Chapter 27: Seeing the World
Teacher Shen drank a glass of wine and asked me, "Where are you going to go?" I see if there are any acquaintances, I can introduce you. ”
I told the truth, I didn't know what to do, so I asked him, "At my current level, where can I go to find a job?"
He said: "Now it is still possible to work professionally in Jinshi, as long as you are not afraid of being tired, go to the field to dry the field, and it is not difficult to find work in any Jinshi Institute." In addition to this road, it is to go to the collection hall, or the yamen in charge of this, but those seem to have to be admitted. I used to be at the Golden Stone Institute, so most of the people I know are in the fields, so I don't know much about that. However, the income of Jinshi's counterpart is not high, maybe you take the sign of the school and go back to sell real estate or insurance, earn a little more, and you are not so tired. Have you thought about this question? ”
What I think now, to be honest, it's hard for me to decide.
I've always wanted to pursue Xiao Fang's before, and I plan to go to the city where she is in the school to develop, maybe there is still a chance. But she has always been very cold to me and rejected everything from me. Maybe it's ridiculous that I haven't given up yet.
I thought about it, maybe I will become more and more unworthy of others in the future, she is a graduate student of a prestigious school, and I have successfully become a salaryman, or a low-paying profession. I wanted to give up, and I persuaded myself to give up. It is said that distance and time can make people forget everything, and I want to go to a place that is a little farther away.
In addition, I was originally from the south, although I came to the north, but I had never experienced the world of the northwest, and I only saw the things mentioned in the book, and the people in the terroir were far from what I had seen and heard for so many years, so I had the idea of going there to see at that time.
So, I said to Mr. Shen: "I want to go to the northwest to do gold and stone, work for two years first, see the world, and then think about anything else, do you have any acquaintances on your side?"
Teacher Shen didn't speak, and the big waist said first: "Okay, come to my house, we can still get together if we have nothing to do!"
Teacher Shen said: "You are not in the northwest, at most it is in the west of the Central Plains." Well, the cultural relics resources in the northwest are indeed relatively rich, and it is a good place to increase knowledge. Northwest, I want to think... I have a senior brother who should be excavating the LL homeland film in Province X now, why don't you go there and try it first? ”
LL? It's exciting to listen to, I've watched documentaries about the barren land LBP, and I've heard about explorers going missing in that Gobi, and the ancient city of LL is a mysterious place, especially the abundance of dried corpses.
Teacher Shen didn't know what I was thinking, and then said, "Although the conditions over there are more difficult, there will be no danger with the Jinshi team, and the salary is good."
I immediately agreed, and if nothing else, just being able to go to LL was an attractive thing.
So Mr. Shen asked me to wait for him to inform me, and he would contact him when he went back.
When we were full, Mr. Shen told us that no matter where we went, we should work hard and not embarrass our alma mater.
It didn't take long for Mr. Shen to ask someone to come to me. I went to his office, and he said, "My senior brother is surnamed Chen, and he works at the Provincial Jinshi Institute over there, and he said that this round of excavations has ended, and it will be hot to carry out excavations in the summer, and he will wait until September to excavate the XH cemetery in a small area." If he asks you to go, report to M city in X province at the end of August, this is the address, you remember it. "He handed me a piece of paper torn out of a notebook, with the name of an unfamiliar place in M City written on it.
I nodded and printed, anyway, I'm not in a hurry right now, and it's also great to go out and see the world first.
In the middle of my free time, I plan to go back, to see my old friends, to see my mother, after all, I went to Province X, it is not easy to say that I can go back, for me it is almost across the territory.
Time flies, and the day of leaving school is getting closer and closer. I also took a special trip by car to visit Lao Liu and Ma Daoren, Lao Liu let me have the opportunity to come back to see more in the future, anyway, everyone is a brother; Ma Daoren's face was not unhappy when he learned that the jade pendant had helped me ward off the disaster, but he was very relieved, in his words, it was all arranged by providence.
When there were three days left before the time set by the school, I packed up my things, said goodbye to Mr. Shen, and had a final drink with the three people in the dormitory, leaving each other addresses and letters, because I was going to the carriage home at seven o'clock tomorrow morning.
The next morning, I wanted to leave silently, but Da Waist woke up early, probably on his own initiative. He helped me carry a bag of luggage and drove me all the way to the station, and on the way we pulled calves as usual, but there was no parting sentimentality.
But seeing you off for a thousand miles will eventually have to say goodbye, and the carriage will still come sooner or later, so I said to him: "Okay, go back, there is still time to sleep at this time."
He said, "You have to remember to write a letter, we can't break off contact."
"You can rest assured, haha." After saying a tacit hug, I took my luggage and stepped into the carriage back to my hometown.
