After the Spring Festival in 2002, I came to Guangzhou from Hainan Island and lived in my cousin Hongwen's dormitory looking for job opportunities .
At that time, I had no idea that I was blessing Today's road, in a building in the compound of the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation I stayed in the two-bedroom, one-living-room room 406 for half a year. This was also the first time I came into close contact with Guangzhou. Six months .
Although I was indulged in the historical buildings with red walls and green tiles and the lush green plants of Sun Yat-sen University, I have repeatedly recalled the summer nights with my university classmates. Standing by the Pearl River with the cool wind blowing, you can see the bright lights on both sides of the river.
However, the impression that Guangzhou gave me was not as good as that of Shenzhen. Of course, I think Guangzhou has always far surpassed Shenzhen in terms of civilian life, food, cultural atmosphere, and convenient transportation.
Cantonese has a strong vernacular atmosphere (I didn't understand vernacular at the time). At that time, I felt that the city needed to speak vernacular everywhere, at least to understand it in general, and life would be more convenient.
The most troublesome thing is that when taking a bus, you need to consult the driver. If you don't speak plainly, the driver will mostly ignore you and let you go inside. In addition, the entire city of Guangzhou seems to be filled with a feeling of congestion and congestion. The Guangzhou Railway Station was also in a mess at that time, and scenes of robberies were witnessed many times.
Guangzhou is a mixed city. When I made a phone call with my IC card at Teem Plaza, I found that the remaining amount was missing when I came back (someone stands behind you to record the card number you entered). Although it’s only a dozen dollars.
This city has tall and spectacular buildings and spacious and developed roads, but it also has lower class people who take advantage of various loopholes. People have their own way of living in this city, and you may not be able to understand them without going deeper.
On the way to college, I passed by Guangzhou many times, an inexplicable life station, arriving, changing trains, shopping for clothes, eating delicious food, and so on, but they were all just passing by in a hurry. That’s all.
The reason why I got in touch with Guangzhou was entirely because of my cousin Hongwen. During the summer vacation of my junior year, I visited my cousin’s company dormitory on Fujin Road.
At that time, I was faced with the problem of finding a job after graduation, and my cousin sent me a message saying that I could go find Uncle Zhang—he had helped many of my cousin’s classmates from the eastern suburbs find jobs within the Guangzhou system.
Uncle Zhang’s family is related to my cousin’s maternal grandfather, my grandma’s brother. During the Spring Festival, at Uncle Zhang’s house, I met my junior high school classmate Axiao. My father, Ah Xiao’s father, and Uncle Zhang were all classmates in the same class at Dongjiao Middle School.
My cousin doesn’t want me to work in a private company like him (not now). In my cousin's opinion, my school is better than his, and he also believes that I also have such potential.
A Ruo at Guangzhou East Railway Station
While trusting Uncle Zhang to help me find a job, my cousin also encouraged me to apply for the civil service exam and even took me to apply. In the hot weather in Guangzhou, in room 406, amidst the roar of the bus, I sweated profusely and reviewed the civil service examination materials.
In the examination room of South China University of Technology, I also met two classmates from Hainan, including my close roommate in dormitory 2436. Huiyun. He applied for the Provincial CPPCC, and I applied for the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee.
I entered the top three in the written examination, and on May 9, 2002, Igot my wish and participated in the civil servant interview. When we took a taxi to Provincial Party Committee Courtyard , it started to rain lightly. After I passed the exam, I even encountered unprecedentedheavy rain. At that time, the city was already filled with lights.
The downpour of black rain at dusk also extinguished my dream of being a civil servant. The wheels plowed through the thick waves. The city under the dim light was hazy and blurred.
I bought a ticket to Zhengzhou Station in advance and transferred back to Xi'an there because the date for handing in my graduation thesis was getting closer. My cousin has always behaved like a gentleman, at eight o'clock that night, he insisted to send me to Guangzhou Railway Station in the heavy rain .
