I want to be emperor

Chapter 850 Traveling Together
Sun Xu and Ms. Meng walked back to the apartment while talking. When they reached the fourth floor of the apartment, Sun Xu put down some of Ms. Meng's things.

But he didn't say goodbye directly, but said along the lines of the conversation between the two just now: "I'll help you post the couplet later!"

Even if you spend the New Year alone, even if you only live in a rented apartment, you still have to post the couplets as a favor.

Miss Meng did not refuse: "Then please trouble Mr. Sun!"

This afternoon, the two of them walked together, talked a lot on the way, and got a little familiar with each other, and they don't need to be too polite to help with ordinary small things, but if they are too polite, they will be outsiders.

Of course, this is also because Sun Xu has abided by gentleman's etiquette in the occasional encounters in the past month, and he didn't do anything excessive when they went to the street together today.

In addition, when chatting, they would talk about some work matters. Ms. Meng also knew that Sun Xu was not an ordinary worker, but a mechanical repairman, and was quite appreciated by her boss.

In today's Great Chu Empire, a mechanical repairman is still a relatively decent job, with rich income, high social status, and great room for advancement...

Sun Xu is just a young mechanical repairman who has just graduated from the school. He has not even passed the inspection period, and his monthly income is already several times that of ordinary workers.

If you accumulate it for a few years and become a senior mechanical repairman with good skills, it is normal to have a monthly income of [-] to [-] Chu Yuan. If you go up, you can become a technical backbone, and even take a technical management position, such as An Hua The chief of the machine repair department in the textile company... Although he is just a small chief, he is a solid technical backbone with a monthly income of tens of Chu Yuan.

This income cannot be achieved by many senior management positions!

Chu Yuan is still quite valuable these days. For administrative positions in some enterprises, the monthly salary of low-level managers is less than ten Chu Yuan, mid-level managers are only around ten or twenty Chu Yuan, and senior managers are only a few dollars older. Ten Chu yuan only.

In other words, as long as Sun Xu accumulates smoothly, as long as he does not degenerate and continues to study and study technology, even if his talent is mediocre, it is not a big problem to get a monthly salary of fifty or sixty Chu yuan before the age of 30.

This income is almost ten times that of ordinary workers, and it is a high income that most Chu people can't even hope for...

Even if you go to Huidong Department Store where she works, they are all target customers who need to be treated respectfully... People can't afford luxury accessories and daily necessities, but some luxury accessories in the conventional sense, such as clothes, shoes, hats, gold, silver and jade, can still be bought. affordable!

In fact, this kind of high-income group with a monthly income of tens of Chu Yuan is also the main customer of these regular luxury accessories!

As for those rich and powerful... Although each of them has amazing spending power, the total number of people is so small, and they don't buy jewelry every day for fun!

So don't look at the upper class, the powerful and the rich have money, but their contribution to the consumer market is actually the same... Businesses that only do business for the rich are basically small and beautiful, not big.

Therefore, even if the luxury jewelry brands of later generations can become bigger and stronger, their main customers are middle-to-high-income groups.

The jewelry and jade items in Huidong Department Store are actually similar, boasting very high-end, but in fact the main customer group is middle-to-high income class.

According to Sun Xu's situation, I'm afraid he will become a frequent visitor to high-end department stores like Huidong Department Store in a few years!

He is prudent and polite, and has a bright future at work. In addition, although Sun Xu is not considered a handsome guy, he can't be called ugly. After all, he is 1.7 meters tall and has a normal body shape. He has a square face and wears daily clothes And definitely not sloppy.

When people go to work every day, they wear business attire when they go out. In winter, they have a woolen coat, leather shoes, and a three-piece hat every day.

Although people will change into work clothes after they arrive at the factory... But when they are outside, they are properly dressed by middle-income young men.

Otherwise... why do you think Ms. Meng would agree to go shopping with Sun Xu to buy new year's goods in the afternoon!

If Sun Xu only earns three or four Chu Yuan a month, wears cloth clothes and shoes every day, and even wears the work clothes issued by the factory, and then acts slovenly, and speaks without seriousness... What would you think if you were a girl?What do you think?
I'm afraid I don't even have the interest to take a second look!
On the other hand... In fact, Ms. Meng is pretty much the same to Sun Xu!

However, Ms. Meng's appearance is worse, her dress is worse, her conversation is worse... Sun Xu will not be so concerned... Although Sun Xu is young and only 19 years old this year, don't think that Sun Xu has never seen her before. woman.

Their family is in their hometown county, so they can be regarded as a middle-income family... After all, a low-income family cannot afford a high school student; it is even more impossible to buy a set of high-quality fine cashmere for Sun Xu, which is well-matched and worth a lot. Yuan's professional attire was given as a gift for the teacher.

Probably, similar to ordinary working families in the later generations, you have seen a few children in the family who have graduated, so you buy him a suit worth tens of thousands to wear to an interview.

At first glance, his father was just a shoemaker, but his various miscellaneous incomes a year were worth hundreds of Chu Yuan.

Hundreds of Chu Yuan's income is really not too small in the small place of my hometown, and there is no burden such as mortgage or car loan.

