Indulge in life

"Ahem!" The counter supervisor noticed his distraction and coughed a few times as a warning. Tang Weichao quickly calmed down, stopped staring at the screen stupidly, and continued to look for customers.

After 12:30, there was no one there anymore, but even if the order for 21 units was completed this morning, the harvest was not small. Tang Weichao got up and went downstairs to buy food when the supervisor came back from eating out first.

Walking out of the cold wind wall at the entrance of the market, I felt a heat wave hit my face. The sun outside was huge and the weather in June was really not that pleasant. I was used to the central air-conditioning in the market. It was really hard to come out.

Going east through the endless traffic on the street, Tang Weichao got into a dilapidated alley behind Tianlong Market, where the word "demolition" was written everywhere, and many houses had already been knocked down. Soon, this place will rise again A new electronic building, the rapid development of Zhongguan Village is indeed changing with each passing day. Just over two years ago, when Tang Weichao was working in the local market, he came here on a business trip. At that time, the electronic market was just a pitiful two-story building. The outside is full of people selling pirated software, but now, the pirates are still there, and the small broken building has become several high-end buildings with more than ten floors. I don’t know the size of the market inside, the number of counters, and the employees. How many times has it increased.

Tang Weichao sighed and found a broken flatbed cart selling fried cakes and fried rice. There were steamed rice, sliced ​​cakes, eggs, ham sausage, various vegetables and seasonings on the cart, and there was a stove at one end. The young guy with a towel on his shoulders was stirring the pot quickly. When he saw Tang Weichao, he glanced at his arm, was slightly stunned, and asked, "Why are you injured?"

"It's okay, it's just a scratch." Tang Weichao didn't want to play up the matter.

The guy who made the fried rice was skilled in his movements. He finished frying one portion in threes and fives. Then he pulled an open lunch box and poured out the fried rice in the pot. The person waiting on the side handed over three yuan and pulled out a pair of disposable chopsticks. Take it and eat it on the side.

"Fried pancakes?" The boy asked Tang Weichao, and before he could answer, he poured oil and cracked two eggs.

"Hey, I came first!" A fat and ugly woman next to her dissatisfied. She still had a sign on her chest, which looked like a manager of some market.

"This is my brother! No matter what, I'll fry it for him first!" The boy was also dissatisfied, "If you want to eat, just wait, if you don't want to eat, go elsewhere!"

"Who is that? Pervert!" The woman left cursing and went to find other fried rice sellers. There are at least ten of them in this alley, so don't worry about not being able to buy fried rice.

"I'm perverted? Is your daughter playing with me? How do you know I'm perverted?" Chen Liang yelled at the woman's back unceremoniously, making the person eating fried rice next to him laugh out loud and almost choked.

"Chen Liang, why are you doing this!" Tang Weichao wanted to stop him just now, and gave his own to the woman, but he didn't have time to intervene.

"It's nothing, this old lady, I've been annoying her for a long time. Every time, there are a lot of demands, and I can't stop complaining. I'm not satisfied at all. How good are these three yuan things? Why don't you think about it?" Let's eat in a big restaurant... Besides, this is my last day to do business here!" Chen Liang said, turning the eggs and throwing in a big spoonful of ham sausage.

"Why, you've decided?" Tang Weichao laughed, and hurriedly said, "Don't put chili peppers on me, I'll get angry these days!"

"It's decided. I want to rent a counter at the 'Crystal Valley Market', and I'll go through the official procedures tomorrow." Seeing that the vegetables were almost cooked, Chen Liang poured pancake sticks into the pan, as if he wanted to fill up the pan. .

"You put less on it! How can I eat so much when I'm a pig!" Tang Weichao hurriedly stopped, and said: "Okay, you boy, do what you say, you have courage!"

