Counterattack 1988

Chapter 454

For the time being, Wang Lin stopped discussing the settlement expenses with Li Jiaxin, and asked, "Will you eat Western food or Cantonese food?"

"Is there a Cantonese restaurant in Shencheng?" Li Jiaxin asked.

"Is this your first visit to the Mainland?"

"Well, I've never been here before."

Wang Lin expressed his understanding and said, "There are many restaurants in Shanghai, where you can eat dishes from all over the world. There are French, Japanese, and Cantonese dishes. Xinya Cantonese Restaurant and Red House Western Restaurant all existed in the civil period. Old restaurant."

Li Jiaxin asked with a smile: "What kind of food do you like to eat?"

"I'm casual, but I still prefer domestic dishes."

"Then eat Cantonese food."

Wang Lin nodded and drove to Xinya Cantonese Restaurant.

Xinya Cantonese Restaurant was once famous for a while.

During the period of the Republic of China, the guests in the Xinya restaurant were all dignitaries, businessmen and compradors, and celebrities at that time.

In order to increase variety and promote consumption, Xinya cooperates with "Flying Tiger General" and uses the plane of "Flying Tiger Team" to airlift ham and cantaloupe from other provinces to Shanghai for supply. Advertising, inviting celebrities from all walks of life to taste, making Xinya more famous.

Kirk, the Song family and others have all dined here.

Xinya Cantonese Restaurant is located on the bustling Nanjing Road.

Wang Lin and Li Jiaxin walked into the store and chose a private seat to sit down.

It was Li Jiaxin's first visit to the mainland, and she was curious about everything she saw.

What she saw and heard in the Mainland was much better than what she had imagined before coming here.

After all, Shencheng used to be a ten-mile foreign market. Although it has not developed much in recent years, the previous foundation is still there. There are European-style mansions everywhere. The economy is prosperous, the commerce is developed, and the transportation is convenient. It is not as modern as Xiangjiang, but it does not have the style of an old city. .

And from the moment she got off the plane, Wang Lin picked her up in a luxury car, lived in the most expensive garden house, and ate at the most expensive Cantonese restaurant.

Luxury cars, garden houses, and Xinya Cantonese restaurants, these were left in the [-]s and [-]s, and only the top rich and upper-class people could enjoy them at that time.

Li Jiaxin can enjoy all the top things in Shanghai as soon as she comes here, so of course she thinks this place is very good.

Wang Lin ordered a few dishes, Xinya Shrimp, Scallion Chicken, Smoked Pomfret, Oyster Sauce Beef.

In the last year of the 80s, the social atmosphere in Shanghai was relatively open compared to other places in the mainland. Businessmen from all over the world also had a lot of contacts here, and it was one of the gathering places for foreigners.

Moreover, Shanghai is very tolerant. All cultures, customs, and restaurants, whether domestic or foreign, can coexist peacefully here.

A city can become big because of its inclusiveness.

Li Jiaxin's dress is fashionable and avant-garde, and her appearance is super beautiful. Although she is eye-catching, she will not attract crowds.

The dishes of Xinya Cantonese Restaurant are very suitable for Li Jiaxin's taste. While she was eating, she was talking with Wang Lin.

"How did you come up with the idea to ask Ms. Tang for my company's phone number?" Wang Lin asked.

Li Jiaxin smiled and said: "Because I miss you. And it was Miss Tang who contacted me first. Of course, she must notify me when she transferred such money into my bank card."

"Oh, what did you talk to her about?" Wang Lin asked.

"I didn't say anything, I just asked your contact information in the mainland." Li Jiaxin said, "Who is she to you? I think she cares about you too!"

"A very good friend." Wang Lin replied.

After dinner, it was less than six o'clock. For the citizens of Shencheng, it was the rush hour for getting off work.

Summer nights come late, and the sky is still bright.

The street life in Shencheng is certainly not as prosperous as Xiangjiang, but it is also very lively.

Wang Lin took Li Jiaxin to visit several famous markets.

Li Jiaxin's curiosity and freshness are as strong as Li Wenjuan's first trip to Xiangjiang. When she sees something she has never seen before, she always stops to have a look, chats with the shop owner, and buys what she likes.

At this moment, Li Jiaxin was walking beside Wang Lin, just like a beautiful girl next door, without any celebrity airs. Like Li Wenjuan of the same age, she was lively and lovely, with an active nature.She is kind and polite, and she always says thank you when receiving people and things. Compared with Li Wenjuan, she seems more educated and qualified.

Li Jiaxin was also very interested in the special delicacies such as spiced beans, butterfly cakes, pear paste candies, and Qibao square cakes sold in Chenghuang Temple, and bought some for eating and playing.

When I saw Shencheng bamboo handicrafts such as wood carving, bamboo carving, and velvet embroidery, I would curiously pick them up and play for a long time. After reading them, I felt embarrassed and bought them.

