With two thousand yuan given by his parents and earnest advice, Li Lei, dragging his heavy suitcase, got on the sleeper bus bound for Suzhou. There were dozens of technical secondary school graduates in the same car.
The fate is the same, who knows what the future will be like?
The sleeper bus is not very comfortable to sit in, because the cabin is filled with all kinds of unpleasant smells, including foot odor, body odor and various food smells, which mix together and make people feel dizzy.
Not long after we drove out of Yibin, someone got motion sick and vomited. At this time, the smell inside the car was even more unbearable.
But there was no other way, and it was impossible to get out of the car, so Li Lei had no choice but to cover his head with a quilt, which made him feel slightly better.
There were many distracting thoughts in his mind. This was the first time for Li Lei to leave his hometown and go to such a distant city, so he was still nervous inside, not knowing what would happen when he got there.
The past few years of technical secondary school have been wasted, and it is impossible for me to be professionally qualified. I am no different from those migrant workers who graduated from junior high school. I have to learn everything from scratch.
When he was a child, Li Lei really had no worries. In the eyes of everyone, he was an obedient child with good grades. Others envied Li Shu and Wang Yuying for having such an outstanding child, but now, his parents will definitely be laughed at.
Yes, Li Lei felt that he was very useless. No matter how good his grades were, he would be worse than those children with poor grades in the end.
Li Lei remembers that when he was a child, his parents were in town and asked a fortune teller to tell his fortune. The fortune teller said that Li Lei had good horoscopes and would be an official when he grew up. This made his parents very happy.
Who doesn’t want their children to be successful? After hearing this, Li Lei also felt that he would be great when he grows up.
Now, everything has come to nothing. I still don’t know how to take this long road to work? Whether I can earn money to support myself is a question, let alone realize my childhood ideal.
Li Lei recalled that when he was in the third grade of junior high school, Zhang Dongqiang, a classmate in the next class whose grades were about the same as his, refused to take the technical secondary school examination and had a very unpleasant incident with his teacher because of this.
You must know that teachers in rural schools all hope that their children can take the technical secondary school entrance examination and have a solid job in the future. After all, many rural families do not have the economic conditions to go to high school and then take the college entrance examination. This is also for the benefit of the children.
However, Zhang Dongqiang is different from others. He just didn't take the technical secondary school examination because his ideal was to be admitted to Fudan University. In the end, he really didn't take the technical secondary school entrance examination. He got admitted to the key county No. 1 Middle School as he wished. Just last summer,
This kid actually got admitted to Fudan University and became a hot topic for a while.
Li Lei regrets it now. If he had been like Zhang Dongqiang at that time, maybe he should be studying in a prestigious university now, but now he has become the worst group of people.
There are many checkpoints in life, and choices are very important. It is a pity that Li Lei made the wrong choice. If he had chosen not to take the technical secondary school entrance examination, he would have probably gone to a prestigious university. But if he had listened to his teachers and parents, he had taken the entrance examination.
Secondary Normal School, then last year I had the honor of becoming a people's teacher.
Of these three paths, he chose the most wrong one!
The fate of different people begins to change at a certain intersection.
Zhang Dongqiang later graduated from Fudan University, became a civil servant, and slowly grew into a national cadre. Twenty years later, every time Li Lei thought of this kid, he felt that the fortune teller had made a mistake when he told him the fortune.
, as if he was calculating for Zhang Dongqiang.
Or maybe for some reason, his destiny has been changed, otherwise he should be similar to Zhang Dongqiang.
But for Li Lei, if he chooses to go to high school or enter college, his parents will be under great pressure. After all, four years of college will cost tens of thousands of yuan, but this money is not a big deal for Li Lei, who is not rich to begin with.
For the Lei family, it was a huge sum of money.
Li Lei knew that his family could only get more than 10,000 yuan at most, which was not enough to support him in college unless his parents both worked hard to make money.
But what is the condition of the mother? Her condition is already relatively serious, how can she go out to work? This is something Li Lei would not want to see even to death, so at that time Li Lei resolutely did not choose not to take the technical secondary school entrance examination, or he had no choice
If you deliberately fail the exam and fail to pass the technical secondary school, you can go to the county No. 1 middle school.
After three days of long journey, the bus finally arrived in Suzhou, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River and a paradise on earth.
As soon as he got off the car, Li Lei felt like he had entered paradise. Compared with Yibin, the city of Suzhou is really much more beautiful. It is antique. Many buildings maintain a simple style and the street environment is
Very neat too.
Everyone felt pretty good and began to look forward to their future life.
This group of technical secondary school graduates were arranged by the employment agency, so Li Lei could only follow the team and soon arrived in front of a residential building.
Li Lei felt very strange, how could it be a place like this? Following him upstairs, the people from the employment agency said that everyone would settle here first, and then they would arrange for everyone to go to the factory.
Of course, the thirty-something people are all living on the floor. Although this living environment is a bit bad, there is no other way. They have come, and everyone can only accept this reality.
This scene is very similar to a pyramid scheme many years later.
Graduates were picked up one after another and arranged to go to factories in Suzhou.
Two days passed, and seeing that most of the people were gone, Li Lei became a little anxious. Fortunately, it was finally his turn.
Li Lei and five other people followed the people from the employment agency, went downstairs, and entered the compartment of a minivan. When the door closed, Li Lei felt his heart skip a beat. Wait a moment.
You won't be dragged to some remote place and sold, right?
The truck started speeding on the road, and the people inside felt uncomfortable. They were getting motion sick, being tossed around, and there were no seats. It was almost suffocating inside.
Two people couldn't help but vomited, and the smell became stronger at this time. Li Lei and the other three people also vomited.
It was uncomfortable, but I couldn't get out of the car. I don't know how long it took, but the car finally stopped.
When the car door clanged open, Li Lei couldn't wait to go home immediately. Even helping his parents with farm work at home was better than suffering this pain.
But I can't go back now. If I just go back like this, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing?
These thoughts flashed through Li Lei's mind quickly, so he had to accept the reality.
In front of you is a small factory. The door has been closed. There are a few aggressive-looking security guards and two big wolf dogs guarding the door. It seems that this is a factory that no one is allowed to leave at all.