Return to Singapore 1995

So Li Xiaofan took the two girls to eat some claypot rice and fish fillet soup at the food court near Sim Lim Square, and then took the subway straight to Orchard Road.

This is the first time for the two girls to come to Orchard Road.

After getting off the Orchard Road MRT station, the two girls were shocked! Oh shit, where is this subway station? It’s clearly a gorgeous and huge multi-story shopping mall!

From Orchard Road MRT Station, there are passages and escalators that lead directly to Shaw House.

Almost all the main space in the Shaw Building is given to Isetan Department Store, which contains a full range of mid- to high-priced products. The entire shopping mall has a central hollow design. The top floor is the Lido Cinema, with a total of eight screening rooms.

Going up the escalator, there is a row of hand-painted movie posters on the walls of Lido Cinema, which is very retro-style.

The walls are mostly filled with posters of European and American English-language blockbusters. Among them, the large poster of "Red Rose-White Rose" is the only Chinese-language movie.

The poster for "Red Roses, White Roses" shows a picture of the actor Tong Zhenbao, played by Zhao Wenxuan, hugging the heroine Wang Jiaorui, played by Chen Chong, while Zhao Wenxuan held up Chen Chong's cheek, and the two kissed passionately.

"Sister Yue, what is the story of "Red Rose and White Rose"?" Liu Mengchen asked. She had never read this novel, and Guo Hanyue was a typical literary young woman.

"I remember Zhang Ailing's novel can be summarized in a few very classic sentences, which seems to be like this: A man marries a red rose, and over time, the red rose becomes a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, while the white rose is still on the bedside The bright moonlight...and married a white rose, the white rose is just a grain of rice on the clothes, and the red one is a cinnabar mole on the heart..."

"I can't understand it. It's so hard to speak!" Liu Mengchen said.

"Haha, it means that the male protagonist in the story, Zhenbao, married the thin, virginal white rose Yanli, but what he was thinking about was the charming, charming red rose Jiaorui. It's a pity that Hong at this time Rose Jiaorui was already someone else's wife, so she became a cinnabar mole in Zhenbao's heart. Later, by chance, he saw the divorced and remarried Hong Kong Jiaorui on the bus. Rui, she has become a plump and worldly middle-aged lady. So, the two women who were once roses have become ordinary people walking in the crowd. It is true that you can't have your cake and eat it too. , time goes by, flowers bloom and wither, whether it is a red rose or a white rose, only the rose that finds a true lover can bloom more beautifully..." At the end of the sentence, Guo Hanyue sighed.

She continued: "You need to read these passages in Zhang Ailing's novel in conjunction. You have to read the novel to understand the flavor of it. It means that maybe in every man's life, there will be two women like Red Rose and White Rose. At least two. Marry a red rose, and over time, the red becomes a smear of mosquito blood on the wall. , the white one is still the bright moonlight in front of the bed; if you marry a white rose, the white one is just a grain of rice sticky on your clothes, but the red one is a cinnabar mole on your heart... Zhang Ailing's novel also said that even if a man Having white roses and red roses at the same time, he will definitely think about yellow roses, pink roses, white roses, etc..."

After listening to this, Liu Mengchen looked at Li Xiaofan and asked maliciously: "Li Xiaofan, are you men like those in Zhang Ailing's novels? Every man is so carefree. When you have red roses, you think of white roses. White roses think about red roses, and then there are red and white roses, and they want more roses?”

Li Xiaofan smiled and said: "The ancients said that slender ladies and gentlemen are good! Next time I want to plant a large circle of colorful roses in the garden outside our townhouse, so that all kinds of roses can surround me!"

"Haha, Li Xiaofan, you are such a playboy!" Guo Hanyue said with a smile.

"By the way, Li Xiaofan, do you have a girlfriend?" Liu Mengchen asked

"A real man has his ambitions in all directions, he should establish a career first and then talk about relationships!"

"Career and love are not contradictory, right? Li Xiaofan, look at me and Sister Hanyue, how are we doing?" Liu Mengchen teased half-jokingly.

