Chapter 1: Entering Society

I live in a remote mountain village, really remote and backward, and the main income of a family is only farming. Although there are 9 years of compulsory education, tuition is paid. Most of our elementary school teachers graduated from junior high school.

At most, the teachers who teach junior high school are also middle school graduates. Therefore, what we have been instilled is that after graduating from junior high school, we will be admitted to the middle school teacher or technical secondary school, so that there is a job when I read it. As for high school and university, in the eyes of teachers, only gifted students can get in, and they need a strong financial foundation.

I was relatively lucky, my parents went to Guangdong to work in the third year of junior high school, and I had a certain economic foundation for me to go to a secondary school. After two and a half years, we got our diploma, and the school assigned us a job.

Of the more than 60 people in our two classes, more than 20 went to the province, and the rest of us went to Guangdong. I was 17 years old at the time, and I had just received my temporary ID card.

I majored in computer science and took Bill Gates as my goal (in fact, I learned typing and databases, maybe a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and I actually set such a high goal for myself, how ridiculous it is to think about it now).

With my big dreams and beautiful visions, I took the train to Guangdong. The first time I took the train, I was very excited and novel, there were so many people on the train, and most of the cars were students from our school, so I was also very happy.

But then we found a place to sit down and found that a lot of people in the community were crowding into our seats, and our already not spacious seats became even more crowded. But we didn't dare to stop them, for fear of fighting.

Later, the principal told us that they were all out to work and didn't get a seat ticket, so we accepted their unreasonableness (now that I think about it, we in the carriage at that time were like pigs in the truck now, there were a lot of them, and we chattered non-stop).

After two days and two nights of driving, I finally arrived at Dongguan Railway Station. When we left the station, a bus was already waiting for us, and under the leadership of the principal, we took the bus to a hotel to rest, ate a quick food and went to bed (this is the first time I have eaten a boxed lunch, I think it is very fragrant and delicious).

Early the next morning, we followed the intermediary to an electronics factory for an interview (now that I think about it, it was not a so-called job assignment at all, but just an intermediary to help pull labor from the mainland).

This is a Taiwan-funded electronics factory, the factory area is very large, the environment is very good, and the supporting facilities are also very complete, at least much better than the environment of our school, which was enough for us at that time.

After layers of screening, only 9 girls remained. Luckily, my best friend and I stayed together. Although the others are not in the same class as me, I still find them very kind in this unfamiliar environment.

It was also at this time that I realized that I was no longer a student, I couldn't do whatever I wanted, and making mistakes in school was at most a review, but if I made a mistake here, I was eliminated.

I was happy to be left behind, but I felt very uncomfortable when I thought that I would have to be separated from my classmates in the future and face the road ahead alone, and tears flowed unconsciously.

Tearful goodbye to the eliminated classmates, even the classmates who don't usually play together and don't have a good relationship, now I feel like they are like relatives, and I really want them to stay together.

The principal called me aside and said to me: "Li Xiaoli, you are the youngest in the class, and I am the most worried, you can mess around at school, but you have to learn to grow up by yourself in the future." We can't stay with you all the time, but fortunately Wang Li (my best friend) is also there, she is a more sensible and stable girl, she has a lot of advantages worth learning from! ”

Maybe it was because of love, I actually hugged the principal's arm and cried even more, crying and saying: "Principal, I was wrong, I was wrong before, I shouldn't have treated you like that, I threw your glasses to you, and the grass in your office was scalded to death by me with boiling water......"

Maybe it was because she heard my crying, Wang Li ran over and pulled me and said, "Okay, what you said the principal knows, don't cry, the principal is leaving, and the classmates are leaving......"

The principal gave us a few more words of advice, and then said, "I wish you all the best in the future, and stand taller!" ”

After seeing the principal and classmates for more than 2 years, it was the turn of the beautiful sister from the personnel department of the factory to enlighten us.

This time, the factory recruited more than 50 people from different schools and provinces, including Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei and Hunan...... Basically, they are all graduates of technical schools, and they are all new to society.