Fang Monan and the others walked into the ancient house, which was really antique, traditional Lingnan-style garden architecture. It's really not the name of Yuancui Qingfeng! Some of the small furniture in the house is also made of bamboo, which is dotted in it, which is exquisite and beautiful.

The old woman in the living room, when she saw Fang Monan and them coming in, got up and walked over, and the old man introduced, "This is Qiao Fengyi, the inner son." Feng Yi, these are the few friends I have only known for a short time. ”

"Thank you! Heal the sickness of the outer son. Qiao Fengyi took Fang Menan's hand affectionately, and said gratefully with a look of kindness.

"Hands, hands." Fang Menan smiled and waved his hand and said modestly. "Not enough."

Fang Monan changed the subject and said, "I haven't introduced myself yet!" My name is Fang Monan, this is He Junyao, Cheng Shixi. My friend. ”

"Oh! I would also like to introduce myself, little old man He Hun Sen. The old man said with a smile, knowing each other but not knowing the names of both parties.

"Macau gambling king." Cheng Shixi joked.

"Brother Xi said nonsense, the Macau gambling king Stanley Ho is several wives." In later generations, there were five rooms, and now there are at least three rooms. "He Lao is very loyal to his wife!"

As soon as Fang Monan's words came out, Qiao Fengyi was overjoyed, no matter how old a woman is, her husband is loyal to her, it is definitely a commendable thing, especially her husband's wealth and appearance. Although he was not handsome and dashing and graceful when he was young, he was also thoughtful and talented. Otherwise, he would not have fallen in love with him who was penniless among the many suitors. The nature in the picture is his person. Honest and reliable, hard-working.

He Junyao's eyes flashed slightly, and his black eyes were half-hidden, covering a trace of his thoughts. Nan'er didn't know who was the old man in front of him, but he clearly knew that the status of the person in front of him was no worse than the richest man on Hong Kong Island. It's just that people tend to remember only the first.

He Lao has a legendary life, and his Yongxin Group has developed vigorously with Hong Kong's economic boom in the 70s, and has made great progress, and is now also famous. Assets are also found in various industries.

"Let's go! Let's go to the restaurant and talk while eating. Qiao Fengyi took Fang Menan's hand and walked towards the restaurant.

The restaurant is also a quaint Eight Immortals table. It is filled with traditional Cantonese morning tea. It's all classic refreshments.

The essence of Cantonese morning tea is to pass the time. Consuming time is negative, recreational time is positive, so time becomes flavorful, showing the fun and richness of life.

Eating morning tea is the taste of eating time. People have to have this kind of leisure. It is different from ordinary tea houses. Pure tea drinking. Cantonese morning tea is rich and luxurious, and tea is just an excuse. More widely known are Cantonese dim sum dishes, congee. Drinking tea, reading newspapers, meeting friends, chatting, thinking about thoughts, and talking about business. Time turned out to be empty, and it needs to be filled with content, people can choose to eat morning tea, and eating morning tea is a sick sentence with improper matching of moving guests in the eyes of the Chinese teacher, but here, morning tea is really eaten! The title of the tea does not contain the delicacy of the delicacy.

Morning tea is carried out while eating, only talking about 'Fengyue', the traditional Chinese culture. A few young people and two old people, the more they talked, the more speculative they became, and the old people were surprised by the breadth of knowledge of Fang Monan and the three of them, and the humor when they spoke. often caused the old man to laugh, and Qiao Fengyi Danfeng's eyes were round, and she rarely saw her master, so happy. Fang Menan and the others admired the old man, quoted scriptures, and said that the head was the Tao, and he was really well-read.

Ate morning tea and ate for a full two hours. After eating morning tea, they moved to the study, and several people had a new evaluation and understanding of each other. After the waiter served tea, coffee, and juice, he quietly retreated, and the door was closed, and then the conversation began.

In the study room is a piece of mahogany furniture, thick and atmospheric. He Lao took a sip of tea and put down the teacup, Qiao Fengyi shook his hand worriedly, and he gently soothed and patted it. "The little girl looks at each other well, and she smashes Huanglong in every word."

The old man closed his eyes, as if he was reminiscing, no one bothered, and he said, "Speaking of which, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I think I was smuggled to Hong Kong back then." ”

"It turns out that you are really a dragon in the sea." Cheng Shixi sincerely admired.

"Hey...... Young and frivolous, he really relied on a lot of energy, 60-63 natural disasters! Lingnan was not spared, with a severe famine and a large number of residents fleeing to Hong Kong. When I was 62 years old, my fellow villagers and I were really hungry and couldn't stand it, and besides, I had no father, no mother, and no brothers and sisters in my family.

At that time, meat and oil were almost invisible in the food, and even green vegetables were rare. In order to quench my hunger, I used to eat banana dregs, grass stalks, papaya skins, sweet potato vines, and even Guanyin soil at one point. At that time, the average income of a farmer in our country was about 7 dimes, while the average income of a farmer in Hong Kong was 70 Hong Kong dollars, a huge difference of nearly 100 times. At that time, we used to say, "It's better to work hard for a year than 8 cents on the other side." This is the direct cause of our smuggling. ”

Qiao Fengyi's eyes were a little sour, she had never heard her old man talk about the past of these difficult years.