"Well, they are all very beautiful and virtuous!"

"Do you like it?"

"Yeah, I like it!"

Liu Mengchen stared at Li Xiaofan and smiled: "I asked you to choose one, who would you choose?"

"Can I take them all?" Li Xiaofan laughed.

"Go to hell!"

The two girls punched Li Xiaofan hard.

Li Xiaofan was so frightened that he ran away and quickly ran to the window to buy a ticket.

After Li Xiaofan bought the tickets, Guo Hanyue asked: "Are movie tickets expensive? How much does one cost?"

"It's okay, seven new coins each."

"Is it so expensive?"

"Fortunately, in a high-end place like Orchard Road, seven yuan is still acceptable..."

Li Xiaofan saw that it was still a little early before the movie was released, so he asked, "Girls, if you still have some time, would you like to take you to try the most famous colorful ice cream bricks and ice cream sandwiches on Orchard Road?"

Liu Mengchen said: "Okay, anyway, we will mess with you today! As long as you don't sell us!"

"Haha, let's go, let's take you to taste the taste of Singaporean childhood!"

Li Xiaofan mentioned this ice cream sandwich because he just remembered that there was a food TV show in his previous life called "Twelve Flavors". In it, Nicholas Tse and Gui Lunmei were looking for delicious food on Orchard Road, Singapore, and ate something he had loved since he was a child. Colorful ice cream bricks and ice cream sandwiches.

This ice cream stall is right in front of Paragon on Orchard Road.

Paragon, located at No. 290 Orchard Road, was a high-end large-scale shopping mall on Orchard Road and a center for fashion trends. At that time, relatively high-end brands such as Gucci, Valentino, and Versace were gathered here.

Lao Ange's ice cream stall has a good business all year round. When Li Xiaofan and others arrived, there were already seven or eight tourists queuing in front of them.

The so-called ice cream sandwich is to sandwich various flavors of ice cream with bread or wafer biscuits. The flavors are various, including red bean, durian, vanilla, mango, etc. The ice cream can be sandwiched with bread, toast, egg roll wrapper, or directly Eat with a cup. The price is very cheap, one Singapore dollar each.

Li Xiaofan recommended the two girls to choose the most distinctive durian flavor.

After buying, they left the ice cream stall. Each of the three people held a durian ice cream sandwich and sat on the iron seats along the Orchard Road. Blowing in the gentle breeze, looking at the bustling Orchard Road with the bustling traffic, they licked the delicious and cool ice cream. , so uncomfortable.

“It’s so delicious, sweet but not greasy. It’s great to sit here and watch the night view of Orchard Road!”

"Well, it's delicious and comfortable! It feels like this is the real Singapore!" Liu Mengchen sighed.

Li Xiaofan sat between the two girls, and the scene of a handsome boy and a beautiful girl attracted many passers-by's attention.

"Li Xiaofan, do you feel happy that our two beauties are accompanying you on Orchard Road?" Liu Mengchen nudged Li Xiaofan with his palm and elbow.

Li Xiaofan laughed and said: "There is a saying that sexism is just a short-sighted behavior. Happiness is given to each other!"

Haha, Guo Hanyue laughed and then sighed: "Looking at the prosperity and the flow of people in front of me, I suddenly remembered a few words from Zhang Ailing's novel: Meeting the wrong person at the wrong time and in the wrong place is such a waste. Ridiculous! Wrong time, wrong place, Meeting the right person is a kind of regret! Meeting the wrong person at the wrong time and place is a kind of sadness! Meeting the right person at the right time and wrong place is a kind of coincidence! At the right time Being in the right time, in the right place, and meeting the right person is happiness!”

"Sister Yue, these few words of yours are so docile, and they made me confused. Let me sum it up simply: At present, meeting the wrong person is unfortunate, and meeting a reliable person is lucky!" Liu Mengchen answered. The previous sentence said.

"Well, well, what you said makes sense!"

Li Xiaofan was licking the ice cream and listening to the sighs of the two girls beside him, when suddenly someone from a distance greeted him: "Hi, are you Brother Afan!"