Chapter 1290 Flowers! Mr. Bao Is Here!

Before he even opened his eyes, Zhou Chen felt a wave of heat coming over him, and then someone patted him on the back of his head.

"It's time to work, get up quickly."

Zhou Chen opened his eyes reflexively, but he didn't have any overreaction. Instead, he quickly turned his eyes and glanced around.

After just a few glances, he knew roughly where he was now.

I saw a lot of people standing around, most of them men wearing white chef uniforms. The air was filled with the smell of oil smoke, various seasonings, gas and sewerage.

This is the kitchen, and it's not an ordinary kitchen. It's a big place and there are many chefs. It must be the back chef of a hotel, and it's not that kind of small restaurant, but the back chef of a hotel of a certain size.

But looking at the relatively "backward" kitchen supplies in the kitchen, it is not difficult to guess that they are most likely from a relatively backward era, at least many years behind the real world.

The next moment, a familiar feeling hit him, and a large number of memories appeared in his mind, making him close his eyes involuntarily.

Before he could sort out his memory, the voice just now sounded again.

"Achen, what's wrong with you? You don't look well. Could it be that you're sick?"

The same voice, if the tone of slapping Zhou Chen on the back of the head just now was rough, then the tone of caring about Zhou Chen now was very nervous.

Zhou Chen deliberately covered his head and said, "It's okay. I just woke up suddenly. I'm a little confused and my head is a little dizzy. I'll sit down for a while."

Hearing Zhou Chen say it was okay, the greasy middle-aged chef wearing chef's uniform next to him breathed a sigh of relief, but then his expression turned stern.

"I asked you to come to work, not to sleep. Didn't you have a good rest last night? Could it be that your kid couldn't stop eating shit and went gambling again?"

Zhou Chen slowly absorbed the memory, and he already knew who the middle-aged chef was talking to him.

"No, uncle, I live with you every day. How can I have time to gamble? Just let me rest for two minutes and I will be fine soon."

The uncle stopped scolding him and just told him: "If you have nothing to do, get up quickly. The landlady will come later. If she sees you being lazy, she will scold you again. Don't blame your uncle for not speaking up for you."

Although my uncle is gone, it is impossible to be really quiet in the back kitchen. The sounds of clinking pots and pans, the sound of water flowing, and noises come and go.

Fortunately, Zhou Chen was very adaptable and ignored the noise and quickly sorted out his memory.

Soon, he figured out his current identity and the background of the world he traveled through.

Where he is now is Shanghai in 1991. He is a chef in the back kitchen of a restaurant called Jin Meilin on Huanghe Road. He has been working there for two and a half years. From the beginning as an apprentice, he can now learn some simple dishes.

His name is still Zhou Chen, his ancestral home is Sushi, not far from Shanghai, he is twenty-nine years old this year, and his zodiac sign is Tiger.

He was still himself, but his original experience made Zhou Chen frown.

Originally, Zhou's family was a happy family with a small amount of assets in Su City, but his predecessor contracted a gambling problem. Over the past few years, not only the family fortune was gone, but his father also passed away. In the end, his mother took him to seek refuge. My uncle is a chef in Shanghai.

However, his mother did not support him for long and passed away a year after arriving in Shanghai. After that, he followed his mother's last wish and learned to cook from his uncle.

"Gambling ghosts really deserve to die."

This memory made Zhou Chen's face turn cold. Gamblers are definitely one of the people he hates most, and they can really destroy people's lives.

Speaking of which, this is also the second time he has traveled through time as a gambler. The last time he traveled through time was He Fei. That guy was not a person in the plot. He really deserved the crime for killing his wife and unborn child. Wan Shi is even more disgusting and vicious than his current predecessor.

His uncle's name is Huang Degui, he is Jin Meilin's old chef. He is forty-three years old and he is also a hard-working man. His wife died young, leaving only him and his son to depend on each other.

Huang Degui was fat and fierce, but he was really kind to Zhou Chen, his nephew. When his sister brought Zhou Chen to seek refuge with him, although he himself was not doing well, he still took in the mother and son without hesitation, and After his sister passed away, he also took on the responsibility of taking care of Zhou Chen and taught Zhou Chen how to cook.

Even though the social status of a chef is not high, it is actually a craft job. It is difficult to achieve success if no one takes you in.

