I want to be emperor

Chapter 1103 Love in the New Era

In the summer of the 51st year of Chengshun, in June, Songjiang, Xicheng District.

Jiao Tiancheng was riding his bicycle on the road in the early morning sun. However, because there were many vehicles in the city, he rode very carefully and was ready to brake at any time.

There are already many horse-drawn carriages in Songjiang City, but in the past year or two the number of cars and bicycles has also increased rapidly, making the main traffic roads even more crowded and even chaotic.

Slow carriages and fast cars mixed together can easily cause accidents...especially the horses in the carriages are animals after all. Occasionally, the horses will be out of control, especially if there is a roaring car passing by quickly. Horses are easily frightened.

But there is nothing that can be done about it... It is impossible for the Dachu Empire to stop the development of automobiles, and it is impossible to say that horse-drawn carriages will be completely abandoned at the first time. At the same time, the number of contemporary automobiles is still relatively small, and it is impossible to say that they have been specifically planned to allow them to be used. The roads where cars travel, so there are situations where horse-drawn carriages and cars drive together on the roads.

In addition, in recent years, with the expiration of some core bicycle patents, many manufacturers have entered the market, and the continued development of industrial technology has led to a rapid and substantial decline in the price of bicycles.

A few years ago, the price of a bicycle was still twenty or thirty yuan, but last year the price of a good, big-brand bicycle had dropped to about fifteen or sixty yuan.

This year, with further fierce competition among bicycle manufacturers, especially the entry of a large number of small and medium-sized manufacturers, the price of bicycles has further dropped. Nowadays, a good bicycle from a big brand only costs about 13 to 40 yuan, while some other brands A high-quality bicycle can be bought for only ten yuan.

Basically, an ordinary worker in Songjiang City can buy a brand new bicycle with one month's salary.

This has led to bicycles becoming popular at a very rapid rate... Last year, Jiao Tiancheng bought a bicycle, which attracted the attention of his colleagues and passers-by... But now, he has many bicycles in Sun Mansion. Several colleagues, mainly those male colleagues, already have one car per person.

In the past two years, the development speed of the bicycle industry has become more popular than that of cars. However, everyone's mainstream attention is focused on cars, and not many people pay attention to bicycles... In fact, in Chengshun Five In ten years, the production of bicycles has reached 7 million units, and it is expected that in Chengshun's 50 years, it will exceed 10 million units.

A large number of bicycles were produced and sold, which caused the number of bicycles among the people to increase rapidly. Then a situation emerged, and a large number of bicycles appeared on the streets of Songjiang.

Many people like Jiao Tiancheng who own bicycles will ride their bicycles when going on short trips, which is convenient and fast...

This also makes some roads appear more crowded and chaotic.

Bicycles, carriages and cars are walking on the same road, how can this not be chaotic...

It is said that the local government traffic office in Songjiang is already planning to divide the roads to separate the roads for bicycles, horse-drawn carriages and cars. However, this is just a research plan and will not be implemented for a while.

Therefore, many roads now, especially intersections, appear chaotic.

Jiao Tiancheng carefully walked through the roads in Xicheng District. After a long time, he arrived in front of a four-story apartment building. He parked his bicycle and locked it. He entered the apartment building and went up to the third floor and knocked on one of the doors. Apartment door.

After a while, the door opened, revealing a lightly dressed figure wearing makeup: Chen Linlin.

Chen Linlin looked at the figure outside the door with a smile on her face. She stepped aside and said, "Brother Tiancheng, you must be tired from the journey. Come in and have a drink of water first!"

When Jiao Tiancheng saw Chen Linlin, a smile appeared on his face: "Okay!"

Later, Jiao Tiancheng followed in.

The apartment is not big. What you see when you enter is a small living room with a door to the room on one side and a small kitchen on the balcony outside the living room.

Jiao Tiancheng accompanied Chen Linlin to find this apartment three months ago. Although it was a little small and the environment was average, it was cheap and close to the training class where Chen Linlin attended.

