Saturday, April 30, 1988.

In the 80s, there were no weekends, not even big or small weeks, so after work on Saturday, the holiday began.

{Note: The big prayer / small prayer is a phased system in 94~95 years, that is, a single week off and a double rest the next week, which is a transitional pilot period before the implementation of the full double holiday.} The post-80s generation is estimated to have an impression, and the post-90s generation must not know}

It's just that because the next day, Sunday, is also Labor Day, this holiday can allow everyone to take two days off in a row, and Sunday and Monday are off.

In the afternoon, in Hujiang, a sub-bureau with foreign-related license affairs and a civil affairs window.

A group of staff members, who were already thinking about how they would spend the holidays, chatted excitedly there.

It's not that they're not serious, it's that there's really nothing wrong with this point. Nowadays, ordinary police offices are not qualified to apply for passports, and many mainland cities even have to go to the municipal bureau, and the most open place like Hujiang has to be a branch office.

Even if the business is so concentrated, the place to apply for passports is still very quiet, and it is the consulates of various countries that are really busy, and there are people who try to get visas, and there are long queues every day.

Hujiang is quite convenient, and many countries have consulates general here. If you are in a small place, you may have to go to the capital in person to apply for a visa, and as for remote processing or something, at least you will not hear of it in the next few years.

It's hard to go abroad.

"Liu Ke, I heard that your family is going to move to a new house on May Day, and you will have a treat in a while. ”

"That's it. ”

Several window clerks took advantage of the fact that no one came to do business, and crowded around the leader on duty.

In the 80s, the relationship between the organs was relatively loose, and those who led the leaders had the intention to climb up.

At the same time, those who have been working as clerks at the grassroots level for many years know that they have no hope in this life, because they are serving iron rice bowls, they are too lazy to please, but they will often get up and ask the leaders to invite a guest to rub some oil and water.

Anyway, if you don't please you, you can't be fired for an excuse, at most, you won't be promoted. So people who don't want to be promoted, it's really "no desire is just".

"Xiao Wang, you guy, you take the lead every time!" Liu Ke was squeezed by the subordinate who didn't want to be promoted, "Okay, please eat Nanxiang xiaolongbao tomorrow." ”

In 1988, it was decent to invite someone to eat xiaolongbao, after all, it was fresh meat soup, and it was also a signature feature.

Everyone got up for a while, and a bunch of people came in at the door, who seemed to be secretly leaving work in advance to check the progress of the business.

"Hello comrade, this is my receipt material last time, I want to see if our passports are ready, didn't you say one to two weeks. Several middle-aged and elderly women and individual men gathered around the window to ask.

"Didn't that say that it would take two weeks, and we would also save up and send it for stamping, so we would make a trip for your few copies? Who should not be prepared to go abroad for a few months, what is the hurry! I will give you a passport today, and you will be able to sign it? Oh, and it is also written that the intention to go abroad is the United States...... It's never been a month to get a photo, and you can't delay it!

In later generations, many people applied for passports first, but one tradition has been preserved, that is, when you go to apply for it, people will ask you which country you are going to go to.

In later life, it doesn't matter if you casually say it, but in the 80s, you said that the purpose of applying for a passport is where to go, you really have to go somewhere first, if you don't go to this country, you have to review, explain, and explain why you can't make the trip, in short, it's very troublesome.

Therefore, when the handling window sees that those are ready to go to the United States, they will save up and send them for stamping, unless there is something that needs to be urgent.

"We're really in a hurry to go abroad, and we're going to the United States on May Day!"

Hearing that something was wrong with the window, Liu Ke paced over to see how Xiao Wang dealt with it.

As a leader, he has a lot of experience, and he first looked at the other party's materials, and most of these people's units are film studios in the city, and there are also complex universities, which seem to be decent units, and it seems that it is really possible to get the qualifications to go to the United States.

However, among the materials, there are also a few who are purely unemployed and famous, or the unit is very spicy chicken.

Liu Ke cleared his throat: "Comrade, if we really delay your business, we will definitely have to expedite the process, but have you prepared the visa materials for the consulate? If you don't have those ready, you won't need to get your passport out quickly." I have a good understanding of the qualifications required by the U.S. Consulate General, so let me help you take a look. ”

"We have a group signature, and the relevant departments in the United States will directly issue it as a whole, just waiting for your passport here! Let's go to the United States and stamp the landing according to the list!" A certain unemployed vagrant and other people who have gone abroad defended.

Liu Ke was stunned: "What are you kidding! Are you a běi hán in the United States? There are also Chinese tour groups? I have never heard that Chinese can go to the United States for group visas." ”

At this time, a middle-aged man in the crowd who looked like a middle-level cadre of the Hujiang Film Factory came out to make a round: "This comrade, you may not know that we are going to the United States on a charter flight this time, and a colleague's child is giving birth in the United States, and we are going to visit. The man has the ability to apply for it directly, but I don't know the details. ”

“…… You're talking about Gu Biao, right?" the person from the passport office reacted immediately.

As soon as I heard that China's big boss could charter a plane to go to the United States as if it were no one, China naturally did not think twice about it.

Then what else is there to say, you can't let your passport delay your visa.

