Life 1984

In the evening, Li Yunhai and Zhu Lin took Feifei to Nanluogu Lane for fun.

Nanluogu Alley is also called Luoguo Alley because the 16 alleys are shaped like centipedes, so it is also called Centipede Street.

The courtyard where Zhu Lin lives is located near the Forbidden City, less than three kilometers away from Nanluoguxiang. It is not too far to walk there after dinner.

This is one of the busiest alleys in Beijin. At night, Nanluogu Alley is full of delicious food and fireworks, and you can find all kinds of snacks.

Here, you can feel the taste of Old Beijin, Hutong culture and fashionable atmosphere. Whether it’s snacks, culture or art, tourists can be satisfied here.

This was once the most prosperous area in the capital, a gathering place for dignitaries.

Many well-known celebrities have left their former residences here.

Almost every house has its own story.

Prince Monk's Mansion, Keyuan, Houdi, Qiyuan, Jiang's Palace, and the famous Chinese Opera campus are also here.

From the generals of the Ming Dynasty to the last queen of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from literary masters to painting giants, every house here has countless romantic figures.

Li Yunhai didn't care whether Feifei understood it or not, he would tell it to her wherever he went.

Feifei opened her big black eyes, full of curiosity and thirst for knowledge. She has always been naughty and noisy, but she was extra quiet tonight, listening to her father telling stories.

Zhu Lin was wearing casual clothes and a hat with a low brim.

If you don't look at her carefully, it would be difficult to tell that she is Her Majesty the Queen.

She doesn't want to be a queen, nor does she want to be a star that attracts all the attention. She just wants to be like all the ordinary housewives in the world, spending time shopping with her men and children.

There are many shops on both sides of the road. Even an inconspicuous small shop may be a century-old brand.

There is everything you need to eat, play, and use.

Li Yunhai held Feifei in his arms and walked into a shop selling antiques.

Zhu Lin picked up a vase and said with a smile: "This is beautiful. It will be spring soon. It can be used to place peach blossoms or cherry blossoms."

A shop assistant nearby reminded: "Comrade, this is an antique. If you want to use it to arrange flowers, just buy an ordinary vase."

Li Yunhai said: "No matter what it is, if you like to use it to arrange flowers, just buy a few and go home to arrange flowers."

The clerk twitched his lips, shook his head and said, "Comrade, arranging flowers with expensive antiques is a bit of a waste."

Li Yunhai said disapprovingly: "These things, in the hands of the ancients, were used to arrange flowers."

The clerk was stunned and said: "That's true. But now it is a valuable antique. When you buy it home, you will probably lock it in the counter and offer it."

Li Yunhai said: "Isn't the chicken cup in the Chenghua period also used for drinking tea? Isn't the incense burner in the Xuande period also used to light incense? Those who make the best use of things are those who love things."

The clerk was surprised and said: "I didn't realize it, but my husband turned out to be a man who knows the goods. This vase is blue and white porcelain from the Ming Dynasty, priced at 30,000 yuan."

Li Yunhai smiled and said: "Thirty thousand each is not expensive. Can I buy ten and go home to arrange flowers?"

After hearing this, the clerk twitched his lips again, feeling that this man was too good at holding vases. He actually bought ten of them for a small vase worth thirty thousand? The key is to buy it at home or use it to arrange flowers!

In 1993, there were probably not many people who could spend 30 to buy ten vases and arrange flowers for fun.

What made the clerk collapse was that Zhu Lin actually echoed: "You don't need ten, right? Just buy two or three, and more will not look good."

Li Yunhai said: "Put one in each room?"

The clerk listened to their bragging and didn't want to receive them.

At this time, Zhu Fei suddenly stretched out her hand, grabbed the vase, and lifted it up violently.

The vase is not big, with a long neck and narrow mouth, only as long as Sophie's arm.

The clerk was startled and yelled: "Kids, you can't play with this, put it down quickly! If it breaks, it's not for fun!"

It was okay that he didn't shout, but this shout frightened Zhu Fei, and she let go!
There was a sound of "Bang!"

The vase fell to the ground and broke into countless pieces.

The clerk shouted out loud: "I told you not to take it, but you insisted on taking it. Now it's fine, it broke!"

Li Yunhai gently stroked Feifei's forehead, kissed his daughter again, and said, "Feifei is not afraid, is the sound nice?"

Sophie was about to cry with her mouth flat, but when her father said this, she grinned again: "That sounds good!"

