"Guodong, your parents went to your aunt's house, come back and take the key, your mother let you cook and eat by yourself!" When passing by the North Alley Cake Shop, the aunt of a villager in northern Shaanxi saw Zhang Guodong through the plastic door curtain, greeted him warmly, and came out to give him a bunch of keys. (三五Chinese .com.) "Not coming back to sit?"

Zhang Guodong barely squeezed out a smile, shook his head and said, "No, Auntie, I still have something-"

This pancake shop is in the urban village of Xi'an, the provincial capital, and its business is very good, it is said that it can sell six or seven bags of flour a day, for which the family also bought a van and spent more than 50,000 yuan.

This season has reached the end of November, and it is a leap year, the weather in Xi'an this year is very cold, and the hot air that erupts from the mouth between the words is extremely rich, and the fog is dissolved in an instant, and the weather forecast says that a large area in the north may be snowed extensively in the coming week.

Now in the 21st century, the means of science and technology are still very powerful, and it is basically impossible to say that there is rain and snow.

Zhang Guodong turned around, passed by people in thick clothes and pants, and walked back.

His brow furrowed a little. Today I had to go out again to look for a job, but unfortunately, the boss of the Internet café had a face longer than a donkey's face, and he also looked at his appearance, and no one asked for a salary of seven or eight hundred a month in terms of gender.

He is a dignified undergraduate, of course, although the diploma is a little worse, and he has no work experience, but he is also a knowledgeable person, but unfortunately, the conditions for Internet café enrollment are surprisingly high: "I'm sorry, we don't recruit people!" ”

Zhang Guodong was brushed off.

Isn't this talking nonsense with your eyes open, why do you post an announcement to recruit people if you don't recruit people? Obviously, people don't look down on themselves.

The height of 1.7 meters is not high, and his appearance is ordinary, he is twenty-five, he is still a single, unemployed, and even, his parents are not at ease, he chased him from his rural hometown to the provincial capital, and when he thought of his parents with white hair, Zhang Guodong felt very uncomfortable. I thought about starting a business, but I had no money, and I had no way, and this delay was three years, three years, which was enough to grind the edges and corners of many arrogant young people, Zhang Guodong was almost such a one, and nothing was accomplished.

"Gordon is back!" The landlord's wife greeted him, Zhang Guodong's popularity is actually good.

"Hey!" Nodding to the landlord, Zhang Guodong went up to the third floor.

This is an urban village tube building, the conditions are simple, all the buildings are three or four floors, and the planning is unreasonable, very messy, the corridor is very narrow, most of the space is also placed by some tenants who rent a sundries.

Moreover, the upstairs where Zhang Guodong stayed, he had to go down to the second floor for draft, and there was no place to take a bath, so he could only go to a few public bathhouses in the village when he took a bath.

The conditions are very poor.

Of course, the rent is correspondingly cheaper, a monthly rent of 100, an electricity bill of one piece, a sanitation fee and water fee of five yuan per person, and the monthly expenditure on this aspect is about 150 yuan, which is the basic expenditure. -====-

But in the summer, you have to go to the roof to sleep, and in the winter, the room of about 20 square meters is crowded and cold, and you have to burn honeycomb coal, which is a big expense.

A penny is hard to beat a hero, Zhang Guodong is worried about money, the Chinese New Year is coming in two months, where will this money go? Although his parents usually don't say anything about him, when he encounters this difficulty, his parents have to pull down their faces and beg their relatives to find a job, which makes him even more uncomfortable.

When he opened the door, Zhang Guodong didn't want to move, so he simply collapsed on the dilapidated bed, his head empty.

"Money, money, you're a bastard!" Zhang Guodong looked at the ceiling and said firmly. "No, I have to look for a job in the afternoon!"

Although he expected the difficulty of finding a job, the reality was more cruel than imagined, and after lying in bed for a while, Zhang Guodong got up and cooked by himself.

