1999, midsummer.
Seoul, the capital of Goryeo Province, China.
In a newly built residential community, the elevator landed on the bottom floor, and Wang Yue walked out of it with a woven bag.
The bag was full of decoration garbage, tiles, wooden blocks, and gypsum, and it weighed dozens of kilograms. After walking about 500 meters, Wang Yue finally arrived at the construction waste storage point in the community and threw the heavy woven bag off his side.
The summer in Seoul is not too hot, and the average is just in the early 30s, but this year is obviously an exception. It has been thirty-seven and eighth degrees for several days.
Wang Yue wiped off the sweat from his forehead and turned back to the residential building under the scorching sun. His identity is a decoration worker at the moment, and he had to finish the business no matter what - although he had long since wanted to do it.
Three days ago, Wang Yue was also the boss of an advertising studio. Due to insufficient staff, he also served as a creative director, advertising director and salesperson. Although he was very tired from work, it was very rare for a 28-year-old young man to have his own career.
Unfortunately, God is willing to make people feel like he is drunk. After Wang Yue woke up and traveled to another time and space after drinking with his client.
Can anyone tell me why China here has a land area of ​​more than 24 million square kilometers? The Northeast Asian continent is occupied by China, and there are so many Goryeo provinces.
Wang Yue's current identity is an 18-year-old boy from Seoul City, Goryeo Province, the Chinese Empire. He just finished the college entrance examination a month ago and successfully passed the Computer Department of Jishen University in Hong Kong. He used the summer vacation to work on the construction site just to earn living expenses.
Of course, Wang Yue can also work in a fast food restaurant or go out to distribute flyers, but the salary of ordinary odd jobs is too low, and his daily income is less than 100 yuan. Although he is tiring to work as a decoration worker, his daily salary is more than 300 yuan.
Back at the suite being renovated, Wang Yue continued to help clean up the house. The house has been renovated, but before the work is completed, the room must be cleaned up.
Foreman Liu Dacheng was sweeping the floor with a cigarette in his mouth. When he saw Wang Yue coming back, he smiled and said, "Xiao Yue, I'll do the rest of the work. You go home and have a good rest first."
"Brother Liu, how can you be so embarrassed?" Wang Yue said as he picked up the shovel and shoveled the garbage on the ground into the woven bag.
Liu Dacheng didn't persuade him anymore. Everyone was acquaintance of neighbors, so there was no need to be so polite.
To put it nicely, it is called a foreman, but in fact, Liu Dacheng is just a worker. When someone has decoration work, he asked him for a few people to work with him. After the work is completed, the employer will give him the decoration fee, and he will pay him the daily salary to other workers.
Wang Yue was shoveling the decoration garbage, suddenly bent down and picked up a three-piece board and asked, "Brother Liu, is this board useless?"
"It's useless. The carpenter left behind a few days ago," Liu Dacheng asked, "What are you picking up this thing for?"
"Take it home and make some gadgets." Wang Yue squatted on the ground and picked up a few discarded wooden strips and triangular boards.
After cleaning the construction site, Wang Yue changed into clean clothes and took the pickup wood to go home.
Liu Dacheng shouted at Wang Yue's back: "Xiao Yue, after you get the wages, I'll take it to your house."
Wang Yue turned around and shouted, "Don't worry, just look at it."
Other workers joked: "Old Liu, is that kid your relative? It's OK for him."
Liu Dacheng sighed and said, "This child is in a miserable life. His father used to be a boxing champion and won the Asian Championships. As a result, he was injured and retired when preparing for the Olympics. He had to go back to his hometown to be a boxing gym coach. His mother was suffering from uremia again, and it cost several hundred yuan to dialysis at a time. The family was supporting two children to study. The little money his father earned was enough. This child came out to do odd jobs when he was in junior high school."
The coworkers nodded one after another: "It's quite pitiful."
Liu Dacheng said and said with a smile: "This child is promising. He just received the admission letter two days ago, and it is still the Chishen University in Hong Kong."
"That's one of the best universities in the country."
"You can make a comeback after four years."
"This person still needs to study."
“…”
Just as the workers were talking, Wang Yue was already taking the bus home.
It has been nearly a hundred years since Taizu overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Chinese Empire. China was a big winner in World War I and World War II, and its GDP surpassed the United States as early as the 1960s and became the world's largest power.
But even the richest countries have poor people, such as the Wang Yue family. They were quite well-off a few years ago. Since Wang Yue's mother suffered from uremia, the family's conditions have been getting worse and worse, and they have already owed a lot of foreign debts.
"Little sister, I'm back." Wang Yue carried a few pieces of waste wood back home.
"It's so early today," the little sister Song Hye Kyo ran out of the inner room. Seeing the wood in Wang Yue's hand, she asked curiously, "Brother, why are you here to make with these things?"
Wang Yue patted the little girl's head and smiled and said, "Haha, it's useful, go and write your summer homework."
This little sister is not a kiss, but a daughter left by her father's friend. That friend was also an athlete from the national boxing team. After retiring, she ran to fight black boxing, but died unexpectedly on the ring. His wife cruelly left her daughter and ran away with another man.
Song Hye Kyo was only 8 years old when she first came to the Wang family. She is now in high school and is well-off.
When Wang Yue came to this time and space, the most curious thing about her younger sister was her younger sister. Not only did she have the same name and surname as Korean actress Song Hye Kyo, but she also looked very similar to her appearance, and she didn't know if she was the same person.
But none of these matters. Wang Yue’s most imminent thing at the moment is how to make money.
To be honest, Wang Yue has only been traveling for a few days, and he has no feelings for his current cheap parents. But since he has become someone else's son, he has to take responsibility. Even if he doesn't care about his family, he still needs living expenses!
Wang Yue has no other skills, so he is still good at filming movies and singing. Back then, Wang Yue used a guitar to hook up with many girls.
The problem now is that Wang Yue doesn’t even have money to buy a guitar, and he doesn’t know when he will get the salary for odd jobs, and he will have to subsidize his family.
So, Wang Yue planned to make a guitar himself, so he used the discarded wood he picked up today.
He first selected two triple boards to make guitar panels and side boards, then made a wooden strip to make fingerboards and neck, and swung the saw and knife to start work.
I worked hard at home for a few days, and the panels, side panels, fingerboards and necks were almost done. Then I designed the sound beams to open holes for the panels. The last step was to assemble these parts.
Even from an amateur perspective, Wang Yue's guitar is rough enough, and the side plate is glued into an irregular octagonal shape by him. In order to achieve quick results, he even tied iron wire to the body of the piano to fix it, which looks like it will fall apart at any time. As for the fret wire, it is also completely wrapped with thick iron wire, anyway, it is enough to use it as much as possible.
Only the guitar strings were bought by Wang Yue for money, and it cost a total of 30 yuan of imperial coins.
Seven days later, Wang Yue's homemade classical guitar was finally released. The piano was covered with iron wire and tape, and the strings were fixed on several iron nails, so it was impossible to tune.
If this ragged product is taken out, you can tell that it is a guitar, but no one will think it can be played.
After the completion, Wang Yue picked up the guitar and tried to play a few chords.
"Zheng, zhan, zhan!"
Wang Yue frowned and clenched his ears. Damn, I can't hear it at all. What pops up is completely noise.
Chapter completed!