It was still early in the modern time and space, and Mo Yang first took a shower and sat in the living room wearing flower shorts, watching TV news. He has now gradually adapted to the state of living on both sides, but after living on one side for a long time, there is still a feeling of being in a different world.
Although it's not necessary to run to a bustling place like the first time to wake oneself up, there still needs to be an adaptation period.
Muyang's choice was to watch TV news.
Pick up a bottle of beer, drink half a can in one gulp, and watch the lively world on the news. So many big national events happen every day. In the past, Mu Yang absolutely watched it as entertainment, but now it seems that watching the news is not bad either. At least the vision has been broadened, and I won't be out of touch with this era.
Muyang thinks that Xinwen Lianbo is really a good thing.
Two cans of beer down, lying in bed rolling around, sleeping comfortably is a kind of enjoyment.
The next day, Mu Yang rode his bicycle to school for class, he was a good student after all.
In the evening when he returned to his dormitory, Mu Yang heard a piece of news.
"Are you going on a trip for Labour Day? Don't you want to go back home?" Mu Yang asked curiously.
"What's the point of going home? There's only one day off in total, and if you count the weekend, it's just three days. The whole holiday was spent on the road." Peng Cheng said.
Mu Yang felt silly for asking and said: "Then what's your plan?"
Zhu Wanli came up and hugged Mu Yang's shoulder, saying: "May 1st is on a Friday, just in time to combine with the weekend, three days off together, we can go somewhere farther away to play. Over the weekend, our group of people discussed it and planned to go to the grasslands to have some fun. Now it's all up to you, if you come along, our dormitory will be complete."
"Have you guys been to the grasslands?"
"No," said Zhou Feng, "none of us have been there before, so we're going."
"But it's only May 1st now, the grassland is colder than Beijing, and the grass hasn't even grown yet, at most just sprouted, with some dandelions or something, what are you guys looking at?" Murong said.
"Does it matter? Is going to the prairie just about looking at grass? We're just taking our girlfriends out to have fun, whether there's more or less grass is something the herders care about, what does it have to do with us?" Zhou Feng's reason was so powerful that Mu Yang was left speechless.
It's also a good idea to go to the grassland, there are fewer people now, avoiding the crowded domestic scenic spots during the Labor Day holiday, and it's not bad to avoid squeezing with others.
"Are you bringing your girlfriend along?" Mu Yang asked.
"Of course, otherwise a few foolish old men would have nothing to do, anyway you now also have a girlfriend, no need to envy us anymore." Zhu Wanli said with a smile.
"Where did I get a girlfriend from?" Murong said.
"What about that Japanese girl? Isn't she your girlfriend?" Zhou Feng asked.
"That's not true." Murong Yang shook his head.
"Anyway, no matter what, don't say you're not going, or we'll be heartbroken."
"Go, why don't you go." Muyang directly agreed.
"Right, how are we going?" asked Mu Yang.
"Of course we're going with a tour group. What else can we do? We don't have a car, so we can't go on a self-driving tour." Zhou Feng said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"That's not necessarily the case, I think of a way to get a bigger car, we can all fit in one car and drive ourselves there, it will be more convenient." Murong said after some thought.
He knew how torturous it was to travel with a tour group. It wasn't relaxing, but rather suffering. Playing on his own was more comfortable.
"We three all have family members, that's 7 people. A general 7-seater can squeeze a bit, of course, a 12-seater Jinbei is better." Zhu Wanli said after counting the number of people.
"No problem, let's make it more comfortable. Since we're driving ourselves, let's not wait until May 1st to depart, let's book our accommodations in advance and leave directly on the evening of the 30th, I estimate we'll arrive by night." As he said this, Mu Yang suddenly asked: "By the way, which grassland are you guys going to play at?"
"Ah, the grassland on the dam."
"Which dam?" Muyang continued to ask.
"How can it still be divided?" several people asked curiously.
"Of course, the area from 95 kilometers north of Zhangjiakou to 95 kilometers north of Chengde is collectively referred to as the Bashang region. The tourist areas are further divided into Fengning Bashang, Mulan Weichang Bashang, Zhangbei Bashang and Guyuan Bashang."
"A few people really didn't think so carefully, Zhou Feng said carelessly: "It seems that you are the most familiar with it. Where is fun, you should know, you say where to go and we will go there, anyway, you drive."
Mu Yang was speechless.
"Okay, since time is tight, let's choose the nearest place to enter the dam, so let's go to Fengning Dam Grassland. It's also called the First Grassland in Northern Beijing, located in the northwest of Fengning Manchu Autonomous County, Hebei Province, less than 300 kilometers from Beijing City, and it's the closest natural grassland to Beijing City."
"How is it there?"
"Don't worry, it's all the same, absolutely fun."
