Located in the western part of the Empire, the city of Tenel was somewhat less prosperous than its southeastern coastal grandeur. But for the people who live in Tenel, this is a paradise compared to other fields that smell like mud.
Durin looked curiously at the crowded streets, and though in his dreams he had seen more prosperous and advanced cities, it was only a dream, but now it was real. I have weighed his patched backpack on his shoulder and looked enthusiastically down the street, wondering what I should do first.
Learning culture is inevitable. He does not know a single word of the street, which will limit his future development. Secondly, I need to find a job that can help you in a short time, without requiring any salary or fresh water, as long as you can have a humble home and two meals.
Walking through this strange street of the city, I felt a little scared at the same time, more is the future longing, I felt that the city is more blue than the countryside, even the air is comfortable.
"Hello ... that child over there!"
Durin looked at him in his voice, and it seemed funny, but beside the newest car in the world, a man with a high-collared hat hooked his finger.
"Yes, sir, what can I do for you?" Durin approached immediately. He was not quite sure how he called himself the very rich and respectable man, but he did not care much about that call, which was new to anything.
The man looked at Dulin from top to bottom, with a slight deviation. There are several boxes in the back of the car, which must look heavy. "Help me move them to room 411 on the fourth floor."
Durin was stunned, but soon his face was full of smiles. He packed his backpack, approached the edge of the box and lifted it vigorously. The box was heavy, and was fastened with wooden strips on the outside, and there seemed to be some liquid shaking when it was lifted. The man seemed surprised. He pointed to the five-story building on the highway and gestured for him to hurry.
Durin, who was already one of the main workers of his family when he was in the field, had to do a heavy manual labor, carrying a heavy box and panting to the fourth floor. These things, although heavy, have not yet been seen in his eyes.
He climbed the stairs and found 411 of the money he had learned. He kicked the door lightly twice, and a moment later the door opened. A grim-looking man looked at him from behind the crack with a grim expression in his eyes.
"A gentleman from below told me to bring these boxes." Dulin explained it.
The door opened a little more, and the man bowed and looked around, and the long corridor was silent and invisible. That was when the man opened the door, and Durin noticed a detail. The guy opened the door with his right hand behind him and pulled it out.
He looked at the three boxes in Durin's arms, and there was a look of surprise on his face. "You have a lot of strength!" He said: "Get out of the way and let Dulin in," "put him behind the door."
After leaving things to his order, the guy pushed Durin out of the room and Peng closed the door.
Looking at the closed wooden door, Dulin looked for a moment, then shrugged and went down the stairs.
The gentleman below did not leave. He saw Durin and said nothing. He took a dollar bill out of his pocket and put it in his hand. Without Du Lindaoxie, the guy walked away.
As he looked at the missing car at the end of the street, Durin whistled, and it seemed that making money in the city was not as difficult as he had imagined. Look, this is more than an hour, won a dollar, the top of the ordinary people's three-day income.
People will always be proud of anything for the first time, even if it is something stupid. While thinking about the first dollar he has earned with his own work in his life, he is on the road looking for the next place to live. In fact, what he most wanted was to find a place for custom-made leather utensils, a profession that never starved to death, a phrase he heard from an alcoholic who went to the town of Wild Lucerne to buy wolfskin.
A very expensive piece of wolf skin, the city of wild alfalfa, always has coyotes in groups of two and three, most of whom are attracted to the cattle of the city and become the most hated thing in the countryside . The townspeople used traps to kill the coyotes and then peeled them off and sold them to the leather merchants who came once a month.
In the mouth of the leather merchant, these can only sell a very expensive wolfskin, after the elaborate production of shoemakers, you can sell a dozen or even dozens of pieces of very high price!
So Durin felt that if he wanted to change his life as quickly as possible, becoming an apprentice to a shoemaker was clearly the most direct and quickest way.
In fact, he did not know other industries, as long as they did well.
He walked through the city and almost fainted. I had never seen such a big city, so many people, so many roads and so many houses.
Of course, there are cars on the road.
Nothing good has happened before, as far as looking for a shoemaker.
I did not find it either.
Durin completed his first step in life and spent the night in the city with the pump water on the side of the road nibbling whole wheat bread, hard as stone.
In the same way, he felt for the first time something called solitude. On a bridge, he huddles and gradually sleeps in the howling wind.
After a few days of traveling throughout the city of Tenel, three leather shops were found, but the owner had no intention of hiring. Durin put his hopes in other jobs, such as tailoring, carpentry or anything that seemed decent. I wonder if he is unlucky or for other reasons, and nobody is willing to attract him. This also allowed him to understand that between ideals and reality, there is always a gap that can not be crossed.
After two weeks, he finally found a way to make money from innumerable failures: car washing.
You can use a bucket of water, a piece of cheap soap, a handful of pumpkin pulp and a towel that only has tendons after natural decomposition to clean a car on the road. These things do not add more than a dollar, and a car wash can be paid at least fifty-ten cents. If you wash ten or twenty cars a day, will you be rich soon? According to some of the dream experiences, this is the time to expand the business, hire people and create your own brand effect.
It looks very interesting.
On the afternoon of the sixteenth day when he arrived in Dulin, he walked to the road with a bucket of water. I had noticed that on the other side of the street was the Tennel Theater, where every day many rich people drove their cars to enjoy operas and comedies, which were also the most profitable places.
When the color of the day gradually darkened, the city was like waking up from a deep sleep and coming alive. The city was enough to surprise Durin, who could hardly imagine what people would call a "big city".
Drop by drop, the whistle pulled him away from his distraction, and a new Ogm parked not far in front of him. A guy with a stiff face and a hat on a windbreaker got out of the car. He looked at Durin, patted his car, took two coins from his pocket and threw them on the floor, up the steps of the Theater.
What an arrogant person!
Durin shook his head slightly and walked with the bucket in his hand, thinking he could not be so arrogant if one day he would be richer and more respectable than he was!
People and people must be the same.