The weather in Beijing in late September and early October was already very cold. Before getting on the plane, Zhuang Rui wore a leather jacket. He just walked out of the exit and before he had time to take it off, he chased Qin Xuanbing, and his posture was weird.
, causing people in the airport to look at him one after another. If they hadn't seen Zhuang Rui as a tall man, maybe a few people would come out to fight against the injustice.
"I said, can we walk slower?"
Zhuang Rui couldn't understand why this woman wore high heels and couldn't get her feet wet when she walked. She also ran very fast. After Zhuang Rui chased him out of the airport, he was already hot and sweating profusely, and his face was so...
It's as red as a cooked hairy crab.
"Look at how stupid you are, aren't you hot wearing such thick clothes?"
After walking outside the airport, Qin Xuanbing stopped. Seeing Zhuang Rui sweating profusely, she couldn't help feeling a little distressed. She took out a tissue from her handbag and wiped Zhuang Rui's sweat.
"It's not hot, I feel even hotter than this..."
Zhuang Rui didn't like going to bars or nightclubs. In addition to reviewing materials for the postgraduate entrance examination at night, he also watched some soap operas in his free time. His talkative skills had improved. When he took off his jacket, he lowered his head and kissed Qin Xuanbing's little hand.
one time.
Qin Xuanbing retracted her hand as if she was electrocuted, and rolled her eyes at Zhuang Rui, but she was not angry. Zhuang Rui suddenly became bolder, stepped forward and hugged Qin Xuanbing's waist, and said: "Find a hotel to stay first.
, I want to take a shower, I was sweating all over from running just now..."
Qin Xuanbing's body was trembling slightly. Isn't it just to get a room in the hotel? Even though she was mentally prepared, she was also in a state of confusion. She opened her mouth and said: "Lei Lei knows you are coming and is waiting for us to have dinner together. How about tonight?"
OK?"
Qin Xuanbing's words already sounded like pleading, but she didn't know that Zhuang Rui just wanted to take a bath. Although he was a little impulsive just now, after running all the way, his desire had long subsided.
"What are you doing tonight?"
Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment, and when he saw a blush rising on Qin Xuan's pretty face, he was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly.
In fact, women and men are the same. After meeting someone they feel they can trust, many things will happen naturally. But when these two inexperienced people get together, sometimes they can understand each other clearly.
Only then can we understand.
Qin Xuanbing paused her feet and ignored Zhuang Rui. After walking into the parking lot, she pressed the remote control in her hand. There was a beeping sound not far away, but it was a red two-seater Ferrari sports car.
"Get in the car, let's go eat first, Leilei must be impatient..."
Qin Xuanbing opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat. She took off her high heels and put on a pair of flat shoes. Zhuang Rui looked a little dizzy. I dare you to do this.
Hong Kong used to be a British colony, and many habits are still influenced by the British. For example, driving on the left makes Zhuang Rui feel very uncomfortable. When he looks at the road ahead, he always feels that a car will suddenly rush out from the left and hit him.
, I simply picked up a Hong Kong newspaper in the car and read it.
"Zhuang Rui, can you read the newspaper?"
Although Qin Xuanbing was driving the car, she kept secretly looking at Zhuang Rui. After not seeing each other for several months, Zhuang Rui became calmer than before, and when he didn't speak, there was an indescribable something about him.
The smell, um, gives people a feeling of being in a high position but not angry.
"Xuan Bing, you look down on me too much. I'm going to take the master's degree in archeology soon. If you can't understand traditional Chinese characters, there's no need to apply for it..."
Zhuang Rui understands what Qin Xuanbing means. Since when mainland China implemented simplified characters, Hong Kong was still a British colony. Therefore, the most commonly used Chinese character writing style in Hong Kong is Traditional Chinese. However, for Zhuang Rui, there is no problem in reading traditional Chinese characters.
The newspaper also followed the ancient writing style, which was arranged vertically from left to right, which made Zhuang Rui feel a little uncomfortable.
I believe everyone has a deep understanding of Hong Kong. The pop songs introduced to the mainland in the 1980s, the trendy clothes, and the video halls showing Hong Kong movies all over the streets have all explained to people a
The mysterious and rich Hong Kong.
It can be said that Hong Kong had a great influence on mainlanders in the past. In the 1980s and 1990s, the most popular electronic watches, walkmans, bell-bottom pants, etc., made young people all over the country think of them.
It is fashionable to own something made in Hong Kong.
Self-employed people in many cities went to Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places to buy some so-called parallel imports produced in Hong Kong, and then returned to their respective cities to practice stalls, commonly known as "trailing masters", which also created the first batch of wealthy people in China.
The prosperous development of film and television in Hong Kong in the 1980s also influenced people of an era in mainland China. Who was born in the 1960s and 1970s who has not watched the Hong Kong-produced "Fearless", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and "Return"?
Movies and TV series such as "Travel to the Tiger Mountain"? At that time, everyone would hum a few lines of Cantonese songs without knowing the meaning of the words.