That is to say, his mother fell ill, and later needed expensive medicines for physical recuperation, which made the family's economy suddenly tense, otherwise it would not be so tight now.

And Sun Xu himself is a mechanic, and he was successfully trained at a young age. Among the younger generation in their small place in the county, he is actually not bad.

As Sun Xu gets older, there are not a few matchmakers who come to the door...

By the way, there are actually more people who want to marry their daughters to his younger brother... After all, his younger brother is expected to get a college scholarship, and there is a high probability that he will be an excellent high school student in a three-year college.

Such a potential stock may not be a big deal in a big city, but in their small poor place, it is a fragrant momo, not to mention the middle-class people of the same class, even those local families with daughters of the right age have higher status and income The group is wondering whether to bet in advance to get a college student's son-in-law back.

Even if you fail the college entrance examination and fail to enter the university, you will not lose much!
Because his younger brother is currently studying in a prefectural high school. Although high school students in the Great Chu Empire are inferior to college students, they are already considered serious and highly educated talents in small places. From the official status of the ninth rank, it is not a big problem!

In this place in China, young single men with official status, no matter what age they are, are sweet buns. You don’t have to find them yourself. As long as you pass the exam and you are still single, many officials will immediately join you as a matchmaker. !
However, his younger brother is determined to study and wants to get a scholarship, and he doesn't care about the outside world at all... His parents also think that their youngest son is very good, and he will definitely be able to go to college in the future. It is too disadvantageous to talk about marriage now!

He wanted to find a suitable daughter-in-law after he went to college, so he politely declined any outside marriage temptations.

A daughter-in-law with a high school degree is not at the same level as a daughter-in-law with a college degree. Although the Sun family's parents have little education, they have been in the market all their lives, and there are still some smart people.

So don't look at the Sun family's life is so tight now, even Sun Xu's younger brother's tuition fee can't be paid for, but in fact, Sun Xu is quite popular in the marriage and love market!
At least that's how it was in their old home.

It's just that Sun Xu is not a fool, and he has some vision, so ordinary women naturally look down on him.

Not to mention, there are hundreds of female workers in Anhua Textile Company, and Sun Xu would not even chat with them in ordinary times.

At most, just say hello and nod!

It's not that I look down upon it.

It's that the two sides are different in terms of education, class, status, and income...Even the daily chat, to be honest, it's impossible to talk...

In addition, daily behaviors, consumption habits, daily words, etc. are not on the same channel.

Financially, Sun Xu was short of cash when he first came to Songjiang City... But now that he has found a job and received a salary a year ago, he has a little more money on hand.

I even sent five yuan back to my family!
Not to mention that the salary of ordinary female workers is generally more than three yuan, even for those skilled male workers, most of them earn less than five Chu yuan a month.

The relationship between men and women is actually quite simple. I think you are pleasing to the eye, and your personality, appearance, and job are not bad, so I will get in touch with you more. I think you are not good, so naturally I am too lazy to talk to you.

The same is generally true between Sun Xu and Ms. Meng.

Ms. Meng thinks that Sun Xu has a good career, good personality and knowledge, and although he is not handsome, he is not ugly either.

Sun Xu thinks that Ms. Meng has good looks, dignified and polite manners, and it is rare to have attended a girls' school... Although her job is just selling jewelry and jade, which is not considered decent, but it is not bad, and the income is also high.

It is impossible for low-income working women, such as those in the textile factory, to wear a long silk skirt and a rabbit fur cloak to go shopping with Sun Xu.

This suit costs at least seven or eight Chu yuan, which is two months' salary of an ordinary female worker!
So don't look at it as just two single dogs living in an apartment similar to a welfare housing, but when they went out just now, the total value of the two of them was at least [-] Chu yuan!
It was precisely because of this that they were able to go out and chat together. Now when Sun Xu offered to help Ms. Meng post couplets, instead of refusing, Ms. Meng smiled gracefully and said, "Please trouble Mr. Sun."

So Sun Xu opened the door of his own apartment first, took the other things back first, took the couplets to the door, and pasted them with paste, and waited until the couplets were pasted on the doors of the two families.

Ms. Meng also came to Sun Xu with a glass of warm water: "Come on, have a drink of warm water!"

After Sun Xu took it, Ms. Meng said again: "I'm going to make meat dumplings later. I bought a lot of meat. I'll get you some later!"

Sun Xu didn't delay: "Thank you Ms. Meng for that!"

Then he thought about it again, and Sun Xu said: "I heard from my colleagues in the company that the government will organize fireworks to be set off by the river at night. I heard that the scale is very large and the fireworks are very beautiful. Why don't we go and watch them together?"

After hearing this, Ms. Meng was a little moved: "Last year, I heard that the government held a large-scale fireworks event by the Huangpu River, but it's not convenient for me to go out at night alone. If I have the opportunity this year, I will go to it." Take a look!"

"It's just that I'm afraid it's not easy to hail a taxi on the night of the New Year's Eve, and the number of public carriages is also much less!"

