Brilliant Years 1991

Chapter 104: Being pursued for the first time!

The sun sets and the heat becomes unbearable.

Cao Yukun changed into a short-sleeved T-shirt and big shorts, and holding a basket that the local residents like very much, he went downstairs like an ordinary Hongkong resident, strolled around, and soon arrived at the nearby indoor vegetable market and started shopping - in the past month or so, his Cantonese has improved a lot, but he still can't pronounce many words correctly, and the locals can definitely recognize them at a glance.

Fortunately, it does not affect communication.

But his personal image was there, even if he took off his suit and trousers and changed into a T-shirt and shorts, he was destined to be unable to truly blend in with the crowd - almost every shop in the vegetable market could tell that his accent was abnormal at the first sight, but also every shop, men and women, could not help but stare at him a few more times, especially women.

Although he was clearly a "mainlander", everyone treated him quite friendly.

In fact, the discrimination of Hongkong people against mainlanders has a long history, which can be felt from the names they use - from the early "Laosong" (homonymous with "old brother") to the later "Acan" and "cousin", which always have a certain derogatory meaning. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was already the name "Daquanzi", and now the more common ones are "Dandaozai" and "Dandamei". As for 20 years later, there are still many Hongkong netizens who use derogatory words such as "locust" and "strong countryman", and the intention of exclusion and derogation is always obvious.

But Cao Yukun was over 1.80 meters tall, with an upright and strong figure, and an incredibly handsome appearance. If he smiled, he could almost look like a woman, and one could not help but feel a little dazed when seeing him. It was really hard for people to have bad thoughts about him - as he walked by, people were talking about him all the time.

"This mainland boy is so handsome!"

"Yes! He's even more handsome than Huazai!"

"Maybe they are here to be stars! Like Jet Li."

“It could also be singing!”

"He will definitely be famous, he's so handsome!"

And so on.

In fact, when Cao Yukun was in Shanghai, he was treated almost the same way in various occasions. But in Fuping County, he was just a high school student, just a gangster. No matter how outstanding his image was, he acted like a gangster all day long. In the eyes of adults with normal aesthetic taste, it was hard to say that he had much unique charm.

On the contrary, after the trip to Shanghai, especially in the past month, he has inexplicably gained a touch of mature charm by withstanding all kinds of pressure for such a long time and firmly implementing his plans.

The face is young, but the temperament is mature.

How could any woman with normal aesthetic taste not want to take a few more glances?

In fact, after being in Hongkong for a month or so, he had a new realization - the Hongkong of 1992 thirty years ago was actually quite similar to the country of later generations.

Capital is developed, entertainment is developed, and information and media are also developed.

Therefore, the people of Hongkong at this time actually admire capitalists and rich people far more than the mainland people at this moment, and they also value appearance more - sometimes even more than the inland people in 2020.

Everything has been alienated by capital.

If you have money, you are awesome, and everyone will respect and admire you.

If you are good-looking, everyone will assume that you will be more successful and make money more easily...

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As he was walking and looking around, asking prices from time to time, someone suddenly called him, "Mr. Cao?"

Cao Yukun turned around in surprise and found that it was lawyer Ah Hao, Fang Zhihao.

"Wow, it's really you, Mr. Cao. Are you... buying groceries?"

"Yes! Why are you here too?"

"I live nearby!"

"oh oh!"

Cao Yukun thought for a moment, "No wonder he recommended the registration address nearby." There was nothing strange on his face. He turned to chat with him, "Are you off work? Are you buying groceries too?"

"Yes, I just got off work, but I'm here to help. My family has a stall here, selling fish! Mr. Cao, do you want to eat some fish? I'll give it to you!"

Ah... Cao Yukun suddenly understood why he always smelled a faint fishy smell on Lawyer Ah Hao during the past few days!

He soon pulled me to his stall, and it turned out he was selling fish!
He quickly and enthusiastically introduced his parents and a younger sister, who were all helping to sell fish at the time - his younger sister was so pretty! However... although Ah Hao was not ugly, he didn't seem to be handsome at all. I don't know how he could have such a pretty sister!

She is really beautiful, not tall, fair and tender, and looks young. Although she is wearing leather clothes and pants for a fishmonger, it can't hide the beauty of her good figure, and her face is still that kind of pure and pretty.

