Chapter Ninety-One: The People Forgotten by the World

The world is imperfect?

Full of grief and tears

You have to be strong

The world is not so gentle sometimes

You also have to be convinced

The world isn't as bad as you think

Because there will always be some people

Neither sooner nor later will appear to you

Accompany you with your heart

Doing everything we can to help you

Secretly loving you in my heart

———— excerpts of beautiful poems that encouraged me on the days of being laid off

The problem of laid-off workers is a historical problem as well as a practical problem, and it is an unavoidable problem at any time! This problem is a problem that concerns thousands of households, and it is also a problem that everyone needs to face. And home is your greatest source of motivation, and it is also your greatest reliance on the road of struggle.

Although the company's benefits are acceptable, it has been shut down and demolished by the government because of environmental pollution, and employees have become unsupervised vagrants. But do they know how many years they have been working there, working quietly every day in the most polluted places? Many laid-off workers are actually suffering from occupational diseases.

Many couples have been laid off from their jobs in collective enterprises, and some can still receive a laid-off allowance of more than 100 yuan after being laid off, while some units go bankrupt and do not receive a penny. In this way, the family does not have any savings. Some people are not in good health, but now their lives are so difficult, they are depressed, they are sick again and again, and they have no money to go to the hospital to see a doctor, so they can only hold on, and their health is getting worse and worse. Every evening, many people wear masks and carry a basket to the farmers' market to pick up some Chinese cabbage gangs that no one else wants, or buy some leftover vegetables from vegetable farmers who are eager to go home at extremely cheap prices, and save up for their children's tuition fees for the next semester. When they were young, they were forced to go to the countryside, and they were tired of doing farm work for more than 10 years. In order to fill her stomach, the female intellectuals had to borrow food from the brigade and were bullied by some cadres in the countryside. I finally returned to the city, worked in three shifts in the factory, and worked hard for more than 10 years. Now my body is exhausted, I am sick all over, and in the end, I don't even give money for food. They (they) can do nothing but be general workers on the production line, and at this age, where can they find a job? Living is just a burden on the family, and many people think of dying. Even if the laid-off workers find a new job in a few months, that is, more than 200 yuan, and have to pay their own insurance, many families are still very sad, tired for most of their lives, with no roof on the top, no place to stand on the bottom, and no property, and they are about to carry out housing reform, so how can they afford to buy a house? Are they living on the streets? What hope is there? What else is there to rush? What else is there to say?

Many families of laid-off workers in similar circumstances have the bitterness and humiliation of finding a job, this society is so cruel, and the world is so bleak.

There was once such a family whose husband and wife were laid off, and they did not open the door for a few days, and the neighbors were so strange and talked about it, and finally the neighborhood committee forcibly pried open the door, and when they went in, they saw that the family was dead. The laid-off worker hugged his wife tightly with one hand and his daughter with the other. Later, the forensic doctor determined that the three people were poisoned by rat poison and died, and a large amount of rat poison remained in the broth, and the final investigation concluded that the laid-off workers could not bear the poverty of their wives and daughters, and they had no way out, and the whole family committed suicide.

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Although the topic of exchange with my brother and sister-in-law is a bit heavy, isn't this the case in this world? Where can there be so much leisure time that can be self-willed and enjoyed? How can those who do not seek the long-term plan seek a moment, and those who do not seek the overall situation cannot have a certain domain. This is true of the country, and the path of life is not the same. It is a very dangerous state to always live on the achievements of the past, because this is an era of great change that is rare in history, and experience always proves to be backward. Therefore, the concept of keeping pace with the times put forward by later generations is still very reasonable.

Zhao Hong hopes that his brother can avoid being laid off after 15 years and not become a victim of the policy closure of the company. Don't look at what he says about ease now, it's because he is still very young, and when he is really laid off in his forties, he will find that there were many opportunities that he could easily give up, and he will be unceremoniously rejected because of his age.

Ji's brother once joked that there is no need to worry about mosquitoes in summer, but mosquitoes should be afraid of him, mosquitoes bite him and don't feel it, but mosquitoes are poisoned to death. Because my brother works in a long-term toxic environment, he actually has a lot of toxins in his body.

If you can, leave the business as soon as possible, even if it's just for your health.

Mom also told an incident when she came back, a boy who had just entered junior high school, had been helping her mother to recruit a shoeshine business, and from time to time she also helped to come forward to work, always smiling, occasionally asked, he would also tell the story of his family, his parents were laid off, and his father was working outside, because of overwork and died suddenly after returning home, and there was an older sister who was going to college and had two years to graduate. The mother, who had never come out to work, really had no choice, so she agreed that he would start begging for a living when he was about to graduate from junior high school, after all, it is now stipulated that there will be a so-called unemployed study year after graduating from junior high school, but he and his family have no way to continue to wait.

The young man is very optimistic and has been greeting business, while his mother has always been smiling and looking at the child while working, full of love.

Everyone slowly recovered and became happy again. After all, it will be a long time before his brother is laid off, as long as he is willing, in fact, there is still a long time to choose, and Zhao Hong did not continue this topic.

At the beginning of February, Zhao Hong received a call from country M, which was from Xiao Wanting's mother, telling him that Xiao Wanting gave birth to two children for him, a boy and a girl. Xiao Wanting is currently cultivating, after all, the birth of two children still has a great impact on adults.

Zhao Hong was very excited, but he didn't say it to share it with his family for the time being. Because I was worried that my parents would react excessively. After all, country M is not something you can go to if you want to, the first procedure is not easy to handle, and the cost is not low, at present, a round-trip ticket costs about 20,000 yuan, not to mention others.

However, I still called the immigration agent, and Zhao Hong learned how the matter of his investment in a green card was progressing. Zhao Hong also hopes to visit the children as soon as possible, and the children are the people Zhao Hong thinks can be trusted. Love can deteriorate, and the relationship between father and son is always an unchangeable fact.

Life goes on, and hope has been born. If he could not seize the opportunity of rebirth, Zhao Hong would just be one of the thousands of laid-off workers, living a life of hardship and poverty.