Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Looking at the woman in front of him who kept talking about his past, Cao Zhiqiang looked helpless.

He regretted a little, regretting why he took her to the park on a whim, played her the tear-jerking healing song, and even had dinner together afterward.

Yes, now Cao Zhiqiang and this woman named Hao Shuwen are dining in the Western restaurant of Xinqiao Hotel.

As for the food in the restaurants here, they are mainly Western food, and they are said to be quite authentic.

The quality here is very high, a meal can easily cost 20 to 30 yuan, which is very expensive in this era, so being able to eat here is basically a status symbol. Having eaten here is a symbol of status.

Something you can brag about to others.

Hao Shuwen could invite him here for dinner, which shows that she is a wealthy woman.

By the way, Cao Zhiqiang originally asked Yang An'an to come to eat with him, but he refused to come in and insisted on waiting outside unless he said he wasn't hungry. He didn't listen to anything he said.

In view of his resolute attitude and the fact that Hao Shuwen did not invite Yang An'an and made it clear that she did not want to take him with her, Cao Zhiqiang did not force him and just gave him ten yuan to eat while he was outside.

This naturally made Yang An'an grateful and excited.

Cao Zhiqiang is a time traveler. He comes in money quickly and is not short of money. Maybe he doesn't have deep feelings, but eating ten yuan a meal is something that not many people can do in this period.

Just for these ten yuan, Yang An'an made a lot of money.

Cao Zhiqiang does not understand the purchasing power of money in this era, but it is difficult to completely change the habits of his previous life.

Besides, he always felt a little sorry for not taking Yang An'an to eat with him, so at the beginning, he only paid twenty yuan.

Unfortunately, the other party refused to take the twenty yuan he gave him, and after pushing and pushing him, he finally only accepted ten yuan.

For just ten yuan, Yang An'an's hands were shaking even as he accepted it, but Cao Zhiqiang looked awkward.

What can I say, Cao Zhiqiang has never really taken Yang An'an seriously, after all, he has no idea.

But for some reason, Yang An'an always puts his position very low, and never dares to really talk to Cao Zhiqiang as brothers, even if Cao Zhiqiang keeps talking about brothers.

In the old saying, he is called a man of discernment, knows how to advance and retreat, and knows his duty, which should be a good thing. However, Cao Zhiqiang always feels weird, and he feels a bit like someone accepted by the old society.

You know, although Cao Zhiqiang regarded Yang An'an as a subordinate, in his era, it was normal for bosses to discuss friendships with their peers, so Cao Zhiqiang really had no airs, at least he never thought of showing off in front of Yang An'an.

But as for Yang An'an himself, he consciously placed himself in the position of a follower and subordinate, and was always very careful.

It wasn't until much later that Cao Zhiqiang understood that Yang Ping'an did this mainly because he gave too much.

Not to mention the monthly salary of fifty, which is far more than the salary of ordinary people, let alone the money for him to learn to drive.

Learning to drive is not cheap or easy these days. Generally, only people with formal employment background can learn to drive.

If you don't have a formal employer and still want to learn to drive, you can only go to an automotive technical school to learn to drive.

That's right, the place where you learn to drive at this time is not called a driving school, it's called a technical school, it's a serious school!

The tuition fee for studying at an automotive technical school is 1,800 yuan. Normally, it takes at least one year to graduate. After graduation, you get an internship certificate and can officially drive. After one year of internship, if there are no problems, you can get a real driver's license.

Learning to drive at this time is not only learning to drive, but also learning to repair the car, which is quite troublesome.

I think back when Bangge learned to drive, there were no serious driving schools in China. He learned to drive first from the driving master at his work unit, and he learned while driving. After he had almost learned it, his work unit issued a letter of introduction and asked him to drive directly.

If you pass the exam, you will be given an internship certificate.

I continued to train as a driver for one year without any problems, and then it was just as troublesome to officially get my driver's license and officially drive for others.

Although Bangge didn't spend much money on driving back then, and he didn't go to a driving school to learn how to drive, he still needed relationships with his employer, which were scarcer than money.

