Chapter 003: Neighbors
"Brother Yang, are you back?"
"Hmm. β
"Have you eaten, my ......"
"Eat...... Well...... Barbecued pork rice. β
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"By the way, the water stopped again today, and I left you a bucket. β
"Thank you, Xiaoman. β
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On the black-lit rooftop, there is only a faint layer of white-haired moonlight that makes people see a vague impression. Yang Qiu quietly looked at the handsome girl opposite, the girl lowered her head slightly and didn't dare to look at him, and a wave of embarrassment spread between the two, making Yang Qiu uncomfortable.
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After a moment's coldness, Yang Qiu broke the silence and asked, "Hmm... , Xiaoman, hasn't your brother come back yet?"
"No, I don't. The petite and delicate Xiaoman looked up at Yang Qiu, then immediately lowered his head, paused and complained in a low voice: "I don't know what he's been doing recently, he goes out early and returns late, and he can't see anyone all the time." β
ββ¦β¦ Well, maybe your brother has been busy lately. Yang Qiu gave an answer that was not the answer.
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"Brother Yang!"
"Huh?"
"That...... The girl on the other side of the ......" twisted twice, and finally seemed to have great courage, looked up at Yang Qiu and said, "Can you continue to teach me to practice calligraphy tomorrow? β
"Huh?" Yang Qiu was stunned for a moment, then immediately nodded and said, "Yes." β
"Thank you then, Brother Yang, see you tomorrow!"
The girl seemed very excited when she heard Yang Qiu's answer, turned around and trotted into her cabin, and then closed the door with a 'bang', so loud that Yang Qiu was stunned for a moment, but then the room immediately fell silent.
This little girl, I'm embarrassed......
Obviously, Yang Qiu is not the only one living on this rooftop, and his shed alone can't occupy such a large piece of land, so it is very common to have two or three neighbors.
For example, Li Yi and Li Man, two brothers and sisters who live on the same rooftop as Yang Qiu.
Their two brothers and sisters are from southern Hunan, and the elder brother Li Yi is almost thirty years old, a tall man, and I heard that he was originally a soldier. But it's a pity that he was a soldier of the Blue Army, and in these years, the Blue Army was defeated and retreated by the Red Army, losing his armor and abandoning his armor, and Li Yi's division was directly scattered.
Li Yi is also thoughtful, thinking that he was captured by the Blue Army anyway, and he can't hang himself on this rotten tree. The Red Army fought and killed the old man for a long time, and Li Yi also lost his temper, so he didn't have to think about it.
So this guy simply didn't do anything, returned to his hometown to find the only remaining brother and sister, and fled to Xiangjiang.
It's just that I pity the second brother, his body and bones are not good, and the blue army is too lazy to catch the strong men, so he died of illness on the road.
In the end, only Li Yi and Li Man were left in Xiangjiang.
Li Man is only twenty-eight years old, and he is as tender as a flower, and he feels that he can squeeze out the water when he grabs a handful. Although it is not a long country and a city, it is better than a light show, a small jasper taste.
After living together for a long time, Yang Qiu found that Li Man seemed to be a good wife and mother.
Moreover, Li Man seemed to have a different mind about Yang Qiu.
Pity......
Although the weather was getting cooler, the temperature was still within a bearable range, so Yang Qiu entered his own wooden house, threw the package at will, and then found a towel and water to scrub it twice, and lay directly on the bed.
Go to bed!
At night when there is no electricity, no network, and no mobile phone, boredom is predictable.
Yang Qiu has been graduating from that university for two or three years, and he has also worked in his brother's company for more than a year.
After his brother finished studying abroad, he returned to China directly and opened a foreign trade company, and worked hard for more than ten years to become a rich generation.
That's really a good example of being a CEO and marrying Bai Fumei.
Although Yang Qiu has been living in the shadow of his elder brother when he was a student, he immediately discovered the benefits of having a scholarly brother as soon as he graduated.
Although you can't be a rich second generation, it's also very good to be a rich generation of his brother!
