Hualin is just a small town standing at the northeastern end of China's vast territory.
The three northeastern provinces are the largest industrial base in the country. Although Hualin is not big, one Hualin Steel can support tens of thousands of people. It is the largest enterprise in the entire Hualin. Once upon a time, it was quite famous even in the entire three northeastern provinces.
However, as the spring breeze of reform and opening up blows across the land of China and reaches the birch forest, Huagang, which is still clinging to the original methods and not asking for flexibility, will inevitably be eliminated by history.
In 1997, in Hualin, next to the Hua Steel Factory, in the kitchen behind a restaurant with only a simple sign on the street, a young man who was sleeping soundly with his eyes closed suddenly opened his eyes while lying on a camp bed.
In his eyes that were like dots of paint, eyes as bright as stars bloomed.
The young man suddenly straightened up and sat on the cot.
97 years! Both parents were employees of Hua Steel Plant, and they had worked in Huagang all their lives. His father was killed in an accident. Wang Zhong was still young at that time, so his mother took over his father's work. She got seriously ill last year, and winter had not yet passed. After that, he died.
In recent years, Huagang's efficiency has become worse and worse. It has not hired workers for several years in a row. Wang Zhong has not been able to take over his mother's work, and he is not willing to hang around doing nothing, so he simply uses the little money left at home to make money. After joining this restaurant, although I didn't make much money, it was enough to support myself.
"Xiao Zhong!"
"Xiao Zhong!"
"In the store?"
Just as Wang Zhong came back to his senses, a familiar yet unfamiliar shout came from outside the store.
I walked to the front and opened the door of the shop. I saw a short, fat, middle-aged man with a happy face standing at the door.
"You're here!" The middle-aged man was obviously a little surprised when he saw Wang Zhong. He pulled Wang Zhong and walked straight inside.
"Uncle Xiang!" The middle-aged man is none other than Wang Xiang, one of the elderly iron triangle and the star of this drama. Wang Xiang is only forty now, so he can be said to be in his prime.
The identity assigned to Wang Zhong by the system is that of Wang Xiang's distant relative, someone who has already left the fifth server. Since Wang Zhong and Wang Zhong have been working on life in Huagang in this world, with this relationship, it is inevitable that he will be closer than other colleagues.
Wang Xiang is also a man of justice. After Wang Zhong's father left, he was the one who helped take care of Wang Zhong and his mother. It was Wang Xiang who helped open this small restaurant.
"When I went to work in the morning, I heard someone say that they saw you, but I didn't see you coming back. I was wondering if you were designated to be here."
"When did you come back?"
"Last night!" Wang Zhong replied based on the memory provided by the system.
"Did you learn anything when you went out this time?" This is the question that Wang Xiang is most concerned about.
"I learned a lot, why don't you come back immediately?"
Wang Xiang looked at Wang Zhong and said directly: "After being gone for several months, I didn't send a letter home, and when I came back, I didn't call in advance. Tell me, do you treat your uncle as an outsider?"
"Uncle, you have misunderstood me. Didn't I just come back? I haven't had time yet!" Wang Zhong explained with an aggrieved look: "I was busy rushing all the way, but it didn't exhaust me to death. If you hadn't been here If someone calls me outside, I don’t know when I’ll wake up.”
Wang Xiang smiled and said: "Don't be such a mouthful, I don't know you yet! Okay, I still have to go to work. Remember to go home for dinner in the evening, your aunt is talking about you every day!"
"Then you go to work quickly. I'll go there by myself in the evening." Wang Zhong respectfully sent Wang Xiang out of the door.
According to the memory provided by the system, I am older than Wang Yang. I am twenty-one this year. It is already the end of July and almost August. Wang Yang's college entrance examination has ended long ago. I guess the results will be out by now.
The memory given by the system didn't remember much about Wang Yang. The impression he had was that he was a runny-nosed little kid who was disgusted by others and followed him around for a long time.
Not far from Huagang is Hualin Health Vocational College, which people in Hualin like to call Huayi, which is the school where Shen Mo and Qu Bo will report soon.
It's late July and almost August, it's summer vacation, there's still a while before school starts, and Shen Shen probably hasn't come to Hualin yet.
Wang Zhong calmed down, clarified his thoughts, and simply packed up the camp bed and the luggage beside the bed. This start was much better than many dungeons.
Although the house in the restaurant is rented, after paying one year's rent and signing a three-year contract, there is still more than 5,000 yuan in the bankbook in my memory. The things in the bankbook are all left to Wang Chong by his parents who passed away in this world. legacy.
