Li Ping, like her name, was ordinary and ordinary in that era. Li Ping graduated from high school in a flash, and she took her father's class and entered the Changchun Cigarette Factory. The time is the mid-70s of the 20th century.

In the 70s of the 20th century, it was still the peak of educated youth going to the countryside, and Li Ping had two older brothers and one sister. The eldest brother took his mother's class a few years ago and worked in a non-staple food processing factory on a street, while the second brother and sister had no class to work on, so they had to go to the countryside. Li Ping is the youngest child in the family, she is slender and beautiful than the other children, her beauty is reflected after she goes to high school, she is very white and thin, and she looks a little sick. As soon as Li Ping graduated from high school, his father, who was in his early fifties, reluctantly retired from the cigarette factory and let Li Ping take up his own class.

Li Ping worked in a cigarette factory as an apprentice in the first year, earning 21 yuan per month. There was nothing about this, and the wages at that time were the same all over the country. Li Ping's father has been working for decades, and his salary before retirement is in his early forties. The Changchun Cigarette Factory was very famous at that time, and the famous reason was that it produced a brand of cigarettes called "Yingchun", and the market price was two cents and eight cents a box. It was a good cigarette at the time. At that time, several popular cigarette brands included "handshake", a dime and a penny a box, and "iron flower" was also more than a dime, and there was a kind of cigarette called "golden gourd" nine cents a box, which was called "nine cents of cigarettes", and these cigarettes were deeply loved by people. "Yingchun" brand cigarettes are a symbol of status, people without some status can not afford to smoke, the average person buys two boxes for hospitality during the New Year's holidays, and it is very rare to consume.

Li Ping is in the packaging workshop, which is the last process of the cigarette factory, and the loose cigarettes are packed into boxes and flow into the market. Li Ping mechanically completes this monotonous packaging task every day, putting 20 cigarettes into boxes and sealing them, that's it. The cigarette case of the "Yingchun" brand cigarettes is very festive, and a few Yingchun flowers bloom on the violet-colored paper, which is novel and chic. has been a long time, and it is monotonous in Li Ping's eyes. Mechanically labored, monotonous colors, and soon Li Ping got tired of it. Except for Sunday rest for a year, every day is like this, Li Ping has a lot of dissatisfaction with life, she is in her early twenties, it is the age full of illusions, Li Ping is not very good at school, she only likes Chinese classes, almost every text can be memorized. In her spare time, she also found some novels to read, and Li Ping had many fantasies when she read novels. When she first entered her father's class, as the flow of people poured into the gate of the cigarette factory, she was also excited, but as time passed, the short-term excitement disappeared, and all that was left was numbness.

My parents retired at home in their early fifties, and they felt that they still had a lot of energy left to use up, so they quarreled with each other to venturize their residual heat. Two years ago, my brother and sister-in-law gave birth to a son, and so many people were crowded under the small eaves, which was messy and lively. Although the second brother and sister cut the queue in the countryside, they ran home twice in three days, because their parents retired and did not let them take over, the parents themselves were sorry, and the second brother and sister also thought that their parents were eccentric and suffered a loss, so the second brother and sister went home frequently to make up for the losses they ate. As soon as the second brother and sister came back, they shouted for meat, and the mother had to find all the family's meat tickets and line up to buy meat. The second brother just left this month, and the next month sister came back, and they came back like a marquee, and they did not feel at ease to accept the re-education of the poor middle peasants.

The entry and exit of the second brother and sister has undoubtedly increased the family's expenses, and the parents have to take care of their travel expenses. Usually Li Ping is crammed into a corner of the living room, two houses, the size of the buttocks, the parents occupy one, the brother and sister-in-law and nephew occupy one, there is only a small hall like a corridor, as soon as the brother and sister come back, they have to occupy a piece of space, and the place that belongs to Li Ping is even smaller. Li Ping lives in this kind of depression, how can the monotonous cigarette factory and small home hold her fantasies?

