Fengcheng old events

Chapter 435 Zhengzhou
In the winter of 98, Section Chief Wang of the Welfare Section was transferred to the power workshop as the workshop director. He also brought Zhang Xinglong's personnel relations with him, and he was assigned to the pumping station.

The power workshop is the largest workshop in the open-pit mine, with the largest number of personnel, and the posts are located in every corner of the mine, so it is relatively scattered, and everyone does not know each other at all, even if it is a team.

Just like the water pump class, there are more than 400 people. Zhang Xinglong knows two people, one is the monitor, and the other is his replacement.

The work of looking at the water pump is actually relatively light. It is a small two-story building. The water pump is on the first floor. Basically, it will not stop for a few days throughout the year. It just runs like that, and there is no need to do anything at all.

The second floor is the lounge, with a wooden bed. When you come here, you can just sleep or read a book. There are no people in a radius of one kilometer, and there are no conditions for doing other things.

After several shifts, Zhang Xinglong couldn't stay any longer. After negotiating with the monitor, Zhang Xinglong got the freedom not to go to work at the cost of only receiving basic salary every month.

He rented a house on Nanshan and shut himself in the house for a whole winter.If I couldn't stay longer, I went to the computer room in the street to play games.

At this moment, there are Internet cafes, but the Internet access fee is relatively expensive, and they usually play games online.

Red Alert, Diablo, CS, and then QQ chat.

People playing QQ at this time are looking for people to add friends online. Whether they recognize them or not, everyone is from all over the world, and they chat when they add them.

Voice chat has been opened, and strangers thousands of miles away can talk through the Internet wearing a headset, looking for pleasure in the other party's voice without worrying about the phone bill.

The first generation of online dating started at this time.

Zhang Xinglong also has good netizens who get along well, not only chatting on QQ, but also leaving each other's mobile phone numbers, and occasionally calling.

It was a girl from Yiwu, Zhejiang, one year younger than Zhang Xinglong, she looked very much like Zhao Wei, she was small and energetic.

The reason why Zhang Xinglong knew this was because she came to Nanfen.

I traveled thousands of miles from Yiwu to Shenyang by train, and then transferred to Nanfen to visit Zhang Xinglong.I also brought him the special dried powder over there.

The girl stayed here for more than a week, and she didn't like the living environment here, so she wanted Zhang Xinglong to go to Yiwu with her.Her family does gilt craft paintings for export.

Right now Yiwu is already quite rich, but Zhang Xinglong doesn't know it.

The farthest he has gone is Shenyang, and it can be said that he knows nothing about the outside world. This is the normal state of ordinary people in heavy industrial areas, where information is slow and the world is closed.

So when the girl said that 5 to [-] yuan is not a lot of money, Zhang Xinglong was even a little unhappy, thinking that she was talking big.

And as a person who has never gone out to see outside, and still retains a lot of local macho thinking, women should follow men, so Zhang Xinglong rejected the girl and wanted her to stay here.

The girl left disappointed.

Later, the two talked on the phone a few more times, but the girl still wanted Zhang Xinglong to come over, but Zhang Xinglong didn't agree, so they gradually lost contact.

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Years later, the cake shop's business has not improved, coupled with the continuous series of incidents, Zhang Xinglong is a bit disheartened.

In the autumn of 99, Zhang Xinglong packed up his things and went to Henan with his luggage on his back without saying hello to his family.

He felt that everything here was meaningless, and wanted to go out for a walk and see the outside world.

The reason why Henan was chosen is because it is the birthplace of Han culture. Before the Yuan Dynasty, it had always been the political and cultural center of China.

The ancient Zhongzhou and the Central Plains all refer to this place, and it has been the center of China in the region from history to the present.

Following the rattling and rattling of the train for three days and two nights, Zhang Xinglong arrived in Zhengzhou and stayed at the guest house on Erma Road next to the train station.

The weather here in Zhengzhou is a bit close to that in the Northeast, and it snows, but there is no public heating.