Stirring a few times, Chen Liang turned his head and said: "It's not because of your encouragement, otherwise I, a fried rice seller, would not have the courage! And... if you didn't lend me the thousands of dollars... "

"We're all brothers, why are you talking about this!" Tang Weichao shook his head and said, "Since it's fixed, call me tomorrow and I'll accompany you to choose a counter. The location is very important!"

"Okay, that's natural, I can rely on you brother!" Chen Liang poured the fried rice into the lunch box, this time it was almost half more than the one just now, and the lunch box couldn't hold it at all.

Seeing Tang Weichao squatting beside the car and starting to eat, Chen Liang wiped off the sweat with a towel on his shoulders, and asked, "How is your job? Is there any hope of going back?"

Tang Weichao smiled wryly, this kid, how can he know which pot is not open and which pot to carry?

Tang Weichao originally applied for a product manager in his current company. He thought that with his three years of experience in local cities, there would be no problem. In fact, he did successfully pass the interviews of the HR manager and product director, and even chatted with the product director. After all, he has a lot of very unique insights into the industry and the market, and he can impress people in the same industry. Just after he got the recruitment reply, he thought that the bad luck in the past year was over and the times should turn around. , After leaving, he pushed open the door of the interview office, and met a guy holding coffee and smiling at the beautiful woman beside him. The coffee spilled on the guy, and that guy was the boss of the company.

The boss who lost face in front of the beautiful women must take revenge. He said "I'm a little edgy, I need to exercise", and drove Tang Weichao, who was going to work in the product department the next day, to the counter outside, and it was the fourth floor of the Atlantic Ocean, in the company's four markets. Among the six counters, this is the one with the least traffic and the worst location. There is no way, whoever let him offend the boss as soon as they meet each other. It is said that if the product director did not intercede, he is indeed a talent, and I can't bear to let him He was fired when he was lost to another company. It was ridiculous. An employee who hadn't officially started work was almost fired because he pushed the door open instead of pulling it open.

Details determine success or failure, which is very important. Tang Weichao's tragic experience fully reminds everyone that this kind of door that can be opened inside and outside is best used for pulling rather than pushing, although the word "push, push, push" comes first.

"It's only my first day working at this counter, so I can go back to the company in the future, how can I be so fast!" Tang Weichao sighed, ever since he was forced by the poor salary in the local area, he wanted to come to the big city of Yanjing He who earns more money to see a doctor for his mother seems to be in bad luck all the time.

He came to Yanjing in September last year. When he came, his mother did not agree, but in order to treat her old man, Tang Weichao insisted on his decision. This was the first time he disobeyed his mother's intention in more than 20 years. , because he really couldn't bear her having no money to buy medicine, and she was in extreme pain when her illness flared up. Every time he saw her, his heart was tightening and bleeding.

The first job Tang Weichao applied for was an IT company in Zhongguan Village. Due to his diligent performance, after standing at the counter for more than a week, he was transferred back to the company's key customer department. The three-month probationary period was about to expire. , the company was suddenly closed down by the tax department, saying that there was serious tax evasion, but no, it only accepts cash every day, and rarely asks for checks. If they didn't get it, they were forced to leave.

At that time, the Chinese New Year was only less than a month away, and Tang Weichao originally planned to look for another job, but as the year approached, how could any company be willing to recruit people casually?Tang Weichao, who couldn't find opportunities at all, had to go to a so-called "direct sales" company for the travel expenses to go home during the Chinese New Year. Of course, he was not doing "direct sales", but a network supervisor.

The company is not formal at all. In addition to sending a large number of salesmen to the campus community to directly sell various small commodities every day, it also keeps posting job advertisements on tabloids, attracting a large number of unemployed applicants. They brag about how much they can earn every month Under so many temptations, many people decided to stay, and everyone who passed the interview had to pay tens of dollars, and then was led to sell. Many people found that they were cheated after working for a day or two, and decided to leave. Of course If you don't get that little money back, you have to consider yourself unlucky.

