In 1979, benefiting from the national policies, people everywhere went into business.

The inland areas are undergoing drastic reforms, while the port city has been developing rapidly.

Walking on the streets of the port city, you can see men and women dressed in fashionable clothes at a glance.

The women all had curly hair, wore floral shirts and hip-hugging long skirts, and their facial makeup was charming and bold.

The people here are open-minded and bold, which is very different from the still conservative relationships between men and women in the mainland.

According to the address given by his friend, Shen Zheyu arrived at the most prosperous clothing wholesale market in the port city.

The market was crowded and bustling, with clothes and other goods piled up in front of every store.

In such a chaotic environment, people who are busy making a living can find order in the chaos and do things in an orderly manner.

Exhausted both physically and mentally, Shen Zheyu stood in front of a door piled with goods.

There were a lot of customers coming and going in the store, and it was not easy to squeeze in.

The customers were holding the latest and most fashionable clothes in their hands, and they were bargaining with the girls who were surrounded in the middle.

"Boss, this is cheaper. I'll give you 100 pieces. I buy a lot."

He spoke standard Cantonese, which Shen Zheyu could hardly understand.

But Cantonese is a magical language. Even though he had never come into contact with it before, he had no problem understanding the general meaning.

The girl who was called the boss was wearing a pink coat and had no makeup on her face, but she was still young and beautiful.

The coat she was wearing was very beautiful and fashionable, making her already fair skin look even more rosy.

This person was none other than Chen Keke, whom Shen Zheyu had been looking for for a year.

Chen Keke dealt with five or six customers by herself without appearing panicked.

She said, "You are an old customer, so I will charge you 50 yuan per piece. No other store has this price. I hope you will continue to take care of my business in the future."

The girl actually spoke Cantonese, it was a little unstandard, but normal communication was still no problem.

After bargaining with Chen Keke, the customer finally took a big bag of goods and left satisfied.

The other customers did not leave empty-handed either. They all bought a lot of goods, and all of them had smiles on their faces.

This small storefront seems to be doing pretty good business.

Shen Zheyu did not go up to disturb Chen Keke, but stood outside and waited quietly.

At this time, a customer in the store saw Shen Zheyu standing outside and joked to Chen Keke who was busy, "Boss! There's a handsome guy standing over there for a long time. Is he your type?"

Chen Keke smiled without even looking up, "Sister Li, I don't have a date, stop talking nonsense."

"But that guy is so handsome. If I didn't already have a husband, I would have gone after him."

The person called Sister Li had a shy and timid look on her face, as if she had met love, which was so heart-warming.

Chen Keke silently felt sad for her husband, but was also very curious about how handsome the handsome guy she was talking about could be.

I casually looked up to see what was going on, and I was immediately stunned.

They were originally chatting and laughing, but now they were just shocked.

Seeing Chen Keke in a daze, Sister Li laughed wildly, "See, I told you he's handsome! Boss, you seem to be single, you've got to grab such a handsome man!"

She leaned close to Chen Keke's ear and said ambiguously, "Listen to me, take him home and have sex with him. This handsome man will be yours from now on. This kind of top-notch man is hard to come by."

Although Chen Keke had been in Hong Kong for a year, she still hadn't gotten used to the boldness and enthusiasm of the people here, and her face turned red instantly.

Shen Zheyu outside seemed to sense that he was being talked about, so he walked in.

Sister Li gave Shen Zheyu and Chen Keke an ambiguous look, then left very tactfully.

After Sister Li left, people in the store also left one after another.

In the end, only Shen Zheyu and Chen Keke were left.

Shen Zheyu walked up to Chen Keke, without any particular excitement, and asked softly, "Keke, are you okay?"

Chen Keke wanted to scold and blame her for him, but she didn't expect that the first sentence he asked when they met was to ask her how she was doing.

My heart suddenly felt boiling and I wanted to cry.

She wanted to say it was not good. She left her hometown and came to Hong Kong alone. She couldn't speak the language and had no friends. She suffered a lot of injustices in this year.

But what's the point of saying all this? It's all here, isn't it?

Chen Keke's eyes were red, and she tried hard to look calm.

"I'm doing fine now, Brother Shen, how did you find yourself here?"

Shen Zheyu was still carrying a luggage in his hands, his coat was wrinkled, and the stubble on his face showed that he had not shaved for several days. It was not difficult to imagine how exhausted he was on the journey.

Shen Zheyu said, "I'm glad you're okay. I...a friend of mine said he saw you here, so he came over."

He didn't mention the hard times he had been wandering outside for the past year, nor did he say how much hardship he had endured in order to find her. It was enough for him to see that Chen Keke was safe, and there was no need to say anything else.

The two of them were in a stalemate for a while, and Chen Keke bit her lip and asked carefully, "Brother Shen, you haven't eaten yet! Can I take you back to my place first?"

Shen Zheyu nodded, "Okay."

The house that Chen Keke rented was not far from the store. When she first found this place, it was also for the convenience of doing business.

The buildings around here are all apartment-like buildings with many rooms on each floor, just like the layout of a hotel.

Chen Keke took Shen Zheyu to the third floor of the apartment. Her room was at the very end.

The door opened, revealing the interior decoration.

The single room is about 15 or 16 square meters. There is a 1.5-meter-wide wrought iron bed near the window. There is a simple dressing table at the head of the bed. There is a fabric wardrobe on one side of the bed. There is a small dining table opposite the bed and several stools in the room.

The rest are some daily necessities for girls.

When he just came in, Shen Zheyu saw cooking utensils in the corridor outside, and thought that they were cooking outside.

There were a lot of things in the room, and one corner was piled with unopened clothes.

However, even though there were a lot of things, they were kept very clean and tidy, and it didn't look messy at all.

It was the first time that Shen Zheyu entered the room of a girl other than his sister. Standing in the room, his heart was beating a little irregularly.

Chen Keke returned home and put some of the more private personal items in the room into the closet. She then greeted Shen Zheyu awkwardly, "The room is quite small, Brother Shen, just sit on the bed!"

Shen Zheyu put the luggage in the corner and looked around the room. Apart from the things used by girls, he didn't see any signs that a man had lived there. There were no men's shoes in the shoe cabinet at the entrance either. He breathed a sigh of relief.