Nowadays, there are driving schools where ordinary people can learn to drive. As long as ordinary people are adults, they can pay to attend. After graduation, they can get an internship certificate. After one year of internship, they can get a formal driving license.

However, that was a tuition fee of 1,800 yuan. Yang An'an could not save it by himself for several years without eating or drinking, but Cao Zhiqiang promised to pay for him to learn to drive. How could he not cherish this opportunity?

Yang An'an's humbleness is just because Yang An'an is too humble. He is just a three-wheeler. He has no official unit and no big backers. He also has a large family to support. It can be said that he has been moving forward with a heavy burden and has always been eager to change.

Life, but I don’t know how to change it.

After finally finding Cao Zhiqiang, of course he had to hold on tightly for fear of something going wrong.

This is like a homeboy with no education, no good looks, no girlfriend, no job for a long time, and being rejected by his family all day long, suddenly meeting a noble man on the street.

This noble man says that you have wonderful bones and wants you to be his follower. He will give you 30,000 yuan a month, and he will also give you a thousand yuan for consumption at every turn, and a bonus of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan at every turn...

Damn, if it were him, he would have to be careful and cherish this rare opportunity, for fear of ruining his job.

In the final analysis, there is never any real servility or not. It is just whether it is cost-effective to follow you because of whether you give enough.

In this era, Cao Zhiqiang gave Yang Ping'an too much, too much.

Cao Zhiqiang often gives money of fifty or hundreds, which may not seem like much to him, but this money can allow Yang An'an to easily support a family of six, and also allow the six people to live a good life.

For this good life, Yang Ping'an has to be careful.

Yang An'an understood very well that without Cao Zhiqiang and relying solely on his own efforts, he might not be able to climb up in his life, and would remain a nobody at the bottom for the rest of his life.

But with Cao Zhiqiang's appreciation, it's different.

Not to mention the monthly salary of 50, nor the bonus of 300, but to say that I will spend 1,800 yuan to send him to learn to drive... This is a huge kindness.

Not everyone is a supercilious person, especially those who came from a lower class background. Deep down in their hearts, they value loyalty, and they also value the idea that a scholar will die for his bosom friend.

Otherwise, the little guy back then had nothing to do with him. He wanted money but no money, no power, no authority. He was just one who was ruthless enough to beat, and he was just righteous. Why would a bunch of friends be so devoted to him?

Isn’t it that everyone is a grassroots grassroots person with nothing, so they are more obsessed with the ancient promise of a large amount of gold, and the idea that a scholar will die for his confidant?

Otherwise, more dogs will be slaughtered if you act righteously.

The more low-level people who live at the bottom and are willing to support their wives and brothers and sisters, they are truly loyal people.

It is precisely because Yang An'an cherishes this opportunity so much and the noble man Cao Zhiqiang that he is so cautious and cautious, fearing that he will lose this thigh, but it is not because he is really born with a servile nature.

The kind of person who has no discernment and is arrogant when he succeeds. He is even complacent and shows off his power just because he knows the boss's secrets. If you fail to seize the opportunity, you will be unlucky sooner or later.

On this point, Yang An'an saw it very clearly, and precisely because of his understanding, he always kept his position correct.

Yang An'an is not a person in his early twenties who knows nothing, but a person who has experienced hardships. This kind of people can understand things best.

In fact, among all living beings, there is more than one Yang Ping'an.

It's just that most people don't have the opportunity to be safe.

It is true that opportunities only come to those who are prepared, but in most cases, there are many prepared people, but there are too few opportunities and too few noble people.

Thousand-mile horses are often found, but Bole is not often used. This is the truth.

Those who seize the opportunity but are not prepared will naturally be eliminated sooner or later.

But those who are prepared but have no chance will not even have a chance to be eliminated.

Understand your duties, know how to advance and retreat, seize opportunities and never relax, trade loyalty for your future, and always be ready to take advantage of the situation. This is the consensus of those at the bottom.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang later did recruit many people like Yang An'an, and they were of great help to his career.

Of course, those are all things for later, let’s not mention them for now.

Having said that, after Cao Zhiqiang and Hao Shuwen entered the restaurant together, Hao Shuwen finished ordering the dishes and ordered red wine by the way.

