1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Zhou Xiaoying was extremely nervous, especially when the elevator went up.

She was very scared, her whole heart was in her throat, but she still kept smiling, for fear that the accompanying female manager would find out.

The female manager sent them to the door of the room. She did not leave immediately, but introduced the room:

“Mr. Hibi, this is the bathroom, this is your closet, and this is the phone. Currently, you can only call the front desk.”

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Thank you, no need to introduce it again, I am familiar with these things."

"Okay, Mr. Hibi, do you need dinner? There is a 24-hour French and Western restaurant on the second floor, and the bar on the first floor is open until two o'clock."

 Li Duoyu thought for a while.

The past two days were either in the car or busy, and all three meals were not on time. In addition, Zhou Xiaoying was so angry with her cousin today that she even forgot to eat dinner.

Li Duoyu said: "We are a little tired, can we send it to the room?"

The female manager smiled and said:

“Okay, just wait for me for a moment and I’ll get you the menu.”

 Not long after, the female manager came over with a Japanese menu.

 Fortunately, it is bilingual, with Chinese characters on the top and Japanese on the bottom. Otherwise, Li Duoyu would be really embarrassed. He speaks Japanese very well, but he is really not good at Japanese.

 Menu, the first one is cold dishes:

 A dish of Jinling salted duck costs 11 yuan.

 Soviet-style smoked fish also costs 10 yuan.

 Overall, there are quite a lot of Chinese dishes on the menu, even Tianjin roast duck, but the price is nearly three or four times more expensive than outside.

You don’t need to eat this kind of thing inside, you can also eat it outside.

Since everyone has come to live here, let’s order something different. Li Duoyu feels that Western food is not that delicious.

  Can't stand being fashionable.

Steak, butterfly puff pastry, ice cream, American shrimp, and cake.

Li Duoyu wanted to give Zhou Xiaoying something different to experience. After all, he was tired of those things, but that didn't mean Xiaoying was tired of them too.

 Li Duoyu smoothly finished ordering the Western food.

Female manager Su Yang said: "Do you need drinks? We can arrange a candlelight dinner for you."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Candlelight is fine, but red wine is not necessary. My wife has not been feeling well these past two days."

"Understood."

When the female manager left, Li Duoyu took out a five-yuan foreign exchange coupon and put it on the menu in front of her.

 The female manager hurriedly said:

"Thank you."

Although the hotel has express regulations not to accept tips, it is hard to resist the enthusiasm of these foreigners.

 Their wages are not high, but as long as they are able to serve foreigners, many people are rushing to get them.

For example, doormen who help carry luggage, people who take people to rooms, and people who help serve food. Everyone is vying for these three positions.

 Because as long as there are enough tourists, the tips they receive are several times the wages of ordinary employees.

When the female manager Su Yang finished her orders in the restaurant and returned to the front desk, she found that the waitresses were talking about each other.

 They were all discussing the two foreign guests who had just stayed.

“That woman’s clothes are even dirtier than ours, and her feet are still plastic shoes. She looks like one of us at first glance.”

“Do you think it’s possible that the woman was Mr. Hibi’s partner in China? In order to allow her to stay in the hotel, she deliberately lost her travel document.”

“It’s hard to say, but it’s really possible.”

“I’m so envious. Mr. Hibi held her hand from beginning to end and seemed to love her very much. I wish I could find a foreign man like this.”

Female manager Su Yang said:

"Stop thinking about it. This thing depends on fate. If you force yourself to get involved, people might get tired of playing with it and throw it away like a rag. Have you forgotten Cuiyun?"

After hearing this name, the smiles of the girls disappeared instantly. The man named Cuiyun was their colleague.

 A year ago, I was still a person that everyone admired very much. He was very beautiful and fell in love with a foreign guest while he was working as a waiter.

The two have been inseparable for a while. Everyone thought that she would follow her foreign boyfriend to live in a beautiful country and start a rich life from then on.

Unexpectedly, after her foreign boyfriend got tired of playing with her, he left nothing but a seed for her and went back to his country.

Cuiyun's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and everyone advised her to get rid of the baby, but she firmly believed that her foreign boyfriend must have encountered some difficulties, so he didn't contact her.

Because she gave birth to a child out of wedlock, she was directly fired from the hotel. In order to give birth to a child, Cuiyun even married a big fool.

 Her family members were completely disgraced because of this incident, and her mother was so angry that she almost hanged herself.

Seeing the female manager Su Yang mention this matter again, the girls immediately calmed down. A waiter said: "I think the manager is right. We local men are more reliable."

“Xiaolin, I heard that you and Chef Zhang are getting along?”

　　　“pure nonsense.”

　　After Li Duoyu closed the door, Zhou Xiaoying's eyes turned red on the spot, and big tears fell down.

