Chapter 2 Urban Gold Diggers
Cheng Xiaoyu, a native of Meicheng, a county-level city, lives in Xinglong Village, Longhai Town, Meicheng City. There is a sister on it. Her parents are pure farmers. She lives by relying on land every year to ensure income from drought and flood. Cheng Xiaoyu grew up in the countryside. When he was in junior high school, his family sent him to Meicheng to study boarding school. The rural families all prefer boys over girls. The dowry money for his sister to get married early became the cost of Cheng Xiaoyu's craftsmanship in Meicheng after graduation.
In 2003, the 19-year-old Cheng Xiaoyu embarked on their "glorious journey" with two childhood friends. Young people always had some illusory dreams. After learning to repair mobile phones for two years, they worked with their masters for a year. In recent years, the popularity of mobile phones has given this industry a so-called future. Cheng Xiaoyu, who was unwilling to stay in a small city and listened to the insult of childhood friends, brought some salary earned by his master in one year and the 3,000 yuan funded by his family. Cheng Xiaoyu followed the kowtowed brother Xiong Wei, and the second son Zhang Sen left his hometown together and came to the provincial capital to work hard.
The three of them grew up in a small mountain village. The eldest brother Xiong Wei was born in 1983. Before leaving Meicheng, he helped his family do farm work. He was the so-called strong laborer in the countryside. He was a 185-year-old man who really met his surname. He should have married and had children at home to continue his peasant life. The family was ready to introduce him to a partner. The second brother Zhang Sen's bewitching the outside world of flowers made Cheng Xiaoyu excited, and he also pulled the eldest brother Xiong Wei, who had sworn that his brother would be blessed and shared his loyalty, despite the opposition from the family, and followed the two brothers to leave the mountain village where his ancestors grew up and stepped into the metropolis Spring City in the northeast.
The second child, Zhang Sen, has been cute since childhood, as cute as silver dolls. The longer he grows, the better he has. His white skin has never done any farm work at home. He is sweet and has a sweet mouth. He is the most popular in his neighborhood. Like Cheng Xiaoyu, they were born in 1984. The two were born on the same day of the same month. Zhang Sen, relying on his mouth and cleverness, fooled Cheng Xiaoyu and said that he had asked, and he was born first, so he was the second brother. Later, Cheng Xiaoyu accidentally learned from his father that he had given birth to a few hours earlier than Zhang Sen, but he had already kowtowed at this time. Zhang Sen did not admit it, and Cheng Xiaoyu was too lazy to refute it. Anyway, the title of the second child was not so good.
Zhang Sen had a sister who went out to work and married into Chuncheng. She thought she was half a city man and felt very superior. She also conveyed the beauty of the flower world to Xiong Wei and Cheng Xiaoyu. The three young people carried their luggage to conquer the world, and they would never return their bold words and feats until they succeeded. Only when they really arrived in Chuncheng did the three people realize that this world was not that easy to work hard and life was not so easy to survive.
Zhang Sen was lucky, with his sister's care and arrangements, so he entered a beauty salon school for short-term training. Xiong Wei and Cheng Xiaoyu had to make a living. All Zhang Sen could do was begging his sister to help them find a job temporarily at the construction site. Xiong Wei was fine, and it was not difficult to do it with all his strength. Cheng Xiaoyu is the treasure of the family. His sister loved his parents and had never enjoyed any blessings since childhood, but he had never suffered any hardships. He couldn't bear it in a few days and wanted to return to his hometown in Meicheng.
Four years later, when I recall Cheng Xiaoyuzhi, it was in a flash of his fingers, and it was 2007. At the beginning, Zhang Sen said that he was a coward who was not good at doing well. He stayed and rented a small shop to do mobile phone repairs in this university town. At that time, he moved all the money from Xiong Wei to here, which made the boss work on the construction site for nearly half a year before getting familiar with Chuncheng and finding a new job.
In four years, when I was working in the Dayu mobile phone repair shop, it was just a freshman. Cheng Xiaoyu and they experienced four years of college life. Although the store was renovated with the old four-story red brick building, it occupied an excellent geographical location of the university town. All the residents on the first floor changed their homes into stores. Although they were not on the main street and the university town were reliable, the rent was also very expensive. Cheng Xiaoyu had not saved much money in the past four years and could barely get enough food and clothing, but he finally settled in this city, but at the same time, a group of peers were mixed up, and some of them could stand.
Entering society at a higher starting point, some will become dependents who cannot adapt to society, and some are highly keen and have difficulty integrating into society. Cheng Xiaoyu's life is unchanged. He will repair mobile phones that are becoming less and less valuable. Download ringtones, wrap covers, sell accessories, and occasionally use the burner on a second-hand computer to carve some CDs of Korean dramas to female students in college, and carve some "action movies" for the animals everywhere in college. At night, a small home video room will be opened for students who don't like to spend the night in the dormitory to earn some extra money.
