Chapter 7: Decision to escape, it is difficult to raise money when you go home

Author: Biantang Wushi

Chapter 7: Decision to escape, it is difficult to raise money when you go home

Jiang Ming and I posted two notices and found that there were a lot of people gathering outside Director Liu's office. They all looked around, pushing each other, chatting, and chatting, wanting to go in but not daring to go in. They wanted to ask but didn't know who to ask. Most of them were student union members, and we were all familiar with each other. After all, the notice was just posted, and it was impossible to spread so quickly. It was these people who would get the information as soon as possible, "The moon will be the first to get close to the water."

When they saw me coming, they immediately surrounded me. Third brother and third brother called. I knew what they meant. At this critical moment, work touched everyone's hearts, so I was like this. I told everyone, but I still couldn't answer many questions, so I asked them to wait a moment, go in and discuss with Director Liu, and Director Liu said, let them all come in.

Jiang Ming went out to greet them in, and suddenly filled in the office. Director Liu first said what he had just said to us again. When the students heard this, they looked happy and whispered. I think this is reliable. Since there is no way, why not go to Shenzhen to make a try?

That’s right, anyway, there will be no cultural courses next semester, and they will be internships. Even if you go out to see the world, maybe there is another world waiting for us!

This is said, well, yes, like us, we all came from the countryside, so we can’t go back, but it’s not easy to find a suitable job in the city!

Before he finished speaking, the other person said, yes, yes, if you want to find a suitable job, you have to spend money to manage it first, but in the past four years, college has almost emptied your family's capital and you have to spend so much money to find a job. How can you live in the future? It's so worrying!

The people next to him immediately responded and said that they might not be able to find the right major even if they spend money. We are the ones who are under the brand of Mining and University of Mining and Technology, but we are not those technical majors. As long as those technical majors are not afraid of hardship, they can still make a living in mines, geology and other units, they will suffer!

This resonated with everyone. A small man said with deep emotion, "Hey, life is like a dream. Even if you find a job, can you buy a house in the city with just this salary? If you don't have a house, you probably can't even find a partner?"

Who said, yes, this is right. In the countryside, you have to have three tiled houses to find a wife, right?

I'm just trying to see this. As long as there is a way, I'm the first to sign up. The tree is moved to death and the person is moved to life. I'll try it!

That said, yes, yes, we are all serious undergraduates at 211 universities. I don’t believe that with our brains and abilities, as long as we are willing to work, we can’t even make a fortune.

The next afternoon, the school auditorium was full, with people standing at the door, corridor, and even the steps in the middle of the seats. Mr. Duan talked for more than an hour, as if a brand new picture was opened in front of us: Shenzhen, a small circle in the past, has now become an ideal place that all Chinese people yearn for, a mysterious place full of legends of getting rich overnight and gold all over the ground.

Next is the interaction between Mr. Duan and us. The whole process was extremely enthusiastic, with endless shouts and applause. Everyone was excited and beaten red. Finally, a final decision was formed. Director Liu of the Student Affairs Department was led by the team. The school will issue us a "Certificate of Completion" and set off for Shenzhen in five days. Students who are willing to go quickly to sign up.

Our brothers and sisters didn't sleep all night last night, gathered in the dormitory, chatted all night, analyzed various possibilities, and looked up various plans, and finally felt that this was an opportunity that was hard to come by. "The young man was determined to leave his hometown, and he would not return it until he became famous. Why should he bury his bones in the hometown, and where is the green mountains not bury people?"

In addition, every day when I go to class, I will inevitably meet Zhu Xiaoman. She doesn't say anything, just staring at me. Her eyes are full of hope, sorrow and reluctance, which makes me uncomfortable and makes me suffer. I can't hide, and I can't hide. I'm still half a year away from graduation. Instead of staying here and enduring the endless torture every day, she's in pain, and I'm also in pain. It's better to lose sight of me and leave. If she can't see me again and can't find me again, as time goes by, I think she will naturally forget me slowly.

Besides, in the remaining half year, the living expenses will only cost several thousand yuan. If I go to Shenzhen to work, not only will I save living expenses, but also pay for my salary. Isn’t it more cost-effective to go back like this? If there is any good opportunity in my hometown, I will come back. Yes, go, and go to Shenzhen. Thinking of this, I resolutely signed up.

But there is no travel fee, how can I go to Shenzhen? I can only go home and get it. The next morning I took the bus to the county town, then transferred to the town, got off at the platform closest to home, and then walked 10 miles and moved to a small mountain village called Longhua near the border of Sulu.

