The Pentium Era - South to North

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan returned to the open space. They smiled bitterly when they saw each other. They didn't even need to ask what happened. It was clear from their faces that they had been beaten again.

They were standing on the side of the road. They came to two on-site recruiters, but they were both recruiting waitresses. Each one only hired three people. Just like Mr. Xia and others, they came and left quickly. There was another one who hired waitresses. There were a lot of people, and the formalities were completed. They set up tables on site and accepted registrations, and soon there was a long queue.

The two of them squeezed into the crowd and copied some addresses, but the more they copied, the more unsure they became, and it became just an explanation for themselves.

The two people withdrew from the crowd. Liu Ligan went to buy the "Talent Information Newspaper" again. Zhang Chen was standing on the roadside. Someone passed by him on a motorcycle and shouted: "We are hiring a kitchen helper."

He walked around and no one responded. When he walked back, someone called out, "I'll go."

The man threw his head back: "Get in the car!"

The two men left.

"What are you looking at?" Liu Ligan came back and saw Zhang Chen standing stupidly, staring at the back of a motorcycle.

"When that guy came to recruit kitchen help, I was so moved that I almost followed him," Zhang Chen said.

"Kitchen helper, are you kidding me?" Liu Ligan shouted, "Can you do it?"

"No kidding, I was just thinking, no matter what job, find one first, and then change. What can't you do as a kitchen helper? Isn't it just washing dishes, mopping the floor, and peeling potatoes? This is what everyone does when they go abroad. , it’s like this even in New York and Tokyo.” Zhang Chen said.

"That was in New York." Liu Ligan shouted.

"What's the difference? Is washing dishes in New York more noble than Haicheng?"

"Then your painting hands will be ruined."

"Huh, drinking the northwest wind is even worse. There are so many awesome people doing this, and there are also people who carry corpses. I'm a fucking member of the Yongcheng Wu Opera Troupe. Why are you so awesome? Go and ask if there is anyone here. We know where Yongcheng is." Zhang Chen said.

"Okay, I won't tell you anymore. You saw it on TV, right? TV is TV, reality is reality. Anyway, you have to wash the dishes. Not to mention Lily, I don't even know you." Liu Ligan said with a smile.

"Fuck you, get out." Zhang Chen cursed.

Liu Ligan said, "Okay, go away. It's time for Lily to come back. Let's go and see if she has become a senior white-collar worker."

The two of them rode back without even having dinner. They planned to take Jin Lili with them to eat together.

When they got home, it was already past six o'clock. They heard the two couples next door arguing. Although the door was closed, they could still hear it clearly. On the other side, the two girls were facing a cassette player and learning new songs. , singing very loudly, it seems that this is their business learning.

There was no one in their room. Zhang Chen looked at the table and there was no note. If Jin Lili came back and went out again, according to her habit, she would leave a note on the table.

"It's over. This is a shady company that Lily went to. She met a shady capitalist. She didn't get off work so late. On the first day of trial work, she was ruthlessly exploited!" Liu Ligan scolded.

The two of them lay on the bed and waited for more than half an hour. It was already past seven o'clock and Jin Lili hadn't come home yet. Zhang Chen stood up and was about to go downstairs. Liu Ligan asked, "Where are you going?"

"I'll pick up Lily." Zhang Chen said.

Liu Ligan also sat up: "Wait, I'll go too."

The two people rode their bicycles to the entrance of the Financial Garden. Outside the guard box, there was still the "wild boar's bicycle." He obviously still remembered Zhang Chen and the others. Before they came near, he straightened his head. Thundercap, staring at them.

Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan stopped asking for trouble. They parked their cars on the opposite side and leaned on the rungs of their bicycles.

The two waited for more than half an hour, but there was still no sign of Jin Lili. Liu Ligan couldn't hold it in any longer. He walked over and said to the security guard:

"Master, let me ask you, my friend's girlfriend works here and she hasn't gotten off work yet. What's going on?"

The security guard glanced sideways at Liu Ligan and said angrily: "It's only around eight o'clock now. Why are you so anxious? There are a lot of people working overtime here until ten or eleven."

Liu Ligan came back and told Zhang Chen that the two of them were tired and hungry, but they had no choice but to continue waiting, who would have encountered a black-hearted capitalist.

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Jin Lili sat there, looking outside. After sitting for a while, she simply opened all the curtains, and a large expanse of green shade and blue sky swarmed in. What Jin Lili wanted to see the most was the sea.

She saw dots of ships on the sea. They were parked there, and she couldn't tell whether they were moving or not. Jin Lili saw Xiuying Pier and saw the people boarding and disembarking on the pier.

