In the middle of the yard is a pomegranate tree, this is Hong Tao's father when he was a child holding him from Beihai Park to the gardener to ask for a seedling, father and son planted it in the middle of the yard in the flower pond, now it has grown up, just like Hong Tao, has grown from a small seedling to a big tree, as for the future life, you need to struggle by yourself, no care, no watering, it all depends on yourself.

"Uncle Sam, are you at home?" Hong Tao shouted at the two north rooms in the east, the foreign teacher and his family are Americans, and his husband also gave a very American name, Sam Burgess, who was just 41 years old with a bare head and a big beard, if you don't know the inside story, you will think that he is almost 60.

His wife's name is Laura Burgess, a year older than him, she is a very hot white young woman, it is said that she is a listed lawyer in the United States, so in order to work in Beijing with her husband, she quit her job in a law firm and went to the University of Science and Technology to become a foreign teacher, specializing in teaching economic law.

In his previous life, Hong Tao and this foreign teacher got along quite well, but the time was very short, because in order to get married, he sold this small courtyard, and the price at that time was 700,000, which is the most fucked up thing that Hong Tao thinks he has done in his life, in order to marry his daughter-in-law, he sold his parents to his most reluctant thoughts, and it was sold cheaply, no wonder he was struck by lightning!

Sam and his wife have a very good personality, they have been in Beijing for 4 years, there is nothing to do on the beach to watch the old man play chess, the Chinese language is no worse than Hong Tao, Beijing flavor is even more than Hong Tao, it is a bit overkill, the voice is heavier than the sound of the sound.

"Tao...... Son, I'm preparing for class, what...... Child's business? A fluent American Peking film came out of the north room next door.

"I don't have anything to do, I will go out of the house, see if you are not at home, I will not lock the courtyard door at home." Hong Tao is most annoyed that this foreigner learns to call him in the tone of the old neighborhood, because the pronunciation of the older generation in Beijing is a bit heavy, and when the word "Tao" is called, it becomes "Tao...... The word "son" is like a father calling a son or a mother calling a son in a costume TV series.

But Hong Tao didn't suffer a loss, whenever Sam didn't listen to his advice and had to call it that, he deliberately called himself the master in the tone of the old Eight Banners, no matter whether Sam understood it or not, anyway, he would make up for it first.

"You're taking advantage of me, Houhai...... The uncle next to me said, your age and status can't be called my master, you are discriminating against foreigners, you have to apologize to me. Sam hasn't wandered around the beach in vain these days, and he even figured this out, but Hong Tao didn't plan to apologize to him, opened the courtyard door and stepped out, and spared Sam before leaving:

"Grandma!"

Go out and cross the road, it is Ya'er Hutong, and then it is the north shore of Houhai, it is still noon in the summer, but anyone who is not in a hurry or has nothing wrong with the brain, will not choose this time to play on the road by the lake, but the current Hongtao belongs to the brain problem, the sequelae of crossing have not disappeared, or like when he was a child, after being beaten by his father, he involuntarily ran to the shore of Houhai to treat his inner trauma.

After wandering aimlessly for a while, the trauma on the soul is still not as powerful as the power of nature, the back of the neck is sunburned, and if I continue like this, the wound in my heart is not good, and the skin should be burned. Just right, I walked to the door of Song Qingling's former residence, there is a small garden here, and the trees by the lake are also very dense, sitting here is cool and cool, by the way, think about what you should do?

The chair in the garden, Hong Tao is very natural to filter, that is a pair of lovers to sit, we are a small single, can not sit, can not afford to lose that person, so Hong Tao found a railing near the shore to do it, holding the stone pillar, sit high and see far, the big stone pillar is quite cool.

The current situation Hong Tao has basically figured it out, this is the summer of 2000, he just graduated from college, it should be said that he has not yet obtained his graduation certificate, a local student like him, he can go home in June, what should he do, if he has a relationship, he should use the relationship to drill into those good units, and it doesn't matter if he is a relationship to contact the work, and it doesn't matter if Hong Tao is his parents, it doesn't matter if he doesn't care about himself, he doesn't want to beg someone to find that relationship.