Therefore, Huang Degui is able to teach his nephew how to cook, and he can definitely be regarded as a good uncle who values ​​​​love and justice.

Although Zhou Chen is twenty-nine years old, Huang Degui has always watched over him. The main reason is naturally that he is afraid that he will gamble again.

It was precisely because of Huang Degui's supervision that his predecessor was able to learn to cook with peace of mind and did not embark on the road of no return from gambling.

After receiving the memories, Zhou Chen had to admit that Huang Degui was really a good uncle and a bachelor. It was not easy to not only support his young son, but also look after a giant baby.

I sighed in my heart, but from the memory I obtained, I couldn't tell which movie and TV series I had traveled to, so I still had to use system tasks.

Zhou Chen quickly communicated with the system.

"System, open the panel!"

Host: Zhou Chen

Attributes

Strength: 48

Constitution: 50

Spirit: 44

Agility: 43

Points remaining: 10

Skill;

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Nine out of ten bets will result in loss: After the host activates this skill, if the host participates in any form of gambling activities, he will definitely lose nine bets in a row, and he will definitely win in the last bet.

Third Floor Killer: When the host jumps from the third floor (regular floor), he will definitely not be seriously injured, but will only sprain his feet at most.

thing;

Shuttle card × 11; plot card × 3; reopen card × 1; wealth conversion card × 1; world card × 1, luck card × 1;

Title: Palace Transformation Master, Charity Master.

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Task:

Ten-year Agreement: Complete the ten-year agreement between Xuezhi (Beidi) and Abao, and prevent her from losing face.

Side missions:

Angel investor: Invest and help Ms. Wang open a foreign trade company.

A main mission and a side mission.

A total of three and a half names appeared in the mission. According to the inertia of the system, these three people must be the protagonists of the current world, or important supporting roles.

A Bao, Xuezhi (Beidi), Miss Wang.

Zhou Chen quickly recalled these names, but soon determined that this should be another movie and TV series that he had not seen.

Looks like plot cards are going to be used again.

He is used to being able to predict things in advance, and there are plenty of plot cards, so Zhou Chen has no intention of letting go.

But in this situation, it is obviously impossible for him to start understanding the plot immediately. Since he has traveled to this world, he still has to play his current role for the time being.

"Achen, are you feeling better? We're about to start loading guests. Let's get ready as soon as we're ready."

Uncle Huang Degui came over to remind Zhou Chen again. Zhou Chen stood up and replied: "It's already fine."

Huang Degui felt relieved when he saw that Zhou Chen looked normal and didn't look like something was wrong. However, the hotel was about to serve guests, so he didn't care to say anything more.

"Get ready first. Several private rooms have been booked for today. You will definitely be busy tonight. Don't let the landlady catch you slacking off, otherwise her voice will kill you."

In 1991, the major hotels on Huanghe Road were not the most expensive hotels in Shanghai, but they were definitely one of the busiest hotel gathering places.

Huanghe Road, a street with a total length of more than 700 meters, has more than 100 restaurants, large and small, including many large ones. Coming to the restaurants on Huanghe Road is not just for eating, but also for... It's for business, which leads to a huge flow of people on Huanghe Road, with an endless stream of businessmen.

Jin Meilin, where Zhou Chen works, is also a large hotel on Huanghe Road. Jin Meilin has been open for many years and is definitely one of the oldest restaurants on Huanghe Road.

Although there are many restaurants on the Yellow River Road, many are eliminated every year, even big hotels are no exception. Every year you will find that many familiar hotel names suddenly disappear and are replaced by new hotel names.

The most stable restaurant on the Yellow River Road is undoubtedly the Red Heron, and the one with the best business, best location, and largest space now is the Golden Phoenix.

Although Jin Meilin is not as good as Red Heron and Golden Phoenix, it is still among the top five hotels on Huanghe Road.

The main reason why Jin Meilin is in his current position is the hotel proprietress Lu Meilin.

This woman is well-known on the Yellow River Road. Not only is she tough, but she is also very capable. She is supported by people on the road, so even on the chaotic Yellow River Road, she is the number one boss lady.

Zhou Chen has a deep impression on the proprietress Jin Meilin in his memory, because she has been trained a lot. Lu Meilin is the kind of person who, whenever she sees you not working seriously and not pleasing to her, she will immediately roar like a lion and become fierce. He can even scold you bloody and show no mercy at all.

