Chapter 4 Rumors (Seeking Recommendation Votes)
Shang Jianyao held the can and did not respond or put it down.
After a few seconds, he asked:
"Can it sing?"
"Huh?" Chen Xianyu has lived for so many years, and for the first time he suspected that something was wrong with his ears.
At this time, Long Yuehong rushed in from outside the "activity center" with two yellow plastic lunch boxes and saw Shang Jianyao.
He greeted with a smile on his face:
"Let's have dinner together!"
"Will you invite me?" Shang Jianyao put down the can and stood up.
Long Yuehong shook her head without thinking and said:
"No.
"Don't you still have a lot of subsidies?"
Although Shang Jianyao's parents did not leave any inheritance, the company gave him a certain pension, and when he went to college, he received an additional 1,200 points per month - every college student has it.
This allowed Shang Jianyao to barely maintain food and clothing.
The subsidy deadline is one month after college students are assigned to work and officially go to work.
Shang saw that there was no embarrassment of being rejected on Yao's face, and said with a smile:
"Shouldn't you share happy things with your friends?"
"You want to say that treating me to dinner is the best way to share?" Long Yuehong has become more and more accustomed to Shang Jianyao's jumping thinking in the past two months.
Chen Xianyu, who was listening to the conversation between the two, smiled and interjected:
"Yes, Xiaoyue, you were so depressed in the afternoon, and you became so happy at night, you must have encountered something good."
"Don't call me by my nickname......" Long Yuehong muttered first, and then said with a smile, "My mother said that she doesn't have to wait for next year's unified marriage, she and my dad have a few colleagues' daughters who have not been admitted to college and have just started working, she is going to introduce us to meet each other and see if we can develop a relationship."
Company employees only have one chance to take the university entrance exam, and if they fail, they will be uniformly assigned work (after work, if they perform well, there will be a recommended place to study at the university), and at this time, they are often only 18 years old, not at the age of compulsory participation in unified marriage.
Young people at this stage are very yearning for free love, after all, this is definitely stronger than random assignment, not purely luck, and has an emotional foundation.
Of course, there are not many people who can really fall in love freely, because after starting work, they go out at 7:30 a.m. every morning and get off work at 6 p.m., fixed in a position, with only an hour of lunch break and meal time in between, and at 9 p.m., the "activity center" closes, the street lights go out, and everyone has to go home and prepare to rest.
Relatively speaking, whether in ordinary schools or universities, free love appears more frequently.
Long Yuehong said, suddenly a little melancholic:
"I don't know if they will like me, I am only 1.75 meters tall after genetic modification, I look average, and my grades are not very good, and I have not been booked by any department......"
"There seems to be something going on over there......" Shang Jianyao interrupted Long Yuehong's self-pity and pointed to an old table a few meters away.
There were many employees around, as if they were discussing something.
Long Yuehong was curious for a while, and followed Shang Jianyao over.
He scanned around, saw an acquaintance, and blurted out:
"Aunt Ren, what are you talking about?"
The Aunt Ren he spoke of was a middle-aged woman in her forties, wearing a polyester shirt, with beautiful eyebrows and beautiful eyebrows, and her hair was simply tied up in a bun.
Her name is Ren Jie, she lives next door to Long Yuehong's house, and she is an employee of the company's "Strategy Committee" department, only D3 level.
Ren Jie glanced at Long Yuehong, sighed and said:
"We're talking about a recent rumor."
"What kind of rumor?" Long Yuehong asked curiously.
At this time, Chen Xianyu Old Man Chen withdrew his gaze, looked at the pile of military cans placed in front of him, couldn't help but touch his stomach and swallow saliva.
He seemed to recall the feeling of opening a military can when he was extremely hungry.
"It really can sing...... No, it made my stomach and soul sing." Chen Xianyu had an association and sighed sincerely.
On the other side, Ren Jie looked around, lowered her voice and said:
"It is said that the company wants to deprive everyone of their reproductive rights."
"Huh?" This topic was a bit unexpected by Long Yuehong, and he couldn't understand what it meant for a short time.
Ren Jie glanced at Shang Jianyao who was smiling, and continued:
"The company may ask couples who want to have children, under the guidance and help of doctors, to turn in biological materials.
"Then, establish a large 'fertility center' in the research area to uniformly carry out IVF, artificial uterus conception, infant growth assistance and intervention, in short, by the time you take your own children back, they may be several years old.
"Hey, it is said that it is to liberate women from pregnancy and childbirth and alleviate the shortage of the company's labor force."
Ren Jie said this, and a woman in her twenties who was watching couldn't help but speak:
"Isn't this a good thing?"
"How can this be called a good thing?" Ren Jie's face darkened and said, "It is the gods who give birth to life, uh, God, the divine right given to us, how can it be handed over to the machine? When the time comes, how will you establish a relationship with your children?"
"Yes, yes." A man sitting diagonally across from her stroked his hair and said worriedly, "It is said that the old world was finally destroyed because of a series of unethical forbidden experiments."
Ren Jie nodded frequently, and turned to look at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:
"Xiao Shang, Xiao Yue, what do you think? Do you also think that giving birth to life is the key to why people are called human, and it is a divine right given by God?"
