In January 1984, Qin Rou had not yet had the opportunity to see the image of the matchmaker. Before the first month of the lunar year, Lu Yan took his annual leave. This year, the family decided to spend the New Year in Guangzhou. The house they bought in Guangzhou had been delivered and renovated.

As a new house, it was necessary to enter the fire, and the family had to spend the New Year in it. Because there was a tradition that if the new house had no owner in the first year, dirty things might come in, so they had to spend the New Year in the new house to tell those dirty things that this house had an owner! Don't come in and live there.

The family took their luggage and took a boat to Xucheng. Gu Cheng and Chu Pigeon went to Guangzhou with them because they had just obtained a marriage certificate this year. Because of the short time, they did not consider returning to the north, but the parents of both parties came to Guangzhou.

The weather in Guangzhou is not cold in winter, which is also suitable for the elderly to spend the winter. In addition, the family wanted to see more of the prosperity and bustle of Guangzhou, so the two families decided to discuss the wedding in Guangzhou and then come to Qiongzhou Island.

Doudou and Rongrong were very excited when they knew they were going to leave the island. They ran around their parents like two butterflies: "Mom and Dad, we are going to Guangzhou for the New Year!"

The opportunity to leave the island is very rare for the two sisters. They are very excited. Zhouzhou and Jiaozi, who are on the side, are two old-timers, and they don't have the passion of cheering and jumping like their sister.

The two brothers are arm in arm.

Doudou asked curiously, "Mom, when are we going to Jiaodao to celebrate the New Year!"

"To see the snow!"

"There's snow in my hometown!"

Doudou and Rongrong are southern girls who have never seen snow, and they have a natural yearning for snowflakes.

"Let's go to Jiaodao to celebrate the New Year in the future."

Gu Cheng and Chu Pi, the newlyweds who have reported their marriage, stood beside them waiting for the boat. Gu Cheng was wearing a black shirt and black pants today, with a cold face that looked at everyone without liking them.

"Cool" is the only word.

Chu Pi liked him this way.

He whispered to Chu Pi, and Gu Cheng frowned. The couple Lu Yan next door had a group of little followers, but he, who was only one year younger than Lu Yan, had just gotten married.

"Doudou and Rongrong are very cute. Let's have a daughter in the future." Gu Cheng said to Chu E.

Chu E blushed, "Let's talk about having a daughter later."

Doudou tilted his head and popped his head out from the side of Chu E's legs: "Uncle Gu, you also think Doudou is cute, right?"

Rongrong popped out from the other side: "Uncle Gu, do you think Rongrong is cuter? Or Doudou is cuter?"

Gu Cheng: "..."

Let's just have one daughter in the future. Two daughters are hard to deal with.

Chu E covered his mouth and laughed.

"Lu Yan!" Gu Cheng called the other child's father.

Lu Yan strode over and patted him on the shoulder, "Call me Brother Lu."

"Your daughter asked you, who is cuter, elder sister Doudou or younger sister Rongrong?" Gu Cheng asked anxiously. It would be better to let the biological father of the child solve such a difficult problem.

Lu Yan raised his eyebrows: "Doudou, Rongrong, what do you think?"

"Of course mom is the cutest!"

Qin Rou hugged her chest and said: "Your mom is not cute, please call me pretty mom."

"It's cute mom, pretty Doudou."

"It's pretty Rongrong!"

They boarded the boat, first took the boat to Xucheng, and then took the train to Guangcheng. After getting off the train, they were exhausted. Lu Yan and his wife and Gu Cheng and his wife went to Lu Qing's tea restaurant to rest together.

Gu Cheng's parents were there too.

After a few years of development, my third brother-in-law Lu Qing's tea restaurant is no longer a small roadside stall. He bought a small two-story building and opened a two-story tea restaurant.

There are several rooms on the second floor that can provide accommodation. Not only Gu Cheng's parents stay here, but also Lu Yan's parents.

This is the ideal home for the old Lu couple. They stay in the restaurant every day to eat and drink, go out for a walk in the morning, come back to watch TV series, occasionally go fishing, catch shrimps, and drink a bowl of boat porridge on the waterfront.

Very comfortable retirement life. Winter in Guangzhou is not cold. Wear thick clothes in the morning and evening. When the sun comes out at noon, some hot-tempered young people take off their coats as if it is summer, and only wear short-sleeved shirts.

Some wear cotton clothes, and some wear short-sleeved shirts. Maybe it is a very confusing season.

"Yanzi and his wife are here!"

"Grandpa and grandma!!!" Doudou Rongrong shouted enthusiastically when she saw grandpa and grandma.

"Oh, the good granddaughters are here. Zhouzhou and Duanzi have grown taller again..."

"Come, come, come and meet your Grandpa Gu." Lu Zongyi took the shoulders of the two granddaughters and introduced his grandchildren to Gu Cheng's father, that is, Old Man Gu.

"Hello, Grandpa Gu!" Several children said in unison.

"Hello, hello, hello to you all." When old man Gu saw the other family's two grandsons and two granddaughters, he felt jealous, sad, and a little hopeful.

The youngest son of the old Lu family, Lu Yan, was only one year older than his son Gu Cheng. The other family's son was almost twelve years old, but what about his? This kid just got married.

How can he compare to others?

Old man Gu stared at his own kid Gu Cheng. He scanned Gu Cheng from head to toe and found that this unlucky kid was all black. He wondered if this guy did it on purpose?

