Chapter 297 Extra Jack

In order to facilitate their own travel and save time, Panpan and Tiantian asked someone to buy a motorcycle discarded by the Public Security Bureau. It is a common sidecar motorcycle. It is a typical oil-guzzler and consumes a lot of diesel. However, the quality is super good. If it is well maintained, it can be used for ten or twenty years. It is very convenient as a means of transportation.

The colors on the streets of the capital in 1981 are much richer than those three years ago. The previous ocean of blue, black, gray and white has now been joined by pretty red, fresh green and bright yellow.

Originally, adults basically wore tops and pants. Now, at a glance, there are young girls wearing skirts of various colors in the crowd. The most outstanding ones are red skirts, green skirts and yellow skirts.

Although the number is still small, it is a great improvement compared to the past.

It is an improvement in concepts and an overall improvement in the textile industry.

Lin Shu wore a beige shirt, a pair of light blue wide-legged skirt and pants, and a fashionable sunhat produced by Lujiazhuang. She was the focus of the crowd wherever she went. Her colleagues praised her for being able to debut in Hong Kong and look like a big star.

She has never been late in leading the fashion trend for the brigade clothing factory. She draws a few fashion pictures for Xiuxiu and the others every season.

When the mother and her two daughters rode their motorcycles out of the agency compound, many people stared at them. There were envy and admiration, jealousy, and naturally some people who were disgusted.

Especially those who consider themselves to be law-abiding, still wearing the old white coats, black pants, and black cloth shoes. They would curse others if they saw them wearing something outstanding, and they would even hang a big sign around their necks to criticize them harshly.

Unfortunately, there is no chance anymore. Lin Shu doesn't care about them at all, let alone they can touch her.

They pouted, but could only suppress their jealousy and dissatisfaction in their hearts. They didn't even dare to slander Lin Shu outside, for fear that she would know and retaliate.

No one in the family courtyard dared to offend her. Not only was her husband powerful, but she herself was also very powerful.

"You better be careful. I heard that she is in charge of the editorial departments of several magazines and newspapers. If anyone scolds her, she will edit it into the article to scold you, and even your whole family will be stripped naked!"

Tsk tsk, who dares to offend her?

And her old lady who is over 90 years old, you can't offend her. She looks very old, trembling and deaf and blurry, but once you say something bad about her family, it's terrible, her ears are better than anyone else, and she can remember your face more accurately than anyone else!

And her mother-in-law, a country woman with terrifying strength.

Aren't there two old doctors? They are famous doctors in the capital, and you can't guarantee that you will register with them to see a doctor one day. What if you offend their family and they don't treat you?

Regarding the matter of Lin Shu writing articles and editing people, it is purely a rumor spread by them, just like Pan Pan Tiantian raised funds to buy vaccines for her hometown, and finally it was spread that the two children were reluctant to eat and drink and worked during the summer vacation to earn money to buy vaccines for the children in her hometown. It is seriously distorted.

It was Lin Shu who felt that someone's remarks were out of line, and she felt that the other person had the potential to hate the country, so she couldn't help but ask her reporters and editors to check.

Everyone integrated the information and found that this person really had problems. His family had overseas connections and he was dreaming of immigrating, so he spared no effort to write letters to discredit his own country and government.

Lin Shu thought this was a typical case, so she asked people to dig up their overseas connections and some of their family members' weird remarks and behaviors, and then wrote a few articles.

Although she used a pseudonym, how could the people around her not know about it when they were so sensitive?

So the family was first socially dead, and then they were taken to the police station for investigation, and they really found out.

Lin Shu and her office made a contribution because of this.

Lin Shu

struck while the iron was hot and set up a special street photography team to let them go deep into the masses to collect materials and build good relationships with the masses, which would be helpful for collecting materials in the future. Promote positive energy, slap negative energy in the face, and discover 500,000 living people. Needless to say, the effect is gratifying.

After all, it is the capital, the political center of the country, and how many forces are eyeing to make trouble. Anyway,

the street photography team has made great achievements, so Lu Shaotang and Chen Yanming took the initiative to cooperate with their office.

The talents cultivated by Lu Shaotang and his team are too outstanding. After all, they are specially trained. They have sharp eyes and outstanding figures. They can't hide it even if they want to. They really don't conform to the characteristics of ordinary people. They stand out in the crowd and are easily recognized by those who are interested.

Arriving at Wangfujing Street, Panpan parked the motorcycle on the side of the road.