Every morning when you open your eyes, Cheng Xiaoyu will tell yourself that you should satisfy your current life. At least you have used the beautiful cabbage in the city, instead of spending your whole life in a small mountain village with a yellow-faced woman who has been in the fields all day long.
The dream I had last night was quite interesting, it seemed to be something special? I can’t remember why grandma’s dreams are always vague and cannot be remembered!
"Hmm?" Cheng Xiaoyu shook his arm. It was no different. What's wrong? Left hand!
Cheng Xiaoyu handed his left hand wrapped in bandage and gauze to his eyes, shaking it up and down, and then pinched it with his right hand in uncertainty, and it didn't hurt.
There are strange things every year, and this year there are many. Cheng Xiaoyu unbuttoned the buckles of the gauze and took off the gauze and bandages in circles, revealing the back and arm that seemed a little scary yesterday. The bloody coffee fell down with the rubbing of his hands, and the new skin had grown. The most important thing is that there was no slight pain after the broken skin and bleeding.
"What's going on?" Cheng Xiaoyu couldn't figure it out, and there was no time for him to continue thinking. The sound of the roller shutter door being pulled up came. In amazement, Cheng Xiaoyu quickly put on his big beach pants and a wide T-shirt, pulled his slippers and opened the door and went to the outside room.
The strong smell of smoke was lingering. The computer on the ground of the coffee table was surrounded by beer bottles and finished debris. The TV was covered with snowflakes. The computer also freezes the most intense scenes of the island action movie. While the roller shutter door was pulled open from outside, dazzling sunlight shone in, and the smoke had nowhere to hide in the sun.
"I don't know how much cigarettes these animals smoke." Cheng Xiaoyu has become quite used to all this. It's just extra money at night. The twenty yuan placed on the table is the cost of these guys spending the night here. There is no way to make money, and all resources need to be used.
An old-fashioned house, the so-called big house is opened with a door. As soon as you enter, there are several plastic stools on the backrest and a transparent round coffee table. Inside is Cheng Xiaoyu's maintenance desk and computer desk. There are a variety of mobile phone covers and decorations hanging on the wall. Under the wall parallel to the door is a set of old-fashioned sofas and coffee tables. Under the corner of Cheng Xiaoyu's left and right sofa is a twenty-five-inch old-fashioned TV and DVD player. The edge of the sofa leads to the balcony and kitchen, the bathroom and the house itself, and the aisle area. On the side of Cheng Xiaoyu is a small door, inside is a small bedroom with only five or six square meters.
The old-fashioned house is converted into a store house with a small commercial area but complete all kinds of organs. It is suitable for both office and residence, especially for people like Cheng Xiaoyu. In the past four years, many livestock have tried to borrow Cheng Xiaoyu's bedroom and girlfriend to spend a good night. All of them were rejected by Cheng Xiaoyu, which has also greatly reduced the number of friends he had drunk and meat.
"My Day, Cheng Xiaoyu, did you receive another group of hungry animals last night?" The roller shutter door was halfway open, and a figure that was more horizontally developed than Cheng Xiaoyu showed its majesty with its back facing the sun.
Listening to the sound, wanting to commit crime, looking at the appearance, this is the most appropriate description of the girl in front of me. She is about 1.5 meters tall, wearing a pair of glasses with a height of up to 150 kilograms, a purely ground-cup example, but she still pursues fashion. Her hair is short and very energetic, dyed yellow, and she is always short and fashionable. She is always fragile. She is always looking for fragmented fashion items. Especially mobile phones and MP3s, she is constantly pursuing updates. The most unacceptable thing is this figure. It is normal for you to wear looser clothes. But this fat girl named Wang Peipei likes tight clothes and looks. She is having a lot of fun now. The turn-back rate is going up, but the turn-back rate is not praise, but criticizing the ugly.
Cheng Xiaoyu and Wang Peipei have also known each other for three years. Wang Peipei is one year younger than Cheng Xiaoyu and is a junior student at a nearby electric power university. Her mobile phone has been replaced by five or six in the past three years. Each of them has to be repaired by Cheng Xiaoyu a few times. Either water gets in or the display screen is broken, or you are pressing the buttons too hard. In short, on Wang Peipei alone, Cheng Xiaoyu has reviewed the common faults of learning to repair mobile phones for several years, and every time Wang Peipei eliminates mobile phones, he will also be able to do so.
He would sell it to Cheng Xiaoyu at a low price. After a while, he had two people in a slightly fat world and a super fat world. Cheng Xiaoyu, who would not make Wang Peipei feel inferior, became one of Wang Peipei's friends. Yes, Wang Peipei's cheerful personality allowed her to cover up her appearance flaws, and she had a lot of male friends without a boyfriend, but she had many male friends. Her careless personality always blew on her, so her previous words were not considered a big deal.
Chapter completed!