Chapter 203

The 12th day of the first lunar month of '83 was the departure time Li Ye had scheduled before entering Hong Kong.

Because it takes two days and two nights to take a train from Pengcheng to Beijing, he had to return to Beijing before the start of school, and he had also made an appointment in advance to watch the Lantern Festival with Wen Leyu.

But before leaving, some "accidents" occurred. Pei Wencong arranged three direct flight seats to Beijing for Li Ye and the others.

If it were coming from Beijing to Hong Kong, Li Ye would definitely not be qualified to take a plane, but going from Hong Kong to Beijing, Pei Wencong easily handled it through his HKU classmate at the airport.

Now, even Hao Jian, who had some friction with Pei Wencong yesterday, couldn't help but ask Li Ye: "How come that guy surnamed Pei has classmates everywhere?"

Li Ye said with a smile: "Hong Kong is such a small place. It's always easier for HKU students to get ahead. After years of accumulation, hasn't he spread his classmates all over the world?"

"Do you understand the significance of my taking the Beijing University entrance exam now? An HKU is a circle of connections. As long as you share the benefits, there are channels and connections."

Hao Jian pursed his lips, nodded and said: "Reading more books is useful, otherwise you will always be bullied."

Li Ye said angrily: "That wasn't him bullying you yesterday, it was me bullying you, alright?"

Just yesterday, Hao Jian and Pei Wencong had a little dispute over the issue of clothing exports.

Pei Wencong insisted on prioritizing the company in Hong Kong to control the export business of Pengcheng Factory No. 7, and claimed that "there are HKU friends doing this line of work, with experience and connections."

And Hao Jian's meaning was that he was an industry insider, and it should be Hong Kong cooperating with him, taking the opportunity to make a name for himself at the Canton Fair, learning experience, and taking profits without letting outsiders take them.

In the end, Li Ye made the final decision, and the export business was still dominated by Hong Kong.

This decision made Hao Jian mutter and complain, saying that Li Ye was seeking far and wide, and not distinguishing between inside and outside.

But how could Hao Jian know the difficulties of exporting in this day and age? If you really let Pengcheng Factory No. 7 take the lead, it would be strange if you could get things done.

"Why did you bully me?" Hao Jian heard Li Ye say that and muttered again: "You bullied me... isn't it what you should do?

I just don't understand that brand thing you mentioned. As a result, I went to ask Pei Wencong, and he actually gave me the runaround. How can you let me learn from them in the future?"

"..."

Li Ye really didn't know about this, but he thought it was a good thing.

Pengcheng Factory No. 7 has been making money quite fiercely recently, and Hao Jian has become somewhat unenterprising. As long as he can sell it and make money, he doesn't care about the style at all.

In the future, when foreign brands come in, what will you use to resist them?

In addition, Li Ye also hopes that the aesthetic views of the Chinese people will not be too influenced by the West.

He doesn't deny that OL outfits with silk stockings look good, but what about bell-bottoms?

And the Chinese family also has its own unique clothing elements, such as the Zhongshan suit that basically disappeared in later generations. Li Ye thinks it's a pity.

He still remembers the handsomeness of the Kung Fu Emperor wearing a Zhongshan suit and killing all sides in the Hongkou Dojo.

After everyone discarded it as a symbol of being old-fashioned, the boys' school uniforms in the Chrysanthemum Country absorbed some of its elements and made very beautiful stand-up collar outfits.

As for things like horse-face skirts, they are still a bit ahead of their time for now, but extracting a bit of national traditional elements should still be worth trying.

He hopes to make a brand that conforms to the aesthetics and acceptance of the vast majority of people, so that when others see this brand, they will like it in their hearts.

Moreover, it must have the ability to bump into world-class brands and challenge them.

The next day, Pei Wencong sent Li Ye and the others to the airport and waved goodbye until they checked in and entered the gate.

After getting out of Pei Wencong's sight, Hao Jian and Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng seemed to suddenly relax.

The straight posture became lazy, the serious gaze that didn't look sideways became active, and the stiff neck turned left and right flexibly, feeling curious about everything.

"Good heavens! I didn't expect that I could get a plane to sit on this time coming out with Little Ye brother. You say when we get on the plane, what level are the people sitting next to us?"

Factory Director Hao Jian, who is thirty years old, is now a person who can make a business of hundreds of thousands with a wave of his hand, but he still has a strong sense of freshness about taking a plane for the first time.

And Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng's focus is a bit different. He doesn't care who he is sitting on the plane with!

"Little Ye, I heard that you can drink Maotai on the plane. Is there such a thing?"

"Don't ask me about this, I haven't sat on it either, but can't you afford Maotai now?"

