Shanghai is prosperous

Chapter 5

After Wang Yiyuan finished his training in the factory workshop, the company arranged for him to intern with Du Yule, an old businessman.According to traditional habits, Wang Yiyuan called Du Yule his master.

The master Du Yule is a middle-aged elder sister in her 40s, from Shanghai.She used to be a car operator in a textile factory of a state-owned enterprise in Puxi. She was laid off from the company many years ago. She was forced to earn a living. She worked in many industries and worked as a handyman. On the contrary, she cultivated her indomitable, cheerful, and pungent character.

Later, Du Yule was introduced by someone, and she resolutely went to a printing factory in Pudong to work as a salesperson. She didn't want to, but she did it slowly.The year before last, her husband was transferred to Hongqiao International Airport for work. In order to take care of the family conveniently, she followed him to the Taihu company.

First in the company, the master Du Yule taught Wang Yiyuan some basic business knowledge, mainly the basic concepts of paper products and packaging materials of various styles, different papers, and different processes, and the calculation methods and methods of quotations. .

After Wang Yiyuan mastered these basics, Du Yule then took him out to run business for two weeks, and taught him some common methods and skills for finding customers, the delivery date and method of the company's products, and The basic business process such as price and payment method, and also introduced to Wang Yiyuan some other famous printing companies in Shanghai and their related products, competitive advantages and other basic information related to the business.

Du Yule is an enthusiastic person, and he has been laid off and has the experience of starting his own business, so he has the sympathy of being a big sister. He feels that it is very difficult for Wang Yiyuan to be alone in Shanghai, so when he was teaching Wang Yiyuan, he basically did not Reservation, comprehensive; Wang Yiyuan is also full of imagination and longing for the upcoming salesman's work, and he studies very seriously and carefully. Sometimes he is afraid that he will forget, so he takes out a small notebook from time to time to write down a few notes.

At this time, Wang Yiyuan was staying at the factory for board and lodging.The dormitory of Taihu Company's printing factory is a mezzanine built on top of the back workshop.The dormitory rooms are small cubicles made of wood and plasterboard, without windows.Because the roof has no insulation and ventilation, the room is extremely cold in winter, but it is extremely stuffy in summer.Although the boss took care of him and allowed Wang Yiyuan to live in a single room, he soon encountered many problems and felt very uncomfortable and bored.

First of all, we have to endure the noise from various machines in the factory day and night and the noises and voices of people coming and going, especially in the production department, which works in two shifts, and shifts are changed at [-] o'clock in the middle of the night. All these sounds penetrated the thin simple wall panels in the middle of the night, and they were very clear. When Wang Yiyuan had something on his mind one day, and he couldn't sleep, it was even more deeply rooted in people's hearts, as if a hand The small hammer was beating on his fragile nerves.

Second, because he is the only person in the company's business department who lives in the factory, he often encounters uncertainties in production in the workshop, such as color matching, proofing, splicing sizes, etc., and Manager Ding often makes a phone call, even if Wang Yiyuan is [-] yuan. If you want to, you can only obediently put on your clothes and go downstairs.

So that later, even when he heard Manager Ding’s strong Taichung accent Mandarin during the day, Wang Yiyuan instantly felt that the voice was infinitely amplified, buzzing in his ears, and felt very uncomfortable for no reason, even a little A hint of disgusting repulsion.

Therefore, Wang Yiyuan thought of moving out of the factory to live while he had just started doing business and had some free time.

For moving out of the factory, Wang Yiyuan actually knew in his heart that these were not the most important reasons, they were just superficial reasons.The real main reason is that Wang Yiyuan has felt a heavy anxiety and panic in the recent period, especially since he made up his mind to leave Ningbo for Shanghai at the beginning of the year.

By the end of December next year, Wang Yiyuan will be 30 years old. In the "Analects of Confucius", Confucius said that a man stands at thirty, which refers to the ideal state of life that a man should achieve at the age of 30. That is to say, a man at the age of 30 should be able to rely on his own ability to independently bear the responsibilities he should bear. And have determined their own life goals and development direction.Thirty-thirty work and etiquette, Wang Yiyuan even clearly remembered such a sentence in his junior high school Chinese documents.

Simply put, at the age of 30, a person should be able to face all difficulties calmly.On the other hand, looking at himself in reality, Wang Yiyuan just felt the rapid loss of youth, the passing of time, and the vicissitudes in his eyes.

