Xiangjiang, a super restaurant for foreigners.
In the dense city of Pigeon House, a house of 90 square meters can be divided into 18 households.
The average area of a household is less than ten square meters, which is not the most exaggerated thing.
The most exaggerated one is the subdivided room, which is a bed separated by an iron cage.
This is a room where one person lives.
Although the living environment is so exaggerated, there are at least 10,000 to 20,000 people living here every month.
Whether you are a dishwasher or a security guard, the starting monthly salary is more than 10,000.
Most of the people living in this environment are foreigners, so the super restaurants opened here are also called foreigners.
The Foreigner Super Restaurant, which has been open for more than a year, has a particularly booming business. There are no less than ten dishwashers in the restaurant.
As for the waiters who came to clear the tables, there were more than thirty.
This does not include chefs and so on.
The Foreigner Super Restaurant has a total of two floors, with a single floor area of about 500 square meters.
Enough to accommodate hundreds of people eating at the same time.
Since it opened here, the media has reported it two or three times.
The main reason is that the price is too cheap.
The buffet price of 15 yuan per person is about the same in mainland China, but it is simply an anomaly in Xiangjiang.
The dishes are also very rich.
It can be said that from the day it opened, you have to queue up if you want to eat here.
If it happens to be lunch time, it won’t be your turn to go in for seven or eight minutes.
Some reporters did some calculations for it. First of all, it goes without saying that the housing prices in Xiangjiang are very high.
A two-story facade like this is not even located in the busiest Xiangjiang street.
If you open a house downstairs like this, if the annual rent does not start at 30 million yuan, then you don’t even think about it.
As for its price, it’s pretty good if it can guarantee employees’ monthly income without losing money.
Tens of millions in rent every year will definitely be lost, and this is also true.
A foreigner restaurant priced at 15 yuan per person cannot recoup its investment cost at all.
What can be taken back is the reputation of those outsiders.
Chen Anan stayed here honestly for a day or two, compared to the mountaintop villa.
People here eat simply to fill their stomachs for life.
After eating, you may take a rest, or you may immediately get into the day's work.
In short, there is basically no enjoyment of life on their faces.
This is the ultimate contrast between the villas on the top of the mountain and the people at the bottom.
She got used to it quite well. Two days after Erpuya arrived, she shouted that she wanted to go home.
Chen Pingsheng ignored her and left her here for exercise.
Shen Youwei and Zhao Yingying also accompanied the two eldest ladies.
As for the fat aunt, she has been working here for more than a year, and many people know her.
We were neighbors before, and now we say hello often.
According to her, even though there are many middle-aged people here, they seem quite stingy and reluctant to spend money on themselves.
But as soon as you enter the casino, you will feel like a different person.
The fat aunt also pointed at two middle-aged men with messy hair and dirty faces and said, "Those two are picking steel bars and moving cement on the construction site. They usually eat very well. What can I say?" They don’t like to say that they go to the casino three or four times a month. According to them, they have been poor for a lifetime. How can they survive if they don’t rely on gambling?” “Then have they recovered?” An An asked curiously, and the fat aunt whispered,
"How can we turn around? Of course we win less and lose more. In that kind of place, if you win, you can't hold back at all. If you lose, you will only get deeper and deeper. These two people have been working on the construction site for almost twenty years, and they can't even marry a wife. To one, it can be seen that the money is sent to that place. "
It is actually easier for the poor to gamble than the rich.
Mainly because of stimulation, when life lacks passion, many people like to seek comfort from it.
Not only these two people like gambling, but also many people who come here like it.
On the day when wages are paid, most people will form a team to play two games. Some people are homeless, a single man, and if he loses money, he loses it.
Most people are not. They are all married and have children in the mainland. They come here simply to make money.
These people can often have a little more control.
If you can't control it, it will only end in divorce.
Losing nine out of ten bets is no joke.
The fat lady didn’t understand why the big boss would send his daughter to a place like this to work as a waitress.
Perhaps it is not just to watch the fun, but more to see the actual life of these people struggling at the bottom.
In fact, the lives of poor people are often more depressing and lack a sense of accomplishment.
There is no channel to release emotions.
Gambling has naturally become a hobby for many people.
Some people can win hundreds of thousands in one night, and most people can lose a month's salary in a few hours.
Outlander Restaurant not only brings together these people, but also some former street gangsters.
Like the old man with half-white hair, what he likes to talk about most is thinking about Causeway Bay back then.
Brother Haonan is not a legend. The prototype was slapped for interfering in Anita Mui’s karaoke.
And was hacked to death in the street.
Many people talk about Hong Kong in the 1990s, and they always feel that there was still a place for Jianghu people in Hong Kong at that time.
But the ones who are really best at fighting are often the ruthless people who sneak over from the mainland.
Some people have indeed made it through the world of martial arts, and now they can still hold down their cups and toast Chen Pingsheng with a glass of wine.
I just can’t get to the main table.
It was a great honor to receive a business card from him, and these people had already put on suits and black ties decently.
More people are still eliminated by the world.
Just like this white-haired old man, he is quite lucky, and he is indeed loyal to the elder brother.
But it was because of my loyalty that I was packed into a sack and filled up in the sea.
The reason is that the younger brother offended a second-generation brother, and the older brother went over and slapped him without asking.
It’s like helping my younger brother to stand out.
It sank into the sea the next day.
As for his younger brother, he ran away abroad long ago and never dared to return to Xiangjiang until he died.
In Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s, there were countless such things.
After the return of 1997, the chaotic Xiangjiang was completely cut off from the world.
And those of them who were once in the world, including that one, can only recall the past.
What Chen Anan can feel here is a kind of depression, an extreme kind of depression.
Everyone may have wanted to fight for the chance to change their life when they were young.
Some people risked their lives, and then their lives were lost.
Some people work hard and then work as coolies for a lifetime.
There are also people who stick to their posts conscientiously and conscientiously. They may not be happy, but their wives and children back home are their biggest motivation.
As a result, these people can control their inner desires, and when they are old, they can return to the mainland and live in a big house in the countryside.
Most people still like to gamble, maybe not because they like gambling.
Just because I can’t find hope in life.
And these people are often the worst.
I don’t want to give up food or clothing, but I use all my savings to gamble and take a chance.
The cost of turning a bicycle into a motorcycle is that the original broken bicycle is gone.
(End of this chapter)