So far, I have become a part of many part-time workers, in this garment factory, I mainly dry clothes in the early stage, in the factory for a few months, the whole factory process I basically learned, later I not only do ironing, cutting, I do all the sewing work, anyway, the factory is priced by the piece, as long as you are quick with your eyes, basically the money can earn more, sometimes when there is a surge in orders, you can earn nearly 10,000 yuan a month at most, on average, every month is indeed as Chen Mo said, five or six thousand yuan a month, the most important thing is that I began to gradually adapt to the city life, plus I resist my hometown, I found that I liked the city.

After working for a long time, I gradually became bored with this work, not because I was afraid of being tired, but because I felt that I was a young man in his twenties, and it was definitely not a matter to shrink up in the factory all day to work all my life, and what was my feeling?

If you want to ruin someone, you have to keep him busy, busy, busy, and I'm in that state now.

So I made another decision, I decided to go to the University of Electrical Engineering, I chose Jiangnan Agricultural University, that is, correspondence college, in fact, I also know that this kind of diploma is not important, but at least it can provide some direction for my development, I majored in financial management in that university, which can be regarded as my personal upgrading and transformation.

In the past few years, I haven't spent much money, except for a large part of it sent back to my hometown to my mother, and this part of it is used for studying.

Jiangnan Agricultural University, a correspondence university I studied, is also very close to our factory, and it only takes 10 minutes to ride a bicycle.

Because the class ended at nine o'clock in the evening, sometimes the door in the factory was closed, and every time I had a long security guard, Uncle Sun opened the door for me.

I sometimes secretly stuff a few packs of cigarettes for him, he also knows that I am in college, he also knows that I am also seeking progress, after a long time, as long as I say hello to him after work, he will naturally leave me a hole in the evening, so that I can go back to the dormitory.

After a long time, I will go to the gate to chat with him if I have nothing to do, after all, there are not many friends in the factory, except for Chen Mo, he and I are also a more tacit relationship, this uncle's surname is Sun, a local, his son is a civil servant in Kyoto, and his daughter-in-law takes care of his little grandson in Kyoto, he is left alone at home, he is fine at home, plus he has a relationship with our boss, come to be a security guard, have something to do, and receive a salary.

Finally, when I was about to graduate from the correspondence university, an unexpected thing happened.

In the face of the economic crisis, our factory fell into a debt dispute, the boss ran away, and the boss also owed all our employees nearly half a year's wages, and our factory completely closed down.

When I found out about this, I discussed with my cousin what to do next.

Chen Mo told me: The vice president of this factory is always our fellow countryman, we are from Longshan County, and the boss also owes him wages, the boss is running away anyway, he decided to return to his hometown with the machine and materials, and take Chen Mo with him, Chen Mo is his deputy, the salary is higher than before, and he can also participate in the dividends of the new factory.

Chen Mo meant to let me go back with him, go back to my hometown with him to recruit people, and let me be the workshop leader, and my salary can basically reach more than 8,000 yuan per month.

I thought about it again and again, but finally rejected him.

There are three reasons for this:

One is that I made a vow never to go back, I have been in this city for a long time, I have gradually become familiar with this city, and I have feelings for this city.

The second is that I believe that there is no endless road, and as long as I work hard, I believe that I can survive in this city.

Third, my three-year college life is coming to an end, and I am still responsible for this decision during the dissertation defense.

So I decided that I would stay in the city and refused Chen Mo's invitation.

And just like that, I became an unemployed.

Due to the long-term arrears of wages in the factory, my survival is a problem, I could still live in the factory, the factory includes food and housing, now the factory is gone, where I sleep is a problem, because part of the money is sent home, and part of the money is used to go to school, the most important thing is just to come to the city, only know the importance of consumption does not know the importance of savings, now after the last meal I don't know where to eat the next meal I am completely confused, I didn't understand the importance of "cash is king" before, now I feel it personally.

