Seeing such a beautiful sentence in the WeChat circle of friends reminds me of my life in the two years after graduating from college. Time went back more than twenty years ago, and that affectionate land embraced my youth. A group of young brothers and sisters cried and laughed with me. Things have changed, and heaven remains our neighbourhood. Many people have no news. But that land, those people, often comes to my mind. ......
Plop, plop ... the train slowly went all the way east. I feel uneasy and confused for the first time in my life. I can't lie quietly on the upper bunk near the roof, and my heart is depressed. So I rolled over and sat by the window, looking at the flying trees and the wilderness outside the window. A kind elder sister across the street asked me, "Are you a student?" I said, "After graduation, I have to report to the unit." The elder sister then asked, "Where to?" "Go to Nantong Qidong." My elder sister hurried back to me and said, "Why not go to Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou? Our industrial corridor in Jiangsu is equivalent to Shanghai, and Nantong is northern Jiangsu, but it is not as good as our Jiangnan. " I smiled awkwardly and didn't know how to answer. I got up and reached out from my luggage and took out a red notebook given to me by my college roommate Chen Wei. Opening the title page has his parting words: loyal bones are buried everywhere in Qingshan, and no one is buried in loess. Affectionate for children, infatuated with children. A good man has ambitions in all directions. Looking at his vigorous and powerful font, I suddenly got excited and a sense of pride welled up in my heart. After this notebook, I filled my scenes in Jiangsu with words. When I left here for Shenzhen, I mailed it back to my hometown and asked my mother to help me treasure it. It's a pity that more than ten years ago, I was sold as an old book by my unwitting father and regretted it for a long time. At that time, the train didn't speed up. It took 23 hours from Xi to Nanjing. Day and night, I was too excited to sleep. During the day, I listened to several knowledgeable seniors in the neighboring store, and at night I closed my eyes and imagined my future. Finally arrived at the beautiful ancient capital Nanjing in the evening of the next day, got out of the station, and soon found the bus of Nanjing Hangyuan (Yudao Street) at that time. In front of the telephone booth at the school gate, I dialed Cai Qin (my good brother Yongjian's girlfriend). Yongjian ran out quickly and we hugged each other.
In the evening, several people had dinner together and went to his rented community with Yongjian. Jiyuan (also a graduate student in a high school in Nanjing) stayed up all night, talking about interesting things in our high school and longing for future life. The next day, they repeatedly asked me to stay in Nanjing for a few days before going to Qidong to report, but I still insisted on reporting first. Yongjian was not at ease and decided to accompany me. Yongjian is the best brother in my life. Although we have been living in different places since then, it seems that we are together every day and have never been apart.
The next day, we arrived at the central gate bus station early in the morning and took a long-distance bus to Qidong. At that time, expressway in China had just started, but Jiangsu was obviously more than the mainland. It was intermittent expressway all the way. Finally, in the afternoon, we arrived at Qidong Xiaohua Small Industrial Park, got off here, and soon found the unit I wanted to report, Jiangsu Fengshen Group. Qidong is located in the north of the Yangtze River estuary, surrounded by water on three sides, and a young plain formed by sediment deposition. Growing up in Guanzhong plain, you can see ditches within a few miles. Seeing that the terrain here is flat and there are almost no slopes, you can't help but marvel at the nature.
Yang Bin, the short and kind administrative section chief, received us. He always smiled. In my days in Qidong, I have never seen a good-natured section chief Yang not smiling at people. We were arranged in the hotel of the company, and several friends of China Southern Airlines arrived on the same day. The first one to arrive was a beautiful woman from Hunan. Sister Xiang, whom we all like later, Huang Youwen of Southeast University, is not tall, but at first glance she is a talented woman with a tough temperament and a strong atmosphere. Later, we called her Gao Jiawen. In the evening, at the welcome banquet, I remember that Yang led Vice President Chen to give us a dinner.
