It was almost noon when Jin Lili woke up. Zhang Chen told her, let's go to the billboard to check it out, but Liu Ligan said I was so sleepy that I wanted to sleep for a while. You go and leave all my luggage for me.

Zhang Chen and Jin Lili took off all the bags on their bodies. After so many days, these bags seemed to grow on them, making them difficult to walk. Now, suddenly, they were empty-handed and finally got relieved, and felt like they were flying, and they were extremely relaxed.

The two of them walked out of the park gate in an interest and arrived at the door. They saw that many people were buying coconuts, and they killed them and held them in their hands. They drank them with relish. Jin Lili came closer and took a look. Their coconut water was not milky white, exactly the same as what they bought before. Only then did the two of them realize that this was the case with coconut.

"Hainan's first dream is broken." Jin Lili pouted, "It turns out that coconut is so hard to drink."

"I don't want it to hit my head, either." Zhang Chen also said.

It is already summer, and the weather in Hainan is very hot. Unlike Jiangnan, the air here is very humid. When you stand under the shade of trees, you can feel a cool breeze. However, when you walk under the sun, you will feel like you will be peeled off by the sun after walking a few steps, especially because of the sea breeze, the air contains a lot of salt and sticky body, and you feel like a snail climbing onto the stove in the middle of the night.

Even if you return to the shade of the tree and sweat is gone, this sticky feeling is still there. People’s greatest desire is to let cold water come completely from the top of their heads. The locals call taking a shower a shower, which is very appropriate. It is indeed just a cool time when rinsing. Not long after rinsing, this sticky feeling is back, and you still need to rinse it again.

The two of them stood in a small shade of trees on the side of the road, of course they didn't dare to take a shower. Although it was the scorching sun, the open space behind them was full of people. Although the weather was so hot, Zhang Chen felt strange that many of the men here were wearing long-sleeved shirts and buttoned with tight cuffs.

Zhang Chen stood and looked at it for a while and understood. He couldn't help but see one or two people. When he unbuttoned the buttons of his cuffs, it was white inside, but their hands were pitch black, just like wearing a pair of black gloves, especially those who came over by bicycle, this characteristic was particularly obvious.

Zhang Chen was shocked again.

In the park, he saw so many college students who had not settled in their lives and work. He felt that the island was not as they felt when they arrived. It seemed that gold was everywhere, but had its cruel side. The pair of black glove-like hands in front of him told him the hardships of survival.

Zhang Chen took a breath of air conditioning.

It was not until some days passed that Zhang Chen knew that by chance that almost a whole generation of the best young people in this country had gone to Hainan, forming the common Hainan memory of their generation. With the so-called 100,000 college students went to Hainan, you should know that in the early 1990s, college students were still a rare species.

And they, "Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Meili", just got involved in this team at that point in time.

Zhang Chen looked at the crowd behind him. He didn't know how many people there were, so he slept in the park at night, and now he has stood here.

"Let's start." Zhang Chen and Jin Lili said.

"What's the beginning?" Jin Lili was puzzled.

"Start our experience of looking for a job," said Zhang Chen.

"But I'm hungry, I always have to eat enough before looking for a job, right?" Jin Lili said coquettishly.

Zhang Chen looked around and saw that the place where they were standing was a four-way intersection. On the right was the Haixiu Road they passed by in the morning. There were tall buildings. It was obviously not their world. It was the Provincial Government Road in front of it, which looked bright and beautiful. Not far away, and even the provincial government did not belong to their world.

Only on the left is a whole low and old house. From a distance, it is still in the architectural style of Nanyang, with arcades and high eaves and roofs, which are exotic and should be the old city of Haicheng.

"We should go here, there should be a small shop here." Zhang Chen pointed to the narrow street on the left and said to Jin Lili.

The two of them walked through the disc in the middle of the four-way intersection and arrived at the old city. Not far away, they saw a high staircase, a pig's feet restaurant, filled with people.

The two of them walked up and saw that the so-called pig's feet rice was similar to fast food. There were several large clay pots at the entrance of the store. In such a hot weather, it was still steaming. There were pig's feet, large intestine, pork belly, pickled vegetables and tofu in the clay pots, and a sour bamboo shoot that looked like bamboo shoots but smelled smelly.

Jin Lili went to take a seat inside, and Zhang Wei ordered food outside. The boss took two big bowls and served two bowls of rice from the wooden barrel. Zhang Chen pointed out and scooped out the large intestine of pig's feet and tofu in one bowl, and the other was braised pork meat and tofu.

