Me and Grace, my co-worker were in the school and I heard firecrackers outside. I asked her why are they doing this in the morning. She said it must be a wedding so I convinced her to go see if I can get to see the bride and the groom. We find the place by tracking down the sound but the couple already went inside.
Grace is ready to leave but I want her to ask the personnel if we can go into this fancy restaurant to see the couple. She hesitates like any normal person would and does not ask.While I am lingering, a man approaches us and wants to talk to me in Chinese. Grace translates. He asks where I am from, tells me I'm beautiful, wants to take a picture with me.
After, he invites us inside, we go in as I wanted to see the couple and leave. Well leaving was not that easy. He insists we sit down. So I'm sitting in shorts and a shirt with a panda on it in a super fancy restaurant amongst a table filled with businessmen talking to this man with Grace's help.
Through our conversation, we find out he is very rich and his family is very influential in Beijing. He shows us pictures of him with all these politically powerful men in China, including a picture of his family with Chairman Hu which is the current ruler of China.
He invites me to dinner saying he wants to show me traditional Chinese food. We finally manage to leave and get back to work.
I just wish I could somehow get those pictures from the wedding that the man took. The couple was very cute and young.
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