When we first met, everyone was shy, smiling and hardly talking loudly. After a few glasses of wine, the enthusiastic Yang greeted everyone to make themselves at home, and the unit was home. You can always look for him if you have any difficulties in the future. Li North Station stood up to express our thanks. Then, it was Yong Jian and us two northwest boys who began to be presumptuous. Young, good drinker, let's have a drink if others take a sip. Remember to drink at home: it feels deep and stuffy. Everyone stared at us in surprise and laughed. Yongjian went to clink glasses with them and asked them to take care of me more in the future. Everyone began to greet each other, and the atmosphere suddenly became warm. I remember there were many dinners at work later. Every time I drink, I am particularly horizontal, and the amount of alcohol is amazing. Mao Xiaohui from Xiaogan, Hubei Province gave me the title of "Dionysus". I was very proud when I was young. The unit comes to the customer for dinner, and the leader loves to ask me to accompany the wine. After dinner, for the first time in my life, I sang with my new friends in the KTV hall of the unit, and everyone suddenly narrowed the distance. The next morning, Yongjian patted me on the shoulder, told me to take care and said goodbye reluctantly.
Yang Kechang took the school dispatch card to help us go to Huilong Town, where Qidong City is located, and completed all the formalities of archives and household registration. Four people in a big dormitory settled us down and showed us around the factory. A week later, everyone officially went to work. First of all, we practice in the workshops of various branches to adapt. Young people are college students from other places, so they naturally get together. Yang Hongbo, a Hunan native who looks like football star Fan Zhiyi. Unpredictable and melancholy, Jiang Teng, a fellow villager in Ankang, Shaanxi Province, woke up in the morning and felt that he began to think about life. Jiang Haitao, a handsome boy with a baby face. Bian Zhengdong, a simple and honest fat guy in Yancheng, and Wei Dongmei, a fat-faced beauty in his hometown. Hao Zhihai, a versatile girl from Anqing, and his girlfriend Rui Zhou, a beautiful, lovely, sweet girl who loves singing. Yu Feng, a little man who stutters in a hurry, arrived in northern Jiangsu at the latest. He looks like a star of Hong Kong and Taiwan, dressed in fashionable Zeng Yongchun. Soon we became one, and it was because of the company of a large group of brothers and sisters that I temporarily lost my homesickness.
Shortly after I arrived at the company, I just happened to catch up with the company's anniversary and held a welcome party for us foreign college students. Gao Jiawen conquered everyone with a beautiful "Olive Tree". Excited, I wrote a dream of Niannujiao Qidong at that time. Colleagues spoke highly of it, and the Northwest Wolf also wrote lyrics. I forgot all the contents because of the loss of the red notebook. I only remember that the first sentence seems to be: "At the intersection of rivers and seas, there are a lot of talents, and everyone is United in starting a business." At that time, the rhythm was carefully checked against Su Shi's words and sentences. I am particularly proud that the announcer of the unit read the words I wrote on the stage. Originally, I had to watch it myself, but unfortunately, Mandarin was not very good and I lacked the courage to go on stage.
After the welcome party, everyone's life adaptation is over and they formally become full members. Zheng Dong, who studied computer, and I were assigned to the intelligent control branch, and others were assigned to the workshops of refrigeration, extension and pipeline branches respectively.
In the middle and late 1990s, China was full of vitality. At that time, science and technology were preached everywhere as the primary productive force, and high-tech development zones sprang up all over the country, and talents were introduced and entities were set up all over the southeast coast. Qidong is a famous "hometown of education" in Jiangsu. Company leaders love us very much, and local colleagues have also given great tolerance to foreign employees. I also found their advantages soon, and the dawn here is particularly early. Residents are particularly hardworking. Local workers have good quality and strong sense of self-discipline. The company is permeated with an atmosphere of striving for progress and striving for the first place. At that time, we were really young and frivolous, and the workers were very concerned and serious about the piece-rate wage system adopted by the unit. We just graduated, laughing, laughing and chatting, and sat down to chat for a while. There is always something wrong with our work and we have to make our colleagues do it again. They shook their heads in a hurry, which is also the flame of our future conflict. For example, Zhengdong and I often don't look at the line number carefully when connecting the control cabinet line, and the connection is wrong. We often ask a very simple and dark-skinned local girl to help us examine and disassemble them carefully and recheck the figures. The local people speak Wu dialect, and almost every town has dialect differences. Because they don't like our style and like to communicate in dialects at work, we don't understand it at all and feel like outsiders.
