In the early morning, Chen Qiang woke up from the training space, went to the car shop to get the car, and then began his day as a coachman.
Although Chen Qiang got the National Games quota, he still had to live and eat. He is not a second-generation rich second-generation official. If he is a second-generation rich second-generation official, he will definitely actively prepare for the competition after getting the National Games quota. There is no problem in spending a day in the playground for training. However, if Chen Qiang had less car, he would earn less money.
In the evening, after finishing his day's work, Chen Qiang went directly to the National Labor University.
The founding of the National Labor University and in 1927 was the first national university founded by the Nanjing National Government. At the beginning of its establishment, this university was mainly to cultivate specialized talents for the agricultural industry, but it was suspended in 1932 because there was no funding.
The reason why Chen Qiang came to the National Labor University was because he wanted to borrow the playground here.
Chen Qiang is not a student. If he is a church university or a private university, he may not be able to enter the school gate. Even if he can enter the school, he is not a student in the school, and he will not allow Chen Qiang to use the playground.
It’s different for national universities. It’s more free to enter and exit. As long as you are not a criminal, you can enter and exit smoothly. Moreover, the playground of national universities is also used casually. Even if you are not a student of the school, there is no problem to go for two laps.
The relatively small number of students at the National Labor University is also one of the reasons why Chen Qiang chose this place.
A school that was founded in 1927 could not recruit too many students. According to records, in the autumn of 1929, there were only 134 students in the entire National Agricultural University.
It is now 1930, and the highest grade in the school is the junior year. Moreover, since this is a school that mainly cultivates agricultural talents, the school also has experimental fields for various crops and animal husbandry and silkworm breeding areas. Many students will study in those places and will not wander around on the playground.
When Chen Qiang came to the National Agricultural University, the playground was indeed empty, which allowed Chen Qiang to train in a low-key manner.
When he arrived on the track, Chen Qiang stood in front of the starting line. He first received the task of running 100 meters in 12 seconds, and then completed a 100-meter sprint.
"Task, run 100 meters to complete, get rewards, 10 points."
Chen Qiang immediately began to check the cooling time.
"1 minute 59, 1 minute 58, 1 minute 57... means that the cooldown time of this task is 2 minutes. One trip is 12 seconds, plus the 2 minutes of task cooldown time, which means that a task takes at least 2 minutes and 12 seconds. In theory, I can complete 27 tasks in one hour, which is 270 points."
"Of course, in actual operation, I can't complete 27 tasks in one hour. There should be no problem with 15 to 20 tasks, that is, 150 to 200 points. Even if I have 150 points per hour, 4 hours of training a day, I have 600 points, which is enough for me to consume in the training space in one night!"
Chen Qiang felt that compared with the previous two tasks, this new task of running 100 meters was simply too cost-effective. If he didn't have to make a living by pulling a cart, he would rather take on this new task so that he could get more points.
Unfortunately, Chen Qiang still has to make money by pulling a cart. At this stage, he can only take on 10,000-meter missions or marathon missions. These two tasks can be completed by the way during pulling a cart.
Time flies, and it is the weekend again. All the contestants of the Shanghai team of the National Games were summoned to study before the competition. The main purpose is to explain the precautions for participating in the National Games. After the study, each person received another set of competition clothes.
The opening ceremony of the national athletes was on April 1st. The venue was held in Hangzhou, not far from Shanghai, and you can get there directly by train, so the departure time of the athletes in Shanghai was set on March 28th.
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On the morning of March 28, Chen Qiang arrived at Shanghai South Station on time, and the starting point of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway in Hangzhou was here.
At half past ten, the Shanghai Municipal Government specially booked a car for the contestants, and it was a second-class car. After everyone arrived, they lined up to get on the train one by one.
Chen Qiang did not find Cheng Jinguan in the crowd. He thought Cheng Jinguan was going to leave directly from Suzhou to Hangzhou.
The speed of trains in this day is not as fast as that of later generations. In the future, it only takes 45 minutes to take the high-speed rail from Shanghai to Hangzhou. In 1930, it took more than five hours to take the train from Shanghai to Hangzhou, and it was often delayed.
The trains in the 1920s and 1930s were so slow, with a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour, and they had to stop in the middle. If there were more stops, the average speed might be less than 30 kilometers per hour.
In the future, there will be a joke after the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway is opened, saying that it will take six hours to go back to the capital from Shanghai, and eight hours to take a train to return to the capital during the Republic of China, so it is not much faster than the Republic of China now.
However, the capitals are now all Beijing, and the capitals were Nanjing at that time. There were more than 1,300 kilometers from Beijing to Shanghai, while the train took about 300 kilometers from Nanjing to Shanghai. The train took eight hours to walk, and this was a relatively fast train line at that time.
Back to the point, Chen Qiang was ranked at the end of the line based on the principle of being unattractive, and he was the last one to get on the train.
However, what Chen Qiang did not expect was that he was recognized by everyone as soon as he got in the car.
"It's that coachman who beat Cui Linhai!"
There was no way. Many people witnessed the competition that day, and even the athletes who were not present at the scene at that time heard about it later. After all, Cui Linhai was a sprinter in Shanghai. His loss to the coachman made too many people feel incredible.