At noon, Muyang called his uncle Mu Shouxin to see if he could borrow a car. If not, he would consider renting one directly.
The phone connected, and Mu Yang said: "Second Uncle, I'm Xiao Yang."
"I knew it was you, I saved your number. How did you think of calling me today?" Uncle Mu Yang said with a smile over the phone.
"May I borrow your car?"
"What kind of car?"
"There are more seats, our dormitory is planning to travel together with girlfriends, so we need a more spacious one. A 12-seat Jinbei would be fine." Mu Yang was still quite rude to his uncle.
"Okay, so where are you guys going to play?"
Fengning Grassland
"Who is driving?"
"I'm going."
"I'll just arrange a driver for you directly, don't drive yourself, driving a big car is tiring, let's have fun to the fullest." Mu Shou Xin said decisively.
"Don't let me hold up your company's business." Murong asked awkwardly, which was equivalent to borrowing both the car and the person.
"If the company is delayed because of one driver, then I don't need to drive. By the way, do you have enough money? Do you want Uncle Er to transfer some to you?" Mu Shouxin asked with concern.
"No need, I have money, Second Uncle, then it's settled, won't bother you anymore, goodbye."
"Alright, I'll ask the driver to find you later. You two can discuss the time yourselves. By the way, when we have time, let's sit down and have a meal together, or come over to my place and my wife will cook for you."
"No problem, I'll come find you when I have time." Murong said and hung up the phone.
Mu Shouxin hung up the phone and smiled slightly. As for his nephew, Mu Shouxin wasn't very close to him in the past. When Mu Yang was young, Mu Shouxin was serving in the army, and when Mu Yang's mother passed away, the kid was only 10 years old, and he himself had just returned from the military not long ago. Later on, they didn't have many opportunities to meet up either.
Muyang's grandparents passed away early, and Muyang Shouxin was 6 years younger than Muyang's father, Muyang Shouli. Although it can't be said that the elder brother brought him up, this elder brother still took good care of him.
After his troops were transferred, he started from scratch and founded a foreign trade import and export company. With the connections he had accumulated, he worked hard to build up the company, which eventually grew to be moderately sized with assets worth hundreds of millions.
Because the Mu family had few people, they would gather together to have a meal during the New Year and festivals. Gradually, Mu Shou Xin became interested in this nephew of his, discovering that he was a very persistent child who would bravely charge forward without retreating when trying to achieve something. Mu Shou Xin admired this personality trait of his.
He has a son and a daughter, his daughter is 15 years old, and his son is only 8 years old. What he wants most is to cultivate his children into people with independent thinking personalities, but now it seems that the success rate is not high, and most of the children in today's society lack this kind of personality.
When Mu Yang grew up, this uncle had dinner with Mu Yang alone several times and found that his thoughts and actions were more mature than those of the same age. Although the two people are in their teens, they can talk to each other, and slowly the two become friends.
Anyway, Mu Shu Xin thinks of him as a friend rather than an uncle and nephew, which is also an interesting relationship.
Mu Shouxin picked up the phone on the table and dialed his driver's number, instructing him to arrange a car and driver for Mu Yang, and telling him to wait for further instructions from Mu Yang.
It wasn't long before Muyang received a call from the driver. The two agreed on a time and decided that the driver would come to Beiwai on Friday evening to pick them up.
It was Friday morning when Muyang received a call from the Hanhai Auction Company, informing him that the auction would be held this morning and he could attend as an observer by showing his ID.
This morning there were no classes, but this afternoon there are two classes, so Muyang specially dressed up and took a taxi to the Hanhai Auction House at 08 Xili Factory East Street.
The decoration style is very modern. Muyang showed his ID at the security checkpoint and walked in directly. He was only there to observe the seating, without a placard qualification.
Participating in an auction usually requires advance procedures and many processes. The auction company will organize a viewing at a specific time. After viewing the goods, if you decide to participate in this batch of auctions, you first need to provide relevant qualification documents to the auction company and wait for their review. After passing the review, you need to register with the auction company while paying a certain amount of deposit. After confirming the deposit, the auction company will issue a bidding number plate, at which point you can participate in the auction.
But for someone like Mu Yang who came in like this, they could only sit on the sidelines and watch the commotion.
However, he also has no interest in collecting antiques. With his time-traveling system, what kind of antique can't he get? Although he can't take them out at will, it's still okay to look at and play with them for a while. As for whether they're genuine or not, Mo Yang thinks that antiques are just something to have fun with - as long as you like them, they're good stuff; if you don't like them, then they're just old junk.
The auction is not as imagined by Mu Yang, where people rush to bid and buy as soon as an item comes out. Most of these antique buyers are investing, so they are mostly rational and won't irrationally raise prices to grab a good item, if that's the case, it's not an investment, but showing off.