game trailblazer

Chapter 6 Training Eve
One day in late July, Zhang Lexing was testing a newly written software in the computer room when Uncle Zhao rushed in sweating profusely.

"Lexing, good, good news." Uncle Zhao said out of breath.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Lexing looked at Uncle Zhao with a puzzled face, then picked up the water glass next to him and handed it over, "Uncle Zhao, sit down and say, let's drink some water first."

Uncle Zhao sat on the chair, gulped down a few sips of water, took a few breaths, and slowly calmed down.

"The factory gave us two places, let us go to train, and we will leave at the beginning of next month." Uncle Zhao put down his water glass and said.

"Training is a good thing! It's a good opportunity to recharge, and I can't let this go." Zhang Lexing is actually not very interested in the current training, but after staying in the factory for so long, life is too monotonous, so it's good to have the opportunity to go out for a walk.

"I heard that the training is arranged in Guangzhou, and the road is quite far." Uncle Zhao may have never been to such a far place before, and he is a little worried.

"Oh, okay, I just went to see the scenery of the southern country. It's an eye-opener." Zhang Lexing said nonchalantly. He is very familiar with Guangzhou, and he worked there for five or six years when he went south to work.

Zhang Lexing remembered an important matter, and quickly asked, "Uncle Zhao, do you know what the training will be about?"

Uncle Zhao scratched his head and thought for a while, then said: "Well, I remember what microcomputer application and program design was written on the list, and I can't remember some things clearly, it should be related to computers. My teacher is an American!"

"Microcomputer training? American?" Zhang Lexing felt very surprised. There should be no environment for microcomputer applications in China, so why are there training classes?Obviously, Uncle Zhao couldn't understand this question. After being confused for a while, Zhang Lexing also gave up.Forget it, just take a trip at public expense.

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Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was the day before going out for training.After get off work in the afternoon, Uncle Zhao took Zhang Lexing to the cafeteria for dinner. At the dinner table, he explained a lot of precautions for going out. If Zhang Lexing didn't insist, Uncle Zhao would almost help him pack his things.After dinner, Zhang Lexing returned home and began to pack his luggage.The children's laughter came from outside the window, occasionally mixed with a few shouts of so-and-so going home for dinner. These were once so familiar, but now they are very far away from Zhang Lexing.In a trance, Zhang Lexing found that he didn't know when he put his hand on the black and white photo frame on the desk, and some liquid seemed to seep out of the corner of his eyes.Zhang Lexing wiped the corners of his eyes lightly, took a piece of silk from the side and covered the photo frame, and seemed to be in a better mood.

Zhang Lexing moved two chairs to the closet, set up the chairs next to the closet, then climbed up the chairs, and got a small suitcase from the top of the closet.After putting the chair back in place, Zhang Lexing opened the door on the left side of the closet, took a few changes of clothes and a towel, put them in the suitcase, and then went to the cupboard next to the wall to get toothpaste and toothbrush.Covering the box, Zhang Lexing thought for a while, walked to the writing desk, took out a box of floppy disks and a notepad from the drawer, and put them in the suitcase. These two things are very important, especially this notepad is his biggest secret. Take it with you as well.

After packing up his things, Zhang Lexing prepared to take a break, so he found a chair and sat down, feeling a little gloomy again.Zhang Lexing got up and took out the drawing board, put it on the desk, picked up the pencil and started to draw, hoping this would calm his mind...

The next day, Zhang Lexing took the suitcase and boarded the green leather train bound for Guangzhou with Uncle Zhao.Everything on the train gave Zhang Lexing a very novel feeling, and he couldn’t help looking around, even the fast food in the carton on the train made him look at it for a while. Of course, these behaviors were just a It's just the normal behavior of a child on a train ride for the first time.After being excited for a long time, Zhang Lexing gradually became a little bored, but he soon found new fun in the scenery passing by outside the train.One thing has remained unchanged for decades. Although the meals provided on the train are disappointing, they are still acceptable. After eating steamed buns and hard rice on the train for a few days, Zhang Lexing and Uncle Zhao came to Guangzhou, the city of Yangzhou.

When I was still in the train station, I didn't feel much difference except that there were fewer trains.But as soon as he and Uncle Zhao walked out of the passenger corridor, Zhang Lexing stood dumbfounded in the square in front of the station. His feeling can only be described in five words—it's so different.Not only were there many buses parked in the square that should have been empty, but there was no trace of the elevated road crossing ahead, and even the small garden in the middle of the street, where there should have been a fountain, was left with only a dozen stunted palm trees standing alone .Originally, Zhang Lexing thought that it would be no problem to know the way based on his previous experience, but he didn’t expect that Guangzhou’s development was too fast, so it became an unreliable idea for him to find the shadow of Guangzhou from the memory of Guangzhou in the 90s.There was no other way, so Zhang Lexing and Uncle Zhao had no choice but to search and ask questions along the way under the scorching sun.

When asking for directions for the first time, Uncle Zhao stepped forward and found a man who looked like a local on the side of the road, and asked him how to go to the training place in a slightly dialected northern dialect, but within a minute He was defeated by the opponent's birdsong.Fortunately, Zhang Lexing had stayed in Guangzhou for five or six years. Although he could not speak Cantonese well due to the long time, he could barely understand it. Unfortunately, the Mandarin he spoke confuses the other party.The two sides exchanged guesswork for ten minutes, and Zhang Lexing finally figured it out. The training site he and Uncle Zhao wanted to go to was about three stops away.