Sometimes Tang Weichao couldn't stand it, and secretly persuaded many people away, and he was just helping to set up a small network for the company, trying to promote and sell products from the Internet. This time, his salary was one thousand and two. How to put it, it has exceeded his local income.

Although Tang Weichao has done well in the local area, it is a local area after all, and his income can only get 1000 yuan at the top. If you want to add more, unless you are the boss, anyway, if you are working part-time, it is basically impossible. Thinking of getting such a salary in such a place, Tang Weichao was really excited at first.

However, unforeseen events happened, and almost the same bad luck as last time befell Tang Weichao again. On the 21st of the twelfth lunar month, two days before the company’s final holiday, when the salary was about to be settled, the company was shut down again by the police and the industry and commerce department. It was malicious defrauding of entry fees, because after someone was cheated, he was unconvinced after thinking about it, and went to report the case in a rage.

When it was over, Tang Weichao returned to his residence dejectedly because he could not receive his salary. It was a small one-story house with an area of ​​only six or seven square meters. live there.

Thinking about the fact that he did not earn much money when he came to Yanjing, and that he had waited in line for several days, and could not buy a train ticket home, Tang Weichao finally gave up the idea of ​​going back to celebrate the New Year. After calling his neighbor to help take care of his mother, he was alone One person prepares to spend a lonely and miserable Spring Festival here.

Chen Liang didn't go home either, and he couldn't buy a train ticket either.

The two of them have nothing to do, just sit in the reception room and watch the old nine-inch black and white TV, and then go back to the house to brag and talk, or just read Jin Yong's novels all night, sleep when they are sleepy, and read when they wake up, The rooms are equipped with bunk beds, which is very convenient no matter who lives in the room.

Chen Liang was persuaded by Tang Weichao at that time. Although he could earn living expenses by cooking rice every day, it was not a long-term solution after all. As the last house in Zhongguan Village to be demolished was about to be demolished, they would have nowhere to go. There is no place to sell fried rice anymore. At that time, they will be replaced by new food courts in various markets.

Chen Liang asked how much it would cost to get a seat in the Food City, and the answer he heard made him come back in despair. If he had so much money, he might still sell fried rice!

At this time, he heard a lot of experience in sales operations from Tang Weichao, what skills are there for selling products, what kind of inside story is there for what brand, how to treat what kind of customers... He listened attentively, and at the same time I am also very puzzled, Tang Weichao is only one year older than himself, according to himself, he has only been in IT sales for three years, how can he know so much?It seems that I have been in this business for a lifetime!

But he didn't know how much effort Tang Weichao had put in, how much hardship he had endured, how much he had suffered, and how much sweat he had shed, in exchange for this knowledge and experience.

Although Tang Weichao respects his mother's request and does not stand out in every way, this does not mean that he does not have that ability. He has been doing his best to absorb all aspects of knowledge to the greatest extent, and strive to have the best level. If allowed , He can do what others can't, because he believes in one sentence, that is, opportunities only favor those who are prepared.

When he was in high school, in a music appreciation class, when the teacher played the "Symphony of Destiny", Tang Weichao heard the "dong dong" sound of fate knocking on the door, and he suddenly understood something, when fate and opportunity knocked on the door When the time comes, have you ever been ready, can you control your own destiny, can you seize the opportunity in front of you?

If you didn't prepare for anything, and just watched the opportunity leave you, and your fate cannot be changed, will you always regret it for the rest of your life?Tang Weichao didn't want to regret, he was determined to grasp the hand of fate, if that hand was stretched out to him.

However, he also knows that nothing comes for nothing. To get it, you have to pay, just like you have to lift your arms when you put on clothes. There is no easy lunch in the world. The same is true for money, knowledge and experience, so , he has been studying almost crazily, mastering all the things he can touch, especially when he touches the computer, he finds that the Internet has opened an unprecedented door for him, which has richer and easier With the resources he obtained, he was like a fish in water, devoted himself to it, and indulged in it, which is also the key reason why he finally chose to enter the IT industry.

