Chapter 40 Make-up Weddings, Romantic Travel
After breakfast, they lined up to visit Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall. People lined up in four columns, and they lined up for more than a mile. In front of the memorial hall, there are People's Liberation Army soldiers wearing yellow uniforms standing guard and maintaining order, so despite the large number of people, the discipline is very good, and the speed of the visit is also very fast. At about ten o'clock, they entered the memorial hall and saw Chairman Mao lying on his back in a huge crystal coffin, dressed in a neat tunic and with a calm appearance. It is surrounded by pine and cypress. He was undoubtedly a great man, a great leader and mentor of a generation. He took over the leadership of the CPC at the most critical juncture, led the CPC and the Red Army out of danger, and developed and grew stronger step by step, finally defeating the ruling Kuomintang reactionaries, establishing New China, and gaining independence and dignity for the Chinese people, who had been repeatedly invaded and ravaged by imperialism for more than 100 years. This great leader seems to have been obsessed with revolution and struggle all his life. After the founding of New China, he put forward the theory of continuing the revolution under the conditions of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and in his later years, with the great courage and majestic momentum of a proletarian revolutionary, he launched and led the unprecedented Cultural Revolution, which lasted for ten years and made the Chinese people once again experience the test of blood and fire. It's just that before this revolution is over and successful, he fell on the podium with the baton in his hand, so that people cannot know and understand what his real purpose in launching this revolution and the real goal to achieve is.
Walking out of Chairman Mao's memorial hall, Li and Tao's mood felt very heavy and their steps were difficult. I was so tired that I had been working non-stop for more than ten hours from midnight to now. So they decided to find a small hostel to stay and rest.
When I woke up, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. They hurriedly had lunch and went to buy tickets to visit the Forbidden City. This is the place where the emperor of the feudal society presides over the government, discusses the government, accepts the worship of hundreds of officials, and retreats to the harem to rest and entertain. Layers of palace red walls and yellow tiles, cornices and corners, carved beams and painted buildings, resplendent gold, tall and magnificent, showing the royal luxury and majesty. China in feudal society is a centralized country, the emperor has the power, Kyushu is big, and one person is ordered. These lavish and majestic palaces are symbols of power. In this layer of palace, from the emperor, the royal family, ministers, down to the queen, concubines, and eunuchs, around the throne and imperial power, intrigues, fighting for power and profit, I don't know how many conspiracies and tricks have been performed, and how many joys and sorrows have been performed.
After dinner, the family of three went out to see the night view of Beijing. The wide and neat Chang'an Street is brilliantly lit and brilliant. The streets are crowded with people and traffic. Shops of all sizes, with golden signboards, shining neon; In the store, the goods are complete, neatly placed, and dazzling; The salespeople are uniformly dressed, greeted with a smile, and served warmly, with the Beijing dialect of Mandarin full of Beijing flavor, which is very beautiful. Li and Tao discussed with each other and bought some small gifts for Li Tao, their parents and brothers.
Walking out of the store, Li said to Tao, "Let's take wedding photos while we have time in the evening, shall we?" Otherwise, tomorrow will have to be delayed for half a day. Peach said, "It's fine." Half a day's delay will cost you a lot more. But she said: "Let's take wedding photos, do you want Li Tao to shoot together?" Li said, "It's okay, he's the crystallization of our love." Tao thought for a while and said: "It's still inappropriate for Li Tao to take wedding photos with us, so that people will know that it is a make-up at a glance." Li said: "It takes a lot of time to take wedding photos, and if he doesn't want to, he cries and makes us can't shoot well." Tao said, "This is easy to do, you go and buy him a small toy, and buy some delicious food, he will definitely not cry if he has something to eat and play." ”
Li felt that it made sense, so he went to buy Li Tao an electric car, bought a bag of candy, and took him and Tao into the photo studio together. Tao first taught Li Tao to play with electric cars, peeled a piece of candy and put it in his mouth, and coaxed him to say: "Good son, play with the car, if you want to eat candy, you can take it yourself." I'll take a picture with my dad, and we'll take a picture of you after we're done, okay? Li Tao liked the electric car that her father bought, and when she saw that there was food and play, she nodded and happily went to play by herself.
The young lady in the photo studio heard that they were making up the wedding photos, so she carefully put on makeup for Li and Tao, and helped Tao try on the wedding dress before taking pictures. Li was dressed in a dark suit, a fuchsia tie, and a peach in a white wedding dress, and the two were smiling, affectionate, natural and intimate. The videographer took eight photos of them from different angles.
