"Big brother, you're also from the mainland?" Li Xuan looked at the stout man with a meaty face in front of him with a look of surprise.

"Hey, it's time again!" The middle-aged man didn't reply directly, opened the door with a sigh, and dragged out a chair before shouting to Li Xuan, who was still standing outside the door: "Come in and sit down if it's okay." ”

"Huh? Thank you. Li Xuan, who thought that this big man was not easy to greet, was overjoyed at this time, and hurriedly walked in and sat down, and looked at the situation in the store by the way.

It was a small food shop, with a cash register at the door, and when you came in, there were seven or eight tables placed on the left and right walls, and a bunch of chairs were piled on top of the table. However, an iron shelf was set up more than two meters high in the right corner of the inside, and an old-fashioned knob TV was placed on it, which was not turned on now, and I don't know if it was in color or black and white. There is a small door next to the TV, and it is estimated that the back kitchen and bathroom are in the back.

"What is your name, young man?" The middle-aged man asked while taking the chair off the table, and Li Xuan, who was looking around, hurriedly replied, "Ah, my name is Li Xuan." ”

"Oh, Li Xuan, good name. My name is Zhang Defa, so you can call me Brother De. By the way, came to join a relative? Where are your relatives? ”

"Relatives?" Li Xuan was stunned, how to answer now, he has no relatives in Hong Kong.

Hearing that Li Xuan's tone was wrong, Brother De also felt that something was wrong, and took a chair that had not been put down and asked, "You are an inland, you won't run here without relatives, right?" ”

"No, no relatives......" Li Xuan scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

"Okay, you're bold enough!" This time it was Brother De's turn to be surprised, put down the chair in his hand and gave Li Xuan a thumbs up. But before Li Xuan could be proud, Brother De's next sentence knocked him back to his original form.

"So what do you do now? Do you speak the vernacular? ”

"No, no, just a little bit." Li Xuan said with a bitter face, just to listen to this is to communicate with the foundry here in Shenzhen.

Brother De was also embarrassed at this time, and said to Li Xuan in half a voice: "You can't talk in the vernacular, it's not easy to find a job, look at you white and tender, and you don't know whether to do it or not." ”

Now Li Xuan's face is even more bitter, several young people in the 21st century are not white and tender, and they have never done hard labor. But now if you don't do it, you can't do it, can you wait to starve to death if you are penniless, so Li Xuan hurriedly asked Brother De, "I don't know what kind of job it is?" I can do it! ”

At this time, Brother De didn't speak first, he walked directly to the outside of the cash register, tore off a piece of red paper, handed it directly to Li Xuancai, and said, "Ah, that's it." ”

"Recruit handymen, salary 1200, including room and board."

There are only a few big characters written with a brush on the red letters, and Li Xuan doesn't care what level 1200 is in Hong Kong now, and hurriedly said to Brother De: "I'll do it, I'll do it!" ”

He can't manage so much, let's settle down first.

Seeing that Li Xuan agreed, Brother De nodded and replied, "Okay, then you wait first, the boss lady will be here soon!" I'm a ...... worker. ”

"Ha, Brother De, you're not a working boy, you're my brother!" Before Brother De finished speaking, he was interrupted by a female voice from outside.

Another sentence of Mandarin!

Li Xuan turned his head to look and saw two middle-aged women walking in. The woman who spoke in front was obviously a little trendy, wearing a dark black short-sleeved shirt and a long gray skirt, and her hair was deliberately permed with a wavy head. The woman in the back wore a long ponytail, a gray-green long-sleeved shirt and a pair of black trousers, and was significantly older than the woman in front.

Li Xuan quickly stood up from the chair, and it seemed that the proprietress was here.