Don't worry about work!
Don't worry about the house! Brother will give you a set.
Daughter-in-law, don't worry, we haven't had enough fun.
Kids, Mom and Dad, look how well you take care of your eldest nephew, this is white and chubby.
There is no pressure up and down, left and right, so until the twenty-fourth or fifth year, Yang Qiu still lived with a big grin, a hammer on the left and a hammer on the west. As for self-motivation and the like, hehe, if you have been pressed by a scholar for more than 20 years, it is estimated that it will be worn out.
So in that hot summer, Yang Qiu directly asked for leave and went back to his hometown in the countryside of Xiangbei, nominally to pay tribute to his grandparents, but in fact, it was too hot to stand the heat.
Yang Qiu still remembered that he wore a pair of wide sweatpants that day, ran barearm and went swimming in the small pond in front of the ancestral house without anything.
When he was deep in the water and then floated again, he found that the small pond had turned into a large bay, the fresh water had turned into salt water, and there were small cruise ships and fishing boats running around on the water.
According to later words, Yang Qiu was directly stunned at that time.
Then Yang Qiu, who was stunned and almost sank into the sea, was fished up by a fishing boat, and the owner of the boat saw that Yang Qiu was white and tender, and thought that it was a rich young master who fled south who lost all his family property, and he couldn't think of throwing himself into the sea, so he persuaded him for a long time.
Although Yang Qiu didn't understand a few words of Cantonese......
Later, Yang Qiu vaguely knew that he had crossed over, from Xiangbei to Xiangjiang, and from the 21st century to the early summer of 1948.
This time span is a bit big, and it's painful......
Look at the Xiangjiang River crossing streams, how many of them are worn? Most of them are soul wearers, directly inheriting other people's identity and property, at least at the beginning, there is no need to worry about food and housing, and now he wears a big pants!
Also travel back in time to 1948......
Sooner than yet, Yang Qiu was going crazy at the beginning, which one wore Xiangjiang until about 1980. Just because he, a person who grew up under the cultivation of Xiangjiang Films, can learn how to write screenplays casually, and can't save two or three garbage scripts to sell for money?
From the late 80s to the mid-90s, it was the most prosperous era of Xiangjiang films, and it was also the era of garbage films!
As for the 1948 Xiangjiang movie - what the hell is that?
Yang Qiu doesn't think that two 80-year-old garbage film scripts can be sold in 50.
As for writing novels, well, now that Kim hasn't started writing yet, we can ......
Ahh
You really think you're a titanium super brain, remember everything. Jin Yong's novel Yang Qiu has read it all, but who will recite the full text, and it is not a primary school Chinese textbook.
Besides, he has almost forgotten all the things in his elementary school textbooks now.
To be honest, after watching so many TV movies such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", and "The True Colors of Heroes", many of the plots in them have been reversed, for example, Yang Qiu still remembers how Duan Yu appeared in "Dragon Babu" and how Qiao Feng hung up.
But storytelling and storytelling are not the same thing, especially for someone like Yang Qiu, who has just passed the language.
If you tell a story to someone with a pen and a draw, as long as you and the other party are not brain-dead, you can definitely explain it clearly to the other party. But if you write down your words on paper for others to read, it is estimated that few people will endure to read three lines.
Writing a novel is about writing......
The two most commonly used roads for the Xiangjiang River to cross the stream, writing novels and making movies were directly blocked, and Yang Qiu felt a loss when he thought about it.
As for speculating in stock futures and the like, Yang Qiu knows a lot, what is the 82 stock market crash, the 85 square agreement, the 87 stock market crash and the 97 financial crisis, these things are all written in the Xiangjiang crossing novels, and there are few people who like Hong Kong entertainment who don't know.
But it's 48 years now, and it's still more than 30 years away from 82 years......
Yang Qiu hasn't found a clue here, and trouble is coming again.
In these years, most of the fishermen were poor, and the boat family who saved Yang Qiu was not a rich family, but seeing that Yang Qiu was pitiful, he still kindly gave him a Gebu horse coat with a fishy smell, and it was not good to be naked.