She couldn't help but laugh softly. Life is really wonderful. A few days ago, she was still one of the people hurriedly disembarking from the boat. Her whole body was hot. Now, she has become one. Watching others disembarking in a cool air conditioned room.

She didn’t know how many Jin Lili, Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan were like her in the crowd of people getting off the boat. She also didn’t know how many Jin Lily, Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen were there in the crowd of people who got off the boat. Liu Ligan, they encountered obstacles everywhere on the island. After having close contact with all the mosquitoes in the park, they finally gave up on their dream and went home dejectedly.

Jin Lili thought to herself, there is nothing we can do to go back. We have given false evidence, committed crimes, slept in the park, and even learned Hainanese to take a shower. How can we go back?

There was a noise outside. Jin Lili trembled and jumped up from her chair. She picked up the key on the table and walked to the connection with the living room. She looked outside. There was no one in the living room and the door was still closed. , she walked over to take a look and checked the door locks. They were still intact, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.

There was another "bang", and Jin Lili heard it clearly this time. It was the sound of the door closing next door. It was closed so loudly. Did you take some medicine? The soundproofing of this house is so good that I can hear it from so far away. Why don't you just remove the door? !

Jin Lili made a face at the next door, and then walked back to her office. She looked at the drawer in the middle. It was intact, and she pulled it with her hand. It was locked.

Jin Lili continued to look out the window. What made her wonder was why the sea was blue when she looked at it from a distance, but when she looked closer, it turned out to be muddy yellow.

She was puzzled.

Jin Lili was sitting there, with really nothing to do. She looked at her and Lao Bao's tables, and they were both empty, not even a book.

Mr. Xia and the others, why haven't they come back yet? Didn't they say it was urgent and they would come back as soon as possible?

Jin Lili stood up. She walked to the TV, picked up the DVD and started watching it. She held a DVD with a jacket in her hand and looked back at her office behind her. She did not dare to leave her desk. It was too long, so after thinking about it, I simply picked up the pile of DVDs and returned to my office.

She took out the DVD and looked at it, but there was nothing to read. It was about the same size as the bakelite records on the record player at home, but much thicker. Jin Lili looked at the catalogs on the covers, and she immediately became interested. When it comes to songs by Mao Ning and Yang Yuying, three of them are all included, which Jin Lili likes.

There is a picture of "Russian Style", which contains "Katyusha", "Troika", "Cranberry Flowers Blooming", "Moscow Suburban Night", "Small Road", etc., as well as "Volga Trackers".

Liu Ligan sang out of tune in everything he sang, and Tan Shuzhen said that even the cows couldn't be pulled back. He could only sing the "hey hey hey hey" before "Volga Trackers" without running away, so for a period of time he would say "hey hey hey hey" every time he opened his mouth.

Once in Taishun, Wenzhou, the Yongcheng Wu Troupe was invited to attend the funeral of an old overseas Chinese who opened a restaurant in Spain. In order to show the bravery of the old overseas Chinese when he was young, Liu Ligan made up a story about the old overseas Chinese fighting Spanish gangsters. As for the story, this foreign gangster has to speak a foreign language. Who has acted in it? Several supporting actors were in trouble.

Lao Yang said, come on, come on, you get on the pole, you don't need to put on makeup to play a gangster from any country, you can act in your true colors. Not on? Why the hell are you writing about a foreign gangster?

Then let me write about Qin Shubao and the old overseas Chinese fighting Qin Qiong, okay? Liu Ligan glared at Lao Yang.

Feng Laogui was making noises on the side. He said it was okay. You can do the pole. You can’t speak foreign languages, but you can sing the foreign song "Hey Hey Hey".

Feng Laogui took off Liu Ligan's shirt and threw it away. He took a female member's floral shirt and tied it to Liu Ligan's waist. He told Liu Ligan that all hooligans in any country wear floral shirts. He took a bowl of water, poured it on Liu Ligan's vest, and told him, "This is wine, you vomited it yourself."

Lao Yang pushed me from the edge of the stage.

As a result, Liu Lipole went up. The Spanish gangster was drunk and staggered. He hummed "Hey hey hey" and came on the stage. The audience burst into applause. Liu Lipole was so proud that he staggered several times on the stage. Circle and sang "Hey Hey Hey" for a few minutes.

Feng Laogui, who played the role of an old overseas Chinese, couldn't catch up with him several times. He couldn't show his bravery. Finally, he got anxious. When he saw him coming to the edge of the stage, he simply kicked him off, where he was caught by Lao Yang. This happened It became a joke in the troupe. Lao Yang said that if I didn't catch him, he would still go up and sing "Hey Hey Hey" for five days and five nights, and the old overseas Chinese would not be buried.