 But here, she didn't even dare to cry loudly.

Li Duoyu frowned and said, "Why are you crying again?"

Zhou Xiaoying sniffed and looked aggrieved: "I'm not scared by you, just stay in an ordinary guest house. If we stay in a hotel that welcomes foreign guests, if someone finds out, we might all have to be sent away." Go to the bureau."

Li Duoyu chuckled and said: "The timid ones will starve to death, and the bold ones will die from exhaustion. We spent real money to get in, and we didn't lie to them. Besides, I don't like their way of treating them differently."

Zhou Xiaoying glared at him:

“Speak softly, don’t let others hear you. We’ll call our comrades to arrest us later.”

“This hotel is not our home. The soundproofing is very good. Even if it creaks, you may not be able to hear it from the next door.”

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying felt angry and annoyed, her face flushed, and she stepped on him in anger.

Li Duoyu, who was in pain, said with a bitter look on his face: "Don't step on my shoes. You bought these shoes. I treasure them."

"snort."

 It took Zhou Xiaoying several minutes to calm down.

 To her, today was really too magical, and her mood was like the big waves on a typhoon day.

 TV, refrigerator, washing machine and tape recorder, as well as Li Duoyu’s fishing boat, were the limits of her imagination.

 But once I stepped into this hotel, everything was overturned, just like Grandma Liu in the novel visiting the Grand View Garden.

That revolving glass door is really beautiful. She has never seen such beautiful glass.

 And that thing called the elevator really scared her. When she walked up, her feet felt a little weak.

 Without a few words, we reached the 30th floor.

 Everything in this room is like a work of art to her.

Not only does it have a beautiful floor lamp, but it also has a nice desk and a very high-end big bed at first glance.

Beside the bed, there is a telephone.

A watercolor painting hangs on the bed, and a 21-inch TV is placed in front of it.

 For her, this room is really perfect, and the floor is very clean.

 Zhou Xiaoying quickly took off her plastic shoes and put on the hotel slippers.

　　Unexpectedly, the plastic slippers provided by the hotel were more comfortable than the pair she was wearing.

Zhou Xiaoying still didn't want to believe that they really lived on the 30th floor. She walked to the window and poked her head out a little.

His pupils suddenly dilated, and his feet involuntarily became weak. He held on to the wall before he dared to continue looking down.

Pedestrians on the road are like ants, and the houses seem to be as big as a matchbox.

“Duoyu, we are really on the 30th floor.”

Zhou Xiaoying was leaning against the wall while leaning out of the window. Li Duoyu thought she was a little funny and a little cute.

He walked directly to the window: "This is really the thirtieth floor." "It's so high, why aren't you afraid?"

Li Duoyu chuckled and said: "There is nothing to be afraid of. When I visited the island country, I lived in a higher place."

Zhou Xiaoying then remembered that Li Duoyu had visited the island country for nearly a month. No wonder he walked through the revolving glass door and took the elevator just now.

“Are all the houses in the island country this high?”

“No, only a few big cities have high-rise buildings.”

While they were chatting quietly, someone knocked on the door, and then the voice of the female manager was heard.

“Hello, Mr. Hibi, the dinner you ordered has been prepared. Can we have dinner now?”

Hearing the sound, Zhou Xiaoying suddenly became nervous and ran directly to the bathroom.

 Li Duoyu opened the door.

　　The female manager wearing gloves pushed a bronze double-decker dining cart in.

 After she came in, she placed the Western food from the dining car on the desk and placed a silver candle stand.

"Mr. Hibi, all the meals you ordered are here. Would you like to help you light the candles?"

"sure."

After the female manager finished lighting the candles, she smiled and said: "After you finish your meal, just call the front desk number and we will have a waiter come and clear away the dishes, or I can come and clear away the dishes in two hours."

 Li Duoyu replied: "Let me call the front desk."

When the female manager Su Yang left, she said: "By the way, Mr. Hibi, there is a rotating palace restaurant on the 36th floor of our hotel. It can rotate once every hour. You can sit still and see the entire scenery of Jinling. "Yes, can I reserve a seat for you?"

Li Duoyu thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "Let's talk about it, I have some things to deal with tomorrow."

 “Okay, Mr. Hibi.”

"have a good meal."

After the female manager left, Li Duoyu pulled out Zhou Xiaoying who was hiding in the bathroom, and she was staring at the big mirror in a daze.

“Don’t look at it, you are prettier than those waiters.”

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him: "You're talking nonsense. I'm not that good-looking. That female manager is much prettier than me."

“She has put on make-up, but you look just like her without make-up. You must be prettier.”

 “Lie.”

