On a TV screen in a school cafeteria, a reporter interviews an education expert. In front of the microphone, an old man in his sixties wearing thick lenses was talking in an official tone: "...... Last year was the first year of the expansion of the college entrance examination, and the number of students enrolled in ordinary colleges and universities increased to 42%, which was the largest increase in enrollment since the 90s of the 20th century. In 1999, the expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities became one of the most popular education policies for the people, and it not only provided more opportunities for the children of the people to study, but also related to the future of the country and the improvement of the overall quality of the Chinese nation......"

In front of the TV screen, a group of college students who are eating are gathered, and they seem to have forgotten the taste of the meal they are chewing as they eat. Standing next to him, students who had already finished eating, were also silently watching TV. Du Nannan had just finished eating, and he was standing in the aisle staring at the screen, feeling heavy. The main reason for his heavy mood is his work after graduation.

As a junior college graduate of Northern College of Arts and Sciences, Du Nannan is under a lot of psychological pressure. He was born in an ordinary working family, it is not easy for the family to support a college student, and his parents have placed great hopes on him, looking forward to the day when he graduates from college, which can bring qualitative changes to the family. But when he graduated, he found that he could hardly find any suitable jobs as an English major. When he was admitted to university, his dream job as a translator was almost closed to him, and employers without exception required graduates to obtain a CET-8 certificate in English. Although Du Nannan studied very hard and his English level was good, and he could pass CET-6 and BEC-3, only the hardest TEM-8 level could not be surpassed, because the junior college English major was not eligible to apply for the fourth and eighth levels of the major. He also wanted to try to go to a larger company, or to work in a multinational company that needs to use English, but as soon as he came into contact, he found that these companies, undergraduate and graduate students from key universities could not be selected, and they were rarely given the opportunity to be junior college students.

Du Nannan stared at the TV, and from time to time the matter of finding a job flashed in his mind, "Cough, it's really annoying, it's still expanding, I can't find a job, and I will drink the northwest wind when I graduate in the future!" A chubby boy next to him, watching TV, scolded to himself.

"Come on, don't waste time here, there will be a job fair in the City Gymnasium tomorrow Saturday, it seems to be the last large-scale job fair for this year's fresh graduates, hurry up and go back and prepare!" Another classmate wearing highly myopic glasses punched the fat man and said stupidly. The surrounding classmates also seemed to jump back to reality from the TV, and packed up their things and left the cafeteria in twos and threes.

Du Nannan was in a daze, and a girl with a lunch box suddenly ran over, slapped him in the back, and asked, "What are you looking at, what are you stunned?" The man was frightened, and when he looked back, it was his girlfriend Yang Sijia.

Jiajia is in the same class as a man but in a different lineage, and grew up in Yangcheng, a third-level city not far from Northern City. Jiajia is a child who grew up in a single-parent family, her parents divorced when she was very young, and she grew up with her mother. Jiajia's mother is a Kunqu opera actor at Yangcheng Cultural Station, and her father is an announcer at the station. After the divorce, his father, who was unwilling to be mediocre, married the daughter of a boss who was in the red wine business in Hangzhou, and later took over his father-in-law's business logically, and is now a well-known wealthy businessman in Hangzhou. Many years later, his father felt guilty about Jiajia's mother and daughter and always wanted to help them, but Jiajia always resented her father under the influence of her mother and never accepted her father's help. Because her mother has heart disease, Jiajia has been very sensible and self-reliant since she was a child, plus her parents have good genes, Jiajia is 1.68 meters tall, with a well-proportioned figure and two cute dimples, which is very attractive. Jiajia has been studying very hard, but she has not been very good at mathematics in high school, and her college entrance examination results are average, so she barely got into the undergraduate line and was admitted to the Northern College of Arts and Sciences, but her major is international finance.

As soon as he went to college, the handsome and sunny man attracted Jiajia, and Jiajia's lively and clever temperament also fascinated the man. The two established a relationship in their sophomore year, and their relationship has always been very stable, and they are also famous talents and beauties in school, and they are the envy of many classmates.

"How did you eat?" The man looked at Jiajia's clean lunch box and knew that she hadn't eaten it yet.

Jiajia shook her lunch box with one hand and muttered, "I can't eat it, I'm annoyed." ”

"What's the trouble, your work is not far from ten, I've just started looking for a job, should I be upset?" With that, the man sat down on a bench in the dining room.

