Counterattack 1988

Chapter 105 Give me a cigarette!

At the end of the 80s, Yangcheng in the south was indeed a world of flamboyance.

Guangzhou, which is close to the forefront of reform and opening up in Hong Kong and Macau, was the fashion capital at that time.

Compared with the mainland, Guangzhou is already full of high-rise buildings, and you can feel the atmosphere of modernization everywhere, with trendy clothes and hairstyles, leading fashion trends everywhere.

Even people from big cities like Beijin and Shencheng came to Guangzhou to pan for gold.

Most of the vendors who sell shoes and clothes in Huating Clothing Market buy their goods from here and sell them back.

The film and television dramas related to Guangzhou produced during this period were too avant-garde, and were even questioned whether they were in line with reality.

After leaving the airport, Tian Xiaoqing was amazed to see fashionable young people everywhere.

Wang Lin took a taxi at the airport and headed to the city.

They arrived at Baiyun Airport at one o'clock at noon.

Seeing that it was still early, Wang Lin wanted to find a guest house to stay in, have lunch, and then exchange treasury bills after the bank goes to work in the afternoon. If the exchange cannot be finished in the afternoon, he can exchange them in the morning tomorrow and take a flight back to Shanghai in the afternoon.

This arrangement is the most compact and economical in terms of time.

The taxi driver is a middle-aged man who talks a lot.

Wang Lin and Tian Xiaoqing sat in the back row, and Wu Dazhuang sat in the co-pilot.

The driver chatted with Wu Dazhuang all over the place: "Shencheng people, right? I can tell by your accent. I like listening to the women in Shencheng the most. What are you talking about? Nong, Yi, Allah, it sounds very sweet."

Wu Dazhuang thought he could speak Mandarin very fluently, but he didn't expect to be seen through. He said, not to be outdone, "I also like to hear you Cantonese women speak in vernacular. You have to bring us, you, them, everything." Hey, what else is there, it's a whine!"

Wang Lin and Tian Xiaoqing looked at each other and smiled, both felt that Wu Dazhuang's vernacular was very different.

"Uncle, where is the biggest clothing market on your side?" Wang Lin asked the driver.

"The clothing market? I don't quite understand." The driver shook his head, "Are you here to buy?"

Wang Lin's descendants have been to Guangzhou, Liuhua Clothing Wholesale City, and Baima Clothing Wholesale City, all of which are near the railway station and bus station, but these clothing cities were only opened in the 90s.

It is now 88, and Wang Lin's impression is rather vague, so he inquired about it. Unexpectedly, the uncle driver didn't know about it.

Most of the people who come to buy clothing from other places are self-employed. They often travel in groups and have their own chartered cars. Few people act alone, and even fewer people take expensive taxis.

When he arrived at the guest house, Wang Lin left Tian Xiaoqing and Wu Dazhuang to look at the bags in the room, and he went down to buy food by himself.

There was a young woman at the front desk. When Wang Lin asked her, she knew everything.

"The clothing wholesale market, I know, there is one on the Shahe side, and another on Gaudi Street, where there are wholesale shoes, socks and clothes."

Hearing what she said, Wang Lin immediately remembered, yes, it is the Shahe Clothing Market and Gaodi Street!

Wang Lin thanked him, went outside to find a tea restaurant, packed three rice bowls and took them away.

While waiting for the meal, a young woman with a bun hairstyle, wearing suspenders, a leather skirt, and high-heeled sandals walked in gracefully.

Such a dewy attire is too eye-catching in this era, Wang Lin couldn't help but take a second look.

The woman has a good face, a first-class figure, and heavy makeup. She seems to know how lethal she is to men. Seeing Wang Lin looking at her, she smiled slightly, shook the kun bag chain in her hand, and sat down. Beside him, he took out a pack of cigarettes, took out one, put it in his mouth, and asked Wang Lin, "Do you smoke?"

Of course Wang Lin smoked, but when he was outside, he would not smoke other people's cigarettes casually, so he waved his hand, and at the same time took out his own cigarette and smoked one.

"Cut! Zhonghua! Give me one." The beautiful woman was not polite, snatched the Zhonghua cigarette from his hand, took out one, spit it out of her mouth, took Wang Lin's Zhonghua cigarette, and pointed at him. Chucking, "Handsome guy, light the fire for me."

Wang Lin lit it on his own, and put the lighter on the table: "Light it yourself."

The beautiful woman gave him a blank look, picked up the lighter, lit a cigarette, and said, "Would you like me to eat?"

Wang Lindao: "Why?"

The gorgeous woman giggled and said, "Don't you like me?"

"If you like it, you like it, why should you be invited to dinner?"

"Oh, handsome guy, you treat me to dinner, I have something good for you!"

"What good? I don't need it."