To be honest, the current Cao Yukun is no longer the person he was in his previous life before he traveled through time, where even his blind dates would be rejected by leftover women in their thirties. Although he has only traveled through time for a little over half a year, he has seen a lot - in fact, as far as the girls he has dealt with in the past six months are concerned, even a famous star like Zhou Aimin, although still beautiful in his eyes, are not much better than Song Yuhua, Song Yuqian, Xie Xiaoyu, Huang Jiaying and others!

The Jiangnan area is naturally beautiful!

However, one has to admit that even with Cao Yukun's extremely picky eyes, this girl still had a very good appearance and figure - but this girl seemed quite amazing!
When she was pulled over by Lawyer Ah Hao, she was arguing with a fish buyer, and she looked very fierce!

It’s a bit like Huang Jiaying’s speaking style.

Even more ferocious than Huang Jiaying.

Nodding and greeting, after hearing Lawyer Ah Hao say that this was his big client, a big boss from the mainland, his parents obviously became more polite. But it was his sister, who was so fierce just now, but when she saw Cao Yukun, she suddenly seemed a little shy. She didn't know how to reply and just stared at him.

In the end, he asked his parents to pick out a fish for him, and insisted on having it weighed and paid for. Then he stood in front of the stall and told Ah Hao that he was tired of staying in a hotel and had just rented a house nearby.

After chatting, we found out that they were living in adjacent buildings.

This is obviously something their family is proud of - Ah Hao said that his family has bought the house five years ago, in 87. At that time, the housing prices in Hong Kong suddenly plummeted, and they bought it at the bottom, with one square meter just over Hong Kong dollars.

As he was talking, he added that since Mr. Cao already lived nearby, they were already neighbors, so he invited him to come to his house for dinner in the evening - it was said that in another hour, the stalls here would be half-closed, and only his father would be left here. After another half an hour, the market would be completely closed at eight o'clock.

Cao Yukun declined politely and chatted for a while before getting away.

But after walking a few steps, he suddenly felt something in his heart and couldn't help but look back.

The girl was also looking at him.

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Although he hadn't cooked for a long time, his cooking skills were still there. He prepared four dishes and a soup for himself, and looking at the lights of thousands of homes in the red sky, Cao Yukun poured himself a drink and finished a whole bottle of Maozi. He didn't clean up or wash the dishes. He simply took a shower, collapsed on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

However, this place is not as good as my hometown Fuping, and it is completely incomparable to the small earthen building that my parents guard for me - I can't sleep that soundly and I even woke up once in the middle of the night.

When he woke up the next day, although it was just after six o'clock, the sky outside the window was already bright. Cao Yukun collapsed on the bed, feeling an indescribable sense of confusion and emptiness.

But this sleep was still much better than before, and he soon regained his spirits.

In fact, what he needs to do as a business pioneer in Hongkong has basically been completed. The next step is to gradually connect the various stages completed before. If he can eventually sell the beverages as he wishes, the process will gradually be formed. By that time, it will be time to rent an office address and hire a few clerks to run errands and handle the company's daily work.

After washing up, he was about to go downstairs for a run, but just as he walked out of the corridor, he suddenly saw a familiar face standing at the door - "Uh, Thunder Monkey!"

Of course, the girl noticed him the first moment. Her pretty face flushed. She took the initiative to come over and extend her hand. She spoke in half-baked and a little stiff Mandarin, "Hello, my name is Fang Lijing! I'm studying at the Chinese University now! I'm Fang Zhihao's sister, nice to meet you!"

Cao Yukun shook her hand and said, "Hello!"

She tilted her pretty face slightly up, and although she blushed a little, she looked very brave. "You speak Mandarin very well. I wonder when it would be convenient for you to chat with me?"

Then she solemnly emphasized, "I hope to learn more about spoken Mandarin."

Cao Yukun couldn't help but laugh.

When he smiled, the girl's face suddenly turned redder. Even if she was brave, she couldn't stand the smile. She said shyly and dissatisfiedly, "What are you laughing at?"

Cao Yukun quickly waved his hand, "Don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything else!"

After thinking for a while, he said, "I do have time recently, but if you want me to speak Mandarin with you, I have one condition... You have to speak Cantonese with me too. I also want to learn Cantonese!"

Her eyes immediately lit up and she was very happy, "That's great, we can help each other!"

"it is good!"

This time it was Cao Yukun who took the initiative to extend a hand, "Help each other!"

The girl happily shook his hand for the second time, her eyes full of excitement, "I usually have classes from Monday to Friday, occasionally in the afternoon, and on Saturdays and Sundays. But when I don't have classes, I may have to help my family sell fish. What about you? When do you have free time?"

