100: Filial Piety Requires Money Piles (8 More)

Yangcheng people love to eat morning tea.

In the early years, elderly people carried bird cages, drank tea and had snacks to show off their beloved birds. Now there are not many people who keep birds, but the habit of eating morning tea is still preserved. However, there are not many young people who eat morning tea on weekdays. Xia Xiaolan is more eye-catching. She ordered several famous refreshments for Liu Fen to try.

Liu Fen has lived for so many years and has not eaten in a restaurant yet.

Even if she married Xia Dajun back then, she never had a drink. She remembered that it was 63 years, and life at home was really difficult. Her brother Liu Yong was worried about how to support the two younger sisters at home, and asked a matchmaker to find a match for Liu Fen. The matchmaker said that the Xia family has three sons, all of whom are strong laborers, and Liu Fen will definitely be able to eat when she gets married.

At that time, Tian was a collective, and he had to work every day to earn work points. The eldest of the Xia family was married, and there were five strong laborers in the family. Isn't it better than other people's lives? However, Liu Fen remembers clearly that the so-called full stomach, but it was noodles two days before the wedding, and the third day changed to noodle soup and sweet potato porridge.

Getting married means moving from Qijing Village to Dahe Village.

Xia Xiaolan was born as a girl, Grandma Xia was not satisfied, Xia Dajun was also disappointed, and no one wanted to make a full moon.

In the confinement period, Liu Yong didn't know where he got a chicken and sent it to Liu Fen. Liu Fen was given two chicken wings. Liu Fen still doesn't know whose belly got the other parts. At Xia's house, she had never eaten a neat meal, and Mrs. Xia, in charge of the house, would not give her a daughter-in-law who could not give birth to a son if she had something good.

Ironically, the most complete and hearty meal Liu Fen ate was when she and Xia Dajun divorced. Liu Yong was overjoyed and invited several tables of villagers to dinner... Liu Fen still remembers which dishes Li Fengmei cooked. It was also a banquet organized by the rural people themselves. A restaurant like today's morning tea made Liu Fen feel uneasy.

The noodle soup I ate in Anqing County and the donkey meat soup I ate in Shangdu were all small stalls.

The restaurant that Xia Xiaolan brought her to was too grand, and Liu Fen was afraid of being laughed at... She was glad that she was wearing the new clothes that Xia Xiaolan bought last night before going out in the morning, otherwise she would be embarrassed for Xiaolan today.

Delicate refreshments quickly filled the table.

"Mom, try this crab yellow bun."

"Pork Ribs in Black Bean Sauce."

Xia Xiaolan slowly introduced it, raw beef porridge, crystal shrimp dumplings, fried spring rolls, barbecued pork buns, puff pastry egg tarts, money belly... and a pot of Tieguanyin, two people can order so much in 1983, which is really a high customer.

The two old men next to them were muttering that they were rich. They used Yangcheng dialect, but Liu Fen couldn’t understand it, and Xia Xiaolan replied calmly:

"Bring my mother to try it out."

People in Yangcheng don't like to speak Mandarin. All those who speak Mandarin are foreigners, and they are poor.

Xia Xiaolan, a foreigner, was so dignified that the two old men were speechless. People are not showing off their wealth, but filial piety. The children and grandchildren in their family may not be able to spend so much money for their elders.

"Too much, too much..."

Liu Fen said these three words the most, over and over again.

Xia Xiaolan is very experienced in dealing with her, she only said that it has been delivered, and she will not refund the money if she does not eat it. The table is full, Liu Fen stopped talking. Now everyone eats a lot. In fact, there is no way they can't finish it, but they can't afford it. Most people have a pot of tea and two snacks, and they can chat two or three times. Hour.

Xia Xiaolan just brought her mother to eat, so how could there be so much chat.

Tasty?

Naturally delicious.

The ingredients are so solid, she chose an old brand, and every refreshment is above the standard. In later generations, some time-honored brands have become chain stores. The daily traffic is so large that Xia Xiaolan feels quite ordinary when she eats refreshments.

Now, it has not been changed by the tide of the times. If you can enjoy it a few more times, you must hurry up.

