An Ning's family lives in Li Zhuang. Lizhuang is one of the many urban villages in this modern city. The entrance to the village is not large, and there are five eye-catching characters: "Welcome to Li Zhuang". Along the entrance of the village, there is a narrow and long road, which the local elders call "broken street". As the main road in the village, the broken street is not only broken, but it is actually prosperous and abnormal. This prosperity began in the annals of peace, and it is even more so today. However, the name "broken street" has been used to this day and has never changed. Some people once proposed to change to elegant and chic, such as "Tranquility Street", "Zhiyuan Road" and "Xuefu Street", but they failed to pass. It is said that I am afraid of bad feng shui. There are businesses on both sides of the "broken street", among which noodle restaurants and hair salons are the most. This is determined by the market economy – there are many renters in the village. During the day, the streets are quiet, but at night, the music is played, the neon lights are lit up, and the songs are sung all night long. This is also one of the reasons why An Ning chose to live on campus - it is so noisy! The crossroads are the natural watersheds of the shops on the street, which stretch inwards to the front of each house and back out. The village is very large, so it has a large population. Indigenous, foreign, bustling. Some people have houses, and the more houses are built, the more and more houses are built, which directly leads to the narrow path that is not wide. What should I do if I don't have enough houses? Cover it highly. The limited floor is sometimes not very useful for the villagers. Aren't you limited layers? Okay, then let's rest during the day and cover it at night. They are all their own people, and the rules are bigger than human favors. Looking down from above, Li Zhuang is like a labyrinth.

An Ning's home is not hard to find. In the middle of the 3rd street lamp and the 4th street lamp at the entrance of the village, there is a "Hao Eat Often" restaurant on the left-hand side, and the second house along the "Hao Eat Often" will arrive. It is a small 5-story building. Anning lives on the 3rd floor - the original top floor.

"An Ning, your classmate is here." Grandma stood in the yard and shouted.

An Ning didn't hear it, how could it be heard? She was dancing on the mat with headphones on.

"Tranquility—"

"Forget grandma, I'll go up and find her."

The person who came was Gao Li, an Anning's junior high school classmate. A long black and shiny hair has disappeared, replaced by bright and still jet-black golden wavy curls, a hooded waistless knee-style red down jacket, and a black body base. Pants, brown boots. The most common and popular outfit nowadays. It's very different from Anning's student attire.

An Ning handed over a cup of hot tea, with a strong jasmine fragrance: "I haven't seen you for half a year, why did you go?" ”

"I'm going to work." Gao Li took a cup to warm her hands, and curled up in the sofa again, "It's too cold here in winter." ”

"Go," An Ning waved his hand, "You haven't gotten used to it for more than ten years?" ”

"It's really cold."

"Miss, where are you calling?" An Ning lifted the cup in his hand in front of Gao Li, "Guangzhou, Shenzhen or Hainan Island?" ”

"Neither, my sister is from outer space." Goryeo giggled, and suddenly another serious one. "Blindfolded by you, I just came back from Shenzhen yesterday, and I work there."

"No, I thought you were teasing me when you went to work. Sister, child labor is not legal. An Ning jumped up directly from the sofa and looked down at Goryeo curled up inside, forming a sense of oppression.

Gao Li also waved his hand: "Don't be naïve, there are smaller ones." A textbook is a textbook, and society is a society, different. No need to make a fuss. We were all deceived by textbooks before. ”

"I can't imagine, what can we do when we go to work?"

"What can't you do? You can do anything! It just depends on whether you want to do it or not. I've not been working for half a year. ”

"Is it necessary to run that far?"

"It's not as fast as the money coming from there."

"It's all time-driven."

"I didn't expect you to be deaf to what's going on outside the window."

An Ning opened her eyes wide, stared at Gao Li, and didn't say a word. Compared to the calm of Gao Li, the tranquility is really too calm. It's true that the emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry. An Ning originally wanted to ask what factory Gao Li entered, what it did specifically, and what was the difference between the two kinds of life in the factory and the school. But I don't know why, An Ning suddenly didn't want to say a word. Looking over from Gao Li's side, An Ning's little face was tense, and the tension was a little red.

Gao Li laughed: "All roads lead to Rome." As for you! After junior high school and high school, after high school and college, what about college? More than 90% went to work. It's those who take the postgraduate entrance examination and then study for a doctorate, and in the end they don't have to go to work. In the end, everyone's results are not the same. What's more, the employment situation is so bad now, and there are many people who are unemployed after graduation. Teacher Fang usually likes to calculate carefully, you calculate carefully, how much you spend in three years of high school and four years of college, how much I earn. You start from scratch after seven years, and I work alone after seven years - who can be a working girl for a lifetime. Maybe it won't take seven years, as long as the original capital accumulation is enough. In the future, it will not necessarily be worse than a college student. One day in the future, when I get bigger, I can ask college students to do it for me. What's so bad? High school and college didn't appeal to me. ”

At that time, An Ning was a little confused. The logic of Goryeo's words is clear, and it seems to be impeccable on the surface. Isn't that what it's all about? Do you think there are still fewer college students working hard for elementary school students now? Tranquility was touched. I even have some doubts about the value of reading. At the same time, Fang Muyang's words of "being admitted to university..." are still in my ears. Years later, he graduated with a master's degree in hospice. With the continuous precipitation of age, knowledge, and experience, An Ning knew very clearly in his heart that Gao Li was wrong! It is not normal for college students to work part-time for elementary school students. At best, it is only a small and insignificant stage in the long river of China's social development, and China can neither nor be able to continue like this forever. In order for China to make great progress, it is necessary to improve the overall quality of its people. Goryeo may always have no worries about food and clothing, but if the Chinese citizens are as Goryeo thinks, the fortunes of the country will be worried. An Ning alone may not be able to change anything and affect nothing, but everyone is picking up materials and the flame is high, and the future is predictable! When she was in college, An Ning read an article to the effect that it was a story about two teenagers in the same class from childhood to old age. Young A doesn't like to study, drops out of school early to go out to work, gets married and has children, and at the same time uses the income from the part-time job to go home to raise pigs. Juvenile B has excellent grades, graduated from college and joined the workforce, marries late for various reasons, and has late childbearing for various reasons, and then catches up with the pressure of the mortgage, and spends his life in a hurry and tension. Retired at the age of 60 and then rehired, and finally died of exhaustion at work. At the end of the article, Old Man A stared at the photo on the tombstone of Old Man B with dry smoke and emotion: "It's all a lifetime!" An Ning is not the author himself, and of course he cannot understand what the author's intention is. On the surface, A's life is much easier than B's. However, in terms of the contribution to the long-term development of human society, An Ning knows that if she is allowed to choose, she would rather choose a life like Class B. Because life can't just fall into the cycle of herding sheep, marrying a daughter-in-law and giving birth to a baby, or herding sheep, marrying a daughter-in-law and giving birth to a baby.