Chen Linlin finally obtained her junior high school diploma through self-study examination last fall. However, she did not immediately quit her job to attend a training class. After all, attending a training class also required tuition fees, not to mention the several months of attending the training class. Rent, food and other expenses.

She took classes for more than half a year, and after saving some money, she officially resigned from the Sun Mansion and took a junior accounting training class.

Originally, Jiao Tiancheng said that he had some savings and could help her... but Chen Linlin refused.

Although at that time, the relationship between the two of them was already very close. Although they did not officially declare that they were together, they had basically done everything that a couple should do.

However, Chen Linlin still refused to take his money and told him to keep the money... She knew that Jiao Tiancheng also had his own dream and wanted to save money to open his own car repair shop.

Of course, what's more important is that Chen Linlin also has her own self-esteem and even independence... She doesn't want to rely on someone, even if that person is her man.

She had worked so hard before, studying on her own in her spare time, obtained a junior high school diploma, and then entered an accounting training class. She wanted to obtain a basic accounting certificate, not just to be a vassal of a certain man.

Jiao Tiancheng also knew that she had her own ideas, so he did not persuade her much, but worked harder and maintained the Tangshan brand car in the Sun Mansion well, without any problems. He was also very careful when driving on weekdays, which made Sun Xu very satisfied. At the end of the year, in addition to giving him a big red envelope, he also increased his salary, but only increased it to 30 yuan a month. He asked Jiao Tiancheng to work hard, and he would definitely not treat him unfairly.

Logically speaking, a monthly salary of thirty yuan and a one-time red envelope of hundreds of yuan at the end of the year would satisfy most ordinary workers, but Jiao Tiancheng knew that this was not What you want.

He still wants to have a career of his own...a career of his own.

So while he was working hard, he was also working hard to learn car maintenance and repair knowledge. He even tried every means to obtain many repair manuals for other brands of cars, studied some technical books on cars, and even subscribed to some professional car knowledge newspapers and periodicals... …As time goes by, some technical books related to automobiles have gradually appeared on the market, allowing ordinary people like Jiao Tiancheng to have access to this automobile knowledge.

A few years ago, ordinary people like Jiao Tiancheng didn't even have access to automobile technology, let alone teach themselves automobile repair technology.

However, even with these technical materials, not everyone can learn by themselves... This is not a matter of time and energy, but a matter of human initiative.

All kinds of common knowledge in the future are almost everywhere on the Internet, and most of them are free... but not many people will study and study them. Self-learning ability is actually a very valuable ability.

And Jiao Tiancheng and Chen Linlin are two of the few people in the crowd... and to a certain extent, this is the main reason why the two people can appreciate each other and come together.

If he hadn't fallen in love with Chen Linlin's positive attitude towards life, Jiao Tiancheng would not have fallen in love with her... Of course, Jiao Tiancheng did not deny that she was beautiful, but there were so many beautiful women. With Jiao Tiancheng's current income , if you don’t have too many requirements in other aspects, finding a beautiful girl is very simple.

But finding a woman who is beautiful, positive, has a certain sense of independence, and can talk about their ideals with each other... that is difficult.

Most of the other maids in the Sun Mansion were not bad in appearance and figure, and a few unmarried girls also expressed their affection for Jiao Tiancheng... But Jiao Tiancheng never cared.

In turn, this kind of Jiao Tiancheng is to some extent the reason why Chen Linlin fell in love with him... As a young and beautiful girl, she has never lacked suitors around her, but she was indifferent before, but she chose after Jiao Tiancheng appeared. Got him.

It’s also because I saw his positive attitude towards life!

If it were an ordinary person who could earn 20 or 30 yuan a month and be a rich man's driver with an easy job, he would probably have been content and laid down long ago... But Jiao Tiancheng did not lie down. Instead, he continued to study hard to improve himself and prepare for future entrepreneurship.

The two of them are highly similar in their attitudes towards life, so they are attracted to each other...

Of course...it still cannot be denied that these two people are good-looking...Chen Linlin is young and beautiful, with a good personality, while Jiao Tiancheng is also handsome and handsome. When repairing the car, he often takes off his shirt, revealing several abdominal muscles. .

