Chapter 158: A Special Year
Don't look at his stall is not big, but these new and exotic denim clothes sell very well, the vast majority of them are young men and girls who pursue fashion to buy, and adults still rarely care about this kind of clothes, in the words of Grandpa Hong Tao, this is not wearing a labor protection suit!
A few days before the investment promotion, Hong Tao deliberately asked his aunt-in-law to go to the sub-district office again, and then donated a sum of money to the office in the name of the National Day, which was used to buy winter condolences for the five guarantee households and military martyrs' families in the jurisdiction. [][]. [23] [x]. The reason why he did this was not that Hong Tao suddenly remembered to support the army and his subordinates, he was afraid that those merchants who were excluded from the investment promotion activities would chew their tongues and sue the black, whether they were like that kind of people or not, whether they would do that kind of thing, anyway, it would definitely not be a loss to think badly about people, and take precautions.
After finishing the investment promotion, Hong Tao can't be idle, Grandpa Dajiang's private restaurant has to start decorating, this time the decoration drawings have to be painted by Hong Tao himself, but he is only responsible for the decoration planning of the business hall upstairs, and the kitchen that came out of the back of the building has to be designed by Grandpa Zhang himself, he doesn't know anything about the equipment in the kitchen, so don't play the game of the layman commanding the insider.
Hong Tao changed the decoration style this time, no longer using that log style, but came to a comprehensive retro, completely imitating the appearance of a rich family in the Qing Dynasty, and arranged the whole room into a living room. This idea is not his own idea, he doesn't have any ideas of his own in his head, it is all the memories of his previous life.
Since it's a private dish and you only cook one or two tables a day, it's a high-end route. Therefore, a feature should be highlighted in the decoration. And Hong Tao's positioning here is to receive those foreign guests who come to visit the Lama Temple, although those foreign guests come by bus, and then leave by bus. Aside from the limited time for activities, there is simply no time to sit down and eat a proper meal.
But that's not a problem, as long as you make it attractive, they will find time to come back again, and Hong Tao is very sure of this, because clothing stores and beauty stores often welcome such customers. Of course, there is also the credit of Hong Tao's ability to speak English, as long as he meets foreign guests who come here for tourism. If you have something to do, you will come over to chat a few words, and then specially introduce your own shops.
The other point is the tour guides. Hong Tao directly applied the general unspoken rule in the tourism industry in later generations: kickback! But now these tour guides don't have the courage to collect money directly, so it doesn't matter, Hong Tao specially prepared imported cigarettes and imported cosmetics for them as gifts, and men gave cigarettes. Cosmetics for women.
These tour guides are all human spirits. Of course, he knew what Hong Tao was doing this for, so he deliberately accelerated the visit to the Lama Temple and the Guozijian, and made more time to take those foreign guests to visit Hong Tao's shop. So when this private restaurant opens, by the way, I will introduce this very distinctive restaurant, and those tour guides will definitely not care.
However, people can bring people, and whether they can keep it is not the task of the tour guide, it depends on whether Hong Tao, the actual operator, has the ability. Hong Tao felt that he should have the ability to do this, and what did those foreign guests want to see most when they came to China? It was certainly not modernization. Not to mention roads, subways and bridges, what they are most interested in are architecture, culture, and clothing with typical Chinese characteristics that are not available in their country.
Since they want to see these. Then Hong Tao satisfies their curiosity, the clothing store can make cheongsam, and the private restaurant is decorated according to the appearance of the Qing Dynasty, which should be right. As for why he didn't decorate it in the royal style, Hong Tao was not afraid that the government would not let it, nor was he afraid of making any taboos, his main consideration was that there was no shortage of royal style decoration in the capital. The imitation food in Beihai is the royal garden style, which is full of gold and splendor, the seat cushions and tablecloths are bright yellow silk, and all the tableware is imitation of the special porcelain of the internal affairs government fired by the official kiln of Jingdezhen, and even the building of the dining room is indeed the royal garden of the Qing Dynasty.
If you want to compare this with Fangshan, Hong Tao's small house must not be comparable, so you must play to your strengths and avoid weaknesses, you are the royal family over there, let's have a rich commoner here; you are the palace style there, let's take the civilian route here; there are those who like the aristocratic style, there must be those who like ordinary people, this is the same as eating, the ups and downs have a good.
And Hong Tao also has ready-made furniture and ready-made connoisseurs to use, his collection of Ming and Qing dynasty furniture, that is genuine, when Hong Tao plans to write a simple description of each piece of furniture in English, and then paste it in a conspicuous position. You sit on a 3oo-year-old rosewood chair and eat at a 2oo-year-old Huanghuali round table, not to mention how the dishes are done, this is a set of household goods, and it can also instantly make customers feel that this trip is worthwhile.