Cao Yukun thought for a moment and said, "Recently... apart from buying groceries and cooking, I have time for everything else."

She was even happier. "Buying groceries is so easy, and cooking is so easy too. Can I go upstairs to find you when I have time? I remember, you live in room 1401!"

"can!"

"Give me your hand!"

"what?"

Cao Yukun was stunned for a moment and handed his hand to her. She suddenly pulled out a pen from somewhere, held Cao Yukun's hand with one hand, and wrote in his palm with the other hand. After she finished writing, she showed it to him.

“This is my home phone number!”

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An unexpected episode.

Watching the girl running away happily, Cao Yukun couldn't help but stop where he was, with his arms folded across his chest, feeling indescribably happy - in his two lifetimes, if he didn't count the little ambiguity he had with his first love in high school, this was the first time he had been pursued by a girl.

Of course, Ma Zhong Chi Tu had received more than one love letter, but that didn't count because he hadn't come yet.

Hu Zihong doesn't count either - what she did really couldn't be classified as pursuit, it was a blatant seduction by people of the underworld without any affectation!
It feels... pretty good!

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She came that afternoon.

Cao Yukun was not pretentious. He received her in a T-shirt and shorts and even cut a plate of fruit for her. However, as soon as she entered the house, she immediately lost the courage she had in the morning to run to the door and block people. She sat on the sofa, looking extremely restrained, with her face flushed all the time.

After we started chatting, I felt better.

She followed the path that her brother had already taken and was admitted to the Chinese University of Hong Kong two years ago to study law. According to her, her grades were very good, but she also planned to go out to work after graduation.

"Selling fish is actually very hard work, and you don't earn much money. For a family like us, if we continue to study for a master's degree, of course we will look very immature! A master's degree costs a lot of money in a year!"

"My brother is doing very well. He now earns more than 10,000 yuan a month, which is considered a very high income."

"Don't believe that. How can it be possible that the average income per person is 18,000 Hong Kong dollars? That would cost 140,000 Hong Kong dollars! Anyway, most of the people I know can't make that much! My brother can probably make that much in a year, but he's already one of the highest earners! Ordinary people make 5,000 to 6,000 Hong Kong dollars a month! The rich people in Hongkong are too rich. How can we be equal to them? How much does Li Jiacheng make a month? How much do we make? I'm willing to give him half of my income. Is he willing to give me half?"

Sure enough, once they got familiar with each other, the shyness she felt about entering another man's house disappeared, and she soon showed her talkative side again.

That does make sense.

Cao Yukun also responded to her, "Yes, when I came to Hongkong, I often heard that the richest person is Li Jiacheng, and the most beautiful person is Li Jiaxin! The rich people in Hongkong are indeed very rich!"

"Yes! But I don't envy them. After I graduate, I can ask my brother to take me into the industry, which will be faster than others. If I can earn 10,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, I will be very happy!"

At this point, she couldn't help but look at Cao Yukun and suddenly asked, "I heard from my brother that you are in the beverage business. You said you are shipping beverages produced in the mainland to sell here. Will they sell well?"

Cao Yukun said casually, "I don't know either! Let's give it a try! We've already invested several million, so we should be able to sell a few bottles, right? When the drink is on the market, I'll give it to you!"

She puffed out her chest and said, "I'll take my classmates to buy it when the time comes. I support you!"

Cao Yukun laughed out loud and then quickly thanked him.

In fact, it can be felt that her family is not rich - having a house is the biggest confidence, but a house of about 80 square meters with three bedrooms and a living room is not only for her and her parents to live in, but the key is that her brother Fang Zhihao got married three years ago and had a little boy the year before last.

This means that two families of six people live in three bedrooms.

As the only adult in the family without an income, Fang Lijing lives alone in a room.

She was a bit as outspoken as Huang Jiaying, and when the conversation got serious, she said bluntly, "When I get my degree, I will find a job and have an income, and I will definitely move out as soon as possible. I definitely can't afford a house like the one you rent, but I can rent a 200-300 square foot house for about a thousand dollars a month!"

When she said this, her face was full of enthusiasm and confidence for her future life. "Then I will save money. I spend very little money, and I will definitely work hard. If I can earn HK$100,000 a year, I can save HK$60,000 or 70,000. When I save more, I can buy my own house!"

To be honest, when Cao Yukun heard her say this, he felt as if he had suddenly seen himself in his previous life...

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