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Chapter 1329 People Are Different (Second Update, Please Subscribe)

Is Nanyang a paradise?

Everyone has their own views and opinions, but for Nanyang people, they are generally happy.

Happiness is a very subtle thing, and more often it is a feeling.

Like many people, if someone asked Zhao Deliang, "Are you happy?" he would probably be stunned and think that the person asking this question was an idiot.

Does this even need a question?

As usual, after the children went to school, Zhao Deliang looked at his wife who was taking care of his young daughter and son, with a smile on his face that was hard to conceal. Although the years have left traces on his wife's face, in Zhao Deliang's eyes, his wife will always be the most beautiful.

"looking at what?"

"Look at you."

Mary's face lit up with a smug smile at her husband's words. She liked this look from her husband very much; it made her feel still very young.

Although she felt happy, she still reminded:
"Okay, don't just look at it. Remember to register at the office today and find a construction worker to build the shelter as soon as possible."

"Well, I see."

Zhao Deliang nodded, and after sending the children to the nursery before going to work, he took the opportunity to visit the employment agency.

In Nanyang, both long-term and short-term temporary workers need to register with an employment agency. This is to regulate employment and ensure workers' welfare benefits, but also for the purpose of control - by controlling job opportunities, the authorities can use this method to force some potential threats to leave voluntarily.

However, with the changes of the times, the current employment registration is, on the one hand, to connect with secondary education - by connecting enterprises with ordinary and industrial secondary schools to ensure students' education, and on the other hand, to combat illegal labor.

In the past decade, as the threshold for entering Nanyang has been raised, facing the increasingly difficult Nanyang, there are always some people who come to Nanyang by smuggling. Because they are well aware of the harm of illegal labor, even in the case of labor shortage, Nanyang's attitude towards illegal labor is still firm - strictly control the arrest and release.

Methods like tearing up passports are useless here. Chinese people can be sent directly to Siam, Malaya, Singapore, Mindanao and Surabaya, two countries and three regions, and outsiders can even be sent to Africa.

But in comparison, the most effective means is to control from the source - by controlling job opportunities, ensuring that illegal workers have no room to survive in Nanyang.

Even an ordinary person like Zhao Deliang, if he wants to temporarily hire a construction worker, he has to register his information and get a quote at an employment agency, and then the agency will release the information.

Although it is a bit cumbersome, it does reduce the living space of illegal workers to the lowest level.

Lin Kang and others were deeply touched by this. Although they had come to Southeast Asia with great effort, they found that there was no living space for them here at all.

Once again, looking at the job information and the locations of employment agencies in the newspaper, and thinking about those who had registered, Lin Kang's eyes were full of envy. Here, as long as you have an ID card or an overseas work permit, you can get a job based on your personal abilities - not only will you have a national pension, but also medical insurance and provident fund. It can be said that as long as you have a job, not only will you have a worry-free life, but you can also live in a house provided by the state.

Except for the lack of leadership from leaders, perhaps this is the society with extremely abundant material resources that they talk about!
But the problem is that all this belongs only to the Nanyang people and has nothing to do with him.

"A Nanyang person... If I had been born a dozen years earlier, I would have been a Nanyang person..."

While I was thinking this, the bus arrived at the station.
Suddenly, Lin Kang saw a shoulder bag on the seat next to him, which might have been left behind by the man before. After discovering that the owner of the bag was gone, he did not pick it up immediately. When he got off the bus, he looked at the bag, thought about it, picked up the bag, and then got off the bus.

Soon, in a nearby public toilet, looking at the things in the bag, Lin Kang murmured excitedly:
"That's good, that's good, I'm rich... rich..."

The reason why he was so excited was that there were some documents in his bag, including an ID card, a construction worker qualification certificate, and even a work order. With these documents, doesn't it mean that he doesn't have to worry about work anymore?
"I can't stay in Chang'an any longer. Otherwise, I'll go, go..."

After thinking for a while, Lin Kang said to himself:
"Go somewhere else. As long as you stay away from this place, you won't have to worry about your identity being exposed!"

However, Lin Kang did not leave Chang'an immediately, but went to his employer with the work order - the date on the work order was a week later, so he was not worried about his identity being discovered, and he also needed the wages!
The next morning, when Lin Kang knocked on Zhao Deliang's door, he took the work order and took a look at it. Zhao Deliang asked in confusion:

"That arrives so fast?"

"Boss, we've adjusted the order temporarily. When do you think we should start?"

On that day, Lin Kang started working in the backyard of Zhao Deliang's house. Having worked as a construction worker in Hong Kong Island, he was quite an expert. In order to meet the deadline, he would even work two or three more hours every day.

“This worker seems a little different!”

Looking through the kitchen window at the workers working outside, Mary said with some doubt:
"Hubby, have you noticed that he works a few extra hours every day? There won't be any trouble, will there?"