I took out all the cash on my body and sorted it out briefly. The total number of zeros and zeros totaled more than two hundred, and the total net worth was less than six thousand. In future generations, it would not be anything, but at this time, it is still considered a fortune. A big deposit.
There is no need to trouble Wang Zhong to find a way to get the start-up capital, and he has to go back and forth.
After tidying up the inside and outside of the restaurant, Wang Zhong entered Huagang in the afternoon carrying a bag of fruits.
The identity arranged by the system is that he is a son of Huagang. Although he was unable to take over his parents' class and work at Huagang, the dormitory assigned to Wang Zhong's family in the factory was still not taken back. After all, Wang Zhong's mother in this world has only been gone for a year. , and Hua Steel has been in decline over the years, and has not recruited workers for several years. After all, the parents of this world have worked in Hua Steel all their lives, and both lives have been invested in it. Naturally, it is not easy for Hua Steel to make such a bird. After finishing Gongzang's matter, Wang Zhong was kicked out of Huagang dormitory.
In fact, there are many young people like Wang Zhong who still live in the Huagang dormitory area despite their parents being away.
But what he does is completely different.
At least Wang Zhong learned their craft and opened a restaurant. Although his business was average, he was still a regular businessman. However, the other young people who could not stand up had watched a few young and confused movies from Xiangjiang. The movie was very poisonous. A group of people got together, either stealing or bullying, fighting, and doing some illegal things, which made people hate them.
He came to the dormitory area with familiarity and knocked on the door of Wang Xiang's house. The person who opened the door was Wang Xiang's son Wang Yang, that unfortunate and miserable young man.
"Brother!" Seeing Wang Zhong, Wang Yang was very surprised and even more happy: "When did you come back?"
"yesterday!"
"Come inside quickly!"
"Come inside quickly!"
"Yang'er, who is this?" The voice of Wang Yang's mother, Luo Meisu, came from the kitchen.
"Mom! Brother Chong is here!"
"Xiao Zhong?" When Luo Meisu saw Wang Zhong, the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes wrinkled up with laughter.
"Auntie!"
"Does your uncle know you're back?"
"I know, Uncle Xiang went to my store at noon!"
"You and Yang'er chat for a while, and I'll go cook!" Luo Meisu entered the kitchen, and Wang Yang took Wang Zhong and sat down to chat.
"Brother, how are you doing at your craft?"
"What do you think!" Wang Zhong smiled slightly and said mysteriously.
Wang Yang said: "Then you must have learned it. With your ability, just learning how to cook is not a piece of cake!"
The identity assigned by the system is that his mother has been bedridden all year round. Wang Zhong has been very independent since he was a child, and his ability to cook, cook, and wash clothes is ordinary.
"It's okay! When I come back this time, I plan to pick up the restaurant, get a new sign, and reopen it!"
"Business will definitely be booming this time!" Wang Yang patted the horse, but he didn't mean it against his will. After all, Wang Zhong's reputation among the younger generation of Huagang was built with a pair of iron fists. Unfortunately, Wang Zhong has never been like this. Take the initiative to stir up trouble, as long as you don't provoke him, bully others and don't let him see you.
"Uncle Xiang said that you failed the college entrance examination?" Wang Zhong changed the subject and looked at Wang Yang with a smile on his face.
The smile on Wang Yang's face froze instantly. He lowered his head and rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, and said sheepishly, "I'm not good at studying!"
Wang Zhong said: "What are your plans? I see that Uncle Xiang wants you to repeat your studies?"
Wang Yang immediately shook his head with a bitter look on his face and said, "Brother, you know me. I'm not a student at all. I know those words individually, but if they are crowded together, just looking at them makes me dizzy." How can I learn if I'm sleepy?"
"You!"
Wang Zhong looked at Wang Yang and said with some emotion: "I think Uncle Xiang and Aunt Xiang have taken good care of you. You obviously have the opportunity to study, but you refuse to cherish it. In the countryside, many children who want to study have no chance. Either they work in the fields, farm and herd cattle, or they go all the way to the south to work."
"I also want to work!" Wang Yang faced Wang Zhong's gaze that seemed to penetrate people's hearts and said urgently and seriously: "I want to make money."
Wang Zhong probably guessed what Wang Yang was thinking. It was just that his mother Luo Meisu was in poor health. She spent tens of thousands of dollars on an operation the year before last, which wiped out the little money the family had finally saved. Although relatives and friends borrowed a lot, the factory has not reimbursed them so far. Although the original debts have been paid off gradually over the past few years, Lao Wang's family's financial resources are also empty, and they have not yet made up for it.
