Dreams of the Fragrant River

: 1 [Stowaways]

The sparkling ripples of the moonlight swayed on the vast sea, and two black dots swam **** the sea, swimming towards the strange, unknown and hopeful other side.

This sea area is called Deep Bay by Hong Kong people. Years later, the mainland version of the map will be marked with the words “Shenzhen Bay”.

Back Bay is connected to Baoan on the left and Hong Kong on the right. It is a good place for swimming and exercise. Thousands of mainland stowaways have swam to Hong Kong from here.

Now these two black spots on the sea are obviously stowaways. Their alias at this time is “Hong Kong escapers”, and in a few years’ time they will be called “human snakes” by the Hong Kong media.

“Whoa, whoa…”

The two stowaways swam closer and closer, only a little over a mile away from the Yuen Long coastline, and the sound of their paddling could be vaguely heard standing on the shore.

Swimming at the front, with two pig urine bags inflated like balloons tied to his body, he kicked the water vigorously.

The person in the back was lying on the wooden board and seemed to have lost his strength. He repeatedly recited the sayings of Taizu to encourage himself: “Make up your mind, don’t be afraid of sacrifice; overcome all difficulties and strive for victory…”

“Bang!” The pig urine bag on the stowaway in front suddenly exploded.

The stowaway at the back was half-tired. Seeing this, he cheered up and made fun of him: “Haha, I told you to cross the sea with a log.

“Leg… Leg cramps!” The stowaway at the front patted the water in panic, and with a “bang”, the only remaining pig urine bag burst.

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“Patriotic, wake up, patriotic…”

Kang Jianfei vaguely felt that someone was slapping his face, and then his stomach was pressed several times. He felt his throat choked, and he spat out a few saliva.

“Don’t **** bother me!” Kang Jianfei waved his hands in a daze.

“Wake up, Patriotic, wake up!” The man patted Kang Jianfei’s face vigorously, and shouted in a low voice, “Patriotic, we have arrived in Hong Kong, Hong Kong that can earn more than 1,000 yuan a month! Hurry up! Take a look!”

Kang Jianfei was so annoyed by this man that he opened his eyes angrily and was about to swear, but the sight in front of him made him swallow his words. A guy in a tattered red vest was grinning at him with a smirk on his face, and this… doesn’t seem to be the hotel where he sleeps after getting drunk.

“I’m Kang Aiguo?” Kang Jianfei suddenly felt a lot of messy memories in his mind.

Kang Jianfei quickly remembered who the person in front of him was, Hu Yuejin from the same village as him. The two of them traveled from Baoan to the sea together and planned to smuggle to Hong Kong, which is full of gold, to invest in relatives.

Hu Yuejin is very tall, close to 1.80 meters, but unfortunately he is as thin as a bamboo pole. He was exhausted when he dragged the unconscious Kang Jianfei to the shore. After seeing Kang Jianfei wake up, he collapsed to the ground without any strength.

Kang Jianfei got up, clutching his dazed head, and found that his cramped calf was still a little sore. After walking a few steps, he gradually got used to it.

Kang Jianfei closed his eyes and rubbed his face, then opened them again to see that there was still that deserted beach in front of him—not a dream, he really crossed the road!

After being in a trance for a while, Kang Jianfei reluctantly accepted the fact of crossing. Well, I have worn all the clothes, and I have to accept it if I don’t accept it. Could it be that I cried bitterly? Or pretend to be melancholy and wait for someone to comfort him?

Joke, when did Kang Jianfei bow his head and admit defeat!

It doesn’t matter if you have traveled, anyway, I have nothing to worry about over there.

The clothes on both of them were all wet. They took off their clothes and twisted off the water, and then spread them out on the rocks by the sea to dry. After resting for more than an hour, Kang Jianfei and Hu Yuejin were walking barefoot in the dark, looking like two refugees.

“Which way to go?” Hu Yuejin had never been to Hong Kong and asked while looking at the wasteland in the four fields.

“Going forward, of course!” Kang Jianfei looked up at the North Star, estimated the direction of downtown Hong Kong, and walked ahead to lead the way.

Hu Yuejin caught up and said, “patriotic…”

“Stop, don’t call me patriotic in the future.” Although Kang Jianfei accepted the crossing, he did not accept the name Kang Aiguo. He thought the name was too earthy and silly, and it sounded terribly awkward.

Hu Yuejin said strangely, “If you don’t call me patriotic, what do you call it?”

