Sitting in a taxi bound for Huating South Station, I looked at the strange and old Huating streets and pedestrians on the streets, and sighed.

For Huating, Wang Ziyan is also relatively familiar, he came here to talk about business in his previous life.

Wang Ziyan found two women in white professional clothes standing at the door of an office building, and they were also very fashionable, not only beautiful, but also in good shape. The corners of her mouth are slightly upturned, such an OL beauty can be said to be top-notch even after 30 years, and it will undoubtedly be a beautiful scenery when walking on the road, and the return rate will definitely be high.

The dazzling array of shops on the side of the road, as well as the men and women lingering in the shops, all give Wang Ziyan a sense of time and space.

It's too much like the afterlife, it's really too similar.

Except for the hairstyle and makeup, the overall fit of the clothes is basically the same. As for the flared pants and wide-leg pants that are now commonplace in these small places in Liangcheng, they are rarely seen in the city of Huating.

After asking the taxi driver, I found out that bell bottoms with platform wedges were a popular thing in the last decade, and now they don't keep up with the trend so much.

The driver is very talkative, and he is not a native of Huating by listening to the accent, and he reveals a lot of useful information in the chattering chat.

For example, in the 80s, it was popular for young people at that time to wear bell bottoms with platform wedge shoes, big sunglasses, and wavy curly hairstyles. Of course, if you have a four-speaker tape recorder in your hand, you will definitely have a 100% return rate when you walk down the street.

As for what is popular in Huating now?

It must have been a sunny discotheque, with big round-toed leather shoes and skinny jeans.

It's not that you don't see bell bottoms on the streets, it's just that there are fewer of them. What makes Wang Ziyan feel strange is that the gap between the fashion trends in the north and south regions is so big?

Wang Ziyan clearly remembers that Liangcheng only began to really become popular with bell bottoms the year before last, and when he returned to Liangcheng after graduating from college, he could still see bell bottoms all over the street, which was already 2002.

I don't understand, he didn't delve into these things, rubbed his brows and let the hot wind blowing in from the taxi window hit his face, closed his eyes and rested.

Huating Railway Station is nearly 20 kilometers away from Huating South Railway Station, and the taxi has been driving intermittently for nearly half an hour, mainly because there are too many traffic lights, and the road is very congested.

Originally, Metro Line 1 was his best choice, only eleven stations away, convenient, fast and cheap.

But Wang Ziyan still chose a taxi, not because he had a few dollars to burn, but mainly because he wanted to see the city.

He plans to go to university in the city in two years, and he will put the center of his career here, especially at this stage when Pudong is not yet fully developed, and the land price is relatively very cheap.

There are nearly 20 universities in Huating, of which there are several world-renowned ones, especially the 211 Project University that began last year, and the famous universities in Huating are basically included.

He didn't know why he had to see the city now, maybe it was because he had never seen the Huating of this era, or he wanted to cheer himself up?

Maybe this is a look at the place where you will struggle and live in the future, if you change the middle two points, it should be called patrolling your own territory in the future?

Queued up in the ticket hall of Huating South Station to buy a sleeper ticket from Huating to Pengcheng, this time he bought a soft sleeper, after all, this journey took longer.

And he also needs to have a relatively private space to think about his plans, such as some supplements to the plan for making money?

The train departs at seven o'clock in the evening, the whole journey is 1321 kilometers, the train needs to travel for about 20 hours, and the full ticket price is 180 yuan.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of March 13, Wang Ziyan walked out of the bustling Pengcheng Railway Station with a backpack and a plastic bag. Standing alone at the exit of the train station, stretching his waist greatly, looking at this city with a very modern atmosphere, Wang Ziyan sighed, there are still many things to be busy.

Of course, the first thing to do when I came to Pengcheng was to find a place to stay, although I didn't know the current consumption level of Xiangjiang, and I guess I couldn't survive in Xiangjiang with my little money.

I took a taxi and talked to the driver and told him to help him find a hotel or a place to rent a house near the Luohu port.

The driver began to ask and communicate with his colleagues through the walkie-talkie while driving, and there was a suitable place that met his requirements, while Wang Ziyan sat in the back seat, staring at this strange city.

This way from Liangcheng to Zhuolu to Nandu and then to Huating and finally to Pengcheng, all the way to see, the scenery changes are particularly obvious, it has nothing to do with the climate, it is about urban construction.

From the poor and backward remote town to the atmospheric thousand-year-old city of Nandu, to the entertainment city of Huating, and then to the modernization of Pengcheng, it is almost like entering modern life from ancient times.

The most direct feeling for him along the way is that he is slowly transitioning from low and dilapidated small buildings to new and bright high-rise buildings.

In 1996, Pengcheng was more open, inclusive and fraternal, more daring to think and dare to work, and began the second great leap forward. More and more aspiring young people have integrated their youth and dreams into this city, and will write a new history here and open a new chapter in their lives!