It dawned very late in the morning, around seven o'clock, and it got dark at night later than in the Northeast.

The units and companies here work from nine to five, with a two-and-a-half-hour break at noon, which is completely different from the Northeast.

In the Northeast, it is usually 07:30 or [-] o'clock in the morning, and there is only one hour lunch break at noon.

During the day, he wandered around, watched, and borrowed the bicycles of the staff of the guest house to wander around.

Erqi Tower, Ginza, Home Appliance City, Small Commodity City, Clothing City, Small Commodity Wholesale City, there is no purpose, just to look around.

There are many people from the Northeast doing business here. The home appliance city and clothing city basically speak with a northern accent, while the small commodity city is dominated by people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

He also went to Wuzhi, Jiaozuo, and saw the Yellow River.

It is completely different from the turbid waves and the sky in my mind. The Yellow River is about to stop flowing here, and the poor water flow feels like it can be waded directly. Most of the riverbed is exposed to the sun, and many places have been planted with crops.

Zhang Xinglong also came into contact with many business models and sales models that were unheard of before.

For example, Electric Appliance City, Zhengzhou Bafang Electric Appliance City is already small-scale now, and its main store is in Erqi Square. Zhang Xinglong even went to apply for the job, but he didn't pass because he really didn't know much about the local area.

(Bafang Electric has basically withdrawn from Zhengzhou now.)
He also specially went to see the Asia Mall, experienced up and down this No. [-] shopping mall in China that has been advertised on CCTV for many years.

The number one is not the scale, but the service. Of course, its scale is definitely not small.

Here he came into contact with the education and training company for the first time, which is the set of motivational teaching for success learning. The first thing he does every morning when he goes to work is for all the employees to do exercises, clapping their hands and shouting loudly that I can do it. I can do it.

So shy.

He ran as far as the Guancheng Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, which was already on the edge of the city at this time, and further east was a wilderness.

There are a large number of self-built small buildings around the hospital.The common people here build buildings after earning money. It’s like a competition. If you build four floors, I will build five floors. There is no plan, and it looks a bit chaotic.

Many self-built buildings are leased to outsiders to live in, and colorful clothes are hung to dry everywhere.

This is the red light district of Zhengzhou, full of small hair salons and shampoo rooms, the regular ones and the informal ones are well distinguished, the irregular ones are all lit with pink lamps, and there is often a rooster in the house, I don’t know why What.

There are many delicacies in Zhengzhou, such as braised mutton, stewed dumplings, stewed cakes, spicy soup, dumplings in sour soup, and stewed noodles with big meat.

Every morning, the streets and alleys are full of the aroma of Hu spicy soup.

The bowls used for braised noodles are all open-mouthed bowls that are bigger than the face. The noodles are chewy and have a lot of meat, which is delicious and full.

As the hinterland of the Central Plains, Henan has a long history of culture, simple folk customs and architectural atmosphere. Only when you come here can you experience it personally, so rumors cannot be trusted.

For example, the food on the platforms of railway stations in various places is mostly expensive, tasteless and half-cooked money. Only the platforms in Henan can be bought at will, which is guaranteed to be delicious and hygienic and not too expensive.

This is temperament.

Zhang Xinglong spent the whole autumn in Zhengzhou without any purpose, until it snowed.

Here Zhang Xinglong finally knows what cold is, the kind of cold where the locals are naked, but he has to wear clothes and cover two layers of quilts and still be shivering from the cold, but it is completely opposite in the daytime.

During the day, the locals wear cotton-padded jackets and trousers. He only needs to wear a shirt, and he does not feel cold.

Winter is coming, and the money on his body is almost spent.

Although he applied for several jobs in the middle, he didn't take it seriously, but now he can't take it seriously, and he will run out of money.

Zhang Xinglong began to look for ways to make money.

After turning around for a few days, he finally found an opportunity.

Cake shops here are already very popular, but most of them use the dark official packaging of Zhejiang people.

(End of this chapter)