Chapter 523 Heaven or Hell (first update, please subscribe)
A ship, a container.
These two things don't seem to be a big deal. But the change their family is driving together is disruptive, a revolution in transportation.
However, for most people, they are unable to perceive the changes, and even the dock workers just watch all this indifferently.
When changes happen, most people only realize it later. There is no awareness of the change happening at all.
In fact, life is mostly like this. For most people, they are not aware of the change at all, they are just repeating the past life day after day, year after year.
On his way back from get off work that day, Wang Quanfu specifically glanced at the trailer passing by. It wasn't until the trailer containing the large boxes left for a while that he continued walking home again. Entering the passage in front of the building, as soon as he turned the corner and opened the door, he smelled the aroma of meat.
Smelling the aroma of meat coming from the kitchen, he saw Ayou who was busy in the kitchen. Although Ayou, who has been pregnant for several months, has some mobility difficulties, she still keeps the house spotless every day, prepares meals and waits for him to come home.
After entering the house, he glanced at his daughter's room and asked Ayou.
"Where is Ashin? Going out to play?"
Ayou brought the dishes to the table and said:
"The school band has to practice today. Axin said that she will come back later tonight and the food has been reserved for her."
There are always people in the school. Various activities. Music, art. Technology, sports, every child needs to participate in these activities.
These activities may even seem a little unprofessional, but parents have never objected to children being able to learn more, and it’s free.
“We need to train...”
Wang Quanfu said:
"Leave more meat for her, it is the time when she is growing."
Ayou set the dishes and chopsticks and said:
"I know , let’s eat.”
“We eat meat every day…”
Picking up a piece of meat and stuffing it into his mouth, Wang Quanfu said with a smile:
“Put it aside, I never dreamed that I could eat meat every day. Look at this meat, it’s fat but thin. It tastes the most delicious..."
Picking up a piece of meat and talking, Wang Quanfu realized that these days seemed to be different from the past.
Not only did he have a wife, he also lived the good life he had dreamed of. Living with plenty of food and fish every day... is not very realistic even when I think about it.
Looking at her husband's appearance, Ayou smiled.
"I know you like to eat meat, but I still like to eat fish, and fish is much cheaper than meat..."
After getting married, Ayou not only became a naturalized citizen, but also became a trainee in the textile factory. After becoming a squad leader, her salary also increased, from a few yuan to thirty yuan. But even so, she still lived very frugally.
"As long as you like it, it doesn't matter whether it's high or low, our family doesn't lack this little money now, by the way..."
Putting down his chopsticks, Wang Quanfu said.
"I heard that the salary of being a driver is much higher. I'm thinking of signing up for a training class and learning to drive, so that I can get more salary in the future. Ayou, what do you think?"
"I don't understand this either, but it would be a good thing to get more salary."
Ayou thought for a while and said.
"If you want to learn, just go and learn. There is always something you can use after learning. And when I was chatting with Squad Leader Li and the others in the cafeteria two days ago, Squad Leader Li said that the country is developing a "national car." In the future, every household will have a car."
"Every household will have a car?"
Wang Quanfu picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Don't just dream. But I really dare to think about it."
"It was said in the newspaper, who knows."
Ayou said while eating.
“However, Quanfu, our life is indeed getting better day by day. In a few months, we will be able to move to a new home. The food, use, and accommodation... a car, Maybe we will really have a car in the future, and then you can drive Axin, me, and Shitou to play together..."
When talking about Shitou, Ayou said I couldn't help but touch my raised belly, with a motherly smile on my face. This is the name they gave their child.
Looking at his wife's look, Wang Quanfu smiled.
"Okay, just dream."
There is everything in the dream, even a car...
Pick up a piece of meat and put it in your mouth, taste it Smell by the smell of meat, Wang Quanfu felt satisfied for a while. Being able to live a life of eating meat every day would be the end of the world!
...For many people, every family has a car, which is basically talking in sleep. Even if this is the vision of life mentioned by Li Yi'an in his New Year's speech, no one believes it.
For more than 30 million Nanyang people, being able to have enough food, clothing, and meat every day is a good life that they can only dream of.
Good times must come to an end!
So, when the "National Automobile Plan" was made public at the beginning of the new year, not many people believed it at all. In the eyes of some people, it was just a pancake for everyone.
“Look, I’m drawing pancakes again…”
The man reading the newspaper in the bookstore said in a rather sarcastic tone.
“Every household just has a bicycle, and they actually talk about cars. I have been to the United States several times, and I don’t know how many bowls of rice I can eat...”
The woman who was flipping through a magazine said softly to him:
"You have to pay attention and be careful not to be heard."
"I know,"
Gao Minghui put the newspaper away and said while it was raining heavily outside.
"It's just a sigh of relief. Looking at this place, it seems to be a happy place, but in reality? Look at this Nanyang..."
Pointing to the tall buildings looming in the rain curtain opposite, the man said.
“This Nanyang seems to be extremely prosperous, but even Shanghai is far behind it. When I was having dinner with others a few days ago, someone said proudly, how many tallest buildings are there in Asia? You Guess how many there are!”
“One, isn’t it the International Trade Building?”
The woman said nonchalantly.
"No,"
The man replied:
"There are four in total, all in Nanyang, three in Chang'an and one in Taiping."
"Ah ?”
The woman was stunned.
“From the 100-meter-tall Taiping Building to the International Trade Building, you see, the only one who can surpass Nanyang is Nanyang itself!”
The man stared at the city in the rain, and his whole body was sinking. In some inexplicable emotion. This sentiment is far from proud. It's more of a very complicated emotion.
It seems that he is unwilling to accept all this, but he has to face it. This tangled mood is fully reflected on his face.
“So, they are proud, they are proud, they... They say that they can eat meat every day, and the children in the school can drink milk and eat free lunch. To them, this place seems to be paradise, yes..."
This is like paradise. In the eyes of many people, this is paradise. Even when the man said these questioning words, he felt that this is really paradise. He has fought for it and worked hard for it. Everything to create.
It is precisely because of this that he cannot accept everything here.
The man's thick black eyebrows trembled, and he couldn't help but add weight to the evidence, and said loudly to the woman:
"Yes, in their opinion - this is paradise, upstairs upstairs There are lights and phones, bananas and fruits are constantly on the table, there is no shortage of rice and noodles in the kitchen, and there is meat, pork, and fish on every plate. Who says this is fake? I don’t agree to it. These are all mine. I saw it with my own eyes.”
He remembered his astonishment when he first saw the food the workers here ate in the cafeteria, and he also remembered his shock when he heard that lunch was provided in the school.
These are things he has never thought about. Maybe the world in his dreams is basically like this!
"Control your emotions,"
The woman seemed calm.
“I know,”
Looking at the heavy rain outside the door, after a while, the man turned back to the woman and said in an extremely serious tone:
"This seems to be heaven, but in fact it is hell. The people here are slaves but don't know it. How sad!"
The man smiled, his tone full of regret. This was the fundamental reason why he couldn't accept it all. Because he saw the most real side behind this paradise.
The woman looked at him, confused.
"What? What hell?"
The man said.
"Look here, isn't this a big slave camp! After everyone comes in, they are unable to escape from birth to death in the slave camp, and the slave owner is... what they call the president!"
(End of this chapter)