Li Ping belongs to the category of outstanding looks no matter where she appears, and since ancient times, it has been a good thing to be dignified and beautiful. Li Ping is no exception, Li Ping, who is in her early twenties, attracted the attention of men as soon as she walked into the cigarette factory. First of all, those young men in their early twenties, they always like to go to Li Ping's side when they have nothing to do, they have nothing to do, and they have nothing to say. Li Ping's heart is bright, her emotional intelligence is not low, because reading novels has trained her ability to observe all kinds of people, it should be said that her emotional intelligence is higher than that of ordinary people. She was indifferent to these young people, she didn't take a fancy to them, she was also passionate in her twenties, and she had long fantasized about the opposite sex, and the reason why she didn't think about it was because none of their conditions satisfied her. Most of these young men came to the cigarette factory after their parents' class, their fathers are all workers in the cigarette factory, they are all workers, and their family backgrounds are not much better, like Li Ping's parents can live upstairs is already good. Li Ping thought that if she married them, her result would be nothing more than huddled under the same roof with her parents, crying, laughing, struggling and struggling to live a lifetime, what is the meaning of such a life? Li Ping resolutely refuses to live such a life, she wants to rely on the fantasy brought to her by literature to live and pursue, and to grasp her own happiness. Li Ping then behaved very chaste and indifferent in front of the young men. The lads were disappointed, whistling around her and snapping their fingers to get her attention.

There are also some elderly people who are also interested in Li Ping, that is, they take the trouble to find a boyfriend for Li Ping. The matter of media pulling fiber is very suitable for older people to do. They use their aesthetic to bring together two men and women who are not originally related, and realize their unfulfilled desires in their youth, and in the process they enjoy pleasure and pleasure.

Under the words of these people, Li Ping met a lot of such young men, some of whom were from cigarette factories, and some were from other factories, with levels ranging from workers to squad leaders, team leaders, and the highest level was a deputy director of the workshop. Li Ping and some of these people have been in contact two or three times, some have only met once, and in the end they are all gone, there is only one reason, these men, big or small, are not far from creating the happiness in her mind, so Li Ping's love has no beginning and end again and again. After experiencing a lot of excitement, Li Ping's life has calmed down again, but her heart has not been calm, she has always believed that if she does not explode in silence, she will die in silence. Li Ping is looking forward to her own outburst, and she believes that her happiness will be patronized by God.

For the rest of the time, Li Ping was left to wait. One day, she was mechanically filling cigarettes, and a thought suddenly popped into her mind, when she was reading a novel, she saw that a woman of a certain ethnic group in the south had the custom of throwing hydrangeas to invite relatives, so that she could pin hope and happiness on fate. As soon as this idea came out, it bewitched her to lie restlessly, unable to sleep at night, and finally she thought of the "Yingchun" brand cigarettes in her hand, she thought, most of the smokers are men, and the people who can afford to smoke a box of "Yingchun" brand cigarettes will definitely not be ordinary men. That night, Li Ping carefully cut a small note and wrote a sentence: When you see this note, it is our fate, if you don't have a wife, I am willing to be your wife.

Below I wrote my contact information. That night, Li Ping barely closed her eyes, and the next day she was almost the first to walk into the cigarette factory, into the packaging workshop, and she put the note she had written last night in the first box of cigarettes she packed on the new day. It was only then that her heart calmed down. His wishes and happiness were gone away. It is not known whether that box of cigarettes will go to the south or north, and whether the person who smokes it will be tall or short. Anyway, there is hope, and where there is hope, there is support.

In those days, Li Ping lived in a kind of dark expectation, imagining when she might receive a letter, and the person who wrote the letter was the one who got her note. What will happen to her then? What kind of man would that be? Li Ping was fantasizing. While waiting, her mood improved, and sometimes the young men around her talked to her, and she was able to say a few words. Others say that Li Ping has changed. When she heard this, she just smiled and wrote sweetness on her face.

A winter has passed, Li Ping did not wait for the scene she was looking forward to, she returned to the previous kind of unstable and unsettled days, going out early and returning late, going to work and getting off work, and the days are still the same.