However, Lu Meilin was very evil, but she was also very talkative and coaxing. Most of Jin Meilin's business was brought in through her. Under her management, the employees in the hotel seldom caused trouble.

On the other hand, Jin Meilin’s boss, Lu Meilin’s man, Boss Jin, is a pretty guy who doesn’t ask much about things. He looks really good, but his behavior is a bit effeminate. He rarely asks about things in the hotel. If he does, it’s definitely him. Short of money.

Zhou Chen held a spoon and stood next to his uncle Huang Degui, frowning slightly.

Although Jin Meilin is also a big hotel, the kitchen environment is really poor, and it is incomparable to the kitchens of big hotels twenty or thirty years later.

He didn't have any serious mysophobia, but he felt that he would never be able to stand being in such an environment for a long time.

But there is no time to understand the plot now, so he can only start doing his own job for the time being.

He had reason to wonder whether it was because he cooked a lot in Zeng Shaonen's world that the system assigned him as a chef in this world?

In fact, there is nothing wrong with being a chef. At least it can satisfy his appetite. But the problem is that Zhou Chen doesn't want to be a chef every day. Occasionally cooking is okay. He cooks and cooks in the kitchen every day, and cooks and cooks. He really couldn't stand dealing with ladles.

What's more, he is currently in a large hotel with good business. If he gets busy, he will definitely be busy.

Fortunately, Zhou Chen also cooked often in the previous world, and he still had memories, so cooperating with his uncle was smooth and smooth.

Huang Degui was very surprised: "Ah Chen, you performed well today and your cooking skills have improved."

"Really? That may be because he has enlightened himself." Zhou Chen replied casually.

Huang Degui laughed and scolded: "You are already thirty years old, and you are still smart. Just study hard. If you can work as a chef in a big hotel in the future, your life will be settled."

Zhou Chen didn't say anything. Working as a chef in a big hotel was not his goal. He first figured out the plot of the film and television world he was in, and then acted according to the mission. Unless the identity of a chef was necessary, he would definitely not work for long.

Even if this was only Shanghai in 1991, he had many ways to make money. He had ways to make both fast money and slow money.

Just when the kitchen was busy, a slightly fat, burly woman with curly hair and a wool coat suddenly appeared at the door of the kitchen.

"Oh, Old Huang, what are you two doing there? Hurry up and make two more copies of Farewell My Concubine."

Huang Degui shouted, "Got it, boss lady, make it now."

"Hurry up, don't keep the customers waiting, it will delay my business, I'll make you suffer; Old Chen, this old guy must have gone out to smoke again, smoking every day, a pack a night, no wonder his wife ran away with someone, smoke him to death..."

Lu Meilin left the kitchen cursing, she is just this mouth, who in Jin Meilin has not been scolded by her, not to mention Jin Meilin, even on Huanghe Road, she has scolded many people, Huanghe Road's bully Lu Meilin, it is not for nothing.

"Achen, Farewell My Concubine."

"Got it."

Zhou Chen started working at around five o'clock and was busy until around nine o'clock before he could take a break. It must be said that Jin Meilin's business at night is really good. Including the private rooms, there are at least thirty tables of guests in one night.

Zhou Chen followed Huang Degui to the alley behind the kitchen. Huang Degui took out a cigarette and handed it to Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen pushed it back and said, "From today on, I'm going to quit smoking."

As he said that, he stuffed the cigarette in his pocket into Huang Degui's hand, which made Huang Degui stunned.

"Quit smoking? Can you quit this thing?"

"As long as you want to quit, you can quit."

Huang Degui looked at his nephew in surprise. He didn't notice it just now, but now he suddenly realized that his nephew seemed different, and his eyes were different.

"Achen, you look a little strange today. Are you worried about something? Tell me. I'm your uncle and I'm here to help you."

Zhou Chen knew that although he inherited his memory, there would definitely be changes. It was normal for Huang Degui, who lived with him day and night, to find something different.

"Nothing, uncle, I was just thinking, do I really have to be a chef for the rest of my life?"

Huang Degui didn't care: "What's wrong with being a chef? You don't have to worry about food and drink, and the salary is not low. It's a stable job, isn't it? You're still not satisfied. What do you want to do? Are you going to gamble again?"

