Chapter 36: The Pearl of the Orient
Hong Kong, Kowloon, Flower World.
After all, Liu Yanzhi and Guan Lu are both from the 21st century, 33 years later, in China, many cities have caught up with the prosperity of Hong Kong, and the neon lights of high-rise buildings are not unusual.
Guan Lu was overjoyed and opened her arms: "Free world, I'm here." ”
Liu Yan said straightly: "Doctor, your words are a bit reactionary. ”
Guan Lu said nonchalantly: "You don't need a letter of introduction to stay in a hotel, you don't need foreign exchange coupons to buy things, and you don't need food stamps to eat, isn't it freedom?" I don't care, divide the money in half of me, I'm going to the flask. ”
Liu Yan was speechless, he was originally a young man, and his willpower was not strong, so he simply followed Dr. Guan, Guan Lu had been to Hong Kong, and he could speak simple Cantonese, so he couldn't go wrong with her.
In 1984, no one in Hong Kong wore the bell bottoms that were still popular in the mainland, the streets were full of tight jeans and loose tops, and the ears were full of Cantonese.
This year, Chow Yun-fat has not been famous for a long time, Andy Lau is still a newcomer, Stephen Chow is still a dead man, this year, Weng Meiling has not committed suicide, Maggie Cheung has just been elected Miss Hong Kong, and Cecilia Cheung is just a four-year-old doll.
Liu Yanzhi was sighing, and suddenly the police across the street came over, as if the target was himself.
"Sir, ID card." The policeman said politely.
Liu Yanzhi's heart was beating wildly, he remained silent, slowly took out his documents, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the point 38 weighted barrel revolver on the policeman's belt, and the holster buckle had not been unfastened, indicating that the police had not entered a state of alert, just a routine inspection.
He Changrong's ID card was taken out, and the police gave it back to him after glancing at it: "Thank you." ”
Liu Yanzhi nodded, covered in cold sweat.
After the police left, Guan Lu complained viciously: "Eighty percent of them treat you as a fleeing Vietnamese boat people, you look at your dress, the scum of the soil, fill your stomach first, and then go with your sister, and keep you dressed up in a foreign and harbor." ”
After eating a bowl of wonton noodles at a street shop, Guan Lu decided to go shopping across the sea to Causeway Bay, she flagged down a taxi, and took her follower Liu Yan straight through the undersea tunnel to the downtown business district of Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island.
Causeway Bay is full of lights, department stores, Daimaru, Mitsukoshi, Sogo and other Japanese-funded shopping malls occupy a major position, and the goods are even more dazzling.
Guan Lu bought it happily, and Mandarin involuntarily slipped out, Liu Yanzhi couldn't help but feel a tight heart, for fear that others would discriminate against mainland tourists, how did he know that the salesman didn't dare to slack off, and he was almost smiling with a smile on his face: "Miss is from Taiwan, right?" ”
"Yes, Chiang Ching-kuo is my uncle." Guan Lu lied without blushing, but she didn't forget about her little follower, and pointed at Liu Yanzhi: "Help him pick out a suit." ”
The salesperson smiled: "Sir, you can take a look at Goldlion's brand ready-to-wear." ”
After some shopping spree, it was time to find a hotel to stay in, Guan Lu asked, "Where to stay?" ”
"Regent Hotel." Liu Yan thought about it and gave an answer.
Guan Lu pointed at him, with a look of unteachable contempt, stopped a taxi, instructed the driver to open the trunk and let Liu Yanzhi put the large and small shopping bags in, then got into the car, and pointed angrily: "sheratonhongkonghotel." ”
At the front desk of the Sheraton Hotel, Guan Lu negotiated with the hotel receptionist, and used fluent English throughout the whole process, and this time opened two suites, one of which is a sea-view suite facing Victoria Bay.
The big bed was full of new clothes wrapped in plastic paper, shopping bags were all over the floor, Guan Lu bought evening dresses, skirts, jeans, various coats, shoes, underwear, and even swimsuits and bought three sets, Liu Yanzhi only had two shirts, a suit, and a pair of leather shoes, all of which were Hong Kong real estate brands.
"How do I get to the United States?" Liu Yanzhi raised the most difficult problem.
