After Chen Xiang returned to the small dormitory they shared, he was still very excited: he had finally borrowed money, and he could finally stop worrying about money for a while.

"Where have you been, why did you come back so late?" Liang Gang looked at Chen Xiang, who was blushing from hurrying, and asked.

"Oh, a trip to my cousin's. I came after eating at their place. Chen Xiang made up an excuse lightly. After saying that, he sat down on his bed. His bed was facing Liang Gang's, and the two spoke face to face.

In fact, he did eat. Just as he passed by the steamed bun shop that he had coveted countless times, he generously walked in and bought 4 large meat buns, and then ate them to his heart's content. He hadn't eaten like this in days.

"Oh--Feng Xiaojun won't be back tonight." Liang Gang's 'oh' character was elongated, and he actually had a bit of envy. Ghost knows, Chen Xiang didn't want to see his cousin for eight lifetimes.

"Where did Feng Xiaojun go, why didn't he come back at night?" Chen Xiang asked curiously.

"They worked overtime tonight, and he lived in the dormitory with the company comrades." Liang Gang said.

"Oh-" Chen Xiang was very envious of Feng Xiaojun that they had a job, how he wished he could find the same job as Feng Xiaojun. Even if you only go to work, don't give money, just eat!

"Why didn't you work overtime?" Chen Xiang asked curiously.

"I don't want to work overtime today, Feng Xiaojun's customer in charge of surveying will go to the company tomorrow to sign a contract, and he will draw the picture overnight." Liang Gang patiently explained, he was surprisingly handsome, looked suave, and had no quarrel with others.

"By the way, well, is your unit still recruiting? Introduce me to it. I want to have a job and learn faster. After Chen Xiang finished speaking, he stared at Liang Gang, Liang Gang was more honest and honest than Feng Xiaojun, and when he mentioned it to Liang Gang, he would tell the truth.

"It seems to be still recruiting. You ask Feng Xiaojun to help you introduce you, the boss is very valuable to him. Liang Gang really told the truth.

Chen Xiang felt a warmth in his heart, he took out 100 yuan from his trouser pocket and handed it to Liang Gang and said, "This is my rent for last month and this month, and it's almost the end of the month, so I'll give it to you together." "The house they share is small, but the rent is not cheap, and it costs 50 yuan per person for just one cramped bed a month. And the rent is all paid to Liang Gang, and Liang Gang handed it over to the landlord, last month he was short of money and didn't pay it, Liang Gang honestly didn't ask him to ask for it, and silently paid it for him first.

"Hmm." Liang Gang replied lightly, took the money and stuffed it into a cloth bag under the pillow. The two chatted a few more words, and after washing, they went to bed without mentioning it.

The next night, when Feng Xiaojun came back, he took the initiative to say to Chen Xiang: "I have already said hello to the boss, and he will let you come over tomorrow." It turned out that during the day, Liang Gang had already asked Feng Xiaojun to introduce work for Chen Xiang.

"Really, great!" Chen Xiang was overjoyed, and then a little worried, "What will your boss interview, I am ready to prepare." “

"You don't have to prepare, he asks you if you've done it, and you say you did. In our factory, you can draw, the boss himself is not highly educated, and he can't draw, so he won't really test you. Feng Xiaojun said confidently.

Sure enough, the next day, Chen Xiang followed Feng Xiaojun to their unit with a feeling of unease. He found that his worries were a bit unnecessary: it was a factory building of only about 500 square meters, with two rows, the front row was the dormitory, and the workers' clothes were hanging in a mess on the thick rope in front of the dormitory door. The back row is the workshop. Between the two rows, the distance is less than 10 meters.

The owner was a short, fat old man, in his fifties. Glancing at Chen Xiang, he asked with respect, "It's a college student, right?" “

"Yes, he worked and used a computer to produce pictures." Feng Xiaojun replied on the side.

"Where do you live?" The short and fat boss asked.

"Oh, I live in the same place with Feng Xiaojun and Liang Gang." Chen Xiang replied with a smile.

"Okay, Feng Xiaojun, you take him to the office to familiarize himself with the environment, and then take a look at the workshop." The short boss pulled the fat cheeks and said.

"Okay." Feng Xiaojun agreed and led Chen Xiang towards the office.

I didn't expect the interview to be so simple, Chen Xiang sighed, a little excited in his heart, and finally got into the class. Feng Xiaojun felt Chen Xiang's excitement, smiled and said: "It's okay, you have been studying for a long time, basic drawing should be no problem, you won't be able to ask if you encounter complicated things." After that, I went to the training class at night to learn CAD and went to work during the day. “

"Well, that's all there is to it." Chen Xiang happily replied.

Chen Xiang has a class, although his monthly salary is only 650 yuan, but, in his opinion, 650 yuan is really a thick stack of banknotes. Three months later, Feng Xiaojun had an awkward fall with the boss, resigned and left. Liang Gang also left, and Chen Xiang also had to leave. By this time, he was able to draw simple drawings using CAD on his own.

Chen Xiang took the 1,000 yuan he had saved and came to his cousin with an indescribable and somewhat high-spirited mood. Seeing his cousin, he handed 1,000 yuan to his cousin and said, "This is 1,000 yuan to pay you back, you order a little." “

His cousin really took the money seriously in front of him. This made Chen Xiang even more disgusted with her in his heart.

"I'm leaving." With a little good money from his cousin, Chen Xiang couldn't wait to leave.

"Didn't you say you would come and live when you got a job?" The cousin asked anxiously.

"I haven't learned it yet, I still need to learn, and I'll come back when I do." Chen Xiang raised his feet and walked towards the door as he spoke. What he thought to himself was, "I'll never come to this hellish place again!" “

Three months is not a long time, but the difficult days and thirsty study make Chen Xiang feel that these two months are as long and fulfilling as two years.

In order to find a good new job, Chen Xiang decided to go to the building materials city, where there are more recruitment information, and it is directly recruited by the manufacturer. Chen Xiang called when he saw the recruitment call in the building materials city, and this time he quickly found a new design job, which was still a cabinet factory, but here he applied for the job as an engineering manager.

In any case, although there are occasional times when I can't eat enough, I can basically stay in Beijing and support myself. Chen Xiang was happy to be able to get rid of his cold and arrogant cousin and vulgar cousin completely. He didn't know what tomorrow would look like, but he firmly believed that no matter what kind of day, it would always be better than asking him to marry his cousin.

Now he doesn't have to worry about eating, he can earn money to support himself. Chen Xiang thought that when he earned his salary again, he would send some to his family. My parents also owe a lot of foreign debts. The wages in Beijing are really high, and the regular enterprises at home can only earn about 150 yuan a month, and they can't be paid normally. I can earn more than 600 here, and in this way, it won't be long before I can help my family pay off the debt.

At this time, Chen Xiang had already reached the age of talking about marriage, but the hardships of life shifted all his attention to solving hunger and how to survive.

Later, because of this experience, Chen Xiang once summed up like a philosopher: "There are only two kinds of men in the world who can't make mistakes, one is a man who is busy with his career, and the other is a man who is busy solving the problem of survival." Those men who are full and have no pursuit, and have free time, will definitely be idle and will have an accident. “

No one has verified whether Chen Xiang's statement is right or wrong, and in fact only the person who later became his life partner heard his assertion.