Zhao Haipeng and Zhao Haikun are nearly ten years apart, so there are many differences in childhood experiences. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In Zhao Haikun's memory, the beginning of his childhood was just after the end of the ten years of catastrophe.

At that time, although Zhao Deguang, the father of the two brothers, had been released from the cowshed, he was still instinctively cautious and timid.

Because of the unfortunate experience of his prime and his parents, Zhao Deguang's "occupational disease" is very serious, and he usually trembles when he walks and sleeps, for fear of being criticized by someone who grabs his pigtails, and even when he meets an acquaintance in the village on the ridge of the narrow road, he immediately stands on the side of the road, gives way to the avenue, and only dares to walk away after people walk over.

With such a father, Zhao Haikun's childhood can be described as very depressing, coupled with the Zhao family's financial constraints, he has been subjected to the white eyes and ridicule of the children in the same village.

However, when Zhao Haikun was ten years old, an accident happened at home, which changed the status of him and his father in the eyes of the villagers and neighbors to a certain extent, and it was that incident that Zhao Haikun met Birch once.

The cause of this incident starts with a coal mine in the north of Zhaojialou.

In the north of Zhaojialou, there was a small coal kiln opened by the county government, the coal kiln was not big, but there were more than 100 people working every day.

In the past, the countryside was poor and information was inconvenient, so this small coal mine became a "super-large state-owned enterprise" that was famous in the eyes of the villagers and envied by everyone.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the eyes of the villagers, such a state-owned enterprise is a place that cannot be entered with lanterns!

However, occasionally, the mine will also come to the village to recruit people, and at that time, if anyone can trust the relationship to enter, it will be really lucky to burn high incense with a lantern in the eyes of everyone, and will be envied by the neighbors in the street with pink eye.

Often at that time, the villagers who are about to go to work will go out three days ago, go to the neighborhoods to say goodbye to the dinner, and then go to the ancestral grave to burn a high incense, and finally have to kill pigs and chickens the day before departure, and ask the branch secretary, the village chief and other leaders, as well as the villagers who are good to eat a table.

Of course, these things had little to do with the Zhao family, because Zhao Deguang was not from a good background, and he was a small surname in the village, so he really didn't have any relatives and friends to help him, and it was impossible for him to go to the mine and do any worker's work.

But...... Fate is often elusive, and all these things that could not be beaten by the Zhao family were involved because of Zhao Haikun's mother.

That year, Zhao Haikun's younger brother Zhao Haipeng was born, and the whole family was very happy, but suddenly there was an extra mouth to eat, so it naturally had some more burden.

Although the child is still young, the pressure of life has increased a lot, so Zhao Haikun's mother found the child's father and discussed the future livelihood.

The daughter-in-law told Zhao Deguang that the land in Zhaojialou Village is poor, and the old Zhao family will definitely not be enough for two children just by planting their own land and work, and if there is a third or fourth child in the future, life will only become more and more difficult.

Therefore, they have to find a way to earn more money to support their families.

Zhao Deguang agrees with this matter, but the problem is that Zhao Deguang is too real and doesn't know any special skills, so he really can't think of any way to make money, so he can only stare at his daughter-in-law and ask her what good plan she has.

Although Zhao Deguang was very incompetent, after all, he knew that the old man was a Zhuang family who couldn't beat a fart with three sticks, so the hostess of the old Zhao family didn't care.

Therefore, according to her own thoughts, she told Zhao Deguang directly, saying that Beikuang would come to the village to recruit people in two days, and she asked her father to inquire, and people just needed a cook who steamed steamed buns to cook.

Therefore, the daughter-in-law said that since Zhao Deguang would have passed down the cooking skills passed down by his ancestors, it was better to try it, and if he wanted to rely on the ability of the old Zhao family for 600 years, he should be able to be admitted.

And if you can really become a cook in the mine, not to mention the salary of 40 yuan a month, it is said that you can still eat "two-meter flour cakes" and "bean noodles chess" every day, and the salary is so high that you can blind the dog's eyes.

This matter sounded smooth, and Zhao Deguang was quite tempted, so he was ready to go to the mine to give it a try according to his daughter-in-law's wishes.

What I didn't expect was that Zhao Deguang's "career" this time, before he took a step, he ran into a wall with the village chief of Zhaojialou Village.

Why did you go to work in the mine but run into a wall at the local village chief's house? This has something to do with the personnel background of that special era.

In the early days of the Cultural Revolution and the reform and opening up, the units were all state-owned enterprises, and no foreign workers were recruited, and all employment indicators were only assigned to the administrative units.

And Zhao Deguang's letter of introduction to the coal kiln of the North Mine, the old village chief of Zhaojialou Village at that time did not open it alive or dead.

The reason why the village chief didn't give it to him was not because he had anything to do with Zhao Deguang, but because Zhao Deguang came a little late, and this place to be a cook in the mine had already been privately given to his youngest son.

The cooking skills of the Lunan Zhao family are well known to the whole village, so the old village chief understands very well that once Zhao Deguang opens a letter of introduction to apply, then his youngest son will have no chance at all.

For the sake of his children's future, the village chief shamelessly delayed Zhao Deguang's request again and again.

Therefore, Zhao Deguang went five times in three days, ate three closed-door changes, was persuaded to go back once, and the other time was not opened because the old village chief's fountain pen ran out of ink. These are, of course, excuses.

Such inhuman treatment made Zhao Deguang's family quickly become a laughing stock in the village. The long-tongued women in the alleys and alleys of the village also gossiped and figured out the old village chief's intentions.

After the matter expanded, Zhao Deguang knew it but was helpless, but his daughter-in-law resolutely refused to do it!

As soon as she heard that the man in her family was so angry, this powerful woman was angry and angry, and then she pulled Zhao Haikun, hugged Zhao Haipeng, and went straight to the village brigade headquarters, firmly blocking the door of the village chief's room, crying and making trouble, and let the children pee on the door of the village chief.

This time, the village chief didn't dare to embarrass the old Zhao family, and after obediently opening a letter of introduction, he asked Zhao Deguang to hurry up to the North Mine to apply for a job.

The result was no surprise, Zhao Deguang won the job with his superb cooking skills, and the mine first issued a work uniform, and asked him to make a shuttle bus to work next month.

After this toss, the old Zhao family was very happy, but another problem soon followed.