pjbooks Chapter 25 2005
Chapter 25 2005
"I didn't expect that just holding a meeting would actually earn me management points?"
On the street, Zhang Yang looked at the panel in front of him with some surprise.
After the meeting this morning, Old Mrs. Chen wanted to take him to learn opera.
He didn't dare stay in the yard any longer, and rushed out without even staying for lunch.
The reason was quite valid: to purchase daily necessities.
I'll just try to escape for as long as I can.
There's really no escaping it now... so let's wait and see.
After he came out, he walked around and remembered the new tasks he had just accepted. With nothing else to do, he started looking at his system while strolling around.
"Main quest: Raise the favorability of everyone in the hospital to 60. Reward: 100,000 in cash..."
"House repairs... require 200,000 in cash..."
"Air conditioning installation... tentatively one million..."
"The nursing home needs to generate an annual revenue of 200,000..."
There are also friendship level quests...
"Grandma Xu's friendliness level is high enough, but I still need to cook a dish to get her approval... What should I cook? A fried egg, perhaps?"
"Or like the 'Boiled Egg Master,' a soft-boiled egg that's six minutes and nine seconds long?"
He's not just good at cooking eggs; after all, he's an orphan, so cooking is definitely not a problem for him.
The problem is, even if you cook this dish, serving it to her would be like showing off your limited skills before an expert, and you'd only be making a fool of yourself.
He also needed to gain the approval of the chefs, who were also chefs specializing in state banquets. It wasn't easy for them to approve of a dish. Just thinking about it gave him a headache.
"And this old lady Chen, her favorability rating is already 59, how come she just can't get that last bit higher?"
Looking at the long list of tasks, Zhang Yang stroked his chin and began to think.
It seems that only main story quests offer large cash rewards...
It seems we should start by improving the public's goodwill towards the elderly residents, and also make sure to max out the daily management points...
Wait, this is starting to feel more and more like a game...
With a wry smile, he casually closed the task and turned his attention to the two newly added features.
Unexpectedly, he received a pleasant surprise.
They held a meeting in the morning and even added 10 management points to his account.
Rounding down, well, that's... 50 yuan.
That seems pretty good, considering that Li Xiaoyun only earns 1,200 yuan a month even though she works hard.
Looking at the management point and thinking of Li Xiaoyun, Zhang Yang couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.
With this person's educational background, they should be able to earn far more money if they find a job.
I don't know why she can still work so happily in the nursing home for so long.
It seems I'll have to find out more about the situation when I get the chance, and if I have the means, I'll also have to consider giving them a raise.
As Zhang Yang closed the system window, he thought to himself.
In the 21st century, talent is the most precious resource, and such people certainly cannot be let go easily...
After he had thought things through more or less about the nursing home, he walked along, and his gaze gradually began to be drawn to the street scenes.
If someone were to ask Zhang Yang now, what is the biggest difference between the roads in Songhai in 2005 and twenty years later?
He would definitely say without hesitation that he doesn't have an electric scooter!
Along the way, the most common thing I saw was bicycles; I only saw a few electric scooters occasionally.
Even if they exist, they don't seem to be the big, pedal-type models; they're all small and compact.
The cars on the road looked rather monotonous, almost all sedans, with very few SUVs in sight…
However, the architecture doesn't seem to be too different from later times, and there are quite a few high-rise buildings with glass curtain walls.
As he walked down the street, he looked around curiously.
In his previous life, he started to remember things around the time the World Expo was about to begin, and even then, his memories of that period were somewhat hazy.
So when he looked at Songhai Street in 2005, he felt like he was looking at a peculiar spectacle.
Especially those public phone booths that you can see every now and then along the street.
The Oriental Newspaper and Bookstore kiosks with open books atop their red roofs also caught his eye.
Before he traveled to the future, these two types of buildings were almost nowhere to be seen on the streets of Songhai, but now they can be seen every few hundred meters.
In addition, before he transmigrated, he rarely read any paper books other than textbooks, let alone newspapers and magazines.
Out of curiosity, he walked over to a newsstand and took a look...
Liberation Daily, Xinmin Evening News, Xinmin Morning Post, Oriental Sports Daily, Securities Times, Zhiyin, Reader, Yilin, Youth Digest, Story Club...
Newspapers and magazines were neatly arranged on every window of the newsstand.
Besides these, the most common items are physical recharge cards, such as those for Fantasy Eastward Journey, World of Warcraft, Legend of Mir, China Mobile, China Unicom, etc.
Rows of recharge cards of various denominations and purposes are hung outside, especially the game recharge cards, each one more exquisitely printed than the last.
Looking at the dazzling array of goods in this small newsstand, Zhang Yang was truly overwhelmed and had no time to spare.
And this feeling...
It became even more obvious after he withdrew money from the ATM and went into a large telecommunications store.
mobile phone!
All kinds of mobile phones!
Long, square, round, oddly shaped...
Flip phones, slider phones, candybar phones...
Colorful and diverse, all kinds of mobile phones were what greeted his eyes as soon as he entered the store; there was simply too much to look at.
Unlike later mobile phones, which at first glance look almost identical, and can only be barely distinguished by the rear camera module.
Zhang Yang was overwhelmed by the choices, and when he went to several counters and asked about the prices, he was shocked.
Nokia's new N90 has a flip cover that can rotate, making it look like a small DV camera.
Not 998, not 668, just 7980!
This is still the official price in the brand's official stores; I heard it's already being sold for 10,000 yuan a unit elsewhere.
The price is the same as the fruit in later generations!
Zhang Yang looked at the phone and was speechless.
On the way, he stopped at a small restaurant for lunch. A bowl of fragrant shredded pork with garlic sauce rice only cost 6 yuan.
If we use the Shanghai dollar exchange rate from later times, it would be at least 20!
I thought prices were low these days, but I didn't expect mobile phones to be so expensive.
Startled, he quickly wandered around the store again, looking for other cheap phones to sell.
The good news is that it actually exists.
The most cost-effective were those PHS (Personal Handyphone System) phones; some phones costing a few hundred yuan even had free talk time that almost equaled the price of the phone itself.
There are also China Unicom's CDMA phones, which, although they cost several thousand yuan, can be discounted by signing an agreement and topping up your phone credit, so it's practically like getting a phone for free.
However, Zhang Yang didn't choose any of them in the end. He had seen Xiao Lingtong Yao Kuangbiao before and knew that this guy wouldn't last long.
He wasn't interested in China Unicom's CDMA service either. The monthly phone bill was several hundred yuan, and he had to pay even if he didn't use it all. He was staying in a nursing home every day, so where would he get so many phone calls to make?
Finally, I went to the secondhand counter and picked out a legendary computer that would later become a sensation online.
The Nokia 3210 can make calls and crack walnuts at the same time. It's cheap, durable, worry-free, and perfect!
After some haggling, the price was finally settled at 120 yuan.
As long as it can crack walnuts—no, I mean, make phone calls—he doesn't care about any other functions.