quickly, maybe this is engraved in my genes."

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Li Zhuo asked:

"Is this kind of ethnic change common in Indonesia?"

"There are so many. There was a time in history when the government did not allow Chinese people to use Chinese names. There should be 10 to 20 million Chinese in Indonesia, but when the official ethnic registration was made, it showed that there were only 2 million, and most of them changed their ethnic groups to other ethnic groups..."<

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"Is Indonesia still xenophobic towards Chinese people now?" Li Zhuo asked again. This is a question that ordinary people are concerned about.

"There is still some xenophobia. Many of them are brainless and unmotivated. They are generally poor because the Chinese are hard-working and all the money belongs to the Chinese. For example, there are about 500,000 Chinese in the city of Surabaya, only accounting for the total number of Chinese.

1/7 of the population, but 80% of the local economic industry and wealth are in the hands of the Chinese..."

In terms of business and economic capabilities, the Chinese are much better than the locals.

He continued:

"However, if you really interact with the locals, you will find that most of the locals are actually docile and honest, and they are also very kind to others. The bad ones are not these people, but the politicians with ulterior motives who persecute the Chinese by inciting national sentiments.

Now that China is strong, they no longer dare..."

Li Zhuo chatted with him, left his contact information, and agreed to use his car to travel here.

After arriving at the Marriott Hotel in the city, Li Zhuo checked in and booked a 128-square-meter executive suite. The price including tax was 4.84 million Indonesian rupiah, about 2,200 yuan.

After that, Li Zhuo continued to ride in Mr. Chen's car and started driving around in the name of traveling.

We went to Genlanghi Beach, Dutch Castle, and then Zhenghe Mosque.

This mosque is not big, and in the Chinese residential area, it is generally wealthier than other places.

The mosque is in Chinese style, but not many people may know that Zheng He’s surname is actually Ma.

Li Zhuo went in to take a look and found that many envoys and celebrities had left messages in the temple.

After coming out, Li Zhuo asked Brother Chen to drive him out of the city and headed straight to the northeast in the name of wanting to see life in the countryside.

After leaving the suburbs and driving the car on the dirt road for another two or three kilometers, Li Zhuo sensed the locked monkey.

Li Zhuo directed the taxi to finally stop outside a planting farm, where Li Zhuo saw the monkey through the fence.

It was tied to a tree and was standing up and looking at them curiously.

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