"All men need it!" The gorgeous woman exhaled a smoke ring, her lips were painted with gaudy lipstick, bright red, attractive, her teeth were particularly neat, and as white as jade.

Wang Lin probably thought of what kind of woman she was, couldn't help but smiled, took out ten yuan, and put it beside her: "I invite you to dinner, if you want to eat, go buy it yourself."

The beautiful woman stretched out her soft and white right hand, placed it on the back of Wang Lin's hand, stroked it lightly, then picked up the banknote, brought it to her mouth abruptly, and poked Wang Lin's face.

Wang Lin was stunned: "You!"

The gorgeous woman opened the Kun bag, took out a business card, and put it in Wang Lin's palm: "If you are free, come and play with me."

Wang Lin looked at the business card, it said Lido Nightclub, and there was another name: Su Ya.

This name has a sense of age. In the past [-] years, some literary youths who love Soviet literature like to give their children Soviet names, such as Lina, Sasha, Anna, Suya, etc. .

"Your mother named you, right? Your mother likes Soviet literature?"

"Hey, how do you know?"

"Guess."

At this time, the waiter called Wang Lin: "Sir, your takeaway is ready."

Wang Lin responded, took his takeaway, and left.

Su Ya looked at her business card on the table, and Wang Linyuan's back, shrugged helplessly, and said to the waiter, "Xiao Liu, give me a bowl of white-cut chicken rice!"

"Su Ya, that catch is pretty good, but it's a pity you didn't catch it!" the waiter Xiao Liu giggled.

Su Yan waved her hand: "Go, go, I'm hungry!"

"Are you going to work tonight?" Xiao Liu asked.

"Which day will I not go to work? Oh! I'm exhausted."

"How tired can you be? I see you are very idle every day."

"When we are doing things, you can't see! Those stinky men are hard to serve! Like the man just now, the man who doesn't eat the tofu delivered to the door is extinct!"

"Then you're still in the nightclub?"

"I can't help it! I have my reasons. If a rich man is willing to support me, I wouldn't want to take this class!"

"..."

Let's say that Wang Lin went back to his room, had dinner with Tian Xiaoqing and the others, had a rest, and went downstairs with the money.

While opening a clothing workshop, Wang Lin also ran treasury bond business twice, earning about 20 yuan each time. Now he has 240 million yuan in cash. He bought another leather bag and put [-] More than ten thousand, divided into five parts, Wu Dazhuang and Tian Xiaoqing each carried two bags, and Wang Lin carried one bag by himself.

The three walked out of the guest house and stood at the intersection waiting for a taxi.

At this time, Su Ya had just come out of the tea restaurant with a toothpick in her mouth.

Seeing Wang Lin and the three of them, and looking at the heavy purses in their hands, she couldn't help giggling, stepped forward, and patted Wang Lin on the shoulder: "Handsome guy, we meet again."

Wang Lin frowned and ignored her.

"Hey, you don't know me so soon? I kissed you just now!" Su Ya said, looking at Tian Xiaoqing who was standing beside her.

Tian Xiaoqing was expressionless, and said in a deep voice: "Please step aside, otherwise I will be rude to you."

"Such a fierce woman, who wants you? Clack!" Su Ya's slender fingers brushed gently across Wang Lin's chest, and she winked, "Remember to come to me, handsome guy, I'm here in Li I'm waiting for you."

At this time, a taxi came, and Wang Lin waved quickly, and then got into it.

Su Ya was still holding on to the car door, bent down, and smiled at Wang Lin inside: "Remember to come to me! I will make you happy!"

Seeing the beautiful scenery in her drooping collar, Wang Lin silently turned his head away.

The car starts.

Wang Lin stretched out his hand and waved the air in front of his nose to drive away the smell of inferior perfume that Su Ya left on him.

What he hates the most is the smell of this inferior perfume, which is particularly irritating and unpleasant.

Tian Xiaoqing asked: "Wang Lin, who is she?"

Wang Lin smiled wryly: "Who is she, can't you see it?"

Tian Xiaoqing said: "I think she looks like a chicken."

"Ask knowingly!" Wang Lin shook his head.

When I came to the bank, it happened to be open for business.

When the staff heard that Wang Lin was going to exchange treasury bills, and how much was exchanged, they immediately became very enthusiastic.

Most of the bank's treasury bills are apportioned tasks, and they are eager to exchange them for banknotes!
The market for treasury bills here is not bad, and treasury bills worth 96 yuan sell for [-] yuan.

To Wang Lin's delight, the banks here may be much richer and have more treasury bills. He said he wanted to buy 240 million yuan in treasury bills. Lots of treasury bills.

Even if he exchanged 240 million yuan in treasury bonds, the staff here treated him as normal and did not treat him as a "shenhao".

