After deciding on a courtyard house, Cao Zhiqiang was in a good mood.
Seeing that it was almost lunch time, we had a meal at Ma's Restaurant with Master Yang, who was equally shocked. Ma Jingwen cooked the meal himself, and he was the guest.
The rice is very simple, just two ordinary bowls of mutton noodles, two small stir-fried vegetables, two pickles, and two bottles of Arctic soda.
What can I say, the food tastes very average, especially the soup, which is far different from Lanzhou Ramen. No wonder the business is so deserted, and this good location is wasted.
During the meal, after Boss Ma left, Cao Zhiqiang began to make insidious questions about Master Yang's life experience.
Master Yang didn't hide it. While drinking Arctic Ocean, he told his experience like beans poured out of a bamboo tube.
It turns out that Master Yang's name is Yang An'an, and he claims to have been a stubborn man in the capital when he was young. He has photographed mothers-in-law fighting, and even played with celebrities in the capital.
However, ever since the little bastard was besieged and killed in Erligou, they have lost their backbone and become a mess.
In order to avoid danger, he decisively became aware of going to the countryside and kept jumping in the queue in the countryside.
To put it bluntly, it is to escape for one’s life!
It has been several years, and everything that happened in the past seems like yesterday.
After it was reopened, the noise had long since passed.
After his father died, he took the opportunity to attend the funeral and returned to the city, only to find that he could not find a good job in the city regardless of his education.
But he was not willing to continue fooling around on the streets like other unemployed educated youths who returned to the city. After all, he had a large family to support, so he started riding three wheels.
When asked again about the income from Dengsanlun, he said it was average.
On a good day, I can earn three to five yuan a day, but on a bad day, I can only earn one eighty cents a day, or even no income at all. Anyway, it’s very unstable.
The main reason is that there is no technical content in pedaling three wheels, the cost of doing a job is too low, and the competition is too great, there are too many people doing three-wheeled pedaling.
All in all, if you pedal three wheels, you can earn more than 50 yuan a month if the situation is good, and if the situation is not good, you can make 20 yuan, which is pretty good.
On average, it is still better than ordinary people working in a factory, and it is more free.
After understanding this, Cao Zhiqiang asked the other party about his academic qualifications and found that the other party actually graduated from high school.
Nima's academic qualifications are better than those of him who dropped out of high school, but he still has no academic qualifications?
Are high school students so worthless these days?
But yes, high school students are valuable these days, so it depends on the place.
In other places, high school students are quite valuable, but in the capital, high school students are really worthless unless you have connections.
The problem is that there is none.
Even Cao Zhiqiang went to a state-owned enterprise because he took his mother's place. Otherwise, based on his own ability, he would never have thought of joining a state-owned enterprise as a worker.
But having said that, his high school education is just that, and in terms of real knowledge level, he is far from his own.
In my previous life, I had graduated from a master's degree in English, or a graduate from a prestigious university in the age of knowledge explosion. I had at least passed the level 8 of English and the level 4 of Russian. There was no comparison with him, a high school student in the 1960s and 1970s.
In addition, Cao Zhiqiang is also very aware of the hardships faced by educated youth.
Because according to the memory he inherited, when he was a mixed society, most of the second-rate people were unemployed educated youths who could not find jobs after returning to the city, or were dissatisfied with their jobs and resigned in anger.
For example, Bang Ge was an educated youth who returned to the city and was unemployed for a long time.
Cao Zhiqiang remembered that when he was watching TV series in his previous life, he had seen some barrage comments defending Banggeng, saying that the reason why Banggeng turned into a white-eyed wolf and followed Xu Damao as a thief and father was because he could not find a job for a long time and was depressed.
In other words, those people believed that after Bangge returned to the city, he had actually been an unemployed vagrant for a long time. He was very depressed and had low self-esteem, so he never reconciled with Shazhu at that time.
Later, he adopted the thief as his father because Xu Damao could give Bangge a job and gave him hope. Therefore, it cannot be regarded as accepting the thief as his father. It can only be regarded as an exchange of equal value. You give me a job and I will help you.
After all, Bangge didn't call Xu Damao daddy at that time, but he was still doing it under the guise of helping his aunt.
These three views were shattered when Cao Zhiqiang first saw them.
But on second thought, if we look at future generations, from the perspective of refined egoism that is generally popular, there doesn’t seem to be much wrong with what Bangge did at that time.
Stepdad doesn’t matter, what’s important about having a job and money?
Besides, Bangge didn’t deny his biological mother at that time. He made money from Xu Damao and also knew how to supplement the family income. He was still a good gay.
When his stepfather helps him arrange a good job as a driver for ministries and commissions, then his stepfather will be fine and there will be nothing wrong with him.
Therefore, Bangge was just born in the wrong era.
If this were the 21st century, Bangge would be a promising young man who could bend and stretch, and his achievements would be limitless. It is estimated that a lot of people would kneel down and worship him, crying and shouting to learn from his success knowledge.
Sure enough, good people are not rewarded, but bad people are punished by heaven.
