Chapter 773: 773

Yuan Zhou wasn’t happy with his lunch that noon . He had spent more than 100RMB on this meal . Compared with his 100,000RMB culinary fund, however, it was simply a drop in the ocean .

“It’s definitely because I didn’t do it the right way,” Yuan Zhou muttered to himself . After all, he had heard other customers spoke about it twice, saying that Thai food was quite delicious .

Yuan Zhou knew that he was very strict about food . It might be very delicious, just not as delicious as he imagined . Nevertheless, it wasn’t terrible . Therefore, Yuan Zhou thought for a while and questioned if he had gone to the wrong place .

He managed to calm down . After all, Yuan Zhou had booked an elephant ride from his hotel in the afternoon . The stingy system refused to pay the bill for him even if he gave the excuse, saying that only by being in a good mood he could taste the delicacies better . Riding an elephant was the perfect way to make him feel better .

He had originally wanted to discuss with the system, but Yuan Zhou’s words failed entirely to attract any attention and the system just stayed silent . Therefore, Yuan Zhou had no choice but to pay the bill by himself . 80RMB per person had probably made Yuan Zhou lose his good mood costing 80RMB .

It didn’t matter that he didn’t speak Thai . The hotel sent him straight to the destination with a direct bus and would come to drive him back one hour later . Half an hour later, Yuan Zhou arrived at the place where he had planned to come . He walked around for a while and then found something .

“This area seems to be full of recreational activities . ” Yuan Zhou walked downwards along the slope .

The next moment, Yuan Zhou smelled the familiar flavor of spices . That’s right . There was a restaurant serving Thai food at the side of the slope . Furthermore, the activities here weren’t found in a traditional amusement park, either . The recreational activities included go-karting, shooting, circus show, and riding elephants .

These activities were fairly interesting . Yuan Zhou passed through the place for go-karting and walked further inward before he smelled the odor . It was said by the hotel receptionist that there were 7 or 8 elephants raised here so, of course, there was a bad odor . After all, the feces of these elephants smelled quite bad .

“With that strong flavor of spices along with the terrible odor rushing into my nose, I feel that my nose is going to malfunction . ” Yuan Zhou finally knew why Chu Liuxiang 1 liked stroking his own nose .

Speaking of which, he should feel lucky that he was living in a Five-star Hotel . And in such a big hotel, it wasn’t difficult to find one that spoke Chinese .

The closer he walked, the smellier it became . However, the first animal that Yuan Zhou saw was actually a tiger instead of an elephant . It was a real tiger, though it was lying prone on the stone quietly while there was somebody holding it with an iron chain .

It wasn’t the most important thing . The key point was that Yuan Zhou was just passing by this place, but the people inside still dragged Yuan Zhou in . Though he didn’t understand Thai, he could roughly grasp their meaning . They seemed to be telling him how much it cost to take a group photo with the tiger .

Yuan Zhou wasn’t really afraid of the tiger . He just felt the tiger wasn’t good-looking . Compared to it, he liked the elephant more; therefore, he quickened his pace and skipped the area .

Then, he saw an elephant in a small pool . Alike to the tiger, there was also a person that stood beside it and charged customers to take a group photo . And at the side of the elephant, there was also an owl . Everyone could take a group photo with it under the condition that they paid the bill . The staff were so enthusiastic that they even pulled you in to take a photo .

Yuan Zhou didn’t like taking photos, so he just took a step backward and watched the foreigners take photos . By sheer coincidence, there was a tourist guide who spoke Chinese at the side and the tourists following her were also Chinese .

According to the tourist guide, they could take photos with the elephant for free if they bought a basket of snack foods at the neighboring stall to feed it . With the bananas on the surface and sweet potatoes below, the watermelon-sized basket was fairly heavy . As it wasn’t expensive, Yuan Zhou bought a basket of the fruits .