"This little brother is ......," the woman in front of her asked Li Xuan

Before Li Xuan could speak, Brother De said first: "His name is Li Xuan, he swam over alone yesterday, and he doesn't know how to speak without any relatives." Isn't this just Applejack gone, I want him to take over as a handyman first, and then support himself first. ”

After listening to Brother De's words, the proprietress didn't reply directly, she looked at Li Xuan first, and saw Li Xuan's little heart start to beat before she said: "That's okay, I can't see that your little guy is white and tender and quite able to endure hardships." ”

Li Xuan smiled awkwardly, this has been said several times.

"By the way, when are you going to work? Do you want to take a day off first? The proprietress continued to ask.

"No, no, boss, I can go to work now." Li Xuan hurriedly refused, take a day off? This is not good, I don't have a penny on me, where do I go to eat for a day off?

The proprietress smiled and said, "Okay, wait a minute, you will go to the back kitchen with Brother De to help." Anyway, don't call me the boss lady, call me Sister Fen. And ......" Sister Fen said and pulled out the woman next to her who had not spoken: "This is Sister-in-law De, your brother De's wife." ”

"Sister-in-law" Li Xuan said hello to this seemingly unsociable woman.

"Uh-huh, little brother is good."

"Okay" Seeing that there were signs of continuing to chat, Brother De suddenly shouted next to him: "It's started, it's started, Li Xuan and I will come to the back kitchen." ”

On the first day of Hong Kong in 1978, Li Xuan got his first job - a handyman in a tea restaurant. said it was a handyman, but Li Xuan sat on a small stool and looked at the basin of dishes and chopsticks in front of him, isn't this just a bowl washer!

At about 8 o'clock in the morning, Li Xuan saw that the short and fat boss Brother Liang was a native of Hong Kong. People are quite kind, I heard that Li Xuan is a mainlander who has just swam over, and said hello to Li Xuan in half-baked Mandarin, and kindly reminded Li Xuan to go and get an ID card. Li Xuan then remembered that he didn't have an ID card, but fortunately, Brother De accosted him at this time, saying that he would take him to do it in the afternoon.

Hong Kong people have always had the habit of drinking morning tea, Li Xuan just brushed the dishes in the back kitchen from the morning to more than two o'clock in the afternoon, Brother De took him and the proprietress to ask for a leave to apply for an ID card, and before going out, the proprietress also stuffed Li Xuan with two hundred Hong Kong dollars, saying that it was the salary that was advanced and Li Xuan might have to use it when he went out, and Li Xuan was moved to tears, almost crying.

Out of the store, Brother De talked to Li Xuan while walking, and Li Xuan knew that he was in Yau Ma Tei now. However, Li Xuan was not familiar with this name, and it was not until he walked for less than fifteen minutes that Li Xuan saw a name that was like thunder - Temple Street.

Looking at the crowded small street in front of him, the corners of Li Xuan's eyes twitched, he didn't see such a famous street when he walked over last night!

From the 60s to October 1980, mainland smugglers could apply for a legal Hong Kong ID card as long as they arrived in Hong Kong, while the subsequent smugglers were escorted and released, and unlike in the future, they had to work honestly in Hong Kong for seven years to get them. However, this is a bitter thing for the later martial arts master Wen Rui'an, this unlucky child wanted to come to Hong Kong at the end of 81, and just encountered the Hong Kong government's tightening of immigration policies, but he applied several times without success, and finally found ATV's help before staying in Hong Kong as an overseas employee.

You have to go to the Hong Kong Immigration Department to apply for this identity card, but fortunately it has several offices in Kowloon. Brother De took Li Xuan to the office of Tsim Sha Tsui East District to take care of everything, and then took Li Xuan back to rush back, only waiting for more than ten days to get the certificate. Passing by Temple Street, he took Li Xuan in and bought a few sets of cheap clothes.

It took almost two hours to toss around, and there were more customers in the tea restaurant. Li Xuan, who had just come back, couldn't take a break, so he sat down in the back kitchen and started washing dishes. No wonder Applejack quit his job, he had to be soaked in dishwashing water if he didn't die of exhaustion.