Ever since, the two people naturally came together.

After entering the house, Jiao Tiancheng took a sip of cold drinks, rested for a while, then got up again and went out with Chen Linlin.

They had made an appointment early in the month to go to the zoo on their day off.

The large-scale zoo that the Songjiang government spent a lot of money to build was officially opened to the public in April, attracting many citizens to visit.

Jiao Tiancheng and Chen Linlin are naturally interested in this kind of novelty, but now one of them has to drive to work and the other goes to a training class. They don't have much time to get together on weekdays, so they can only go together on their days off. .

The two went downstairs together. Jiao Tiancheng unlocked the bicycle and pushed the bicycle in front of Chen Linlin. Although Chen Linlin was wearing a skirt today, it was a long skirt, so there was no problem sitting sideways on the bicycle.

But before getting on the bike, she looked at the back seat of the bicycle and saw that the original iron frame wooden back seat had an extra layer of leather cushioning.

He stretched out his hand and touched it. It was quite soft: "When was the cushion installed?"

At this time, Jiao Tiancheng said: "I was in a bicycle shop a while ago and saw this kind of soft cushion, so I bought it and installed it. It will make you more comfortable when sitting!"

After hearing this, a smile appeared on Chen Linlin's face, but she complained: "Now is the time to save money, what are you going to do with this unjust money!"

Jiao Tiancheng smiled and said, "Not much money!"

After Chen Linlin sat on it, she stretched out her hand to wrap her arms around Jiao Tiancheng's waist as usual: "Let's go!"

Jiao Tiancheng said: "Sit down!"

After that, he started to pedal the bicycle forward... not fast, but very steadily.

After the bicycle started moving, Chen Linlin's long light blue skirt also fluttered in the wind. She sat behind, holding his waist with her hands, pressing slightly against his back, listening to his breathing and feeling his heartbeat... …There was a girlish excitement on her face.

This is why, although she learned to ride a bicycle, she still did not buy a bicycle...

The bicycles that Jiao Tiancheng and the two were riding first left the alley and then merged into the road, rushing forward together with other bicycles, carriages and even cars.

The newly opened zoo is located in the northeastern suburbs of Xicheng District. The distance is not too far. The two of them rode bicycles for about an hour. Of course, they did not ride all the way. When encountering some crowded roads or going uphill, Chen Linlin would After getting off the car, Jiao Tiancheng pushed the bicycle.

Walking and riding like this, it took about an hour to arrive... This time was actually a bit long, mainly because the two of us couldn't walk fast. If Jiao Tiancheng had been asked to ride a bicycle alone, it would have taken half an hour at most.

However, Jiao Tiancheng said several times that he would send a woman's bicycle to Chen Linlin, but Chen Linlin refused... Jiao Tiancheng thought it was a problem with Chen Linlin's independent mentality... But he didn't know that the fact was exactly the opposite of his prediction... ...She just wants him to take her with him on a bicycle. She likes the feeling of sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, with the breeze blowing her skirt and hair, close to his back, and listening to his heartbeat.

Only at this time would she put aside her studies and work hard...to be a woman who thinks about nothing and does nothing.

When the two arrived at the zoo, it was still early, about nine o'clock...but the sun had already risen, and the temperature of the air had also risen. Even though Jiao Tiancheng was in good physical condition, he had to ride all the way here. I also shed a lot of sweat.

This is also the reason why many high-income groups still don’t like bicycles... It’s hot and sweaty when riding, and it’s freezing cold. Therefore, contemporary high-income groups still prefer to travel by horse-drawn carriages. Of course, some people are gradually buying cars. drive.

At present, bicycles are a means of transportation for middle and low-income people, especially in suburbs and even rural areas where public transportation is underdeveloped. Bicycles can be ridden by themselves and can also carry goods, so they are welcomed by many farmers' families. .

However, as technology continues to develop, cars continue to mature, and most importantly, prices continue to decrease... Well, especially three-wheeled motorcycles and two-wheeled motorcycles are developing much faster than expected... Now in the Dachu Empire The bicycle wave with extremely obvious upward momentum may not last long...