The Pentium Era - South to North

Chongqing's "Liberation Monument", formerly known as the "Anti-Japanese War Victory Monument", was completed in August 1947 to commemorate the Chinese people's victory in the Anti-Japanese War. In 1950, the then mayor of Chongqing Chen Xilian asked for instructions from the Southwest Military and Political Commission and was approved. The "Monument to Commemorate the Victory of the Anti-Japanese War" was renamed "The People's Liberation Monument", and Liu Bocheng inscribed the title.

The name "Liberation Monument" has been used to this day.

Jiefangbei is the busiest commercial area in Chongqing. The Chongqing Department Store and the 15-story "Huixian Building", once the tallest building in Chongqing, are all here.

The store He Hongmei rented was on the first floor of "Huixian Building". He Hongmei drove her sister's Santana to pick them up at the airport. She arranged for Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao to stay at the "Huixian Building Hotel", and Zhang Chen After putting my luggage in the room, I asked to go to the first floor to have a look.

Zhang Xiangbei hadn't seen He Hongmei for several days. He seemed very happy to see her. At the airport, he stretched out his hand and asked He Hongmei to hug him. He Hongmei was overjoyed and carried him to the parking lot outside. While He Hongmei was driving, Zhang Xiangbei was sitting in the car. Behind him, when he heard He Hongmei's voice, he kept looking around for He Hongmei.

Now, of course, He Hongmei was still holding him. The three of them took the elevator to the first floor. Huixian Tower was located on the corner of Zou Rongzhi Road and Minzu Road. The door of the hotel opened to Zou Rongzhi Road, and the store He Hongmei rented was The podium of the hotel.

When it was first built, this was a Western restaurant open to the public in the hotel, but at that time there were really not many people who wanted to eat Western food. Later, it was changed to a breakfast restaurant, selling hand-cooked noodles, noodles and brains. Now it is simply rented out.

There is no entrance or exit from the hotel's main door, but another door opens to Minzu Road, facing the Liberation Monument and the Chongqing Department Store opposite.

Zhang Chen could tell at a glance that this place was so good and it was a prime location in Chongqing.

Zhang Chen took out his sketchbook and started drawing. After drawing, Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao carried Zhang Xiangbei upstairs first. He Hongmei went to the parking lot and told Zhang Chen that she had brought paper, pens and paints with her in the car. superior.

Not long after Zhang Chen and the others returned to the room, He Hongmei came up and brought everything Zhang Chen needed. Zhang Chen took out the photos he took yesterday and showed them to He Hongmei. He Hongmei looked at them and screamed, asking Zhang Chen Chen, can you give this photo to her? She wants to show it to her family. Xiao Zhao said with a smile:

"When your master took the photo yesterday, he wanted to give it to you."

He Hongmei chuckled.

He Hongmei remembered it. She told Zhang Chen that they would leave space in their store. After the flagship store in Hangzhou was renovated, they would take a photo of the flagship store and make it very large and hang it in the store. In the future, all franchise stores will have photos of the flagship store.

Zhang Chen thinks this is a good idea.

Zhang Chen smiled and said: "What, you don't want to fight for the flagship store anymore?"

"Forget it, you're too big to compete." He Hongmei smiled, "I'll just be the Chongqing head office."

He Hongmei and Xiao Zhao went to play with Zhang Xiangbei, leaving Zhang Chen alone in the room. They agreed to pick him up after dinner. In the evening, her parents wanted to treat Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao to hot pot.

Because the store is on the podium of the hotel, and the hotel restaurant is on the second floor. The windows of the restaurant cannot be blocked. Therefore, this store cannot use hundreds of square meters of the entire facade to create a vertical structure like Zhang Chen and his own building. noodle.

However, the geographical location of this store also requires that this store must be very eye-catching, so that people who are playing in Jiefangbei Square, or even people standing at the entrance of the Chongqing Department Store opposite, can see this store from a distance.