Having said that, maybe it was because Bangge had the painful experience of being an unemployed educated youth that he could not stand Cao Zhiqiang, who was also an unemployed vagrant and a second-rate man.
People of the same sex repel each other, people with the same illness feel sympathy for each other, but if they have shared the same unforgettable experience, then of course they hate each other.
No wonder Banggeng has always had a prejudice against him, Cao Zhiqiang. It turns out the root lies here.
Isn't this the mentality of those Korean stickmen from the south?
When you are weak, you feel inferior; when you are a little better, you become arrogant.
Don't say it, it's a virtue.
The white-eyed wolf is well-deserved.
"Speaking of Master Yang." Cao Zhiqiang said after thinking of this, "It's not a long-term solution to pedal three wheels all the time. Are you interested in joining me?"
"With you?" Yang An'an was stunned, "You mean..."
"Don't get me wrong." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "To be honest, I am an apprentice and fitter at Hongguang Machinery Factory.
Of course, I don’t just do this, I also have a second career, that is, a writer who writes articles to earn royalties. Well, I am now called an amateur writer.
This money is all the royalties I earned from writing articles.”
Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang deliberately paused and looked at the other person's expression. He found that although the other person moved his eyebrows and frowned slightly, his overall expression was very calm. He did not make a fuss and ask this or that. Instead, he waited obediently for him to finish speaking.
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Yes, at least he has a stable mind and is a good material for running errands and serving as a follower.
"Cough!" Cao Zhiqiang coughed.
"Everything I said is true. If you don't believe it later, I'll show you my remittance slips from various magazines, and you will understand. In short, my money came cleanly."
Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang paused again and continued: "But, of course, once you make money, you can't always keep it in the bank to earn interest. That has no future.
So I want to take advantage of the reform and opening up to continue to develop new businesses, such as opening a restaurant, contracting for some company, etc.
No matter what, when the time comes, I will be very busy and I won’t be able to do all the work on my own, so I need someone to run errands for me and do some things for me, do you understand what I mean?”
Yang An'an smiled: "I understand, you want me to be your follower?"
"No, no, no." Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand, "Follower sounds ugly. It was the old society, with new people, new things, and new atmosphere. Now you should be called secretary. No, you are a man. Secretary doesn't sound good.
Then call me assistant, yes, from now on you will be my assistant, or driver!"
Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang said: "If you are willing, you can work with me from now on and be my assistant and driver.
He usually acts as my chauffeur, driving me around and helping me run errands and do errands.
Salary, probation period for one month.
During the trial period, the salary is tentatively set at fifty for one month. If it is suitable after one month, the salary will be discussed again, but it will definitely be higher and not lower. What do you think?"
"Fifty a month?" Yang An'an opened his mouth wide, "Really?"
"Of course it's true." Cao Zhiqiang said.
"But don't throw away these three rounds, you still have to use them now.
For example, drag me to and from get off work, or to other places.
Anyway, just take care of me alone, and don't worry about anyone else.
When the conditions are better in the future, I will sign you up to learn to drive. We will buy a car and you can drive for me seriously and be my driver.
It’s a pity that I don’t have a mobile phone or pager now...
Let's do this, from now on you go to my house early every morning to pick me up, and you can go wherever I tell you, just like going to work.
When you pull me to a place, you can stay wherever I tell you, so that I can always look for you to pull me, is that okay?"
Yang An'an thought for a while, nodded and said: "As long as you really give me fifty a month and I'll take you alone, that's no problem!"
"Then it's settled." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.
Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang took out fifty yuan: "Here is fifty yuan. You take it first and calculate your salary for this month. From now on, you will be paid in the first week of the month."
"That's impossible." Yang Ping'an quickly declined, "Counting from today to the end of the month, it will be less than a month. I can't give you fifty."
"I said yes." Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand, "Take it, you will work with me from now on, I can't treat you badly, you have such a big family to support, and you can't do it without money.
Besides, we are not familiar with each other in the past, so I will give you money in advance so that you can put your mind at ease."
Yang An'an then put away the money, and then looked at Cao Zhiqiang strangely: "If you give me fifty now, aren't you afraid that I will regret taking the money and stop working for you?"
Cao Zhiqiang laughed: "What are you afraid of? In that case, I will lose at most fifty yuan, but I can see one person clearly.
But as for you, at most you get this fifty yuan for nothing, but you will feel uneasy and you will lose an opportunity to make a career.
Are you that stupid?
Are you so short-sighted?"
Yang Ping'an shook his head subconsciously.
"I don't think you are that stupid either." Cao Zhiqiang laughed.
"So, Lao Yang, I give you money in advance, which is not only my trust, but also my test.
If you can withstand this test and work for me properly in the future, believe me, I will not treat you badly, and good days are ahead!"
Yang An'an was silent for a moment, then he clenched the fifty yuan in his hand, raised his head and looked at Cao Zhiqiang solemnly: "I understand. From now on, I, Yang An'an, will obey your orders in everything, Master!"
"Hey! You can't do that." Cao Zhiqiang quickly waved his hand, "Don't call me that. It's not popular now. It sounds awkward. From now on, just, you can call me boss."