The number of bicycles in the capital has increased several times in the past two years. There are bicycles everywhere on the roadside, and naturally there are more thieves, so there are many grandpas and aunts who watch bicycles. It costs one dime to watch a bicycle

.

Three years ago, if someone said that he would show you a bicycle for one dime, he would be scolded. Now there are a lot of bicycles lined up there.

Motorcycles are not worth watching now, because they cannot be stolen, and no one dares to steal them.

How many people who can ride motorcycles these days are ordinary people?

Besides, even if they can steal them, there is no place to sell them. Who dares to sell such a special tool casually and wait to be caught?

Lao Lin was in the store today, smiling and introducing birthday cakes to a foreigner with both words and gestures.

The other party wanted to order a birthday cake.

Seeing Lu Pan coming with his mother and sister, Lao Lin's eyes lit up immediately and he greeted them in a loud voice, "Oh, I haven't seen you for a while, Director Lin, come and see our new birthday cake, is it what you thought?"

The multi-layer birthday cake was Lin Shu's inspiration to Lao Lin, and it is now selling very well.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "I went to the food festival a few days ago, and it was quite successful."

Master Lao Lin is now the president of the Capital Food Association. Although it is a private organization, it is not light because they often hold food gatherings, exchange food, and compete to develop food.

Last month, they held a food festival, which became a scene in the capital and attracted a lot of popularity.

Lin Shu specially organized an event for international friends to taste food and took them to participate in the food festival.

Among them were reporters, freelance tourists, and foreign businessmen.

Lin Shu brought a few employees who were good at English and had quick brains to introduce the highlights they saw to the foreigners.

In order to improve morale and image, Lin Shu specially ordered fashionable work clothes for the employees of her unit. The clothes were made by Lujiazhuang Garment Factory.

Now they are all in the shopping malls in Qizhou and the capital! When

Lin Shu led people to wear them like that, some people on the streets of the capital followed suit, and those foreigners were very surprised when they saw them.

They originally thought that the country was poor and run-down, people were hungry, dressed in tacky clothes, and had never seen the world. But they found that there were people wearing fashionable clothes on the streets and there were a wide variety of roadside snack shops. It was really amazing!

Lin Shu and others took advantage of the opportunity to guide public opinion, saying, "Although these have not yet been popularized, they will soon become a trend that will sweep the country." "You see that the country is still a little backward now, but that is just the accumulation of strength before the force is exerted. There are huge business opportunities here! Our country has begun reform and opening up. This is a huge opportunity. Whoever seizes the opportunity first will make a fortune! Opportunities only come to those who are prepared!"

All aspects of national economy and people's livelihood are closely related. Food and beautiful clothes show a new spiritual outlook and also bring confidence to foreign businessmen, making them feel that the Chinese are ready to go and there is a huge market waiting for them to share a piece of the pie.

This has played a certain role in facilitating foreign transactions.

Foreign journalists who originally only wanted to highlight how backward, broken, and rigid their thinking was were also influenced by them, and their articles became more objective. Some even used words such as "incredible", "greatly shocking", and "great prospects" in their articles, saying that they were shocked by the food festival.

Lin Shu and her colleagues also wrote several articles and gave them to foreign friends with whom they had good relations, asking them to take them back and publish them.

No matter how big or small the effect is, water drips through a stone and a rope saws through a wood. As long as it has an effect, it is good.

When Lin Shu and her two friends came over, Lao Lin left the foreigner aside and ignored him. He was hesitant and unsure about what he wanted. He decided to serve Lin Shu and her two friends first.

The foreigner was a little dissatisfied when he saw that Lao Lin had left him alone. He came first!

He spread his hands and shrugged, and continued to ask this and that.

Panpan heard this and replied in English, asking if he needed any help.

The foreigner was called Jack. He said he had just been in China for three days. He wanted to order a cake for his birthday tomorrow, but he was allergic to certain foods so he had to ask clearly. However, Lao Lin didn't understand what he meant by allergies.

Panpan asked for him and answered his other questions.

"You don't speak Chinese, and you don't bring a translator friend with you when you go out?"

Jack began to gesture again, "I'm here to look for my friend's Chinese friend Jerry Lin, but I lost his Chinese information and haven't been able to find him for three days."

Panpan was a little speechless about this careless guy, so she asked him for relevant information about his friend and said she could help find out.

Although the capital is big, he can really help find out specific information.

