Saturday, April 30, 1988.

There were no weekends in the 1980s, not even big or small weeks, so the holidays began after get off work on Saturday.

(Note: Big/small week is a phased system from 1994 to 1995, which means one week off and two weekends off the next week. It is a transitional pilot period before the implementation of a comprehensive double weekend. The post-80s generation is probably impressed, and the post-90s generation will definitely not know it)

However, because the next Sunday is Labor Day, this holiday allows everyone to take two days in a row, with both Sunday and Monday on holidays.

In the afternoon, Hujiang, a branch office that handles foreign-related licenses and license affairs, has a civil affairs window.

A group of staff members who were already planning how to spend the holiday were chatting excitedly.

It’s not that they are not serious, but that there is nothing wrong with this point. Nowadays, ordinary police stations are not qualified to apply for a passport. Many mainland cities even have to go to the municipal bureau, which is just the most open place like Hujiang, and it has to be a branch office to prepare for cooking.

Even if the business is so concentrated, the passport is still very idle. The people who are really busy are consulates in various countries. People who find ways to get visas can queue up every day.

Hujiang is quite convenient, and many countries have consulates here. For small places, you may have to go to the capital in person to apply for a visa. As for remote processing, you won’t hear about it in the next few years.

Going abroad is in a dilemma.

"Liu Ke, I heard that your family is moving into a new house on May Day, and you will have to treat you later."

“That’s it.”

Several window clerks took advantage of the fact that no one came to do business and ran around the on-duty leader.

In the 1980s, the relationship between the agencies was relatively loose, and those who curled with the leaders were willing to climb up.

At the same time, those who have been working as clerks at the grassroots level for many years know that they have no hope in their lives because they are serving a job with a strong job, so they are too lazy to please them. Instead, they often make a fuss to ask their leaders to invite guests to get some money.

Anyway, it is impossible to be fired by excuses if you don’t like it. At most, you will not be promoted. So people who don’t want to be promoted are really “strong if you have no desires”.

"Xiao Wang, you guy, you always take the lead in making fun!" Liu Ke was pissed and funny by the subordinate who didn't want to be promoted. "Okay, I'll treat everyone to Nanxiang Xiaolongbao tomorrow."

In 1988, it was decent to invite someone to eat Xiaolongbao. After all, it was fresh meat soup, and it also had its signature characteristics.

After everyone started to make a quick noise, a bunch of people came in at the door, and they all seemed to have gotten off work in advance to check the progress of the business.

"Comrade, hello, this is my last receipt. I want to see if our passport has been prepared. Didn't it be said that it is from one to two weeks?" Several middle-aged and elderly women and some men asked around the window.

"Didn't that agree to have two weeks to send it to stamp it together? Let's go to these books for you? Who can't prepare for a few months when going abroad? Why are you anxious? I'll give you your passport today? Oh, the intention to go abroad is the United States... It's never a delay in a month's photo! Do you understand it?"

When applying for a passport in later generations, many people just applied for it first and placed it there, but one tradition is preserved, that is, when you go to it, people will ask which country you are going to go to.

It doesn't matter if you talk nonsense in later generations, but in the 1980s, you said where the purpose of applying for a passport was to go, and you really have to go first. If you didn't go to this country, you still have to review, explain, and explain the reasons why you didn't make it. In short, it's very troublesome.

So when I saw that those who were going to the United States were all saved and then gave me stamps, unless someone asked me to hurry up.

"We are really in a hurry to go abroad. We are going to the United States on May Day!"

When Liu Ke heard something happened at the window, he walked over to see how Xiao Wang dealt with it.

As a leader, he was more experienced and first read the other party’s materials. Most of the units of these people were film studios in the city, and Futan University, which looked decent, and it seemed that it was really possible to get the qualification to go to the United States.

However, among the materials, some are purely unemployed and famous, or the unit is very spicy.

Liu Ke cleared his throat: "Comrade, if you really delay your business, we will definitely have to process it in a hurry. However, are you ready to send the visa materials to the consulate? If that is not ready, you will be able to get the passport for you to speed up. I am still familiar with the visa qualifications needed by the US Consulate General, so why don't I help you see it?"

"We have group signs, and the relevant departments in the United States directly issued the entire passport. We are waiting for your passport! We will go to the United States to post a list and post it to the landing!" An unemployed vagrant and other people abroad defended this.

Liu Ke was stunned: "What a joke! Do you think the United States is North Korea? Are there any Chinese tour groups? I have never heard of Chinese people who can sign in groups in the United States."

At this time, a middle-aged man who looked like a middle-level cadre from Hujiang Studios came out to smooth things out: "Comrade, you may not understand. We have a chartered flight to the United States this time. A colleague's child is born in the United States, so we went to visit. The man has the ability and applied directly. I don't know the details."

"...You are talking about Gu Ao, are you?" The person who applied for the passport immediately reacted.

When I heard that the Chinese boss could charter a flight to the United States, I felt like I was entering a no-man, so I naturally didn’t think of a second person in the country.

Then what else can I say? You can’t delay your visa if you passport.

"I'm going to give it to you now. Sorry, you'll wait a moment, there's still two chapters left. I'll definitely get it to you before getting off work today."