Zhang Lexing and Uncle Zhao walked out for less than a stop, and the sweat on their bodies was already dripping.After finally making another two stops, the two of them began to look around, but they didn't look alike.Zhang Lexing had no choice but to find a passerby and start a new round of guessing activities...

After asking the way for the ninth time, Zhang Lexing and Uncle Zhao finally found the training place, which was in the auditorium of a local university.Uncle Zhao went in to sign up, while Zhang Lexing found a shaded place outside to guard his luggage.There didn't seem to be too many people, so Uncle Zhao came out soon after entering.

Seeing Uncle Zhao come out, Zhang Lexing asked curiously, "How are you doing, did you see the Yankees?"

"Not at all, it's all from our own people. I heard that the lecturers haven't come yet, maybe they can see them during the class." Uncle Zhao said: "By the way, I just heard from the person in charge of registration that there will be 20 people this time." Many units are coming to participate.”

"It seems that they have fooled many people into coming." Zhang Lexing sighed.

"That's right, but the person just said that these units may take three days to arrive, so the official training will start after three days." Uncle Zhao said angrily.

"Oh, it seems that we have to bake here for a few more days." Zhang Lexing said disappointedly.

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Since it was still early, it was natural to find a place to live. Uncle Zhao carried the luggage and led Zhang Lexing to start looking around. There was no way, the words were difficult to understand, and the road was unfamiliar. How dare the two of them run too far.After wandering around for more than an hour, the two finally found a guest house that looked okay.Uncle Zhao took out the letter of introduction from his bag and handed it to the waiter at the registration office. The waiter took the letter of introduction and read it carefully for a while, while looking at the two people in front of him.Soon a piece of paper was thrown out, and the waiter said in Cantonese Mandarin: "Register first!"

Uncle Zhao took out a pen and began to fill it out seriously. Zhang Lexing looked at it and saw that there were so many items, such as name, alias, former name, gender, place of origin, date of birth, family background, personal status, reason for coming to the city, and who Introduction, it will take about a few days to stay... His head is getting bigger.

After a solid ten minutes, Uncle Zhao finally finished filling out the form.This time it was much faster. As soon as I handed it in, a piece of keys flew out, followed by the waiter Guangpu, "Room 502, boiling water starts at six o'clock in the evening, and hot water at seven o'clock..."

After putting away his luggage, Zhang Lexing fell on the bed and wanted to rest for a while. As soon as his body touched the sheets, he immediately sat up at a faster speed. It was too hot and his body was sticky. It seemed that he would not be able to fall asleep without taking a bath.Looking at the time, it was still very early at [-]:[-] pm, but Zhang Lexing's stomach protested inappropriately.

"Le Xing, let's go, let's go out and find something to eat!" Uncle Zhao made a very attractive proposal, and Zhang Le Xing naturally nodded in agreement.

As the saying goes, food is in Guangzhou, and Guangzhou people dare to eat delicious food. They claim to eat anything with four legs except stools. Under this atmosphere, Guangzhou has also become a paradise for finding delicious food.

"But it's only 80 years now, can you find the delicacies in your memory?" Zhang Lexing still has a little worry in his heart.

I was lucky, I saw a restaurant not far from the guest house, the facade was not too big, and there was a signboard "Authentic Cantonese Cuisine Restaurant".It looked good from the outside, so Uncle Zhao pushed Zhang Lexing and walked in.There are only a dozen tables in the restaurant, almost full of people.Uncle Zhao and Zhang Lexing found a vacant seat and sat down. Soon, a waiter rolled out a cart of small cages. Uncle Zhao was stunned when he saw it. .Fortunately, Zhang Lexing still had some impressions. He picked some rice rolls, rice noodles, radish cakes, etc., and another bowl of wontons, which was barely enough to fill his stomach.

After solving the problem of food and clothing, Uncle Zhao took Zhang Lexing to stroll around the nearby small market. There were quite a lot of things, more abundant than many large shopping malls in the mainland. Some people even mysteriously sold things called imported products, such as Speaking of small and exquisite electronic lighters, plastic electronic watches and so on, Uncle Zhao couldn't help but bought some small things under the encouragement of others, and planned to take them back as souvenirs.Zhang Lexing walked around with Uncle Zhao for quite a while and didn't buy anything. The best and most exquisite things in this market were not as good as the ones he had used before. Naturally, he lacked interest.

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Time passed quickly, Zhang Lexing and Uncle Zhao had already been in Guangzhou for three days, and the training class finally started.However, there were only eleven of the more than 20 units that were originally scheduled to come. The staff of the training class didn't seem to be frustrated at all, and they seemed very happy. Zhang Lexing couldn't help but start to feel a little worried. Could it be that he had encountered a scammer.

Zhang Lexing and Uncle Zhao came quite early. When they entered the school auditorium, there were only two or three trainees sitting in it, so they took two seats near the front with a good view and waited for the lecture to begin.Soon, other people who participated in the training class came one after another. Seeing that there were vacancies in the front row, they all sat forward, and soon the back of the auditorium became empty.Seeing that people were almost here, the staff also began to move things inside, first a big table, and then some electronic equipment moved in and put them on the table, but unfortunately they were all covered by cloth, Zhang Lexing couldn’t see clearly, it really made people feel uncomfortable He was very upset.

At this time, Zhang Lexing never thought that he would soon encounter the biggest turning point in his life.

(End of this chapter)