At this point, he suddenly looked alert and stared at Zhou Chen.

"Achen, you keep telling me, have you been itching to do something recently? Don't forget the oath you made in front of your mother's spirit tablet. If you gamble again in the future, you will never find a woman and you will have no descendants."

"Hiss!"

Zhou Chen took a breath. Although this oath was not made by him, he inherited everything now. This oath was too cruel. If you can't find a woman, you will have no descendants. How cruel must you be to dare to make such a poisonous oath.

There are gods above your head.

Although he has not encountered such a thing, he is also holding the attitude of believing it rather than not believing it. After all, there is even a system for traveling through the world of film and television. It is possible that there are really gods.

Originally, he still wanted to earn his first pot of gold by his gambling skills, but this oath made him a little discouraged.

He had used the skill of losing nine out of ten gambling before. It was indeed a magical skill and made money quickly. However, he had not used this skill much before except for earning the first pot of gold. If he used it more, he would become more dependent on it. He didn't want to become a gambler himself.

"Don't worry, uncle, I've sworn that I won't gamble again."

"Remember what you said, I promised your mother that I would take good care of you. You'll be thirty soon. Work hard, get married in the future, and live a peaceful life. It's better than anything else."

"Got it, uncle."

Zhou Chen didn't find Huang Degui annoying. He knew that he was really thinking about him, but he was no longer the same person he was before. He had to know the plot before making a judgment about his life.

After smoking, Huang Degui threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it with his shoe sole.

"Let's go, pack up and get ready to go home after work."

"Okay."

After going back to the kitchen to clean up, it was already past ten o'clock. Although the salary in a big restaurant was not low, it was really busy, and the working hours were relatively late. It was common for restaurants on Huanghe Road to open until nine or ten o'clock.

Just as Zhou Chen was about to go back, a short-haired girl wearing a Jin Meilin waitress's clothes ran over.

"Achen, I'm off tomorrow, shall we go to the Bund together?"

Zhou Chen looked at the short-haired girl, who was not ugly. As far as he could remember, she was a waitress at Jin Meilin, from another place. Everyone called her Xiao Jiangxi. She had not been at Jin Meilin for long, and she had a good impression of him.

However, Zhou Chen was not interested in her and coldly refused: "I have to go to work tomorrow."

After saying that, he left the restaurant and walked out the back door without paying attention to Xiao Jiangxi's disappointed expression.

As soon as he unlocked his bicycle, Huang Degui came over with a cigarette in his mouth and also unlocked the bicycle next to him.

"Achen, you are stupid. Although Xiao Jiangxi is from another place, she is not bad looking. Why don't you like her at all?"

Seeing that his nephew is about to turn 30, as an uncle, he is naturally anxious about his nephew's marriage.

He knows his nephew's situation best. He doesn't have his own house in Shanghai and lives with his father and his wife. Although he is a chef, he has only been working for a few years and has no savings at all.

It is impossible to find a local girl in Shanghai with such conditions, so he wants his nephew to be less picky and find a wife from another place.

"It's not that I don't like her. In my situation, what qualifications do I have to look down on others? It's just that I haven't considered these things yet. Making money is the top priority."

"I'm not asking you to get married right away. You can get along first."

"I don't want to."

Just after crossing over, Zhou Chen didn't have the heart to fall in love. Love without an economic foundation is not reliable. Besides, in which world has he lacked women?

In this situation, making money is more important than falling in love.

"You kid, you're really a worry."

Huang Degui couldn't do anything with Zhou Chen. He was just a chef with little education. It would be hard for him to teach Zhou Chen.

The two rode their bicycles and returned home one after the other.

Huang Degui has been a chef for more than 20 years. Apart from drinking and smoking, he has no other bad habits. In addition, there is no big consumption at home, so he can still save money. A few years ago, he bought a second-hand two-bedroom building on the second floor.

Huang Degui lives in one room, Zhou Chen and his cousin Huang Youcheng live in one room, with bunk beds, Zhou Chen sleeps on the lower bunk, and Huang Youcheng sleeps on the upper bunk.

Huang Youcheng is sixteen years old this year. He is in high school and lives on campus. He only comes back a few times a month. Usually, only Huang Degui and Zhou Chen live at home.