Jiajia also sat down, held her cheeks and said: "My job is actually not good, I hope I can stay and give me food, so that I will not be unemployed after graduation, then I will be satisfied." In fact, Jiajia is about to graduate, and she is desperately looking for a job, but the major she has to study is too "high-end", and it is difficult to find a job. Some time ago, she had a senior sister who introduced her to a private company that made electronic products as an intern as a personnel assistant. The company originally only required to come three days a week, and she went almost every day, and did not pick and choose the work, from serving tea and pouring water to making documents and forms, every job was done seriously and efficiently, her diligence and cleverness won the appreciation of the boss and colleagues, and the boss also revealed that she hoped that Jiajia could directly join the work after graduation.

"By the way, I just heard from my classmates that there is a big job fair for fresh graduates this Saturday, will you go?"

"I can't go." Jiajia said, "I am the busiest on Saturdays and Sundays, and the full-time employees of the unit do not work on Saturdays and Sundays, so I am on duty with another intern, and there are a lot of chores." ”

The man nodded and said, "Oh, that's okay, anyway, your boss said that he left a position for you, so it's okay if you don't go." I'm definitely going to go. ”

Jiajia nodded.

The two chatted about other things, and just as they were talking, Jiajia's best friend Pan Yueyun came over.

"I can't see your figure in the cafeteria just now, you don't delay for a minute, you can get tired of it for a while, I'm afraid that the man will fly after graduation?" Pan Pan is a big-hearted, informal person, not tall, 1.6 meters tall, and he looks okay. She and Jiajia were admitted to high school, so they are very close. Pan Pan is a face control, has no resistance to handsome guys, has a high heart to find a boyfriend, and generally looks down on it, and stayed up until his junior year to catch up with the school grass in the department, but the school grass is famous for its flower heart, Jiajia will remind Pan Pan if there is nothing to do, but Pan Pan can't listen to it, so he thinks that the two of them can eventually become married.

Jiajia turned her head and slapped Pan Pan's ass and said, "Can you accumulate some virtue, why do you always look forward to other people's badness?" Is you the only one on earth who is happy? ”

The man smiled, he raised his head and asked Pan Pan, "Pan Pan, have you decided not to look for a job?" ”

Pan Pan raised his head and made a forward movement and said, "Well, I'm not going to work anymore, I'm going to follow my one to Xiamen for graduate school." ”

"Hey," Jiajia looked disdainful, "Don't blame me for not persuading you, I see people very accurately, your school grass classmate has a lot of eyes, be careful of chickens and eggs." ”

Pan Pan pretended to be angry when he heard this: "Ouch, take revenge on me, isn't it?" I'll just joke that you're afraid that the man will fly, so you just reply and say that I'm going to beat the chicken, okay," After speaking, Pan Pan said to the man seriously, "I wish the boy to find a rich second generation with fair skin and beautiful appearance, okay?" ”

"He dares!" Jiajia pretended to glare at the man viciously.

The man spread his hands aggrievedly and said, "It's not what I said, it was Pan Pan who said it, you two have discussed it, just tell me the result." ”

Pan Panhaha laughed, "Look at your appearance, don't you dare to be lewd?" Ha ha. A couple of people gagged and.

After chatting for a while, the man was afraid that there would be no food in the cafeteria, so he urged them to eat, got up and walked to the dormitory.

Back in the dorm, several roommates have also returned. There are six people in the male dormitory, and the male is the fourth in line. There are usually the boss, the third and the sixth who usually play better. The man walked to his bed, put the lunch box on the table, looked up at the third child and asked, "Third child, are you going to the job fair tomorrow?" ”

The third child has a relatively mild temper and looks tepid every day. He lay on the bed on the top bunk, stilted Erlang's legs, and said lazily: "I'm not going, my lord is dead, I will go back to my hometown after I get my graduation certificate, my father found me a job in our county, it is a small steel mill, sitting in an office." I'm not going tomorrow! ”

Hearing this, Xiao Liu, who was smoking, smacked his lips enviously and said, "It's good to have a father who is an official, how many years will my son struggle less!" "The little six are small, less than one meter six five, he is very clever, but he has no opinions, usually he has the best relationship with men.

The third child smiled bitterly and said: "Fuck your uncle, my father is a deputy department in the county, it's useless, if I can't find a suitable job here, do you think I'm willing to go back to the aggrieved county seat to sit in the office." ”

Du Nannan also laughed twice, and then turned around and asked the boss who was playing the game shirtless: "You definitely won't go, Suning will offe you."

