"I don't know how much hot summer we have?"

Lou's father sighed with emotion, this United States is too rich.

"It's probably about $780 billion, that's all I guess. There are no detailed GDP statistics in the mainland. ”

Zhang Zhonghua shook his head and said that before the reform and opening up, the GDP data of the mainland was difficult to count and was not accurate, so it was difficult to have a detailed data.

"It was too hard to pay off the debts of the woolly bear a few years ago." Father Lou smiled bitterly.

"But fortunately, it's over, it's just ......."

Zhang Zhonghua also smiled helplessly, this account is really uncomfortable, it took so many years to pay you back.

"Dad, Ah Hua, what's going on with the woolly bear's debt?"

Lou Xiao'e asked curiously, she hasn't been to work all these years, so she knows less. In addition, they are all agricultural products and mines, and she has not even been out of Sijiu City, so she has not been in contact.

Zhang Zhonghua explained in detail the beginning and end of Sino-Soviet relations, and explained the reasons for the hardships and shortage of materials in those years. In recent years, it has not been easy to use agricultural products, meat, ores, etc. to pay off debts, and the prices are very low, so that the domestic supply is somewhat insufficient.

The only foreign exchange income in China is also the Canton Fair, which is mainly for the sale of some agricultural products, handicrafts and low-end machinery and equipment, but the source of foreign exchange at the Canton Fair is really a drop in the bucket.

"Alas, I don't know when I'll be able to go back!"

Lou Zhenhua looked at the north and shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Uncle Lou, let's talk about this kind of thing later, the current situation in the mainland is not optimistic, and we are now in the territory of the British."

Mr. Huo Lao is the most respectable patriotic businessman, who spared no effort to help Huaxia, and finally enjoyed a state funeral, which is an example.

After completing the accumulation of original capital, in addition to completing the real-name system, we should also strive to enter the field of science and technology, and once we change it, we will go back to development in a big way to help the mainland develop science and technology.

There are also many patriotic tycoons in Southeast Asia, such as Zhuang Shiping of Nanyang Commercial Bank, Hu Yinxiang of Hehe Industrial, Macau gambling king Ho Hongshen, Macau Wang Ho Xian, patriotic overseas Chinese Chen Kah Kee, etc., and of course, the sixth uncle of Shaw Brothers. These are forces that can be combined.

"Alright, the fireworks are about to start, and these things are not for us to think about right now."

Lou's mother interrupted everyone's sadness and sadness with her voice.

"Mom, it's so beautiful, look at the ...... over there," Lou Xiao'e immediately pointed to the fireworks in the sky and said.

With Lou Xiao'e's voice, everyone looked in the direction of her finger.

Fireworks burst into the sky, illuminating the beautiful Victoria Harbour.

Countless fireworks bloom in the sky, like a peacock opening the screen, like a goddess scattering flowers, and like a colorful flower umbrella, the sea reflects a beautiful picture. It is like a hundred flowers blooming their own beautiful petals, and countless fireworks bring the atmosphere of Victoria Harbour to a climax with their own petals.

As the fireworks bloomed in the sky, the citizens on both sides of the strait who came to watch also shouted excitedly, and everyone was agitated, so that the police officers of the police station were all on guard.

"It's really spectacular, it's so lively on both sides of the strait."

Lou Xiao'e said excitedly, although she had seen this kind of scene once last year, she was still very excited to see her again.

Zhang Zhonghua looked at the fireworks in the sky and sighed deeply, tonight's fireworks are particularly beautiful, and it is a new year, I hope that next year's development will go well.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero."

With the end of the countdown, it marked the end of 1967, and 1968 arrived, and a new journey began.

The earth-shattering shouts of Hong Kong Island citizens were heard on both sides of Victoria Harbour, and countless citizens who came to watch the fireworks display began to congratulate each other.

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Early the next morning, that is, the first day of the Lunar New Year.

In those days, there were no entertainment activities on either Hong Kong Island or the mainland.

The TV stations we are familiar with on Hong Kong Island, such as TVB, have not yet been established, and the movies shown in the cinema are all movies that make Zhang Zhonghua have little interest at a glance at the name, and entertainment is expensive, no wonder pornography, gambling and drugs are prevalent on Hong Kong Island in this era.

And there are no entertainment activities in the mainland, as long as they are idle at home as soon as it gets dark, the husband and wife can do nothing but talk about life and ideals.

No wonder the population has exploded in recent years, and they are all idle!

！

Zhang Zhonghua left his residence on a bicycle and walked along Repulse Bay Road, Wong Nai Chung Gap Road, and Stubbs Road all the way to Taiping Mountain, preparing to take advantage of today's irrelevant day to go to the top of the mountain, and by the way, he could also take a few photos of Central and Victoria Harbour in the 60s as a souvenir, and then meet those brothers who have not yet "recognized".

Located in the central and western districts of Hong Kong Island, Tai Ping Shan is generally referred to as the "Peak of Tai Ping Shan", so it is referred to as the peak by Hong Kong Islanders, with an altitude of 554 meters, which is the highest peak on Hong Kong Island.

