Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Qingdao Metro Preliminary Exploration Project

My grandfather has always lived a very energetic life. He often said that it was a blessing to drink tea. He thought he would live to be a hundred years old, but he didn't want to die in a car accident in 1979.After my grandfather went west, my father and uncle took over the tea business and divided the tea business into two.The uncle's tea shop became more and more prosperous, but his father lingered in the gambling shop, so that within a year he went bankrupt and had a falling out with his uncle. The family property was gone, and his father was desperate in Malaysia. He heard that the motherland gave preferential treatment to returning overseas Chinese, so he left some connections and returned to China.After I returned to China with my father, I have been living on Taiwan Road in Wuhan. My father was used to spending time and drinking, and although he was given preferential treatment after returning to China, he still couldn’t satisfy his desires and continued to sing and sing every night.A year later, just like my grandfather, my mother couldn't stand my father's failure, so she divorced angrily and married a rich man to the United States.

My name was originally Lu Weidi, but my mother remarried and my father changed my name to Lu Jianxin in a fit of anger.My father said grandly that since he returned to China, he would change his name to something Chinese.In fact, my father hoped that I could stand up for him and make a name for myself like my grandfather did.It’s a pity that things didn’t come true. In the summer of 1988, I took my father’s high hopes and bought a bottle of Jianlibao to take part in the college entrance examination. As a result, the score I got was only enough to get into a poor local college. Tsinghua University.

I majored in Chinese. This major is the most sentimental. I really don't like it, so I put my energy on playing basketball.Playing and playing, I entered the city team without paying attention. I thought I had finally won for my father, but I hadn't officially played yet, but unfortunately I was injured during training—the ligament of my left leg was broken.Because of the injury, I couldn't continue to play basketball, so I quickly withdrew from the city team. My father passed away after I recovered from my injuries. Before he died, he was still drinking and punching, with a permanent smile on his face.In addition to my uncle's family, there is also my mother who married to the United States, but she has lost contact with us a long time ago.Because my father used to make a lot of trouble, our family and my uncle have no contact with each other. After my father passed away, I did not notify them.

After finishing my father's funeral, I crossed the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers and went to Beijing, the capital, with the dream of getting rich. At that time, a college friend had lived in Beijing for many years. He said that Beijing was full of gold, and as long as he stayed in Beijing for a month, not to mention the gold house, even the White House in the United States could be bought.My friend told me to come to Beijing right away, and he will take me to Beijing Tianlun Hotel, and he will cover all the expenses.I was relatively simple back then, and I took the train to go north without thinking, but I underestimated that he had been in Beijing for many years and was contaminated with the legacy of the Eight Banners. He always ran the train with his mouth full of camels.

When I arrived in Beijing, I didn't even see my friend, and I never got in touch with him again.I only had 800 yuan with me, so I had no choice but to spend 100 yuan to rent a basement in Songyuli in the southeast corner of the capital.There are many huts in that basement, besides me, there are also many Beidiao people living there.It was winter, and the basement was unheated, like a freezer.After staying for a few days, my left leg hurt so badly that I couldn't even walk, as if I was stepping on cotton. My academic qualifications are not outstanding in Beijing, and I have no skills, so I have been unable to find a job.I didn't bring much luggage, except for a few thick clothes, and only the incomplete "Tea Classic".A few years before my grandfather passed away, I gave my father the fragmented copy of "The Classic of Tea", but my father didn't read it very much. He didn't pass it on to me until after returning to China.I fell in love with basketball at that time, and I didn't have time to read this stupid book, so I threw it aside.After my father passed away, I missed him very much. I wanted to find something of him as a souvenir, but apart from the incomplete copy of "The Classic of Tea" and his ashes, my father left nothing behind.

I originally wanted to throw away the "Tea Classic" before I left Wuhan, but after thinking about it, it was something left by my grandfather and father, so it's better to keep it by my side.During those days in Beijing, I was really bored, so I flipped through the fragmented "The Classic of Tea".I really had a headache for the ancient Chinese, and I was half-understood, and I fell asleep before reading two pages.As the saying goes, there is no unparalleled road. When I was hesitating whether to leave Beijing and return to Wuhan, I met a noble person when I didn't want to.

That noble man is called Zhao Shuai, his name is not for nothing, he is really handsome, he is always romantic, women often cry, make trouble and hang himself because of him.Zhao Shuai is my senior in college. He is from Beijing. His family is quite rich, but he owes much more than his grandfather's property.I met Zhao Shuai in the Forbidden City. At that time, he was wearing a suit and leather shoes, and he was holding a foreign girl on his arm. He was happier than a fairy.That day, I had already planned to leave Beijing in a few days, so I wanted to see what the Forbidden City looked like before I left.Seeing Zhao Shuai who had a happy life, I shouted in my heart that I was unlucky, how could I meet someone I knew when I was down and out.Zhao Shuai was always talking loudly, he called my name, and everyone around looked over, thinking that Zhao Shuai was going to call out to catch the thief.

"Lu Jianxin, why did you come to Beijing without saying hello?" Zhao Shuai asked. "Hey, it's hard to say. I just want to contact you, but I don't know where to contact you." I laughed at myself. "Okay, let's go to the restaurant and chat." After sending the foreign girl away, Zhao Shuai dragged me to the restaurant without any explanation, and he gradually learned about my situation during the conversation.Zhao Shuai is a person who is devoted to his brothers and doesn't know how to pretend. He gets angry when he hears that my friend has made a fool of me, and even calls me stupid as a pig.He said cursingly, people nowadays can even lie to their parents, so you still trust your friends?Others hang around in Beijing, all rely on their mouths.Today I go to the General Staff, tomorrow I go to the State Council, and the day after tomorrow I go to the United Nations. The fucking people in Beijing can stand around the equator.If I were you, I wouldn't come if I was killed!

