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002 The basic survival qualities of a traveler

After Cao Zhiqiang traveled through time, he immediately discovered that the situation at his home was not very good.

Although he has an apartment in a courtyard, his parents are dead and he has an older sister and younger sister, so he is still a jobless vagrant.

My sister’s name is Cao Jiajia. She is already married. She is not in Beijing at the moment, but on the third line of Southwest China. She and her husband are working locally as workers. She has always wanted to be transferred back but has not been able to.

My younger sister is Cao Lili. She is 12 years old. She is with Cao Zhiqiang and is still in the sixth grade of elementary school.

Cao Jiajia is Cao Zhiqiang's biological sister, but Cao Lili has no blood relationship with the two.

Because this Cao Lili was a girl adopted by Cao Zhiqiang's parents from a local disabled man named Qiao when they were transferred to work in the Nanjing branch together.

Later, they were transferred back to the capital and brought back the girl named Cao Lili.

And after that.

Two years ago, Cao Zhiqiang's grandmother accidentally choked to death on a steamed bun while eating it secretly.

A year ago, Cao Zhiqiang's father accidentally fell to his death while repairing the roof.

Three months ago, Cao Zhiqiang's mother was in poor health and died suddenly from overwork due to long-term fatigue.

In addition, the eldest sister went to the third-tier college in the early years and has never been able to come back.

So currently in the Cao family, which is full of love in the courtyard, only Cao Zhiqiang and his sister Cao Lili are left to depend on each other.

This family background.

Just a capital word miserable.

It's just that it doesn't really matter.

Time travel is often miserable, which is normal.

Now that he has traveled through time, he is not an orphan with no house, no money, and no relatives, but a handsome guy with a sister, a house, and a house. His treatment is already very good.

What really scares Cao Zhiqiang is his own personal situation, or the historical baggage of his predecessor.

The predecessor, Cao Zhiqiang, was expelled from school because he got into a fight in school when he was a freshman in high school.

After that, he stopped looking for a job and spent all day hanging out with a group of unemployed young people on the street.

Soon, he became a well-known second-rate street gangster in the neighborhood. He either smoked, drank, danced or caused trouble all day long and slapped his mother-in-law.

In short, he is a little bastard who hates dogs and is ignorant.

On the third day after his mother passed away, he took all the gifts and condolence money and went to those group of friends to eat and drink.

Then on the way back from dinner, he drank too much and became drunk. He held on to a telephone pole on the roadside, peed and vomited the wine for a while.

After vomiting and vomiting, he fell drunk and fell asleep on the roadside.

It didn't matter if he fell asleep while drunk, he would soon freeze to death on the roadside.

Then, Cao Zhiqiang from another time and space traveled through.

After the new Cao Zhiqiang traveled through time, he inherited the memory of the original owner.

He quickly learned about Cao Zhiqiang's family situation and his predecessor's bad records.

Especially when he knew that this year was already after 1983.

So I decisively returned home, and in front of the funeral hall of my cheap mother Lin Meili, I deliberately cried and yelled, saying that I wanted to say goodbye to the past, showing that I was heartbroken and wanted to change my past.

Then, the day after he crossed over.

After simply handling his mother's funeral, he went to the workplace where his parents had worked before—Beiping Hongguang Machinery Factory, a large state-owned enterprise with more than 8,000 people—with a sad look on his face.

After performing a tragic scene in front of the factory director of changing his mind and asking for acceptance, he was successfully hired by the machine factory and became a machine factory worker that his predecessor was not willing to do at first, and became an apprentice fitter.

Others say that he came to enlightenment after his mother died, and is a model of a prodigal son who never returns money in return.

Only he himself knows that this is just a kind of self-avoidance, or self-rescue.

He didn't want to be raped because of street gangsters not long after he traveled through time... you know.

Because of his special situation, in order to take care of him, according to past practice, the factory allowed him to take over part of his deceased mother's service during his apprenticeship, which was counted as a subsidy.

It is impossible to replace his mother's entire working experience. If that were the case, his income as an apprentice would be higher than that of a regular employee.

His mother has more than 20 years of working experience. She is completely different from Qin Huairu's ex-husband Jia Dongxu.

Because of this remuneration, even when he was an apprentice, his income was pretty good. He could get 30 yuan per month, which was much higher than the average apprentice who just joined the factory, who only had 18.5 yuan per month.

However, no one envied him.

After all, no one would be willing to end up in a situation as miserable as his family's.

What's more, this is only a special subsidy for apprentices who do not have formal ranks and is privately looked after by the factory.

Once he has passed the three-year apprenticeship and becomes a regular employee, this special subsidy will be cancelled, and everything must follow the rules.

To put it simply, once he is awarded a professional title, the subsidy for replacement of seniority will be cancelled, and all seniority will be calculated based on the time you normally entered the factory.

In short, Cao Zhiqiang is now an apprentice fitter at the state-owned Hongguang Machinery Factory, earning thirty yuan a month.

A serious person with a job.

However, at the current price level, if Cao Zhiqiang only relied on his salary, he would not be able to eat meat every day, let alone buy a tape recorder costing 300 to 400 yuan in a short time.

His mother did not die on the job, but died suddenly from overwork at home. There was no pension at all, only a condolence payment of 100 yuan raised by the boss and the workers.

His family didn't have any savings in the past, and even if they had, the total amount of savings did not exceed one hundred yuan.

Therefore, even with the condolence money and savings, all the money added up, he could not afford a Shanghai brand L-400 recorder.

It is obvious that he not only earns the unit salary, but also has a lot of extra money that far exceeds the salary income.

This is of course true.

In fact, after Cao Zhiqiang traveled through time, he didn't care about the salary at all, nor did he expect to rely on the salary to make a good life for himself and his sister.

The so-called joining a factory as a worker is just to end one's identity as an unemployed vagrant and a street gangster early, and to avoid being dealt with in the future.

During this period, state-owned enterprise workers and jobless street gangsters were people from two different worlds.

What? Self-employed?

Self-employment looks good, but there are many restrictions on self-employment at this time.

For example, there are restrictions on recruitment, business scope restrictions, capital scale restrictions, etc., making it difficult to expand.

Moreover, the self-employed person at this time had no social status and was looked down upon by others, no matter how rich he was. He could not become a talisman for the gangsters on the street, nor could he be regarded as a reformer.

But it's different when you're a worker in a state-owned enterprise. As a worker in a state-owned enterprise, you have a tough time.

To put it bluntly, being a worker in a state-owned enterprise is just a conservative means of survival for him.

He never thought about being a worker all his life, let alone getting rich by being a worker.

Hongguang Machinery Factory is just a novice village where he temporarily lives in seclusion.

In other words, working as an apprentice at Hongguang Machinery Factory is just a way for Cao Zhiqiang to protect himself.

Everything is just for survival.


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