In the past, Futian's CBD, which was known as the "Manhattan of the East", now has only a few high-rise buildings and criss-crossing roads, and there are not so many people.

In particular, those places in the vicinity still look a little desolate, and there are many vegetable fields between those roads, making it almost impossible to connect this scene with Pengcheng twenty years later, who would believe that there will be future development achievements here?

Sitting in a taxi, passing by a real estate called Zhonghai Huating located in a shopping park, Wang Ziyan saw a large real estate advertisement erected on the side of the road, and the price was 4,000 yuan per square meter!

Think about it 20 years later, the house price here is more than 100,000 square meters, a full 25 times, or even more. If you buy a 100-square-meter house here now, that is, about 400,000 yuan, this house will be worth at least 10 million yuan in 20 years.

Do you feel rich?

It's exciting to think about, but I don't have any money in my hand now, and I can't afford to wait 20 years if I have money!

At this time, Pengcheng industry is still mainly based on material processing, and there are all factories in the industrial zone, such as shoe factories, toy factories, garment factories, plastic factories, etc., which are labor-intensive processing enterprises. Maybe in another decade or so, these will no longer be found, and the factories will be replaced by high-rise buildings with bright glass curtain walls everywhere.

The taxi driver dropped him off at a place called Xiangxi Village, a village close to the Luohu port, and perhaps more appropriately called a market town.

After entering the village, a lot of light boxes were found in the alleys on both sides of the road, all of which were pink, and young girls wearing fashionable and heavy makeup stood at the corner of the street, looking at the pedestrians and vehicles coming and going with indifferent expressions.

At the suggestion of the driver, Wang Ziyan found a family hotel called Liu's old shop near Xiangxi Village, and after looking at the house, he bargained with the boss surnamed Liu for a long time, and finally rented a small suite on the second floor of the four-story hotel at a price of 200 yuan a month.

After paying two months' rent and deposit, Wang Ziyan was sent upstairs.

This suite is not large, about 30 square meters, simple Japanese decoration, with a separate bathroom and a small living room, with a large window that occupies half of the wall, inlaid with a whole piece of transparent glass, a bit of a bachelor apartment taste. The furnishings in the room are very simple, a large tatami bed, a desk, a sofa and coffee table, and a large wardrobe.

The decoration is very simple but it is also warm and comfortable, and in a short period of time, this is enough for Wang Ziyan to toss during this time.

I put down my things in the room and tidied up a little bit, took a shower, and then came out of the Liujiadian Hotel and took a taxi to the Bank of China before getting off work.

Wang Ziyan first made careful inquiries and confirmed that the Bank of China had an office in Xiangjiang, and then handled the Hong Kong dollar business for his bank card.

He had 206,200 yuan in his card, and he took out the fraction. Then all the rest of the money was converted into Hong Kong dollars, a total of 185,700 Hong Kong dollars.

After the exchange was completed, he took out the fraction again, leaving 180,000 Hong Kong dollars in the card.

After coming out of the bank, he quickly took a taxi to the police station, because the innkeeper gave him a certificate and asked him to apply for a temporary residence permit, otherwise he would be sent to labor reform if he was found.

Because Pengcheng pioneered the precedent of population management in a specific period of the country, that is, the temporary residence permit.

Officially, outsiders who have no ID card, no temporary residence permit, and no employment certificate are called three-no-personnel, and those who are found are waiting to be unlucky.

Wang Ziyan is actually very entangled, he is here to work, but he is not here to work in Pengcheng, but to use this place as a transit station.

He can't get an employment certificate, so he doesn't plan to go to the police station to get a temporary residence permit for the time being.

He first went to the Pengcheng Exit and Entry Administration Center, and he had to consult the specific rules of his Hong Kong and Macao pass business visa, so as to save jokes at that time.

The staff of the management center were very enthusiastic, but they also inquired in detail about the purpose and plan of Wang Ziyan's trip to Xiangjiang.

In the end, the staff solemnly gave him a warning, because his business visa is unlimited, so if you bring goods, you must declare customs, otherwise it will be very troublesome to renew the visa.

Wang Ziyan's pass is a business visa, which is valid for 1 year, and each transit stay cannot exceed 7 days, which is the main reason why Wang Ziyan rented a hotel here.

In addition, in fact, there is no need for him to stay on Hong Kong Island all the time, so the number of times he really has to pass the customs is only a handful.

Wang Ziyan, who came out of the Exit and Entry Control Center, found a restaurant on the side of the road to eat something to fill his stomach, and then returned to Liujiadian Hotel with an empty backpack.

He was tired from the journey for several days, and he had to go to Xiangjiang the next day, so he was ready to take a break and go out for a walk in the evening.

After taking a short nap, Wang Ziyan woke up at eight o'clock in the evening, and two hours had just passed, and his spirit was even worse.

At half past eight in the evening, Wang Ziyan, who had cleaned up, walked out of the Liujiadian Hotel and walked along Dongmen South Road towards the north in the direction pointed out by Boss Liu.