On June 28, 1981, at 11 a.m. Beijing time and June 27, at 7 p.m. Pacific Time, it was time for Americans to have dinner.

The flight from Shanghai to San Francisco landed at San Francisco International Airport.

Gan Guoyang had a good sleep on the plane, a large passenger plane like the Boeing 747, flying in the stable stratosphere, passengers feel that the plane is stationary.

The flight attendants on the plane have begun to alert passengers to their imminent destination, and everyone else has woken up.

"Hey, Dad, wake up, it's here!" Gan Guoyang looked at Gan Youwei beside him, and he still slept soundly.

"It must be the reason for the drink."

Gan Guoyang didn't expect that on an international flight to China in the 80s, there would be a tasting of Moutai wine!

Gan Youwei drank very poorly, but he came to a glass with the mentality of not drinking for nothing, after all, this is a state banquet wine.

After drinking, he fell asleep in a daze, and until he reached San Francisco, the flight attendant's reminders did not wake him up.

"Dad!" Gan Guoyang shouted into Gan Youwei's ear.

"Ahh Gan Youwei woke up suddenly, "What's wrong?" ”

"Dad, it's time to be in the United States."

"Arrived?" Gan Youwei came to his senses, took off the clothes covering his body, straightened up and looked out the window.

"It's really here." Because Gan Youwei has seen San Francisco's landmark, the Golden Gate Bridge.

In the evening sunset, the bridge looks particularly magnificent and majestic. In San Francisco, on the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean, the lights are already beginning to shine, in stark contrast to Shanghai when Gan Guoyang left.

"Is this America?" Gan Guoyang also looked at the light outside the window, thinking that in another 20 or 30 years, China would become the same as here.

The plane began to land, and Gan Guoyang sat on the seat, wearing a seat belt, and felt his heart continue to sink. But his mood flew up.

San Francisco, this is the home of the NBA team Golden State Warriors!

This means that in 1981, before the NBA entered China, he was able to go to the scene to enjoy the world's highest level of basketball. In the 21st century, he can't do that either.

The plane finally landed slowly on the runway of San Francisco International Airport, and a trip of more than ten hours allowed people to cross the vast Pacific Ocean and reach the other side.

Gan Youwei also felt that he had reached the other side of his life, and for him, he finally left the land that made him sad with his son and started his life as a father and son here again.

After getting off the plane, Gan Youwei took his son to San Francisco International Airport with Form I-94 and customs declaration forms to go through immigration procedures and undergo immigration and customs clearance.

During the immigration inspection, the immigration officials would ask some simple questions, but Gan Youwei had only learned Russian as a foreign language since he was a child, and he had almost forgotten it, so he could understand it.

Although the immigration officer has seen a lot of this situation, he will not be embarrassed.

However, Gan Guoyang was able to understand the immigration officer's questioning and answer a few words in simple English, which really surprised Gan Youwei.

Although Dang Lei's English level is not very good, it is more than enough to answer a few questions of "what is your name", "how old is it", and "where is it from". Therefore, Gan Guoyang naturally surprised and surprised his father.

"My good son, your English is good, huh? Why didn't you do so well in English? ”

"Hehe, the exam is not the same as the actual application."

In this way, the two of them successfully passed the security check and walked towards the exit together with their relevant visas.

Gan Youwei applied for a labor visa, he went to work at a Chinese restaurant owned by his cousin in San Francisco, and it took him a lot of effort to get this visa.

Gan Guoyang, on the other hand, is on a student visa, coming to the United States to finish his last year of high school and strive to apply for American universities.

After leaving the airport, the two of them were thinking about finding their cousins in this unfamiliar foreign country.

Gan Youwei looked at this strange city and the strange foreign faces around him, and the new feeling of being on the plane before was swept away, replaced by a feeling of fear and loneliness.

"Dad, where is the visit to my cousin's house? Let's take a taxi. However, Gan Guoyang was very calm and made suggestions.

Thinking that he still had a son, Gan Youwei's heart immediately calmed down, he took out a notebook from his bag, and then took out a clipped-in note from the notebook, with the address of his cousin's restaurant on it. It was the busiest time for the restaurant, so I couldn't pick them up.

"235 Stockton Street, San Francisco's Chinatown, Gan's Restaurant." Gan Youwei looked at the address on the note, and attached an English address and the phone number of the restaurant.

"Let's go, Dad, let's get a taxi."

In the parking lot outside the airport, taxis lined up in yellow like locusts. Unlike China at that time, taxis were hard to come by.

After finding a random car to go up, Gan Guoyang showed the note to the taxi driver and said that he wanted to go to this place.

