Laiyi, located in the hinterland of the Jiaodong Peninsula, is a county-level city belonging to Qingdao.

He Hansheng lives in the city's Fuxin community. His hometown is in the town of Gaoqiao, 20 kilometers east of the city. After graduating from university, he worked in a foreign company in Laoshan, Qingdao, and stayed for four years. But in order to take care of the family, a month before his wife gave birth, he resigned and returned to his county seat. His son, Jay, was born in January and is now almost eight months old. His wife, Peng Jiahui, wanted to insist on breastfeeding, but at the same time, she was worried about the elderly taking care of the child, so she asked the company for another year of leave after the four-month maternity leave.

He Hansheng has been unemployed at home since he resigned, and although he is looking for a job every day, he has never found a suitable one. He seems to regret it now, he knew that it was so difficult to find a job, so it was better not to quit first. I wanted to find a better job, but I didn't expect to find even a normal job. Finding a job is now a daily routine. For most of the year, I have been sitting on a mountain of empty food, and if I don't work anymore, I am afraid that I will not be able to guarantee even the most basic life.

It was already half past eight in the evening, and He Hansheng was looking for work on the Internet as usual. In order to facilitate contact, after sending his resume, he wrote down the name of the recruiting company, the phone number and the contact person in his notebook. Just as he was documenting the ninety-eighth company, his wife quietly came over.

"Don't keep surfing the Internet. I finally put Jiejie to sleep, I'll go take a shower first, you look at it. If he flips, you go over and hug him. Lately he felt light, and woke up at the slightest movement. ”

"Got it." He Hansheng responded and looked back at his sleeping son.

"By the way, I don't have much money to talk about, I'll help me charge some money later." Peng Jiahui said and went to the bathroom.

"yes, okay."

He Hansheng picked up his mobile phone and clicked on Alipay. When choosing the amount to recharge, he hesitated. If it had been before, he would not hesitate to choose "50". But recently, he was more constrained, so he had to choose the amount of "30". When choosing a linked bank card, he directly chose the Agricultural Bank card, because only this card still has some money among all the bank cards. About five minutes later, text messages rang out on both his and his wife's phones. He first clicked on the text message on his wife's mobile phone, which was a notification that the phone bill was successfully recharged; He clicked on the text message on his mobile phone again, and it was a deduction notice: the balance of the bank card was 4,000 yuan.

He looked at the text message silently, lost in thought.

The 4,000 yuan is all their family's savings, and if they don't go to work again, life will become even more difficult. Think about the monthly mortgage of 1,500 yuan, the wife's insurance 1,000 yuan, plus other expenses, the monthly expenditure will be nearly 4,000. For most of the past six months, neither of them has gone to work, and the family has not earned a penny. They live on their savings. Usually thanks to my parents who live in the countryside, I send some rice, noodles, eggs, vegetables and the like every few weeks, otherwise I can't get by. He looked at his wife's mobile phone again, the screen was full of cracks, since they met, his wife has used this mobile phone, and now he has children, but his wife has been reluctant to change. When he finds a job and earns money, he must buy a new mobile phone for his wife first, he secretly decided in his heart.

He looked into the living room, and his wife hadn't come out of the shower yet. In fact, he is grateful to his wife from the bottom of his heart. His wife grew up in the city since he was a child, not only did she not dislike his rural background, but also helped him buy a house in the city and settle down together. When they first dated, their father-in-law and mother-in-law were opposed, but his wife followed him with all her heart. He didn't know what it was about him that attracted his wife. He looked at himself again: his hometown is in the countryside, and his family background is average; Graduated from university, majoring in Chinese language and literature; With a height of 178cm, he is quite healthy and strong. There used to be many people who said that they were handsome, but handsome could neither be eaten nor spent as money, he felt that handsome was useless. When he thought of his major, he regretted it a little, he knew that it was so difficult to find a job, and he didn't choose this major at that time. As a man, choosing this major is tantamount to a self-proclaimed future, because there are almost no companies recruiting college students in this major nowadays. He has already decided that if he can no longer find a job, in order to support his family, he will go to work as a worker on the factory floor, and the dignity of a college student is no longer so important in the face of cruel reality.

Son Jie Jie "snorted" and turned over. He thought his son was about to wake up, so he hurried over. He patted his son gently and whispered, "Jie Jie is good, Jie Jie is good, Daddy is sleeping in his arms." Although the Mid-Autumn Festival has not yet arrived, it is already a little cold at night. Afraid of freezing his baby son, he gently pulled the thin quilt and covered his son.

Soon, Jay Jie fell asleep again.

He looked at his chubby, cute and healthy son, and felt happy from the bottom of his heart. During these days of unemployment, it was my son who brought the greatest happiness to his lost and depressed self. As his son grows up day by day, the anxiety in his heart grows day by day. When my son is older, he will go to kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school, college, buy a house, and get married. And the recent fashionable engagement bride price is terrifying, "motionless, thousands of purples and thousands of reds and green", a moving car, not moving is a house, ten thousand purple is 10,000 pieces of 50 yuan, a thousand red is a thousand pieces of 100 yuan, a piece of green is many pieces of 50 yuan. In order to enable his wife and son to live a decent life in the future, he felt that it was urgent to work and earn money.

The wife had already finished her shower and walked into the bedroom with a towel wiping her wet hair.

"Jiejie didn't wake up, did he?"

"I just moved, and I put him to sleep again."

"By the way, Sister-in-law Jiejie's child was born almost a month ago, right? Didn't she say when she would drink the full moon wine? ”

"I asked my sister, the day after tomorrow."

"Oh. I bought the clothes online and received them in the afternoon. Let's go buy a pair of silver bracelets tomorrow. ”

"yes, okay."

"Is there a suitable job?"

"I just sent a resume to an electronics company doing sales."

"Oh"

"Look your hair is still dripping. Blow it with a hair dryer. ”

"Blow it to me."

"Good"

He Hansheng stretched his waist and went to get a hair dryer. Soon, the hair dryer was brought over.

"Let's go out and blow it. Don't wake up Jay Jie by being loud in the bedroom. ”

His wife pushed him to the living room.

The hair dryer was blowing, and his wife's hair was flying in the wind. His wife's hair is soft and smooth, her skin is fair and delicate, and her whole body exudes a faint fragrance. He Hansheng suddenly felt a strong desire in his heart, and he gently scratched his fingers on his wife's neck.

"You're a hooligan!" His wife had already understood his intentions.

"Huh. Tonight, the wind is light and the clouds are light, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, how about accompanying Young Master Ben? He laughs.

"Not tonight, my stomach hurts. Another day. The wife politely refused.

"It doesn't matter, right? Pour you a glass of brown sugar water, right? ”

"Well, good. Don't put too much brown sugar. ”

"Okay."

He Hansheng went to the kitchen and quickly poured a glass of brown sugar water.

"The water is a little hot, I'll drink it later." I'll go wash up first, or you can lie down first. ”

"If it's out of the way, it'll be fine in a while."

About ten minutes later, He Hansheng came out.

"Are you better?"

"I drank brown sugar water, and it was much better. I'm going to go shopping tomorrow and go to bed early. ”

"Okay."

They went into the bedroom together.