The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan returned to Binya Village. They hadn't had dinner yet and were starving. They parked their bicycles in the courtyard. Liu Ligan said, let's go, three are short of one, we have to celebrate too. Celebrate, celebrate that Lily has found a job, that company is awesome, and that boss looks pretty good too.

The stool at the entrance of the courtyard was empty. Liu Ligan asked, tell me, is what Lily said true?

Zhang Chen said angrily, how do I know.

Liu Ligan looked around and muttered, is this guy going to solicit customers again?

Maybe he went whoring! Zhang Chen cursed.

They went to the food stall and ordered duck head, fried salted fish and garlic water spinach. Liu Ligan said that Hainan's garlic water spinach is the best water spinach I have ever tasted in the country.

Zhang Chen scolded, "You have only been to a few places and eaten a lot of water spinach, but you are all over the country."

Liu Ligan looked at Zhang Chen and said seriously, I have already figured this out. For me, only the places I have been to count as the whole country. Those that I have not been to are none of my business, just like us. , if I didn’t come to Hainan, what does Hainan have to do with me? It is not the same as the North and South Pole. It is a place name on the map. Only when you come here can you eat the most delicious water spinach in the country.

When the boss heard Liu Ligan say that the water spinach in his stall was the most delicious water spinach in the country, he was so happy that he came over and told Liu Ligan and Zhang Chen that the salted fish and eggplant stewed here is also very good.

"Come on, come on, to celebrate today, let's be extravagant, add vegetables, and add a salted fish and eggplant stew." Liu Ligan shouted.

"There's already fried salted fish." Zhang Chen scolded.

"It's different. How can the fried salted fish and the salted fish and eggplant stew be the same? Just like you Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen Jin Lili, Liu Ligan and Tan Shuzhen, how can they be the same?" Liu Ligan shouted, Zhang Chen He took a sip of beer and didn't bother to pay attention to him.

The boss brought the salted fish and eggplant stew to the table and told Liu Ligan and Zhang Chen, "This is what I gave to you." Zhang Chen refused, but the boss insisted on giving it. In the end, Zhang Chen was defeated. Liu Ligan didn't care about it. He took a chopstick and put the salted fish and eggplant stew into his mouth, then slammed the table and shouted, Boss, sure enough, your salted fish and eggplant stew is also the most delicious eggplant stew in the country. Zhang Chen, try it quickly.

Zhang Chen took a chopstick of eggplant and tasted it. The taste was indeed extraordinary, and he gave the boss a thumbs up.

"Did you see it, boss? Even our great painters are sure of it. Boss, let me tell you, your stall is here, don't leave. When I become rich in two years, I will come to invite you and buy your stall." Please come to my company and cook garlic water spinach and salted fish and eggplant stew for me to eat every day, okay? We have an agreement!"

Liu Ligan shouted carelessly, and the people at the tables around him looked at them. Zhang Chen felt quite embarrassed, but looking at the people around him, they didn't mean to laugh at all.

What Zhang Chen didn't know was that Haicheng at that time was full of vitality, with the smell of wealth and hope floating everywhere. No one would laugh at a person who said he wanted to succeed, and no one would think that your dream of getting rich was a daydream. , even if you are still riding a broken bicycle today and have not settled down in life, but if you say that you will become a billionaire next year, no one will think that it is impossible.

At that time, a story was circulating in Haicheng. It was said that a driver from Neijiang Grain Bureau in Sichuan came to Haicheng with two thousand yuan that he had scraped together. Through his own efforts, in just two years, he had earned two thousand yuan. Yuan turned into a twenty-story Neijiang building.

Standing in the open space where Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan were looking for jobs, looking to the left, among the low houses in the old city, you could see the white Neijiang Building that stood out from the crowd, and you could see the top of it. The dome is surrounded by dark blue curtain wall glass. Although this is not a revolving restaurant, it is similar to the shape of a revolving restaurant. In the early 1990s, it was shocking enough.

At that time, there were only a few revolving restaurants in the country?

The Neijiang Building stands there, giving encouragement and encouragement to countless people who travel to Hainan. When you are riding a bicycle, covered in stinky sweat, you lift your face that has been tanned by the sun and take a look at the white mountains in the distance. Building, think again, that person who was riding a bicycle like you two years ago, can you not feel that your tomorrow is also worth looking forward to?

