In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Zhou Xiaoying was extremely nervous, especially when the elevator went up.

She was very scared, her whole heart was in her throat, but she still kept smiling, for fear that the accompanying female manager would find out.

The female manager sent them to the door of the room. Instead of leaving immediately, she introduced the room:

"Mr. Hibi, this is the bathroom, this is your closet, and this is the phone. Currently, you can only call the front desk."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Thank you, no introduction is needed, I am familiar with these things."

"Okay, Mr. Hibi, do you need dinner? There is a 24-hour French and Western restaurant on the second floor, and the bar on the first floor is open until two o'clock."

Li Duoyu thought for a while.

In the past two days, I was either in the car or busy, and all three meals were not on time. In addition, Zhou Xiaoying was so angry with her cousin today that she even forgot to eat dinner.

Li Duoyu said: "We are a little tired, can we send it to the room?"

The female manager smiled and said:

"Okay, just wait for me for a moment and I'll get you the menu."

Not long after, the female manager came over with a Japanese menu.

Fortunately, it is bilingual, with Chinese characters on the top and Japanese on the bottom. Otherwise, Li Duoyu would be really embarrassed. He speaks Japanese very smoothly, but he is really not good at Japanese.

Menu, the first one is the cold dishes:

A dish of Jinling salted duck costs 11 yuan.

Soviet-style smoked fish also costs 10 yuan.

Generally speaking, there are quite a lot of Chinese dishes on the menu, even Tianjin roast duck, but the price is nearly three or four times more expensive than outside.

You don’t need to eat this kind of thing inside, you can also eat it outside.

Since everyone has come to live here, let's order something different. Li Duoyu thinks that Western food is not delicious.

But I can't stand being fashionable.

Steak, butterfly puff pastry, ice cream, American shrimp, and cake.

Li Duoyu wanted to give Zhou Xiaoying something different to experience. After all, he was tired of those things, but that didn't mean Xiaoying was tired of them too.

Li Duoyu smoothly finished ordering the Western food.

The female manager Su Yang said: "Do you need drinks? We can arrange a candlelight dinner for you."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Candlelight is fine, but red wine is not necessary. My wife has not been feeling well these past two days."

"understood."

When the female manager left, Li Duoyu took out a five-dollar foreign exchange coupon and put it on the menu in front of her.

The female manager quickly said:

"Thank you."

Although the hotel has express regulations not to accept tips, it is hard to resist the enthusiasm of these foreigners.

Their wages are not high, but as long as they can serve foreigners, many people are rushing to get them.

For example, doormen who help carry luggage, people who take people to rooms, and people who serve food. Everyone is vying for these three positions.

Because as long as there are enough tourists, the tips they receive are several times the wages of ordinary employees.

When the female manager Su Yang finished her orders in the restaurant and returned to the front desk, she found that the waitresses were talking among themselves.

They were all discussing the two foreign guests who had just checked in.

"That woman's clothes are even more vulgar than ours, and she has plastic shoes on her feet. She looks like one of us at first glance."

"Do you think it's possible that the woman was Mr. Hibi's lover in China? In order to allow her to stay in the hotel, he deliberately said that he had lost his travel document."

"It's hard to say, but it's really possible."

"I'm so envious. Mr. Hibi held her hand from beginning to end and seemed to love her very much. I wish I could find a foreign man like this."

Female manager Su Yang said:

"Stop thinking about it. This thing depends on fate. If you insist on joining in, they might get tired of playing with it and throw it away like a rag. Have you forgotten Cuiyun?"

After hearing this name, the smiles of several girls disappeared instantly. The man named Cuiyun was their colleague.

A year ago, I was still a person that everyone admired very much. He was very beautiful and fell in love with a foreign guest while he was working as a waiter.

The two have been inseparable for a while. Everyone thought that she would follow her foreign boyfriend to live in a beautiful country and start a rich life from then on.

Unexpectedly, after her foreign boyfriend got tired of playing with her, he left nothing but a seed for her and went back to his country.

Cuiyun's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and everyone advised her to have the baby removed, but she firmly believed that her foreign boyfriend must have encountered some difficulties, so he didn't contact her.

Because she gave birth to a child out of wedlock, she was directly fired from the hotel. In order to give birth to a child, Cuiyun even married a big fool.

Her family members were completely disgraced because of this incident, and her mother was so angry that she almost hanged herself.

Seeing that the female manager Su Yang mentioned this matter again, the girls immediately calmed down. A waiter said: "I think the manager is right, we local men are more reliable."

"Xiaolin, I heard that you and Chef Zhang are in love?"

"Bullshit."