Although the factory was seized, after all, the house is still there, but the water and electricity are cut off, after all, I have been in the factory for many years, and Uncle Sun of the factory is still extrajudicial to me, and in the dead of night, the uncle can still give me water and electricity to meet some of my needs!

This lasted for half a month, and the situation at that time was really not good, due to overproduction, and catching up with the economic crisis, many companies were laying off employees, and it was really difficult to find a job at this time.

I also have a worry that I have found a job, now the business is very difficult, the things produced cannot be sold, in case the company does not pay wages, I have empty pockets, I once thought of giving up here, going back to my hometown, and looking for Chen Mo to work together!

One day, my mobile phone rang, it was a landline, it was a phone from my hometown, I answered the phone, it turned out to be my mother calling.

My mother said to me: Now there is a phone in the village, and our family has also set up one, this is our family's phone number, Chen Mo came back that day, speaking of your current situation, I am useless with the money you gave me, I will save it for you? You are short of money now, I have asked Chen Mo to call you the money.

I'm a little uncomfortable here, in order not to let my mother worry about me, I brewed for a while and said: I'm fine here, Mom, you don't have to worry about me.

Mom said very seriously: You, like your father, will not tell lies, you are my son, I know what you think? You, you must learn to take care of yourself, I support you to stay in Jiangnan City.

I nodded and said on the phone: Uh-huh!

Mom hung up on me.

As the so-called endless road, my business began inexplicably.

One morning, I saw the uncle in the factory cutting straw paper! Straw paper is the burning paper used for sacrifices, after all, the uncle took care of me, for me who is now unemployed in the factory, now it's okay anyway, so I will go up to help!

Uncle saw me and said, "Xiao Chen, why are you doing so early?"

I scratched my head and said, "Alas, Uncle Sun, it's a bit hard to find a job right now!"

Uncle said: Now is the way of the world, the way of the world has changed, in the past, recruiting workers, like you is young and educated, that is Jin Baobao, now what! You are not even as good as a brick movers, here is not to say you, Xiao Chen! You are a good comrade, you can endure hardships! But even if you can endure hardships, you are not as good as them, not to mention, if you compete with them for jobs! What are you studying all these years for? Alas!

In fact, what the uncle said was also the same as what I thought in my heart, and every word the uncle said pierced my heart!

I didn't respond at the time, so I lowered my head and helped my uncle cut paper, because I knew that any response I had would be pale and weak.

Suddenly, the uncle took the straw paper I cut and said, "You kid! The handicraft is good, and the cutting is fast!

I scratched my head and said, "Grandpa Sun, how can you see it?"

Uncle looked at it, smiled and said: Oh, yes, you are a foreigner, maybe you don't know too much, in half a month is the Qingming Festival, we will go to the grave, go to the grave to burn paper to the Venerable Master (ancestors), one is to pay tribute to the ancestors, the other is to send them money, otherwise the Venerable Master is short of money in the underworld, will look for you, then for our descendants, we are not good, if it is ordinary straw paper, in the underworld is a small ticket (low face value of paper money), if like you, cut the straw paper into gold characters, it is a gold ingot! But now people are lazy, like you cut into a gold character is very rare, basically cut a square hole in the top, which is equivalent to gold ingots! Just like now people use gold foil paper to fold into a gold ingot, but in the eyes of our old people, you are the most orthodox, the kind of gold ingots in the underworld do not recognize, the underworld recognizes that you cut this way.

I was so praised by the uncle, I smiled and said: Everyone in our factory knows how to cut it, and I don't understand, like this, how good it is to find a clothing board to punch out!

Uncle Sun said: You don't understand this, we recognize the hand-cut, and the grass paper is poor, soft, and the clothing board machine will be broken when pressed?

I thought that what Uncle Sun said made sense, so I nodded there, and I continued to cut paper there.

I saw what the uncle wanted to say to me, so he said, "Uncle Sun, is there anything wrong with you?" Is there anything we can't say between us?

Grandpa Sun suddenly looked at me very deeply, said a mouthful of you, swallowed again, and finally he said it!!!