Chapter 306 From 1943 to 2019
When the plane landed at Pudong International Airport, Wang Youcai's legs were still trembling.
More than ten hours ago, Wang Youcai saw such a large plane for the first time. He stood there and did not dare to move around. After Yu Zhigan helped him get on the plane and sat down, he asked tremblingly: "Is this the plane you mentioned?"
"Yes!"
"The Japanese's plane was much smaller than this one!" After sighing, Wang Youcai began to be curious about what was inside the plane. This flight was a flight back to China, so most of the people were yellow people. Only then did Wang Youcai feel a little intimate.
When the plane took off and landed, Wang Youcai nervously grabbed the handrail, and cold sweat came out on his forehead. It could be seen that all this had a great impact on him.
After getting off the plane, passing the customs, and officially entering Shanghai, Wang Youcai stood among the crowd and looked around: "Sir, where is this?"
"Shanghai!"
"Shanghai?"
Wang Youcai looked at the elevated, tidy highways and various buildings outside the airport, and swallowed: "Is this Shanghai?"
"Yes, have you been to Shanghai before?"
Wang Youcai was a little confused and nodded with a little uncertainty: "I have been here. In the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese attacked Shanghai. We rushed over to support us. Without much fighting, we retreated. It was so frustrating!"
Yu Zhigan calculated that in the 26th year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1937, it was the Battle of Shanghai.
"Let's go, take you to see Shanghai! Then go to Changde to see, I have something to deliver!" After Yu Zhigan finished speaking, he took out something wrapped in old tart paper from his pocket. This was what the officer named Chen Hanmin asked him when he was defending the city tower.
"good!"
After getting on a car, Yu Zhigan and Wang Youcai drove towards the city center. Shanghai, as the magic capital, is one of the largest cities in China, and its prosperity can also be ranked in the world.
The vehicle was parked near the Bund. Wang Youcai looked at the preserved buildings on both sides of the Bund and touched his head: "I still have some impression of this. It was Baiwaidu Bridge, right? I had secretly looked there before. There was a concession of foreigners, so we couldn't get in!"
"Now the foreign devils have been beaten away by us. There is no such thing as a concession. We can go wherever we want!"
"That's great!" Wang Youcai's eyes were a little wet, looking at the skyscrapers around him and the Oriental Pearl Tower, wanting to remember the appearance of these buildings into his mind and go back and tell them to his brothers.
"This is a monument, but..."
Yu Zhigan took Wang Youcai to the monument beside the Bund. After seeing this, Wang Youcai still saluted solemnly and finally slowly lowered his hand: "I am a soldier and don't understand the above things. Whether it is the Kuomintang or the Communist Party, I am now satisfied when I see that my compatriots are living in a world without war, and I have no worries about food and clothing. At that time, how dare we think!"
After saying that, he wanted to take out a cigarette and disperse it for Yu Zhi: "Sir, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me when I said it. At that time, I just thought that I could go home to farm after I beat the Japanese and no longer had to run around. Now it seems that what we did at the beginning!" This sentence, Wang Youcai, may be talking about himself, or his comrades-in-arms.
In the afternoon, Yu Zhigan took Wang Youcai to watch documentaries of the development of some countries over the years, and the projection of the hotel suite was played.
Like people from that era, although Wang Youcai didn't know what the atomic bomb was, he still clapped his hands hard and was very excited when he saw him explode.
In the evening, Yu Zhigan and the two went to have the most authentic Chinese food together. Wang Youcai looked at the hairy crabs placed on the table and was a little stunned: "Sir, do you think this thing costs more than one hundred yuan? How much rice can you buy for one hundred yuan?"
"Hmm? I'll calculate that rice costs about four yuan per pound now, so I should be able to buy twenty or thirty pounds of rice, right? Have you never eaten it?"
Wang Youcai shook his head: "How could we never eat this thing? At that time, we were eaten by poor people. We really had nothing to eat and had no meat. It was difficult to eat, and no one liked it!"
Yu Zhigan was stunned when he heard this, "Okay, it seems that this is really the case. It is said that during the Republic of China, it seems that the poor people in Shanghai relied on eating hairy crabs to satisfy their hunger."
"More, more, more!" Looking at the table full of dishes, Wang Youcai became even more restrained. He had never seen them except pork and crabs. He didn't know how to start with chopsticks for a while, especially these exquisite placings, which he dared not think of before.
"Eat it, talented!"
"Sir, this meal is very expensive, right?"
Yu Zhi did it and found that this restaurant is not high-end, but after encountering it, it was found casually. The average person was about 200 to 300 yuan per person. He shook his head: "It's not very expensive, and normal ordinary people can come to have a few meals a month!"
"That's how it works!"
After hearing that most people could afford it, Wang Youcai let go and added a large piece of beef and put it in his own bowl: "The beef is delicious, hehehe, when I won a battle before, General Yu killed a cow and divided it. We even divided it a little. This taste will never be forgotten in my life!"
After saying that, I stuffed it into my mouth with a large mouthful of rice. There was not much food, but there was a lot of rice. This method was unique to me in which era? Because when I was eating at home, there were fewer dishes and more rice, and a plate of dishes was only a little bit.
"Don't worry, eat it slowly. I like to eat beef. I will take you to eat steak tomorrow, eat it every day!"
“What is steak?”
"What Westerners eat is made of beef!"
"If you don't eat it, Western things are not delicious!"
Wang Youcai shook his head and continued to eat. This meal may be the most comfortable meal that Wang Youcai had such a big meal. Don’t worry about dangers around you. You can eat meat openly and smile happily while eating. But at the end, Wang Youcai’s eyes became wet again and put down his bowls and chopsticks: “Many brothers have never had a full meal until they died!”
"It's all over, that era has passed. Now I dare not say that everyone can eat enough in China, but at least 95% of them can eat enough without starving!"
"Um!"
Finally, Wang Youcai learned that the restaurant would be thrown away if he couldn't finish these dishes, and he ate all the food Yu Zhi had at least five or six people, even if he didn't let go of some soup, the people of that era had no habit of wasting food.
ps: When I was writing this chapter, I deleted it many times. I wanted to write a lot of things, but in the end I found that I couldn’t start and my writing skills were not enough. In fact, I also thought about whether the older generation would be satisfied if they came to modern times and saw the current country.
Chapter completed!