"Ah Xiong's dreams, all on the walls of his house!" Ah Qiang yelled as he drove the car, shaking his head.

"What does it mean to dream on the wall?" Han Chunlei was a little confused when he heard this, and his eyes fell on Ah Xiong.

But unexpectedly, the hot fat man Ah Xiong, who he had always thought was very sullen, actually had a little more embarrassment on his face, shook his head and waved his hands, and said, "Don't listen to what he says." ”

"I'm not talking nonsense. When you get to his house in a while, you will know about Chunlei. Cuong turned his head and grinned.

"Please, blinker, concentrate on your minibus. Ah Xiong shouted, "Then gossip, there will be no money at the end of this month, okay?"

"No, big guy, I was wrong!" Qiang shut up decisively.

Seeing the two brothers playing happily, Han Chunlei sincerely felt that life really needed to have a head.

However, as soon as Zhang Xilu heard the word "cent" in Ah Xiong's mouth, he turned half of his body to look at Ah Xiong, and asked with great interest: "Brother Xiong, you and Brother Qiang partner to drive a minibus, how much money can you earn in a day?"

"Brother Xilu..."Han Chunlei shook his head.

Zhang Xilu is not pleasing to this point, as long as he talks about money, his eyes will shine. What should be asked or not, he dared to come when he opened his mouth.

Let's not say that it's rude to ask such a courtesy, the key is that this is too abrupt, do you know you very well?

"Sit tight, we're going into the village. ”

Didi!

Ah Qiang pressed the horn twice, and resolved the embarrassment caused by Zhang Xilu in time.

......

Today's Shenzhen has not expanded into a city, so the later districts have not been merged, and now Shenzhen is the county seat of Bao'an County, which is equivalent to Chengguan Town of Bao'an County.

At this time, Shenzhen had a population of less than 30,000. Even though there has been an influx of immigrants in the past two months, and a lot of new houses have been built, it is still a town.

But it was such a town, and Han Chunlei saw bicycles, human-powered three-wheelers, and sporadic motorcycles running by sporadically on the street through the window of the minibus.

This kind of vigorous and thriving scene has never been seen since he returned to this era. Whether it is Changhe Commune, Puyan Commune, or Shangtang Commune, none of them are as vibrant and vibrant as this town.

Ah Xiong and Ah Qiang's village is called Hubei Village, and the last time he was in Shangtang Commune, and on the way here just now, he also heard Ah Xiong talk a lot about their village.

Hubei Village is an old village with a long history in Shenzhen Town, and it is also a large village. Historically, the ancestors of Hubei Village, the Zhang family, moved from Fujian to the coast of the South China Sea in Guangdong Province since the Ming Dynasty, and have been living in Shenzhen for generations, 500 years ago.

Ah Qiang is a descendant of the Zhang family of Hubei Village, Ah Xiong's surname is Luo, their Luo surname is a small surname in Hubei Village, and they also migrated from elsewhere, and later intermarried with the Zhang clan, and over time, they also became the local indigenous people of Hubei Village. From the genealogy to Luo Xiong, it should be the fifth generation of descendants.

The minibus stopped at the entrance of Hubei Village, and Han Chunlei and Ah Xiong entered the village.

If Han Chunlei was a native of Shenzhen from later generations, he should be able to recognize that the location of Hubei Village at this time was the center of Luohu District, Shenzhen, on the side of the famous Dongmen Commercial Street in Shenzhen. It is a famous urban village in Shenzhen.

Of course, the village was later demolished.

......

Hubei Village is a large village in Shenzhen Town, with a large population, and it can be seen from the blue brick houses along the road that the people of Hubei Village live well. Han Chunlei also found that many of the blue brick houses here are three-story buildings, but they can also be distinguished from the old and new colors of the blue bricks on the exterior walls, and the second and even third floors of many homes have only been added recently.

This kind of roof tile and floor covering, if you want to put it in future generations, you will definitely not be able to run an illegal building. However, it is also in line with the fact that local residents have built houses, or even built temporary houses, and rented them out to migrant workers.

Ah Xiong's house is not far from the entrance of the village, and after passing through a dim alley, it is their house. Their house is also a blue brick house, which has also been covered with a floor, and the original wide yard has also been temporarily repaired with several asbestos tile houses, and the exterior walls have been simply painted with lime. It's a bit like a large courtyard of blue brick houses.

"Come on, come on, it's home. ”

Ah Xiong led Han Chunlei and them into the courtyard, and shouted in the direction of the hall, "Grandma, guests are here." ”

Ah Xiong's mother is an old aunt in her sixties, and she mutters a bunch of Cantonese in her mouth, the speed of speech is a bit fast, and the accent is a little different from the Cantonese movies that Han Chunlei used to watch, but Han Chunlei can also listen to half and half, but Zhang Xilu is embarrassed, as if listening to heavenly books.

After the old lady poured herbal tea with a few people, she went to the kitchen to work.

Ah Xiong smiled: "My mother is a Hakka and speaks Hakka, Chunlei, you can understand Cantonese, you should be able to understand it, right?"

