The Pentium Era - South to North

"Speak for yourself, what am I afraid of?" Jiajia shouted, Yilin laughed.

"Brother Zhang Chen, do you know who lived in the room you originally lived in and who lived in it later?" Jiajia asked.

Zhang Chen shook his head.

"We." Jiajia said.

"Have you moved back?" Zhang Chen asked.

"No, it was Yilin's mother who took us in." Jiajia said, "Didn't Jianqiang take the money and also speculate in real estate? He made a lot of money at the beginning. The money was so profitable. In the morning I went out with 100,000 yuan, and when I came back at night, I made 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. I really made money by grabbing the off-the-plan property. I grabbed the off-the-plan property upstairs and sold it when I came down.

"What's even more exaggerated is that there is still a queue here. The head of the queue is paying 40,000 yuan for an off-plan property. After you pay the money, you can sell it for 45,000 yuan when you reach the middle, and you can sell it for 50,000 yuan when you reach the end of the queue. , who wouldn’t make such easy money?

"Not only did we spend all our money to speculate in off-the-plan properties, we also wrote and called everyone we knew in our hometown to tell them how profitable it was to speculate in off-the-plan properties in Haicheng. They all had 560 They remit the money from one hundred to one thousand or two thousand and put it together to speculate in off-the-plan real estate, and let us help them make money.

"It turned out overnight. Brother Zhang Chen, let me tell you, it was really overnight. The speed was really amazing. I'm scared to think about it now. This is why someone asked me to do real estate later, and I didn't even dare to go." The reason is that with just a 'bang', everything was finished. All the off-plan buildings turned into air and were worthless.

"Everyone goes to the place where off-plan properties are sold, but it's no use. The house is just a drawing, and the foundation hasn't been dug yet. They just built a small house there to sell off-the-plan properties. You just demolish his house. Those broken bricks and tiles are worth a few copper coins, and in some properties, even the houses are rented from others.

"Those bosses, all those who could escape ran away, and those who didn't escaped were pitiful. They were scolded and beaten by you, and there was nothing they could do. They couldn't get out a penny of money, and even their accounts were frozen. You Even if you threaten to die for him, he wants to die for you first. At that time, really, we also wanted to die.

"Haicheng was already dead before we died. At that time, the entire Haicheng, really, in just a few days, it was as if the entire Haicheng was dead. No one bought anything. Yi Lin said everywhere , the kind of person with red and swollen eyes can’t even open a small shop on the roadside. By the way, Brother Zhang Chen, do you still remember the food stall in Binya Village? "

"Is that the one where the water spinach is delicious?" Zhang Chen asked.

"That's right, that's it." Jiajia said, "The stall owner can't even open the stall anymore. He spends all the money he earns, the money he spends on buying groceries every day, and the money he borrows from bad guys. Use it to speculate in off-the-plan properties, queue up at dawn every day to buy off-the-plan properties, sell them at noon, and then go to the market to buy vegetables in the afternoon.

"That day, he used all his money to grab five off-the-plan properties in the morning. He was so happy that he thought he was so lucky today. He could actually buy as many off-the-plan properties as he wanted. There are many places. Is there any restriction? One person is only allowed to buy two or three.

"He didn't know. In fact, it was the boss who probably knew something, so he got up early early to sell off-the-plan properties. All the off-the-plan properties were sold out at around eight o'clock in the morning, and everyone withdrew their money. gone.

“These people who grabbed off-the-plan properties thought they could sell them and make money at nine or ten o’clock when there were more people. Who knew that there would be no more people? Suddenly there was no one left. They ran to other places to look. , all projects are sold by people selling off-the-plan properties, and no one buys off-the-plan properties. When the boss sees this, he wants to sell off-the-plan properties.

"At first it was the original price, but no one wanted it. Who wanted it? Then I offered it at 20% off, but still no one wanted it. Then I offered it at 50% off, but no one wanted it. Finally, even after even the 100% discount, no one wanted it. He just squatted there and cried. , when Jianqiang and I went over, we saw him and he cried and told us that he didn’t even have money to buy groceries in the afternoon.

"But, who cares? There are people like this everywhere, and we are also such people. We still have fourteen off-the-plan properties in our hands, and want to wait for the price to rise higher to sell them, but in the end, we are all the same. It hit him in the hand, which really made Tiantian Yingying. Seeing him cry, we also wanted to cry. No, no, I was already crying at that time.

"This boss, at night, even his stall was smashed by those bad guys who came to ask for debts. I never saw him again. Later, after we stayed at Yilin's house, we never saw him again. His original place, It was another guy from Hunan who was setting up a stall there. It turned out that this guy was going to build a thirty-eight-story house next to Huayin Building and was setting up a food stall.

"At that time, Haicheng was really dead. It was dead. The whole Hainan Island was dead. There was no business for anything. The rich people all fled back to the mainland. Those who stayed in Haicheng had no money. Yes, those who can’t go back are all paupers. What business can we do? We have no money, Jianqiang can’t find anything to do, and I can’t..."