And then...... kicked Yang Qiu ashore.
After coming ashore, Yang Qiu didn't care about how to leave in the future, and he was worried for a long time at the beginning, afraid that a police officer would ask for a household registration and then send him out of the country.
In these years, it is not safe on the mainland, but Xiangjiang is still quiet. Even if you want to figure out why you want to run to your hometown in Xiangbei, you have to wait at this time, and you can't row it halfway.
As a result, after hiding for two days, Yang Qiu was stunned to find that Xiangjiang was now a big-eyed sieve, and the Hong Kong government didn't care about it when he came in and out......
In fact, Yang Qiu did not know that it was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 that the Hong Kong government began to promulgate the "Immigration Management Regulations", implemented the population registration policy, and canceled the right of Chinese to enter and leave Hong Kong freely.
Before that, Xiangjiang was in and out whenever he wanted.
Therefore, in the past few years, Xiangjiang, which originally had a population of only 600,000, suddenly poured in 1.2 million refugees.
Suddenly, so many refugees were added, and the Hong Kong government couldn't manage it, maybe it took a long time, but the Red Army came over, and its efforts were in vain.
And so the result is...... The Hong Kong government doesn't care
The problem of identity is solved, and the problem of life is also imminent. When he first came ashore, Yang Qiu was like a headless fly, and he was really hungry for two days.
Later, I still watched others pick up cigarette butts and sell them for money, so I was half full.
Yang Qiu didn't go to any trading company or foreign firm to apply for a job later, but he also graduated from college in his later life, although the school was not very good, but when he worked in his brother's trading company, he still practiced his spoken English well.
In Yang Qiu's mind, his quality should be more than enough to be a foreign assistant.
Then, Yang Qiu was hit.
Because he found that he, a dignified college graduate, came to Xiangjiang in 1948 and became a semi-literate person!
In recent years, the Chinese characters that have been popular all over the world are still in traditional Chinese, and Yang Qiu's simplified Chinese characters are simply an example of not learning and not knowing.
As for his spoken English, it is also separated from the later generations by two Mediterranean Seas, Yang Qiu popped up two new words from time to time, which made the foreign devils in the interview stunned, and then several foreign executives gave a high-minded evaluation and were directly eliminated.
It's not that there are no foreign companies willing to ask for him, after all, there is more than enough to be less than the top, but these years foreigners are all the best in the world, and it is very difficult to serve. Where could Yang Qiu, who grew up under the new red flag, stand it, and simply took the burden after two days.
Thinking of this, Yang Qiu's tears fell......
After that, in addition to picking up cigarette butts, Yang Qiu also ran to the hall to sell newspapers, but fortunately, Yang Qiu found that it was quite profitable to sell second-hand books at a stall, so he slowly settled down.
His books were all recovered for four yuan a catty, both in Chinese and foreign languages, and there were about ten copies per catty, and then they were sold for four yuan a piece. The best-selling is a leaky foreign wall calendar, a good condition can sell for 12 yuan, for example, today he sold two sets of wall calendars.
Of course, he was not idle when he set up the stall, and while he had enough resources at hand, he was also learning traditional Chinese characters, English and Cantonese to the death.
He didn't want to set up a stall for the rest of his life.
The night was already deep, and just when Yang Qiu was sleeping in a daze, he seemed to hear a little movement outside the door in a daze.
"Brother, you're back. β
"Hmm"
"Have you eaten?"
"Ate outside with my brothers,...... By the way, the guy surnamed Yang on the other side didn't harass you, did he?"
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"Brother, what are you talking about, Brother Yang is not this kind of person. β
"Hmph, it's not what kind of person this kind of person is, let me tell you, sister, stay away from this kind of person, you have three wives and four concubines all day long, and I don't know if you have this life. β
"Brotherβ"
Yang Qiu's sweat has come down, when did we keep talking about the three wives and four concubines, and we only said it once.