At lunch time, we were the first people to go to the canteen. The food in the unit is very good. Every day, there are two kinds of meat and vegetables, big steak, chicken legs and so on. I used to eat rice in my hometown, and there was always leftovers. I always eat very clean. I didn't know until I arrived in Qidong that every time I eat rice, I always bring soup, laver and egg flower soup, melon and shrimp soup, which are all good soups to digest after meals. The amiable section chief Yang always takes us to his hometown in the country for dinner on weekends. The easternmost part of Qidong is Lvsi Port, one of the four major fishing grounds in China. Therefore, aquatic products are particularly rich. Lobsters and crabs are the daily routine of parents. There is a strange local food called hairy eggs, that is, the chicken has just taken shape before it is hatched, and it is steamed and peeled to eat, so I can't eat it when I look at the formed chicken. When local colleagues eat it, I feel cruel. I immediately had a reaction in my throat and ran to the bathroom to throw up. There is also a strange food, fried snail, which is called snail by locals and snail by northerners. Our hometown dialect in Guanzhong is called Guaniu. Eating this requires skill. I never got to the point. I just sucked mud into my mouth, but I couldn't suck meat, which made them laugh. Local edamame cooked with star anise is also delicious. Wherever we go, they treat us college students from other places with the best things.
After work in the afternoon, we either have dinner in a small restaurant near the unit or go back to the dormitory to cook for ourselves. Qidong people don't eat spicy food, but Qidong is famous for its small peppers. Because Qidong is Huaiyang cuisine, we put sugar in everything we do. Many of us like to eat spicy food, but we are not used to it after a long time. My friends in the north all bought a brand of boxed red beef noodles. Jiang Haitao, a handsome guy from Fuyang, Anhui, and I like noodles best. We sometimes buy handmade noodles at night, fry tomatoes and green peppers ourselves in the dormitory with an electric stove, and then pour the Sichuan spicy noodles bought in the store. More often, I follow Hongbo in Yang Man to find a small restaurant. We ask the chef not to put sugar, but to add some Qidong pepper when cooking. The locals who ate in the whole restaurant were choked by the spicy taste. We went over and ate with relish. At that time, Yanghe wine and local yellow rice wine were as smooth as boiled water for us. We clearly remember that drinking at that time made us feel the smell of wine. When we were drunk, we wouldn't throw up, but at most we fell asleep. Maybe it was because we drank too much, so we hurt our stomach. Now drinking is purely for entertainment, and you can't drink the mellow wine.
A few months passed quickly and everyone became more familiar with it. Everyone goes to school in Nanjing except me, and most of them are graduates of China Southern Airlines. Yang Hongbo, who is tall and silent, has become my most admired person. In the workshop, although the local workers don't like our lazy style, they are too arrogant to do practical things, and their wages are higher than theirs. But their temperament is very gentle, and they have been tolerant of us. When our hearts are proud, we are ungrateful. As the years have honed, I often think that if time can go back, with the current mentality, we will not be the last to leave, nor will we live up to the recruitment of section chief Yang and general manager Lu. At that time, the R&D personnel in the technical department were basically recruited from the same design institute in Chengdu, Sichuan. They also look down on us and some inexperienced students, and they are very exclusive to us, so it is difficult to learn anything from them. We can't play our strengths when we are at ease and happy, and everyone has a sense of crisis. For example, for more than a year, I only learned simple Cad drawing. I memorized the MCU instruction of mc5 1 96, but I didn't have a chance to try to design it myself. I want to feel it myself after work, and the computer of the unit has also set a password.