After Li and Tao's wedding photos were taken, they asked the cameraman to take a single photo of Li Tao holding an electric car, and the last family of three took a family photo.
It was already late at night when I walked out of the photo studio, and the streets were still brightly lit and there was a constant flow of people and traffic; The hotel is full of guests, pushing glasses and changing lamps, the wine is fragrant, and there is laughter; Song hall and dance hall, red men and green women, affectionate, tactful music. Tao felt incomprehensible when he saw it, and said, "These people work all day and toss until midnight at night, aren't they tired?" "That's the nightlife," Lee said. City people have work during the day and have no time to go out for recreation; When I don't work at night, I have time to go shopping, or gather friends for a drink, sing and dance. It is also a rewarding exchange and rest. Tao said, "Shenzhen is the same? Li nodded: "Not inferior." He also said: "I'm afraid that the development and construction of Liangshan Tourist Scenic Area will be successful, and there will be this kind of nightlife." Peach shook her head: "I'm afraid I can't adapt." Li said, "You'll be used to it then." This world is the survival of the fittest, and if you don't adapt, you can't live. For example, the hotel in your tourist scenic area should not only have rooms for guests to stay, but also have restaurants, restaurants, song halls, dance halls, and even saunas and massages for guests to enjoy. If you don't have these facilities, guests won't come to you. Without guests, can you still open this hotel? force you to find ways to attract customers, your business will be booming, and you can make money; No one wants to do a loss-making business. Tao said: "It seems that the tourism industry is also very knowledgeable, not just the scenery can attract guests, all kinds of service facilities have to keep up." Li said: "Serving the guests well and making them happy physically and mentally is the purpose of doing a good job in tourism." Don't try to save money for tourists, try to guide them to spend. They are generally not afraid of spending money, but they are afraid of having nowhere to spend money. I heard that some foreign tourists came to China and criticized: 'Look at the temple during the day and sleep at night.' This means that if there is no entertainment facilities and no nightlife in China's tourist attractions, they will be unhappy. If this goes on for a long time and doesn't change, will people still come? Tao thought about it seriously and said, "That's really the truth." You save him money, but you upset him; You earn his money, but he wants to thank you. Li nodded: "You also realized the truth in this?" Everything in the world is full of philosophy. This is just like a couplet saying: The insight of the world is knowledge, and the practice of human feelings is the article. To do tourism, we must be well versed in this. ”
Walking past a grocery store, Lee went in and bought a pair of red candles. Tao said, "The hotel has an electric light, what are you buying it for?" Afraid of power outages? Li said: "You don't know how to be romantic, our wedding photos have been taken, it's time to get married tonight!" Tao pointed at Li and laughed non-stop, and said, "My son is so old, and he still worships the church to get married, so you can think of it!" Probably I learned this in Shenzhen again? Li said, "What happened to what you studied in Shenzhen?" Shenzhen is at the forefront of China's reform and opening up, and coastal areas are learning. If we want to engage in tourist scenic spots in the Liangshan area, we must also learn. At the investment and shareholding meeting that day, didn't Secretary Zhao also praise Shenzhen? Dare to admit backwardness and learn from advanced regions is reform and opening up. Many of the things we used to see were poor, backward, and ignorant, and not all of them were good. Tao said: "Could it be that the feudal customs of worshipping the church and marrying are also to be learned?" Li said, "Don't button your hat indiscriminately." Marriage in the church is a Chinese folk culture. One worships heaven and earth, two worships the high hall, husband and wife worship each other, advocating respect for nature, filial piety to parents, husband and wife respect each other as guests, what's wrong with this? In fact, this is a Chinese-style wedding civilization. Just like Westerners hold weddings in churches, when you see a priest, you think it's superstition, but it's actually a warning to both husband and wife to be loyal to love, care and respect each other, and have the courage to take responsibility. This is beyond reproach. We were too hasty when we got married, and we missed this procedure, and it is completely appropriate to make up for it now. It has nothing to do with how old the son is. "Since I'm with you, I'll let you toss." Momo replied with a smile.
After a while, I returned to the hostel and entered the room. Li asked Li Tao to play with the electric car and said, "You are obedient, have fun, I will buy you an electric pistol tomorrow." Li Tao asked rhetorically: "Is it fun for electric pistols to have electric cars?" "It's more fun than an electric car, and it can fire at enemies!" The child was happy and agreed to play by himself.
