Chapter 49 Cycling Practice
The morning's work was quickly finished, I received my wages, and I had lunch with Master Wang at a street stall outside the entrance of the construction site.
"Master Wang, do you know anyone who sells bicycles here? I want to get a bicycle."
"Is it second-hand or new?"
"It's second-hand, as long as it can be ridden."
"Hey, didn't you move to Sangda Park over the old street? There is a car repair and sales shop next to the old street. There may be second-hand bicycles there. Didn't you notice?"
"No, I usually go back to sleep and play with my phone after get off work. I don't wander around."
"Then let me tell you where it is. Forget it, I'll take you to buy it and help you pay the price. You won't get this lunch box for free today."
"Master Wang, I sincerely invite you to dinner. I don't just invite you to dinner when I need your help."
"If you really want to eat, just treat me to a box lunch from a roadside stall. Why don't you treat me to a restaurant?"
I'm not really sincere, but I'm willing to treat Master Wang to dinner. He takes good care of Luo Cheng at the construction site. To be honest, it would be okay to treat him to a better place for a meal. It doesn't matter even if one meal eats up a day's wages.
"It's easy to go to a restaurant to eat without saying a word. After work this afternoon, tell me where to eat."
"I'm kidding you, it's not easy to make money, just treat me to a packed lunch. Come on, the car repair shop isn't far anyway, I'll take you there."
"Master Wang, I'm serious. If I really want to treat you to dinner, I'll finish my work this afternoon. In this way, I'll invite Lao Zhang and his wife. How much can it cost to have a meal at a restaurant outside?"
Seeing Luo Cheng say this, Master Wang knew that he was serious. Thinking about it, it wouldn't cost much to order a few side dishes from an ordinary restaurant. Since Luo Cheng insisted on inviting them, Master Wang didn't say anything more. Anyway, when he was about to finish his work in the afternoon, it was up to him to see if Luo Cheng would really call them.
The two quickly came to an electric vehicle repair shop, which repairs both bicycles and electric vehicles. Master Wang asked the boss if he had any second-hand bicycles for sale, so he took a ride on his behalf.
For second-hand bicycles that can be sold in repair shops, don't expect them to be good, and don't expect them to be expensive. If they are too expensive, it is better to buy a second-hand electric bicycle. A new battery may cost seven to eight hundred. Many of the bicycles in the repair shop came from erroneous sources. In the end, Master Wang chose a bicycle for Luo Cheng and it only cost 80 yuan.
The boss who repaired the car initially offered a price of just over a hundred. Luo Cheng was shocked by this price alone. This was more than sixty years in the future, and the bicycle actually only cost over a hundred, and the counter-offer reached eighty. The price was lower than that of his time. He could earn several such bicycles with one day's salary. If he sold turtles, a few turtles weighing two to three kilograms could be exchanged for about ten second-hand bicycles.
And this is not just a matter of price. In Luo Cheng’s era, if you had money, you might not be able to buy a bicycle, so you had to have a ticket.
In the future, I have to find a way to get a bicycle to take back to my own era, but this style will definitely not work. I will go to the construction site dormitory later and search on my mobile phone to see if I can buy a bicycle of my own era. But think about it, the time interval He has been here for more than sixty years and has been here for several months, but he has not seen a single bicycle of his era.
But even so, when the time comes, dismantle the car here into parts and try to learn how to assemble it yourself. It's okay to get a bicycle frame and go back, just remove some traces of this era.
I bought the car for 100 yuan, the car cost 80 yuan, and the locks were new, so I asked for 20 yuan. Master Wang asked Luo Cheng to ride him directly back to the construction site, but this was just a joke to Luo Cheng. He couldn't ride. Damn it, he was just a mountain man. There were not many bicycles in the town, so he just I've seen it, where can I ride this?
In the end, Master Wang took Luo Cheng back to the construction site, and then Luo Cheng rode blindly. He had never ridden before, but he had seen others ride before. He had a strong body and it didn't matter if he fell. There is an open space at the construction site for him to do as he pleases, but for such a big man, he can't even ride a bicycle, which makes people laugh.
And I am not afraid of falling, and I am not afraid of breaking the car. As long as my sense of balance is not defective, I can learn to ride a bicycle very quickly. I can learn it in one afternoon. Then it is a matter of proficiency.
While working in the afternoon, Luo Cheng used his mobile phone to check if there were any bicycles from the 1950s and 1960s for sale. It actually existed, but he couldn't buy it at the moment. There are prop bicycles that specialize in producing period items. The models are exactly the same and can be ridden like normal bicycles. However, this car is usually sold to places with special uses. Therefore, the price is actually more expensive than ordinary bicycles. A bicycle costs six to seven hundred, which is two days' salary.
But even so, Luo Cheng still wanted to buy it. Two days' salary was nothing, in his day. A single worker needs to buy a bicycle. Excluding his own expenses, it takes him a year to afford a bicycle.
But now it can only be purchased online, and he cannot authenticate his real name online. This problem must be solved sooner or later, but there is no clue to solve the problem now.
When the work was done in the afternoon, Luo Chenggong called Master Wang and Lao Zhang in advance, and finally brought an extra worker with him. He was also laying cement before, so he had some friendship, and he had a pair of chopsticks.
Master Wang asked Luo Cheng where to eat, and Luo Cheng naturally asked where there were many restaurants. When going to a new place, he could also expand some places to go.
This is about places with many restaurants, and there are indeed some nearby. In many places, it’s not that there are too many people with whom to go, but there is no business, but that there are too many people to do so, which increases business. For example, there are a row of restaurants on a street, with various tastes, such as entertaining and dining, etc. When you think of going to eat, you will naturally think of that street.
The same goes for those who sell clothes. When clothing pedestrian streets and food pedestrian streets become large-scale, they can attract their own traffic. It's just that when customers come, it depends on their ability where they spend money.
Soon Luo Cheng and his party came to a place with many restaurants on both sides, and the prices ranged from high to low. The prices of ordinary home-cooked restaurants may be a little more expensive than other places, but they can open a restaurant here. It definitely doesn't taste bad. After all, in a place with a large scale, the rent is generally not too cheap. If you don't have any real skills, you wouldn't dare to open a store here.
This is a good place. Luo Cheng deliberately asked his coworkers to take him around so he could consider which restaurant to eat. After a while, the fog on the entire street disappeared. Luo Cheng wondered if he could sell any special ingredients here in the future.
Finally, when choosing a restaurant, if you don’t care much about price and pay attention to taste, most restaurants will dare to mention private dishes on their signboards. At least there will be a few good signature dishes, and the prices of the dishes in such a restaurant will be higher than those in ordinary restaurants. But it's not outrageously high. I won't touch some of the expensive signature dishes, but the other ordinary dishes actually taste pretty good too.