Slowly, we feel insignificant. Some teachers often mumble to us when chatting, and the dialect they speak often confuses us and leads to misunderstanding. On one occasion, one of our brothers mumbled a few words to others, stared at each other, immediately went over, reached out and raised a local guy's chin and scolded him. The local young people quit, and suddenly dozens of people gathered around, and some people smashed them with stools and chairs. At this moment, Yang Hongbo, a tall boy from Hunan, opened his arms. He usually speaks in a low voice and shouts, "What do you want? ! If you can do it one by one, if you can't do it together, come at me! " Immediately shocked the scene, a look at this momentum, I am from Guanzhong, Jiang Teng is from Ankang, one person picked up a beer bottle from the dining table, and two Shaanxi Lengwa frolicked and ran to Yang Hongbo's side, one left and one right, shaking the bottle and shouting, and the two sides were deadlocked. Soon someone reported to section chief Yang, and Yang rushed over and shouted at everyone, almost begging us to calm down. From then on, Yang Hongbo became my best friend. No matter what happens to us, or what mistakes our friends from other places make, as long as he is present, it is irrelevant. Yang does everything and is never afraid of being implicated. I thought to myself, no wonder some people say that China is going to perish-unless Hunan people perish! Since then, I have always maintained a good impression of Hunan people, straightforward and brave, optimistic and generous.
Haha, Yang Hongbo also has something that makes us very angry. Huang Youwen is the most talented beauty among us, kind, quiet and absolute lady. The key is good cooking, which is the goddess in our mind. However, when it was almost winter, there was incredible news that Yang Hongbo and Huang Youwen fell in love. Yang actually left the single dormitory area and went to Qidong to rent a house with him. No wonder every time after dinner, everyone bragged and played double-breasted cards together. Yang said he didn't like it and wanted to go outside. It turned out that he went to the girls' dormitory in the factory and secretly talked with Gao Jiawen. Yang's hometown is Loudi and his hometown is Lengshuijiang. He is also a fellow villager in Hunan. Honest people are sometimes very cunning, and the most annoying thing in life is that our popular lover has become our best friend's wife. Angry Brother Mao nicknamed Sunny Yang Rat, and everyone clamored for him to pay the price. From now on, it will be natural to go to the city, watch movies, or go roller skating every weekend, and eat at home in Yang Hongbo and Arvin. I don't buy anything, but everyone specifies what Yang Hongbo will buy. Cai Yang, a tall man, is not stingy and is willing to satisfy everyone. Gao Jiawen's Hunan cuisine is so delicious that I always think it's a pity that Gao Jiawen doesn't cook. It seems that after I went to so many Hunan restaurants all over the country on business, I don't think Gao Jiawen's mala Tang is so delicious. Especially the fish cooked by Arvin often appear in my dreams. There is no wine at every meal. Yang must pay the bill, eat and drink well, and we won't help clean up. At night, we will ride back. Our factory is at least 20 kilometers away from the city. At that time, I ran a race with Brother Mao, Haitao and Hao Zhihai, shouting and singing wildly. I was still young and didn't know how to worry. At night, there were few cars and people on the road. I held the frame between my legs and let go of the front of the car, showing my driving skills at will.
Although most of us are single, everyone's life is very organized, as orderly as the collective life in college. Brother Mao, Haitao, Hao Zhihai, and I share a dormitory. The dormitory of several lazy boys is always clean. Because we are all moved by the light of Hao Zhihai, his delicate and lovely girlfriend often comes to our construction site after work to clean the smelly socks under the bed and change the sheets for us. I remember that every time she worked, she loved to hum songs. Her sweet voice and clear laughter touched everyone's heart. I often envy how I didn't talk about my next girlfriend when I was in college, or how moist my life would be if I didn't get together. There is a big yard under the dormitory, and almost all the partners will go downstairs to gather here at night. The little man will do some somersaults at the summit to show his kung fu skills. Zeng Yongchun will perform some magic tricks to let everyone guess the mystery. Hao Zhihai's guitar love songs are fascinating.