The driver was an Indian in a headscarf, and he should have carried a lot of Chinese, so he didn't say a word and started the car to drive downtown San Francisco.

San Francisco International Airport is located in the southern part of downtown San Francisco, about 20 kilometers from downtown Chinatown.

Taxis run on Highway 101 in San Francisco Bay all the way north.

In the night breeze, Gan Guoyang looked at the bright downtown area of San Francisco that was getting closer and closer in the distance, and he still had a feeling of dreaming. The changes he had experienced in the past two days were so amazing, he felt that maybe it was because of the changes that were so amazing, that he was surprisingly calm, and he was very quick to accept this fact, as if he wanted to protect his nerves and not let himself want to go crazy.

But when he calmed down, he couldn't help but think about it, and couldn't help but "remember what was going to happen in the future." ”

It is a great paradox to recall what the future will do.

At this time, Gan Guoyang was desperate to find something, something that could fill his life, so that he would not let himself fall into unpredictable confusion because of thinking about those things.

"Dad, I want to buy a basketball."

"Basketball? Okay, of course. I just don't know if basketball in the United States will be more expensive. ”

"Haha, everything in the United States has to be bought in dollars, of course it is more expensive."

"Dad, I'll make a good buck! You kid should study hard in the United States! ”

For Gan Guoyang, he feels that the biggest gain from coming to the past time and space this time is to have a father who loves him.

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After about half an hour of driving, the car finally arrived in Chinatown.

As soon as they arrived in Chinatown, the car passed through a green archway, which immediately made the father and son feel a sense of intimacy.

The whole Chinatown exudes a strong cultural atmosphere of southern China, and many yellow-skinned and black-haired people on the street make people feel like they have returned to China.

Finally, after turning around, the taxi stopped and the destination arrived.

Gan Youwei took out a fifty dollar and gave it to the driver, and signaled that he didn't need to look for it, Gan Youwei also knew that the United States has a habit of tipping.

When the father and son got out of the car, they saw a big wooden signboard with black letters on a red background: "Ganjia Restaurant." ”

At this time, the restaurant was busy and full. The two of them pushed the door and walked in with large bags and small bags.

"Welcome, how many may I ask?" It was the greeting waiter at the door, a Chinese girl, who greeted her and asked cordially.

"Oh... No, I'm looking for your boss. As soon as Gan Youwei spoke Chinese, he felt comfortable all over.

"Looking for our boss?"

"Yes, I'm your boss's cousin, just from China."

As soon as Gan Youwei finished speaking, a tall and burly fat man wearing a white chef's uniform came out of the kitchen door inside. As soon as he saw Gan Youwei's father and son at the door, he immediately greeted him.

"Oh, yes, this isn't a promising cousin! Come here, come here, thank you, come from China. It's a pity that this time is not right, the hotel is busy, I can't pick you up, sorry, sorry. Hurry up and put things on the counter. I'll call my dad later, and he'll make a special roast duck in there. ”

This enthusiastic fat man is Gan Youwei's cousin, Gan Youtang. Although his "table" is a bit far away, more than 10,000 miles per table.

"Eh, no, let my cousin be busy first. Come, I've seen my cousin, your cousin, call cousin. Gan Youwei pulled his son over and asked Gan Guoyang to greet his cousin.

"Hello cousin, I'm Guoyang."

"Eh, this kid is so tall? Really, it's higher than my family's Guohui? Cousin, it seems that life in China is good, so why bother to come to the United States. Gan Youtang joked.

"Oh, life is just getting by, but I still yearn for a better capitalist life!" Gan Youwei also teased a few words.

At this time, an old man in a chef's uniform came out of the kitchen, wiping his hands with a towel as he came out.

"You're promising, here? Oh, you see I'm busy here, and I don't have time to pick you up."

The old man is naturally Gan Youwei's cousin, Gan Guoyang's cousin, and Gan Bingguang, the owner of Gan's restaurant.

"Your old man has worked hard, and I have to take care of you when I come to the United States. This is my son, Gan Guoyang. Come to Guoyang and call my cousin. ”

"Hello cousin." Gan Guoyang obediently said hello to his cousin again.

In fact, Gan Youwei and Gan Youtang are already distant cousins, after all, in the era when Gan Youwei's father was born, there were many children in the family, and it was really a table of three thousand miles.

What's more, his cousin-in-law took his family to the United States before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and even Gan Youwei has not seen this cousin for more than 30 years, not to mention Gan Guoyang, who has the memory of two lives, has never seen this cousin and cousin.

"Youtang, let's go upstairs with Guoyang, the guest room has been arranged, let them settle down."

"Okay."

Gan Youtang took Gan Youwei and his son upstairs and put their luggage in a small room.

