12. Fledgling

Reporting to the unit is a very fortuitous thing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter returning to the county, my unit has not been settled, and the county foreign trade chicken farm where I interned promised me, but I felt that it was a business, so I didn't express my position. By mid-July, two of the five people we had returned with had stayed at the county animal husbandry and veterinary station, one of whose father was the deputy director of the Agricultural Bureau, and one whose uncle was the director of the Forestry Bureau. The other two went to the foreign trade chicken farm, although it is an enterprise, but the household registration is from the county, and I am the only one left, at that time, someone is helping me to introduce me to the Cultural Bureau, everything is in the activity, but later I learned that the Personnel Bureau stated that it cannot be arranged across the system.

This is a slap in the face! I was terrified, if this continued, then I might end up returning to the Animal Husbandry Bureau, but the Animal Husbandry Bureau could not leave people without any background in the county seat, so I had asked people which township was the best, so that I could take the initiative when the time came. One day I went to the Animal Husbandry Bureau with my classmates who had already gone to work to spy on the situation, but I didn't expect to meet the director as soon as I met the director, and my classmate introduced that this so-and-so had published a lot of works in school, and the county foreign trade chicken farm wanted him. The director rolled his eyes at me, very interested, and said, just come here to work, in the office. It really didn't take much effort, and it didn't even cost a cigarette to get it - at that time, it was rumored that it would cost a lot of money for a person to stay in the county, so I am still very grateful and admired to our director, his name is Huang Ziying, and his name is like a woman, but a big man, speaking of his name, there is a story, a certain year the autonomous region held a meeting on animal husbandry, and the meeting also arranged for him to live with a female comrade! He has a saying that is well-known in the county about his age: chronological age 49, physical condition 39, ideological 29. In 2011, I was very sad to hear that he had died. But I was also sick at the time, so I forgot about it.

So, I started working in the office of the Animal Husbandry Bureau. Write summary materials and feasibility reports every day. For example, in the spring, when the No. 5 disease epidemic in livestock, the office had to go to the epidemic area with the business department, pick up a syringe filled with poison in one hand, kill the sick pigs, and then dig a deep pit in the mountain, lift it up with all the strength of milk, and bury it. As soon as we entered the village, the pigs always hissed and the villagers cried -- pigs of 200 catties were put to death when they saw that they were slaughtered, and they were only made up with a small amount of money, and of course they were so sad that they even had to come and fight with us. They also went to carry out family planning work, followed the work team, went to live in a certain village office, went to their homes during the day to publicize it, and touched the door at night when the moon was dark and the wind was high, and they arrested those family planning targets and sent them to the family planning station to implement the measures. Then there is drinking, and the reception is all office work, and those who come down from above, those who come down, and those who come up from brother units must come forward to establish a good relationship. As a result, my alcohol consumption has improved rapidly, and I will write about it later, so I won't mention it for the time being.

I started to work, and I really started to get paid: 212 yuan in the first month, and it seems to be more than 280 by the time I left. But there was no room in the unit, and I lived in the house of a traffic police friend with a friend Li Lixing, who worked in the building materials bureau and had just graduated, which was assigned to him by the unit, but he lived in the house, so it was vacant. At that time, there was no bed, so we spread a mat and slept on the floor, and it was half a year later that we had a bed. This stay, is more than a year, but also began our friendship to the present, among all the friends, he and I are the most confidant, at that time, his income is more than mine, so a lot of time it is spent on his money, now he is a city standing committee.

Obviously, 212 yuan is a pitiful amount for a young man, and often before the end of the month - we pay our salary on the 15th, and we are all gone, and in the end, we can only pay on credit in the restaurant downstairs of the house. At that time, there was one thing that hit me very hard, I once accompanied my fellow villagers to Guangdong to get a sum of cash, which was a sum of up to 200,000 yuan - too much for people with a monthly salary of only about 200 yuan. However, the person who earns this money is illiterate, and only has a good look. I encountered unheard of confusion, I came out, everything had to rely on myself, and the family had to rely on you, but you only earned so little money, and it was difficult to even support yourself. At that time, the family also begged themselves to find a job for their sister, morally, this is the most worthwhile thing for me to do, but for people who have no money, no rights, and no social connections, it is not easy to find a job in the 90s of the last century! But I suggested that my sister come out first, do odd jobs in some places, and wait for the opportunity - but I haven't waited for the opportunity until now.