After failing the college entrance examination, Wang Yang was relieved and eager to work and make money to help his parents share the pressure.
Wang Zhong looked at the kitchen, patted Wang Yang on the shoulder and said, "Let's talk about this later."
Wang Yang also knew what Wang Zhong meant. It was simply that both his mother and father were looking forward to Wang Yang repeating his studies, taking the college entrance examination, and leaping over the dragon's door.
"Brother, how is your restaurant? When do you plan to reopen?" Wang Yang changed the subject and turned concerned about Wang Zhonglai.
"It will take a while. Once I have learned the craft, I will also need to decorate the restaurant. At least the sign will need to be changed. And I will definitely not be able to do it by myself. I will have to hire a few people to help."
"Brother, how about I go help you for a while?" Wang Yang volunteered.
"You?" Wang Zhong looked Wang Yang up and down: "The person I want to recruit is to serve tea, water and food, wash vegetables and dishes, tidy up the table and clean up. Are you good at it?"
"Why can't I do it!" Wang Yang was unhappy: "You're looking down on others, aren't you? I help my mother with a lot of work at home!"
"Mom, do you think so?" Wang Yang yelled toward the kitchen.
"That's true!" Luo Meisu poked most of her head out of the kitchen: "My Yang'er is really good at her job."
"That's it, as long as Uncle Xiang and my aunt don't have any objections, you can come over!"
"okay!"
"Let's talk about it first. Don't complain when you go, don't give me a job halfway. If you can't do it, then you should go and do what you should do as soon as possible, so I can hire someone to do the work!"
"Brother, don't you know who I am? Just keep it in your heart!"
After having dinner at Wang Xiang's house, Wang Zhong went straight back to his residence in the next building. As soon as he walked downstairs, he saw a young man in his twenties who looked like he was twenty thousand years old with his hands in his pockets. Walk out with a figure-eight step.
"Wang Zhong!" Seeing Wang Zhong standing like a telegraph pole downstairs, the visitor's footsteps froze. He was surprised and a little afraid, so he subconsciously took a few steps back.
Wang Zhong said calmly: "Give me, don't block the way!"
The young man subconsciously stepped aside and got out of the way. When Wang Zhong walked into the stairs, he came back to his senses and looked at Wang Zhong's back disappearing into the corridor. After a while, his expression changed uncertainly, he turned around and walked out quickly. Step away.
The person who passed by Wang Zhong was none other than Xiaofeng who stole Ma Desheng's tires and beat up Fu Weijun and Sui Dong in the original drama. He was also the head of the jobless young people at Huagang. They usually stole and fought with each other. He does everything except good things.
Wang Zhong had taught them many lessons before, and they had naturally resisted. However, Wang Zhong's force was too strong. Once, Xiaofeng was entangled with twenty or thirty young and strong young men, who had been fighting on the streets all year round. The grown-up ones, the kind who didn't care about anything when their brains got hot, even held sticks and blocked Wang Zhong outside Huagang.
But they didn't want to be beaten down by Wang Zhong with a pair of iron fists, and they were all punished severely. If it weren't for the rule of law in society now, and Wang Zhong restrained his efforts, those gangsters No. 20 or 30 would have been in the factory. It is impossible to lie in the hospital for several months.
Wang Zhong also became famous in the first battle and became one of the people that Huagang should not mess with. In the eyes of Xiaofeng and this group of gangsters who hang out all day long, the danger level is even far greater than that of the security department chief Xing Saner and the factory. Chang Song Yukun and others.
Xiaofeng saw Wang Zhong,
It's like a mouse meeting a cat.
The key point is that Wang Zhong still has a hard time with his eyes. Whenever he sees them doing something sneaky, one of them will be punished severely by Wang Zhong. Although it doesn't hurt his muscles or bones, it really hurts. .
Thinking of what he and others had done recently, Xiaofeng's expression suddenly changed, and he quickly speeded up and ran all the way, as if there was a tiger chasing him behind.
Seeing Xiao Feng fleeing, Wang Zhong shook his head. To be honest, Wang Zhong really didn't like Xiao Feng. He didn't do anything serious and got into trouble all day long. Now he's just sneaking around and fighting. But what about the future? Drug smuggling?
Wang Zhong knew that some of them were actually good-natured. However, their parents passed away early and there were no elders to discipline them. Hua Steel's efficiency was getting lower and lower, and they might collapse one day, and they couldn't stand up to their parents. Now there are laid-off workers everywhere. If they can't find a job, they will naturally have no income. Without any income, some people who don't have family members will naturally have nothing to eat. They don't have anything to eat. How can they still have energy? Think right or wrong.
