Chapter 5 Ordinary Time
Doing good is like ascending, doing evil is like falling.
He held "Dragon Balls" in his hand, but he could clearly feel that his world view was collapsing.
He felt that he was taking advantage of others and was very shameless.
But if you ask him to choose again, he knows that he will definitely make such a shameless choice again.
In his memory, there was a line in a movie called "The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain" where Fan Wei said that it was like jumping off a cliff, and he couldn't stop it from the beginning.
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"Hey, little grandson, little grandson, let's go. Let's go have dinner at 11 o'clock."
Sun Tao put down the comic in his hand, "Okay, Lao Zhang, Lao Li, why don't you go home for a lunch break after eating?"
Zhang Xuesong nodded slightly, and Li Guoqiang chuckled, "We are not scheduled to be on duty at noon, so you are stupid and stay here by yourself. You can sleep on a recliner and have a comfortable bed. Forget it, you won't listen to me..."
What Li Guoqiang said is the saying that became popular on the Internet later: If you can work, there will be endless work.
After repairing Li Xiaojun's computer once, she invited Sun Tao to help her with maintenance frequently...
Sun Tao smiled and said, "You are right, this is not my internship period. After the internship period, I will go back to the dormitory to take a nap."
Zhang Xuesong said faintly, "Whatever you lay down is the foundation. It's not yours to do in the first place, but if you do too much, it becomes yours. You didn't have to be on duty at noon, but you spoiled them rotten. Believe it or not, one day at noon You will be criticized if you are not there.
Just do your job. If you have time to get a diploma by correspondence, it will be more effective than working hard in the workplace. ”
Sun Tao, "You two are so kind to me. Our classmate said that the master didn't teach him anything in the factory."
Li Guoqiang, "This is not a public institution. No matter how good you do, you can still delay Lao Zhang's dawdling. Besides, you are so young. Lao Zhang will definitely be retired by the time you want to rate him."
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After lunch, Zhang Xuesong and the others went home for a lunch break.
The Workers' Cultural Palace is affiliated to the Cultural Affairs Bureau, and the Cultural Bureau Community built in 1980 is just across the road, a ten-minute walk and five minutes by bicycle.
Zhang Xuesong was assigned a house, and Li Guoqiang bought it himself. Old houses are not priced by area, but by apartment. Li Guoqiang bought a 70-square-meter two-bedroom and one-living house for 25,000 yuan.
Sun Tao sent the repaired electrical appliances back one by one.
After all this work, he didn't go back to the office, but went straight back to the dormitory.
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The days passed uneventfully, but Sun Tao still got up at six o'clock every day to wash up, go to the cafeteria to have breakfast, chat with everyone, and work hard.
Occasionally, I would be called over by director Li Xiaojun, either to help with the dressing software or with the help of Photoshop.
Now everyone knows that Sun Tao is very good at using PS. The curator even asked Sun Tao to go over and help him process the old photos.
Sun Tao is no longer as restrained as before. He is often seen on the basketball court, and he no longer lowers his head when walking in the dormitory.
In the past, if there were girls in skirts going up the stairs in front of him, Sun Tao would deliberately fall behind a few steps, or even turn around and wait for them to go up first, which looked very pedantic;
Now, since they dare to wear it, he is generous and appreciates it normally.
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The system can really make people cripple themselves.
Five social insurances and one housing fund are standard features of the Cultural Palace. Needless to say, the trend of layoffs has passed, and career workers are the iron rice bowl.
When he is not busy, Sun Tao feels like he is on vacation. Living in a free dormitory, I would often see beautiful women chattering around me when I went out to use the bathroom. Sometimes they would come back in their performance clothes after rehearsals without changing.
She is fat and thin, wearing black stockings, white stockings, short skirts, and national standard dance clothes. There doesn't seem to be much difference between wearing them and not wearing them at all.
When eating, you can eat in the canteen. Public canteens are much cheaper than outside. Many dishes are served for a nominal fee. The prices are not expensive in the first place, so eating in the canteen is even cheaper.
If he didn't consider marrying a wife and providing for his parents in their old age, the money he earned wouldn't be spent at all!
On weekends, the Workers' Cultural Palace will show the movie "Men in Black 2", a blockbuster film about China, and the tickets are 25 each.
Sun Tao watched it twice, and of course it didn't cost a penny. The ticket seller, ticket inspector, security guard, and projectionist were all buddies. Sun Tao helped the ticket inspector go to the toilet for a few minutes.
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Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all very good.
The only thing that makes Sun Tao dissatisfied is that he has never integrated into the mainstream group of the Cultural Palace.
He felt that he was always a marginalized person. The people he talked to more often were security guards, cleaners, janitors, and porters. They were generally older... Well, although his mental age was about the same as them, , he is only 19 after all. It feels a bit weird to always hang out with middle-aged and elderly people...
There are often parties in the dormitory, where five or six people gather in the room of a certain handsome guy and beautiful girl. Everyone eats, drinks, chats, and plays poker (real poker, the kind played by Liu Qian).
No one has ever invited Sun Tao.
Having lived in the dormitory for more than a month, he knew all the dozen boys on the first and second floors. It was he who got to know them.
In addition to Li Bo and Zhang Wei, there was also Tong Bin from 201 who could chat a few words. The dancer had no sense of class and even watched movies with him on weekends.
Among the actors, Tong Bin was the only one who entered Sun Tao's room. The limit for other boys was to smile and nod when they met him. In this poor place, the concept of hierarchy is so strong that it is beyond ordinary people's understanding.
Not to mention young women, they basically treat Sun Tao as nothing.
Zhang Na from the printing room even asked Sun Tao to help move things. She was quite enthusiastic at the time and pretended not to recognize her when she returned to the dormitory.
Sun Tao understood her concerns. If she showed familiarity with a plumber wearing blue overalls, she might be rejected by other girls.
The only two people who nodded when they met Sun Tao were Liu Xiaojing and Wang Hui. They were Li Xiaojun's apprentices. They would say hello to Sun Tao because they had met him several times in Li Xiaojun's office.
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Coming out of the Cultural Palace, there is a bus station on the left side of the gate. Take Route 36 and get to Wu'an Passenger Transport Center in 7 stops. There is a line bus (a private bus dedicated to this line) to Jinjiatun every half an hour.
August 16, 2002, Friday, 6:50 pm, Jinjiatun.
Jinjiatun is still six or seven miles away from Sun Tao's home, but this is nothing. He walked to elementary and middle school by himself for half an hour when he was a child, but now 20 minutes is enough.
Jinjiatun is not the end point, and there is no fixed drop-off point. Basically, the driver stops nearby when he sees someone trying to get on.
He doesn't care where the people in the car want to get off. To save fuel, he will stop once on this street. If you don't get off, he will drive away.
There are gangsters behind the drivers of running cars. Ordinary people should just take a few more steps if they don't want to cause trouble.
The car stopped at the entrance of the Internet cafe.
Jinguang Internet Cafe is newly opened. It didn't exist when Sun Tao was in junior high school in the town.
"Sun Tao, Sun Tao!"
When Sun Tao heard the sound, he looked over and saw a three-wheeler parked in front of the "Ermei" grain and oil store. That was where his father, Sun Dashan, worked.
"Tu tu tu tu tu..."
"Dad, why haven't you come home yet?"
"I'm waiting for you, get in the car!"
The 8,000-word contract was signed, last time it was 12,000.
(End of chapter)