Liu Ligan chuckled. Zhang Chen glanced at him and asked, "Why are you giggling?"

Liu Ligan lowered his voice and said to Zhang Chen, in fact, we have all dug out our first pot of gold. You exchanged your word "wonton" for four bowls of real wontons and three bags of steamed buns. I used my sharp tongue in exchange for salted fish and eggplant stew. Although the quantity of this pot of gold is not large, and the quality is not very good, at least, it is all obtained by our real ability.

When Liu Ligan said this, Zhang Chen made sense when he heard it. At least he felt better and no longer felt that he was a useless person. He raised his glass and became confused.

The two people got up and went back. When they walked to the door of the courtyard, they saw the young man sitting there. The two people were about to go over, but the young man suddenly said:

"came back?"

Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan were startled, and Zhang Chen replied: "Well, I'm back."

"Here, let's get a cigarette."

The young man handed over the cigarette, and Zhang Chen and Liu Li took it. One of the three people sat, the other two squatted, and the three sparks were extinguishing in the darkness, chasing each other.

"Why didn't you see your girlfriend today?" the young man asked Zhang Chen. It seemed that this guy had been observing them and he knew clearly who was whose girlfriend.

"Oh, she found a job today and is living in the company." Zhang Chen said.

"I saw it." The young man said with some gloating, "I saw a Mercedes-Benz and a boss came to pick her up."

You saw it and you still fucking asked? No wonder you are so gloating about her misfortune. She was obviously sending her back to get something, but when she came to you, she came to pick her up. There were obviously three people coming, but when she came to you, she became a boss who came to pick her up.

Zhang Chen frowned, and Liu Li puffed out the cigarette on the ground in front of the guy, stood up, and said to him: "We have to get up early tomorrow to find a job, so we should go back and take a shower first."

The young man didn't say anything. Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan walked into the yard, went upstairs, opened the door, and entered the room. They each sat on their own beds, leaning against the wall, ready to rest for a while before taking a shower.

Liu Ligan looked at the sheets in front of him and said with a smile, these sheets are no longer needed.

Zhang Chen said angrily, who said that Lily would come back on Saturday and would use it.

Liu Ligan smiled, tilted his head, and after a while, he called Zhang Chen, "Come on, come on, I've caught up, come here and listen."

Zhang Chen stood up, walked over, and sat on the wire bed side by side with Liu Ligan, with his head against the wall. After a while, he heard a woman's moans coming from the other side of the wall.

They are all adults and understand what this sound is about. It seems that what Jin Lili said is true.

The two people sat there and chuckled.

"Come back?" Liu Ligan asked, imitating the young man's tone.

"Go back to your mother, you have a home, can you go back?" Zhang Chen scolded.

After laughing and scolding, the two of them got up and went to take a shower. After taking a shower, they went back to their respective beds and sat down. Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan said, "When I took a shower just now, I was thinking that we might be wrong."

"What's wrong?" Liu Ligan asked.

"We were looking for a job in the wrong direction," Zhang Chen said.

"Why?" Liu Ligan asked puzzledly.

"So far, why we have been defeated repeatedly is because we all look for jobs based on our own strengths, but the units we go to, you see, are either newspaper offices or editorial departments and publishing houses. As for me, Likewise, it’s either a newspaper office or a bank, government agency, or cultural palace, but these places all require diplomas, and we suffer the first loss in this regard.”

As Zhang Chen spoke, Liu Ligan kept nodding: "It makes sense."

"We can't find any jobs no matter how long we look. Are there any jobs here? Of course there are, they are all over the wall, but there are no jobs that are suitable for us. In other words, there are people who are more suitable for those jobs than us."

"right."

"So we must adjust our strategy. We can't look at what jobs are suitable for us, but what kind of people the city lacks most. We must change ourselves to adapt to this demand."

"I agree." Liu Ligan said.

The two people discussed for a long time, and Liu Ligan took out the "Talent Information Newspaper" to look for it. Finally, they agreed that the management staff of hotels and restaurants were the biggest shortage in the city. Liu Ligan took out the "Talent Information Newspaper" I saw on the Internet that some hotels are posting applications for catering department managers and housekeeping managers every day. If they are posting every day, it means they have never been able to recruit them.