Early summer in the south of the Yangtze River is very stuffy even in the evening.

Xue Huading took a bite of rice, picked up the palm-leaf fan leaning against the chair and slapped it quickly, and said, "It's so hot."

The mother glanced at her husband, then put another eggplant in her son Xue Huading's bowl, and asked tentatively: "Huading, how are you looking for a job?"

Xue Huading shook the palm-leaf fan a few times and said, "There is no chance!"

Looking at his mother with a gloomy face, Xue Huading smiled and said, "Mom, don't worry. Have you been looking for it for only twenty days? If it really doesn't work, I can open a home appliance repair shop by myself, or sell vegetables with my father. I can guarantee that I can support myself."

The mother sighed and said, "The school that is self-funded is still not good. If..."

My father put down his bowl, got up and took out a cigarette while muttering something in his mouth, his face a little ugly.

The mother said, "What are you muttering? Didn't Hua Ding say he would go find a job again?"

Xue Huading smiled again and said, "It's good to sell vegetables. Don't many young people in our village sell vegetables?" This is the suburb of Huangmao Town. Like the surrounding farmers, his family also makes a living by growing vegetables and selling vegetables.

Xue Huading finished the meal a few times, wiped his mouth, got up and walked out of the yard. Before leaving, he shouted to his mother who was busy in the kitchen: "Mom, I'll go to Mr. Dong's house to repair the TV. I agreed on the way home just now."

Standing outside the yard, Xue Huading looked at the direction of the sun set in the west, and had not moved for a long time...

During the college entrance examination in 1988, Xue Huading failed because of his serious degree of subject matter - only scored a poor 17 points in English. His family raised 6,000 yuan and bought a self-paid college quota from Hebei Electronic Technology College to study in college.

In college, Xue Huading became shameless and brave. Not only did he focus on studying English, but his English scores increased significantly, but his scores in other subjects were also good, especially in computers, advanced mathematics, electronic circuits and other subjects, he ranked among the best in the class. During his three years in college, he participated in several electronic enthusiast associations and basically learned to repair home appliances such as TVs, refrigerators, washing machines and other home appliances.

During the internship on the eve of graduation, Xue Huading's grades were even better. During the internship at a telecom equipment factory in Hebei, he was interested in electronic technology since childhood, except for the necessary rest, eating and sleep time, and spent almost all the rest of the time in the workshop and working with the workers there.

Here, he completely participated in a series of work from assembly and debugging of carrier equipment and switch equipment. He even soldered many circuit boards, tested many components, and followed the master to deal with the faults during production and debugging. According to the technicians in the factory, in terms of these two main products in the factory, Xue Huading's level exceeded that of the workers in their factory.

However, when they returned to school after their internships, they were stunned: their own students were recruited by the school in violation of regulations to make money. Now the relevant state departments do not recognize their academic status and do not give them official diplomas recognized by the state. The school only gives them one academic certificate.

In order to cope with them and to recruit more self-funded students in the future to earn more money, the school claims that they are in various ways to award formal diplomas to students with grades.

With a stomach full of resentment and a hint of expectation, Xue Huading and the others left the school sadly in early June and began looking for jobs everywhere.

In more than 20 days, Xue Huading found many units and enterprises in the surrounding towns, counties and cities. He sent a lot of resumes, but because he had no diploma, no unit accepted him. He had a good attitude and said tactfully that he asked him to wait patiently. He didn't just let him enter the door until he had run out of money and was going to look for it in a few days.

Because it was a common fault, Xue Huading didn't spend much time repairing a TV in the Dong family. However, after saying goodbye to the enthusiastic Dong family, he did not go home immediately, but walked by the river outside the village. He did not turn back until the heat on the ground subsided and he felt relieved.

In the early morning of the next day, he got up very early like his parents, went to the vegetable field to pick vegetables together, and then and his father each carried a load of fresh vegetables into Huangmao Town, more than a mile away from home.

Shortly after putting the vegetables in the fixed vegetable selling position of my father every day, an elderly man came over with a fish. He smiled and said to his father: "Old Xue, who is this young man? He looks good."

"Accountant Niu! He is my son." The father looked embarrassed.

"Oh, your college son is home?" Accountant Niu praised casually, "It's really good to help you sell vegetables."

My father did not speak anymore, lowered his head and put it on cleaning up vegetables.

Xue Huading knew why his father was like this, so he smiled softly.

The father looked up and glared at him, looked at the ground a little confused, and sighed.

As the sky became brighter and brighter, Xue Huading and the others met more and more acquaintances. But not only did his father's face not become happy with the greetings of his acquaintances, but instead became more and more gloomy.

Xue Huading put the five-yuan vegetable money he had just received in the cardboard box at his father's feet, and smiled and said to his father: "Dad, you are too proud of your face, right? I'm not afraid, why are you so embarrassed? College students are not popular now, just be able to support themselves. If you are afraid of being ugly, go home first. I'll sell these vegetables alone."

"I don't have your shame...," the father was afraid that his son would not be able to stand it, so he forced himself to swallow the word "thick" and said, "Forget it. Don't come tomorrow, stay at home honestly. A college student sold vegetables, and I don't know how many people secretly joked about me."

