The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Chen and Chen Yaqin were working. Mr. Ni walked in. Zhang Chen and Chen Yaqin stood up quickly. Mr. Ni came over and looked at the table and said, "So soon, are you building an office building?"

Zhang Chen said: "Thanks to Xiaoqin for helping me. I couldn't go so fast alone."

Chen Yaqin softly called Mr. Ni something in the local dialect of Keqiao, but Zhang Chen didn't hear it clearly.

Mr. Ni looked at Chen Yaqin without saying a word, with an expressionless face. Chen Yaqin stopped talking and slipped out quietly from behind Mr. Ni.

Zhang Chen asked Mr. Ni to sit on the sofa. Mr. Ni sat down and asked, "Xiao Zhang, I remember hearing Qu Tianlin say that you seemed to be in Hainan before?"

Zhang Chen was right, he just came back during the Spring Festival this year.

"Then do you know about the situation in Hainan?" Mr. Ni asked.

Zhang Chen asked Mr. Ni: "What aspects does Mr. Ni need to know?"

"Hi, I have a few friends who have been making appointments with me for the past two days, saying that we would go to Hainan to do real estate together. They said it would make money quickly."

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "I do know a little bit about this. I have a few friends who are engaged in real estate in Haicheng."

Mr. Ni became interested and said, "Then tell me quickly."

Zhang Chen briefly talked to Mr. Ni about the situation in Hainan, especially what Meng Ping and Liu Ligan were doing. Mr. Ni nodded as he listened. Zhang Chen concluded by saying:

"I think there are definitely opportunities to make money in Hainan's real estate, especially after the speech on the Southern Tour. I called yesterday and asked. Indeed, Haicheng's real estate is now hot, and land and house prices are rising, almost every day. It’s a price, but there’s one thing I really can’t figure out.”

"What's the matter?" Mr. Ni asked.

"I was just thinking that no matter how this house is built, it will always be for people to live in. But Haicheng is not as big as Shaoxing. The population of Haicheng is probably not even half of Shaoxing's. Moreover, Haicheng's locals are not even half of Shaoxing's. In the old city, they all have their own houses in the old city, and the new city is not even accessible.

"There is a triangle area in Haicheng, which is the junction of the old city and the new city. After this area, there are all Hainanese who speak the local Hainan dialect. On the other side, there are people from all over the mainland who speak Mandarin. Hainan natives don’t have much money, so I thought, if so many houses were built, who would they sell them to?

"Also, there are no big companies in Hainan. There are just a Haicheng cannery that makes coconut juice, a health center that makes turtle pills, and a Hainan Automobile Co., Ltd. that makes Hainan Mazda. That car doesn't seem to be able to be sold across the sea. of.

"The most important thing is that these factories are not big in scale. None of them is as big as Mr. Ni's factory. I don't think the enterprises in Hainan are as big as Keqiao. I think this means the future of Hainan real estate." In fact, it has no other economic support, I don’t know if that’s right.”

"You're right. I didn't expect you, a designer, to be quite financially savvy." Mr. Ni smiled and said, "I finally heard it. There are opportunities and risks in real estate in Hainan."

Zhang Chen nodded, he wanted to say, not only can I design, but I have also been a general manager, so I know more or less about this area. But he said nothing, thinking that there was no point in saying this.

Mr. Ni patted the armrest of the sofa and said, "I didn't think well, and I wanted to stick to my own business and focus on doing it well. But you also know that in Keqiao, the competition in our industry is becoming more and more fierce. Everyone is fighting for scale, and if they continue to fight, they are not only fighting for money, but also their lives. Sometimes I think that if there is an opportunity in other industries, I would like to try it.

"But, to be honest, I'm worried about going into other industries. After all, I'm in a different industry. I'm worried that if I step in without knowing the depth, I won't know how I'll die."

Zhang Chen nodded and said that indeed, this was a dilemma.

Mr. Ni stood up and said to Zhang Chen: "Okay, I understand. Thank you, Xiao Zhang. I will digest what you said carefully. It is very valuable."

"That's right." Zhang Chen smiled, "Mr. Ni is too polite."

Mr. Ni reached out and patted Zhang Chen's shoulder twice before walking out.

Not long after Mr. Ni walked out, Chen Yaqin came back after a while.

Zhang Chen looked at Chen Yaqin and said with a smile: "You seem a little afraid of Mr. Ni?"

"Why am I afraid of him? We are from the same village. After all, he is still my cousin. As you adults are talking, shouldn't children stay away?" Chen Yaqin said, and Zhang Chen laughed.

The two of them continued to work until it was time to eat. Zhang Chen was going to get food. Chen Yaqin said, "I will beat you. If you go, those people will bully you. If I go, they will beat me more."

