Another breakfast of some biscuits, which made it the first time since December last year I've actually had breakfast two days in a row in China. With no plans for the day I boringly had a bowl of pao mian as I didn't really feel like going out. This blasted cough is not going away and every few days or so it gets so bad I vomit. I was worried that that might happen outside.
Annoyingly, the solicitors have emailed me three documents that need to be signed by me as I'm LPA for my dad now and effectively selling his house. Given that it's 2025 you'd think an electronic signature would suffice but no, this is house-selling and they need wet ones. I'd already gone and printed them out but, reckoned it would be a good idea to get them sent back asap. So, when Jiuma and my "grand daughter" Tan Shiyun unexpectedly turned up I asked the latter if she wanted to go out with me to find a post office. Yeah, she wanted to go out with "foreign" gong gong, and I told her I wasn't foreign so we argued about it till we got on the dian dong che.
I drove to the place we sent the hover boards back from at great expense all those years ago, and filled in a big EMS envelope with Chinese and English address that took a good 15 minutes to write. Only when getting to the counter did I think to ask how long it would take. "Up to two weeks". Oh, I'm due back on the 12th, but I'm secretly thinking of adding another week. Even if I can push it back till 20th there would be no point in wasting 300+ kuai on something that might arrive after me. The woman understood, and advised me to contact another company on WeiXin that may be able to sort something out quicker. I thanked her for her honesty and found Shiyun who was now playing outside in preparation to get back. Outside, two men were vehemently arguing, as it appeared one had driven his dian dong che into the other's van and damaged the wing mirror, and the latter wanted recompense. This had actually been going on since we arrived over 20 minutes ago. I literally can't remember the last time I heard an argument in public Pingguo (except maybe Tan and me).
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| Tan Shiyun making attempting to send contracts abroad a more interesting experience |
Back home, I contacted the other company, and after a slow conversation, realised this one wouldn't be any quicker. I resolved to talk to Li Kun about it as he would know the coup.
Indeed, he pinged me at tea time to go to his later that evening for a drink. I wasn't sure I'd be up to it but said I should be able to. I still didn't fancy going out though so ended up eating a few mini brown boiled eggs, wondering if they were actually quail eggs, which used to be my go-to snack in previous months.
Feeling "ok", I got to Li Kun's at 9.30pm and he'd ordered bbq and I realised despite having three meals today, they were all pretty small and I was now pretty hungry, so happily help him and some friends get through them. Among the friends was the owner of Bar 3000, where we'd been a week ago. I guess she was closed today, or business was slow. Likely the former as we're still well into Chinese New Year here and many people are out of town. I ended up managing a few beers and not being sick, until we called it a night at an earlyish 1.30am considering he wasn't working tomorrow. Back home had another chat with the lads for another hour as you do.
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| Bar 3000° boss or owner or manager on the left, someone else, Li Kun for what has become my default evening hang-out place |
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