Chapter 20 Money Strengthens Courage
A new company's network engineering and program-controlled telephone, plus computer installation, this is undoubtedly a big order for the current Zhang Chu.
If you do a good job, there is no problem in earning tens of thousands of dollars, and you may be able to earn more. For the current Zhang Chu, he naturally doesn't want to drop this order.
But at this time, he couldn't get through the phone, which made him anxious. A little depressed, he put away his phone and stuffed it into his pocket.
Let's go back and get off the train and call the landline in the city. Although the call fee of this mobile phone number card is very expensive, there are roaming charges.
Although it is known as a global pass, Zhang Chu knows that he can't get through it at all after he gets to his hometown, and can only use it in the city.
"You're a Nokia phone?"
After casually putting away the phone, Zhang Chu glanced at the three people opposite, and looked at him with a surprised expression. Seeing Zhang Chu put away his mobile phone, He Jie's companion couldn't help but ask.
At this time, mobile phones are still rare, Zhang Chu has just been reborn, and he is used to using smartphones, so he doesn't feel anything, and even a little disgusted with the brick-like things in his hands.
But for most people, at this time, why not spend money to buy a mobile phone? There are still many people who use pagers.
He Jie's father used a pager, and as for He Jie, he was about to take out the Hanxian pager he had just bought to show off.
As a result, Zhang Chu didn't play cards according to common sense!
Obviously, a guy who can't even find a job, now he actually takes a mobile phone out to make a call, can this still make people pretend to be happy?
The pager he was going to take out of his pocket was left in his pocket, and he held a sullen breath in his heart, but he couldn't get out of it, and his face was a little red.
At this time, taking out the pager will only make people laugh, a pager is completely incomparable to a mobile phone, even Han Xian is useless, He Jie feels that he can't lose this face.
"Well, Nokia's phone. My previous boss didn't have the money to pay his salary, so he mortgaged his phone to me as a salary. ”
Zhang Chu glanced at the three of them, nodded and explained. He didn't say that he paid for it, and he didn't want to show it off in front of these three people.
Although Zhang Chu said this, the other three did not believe it. Who are you fooling, you were still arranging people to do things when you were on the phone just now, when others didn't hear it?
The next few people had no idea of talking, and Zhang Chu also asked for silence. His position was by the window, and then he leaned against the train and continued to squint.
At this time, there are three times when you need to be most vigilant when taking this kind of train, and it is easy to lose money and things.
One is when you are squeezed to get on the train, one is when you fall asleep in the middle of the night, and the other is when you are squeezed to get off the train.
In addition to a mobile phone, Zhang Chu also had tens of thousands of yuan in cash, so he naturally didn't dare to sleep to death. At this time, there are still people walking around in the car, and the police will also walk down from time to time, so he can still close his eyes and recuperate.
In the middle of the night, when everyone else is asleep, he does not dare to sleep, and that is also the time when pickpockets are most active. For this reason, Zhang Chu also prepared a pack of cigarettes and smoked them in the middle of the night to refresh himself.
On this kind of train, there is a passage by the toilet where you can smoke.
Fortunately, Zhang Chu didn't encounter anything this night. When he got off the train the next morning, He Jie and his companions didn't know when they had left, and they didn't say hello!
Zhang Chu smiled and got off the train with his bag on his back. After leaving the train station, he found a place to wash up, and then ate a three-dollar Sanxian noodles.
After a night on the train, he is now hungry.
There are a number of rice noodle shops around the train station, as well as in the city near bus stations and schools. Zhang Chu has never gotten tired of eating this kind of hometown three fresh noodles, and in his previous life, he would come to a bowl every time he went to the city.
The price is not expensive, and the portions are sufficient. A full bowl of noodles, a lot of pork liver and lean meat, and there will be a poached egg and some fungus. Add some chili powder into it, and Zhang Chu is very cool to eat!
Compared with the kind of three fresh noodles composed of red and white radish shreds and cabbage that Zhang Chu once ate when he went to a certain city on a business trip, the three fresh noodles here are simply conscience products.
"I'll go home for two days and go down, and I talked to Mr. Zhou on the phone. You ask them to quote the approximate number and then go to their company to see the site. Let's make a rough confirmation, and then I'll go back and make a quotation for them. ”
After eating breakfast, Zhang Chu first called Xu Liang to arrange things at the store, and then went to the city to buy some fruits and other things to take home.
When you go out to work, you always have to bring some souvenirs back when you go home, which is a habit for people who come out to work when they go home. It is inconvenient to buy from the south, but it is much more convenient to go to the city.
There is a bus from the city to Zhang Chu's house, bus No. 3. Half an hour, it's actually quite convenient to sit up, but it's just to get to town.
The concrete road also leads from the city to the town, and the dirt road that is left a few miles to the house is either to be walked or you have to call a motorcycle. At this time, there are also motorcycles for rent in the countryside, and there are not many people who sit on them.
Zhang Chu did not call a motorcycle, but walked back. At this time, rural people were more frugal, and those who could walk walked by themselves did not call for a taxi at every turn.
The road from the town to Zhang Chu's house will not be replaced with a cement road until more than ten years later, and it is still a mud road, full of large pits that have been pressed out by coal trucks.
Walking on this road, Zhang Chu at this time felt a little bit of homecoming. He had tens of thousands of dollars in his pocket. These tens of thousands of yuan are very useful at this time, so they have enough confidence.
Compared with the previous life, every time he walked this road, he kept his head down, and there was a feeling of being embarrassed to meet acquaintances, but now Zhang Chu's momentum has actually changed a lot.
No matter in this era or later, money is the confidence of people, and it is much harder to walk with money!
"Zhang Chu is back? Is this going to come to the house to rob you?"
After seeing acquaintances on the road, Zhang Chu would say hello or send a cigarette over. People familiar with the village would also say hello to him, all the way to the village gate.
"No, go home and do something, there is still more than a month to rob the double. ”
There are several new houses scattered around the village, as well as houses under construction. The adobe house in Zhang Chu's house is in the middle of a pile of red brick houses, which is particularly dazzling!
In his previous life, he had always stabbed Zhang Chu's heart, and now he has the opportunity to change.
When Zhang Chu walked home with his things, Zhang's mother happened to come back from the town.
She carried two bamboo baskets, one containing a hemp duck with wings tied, and the other with some chili peppers and eggplant leftovers.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Chu knew that his mother should have gone to the town to sell ducks and chili eggplants, and it seemed that the harvest was not bad!
Pepper eggplant is a vegetable grown at home, and it is still early ripening at this time, and the time for mass production has not yet arrived. Now that Zhang's mother is at home alone, she can't eat all of this, so she just takes them out and sells them.
There is a state-owned coal mine in the town, and the people there buy all kinds of living materials in the town. The vegetables and fruits that the people in the neighborhood grow at home will be picked up and sold in the town when they are in the market.
"Mom!"
Seeing his mother's weathered face, Zhang Chu, who has been a person for two lives, can't help but feel a little like crying at this time, even if he is dissatisfied with his parents.