"Haha, it's your own thoughts?" Xue Huading laughed louder, and then he shouted loudly, "Come and buy it quickly. Xue Huading's dishes are fresh and worthy, and the price is more reasonable. Come and buy it quickly."

My father was embarrassed and said angrily: "You—"

Before he finished speaking, a female voice rang out not far away: "Xue Huading? Is it really Xue Huading?" A girl in a long lotus dress squeezed over from the crowd, with two shoulder-length braids hanging on both sides, and the two dimples on her face were particularly attractive, and she looked at Xue Huading with a smile.

"It's like a fake package. Huang Qingming?" Seeing the person clearly, Xue Huading said in surprise, "Oh, it's really a girl who has changed so much. I don't dare to admit that she is so beautiful. I haven't seen her for only a few months. Why are she so changing so much?... Old classmate, do you sell vegetables too?"

"You're selling vegetables!"

"I'm selling vegetables."

Seeing his father's face flushed with shame, Huang Qingming stretched out his hand and pulled his right sleeve and said, "Don't make trouble here. Let's go, treat me to breakfast!"

"Haha, I want me to treat you, but you are so righteous." Xue Huading stood up while laughing. He didn't want to be here to embarrass his father, so he followed Huang Qingming away. After he left, his father secretly breathed a sigh of relief and his face became much more normal.

The two walked side by side on the crowded streets, chatting in a low voice from time to time. Xue Huading looked at the youthful and energetic Huang Qingming, and felt a little excited and peeked at it from time to time.

"Have you seen enough?" Huang Qingming's face turned red and he asked in a low voice.

"I didn't see it..." Xue Huading said guiltily. But seeing Huang Qingming staring at him, he said, "I didn't see it enough."

"Puchi!" Huang Qingming couldn't help laughing, his face turned redder.

Xue Huading asked with a smile: "Miss, are you a second lieutenant platoon leader or a captain company commander now?"

"What platoon leader, company commander?" Huang Qingming was stunned.

"You are so beautiful, the young people who are beneath your pomegranate skirt must be in a long line..."

Before Xue Huading finished speaking, Huang Qingming fisted at his arm: "You hate it!"

"Haha, the little girl is starting to learn to be shy?"

"Hate, you said, I am the same year as you, who is the little girl? Besides, I will ignore you."

"It just so happens that I can save money on a bowl of beef noodles." Xue Huading smiled and avoided her fist that stretched out again.

"I think I'm beautiful, I'm going to eat three bowls today."

"Can you eat it?"

"I only eat beef, and I give you all the remaining noodles."

...

"It's here, it's here." While joking, the two of them came to a roadside restaurant. As soon as Xue Huading entered the door, he shouted, "The boss gives me four bowls of noodles, this girl has three bowls, and I have one bowl!"

"Okay." The boss responded happily at first, and then he felt something was wrong, "Ah, she has three bowls?"

"Hate!" Huang Qingming couldn't help laughing again and said, "Boss, don't listen to his nonsense. Two bowls."

After sitting down, Xue Huading asked, "When will it take a holiday?"

"I returned yesterday afternoon." Huang Qingming asked, "You have been away from school for a month. Have you found a job?"

"No! I once found a job guarding the warehouse. After working for three days, I fired the boss's squid." His face was a little gloomy.

"Oh." Huang Qingming asked, "Then what are your plans in the future?"

"I thought of going to Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the south. But my mother disagreed. She was afraid that her only seedling would be blown off by the typhoon in the south. Besides, I haven't obtained my diploma yet." Xue Huading said depressedly.

"What's the matter with a diploma? Why haven't you been sent to you yet? If you don't have a diploma, you can only find some physical work."

"A classmate of mine wrote a letter saying that several of the class who have good grades may get a formal diploma."

Seeing that the boss brought the noodles, the two stopped talking and slowly ate the noodles.

After eating, the two walked to the door of a "Zhide Auto Repair Factory". As soon as they entered the factory, a woman came out with a plate of washed vegetables and poured it into the drain.

"Hello, Auntie!" Xue Huading smiled softly and greeted.

"Xiao Xue, a rare guest. Have you eaten?" Huang's mother Li Guixiang raised her head and found the way they came in, and greeted enthusiastically.

"I've eaten. Where is Uncle Huang?"

"He's having a meal."

"Who, come in and sit!" At this time, a greeting came from the main hall. It was obvious that he was still holding food in his mouth, and his voice was a little dull.

"Ha, Xiao Xue. Sit quickly. Have you eaten?" A middle-aged man sat in the main hall where many tools and parts were placed, eating breakfast: porridge, steamed buns, and cold dishes.

"There are so many cars parked in the yard, Uncle Huang's business is good!" Xue Huading grabbed a bamboo chair and placed it against the wall and sat down.

As soon as she sat down, Huang Qingming brought a cup of tea. Xue Huading quickly stood up and took the tea and sat down.

"Xiao Xue, how about looking for a job?" Li Guixiang sat down at the table beside her husband, grabbed a pair of chopsticks, picked up the bowl of porridge, and asked while picking up the food.

Xue Huading felt a little unhappy: Why do everyone like to ask about this?

Before he could answer, Huang Qingming's father Huang Zhide spoke: "Why is the country's policies constantly changing? College students now have to find jobs by themselves. Didn't the state provide the distribution in the past few years?"
Chapter completed!