20 years of spring breeze

Chapter 575
Xiaowei lit his cigarette and took a puff and said, "Let's go to the Beijing Hotel."

The driver glanced at Xiaowei without saying a word, and the car ran towards the city with a puff of gray smoke.

The more you walk into the city, the more cars on the road. After all, it is the capital city. Although the capital city in this era is also dusty and dusty, there are small red brick houses and coal sheds built indiscriminately, but it must be the capital city. The spirit is indeed different, and there are many more vehicles of all kinds on the street.

Nowadays, it is popular for women in Beijing to wear skirts, and they are all red and yellow skirts. They wear toad mirrors and bright lipstick. Work hard.

The driver whistled at a girl passing by the car in exchange for a big roll of his eyes, then turned to Xiaowei and said, "How is it? Does the girl in Beijing look good?"

Xiaowei said with a smile: "It's really different from the place, it's more energetic."

The driver asked, "Are you really going to the Capital Hotel?"

Xiaowei nodded and said, "Really."

The driver asked: "Brother, what do you do? You are not very old, look, you have money at home?"

Xiaowei shook his head and said, "We just farm at home. We are really the police, Fengtian's police."

The driver looked at Xiaowei for a few moments, shook his head and said, "It's not like that. How many days are you going to spend in the capital? If you want to use a car, call me. I'm familiar with where you want to go. If you hire my car, there are some places that can help you." Save the ticket." He took a business card from the dashboard and handed it to Xiaowei.

Xiaowei took a look at it, and said with a smile, "How can I find you with your landline?" The business card is a typical Beijing business card of this era, with a name, a phone number, and a handwritten paging number. , at first glance, it is the phone number of the grocery store in the alley.The business card should have been printed originally, but I didn't want to reprint it when I got a paging call, so I just filled it in with a pen.

The driver said: "Call the landline phone sooner or later. You can call me at night after you decide where you want to go tomorrow. I will pick you up the next morning. You can call me during the day." He patted the pager on his waist .

Xiaowei suddenly remembered the sports car Chen Hui mentioned, and asked the driver: "Brother, do you know that, where is the Ferrari sports car sold?"

The driver looked at Xiaowei in surprise and said, "Want to see it? The first one in China, you read it from the newspaper, right? It's more than 70 yuan, which is awesome. That car was exhibited in the capital by another company, and it was bought by Li Xiaohua." Cut it off, our men in the capital city are awesome, if you don’t say anything, you’ll just be bored.”

Xiaowei said: "I don't look at it. Why do I look at the car bought by others? Where is that car sold?"

The driver shook his head and said: "No, there is none in China. I guess you have to contact the company or the consulate for this matter. That's not what ordinary people do. If you want to see, it's okay to wander around Chang'an Avenue. That car always runs in that area, so it’s easy to recognize.”

Xiaohong asked: "What is boredom?"

The driver made a gesture of paying: "Don't ask the price, just dump the money. In the capital, the RMB is called a replacement, and the US dollar is called a knife."

Xiaohong said: "Before I came here, I thought that the capital city must be full of high-rise buildings and resplendent buildings. Why are they all old bungalows?"

The driver glanced at the rearview mirror and said, "Sister, the bungalows in the capital are different from the ones over there. Even though they are all large courtyards now, in the past, only people with ID cards could build houses in the city. It's an antique. Have you looked at the gate? Which of the common people's houses dares to build this gate? Look at the pawn under the eaves, right? Not everyone can make it. Look at the stone drums on both sides of the gate, and you know what it is. ?”

Xiaohong turned her head to look outside and asked, "What is it?"

The driver said: "The right family is right. The family of a civil servant is right, and the family of a military officer is right. It represents the rank. If you mess around, you will lose your head."

Xiaohong said: "Huh? The right-to-door family you mentioned is this?"

The driver said: "That's not true. In the past few years, you have to be a matchmaker, and to find someone you have to look at the right family first. They are of similar grades, and civil and military marriages cannot be intermarried. That's taboo, and the matchmaker is also counted as such." If you make a mistake, you will be killed. Do you see? Stay away from such people when you are wandering alleys in the capital." He lifted his chin and pointed to the side of the road.

Xiaowei looked over, and saw a few half-children smoking cigarettes standing by the side of the road and looking around.

The driver said: "These are all game masters, young people who are unemployed. There is nothing serious about it. A group of gangsters go around to watch the scenery and take pictures of women every day. If there is nothing to do, they will make an appointment. It is not worthwhile to mess with them. It is a real knife."

Xiaohong asked: "Where is nobody caring?"

The driver said: "Who cares, isn't it a disadvantage for you? Half a child is not serious, and he is ruthless."

Xiaowei said: "It's the same everywhere, there are no fights now."

There are more and more cars on the road outside, and there are more and more bicycles. The cars start to stop and go, the sound of horns, the sound of bicycles and the noise of pedestrians are mixed together. There are also more and more small shops on the side of the road. The people of Beijing guard the political center. , If there is any disturbance, it is always ahead of the country. In this era, there are many policies, many businesses, and many rich people.

Xiaohong lay on the window and looked out, saying: "There are so many bicycles in the capital."

Xiaowei said: "Where are there not many bicycles? There are too many people." At this moment, cities across the country are occupied by bicycle armies. Parking lots are definitely a high-income department in this era, even the large parking lots of later generations are not easy to use.

Looking at the traffic of bicycles, Xiaohong said, "Oh, that sister's clothes are really beautiful, but the bike she's riding on is too worn out, so it doesn't match."

The driver laughed and said, "Sister, don't you usually ride a bike?"

Xiaohong said: "Riding, I have to ride to and from school, but I have never ridden such an old bike."

The driver said: "I just said that you are students, and you are still bluffing me. With my eyes, it is almost indistinguishable with a glance."

Xiaohong said: "I am a student, they are not, they are really police officers."

The driver froze for a moment and asked, "Really?"

Xiaowei nodded and said, "Really, I don't lie to people."

The driver said, "You don't really want to stay at the Capital Hotel, do you?"

Xiaowei said: "If you want to live there, what's wrong with living there?"

The driver gave a thumbs up and said: "people in the capital are willing to say something. If you don't like it, you can go to the Beijing Hotel. Do you understand, buddy? That's the most amazing place in Beijing. It was the tallest building in Beijing back then. The first building was seven floors. After the renovation, it was the tallest building in the capital, and it was the most advanced building. At that time, because of the construction of the Beijing Hotel, the country held a meeting to study it. Because it was too high, you could see the wall. You can go and have a look now , the Jingcheng Hotel has no windows facing the Forbidden City.”

Xiaohong was surprised and said, "Seven floors are the tallest?"

The driver said: "At that time, only Shanghai had tall buildings, and they were all foreigners. Who would dare to build taller buildings than the Forbidden City in Beijing? The tallest building was the Jinluan Palace. The Beijing Hotel was built by foreigners. At that time, Yuan The buttocks of the big head, this is only so high, there will be telephone elevators and heating at that time."

(End of this chapter)