Return To 1977 Chapter 693: Holy Land
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There has always been a saying in Huacheng that "go to Beiyuan to eat and drink tea to Panxi".
So early in the morning on December 10, Hong Yanwu called three more "taxi"s.
We specially took everyone to have morning tea at "Panxi Restaurant", which together with "Beiyuan" and "South Park" is known as the three major garden restaurants in Huacheng.
"Panxi Restaurant" is located in "Litchi Bay" with "white lotus, red lychee and five beautiful fragrances".
The outer wall is white with black tiles and green banyan trees.
The internal layout is circuitous and rich in layers.
Here, while people slowly enjoy "one cup with many pieces" of snacks, they can also admire the small bridges, flowing water, pavilions and pavilions.
It is precisely because Hong Yanwu likes the splendid wooden carvings and lintels and the gold-colored window paintings here. He likes this poetic and relaxing comfort, so every time he comes to Huacheng, he must drink tea here.
As for others, they are attracted by this elegant style. The key is that Huacheng’s breakfast has too many varieties and choices.
Just ordinary rice rolls, raw porridge, barbecued pork buns, and shrimp dumplings are enough to make them stare and drool.
And the wonderful taste in it is beyond the imagination of those of them who have always relied only on pancakes, soy milk, and steamed buns with sweet ears to satisfy their stomachs.
As a result, after eating, I couldn’t control my mouth again.
"Water chestnut cake", "custard buns", "fish fillet porridge", "fish ball porridge", "Ejie pink fruit", "honeycomb taro wedges", "coconut king banana leaf wedges", "like "Raw pear fruit", "honey barbecued pork buns", "green white rabbit dumplings", and "steamed crab roe steamed siomai" are all presented at flowing prices.
This group of boys were sitting in the boat-shaped "Panxi Painted Boat", and they were all smiling and extremely happy.
To be honest, even Hong Yanwu felt that his trip was worthwhile.
Because there is a "cream white cake", which is the unique signature snack of "Panxi Restaurant" this year.
Between the pastry crust are soft cake bits, sweet and waxy coconut, and crispy termites.
It was even his first time to eat it, and he was very surprised.
This should be regarded as a special benefit of the times.
Of course, when it comes to paying the bill, the price is also high.
Because Panxi Restaurant was a very high-cost place with a strong capitalist flavor, eating here in those days was something ordinary people with meager salaries would never dare to think about.
In addition, people in the north can afford to eat, so this breakfast is almost equivalent to the cost of yesterday's full meal.
So after having had enough wine and food, everyone could not help but express their feelings again.
"It's delicious, it's really delicious. I didn't expect that there are such good days in the world. I can go to a restaurant early in the morning to eat and drink. Lao Guang really enjoys it."
"Tsk, it's bullshit. You don't even look at it. They are all Hong Kong tourists with big gold rings, and the rest of the company are locals. Take our table as an example. We ate fifty for breakfast. How can anyone afford it with wages? Just by selling goods, you have to sell more than a dozen or twenty pieces to make money."
"That's right, I think Hong Kong people are also pretending to be gossips. Didn't the three Hong Kong cowards who chatted with us yesterday say that the average salary of Hong Kong people is 1,300 Hong Kong dollars, and now the official price of 100 Hong Kong dollars is 18 yuan RMB, 23 RMB on the black market. After all, they don’t even earn much more than they earn.”
"Hahaha!" After talking about this, everyone couldn't help but laugh.
It is a kind of proud and somewhat happy psychological satisfaction.
If you think about it this way, this meal is a bit expensive, but for this, I feel comfortable.
No matter how much they like it here, after nine o'clock in the morning, Hong Yanwu and the others have to leave, because they have to do business today.
There is no doubt that the first stop Hong Yanwu takes everyone to must be "Dazhong Street", also known as "Gaodi Street".
This place may sound unfamiliar to people today, but it was undoubtedly a holy place for self-employed people across the country in the early 1980s.
Because this street is not only the first industrial products market opened in the country, but also the first clothing wholesale market in the country.
Not only did dealers from all over the country come here to hunt for goods in the mid-1980s, but the 1990s were also the focus of international dealers.