Chen Qiang was a little embarrassed because he wanted to pretend to be low-key but failed, but instead attracted everyone's attention.
"If I had known this, I should get on the bus earlier and find a corner to cat. The last one to get on the bus was watched as a giant panda." Chen Qiang said in his heart.
Many people have this experience. When taking public transportation, someone gets on the bus. People who were originally sitting in the seats would not help but look at the newly-boarded passengers, especially in the era when there were no smartphones. Passengers had nothing to do except looking at the scenery on the roadside, and watching the newly-boarded passengers was also a relief.
So Chen Qiang, who finally got on the car, met everyone's eyes and was recognized.
Chen Qiang smiled at everyone in embarrassment and then began to find a seat.
The train carriages in this era are narrower than those in later generations. There can only be four people in the second-class carriage in one row, which means there are two seats on both sides of the aisle.
Chen Qiang looked over and saw people on the seats near the aisle.
Chen Qiang walked to one of the seats. The passengers in this seat were sitting on the side of the aisle, and the window was still empty.
Chen Qiang was about to ask the passenger to give him some free time, but the person in the seat said first: "There are people here!"
Chen Qiang suddenly felt a hint of anger, and the entire carriage was taken away by the Shanghai team. Chen Qiang was the last player to get on the car, and there would be no one coming to this carriage again, and there would be no one on the empty seats in this carriage.
It was obvious that the person in the seat didn't want Chen Qiang to sit next to him at all.
Chen Qiang was not surprised to meet such a person. Even in later generations, there were many such people. One person dominated the position of two people, and only wanted to be comfortable for oneself and not to give others convenience.
Chen Qiang shook his head helplessly, and then walked towards the next seat. In that seat, the passengers were also sitting next to the aisle, and the position by the window was also empty.
The person in the seat saw Chen Qiang coming and immediately placed his bag towards the window, taking up the seat, obviously telling Chen Qiang that you should not sit here.
“Someone is sitting here.”
"I want to lie down and rest for a while, you can find another seat!"
"My bag is too big and can only be placed in the seat."
One after another, people rejected Chen Qiang for various reasons, and some people even would not respond to Chen Qiang's request for seats at all. Even if they had a free seat around them, they were unwilling to let Chen Qiang sit down.
These people obviously did it on purpose, and their attitude was full of discrimination.
Chen Qiang's heart was full of anger, but soon, this anger turned into helplessness.
He knew that the reason why everyone rejected him was just because he was a coachman and the lowest class of society.
In this era, most of the people who can achieve results in sports are children of wealthy families, and this is even more true in big cities like Shanghai. There are also many second-generation athletes like Cui Linhai.
As the saying goes, poor and rich martial arts, if you want to learn literature, you can afford to pay the tuition and buy books. Poor families can grit their teeth and squeeze out some money to use it for their children's education. If you practice martial arts, you must at least have a good body and need to supplement your body with chicken, fish, meat and eggs every day, which is much more expensive than paying tuition and buying books.
The same is true for practicing sports, especially in the era when most people have not yet solved the problem of food and clothing. Sports is something that only rich people can play, and the best among them are rich people. These people do not have to worry about food, clothing and spending, or their future life, so they spend more energy on sports and thus achieve better results.
Even in the future, it will be the same. You don’t spend money on reading books in the library, but you have to apply for thousands of fitness cards to exercise in the gym.
Of course, these rich children look down on coachmen like Chen Qiang and are unwilling to sit in the same seat as him.
It is not new to dislike the poor and love for the rich. It has been like this for thousands of years. Even in modern times, if a poor person gets involved in those aristocratic schools, he will be despised by his classmates.
Chen Qiang walked from one side of the car to the other side, but there was no seat.
Chen Qiang remembered a scene in "Forrest Gump". When Forrest Gump took the school bus to school, no one was willing to accept Forrest Gump as a "fool" sitting next to him. In the end, only Jenny was willing to sit with Forrest Gump.
And there was obviously no "Jenny" on this train.
Chen Qiang really wanted to loudly scold these guys who looked down on others, but if you think about it carefully, Chen Qiang thought he should just let it go.
I am just a coachman and have no backstage in Shanghai. And all the nobles here are noble men, so there is no need to offend people on their own initiative.
If you have no power or power, you should be timid when you should! If you are not capable, you will cause trouble everywhere. That is because you think that you are not dying fast enough, and only those who are brainless will do that.
But Chen Qiang can't stand all the time! This is more than five hours away!
"Forget it, if you don't have a place to stay here, you will have a place to stay. The train is so long, I'll go to the next carriage to take a look." Chen Qiang thought of this and pushed the door directly out of the carriage, and then entered the next carriage.
The next carriage is a dining car!
It takes eight hours to walk a distance of 300 kilometers, so a dining car is a must-have.
As soon as Chen Qiang walked into the cabin of the dining car, he heard the quarrel.
Chen Qiang looked up and saw a foreigner in a suit and a top hat quarreling with the chef in the dining car.
"I don't understand what you are saying!" the chef said carelessly, waving his hands.
The foreigner opposite was also angry, and he shouted at the chef: "You can't tell me if I say it?"
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Chapter completed!