Li took out a lighter, lit a pair of red candles, and placed them side by side on the table, and then pulled the peach to kneel in front of the table to worship. Tao hurriedly went to cover the door and said, "Even if you make trouble, you won't close the door, so embarrassed for people to see it!" Li said: "Life is like a play, he watches his, let's play ours." "Pull the Taobai Hall. The mouth reads: "One worship heaven and earth, two worship the high hall, husband and wife worship each other, and send them to the cave room." Momo smiled all over her face, so she had to kneel and kowtow with him. After the ceremony, Li picked up the peach and put it on the bed, saying: "Tonight is our wedding night in the capital Beijing, we must have fun." ”
Li Tao played with the electric car for a while and wanted to sleep, and when she saw her parents hugging each other on the bed, she shouted, "Mom, I want to sleep too." Tao hurriedly pushed Li away, got up and washed his son's hands and face, and coaxed him to sleep.
The child fell asleep quickly. The couple continued with their "newlywed" procedure. On this night, although both of them were very tired, they were still very happy to think that the long-awaited wedding in the capital had finally come true, cheered up and enjoyed themselves.
The next day, the family of three drove to Badaling to climb the Great Wall. The couple took the little Li Tao and stepped on the stairs paved with huge blue-gray city bricks to climb the Great Wall step by step. Looking at the western sky, the Great Wall is like a giant dragon on the high slopes of the mountains, under the blue sky and white clouds, meandering through the clouds and fog. The parapet walls on both sides are more than a meter high, just chest-high; The battlements are neatly aligned. According to the tour guide, in ancient times, the parapet wall was used by the soldiers guarding the Great Wall to defend themselves, and the battlement was used to look out and shoot arrows, which could be defended and attacked. There was a castle tower every other section, which was supposed to be a resting place for the soldiers. Green moss grows in the shade of the city wall, telling the vicissitudes of thousands of years.
The construction of the Great Wall by the Chinese should be traced back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties. In order to defend against the invasion of the northern nomads, they built a great wall on the slopes of the high mountains in the northern Xinjiang to block the southern invasion of the nomads like a fence. After Qin Shi Huang unified China, he mobilized hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to continue to build the Great Wall, connecting the Great Wall of the original northern countries, forming a Great Wall from Shanhaiguan in the east to Jiayuguan in the west. Because of the huge construction of the Great Wall, too many migrant workers were recruited, and the criminal laws were too harsh, which aroused public anger, it triggered the peasant uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and finally ended the rule of the Qin Dynasty. Undoubtedly, the Great Wall played a huge role in defending against foreign invasion, and it is one of the world's great wonders, which can be seen in satellite photographs of the earth. Of course, in today's modernization of weapons and equipment, it has lost its role in defending against the enemy, but as a witness to China's history and as the embodiment of the Chinese nation's wisdom and wisdom and the spirit of uniting to resist the enemy, it still plays an irreplaceable role. Great Wall, you will always be the pride of the Chinese nation!
Just as Li was strolling on the Great Wall with Li Tao and reviewing the vicissitudes of the Chinese nation, Li's mobile phone rang, and he opened it to see that it was Zhang Qian's phone number, and hurriedly answered it.
"Hey, Mr. Zhang, hello!"
"Hello. Where are you now? ”
"Tao and I are on the Badaling Great Wall with our son."
"Good! I went to Beijing for a make-up wedding! Husband and wife, father and son, mother and son, a family of three enjoy family fun and have fun? ”
"We had a great time. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. ”
"The opportunity is your own creation, don't thank me. You give the phone to Momo, and I'll say a few words to her. ”
Tao took the phone: "Hey, Mr. Zhang, hello!" I'm Peach. ”
"You're a peach, huh? Hello! Have fun in Beijing? ”
"Very happy. Thank you, Mr. Zhang. ”
"Do you still like the clothes I gave you?"