After changing trains in Zhengzhou, unexpectedly, I met a Hainan fellow who was one generation above me, the former captain of the West University football team and chairman of the West University Football Association Hei Ge——He also just rushed back to school from a civil service interview.
Brother Hei's parents are educated youths from Guangdong. When we passed through Guangzhou together, he, who could speak the vernacular, often took us shopping and dining.
In 2005, he and his cousin Hongwen were in Tianhe, Guangzhou
During the six months I lived on Fujin Road, my cousin and several colleagues came back to prepare dinner. My family also gave me enough living expenses, but my cousin was still determined to help me pay for the meal. The share money is 5 yuan per meal .
In my opinion, my cousin probably thought that it would be embarrassing for him as an elder brother to ask me, a student, to pay for this money myself. This is probably Wenchang Man A sort of Innate ethical values .
Everyone bought groceries and cooked their own meals. The dishes were varied and quite abundant. Prices at that time were really not high. When the company receives customers, most of the time they will pack up and come back. At that time, I had the feeling of enjoying a meal. After all, the dishes for entertaining customers would not be too bad.
In the morning, I seldom go downstairs. Breakfast is basically It is eaten with Yeo Hiap Seng Soy Milk, biscuits or bread. A function of watching TV Just hope Learn some vernacular , due to the lack of a living environment that speaks vernacular Chinese, I made almost no progress and could only understand a little.
After I went to work in Shenzhen, because my work required me to speak vernacular, I quickly learned the vernacular, which was really get twice the result with half the effort . This not only shows the importance of the surrounding environment to language, but also shows how people have to risk their lives in order to survive.
Eating barbecued pork fast food on Fujin Road in the spring and summer of 2002
As for lunch, if I don’t make it, I will go downstairs and walk a hundred meters to eat Guilin rice noodles, or barbecue pork fast food, both are five yuan, fast food is still good occasionally Very fragrant.
Guilin rice noodle shop, in Guangzhou and Shenzhen Everywhere However, their rice noodles are different from the rice noodles I had in Guilin. Very different .
The rice noodles I eat in Guilin all have clear soup and the ingredients are light , while the ingredients in Guangdong are very strong, with enough beans, almost overpowering the flavor of the soup.
In addition, the local vermicelli in Guilin is like the coarse vermicelli from Baoluo vermicelli in my hometown, tough and smooth, but the coarse vermicelli eaten in Guangdong is thicker and harder.
At noon, I occasionally stir-fry the leftovers from last night, and sometimes I often stir-fry beef balls - this is a gift from the partner of my cousin's company.
These beef balls are real and much better than those sold in the market. Cooperating units in the Hakka area often give away pickled large cans of radish which are sour and sweet and very appetizing .
Fujin Road Vegetable Market
I sometimes go to the vegetable market downstairs to buy vegetables and cook. I always buy Thai rice with a grandma who is under the eaves outside the market door. There is also a warehouse store outside the community. Dongfeng East Road There are fast food and pharmacies along the street, making life very convenient.
In Room 406, I occasionally heard the clear chirping of birds. The birds were jumping around in the trees, carefree. Looking at them, I felt that life is a beautiful existence.
However, the sound of the bus passing by was harsh and noisy. Fujin Road is a small road connecting the two main roads in Guangzhou Zhongshan 1st Road and Dongfeng East Road . It is adjacent to Wangfujing, Guangzhou It's also very close.
My cousin takes good care of me. For example, he would ask me to play table tennis after get off work. Guangzhou Sports Institute Take me with you when playing football.
During the Spring Festival of 2019, my cousin Hongwen came to my home to pay New Year greetings.
When my cousin plays volleyball I help him get his bags and clothes and pick up the balls for everyone . There are too many volleyball masters in "Guangzhou". Wearing glasses will put yourself in danger, so I almost never play ball off the court.
In "Guangzhou", I met many Wenchang people, including the famous volleyball attacker Huang Bin ("Hei Bin"). However, I don’t dare to play volleyball with Hei Bin. We compete in table tennis and I am not his opponent.