"As long as it sounds good, it's just a toy. If you want to hear its sound, just throw it and listen. This is also called making the best use of a thing." Li Yunhai said with a smile.

Zhu Lin couldn't laugh or cry beside him.

After all, it’s thirty-thousand pieces of Ming blue and white porcelain. If your daughter falls, you just hear a noise?
How can anyone pamper their daughter like this?

The shop owner rushed over and said loudly: "Ouch! This is a vase worth 30,000 pieces. Little kid, how could you drop it?"

Li Yunhai said calmly: "If you fall, you will fall. What's the big deal? If you scare my daughter, it will cost you three hundred million, and you can't settle this matter!"

The shop owner was a fat man, his eyes were squeezed into the size of mung beans due to fat. He glanced at Li Yunhai and Zhu Lin and sneered: "Comrade, you said it lightly. What you threw was my thing. Of course you said so!"

Li Yunhai took out a bank card and said, "If I buy it, doesn't it belong to me? My daughter wants to throw it down and hear the sound, so why not?"

The shop owner was stunned.

The clerk even looked horrified.

Zhu Lin smiled and said: "You are too spoiled to her!"

Li Yunhai said: "A thousand dollars can't buy a piece of happiness! As long as my daughter is happy, that's all."

The store owner said: "Sorry, we can't pay by credit card here."

Although POS machines have been around for a long time, they became popular in my country relatively late.

It was not until the late 1990s that it was gradually used by major merchants.

However, in 1993, high-end shopping malls like Sihai Plaza had begun to use POS machines.

Li Yunhai put away the card and waved.

Ding Qiang stepped forward.

Li Yunhai took women and children out shopping, so of course he brought enough cash.

Ding Qiang and Zhuang Yong both had backpacks with money in them.

"Give them 120,000 yuan." Li Yunhai said, "Including the one that fell, we will buy three more. A total of four."

Ding Qiang agreed and asked the store: "Do you want RMB or US dollars?"

The shop owner was stunned. He was still crying just now, but he suddenly became more humble and said with a smile: "RMB!"

Ding Qiang took out a pile of bills, which happened to be 100,000 yuan, and then took out two bundles of 10,000 yuan bills and placed them on the counter.

The shop owner knew that he had met the God of Wealth.

Thirty thousand vases each, without paying back a penny of the price, just buy four of them.

Just now, the store owner was sad that the child broke one, but now he feels regretful, kid, why don’t you break a few more and listen to the symphony?
"This, this? Sorry, we only have one pair here. The kid just dropped one, so there is only one left. But there are other styles, which are similar to this pair."

Li Yunhai said: "Anything is fine, it's just for putting flowers!"

The shop owner quickly asked someone to wrap up three vases.

Li Yunhai said: "There's no need to pack so much, just put it in plastic bags. It's easier to carry some."

The shop owner had no choice but to listen to his words. He carefully wrapped it in oil paper, then carried it in a plastic bag and handed it to Li Yunhai carefully.

Of course Li Yunhai wouldn't answer.

Ding Qiang reached out and took it.

"Would you like to look at something else?" The shop owner smiled attentively, "Little princess, look here, there is something good to see here."

He wanted to attract Sophie to look at other porcelain, so it was best to throw away all the valuable ones in his shop.

Zhu Fei was no longer interested and pointed outside to leave.

Li Yunhai and Zhu Lin left the store.

The shop owner escorted them to the door and sighed: "This person has to throw away more than others!"

The clerk said: "Boss, how rich is this person? For thirty thousand yuan, just let my daughter hear the sound!"

The shop owner shook his head slightly: "It's unfathomable. He is really rich! That bank card just now is not something that ordinary people can get. If you don't have thousands of dollars in it, the bank will not open such a card for you. ”

"Huh?" The clerk was confused and sweated at the same time. Fortunately, the man didn't argue with him. Otherwise, if he was charged with disturbing the little princess, he could be thrown into jail and eat free of charge. meal.

Zhu Lin walked beside Li Yunhai and said with a smile: "Yunhai, there is something wrong with the way you educate your daughter. How could you teach her like this? When she grows up, why should she treat money like dirt?"

"Isn't it bad? You haven't seen Dream of Red Mansions? Qingwen tore up her fan to make a smile." Li Yunhai said with a smile, "A maid in the Jia family can have fun like that, why can't my daughter?"

