In the middle of the yard is a pomegranate tree. This is a seedling that Hong Tao's father took from Beihai Park when he was a child. The father and son planted it in the flower pond in the middle of the yard with their own hands. Now it has grown up, like
Just like Hong Tao, he has grown from a small seedling into a big tree. As for the future life, you need to fight for it by yourself. Without care and watering, it all depends on yourself.
"Uncle Sam, are you at home?" Hong Tao shouted to the two north rooms on the east side. The foreign teacher and his wife were Americans, and the husband also had a very American name, Sam Burgess. He had his head bald just after he was 41 years old.
, a big beard, if you don’t know the inside story, he is already 60 years old.
His wife's name is Laura Burgess. She is one year older than him. She is a very hot young white woman. It is said that she is a licensed lawyer in the United States. She quit her job at a law firm and went to Beijing just to accompany her husband to work in Beijing.
I became a foreign teacher at the University of Science and Technology, specializing in economic law.
In his previous life, Hong Tao got along with the foreign teachers fairly well, but the time was short-lived because he sold the small courtyard in order to get married. The price at that time was 700,000. This was the most fucked-up thing Hong Tao thought he had done in his life.
In order to find a wife, he sold the last thought left by his parents to him, and it was sold at a low price. No wonder he was struck by lightning!
Mr. and Mrs. Sam have very good personalities. They have been in Beijing for 4 years. When they have nothing to do, they go to the beach behind the track to watch the old man play chess. Their Chinese is no worse than Hong Tao's, and their Beijing flavor is even better than Hong Tao's, but it's just a bit overkill.
Yes, my son's voice was stronger than Zhengyin's.
"Tao...er, I'm preparing lessons, what...is it?" A fluent American-style Beijing movie came from the north room next door.
"I'm fine. I'll go out and see if you're home. I won't lock the courtyard door if you're home." Hong Tao was annoyed the most when this foreigner called him like an old neighbor, because the older generation in Beijing had a bit of a childish voice.
Heavy, when the word "Tao" is called, there is a long sound at the end, but when it comes to this American's mouth, it becomes the two words "Tao...er", just like a father calling his son or mother in a costume TV series
It's like calling him son.
However, Hong Tao was not at a disadvantage. Whenever Sam refused to listen to his advice and insisted on calling him like this, he would deliberately call himself "Master" in the tone of Lao Baqi. No matter whether Sam understood what he heard or not, he would just make up for it first.
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"You are taking advantage of me. The uncle next to Hou Hai... said that your age and status do not allow me to be my master. You are discriminating against foreigners. You have to apologize to me." Sam said these days.
The walk at the beach was not in vain, and he even understood this. However, Hong Tao had no intention of apologizing to him. He opened the courtyard door and stepped out. Before leaving, he spared Sam:
"Grandma!"
Crossing the road when you go out is Ya'er Hutong, and further ahead is the north shore of Houhai. It's still noon in the summer, and anyone who has nothing urgent or a sound mind will not choose this time to come to the lake to play on the road, but at present
Hong Tao is mentally ill, and the aftereffects of time travel have not disappeared. He is still like when he was a child. As soon as he was beaten by his father, he couldn't help but run to the beach to heal his inner trauma.
After wandering aimlessly for a while, the trauma on my mind is still not as powerful as the power of nature. The back of my neck is sore from the sun. If I continue walking like this, the wound in my heart will not heal, and my skin will be burned. Just right.
We walked to the door of Soong Ching Ling's former residence. There was a small garden here and the trees by the lake were also very dense. I could sit here to cool off and think about what I should do.
People develop shortcomings from childhood, and sometimes they can't be corrected for a lifetime. Hong Tao naturally filtered out the chairs in the garden. Those are only used by pairs of lovers. We, a little bachelor, can't sit on them, and throw them away.
He couldn't afford that person, so Hong Tao found a railing near the shore and climbed up. He hugged the stone pillar and sat high to see far away. The big stone pillar was quite cool.
Hong Tao has basically understood the current situation. This is the summer of 2000. He has just graduated from college. It should be said that he has not yet received his diploma. A local student like him can go home in June. What should he do?