The trouble she was referring to was workers having to work overtime.

"We hired short-term workers with an agreed-upon work period. He wanted to finish the work as quickly as possible. I guess he wanted to earn more money. Every family has its own problems. Maybe he really needs the money."

Need money?

Mary was even a little confused. Although Zhao Deliang often saved money, she didn't know why he had to save money. After all, the house here didn't cost money, and medical care was also guaranteed. After all, it was for retirement, so there was no problem. In this case, was it necessary to save money? Or was it necessary to work so hard to save money?

Although Mary was a little confused, she knew that this was also the habit of many Chinese people. However, many Chinese people are changing their lifestyle of working hard to make money and living frugally just to save money.

Mary and many others think that this ascetic lifestyle is inhumane. After all, isn't the purpose of working hard and making money to have a better life?

However, this does not seem to be the case for many Tang people. They always carry a lot of responsibilities, personal, family, and so on.

However, over the past decade or so, these old living habits have been constantly changing, and they no longer live the same way they used to.

That's why Mary was so surprised to see someone working so hard. After all, she hadn't met such a person for a long time, so she felt it was so strange.

“There are really few people like this now.”

With such emotion in his heart, Zhao Deliang glanced out the window and said:

"After all, every household is building a shelter now, and the workers are very nervous..."

As he spoke, Zhao Deliang looked up at the sky again, then took out two bottles of Fanta from the refrigerator, opened them, walked into the yard, and said to Lin Kang who was working:

"Brother Li, take a break first and drink a bottle of soda..."

Sometimes life's encounters are like this, full of coincidences. A picked-up shoulder bag can change a person's destiny. At least to some extent, Lin Kang's destiny was changed.

A week later, having earned 130 yuan, Lin Kang finally boarded a passenger ship to Zhongxing. Although he could take a plane, he chose to take the ship for fear of exposing his identity.
The reason why he chose to leave was that at that time, the household registration in Nanyang was mobile, and there was no so-called "networking" among the various regions. When he went to other places, as long as he had an ID card, he could find a job. As for appearance, what if he met a European employee?
Sometimes, one has to be bolder.

However, Chen Hui did not leave with him. When Lin Kang left by boat, Chen Hui took the initiative to "surrender" to the Immigration Bureau. Of course, Nanyang would not give her an identity because of this. But as a Tang person, she could choose to go to other regions.

A few days later, Chen Hui boarded a plane to be repatriated to Mindanao.

After the plane took off, Chen Hui thought silently as she looked at the city on the ground from the air.

"I will come again, when I am admitted to university..."

Although she is already 21 years old, Chen Hui has her own plan. According to her plan, after she gets her identity card in Mindanao, she will work while attending night school, then take the high school academic proficiency test, and finally she will be admitted to a university in Nanyang.

Everyone has their own choices and dreams. For many people, Nanyang is their dream destination, and other places are just other places.

In fact, if they wanted, they could have gone to other parts of Southeast Asia as refugees when they were in Hong Kong Island. Those places needed Chinese people and labor.

However, almost everyone has a Nanyang dream in their hearts. If there is a slight possibility, they will choose Nanyang first.

When Chen Hui's plane left Chang'an and flew east, a C717 from Hong Kong Island just arrived in Chang'an. Looking down from the air, Gao Bingjie on the plane looked at the city on the ground with a look of astonishment, and even said in a lost voice:

"How come this place is more prosperous than Hong Kong Island..."

The reason why Gao Bingjie was so surprised was that in her opinion, Hong Kong Island was already the most prosperous place, but who would have thought that the prosperity here was far beyond her imagination.

However, Jin Liangming beside her said with a smile:

"This place is indeed more prosperous than Hong Kong Island, and the lights and wine are naturally even more prosperous."

Then Jin Liangming emphasized:
"Although it is prosperous, that's all. After all, it's all about the bright lights and revelry. Look at Hong Kong Island. Under the bright lights, there are so many evils hidden."

"Manager Jin has a point."

Gao Bingjie nodded and once again looked into the distance. She had no interest in the bright lights and feasting here. She came here to introduce equipment, and of course, there was another thing, which was to take the opportunity to see her younger brother whom she had not seen for many years.

At this moment, she was looking out the window, her eyes full of anticipation, looking forward to meeting her brother whom she hadn't seen for more than 20 years.

When looking at the city on the ground, she also had many questions in her mind.

How come this city is so prosperous?

The skyscrapers and the dazzling lights all seemed so strange, but they all told her one thing: this place was extremely prosperous.

Is this Nanyang?

Are all the cities here so brightly lit?
Gao Bingjie's eyes were filled with confusion and doubt, but more of it was anticipation, anticipation of reuniting with her long-lost relatives. This was the purpose of her coming here, and everything else was unimportant...

(End of this chapter)