Last year, Ms. Meng actually tried to go to watch the fireworks feast by the river... The reason why she didn't go was not because it was inconvenient for a girl to go out and she didn't dare to go out... It was because she was waiting for the bus at the street corner I didn't wait for a taxi for a long time, so I didn't go.

Few young girls who are alone in Songjiang City are really timid!
On the night of the New Year's Eve, it is not so easy to get a taxi, much more difficult than during rush hour on weekdays.

It's not that there are too many passengers, but that there are too few coachmen who are willing to go out to make money by running sports cars on the night of New Year's Eve.

Sun Xu didn't think about the problem of traveling, and it really was after thinking about it carefully.

They live in the east of Xicheng District. Although it is relatively close to the Huangpu River in Xicheng District, it is still five kilometers away. It takes more than an hour to walk there.
On this winter night, I walked for at least an hour to watch the fireworks in the cold wind... This is too nonsense, Miss Meng is willing, and Sun Xu himself is not willing...

It's just that there are indeed fewer horse-drawn carriages on the night of New Year's Eve, and it's very difficult to call.

Although there are still public carriages, even on the eve of the New Year's Eve, they will not stop running, but people have to arrange a rotation, and this time the number of buses is much less than usual.

As bustling as Songjiang City, there is a lot of traffic every day, even at night there are still a lot of public carriages, and rented carriages can be seen 24 hours a day.

But even during the extremely special time period of the New Year's Eve, the public transportation in Songjiang City will inevitably fall into a semi-paralyzed state!
Everyone wants to eat New Year's Eve dinner, and even the carriage drivers want it too!

Sun Xu thought about this for a while and said: "Well, I will go to the car rental agency on Anshui Street next door to see if I can rent a pony carriage. Yesterday, I heard from my colleagues that the one on Anshui Street Car rental companies will not be closed during Chinese New Year even on New Year's Eve!"

In Songjiang City, there are basically all kinds of businesses. In the field of public transportation, there are not only horse-drawn carriages and public carriages, which are managed and operated by the Songjiang Public Carriage Company, but also some privately operated car rental companies!
These car rental companies will rent the carriage to others, and some will provide a driver... If you can drive yourself, you don't need a driver, and you will be charged by the day or by the hour.

Before Sun Xu went out with Section Chief Wang to do errands, the company's own four-wheeled carriage was not available, and the place where he went to do errands was relatively remote. It was difficult to get a car when he came back, so he took the carriage of the car rental company.

Now during the Chinese New Year, especially during the [-]th day, the first day of the new year, and the second day of the new year, the capacity of public transportation has dropped significantly, which is the time for those car rental companies to grab business and make money...

In order to make money and expand the market, they still open the door on New Year's Eve... Anyway, the boss doesn't need to watch the store in person, but it doesn't affect the boss to have a happy New Year's Eve dinner at home.

As for the employees who still go to work at night on New Year's Eve, they don't have much money to give double salary...

Ms. Meng should also know, but she also has some concerns: "Renting a car is also quite expensive, why don't we go on foot, if we walk faster, we should be able to arrive in about an hour!"

Sun Xu said: "Don't be afraid, I'll rent a two-wheeled single-horse cart, it won't be too expensive, and when the time comes, I will drive by myself, without using their driver, and I can save a lot!"

After hearing this, Miss Meng smiled!

Immediately, he said in a tone of excitement: "Then I will start cooking the New Year's Eve dinner now, and you don't need to open the fire over there. I will eat it together when I finish it. This will save time. We will go and see it after we finish eating." Fireworks, if you go early, you might be able to get a good seat!"

When she said this, Miss Meng's expression was a little excited in the first half... But when she said the second half, she was already shy!
Ms. Meng is not very old, she is two years younger than Sun Xu. Although women in Chu State can get married at the age of 14 these days, these seventeen or eighteen-year-old women are actually not young. In people's eyes, this A young girl is already a mature girl.

But in the final analysis, he is only seventeen or eighteen years old... still has some fantasies about some beautiful things.

She wanted to see the Spring Festival fireworks last year, but unfortunately, it was just like what she said before... She was a single girl who was in the [-]th of the new year, so she couldn't go.

She was naturally very happy to have the opportunity to go this year, but she only considered saving time and set off early to reserve a seat.

Just talking, she realized that it was inappropriate to have New Year's Eve dinner together. It's not appropriate for this lonely man and widow to eat New Year's Eve dinner together... no matter how you hear it or say it.

It's just that the words have been spoken, and it's getting late now, and it will take time for Sun Xu to rent a car, so he can't let Sun Xu be hungry on New Year's Eve, and he won't even have a New Year's Eve dinner!
So for a moment, her expression was excited, joyful, then shy, and then tangled!
Sun Xu naturally saw it too, but he pretended not to see it, and just said in a normal tone: "Okay, I'm going to rent a car right now, I have to go quickly, otherwise I'm afraid that the car in the car rental shop will be caught if I go late." The rent is over!"

He didn't mention the New Year's Eve dinner together!
Some things don't need to be said, just do it!
Seeing Sun Xu hastily pick up his coat again and go downstairs at a trot pace, Miss Meng's mouth slightly curled up at this time, showing a smile!
(End of this chapter)