Wang Yaocheng took three company employees, Fan Qingyun, Cai Linlin and Luo Qianjin, managers of the computer company, to wave goodbye to his parents, elder brothers and sisters who were seeing him off, and would take an international flight to Hong Kong from here to start his own journey around the world.
The eldest brother Wang Yaoyang has officially joined the Pacific Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. As for his work at the Cultural Bureau, he has to take time to go back and go through the formalities for suspension of employment without pay.
Father, mother and soon-to-be sister-in-law Luo Jingwen will return to Huaizhou City tomorrow. After all, Wang Guodong, as the leader of the unit, still has a lot of work to do when he returns, and it is impossible to stay in the provincial capital for a long time.
Hongkong
Kai Tak Airport, South Coast of Kowloon Peninsula
Wang Yaocheng and his party of four followed the flow of people to the exit of the international arrivals hall. Not far away, across the fence, many people could be seen holding homemade signs to pick people up.
After combing through the eyes, I finally found two people, a man and a woman, holding a sign made of white corrugated paper that read "Jie Wang and Shuang Mu".
What an explanation!
Is this "Wang Youshuangmu" Wang Sang?
"Hello, sir, are you picking up Wang Sang?"
"Hi, who are you..."
"I am Wang Yaocheng from Pacific Company, and I have a partnership with Mr. Ueno Yuo, the head of East Asia Region of JSD Co., Ltd. He introduced me to my friend in Hong Kong."
"Oh, what a pleasure it is to meet you! I am Suzuki Kikutaro, and this is my female colleague Miss Jin Huishan. We came here specially to pick you up. Please take care of me."
Wang Yaocheng has been working with the staff of the Japanese engineering project department for half a year. He also took Japanese as a second foreign language in college. His Japanese proficiency is so good that he can have ordinary conversations without any problem.
He glanced at the sign in Suzuki Kikutaro's hand and was speechless.
The writing here is in traditional upright typesetting, which is different from the parallel writing habit, so it looks a bit awkward.
The group of people got into the van and came out through the Red Harbor Tunnel. The prosperous reinforced concrete city of Hong Kong's Eastern District was completely in front of them.
Fan Qingyun and others, who had no experience of going abroad, were so surprised by the densely packed high-rise buildings that they opened their mouths from ear to ear.
Even Cai Linlin, who always looked calm, tightly grasped Wang Yaocheng's arm, showing the excitement that could not be hidden in her heart.
What's this?
Wang Yaocheng passed through Hong Kong more than ten times in his previous life, and he was already used to it.
Compared with the magnificent buildings of Yanjing and the Pearl Bund, this prosperous place was nothing more than a cramped pigeon cage in his eyes.
Moreover, compared with the forest of high-rise buildings in my memory, Hong Kong in 1992 looked small and shabby, bearing traces of the vicissitudes of time.
Suzuki Kikutaro, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked proudly at Wang Yaocheng through the rearview mirror, ready to admire the surprised faces of these country bumpkins who had arrived in an international metropolis.
never thought
What he saw was Wang Yaocheng's disdainful look, and he was greatly surprised:
Nani, are my eyes wrong?
The van stopped at the entrance of a building full of signboards, and Suzuki Kikutaro introduced attentively:
"Thank you for your hard work! Please stay in the hotel first and take a rest for a while.
For accommodation and sightseeing matters, my female colleague Ms. Jin Huishan accompanied me throughout the whole process.
In addition, we will pick you up and take you to the company in the afternoon, please take care of everything."
"Thank you!"
After sending away Mr. Suzuki Kikutaro, Miss Jin Huishan accompanied Cai Linlin and others to check in to the hotel.
Wang Yaocheng wandered around the door alone, and quickly connected with his old memories.
This is Queensway, the most prosperous Central and Western District in Hong Kong, and can be regarded as part of Central.
This was originally a British naval dock, with a golden bell inside, hence the name.
