Ji Kai has been working in a state-owned enterprise for ten years since graduation, and has experienced marriage, childbirth, divorce, and resignation. Although in the first few years after graduation, I would go home every year during the Chinese New Year, until I got married because it was inconvenient for my daughter to go home when she was young, so I changed it to go back every few years, and sometimes my parents would take a train to the steel city more than 600 kilometers away to get together with him. When I went home, because it was during the Spring Festival, and the unit was on duty during the Chinese New Year, I only stayed at home for two or three days every time and hurried back.

When he heard that Ji Kai was about to resign and return to his hometown, his father was very unhappy. He believes that the work of state-owned enterprises is stable, although his hometown is close to the provincial capital, but the salary is not high, and Ji Kai is not easy to study and go out, and it is not necessarily better to look for a job in his hometown than in a state-owned enterprise.

Asked what he was going to do after resigning, Ji Kai's answer was that he didn't know, and he was going to go back and see. The father was even more disappointed when he heard this, and when he was fine, he could brag in the village that his son had a high salary in a state-owned enterprise, and that he was still a senior engineer, etc., anyway, others had no chance to go to the steel city to understand, which was very much to give him face. If he quit his job, he would be too close to home to brag to his neighbors, and he was worried about whether his son would be able to find a suitable job.

Ji Kai is a mechanical major, after coming to the state-owned enterprises has been doing the work of dealing with machinery and equipment, usually busy work not to say, sometimes at night will receive a call from the unit to take the car back to the unit to deal with equipment failure. There is no overtime pay, the salary is not high, as long as you can get by, Ji Kai can bear it.

But since divorcing his wife because of some trivial things, his daughter followed his wife, usually seeing her daughter once or twice a month, and gradually Ji Kai began to get bored with work, often in a very bad mood for no reason, and even lost his temper with the leader.

After careful consideration, I said hello to the department leaders three months in advance and prepared to leave after the New Year, and finally no matter how the unit leaders and colleagues talked and retained, they still submitted an application for resignation after the New Year, and finally completed the resignation procedures in early April and became officially unemployed.

After resigning, Ji Kai did not immediately return to his hometown to look for a job, and was ready to rest for a few months. Since he doesn't have to go to work, Ji Kai reads novels on the Internet every day, and decides to learn how to drive in his spare time, after all, when he returns to his hometown, there is no means of transportation.

After going through various procedures, it took more than three months to get a driver's license, and after waiting for nearly two months, I finally received a notice of the return of the housing provident fund after leaving the job three days before the rent was due. After getting the money, after selecting a second-hand SUV through online second-hand car transaction information, I bought a ticket to return to Rongcheng the next day, bought a car and selected the license plate and then drove back to Gangcheng, which didn't take two days in total. Pack the contents of the rental house in the trunk, open the mobile phone navigation and slowly drive back to your hometown.

"When I left home, I went back,

The country accent has not changed, and the sideburns have declined.

Children don't know each other,

Smile and ask where the guest is from. ”

The closer I get to home, the more anxious I feel, I update my resume on the recruitment website and submit my resume, but I haven't found a suitable job, and the company I delivered has no feedback information, how to explain when I go home!?

Following the guidance of mobile phone navigation information, since driving into Shuzhou, I found that both sides of the highway are full of lush vegetation, farmhouses, orchards, lawn gardens can be seen everywhere, and there are even pavilions on both sides of the country road, and wooden passages that curve and turn. Is this still the hometown of the same memory? The changes are too great, and if it weren't for the navigation, I wouldn't have been able to find where to go. The path to school when I was a child is gone, the familiar farmhouse is gone, and even the river where I used to swim and play is bigger and deeper, so unfamiliar! Can I still adapt? Ji Kai thought silently.

When the journey finally reached the end, a tree-lined path about three meters wide appeared in front of him, and Ji Kai cautiously drove through this road and finally saw the familiar rural buildings, and finally stopped in front of a three-room old tiled house after turning two right angles.

Hearing the sound of a car approaching, a middle-aged woman with gray hair walked out.

"Mom. Ji Kai shouted to his mother after getting out of the car with his luggage.

"Kai'er is back!?" said her mother happily, and at the same time hurriedly snatched the luggage in Ji Kai's hand.

The house was remodeled from the landlord's house in the last century, and there was nothing good to decorate. It is said that in the past, there was a large courtyard where a total of nine families lived, so this place was called "Kujiain". Now the departure of the departure, the repair of the house is fenced off, basically only the Ji Kai family is left, the shape of the house is different from the common one, the kitchen and the hall house line up into an "L" shape, the hall house to the north is the toilet and the pigsty, but now there are no pigs, changed to a bathroom and utility room; the south side of the hall is the kitchen, there is a room on the east and west sides of the kitchen, you must enter the kitchen to return to the bedroom, the south side of the kitchen is a small backyard, in which a few persimmon trees are planted.

Originally, there was a small bamboo forest to the north of the toilet, only 40 square meters in size, but later my cousin's family rented a house in the local area, and in order to reduce the burden, my cousin and my father proposed to build two rooms here to borrow. After his father agreed, his cousin paid for the construction of two blue-tiled houses in the bamboo forest, one for my sister and brother-in-law, one for my little niece, and sometimes my mother or guests would also live in the little niece's bunk bed.

When I walked into the kitchen, I saw my father stir-frying by the wood pot on the stove, and he seemed to be very busy.

"Dad. Ji Kai shouted at his father, but he didn't know if he didn't hear it or for other reasons, his father didn't answer and continued to stir-fry. Ji Kai suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, could it be that his father didn't want me to come back so much?

At this time, my cousin came in from the backyard with a basin for washing vegetables.

"Brother, are you back!?" said my sister happily.

My cousin's mother and Ji Kai's mother are sisters, and the distance between the two families is more than 20 miles. My cousin is 3 years older than Ji Kai, and her aunt died of illness when she was eleven or twelve years old, so she has always been very close to Ji Kai's mother and often comes to visit Ji Kai's mother.

Later, because my uncle didn't make much money and liked to get drunk and play cards, my cousin came out to work at the age of 16 after finishing secondary school, and it didn't go well. Fortunately, I met my current brother-in-law, my brother-in-law is a few years older than my sister, but I am honest, I was originally from Suzhou and Hangzhou, and I knew my sister when I drove a harvester across several provinces to Shuzhou to help people harvest rice, and I didn't go back to Suzhou and Hangzhou after getting married, so I stayed, but I went back to Suzhou and Hangzhou to visit relatives once a year.

The year before the death of my uncle due to illness, there was no close person in my hometown, and the transportation was inconvenient, so I moved out to rent a house, and after the birth of my little niece, in order to save living expenses, after discussing with Ji Kai's parents, I built two rooms to live in the house, and by the way, I can take care of my parents for Ji Kai.