Therefore, Zhang Chen decided to design the entire facade into a "factory" shape. The two-meter-high door head above is connected with one-third of the store's facade. The entire outside side of the store is covered with glass. After one part is blocked, the momentum appears from the outside, but when looking from the inside out, if what you see is the back of the back panel, it will feel very depressing.

The side facing the outside, in order to be consistent with their flagship store in Hangzhou, is also made of ten centimeter-wide wooden strips, arranged 2.5 centimeters apart across the entire wall, and there is also a black backboard behind it. The difference is , with the back panel facing inwards, Zhang Chen made a flower wall, covered with red roses and silk flowers, so that when viewed through the glass, not only would it not be depressing, but it would actually be a surprise.

Zhang Chen took the elevator downstairs alone. He walked to the door of the store to take a look, and then stepped back outside step by step. He retreated to the Liberation Monument. He stretched out his thumb and index finger with both hands to form a square frame. Look this way through the box.

Then he continued to retreat back until he walked to the door of the Chongqing Department Store opposite. He pointed fingers to form a square frame and looked this way. He was calculating the size of the three words "half an acre of land" and made sure to stand here. , can be seen clearly.

Zhang Chen walked back across the square and walked to the door of Huixianlou Hotel. He saw Xiao Zhao and He Hongmei coming out of it. It turned out that they went upstairs and didn't see Zhang Chen in the room, so they went downstairs to look for him again.

He Hongmei took them to Hongya Cave, where her parents, sister and brother-in-law, and their daughter, were already waiting for Zhang Chen and the others.

After everyone chatted and sat down, He Hongmei showed them the photos Zhang Chen brought. They were very happy to see them. He Hongmei's sister and Xiao Zhao sat together. He Hongmei said, from now on, my sister will be in charge of the Chongqing head office here. You should keep in touch frequently.

Zhang Chen told them his plans for the afternoon, and they all expressed their approval.

After finishing the hot pot, he returned to the room, took a short rest after taking a shower, and Zhang Chen started working. At twelve o'clock in the evening, He Hongmei went to the lobby downstairs and called up, urging them to get down quickly.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao carried Zhang Xiangbei downstairs. He Hongmei said they were going to have a late-night snack or hot pot. Xiao Zhao became excited when he heard it. Zhang Chen cursed, "We just had hot pot for dinner, and you are hungry again?"

Xiao Zhao giggled, and He Hongmei said, when you get to Chongqing, you just want to eat hot pot, Guo Guo, 24-hour hot pot.

After returning from a midnight snack, Zhang Chen continued working. Xiao Zhao took Zhang Xiangbei to bed first, and it took another all-nighter until Zhang Chen finished drawing a complete set of effects inside and outside the store.

When He Hongmei came at noon, Zhang Chen was still sleeping, and Xiao Zhao handed her the stack of renderings. When Zhang Chen woke up in the afternoon, He Hongmei and the owner of the decoration company were already waiting for him in the lobby bar downstairs.

Zhang Chen went downstairs and three people went to the scene. Zhang Chen taught the owner of the decoration company what to do, especially how to deal with some details. There were also some decoration materials that could not be found in Chongqing. Zhang Chen had to teach him how to use other materials. How to adapt and replace the materials, especially how to achieve the same effect.

After all, Chongqing at that time was incomparable to Hangzhou, and these two places were even more incomparable to Haicheng. Many decoration materials had to be adapted to local conditions.

He Hongmei and the people from the decoration company said that they will go to Linshui tomorrow and return to Chongqing in the evening. If there is anything they don’t know, they can ask tomorrow night. If you don’t ask, it will be too late for you to regret it when my master leaves.

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "Don't scare him, it's not that serious." He gave his business card to the boss of the decoration company and told him, "When I go back to Hangzhou, if you encounter any problems during construction, you can call me at any time." .

You want it, the owner of the decoration company said.

