Because he had to study at night in the evening, Hu Youmin returned to school after lunch. I brought a bottle of spicy radish, a bottle of preserved tempeh, and a bottle of sauerkraut, which I could eat for two weeks while saving. Before the school cafeteria opened, Hu Youmin rushed back to the school, he went to the cafeteria to get two taels of rice and went back to the dormitory to eat, chewing the rattling spicy radish, he ate very deliciously.

When he arrived at the classroom after eating, some students were already studying, so Hu Youmin first reviewed last week's lesson, and then previewed tomorrow's class. In the past, he studied hard because of his thirst for knowledge and because he could not do farm work, but now he wants to jump out of the farm and change his destiny.

Hu Youmin, who studies hard and earnestly, has always been at the top of his class, and he is also in the top ten in the grade.

Since he walked home late last time, in order not to let his parents see him uncomfortable, Hu Youmin rarely went home, and his father's monthly living expenses were brought to him by the way when he sold bamboo frames. Every Sunday, he goes to pick up garbage, plastic bottles, cans, waste paper, etc., everything that can be sold for money, and when he is lucky, he can pick up more than two yuan a day, and at worst, he can pick up a piece of waste for money.

This not only solves the living expenses on Sundays, but also saves money to buy some study materials. In such days, until the winter vacation of the third year of high school, Hu Youmin finally discovered the abnormality at home, and asked his parents not to say anything, as long as he studied with peace of mind. I secretly asked my younger brother to find out that my mother's rheumatism worsened last year, and she was almost paralyzed, spending all the family's savings, and borrowing 1,000 yuan in foreign debt, which was a huge amount of money at the time. At this time, his younger brother was in the third year of junior high school, and his younger sister was in the first year of junior high school, plus his own expenses, which made the family feel like a mountain, Hu Youmin understood the sadness that his parents tried their best to hide, and his heart was as uncomfortable as a knife.

After the start of school, the students were all engaged in intense study, and there were only more than four months to go before the college entrance examination, everyone was racing against time, and even the students who were naughty and mischievous before were quiet. Hu Youmin was not in the mood to study, thinking of the situation at home, thinking that even if he was admitted to university, he would not have the money to study, but if he didn't study, his heart was even more empty.

In an accident, I heard others say that the military academy can be exempted from all fees and allowances, Hu Youmin revived, and also began to review and prepare for the military academy examination. But fate likes to play tricks on people, and during the physical examination, because he had flat feet, he was brushed off. The grieving and indignant Hu Youmin just wanted to question the sky: Why did you treat me so unfairly!

Hit by this, he no longer had the heart to study, the teacher found out about his abnormality, talked to him, Hu Youmin didn't want to talk about the situation at home, felt that it was a shameful thing, and vaguely said that he might have a cold and was a little unwell. Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, the teacher had to tell him to pay attention to his body, study hard, and strive to get into a good school, and said that he had great expectations for him and believed that he would do well in the exam.

In the following days, Hu Youmin felt tormented. Seeing his classmates who were nervous about studying, he felt even more uncomfortable, so he borrowed some novels from the school library and read them secretly. Once discovered by the teacher, the teacher was extremely angry, and the poor students were all engaged in studying, but the good student in his heart read the novel at this critical moment, ordered him to write a review, and called his parents to come to school.

Hu Youmin sent a letter to his father to come to school, but he was ashamed and didn't dare to face his father, so he hid in the dormitory. My father talked in the teacher's office for more than an hour, and when he returned to his dormitory, he opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, sighed and left. Looking at his father's slightly hunched back, Hu Youmin lay on the bed and cried, crying heartbreakingly, and the sky was dark!

The three days of the college entrance examination are the easiest and the saddest in Hu Youmin's reading career, and he has already thought about giving up the exam, and he doesn't look at the questions during the exam, and fills in the answers randomly. It took more than half an hour to complete the test papers of each subject, but he did not dare to hand in the papers, and he did not leave the examination room until more than ten minutes after the test, and did not discuss the answers and discussions with other students, and ran away from the dormitory to sleep.

When the results of the college entrance examination were unveiled in '91, Hu Youmin only scored more than 340 points, which was a big surprise, and he himself was a little puzzled. In the midst of everyone's pity, his parents asked him if he wanted to repeat his studies, and he resolutely refused, saying that he was going out to work.

At that time, some coastal joint ventures and foreign-funded enterprises began to come to the interior to recruit workers, but the selection was strict, no less than the physical examination for soldiers. The township government has a labor export office, and Hu Youmin went to this office to inquire whether there are any recent recruitments?

He was greeted by a young man, not a few years older than him, and probably a secondary school student who had just graduated. The young man told him that he was not recruited, but he was very enthusiastic to ask him to go to the county labor service company to have a look, and Hu Youmin took the certificate of consent to go out to work issued by the young man to him, and got on the shuttle bus to the county seat.

When I arrived at the county labor service company, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon, and there was a company that was recruiting, and about 30 young people were standing in three rows, resting, and doing push-ups. The recruitment office was crowded, and it was Hu Youmin's turn, and the clerk just asked him to fill out a form and asked him to go back and wait for news.

After three or four days, Hu Youmin, who was bored, went to the county labor company again, telling him that there was no company recruiting people, but I heard someone chatting next to him that there was a shoe factory recruiting people in the past few days, but those who went were related, it was difficult to be recruited without a back door, and if you were lucky, you could go to some factories with poor treatment. Hearing these discussions, he was very angry, and more helpless.