In the early days of the opening of the port, due to the inconvenience of transportation, it was necessary to rely on a sedan chair to go up and down the mountain, so there were not many people living on the top of the mountain at that time, and there were only about 40 households in the 1880s.

Later, because of the beautiful scenery on the top of the mountain, the cool temperature and the wide vision, it gradually attracted a large number of more expatriates to live in it, mainly in the UK.

To meet the traffic demand, the Peak Tram was opened to traffic in 1888. Later, in 1904, the Governor's Office of Hong Kong Island banned Chinese from living on the Peak, a ban that was not repealed until 1947.

Victoria Peak is the most exclusive residential area on Hong Kong Island, where the Governor and the island's top government officials reside. Of course, there is also the richest man on Hong Kong Island after the opening of the port - Ho Tung, the super-rich man on Hong Kong Island, and the Ho Kai Tung family he founded was the first family on British Hong Kong Island.

Cheung walked to the observation deck at the top of the hill overlooking Hong Kong Island and Victoria Harbour. When night falls, stand on Victoria Peak and look around, under the reflection of thousands of lights, Hong Kong Island and Kowloon are like two pearls embedded in Victoria Harbour. The Central area is full of high-rise buildings and is spectacular.

When can you be like a king, standing on the top of the hill overlooking Hong Kong Island. Looking at the beautiful Hong Kong Island, Zhang Zhonghua's heart was full of longing.

Last night, Zhang Zhonghua made an appointment with Lou's family to go to Shangxiang today, so Zhang Zhonghua went directly to Lou's house after returning from the top of the mountain.

After Zhang Zhonghua arrived at Lou's house, he ate a meal of dumplings with the Lou family, which is a custom.

Well.

Customs in the North.

Zhang Zhonghua only learned when he saw TV in his previous life, and he didn't eat dumplings on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year in the south.

Aunt Yu, the queen of cross talk, said that once he posted on Weibo that whose family still doesn't eat dumplings during the New Year. As a result, netizens in the south replied that we don't eat dumplings.

Zhang Zhonghua was also curious to check what he ate on the first day of the Lunar New Year in various places, but he didn't know if he didn't check it, and he was shocked when he checked it.

All places are unified, the north is fine, most of the areas are similar, but the south is different, it is the same in one place.

For example, Sichuan, Shanghai, Yangzhou and other places should eat tangyuan on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means a happy reunion, everything goes well, and hopes for a successful new year.

In some areas of Hunan, Hainan, Ningbo and other places, rice cakes should be eaten at the first meal of the New Year, which means "getting better and better every year."

The first meal of the first meal of the people in Hubei Province is to drink chicken soup, which symbolizes "Qingtai peace". The students at home eat chicken wings, which means "spread their wings and fly high"; Those who have worked at home should eat chicken feet, which means "grabbing wealth in the New Year".

Fujian Fujian, Fuzhou and other places should eat noodles for breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means "every year is long"; In the Zhangzhou area, ginger, preserved eggs and sausages are eaten, which means that "the days are getting more and more prosperous".

In some areas of Guangdong, the first meal of the Spring Festival should be eaten "10,000 years of grain". "Ten thousand years of grain" means that rice is taken out in advance for several days on Chinese New Year's Eve to be eaten in the eucalyptus, and the rice is used to cook rice on the first day of the new year, and it is enough to cook enough meals for the family to eat for three days, meaning "not worrying about eating and drinking".

And so on and so forth.

After eating dumplings, Zhang Zhonghua and the Lou family went out with a stack of red envelopes.

"Let's go together, Yongjia, don't go with the two of you, there are too many people over there, Xiaoli is about to give birth."

Father Lou said with a smile.

"Well, then we won't go, you just take care of Xiaobao."

Lou Yongjia looked at his daughter-in-law with a big belly, and then at his eager son, knowing that he couldn't follow, and it was not possible to leave his son at home with him.

So he could only accept his fate and confess that he was optimistic about his son.

"Brother, sister-in-law, I'll bring you something delicious when I come back."

Lou Xiao'e took Lou Xiaobao's hand and said.

The crowd rode in a car towards Central. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I want to go to the temple to offer incense, in order to pray for a good fortune in the new year.

It is impossible to make incense sticks on the head, it is estimated that there were many people queuing up last night, Hong Kong Island attaches great importance to feng shui and the like, and those who do business attach great importance to feng shui, so Hong Kong Island feng shui is very developed.

On Hong Kong Island, there is a Wong Tai Sin Temple, also known as Sik Sik Yuen, which was built in 1921 and is said to be "responsive". The temple is mainly dedicated to Huang Chuping, a famous Taoist deity in South China during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and there are also gods such as Confucius and Guanyin who are also dedicated to Confucianism and Buddhism, so the integration of the three religions has become a major feature of the Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong.

It is one of the famous scenic spots in Kowloon, Hong Kong Island, and one of the most famous temples on Hong Kong Island. Enjoys a prestigious reputation, no one knows, the incense is prosperous, every year on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the citizens have to compete for the head pillar incense.