When I am quiet, I like football, because Michael Jordan likes me in the NBA, and because I care about current affairs, so I will buy and read every issue of titan sports, Football News and Reference News. This is a good mental appetite for me in a foreign land.
Life is like this. There are always some unexpected misfortunes in happiness
One weekend, we went roller skating in the city. Rui Zhou accidentally slipped and had a nosebleed. Sent to the hospital, there was a news that frightened us. She got hematologic cancer. Hao Zhihai and her became the first partners to leave Qidong because they were going back to Nanchang for medical treatment. A few years later, Yang Hongbo and I curled up in a residential building in Yuhuazhai, southwest suburb of Xi, and served as the office of a company in Shenzhen. All the expenses were paid by ourselves. I remember at that time, the high monthly telephone bill gave me a headache. At that time, local calls cost 60 cents a minute, and long-distance calls were more expensive. We are short of money. Eat 40 cents biscuits every morning, two yuan a small bowl of Daoxiao Noodles at noon, and drink plenty of water. After several years of chemotherapy, Rui Zhou's condition has improved, but the recurrence is very serious. It is said that skin blood vessels are easy to rupture and you can't take a bath. I can't see people clearly. In the last days, call me and Yang Hongbo, listen to our voices and say goodbye to us one by one. Her voice on the phone is still so beautiful. She sang her favorite song "Tinker Bell" to us in Qidong, comforting and encouraging us to be strong and believing that we can succeed in our career. Yang and I cried on the phone.
Accompanied by so many brothers and sisters, I hardly missed home in the first six months.
Only when the Chinese New Year is coming, do we feel homesick and look forward to an early holiday. Our college students from other places, the unit gave us a good discount, gave us an early holiday, and people outside the province booked air tickets. After getting the double salary and bonus at the end of the year, my fellow villager Jiang Teng and I boarded a high-speed passenger ship one night, bypassed the long Chongming Island and arrived in Shanghai late at night. The next day, I went to an old Shanghai clothing store on the bustling Nanjing Road and was greeted by a warm elder sister. I tried on a suit for 1000 yuan, and I clearly remember that the brand is Peromont. "My brother is so beautiful, and his spirit is foreign!" After a few words, I was tricked into buying it by my glib elder sister. My monthly salary at that time was 1200 yuan. Although it was very high at that time, I spent nearly a month's salary on a suit, which was the first luxury in my life. I have no time to miss the prosperity of Shanghai. I remember that Shanghai was crowded everywhere, with construction sites, viaducts and viaducts everywhere. Jiang Teng had flown to Xi that afternoon. My flight is the next morning. That night I was in a hostel near Hongqiao Airport, anxious to return, and I couldn't sleep at all. I also stayed with a Japanese businessman who grew up in China and returned to Japan in his twenties. I returned to Liaocheng in my fifties to start a business. The proud old man watched me toss and turn, so he chatted with me about his childhood experience in China all night.
I remember the special scenery when I went back during the Spring Festival that year. I became the first person in my family to fly in a suit and tie. On New Year's Eve, the lucky money I gave to my nephew and niece was also a lot of money. The children were very enthusiastic when they saw me, and their vanity was greatly satisfied. I remember practicing the method of wearing a suit and tie for several days at work before going home. Until now, I still have great confidence in my necktie level.
Many people have gained love here. Besides Yang and Huang, I also found a beautiful local girl. Simple and honest fat brother Bian Zhengdong and his hometown Yancheng Dongmei came together. It's a pity that most of us are not integrated into local life. A year and a half later, everyone started to leave, most of them went to nearby Shanghai and Nanjing. Brother Mao and I went south to Shenzhen with the dream of getting rich overnight. Only the calm Jiang Haitao stayed. Now I heard that the company headquarters and R&D department have moved to Changning District, and he has become a senior backbone. Yang Hongbo and Huang Youwen started their own businesses in Shanghai. No one else has seen it. But the scene of getting together seems to be yesterday. I really hope that one day we can be together. In many late-night dreams, we all seem to want to see it, and the frolicking scene is still so kind.