Kang Jianfei said to him solemnly, “I will be called Kang Jianfei in the future!”

Hu Yuejin looked at Kang Jianfei and asked curiously, “When did you change your name?”

“It was changed just now,” Kang Jianfei explained, coming up with a reason, “Not only do I want to change the new name, but you also have to change it. I heard that Hong Kong people are very xenophobic. Look at our two names – Patriotic, Leap Forward, One I heard that you are from the mainland, and you will be discriminated against by the locals when you look for a job in the future!”

“Yes, it seems that my old cousin also said in the letter that he changed his name after he arrived in Hong Kong!” Hu Yuejin nodded. His cousin smuggled to Hong Kong a few years ago. He heard that he made a lot of money in Hong Kong.

Hu Yuejin touched his thin face with high cheekbones and asked narcissistically, “What do you think my name is Hu Juncai? I think the name Juncai matches me very well.”

Kang Jianfei coughed and nodded, “This name is very good.”

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At this time, many places in Yuen Long had not yet been developed, and farmland and vegetable fields could be seen everywhere, which was completely different from Yuen Long three decades later. Kang Jianfei and Hu Juncai walked for most of the night, and they were both barefoot. Even if they had calluses on the soles of their feet, they all had blisters when it was dawn.

As he was walking, Hu Juncai suddenly remembered something, and quickly took out a plastic bag from his trousers pocket. The words “Wellcome Supermarket” were printed on the plastic bag.

Nowadays, people who buy fish and sell meat in Guangdong are bundled with dried aquatic plants. Whoever owns a plastic bag is definitely a rare treasure. Going out with a plastic bag is more eye-catching than going out with a LV bag decades later, and it will attract envious onlookers from all walks of life. If there is a hole in the plastic bag, the owner is reluctant to throw it away and patch it with the best cloth.

The plastic bag in Hu Juncai’s hand was sent by his old watch when he sent something. It contained several letters and a small cloth bag, which contained Hong Kong dollars.

“Oops, there’s water in there!” Hu Juncai took out a few envelopes from the plastic bag, frowned at the water-soaked stains on them, “patriotic… oh no, Fei, what’s your cousin’s address? The tail is coming? I can’t see clearly.”

Kang Jianfei snatched the envelope and found that many of the handwriting on it were ink stains soaked in water, so he could only read it with his brain: “Shek Kip Mei Shangcun…Fuck, from Yuen Long to Kowloon, you have to walk all day. No, we Gotta ride!”

Hu Juncai took out another envelope and said, “My old watch said he was fishing on Lantau Island and married a fisherman’s daughter. I don’t know that Lantau Island is not far away.”

Kang Jianfei patted him on the shoulder very sympathetically and said, “Just walk slowly, keep your spirits up, and prepare to swim in the sea again.”

Hu Juncai said with a bitter face: “Also, do you still want to swim in the sea?”

After walking for a while, the two finally found a small road with very bad road conditions. More than ten minutes later, a truck drove up on the road, and Kang Jianfei rushed to the middle of the road and waved.

“Gah…” The truck stopped abruptly, and the driver stuck his head out to look at the two beggars, and asked, “The mainland boy who swam across?”

Hu Juncai stepped forward and said with an apologetic smile, “Comrade, do it as you please, take us to the city.”

The driver hesitated for a while, then pointed to the back and said, “Come up, I’ll take you all the way. I’m going to Kowloon, and when you get there, get off by yourself.”

“Thank you, thank you!” Hu Juncai bowed again and again.

The two climbed into the container of the truck, which was full of aquatic products. There was a fishy smell mixed with a foul stench, and it didn’t take long to make people feel sick to the point of vomiting.

Not only did Kang Jianfei not vomit, he also closed his eyes and took a nap. He walked all night last night, but he was so tired that he had to take the opportunity to rest.

Before crossing the border, Kang Jianfei was considered a half-strange person. He was sold to the mountains by human traffickers as a baby and raised by a farmer until he was 10 years old. He was bought by his adoptive parents when they could not bear children, but when Kang Jianfei was 5 years old, his adoptive parents actually had a biological son, and their attitude towards him gradually changed from doting to neglect and disgust.

Later, the adoptive parents treated Kang Jianfei as a little slave, and when they were unhappy, they scolded him and beat him. When he was 10 years old, Kang Jianfei, who could not bear the abuse, made a bold act. He put pesticides in the food at home, poisoned his adoptive parents and the whole family to half to death, and then escaped from the mountain village overnight.