On the curved bridge in Yu Garden, she would stop to watch the fish swimming in the pond, and buy some fish food to feed the fish with Wang Lin.

The lights are on, and night falls.

Wang Lin took her to the Bund.

The Bund is a holy place for young people to fall in love.

When young men and women in Shanghai were talking about their partners, they often measured the Bund in the footsteps of love.From Dongdaming Road, walk to Waibaidu Bridge.On Dongdaming Road, along the side of the Huangpu River, there is a long white wall, separated by some big iron gates that prevent outsiders from entering, those old-fashioned tiger windows, and occasionally a young beauty in foreign silk leans against the window, looking out. The foreign ships moored by the river, listening to the long whistle sound, seem to be looking forward to the beloved who has returned from afar.

In the planned economy era, the Bund in Shanghai was the "Aegean Sea" in the eyes of couples all over the country, and Shanghai was the first choice for wedding tourism.

In addition to shopping in Shanghai and bringing back Shanghai specialties for yourself and your relatives and friends, couples who travel and get married can also hold hands, stroll along the Bund, and romantically hug and kiss at the "Love Wall" to take pictures.

The "love wall" is actually a half-person-high low wall made of bricks and cement, and the top of the wall is a "herringbone" shape with a gentle slope.Holding the wall is just to look at the river and enjoy the feeling of the river breeze.You have to turn around to see the scenery. The Puxi Wanguo building is magnificent and records the history of the Bund in the past.

At that time, there were no bridges across the Huangpu River, no tunnels at the bottom of the river, and no sightseeing cruise ships on the river.Pudong has no avenues along the river, and few tall buildings.There is a billboard with a rough shape and set on a concrete pier. It is tall and somewhat eye-catching.

At night, there are some scattered lights in Pudong near the river, and looking farther away, the whole Pudong is silent in the darkness, which forms a huge contrast with the dazzling lights on the Bund in Puxi.

The most romantic view of the river is the seagulls.You can see them stretching and flying freely, and you can hear their chirping when they fly close.

Common scenes are large foreign passenger and cargo ships that often sound their whistles, as well as coal and cargo diesel ships, large and small, with bows and sterns, dragging a long "dong dong dong" sound and emitting bursts of black smoke.

Viewing the scenery on the river bank was not enough. Wang Lin took Li Jiaxin to take a ferry from different ferry ports, going back and forth, embracing each other romantically, watching the lights of the Bund on the river.

"Why is this place called the lover's wall?" Li Jiaxin asked Wang Lin curiously across the love wall.

Wang Lin smiled and said, "This is a product of history."

Li Jiaxin said: "Has there been any touching love stories here?"

Wang Lindao: "The housing conditions in Shencheng are generally poor. In our side, it is common for two or three generations to live in the same room. When young men and women reach the age of dating, if they go to each other's house, they must live in those houses. The family looked at me and whispered, the embarrassment can be imagined, and I had no choice but to go outdoors."

"Ah? Is there no park?" Li Jiaxin asked.

Wang Lindao: "The park is usually closed at night except in midsummer. When the park is open at night, there are often militiamen, pickets, and joint defense personnel to patrol the dark places to ensure that public places are not polluted. There were no cafes or bars at that time. , Dance halls are available, so the only place where couples get involved in a large number of activities is the road. Therefore, swinging the road has become synonymous with love and romance. Couples naturally prefer to swing to places where there are few people and the lights are dim.”

Li Jiaxin said: "No age can stop people from loving each other!"

Wang Lindao: "It's great for lovers to go to a remote corner to have a relationship. They can kiss and hug if they want to. But they are also easy to be robbed, or insulted by street sneakers and hooligans, or the pickets are overly enthusiastic. No matter the lovers resist or run away, the result is always a lingering memory. Therefore, the lovers in Shanghai are all looking for a place that is both hidden and safe. The Bund Lovers Wall is like this slowly The land was naturally formed. There are many people here, and the public security is good. Two people lie on the wall, facing the river, and the probability of being recognized by acquaintances is very low. Moreover, there are many tourists here, and there are also many foreign tourists. Between men and women, occasionally Be intimate and not attract attention."

"Lover's Wall! What a romantic name!" Li Jiaxin smiled, holding Wang Lin's hand, and said with a smile, "Let's date here too! No one will recognize you."

Wang Lin smiled awkwardly, and leaned against the wall with her, watching the seagulls flying across the river and listening to the whistle of the ocean liner.

"Someone is proposing!" Someone shouted.

The crowd in front of the wall of love rushed over there.

A young man in a short-sleeved white shirt got down on one knee and proposed to a short-haired woman.

This scene may have happened suddenly, because looking at the outfits of the two, it was obvious that they hadn't made any preparations.

