He said that he had also written an article, and he was too embarrassed to send it, so he asked me to send it for him. I was thinking at the time, that Huang Zaihe had just been promoted to deputy team leader, and he could send it himself, why should I send it for him? To be honest, Huang Zaihe's handwriting is good.

And that article was also written heartily and full of fragrance. After reading the article he wrote, it hit me hard. I feel like I'm too conceited, you can't compare to others in this small photosensitive oil department, let alone Lingyao Factory.

Despite this, I still handed in Huang Zaihe and my article. But a few months later, I left Lingyao Factory and went to my current wife's factory, and by chance, I saw the article "written" by Huang Zaihe in a magazine.

However, the signature on that magazine was not him, Huang Zaihe. It can be seen that his article was plagiarized from someone else. It can be seen that there is still no shortage of people who plagiarize other people's works.

And there are quite a few such people in online writing nowadays. If you can't write it, don't write it, don't eat it if you can't eat this meal, why do you want to do those disgusting things.

I think the reason why Huang Zaihe plagiarized other people's works to lead the factory to participate in the competition may be to please the leaders in the factory. However, that article only won third place. It is not known whether a work published in a magazine won a third place, whether the leader's vision was wrong or the second place was also plagiarized.

However, the first place is indeed truly original. I only remember that essay to this day, called "Walking and Leading", and it was very well written, and it was full of aftertaste when I read it.

Then I went to a singing contest. However, although I usually like to sing, it's just a casual hum, and there is nothing inhibited about humming casually, whether it's out of tune, or if the words are wrong, no one says about you. However, once you get to the arena, it's different.

Not only must the key be accurate, but the words must not be sung wrong. Because I didn't have a speaker to warm up at that time, I had to choose a song that I was most familiar with. In this case, you will not be afraid to play even if you are temporary.

I chose the song "The Heart Is Too Soft". I learned "Too Soft Heart" when "Too Soft Heart" was just popular, I remember that I had just lost Qinglian at that time, and when I heard that song suddenly, I felt that he sang his heart, so I learned it with my heart.

It just so happened that the song was as clear as it could be, and I even remembered the lyrics clearly. For fear of making a mistake on stage, I chose that song.

When one of the employees finished singing "A Thousand Reasons to Be Sad," I walked up to the stage and picked up the microphone. Sitting under the stage were the three chairmen and their wives. Yang Ting also sat there and looked at me, smiling and nodding.

I knew she was encouraging me. Although my heart was pounding, the thought of that song I couldn't know more gave me courage again. However, I waited for a long time on the stage, and the screen on the TV did not show the words.

After a while, He Xiangyang, the security guard of Guo Chunli, said: "This song is stuck and can't be released." "I was temporarily disqualified.

Later, the results of the competition came out, and the song "Little Poplar" won first place, the song "Norwegian Wood" won second place, and the song "A Thousand Reasons to Be Sad" won third place. And as soon as the results of the competition came out, the person who won the ranking in the competition became a celebrity.

The young man who sang "Little Poplar" is called xxx (I have forgotten his name), he belongs to Lei Kunjiao's silk screen printing department, and lives in the same building as me. One day, he came to play in the dorm where I lived for some reason, and I asked him why he sang so well.

He said he had studied bel canto before. That person belongs to the profession, which is comparable to us amateurs? I've seen the guy singing "Norwegian Wood", but I haven't seen the singer of "A Thousand Reasons to Be Sad" who won third place, and he seems to be in the electroplating department on the first floor.

But we didn't know each other very well, so I didn't talk to him.

In short, I didn't win a place in either writing or singing. For this matter, I am only afraid that Yang Ting will look down on me, because in the first letter I wrote to her, I talked about my literary ideals.

I think Yang Ting must think like this: "I can't even win the ranking in a competition in a small factory, and I still want to be a writer?" It's just wishful thinking. ”

I wanted to explain to her, and to reaffirm whether she loved me or not, I wrote her another letter. But she wouldn't give me a second letter, and she didn't make it clear whether she loved me or not.

When I didn't know what to do, I asked Jiang Libing to help me find a way. That Jiang Libing found Yao Qicai. When our team leader Yao Qi knew that I was going to chase the chairman's niece Yang Ting, he did not have the same skeptical and negative attitude as others, but encouraged me and told me the easiest way.

He said: "It's actually very simple to chase Yang Ting, you can call the office phone during the day when you have time during the night shift, then Yang Ting is sitting next to the telephone." "What's that phone number?" I asked Yao Qicai.

“8867520。” Yao Qicai told me. Somehow, after so much time, you still remember this phone number, maybe it's easy to remember, maybe it's because this matter is very important in my heart.

I finally mustered up the courage to find a phone booth and dial the 8867520 during a night shift, and it was Yang Ting who answered the phone. She asked me who I was. I said, "I have written you three times. ”

"Wait a minute," she said, "I'll put the papers in my hand and talk to you again." Then I heard the sound of something on the other end of the phone. It can be seen that Yang Ting attaches great importance to this matter. My heart jumped to my throat.

His mouth trembled and said, "What do you think in your heart?" "I'm talking about me and her." I'm too young to think about this yet. By "this" she meant a lifelong event.

"Oh, forget it." I said, and with that, I hung up.

That Yang Ting was willing to look at me but refused my pursuit every time, which made me very unhappy. I think she didn't accept me because of status. Because after all, he is just a farmer, and his uncle is the chairman.

I heard that her father also runs a factory in Fujian. How can such a status look down on me? As soon as I thought of this, I made another mistake, what's the big deal, I'll go to Shenzhen to find someone who is richer than you.

Do you know what came to mind? I remember that there was a newspaper in Shenzhen called "Shenzhen Special Zone Daily" at that time (I don't know if there is still one now?). In order to understand the outside world, I also occasionally buy a copy to see.

Once I saw an advertisement for a marriage introduction, and the address on it was: 4th Floor, Youth Activity Center, No. 1 Hongli Road, Shenzhen. And then there are the phones. When I saw the advertisement, I took note of it and wrote down the address and phone number in a notebook.

My thought was that one day I could use it. Now, that Yang Ting looks down on me (I thought she looked down on me at the time), I'm going to go there to have a look.

However, at that time, I had to apply for a customs permit when I went to Shenzhen, and I lost my ID card. In that case, I wouldn't be able to go there. So I came up with a solution: get a fake certificate.

At that time, it was very popular in Shenzhen to apply for fake certificates, fake ID cards, fake academic certificates, fake driver's licenses, etc. I made a phone call to the person who had applied for a fake ID card, and then I dialed that number after 8 a.m.

The phone was answered by a crisp woman's voice, and she said she was a matchmaker. I asked her how much it would cost to help introduce a girlfriend. She said that their marriage agency was run by the Shenzhen Women's Federation and did not charge a fee.

Then, I told her about my situation, and I said that I was a rural child, and I wanted to go to the city of Shenzhen, but I didn't know if there was a suitable one. The woman on the other end of the phone said, "You can come and have a look first." ”

Hearing her say this, I hung up the phone, and then I got another entry permit and bought two new sets of clothes and a new pair of leather shoes. I went to the barbershop again and got a haircut.

This book was first published in Reading Books