After such a toss, it was about nine o'clock in the evening, and the tea restaurant was finally about to close. In the end, Li Xuan followed Brother De to clean up the kitchen, put all the chairs on the table, and then closed the door and walked out. Looking at the more old boys on the street, Li Xuan followed Brother De closely, he was frightened yesterday.

Brother De didn't go far, and went directly to the side of the tea restaurant to open a staircase door. Li Xuanke has long known that this five-story small building is owned by the boss, a rich man! This land is worth tens of millions in the 21st world. The first floor of the house is a tea restaurant, the second floor is where the Dege family lives, the third floor is where the boss lives, and the fourth and fifth floors are rented out. Brother De took Li Xuan directly to the rooftop, and a smoky clothes rack and a wooden house appeared in front of Li Xuan's eyes, and there were many potted plants on the ground.

Brother De opened the wooden house directly, and then groped at the door.

There was a soft "click" and the lights came on. Li Xuan looked into the wooden house, it was very small and simple, there was only a bed and a desk, not even a chair. However, Li Xuan looked at the silver-gray TV on the desk with a strange face, why didn't he have a chair but a TV? Is a TV still cheaper than a chair these days?

Perhaps seeing Li Xuan's strange eyes, Brother De said slowly: "You can just sleep here, although it is simple, but it will be very good compared to when I first came." That TV was made by Applejack in the past, and now that people go out and make a fortune, they can't watch this thing, you can watch it if you're bored. ”

Li Xuan's matter today is thanks to Brother De's help, otherwise he might be hungry now, so he hurriedly said: "It's very good, thank you Brother De today!" ”

"Okay, thank you or not, everyone should help more when they go out. Okay, let's not talk about it, I'll go down, you can watch slowly! Brother De was a little embarrassed by Li Xuan's sudden thanks, and hurriedly walked to the staircase.

Brother De just took two steps, patted his forehead again, turned around and said, "I almost forgot the key, take it!" As he spoke, he handed Li Xuan a bunch of keys. Seeing Li Xuan take the key, he said to Li Xuan: "There is a coal stove and a faucet on it, you can boil water and wash it yourself, but it may be inconvenient if you don't have a toilet, you can buy a bucket by yourself tomorrow." That's it, I'll go down first. After saying in one breath, Brother De went downstairs in a huff.

Li Xuan looked at Brother De's back and smiled, stepped forward to cover the rooftop door, and then returned to the wooden house, and lay on the bed with his buttocks.

"Is it really a lifetime of brushing dishes?"

As soon as people are relaxed, they will start to think wildly, and Li Xuan, who has been busy all day, is in distress again.

What will he do? Computer? It seems that there is no private computer yet, at least today Li Xuan went out and walked around and didn't see it, even the little girl in the immigration office used the kind of typewriter that Li Xuan had only seen in old movies. Think about what the protagonists of the time-traveling novels do? Writing a novel? Li Xuan was annoyed for a while, if he could write a novel and get ahead in Hong Kong, he wouldn't go to a small foreign trade company to eat and drink in the 21st century. Writing songs? He can sing a few songs, but he can't even read the simple score, and it's still a Chinese song. Write a script and then make a movie? Well, who's going to teach him how to write the script, and where is the switch to the camera?

"Ah!!h

Li Xuan rolled on the bed in distress, and suddenly, he felt something knock on his right thigh. When I touched it with my hand, it turned out to be a wallet.

Looking at the ten-yuan fake cowhide wallet in front of him, and looking at the stack of red tickets inside, there were both old man's head and Hong Kong dollars, Li Xuan sighed.

This thing cannot be kept, and if it is discovered one day, a crime of counterfeiting cannot be escaped.

It's distressing, this is all Li Xuan's hard-earned money!

Gritting his teeth, he took out all the money and put it on the bed, Li Xuan picked up an old man's head and tore it off.

Well? What's going on? Li Xuan looked at the intact old man in front of him and was stunned.

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