Although Zhou Xiaoying had a tough talk, she was happy in her heart. What she didn't expect was that Li Duoyu turned off the lights in the room the next second, leaving only a few candlelights.

 “What, romantic?”

Zhou Xiaoying frowned slightly: "Isn't this just like our family? Now that there is a power outage on our island, don't everyone have dinner with candles lit?"

Li Duoyu was stunned, as if it was exactly what his wife said.

 Is it romantic?

 It seems that for the people on Dandan Island, this seems to be daily life.

After Zhou Xiaoying sat down, she suddenly became troubled: "There are so many fish, why are there only knives and forks? Did the waiter give us less chopsticks?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said:

 “You don’t need chopsticks for Western food.”

 “Then how to eat it?”

Li Duoyu pursed his lips: "Western food. Of course men feed women this kind of food."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned slightly, and she knew from his tone that he must be talking about some stupid words that she couldn't understand.

Seeing Li Duoyu holding a fork in one hand and a knife in the other, he quickly cut a piece of beef.

Zhou Xiaoying also followed the same example, but found that it was very awkward. The knife was not sharp at all, and the beef tendon could not be cut at all.

 At that moment just now,

She almost became anxious. She could obviously use scissors or a sharper knife to cut, so why did it have to be so troublesome?

After cutting the steak, Li Duoyu stabbed a piece of beef with a fork and brought it to Zhou Xiaoying's mouth: "Don't be stubborn, come and open your mouth."

 Zhou Xiaoying puffed her mouth, took the beef into her mouth, and then started chewing it.

 “How does it taste?” Li Duoyu asked.

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and said: "It's not bad, but it's a bit fishy and it doesn't feel very cooked. It would be better if it could be more cooked."

 Li Duoyu was stunned for a moment.

Zhou Xiaoying's words were definitely a critical blow to the steak chef, but Li Duoyu, who was a chef, could not refute.

Li Duoyu looked at this very authentic medium-rare steak and couldn't help but fell into deep thought, as if he originally wanted to make traditional Japanese food, but eventually turned into a fried food shop.

Li Duoyu thinks that if the steak served today is a steak with black pepper sauce and mushroom sauce, Zhou Xiaoying will probably like it very much.

 “What about this shrimp ball?”

Zhou Xiaoying nodded and said: "It's quite delicious, but I don't think it's necessary. The shrimp is already very sweet, so there is no need to add seasoning."

Li Duoyu squinted his eyes: "Yes, you are right, these chefs are really superfluous."

Li Duoyu finally discovered that Zhou Xiaoying was not very interested in these Western foods because she had been living on the island. She didn’t know what modern Western foods meant to city people.

 It’s a good thing I didn’t take her to a Western restaurant, otherwise the chef would probably vomit blood after hearing what she said.

However, Zhou Xiaoying also likes to eat something: "Duoyu, what is this soft and icy thing?"

 “This, it’s called ice cream.”

"this is delicious."

However, only halfway through eating, Zhou Xiaoying suddenly noticed the handwritten price beside the table. Although she could not read Japanese, she did understand the last number.

 She felt very distressed at this moment, because this Western meal ate up three months of her salary.

Li Duoyu hurriedly said: "Xiaoying, you don't have to eat so cleanly. If you come here today, if you eat too much, your stomach will hurt."

"too expensive."

 This was the end of a candlelight dinner that was not romantic.

 Li Duoyu called the front desk directly.

 Not long after.

 The female manager came up, took away all the tableware, and wiped the desk clean.

Zhou Xiaoying, who had been struggling all day, wanted to take a shower in the bathroom, but she couldn't find the basin after searching several times.

 “Where is the washbasin?”

 “Where can I get hot water?”

Seeing that Zhou Xiaoying didn't understand anything, Li Duoyu ran into the bathroom with ill intentions and pulled up the shower curtain.

As the pattering sound sounded, Zhou Xiaoying's face turned as red as a tomato.

 “You can go out now.”

Li Duoyu said shamelessly: "Two people have to wash this together, otherwise there will be no hot water later."

“It’s summer, why don’t you take a cold shower?”

“I made a mistake just now. If we don’t wash together, there will be no water later.”

"rogue."

 In the middle of the night, Zhou Xiaoying was tossing and turning while lying on Simmons' bed. Even now, her brain is still very excited and she can't fall asleep at all.

And Li Duoyu couldn't sleep either. Although Li Xiaoer was very excited that day, he could only endure it.

"You relative, you came at the wrong time. Such a good bed was wasted like this."

Zhou Xiaoying also felt it was a bit wasteful. She couldn't bear to sleep at all, but after lying down for a while, she suddenly felt a pain in her stomach.

 He ran to the bathroom.

 After a while, Zhou Xiaoying’s voice came: “Duoyu, how do you use this toilet?” (End of Chapter)