Under the influence of Tang Weichao, after the Spring Festival, Chen Liang had secretly decided that he wanted to switch careers and become an IT person. He didn't have any academic qualifications and diplomas, so it was difficult for him to get into a suitable company, so he planned to do it himself.

Tang Weichao was very supportive of his idea, and said that he would try his best to help him, and bought him several books on hardware. After that, Chen Liang sold fried rice while learning from some Internet guys in the dormitory area. , he needs to be familiar with and be proficient in these things, and at the same time save money to rent the counter.

A few days after the Spring Festival, Tang Weichao was about to continue looking for a job, but news came from his family that his mother who had worked so hard to raise him for more than 20 years fell ill again, and he had to rush back immediately, not only because he was his mother The only son, because he has lost his father long ago, and his mother is his only relative.

Tang Weichao regretted not being able to go back during the Spring Festival, but it was useless to regret. After all, the problem of train tickets was not something he could solve. It was a major issue involving the whole country, involving the vital interests of certain departments and countless scalpers, so he could only complain secretly. Swear a few words and settle the matter.

The mother's body gradually weakened, and after more than three months, she left Tang Weichao forever with regret. In those few days, Tang Weichao passed out several times from crying, and nothing happened under the care of a kind neighbor.

The dead are gone, and the living will live on.

Tang Weichao reluctantly cleaned up his mood and tidied up the things at home. He sold everything that should be sold, not even the house, and paid all the money to the hospital. The medical expenses and hospital care expenses for his mother in the last two months were not a small amount. For the Tang family, who had very little income and no unit to manage the reimbursement, it was like a mountain of burden. In the end, all that was left were some clothes and sundries.

On the last day of leaving, Tang Weichao sat alone in the room for a long time, recalling the past, and burst into tears from time to time. He kept holding a few photos in his hand, most of them were his mother’s, and there was also a black and white It's already very blurry, there is a man on it, that is his father, a father he has never met.

Tang Weichao has always had doubts about his father. According to his mother, he has passed away, but he never told him where his father's cemetery is, and never took him to worship. He privately asked neighbors and his mother's former co-workers , but no one knew about his father. He doubted whether his father was really dead. He always felt that his mother was hiding something, but he couldn't find out, but this time when his mother was dying, she finally said A few ambiguous words made Tang Weichao faintly feel that things were not that simple.

The photo is very old, and the face of the person in it is faded. Tang Weichao often tries to see clearly, but no matter how hard he tries, it is useless. Only in his dream, he occasionally sees his father's face clearly. I can't remember anything.

Putting down the photo, he looked at a ring on his finger, which was left by his mother. It was a very worn-out silver ring, worthless, rusty and dark. His mother had been wearing it all the time. It was a little thin. Tang Weichao wore it on It reminds me of my mother when I see it on my little finger.

After packing up the last items, Tang Weichao left the home he had lived in for many years and handed over the keys to the neighbor. The person who bought the house was about to renovate it before moving in. He didn't want to see Seeing this home being changed into another by others, he came to Yanjing City again with the few thousand dollars left. This time, he was really alone...

In a daze, Tang Weichao recalled the scenes of this period of time again. The fried cakes in the lunch box were eaten up somehow, without even tasting any taste.

Chen Liang, who cooked a few more meals, was taken aback when he saw him standing up after eating quietly, and asked, "What's wrong with your eyes, are they red?"

"The chili pepper you put is so hot!" Tang Weichao turned and left, and said: "This is the last time you do business, it's a treat, I won't pay any more!"

"Damn, I didn't intend to take your money at all!" Chen Liang muttered dissatisfiedly, and suddenly came to his senses: "I didn't put chili for you just now!"

In the distance, Tang Weichao's somewhat lonely figure had gone away and mixed into the ordinary crowd like him.