Sun Xu and Miss Meng walked back to the apartment while talking. After reaching the fourth floor of the apartment, Sun Xu put down some of Miss Meng's things.
However, he did not say goodbye directly, but followed the conversation between the two of them and said, "I will help you post the couplets later!"
Even if you are celebrating the New Year alone, even if you only live in a rented apartment, you still have to post couplets to bring good wishes.
Miss Meng did not refuse: "Then I'll trouble Mr. Sun!"
During this afternoon, the two of them walked together and talked a lot on the way. They became somewhat familiar with each other. It is not necessary to be too polite when helping with small things. If you are too polite, it will be ignored.
Of course, this is also because Sun Xu has adhered to gentlemanly etiquette in their occasional encounters in the past month, and he did not do anything excessive when they went out together on the street today.
In addition, when chatting, they would talk about some work matters, and Miss Meng also learned that Sun Xu was not an ordinary worker, but a mechanical repairman, and he was highly appreciated by his boss.
In today's Dachu Empire, mechanical repairman is still a relatively respectable profession, with good income, high social status, and large room for advancement...
Sun Xu is just a young mechanical repairman who has just graduated. He has not even passed the inspection period, and his monthly income is already several times that of ordinary workers.
After a few years of accumulation, you can become a senior mechanical repairman. If your skills are good, it is normal to earn twenty or thirty yuan a month. After that, you can become a technical backbone, or even take a technical management position, such as Anhua. Section Chief Wang of the Mechanical Maintenance Department in the textile company... may not look like a small section chief, but he is a solid technical backbone, with a monthly income of dozens of yuan.
This kind of income is beyond the reach of many senior management positions!
Chu Yuan is still relatively valuable these days. For administrative management positions in some companies, the monthly salary of low-level managers cannot even reach ten Chu Yuan, the monthly salary of mid-level managers is only about ten Chu Yuan or twenty Chu Yuan, and the monthly salary of senior managers is only a few years older. Only ten Chu Yuan.
In other words, as long as Sun Xu continues to accumulate smoothly, as long as he does not degenerate and continues to study and study skills, even if his talent is average, it will not be a big problem to get a monthly salary of fifty or sixty yuan before the age of thirty.
This income is almost ten times that of ordinary workers. It is a high income that most people in Chu cannot even hope for...
Even if she goes to Huidong Department Store where she works, they are target customers who need to be treated respectfully... People can't afford luxury jewelry and daily necessities, but some conventional luxury jewelry, such as clothes, shoes, hats, gold, silver, and jade can still be purchased. Affordable!
In fact, this high-income group with a monthly income of tens of yuan is also the main customer of these conventional luxury accessories!
As for the rich and powerful... although each of them has amazing spending power, the total number of them is only a few, and they don’t buy jewelry every day!
So regardless of the upper class society, the rich and powerful have money, but their contribution to the consumer market is actually just that... Businesses that only deal with the rich are basically small and beautiful, and cannot be big.
Therefore, even if the luxury jewelry brands of later generations can become bigger and stronger, their main customers are also middle- and high-income groups.
The jewelry and jades in Huidong Department Store are actually similar, and they are touted to be very high-end, but in fact the main customer group is still the middle- and high-income class.
Judging from Sun Xu's situation, I am afraid that within a few years, he will become a frequent visitor to high-end department stores like Huidong Department Store!
He is steady and polite, and his work is promising. In addition, although Sun Xu is not a handsome guy, he can't be called ugly. After all, he is 1.76 meters tall, has a normal body shape, a Chinese character face, and daily grooming Definitely not sloppy either.
When people go to work every day, they wear professional attire. In winter, they wear a three-piece suit of woolen coat, leather shoes, and hat every day.
Although people will change into work clothes after arriving at the factory... but when they are outside, they are properly dressed as middle-income young men.
Otherwise...why do you think Miss Meng would agree to go shopping with Sun Xu to buy New Year's goods in the afternoon?
If Sun Xu only earns thirty or four yuan a month, wears cloth clothes and shoes every day, and even wears the work clothes issued by the factory, and then behaves slovenly and talks in a rude manner... If you were a girl, what would you think? What do you think?
I'm afraid I'm not even interested in taking a second look!
On the other hand... In fact, Miss Meng is pretty much the same with Sun Xu!
As long as Miss Meng's appearance is worse, her dress is worse, her speech and answers are worse... Sun Xu will not be so concerned... Although Sun Xu is young and is only nineteen years old this year, don't think that Sun Xu has not seen her. More than a woman.
Their family is in the hometown of the county, and they can be considered a middle-income family after all... After all, a low-income family cannot afford to support a high school student; it is even more impossible to buy Sun Xu a set of fine cashmere, which is perfectly matched and worth more than ten thousand dollars. Yuan’s professional attire was given as a graduation gift.
Probably, it is similar to ordinary working-class families in later generations. You have seen a few children in your family graduate, and you buy them a suit worth tens of thousands to wear to an interview.
At first glance, his father was just a shoemaker, but his miscellaneous income amounted to hundreds of dollars a year.