Zhu Lin laughed so hard that his stomach ached: "I can't beat you. Fortunately, you don't teach her often, otherwise I wouldn't know how to take care of her."

Li Yunhai said: "In ancient times, there was a person who loved to eat a dish called chicken tongue. For every dish, he only used chicken tongue to cook, which would waste hundreds of chickens every time! Does it subvert your three views even more?"

Zhu Lin said: "I seem to have heard of this. It's extremely extravagant and wasteful!"

Li Yunhai said: "This person is Li Shen, a poet from the Tang Dynasty who wrote about the sweat dripping from the soil and the hard work. What do you think?"

"Ah? Really? That's simply unimaginable!" Zhu Lin was really surprised.

Li Yunhai said: "Isn't it okay to improve your own life through your own efforts so that you and your family can live a good life? If rich people are still reluctant to spend, and everyone is a miser, then it is not worth promoting."

Zhu Lin said: "Oh! I don't know what to say!"

After shopping, return home.

Zhu Lin took out three blue and white porcelain vases, placed them in the living room, and said, "When I am free one day, I will fold some peach blossoms to insert." Feifei was tired from shopping and fell asleep as soon as she got home.

Li Yunhai returned to his residence and slept without mentioning it.

The next morning, they went to Miliangku Alley to visit the leaders.

By the time they came out, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon.

Li Yunhai's cell phone was always turned off.

After getting in the car, he turned on the phone.

The phone rang suddenly.

He answers the phone.

"Brother Li, where are you?" A clear female voice came over with deep resentment.

"Hello, Miss Li Juan!" Li Yunhai said, "I'm in Beijin!"

"Hey, Brother Li, didn't you say the flight was at ten this morning? I've been waiting for you! Where are you guys?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, we changed our booking and will return to Xizhou tomorrow. Where have you been?"

"I waited for you to disappear and thought you had entered the airport directly, so I boarded the plane. Now I am in Xizhou!"

"Hahaha!" Li Yunhai couldn't help but laugh, "Sorry! Just get there when you arrive! Find a hotel to stay in first, and we'll go back tomorrow."

"Hey, can't you tell me about such a big thing?"

"I forgot to inform you."

"I don't even exist in your heart!"

"Of course! If I have you in my heart, you will be afraid!"

"You! How can I be a friend like you? Humph!"

"Let's do this. I'll call the Sihai Tianhua Hotel and open a suite for you. You can go and check in directly. All the room and board expenses will be paid to me. I'll take it as an apology. How about that?"

"Well, that's pretty much it! Okay, since you're so sincere, I'll forgive you."

Li Yunhai hung up the phone and said with a smile: "I forgot about Li Juan and she was furious!"

Lin Xin exclaimed: "Yes! She went to Xizhou?"

Li Yunhai smiled and said, "That's right!"

He called back to Xizhou and asked someone to arrange a place for Li Juan.

There was still half a day left today, so Li Yunhai asked Lin Xin to go back first. He wanted to be alone with Zhu Lin.

Lin Xin was very weird and asked, "Where are you going to play?" Take me to play with you!

Li Yunhai thought to himself, we really can't take you to play with us!

Zhu Lin knew what Li Yunhai was thinking, but he couldn't make Lin Xin suspicious, so he said, "Shall we go for a walk in the park? The weather is nice today. Can we go boating in the park?"

Lin Xin smiled and said: "Okay! I like rowing the most."

Li Yunhai had no choice but to agree.

They went home to pick up Feifei and headed to Beihai Park.

Feifei called her daddy, calling her very affectionately.

Lin Xin was stunned for a while after hearing this.

Although she knew that Li Yunhai was Zhu Fei's godfather, she still felt awkward and said, "Brother-in-law, Feifei should call you godfather instead of daddy. This can easily misunderstand others."

Li Yunhai said: "No one will misunderstand except you, because others don't care about our affairs at all. To others, we are all strangers to them. Do you care about others calling them daddy wrong?"

Lin Xin was speechless.

Zhu Lin smiled sweetly.

They rented a boat in the park. Lin Xin and Zhu Lin rowed the boat, while Li Yunhai held Feifei in his arms and watched the flowers.

"Lin Xin, do you have a boyfriend?" Zhu Lin asked with a smile.

"No!" Lin Xin smiled shyly, "When I was studying, we were not allowed to fall in love at home. After graduation, I have been working in the company and have not found a suitable partner."

