The six of them quickly emerged from the mall with shopping bags in hand, purchasing swimsuits didn't take much time, and it was still just after four in the afternoon.
The temperature of the sun-baked cement was as high as fifty degrees, visible heat waves assaulted their faces, and there were hardly any pedestrians to be seen on the streets; they flagged down a taxi and quickly slipped away.
"To 1978," Xu Qingfan said as he got into the car, directing the air conditioner vents towards himself, but the air blowing out was not cool enough.
"No meter, flat rate of 50 to 1978," the taxi driver said indifferently.
The distance from Gualv Square to 1978 was only four or five kilometers, which by the standard starting fare of 12, and the additional 1.6 per kilometer after three kilometers, would normally cost less than twenty yuan on the meter.