After Li Duoyu closed the door, Zhou Xiaoying's eyes turned red on the spot, and big tears fell down.

But here, she didn't even dare to cry loudly.

Li Duoyu frowned and said, "Why are you crying again?"

Zhou Xiaoying sniffed and looked aggrieved: "I'm not scared by you, just stay in an ordinary guest house. If we stay in a hotel that welcomes foreign guests, if someone finds out, we might all have to be sent away." Go to the bureau.”

Li Duoyu chuckled and said: "The timid ones will starve to death, and the bold ones will starve to death. We spent real money to get in, and we didn't lie to them. Besides, I don't like their way of treating them differently."

Zhou Xiaoying glared at him:

"Speak softly and don't let others hear you. We will call our comrades to arrest us later."

"This hotel is not our home. The soundproofing is very good. Even if it creaks, you may not be able to hear it from the next door."

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying was angry and annoyed, her face flushed, and she stepped on him in anger.

Li Duoyu, who was in pain, said with a bitter look on his face: "Don't step on my shoes. You bought these shoes. I treasure them."

"Humph."

Next, Zhou Xiaoying spent several minutes to calm down.

For her, today was really too magical, and her mood was like the big waves on a typhoon day.

Television, refrigerator, washing machine and tape recorder, as well as Li Duoyu's fishing boat, were the limit of her imagination.

But as soon as I stepped into this hotel, everything was overturned, just like Grandma Liu in the novel visiting the Grand View Garden.

That revolving glass door was so beautiful. She had never seen such beautiful glass.

And that thing called the elevator really scared her. When she walked up, her feet felt a little weak.

But without thinking, in just a few words, we reached the 30th floor.

And everything in this room is like a work of art to her.

Not only does it have a beautiful floor lamp, but it also has a nice desk and a large bed that looks very high-end at first glance.

Next to the bed, there is a telephone.

A watercolor painting hangs on the bed, and a 21-inch TV is placed directly in front of it.

To her, the room was perfect and the floor was so clean.

Zhou Xiaoying quickly took off her plastic shoes and put on the hotel slippers.

She didn't expect that the plastic slippers provided by the hotel were more comfortable than the pair she was wearing.

Zhou Xiaoying still didn't want to believe that they really lived on the 30th floor, so she walked to the window and poked her head out a little.

His pupils suddenly dilated, his feet became weak involuntarily, and he held on to the wall before he dared to continue looking down.

The pedestrians on the road were like ants, and the houses seemed to be as big as a matchbox.

"Duoyu, we are really on the 30th floor."

Zhou Xiaoying was holding on to the wall and leaning out of the window. Li Duoyu thought she was a little funny and a little cute.

He walked directly to the window: "This is really the thirtieth floor." "It's so high, why aren't you afraid?"

Li Duoyu chuckled and said: "There is nothing to be afraid of. When I visited the island country, I lived in higher places."

Zhou Xiaoying then remembered that Li Duoyu had visited the island country for nearly a month. No wonder he had just walked through the revolving glass door and taken the elevator.

"Are all the houses in the island country this high?"

"No, only a few big cities have high-rise buildings."

While they were chatting quietly, someone knocked on the door, and then the voice of the female manager just now came.

"Hello Mr. Hibi, the dinner you ordered has been prepared. Can you eat now?"

Hearing the sound, Zhou Xiaoying suddenly became nervous and ran directly to the bathroom.

Li Duoyu opened the door.

A gloved female manager wheeled in a bronze double-decker dining cart.

After she came in, she placed the Western food from the dining car on the desk and placed a silver candle stand.

"Mr. Hibi, all the meals you ordered are here. Would you like to help you light the candles?"

"sure."

After the female manager finished lighting the candles, she smiled and said: "After you finish your meal, just call the front desk number and we will have a waiter come and clear away the dishes. Or I can come and clear away the dishes in two hours."

Li Duoyu replied: "Let me call the front desk."

When the female manager Su Yang left, she said: "By the way, Mr. Hibi, there is a rotating palace restaurant on the 36th floor of our hotel. It can rotate once every hour. You can sit still and see the entire scenery of Jinling. If necessary, can I reserve a seat for you?"

Li Duoyu thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "Let's talk about it, I have some things to deal with tomorrow."

"Okay, Mr. Hibi."

"have a good meal."

After the female manager left, Li Duoyu pulled out Zhou Xiaoying who was hiding in the bathroom, and she was staring at the big mirror in a daze.

"Don't look, you are prettier than those waiters."

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him: "You are telling lies. I am not that good-looking. That female manager is much prettier than me."

"She has put on makeup, but you look just like her without makeup. You must be prettier."

"Liar."

