I hurried home and told my mother that I was going to work as a worker in the Agency. My mother was uneducated and couldn't make up her mind, so she called my brother back. My brother's salary is only 24 yuan a month because he works in a local grain store, while in our engineering agency, his monthly salary is more than 50 yuan. So, when I heard that I wanted to go to work in the engineering department, I rushed back from the grain store without saying a word, and took my hukou to the police station to change my age. I was 14 years old, and now I'm 16. I grew two years in one day.

Then, my brother took the household registration book and took me to the recruitment office set up in the left-behind office of the family area to register and have a physical examination. The person in charge of registration read my household registration book and reported my name. Then he asked me to go to the next room for a medical check-up. However, I did not expect that something went wrong during the experience, and the UNRWA doctor in charge of the medical examination said that I had a serious heart condition. My family didn't believe it because I had never been sick since I was a child. So, my brother took me to the county hospital for a physical examination. The experience at the county hospital showed that I didn't have any problems with my heart. The elder brother showed the medical certificate from the county hospital to the doctor in charge of the recruitment physical examination, but they did not recognize it. My brother and my mother both went to the recruitment office to reason with them. As soon as the recruiter saw that he had no tricks, he clearly said that my sister and I belonged to the jurisdiction of the Xi'an Railway Bureau, and did not belong to the people of the Sixth Division of the Fourth Railway Bureau. When my brother and my mother heard this, they thought that I was still young and could wait for the Xi'an station to recruit workers, because they had promised to let the three of us take over. Listening to the recruiters, my brother and my mother had no choice but to bring me back.

The students who have passed the physical examination no longer come to school, and even when they come to school, they happily come to say goodbye to the students who stayed. This recruitment was like a gust of wind whirring, taking away more than half of our class. The rest of the students were left behind for various reasons, so they were in a bad mood. Lin Yuqing also came to say goodbye to those of us who stayed behind. However, she didn't seem to be happy at all, and even felt a little reluctant. She said something to her classmates, then came up to me and said to me, I know your situation, but it's better not to leave, you can learn more. I said sadly, but I will never see you again. She said we come back every year from a family visit. She gave me her stationery box and said give this to you, I won't need it again. She knew I didn't have a stationery box. I was surprised because at that time, male and female classmates didn't talk much to each other, and giving things to classmates of the opposite sex would be said to be love.

At one o'clock that afternoon, many of my classmates and I didn't go to class, so we made an appointment to go to the station to see them off. My sister was also among them, but I didn't go to her, but always stood by Lin Yuqing's side. Waited until the train came, she got into the carriage and never saw her again. I began to cry silently in my heart.

I began to feel a sense of sadness in my heart, like the feeling of sadness and helplessness that my father had left in my heart when he died. I don't think there's any point in studying. In the past, I still wanted to study because I wanted her to notice me and look up to me. Now that she's out of school, I've lost my goal all of a sudden. Without her, the class would suddenly become lifeless and uninteresting. I used to look out the window and look at it so stupidly that the sky became dull and dark, heavy enough to breathe.

Soon came letters from those classmates complaining about all kinds of grievances. He said that the work on the railway site was very tiring, smashing stones, digging earth, pulling carts, lifting cement slabs, and being so tired that he had nightmares at night. My sister's letter didn't say that, after all, she was a child of a poor family, and she could still bear this kind of suffering. However, I wondered if Lin Yuqing was also complaining? She was the precious daughter of the director of engineering, she had never suffered since she was a child, and she was actually only 14 years old. And this kind of hard work and tiring work is obviously more than a 14-year-old girl can actually do. Because she's still a kid too.

I would love to write her a letter, but I can't, because it will cause a lot of trouble, cause a lot of trouble for myself, and let others know that I am in love with her and chasing her. But I'm only 14 years old, and I'm still far from the age of dating and finding a partner, at least I don't have a job now, and I don't have this qualification without a job.

I've been looking forward to her coming back from a visit to meet her. However, I didn't think that we would say goodbye in a hurry, and we would never see each other again. In order to meet her, I went to my sister's construction site when I was in college. They have moved from Yunnan to Jixi in Anhui Province to repair the railway on the Huangshan side. My mother and I stayed at my aunt's house in Ningguo, and my uncle-in-law drove us to the railway construction site in Jixi. I saw many of my former classmates, like our fathers, walking along the side of the road to the construction site in the hot summer sun, wearing thick overalls, hard hats, and T-pickaxes. When I arrived at the construction site, I began to quarry and dig the ground and mix the cement. My sister and a few other girls were carrying the prefabricated slabs to the car piece by piece, and a few young men were carrying the heavy slabs onto the car. One truck was full, and another drove over. And many more people are pouring cement on the floor slabs under the scorching sun. Everyone here is tanned, sweating profusely and sweating profusely. I can't help but wonder it's no wonder their wages are so high, they do this kind of work.

I asked my sister Lin Yuqing where she was. My sister said that her father was the director of the department, and she had already been transferred to the hospital. In fact, many of the cadres and children in our class and outside the class have been transferred from construction sites to repair shops, automobile fleets, or institutions and hospitals. Those who were able to continue the construction of the Agency were almost all children of workers.