"Bang bang..."

There was a knock on the door.

"Who?"

Gao Yunong dragged his tired body out of bed.

"Your delivery."

"Express delivery? It seems like you haven't bought anything recently?"

Gao Yunong said to himself, opened the door, and took the express delivery from the courier's hand.

Returning to the living room, I opened the express delivery and a black diary fell out.

Seeing this diary, Gao Yunong's expression suddenly became serious.

My father seemed to have had a diary like this, but this time he went home to deal with his father's funeral affairs, and he did not see this diary.

Why would you mail it to yourself?

He opened the diary with confusion, and it was indeed his father's handwriting inside, which was the diary he had seen before.

【April 15, 1999, the weather is sunny】

[Tomorrow is the day for bankruptcy and reorganization of the factory. My buyout fee is 50,000 yuan, but I don’t want to take the money]

[Lao Wang from the production class contacted me two days ago and asked me to go with them to the factory to cause trouble. I was a little shaken]

[Suqin at home has just been laid off, and I have to buy it out, so Yunong is five years old]

[If neither of us has a job, how will we live our lives in the future? Yunong will go to elementary school soon...]

I opened a page at random and saw my father's record of the most difficult period in his life.

His hometown is Ningzhou, a small town on the 18th tier, and twenty years ago happened to be the most difficult days.

Countless workers are facing layoffs due to the restructuring of state-owned enterprises.

Unfortunately, both his parents were laid off during that time.

But during that time, although it was difficult, his parents gritted their teeth and supported him so that he could have a carefree childhood.

Life after that was still very difficult. Both his parents worked and worked as vendors, but they finally supported him until he graduated from college.

But who would have thought that he had just started working not long ago.

A few days ago, my father unexpectedly died of a heart attack while he was out working...

And he had just returned from his hometown after handling his father's funeral affairs.

When he saw this paragraph in his father's diary, the corners of his eyes suddenly began to feel sore, and his vision gradually became blurred.

【March 6, 2008, sunny weather】

[Yunong finally entered junior high school. His grades are average. I wonder if he will be able to enter high school in the future.]

[For the sake of my children, I must work hard to make more money. If my children fail to enter high school in the future, I can still spend money to send them to private schools]

[Today I helped a family carry 30 bags of cement up to the fifth floor. I agreed to give them 150 yuan, but in the end the host only gave 120 yuan]

[I was very angry at first, but then I thought about my wife and children, so I tolerated it...]

When seeing this paragraph, Gao Yunong remembered that he was young and frivolous.

I don’t understand the hard work of my parents at all. I only know how to go out and play around every day, pretending to be cool and rebellious...

Back then, in order to look cool when picking up girls, he always stole money from his father.

Later, he asked his father once: "Dad, don't you know that I always stole your money back then?"

Dad replied with a smile: "I know!"

"I know, why don't you change places?"

"If I change it, I'm afraid you won't be able to find it!

Thinking of the conversation between father and son, Gao Yunong could no longer hold back and burst into tears...

After crying for a while, he looked through the diary and returned to the previous page.

It happened to be the period in the diary when his father was laid off in 1999, and he felt sour in his heart.

Later, my mother told herself that my father couldn't hold it back and went to the factory with several colleagues to cause trouble.

As a result, they accidentally injured someone, and because of this they were arrested and detained for more than ten days.

The original buyout fee of 50,000 yuan was only 30,000 yuan in the end, but the loss was not small.

When he thought of this, he suddenly felt like a child.

He took out his pen and wrote on the back of that page of the diary.

[Never go to make trouble with Lao Wang, you may be caught if you make trouble]

[Since you have no ability to change the present, you might as well just go with the flow and get the buyout fee of 50,000 yuan with peace of mind]

[If you have the money, you can open an Internet cafe. Opening an Internet cafe will ensure that your family has enough food and clothing, so there is no problem]

After finishing writing, Gao Yunong suddenly felt a strange feeling when he looked at this comment-like mark.

It's like I can communicate with my father across time and space...

Thinking about this life, after my father was laid off, he went through a lot of troubles and worked in various jobs.

But he always hung out at the bottom of society. It wasn't until he learned a decoration craft a few years later that the family's life became stable.

But in the end, he still ended up getting sick from overwork.

In fact, the buyout fee of 50,000 yuan was not low in those days, but why were many workers still unwilling?

Because they don’t know what to do after taking the 50,000 yuan. 50,000 yuan seems like a lot, but how can a serious job be reliable?

Internet cafes were a new thing in those days, and some laid-off families changed their destiny by opening Internet cafes.

If my father had really taken the buyout fee and opened an Internet cafe, he wouldn't have had to work so hard for half his life.

He recalled that some of his high school classmates were laid off just like his parents.

But they changed their destiny by opening an Internet cafe.

By the time I entered high school, everyone else was living a well-off life, but their family had to live a hard life.

Hey, it would be great if my father could really read this, if he could do what he said.

Maybe it can really change the fate of your family!

Gao Yunong thought, but then he shook his head with a self-deprecating smile.

What are you thinking about? You must have read too many YY novels online!

This is another way for him to commemorate his father!

Stop thinking nonsense, you have to go to work tomorrow, go to bed quickly.

That night he tossed and turned, unable to sleep soundly.

He got up at six o'clock the next morning, washed his face, and hurried to work.

He works for an Internet company in Beijing and is a miserable programmer.

The company mainly undertakes outsourcing from some large factories, so the daily workload is heavy, but the salary is only average.

With a salary of just over 10,000 yuan a month, I only get a few thousand yuan. Excluding rent, food and drink, it is difficult to save much money in a month.

In order to save money, he can only live outside the Fifth Ring Road, and has to commute to get off work for more than an hour on the subway every day.

At half past eight, he finally came downstairs to the company. He first found a stall and bought two steamed buns and a portion of soy milk.

Only then did we enter the company's building. Our company is located in the Triumph Building in Dongsanqi. This building is filled with outsourcing companies like ours.

Every morning around eight o'clock is the busiest time in the building's elevators.

It was hard to squeeze into the elevator, but as soon as I entered, I heard a harsh female voice coming from beside me.

"Ouch! What are you doing? You stinky gangster..."

Because the elevators are most crowded every morning, physical contact will inevitably occur.

But it was the first time that I shouted it out so loudly like this.

What made Gao Yunong even more embarrassed was that the voice seemed to be directed at him.


Chapter completed!