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng licked his lips and said with a smile: "That shouldn't be the same taste, right? Is the taste of drinking Maotai now the same as the first time you drank it?"

The three of them successfully boarded the plane and sat down, only to find that most of the people sitting around them were foreigners.

You can drink Maotai, but the flight attendant pours you a cup personally. It's just that smoking is not prohibited in the cabin, the ventilation system is not as good as the planes of later generations,

the body odor of the people around is strong, and the flight attendants' uniforms are far less eye-catching than those of later generations. Li Ye's riding experience was really average.

Li Ye closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. After more than two hours, he felt the plane start to turn and circle, and he knew it should be Beijing.

It's just that after a while, Li Ye felt something was wrong.

Because the plane had been circling for a bit too long.

Is the Capital Airport in this day and age also congested?

Li Ye was a bit strange, and then he heard a passenger by the window say: "It's snowing outside!"

Li Ye leaned over to take a look, his heart skipped a beat, and he became nervous.

It didn't matter if it was snowing outside; the ground staff at the airport were absolutely dedicated and would definitely clear the snow urgently, but low visibility was a big problem.

The domestic airports in this day and age didn't have blind landing systems and relied entirely on the pilot's courage and technology. Landing in bad weather might be what the pilots from the Russian side were best at, and the pilots coming from the south...

Facts proved that the pilots' technology in this day and age was still good. After the plane circled for twenty minutes, it successfully landed at Beijing Airport.

And looking out through the windows on both sides, snow was flying in a mist, and everything he could see was snow-white.

"Why is the snow so heavy?"

After getting off the plane, the passengers deeply felt how heavy the snow in Beijing was. Just for this short section of walking down the gangway, a layer of snowflakes had covered them.

After passing through immigration, Li Ye learned that Beijing had suddenly had a heavy blizzard, and many departing flights had been delayed or canceled.

In addition, because the road to the city was slippery due to the snowy weather, there was a serious traffic jam, and the number of buses was insufficient. All passengers could only wait patiently and leave the airport in batches.

Li Ye waited for more than half an hour before following the staff's instructions to go out and get on the bus.

As a result, after he got on the bus, he saw three acquaintances at a glance.

One was Zhang Rui, the son of the original owner of the Zaojunmiao courtyard house where Li Ye now lives.

When Li Ye bought his house half a year ago, he heard that he was going abroad. I don't know why it was delayed until this time.

The other two acquaintances were Watching Liu Muhan and Lu Jingyao, whom he hadn't seen for half a year.

Several of them were sitting together. Looking at the school badges on their chests, seven or eight people around them were students from outside Beijing.

Li Ye frowned and wanted to find a seat to sit down, but Zhang Rui saw Li Ye and beckoned to him: "Li Ye, Li Ye, come sit here."

"Oh, I'll just sit here."

"Oh, hurry up and come over."

Zhang Rui was too enthusiastic, and Li Ye couldn't refuse, so he sat over.

"Li Ye, was your flight canceled too? Why didn't I see you in the waiting area just now? Are you here to see someone off?"

"I'm not here to take a plane. I just landed. Of course you wouldn't see me in the waiting area."

"You just landed?"

Zhang Rui was stunned and then asked: "Where did you fly from? How did you buy the plane ticket?"

Several students from outside Beijing around also looked at Li Ye. After all, at his age, he shouldn't be qualified to take a plane.

Li Ye said calmly: "The publishing house in Hong Kong invited me to communicate for a few days. When I came back, they helped me buy the plane ticket."

"You came back from Hong Kong?" Zhang Rui was full of surprise and then smiled: "Awesome, brother. You wrote a book and even wrote it abroad! No wonder I see your outfit is so shiny. It turns out this is foreign goods!"

Li Ye turned his head slowly and was also surprised to ask Zhang Rui: "Abroad? Why do you have this idea?"

Zhang Rui didn't react and said strangely: "Is there anything wrong with this?"

At this time, Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng said coldly on the side: "Hong Kong is an inalienable part of our country. After you go out, don't talk nonsense."

"..."

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng's impression of this guy Zhang Rui was really not very good.

Originally, his house was sold for 8,000 yuan, which was the most expensive one, and it was agreed that the money would be passed over, but he temporarily increased the price to 10,000. Although he brought a house full of furniture, that was also not keeping his word.

And as Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng's voice fell, the carriage was silent immediately.

In fact, in the 1980s, people subconsciously thought that going to Hong Kong was going abroad. Zhang Rui was purely a slip of the tongue.

Zhang Rui "puffed" and laughed, then said: "Yes, yes, yes, fortunately I am still on our land now, otherwise there would be no chance to correct it...

