Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 800 Olympic Games

The two people carried a bag of health supplements into the courtyard. Xiao Hong looked up at the building and asked, "When will things get better here?"

Xiao Wei said, "It's almost done. Now we're working on opening the hotel floors. I'm afraid Han San'er's project won't work out. His wife doesn't agree. I was just thinking about whether we could do it ourselves and poach a few managers from the power company."

Xiao Wei said, "I'll ask around. We can't just leave it vacant, can we? There aren't that many companies looking to rent it out right now."

Xiao Hong said, "Is this how Huang Suo's family is? How are they supposed to eat? Will they still be taken care of at night?"

Xiao Wei said, "Let's invite you over for dinner tonight so we can get to know each other properly. After that, who cares? People live their own lives."

Xiao Hong said, "I feel so sorry for Huang's daughter. She's so young and has to work. She's never seen or known anything. It makes me so sad to see her."

Xiao Wei said, "I've been doing chores since I was a child, and you're the one ordering me around. How come I've never seen you complain?"

Xiao Hong said, "How can that be the same? This is the countryside, and this is the city."

Xiao Wei took a breath, nodded, and said, "Yes, it's different. This is the city. Rural children are born to die, they are destined to suffer."

Xiao Hong grabbed Xiao Wei's arm and shook it, saying, "That's not what I meant."

Xiao Wei said, "I know, I just feel a bit emotional. In the city, kids around ten years old get praised for washing a handkerchief, but in the countryside, seven or eight-year-olds can't do any chores? If they don't do them well, they get beaten."

Xiao Hong asked, "What were you trying to do just now?"

Xiao Wei said, "I originally wanted to go to the design institute, but forget it, it doesn't really matter whether I go or not. I can just write it in the contract later."

Xiao Hong asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Wei said, "Many workers on the construction site don't like to wear safety helmets, and I feel unsafe about it."

Someone upstairs at the bottom of the stairs called out, "Xiao Wei."

Xiaowei and Xiaohong turned around and saw a new girl in the office, whose name they didn't know.

"What's up?" Xiao Wei asked.

The girl held up a registered letter: "This is from Harbin. Please sign for it."

Xiao Wei said, "Let him come down."

The two waited downstairs for a while. A postman came out, carrying a large dark green bag, and handed the registered letter to Xiaowei. Xiaowei took it and looked at it; the sender was the Bingcheng City Government. He signed it, said thank you, and the postman rode away on his bicycle. Xiaowei took the letter and returned to the courtyard with Xiaohong.

Xiao Hong said, "The Pudong New Area in Shanghai is undergoing a major development; don't you want to go and see it?"

Xiao Wei said, "It's too far from us, a bit out of reach. Do you think we should go?"

Xiao Hong said, "We've studied the relevant documents. Shanghai and Shenzhen are key areas for national development in the future, and I think we should go there. Our Northeast is too isolated, and the country is also reforming industrial enterprises, so the future here is uncertain."

Xiao Wei said, "Didn't Beigang invest in and introduce technology a few days ago? It seems that Angang's coking and other things have also been in the newspapers."

Xiao Hong said, "I judged based on policy. The country's future focus will definitely be on the southern coast. What does industrial development have to do with us business people? Besides, can't you see factories closing down in large numbers? How many workers have been laid off in Fengtian alone? Northeast China has been providing financial support to the interior of China through aid and construction projects, but the Northeast has never been mentioned in policy terms."

Xiao Wei said, "I don't understand these big principles. Fine, if you say so, then let's go take a look. We can even get a piece of land and build some buildings. But forget about Shenzhen, it's too far away, and it's too chaotic there. I don't want to go. My friend Han San went to Hainan and said the real estate market there is crazy; you can make a fortune even if you just sell your property. He even asked me if I wanted to go."

Xiao Hong asked, "Do you want to go?"

Xiao Wei shook his head: "No, why bother going so far when our business is doing so well? It's already so popular, there's no point in going now. We can think about Shanghai, but haven't you always wanted to buy a house in Beijing? I think it's a good idea. We'll still have to go to Beijing in the future."

Xiao Hong said, "My savings are all gone, and the house is just sitting there unsold. How am I going to go to Beijing? I still want to go to Barcelona."

Xiao Wei laughed and said, "Hasn't Donglaishun always been a place where you can make money? What do you want to go to? What are you going there for? Where is it?"

Xiao Hong said, "Donglaishun doesn't have much money left now, only tens of thousands of yuan a month or two. It seems like business isn't doing so well. Barcelona, ​​the capital of Catalonia, Spain, is on the Mediterranean coast. Don't you know? The Olympics are there this year, and they're about to start."

Xiao Wei asked, "What do you want to do? Go on a trip?"

Xiao Hong rolled her eyes: "Watching the Olympics, cheering for our country's athletes."

Xiao Wei looked completely bewildered: "Can't we watch it on TV?"

Xiao Hong said, "That's not the same at all. It's much better to see it live."

Xiao Wei said, "You're really something now, aren't you? You can't even afford tens of thousands of yuan, and you're complaining that tens of thousands of yuan is too little for a month or two."

Xiaohong said, "I have too much, so it feels so slow. I used to be ecstatic with tens of thousands of yuan, but now I don't feel anything. How much money do you have? You never tell me. In other people's families, the wife manages all the money."

Xiao Wei laughed and said, "What do you want to manage? Fine, you can manage it. I don't carry the savings book with me every day anyway, it's just sitting in the room."

People often say that Northeasterners are chauvinistic, sexist, and unsophisticated. But historically, since 1900, Northeast China has been the richest region in Asia, without exception.

Back then, Northeast China was renowned internationally; otherwise, the Russians and the Japanese wouldn't have fought so fiercely for it. Nor would so many people from the interior of China have risked their lives to migrate there. What was the purpose of this migration? From the 30s, Northeast China's economy was the best in Asia, and by 45, it accounted for nearly 90% of the entire Greater China region, including Hong Kong and Taiwan.

When the new China was established, everything from urban construction and management to other aspects was copied from the Northeast. Even the Russians and Japanese, who ruled for so many years, didn't cause as much destruction as the People's Republic did after its founding. In just a few decades, the Northeast was completely demolished, becoming a backward region. Ha!

Since 1900, Northeast China has been the most advanced city planning, construction and management system at the time. From sanitation to order, it was the best in Asia. It was the only civilized region in Asia recognized by the West. Ice City, Xidu, and Fengtian became famous all over the world. Ice City men were known as the representatives of Asian men. Xidu was a financial center on par with Lundun. Fengtian was the number one city in Asia.

In the early days after the founding of the People's Republic of China, all the first-tier national cities were in the Northeast, and even Shanghai was considered a second-tier city at that time.

Until the late 1990s, Northeast China had the highest consumption power in the country, was at the forefront of fashion, and had the smallest wealth gap. Those born in the 1980s and 90s could see what ordinary people in Northeast China wore, ate, and did for fun.

Northeast China has the lowest rate of son preference, the lowest crime rate, the highest happiness index, and the highest status of women in the country, bar none.

Women in Northeast China have significant influence both in society and at home. Historically, women manage the finances of 90% of households in the Northeast. Conversely, the South has a history of numerous issues related to gender relations, a situation that persists to this day.

The status of women in Northeast China is completely different from that in the South. In the South, there's no such thing as gender equality. They only want benefits without giving anything in return.

(End of this chapter)