Chapter 17: The Fourth Heaven
After Duan Yun hurried back home, his mother had already brought the prepared meal to the table.
Even though the family is in difficulty, Duan Yun's mother still ensures that Duan Yun can eat delicious meals such as fish, meat and eggs every day, and she tries to change her tricks as much as possible, at least in terms of diet, Duan Yun does not owe anything compared to the children of other families.
In the past, Duan Yun didn't feel anything, but later, after his mother, who was the only pillar of the family, aged earlier and earlier, and life gradually began to be urgent, Duan Yun gradually realized how difficult it was for his mother to pay for herself.
So when he put a piece of chicken in his mouth, Duan Yun suddenly had the idea of going out to work to share some of the family's financial burden for his mother.
"Xiaoyun, what do you want, is the food not to your taste?" Seeing her son in a daze, Duan's mother hurriedly asked.
"Uh...... It's okay. Duan Yun came to his senses when he heard this, and then said to his mother: "Mom, is there a place near here where I can do odd jobs on Sundays and Saturdays?"
"Why are you asking this?" After hearing this, Duan Mu immediately frowned.
"I feel that being idle on Sunday is also idle......"
"A student's duty is to study, and you don't have to worry about making money!" Duan Yun's mother said with a displeased face.
"Uh. Duan Yun rarely saw his mother speak to himself so seriously, and he wanted to explain a few words, but in the end he swallowed the words back.
After the meal, after Duan Yun washed the dishes and chopsticks, he excused himself to go out for a while, and then walked out of the house.
Duan Yun's locomotive factory is an old state-owned enterprise, and in the early years, it was one of the largest taxpayers in Heyang City, but now after the early planned economy has become a market economy, this old state-owned enterprise factory with a history of several decades has gradually gone downhill.
Workers are poorly paid, and there are relatively few restaurants and shops around the factory, and there is not even a decent shopping mall or supermarket where odd jobs can be found.
Duan Yun moved to several restaurants, trying to find a place where he could do odd jobs on Sundays, but the other party politely refused because he didn't recruit odd jobs.
Just when Duan Yun felt that he was going to return in vain, he was suddenly attracted by a job posting on a telephone pole.
It was a newspaper that sent a notice for newspaper workers, and they needed to start work at 4 o'clock every day, with a monthly salary of 800 yuan.
Eight hundred is even lower than that of a newcomer who has just entered the factory, but for Duan Yun, it seems to be the only job he can make money at the moment.
According to the designated place for the application, Duan Yun conducted an interview, and the person in charge of recruiting was a middle-aged woman with a fat figure, he just glanced at Duan Yun, and then briefly informed the daily work procedures:
"In the future, you will go to the newspaper point at four o'clock every day to pick up the newspaper, and before six o'clock, the newspaper must be delivered to the users of the entire factory, and the salary is 800 per month, can you accept it?"
"Yes!" Duan Yun replied almost without thinking.
Although 800 a month is less, it is enough to alleviate the current financial constraints at home, and the working hours and his school time do not conflict, the newspaper is delivered at six o'clock, and he arrives at school at half past six to start early self-study.
"You'd better get a bike, it's not an easy job. The middle-aged woman reminded again.
"I see. Duan Yun nodded.
In fact, the only bicycle in Duan Yun's family is used by his mother to go to work, and Duan Yun does not have his own bicycle.
However, Duan Yun doesn't plan to ride a bicycle to deliver newspapers, now that his physique is already at the level of a fitness expert, running to deliver newspapers may be able to maintain and improve his physique.
A good body is the capital of the revolution, after eight years of weak torture in his previous life, no one understands this truth better than Duan Yun, although using the system can improve his physique faster, but Duan Yun doesn't want to rely too much on this super five good life system.
"Since you accept it, then fill out this profile form, and from Monday, take the 200 yuan deposit to the third ring road newspaper point to pick up the newspaper, and start working. ”
"Okay. Duan Yun nodded when he heard this, then took the form from the middle-aged woman's hand, filled it out, and left the newspaper recruitment office.
After finding a job, Duan Yun returned home happily and began to seriously tutor other homework in addition to mathematics.
Duan Yun is very involved in learning, he is originally a person with strong self-control, and once he enters the learning state, he will be very devoted.
Now Duan Yun has fallen behind in too much homework in Chinese and English, and if he wants to keep up with the current curriculum, it is estimated that he will need one or two months of intensive tutoring at the earliest.
Through the door, seeing her son engrossed in studying, the wrinkles on Duan Yun's mother's face suddenly stretched a lot, and her eyes suddenly moistened unconsciously......
