He said this in Xi'an dialect.
Unfortunately, Chen Mengxiao didn't get it and said with a wronged look, "Dad, I've already passed the exam..."
Looking at Chen Mengxiao, Fatty really wanted to tell him, "You should be secretly happy!"
Chen Mengxiao chuckled twice, then took a book out of her bag: "Dad, this is for you."
The fat man took it and looked at it; it was Wang Shuo. He said to Chen Mengxiao, "This one is good. This one has depth."
He also recalled that 1988 was later known as "Wang Shuo's Year".
Four of his works were adapted into films this year.
It can be said that Wang Shuo is a linguistic genius who revived a large number of vivid popular slang terms and borrowed many habitual expressions in a reversed manner.
Phrases like "I'm a hooligan, who am I afraid of?", "Live fast, die young", "Don't treat me like a human being", and "I'm not serious at all" were all coined by him this year.
It has been enthusiastically received by young people, especially college students.
Some people even copied down his words, just like how some college students later memorized the lines from "A Chinese Odyssey" line by line.
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The fat man lingered in bed for a while in the morning and even dragged Yu Li to stay in bed with him.
The couple didn't arrive at the new Qilige restaurant until almost 9 o'clock.
Why say "new"? Because the old Qili Pavilion had already moved in the summer of 1987.
They moved to the plot of land that the Great Spiritual Guide had chosen for the fat man.
Thanks to Lou Xiao'e's 3 million yuan investment, the fat family didn't have to sell their possessions. As soon as the brand-new restaurant opened, it became one of the most famous restaurants in Beijing.
In less than a year since it opened, many celebrities and stars have come here to dine.
The most famous of them all was Uncle Ge. The fat man even took a photo with him and gifted Uncle Ge a batch of beautifully printed phone books with the Qilige logo, making Uncle Ge feel incredibly proud!
This batch of phone books is the same proposal that Fatty originally gave to Lou Xiao'e.
It must be said that Lou Xiao'e is truly the best candidate to be a secretary.
With a love-struck mind and a simple heart, she treats every task the fat man assigns her as a sacred decree to be carried out.
So, the fat man told her to go back and quickly register the Robust trademark, and then focus on making bottled water, especially high-end mineral water.
She did as instructed when she returned, and that's how the Lou family got in touch with the mainland.
She not only won over her lover's heart, but also forced Tan Yali to hand over all the power in the company to her.
Lou Xiao'e remembered that Fatty had told her to quickly get a batch of phone books, so she sent someone to the Japanese chicken restaurant to order a batch.
First, they printed their "Robust" trademark on the bottles and included them with the bottled water.
As soon as it arrived in Beijing, it became an instant hit!
Even Chen Fang called her to ask where she got the phone book from.
Lou Xiao'e was initially surprised: "Why are you asking this?"
Chen Fang couldn't wait any longer: "What? Do you know how sought-after that thing is right now!"
"In high demand?" Lou Xiao'e scratched her head in disbelief.
Chen Fang spoke like a machine gun on the phone: "Initially, some staff followed our suggestion and put two bottles of drinking water in each of the deluxe rooms, along with a phone book. And guess what happened?"
Lou Xiao'e instinctively asked her, "What's wrong?"
“Those guests have gone crazy! One isn’t enough, they’d rather pay the hotel to give them a few more! But where would the hotel get them? Every time a batch of phone books arrives, the staff fight over them! Their manager is so angry that he’s threatened to dock his bonus, but he can’t get them back… So they all came to me, begging me to get them a bigger batch of phone books as soon as possible.”
Lou Xiao'e laughed so hard she honked like a goose: "Goose, goose, goose, goose... This is so funny!"
"You're still laughing? I really don't know how you came up with this idea!"
On the other end of the phone, Lou Xiao'e blinked: "It wasn't me, it was your good brother who gave me the idea."
Chen Fang panicked: "Chen Kang?! That brat, he had such a great idea and didn't tell me first! Just you wait!"
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See? That's the power of small commodities.
Otherwise, the whole world would have used mAde in Yiwu later...
The phone book is at least 40% credited with the reason why Qilige was able to become so popular again so quickly!
During the grand opening promotion, everyone who came to eat received a free phone book.
It's incredibly prestigious to take it out. When you're making a call from a phone booth outside, you can hold the landline in one hand and casually snap open the phone book with the other.
Even if you've memorized the number perfectly, you still have to do it this way.
So many people come to Qili Pavilion specifically for a meal, just for this phone book.
Just like those stamp shops in tourist areas later on, there were long queues every day...
It's practically become the new trendsetter on the streets!
Until the Motorola DynatAc 8000x came out, the phone book platform had ripped off countless young people.
So why is it said that the 8000x stopped working after it came out? Because starting with that, mobile phones could store phone numbers!
During those four years, Lou Xiao'e brought her son back to Beijing every winter and summer vacation.
Every time I come back, I can feel that this city has undergone considerable changes.
Yu Li seemed to have accepted her, but only Lou Xiao'e knew that Yu Li had only accepted the child and could never forgive her.
These four years have also been a period of rapid economic development.
Prices of grains, oils and non-staple foods that are closely related to people's lives began to rise. Fatty still remembers that in 1991, Jiang Kun and Tang Jiezong performed a crosstalk called "Anxious".
His shout, "I heard that the price of non-staple foods is going up!" will still be relevant even 30 years from now.
It has become one of the two major scenarios in the Internet age.
The housing commercialization policy that the fat man has been waiting for will finally be implemented this year.
While driving to work that morning, Yu Li repeatedly confirmed with him, "Are you serious? Is the government really going to allow individuals to buy commercial housing?"
As the fat man expertly shifted gears, he looked at her with ill intent: "Want to make a bet?"
Yu Li gave him a light punch, then turned her face away shyly towards the window.
By the way, the fat guy is no longer driving a minivan.
Upgraded from a slingshot to a cannon, now driving a Santana!
Even after arriving at the underground parking lot of Qili Pavilion, just before getting out of the car, Yu Li still asked the fat man, "Are you really planning to buy the courtyard house?"
The fat man nodded: "Not just courtyard houses, but if possible, we should also buy a few apartments. You have no idea how terrifying Beijing's housing prices will be in the future. If I succeed in this, when Qiqi is 30, she won't need to work and can live very well just by collecting rent."
Although Yu Li couldn't understand it, she still kept it in mind.
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