Drifter (140) - A New Life

Gongzhou in July is famous all over the country, and although it is not one of the three major furnaces, it is not far behind.

Yu Yuanming has passed layers of interviews and officially joined the company.

It was the first time I worked in a high-end office building in a big city, and it felt very different.

The company's headquarters is located in the heart of the city, the tallest building, modeled after the Empire State Building. The building is also towering into the sky, representing the ambition of the city.

The workplace is in another core area, Guanyin District, which is known as a wealthy district in Gongzhou City, Jiangnan Province. Although the name of Guanyin District is not the largest, it is actually very developed in business, especially the emerging consumption. All kinds of high-rise buildings are also lined up, and all kinds of novel consumption places are also scattered in shopping malls, beside roads, and pedestrian streets. Hot girls dress coolly and swagger around the city. Looking at the crowded city, the neon lights compete at night, and Yu Yuanming sometimes seems a little trance. He remembered those days in the country, pure, clean, simple. How easy it seems to deal with crops, dogs, villagers, cats and pigs. And now, you're dealing with a strange crowd of people, people whose brains are filled with strange and unknown content.

They are constantly flowing on the street every day, some are in a hurry, some are good-looking, some are arrogant, some are depressed, some are frowning, and some are laughing in groups.

Dragged the tired body, took the bus for one dollar, and after getting off the bus, he had to walk for a while, passing by the noisy vegetable market, and turning two corners back to the guest house on Longxing Street. It's another feeling.

This is the old part of the city, next to the core area but like a poor relative of the city. The house was in a dilapidated state, with all kinds of wires in the sky, and all kinds of clothes, gowns, vests, bras, and panties coming out of the windows, were colorful and violet. All kinds of posters, advertisements, and notices on the exterior walls were posted early and late, some of them were torn like rotten underwear, and some of them still exuded the scent of ink and the sweetness of glue. On both sides of the highway are large and small storefronts, selling practical things, including grocery stores, hairdressers, restaurants, and a store specializing in books, newspapers and magazines. Low-end clothing, small hardware department stores, plastic basins and plastic buckets are also specially sold. The two-dollar store was loud, as if it had woken up the whole street, reminding him of his identity. The edge of the urban core resembles a township. Everywhere is full of human fireworks, sewage on the ground, chaotic crowds, motorcycles passing around, and all kinds of horns screaming. All kinds of vegetables, melons and fruits, socks, slippers, pajamas and underwear are placed on the side of the street. Everything is chaotic, everything is harmonious. At six o'clock in the evening, a barbecue stall at the intersection began to prepare for business, and the owner of the braised vegetable stall next to him also scooped up his vest, revealing his white belly, smoking with one hand and holding a fan with the other to chase flies.

Yu Yuanming's first impression was not that this place was bad, but had a feeling of the pigpen city in Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu". It looks like a tattered thing, but in fact, there is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger inside, and all kinds of business, including the things that are placed, seem to be messy, but in fact they have their own rules and sizes.

When I came back from the company, I felt like two worlds.

The node of the distinction is at the intersection of the corner, and there is a place where the surface is covered.

From the main road outside, the shop signs are bright and eye-catching. The two tables at the door were wiped clean. A tall and tall descendant is pulling noodles neatly. The proprietress was greeting guests, and there was a woman in her 30s silently cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, wiping the table and sweeping the garbage. The owner is not there, or go shopping. Or hide, busy inside.

This is what you see from the outside, and everything is a corner of the city.

Turning around, the eyes suddenly opened up.

A road is potholed, houses on both sides are about to collapse, and there are wooden doors from the 70s. The smoke, dust, the black marks from the smoke and fire, the old man sitting at the door, and the shoe repair stall with the key, all indicate that this is an old neighborhood.

After work, it was especially lively.

Many of the white-collar workers who pretend to be in the city's high-end offices come back here, untie their ties, change into T-shirts, and start their most authentic performances.

Yu Yuanming is the same.

He likes to eat right across the street from the guest house.

A bowl of tomato meat sliced soup and a bowl of rice cost ten yuan.

Or a bowl of rice with a pot of meat, which is also ten yuan.

This restaurant is not called a restaurant, it is just a few tables, a middle-aged man stir-frying, and a young man doing chores.

Yu Yuanming couldn't help but think that it was not as good as our conditions in Peach Blossom Town. At least we're a little more spacious.

Sometimes, when he was tired of eating back to the pot meat, meat slices soup and salt-fried meat, Yu Yuanming also went to change his taste.

It's just to eat barbecue.

Two meat skewers, one artichoke, one dried tofu, grilled with scissors and chopped with shredded radishes, very delicious.

The price is a little more expensive, 12 yuan.

It is two husbands and wives who are engaged in barbecue, with tacit understanding, quick hands and feet, and business is quite good. Seeing that the two of them were busy quickly, and at the same time, they didn't forget to fight, Yu Yuanming thought to himself that this was also a kind of happiness!

Back at the guest house, there's nothing fun to do.

In addition to reading, I just want to make a breakthrough in my work?

I've searched all the people I can find, and the effect is not good.

But it's not that there are no results, but there is still an additional whiteboard. A young man who made costumes was already on duty. A peer who has been in the industry for a few months has also been hired. There is also a middle-aged eldest sister who also took up her post after several phone calls. However, several of them have average performance, and there are not many increases. The structure of the entire sales department is still relatively weak.

In addition to the first month's employment, the assessment will begin in the second month.

My wife's cousin originally found a person, filled out the form, and paid the registration fee, but then I didn't know which nerve was wrong, and I couldn't come alive.

It's nothing if you don't come, but you don't even answer the phone.

As for it?

The middle-aged eldest sister is from the Wan family, but she is from a district or county. Yu Yuanming didn't know him, but it was the list given to him by the district manager Dong Yinxiao.

used to be a salesman in Dong Yinxiao's team. Now that I am divorced and want to leave the original environment, I asked Yu Yuanming to call and give it a try.

As a result, it came after a few phone calls.

As soon as this eldest sister came, Yu Yuanming sighed in his heart: The appearance is too good, right?

This eldest sister is short, dark-skinned, and ugly. The yellow spots on the teeth can smoke a group of people when they laugh. The point is that she is still wearing tight clothes, high heels, and her mouth is red as if she has just drunk the blood of a dead man.