However, Cao Zhiqiang doesn't like the red wine here because he heard in his previous life that the red wine in Xinqiao Hotel during this period was cheap and not serious at all.

I don't know if it's true or not, but he doesn't want to be a guinea pig.

Furthermore, there are many bottles of really good red wine in his space, all of which are genuine products signed in by the system.

It's a pity that Cao Zhiqiang really doesn't like drinking red wine. He thinks that drinking craft beer is more enjoyable than drinking authentic high-end red wine with a chocolate flavor.

If it doesn't work out, he thinks Arctic soda tastes better than red wine.

As for using red wine to show off, that's only for people of this era. But in Cao Zhiqiang's view, red wine is just a kind of fruit wine, not something high-end at all.

In Cao Zhiqiang's view, the so-called red wine culture is just a far-fetched show-off culture.

Hao Shuwen didn't know Cao Zhiqiang's mentality and thoughts, but when she heard that Cao Zhiqiang didn't know how to drink and was a teetotaler, she didn't say casually. Instead, she kept trying to persuade him to drink, and she was very energetic.

And she would always say, "Real men have to drink. If you don't drink, you won't be given face."

In desperation, Cao Zhiqiang had no choice but to drink red wine with her.

At first, Cao Zhiqiang was a little uneasy, thinking that the other party was a woman whose drinking capacity could not be ignored, but as for himself, now he only had three bottles of beer at most, which was quite normal.

But he soon felt relieved.

It's not that Cao Zhiqiang's own drinking capacity has improved, but that the other party's drinking capacity is worse than his own.

Both parties only drank three glasses of red wine each. Cao Zhiqiang didn't feel much, but Hao Shuwen was already exhausted.

Hao Shuwen finished her first glass of wine and her face started to turn red.

After drinking the second glass of wine, I was already drunk and confused.

After drinking the third glass of wine, her mouth started to loosen up. Cao Zhiqiang didn't ask anything, he just kept talking by himself. A typical person is addicted to food and not good at drinking wine.

She kept talking about herself.

Why is her family very strict and patriarchal? Her parents don't care about her. She has not been valued by her parents since she was a child.

When she grew up, in order to escape the strict and unwarranted family, she joined the art troupe and became an accordion player.

Later, the art troupe disbanded. In order to have a way out, she got married early after the art troupe disbanded.

However, that man didn't love her at all.

She said that the reason why she married him back then was just because the two families were well-matched and both families were very satisfied. Due to pressure from her parents, and one day when she was drunk and he accidentally fucked her, she unexpectedly had a child.

That's why I had to marry him.

However, after getting married, the man often stayed up late at night, always saying he was busy with work.

Later, she learned a fact that made her collapse, that is, her husband actually made Xiaosan outside, and they had been in love with Xiaosan while she was pregnant.

She had a big quarrel with the other party, but instead of getting the other party to be ashamed, she got ridiculed by the other party, saying that she married him just to gain the power of their family, and that she had nothing to do except spend money.

Then, Hao Shuwen started crying and said that she didn't have to be like this. If she hadn't married that man back then, with her ability and level, she could have been admitted to college like her good friends, and she wouldn't have to be so angry at all.

Back then, she was so obsessed that she followed the man who looked good, but he turned out to be a scumbag.

At first, she thought that her husband just didn't understand amorous feelings and was just busy doing business all day long, so he would not accompany her to go shopping, eat, chat and be romantic.

But later I discovered that it was not that her husband didn’t know the style, nor did he have time for romance, but that he didn’t know the style and had no romance with her.

Compared with other women, her husband is very knowledgeable and romantic.

He was proficient in everything from playing the trumpet downstairs in the middle of the night, to candlelight dinners outdoors, to wooing people with flowers and words.

But when he came to her place, her husband was like a stranger, and he felt tired even if he said more words.

Now she regrets it and wants to leave him, but is afraid of leaving him.

This is not just a problem involving children, there are a lot of problems.

Although she looks glamorous now, she is actually an unemployed housewife.

The husband doesn't come home every day and stays at Xiaosan's house every day. He doesn't pay attention to her at all.

She thought about divorce and resistance, but when she thought about the days after divorce, she felt particularly helpless.

