Age of Legends

Chapter 83 FD29
The whole procedure was quick. After signing the contract and paying the money, we went to the Real Estate Bureau to transfer the ownership and pay the tax. However, as it was a bit late that day, we made an appointment to do it the next day.

After getting the certificate, Zhang Zhonghua and Huang Huifen felt mixed emotions when looking at the property deeds and keys in their hands.

"This is the biggest sum of money I have ever spent," said Zhang Zhonghua.

This is indeed the biggest expense for the family. The collective investment to build the house in 1998 cost more than 30,000 yuan, and with the decoration, the total cost was 50,000 yuan.

This money was all from the wages that Zhang Zhonghua and Huang Huifen had saved over the years, and now they had taken over this shop. The family suddenly owed 100,000 yuan.

However, because the money is owed to Wang Bowen instead of being a bank loan, there is no pressure of loan interest for the time being.

"Zhang Chen, we have to thank your female classmate for getting the shop this time. It seems that the company was opened by her father? She helped here. Do you think we should thank her..." Zhang Zhonghua always felt that Zhuang Yanyue played a very important role in this.

If it weren't for Zhuang Yanyue, they would have been turned away.

Zhang Chen also accepted Zhuang Yanyue's favor, but also said: "It is obvious that Manager Zhou stole the money and actually benefited from it. We can be regarded as helping Zhuang Yanyue's family find the malpractice."

"Will Manager Zhou lose his job?" Huang Huifen asked.

"Generally, the boss will turn a blind eye to people who have been with him for a long time, but he will definitely not let him continue to make mistakes in that position. He may be transferred away later. Anyway, we have helped Zhuang Yanyue find out the problems of her family's company. And we didn't take advantage of her. We still bought the shop at their market price, so there is nothing to say. You don't need to thank her specially. It's very strange. I can just talk to her when I go to school."

Zhang Zhonghua nodded and glanced at Zhang Chen. The maturity, stability and knowledge that Zhang Chen showed throughout the whole thing made him feel that even he, an employee who had worked there for many years, felt a little inferior to him. Could it be that the child really had grown up?
Huang Huifen was unhappy: "You are acting so old-fashioned, how can you know so much?"

"I read a lot of miscellaneous books, especially the story-telling club. There are a lot of story-telling clubs." Zhang Chen said.

The story club does publish many novels that satirize the ways of the world, but they are no longer popular these days. What Zhang Chen said was purely in line with Huang Huifen's impression.

This time Huang Huifen nodded and said, "It's you!"

"So what should we do next? Otherwise... I'll open a clothing store and make some money with the store first. What if I can't rent it out?" Huang Huifen said.

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as it doesn't involve catering or fruit stalls. Zhang Chen's original intention was to take advantage of this shop. As for whether he can make money or not, it doesn't matter. In the end, he will sell it anyway when the price goes up.

He came back not to make his parents repeat the hard work, but to bring them some rest.

"Don't worry about it for now. We'll talk about it when the time comes." Zhang Chen said.

Huang Huifen nodded and said, "I just saw a real estate investment study session outside the real estate trading hall. I want to go and learn a little bit."

My mother just came out of the trading hall and felt the whole atmosphere. At this time, there are often these people outside the trading hall. The commodity housing economy has begun. Some are real estate agents who directly solicit customers outside the trading hall. Some are holding coins to wait and see, exchanging real estate information, and often get first-hand currency trading information here to determine the true price of a commercial property. Of course, most of these are commercial exchanges, and personal transactions mainly rely on intermediaries. Of course, there are also a group of people who gather together to share information under the craze, and set up this or that meeting, just like a pyramid scheme, believing that they can reach the peak of their lives from now on, which is considered entering the real estate field. Everyone is rushing to become a real estate tycoon.

Huang Huifen had already invested the money, so naturally she started paying attention to this industry.

After returning home, Zhang Zhonghua went to the locker and carefully put the house deed into the locker. Then he looked at the thick documents in the locker in a daze. He also took out the bound books filled with circuit diagrams and spread them out on the table next to him.

Huang Huifen said, "Don't fiddle with those things. What's the point of fiddling with them all the time? There's no point at all. The company's production line will be closed down at any time. All of you old technicians will be transferred to other positions or laid off. You may even have trouble getting paid in the future. What's the point of doing this?"

Zhang Zhonghua is a veteran technician. When NanGuang Company was producing glass tubes, during its most glorious period, Zhang Zhonghua was in charge of the technical department of a production line. This was a period when NanGuang Company was willing to invest heavily in researching its own technology.

However, the glass tube industry was volatile, and coupled with the strong technical force of foreign countries and the sudden change in market trends, the original production route soon became unpopular, and Zhang Zhonghua, the head of the line's technical department, naturally had to lay off the entire line.

The company didn't take it seriously, departments were abolished, and there was no plan to preserve even the technical data. These bound volumes were originally thrown there, and as the old office area was abolished, they became an inventory of accumulated waste materials.

Since no one wanted them, Zhang Zhonghua took the bound books back. These were all developed under his leadership. There were some follow-up materials at home, but they were all abandoned halfway. Later, the engineers in his technical line all went to do odd jobs. When Zhang Zhonghua had nothing to do during work, he would still write and draw on his computer and notes to improve them.

Hearing what Huang Huifen said, Zhang Zhonghua just smiled bitterly and put the booklets with "FD29" on the cover back into the bookcase one by one. He treated them as treasures.

Zhang Chen took a look and didn't ask any more questions. He remembered that his father liked to study his technical manuals when he had nothing to do, just as a pastime. Because in his later life, he was transferred to a new position as an engineer to look after the warehouse, and spent most of his time slacking off and studying these, which caused his mother Huang Huifen to complain, blaming him for not making money and relying on himself to support the family.

Later, the father was persuaded and started to help Huang Huifen look after the fruit stall.

NanGuang Company, a newly established joint venture, had been developing for several years and had spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build factories at its peak, which seemed to be booming. But at some point, as if the domestic and foreign markets had experienced several twists and turns, NanGuang Company was left behind and went bankrupt in the blink of an eye.

The entire factory dormitory area went from being prosperous to declining in an instant. These former dormitory areas gradually aged and declined, becoming old houses waiting to be demolished in the future.

Zhang Chen had no intention of fighting against the times. In his memory, some capable families in the former dormitory compound either went into business or changed careers. The friends he grew up with all moved away one after another, and they had no contact with each other since then.

This is roughly the course of life. The scenery you see every day is no longer new, and the things around you that you think will never change, may change without you knowing when.

Everything that happened back then is like flowers in a dream and the moon in the mirror.

And there is snow on the stove.

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