There were neither romantic roses nor beautiful candlelight at the scene.

Someone shouted: "Not even a ring! Girl, don't agree!"

"That's right, it's too dishonest! Girl, don't take advantage of him!"

"Girl, fall in love with me! I'll buy you a gold ring!" Someone whistled.

The man who proposed marriage obviously did not expect that the crowd not only did not bless them, but even booed them.

Two people proposed in front of the love wall, but encountered such an embarrassing scene!
The short-haired woman was so shy, she covered her face with her hands, for fear of being recognized by acquaintances, she whispered: "Get up quickly! You are ugly!"

The river breeze in summer nights makes people cool and comfortable, and there are many people strolling along the river.

It's rare to see something lively, and pedestrians gather around.

Some people shouted "yes".

Someone also shouted: "Girl, marry him!"

Those who booed were all young men, and those who shouted were all big girls and old people.

Looking at this scene, Wang Lin wondered if this man had read too many novels?Girls who love you don't need to ask, and girls who don't love you don't need to ask!

The transition from love to marriage is not something that can be achieved by asking for it.Prepare the wedding room, buy the three-turn and one-sound belt click, and bring the dowry to propose to your natal family. It is more effective than kneeling here, and it is more sincere.

A girl who really thinks about things will not be dazzled by love at this moment, because marriage is always a reality, and after this kneeling, it has to be implemented in the discussion of marriage between the two sides of the family.

Wang Lin shook his head lightly: "Looking at that girl's expression, I know that this marriage proposal is not successful."

"I found that you don't believe in love!" Li Jiaxin said.

"Love?" Wang Lin heard her mention the word love more than once!
Could it be that in Li Jiaxin's mind, is she really looking forward to a beautiful love?
"What a beautiful love this is!" Li Jiaxin said, "If I were that girl, I would definitely agree to marry him."

Wang Lindao: "Do you not love? Marry too?"

"Don't love? Why do you ask for marriage if you don't love?"

"This is called moral kidnapping. It puts the woman in a very embarrassing position. To put it bluntly, this is forced marriage."

More and more people were booing: "Girl, he didn't prepare a ring, he has no sincerity, don't marry him!"

A girl shouted, "Weave a ring out of straw!"

A man shouted: "Grass ring? What kind of marriage are you getting? Girl, don't be so cheap! There are so many good men!"

The man who proposed was also embarrassed.

The girl turned her head away: "If you don't get up again, I'm leaving!"

"Hahaha! It's no use!" The boys may all be single, and with the idea of ​​breaking up a couple, they shouted loudly, "It's broken up! It's broken up!"

Begging for love under the love wall, it turned out to be a joke!
Wang Lin smiled and said, "Let's go!"

"Wait." Li Jiaxin said, "I know you don't believe in love. Let's make a bet, shall we?"

"What bet?" Wang Lin asked.

"What if he succeeds in proposing? What do you do?" Li Jiaxin laughed.

"He won't succeed."

"Then tell me first, what will you do if his proposal succeeds?"

"What do you mean?"

"Do you just believe that I love you?"

"Hehe! This is impossible!" Wang Lin shook his head.

Li Jiaxin suddenly stepped forward, took off a gold ring on her middle finger, handed it to the man who proposed, and said, "Use this."

The man raised his head and saw a fairy descending from the earth, and the fairy even gave him a ring!
"Ah?" The man was dumbfounded, and said in a jerk, "Comrade, I, I can't ask for your ring."

"Take it!" Li Jiaxin said, "It's not easy to meet someone who loves you in life, and it's even more difficult to meet a woman who can make you propose. You don't want to let her slip away from you just because of a ring. ?”

The man looked at the gold ring in her hand: "Is this expensive? How much? I don't know if I can afford it."

"It's for you." Li Jiaxin said, "As long as you can propose successfully! I won't waste this ring."

The scene suddenly fell silent!

A gold ring costs at least a few hundred yuan, at least equivalent to half a year's salary of an ordinary worker!
This beautiful woman who looked like a fairy was actually given to this man who proposed marriage!

The short-haired woman who was proposed to marry turned around when she heard this, and looked at Li Jiaxin curiously. She is so beautiful!The four beauties of Shen Yu Luoyan and Guan Yue Sha Hua are nothing more than that, right?
Everyone was shocked!

Wang Lin was also inexplicably shocked!
He looked at Li Jiaxin in surprise.

This woman with the beauty of the country and the city was as beautiful as a painting before, and she also looked like the person in the painting!
Until now, she suddenly walked out of the painting.

Her image really became three-dimensional in Wang Lin's heart!
Li Jiaxin stretched out her hand, held up the ring, and handed it in front of the man proposing. At this moment, it seemed to be frozen into eternity in Wang Lin's eyes.

(End of this chapter)