Jack began to introduce his friend Tom and Tom's friend Jerry Lin. Although he couldn't tell what his Chinese name was or where his specific address was, he described Jerry Lin's appearance vividly. He

was nearly 1.9 meters tall, very handsome, with a high nose bridge and deep eyes... In the end, he even described his abdominal muscles.

Panpan: "..."

Is this how you find someone?

Jack said that he really had no choice because his notebook fell into the water and Jerry Lin's Chinese name and address were soaked in it. He had seen his photos and heard his friends describe some of his heroic deeds.

"They have been doing business and have business dealings in recent years." He added.

Panpan thought about it, it's not so bad now, in the past, if you want to have business dealings, it's only with government departments, definitely not private individuals.

Over there, Lin Shu and Tiantian picked their favorite snacks and found an empty seat next to it.

Last year, the snack shop here was expanded, and a small tea restaurant with an elegant environment was added to the side. When you are tired of shopping, you can come here to drink tea and eat snacks.

Of course, there is also coffee for sale.

It's just quite expensive.

Lin Shu and Tiantian sat down with the snack trays, and saw Panpan and a tall and strong foreigner walking over.

Panpan said to Jack: "My mother works in a newspaper, you can post a missing person notice."

Jack repeated what Jerry Lin said, and Lin Shu was speechless.

This... isn't it looking for Lu Shaotang?

After Lu Shaotang came back from overseas, she teased him one night and asked him if he had been approached by hot beauties abroad. She simulated it and he said that his name abroad was Jerry Lin.

Tom gave him that name.

Lin Shu laughed for a long time and asked him if he watched TV abroad.

Tom and Jerry was released in 1940, and he would have seen it if he watched TV.

Then she was avenged by Lu Shaotang.

Later, he went to Hong Kong to do business with Tom and wanted to change his name, but Tom refused.

Tom said that he did it on purpose, and his cousin was called Jerry, and he was determined not to change it.

Lin Shu left her unit's phone number and address, promised to help him find someone, and invited him to have snacks together.

Jack was very happy, and he could even blurt out a few Chinese words with very unstandard pronunciation. I don't know who deliberately made fun of him, and actually taught him to say "I love you" instead of "very grateful", "I'm so ugly" instead of "very happy", "you're so stupid", "you're so stupid", etc. It was a mess, and it was definitely made fun of him on purpose.

Panpan was kind enough to help him correct it.

Jack's eyes almost popped out, "Oh, my God!"

"Too bad!"

"Too embarrassing!"

"No wonder people scold me when I talk to them!"

Panpan asked who taught him. If he was a service staff of the Friendship Hotel, he would have to tell their leaders, as this would affect the image of the staff.

Jack pouted, spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders and said angrily: "The ambassador's daughter is playing tricks on me! I'm going to complain to her father!"

Oh, it wasn't our people who did it on purpose, Panpan didn't care, and just fanned the flames to make Jack more dissatisfied with the other party.

After chatting happily, Jack was very attentive and enthusiastic to Lin Shu, full of warm and free compliments, praising her beauty and wisdom in various ways. She looked like a sister instead of Tiantian's mother!

At this time, Chinese people were still very reserved, ashamed to express their feelings, and would not use such warm and straightforward words to compliment.

Lin Shu was better, after all, she had been baptized by the modern Internet, but Tiantian and Panpan had not been through this kind of battle.

They both thought they were different. After all, other children and parents were too shy to express their feelings, but they had been very affectionate with their mother and grandma since they were young. Later, when their father came back, they were also very affectionate with him, often saying to him, "Dad, I miss you, Dad, I love you, you are really the best dad in the world", etc., which made Lu Shaotang blush.

At this moment, they were taken by Jack to see the world. When they looked at their mother, she was calm and not ashamed or embarrassed, nor did she say "no, no" modestly. Instead, she kept saying "thank you, you are so nice".

Panpan and Tiantian said they learned something. It seems that they are still conservative. Does their mother buy into this?

Well, it seems that they need to teach their father a lesson. Their father is not good at coaxing people.

After this, the society is becoming more and more open, and their father is too out of date.

Originally, they wanted to go shopping, but after chatting happily with Jack, Panpan and Tiantian didn't want to go shopping anymore. They just asked Jack about foreign things here.

Lin Shu secretly observed that these two children have strong learning ability.

They had never been abroad and learned foreign languages ​​from teachers in China. They had no problem with written language and their oral and listening skills were not bad, but their spoken language was not modern enough. In the ears of foreigners, they learned outdated vocabulary.

During the time they chatted with Jack, they had quickly learned and absorbed, corrected their pronunciation and usage of some spoken vocabulary, discarded the spoken vocabulary that Jack didn't use, and learned the latest ones.