After returning home, he told his parents about the situation and asked if there were any relatives or friends who were working in the coastal areas? My parents shook their heads and said no, and after a while, my father said that one of his third uncles was in the Tanglin Military Region, so why don't you go to him? He had never heard of such a relative, let alone seen this relative, and in his father's description, he knew that he was a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and it was said that he was already a division-level cadre.

Hu Youmin still doesn't know how big an official a division-level cadre is, but he knows that an official has the right and can do things. Hu Youmin, who is eager to make money and change his fate, will hold on to any straw that appears in front of him. He went to his grandfather's house and asked him to write a letter to his younger brother asking him to help him arrange a job for him, and then he took home an envelope with a mailing address, and he was going to go to Tanglin according to the address on this envelope.

For Hu Youmin's trip to Tanglin City, his parents were sad and helpless, especially his mother helped him pack his luggage while wiping his tears, and his mother was worried about his mother! Carrying more than 100 yuan of money collected by the family, carrying a large luggage bag, in the reluctant eyes of his younger siblings and the advice of his parents, Hu Youmin took a shuttle bus to Baisha, the provincial capital, and took a train from Baisha to Donglin City, Ninghai Province.

In the hot August, there were still many people on the bus, and there were no seats, so Hu Youmin could only sit on a small bench in the aisle. It was reckless to go to Tanglin this time, he didn't wait for a reply from the third grandfather he had never met, he didn't dare to wait for a reply, for fear that what he was waiting for was a ruthless letter of rejection. He thought about it, even if the third grandfather didn't take him in, he would have to stay in Tanglin City to pick up garbage.

It took more than three hours to get to Baisha Railway Station on the shuttle bus, Hu Youmin didn't bother to have lunch, so he first went to the window to line up to buy a ticket, and waited in line for half an hour to buy a ticket, but it was a station ticket without a seat. Hu Youmin, who had never been far away, didn't know that this meant that he was going to stand on the train for two days and two nights, and he was ignorant and carefully collected the train ticket, which was bought for more than 50 yuan, and he must not lose it.

The train had to wait for more than three hours, so Hu Youmin wanted to find something to eat to fill his stomach, but the things in the station were too expensive, so he went outside the station to find something to eat, anyway, there was time. The things on the other side of the road from the train station are also expensive, Hu Youmin continued to walk forward, and walked to a small alley, there are noodle restaurants, steamed bun shops, and small restaurants, he ate a bowl of rice noodles, thought about it, and bought a dollar of steamed buns, steamed buns, and a dollar of incense, ready to eat on the train, and there was no need to buy water, and brought a large bottle of tea from home.

When checking in the ticket and getting on the train, Hu Youmin squeezed into the car with his youth, and some of those who couldn't squeeze in climbed in through the window, and the whole scene was like fleeing. Hu Youmin found a not too crowded aisle, put down his backpack, rested on the back of the chair, and with a long whistle, the train slowly started and left the train station with a bang.

Although it was the first time to take the train, Hu Youmin did not have much novelty, most of the trains at that time were not air-conditioned, slow, crowded, and taking the train was synonymous with sin, except for those who have money to sit in sleepers, Tejia can sit in soft sleepers, not only those who have money can sit, most of them have the right to have a relationship to book.

There were very few migrant workers on the train to the north, basically workers, government workers, and some college students who had registered for duty, and Hu Youmin could not understand how there could be a university that started so early? When he was tired from standing, he sat down on his backpack and squinted and took a nap.

On the train, he paid attention to the ticket, this is not a direct car, to Yanjing West Station to change, the train has to run on the road for two days and two nights, he didn't think it was terrible, young people can still bear this little hardship. However, from time to time I imagined the scene after Tanglin in my mind, and I didn't think about it anymore.

From time to time, there were food trucks coming and going, and Hu Youmin, who was sitting in the aisle, had to keep getting up to avoid it. The things on the train are more expensive than those in the station, a boxed lunch costs two yuan a piece, a beer costs five yuan, a grilled chicken costs eight yuan a piece, Hu Youmin eats two steamed buns, and two steamed buns are considered dinner.

After 11 o'clock in the evening, there was no food truck to sell, the headlights in the trunk were also turned off, only a few dim small lights were on, everyone was drowsy, Hu Youmin saw someone sleeping under the seat, so he also got under a seat and fell asleep.

On the first morning, Hu Youmin was kicked awake, it turned out that he was a person who went to the toilet or went to wash his face, and accidentally kicked him while walking, he climbed out from under his seat and followed him to the toilet.

After queuing up to go to the toilet, I washed my face, and then took out the buns and steamed buns left over from yesterday to eat, and suddenly heard someone shouting: "The Yellow River, look!" Looking out of the window, the train has been on the bridge, the Yellow River is very wide, but the water surface is not wide, two-thirds of the riverbed, and Li Bai's poem: "You don't see the water of the Yellow River coming up from the sky, rushing to the sea and not returning." "It's far away, and it's a little sad.

When I changed my ticket at Yanjing West Station, there were seats, and it may be that there were not many people going out of customs. This gave the tired Hu Youmin an unexpected surprise, and the comfort of sitting on the seat was more comfortable than eating a portion of braised pork. There were no more passengers standing in the aisle, and I felt much quieter and more comfortable in the trunk.

When the train crossed the mountain customs, Hu Youmin looked at the window for a long time, but unfortunately he couldn't see anything on the train, and he couldn't feel the majesty of being a man and a man. Ju said that Wu Sangui, who guarded the mountain customs, was angry and turned into the customs, and then there was a saying that Wu Sangui descended to the Qing first, and Li Zicheng robbed Chen Yuanyuan later. Either way, it's just a matter of talking points.