Because her family is very traditional and pays attention to the water thrown out by the daughter who gets married, neither her parents nor her brother would ever turn against her.

Now she has no support or help from her family at all. Although she looks glamorous, she is actually very lonely and helpless. Only she knows the panic in her heart.

In other words, although she hates her husband, she cannot live without her husband and divorce him due to practical reasons.

After all, the union between her and her husband was just a need for the marriage between the two families, not a relationship need at all.

It's the family that needs this marriage, not her and her husband.

Not only is she annoyed by her husband, but her husband is also annoyed by her. Everyone is just maintaining a superficial marriage.

Once she chooses to divorce, her biological parents will definitely object, not to mention her parents-in-law and family.

And without the support of her parents and the help of her husband, what can she do as a woman?

There is nothing she can do!

She couldn't work in a factory, and the art troupe wouldn't want her.

Even if she were asked, the current salary from the art troupe is not enough for her daily expenses.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

Who would want to live in poverty when you are used to enjoying a good life?

She was used to spending a lot of money, and she could no longer bear the days of being without money.

But without the support of her husband and family, her life will immediately fall into trouble, all the glory will be gone, and no one will sympathize with her.

Now, at least she can still receive money from her husband on time every month, even if he only gives it to maintain superficiality and for the sake of her children.

But no matter what, she now has a big house to live in, money to spend, a nanny to take care of, and is respected and admired by others. She lives a better life than ordinary people, and is much better than many people.

However, although she now has money and leisure, she feels very lonely and empty, so to avoid boredom, she started playing music again.

Originally, she continued to play the accordion, but unfortunately there are fewer and fewer people playing the accordion now, and she can't find a close friend at all.

By chance, she came into contact with the guitar and was immediately fascinated by its tone.

Later, she joined a group of guitar enthusiasts. Everyone usually learned and played the guitar from each other, and they enjoyed themselves.

It can be said that playing guitar has become her spiritual sustenance now, and she has now become a core figure in the team of guitar enthusiasts.

She also said that since Cao Zhiqiang's level is so high, he should join them. In this case, we can improve each other and it will be better than playing alone.

After saying this, she scolded her husband and Xiaosan again, her father, mother, and her parents-in-law.

Anyway, in her words, her misfortune was all because she married the wrong person, and it was all other people's fault!

She also misses the past very much, misses her days in the art troupe, misses her friends and comrades in arms.

She said that her time in the art troupe was the best time in her life.

Unfortunately, with the disbandment of the art troupe, that best time has gone forever.

As she was talking, she suddenly thumped her head and fell on the table, unable to get drunk.

Seeing this situation, Cao Zhiqiang, who had been forced to be a listener, was stunned and called her several times.

Cao Zhiqiang was speechless when he found out that she wouldn't wake up no matter how he called her or even pushed her.

"Damn it, isn't this just a shill? Are you here pretending to be drunk and eating for free?"

Cao Zhiqiang pushed the other person again and found that the other person was still motionless, like a puddle of mud. Cao Zhiqiang sighed.

Okay, this must be because I was really drunk, it's not like it was intentional.

This is very speechless.

Because it was promised that she would treat the guests, but now she looks like this, doesn’t it make it clear that she wants to pay for it?

Although he didn't care about the "little money" of one hundred and eighty yuan, this thing was very strange and a bit uncomfortable.

In desperation, Cao Zhiqiang had no choice but to call the waiter, pay for the meal first, and simply open a room. Then he called two waitresses. Together, they helped the drunk Hao Shuwen up and took her directly to the room to rest.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, he didn't stay, he just paid one day's rent in advance, and then left with his guitar on his back.

Yes, Cao Zhiqiang treated it as if he had met a female liar, and he didn’t have much to lose anyway.

It was nothing more than having a Western meal with someone and then spending money to book a room for them.

Just think of it as money for eating and chatting with you.

After all, not only does the other party have a good story, he's not ugly either, right?

Also, if the other party was ugly, Cao Zhiqiang would not have been able to spend so much time talking to her, playing so many tunes and singing that song for her, let alone eating and listening to stories.

So, being good-looking is a foul!