"Spend money to smuggle people." Guan Lu gestured in front of the dressing mirror for the evening dress, "How do you see me wearing this?" ”
"Whose dinner are you going to?" Liu Yanzhi said unceremoniously, "We are black households with no identity, and we have to be repatriated if we are caught by the police...... No, we don't even have a nationality, we don't belong to this era at all, they have no place to repatriate, you say smuggling, you think the Pacific Ocean is Shenzhen Bay, you can't find a way to spend money, even if you find a channel, eighty percent of them are also going by freighter, and they have been bumpy on the sea for ten days and half a month, and the time is all delayed......"
"The colors don't seem to go well, if there is a shawl, it would be fine." Guan Lu didn't seem to hear what Liu Yanzhi was saying at all, and continued to scratch her head.
Liu Yan had no choice, so he had to go back to his room, bow his head and ponder how to go to the United States, smuggling seems to be the most convenient way, but time is limited, and he can only take a plane, so he needs a passport, but how to get a passport? I can only go to the black market to buy, where to find the black market if I am not familiar with the place, thinking about it, a very bold plan came to mind, and he ran impatiently to knock on Guan Lu's door.
After five minutes, Guan Lu opened the door, but only opened a crack in the door, her hair was wet, and she had a bath towel around her chest, with a vigilant face: "What are you doing?" ”
"Let me in, I'll have something to tell you." Liu Yan pushed open the door and walked straight in.
"You, you, you." Guan Lu was furious, "It's rude, you know? ”
"I'm He Changrong, you're Cui Manli, we're two, right?" Liu Yan said straight.
"You've taken the wrong medicine, what's the?" Guan Lu took a few steps back and hid in the bathroom.
Liu Yanzhi continued to say outside: "Have you noticed, the police didn't suspect me when they checked my ID card, and when you checked in in the lobby, the front desk didn't suspect you, let's just use these two ID cards to apply for passports, and then buy two tickets to fly directly to the United States, it's as simple as that." ”
"Dream on, you think the civil servants of the Hong Kong government are all blind." Guan Lu's disdainful answer came from the bathroom.
"Try it, if it doesn't work, think of another way." Liu Yanzhi walked back and forth excitedly.
The bathroom opened a crack in the door: "Excuse me, hand me the jeans and the shirt." ”
……
In the afternoon, Liu Yanzhi and Guan Lu got into a taxi and went straight to the address on Ho Cheung-wing's ID card, Nam Hang Village, Yuen Long, New Territories.
Yuen Long is an authentic suburb of Hong Kong, and Nam Hang Village is a rural village, when the two arrived, the village was setting up a stage to sing, and the Cantonese opera was babbling and singing on the stage, and the audience was full of villagers.
Liu Yanzhi and Guan Lu looked at each other, He Changrong is dead, who is the person who went to the mainland with his ID card?
An enthusiastic aunt took them to He's house, and through the crack in the door, it could be seen that there was an ancestral spiritual seat in the house, and there were cobwebs everywhere, obviously no one had been here for a long time.
"How did Ah Rong die?" Liu Yan asked the aunt directly.
"Those who are hacked to death will be beaten and killed, and there will be no good end." The aunt shook her head and slowly walked away.
Guan Lu paced a few steps and began to analyze: "He Changrong is a stupid child in the countryside, he went to the city in the 80s to mix with society, participated in the club as an old boy, and was hacked to death by the other party when he fought for the boss's territory, the person died, the identity is still there, the community used his ID card to smuggle cultural relics in the mainland, and he couldn't find out if something happened, that's it." ”
"Is that the same with Cui Manli?" Liu Yan said straight.
Guan Lu took out Cui Manli's ID card: "Sheung Shui Wai Village, Lantau Island." ”
The two said in unison, "Go now." ”
Lantau Island is an outlying island in Hong Kong, and if you have to take a ferry from Pier 4 in Sheung Wan, rush back to Hong Kong Island from Yuen Long, and then take a boat to Lantau Island, I am afraid that you will not be able to return at night.
Fortunately, the taxi driver gave them the idea that it was much more convenient to take a boat directly from the Tuen Mun ferry terminal to Lantau Island than to Hong Kong Island.