Liu Fen couldn't understand the Yangcheng dialect, and the tea guests around her were muttering something, but she could feel the envy of those people. What is she envious of? She is envious of her having a good daughter. Liu Fen realizes this, and the food in her mouth seems to taste better.

She pushed the ribs to Xia Xiaolan:

"Xiaolan, you eat too."

She didn't know how troublesome crab yellow buns and pastry egg tarts were to make. She thought that meat was a good thing, so she left the spare ribs for Xia Xiaolan to eat.

Xia Xiaolan did not explain, and readily accepted Liu Fen's kindness.

The mother and daughter are eating Zhenghuan here, and the restaurant also has some elegant seats separated by carved doors and windows.

Where are the two middle-aged men sitting, there are two or three trays of refreshments on the table, but they can sit in the elegant seats. Seeing that his companion took two more glances at the mother and daughter eating morning tea in the lobby, the other sighed:

"The number of foreigners in Yangcheng has increased in the past two years."

The middle-aged man wearing glasses nodded, "The wealth of Yangcheng is unmatched by inland cities, and with the guidance of Pengcheng Special Economic Zone, the gap between Yangcheng and inland cities will become larger and larger, and within a few years, inland residents will flock to to."

"Are you very optimistic about the Pengcheng Special Economic Zone?"

The current Pengcheng Special Zone is still under construction, which is far from the deep-rooted Yangcheng. Where was originally a spontaneously formed market, even if it was turned into a special zone, would it surpass Yangcheng?

Yangcheng is full of high-rise buildings, which is not bad compared to Beijing and Shanghai.

Can Pengcheng Special Economic Zone surpass Yangcheng?

The man with glasses didn't argue with his companions, just like the girl who was eating tea outside. He met him on the train last time, but he forgot which village below Henan Province. At that time, she was not so lavish, but in just one month, it seemed that she had already found the first pot of gold in Yangcheng.

The number of mainlanders who come to pan for gold like her will only increase.

The construction of the special zone also requires a lot of labor participation. How can the foreign population be managed?

The 86-kilometer “second-line” project, starting from the “Beizaijiao” by the Dapeng Bay in the east and reaching the “Anle Village” by the Pearl River Estuary in the west, can really prevent capitalist things from infiltrating the mainland?

In April last year, the construction of the barbed wire fence with a height of 2.8 meters began, and it is still under construction.

A barbed wire that prevents the penetration of capitalism?

People's natural yearning for a good life cannot be blocked by a barbed wire. Encircling the Pengcheng Special Economic Zone may not have any effect.

The middle-aged man had no intention of reminiscing with Xia Xiaolan.

He and a country girl like Xia Xiaolan can hardly ever have an intersection in their lives, even though they are very destined to ride on the same train and stay in the same sleeper compartment, and at this time they can be in a restaurant in Yangcheng again. Reunited in Li... That doesn't mean that he will have anything to do with Xia Xiaolan.

Oh, he remembered that Xia Xiaolan was quite clever.

Not only is he clever, but he also looks filial.

He glanced at Liu Fen, who was the most ordinary rural woman right now.

...

Xia Xiaolan didn't know that she passed by the middle-aged man she met on the train.

She took Liu Fen to play in Yangcheng for a day, not only near the train station. Yangcheng is more economically developed than the commercial capital, including the Yangcheng White Swan Hotel, which was just built this year. It is also called "32-story". It is located on Shamian Island, adjacent to the White Swan Pool where the three rivers converge... Liu Fen has never seen a 32-story building. .

Xia Xiaolan said that she would come back to Yangcheng in two years, and try to take Liu Fen to live in the White Swan Hotel, overlooking the Sanjiang River, with beautiful scenery.

Liu Fen recited Amitabha in her heart, how could she enjoy this kind of thing? dare not think, dare not think.

In the afternoon, Xia Xiaolan came to the wholesale booth according to her words, and the boss really got the cotton-padded clothes-compared to his actions of pulling other clothes from the snakeskin bag, he took the cotton-padded clothes gently.

These cotton-padded clothes were beyond Xia Xiaolan's expectations: "Cold clothes?!"