By the time "A Better Tomorrow" was introduced to the mainland in the mid-to-late 1980s, there were even more young people on the road wearing windbreakers and combing their hair. If a national survey and statistics were done at that time, "Little Ma"
The popularity of "Brother" will definitely far exceed that of the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The word "star" was also spread from that time. When Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan were young, they sold celebrity stickers and pirated the portrait rights of Hong Kong movie stars. Of course, the word "piracy" didn't exist at that time.
Only after the return of Hong Kong, this mystery has been slowly unveiled. Every year, mainland tourists to Hong Kong account for a large proportion of Hong Kong's related income, causing a considerable impact on its economy.
However, for Zhuang Rui, this city is still very unfamiliar. At this time, Qin Xuanbing's car is driving on a prosperous road. Both sides of the road are a mixture of colonial buildings and modern high-tech buildings. The buildings are like forests and restaurants.
It is a combination of Eastern and Western culture.
On the streets on both sides of the road, there are some light box advertisements with the words "massage bone" written in traditional Chinese. They are exactly the same as what Zhuang Rui saw in the movie. In the endless flow of people, everyone's face is full of excitement.
There is a kind of anxiety, at least in Zhuang Rui's eyes, there is no scene of mainlanders wandering around with a birdcage.
Crowded, everything in front of him gave Zhuang Rui this feeling. The tall buildings, the narrow streets, and the crowds walking on the road were as dense as sardine cans, making people feel breathless.
Feeling of anger.
"This is Central, the busiest business district in Hong Kong. Well, that's our jewelry store."
Qin Xuanbing was driving while introducing Zhuang Rui. Following Qin Xuanbing's fingers, she saw seven or eight jewelry stores lined up on a street to the left.
Compared with the crowded jewelry shops in mainland China, this place is much more lively. People come in and out frequently, but Zhuang Rui doesn't know that most of these people are tourists from the mainland. The fixed thinking formed over decades still makes those people
People think that things in Hong Kong are cheap and good.
"We're here, get off the car!"
After the car drove out for more than half an hour, Qin Xuanbing stopped the car on the side of a street, then got out of the car and put coins in the punch card machine next to her. She naturally took Zhuang Rui's arm and walked into the street.
In the restaurant.
"This is Mong Kok, with the most restaurants. Hey, Leilei, here we are."
As soon as he walked into this restaurant, Zhuang Rui felt as if he had entered a vegetable market. It was so noisy. People here were not eating. They were all gathered together chatting. The key was that Zhuang Rui could not understand the words. Some of them were in Cantonese.
He could barely remember a few of the words, but some of the Chaozhou dialect spoken at the table was like a heavenly book to Zhuang Rui's ears.
The official languages of Hong Kong are Chinese and English, and the government's language policy is "biliteracy and trilingualism", that is, vernacular Chinese and English are used in writing, and Cantonese, Mandarin and English are used in spoken language.
The Chinese population in Hong Kong mainly uses Cantonese, while the non-Chinese population mostly uses English as a communicative language. Most of the residents in Hong Kong are not indigenous residents of Hong Kong. For more than a hundred years, people who have moved from the mainland and even from all over the world will describe themselves as
The language of my hometown was brought to Hong Kong.
Walking in this restaurant, Zhuang Rui even saw a table of foreigners eating Chinese food with chopsticks and shouting like the people next to him. It felt a bit noisy when he first came in, but now,
Zhuang Rui actually liked this place a little bit. It was full of life and became two distinct worlds from the steel city he just saw.
"Hey, how come you two have become so close?"
Lei Lei couldn't help but widen her eyes when she saw Qin Xuanbing walking in holding Zhuang Rui's arm. In her impression, Qin Xuanbing and Zhuang Rui, who were very reserved about their feelings, seemed not to do such a thing.
"Ahem, what do you know? It's called distance that brings beauty. We are tens of thousands of miles apart, so what happens when we meet and get intimate? But you, an old classmate, are going to be a bride soon. Do you have any phobia of newlyweds?"
Zhuang Rui was afraid that Qin Xuanbing would be thin-skinned, so after sitting down, he quickly brought the topic to Lei Lei.
"Tch, we are already an old couple, what is there to be afraid of? By the way, Zhuang Rui, I heard from Dachuan that you have transferred almost all the shares in the Mastiff Garden. What are you going to do in the future?"
Lei Lei knew that Zhuang Rui had made a lot of money gambling on stones, but he couldn't just sit back and take the cake. Lei Lei knew that Zhuang Rui's family background was very ordinary. If he didn't have a promising industry, I'm afraid the Qin Xuanbing family wouldn't either.
He agreed to their marriage so easily.
After hearing what Lei Lei said, Qin Xuanbing also turned her attention to Zhuang Rui. Although her mother was very anxious to marry her off, for now, Zhuang Rui seemed to be just one of their many choices.