It is indeed the frontier of reform and opening up. It seems that there are really many rich people here!

Tian Xiaoqing laughed softly: "Wang Lin, shall we come here more in the future? The banks here are richer!"

Wang Lin nodded: "I see!"

Wu Dazhuang said: "I just saw someone carrying a box in to save money, and the deposit is hundreds of thousands!"

Wang Lindao: "Master, stop staring at other people's money, and be careful that others treat you as a robber!"

Wu Dazhuang chuckled: "Do I look like a robber? If I were a robber, if I don't rob someone else's, I'll rob yours first!"

Wang Lin laughed.

After exchanging treasury bills, Wang Lin was in a good mood and said with a smile, "I didn't expect it to go so smoothly. I just want to take some time to visit the clothing wholesale market here."

He pondered for a while, and said, "Master, you and Sister Tian stay in the guest house and take care of each other."

After the incident of jumping off the building last time, Tian Xiaoqing also had lingering fears, and she didn't dare to take it seriously, so she agreed to stay with Wu Dazhuang.

Wang Lin sent them back to the guest house, brought some money with him and came downstairs.

The guest house here is on the side of the main road, and outside is the bustling and lively market, full of traffic and crowds.

Wang Lin hailed a taxi and went to the Shahe Clothing Wholesale Market.

He's here for research.

What kind of clothing is popular in this era?
Which style sells best?

How about the purchase price?
In Guangzhou's clothing city, you can definitely find the answer Wang Lin wants.

Although he only has a small workshop now, he has not relaxed his investigation and research on the market.

Wang Lin wandered around the Shahe River until five o'clock in the afternoon, and then went to Gaodi Street to have a look, probably thinking about it.

Seeing the lights come on, the night fell, and it was seven o'clock in the evening, Wang Lin ate something casually and went back home.

He took a taxi and got off at the intersection on the side of the guest house.

When Wang Lin looked up, he saw a resplendent nightclub with colorful neon lights.

There was a huge signboard in that nightclub, with five big characters shining brightly on it: "Lido Nightclub!"

"So Lido is right here, very close to the hostel!" Wang Lin took a look, and was about to leave when he saw a few gorgeous women, speaking Shanghainese, get off a van and stood on the side of the street, Pull out the mirror to touch up your makeup.

Wang Lin recognized one of them, and it was Cai Jinling, the deputy head of the Shencheng Song and Dance Troupe. He met Shen Xue once at her home.

"Head Cai, hello!" Wang Lin greeted with a smile.

Cai Jinling looked at him, feeling a little familiar, but didn't think of him for a moment, so she let out a long oh: "You are?"

Wang Lin smiled and said, "My name is Wang Lin, and I'm Shen Xue's friend."

"By the way, I met you at Shen Xue's house. Why are you here?"

"I'm here on a business trip, and I'm staying in the guest house here. Captain Cai, are you leading the team here to perform?"

"Hey, what kind of show! It's just a side job!" Cai Jinling smiled, pointing to the Lido Nightclub and said, "It's in here, dancing, singing, and the few of us can earn two hundred yuan a day each Come here, dance for a few more nights, and you can easily earn one or two thousand yuan to go home! Isn’t this much better than working in Shencheng?”

Wang Lindao: "Let's talk about market economy now!"

Cai Jinling laughed and said, "Do you want to go in and watch the show? The times are different, don't look at nightclubs with old eyes, you young people are not as open as us old people!"

Wang Lin smiled and said: "I don't care, I have nothing to do, so go in and watch your performance, and cheer you on!"

"That's right! Let's go, girls!" Cai Jinling greeted, and Yingying and Yanyan from the song and dance troupe happily walked inside.

Nightclubs, also known as cabaret, are common in Europe and the United States, and originated in France and Germany.

These clubs provide western food, dance or theater performances, most of them are western-style cabaret performances, and some are performed by famous singers or dance troupes.Some Western nightclub performers make permanent stops to attract tourists and other audiences, while others tour with troupes around the world.

The same form of entertainment, after being introduced to our country, has also been localized.

In the Lido nightclub, there are dance floors, bands and DJs, singing and dancing performances are provided, and of course drinks are also sold, and there are also girls serving.

After entering the arena, Cai Jinling took the team to the backstage to prepare to go.

Wang Lin found an empty table and sat down.

The lights in the nightclub were faintly bright, and the colorful rotating lights illuminated every face brightly and darkly.

As soon as Wang Lin sat down, he smelled a pungent perfume.

"Hey, handsome guy, you have love!" Su Ya sat down next to Wang Lin, "Come and find me? Hee hee!"

"No!" Wang Lin replied lightly.

"It's already here, why are you so reserved!" Su Ya leaned over with half of her body, and said charmingly, "Give me a cigarette."

(End of this chapter)