After many twists and turns, I finally found the home of Cui Manli in Sheung Shui Wai Village in the evening, the Cui family is a fisherman, and it seems that they are reluctant to talk about this daughter.
"Just like she's dead." Father Cui said hatefully.
"Let's go, we don't have this daughter." Cui's mother was also very cold, but when they left, they chased after her: "Do you know my daughter's whereabouts?" ”
"I'm sorry, we're looking for her too, we'll let you know if there's any news." Guan Lu said apologetically, she guessed that there must be a sad story here.
On the way back, Guan Lu analyzed again: "This Manli girl was born in a poor fishing village, she was unwilling to be lonely to break into the world of flowers, several setbacks, and had to do embarrassing jobs in order to make a living, such as a dancer, such as a stumbling, anyway, the family broke off relations with her, according to my estimates, this girl is probably no longer alive, so her identity was fraudulently used." ”
The two were silent for a while.
……
In the autumn rain, in the sea view room of the Hilton Hotel, there are two Hong Kong ID cards on the table, and three incense sticks are inserted in the incense burner at the back, Liu Yanzhi and Guan Lu bow to the ID cards.
"It's no wonder, it's blame on those who killed you."
After burning two pieces of paper money, the feudal superstition activity proposed by Guan Lu finally ended, and the two re-examined their ID cards, both of which were third-generation Hong Kong identity cards of the 1973 type, black and white photos, Chinese and English fonts on the printer, and black endorsements indicate that the holder is a permanent resident, and like most identity documents, the photos are ugly, and the time for issuing the documents has been a long time, and appropriate changes in appearance are tolerable.
After discussion, the two decided to use a trick to go to the municipal center to go through the marriage formalities and apply for a passport on the grounds of a newlywed honeymoon.
The marriage registration was very simple, and after the oath was taken, the staff issued a certificate without carefully checking their documents, and from then on, He Changrong and Miss Cui Manli were legally husband and wife.
The two kept going, running to the Hong Kong Immigration Department with the marriage certificate that had not yet been hot, presenting the ID card and the freshly baked marriage certificate, offering a handful of candy, saying that we were going to the United Kingdom for our honeymoon and needed to apply for a passport.
This trick really worked, and the people at the immigration department were made big by this pair of happy enemies, and they didn't care that their identities were fake, in fact, it is not uncommon for there to be a gap between the ID photo and the person, especially this kind of children from rural and fishing villages, it is reasonable that the mental outlook has changed dramatically.
The application form and photos were submitted smoothly, but it took 10 working days to process the passport, and after getting it, I had to go to the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong to apply for a visa, which was very time-consuming.
Liu Yan pinched the time, first went to buy two tickets to San Francisco, and then began to wait for a long time, during which he turned around Hong Kong, which was not worth the trip.
Ten working days later, the two got their new passports.
“britishdependentterritoriescitizenspassport。” Guan Lu held a red passport with the British coat of arms and read the words on the cover, looking strange.
"What do you mean?" Liu Yan asked her directly.
"Passports of citizens of the British Empire, we are second-class citizens, and we do not have the right of abode in the UK." Guan Lu smiled disdainfully.
Liu Yan was puzzled: "However, the Hong Kong people who got the home return permit are first-class citizens in the mainland." ”
This question is too profound, and it is a historical problem, and neither of them has the heart to study it deeply, so they went directly to the US consulate to apply for a tourist visa to the United States.
They provided identity documents, round-trip air tickets, bank passbooks, marriage certificates and passports, and were questioned by the visa officer in person, but unexpectedly, the process was quite smooth, and the visa officer looked at the numbers on their bank passbook, and immediately approved, and said that I wish you a happy marriage.
A few days later, at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport, "Ho Cheung Wing" and "Cui Manli" boarded a British Airways Boeing 747 from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
Kai Tak Airport is one of the world's most difficult airports to take off and land, located on the southern shore of the Kowloon Peninsula, surrounded by mountains on three sides, next to the airport is densely populated with residential areas, where flights take off on time, fly low over an urban slum, and the huge wings are shadowed by dense TV antennas and drying clothes.
In the open space on the roof, Liang Xiao, a three-year-old descendant of immigrants, screamed as the plane roared.
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