As soon as I arrived in the countryside, the wind rose, the leaves on both sides of the road fell out, and the branches were blown clattering, which was a bit like a cold winter. I don’t know what kind of bug it was, nor am I afraid of the cold. Jijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijiji

It was almost noon, and my parents must have been working in the field and had not come back. I quickly started cooking. The porridge boiled. I pulled a cabbage and a radish from the vegetable garden in front, washed it and cut it. Before I started cooking, my parents went home.

My mother was happy and surprised when she saw me, and asked, "Oh, why are you back? Didn't you just get your living expenses a few days ago?"

I know that every time my mother sees me back, she is frightened because she knows that I must have money when I come back. Alas, I feel ashamed, but I have no other way, so I can only talk about the matter of going to Shenzhen to find a job. After hearing this, my mother secretly wiped her tears and said uncomfortable, "Ah, children, it's all our fault that we are parents are not capable. We can't help with the job search. However, I heard that Shenzhen is very messy. People are often stolen, robbed, and beaten to death on the street. There is a person from the old mine who went to Shenzhen a few years ago. There was no news for several years, and I don't know whether it's dead or alive.

I quickly pretended to be relaxed and comforted my parents, and tried to talk about the situation that Mr. Duan said as much as possible, telling them that Shenzhen is not as chaotic as they thought. Besides, I was looking for a job there and not doing bad things, so how could it be dangerous?

Actually, I don’t believe this. At that time, people in the mainland thought that Shenzhen was a dangerous place, but we couldn’t just talk to our parents like this. We went around and saw that the doubts in our parents’ eyes gradually faded, so I turned to the topic. Mom, I came back this time to get some travel expenses, and we will be there in a few days.

What? It will be over in two days? The Chinese New Year is coming soon, why don’t you go after the Chinese New Year? My mother was even more surprised and looked up and asked.

I said that people from career introduction offices have said that many people from factories quit their jobs and went home before the New Year. It is best to find a job at this time because the factory is so short of people.

My mother said "Oh" and asked again, how much does it cost to travel?

I lowered my head and didn't dare to look at my mother. I knew this was a huge burden for my parents. I said softly in a mosquito-like voice, "A thousand yuan is about 1,000 yuan, the travel fee is more than 200 yuan. I would have to spend a lot of money to buy something in the past, and I had to hand it over to the other party's office for more than 300 yuan."

Alas, I can't speak out. I'm about to be 21 years old and I have to ask my parents for money. I can't open my mouth! I originally signed up for a local university just to not go too far and fear that the cost is too high. After all, I can't bring some pickles to live like I used to in junior high school, so I have to spend more than 200 yuan a month. My sister and third brother are in the third year of high school, and I will face the college entrance examination in July next year in a few months. In order to help them strengthen their nutrition, my parents gave each person an extra fifty yuan a month starting from this semester.

In this way, the three of us will have a monthly living allowance of 800 yuan, which is still affordable for those working in the city. However, for rural people who dig in the soil, they need to pay a fixed amount of 800 yuan a month to support their three children to go to school. In addition, the fourth brother is still in junior high school, which is really a heavy burden.

In addition to planting more than ten acres of land at home, my parents also had to go to the mountains to mine stones during the slack farming period, which was the blue stone used to build houses in rural areas. As the saying goes, "Eat the mountains by the mountains and eat the sea by the sea." There is a stone mountain in the northwest of our village. Although it is a stone mountain, in the 1950s, the surrounding villagers responded to the country's call for "greening the hometown". There was no conditions and the conditions were created to complete the task. The neighbors transported soil to the mountain, and they definitely planted trees in stone nests.

After a few years, there are pine trees, cypress trees, birds, and flocks of green mountains and green waters. It is also the happiest place for us to play hide-and-seek, catch birds, and pick up bird eggs when we were childhood.

When I was very young, I followed my brother to the mountain to grind sheep. My brother took tweezers and bottles and went to the mountain to catch scorpions to supplement the household income. But I was the serious commander of sheep, holding a whip in my hand, whipping it hard in the air from time to time, or striking it on the stone. The crisp sound echoed in the woods, which was very majestic.

Since my brother was not around, my eyes didn't dare to leave the flock for a moment, because the forests on the mountain were lush and there were a few naughty little rams. They would either follow other people's little ewes, or they wouldn't bother to lie down next to a certain stone and get up. As long as I was careless, they would disappear. Therefore, I would click on the number of flocks from time to time. As long as there was something strange, I would immediately climb a big stone, or climb a tree, look around and see where they were.

(End of this chapter)
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