Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 14 Shenzhen, here I come ()

May in the coastal areas was particularly hot. Lu Shaohua got up early the next morning, and his mood became as hot as the weather. He kept thinking about what Shenzhen was like in 1986. Was it like the 21st century, with tall buildings and cars everywhere? But in the end, all his imaginations were rejected one by one, because in his memory, Shenzhen started to develop rapidly in the s, and it was only the end of the s. The special economic zone was established only six years ago, and the development could not be so fast.

When the clock hands pointed to eight o'clock in the morning, Lu Shaohua arrived at the long-distance bus station with excitement. Of course, his third uncle and fourth uncle followed closely behind him, while his father Lu Jiayao and his uncle Lu Chang hired a car and brought more than ten bags of lychees to the bus station early.

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"Xiaohua, get on the bus and find a seat first. Your uncle will go help your dad load the bus." When the bus to Shenzhen arrived at the bus station, Lu Jiahui handed the bag to Lu Shaohua and walked towards the middle of the car, because there was a small door in the lower compartment of the bus and the lychees could only be loaded in through that small door.

When Lu Shaohua boarded the bus, his excitement cooled down. The environment on the bus was incomparable to the buses of the 21st century. The seats were all made of wood and hard. Not to mention the air conditioning, the windows were the best air conditioning. Lu Shaohua couldn't imagine spending the next ten hours on such hard seats. That was more than ten hours. In his previous life, the seats were all soft leather and the journey was only four or five hours, which made Lu Shaohua complain.

Shaking his head, Lu Shaohua could only find a seat to sit down helplessly, and in his heart he couldn't help but cheer himself up. "For the sake of the plan, I will endure it, I will endure it."

Sitting on the chair, Lu Shaohua kept looking around the car. There were about 1986 seats in the car, with a traffic lane in the middle. The seats were arranged near the windows. If it was in the previous life, this car could only be considered a small bus at most, but in 21, such a car was considered a bus. And the glass windows next to the seats were not good, either with cracks or without a whole piece. It was indeed more "ventilated" than the air conditioners in the st century.

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Sitting by the window, Lu Shaohua calmly watched the flowers, plants and trees beside the road flash by. The car broke through all the resistance of the air, allowing the originally static airflow to rush into the car crazily. This made Lu Shaohua sigh that this was called "natural wind".

"By the way, Fourth Uncle, did my dad give you the address Uncle Weng wrote to him?" After looking at the scenery for a while, Lu Shaohua suddenly seemed to remember something and asked loudly to Lu Jiacheng who was sitting next to him. There was no way, because he was so excited about coming to Shenzhen that he forgot this important matter.

"I got it." Lu Jiacheng said as he took out a piece of white paper from his pocket and handed it to Lu Shaohua. Then he closed his eyes, sat on the chair and fell asleep.

Lu Shaohua took the paper, his eyes narrowed, and he thought to himself: "There are really all kinds of strange things in this world." The reason was that when Lu Shaohua saw the address written on the paper, it happened to be near the 'Window of the World' where he traveled through in his previous life.

Information about Window of the World also emerged one by one when Lu Shaohua saw the address. "Window of the World is a large-scale cultural tourism scenic spot jointly invested and built by Hong Kong China Travel Group and OCT Group, covering an area of ​​48 square meters. The scenic spot is divided into eight major areas according to the world's regional structure: World Plaza, Asia, Oceania, Europe, Africa, Americas, World Sculpture Park and International Street."

As a large-scale cultural tourism scenic spot with the theme of promoting the essence of world culture, Window of the World brings together the essence of thousands of years of human civilization. It has more than 130 attractions such as historical relics, scenic spots, natural scenery, world wonders, folk houses, sculptures, etc., including garden art, folk customs, folk songs and dances, large-scale performances and high-tech participatory entertainment projects.

After knowing so much information about Window of the World, Lu Shaohua also knew when Window of the World was built. Window of the World was built in 1994 and opened for the first time on June 6 of the same year. It was only 18, so of course there could not be Window of the World. Lu Shaohua also found out about Window of the World on the website because he was interested in it. Maybe it was because Window of the World was too famous that he remembered it clearly.

"Thinking back to the flow of people in the 'Window of the World' in the previous life, it was packed with people. Lu Shaohua thought that even if there was no 'Window of the World' in this life, the flow of people would not be that different. So he felt that the lychees shipped down this time would probably be sold out in less than two days. If that was the case, the supply would become a problem. Even if the people at home knew that the market was good, it would be impossible to pick lychees again in a short time." Thinking of this, Lu Shaohua really hated why the communication was so poor in 1986. In his eyes, time is money. If he could sell all ten cartons of lychees in one day, he would definitely not mind.

Lu Shaohua's eyes rolled around, and an idea suddenly came to his mind. He pushed Lu Jiacheng, who was sitting and sleeping, and called out, "Fourth Uncle, Fourth Uncle."

Actually, Lu Shaohua had no choice. He was going to Shenzhen now, but Lu Chang didn't come. Lu Jiahui was stubborn, so all the arrangements for the trip to Shenzhen were handed over to Lu Jiacheng, a high school student. If Lu Shaohua wanted to transport more lychees, he had to get Lu Jiacheng's consent.