Kang Jianfei took all the cash from the family and begged along the road, and fled from the north to the south. I was spotted by a thief when I was stealing, so I followed the thief to steal and cheat.

Later, their den of thieves was taken over by the police, and Kang Jianfei was sent to a child welfare institution for adoption because he was under 14 years old and had no relatives and elders to supervise him.

Kang Jianfei later studied for a few years. Because he was much older than his classmates, he was often ridiculed. After beating and laughing at his classmates for the Nth time, the school finally refused to keep him, and Kang Jianfei dropped out with honor.

After that, Kang Jianfei worked at the construction site, and when he couldn’t make it, he went back to his old business to steal money. Later, I went to Hengdian with a co-worker to become a mass actor. After a few years of working together, I went to the north to be a drifter. A few years later, I was admitted to the Beijing Film Photography Department in a confused way.

At this time, Kang Jianfei was 28 years old.

After only two years in the photography department of Beiying, Kang Jianfei was dismissed from the school because of a fight, and received a certificate of graduation from Beiying. After that, he made small commercials, made wedding videos, and shot anything that could make money.

Three years later, Kang Jianfei joined a large state-owned film and television company. With his superb photography skills and some disgraceful means, he squeezed out many colleagues and seniors. In less than five years, he became the official photographer of one of the company’s most famous directors.

In order to rise to the top, Kang Jianfei used some shady and indiscriminate methods, and the people he had cheated on gave him two indecent nicknames – Kang Jianfei and Slut Fei.

Before the time traveled, Kang Jianfei was unspoken as a third-rate actress, promising to speak good words for her in front of the director, and compete for the second female lead in a new play. The two were drunk and played in the hotel all night, and the ghost knows how to wake up and arrive in Hong Kong.

And it was Hong Kong in 1979.

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The truck arrived in Kowloon in a bumpy ride, and the two people who were shaken scrambled to jump out of the car.

Hu Juncai waved at the driver, “Thank you, comrade!”

The driver waved his hand to say no thanks, and quickly disappeared from their sight while driving the truck.

Standing on the streets of Kowloon, Hu Juncai looked up at the high-rise buildings everywhere in shock, and said excitedly, “patriotic, this is Hong Kong, we are finally here!”

“Please, my name is Kang Jianfei!” Kang Jianfei reminded again.

If he hadn’t smuggled in, Kang Jianfei would have preferred to fight on the other side of the bay.

The two of them came from Bao’an County. Bao’an County was renamed Shenzhen City just a few months ago. It can be said that there is gold everywhere. What’s more, they still have houses and private plots in Shenzhen. How much will these plots be worth after a few years?

It’s a pity that when the two smuggled to Hong Kong, the land in Shenzhen no longer belongs to them.

Two bare feet, wearing tattered trousers and vests, walking side by side on the bustling streets of Hong Kong, they are like fireflies in the dark.

Soon a policeman came over and pointed at Kang Jianfei and Hu Juncai with a baton: “Smuggled from the mainland?”

“Ah, I…we…” Hu Juncai, who was able to talk, saw the police were a little frightened, and was so frightened that he couldn’t speak.

Kang Jianfei said to the policeman with a smile, “We’re here to recruit relatives.”

The policeman didn’t ask any more questions, and pointed out: “Hurry up and go to the household registration department to get an ID card, and don’t walk on the streets disheveled in the future, it will damage the city image of Hong Kong.”

When Hu Juncai saw that the police would not pursue it, he straightened his back and saluted the army, “Okay, comrade!”

“Call the police officer!” The policeman turned around and left.

“Okay, Comrade Police Officer.” Hu Juncai stomped his feet and stood up, shouting with a military salute.

Kang Jianfei watched this scene of harmonious police-community exchanges and couldn’t help but sigh that Hong Kong at this time was really “tolerant”!

From the 1960s until before 1981, as long as stowaways from the mainland entered the urban area of Hong Kong, they could immediately apply for a legal Hong Kong identity card.

“Gu Gu Gu…”

Hu Juncai’s stomach suddenly sounded.

“Let’s eat first.” Kang Jianfei said, they were busy all night last night, and they haven’t eaten until now. Swimming in particular consumes a lot of physical energy, and now my stomach is almost hungry.

Hu Juncai took out a small cloth bag from his trousers pocket. The tens of Hong Kong dollars in it were still soaking wet. It was sent to him by his cousin before.