In the evening, Xiao Zhao went to buy gifts for her family. She counted them one by one on her fingers, what to buy for this, what to buy for that, and soon the trunk of Santana was filled. Zhang Chen came up with an idea and said that the back seat There is still room, so there is no need to buy anything else, just Hongtashan cigarettes.

"Why buy so many cigarettes?" Xiao Zhao asked puzzledly.

"There are so many people in the village who have helped us. Let your uncle give it to you, but we don't know how to give it. Also, when someone you forgot to count shows up, you didn't prepare any other gifts, so you just gave him a cigarette. It's the same thing for people, cigarettes don't distinguish between men and women, anyone who can get it can put it to use."

Xiao Zhao thought it made sense. They bought more than ninety cartons of cigarettes and filled all the available places in the car. Xiao Zhao only stayed in the back row, leaving a small space for himself and Zhang Xiangbei. He Hongmei stood at the side and laughed. She said you are not going back to your parents' home. You are just preparing to go back and open a store.

Xiao Zhao looked at her with a snort and sneered, and said to her, you will know when you get married.

"It's so troublesome to get married, so I'll forget it." He Hongmei quickly shouted.

From Chongqing to Linshui County and then to their hometown, it was more than 180 kilometers in total. The next day, they set off from Huixianlou Hotel at around six o'clock.

The road was not easy to walk, and even for a brave person like He Hongmei, it took more than three hours to drive to Xiao Zhao and his family's hometown.

The car was still on the small street, but before it reached the gate of the township government, He Hongmei shouted: "I'm going, what's going on?"

Zhang Chen sat in the passenger seat and looked forward. He was also startled. He saw dozens of people waiting at the entrance of the township government. Some of their faces were very familiar. Zhang Chen quickly called Xiao Zhao. Look, are these all your relatives?

Xiao Zhao felt a little motion sick. She hugged Zhang Xiangbei and sat in the back seat with her eyes closed. When Zhang Chen shouted, she quickly opened her eyes and looked forward, tears streaming down her face instantly.

It turned out that not only her parents came out of the house, but she saw those standing at the gate of the township government were all her relatives. Even her grandmother, aunts, uncles and uncles all came out of the house early in the morning.

Outside this group of people, there was a group of people surrounding them. They all came to see Xiao Zhao and Zhang Chen. Xiao Zhao didn’t even know that she had already become a celebrity in the countryside. The rural postman went from village to village. , after word of mouth spread the matter of Xiao Zhao sending back five remittance orders at one time, who still doesn’t know about Xiao Zhao.

Think about it, if you can’t even write out a remittance slip for the money sent back, and you have to write five remittance slips, how much will it cost? Tsk tsk!

In addition, they came back today in a car that was better than the county magistrate. Everyone felt that it was worth watching. At that time, the county government only had an old Beijing Jeep 121 with a grass-green canvas hood and even an air conditioner. None. In the summer, I sit inside and fan myself. In this season, even the county magistrate’s feet will freeze when I sit here from the county seat.

When Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao saw their aunt, they waved their hands and shouted loudly for people to get out of the way and let the car drive to the township government. People all got out of the way, but the car did not move. Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao looked at When Xiao Zhao's parents and grandmother arrived, they all changed into a set of clean clothes and stood there a little awkwardly. Xiao Zhao's younger brother and sister had already run to the car and knocked on the window.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao quickly got out of the car. Xiao Zhao's sister was coming to hug Zhang Xiangbei. Xiao Zhao's mother was afraid that she wouldn't be able to hold her, so she patted her hand, then reached into Xiao Zhao's arms and hugged Zhang Xiangbei. , Xiao Zhao's sister looked aggrieved and pouted. Xiao Zhao hugged her after getting out of the car. She immediately turned gloomy again, and her younger brother immediately came closer.

After Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao got out of the car, He Hongmei started the car and drove into the courtyard of the township government through the crowd who got out of the way.

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