"Loved it. I'm wearing it right now. ”
"If you like it, if you like. I'm afraid you won't like it, or even reject it. ”
"Mr. Zhang is joking, how could I refuse such a good dress? Besides, you are Li's boss, so I really want to thank you for respecting him and cultivating him! ”
"Lee is a nice young man, not only is he beautiful and handsome, but he is also very hardworking and capable, and he has helped me with a lot of things. He loves you very much and never forgets his promise to you; Today, he finally achieved it by his own efforts. I congratulate him, and even more so to you! You have to cherish it! ”
"Thank you! Li and I have been companions and classmates since childhood, and we have grown up together and have a deep relationship. I love him too. I will cherish this feeling. ”
"Alright, I won't bother you. I wish you a happy trip to Beijing! You give the phone to Lee, and I have one more word to say to him. ”
Li took the phone: "Mr. Zhang, what else do you have to order?" ”
"Congratulations on your promise to Momo! You finally have a wish, and you can work with peace of mind in the future. However, I would like to warn you: you have not fulfilled your promise to me! ”
"Mr. Zhang, don't worry, I haven't forgotten and promise to go back to work on time."
"That's good, I'll wait for you. Do you know? Recently, I've had frozen shoulder again, and I need you to help me-"
Li didn't feel panicked when he heard this, he was afraid that Zhang Qian would continue, so he hurriedly said, "I know, I promise to go back to work on time." ”
Tao saw that Li replied in a hurry, and asked, "What's the big deal with Mr. Zhang, urging you so much?" ”
"That's right, Mr. Zhang said, there are a lot of things in the office that I need to go back to help her deal with." Lee covered it up with words.
"Well, in that case, you should go back when the holiday is over. You are her special helper, and she believes in you so much and relies on you, and daily things are naturally inseparable from you. She can grant you half a month off, borrow a car for you to drive back, and give me clothes, which is already very good. We have to repay our kindness, and we can't be sorry for others. ”
"Yes. I've told her to go back to work on time. It's just that I can't bear to leave you, my parents, my son, my hometown and our warm family. ”
"Hold on a little longer. When the development and construction of our tourist scenic spot is successful, you will come back, and at that time, we will be together for a long time. ”
"That's what I thought too."
In the afternoon, they went to visit the Summer Palace. The buildings here are small and exquisite, warm and comfortable, the environment is quiet and elegant, and there are green mountains and clear waters, green tree corridors, clear waves and ripples, and rippling boats. This is the place built by Emperor Guangxu after his own government, so that the Empress Dowager Cixi can live in her old age. However, this imperial woman's desire for power was too heavy, where could she recuperate, and finally violated the ancestral system by changing the law and imprisoned Emperor Guangxu in Yingtai. I don't want to leave a beautiful tourist attraction for future generations.
On the third day, they went to visit the Temple of Heaven, Beihai Park and the Ming Tombs. Each of the three landscapes has its own characteristics, so I can't describe them all.
In order to save money for the next night's accommodation, they drove back to their hometown that night. Along the way, the couple recalled the three-day itinerary and the various scenic spots they visited, and they felt infinite emotion and experience. Tao said: "Li, let's take advantage of the opportunity to write a few small poems, and record this significant trip to the capital, the wedding in the capital, and there is a basis for recalling it in the future." Lee said, "Yes! Let's divide labor and cooperate, I will write about the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and the Summer Palace, and you will write the rest. After it is written, let's discuss the revision. So the two of them silently began to write poems. After a while, Li wrote three poems, and Tao wrote four poems, read them out separately, and the two discussed and evaluated them together
Badaling Great Wall
Thousands of miles of fences lock the northern frontier, and the Xiongguan is dangerous and strong. The heroic soul casts the Great Wall, and the martyrs defend the national defense for thousands of years.
imperial palace
The splendid Imperial Palace, the dragon and the phoenix are proud. Thousands of miles of dreams, rain and wind always empty.
Summer palace
The palace room is exquisite, quiet and quiet, with green mountains and clear water hugging green pines. Who said that it was not a place to raise a family, but the emperor's heart was still ambitious.
Look at the raising of the national flag
The red flag and the rising sun rise at the same time, and everyone raises their eyebrows to see the five stars. A passionate and tragic song, inspiring people to forge ahead and shake their hearts.
Tianmen Tower
Solemn and solemn value the building, the red wall of the green tile shines in Kyushu. How many things have happened throughout the ages, such as writing spring and autumn with a large pen in the rafters.
Chairman Mao Memorial Hall
Silently listening, the pine and cypress accompany the stars. How many earth-shattering things are there in the country, and the chairman is wise and spiritual?
Monument to the People's Heroes
A hundred years of beacon fire all over China, how many heroes shed blood. In exchange for the red sun in the clouds, a high monument stands for a thousand years.
The two read and commented on each other, argued for a while, and finally agreed on a common understanding and made some revisions. There was no pen and paper in the brigade, and he said that he would record it after returning home.