Jack soon discovered it and looked at them in surprise.

Then he looked at Lin Shu.

He asked in confusion, "Are you a family of diplomats?"

Lu Pan: "I just introduced you, my mother works in a newspaper."

Jack: "You have learned English very well."

Pan Pan offered to be his translator in the afternoon, and teach him a few common Chinese phrases to help him go out, take the bus, eat, and buy things.

Jack cheered, "Great, I love you."

After saying that, he realized that he had said something wrong and quickly corrected it: "Thank you very much."

After eating the snacks, Jack offered to pay but was stopped by Pan Pan. After

paying, Pan Pan said goodbye to Lao Lin and the others, and the four of them went shopping together with Jack.

Lin Shu likes shopping now, which is also part of her job. She can feel the pulse of the changes in the capital's economic life by walking through the streets, so that she can produce publications that fit the social reality and needs.

After having snacks, they were not hungry at noon, so they each had an ice cream and continued to walk around. At about 2:30 in the afternoon, they went to the teahouse for afternoon tea.

In order to attract customers, the teahouse now also provides noodles and buns to fill their stomachs.

So far, Lin Shu has asked Jack a lot of questions.

This is a shrewd and practical second-generation businessman. He borrowed some money from his father to invest in business. He heard that China has great potential for business after opening up to the outside world, so he went to ask his father's friend Tom.

Tom told him some information and asked him to come to China to explore the way first, to see if China welcomes foreign businessmen to come to invest and do business as the government said, to feel the attitude of their government, the living conditions of the people, to estimate the social purchasing power, to analyze what industries make money, etc. If

the Chinese government is trustworthy, Tom also wants to come to China to test the waters.

This is an old fox. Although he has a life-and-death friendship with Lu Shaotang and has lent his cousin's identity to Lu Shaotang, he also pursues the accumulation of capital and the maximization of benefits.

He is afraid that he will be calculated or robbed when he comes to China, so he has to observe and weigh it first.

If it is really safe, he will invest a lot.

In the teahouse, Lin Shu went to call Lu Shaotang.

He had already returned to the unit. After receiving the call, he changed out of his work clothes and came to the teahouse in casual clothes to meet him.

When Lu Shaotang came over, Panpan and Tiantian were learning foreign languages ​​with Jack, asking about foreign hospitals, medical treatment, and people's medical conditions, and also learned about Wall Street and the stock market.

Jack took the initiative to talk about the stock market because he was stuck with a lot of money.

His father gave him the first start-up fund, and he used it to invest in stocks and got stuck, and he has not been able to get out of it yet.

When Lu Shaotang strode in, Jack happened to turn his head and saw him. He stood up and greeted him very exaggeratedly and enthusiastically, holding Lu Shaotang's hand, and then the free rainbow farts poured out very smoothly.

Lin Shu, Panpan and Tiantian were stunned, and even the other guests next to them were stunned.

There were a few customers who were still peeking at Jack and Panpan, wondering what their relationship was and where they were from.

In the early days of reform and opening up, when Chinese people saw foreigners, especially tall and handsome foreigners, most of them would stare at them as if they were foreigners. Some would even bend down and lift them up, thinking that they were handsome and rich, and the whole thing was shining with gold. Some

were even bold enough to directly express their love and willingness to develop a relationship with the other party, and many foreigners were open to sexual relations and accepted everyone.

For a period of time, this situation was very common.

A young woman next door was eager to give it a try and planned to try it with Jack.

If she had a little more courage and took bigger steps, she would have a foreign boyfriend, and maybe even immigrate to a foreign country with him.

But before she could find a chance to ask Jack for his contact information, she saw him walking quickly towards a Chinese man, shaking his hand attentively and saying something enthusiastically.

Her English was limited, and she could only understand a limited number of words, but she could see from Jack's body language that he respected the visitor.

Jack felt like he had met an old

friend in a foreign country, no, a relative. After all, he had no relatives here, and only Jerry Lin was his friend and his support.

Tom said that Jerry Lin was very reliable!

If he wanted to turn things around, he could only rely on Jerry Lin, otherwise his father would give up on him and only give him living expenses every month.

He smiled at Lu Shaotang with such sincerity, radiance and enthusiasm.

Lu Shaotang was able to resist throwing Jack to the ground only because of Lin Shu's phone call, and because he had to get Tom to invest in the country, he resisted the urge to shake off Jack's hand.