"Yes, I'll wronged you two for the time being, this place is relatively small. Our family of six lives in another apartment, and we don't have a lot of money. For the time being, I will let you live in the store, and when I have a house in the future, I will rent a house for you. ”

"I am very satisfied if I don't have a church. Now that I'm in this foreign country, I have no job and no income, and it's good to have a place to shelter from the wind and rain. ”

Gan Youwei was very open-minded, and Gan Guoyang suffered more in his "previous life", so naturally he had no opinion at all.

The father and son stayed in this way, and cleaned up the small room.

In the evening, the restaurant was closed, the employees went home, and Youtang went upstairs to let the two of them come down, saying that his cousin had made a few dishes and wanted to help the two of them catch the wind and wash the dust.

Gan Guoyang is a person with two lifetimes, in the 21st century, he has no money and power, but he can be regarded as well-informed, although it is all from the Internet. However, he was still a little surprised to see a table of sumptuous dishes, because most of these dishes he didn't recognize.

"Uncle Cousin, you're too polite, aren't you...... Why do you have to ...... it so much? Let's just eat whatever we want. ”

"Alas, you have come from afar, and you are cousins, and it is rude not to pick you up, how can you make good dishes on the table again? Come, you're welcome, eat, eat, eat. ”

The father and son couldn't say anything more, so they moved their chopsticks. A few people chatted while eating.

"Yes, I asked you to come to the United States this time, and I also hope that the Gan family will be more prosperous. After all, my eldest brother died, and my own brother also died in Hainan. A family, the old one dies, the young one is weak, but they have to be separated by thousands of miles, which really makes me unbearable. ”

The people of the Gan family are not prosperous, and their luck is not good, and now there are only two branches left: Youwei and Youtang.

"I know Uncle Cousin, and I just want to leave the mainland and break into a new world. In the old days, it was too bad. Gan Youwei thought of betraying his wife again.

"Okay, let's not talk about the past, now we are reunited as a family! Come, dry this glass! ”

Gan Bingguang raised his wine glass, and Gan Guoyang, who had been eating with his head bored, also poured himself a glass of wine when he saw this, and dried it up after touching the glass.

"Haha, my nephew is arrogant! Youwei, compared to your son, you are still a little inferior. ”

Gan Youwei's alcohol consumption is quite poor, and his face is flushed and flushed after a glass, and he is a little dizzy. And Gan Guoyang didn't have anything to do.

"Qing is better than blue, Guoyang can be with Guohui in the future, like brothers!" Youtang also said on the side.

These four men are getting harder and harder, and they are chatting more and more speculatively, after all, they are a family, blood is thicker than water, even if they haven't seen each other for more than 30 years, they still have the same strong family affection.

"Uncle cousin, I can't eat and drink for nothing when I come here, I have to have a job to support myself and provide for Guoyang to study." When the meal was about to be finished, Gan Youwei mentioned this practical problem.

"Hehehe, promising, work is not a problem, don't forget, what did the ancestors of the Gan family do." Gan Bingguang said.

What did the ancestors of the Gan family do? The ancestors of the Gan family opened a restaurant, and it is a big restaurant, which has ancestral famous dishes.

Gan Youwei also thought of it immediately, because in the Gan family, his father inherited the name of the Gan family restaurant and obtained the skills of ancestral famous dishes. It's a pity that it was destroyed in the turmoil.

And Gan Youwei is the orthodox heir of Gan's cuisine, and he cooks good dishes, but unfortunately he has no place in the mainland, so he can only cook and wash dishes at home, and finally let his wife run away.

"Okay, I understand, then I'll be the chef of Gan's restaurant!"

Gan Youwei knew that it was impossible for his cousin to let the father and son come purely to reunite the family, if he didn't know how to cook, if he didn't have ancestral skills, wouldn't he come to the United States purely to cause trouble for his cousin's family?

"Haha, that's right, Gan's cuisine still depends on your generation to carry it forward! Here, let's have another drink. ”

And just like that, the four of them drank again. With the amount of alcohol that is willing to be good, I have long been confused. And Gan Guoyang is fine.

In the end, both the cousin and the cousin went home, and Gan Guoyang also carried his father to the upstairs room, threw him on the small bed, helped him take off his clothes, and settled him to sleep. Gan Youwei also fell asleep as soon as he got to bed.

At this time, Gan Guoyang could finally calm down, sitting alone in front of the window, looking at the still bustling Chinatown outside the window.

That's how he came to the United States, to a country that he couldn't have imagined, and now, in 1981, he is going to start his new life here. And, what he didn't expect, a basketball legend.

"Hello, America."