This guy is in the navy, and he sees white all day long, including white ships and uniforms. But when he brought his new wife to see him, he wore all black.

What is he trying to do?

Old man Gu looked at him with disdain: "You should broaden your horizons when you get to Guangzhou. Go shopping in the clothing market with Xiao Chu."

"On your wedding day, wear red for half a month."

Gu Cheng: "...If you want to wear it, wear it yourself."

Gu Cheng couldn't imagine himself wearing red clothes.

"If you don't wear red, you have to wear your red pants inside, right?"

Gu Cheng said lazily, "No."

"You are going to take wedding photos next year, right? Xiao Chu looks good in a white wedding dress, and you should wear red. You finally got married, so wear something to show your happiness and get rid of your bad luck."

"Xiao Chu, am I right?"

Chu Pigeon smiled, covering his mouth with his hands: "Yes, yes, you are right."

Qin Rou went to take a shower and sleep first. At night, several family members sat in the second-floor private room of the tea restaurant to watch TV. At this time, there were many people on the first floor of the restaurant, and the second floor was much quieter.

"Brother-in-law's cooking skills are getting better and better."

"This white-cut chicken is really delicious."

"Little sister-in-law!" Xia Mingxi came with his three-year-old little brother Honghong. The youngest son of Lu Qing and the third sister Lu Xuan was named Lu Guihong . Guihong, the wild goose returning to Hong, sounds very elegant and romantic.

The reason for this name is, first, to commemorate the letters that Lu Xuan and his wife wrote in those days, and second, because Lu Xuan's eldest son Xia Mingxi, Xiaoming classmate, who is Xiaoming's good friend?

It's Xiaohong (Hong)!

After calling Lu Guihong, they had Xiaoming and Xiaohong (Hong) in their family. Xiaoming and Xiaohong sounded very friendly and approachable.

Xiaohong followed Xiaoming and shouted: "Uncle, aunt!"

Compared with Xia Mingxi, the carefree and cheerful social expert, Xiaohong is a shy boy with red lips and white teeth.

"It's the younger brother!"

"Brother Honghong!!"

The sisters Doudou and Rongrong surrounded the only younger brother Honghong. They have a lot of older brothers, but only this little cousin.

"Brother, come and play with your sister!"

"Come on, come on, call me sister, you call me Sister Rongrong!"

"Sister Rongrong..."

"You call her Sister Dou."

"Sister Dou."

...

Lu Zongyi looked at his big family in front of him and couldn't help but smile with relief, "Next year, ask the second and third children to come and celebrate the New Year together."

——There are so many people in his family!

After several families had dinner together, the plates were cleared, tea and snacks were served, and everyone sat in front of the TV to watch TV. Qin Rou yawned and wanted to watch two episodes of TV series to kill time in the evening, but she saw Comrade Lao Lu tuned the TV to the Qiongzhou Island Channel. Qin Rou

: "..." Is it popular in Guangzhou to watch the Qiongzhou Island Channel?

Old Lu chuckled and said, "I recently discovered something new. You guys can have a look. It's a blind date show."

Lu Xuan and Lu Qing didn't care about these emotional things.

They just asked the old man, "What blind date show?"

"Blind date on TV!"

"How do you have a blind date on TV?"

"You'll know after you watch it?"

...

The two old men were very curious about the blind date show. Qin Rou had a wooden face. She didn't expect that "Heart to Heart" was also popular in Guangzhou.

Lu Yan held back his laughter and poured a cup of comforting tea for his wife, "Wife, Roumei, come, have some tea and some snacks."

"Do you want Brother Lu to peel some melon seeds and peanuts for you?"

"Don't come here." Qin Rou smiled and pushed him away. She was not worried at this moment. After the last show, Qin Rou had already called the TV station to contact them. There was no need to say her name on the show. The focus was on promoting her pearl factory and other pearl products.

Qin Rou was not a matchmaker!

Fortunately, no one had a mobile phone or computer at this time. In the past, programs that were broadcast on TV were broadcast on TV and could not be watched online.

More and more people watched Qiongzhou Island TV, and the TV station's commercial advertisements were also increasing.

Before the program "Heart to Heart" started, a voice came from the TV:

"...eat shrimp slices and enjoy the pearls of the South Island."

The advertisements of this era were very simple and had no characteristics. The refrigerator advertisements were a bunch of refrigerators for people to watch, and the washing machine advertisements were also a bunch of washing machines for people to watch. The shrimp slices advertisements that are being broadcast now are also a bunch of shrimp slices on the screen.

Next to it was written in old font: Shrimp Slices.

Lu Zongyi was puzzled: "What is the relationship between shrimp slices and pearls?"

Old Gu said: "Ask your daughter-in-law, doesn't she farm pearls?"

"Xiao Qin, this shrimp slice..."

"Because the owner of this shrimp slice factory originally opened a pearl farm. His shrimp slice pearl farm is the second largest non-state-owned pearl farm on our island."

Old Lu and Old Gu frowned together, puzzled: "Shrimp slice pearl farm?"

Qin Rou: "..."

She suddenly felt that this local platform was so scary, and familiar people and familiar things would appear on it.

The owner of the shrimp slice factory, Zhang Xiesheng, has already started advertising.

What's more frightening is that she recommended him to open this shrimp chip factory when she was joking.

People in the 1980s were very practical. If you said you wanted to open a shrimp chip factory, he would open one. He was very clear about it and would make it for you in minutes.

This is an era where you can take off from the ground and dream. You can really do whatever you want to do.

Some casual ideas can actually become reality.