Although Zhou Xiaoying had a tough talk, she was happy in her heart. What she didn't expect was that Li Duoyu turned off the lights in the room the next second, leaving only a few candlelights.

"What, it's not romantic."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned slightly: "Isn't this just like our family? Now that there is a power outage on our island, don't everyone have dinner with candles lit?"

Li Duoyu was stunned, as if it was exactly what his wife said.

Romantic?

It seems that for the people of Dandan Island, this seems to be daily life.

After Zhou Xiaoying sat down, she suddenly became troubled: "There are so many fish, why are there only knives and forks? Did the waiter give us less chopsticks?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said:

"You don't need chopsticks for Western food."

"Then how do you eat it?"

Li Duoyu pursed his lips: "Western food. Of course, men feed this kind of food to women."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned slightly, and she knew from his tone that he must be talking about some stupid words that she couldn't understand.

Seeing Li Duoyu holding a fork in one hand and a knife in the other, he quickly cut a piece of beef.

Zhou Xiaoying also followed suit, but found that the knife was not sharp at all and could not cut the tendon at all.

At that moment,

She almost became anxious. She could use scissors or a sharper knife, so why did it have to be so troublesome?

After cutting the steak, Li Duoyu stabbed a piece of beef with a fork and pointed it at Zhou Xiaoying's mouth: "Don't be stubborn, come and open your mouth."

Zhou Xiaoying bulged her mouth, took the beef into her mouth, and then started chewing it.

"How does it taste?" Li Duoyu asked.

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and said: "It's not bad, but it's a bit fishy and it doesn't feel very familiar. It would be better if it could be more cooked."

Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment.

Zhou Xiaoying's words were definitely a critical blow to the steak chef, but Li Duoyu, who was a chef, could not refute.

Li Duoyu looked at this very authentic medium-rare steak and couldn't help but fell into deep thought. It was as if Chen Yueyu, who wanted to make traditional Japanese food at first, eventually turned into a fried food shop.

Li Duoyu thought that if the steak served today was served with black pepper sauce and mushroom sauce, Zhou Xiaoying would probably like it very much.

"What about these shrimp balls?"

Zhou Xiaoying nodded and said: "It's quite delicious, but I don't think it's necessary. The shrimp is already very sweet, so there is no need to add seasoning."

Li Duoyu squinted his eyes: "Yes, you are right, these chefs are really superfluous."

Li Duoyu finally discovered that Zhou Xiaoying was not very interested in these Western foods because she had been living on the island. She didn't know what the current Western foods meant to city people.

Fortunately, I didn't take her to a Western restaurant, otherwise the chef would probably vomit blood after hearing what she said.

However, Zhou Xiaoying also likes to eat something: "Duoyu, what is this soft and icy thing?"

"This is called ice cream."

"this is delicious."

However, only halfway through the meal, Zhou Xiaoying suddenly noticed the handwritten price beside the table. Although she could not read Japanese, she understood the last number.

She felt very distressed at this moment, because this Western meal ate up three months of her salary.

Li Duoyu hurriedly said: "Xiaoying, you don't have to eat so cleanly. If you come here today, if you eat too much, your stomach will hurt."

"too expensive."

A candlelight dinner that was not romantic ended like this.

Li Duoyu called the front desk directly.

Not long after.

The female manager came up, took away all the tableware, and wiped the desk clean.

After struggling all day, Zhou Xiaoying wanted to take a shower in the bathroom, but she couldn't find the basin after searching several times.

"Where is the washbasin?"

"Where can I get hot water?"

Seeing that Zhou Xiaoying didn't understand anything, Li Duoyu ran into the bathroom with ill intentions and pulled up the shower curtain.

As the pitter-pattering sound sounded, Zhou Xiaoying's face turned as red as a tomato.

"You can go out."

Li Duoyu said shamelessly: "We have to wash this together, otherwise there will be no hot water later."

"It's summer, don't you take cold showers?"

"I just said something wrong. If we don't wash together, there will be no water in a while."

"rogue."

In the middle of the night, Zhou Xiaoying was tossing and turning while lying on Simmons' bed. Even now, her brain is still very excited and she can't sleep at all.

And Li Duoyu couldn't sleep either. Although Li Xiaoer was very excited that day, he could only endure it.

"You relative, you came at the wrong time. Such a good bed was wasted like this."

Zhou Xiaoying also felt it was a bit wasteful. She couldn't bear to sleep at all, but after lying down for a while, she suddenly felt a pain in her stomach.

Went to the bathroom.

After a while, Zhou Xiaoying's voice came: "Duoyu, how do you use this toilet?" (End of Chapter)