It's really not a big deal for hundreds of Chus to live in the small place in their hometown in the first year of their life, and they don't have to worry about housing or car payments.
That is to say, his mother fell ill and needed expensive medicines for physical recuperation. This suddenly made the family's finances suddenly become tense, otherwise it would not be as tight as it is now.
And Sun Xu himself is a mechanic, and he successfully started his apprenticeship at a young age. Among the younger generation in their small county town, he is actually not bad.
As Sun Xu gets older, there are many matchmakers who come to visit...
By the way, there are actually more people who want to marry their daughter to his younger brother... After all, his younger brother is expected to receive a college scholarship and will most likely be an outstanding high school student who will attend a three-year junior college.
Such potential stocks may not be a big deal in big cities, but in their small and broken place, they are fragrant steamed buns, not to mention middle-class families of the same class, even those local families with school-age daughters, whose status and income are higher Many people are wondering whether they should place bets in advance to lure back a college student son-in-law.
Even if you fail the college entrance examination and fail to get into college, you won't lose much!
Because his younger brother is currently studying in the government high school. Although the high school students in the Da Chu Empire are worse than college students, they are actually considered to be serious highly educated talents in a small place. If they go to participate in the local college examination and get one in the imperial examination, From a ninth-grade official status, it’s not a big problem!
In China, young single men with official status are all popular no matter what age they are. You don’t have to find them yourself. As long as you pass the exam and are single, many Shangguan can immediately come to you and act as a matchmaker. !
However, his younger brother is determined to study and get a scholarship and pays no attention to the outside world... His parents also think that their youngest son is very awesome and will definitely go to college in the future. It would be too much of a disadvantage to talk about marriage now!
She wanted to wait until he went to college before finding a suitable daughter-in-law, so she declined all marriage attempts from the outside.
A daughter-in-law with a high school degree is not on the same level as a daughter-in-law with a college degree. Although Sun's parents are not well-educated, they have been in the market all their lives, so they still have some savvy.
So despite the fact that the Sun family's life is very tight now and they can't even pay for Sun Xu's younger brother's tuition, Sun Xu is actually quite popular in the marriage and love market!
At least that's how it was back home.
It's just that Sun Xu is not a stupid boy, and he has some vision, so ordinary women will naturally look down on him.
Not to mention, there are hundreds of female workers in Anhua Textile Company, and Sun Xu would not even make small talk with them.
At most, just say hello and nod!
Not looking down on it.
But the two sides are different in knowledge, class, status, and income... Even in daily conversations, to be honest, we can't have a conversation...
In addition, daily behaviors, consumption habits, daily speaking words, etc. are not on the same channel.
Financially, Sun Xu was strapped for money when he first came to Songjiang City... But now that he has found a job and received his salary before the year, he has a little more money.
I was even able to send five yuan home!
Not to mention the average salary of more than three yuan for ordinary female workers, even those skilled male workers, most of them earn less than five yuan a month.
The relationship between men and women is actually quite simple. I like you, your personality, appearance, and work are pretty good, so I will have more contact with you. If I think you are not good, I will naturally be too lazy to talk to you.
The same is generally true between Sun Xu and Miss Meng.
Miss Meng thinks Sun Xu has a good career and a promising future. He has a good personality and knowledge. Although he is not handsome, he is not ugly either.
Sun Xu felt that Miss Meng had good looks, dignified and courteous behavior, and had the rare chance of going to a girls' school... Although her job was just selling jewelry and jade, which was not considered respectable, she was still decent and her income was high.
It is impossible for low-income working women, such as the female workers in textile factories, to wear a long silk skirt and a rabbit fur cloak to go shopping with Sun Xu.
This outfit costs at least seventy-eight yuan, which is two months' salary of an ordinary female worker!
So even though they were just two singles living in a welfare-like apartment, when they went out just now, the combined value of what they were wearing was worth at least thirty yuan!
It is precisely because of this that they can go out and chat together. Now when Sun Xu offered to help Miss Meng post couplets, Miss Meng not only did not refuse, but smiled politely and said that it was troublesome for Mr. Sun.
So Sun Xu opened the door of his apartment first, took the other things back first, then took the couplets to the door, and then pasted them with paste. After the couplets were pasted on the doors of both houses.
Miss Meng also came to Sun Xu with a glass of warm water: "Here, take a drink of warm water!"
After Sun Xu took it, Miss Meng added, "I'm going to make meat dumplings later. I bought a lot of meat. I'll get some for you then!"
Sun Xu did not delay: "Thank you so much, Miss Meng!"
Then after thinking about it again, Sun Xu said: "I heard from my colleagues in the company that the government will organize fireworks on the riverside at night. I heard that the scale is very large and the fireworks are very beautiful. Why don't we go there and watch them together?"
Miss Meng was a little moved after hearing this: "Last year, I heard that the government held a large-scale fireworks festival by the Huangpu River, but it was inconvenient for me to go out at night alone. If I have the chance this year, I would go. Take a look!”
"It's just that it's hard to call a taxi on New Year's Eve, and the number of public carriages is much less!"
