Today, Sunday, I was waiting for him at the back door of the factory, and there was no mobile phone or BP machine at that time. Finally, when it was time for them to get off work, as soon as the back door opened, a large group of workers poured out of the factory. Wearing different factory uniforms, I was dazzled. I waited until only a few people came out of the factory, and I still didn't see him. I hurried back to the rental house.

"I'm really sorry when the time comes, the factory has not been allowed to come out at night recently, but only on Sunday night. I thought you were waiting for me at the back door, I searched for a long time, and I didn't find you. I thought you must be staying here, so I came over. The classmate said enthusiastically.

"I've been here the day before yesterday. I'm waiting for you at the back door too, there are too many people and I didn't see you either"

"Let's go, let's eat together."

He, he was very short, black and thin, only the two "black grapes" embedded under the dark thick eyebrows were shiny. A pair of glasses hangs from the bridge of the nose. My classmate, a classmate from elementary school and junior high school, later, he went to a key high school in the county, and I studied at the ordinary high school in the town. Three years later, I was admitted, and he didn't. I went to college as I wished, and he had no choice but to go out to work. Although they are classmates, the relationship is not particularly good. After eating and exchanging a few words, he was ready to go back to the factory. Before returning to the factory, he said to me:

"Now I heard that we don't recruit male workers, you don't have your graduation certificate, why don't you go to another factory to take a look first."

"When the time comes, if there is a time to recruit male workers, you can ask for leave to come and try it out."

"Okay, you go to the factory first, I'll look around tomorrow."

Before leaving, he said: "The key is not to recruit workers now, if you recruit workers, there will definitely be no problem with your conditions." The requirements for male workers are: height of 1.70 meters or more, high school degree or above. You are in perfect fit. "I was thinking, he, about 1.65 meters tall, how did he enter the factory at that time......

"Your classmate, now he is the team leader in the department, if he helps to get someone into the factory, it shouldn't be a problem."

"But, all the same, it costs money to find someone. I want to be officially recruited, but I don't know what year I will wait for. "Female workers are recruited every day these days, and male workers have not been recruited for nearly a month."

"Oh, no wonder, I see that he wears a different color from others."

"Your classmate, you're wearing a cadre uniform."

"Oh,"

He can be a cadre as a high school student for three years, I think, if I can enter this factory, I will definitely mix better, thinking of this I finally let go of my anxiety.

"I heard that you are also from XX Township, XX County." A young man came in and crouched next to me, and the young man said to me.

"My surname is Zhao, just call me Xiao Zhao in the future." Xiao Zhao said to me happily.

"When did you come over, I came here two weeks ago, I live on the second floor, I heard what the landlord said, you are my authentic fellow. So I'll come down and talk to you," Xiao Zhao said enthusiastically.

"I've been here for almost a month, and this factory hasn't recruited male workers yet, and I don't know when to recruit them?" I said angrily.

"Or, in an industrial area not far away, recruit security guards, and accompany me to take a look tomorrow."

"Security guard, you go to be a security guard, you have been a soldier."

"I've been, three years of infantry, I have a discharge certificate, upstairs, I don't believe it, I'll show it to you later"

"It's not an infantryman, you should be the leader of the artillery company and the signal soldier--- carrying a black cauldron, wearing a green hat, and watching others firing artillery." The landlord said.

"Hahahaha" brought a bunch of laughter.

Early the next morning, I accompanied him to the interview with the security guard.

"Hello, big brother." Xiao Zhao shouted to the security guard at the door very consciously and handed over the cigarette with both hands.

"The day before yesterday, I read the recruitment brochure posted at the door to recruit a security guard, and I wrote a resume at that time, so I asked me to come for an interview today."

Holding the cigarette between his middle and forefinger, the cigarette slowly turned around under the push of the mother's finger and said, "Yes, you wait outside for a while, wait for the captain to come." ”

We waited for nearly an hour, and in the distance, a security guard with thick eyebrows and a pair of big bright eyes, always shining sternly, walked towards us.

"Captain, this kid is interviewing security guards."

"Have been a soldier, what soldier, when did you leave the army, do you have a discharge certificate?"

"Was, infantryman, just discharged from the army this year, captain, this is a discharge certificate, you can take a look."

The security captain took the discharge card and read it over and over again.

"Okay, you play a set of military boxing first, let me take a look."

Xiao Zhao handed me all the things in his hand. He skillfully fought the military boxing he learned in the army.

"Captain, I'm done."

"It's over, I don't even see it."

Where could he care to see Xiao Zhao fighting in the army, his eyes staring at the cover of a magazine of a plump young woman on the table of the security room in a daze.

"Then I'll fight again."

The security captain didn't speak, he was shoving his fingers into his mouth, holding his saliva, and flipping through the unsightly magazine.

"Captain, I'm done."

"Oh, it's over, yes, it's a good fight."

"However, you are not tall enough to be hired." Said the security captain.

"Isn't this a trick, punched several times, don't you just say it earlier?"

"The height is not enough, you can see it at first glance, and it can't be seen at first glance, so I don't need to let me fight any more military boxing, isn't this playing people like monkeys?"

"Don't say it, there's no way to do it, go and eat something and go back to sleep."

In the afternoon, with the help of Xiao Zhao, I moved to the second floor smoothly.

"After paying the rent for these three days, I only have ten yuan here, and my cousin will come out this Sunday, and I will borrow some from him then." Xiao Zhao said.

"I have 20 yuan left after I pay the rent, and we will try to hold on until Sunday, and then I will borrow some more from my classmates." I say.

In fact, both of us know that today is only Wednesday, and there are still four days to go, and two people can only spend seven dollars and five cents a day. I can't get enough to eat. On Wednesday and Thursday, the two of us spent a total of sixteen dollars, and during the day it was fine, but in the middle of the night we were often woken up hungry, and then we got up to drink some water and fell asleep in a daze. It rained early on Friday morning, which gave us a reason to skip breakfast. At noon, the two of them bought four steamed buns and two packets of mustard. (It cost three bucks).

"It's not a way to go on like this, I really can't find a job, so I go back." Xiao Zhao had no choice but to tell me.

"I'm not going back, I'm coming out, at least find a job, work for a few years and then go back, and now I'm going back and losing the dead."

"Okay, if the two of us can't find a job again, we can get some living ......expenses when we go to the construction site for a few days," Xiao Zhao also dispelled the idea of going back and said to me.

"Damn, it's raining again." "It's annoying."

I don't know if it was yelled loudly on the first floor.

I stood by the window and watched the rain keep falling. The winter rains in the south are different from the downpours of the summer rains; It is different from the dreary autumn rain, and it is even more different from the cold of the winter rain in the north. The rain is like silk, like fog, like smoke, like the tide. Everything in the world is like a freehand painting, faintly, cloudily, looming.

"Recruitment, recruitment."