As a world-class tycoon, it is not surprising that Fuso Xiaobenzi's company is established here. Now when it comes to wealth and wealth, no one else in the world can think of it except Xiaobenzi.
According to Mr. Ueno, his friend specializes in international trade and has a large business in China.
No. 93 Queensway, where the trading company is located, is a high-rise property above the MTR Queensway Station. The Japanese-owned department store "Songbanwu" is the largest tenant here.
The department store opened by "Songbanwu" specializes in various high-end watches, jewelry, world-famous brand bags and clothing, men's and women's perfumes, international brand audio products, luxury goods, etc.
Anyway, it’s just one word: expensive.
Wang Yaocheng looked at the hotel's house number, and it was indeed good...
Regency Hotel, 82 Queensway
After entering the hotel room, Wang Yaocheng looked at the waiters who were serving him attentively. He stood by the door with a smile and refused to leave.
Nothing to do
He took out a tip of 30 yuan from his pocket and handed it to him. The waiter took the 30 yuan and slightly flattened the corners of his mouth, showing his contempt.
This scene made Wang Yaocheng so depressed that he wanted to scold his mother.
It's really a dog's eyes that look down on others.
Putting aside the temporary unhappiness, Wang Yaocheng opened the window and let the cold and moist sea breeze blow in, clearing his mind.
After the Plaza Accord in 1985, the yen sharply appreciated, and Fuso ushered in a 90-month "Heisei boom"
Today's Fuso is a gilded country. Restaurants sell sushi inlaid with gold flakes, and shopping malls sell chocolates wrapped in gold foil at unimaginably high prices.
In Tokyo, every pedestrian wears brand-name clothes, brand-name shoes, and brand-name bags.
Office workers wear John Robe leather shoes, housewives wear expensive Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry, and trend-following young people chase expensive designer brands such as Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo. Expensive prices are the only
synonym.
Freshly graduated college students will be accepted by more than five companies immediately.
In order to compete for new blood, large companies will lock these college students in luxury hot spring hotels in the name of training once they are hired, so as to prevent them from being snatched away by other companies.
If you graduate from a top university, the company will arrange a high-end apartment, equipped with an imported car, and give you a complete Armani wardrobe.
The rich customers enjoy high-end caviar, top-quality tokujo rib steak, drink Louis XIII and Macallan whiskey, and their luxurious lifestyle is jaw-dropping.
An ordinary white-collar employee can easily spend thousands of dollars on entertainment after get off work, whether it is clubbing, dancing, or drinking foreign wine.
Weekend entertainment can include golfing, skiing abroad, or spending the night with beautiful bar girls in Ginza, all of which are valuable expenses.
As for getting married, it is even more luxurious. Expensive wedding dresses, top-notch wedding banquets, and honeymoon trips to Hawaii or Bali to enjoy a five-star ocean-view room cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
There is a well-known story
An old man who had worked as a janitor in a company in Tokyo for 40 years sold the small shabby house he lived in before retiring and returned to the countryside to spend his old age. This small shabby house was sold for US$6 million, allowing him to live comfortably.
Since the appreciation of the yen in 1985, money has seemed to fall from the sky.
Every Fuso person is inflated, and the entire country is experiencing extreme inflation. The real estate prices in Tokyo can buy the entire United States, and the market value of the stock market accounts for 60% of the world's high.
Even if there are signs of bubble bursting in the stock market and foreign exchange market, the vast majority of RB companies and individual investors firmly believe that it is just a short-term adjustment and there will never be any major problems.
Fuso Island is in the midst of collective high thermal expansion, and every citizen has ignored the huge risks.
Eventually, when the bubble burst and the glitz faded away, what was left was nothing but desolation and 30 years of lost time.
"They don't go abroad, they don't drive, they don't ski, and they don't snowboard. They don't drink, they don't have sex, they wear Uniqlo clothes, and they should be able to attend classes in college. They don't have any ambition at all." ~
From the comments of the older generation, we can see the style of the lost generation of young people.