"Well, Xiaohua, what's wrong?" Lu Jiacheng, who was sleeping soundly, opened his eyes and saw that it was Lu Shaohua, so he asked.

"It's nothing. I just want to say that we only shipped down a dozen cartons of lychees, and they were sold out in less than two days. My family doesn't know about it, so we won't be able to get enough supplies!" Lu Shaohua said to Lu Jiacheng seriously.

"How do you know it's selling well? We don't know if the market is good or not! Okay, stop imagining and go to sleep. It's still several hours to get to Shenzhen!" Lu Jiacheng, who hadn't gotten enough sleep, heard that Lu Shaohua was worried that the lychees wouldn't be able to keep up, and said unhappily, then closed his eyes and fell asleep on the chair. In his opinion, even if the lychees in Shenzhen were selling well, they couldn't be sold out so quickly. After all, a dozen kilograms of lychees weighed hundreds of kilograms, not dozens of kilograms. But he underestimated the consumption capacity of a special zone. Not to mention hundreds of kilograms, even thousands of kilograms could not satisfy the huge market in the special zone.

Lu Shaohua was extremely depressed, and looked at Lu Jiacheng with a look of "hate iron but not steel". In fact, Lu Shaohua blamed Lu Jiacheng wrongly, after all, Lu Jiacheng didn't know what a "special economic zone" was. In the 21st century, the economy of China's five major special economic zones ranked high in the national economy.

However, seeing the state of the Lu family, Lu Shaohua was helpless. He had originally agreed with his family to ask the bus driver to take a message home. If the market was good, he would bring the message back one day in advance, and his family would start purchasing lychees. The round trip would take at least two days, and it would take more than ten hours to transport the lychees, so it would take almost three days.

Lu Shaohua was very anxious. Three days, it would take three days to deliver the goods to Shenzhen. If they took the message home when the goods were almost out of stock in Shenzhen, then the goods would be out of stock for two days. How much money would they lose? He thought about it over and over again, thinking about how to convince his uncle to ask the driver to take the message home. But he couldn't think of a way. He couldn't say that he knew the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone very well, because that would be even less convincing. After all, in the eyes of his family, he was only an eight-year-old child who had never been to Shenzhen and didn't know anything about it.

"Oh, it would be better if I could call my uncle down. Forget it, let's try it out. It would be good if we can persuade Yun Wukuang to come down again. We should be able to hold out for another day." Lu Shaohua said to himself with regret at this time.

Since he had decided to try his best to persuade his fourth uncle to ask his family to transport another five kuangs down, Lu Shaohua pushed Lu Jiacheng again. "Fourth uncle, don't sleep, I want to talk to you about something serious."

"Okay, okay, stop pushing. Just say it. Fourth uncle is listening." Lu Jiacheng was very depressed at this moment. He couldn't hit or scold this 'treasure' of the whole family. He could only be depressed by himself.

"Fourth Uncle, why don't you tell the driver to buy five more boxes tomorrow." Lu Shaohua had no choice but to do this. After all, Lu Jiacheng would definitely not agree to buy a dozen more boxes. If it was only five boxes, even if they rotted, the loss would not be much, not to mention that it was impossible to lose them.

Lu Jiacheng knew that if he didn't agree to Lu Shaohua, he wouldn't be able to sleep well. He might be pestered by Lu Shaohua all the way and not be able to sleep. And Lu Shaohua only said that he wanted to buy Wu Kuang this time. After thinking about it, he agreed and said, "Okay, I'll go talk to the driver now."

Before answering, Lu Jiacheng remembered that before boarding the train, Lu Chang had secretly told him, "When we get to Shenzhen, if Lu Shaohua has any suggestions, you have to listen to him." Although he didn't know why his college student brother had to tell him this, he still had to listen, so he said this weakly. After saying this, Lu Jiacheng stood up and walked to the front of the train.

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When Lu Shaohui woke up, he found that the carriage was already dark. He could not see the scenery outside the glass window. It was all dark. "Uncle, how long will it take to get to Shenzhen?"

"It's almost there. I just asked the driver, and he said we'll arrive at our destination in less than a quarter of an hour. It's time you woke up, otherwise your fourth uncle would have woken you up." Lu Jiacheng spoke with a little excitement. The city of Shenzhen was out of reach for him in the past, but now they were about to reach the designated location, and his excitement was of course self-evident.

"Oh! It will be fine soon. My butt hurts so much from sitting here." Lu Shaohua said while rubbing his butt. If he had not slept for a long time in the middle, he probably would not have been able to bear it. In his previous life, even if it was a soft chair, he still felt a little pain in his butt.

"We are here to get off at 'Baishishu'." The driver at the front of the car shouted just as Lu Shaohua finished speaking.

"We're here, let's get off the bus." Lu Jiacheng said.

Hearing Lu Jiacheng's words, Lu Shaohua had only one sentence in his mind: "Shenzhen, here I come."

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