"I'll send it to you, I'm sorry, you wait, there are still two chapters left, and I will definitely get it for you before I get off work today." ”

"That's so much appreciated. ”

Finally, I heard that the plane would land at Hongqiao tonight, and the routes had been applied for and could take off at any time.

The large stack of passports that cats and dogs are usually impossible to apply for, under the aura of Gu Biao, can also achieve the first trip to the United States in their lives.

Looking at all this, the staff of the airport and the passport office couldn't help but sigh when they finally saw the only A320 glide in China take off.

"Why are there so many messy people. ”

"I heard that it was those relatives of the Xiao family, and they felt that it was a loss to fly to the Pacific Ocean with only twenty or thirty people on such a big plane. Thrifty and simple, if you have a little relationship, you want to visit and condole, and the host's family is not easy to push out. ”

"Looking at the materials just now, the farthest ones seem to be just alumni of Mrs. Gu's schooling, and they are not classmates, but because they have participated in the same club and have a little friendship, they have all been given an opportunity to go to the United States, which is really ...... Alas!"

In fact, this kind of thing happened once a few months ago, when Gu Biao got married in Xiangjiang. It's just that the distance was close, so most of the relatives and friends who were not the closest chose to set off from their respective cities, take a short flight, train, and cross the border to Xiangjiang.

And this time, anyone who wants to go to the United States can only take Gu Xiao's special plane, otherwise it will be difficult for them to sign it. So even if there are only a few dozen people in the end, there is still a lot of uproar.

What's more, at this time, no matter what the quality is, people want to come together to show their goodwill, and it is not easy for the host's family to push it out. Even if it's a little messy, it should be for Gu Wei's children to accumulate virtue, and the old people in the family always like to watch the lively drama of "rich people have distant relatives in the mountains".

Gu Xiao himself is a relatively open-minded and modern person, but the traditional concepts of the Chinese still exist.

The sky and the earth are big, and the future is the largest. Occasionally, it's the old man in the family, anyway, it's the last time.

……

Don't care about those guys who come to the United States to make a good life in the name of a group of relatives and friends.

Anyway, when these people come to the United States, they only deserve to be arranged by Gu Biao to live in a hotel in Manhattan, and they usually don't come to Greenwich, Connecticut.

In this era, most Chinese do not understand the forced style of living in the suburbs, and the most prosperous place in the city center is the most high-end and most deserved. So everyone can be regarded as having their own place, and everyone is happy.

Especially when I heard that the hotel I was staying in was not far from Wall Street, the legendary heart of the universe, everyone was eager to take out their cameras and go to Wall Street to take a pose.

Gu Biao will naturally send a secretary and assistant to make a cameo appearance as a tour guide to lead the group to maintain order so as not to cause trouble.

Fortunately, the Chinese who went abroad at the end of the 80s were still quite qualified, mainly timid, cautious, and not so big as to pretend to be a big uncle and cause trouble.

So they didn't affect Gu Biao's quiet life at all, as long as they finally came to congratulate him, they gave a red envelope and sent it away.

On May 8, at the Mayo Presbyterian Hospital in the Greenwich community, Xiao Sui safely gave birth to a son and a daughter.

Gu Biao and Mina were both accompanied by the hospital, and after the doctor dealt with it briefly, they hugged the child as soon as possible.

"It's not easy, the twins can both weigh more than six pounds, and the burden on the mother is very heavy. When the female doctor in the hospital reported to Gu Fu, she was very emotional.

The son is six pounds and six taels, and the daughter is six pounds and one tael, which is equivalent to the burden of carrying a huge child of thirteen pounds.

"This sister is not as heavy as her brother, it's pitiful. Mina watched from the sidelines, and saw that her daughter's small arms and legs were very thin, and she also felt a little pity.

Gu Biao explained comfortingly: "In fact, the twins are the ones who come out late and develop better, and the umbilical cord is closer to the source of nutrition when they are in the mother's body.

If you want to take your daughter away in the future as planned, then just take your son out for relatives and friends these days. Anyway, the news that she is pregnant with a dragon and phoenix fetus has never been revealed to outsiders. I don't want to have a kid make that much of a fuss. ”

Mina: "Let's wait for Sister Sui to wake up, I don't know how long it will take for her anesthetic to be gone, at least she has to stay in bed for more than half a month." ”

Gu Biao and Mina waited in the hospital for a long time, and slept in the escort room of the hospital that night, and finally waited for Xiao Sui to wake up a little the next day, Gu Biao and Mina naturally wanted to go to comfort her.

"It's all going well, let's rest assured first, with me. I will deal with relatives and friends, and I have greeted them, saying that you are not in good health. Gu Biao didn't mention much about the child's situation, obviously he still paid more attention to adults in his eyes.

"Then I'll be relieved, I'm very sleepy, and it won't hurt when I fall asleep. The anesthetic is over, and it is very uncomfortable, can you ask the doctor and give some tranquilizers. Xiao Sui struggled for a while and continued to fall asleep.

Finally gave birth, and after three or four years of perseverance, it was useless, and after being relieved, Xiao Sui couldn't help but rely a little dependently.

"You ......" Gu Biao couldn't help but smile bitterly, but then he still favored and gained the upper hand.

Yes, Xiao Sui will not regenerate in this life, if she can relieve a little pain, it is not impossible to consider, after all, it is an emergency measure in an extraordinary period.