Last year, Ms. Meng actually tried to go to watch the fireworks feast by the river... The reason why she didn't go was not because it was inconvenient for a girl to go out and she didn't dare to go out... but because she was waiting for the bus at the street corner. I didn't wait for a taxi for a long time, so I didn't go there.
Among the young girls wandering alone in Songjiang City, few are really timid!
It is not easy to hail a taxi on the night of New Year's Eve, and it is much more difficult than during rush hours on weekdays.
It's not that there are too many passengers, but that there are too few coachmen who are willing to go out and drive sports cars to make money on New Year's Eve.
Sun Xu didn't think about the travel problem, and it was true when he thought about it carefully.
They live in the east of Xicheng District. Although it is relatively close to the Huangpu River in Xicheng District, it is only five kilometers away. It will take more than an hour to walk there.
On this winter night, braving the bone-chilling wind and walking for at least an hour to watch the fireworks... This is too nonsense. If Miss Meng is willing, Sun Xu himself is not willing...
It’s just that there are indeed a lot less taxis on New Year’s Eve night, and it’s very difficult to hail them.
Although there are still public carriages, they will not stop running even on the night of New Year's Eve, but they still have to arrange rest breaks, so the number of buses is much less than usual.
As prosperous as Songjiang City, there is a lot of traffic every day. Even at night, there are still many public carriages, and taxis can be seen 24 hours a day.
But even during the extremely special time period of New Year's Eve, Songjiang City's public transportation inevitably fell into a semi-paralysis!
Everyone wants to have New Year’s Eve dinner, even the carriage drivers!
Sun Xu thought about this for a while and said: "In this case, I will go to the car rental agency on Anshui Street next door to see if I can rent a pony carriage. Yesterday, I heard from my colleagues that the car rental agency on Anshui Street The car rental agency doesn’t close during the Chinese New Year, even on New Year’s Eve!”
In Songjiang City, people are doing almost every kind of business. In the public transportation field, there are not only taxis and public carriages, which are managed and operated by the Songjiang Public Carriage Company, but there are also some privately operated car rental companies!
These car rental companies will rent out carriages to others, and some will also provide coachmen... If you can drive yourself, you don't need a coachman. They charge by the day or by the hour.
Sun Xu had gone out with Section Chief Wang to do errands before. The company's own four-wheeled carriage was unavailable, and the place where he went to do errands was relatively remote. It was difficult to get a cab when he came back, so he took the carriage from the car rental agency.
Nowadays, during the Chinese New Year, especially during the New Year's Eve, first day and second day of the new year, the capacity of public transportation drops significantly. This is when car rental companies compete for business and make money...
In order to make money and expand the market, they still open their doors on New Year's Eve... Anyway, the boss does not need to personally watch the store, but it does not affect the boss's happy New Year's Eve dinner at home.
As for employees who still work at night on New Year’s Eve, it won’t be enough to pay double the salary...
Ms. Meng should also know, but she also has some concerns: "It's quite expensive to rent a car. How about we walk? If we walk faster, we should be able to get there in about an hour!"
Sun Xu said: "Don't be afraid. I'll rent a two-wheeled and one-horse car. It won't be too expensive. And when the time comes, I will drive it myself instead of using their driver, which will save a lot!"
Miss Meng smiled after hearing this!
He immediately said with a hint of excitement: "Then I will start cooking the New Year's Eve dinner now. You don't have to start the fire. When I finish it, we will eat it together. This will save time. When we finish eating, we will go see it." Fireworks, go early and maybe you can get a good spot!”
When she said this, Ms. Meng's expression was a little excited in the first half...but by the time she said this in the second half, she was already shy!
Miss Meng is not very old either, she is two years younger than Sun Xu. Although women in Chu these days can get married at the age of fourteen, this woman of seventeen or eighteen is actually not too young. In people's eyes, Girls at this age are already mature girls.
But in the final analysis, I am only seventeen or eighteen years old... I still have some illusions about some beautiful things.
She wanted to go see the Spring Festival fireworks last year, but unfortunately, as she said before... she, a single girl, couldn't go on New Year's Eve.
She was naturally very happy to have the opportunity to go this year, but in her joy she only considered saving time and leaving early to reserve a seat.
Just as she was talking, she realized that it was inappropriate to have New Year's Eve dinner together. It was inappropriate for a man and a woman to have New Year's Eve dinner together... no matter how she heard it or said it, it was always inappropriate.
It's just that the words have been spoken, and it's getting late now. It will take time for Sun Xu to rent a car. We can't let Sun Xu be hungry on New Year's Eve and not even have a New Year's Eve dinner!
So for a moment, her expression first changed to excitement and joy, then to shyness, and then to confusion!
Sun Xu naturally saw it, but he pretended not to see it and just said in a normal tone: "Okay, I'm going out to rent a car. I have to go quickly, otherwise I'm afraid I'll be late and the car in their car rental shop will be stolen. It’s rented out!”
He didn’t mention the New Year’s Eve dinner together later!
Some things don’t need to be said, just do them!
Seeing Sun Xu hurriedly pick up his coat and quickly go downstairs at a pace similar to a trot, Miss Meng's mouth slightly curved and she smiled!
(End of chapter)