"It's all gone." The old man patted Qiao Fengyi's hand comfortingly, and then said, "My fellow villagers and I walked to Pengcheng from Fengcheng first, and the way to escape from the port can be divided into three types: walking, swimming, and taking a boat. According to the route, there are different routes from the eastern, central, and western routes. Swimming is usually the first choice, we choose the western route, that is, starting from Shekou and the mangrove area, swimming through Pengcheng Bay, if it goes well, it will take about an hour to swim to Yuen Long in the northwest of Hong Kong's New Territories. At that time, people called our smuggling by water "overseers", borrowing the term chess to take the meaning of "there is no return". The description is very vivid and expressive, the pawn arches forward, that is, crossing the river, can only move forward, can not turn back. Many of the smugglers also swam over, and many smuggled intellectuals know that once they set foot on this road, they cannot turn back, and if they fail to smuggle and are caught back to their original units or streets, they will never have a bright future. At that time, the smuggled intellectuals had a saying, "If you get wet, you must get your feet wet." Quite a few people are smuggled again and again.

As far back as I can remember, in the summer, the reservoirs and rivers were overcrowded. Many children in their hometown have been instilled by their families since they were young that they should "practice swimming well and go to Hong Kong in the future". Then wade into the water to smuggle in.

We wade in the water with a variety of tools, after all, we have to swim for an hour, if we are physically exhausted, we may die in the sea, usually choose car tires or lifebuoys, styrofoam and other life-saving tools, and some people blow up multiple condoms and hang them around their necks. After some stowaways entered the water, they recited Chairman Mao's quotations while swimming to cheer themselves up: "Make up your mind, not afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory!" ””

"Hey! Laugh if you want. The old man looked at them and said with a hard smile.

Fang Monan and the others laughed, and tears gradually flowed, "The old man is nine deaths!" Cheng Shixi said with emotion.

"Boy, you're right, that's really nine deaths, at that time, the above objects were all strictly controlled items. Later, even table tennis became one of them. Because the border guards found out that there were even people who strung hundreds of ping pong balls together as a life-saving tool. After all, swimming is done by young people. Middle-aged and elderly people, children and women usually choose to smuggle people by land, from Pengcheng Wutong Mountain and Sha Tau Kok to climb over the border barbed wire, which is jokingly called "fluttering net" in Cantonese. In order to avoid the police dogs, some escapees will go to the zoo to buy the keepers before leaving, find some tiger feces, and scatter them as they go.

At that time, the crackdown on stowaways was unusually severe. Anyone who goes to Hong Kong without going through legal procedures will be regarded as "treason and defection to the enemy" and will be placed in custody if caught. Border guards are the biggest obstacle to stowaways. I heard about a stowaway like us at the time, and that guy smuggled twelve times, setting a record. It was not until the 13th time that the border guards saw that his face was familiar, and he was really embarrassed to arrest him again, so he successfully escaped to Hong Kong. According to him, before the 60s, border guards could shoot at any time when they encountered stowaways who did not obey orders, and many stowaways were killed on the tidal flats and in the mountains. After that, due to the strict orders of the superiors, the phenomenon of shooting gradually disappeared. ”

Qiao Fengyi covered her mouth, tears brushing her eyes, "Hey! Don't worry, I'm lucky, the border guards didn't shoot, even if I was caught, it was containment and reform, I was luckier than that guy, and I succeeded once. The old man laughed at himself.

The old man fell into a memory, "62 was the worst time of the famine, stretching on the highway for more than 100 miles, the outflow of people in groups, helping the old and the young, such as "the army went south, menacing". The smugglers came in groups, each carrying a wooden stick more than four feet long. I remember the stowaways who took the lead openly saying: "Whoever stands in our way, we will fight them with sticks, rush over, and do not retreat even if we shoot!" Although the place where we went into the water is closest to Hong Kong, there are strong winds and waves, and many people drown here. This is the most difficult of the smuggling techniques. However, since the chance of being caught by the border guards is minimal, most people will choose to swim in the water here. ”

"At that time, there were a lot of people in the water, but as the swimming time went on, the distance gradually widened, and many people fell behind due to physical exhaustion, and the result was ......" the old man did not continue. He climbed to the shoreline, gasping for breath, not standing on the land of Hong Kong excitedly, but he survived, at that time, he was so tired that he could no longer row his arms, if it wasn't for the help of his brothers around him, maybe he would have ......

However, as everyone knows, although there are many successful smugglers, there are also many who die in the sea, and in the case of the time, due to hunger, their physical fitness cannot support an hour-long swim. And all life-saving tools are the object of strict inspection, and many people are wading in the water alone. It's a miracle to survive, but swimming is physically demanding. (To be continued.) )

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