Why do this man's hands sweat so much, the wetness is really annoying!

Lin Shu stood up to rescue Lu Shaotang, and signaled Jack not to get too excited, otherwise Mr. Jerry Lin would be unhappy.

Jack then let go of Lu Shaotang's hand and motioned for him to sit down.

Lu Shaotang greeted Lin Shu and his children first, then went to the bathroom to wash his hands and came back to sit down.

Panpan was about to pour tea for his father, but Jack had already picked up the teacup and poured it.

After pouring the tea for Lu Shaotang, he did not forget to pour tea for Lin Shu.

Panpan and Tiantian did not drink tea, but soda.

They were impressed by Jack's operation.

Who said foreigners don't know how to flatter?

Jack had finished talking to Lu Shaotang about Tom, and then he started talking about his own business.

"Mr. Lin, Tom said you are very powerful in China, and your business is very big. You can definitely help me build my business!"

He was tall, sitting opposite Lu Shaotang, flashing a pair of big gray-green eyes like glass. He looked as innocent as he could be, as if he was a princess in distress who was stranded in a foreign country and needed to be rescued.

Lu Shaotang signaled him to speak properly.

He had heard Tom talk about old Jack before, who was a tyrant on the sea. Is this old Jack's grandson?

Little Jack is so innocent?

It shouldn't be, that's just pretending, or a sacrifice made to get him to help as much as possible.

Lu Shaotang simply asked Jack how much liquid funds he brought, what business he was interested in and what he knew about.

As a result, little Jack didn't know much about any industry, he said he knew about the stock market.

Everyone: "..."

For Lu Shaotang, the other party just needs to pay money. At that time, the country was very friendly to foreign businessmen. They only need to have money, and all industries can invest and make money, because all industries in the country are short of money, technology and machines.

It would be better if the other party is willing to process the materials. Of course, the best way is for the other party to help improve the machines and technology, so that the country can directly process the samples.

The key is what sales channels he has overseas.

If he had many channels, he could import a batch of handicrafts and agricultural products from China, sell them and get the money back to import a batch of industrial products from China...

Now the SAR has preferential policies for import and export operations, and contracts will be signed there, and customs clearance will be done for import and export, etc.

Because Jack is Tom's pioneer, Lu Shaotang showed his sincerity and said that he would introduce people from the Commerce Bureau to him and talk to him about a suitable business that both parties can make money.

The next day, Lu Shaotang found a friend from the Commerce Bureau to contact Jack to discuss business matters, and he must let Jack enjoy a warm hospitality, and at the same time let him know that he must have a correct attitude to do business, and be mutually beneficial, and don't think of making money from the Chinese while looking down on China.

During Jack's stay in Beijing, Panpan and Tiantian would talk to him whenever they had time, and took him to visit the Forbidden City, Hutongs, and the Great Wall, cultivating their relationship while learning as much as possible from him.

It didn't take long for Panpan and Tiantian to speak English more authentically.

There were about ten days left before the college entrance examination. While other candidates were worried, Panpan and Tiantian were confident and not anxious at all.

On this day, they invited Jack to come to their home for treatment.

Jack was afraid of heat and greedy for coolness. He ate a lot of cold drinks, took cold showers, drank ice water, and liked to blow a fan on himself, which made his body very damp. However, because he was worried about the business results, he was a little anxious and got angry. In the end, his yin and yang were out of balance, and he caught a serious cold and felt weak all over.

Jack took the cold medicine he brought with him, and went to see a doctor after three days of not feeling better. The medicine prescribed by the Western doctor was far less effective than the medicine he brought with him, so he went to see a Chinese doctor.

As a result, the Chinese doctor diagnosed that he had wind-heat turning into wind-cold, and it was really troublesome to treat the combination of internal fire and external evil. They did not want to take the risk of treating foreigners, so they recommended that he go to see Dr. Shao.

Since Tiantian went to the university to audit, her clinic time has been changed to one day a week, and Dr. Shao and Old Man Lu's clinic time has also been changed back to three days a week.

She happened to be there that day, so Dr. Shao asked her to be responsible for seeing Jack and prescribing medicine.

Originally, she prescribed soup, but Jack said he couldn't drink the soup, and he said he couldn't bear the bitterness!

Tiantian carefully prescribed him a medicinal bath recipe, supplemented by scraping, moxibustion, and cupping. She wanted to make the delicate Jack deeply appreciate the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, and it would be best if he fell in love with the feeling of cupping, moxibustion, and scraping. She asked Jack to