On the carriage, thinking of the big waist, Mr. Shen, Lao Liu, and Ma Daoren, thinking of the various experiences along the way, I couldn't help but feel a little stunned and a little ridiculous. In the four years of school, I didn't learn much serious knowledge, but I saw a lot of things and learned a lot. Perhaps many things were indeed predestined, just like a few thunders in the rain that helped us find his tomb, everything seemed to be arranged.
I thought of Xiao Fang again, and I knew that the school was over, and we might never see each other, let alone pursue her. During the whole period in the school, I liked such a person, and I don't know if I'm a little stupid. On the one hand, I hope to slowly give up my liking for her, and on the other hand, I have unrealistic illusions, and it seems that liking her has become a habit.
I don't know where the future holds.
My home is in a county town in the south, and it took me a long time to finally arrive one afternoon. I don't know how long it will take to run all the way to X Province. Although the traffic is much better now than when Fa Xian traveled west, it is not so simple after all.
I got out of the carriage and went home in a donkey cart, and I knocked on the door, but my mother was not at home, and I remembered that I didn't write a letter before I came back, and she didn't know that I was back and still working.
I had to leave my luggage at the neighbor's house first, and see that it was already past four o'clock, and I didn't have to wait too long. I went to the market and bought a lot of vegetables, mainly meat, pork, beef and freshly slaughtered chicken, although I can't cook, but my mother can, and she is very skilled. Buy it back and wait for her to come back and make me a meal. I know I'm not usually at home, and she's all on her own, and she doesn't buy these dishes at all.
When I got home, I just bumped into my mom at the door, and my mom was a little surprised, after all, it was quite unexpected to suddenly appear so far away.
She was stunned for a moment before she said, "Back?" ”
I nodded: "Well, you go cook the vegetables first, and I'll take the things home." ”
With that, I went in and put everything in my hand into the kitchen, and then I slipped to my neighbor's house, carried my luggage back to my room, and packed it up.
By the time I was done, the meal was almost done, and in order to make it faster, she made the meat into a stir-fry.
I brought the same dishes to the table, and the smell was my mother's cooking, and I couldn't eat it in the cafeteria. I was also hungry several times in the carriage, so I picked up my rice bowl and began to gobble it up, and my mother laughed as she ate and told me to slow down.
Since the last time I came back for the New Year, I haven't eaten my mother's food for half a year. In fact, our family is also in this situation during the Chinese New Year, my grandmother and grandfather don't like me, hate the house and Wu, and don't treat my mother very much. So every year for the Chinese New Year, it's so deserted, just the two of us get some good food to eat. In the past few years, my mother has often asked me to talk about a girlfriend early and come back, so that it can be more lively.
My mom ate less and quickly put down the dishes and chopsticks to watch me eat. When I finished eating, there were still a lot of dishes left, she saved them one by one, washed the dishes and chopsticks, and then sat down to chat with me.
She asked me, "I haven't seen you for half a year, why are you still fat?" It's so good to eat out. Did you get a job after graduation? ”
I said, "I found it, Mr. Shen recommended me to go to a gold and stone team in X province to work first, he has acquaintances there, the salary is good, and I also want to see the world."
I thought she would be upset because to be honest it was so far away. As the saying goes, my mother worries, and I know very well what a loving person my mother is, and if I go so far away, she will inevitably worry about me.
But she didn't object, muttered a few times about Province X, as if thinking that Province X was there, and then said: "Okay, read 10,000 books, travel 10,000 miles, you are such a big person, you should also go out and read it." It doesn't matter, if you can't do it, you'll come back, ah. ”
I didn't expect her to say that, but maybe she thought the job was okay. I said in my heart that it will be a long time before the carriage arrives on the 10,000-mile road, when did your son read so many books?
I told her a lot of things I saw on the road of Jinshi investigation, saying that I ate beef and mutton from the grassland and drank milk tea, and she listened very attentively, saying that it was no wonder that I was fat, these things are the most nourishing.
But of course I didn't tell her about falling into the mausoleum, not because I was afraid that if she did, it would only increase her worries.
It wasn't until after eleven o'clock in the evening that we went to bed. I told her not to mess with my breakfast tomorrow and that I would go out to eat by myself.
I thought I wouldn't be able to sleep because I missed the school or something, but it turned out that there was no such problem.
The bed at home is much more comfortable than the small bed in the dormitory.
In the past four years of school, I have also practiced the ability to sleep without turning over, because once I turn over, I may fall. When you arrive at the construction site, it is even more so, where you can have a place to lie down and sleep. Harsh conditions can temper people, this is true.
It didn't take long for me to fall asleep.