By the way, Li Ye brother, you are the first to reach, tell us about the situation outside, and let us have more experience, so that outsiders won't look down on us."

Li Ye shook his head and said: "What is there to say? Everyone is human. Who is strong and who is weak is based on ability. As long as you study better and have stronger ability than them, no one will look down on us."

"This little brother's words make sense," a man in his forties next to him interjected: "Our unit used to import parts from the Chrysanthemum side. That was saying all the good things, but they were still cold and indifferent. I thought he was a facial paralysis patient.

As a result, last year our own research institute broke through new technology, and that person came to us with a full face of smiles, lowering prices and sending gifts. I damn well asked him at the time, so you can also smile charmingly!"

"Hahahaha~"

Everyone around laughed.

With the addition of this Beijing person, everyone chatted more and more harmoniously.

When they learned that Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and Hao Jian went to Hong Kong because of Li Ye's "invitation letter," everyone around looked at Li Ye, and their eyes were obviously three points hotter.

How difficult is it to go abroad now? Li Ye is young and can "bring" people out. What kind of skill is this?

No wonder he said "based on ability" just now!

In the whole carriage, only Lu Jingyao's eyes did not fall on Li Ye.

She looked at the window blankly, desperately trying to recall the English knowledge she was still learning last night, hoping to use her focus on learning to cut off the sound in her ears.

For more than half a year, Lu Jingyao has been studying desperately, and many times she can reach the state of not hearing things outside the window.

But no matter how hard she tried today, the sound from Li Ye's side pierced into her ears like a needle, piercing into her heart.

【Why was he so ordinary before, but now no matter where he goes, he is the center of people's discussion?】

Watching Liu Muhan, who came to see them off, sat beside Lu Jingyao. Seeing Lu Jingyao's face gradually turn white, she knew that she was self-extremist again.

From the moment Li Ye got on the bus, Watching Liu Muhan carefully observed him. Li Ye only looked at Lu Jingyao once from beginning to end, and it was just a glance.

That is to say, Li Ye didn't care about Lu Jingyao at all.

But Lu Jingyao had a strong psychological change because of Li Ye's appearance.

"Sigh~~"

Watching Liu Muhan sighed, and there was no way, so she could only hold Lu Jingyao's hand and give her meager comfort and support.

She knew very well that if Lu Jingyao couldn't get rid of this psychological obstacle by herself, Li Ye would be her nightmare for a lifetime.

The bus was soon full of people, but because there were still many people stranded at the airport, and it was already dark, they could only carry passengers beyond the capacity, and those who came up later could only stand.

At this time, a man in a suit suddenly stood up and shouted, which made Li Ye frown.

"Everyone, carry forward the style, give up your seats to international friends, young people, hold on... give up your seats."

Many people stood up and gave their seats to others, and young people like Li Ye were the first to stand up and give up their seats.

The general environment is like this now, and Li Ye didn't directly resist.

But when the next batch of passengers came up, and it happened to be Li Ye's turn to give up his seat, he was not willing to give it up.

Because he saw Nakamura Naoto in this batch of passengers.

And Nakamura Naoto also saw Li Ye, and naturally stood in front of Li Ye under the guidance of that enthusiastic man in a suit.

"This student, please give up your seat, carry forward..."

"Which style of our country requires me to give up my seat to a Chrysanthemum person?"

"..."

The man in the suit who had been preaching the style in the carriage for a long time was stunned.

Everyone in the car had been under his command just now, and those friends who got seats also gave him friendly smiles. He was enjoying it, but was suddenly disgusted by a kid.

The man in the suit immediately straightened his face and asked Li Ye sternly: "This student, which school are you from? Which class, what is your name?"

As a result, Li Ye was even more stern than the man in the suit, directly pointing his finger at his forehead: "Which unit are you from? What is your name and position?"

"..."

Where would he dare to say this?

At this time, which unit doesn't have a few old revolutionaries? If it really poked over, maybe someone would swing a crutch to beat him.

Damn it, I almost lost my life back then, who are you giving your seat to?

The atmosphere in the carriage was very awkward. Zhang Rui next to him also couldn't help but pull Li Ye's sleeve, implying that he shouldn't be too stubborn.

But Li Ye said to him: "Zhang classmate, didn't you just ask me to tell you about the experience outside? Then I will tell you one."

Li Ye said very seriously and loudly: "Within our Chinese family, gentle concession is a virtue, but when you go outside, you will find that they don't eat that set at all.

Excessive concession will only make others think you are incompetent and weak.

If you want to get respect from others, either use excellent results or use a hard fist, but don't concede,

Because in the dictionary of Westerners, the strong... must not concede!"

(End of chapter)