Han Chunlei nodded, indicating that there was no problem. As a karaoke Cantonese classic singer, he can distinguish between Hakka and Cantonese. There is a difference between Hakka dialect and Cantonese dialect (Cantonese), Hakka speakers are Hakka nationals, and Hakka people come to Guangdong relatively late. Cantonese (Cantonese) are spoken by the local indigenous inhabitants of Guangdong.

In fact, the difference between the two is not very big, but there are slight differences in pronunciation and grammar.

You must know that before the founding of New China, Hakka was the mainstream language in Guangdong. Because the Hakka people were very active in the political arena at that time, such as Sun ~ Zhongshan, Ye ~ Jianying, Huang Zhenqiu, Xie Jinyuan, Deng Zhongyuan and a series of celebrities of the party, government and military, all of whom were Hakka.

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Hsien Loong's family, and Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at the time, are all Hakka people who are wandering outside.

In Southeast Asia, there is a saying that where there are Chinese, there are Hakka people.

"Brother Xiong, are you saying that my aunt doesn't speak Mandarin?" asked Zhang Xilu.

Ah Xiong smiled: "My aunt don't speak out of Guangdong, she hasn't even gone out to Bao'an County once in her life, where do you say she can speak Mandarin?"

"Hahaha, the people on our side all speak Hakka and Cantonese dialects. Cuong also made up his mouth.

Zhang Xilu: "......"

I want to cry without tears.

After all, I will be here for a long time in the future, and if I can't communicate with each other due to language barriers, then I will still do a wool business.

Han Chunlei is also very sympathetic to Zhang Xilu, which is a very real problem. There are three major language families spoken in Guangdong, Cantonese (Cantonese), Chaoshan, and Hakka, but Mandarin is not the mainstream social language.

Especially in the area of Bao'an County before Shenzhen was expanded into Shenzhen, Hakka is still the mainstream language, because most of the cadres, employees, teachers, and doctors in Bao'an are Hakka. After the 80s, with the entry of Hong Kong businessmen and Hong Kong capital, Hong Kong-style Cantonese gradually infiltrated and became the main language of communication. It was not until the mid-to-late 80s to the 90s that Putonghua began to be popularized, especially for leading cadres and staff in enterprises and institutions, in the process of "recruiting, transferring, and promoting", Putonghua had to be evaluated, and all those who failed Putonghua were not "recruited, transferred, or promoted", and Putonghua gradually replaced the mainstream status of Cantonese in Shenzhen.

"It's not as pessimistic as you think," Han Chunlei patted Zhang Xilu on the shoulder and explained, "Hakka is not difficult, after staying for a while, you will slowly understand, and finally speak well." After all, the language environment is here, and you can adapt to it quickly. ”

Zhang Xilu nodded, and said seriously: "Chunlei, you have to teach your brother, otherwise it will be difficult to buy a pack of cigarettes on the street, right?"

"Hahaha, it's not as serious as you say. Ah Xiong also smiled, then picked up Han Chunlei's sack and said, "Let's go, I'll take you two to the room to have a look, there are still two houses on the second floor of our house that have not been rented to others, so I will keep them for you two." ”

Han Chunlei and the others definitely need a place to stay when they come to Shenzhen, so when he called Ah Xiong before coming, he promised Ah Xiong that he would rent an empty room in their house when he came over.

For Ah Xiong, the monthly rent of being able to rent out two empty houses is still very considerable, and Han Chunlei has also helped them in Shangtang Commune, and his impression of Han Chunlei is also very good.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to pick up passengers in an empty minibus and went to the train station to pick them up.

As for Han Chunlei, he has to rent a house anyway, why don't he give favors to Ah Xiong, besides, in the future, he will need a landlord like Ah Xiong and Ah Qiang to help him in Shenzhen. So even if the rent in Hubei Village is high, he chooses to rent here.

When I went up to the second floor, I suddenly listened to a soft song, faintly coming from the room at the top of the stairs.

Tsk, Ah Xiong's family still has a tape recorder? It's very extravagant and corrupt.

However, the singer's voice is sweet and mellow, gentle and moving, Han Chunlei is very familiar to hear, but he can't name anyone for a while.

In this era, I listened to the radio in the morning and read the newspaper in the morning, and listened to the radio news in the evening, even if the songs I heard were sailed on the sea by the helmsman, and I hadn't heard this kind of song for a long time.

Who is it?

I can't remember it all at once.

He followed the sound into the room, and Cuong sat down in front of the tape recorder, shaking his head and listening to the song with a genuine expression of enjoyment.

However, Ah Xiong rushed into the room first, snapped, turned off the tape recorder, and scolded in a low voice: "Can you turn the sound down a little, for fear that others will not know that I have this kind of tape at home?"

"What's wrong with this tape?" Qiang pouted, "We were dancing a bungee in the grove behind the square the other day, and we were even more ecstatic than your song." ”

At this time, Han Chunlei entered the room, saw several posters pasted on the wall of the gauze tent bed, looked at the gentle and beautiful face on the poster, and recalled the song he heard just now.

Finally remembered who sang this song, it was her!

He also remembered the name of the song.

No wonder Ah Xiong was so nervous, this song was set as the representative of the beautiful sound at that time!

It is said that my father only dared to sneak to the hill to listen to the enemy station in the dead of night, to listen to this song.