I sighed, I can only blame myself for being unkind.Zhao Shuai told me not to leave. He would find me a job. Although there was no guarantee that I would be successful immediately, at least I would not live in a cold basement.That night, Zhao Shuai insisted that he would find a girl for me to meet my physical needs. I didn’t have enough to eat or wear warm clothes for the past few days, and my body was weak.When Zhao Shuai heard it, it was even worse. He said that since the two of us met, how could I continue to stay in that ghostly place. With half push and half push, I left the basement that night and temporarily lived in Zhao Shuai's room.Zhao Shuai's family is engaged in construction sites. His parents are upright and enthusiastic, and they treat me like their own children. They have lived here for nearly a year.In the spring of the following year, Zhao Shuai's father took a project in Qingdao, and arranged for Zhao Shuai and me to go there to learn to be a supervisor from a master named Li.It can be said that that trip to Qingdao was the beginning of all my strange experiences afterwards.

Zhao Shuai was not unhappy with this arrangement. His father often sent him down in order to train his son so that he could be a successor in the future.In addition to being good at picking up girls, Zhao Shuai can also endure hardships, which is different from that ordinary young master.We arrived in Qingdao by train, and after our buttocks were hot, we went to the construction site to see the situation, and greeted the workers as if they were inspected by a leader. This project is the preliminary detection of the subway. Workers will drill many detection holes in the subway section, each hole is more than 20 meters deep.Few people may know that Qingdao began to prepare for the construction of subway projects in 1987, and formally established the Qingdao Subway Railway Company in 1994. In December of the same year, the construction of the first phase of the test section project started.However, this project was completed and accepted in 2000, but there has been no follow-up since then.Of course, these burials are not included in this chapter, so let’s not mention them.

Let me talk about the early detection of the subway. I dug several detection holes in the old city of Qingdao. Zhao Shuai and I lived in a hotel near the construction site.As soon as Zhao Shuai arrived at the hotel, he started looking for women. At that time, pornography, gambling and drugs were not strictly enforced, but there were not many women in that business, so it was quite difficult to find women. The old city of Qingdao has completely preserved the pure Gothic architecture. There are no tall buildings consistent across the country. Going there is almost like going to Europe.On the irregularly curved small roads in the old city, sometimes you can see the sea when you turn the corner inadvertently, and everything seems so peaceful. I was a little tempted to find a woman, but after seeing the sea, I put those dirty thoughts behind me.That day, I stayed by the seaside and thought about life, thinking of every bit of my life in Malaysia, and even more of my grandfather’s words and deeds.When my grandfather got drunk that time, besides mentioning the Fohai ghost house and the remnant "Tea Classic", he also said that if I encounter financial difficulties in the future, I can go to the Fohai ghost house.If I were lucky enough to find that golden box, what's left in it could help me rise as he did.As for what was in the golden box, he always laughed and said nothing, refusing to talk about it. My family was backward, and I thought of my grandfather's words several times, but I only thought it was a joke and never took it seriously.If there really was a gold box, why would my grandfather be so stupid that he didn't want the box, and didn't take all the contents of the box away? Isn't this the real version of buying a box and returning the pearls?At that time, I went to school in Wuhan, and the teacher taught us to be newcomers with four talents every day, to be down-to-earth, and no one ever thought of opportunistic.Looking at the vast sea, I had a lot of thoughts, even thinking about whether my uncle was safe and whether he had gone to heaven with his father. I stayed by the beach until night, and then I walked back to the hotel slowly. Zhao Shuai's lewd voices in the room made people think wildly.I was about to go back to my room to rest, not to listen to Zhao Shuai's rapid breathing, but I saw Master Li running from the end of the corridor on the construction site.Master Li is the supervisor who leads Zhao Shuai and me. He is a loyal person and reminds us everywhere.It's night now, and Master Li ran over in such a panic, I subconsciously wondered if someone had an accident on the construction site. Master Li walked up to me in a hurry. After hearing the voice from Zhao Shuai's room, he blushed first, and then panted and said, "Xiao Lu, come with me to the construction site to have a look, something happened there." !" I secretly called it unlucky, I really thought of something, and immediately closed the door and asked: "What happened, is the worker injured?" "Just now Xiao Wu quarreled with Lao Pang, and they started fighting after arguing and arguing. Who knew that Xiao Wu was kicked in by Lao Pang..." Master Li let out a hey, paused before saying, "Xiao Wu Fell into the detection hole!" Workers on the construction site often fight, and these things are not surprising, but I was still scared cold.The detection hole is more than 20 meters deep, even the 12 bronze men of Shaolin Temple would be smashed to pieces.If someone is killed on the construction site, those who do not have a strong backing will have to go to the temple for more than ten years, or even be sentenced to death.When I think of this, I get a headache. When I come out of the temple, my hair will fall out, and I will talk about a shitty beautiful life. Why don't I jump down with Xiao Wu. Master Li didn't intend to leave immediately. I was so anxious that my mind was confused, and I told him why I was still standing there, let's hurry up and get Xiao Wu's body up.Master Li hesitated for a while, then he suddenly looked up at me and said that the matter of Xiao Wu was a bit strange, and it might be difficult to handle.