When Jiajia said this, she looked at Zhang Chen and Zhang Xiangbei, her face turned slightly red, and she continued:

"I have no business either. There is no business here. The little money in my pocket is still going out day by day. I always have to eat and pay rent. In the end, we really can't survive in Haicheng. , If we stay in Haicheng again, we will probably die in Haicheng. After counting the money in our pockets, apart from the travel expenses back, we will probably be hungry on the way.

"There are so many people in my hometown, and the money given to us has been wasted. We know that we will not have a good life if we go back, but if we don't go back, we are really desperate. Think about it, we are still living in the sea. In the city, we don’t have much culture or other skills. The only thing Jianqiang can find is that kind of coolie.

"But at that time, all the construction sites in Haicheng had stopped working. Under the South Bridge and in the park, there were homeless migrant workers everywhere. It was hard to get back home, but there was still a place. , no matter how dilapidated it was, there was still a home there and a place to stay at night. At that time, I thought, never mind, let’s go back first.

"You can't go to other cities either. When you go to other cities, it doesn't mean that there are jobs and things waiting for you. You can just go and do it. You have to get familiar with it for a month or two before you can find something to do, right? ? But in the past two months, what will we use to pay rent and eat? No matter what, we have to go home first.

"Jianqiang and I have discussed it. When we get home, we will be like those bosses. If someone wants to scold him, let him scold him. If someone wants to beat him, let him beat him. He can't kill us. Really, we That's what I thought at the time.

"I decided to go back to my hometown. That day, we were carrying our luggage and getting ready to go to Xiuying Pier. I remembered that I told Jianqiang that we left today. I don't know if we will come to Hainan again. Let's come. After living in Hainan for so long, the only person who is still able to talk and still in Hainan is Yilin’s mother. I want to say goodbye to Yilin’s mother and say a word to her.

"Jianqiang agreed, and the two of us walked from Longyupo to Binya Village carrying our luggage. We couldn't even bear to sit in the three-yuan car, so we walked to Binya Village and arrived at Yilin's house. Yilin went to school, but his mother was not there. The courtyard door was locked, so we sat at the courtyard door and waited.

"When Yilin's mother came back on her tricycle, she was very happy to see us. She invited us in and asked us why we were here. I told Yilin's mother that I had lost all my money in real estate speculation and we couldn't find anything in Haicheng. As things get done, we want to go back to our hometown. When we go back this time, we don’t know if we will come back to Hainan in the future, so we just want to say goodbye to her.

"Yilin's mother asked me, is there anything you can do when you go back? She cried when she asked me. I told her honestly that there is nothing I can do when I go back. I'm afraid I will be scolded and beaten, but If we don't go back, we won't be able to survive in Haicheng, and there's nothing we can do about it.

"I cried, and so did Yilin's mother. She told me, don't go back. The house upstairs is still empty. If that mainland boy left, she meant Zangzi. After you leave, Brother Zhang Chen, Brother Zhanzi will not live there. He is also missing in your room. Yilin's mother said that there is still furniture and everything in his room, so you don't need to buy it.

"Yilin's mother said, I don't know when Lu Dalu will come back, so you can stay with him first. If he comes back, you can also live in Wenwen and Qianqian's original room. I don't want your rent, so you can just live there." We can live here as long as we want. She asked us to live here first and then slowly figure out how to do it.

"We stayed at Yilin's house again. Not only did his mother not charge us rent, but knowing that we had no money, she even cooked extra meals and asked us to eat together... Oh, come on, don't just listen to me. , eat vegetables, eat vegetables.”

Jiajia greeted everyone. Everyone was sitting there, not in the mood to eat. Jiajia smiled bitterly, and suddenly her eyes turned red again. She said to Yilin:

"Yilin, I really miss your mother! Without her, we would have really been desperate at that time!"

Yilin's eyes were also red. He reached out and patted Jiajia's hand and said to her:

"Sister Jiajia, I know. Everything has passed. No need to say anything more. You can live back. My mother and I are actually very happy. After Brother Zhanzi disappeared suddenly, my mother and I were the only two people in that yard. , it’s very deserted. When you come back, the house becomes a little more lively. My mother and I also like liveliness.”

Jiajia burst into tears and smiled. She also patted Yilin's hand, then turned to Zhang Chen and said:

"Brother Zhang Chen, we have been living there since then. We lived there until he went to college in Yilin, until he came back after graduating from college. We lived there and were eventually demolished. What I am happy about is that we, Yilin's mother, and Yilin have always lived together. Like a member of my own family, Yilin is like my biological brother, Yilin, right?"

"Yes, you are right, Sister Jiajia." Yilin nodded and said, "Even when I went to Guangzhou to go to university and was assigned to work in the county below, you and Brother Jianqiang also helped take care of my mother."

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