If you have the connections, you should quickly use them to get into those good units. If it doesn't matter, you should quickly find connections to contact jobs. It doesn't matter that Hong Tao is his parents, and it doesn't matter for him. He doesn't want to beg others to find that connection.
In this regard, he followed his father very much. When his father chatted with him, he said that during the special period, he was beaten to the rank of Bad Old Nine and was sent to Shougang to shovel steel slag for labor reform. At that time, two education workers were also reformed.
Hong Tao's father, a great figure in the world, is the youngest and the most capable. He often helps the other two people with work. If he does not complete the daily workload, he will have to go to the stage with a big iron block around his neck to criticize and criticize the next day.
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By the end of the 1970s, everyone was rehabilitated and returned to their original units to continue working. Hong Tao's father never once visited the two people who were already deputy department and principal levels. Although they had come to the house to chat and visit his father,
No matter how Hong Tao's mother tried to induce and ask directly, Hong Tao's father would not ask others for help, and proudly told Hong Tao that this is called backbone, and the poorer a person is, the more backbone he must have.
Hong Tao didn't feel that he was spineless. Anyway, he was unwilling to ask for help. Even if he encountered difficulties, as long as he could get through it, he would rather accept the loss. This character is not learned, it is developed bit by bit since childhood.
, although he also saw that in today's society, this kind of character is destined to suffer, but when the incident happened, he still shrunk his head and refused to come forward.
Therefore, forget about the job issue. Universities have long stopped providing assignments. Although college students at this time are not as cheap as they would be 10 years later, there are not many advantages. If you want to find a very suitable job without using your connections, three
A word of good luck! Moreover, Hong Tao’s major is also very bad, metal materials and heat treatment.
This major was not chosen by Hong Tao, nor was it chosen by his father, but only that major had quotas. Hong Tao was very annoying in junior high school and high school. He was the kind of person who looked for trouble when nothing happened and made big things happen when something happened. In school
There was a small fuss for three days and a big fuss for five days. The troubled school kept asking parents. However, Hong Tao's father and the school's director of academic affairs were high school classmates. For the sake of the old classmates, it was not easy to expel Hong Tao.
, so I could only endure it and let Hong Tao finish high school and take the college entrance examination.
As soon as the college entrance examination scores came out, Hong Tao's father's face turned green. In his father's mind, he was a university teacher, and his son had to go to college at the last time, otherwise he would not be able to hold his head up in the workplace. But Hong Tao's scores were far from satisfactory.
The score line was still a little far away, and there were not enough schools that his father expected him to get into. Unfortunately, his father had no choice but to sell his face once. Through some connections, he managed to get Hong Tao into the University of Science and Technology where he was.
You can’t eat steamed buns for free. If you don’t have enough marks, you still have the nerve to choose a major? So Hong Tao studied metal materials and heat treatment for 4 years in a daze. Whether he understood it or not, Hong Tao didn’t know. Anyway, the metal materials department is very easy to let people know.
Practical study is real, because there are only two girls in this department, and they are trained by Shougang on behalf of Shougang. There is simply no important factor that affects learning.
At this time, the question arises, where to find a job? What kind of job? Hong Tao did not handle this problem well in his previous life. He stayed at home for 2 years, sitting in the house all day playing computer games, until his aunt
After introducing a girlfriend, I had to buy newspapers and go around to apply for jobs. As a result, he, who studied metal materials, actually went to work in a travel agency. I don’t know which travel agency owner decided to hire Hong Tao because of his talent.
Clicked.
Now that he can start his life over again, Hong Tao decided to change his way of life, and no longer work like a bee mindlessly from nine to five all day long. He wanted to use his experience of living decades longer than his peers to see what happened.
Can you make your life more exciting and more personal?
According to Hong Tao's own recollection, this era was at the peak of reform and opening up. Various industries such as stock trading, real estate, and IT began to be reshuffled. There were many opportunities for success, but not many were suitable for him. Go ahead and trade stocks yourself.
I can’t play this game because I have never been involved in this game in my previous life. Let alone the specific rise and fall of that stock, I don’t even know the trend of the market; in terms of real estate, this game requires a certain amount of funds and upper-level connections.
, both are indispensable, and Hong Tao has neither of these two key points; in the IT industry, it is a very professional field. As a person who studies metal materials, he can only make chassis and sell them, which is even less reliable;