Hu Juncai shook the water on the Hong Kong dollar dejectedly and asked, “Can the wet money be used?”

“I’ll use it for you.” Kang Jianfei took the wet Hong Kong dollars and walked towards a bakery in the distance. Passing by a passerby halfway, Kang Jianfei’s fingers stuck out inadvertently.

When he arrived at the bakery, Kang Jianfei already had an extra wallet in his hand, took out a ten-dollar Hong Kong dollar and said, “Boss, bring some bread.”

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“This is Coca-Cola? It’s delicious! If you can eat bread and drink Coke every day, you won’t make it for the gods.” Hu Juncai chewed the bread and drank Coke. past.

“Drink less, that thing is too much to drink.” Kang Jianfei reminded.

Hu Juncai was nibbling on the bread. At this moment, he squatted on the side of the road like a beggar, his eyes scanning every passing Hong Konger like a radar. Suddenly, his eyes widened, and he stared very slyly at a woman across the road who was bending over to get high heels, and he couldn’t move his eyes.

Kang Jianfei thought that woman’s dress was very funny. She was wearing tight jeans and high heels, with a shirt and waistcoat on her upper body. After 30 years, she would definitely be laughed at as a village girl.

But in the eyes of Hu Juncai, who has never tasted fishy, this is definitely a fashionable and **** dress. Especially the big **** that the woman pouted when she bent over, which was rounded and upturned by the skinny jeans, was really lethal to conservative mainlanders.

Hu Juncai, who was still content with drinking Coke and eating bread just now, was full and warm and lustful. He was bleeding from his nostrils, but he didn’t know it. He stared at the woman’s buttocks and criticized with saliva: “Hong Kong women are just promiscuous. If my future wife dares to go out dressed like this, I won’t kill her!”

The woman finally got her high heels ready to walk again, and Hu Juncai reluctantly retracted his gaze. When he turned his head and saw Kang Jianfei looking at him with a half-smile, he couldn’t help blushing, coughing and saying, “Let’s ask the way first, find the Your cousin is important.”

Hu Juncai’s cousin was on Lantau Island. Because the two took a bus to Kowloon, Hu Juncai decided to stay at Kang Jianfei’s cousin’s house for a few days.

Shek Kip Mei was not far from here. The two of them asked along the way, and it took only half an hour to find the land. What appeared in front of them were several H-shaped buildings.

Hu Juncai looked at the apartment buildings and said enviously to Kang Jianfei, “Wow, your cousin lives in this kind of place. It seems that he has also made a fortune, at least he is a millionaire!”

Kang Jianfei pouted. UU read www.uukanshu.com to see that he was so blind and happy that he couldn’t bear to tell him that what was in front of him was a low-rent housing building, which was specially built by the British Hong Kong government to solve the housing problem of the poor.

Climbing up a few floors with the envelope, a middle-aged woman opened the door after knocking on the door, looked at Kang Jianfei and Hu Juncai suspiciously and vigilantly, and asked, “Who are you looking for?”

Hu Juncai squeezed to the front and asked, “This lesbian, is this Wu Chenggang’s house?”

“Yeah, I’m Wu Chenggang’s wife. He’s not at home now, you can come another day if you have something to do.” The middle-aged woman was obviously very wary of Kang Jianfei and the two, mainly because their clothes were too easy to misunderstand.

Kang Jianfei pulled away Hu Juncai, who had not done enough, and walked out the door with a smile that looked extremely sincere and honest, and complimented his lips with honey: “It turns out to be Aunt Biao, Uncle Biao always praises Aunt Biao for being beautiful and beautiful in his letters. Xianhui, I always thought Uncle Biao was bragging. When I saw the real person today, I found out that Uncle Biao was telling the truth. You are younger than I thought, you must not be over 30 years old, Uncle Biao is really lucky…”

Kang Jianfei spent two-thirds of his last life in exile. Naturally, he has all kinds of survival skills, and his means of flattering are extremely powerful. He talked on the phone for two or three minutes, and the middle-aged woman was about to be touted as Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn.

The middle-aged woman was held by Kang Jianfei so she couldn’t find the north, and the big smile on her face was about to fall to the ground, and she said enthusiastically: “Are you patriotic? Look at my memory, you said in your letter last year that you would come. Hong Kong, how could I forget it!”

Kang Jianfei said with a smile: “Hello, auntie, I am patriotic, but now I have changed my name to Kang Jianfei.”