Zhou Chen simply washed himself and then went back to his room, but he did not rest. Instead, he lay on the lower bunk of the bunk bed and communicated with the system.

Without hesitation, he used the plot card directly.

"Flowering!"

After reading the introduction, Zhou Chen knew that Abao, who had appeared in the original mission, was the male protagonist of this TV series.

There are a total of 30 episodes, and he started watching from the first episode.

It took Zhou Chen only two days to finish watching all 30 episodes and understand the overall plot of the show.

The plot begins in early 1993, and he traveled through time in early 1991, which was almost two years before the official start of the plot.

The protagonist of this show is Bao Zong, that is, Abao, and the main plot revolves around the stock market.

Zhou Chen is naturally familiar with the stock market. When he traveled to the modern film and television world, he would pay attention to the stock market in most cases.

But he was more just to make money from the stock market. To be honest, he didn't have a good impression of the stock market, because the stock market is essentially a game of capital, a battlefield for capital to cut leeks, and retail investors are leeks.

Zhou Chen has also been a banker in the stock market, but in most cases he is a retail investor, but he is not the kind of leeks that are harvested, but a retail investor who makes money from the stock market.

He has the ability to foresee and foresee, and has a strong ability to calculate numbers. Even if he is not a banker and only a retail investor, he can make money from the stock market.

Moreover, he is not greedy and will not stare at a stock to make money, so even if he is a retail investor, he can be at ease in the stock market.

During this period, the domestic stock market had just started. Not to mention compared with foreign countries, even compared with Hong Kong, it was also very small. There were not many listed stocks in total, and the number of stockholders at this time was not large.

A Bao in Fanhua made his fortune by relying on stocks and foreign trade. Step by step, he became Bao Zong in everyone's mouth, and also became a star and focus on the Yellow River Road.

There is indeed Bao Zong in my memory. Although Bao Zong is also a celebrity on the Yellow River Road now, there is still a gap compared to two years later.

Bao Zong is doing well in foreign trade now, but he has not yet fully developed his stocks, and his net worth is limited. All his net worth added up, there is only one or two million in cash at most.

Although there were relatively few households with a ten-thousand-yuan income in this period, and households with a million yuan were even rarer, there was still a big gap between Bao Zong at this time and the tens of millions he could use to venture into the stock market two years later.

After watching the whole drama, Zhou Chen was a little confused when he looked back at the two tasks.

The targets of these two tasks were both related to A Bao, but they were women that A Bao had never gotten.

After knowing the plot, Zhou Chen did not rush to take action. In Shanghai in 1991, if you didn't gamble, you really needed to plan well to make enough first pot of gold.

He was not in a hurry to quit Jin Meilin's chef job. After all, a salary of several hundred yuan was definitely a high salary even in Shanghai at that time.

The average salary in Shanghai at that time should not exceed three hundred yuan, and his salary had doubled, which was really a lot, and he was only a junior chef. Senior chefs like his uncle could get more than one thousand a month, and sometimes even more.

Jin Meilin's boss Lu Meilin has a way of doing business and attracting customers, but she is a bit too calculating. In layman's terms, she is stingy.

A few hundred yuan a month is not low for ordinary people, but for Zhou Chen, it is still too low.

In such an era of rapid development, he would definitely not be willing to live such a mediocre life. He could live a hard life, but that didn't mean he was willing to live a hard life.

What's more, he still has two system tasks. Although these two tasks do not mention money, there is a hint in every word that they cannot be completed without money.

With less than two years left before the plot begins, he will naturally rise quickly.

When it comes to the most positive restaurant proprietresses on the Yellow River Road, Lu Meilin is definitely one of them. She stands at the door of the hotel early every noon and afternoon, greeting acquaintances and guests coming and going, with the inseparable words "Come and eat." ah'……

But opening a restaurant and being the boss lady, especially on Yellow River Road, is still very useful. At least Jin Meilin's business is very good.

"Oh, isn't this Ah Chen? What's going on? My hair style has been changed. My energy and energy are different. I've become more handsome."

Jin Meilin was looking for his potential guests when he suddenly saw Zhou Chen approaching. He was stunned for a moment, and then started making a fuss.

Compared with yesterday, Zhou Chen has indeed changed a lot. His original messy hair style has been shaved into a crew cut. The clothes he wears have not changed much, but when his hair style changes, it seems that his whole person's energy and energy are different. Not only do I look younger, but I also feel more energetic.