The honeycomb coal tube is still burning, the mouth is half sealed, there is no need to change the coal, and there are still a few packets of Fumanduo instant noodles on the wooden box, which was prepared by the mother Ye Cuihua who was worried that Zhang Guodong would not be able to cook, and there are eggs next to it, seeing all this, Zhang Guodong's determination to find a job seems to be firmer.

A single room of more than 20 square meters, living with three people, Zhang Guodong doesn't want to be decadent now, this situation must be changed, find a serious and long-term thing to do.

In order to save trouble, Zhang Guodong turned on the gas stove outside, poured boiling water, and boiled noodles and an egg.

Nowadays, the pace of urban life is fast, just say that this egg, thick skin, dark yellow, are feed fed laying hens, not fragrant, and the rural naturally fed hens under the white eggs, there is a big gap in quality.

A feed egg retails for four cents, while a white-preserved egg costs six cents, which is half as expensive! This is still the usual price. In November of the solar calendar, as soon as the weather is cold, the prices of various vegetables and meat have risen.

The baseline price increase is two times the price, and the maximum price can be three to five times. The vegetables in the south are reduced, and the vegetables in the north are even less due to the cold.

If it really snows in the north and the road is blocked, the price of vegetables and meat can make people red-eyed.

Advocating green food and pursuing quality of life, today's urban residents have a lot of money.

It didn't take long for the boiling water to boil, Zhang Guodong hurriedly boiled the instant noodles into it, put all the three ingredients in the package, mixed the eggs into a paste, and sprinkled them in the slightest.

Really a little hungry, Zhang Guodong swallowed his saliva and ate it in a big gulp.

To say that the fifty yuan in his pocket has not been touched at all in the past half a day, the reason is that the money in his pocket is too little! Reluctant.

On the third floor, there are five or six Sichuan families living in a native dialect, and Zhang Guodong barely understands one-fifth. He was cooking instant noodles when it started to get noisy underneath, and it was the neighbor upstairs who came back. They worked on a nearby construction site, but when they returned home for dinner, Mr. Zhang often saw several families gathering together to eat hot pot or something.

Soon, more than a dozen people came up in the corridor one after another, both men and women, laughing and talking, wearing work uniforms, yellow hard hats, and dust, but it did not affect everyone's interest in chatting.

Zhang Guodong rarely has contact with his neighbors, not that he looks down on anyone, but he is more introverted, and his pockets are not bulging, and his waist is naturally not straight.

Mom and Dad have a good relationship with these neighbors, often say hello, occasionally do a little favor, and help each other.

After a while, everyone opened a canteen in one of the houses, four fish, a chicken, and some sausage bacon or something, compared with Zhang Guodong's instant noodles, Sichuan people are very particular about eating, a cook, the third floor is spicy in the corridor.

After eating instant noodles in a hurry, his stomach felt better, Zhang Guodong put down the bowl, washed it when he came back, and went downstairs after resting.

If the fatigue of his legs could get a job, Zhang Guodong would be very willing.

The urban village is very prosperous, basically every alley is full of all kinds of shops, barber shops, noodle shops, Sichuan vegetable shops, cheap shops, etc., in each alley door, some landlords also have a mind, the alley is rented to some small traders, they started a vegetable business, horizontal planks, all kinds of vegetables are placed, garlic sprouts, potatoes, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, yellow mung bean sprouts, tofu and soy products and other ordinary vegetables, the public vegetables are everything.

However, this price is twice as expensive as in the summer. The cheapest one is also on the block!

The price bureau in the city regulates the price of rice, flour, oil, eggs, meat, etc., but the price of most vegetables is not easy to control, obviously, the weather in the north is cold, and the vegetable planting basically counts on the supply of the south, so that the price will turn high, such as ordinary vegetables, a pound has risen to two yuan, potatoes, the price has also turned up, a pound of two, and such as green peppers, garlic sprouts or something, a pound can be sold for more than three or four yuan, and the price in the supermarket is estimated to be higher!