However, for a man, starting a family, starting a business, and raising a family has not been realized yet. What's more terrible is that the current self seems to be quite distant and ethereal from these things, even if there is no shadow. Not yet, and I don't know if I will realize it in the future, whether it can be realized.

In other words, he urgently needs a change now, he at least wants to become better than his current self, even if there is only a glimmer of hope, or a glimmer of hope.

To put it bluntly, he needs opportunities, and to have opportunities, he needs to have more contact with the outside world and a certain degree of freedom.Moving out of the factory was the basic realistic idea and need that Wang Yiyuan could think of at that time.

Later, a colleague from the company introduced Wang Yiyuan to the small courtyard on Xingzhan Road in Qibao Town.This is a standard old Shanghai farmhouse near Wubao Road, with white walls and black tiles, and a two-story building.

There is a well built by the landlord on the west side of the yard. There is no shortage of water in Shanghai. If you dig two meters into the ground, water will seep out. However, this well is not only deep, but also fine white sand is placed at the bottom, so it was dug up. The water is very clear, and it is warm in winter and cool in summer.

There are four people in the landlord's family, an old lady, the landlord couple and their daughter, and a large family occupies the hall and kitchen downstairs and the two bedrooms upstairs.Because it was profitable, the landlord built two rows of simple asbestos-tiled houses by adding bricks to the east and west sides of the yard. In addition to the extra rooms upstairs and downstairs for their own use, the small courtyard has a total of more than ten rooms all for rent.

The rent is not expensive, ranging from [-] to [-] yuan depending on the size of the floor.Each room uses a separate fire meter, and a simple stove is built at the door. The tap water is connected to a large water pipe with more than ten small faucets. Each faucet is equipped with a water meter, which is numbered for individual use by each house.

Turn left from the small courtyard and walk 50 meters along Xingzhan Road to Wubao Road.At that time, Wubao Road, especially the short section from Wuzhong Road to Huqingping Highway, was connected to Hongqiao International Airport and Dongfang Guomao Wholesale Market at one end, and a thousand-person factory of Taishang Candy, a Taiwanese-funded enterprise, at the other end.

This narrow street, which is only about [-] meters in total, is dotted with houses like Wang Yiyuan’s on both sides. Although the alleys are narrow and cramped, the houses are densely packed, and the sewage is flowing, because of the cheap rent and convenient living conditions, it is bustling with people. There is a lot of traffic.

The whole street is like a huge container, containing all aspects of daily life, filled with piles of various shops, restaurants with various flavors all over the country, various entertainment venues with different consumption levels and needs, and There are tiny factories and warehouses that fit in every corner.It is relatively easy to find a job here, as long as you are not picky.

Of course, the important thing is that living here has everything you need and it’s super cheap, such as cheap rent, cheap daily necessities, cheap meals, cheap baths, and even finding Miss XX.Wang Yiyuan bought an almost new Giant bicycle at a car repair booth for 30 yuan.

It seems that at every moment, there are countless outsiders flocking here, traffickers, masons, white-collar workers with a bright appearance and a tired heart, and all kinds of so-called bosses who are proud and lacking in confidence, and there are coming and going. Delivery people, even cooks, monks and nuns, beggars, drug sellers, and fortune tellers. There are too many people here. From morning to night, there are people coming and going, shouting with different accents. It looked chaotic and crowded.

And at night, this place becomes a paradise on earth again, with neon lights flashing, smoke and dust billowing everywhere, people are full of drunkenness, people are full of voices, all kinds of idiots complain about women, green forest heroes, the whole street seems to be lifted up.

Later, Wang Yiyuan missed the days of living in this small courtyard very much.Wang Yiyuan stayed in the small space on the second floor of this small courtyard for more than a year and a half. Most of the time, he was accompanied only by a simple radio and books, and occasionally scattered from the gap between buildings. Sunlight and moonlight creeping in through the window at night.Outside the window, life is full of hustle and bustle.

It may be difficult for many people to imagine that in this glamorous and beautiful Shanghai metropolis, there is a kind of people, perhaps in these villages in the city that are separated from us all the way, living a free and barbaric life in the sticky and humid air. There are loss, confusion, or illness, death, walking, pause, growth and running, persistence, awareness and disillusionment. They use their own way of life to tell the life that we don't want to explore deeply. destiny.

The people and things that happen here all the time, whether he saw it with his own eyes or heard it from hearsay, gave Wang Yiyuan a little more understanding of life and life, and a little more expectation for his future.

Many years later, Wang Yiyuan felt that memories can be so close.

(End of this chapter)