In 1993, under the "coercion" of Mrs. Zhu Zhi, we registered. She came back after taking a few days off, and we took a picture and went to the civil affairs office to get things done. There was no ceremony, not even a bed, a few friends had a meal, and that night I was so drunk and unconscious. The major events of life were quietly resolved. Unlike today's people, who are afraid that the world will not know, they will post heroes and advertise them widely. I think that marriage is a more personal matter, and there is no need to be so public--in fact, I don't have the money, I can't do it if I want to, and I really didn't have the heart to do it at that time. After a while, Mrs. Zhu was transferred back through her father's relationship, and we finally lived together.

A year later, the unit raised funds to build a house, this incident hit me unprecedentedly, although the money raised was only 30,000 yuan, but for me, it was absolutely impossible, the old father's illness has reached an advanced stage, and I want to take the money back to buy medicine! Despite this, my father's illness became more and more serious, and in the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1993, that is, the year after I worked, he fell ill again, and on August 23 of the lunar calendar, he ascended to heaven and passed away, without even enjoying a day's blessings. Not only did he not enjoy it, but I think he was living in poverty in general, and although he ran a grocery store, he used a toothbrush like a fire stick, and there were not many hairs on it; The towel too, tattered, like a rotten fishing net; Toothpaste is also basically not used, if you use it, that little amount, I guess it's all fine if you eat so much rat poison. I borrowed 3,000 yuan from the unit to go back, and my brother and brother also raised some money to bury him. The relatives are all poor, and it is impossible to lend you money. So in the end, I was the only one who didn't raise money. However, the unit still rented two rooms to me to live in, and I was basically able to settle down.

Early one morning in December of the lunar calendar in 1994, my daughter was born. It was a colder season, and I was pacing around outside the delivery room, smoking a cigarette for a short time, listening to the noise inside, and I was anxious. By the time the nurse carried a crumpled elf in front of me, I looked at the little life, and a wave of tenderness welled up in my heart, and my eyes slowly moistened. She was reborn into this poor family, and she was destined to suffer as well. The process of raising children is lackluster, except for hard work and hard work. As a new father, I began to feel the pressure of life. Because Mrs. Zhu has no milk, she basically feeds her daughter with milk powder, after she grows up a little, she wants four cans a month, and one can is more than 60 yuan, I can be stretched, there is a serious crisis in the economy, and sometimes even the money to buy milk powder has to be scraped together for a long time, I feel extremely sad.

At that time, in addition to life, there were two other things that had been bothering me for a long time. One is my sister's work problem, relying on a friend's introduction, she temporarily went to a factory to push a bucket truck, a rather hard job, but it seems that my sister is a little satisfied. The second is that the longer and higher the debt, by 1994, my debt was as high as more than 5,000 yuan. If you rely on your salary alone, it will take two years to pay off without eating or drinking. However, the Animal Husbandry Bureau is also a good unit, and there will always be some income at the end of the year, and I believe that I will be able to return it soon. These confusions almost crushed me, so in the future, I wrote two novellas, "Fledgling" and "Sven Sweeping", which talked about some of the experiences and feelings during that time, and after they were published, they were well received by editors and readers. One reader, Long Enjiao, also wrote a long comment, saying: Although real life is so difficult and helpless, what flows in the author's blood is still bubbling and affectionate -- not so much affectionate as hope.

At this time, there was one thing that completely changed my life. The county cultural center, that is, the unit that wanted me when I just graduated, still wanted me to go over and engage in professional creation. In the two years since I graduated, I have been under tremendous pressure due to work. I haven't written an article anymore. So it's a bit of an appeal to me. More importantly, at that time, the cultural center had a lot of industries, such as dance halls, playgrounds, photo studios, etc., and they promised that as long as I promised to go over, they would solve my sister's job, turn into a contract worker, and arrange to work in the playground. As soon as I heard the news, I agreed without hesitation, although many people were puzzled: there was no place for such a good unit, but they wanted to go to that kind of Qingshui Yamen.

It is often said that the most critical steps in life need to be paid attention to, and I walked away inadvertently.