In addition, there is also the second master, a descendant of the Manchu Dynasty, how to arrange the furniture in the house and how to put that thing, he is the same as the mirror in his heart. When decorating, he will always stare here, where he can use old furniture, he will use old furniture, and if he can't find a place, he will find someone to make a new one with hardwood, in addition to eating, and then put a set of things for drinking tea, and by the way, get a few cricket jars, gourds, and bird cages.
With a young man named Li Ning from southern China, he won the 6 championships of horizontal bar, floor gymnastics, vault, pommel horse, rings and all-around at the World Gymnastics Competition held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, creating a myth in the history of world gymnastics, known as the prince of gymnastics, and the good news spread all over the country through guò TV, and quietly left in 82, and was replaced by 1983, when Hong Tao was 11 years old and had been in the fourth grade for more than half a year.
This year's Spring Festival is different, with a new policy, in February, where the Spring Festival is located, urban residents each supply three catties of Fuqiang powder, one catty of small mixed beans, one catty of Jiang rice, four taels of peanut oil, one tael of sesame oil, half a catty of peanuts, three taels of melon seeds, one tael of sesame sauce, two catties of hairtail fish or half a catty of yellow croaker, so the people's dinner table will have some more non-staple food, and there will be an extra piece of woolen clothes on their bodies.
Another big change is the TV program, the first Spring Festival Gala began this year, and every year on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese people will sit around the dinner table, enjoying family fun while enjoying this variety TV program. The Spring Festival Gala has gradually become an indispensable entertainment for Chinese people to celebrate the Spring Festival.
Because of the TV program newspaper, so a week before the Spring Festival, Hong Tao saw the word gala, in order to let the whole family better appreciate this unprecedented literary event, Hong Tao ran to the friendship store again, spent 18ooo yuan foreign exchange volume, and got back a 14-inch Sanyo color TV, if converted to RMB, it is almost 4ooo yuan.
The original small black and white TV at home, Hong Tao took it to the yard of the enamel factory and put it in the gadget shop. The second master, 6 Yunpeng and Liu Bai are all old bachelors and widows, every year during the Spring Festival, they are the loneliest people, although there are TVs in clothing stores and beauty stores, but in order to avoid suspicion, they are unwilling to open the lock and watch TV after work.
These three people are not as young and young as the Han Xue sisters, and they ran to Hong Tao's grandmother's house to spend the Chinese New Year's Eve, they are all old, they can't pull down that face, they can only make some delicious food for themselves in the yard, and then listen to the sound of firecrackers outside to drink stuffy wine and recall the past. With this TV, although it can't eliminate the loneliness in their hearts, at least it can make them a little happier, and they can laugh a little more and count a few times, so much that Hong Tao can do at present.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, Zhao Zhongxiang, who was still a young man, appeared on the TV screen and gave an opening speech, and then Ma Ji, Jiang Kun, Liu Xiaoqing, Wang Jingyu, etc., came on the stage as hosts. The first time I watched this kind of large-scale variety show on TV, everyone in the room was very curious, even grandma and grandpa stared at the TV intently, and from time to time they had to comment on the spirit of that girl and that young man.
The first person to appear and sing "New Year's Song" is Li Guyi, a young singer who has been questioned in the past two years and is said to be Teresa Teng in China.
Later, Hong Tao also saw a lot of literary and artistic celebrities who were also familiar in later generations, such as Master Hou Baolin, Siqin Gaowa, Hu Songhua, Li Wenhua, Zhao Yan, Yan Shunkai, etc., in addition, Li Guyi re-sang her famous song "Hometown Love", Liu Xiaoqing also sang the movie episode "Velvet Flower", and a female singer named Zheng Xulan sang "Sun Island", "Shepherd Girl" and "The Sea, Hometown".
These three songs of hers are the most popular songs in this era, if there was a queen of songs at that time, then Zheng Xulan should be the best, and it will definitely be no problem to get a platinum record. Especially the movie episode "Shepherdess", which became popular all over the country with the movie "Shaolin Temple" in 82, and another martial arts star who has been popular until the 21st century also emerged in this movie, he is Jet Li.
"Second master, second grandmother, and 6 uncles give you a New Year's greeting! Come, knock one, you two look at the red envelope, 1ooo is not too much, 5ooo is not too little!6 uncle, I won't give you a knock, or you have to return all your wages to me, I'm afraid it's not enough." Before 12 o'clock, Hong Tao said a word to his family, and then took a bag of peanuts and melon seeds and candy, and returned to the gay store first. (To be continued!)
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