At this point, he was very with his father, when his father chatted with him and said, during the special period, he was beaten into a stinky old nine, and was sent to Shougang to shovel steel slag labor reform, at that time, there were also 2 masters in the education industry, Hong Tao's father was the youngest, and the most capable, often helped the other 2 people to work, because he did not complete the daily workload, he had to hang a big iron around his neck and go to the stage to take the dirt plane to criticize.

By the end of the 70s, everyone was rehabilitated and returned to the original unit to continue working, Hong Tao's father never went to find the two people who were already at the level of deputy department and principal, although people had also come to the house to chat and visit his father, but no matter how Hong Tao's mother induced and asked positively, Hong Tao's father just didn't ask others to do things, and also proudly told Hong Tao that this is called backbone, the poorer a person, the more backbone he has.

The backbone is not spine, Hong Tao didn't feel it, anyway, he was unwilling to ask for anything, even if he encountered difficulties, as long as he could get through it, he would rather admit it by himself. This character is not learned, it is cultivated little by little from an early age, although he can also see that in today's society, this kind of character is the fate of sin, but when it comes to the matter, he still shrinks his head and is unwilling to come out.

So, don't think about the problem of work, the university has long been out of allocation, although at this time college students are not as cheap as 10 years later, but the advantages are not too much, I don't want to use the relationship to find a very suitable job, three words, hit the luck! And Hong Tao's major is also very painful, metal materials and heat treatment.

This major was not chosen by Hong Tao, nor was it chosen by his father, but only that major has a quota. Hong Tao's junior high school and high school are very annoying, and he belongs to the kind of master who has nothing to do and has something to do. In school, there is a small trouble for three days, a big trouble for five days, and the school keeps inviting parents, but Hong Tao's father and the director of the school's academic affairs office are high school classmates, and for the sake of the old classmates, it is not easy to expel Hong Tao, so he can only endure letting Hong Tao finish high school and take the college entrance examination.

As a result, as soon as the college entrance examination score came, Hong Tao's father's face turned green, in his father's mind, he was a university teacher, and his son had to finish college at the last time, or he couldn't raise his head in the unit. However, Hong Tao's score is still a little far from the score line, and his father expects him to be admitted to the school is not enough, helpless, his father can only sell his old face once, I don't know what relationship Lu Dao has through to get Hong Tao into his own university of science and technology.

You can't be too black to eat steamed buns for nothing, the scores are not enough, and you still have the face to pick a professional? Therefore, Hong Tao studied metal materials and heat treatment for 4 years in a daze, and he didn't know how to learn Hong Tao, anyway, it is easy for people to learn in the Department of Metal Materials, because there are only 2 girls in this department, and they are still trained by Shougang, and there is a lack of an important factor that affects learning.

At this point, the question arises, where to find a job? What kind of job are you looking for? In his previous life, Hong Tao didn't deal with this problem too well, stayed at home for 2 years, nested in the house all day and competed with computer games, until his aunt introduced a girlfriend, he had to buy newspapers to apply for jobs, and as a result, he actually went to work in a travel agency to learn metal materials, and I don't know which travel agency owner who decided to hire Hong Tao took a fancy to him.

Now that life can be restarted, Hong Tao decided to change his way of life, no longer working from 9 to 5 all day like a bee without brains, he wanted to use his experience of living decades longer than his peers to see if he could live a more exciting and self-fulfilling life.

According to Hong Tao's own recollections, this era is the peak of reform and opening up, going to the sea, stock speculation, real estate, IT, various industries began to reshuffle, there are many opportunities for success, but there are not many suitable for themselves. Speculate on stocks, you can't play this thing, because I haven't been involved in this game in my previous life, let alone the rise and fall of that stock, and even the trend of the market is not clear; Real estate, this thing requires a certain amount of capital and upper-level relationships, both of which are indispensable, and neither of these two key points Hong Tao has; IT industry, it is a very professional field, and I can make chassis to sell at most as metal materials, which is even more unreliable;