Zhang Chen brought two bowls of rice in. Seven or eight people squeezed into each four-person table. Jin Lili had already grabbed a stool. Two people sat down one and a half stool and ate sideways. If they were sideways, they would squeeze to the person next to them.

Jin Lili ate the bowl of pork-foot braised pork rice, looked curious, took a small piece of pig intestine from Zhang Chen's bowl, put it into her mouth, and shouted, "It's delicious, delicious."

He reached out and changed his bowl of rice with Zhang Chen's. Zhang Chen scolded: "Don't you not eat pig intestines?"

Jin Lili said tricked: "Is this pig intestine? I don't know, it's delicious anyway."

The pig's feet are also very scattered, the braised meat is delicious, the rice is steamed from a wooden barrel and is also very chewy. The two of them were very satisfied with the meal. After eating, they walked to the door. Jin Lili said to bring a portion to the pole. Zhang Chen told the boss that the boss took two foam boxes, one of which served rice and the other food, and put it in a plastic bag, and handed it to Zhang Chen to carry it.

When the two returned to the open space, someone was holding a ladder to post new advertisements. A large group of people surrounded him, and then the man scattered, and the woman was lying down and taking notes. There was a hotel and a waiter recruiting. Jin Lili was shocked. The starting salary was 1,200, and then look at the address below, it was Haixiu Road.

"Isn't this Haixiu Road? Zhang Chen, let's go there right away." Jin Lili shouted.

"Are you going to be a waiter?" Zhang Chen asked.

"What, can't I be a waiter?" Jin Lili asked.

It’s not that he can’t be a person, but Zhang Chen felt a little wronged. In his impression, the waiters in the hotel are all short and thick, old, or they just don’t look very smart. It’s a bit too wasteful to make such a young and beautiful girl like Jin Lili, a model under Zhang Chen’s oil painting, to be a waiter, right?

"Don't worry about him, one thousand two, work for a month first, and then you have money." Jin Lili said.

The two of them followed the address on the advertisement and looked over. Although it was also Haixiu Road, it was not close. The open space was at the starting point of Haixiu Road. This hotel was on the other end of Haixiu Road, with more than 800. They walked for more than twenty minutes and almost walked the entire Haixiu Road before they found the hotel.

When they arrived here, the two were shocked. They thought it was too early to come here when they saw the advertisement. Unexpectedly, there were already many people here.

On the side of the hotel, there is a fire escape that was later installed, which is also used as a passage for the hotel office covered on the roof. The passage is sealed and has no windows. It leads directly to the roof of the third floor from the first floor. It has seventy or eighty steps. There is a red carpet underneath, and a row of spotlights on the top, which looks like a time tunnel.

To their surprise, two girls stood on both sides of the stairs, both of whom were here to apply for jobs. At the top, they had already entered the hotel office and lined up to the sunshade outside the first floor door.

Jin Lili followed the team and rose step by step. Zhang Chen wanted to follow him, but was stopped by the security guard at the door of the first floor. Zhang Chen had no choice but to find a corner in the awning. The sunlight in the parking lot outside was dazzlingly white. Under the waves of heat, even the wind blowing from the sea not far away became hot and sweat kept flowing.

Zhang Chen moved to the door, and the cold air coming out of the corridor above made the temperature here lower.

After forty or fifty minutes, Jin Lili came down with a look of sorrow. When Zhang Chen saw this face, he knew that there was no good news.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Their height requires me to be over 1.68 meters, and I am only 1.65 meters." Jin Lili looked sad.

"Damn it, being a broken waiter is also required to be 1.68 meters tall, it's not a beauty pageant!" Zhang Chen cursed.

"They just use beauty pageants. They said that I look okay, but unfortunately I am not tall enough." Jin Lili said.

"One meter 65, girls are no longer short, Tan Shuzhen is only 1 63," Zhang Chen said angrily.

"Let's go, let's go, I'm so annoying." Jin Lili said.

The two of them walked silently for a long time before Jin Lili asked, "Do you know who they are going to recruit?"

"Who isn't it just a waiter?" Zhang Chenqi said.

"I am a waiter in the VIP box, with a minimum consumption of 8888. After entering, I will have to train, saying that I can sing karaoke with guests and dance." Jin Lili said.

"How much, how much do you say?" Zhang Chen shouted, "8888? So much does it take to have a meal?"

"Hmph, they still have the lowest consumption."

"Damn, then the salary of the two of us in Yongcheng is not enough to have half a meal here?"

"Yes, now I know, how poor we are?" Jin Lili shouted.
Chapter completed!