The most important thing is that the facial features and face look really handsome.

Zhou Chen's expression remained unchanged and he replied calmly: "I'm just a chef, I can't say I'm handsome, but the boss lady looks even more beautiful today."

"Oh, not only have you become more handsome, but your little mouth has also become sweeter. No wonder little Jiangxi always hangs around you. It's quite cool."

Zhou Chen didn't want to talk more about this topic.

"Madam boss, I'm going to work in the kitchen first."

Jin Meilin just lamented that Zhou Chen remained unchanged and had little to do with her, let alone her business.

"Go on, go on, do your job well, and I will give you a salary increase when you are done."

This is just a polite remark. The boss and the wife’s flattery cannot be taken seriously.

As soon as Zhou Chen walked into the hotel, Xiao Jiangxi leaned over.

"Achen, you got a haircut. You look more energetic now. I think you are really underestimating your talents as a cook."

Zhou Chen said with a smile: "Really? I think you are a talentless waiter. You have the potential to become a boss lady."

After watching the plot of "Flowers", he naturally knows what kind of person Xiao Jiangxi is. He wants to be the boss's wife, even if he has to sacrifice himself, he still wants to be the boss's wife.

It was just a terrible fall in the end, but the narration in the final plot also explained that Xiao Jiangxi opened a restaurant with her two sisters and became the proprietress, which can be regarded as fulfilling her wish.

Xiao Jiangxi's behavior in the play is very unpleasant, and can even be said to be despicable, but Zhou Chen has no dislike for her because she is just a passerby to him.

Since he is a passerby, it is natural that he cannot talk about likes and dislikes.

Xiao Jiangxi looked happy: "Really, Ah Chen, do you really think I can be the boss's wife?"

Looking at little Jiangxi with a look of expectation and longing, Zhou Chen smiled and nodded: "Really."

It's just a sentence, not to mention that the current little Jiangxi has not turned into what it was in the plot.

Zhou Chen didn't chat much with her. When he came to the kitchen, Huang Degui also praised Zhou Chen's new hairstyle.

"Achen, I don't have any cigarettes. Go and buy two packs of gold leaves for me."

He was about to give Zhou Chen money, but Zhou Chen pushed him back.

"Okay, uncle, it's just two packs of cigarettes, what more money can I give you?"

Without waiting for Huang Degui to say anything, he went out to buy cigarettes. Huang Degui looked at Zhou Chen's back and smiled happily.

In fact, there are several cigarette shops on Huanghe Road, but Zhou Chen did not go elsewhere, but went directly to the cigarette kiosk next to Golden Phoenix opposite.

Jing Xiu, who sells cigarettes on the Yellow River Road, is also a very interesting person in the plot. If Zhou Chen wants to give an evaluation, that is it.

Ordinary people who are sober in the world!

Although he appears to be somewhat advanced in the plot, in essence he is just an ordinary person who can speak well and see the essence of many things clearly. But if you want to say how capable he is and what kind of unknown eminent monk he is, then it is absolutely too much. Gao looked at it.

So Zhou Chen felt that he was the kind of sober person who could see himself clearly and had extraordinary eyesight.

Well, we should also add a little bit of inquiring. After all, if you want to ask who is the most well-informed on the Yellow River Road, Jingxiu is definitely the one.

Another point is that Jingxiu's interpersonal relationships are very good. The protagonists and supporting actors in the distance all have a good relationship with him. Later, Miss Wang was able to put a luxury car worth two million at his place, which is enough to prove that Jingxiu is a very good person. The character is still good.

"Two packets of gold leaves."

Jing Xiu skillfully took two packs of cigarettes and handed them over. When he saw Zhou Chen, he was slightly surprised.

"Oh, Ah Chen, change your hairstyle."

Zhou Chen would often come to him to buy cigarettes before. After going back and forth, the two of them were naturally familiar with each other. It would be no problem to say hello and chat for a few words.

"Um."

Zhou Chen handed over the money, then took Jing Xiu's change. Just as he was about to speak, an excited cheer suddenly sounded on Huanghe Road.

"Mr. Bao, Mr. Bao is here! Mr. Bao is here!"

The author is not from Shanghai, so please forgive me if the dialogue does not conform to Shanghai dialect!