After get off work, Chen Xia and Gu Lin followed the crowd out of the hospital gate.
It's already winter. In the 1980s, before global warming, Yuezhou was still quite cold.
Gu Lin wore a yellow down jacket, a black scarf and a ponytail, looking youthful and playful.
After a year of hard work by Chen Xia, the girl's complexion has become better and better. Her skin, which was originally fair, is now even whiter and more rosy.
Fortunately, although she eats so much, she hasn't gained weight. Chen Xia is really afraid that she will become the second Shen Dianxia.
When that day comes, will he learn from Qiu Guan?
Chen Xia herself wore a black woolen coat and a gray scarf, looking rather old-fashioned. But it was chosen by her mother-in-law, who said that since she was going to be a section chief in her new unit, she should be more composed.
Well, the old lady probably dislikes his lack of steadiness, but isn't her daughter even less...
Just think about this in your mind. If you say it out loud, you will be beaten to death by Dean Gu's Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
Dressed like this on the streets of Yuezhou, they were definitely fashionable. Passersby turned around and cast curious glances at them. Those who didn't know thought they were foreign friends visiting.
Gu Lin didn't care about all that. She just walked along Jiefang Middle School, stopping here and there, buying whatever snacks she saw and never stopping eating.
At that time, the roads in Yuezhou city were not wide, and the houses on both sides of the road were mainly old houses with white walls and black tiles. Occasionally there were some Soviet-style buildings, which were generally good units.
For example, Yuezhou Department Store is a three-story Soviet-style building. Compared to 1980 when Chen Xia was reborn, the goods inside are now quite rich, and most things no longer require tickets.
Of course, this price is not comparable to that in 1980. Inflation has already begun, which is why Chen Xia is spending money desperately.
At that time, department stores still had glass counters, with goods placed inside or on shelves behind the salesperson.
If a customer wants to buy something, he has to call out "comrade, comrade" four or five times in a row before the salesperson will slowly raise his head, turn his nose upwards, and say "hmm" as a response.
But as "God", you cannot get angry. You have to be patient and say what you want to buy.
They are not afraid that you won’t buy anything. Most things you buy in department stores are not available anywhere else.
Of course, this is the treatment city dwellers receive. If country people come to the city, it would be good enough if these sales clerks don't roll their eyes or even make some sarcastic remarks.
This attitude is definitely more arrogant than that of the aunties in the supply and marketing cooperative. After all, their status is much higher than that of the supply and marketing cooperative.
Moreover, the sales clerks in these department stores have a good benefit: when any popular goods arrive, they are quietly sold internally first, and there are even fewer left at the counter, resulting in many people not being able to buy the goods even if they have tickets and money.
Just like Li Huanying, in order to buy a TV, in addition to needing money and tickets, she also had to queue up overnight, compete with colleagues and strangers.
But if Li Huanying knows a salesperson in a department store, although she can't get a discount, she can definitely buy the TV in advance.
So these days, if someone has relatives working in a department store or a supply and marketing cooperative, they will be envied by everyone in the surrounding area for having such good jobs.
Of course, there is a cause for every effect. None of these people were spared from the wave of layoffs in the 1990s.
At that time, there was another feature of paying when shopping in department stores: there were ropes spinning everywhere in the air, one end connected to various counters and the other end connected to a cash register high up.
The salesperson issues the invoice, then puts it together with the money in an iron clip and hangs it on a rope. The rope will then be automatically sent to the cashier. After the payment is completed, the invoice and change will be transported back to the counter together with the clip.
For children, this is the most attractive place in the department store besides candy, and they find it very fun.
However, Chen Xia and Gu Lin had no chance to go in for shopping today. The department store is a state-owned enterprise, and everyone has to close on time at 5 p.m. They will only leave early, never late.
Serving the public with bright lights at night? What are you thinking? Dream on.
The streetlights on Jiefang Road began to light up. Gu Lin, holding a string of stinky tofu in one hand and holding Chen Xia's arm in the other, walked towards the Zimin Cinema.
"Zhimin" is the nickname of Mr. Cai Yuanpei. As the name suggests, this cinema is located next to Cai Yuanpei's former residence.
The characteristics of Yuezhou city are that there are many former residences of celebrities and many historical sites.
For example, a little east of the Zimin Cinema is Cai Yuanpei’s former residence, and a little east of Cai Yuanpei’s former residence is Jiezhu Temple. This Jiezhu Temple is actually Wang Xizhi’s former residence, which was later converted into a temple.
A small pond has been preserved by later generations. When Wang Xizhi lived here, he would wash his brush in the pond every time he finished writing. Over time, the pond was dyed black. Later generations often described how hard-working he was in educating students.
Further east of Jiezhu Temple is the "Fuwang Mansion" where the Southern Song Emperor Duzong was born and grew up. The East Big Pond of the Fuwang Mansion's garden has been preserved for later generations.
A few hundred meters west of the Zimin Cinema is the "Xinjian Bo Mansion", the former residence of Wang Yangming, a "sage" of the Daming Dynasty.
Yes, you read that right. Wang Yangming is Wang Shouren, the Confucian saint in the Ming Dynasty who founded the "Learning of Mind", established virtue, made achievements, and made statements, and achieved the "three immortalities".
It was on the Tianquan Bridge in Bofu Garden in Yuezhou City that he uttered the four famous lines of "Enlightenment at Tianquan Bridge":
"The body has neither good nor evil intentions, but it has both good and evil intentions. Knowing good and evil is conscience, and doing good and eliminating evil is the study of things."
That’s awesome.
Therefore, readers who are interested in traveling to Yuezhou should make sure to find a good travel guide or hire a local tour guide. Without anyone to explain these cultural relics and interesting stories about celebrities, a trip to Yuezhou would be a lonely one.
The movie Chen Xia and Gu Lin are going to watch today is "The Shepherd".
It’s the very famous “Lao Xu, do you want a wife or not?” on TikTok.
This sentence is a line from "The Shepherd". Zhu Shimao was so handsome at that time, and Cong Shan's round face was so pretty. The plot was well filmed, and Chen Xia also enjoyed watching it.
Nowadays, there are very few entertainment activities at night. Young people go out either to watch movies or to dance at the Workers' Cultural Palace.
It was already 1983, and the social atmosphere was becoming more and more "open". Dance halls were gradually becoming less pure. After a few months of crackdowns, many people were caught behaving like hooligans in dance halls and were eventually arrested and jailed.
Quite a few people were shot there, so Chen Xia was determined not to go there.
His wife was so beautiful, and if some hooligans showed up to pester Gu Lin, what would Chen Xia do? Would he really take out the guns he had gotten from the Kanguo Army?
Ahem, I think I let something slip. This is his secret within his secret, something that can save his life at critical moments.
If he had dared to use it in public to scare people in 1983, Gu Lin would have been a widow for the rest of her life.
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