At that time, there was even a saying that "if you don't go to Gao Di Street to go to Huacheng, you haven't been here yet."
It was almost ten o'clock when Hong Yanwu and the others arrived at their destination.
Before anyone even entered the iconic stone archway, they realized that it was indeed well-deserved.
The people coming and going are all businessmen from urban and rural areas and neighboring cities, as well as some compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao. Although it is still working hours, there are still people coming and going, and it is very lively.
Although the order is definitely not as good as Hong Yanwu's night market, the prosperity is countless times higher.
When I walked into the street, I felt that there seemed to be endless business here.
Many places are undergoing extensive construction work to build more formal storefronts.
Although for the time being, most of the vendors do not have storefronts. But there are also mountains of goods piled up on the roadside, and some are even scattered on the ground.
Electronic watches, calculators, jewelry, earrings, pearl necklaces, shampoos, cosmetics, and colorful fashions are all available at low prices, both wholesale and retail.
Almost all of them are trendy models imported from Hong Kong, which makes people’s eyes blurred. They are excited, excited, and eager to buy.
The most unimaginable thing is that in this year, there are already franchised stores in "Gaodi Street".
That is to say, a merchant that only specializes in one type of product. They are either all clothes, all department stores, or all toys.
Like a shirt seller who put up a wooden sign, and there were hundreds of shirts hanging behind a small stall.
Men's, women's, Hong Kong style, various colors, various patterns, listed in one place, particularly eye-catching and novel.
It naturally shows a professional tendency, giving customers a sense of credibility and being extremely attractive.
The heat was already making them uncomfortable, but Hong Yanwu and the others could no longer bear it. Everyone went up to pick out a Hong Kong-style shirt.
The price was not expensive at all, only two yuan and fifty cents a piece. "Li Ben'er" tried to mark the price, and got nine pieces for twenty yuan without any change.
It’s just that people in the north are different in size from people in the south. People like Chen Liquan, who is over 1.8 meters tall, are extremely rare. There is no number on the stall, so the stall owner has to take him to the warehouse in the alley to get the goods.
In addition, "Cier Mei" wanted to find a private place to change clothes, so she went together.
But they really didn't expect that when the young man with a necklace, long hair, and unattractive appearance led Chen Liquan and "Ciermei" to his house and opened the two doors, it was a surprise.
The entire two rooms were actually filled with piles of shirts. At a rough estimate, there were a total of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
"Ciermei" couldn't help but asked excitedly, "Is this all yours alone?"
The stall owner held out his little finger nonchalantly. "Well, that's not much. I am this..."
It is the unintentional touch that brings the strongest shock.
When I went shopping later, I paid special attention to "Cier Mei".
In the end, she determined that almost all the young people here who are self-employed have a net worth that is unimaginable to ordinary people.
Take the girl selling roast goose in Huazhizhaozhan, for example. If she were in another place, people would think she was a returned overseas Chinese.
Because the girl is not only well-dressed and has her hair permed, she also has a gleaming gold necklace around her neck and dazzling gold earrings on her ears.
She can definitely bet that those are the real deal. And all the high-end clothing is probably earned by selling roast geese.
The most critical evidence is that the mental outlook of the people setting up stalls here is so different.
Most of those who make a living by setting up stalls in the capital do so because they are desperate, and their faces often show a sense of inferiority, shame, and unconscious avoidance.
But the people here are different. There is an indescribable excitement in the shouts to solicit business.
She didn't know what kind of anger she had, but it was definitely far different from the helplessness she felt when she was forced to go to the end of the mountain.
People here are definitely not envious of the iron rice bowl of state-owned enterprises that guarantees harvests despite droughts and floods. On the contrary, they have a blatant sense of self-respect and pride.
It was like a dazzling light that melted away her subconscious doubts about the future.
She unconsciously developed a sense of intimacy with this city.
She seems to have seen her future here. She believes that the social atmosphere and values in the capital will one day become like this.
She even began to imagine that in the future, she could be like the young people here and own a small store specializing in a certain product.
What a happy thing that is.