Done? "The boss is from the Funiu Mountain Examination, 1.85 meters tall, because he has been farming since he was a child, he is muscular, he is very strong, and he has just worked hard in school, but because his family is poor, he often works around to earn money since his freshman year, and then he is addicted to computer games, and his grades have plummeted, and now his grades are barely graduating. The boss was playing a game, with a cigarette in his mouth, a large piece of cigarette ash hanging in the air, he pouted and tried not to let the smoke smoke in his eyes, and muttered: "Almost, call me to sign the contract next Wednesday." ”

Xiao Liu came over again and said, "Our dormitory is still the boss, and we have entered a big company directly!" ”

The boss groaned, and the sound of a game failure came from the computer. He slapped the keyboard in annoyance, paused, and turned back to the sixth child and said, "Big business? The business is big, do you know what to ask me to do? It's from the warehousing department, and I asked during the interview, and my job function is to check the list in the warehouse, and to purchase and ship goods. To put it bluntly, he is a porter, and after so many years of learning to be a porter, it is better to work directly with the people in the village after graduating from junior high school! With that, he took a puff of his cigarette, threw the butt of the cigarette on the ground, and stomped on it hard.

Hearing this, the third child laughed a few times on the bed, turned over and lay on the bed and said below: "Haha, so that's the case, I said why Suning wants you, it turns out that it's not your cultural level, it's your muscles, haha!" ”

The eldest glanced at the third child, leaned back in the chair sullenly and did not speak.

Du Nannan saw that the boss was a little depressed, walked over, picked up his cigarette from the table, took one out and stuffed it into his mouth and said: "Boss, you can do it, you have signed a contract to have a job, let's find a job in the dormitory seriously, you are the first to sign a contract, yes, be content." ”

The boss picked up a lighter from the table, lit a cigarette, suddenly turned around, and said angrily: "Cough, I don't understand, why is our class so hard, the college students who were born two years early are the pride of the sky, and those who graduated before 1996 are all allotted, and now they don't care about us, and they have become independent career choices; Before 1996, there was no tuition fee for going to university, and the state also gave subsidies, so we paid all the money out of our own pocket; If you look at this year, do you know how many new graduates there are in the country this year? One hundred and seventy thousand! What is the concept? More than a million at all! It's really millions of heroes fighting for meat to eat, so can a job be easy to find? After listening to the boss's words, the sixth child also echoed in, constantly complaining and scolding his mother.

Du Nannan was stunned and watched the boss and the sixth singing and harmonizing as if they were talking about cross talk, and their heads were buzzing. Suddenly, the third child knocked on the head of the bed with a book and spoke: "Hey, hey, hey, what's the noise, is it useful?" If you have the ability to take a machine gun and kill all the graduates of other schools, you will be left alone, won't it be popular? The third sat up suddenly, "It's useful to scold my mother, we don't have to look for a job, we can stand in the playground and scold my mother!" ”

The boss ignored the third child, looked out the window, and said with a grudge on his face: "I really don't have a good job, so I'll go to be a duck, and I can make money and be happy." ”

The third child listened to it and said, "Boss, you better work hard." ”

The boss was stunned for a moment before he reacted, and said to the third child with a horizontal eyebrow: "You are a king and eight calves, do you mean that I am ugly?" No matter how ugly Lao Tzu is, I still have muscles, and you are not as good as me as a duck! ”

The third snorted, pouted and said: "Just because you have muscles doesn't mean you can do it, this is a technical job, it's just for you, and you won't pay the bill before you count to three." Everyone laughed.

The boss glared at him and said, "Boy, do you know that Lao Tzu can't do it?" Lao Tzu let you see if it's okay today! After speaking, he stepped on the stool to the upper bunk to catch the third child. The third child has a hard mouth, dodges at the same time, and hits the boss with a book. The sixth child beat a drum on the side, jumped his feet to cheer for the boss, and for a while the whole dormitory temporarily forgot the pressure and unhappiness of finding a job, and became happy.

Du Nannan watched them messing around, and couldn't help laughing. He laughed as he walked out of the bedroom, jumped onto the table tennis table at the door, raised his head, and took a deep breath. The afterglow of the setting sun in the distance slanted on Du Nannan, pulling up a long lonely figure behind him, which formed a sharp contrast with the three struggling figures in the bedroom.