“That’s so thankful.”

Finally, I heard that the plane would land at Red Bridge tonight. The route had been applied for and could take off at any time. They were eager to work overtime and then sent a car to the airport.

That pile of passports that are impossible for a cat or a dog to apply for is always hidden under Gu Ao's aura and can achieve its first trip to the United States in life.

Seeing all this, the staff at the airport and passport office couldn't help but sigh when they finally watched the only A320 in China take off.

"Why are there so many messy people?"

"I heard that it was the relatives of the Xiao family. They thought that such a large plane was only a 20-30-person flight to the Pacific Ocean. They were frugal and simple. Anyone who had something to do with them would have some connections. It would be hard for the owner to push them out."

"In the materials just now, the ones who are most intimate with each other seem to be just Mrs. Gu's alumni when she was studying in Fudan. They are not classmates. They just have participated in the same club and have some friendship, so they all have a chance to go to the United States. It's really...ah!"

In fact, this kind of thing happened a few months ago when Gu Ao was having a drink in Xiangjiang and got married. However, that time was close, so most of the relatives and friends who were not closest to choose to start from their respective cities and take a short flight, train, and pass to Xiangjiang.

And this time, anyone who wants to go to the United States can only take Gu Ao's special plane, otherwise it will be difficult for them to sign. So even if there are still dozens of people in the end, it is still a hot topic.

What's more, no matter how good the quality is, if someone wants to get along and show goodwill, it is difficult for the owner to go out. Even if it is a little more messy, it is considered to be accumulating virtue for Gu Ao's children. The elderly at home always like to watch the lively drama of "rich and distant relatives in the mountains".

Gu Ao himself is a relatively open-minded and modern person, but there are still traditional Chinese concepts.

The sky is vast and the earth is huge, and the last time I stay. Occasionally, the old man in Shunshun's family means it, it's the last time anyway.

...

Regardless of those guys who come to the United States to take advantage of their relatives and friends’ names.

Anyway, these people are only worthy of being arranged by Gu Ao to live in a hotel in Manhattan when they come to the United States, and they usually don’t come to Greenwich, Connecticut.

Most Chinese people in this era do not know how to live in the suburbs, and they also think that the most prosperous place in the city center is the highest-end and most famous one. So everyone can be regarded as having their own place and everyone is happy.

Especially when I heard that the hotel I stayed in was not far from Wall Street, the legendary heart of the universe, everyone wanted to take out their cameras to take a photo of Wall Street.

Gu Ao would naturally send a secretary and assistant to play a guest tour guide and lead the group to maintain order so as not to cause trouble.

Fortunately, the Chinese who went abroad in the late 1980s were still quite qualified, mainly because they were timid and cautious, and they would not pretend to be troublemakers.

So they did not affect Gu Ao's peaceful life at all. As long as they finally came to congratulate him, they would give him a red envelope.

On May 8, Xiao Sui safely gave birth to a child and a daughter at Mayo Presbyterian Hospital in Greenwich Community.

Gu Ao and Mina were both accompanied by the hospital. After the doctor handled it briefly, they immediately held the child.

"It's not easy. The twins can have more than six pounds. The mother is burdened with a heavy burden." The female doctor and Gu Ao-chan were both very moved when they reported it.

The son has six pounds and six pounds and the daughter has six pounds, which is equivalent to the burden of a huge child of thirteen pounds. In addition, there is always one with an incorrect fetal position and it cannot be found without dissection.

"This sister is not as good as the younger brother, so she is very pitiful." Mina looked at the side, and saw that her daughter's arms and legs were very thin, and she felt a little pity.

Gu Ao explained comfortingly: "In fact, the twins are all late and develop better. When they are in the mother's body, the umbilical cord is closer to the source of nutrition. The traditional sibling algorithm cannot be counted here.

If you want to take your daughter away as planned in the future, then you will only take your son out for your relatives and friends to see each other in the past few days. Anyway, I have never revealed the news that you are pregnant with twins. I don’t want to have a child that is so old.”

Mina: "I'll talk about this when Sister Sui wakes up. I don't know how long it will take for her to go out of the anesthetics. I'll have to be bedridden for at least half a month."

Gu Ao and Mina waited in the hospital for a long time, and they both slept in the hospital's escort room that night. The next day, Xiao Sui finally woke up slightly, so Gu Ao and Mina naturally had to go and comfort her with kind words.

"Everything goes well, so rest assured. I'm here. I will deal with relatives and friends. I've said hello to them and said you are inconvenient." Gu Ao did not mention the child's situation more, and obviously he still attaches more importance to adults in his eyes.

"Then I feel relieved. I am very sleepy and it will not hurt when I fall asleep. The anesthetics have passed and I feel very uncomfortable. Can I ask the doctor and give me some tranquilizer?" Xiao Sui struggled for a while and continued to fall asleep.

Finally, I had a child. I had to hold on for three or four years without sleeping pills. After relief, Xiao Sui couldn't help but rely on it.

"You guy..." Gu Ao couldn't help but smile bitterly, but then he still took the upper hand.
Chapter completed!