Hei Bin sometimes comes to our room 406 and often tells us about teaching primary school students in Guangzhou. He said that he would eventually return to Wenchang. Sure enough, it didn’t take long before I returned to my alma mater, Wenchang Middle School , to teach volleyball.
Playing table tennis in Guangzhou, I couldn't beat almost anyone, including my cousin, my cousin's friend, and Ah Xiao. I was very depressed . At that time, the lobby on the first floor of the Provincial Audit Office almost became our table tennis club.
Ah Xiao was my deskmate in junior high school. He stayed with me until he was in the second grade of junior high school. I sometimes stayed at his house for the night. Ah Xiao was an introvert, but he was good at studies and calligraphy. I still have his strong handwriting in the notebooks I have kept. The calligraphy works he copied in the old days are hung on the wall at home.
When I go to school in Xi'an and pass through Guangzhou, I sometimes stop by Ah Xiao's school (South China Agricultural University).
Aruo and Axiao had a small gathering in Haikou in 2018
Before graduating from college, Ah Xiao and I would take the 197 bus to Uncle Zhang's house ( Tingtao Yayuan ) every once in a while. It is said that housing prices near Binjiang East Road are extremely high because it is on the bank of the Pearl River and adjacent to Kangyuan Garden (the headquarters of Sun Yat-sen University).
Sometimes, I also asked Ah Xiao to go to the Provincial Audit Office to play table tennis. Take bus No. 22 Go shopping together on Beijing Road and Shangxiajiu, the most prosperous commercial streets in Guangzhou. Once, Ah Xiao came to Room 406 and cooked a table full of delicious meals.
Probably because of Ah Xiao's prompting, after graduating from college, before five Guangdong border defense classmates reported to the provincial corps, I called my classmates from Dongfang to have a dinner at my residence .
Brother Hei also came at that time, and he helped ask about the price of vegetables in vernacular. The classmates worked on their own in room 406, had enough food and clothing, and really had a sumptuous lunch. This is truly an unforgettable memory in life.
My high school classmate He Yi was also in Guangzhou at the time, so I asked him to come over to Fujin Road to play, and I also stamped a copy for him with the official seal of my cousin's company. internship report , the writer is me.
After graduating from high school, the middle school classmate I saw most often in Guangdong was He Yi. South China Normal University He studied for a master's and doctoral degree at this school, which is also his father's alma mater. After graduation, He went to Yichun, Jiangxi Province to be a teacher. He had been to Shenzhen several times. We also climbed the highest Wutong Mountain .
When I lived on Fujin Road, my roommate Hui Yun from 2436 was interning at the Yangcheng Evening News just across the road. One afternoon, he took a taxi outside my community and asked me to go with him to Zhongshan City to pick up the "Employment Agreement". At that time, I was only wearing A pair of slippers followed him as he set off.
After graduating from university, Hui Yun worked in a newspaper Renting Next to Sun Yat-sen University Xiadu Village He also helped Guangdong Border Defense Report Several of my college classmates rented a house there.
Sometimes, I would go to Xiadu Village to play with my classmates and eat barbecued pork and fast food together. Hui Yun, who is paid for his work, occasionally treats his classmates to a big meal.
Aruo and Huiyun gathered in Haikou in 2018
When I was in college, I packed a large box of books and sent them to Guangzhou , and the postage alone cost a lot. After arriving in Guangzhou, Huiyun and Chen Feng brought one of his Hainan Middle School classmates to help me pick up my books.
After many twists and turns, we finally found out where it was. We carried the box of books with sticks into the taxi, and the sticks broke during the process. Finally, we carried the books to Room 406, preparing for hardship.
Two years ago, Huiyun came back to Hainan Middle School to attend 20th anniversary of high school graduation We ate near the editorial office of Pan Travel magazine on Haidian Island in Haikou. Tan Niu Lao San ” Wenchang Chicken .
Huiyun said that he bought a school district house on Nonglinxia Road, which is very close to Fujin Road where I used to live. This brought me back to happiness and hesitationThe youthful years of Fujin Road.