“Although I don’t like taking photos, I must do in Rome as the Romans do and take some photos with the elephant since I seldom come to Thailand . ” Yuan Zhou was taking the bananas and feeding the little elephant . It took the bananas with its long nose and then stuffed it into its mouth . The actions were so quick that Yuan Zhou didn’t even have time to take a photo .

The bananas on the surface of the basket were eaten up by the elephant very soon, but Yuan Zhou still didn’t find a proper opportunity to take a photo .

The feeding method must be changed . Yuan Zhou glanced at the remaining sweet potatoes in the basket and made a gesture of beckoning, in the hope that the elephant would come over first so that he could take a photo before feeding it again . Without anything in his hand, however, the elephant didn’t come up to him at all . Furthermore, it even turned its butt toward him .

“How dare it! This elephant actually burned the bridge after crossing it . ” Yuan Zhou took out the sweet potatoes and intended to tempt the elephant . He had turned on the camera with the other hand and was prepared to take photos at any time .

However, something unexpected happened . The elephant looked at the sweet potatoes in his hand and turned its head back as if it were not interested in them .

“What’s the problem?” Many possibilities flashed through Yuan Zhou’s mind . The most probable reason was that elephants didn’t eat sweet potatoes .

The tourist guide beside him explained to him conveniently, “Elephants also eat sweet potatoes if there is nothing else to eat . It prefers eating bananas . ”

A picky eater!!! Yuan Zhou glared at the little elephant in the pool . There were still so many tourists around . Foreign tourists didn’t like buying things while the Chinese liked buying and buying when they travel . Therefore, many people were feeding the elephant with bananas and it was quite normal that the elephant didn’t come to eat his sweet potatoes .

“I’ve never thought that you were that kind of elephant . ”

He couldn’t spend money on the basket of fruits in vain . So Yuan Zhou decided to buy one more basket of the fruits . Once bitten, twice shy . Having gained experience from that matter, Yuan Zhou first tempted the elephant to come over to him with the bananas and then snapped multiple photos quickly with his other hand .

Two baskets of fruits must be exchanged for something . Only after twenty minutes did Yuan Zhou put away his phone with complete satisfaction . In the meantime, the crowd of Chinese tourists also headed to the next place for riding an elephant .

Yuan Zhou followed them secretly . This was the legendary skill of “taking advantage of other people’s tourist guide” .

There was a chair on the back of the elephant . The taming master was seated on its head while the tourists were seated on the chair . The chair wasn’t very big and it could only hold two people at most . If there wasn’t only one person, he could also sit on it alone .

He lined up as requested and waited for the elephant .

Just like the old saying, it is the unexpected that always happens . He hadn’t even waited for ten minutes when it suddenly rained heavily . The sound of raindrops falling on the tree leaves could be heard .

“Bad luck today?” Yuan Zhou took out an umbrella from his small backpack . He had the habit of bringing an umbrella when he went out . And he was the only one that brought the umbrella in line . In just a little while, everyone else except him became drenched .

Yuan Zhou was considering another problem . Could he ride the elephant since it was raining? But soon, he was reassured by the actual deeds of the staff . Everyone could continue riding the elephant as long as they wanted to .

However, many tourists ahead of him refused the proposal and complained to one another .

“How can we ride it since the rain is so heavy? I would rather come later . ”

“Exactly . The rain shelter can’t keep out most of the rain anyway . Let’s wait for a while . ”

“It’s really heavy rain . Everything is so wet . I’d rather ride it later . ”

However, Yuan Zhou looked at the elephant and checked the time . Then, he still decided to ride it now . In this manner, he could ride the elephant ahead of schedule as the people ahead of him all chose to ride it later .

“It feels great to ride an elephant in the rain . The elephant walks slowly and thus, the time is just right . ” Yuan Zhou got on the elephant and enjoyed the experience .

That’s right . Yuan Zhou had told the hotel to come to pick him up one hour later . If he didn’t ride it now, he wouldn’t have enough time when the rain stopped .

And Yuan Zhou happened to be a person that stuck to a plan .

EMPTY