Shang Jianyao nodded without hesitation and said:
"Yes."
Long Yuehong saw Aunt Ren's eyes wide open, looking at herself with bloodshot outwardness, and said in a low "hiss":
"Yes, yes."
"You still understand the reason." Ren Jie smiled.
At this time, an employee laughed and said:
"Are you too serious? This is just a rumor, my uncle works in an organization under the board of directors and has never heard of it!"
Ren Jie responded very seriously:
"Just a reminder to everyone. If someone comes to ask for advice, they must oppose it."
Some were silent, some nodded, and some asked with contemplation.
"If this regulation is really implemented, will the marriage be canceled and the unified marriage will be canceled?"
The man who mentioned the rumors of the old world before said in a tone:
"No.
"Ji Dong said that a harmonious and healthy marriage is the key to maintaining the mental stability of employees in the current environment."
Ji Dong's name is Ji Ze, he is a member of the company's board of directors, vice president, and M3-level executive, he often speaks on the radio, and at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, he will greet everyone through the display screen of the "activity center".
While everyone was discussing, a bell suddenly rang from next door to the "Activity Center":
"Jingle bell!"
Except for a few, most of the people seemed to hear the sound of the charge and stood up at the same time.
This bell rang from the "Material Supply Market", reminding everyone that there are only three minutes left for the canteen to open.
Seeing that the neighbors began to move towards the "staff cafeteria", Long Yuehong glanced at Shang Jianyao beside him:
"You actually agreed with Aunt Ren's words."
Shang Jianyao looked forward and said:
"You can ask again."
Long Yuehong frowned slightly, and thought for a while with a slight confusion:
"What do you think of the 'fertility center' system that liberates women from pregnancy and childbirth?"
Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation:
"Isn't this a good thing?"
"......" Long Yuehong was speechless.
While talking, the two had already arrived outside the "material supply market".
There is no gate here, so people can see the situation inside at a glance:
On the left is a market with long tables and counters, many employees who don't want to eat in the cafeteria are picking and choosing inside, silently calculating, and on the right is the "staff cafeteria", with doors and windows, and the fragrance overflows.
Not long after, the door of the cafeteria opened, and the employees on the 495th floor walked in in an orderly manner, either holding their own tableware or empty-handed.
Shang Jianyao didn't bring a lunch box, so he separated from Long Yuehong after entering, turned to the right, and received two large wooden bowls and a dinner plate.
Then, he took the cutlery and followed the person in front of him along a fixed route to different windows.
"Half a pound of sweet potato rice."
"A serving of braised cabbage."
"Two multigrain steamed buns."
"A serving of boiled potatoes."
After walking through the four windows, Shang Jianyao's two bowls were already full - braised cabbage topped with boiled potatoes and two yellow steamed buns, and sweet potato rice propped up the other bowl as if it was about to crack.
And this has cost Shang Jianyao 14 contribution points: sweet potato rice half a pound is 5 points, multigrain steamed buns are 2 points, boiled potatoes are 2 points, and braised cabbage with marbling is 3 points.
Finally, Shang Jianyao came to the window with the strongest fragrance.
This is the carnivorous window.
He looked from left to right, and then from right to left, and hesitated:
"Give me a braised pork with more juice."
The aunt in a gray-blue uniform at the window took a spoon, made three pieces of braised pork with finger-long, fat and thin, and attractive colors, and poured it into the bowl where Shang Jianyao filled the sweet potato rice.
The soy sauce-colored meat juice in the spoon quickly spread, moistening half a bowl of rice.
"Fortunately, you came early, and if you delay, it will be gone." The window aunt and Shang Jianyao's family are in the same "block" and are very kind to him, "32 o'clock."
Shang Jianyao glanced at the heavy three pieces of braised pork, took out his electronic card, and swiped it on the machine.
He immediately said thank you, brought a free clear soup, walked around the cafeteria for a while, found Long Yuehong, and sat opposite.
"Wow, luxury." Long Yuehong saw his dinner and admired it from the bottom of her heart.
Shang Jianyao ignored him, first put aside the sweet potato rice mixed with the gravy, then picked up a piece of braised pork and took a bite gently.
Feeling the aroma of meat bursting in his mouth, Shang Jianyao quickly lowered his head and shaved a mouthful of sweet potato rice that was not stained with meat juice.
The more he ate, the faster he ate, and by the time the three pieces of braised pork were finished, only half of the sweet potatoes, rice and braised cabbage were left, and there was nothing left of the boiled potatoes and multigrain steamed buns.
Finally, Shang Jianyao poured the braised cabbage into the rice bowl, mixed it into the leftover sweet potato rice with gravy, and ate it in one go.
"I'm satisfied." Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong opposite put down their dishes and chopsticks at the same time and sighed.
After drinking the clear soup, Long Yuehong asked casually:
"Go to the 'activity center'?"
Shang Jianyao shook his head:
"Go back and listen to the radio, rest early."
PS: In the previous chapter, when I wrote Shang Jianyao's birthday, I didn't know why I pressed 2 more, but now it has been revised.
PS2: Ask for recommended tickets~
PS3: I slipped the release by hand, it was supposed to be timely. This, let's just thank everyone, there are still in the evening.
(End of this chapter)