"You have a good background and good conditions, so your requirements must be very high."

"I don't have high demands, just someone like my brother-in-law."

"Isn't this high? There is only one Li Yunhai in the world!"

"Hee! Just take your time and look for it! I'm not in a hurry anyway, let's wait until I'm thirty!"

“The ideas of today’s young people are really amazing!”

"Sister Zhu, what about you? Are you not getting married?"

"I'm already old. I don't want to get married. I don't have the heart to serve men anymore."

"Have you been single for a long time and don't want to find a partner anymore?"

"A little."

Today is neither a weekend nor a holiday, so there are not many people visiting the lake.

The boat floats leisurely on the lake.

Rowing the boat to a small island, Lin Xin pointed to the peach blossoms in bloom there and said with a smile: "What a beautiful peach blossom!"

Zhu Lin looked back at Li Yunhai: "I'm going to pick some flowers and go home to arrange them."

Li Yunhai said: "This is a park, I don't know if you are allowed to break it!"

Zhu Lin said: "Are you okay? If you get caught, you'll be fined a little. I can't make a special trip to Xiangshan just for a few peach blossoms, right?"

Lin Xin said: "Xiangshan is also a scenic spot, and you are not allowed to break flowers."

Zhu Lin said: "So! It's folded here."

Lin Xin said: "I'll fold it for you. When I was young, my sister and I often went to the Martyrs Cemetery to fold flowers. One time, we were caught by the administrator of the garden and fined us five yuan! At that time, five yuan was a big deal. It’s so much, the park ticket is only 20 cents! It’s so heartbreaking that I still remember it!”

Li Yunhai said: "It can be seen that no matter how much you are punished, you will not have a long memory. You still want to pick flowers!"

Lin Xin chuckled and said, "What are you afraid of! How boring would it be if life were all based on the rules set by others? Even if we cannot be the ones who make the rules, at least we must be the ones who don't follow the rules."

Zhu Lin said: "I found that if you are not a family, if you don't enter the same house, the ideas you and Yun Hai have are too special!"

Lin Xin rowed the boat and came to the peach blossoms.

The peach blossoms are blooming near the water. The trees are not very tall, and you can reach them at your fingertips when standing on the boat.

Lin Xin stood at the bow of the boat, stretched out her hand to climb a beautiful peach blossom, broke it off hard, and handed it to Zhu Lin.

Li Yunhai shouted: "Be careful, don't fall into the lake!"

Lin Xin smiled and said, "It's okay! If there are flowers, you have to break them off. Don't wait until there are no flowers."

She took a fancy to another peach blossom and stood on tiptoes to climb it.

Just as she was breaking off the peach blossoms, a boat came over from the side. She probably wanted to break off the peach blossoms because she thought they were pretty.

The boat made waves and hit Li Yunhai's boat.

The boat rocked immediately.

Lin Xin couldn't stand firmly and fell into the lake with a groan.

Li Yunhai was shocked and quickly handed Feifei to Zhu Lin to hold. He lay on the side of the boat and reached out to catch Lin Xin.

Lin Xin knew how to swim, but the lake water in early spring was very cold. After her clothes got wet, she shivered from the cold.

Li Yunhai grabbed her hand and said, "Slow down and relax, or you won't be able to get up."

Lin Xin grabbed the edge of the boat with one hand and said, "Brother-in-law, this won't work. If I exert force, the boat will capsize. I will swim to the small island, you can row the boat over, and I will get on the boat again."

Li Yunhai thought about it and let go of his hand.

Lin Xin swam to the shore and climbed up the railing on the shore.

Li Yunhai rowed the boat to the shore and jumped onto the shore.

Lin Xin sneezed and shivered from the cold.

Li Yunhai took off his coat, put it on her body, and said, "Go home quickly! You are going to catch a cold!"

Lin Xin lay in his arms and said with chattering teeth, "Brother-in-law, I'm cold."

Li Yunhai supported her and carefully boarded the boat.

It was not far from the pier, and they rowed back to the pier.

Lin Xin was extremely cold and her face turned pale.

Li Yunhai said to Zhu Lin: "You take Feifei and walk slowly. Lin Xin and I will go first."

Zhu Lin said: "Don't worry about me, take her to change clothes quickly!"

Seeing that Lin Xin's legs were shaking from the cold, Li Yunhai picked her up in a hurry and walked quickly to the park exit. (End of chapter)