When Duan Yun raised his head again and looked at the alarm clock in front of the desk, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.
This was the time when he and Luo Yan and Guo Qing made an appointment to go out to 'relax', Duan Yun closed the book and stood up.
"Mom, some classmates asked me to go to their house for dinner in the evening, and I may come back later. Duan Yun said to his mother, who was sitting in the living room.
"Be polite when you go to someone's house for dinner and come back early. Duan Mu's expression was a little hesitant, but she finally agreed to Duan Yun's request to go out.
"Then I'm leaving. After Duan Yun finished speaking, he walked out of the house.
At the intersection of the living area, Duan Yun saw Luo Yan and Guo Qing who were already waiting there.
At this time, Luo Yan was wearing a temporary suit, with a shiny comb in the middle, a pair of sunglasses, and a 'sassy bag' on his face.
"Why did you come out?" Luo Yan complained after seeing Duan Yun coming.
"I didn't pay attention to the time when I was doing my homework. Duan Yun replied casually.
"Tutoring fart, do you really think you can be admitted to college?" Luo Yan pursed his lips, then glanced at Duan Yun, frowned and said, "Didn't you let your kid change into civilian clothes, why are you still wearing this broken school uniform?"
"That's all I have. Duan Yun spread his hands.
"Forget it, I know your family is poor, and I still have civilian clothes in the car, just put them on. “
Luo Yan said, snapped his fingers at Duan Yun and Guo Qing, and walked straight to a van parked at the intersection.
In this year, private cars are still relatively rare, and those who can afford to buy cars are rich people, especially in the locomotive factory area, and there are even fewer people who have cars.
However, Luo Yan's family was one of the few people who 'got rich first' in that era, relying on wholesale and retail tobacco and alcohol and other goods, Luo Yan's family's wealth was even comparable to the deputy director and workshop director of the factory.
Luo Yan's family now has two cars, one Poussin and one van, and what he drove today is the van he usually uses to pull goods.
"My dad drove Poussin away today, so let's make do with this car. Pulling the car door, Luo Yan sat in the driver's seat, and after skillfully starting the car, he turned his head and said to Duan Yun and Guo Qing.
"It's okay, as long as you pay for it tonight, you can make a tricycle!" Duan Yun said with a smile.
"Look at your point!" Luo Yan glanced at Duan Yun, then stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out of the intersection of the community.
Looking at the familiar street scene through the car window, Duan Yun's mood began to be inexplicably excited.
The car soon drove into the city, and by this time it was almost dusk, and many of the shops were already lit up with neon lights, which was colorful and dazzling.
Although Heyang City, where Duan Yun is located, is only a third-tier city in the north, it is rich in mineral resources and is an important energy producing area in China, and there are loopholes in the long-term government's supervision of minerals, so that after the reform and opening up, a large number of explosive households have risen here to start by mining, and its magnanimity is even comparable to that of some rich people in some cities in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
With the increasing number of wealthy people in the local area, it has also led to the rise of various luxury entertainment venues in the local area, especially in some streets of the city, where there are many high-end bars and restaurants, a scene of drunken money.
And the place where Luo Yan led Duan Yun and them to play tonight is Jiefang Road, known as the 'Little Paris of the East', on this street about one kilometer long, there are hundreds of bars and entertainment venues, luxury cars and beautiful women enter the place, and the luxury of the place is staggering.
It is even said that many wealthy people from other provinces will come here to spend thousands of miles, rich people, white-collar workers, officials...... It is a mixture of fish and dragons, which shows how developed the entertainment industry is here.
If Luo Yan is a rich man in the locomotive factory, then here on Jiefang Road, he is an out-and-out 'poor man', when he saw that the streets in the distance were parked at the entrance of the entertainment city were all BMW Mercedes-Benz and other luxury cars, he no longer had the courage to drive the car in.
"My day, it's really more human than human, and I'm so angry. Luo Yan sighed, turned the car around, and drove into the fork on the right side of the street.
This small road adjacent to Jiefang Road is the 'Qingshui District' of Jiefang Road, and unlike the main street full of various local tyrants and wealthy merchants, the bars and shops here are relatively low, but they have their own characteristics, and the main consumer groups are some white-collar workers with small qualifications.
It is said that in the past, in the bars of this 'Clear Water District', there were also several singers who were poached by entertainment companies and entered the entertainment industry, but the truth of this rumor is unknown.
"That's it!" Luo Yan finally stopped in front of a bar called 'Fourth Heaven'.