According to legend, Wong Tai Sin, also known as the Red Pine Fairy, is widely known for practicing medicine to help the world, and it is said that the Wong Tai Sin enshrined in the temple is responsive to requests, and his signature is very effective.

Of course, the Chinese in Southeast Asia believe in Mazu the most, and the incense on the first and fifteenth days of the new year is even more prosperous, and some sailors who go to sea also go to the Mazu Temple to pray for peace.

It was almost ten o'clock when Zhang Zhonghua and the Lou family arrived at the Star Pier in Central, and Zhang Zhonghua felt desperate when he looked at the people waiting in line to cross the shore by boat, it was too inconvenient.

The construction of the undersea tunnel from the main island to the peninsula did not start until '69 and was not opened until '72, so it is hopeless to think about it.

I waited in line for half an hour, and waited for more than ten minutes before I got on the bus, and I was stuck in traffic all the way, and it was already half past eleven when I arrived at Wong Tai Sin Temple.

The people who came to incense here, and the Spring Festival in the previous life, as well as the scenic spot on holidays, had a time, in addition to people or people, there were black heads everywhere.

For safety, Zhang Zhonghua also put Lou Xiaobao on his neck, otherwise he was really afraid that he would be squeezed out.

With the flow of people queuing up to enter, I bought two tributes such as flowers and water, entered the Wong Tai Sin Temple, kowtowed to incense and prayed, and then walked out of the temple. As for asking for a signature, Zhang Zhonghua, who was looking at Wu Yang, instantly lost interest.

I ate some snacks at the temple fair, followed the Lou family to carry Lou Xiaobao for more than an hour, and then left the vicinity of Wong Tai Sin Temple to return to Causeway Bay.

With this experience, Zhang Zhonghua decided not to join in the excitement in the future, it was really uncomfortable.

It reminded Zhang Zhonghua of the first year of going to college and going home for the winter vacation, because he had no experience, he didn't buy a plane ticket, and he sat all the way back to Xuzhou from Chongqing to a hard seat, and he had a dead heart.

After returning to Lou's house for a little rest, Lou Xiao'e, Liu Xiaoli and Lou's mother pulled Lou Zhenhua to kill mahjong.

Lou Xiaobao sat on the sofa and looked at the comic strips.

Zhang Zhonghua and Lou Yongjia were driven to the kitchen to prepare the evening dinner.

In the evening, six and a half people sat at the European-style dining table and had a reunion dinner.

"Ah Hua, when will the store over there be opened?" Lou's father said.

"It's soon, it will be renovated in a few days, and it will be officially open when the smell is almost fifteen."

"Well, what's next for you?"

Father Lou nodded, and then said.

"When Taikoo City stabilizes, it's time to start expanding. Kowloon Yau Tsim Mong and other places are all in the plan, striving to open CFC restaurants all over Hong Kong Island this year, enter the country of sticks and foot basins next year, and set foot in Southeast Asia at the same time. ”

Hearing Lou Zhenhua ask about his plan, Zhang Zhonghua did not hesitate to say his plan for next year or even the year after.

"The Ocean Terminal in Kowloon is nearby, have you ever thought about opening a store there?"

Lou Zhenhua thought for a while and said to Zhang Zhonghua.

Zhang Zhonghua rolled his eyes in his heart, of course I thought about it.

Ocean Terminal is the largest shopping mall in West Kowloon on Hong Kong Island, and one of the largest shopping malls on Hong Kong Island, which is a property of Wharf Group.

Especially decades later, it is one of the must-see shopping spots for visitors to Hong Kong, with more than 100,000 people entering the mall every weekend and 50,000 to 60,000 people working in this office building on weekdays.

"If you're going to open a store all over Hong Kong Island, do you have to set up a central kitchen on the Kowloon Peninsula?

If you are going to Kowloon from this side of the island, it will be too much trouble for the truck to ferry there every day. ”

"Let's take the ferry first, find a factory here on Hong Kong Island, and then the central kitchen will be moved over, and the recipe can be kept secret and safer."

Zhang Zhonghua also said helplessly.

Brother Lak is about to run away, and the order on Hong Kong Island is about to go wrong. It's okay on this side of the island, Kowloon, especially Yau Tsim, it's very chaotic, or transport trucks back and forth by ferry, it's a little troublesome******* it doesn't matter if you cross the past, anyway, it's only two kilometers in total, buy more trucks. The recipe for catering is the most important, and if the recipe is leaked, the competitiveness will be greatly reduced. ”

Lou's father also agreed with Zhang Zhonghua's idea.

"Alas, this Hong Kong Island is also too chaotic, there are thousands or even tens of thousands of people in large associations at every turn, and the Hong Kong Island government is not easy to manage."

Lou's mother said worriedly about Hong Kong Island.

"The Hong Kong Island government can't manage what it wants to, the population of Hong Kong Island has skyrocketed in recent years, the infrastructure can't keep up, many children can't go to public schools, and private schools can't afford to go to private schools, so they can only enter the community.

A large part of the tax revenue here has to be handed over to the British veteran, and the Hong Kong Island government has no money to strengthen infrastructure construction. ”

Zhang Zhonghua said with emotion.