All kinds of honors are coming. Zhao Changfeng went from an obscure ordinary student almost overnight to the hottest campus star at North China University of Finance and Economics.

However, just when Zhao Changfeng was proud of his spring breeze in college, there was unfortunate news at home that the Red Star Machinery Factory where his parents worked went bankrupt and closed down.

Zhao Changfeng's parents are both regular workers at Red Star Machinery Factory. If we go back another ten years, this kind of family with both parents having formal jobs is still quite enviable, and there is even a special term in society to call this kind of family a "dual-income" family. However, the halo of dual-income workers has been fading in the tide of reform, reading power accounting, self-financing, and all kinds of new terms continue to appear. Red Star Machinery Factory is also one of these troubled enterprises.

It's just that even if the son of Hongxing Machinery Factory is sad, the combined salary of Zhao Hongxing's parents is more than 400 yuan. Although these money can't let them live a rich life, as long as the Red Star Machinery Factory does not go out of business, more than 400 yuan a month can not only take care of the expenses of the old couple, but also can afford Zhao Changfeng's living expenses of more than 100 yuan a month.

However, the Red Star Machinery Plant went out of business! Zhao Changfeng's parents were both unemployed. In other words, Zhao Changfeng's family has no income.

Complete one's misery! Zhao Changfeng's mother was not in good health, because the factory suddenly closed down, which hit her too hard, and she couldn't afford to get sick. As a result, the family has no income, not to mention, and has to spend a lot of money on medical expenses. This has made already struggling families even more embarrassed.

Zhao Changfeng learned the news when he was returning home from the New Year's Day holiday in '93. He originally went home to tell his parents about his situation at school and let them share his joy, but as soon as he entered the house, Zhao Changfeng was stunned: his mother was lying on the hospital bed, her face was sallow, and she was almost skinny. My father had suddenly aged a lot, his straight back had become rickety, his once smiling face was covered with wrinkles, and his black and thick hair had been replaced by sparse gray hair.

The father told Zhao Changfeng. The Red Star Machinery Factory closed down in early December, and my mother fell ill at that time. She was afraid that it would affect Zhao Changfeng's studies, so she kept pressuring her father to prevent him from telling Zhao Changfeng the news.

Zhao Changfeng served his mother for three days in front of the hospital bed. He was supposed to continue to serve, but the holidays had arrived. His mother forced him to go to school. She cried and said that the family worked hard to provide for him as a college student, didn't she expect him to shine in the future and win glory for his parents? If Zhao Changfeng delays her studies because of her illness, how can she live in peace?

In desperation, Zhao Changfeng had to leave home and return to school.

Before leaving, his father stuffed eighty yuan into Zhao Changfeng's hand, his face was full of shame, and he didn't even dare to look at Zhao Changfeng's eyes: "Changfeng, my father is unproductive, and I can't even afford to support a college student, my father is sorry for you!" You take the eighty yuan first, and it will be used as the living expenses for this month, and the rest of the money will be found by the father. ”

Zhao Changfeng didn't accept his father's money, he took out the certificate of outstanding college student pacesetter issued by the school from his bag and let his father see: "Dad, I forgot to tell you." This time, I was rated as an outstanding college student pacesetter by the school, and the school also gave me a bonus of 200 yuan. This money is enough for my winter vacation, so don't worry about me, Daddy. ”

Regardless of whether his father believes it or not, Zhao Changfeng ran away. The father clumsily chased after Zhao Changfeng behind, calling his name anxiously. Zhao Changfeng didn't look back and ran forward, and the cold wind of winter cut his face like a knife, causing tears to come out of his eyes.

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After returning to school, Zhao Changfeng began to think about how to make money to support himself. In the early 90s, although there was such a thing as work-study, it was even more difficult for college students to find a job that could support themselves. Even college student tutors, which were very popular later, were very rare at Zhao Changfeng's time. Limited to the economic conditions at that time, most people's families were not well-off, who would be willing to spend some money to hire a tutor for their children? In addition, North China University of Finance and Economics was located in the suburbs of Zhongzhou City at that time, and most of the farmers living around it were farmers who cultivated land and vegetables, and even fewer were willing to hire tutors for their children. Therefore, at that time, in North China University of Finance and Economics, tutoring work was available but not sought. Unless an opportunity suddenly finds you, if you take the initiative to look for a job as a tutor outside, ten out of ten will fail.

For Zhao Changfeng, at least for the time being, the road of tutoring will not work. So what else is there to do? It's nothing more than going to the nearby stalls, food stalls, and mid-range dishes to wash dishes. If Zhao Changfeng is an ordinary identity, the work of washing dishes at this end will be done. But with Zhao Changfeng's current identity, this work of washing dishes on the dishes must not be done. Think about it, Zhao Changfeng painstakingly created a situation that was so beneficial to him, not only did many leaders and teachers in the school know that Zhao Changfeng has a close relationship with a certain leader in the province, but many well-informed students in the school also know that Zhao Changfeng is a person with a very good background. Now people with such a background and backstage suddenly go to the mid-range dishes of food stalls to wash dishes and make money, what will others think? Would someone with a real relationship and status do such a job? If you attract the attention of people with a heart and go to Shanyang City to investigate his family history, you will immediately understand that he has nothing to do with Vice Governor Zhao! As a result, the situation that Zhao Changfeng painstakingly created is likely to be in vain. The good job and good unit that he expected when he graduated and were assigned will also leave him.

Zhao Changfeng suddenly fell into a dilemma. If you go to work in a food stall, then you don't have to think about anything about the graduation assignment in the future, and you are likely to be assigned to a broken unit in the corner by the school; If you don't go to work in a food stall, you will face the point of having no rice to cook. Without a source of living expenses, wouldn't he be about to starve to death?

Just when Zhao Changfeng was helpless, someone suddenly came to the door to send money to Zhao Changfeng, this person was very generous, and gave 20,000 at once!;