Zhang Guodong looked at this business with some envy.

But he couldn't get this business, he didn't have any money. This vegetable business doesn't have five or six thousand, and it can't even hold up a small capital, otherwise it may lose money if it is pulled on a tricycle, and even if it makes money, it won't make much. After all, there are too few types of vegetables, and the purchase channels are not good, many people buy vegetables first to see the type, the variety is not complete, basically soon left, do not stay.

Walking on the main street, there are more people doing business, everyone wears very thick clothes, wears hats, walks fast, and does not want to stay longer, this weather is really cold! Walking so that you don't freeze, and the temperature around zero is not so pleasant.

"Come and take a look, take a look, Xinjiang plush jacket manufacturers are on sale!"

A carpet with many brand-new down jackets stacked and the charging horn has already recorded the recording, and at the moment it is surrounded by many people, obviously, many people are interested in bargains.

On the other side, steaming spicy skewers are placed on the side of the street, eating young people, especially girls.

What kind of cold food cabinet, delicatessen cabinet, stinky tofu and so on, to name a few, very lively.

Zhang Guodong almost stopped staying after looking at it, but he looked around aimlessly, this job is actually in the village, but it is difficult to say whether he can find it or not.

Seeing the recruitment advertisements of several businesses one after another, Zhang Guodong went to ask, but the shopkeeper shook his head indifferently when he saw Zhang Guodong's appearance. was rejected at first, Zhang Guodong was still in spirit, but he was rejected one after another before entering the door, which made him a little numb and a little discouraged.

"Bang dang!" Zhang Guodong was thinking about things in his head, and he stepped into a small vendor's stall and kicked out a few pieces of strange stone jewelry.

"Grass, boy, how do you walk, you don't have long eyes?" The peddler is now gone.

It's almost the end of the year, this strange stone business is not easy to do, today is only a short time after the stall, not a business has been done, but someone stepped on it, how can this be let go?

Zhang Guodong immediately came back to his senses, and when he saw it, he was distracted. But this little trader didn't want to go around, seeing that Zhang Guodong seemed to acquiesce, he immediately didn't spare it: "You kicked my baby and lost money!" ”

This shout attracted passers-by.

Zhang Guodong was annoyed and didn't want to entangle, so he simply said: "A total of four, twenty yuan!" ”

"This can't be done, I'm a baby-" The little trader was very cunning, and when he saw Zhang Guodong talking so well, he suddenly wanted to ask for a price.

"Either do business with Waki, or get out of here!" Zhang Guodong cut off the words of the small trader and said impatiently. I've lived here for three years, and I'm called a ghost when I have to be bluffed by a small trader. Still on the nose and face?

"You!" When the small trader saw Zhang Guodong so good, he actually cursed.

Zhang Guodong glared, and the little trader swallowed a word, but he was weak in his heart and couldn't touch Zhang Guodong's bottom. And obviously, his body is thinner than Zhang Guodong, which is a congenital lack of momentum.

Besides, if there is a relationship here, there are stores, and only those who have nothing to do with it set up stalls here, in order to reduce two industrial and commercial expenses.

Zhang Guodong was in a bad mood and was too lazy to quarrel.

"You're cheap!" The small trader said stupidly, but his hands and feet were not slow, and he immediately picked up four pieces of strange stone jewelry that were kicked out of bounds, four necklaces with red threads, but the hanging was a stone piece, with some patterns on it, Zhang Guodong put it away and put it in his pocket, took the thirty yuan he found, and flashed people directly.

"Bad luck!" Zhang Guodong exhaled depressedly.

Disturbed by this, it seemed that the feeling of loss was alleviated, and when this calmed down, Zhang Guodong scolded himself for having his head asked by a donkey, and bought four useless stones for twenty yuan to come back! But once the money is gone, don't expect it to be returned.