Zhang Chen knew that Chen Yaqin was referring to the master chefs in the cafeteria. Why did they bully him? Could it be that he had already aroused public anger here?

Damn it, I don’t leave my house, why did I offend you?

Zhang Chen stood up and said that I would go too and we would go to the cafeteria to eat.

Chen Yaqin looked at him and asked, "Really?"

Zhang Chen smiled and said: "Of course it's true. It's just a meal. Why, someone else wants to eat me?"

"No, no, who dares." Chen Yaqin said happily, "Let's go."

When they arrived at the staff canteen, it was still the same as before. Chen Yaqin asked Zhang Chen to fetch food, and she went to fetch the food herself. Zhang Chen knew what she meant. There was no difference between fetching food and fetching rice, so she let herself go.

Zhang Chen prepared the meal and found an empty table to sit down. After a while, Chen Yaqin came over with dishes and sat down opposite Zhang Chen. The people beside him looked at them, wanting to laugh but not Dare to laugh, Chen Yaqin looked around, picked up a chopstick of food with chopsticks, put it in Zhang Chen's bowl, and told him, "Eat it, this food is not bad."

Zhang Chen chuckled when he heard someone next to him.

Out of the corner of his eye, Zhang Chen saw Awen standing not far away, holding food in his hand. There were two people beside him. The two people said something to Awen, and even pushed him. Taking the food, he walked towards them, walked to their table, and put the food on the table. Zhang Chen looked up at him, stood up quickly, and said to him: "I'll sit here for you."

"sit down!"

Chen Yaqin shouted in a low voice. She looked at Zhang Chen and bit her lips tightly without even raising her head to look at Awen.

Zhang Chen was a little embarrassed. He felt that it was not good for him to continue sitting or standing up. After thinking for a while, he still smiled with Chen Yaqin and said, "I'd better go to the side to eat."

Zhang Chen stood up, took his food, and sat down at the table next to him, with his back to Chen Yaqin and Awen.

Awen sat down on the seat where Zhang Chen had been sitting. Just as he was about to say something, Chen Yaqin slapped the rice spoon on the table and cursed: "Get out! Why are you sitting here? Are you sitting here?" I can’t even eat here, so get out!”

Inside the cafeteria, there was deathly silence. Everyone stopped holding spoons and chopsticks and looked at this side. Only Zhang Chen continued to eat his food as if nothing had happened.

Chen Yaqin stared at Awen. Awen's face turned red, but he did not stand up.

Chen Yaqin picked up a bowl with one hand, "popped" twice, turned the two bowls and the food inside upside down on the table, then picked up the two empty bowls and left.

Everyone around looked at Awen and then at Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen was still eating by himself, as if he didn't hear what happened behind him.

Zhang Chen returned to the studio. After a while, Chen Yaqin came in. The two of them had made an appointment. No one mentioned what happened in the staff canteen. Zhang Chen asked:

"It's lunch break, why don't you take a break."

"No." Chen Yaqin shook her head, but her eyes were already red.

Zhang Chen didn't have much to ask.

The two sat in silence for a while. Zhang Chen picked up the hand saw and sawed the plexiglass. As soon as he cut off a piece of plexiglass, Chen Yaqin immediately took it over and started filing it with a file, as if she was waiting by the side.

Even the air in the room was frozen, and all I could hear was the sound of a wire saw cutting through the plexiglass, a magnetic puller, and a file filing against the plexiglass.

After more than half a minute, the two people accidentally looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. With this smile, the atmosphere in the studio began to become relaxed.

When it was time to have dinner, Zhang Chen picked up the bowl. Chen Yaqin took the bowl from his hand and said softly: "I'd better go and get it back."

In Zhang Chen's heart, he was really afraid that he would not persevere if he experienced what he had experienced at noon again.

Chen Yaqin walked out of the door, and Zhang Chen took out the foam arm from the cabinet. From morning to now, he had not had a chance to be alone with himself. He would use this time to draw today's Zhang Chen brand watch.

Zhang Chen finished drawing the watch and put the foam arm back into the cabinet. After a while, Chen Yaqin came back, still carrying four bowls, but she didn't say "Quick" when she came in this time, so she couldn't hold them firmly.

Zhang Chen saw it and quickly walked over and took the two bowls stacked on top of the two bowls. Chen Yaqin said: "Thank you!"

During the meal, Chen Yaqin was a little unhappy. Zhang Chen deliberately ate loudly and kept saying it was delicious. He asked Chen Yaqin, what are we celebrating today?

Chen Yaqin couldn't help laughing, and finally giggled. She said that she was just celebrating the discovery of a coward today who would only run away from the battle.

Zhang Chen also laughed. It turns out that you still remember this.

But why don't I just run away? Zhang Chen thought to himself.