The hot summer day is scorching the earth. In a bamboo forest, many people in the village are enjoying the cool air.
Among them was a young man who was about seventeen or eighteen years old, thin and about 175cm tall, sitting on a stone, quietly listening to the gossip of the old people and women in the village.
But these old men didn't keep him quiet for too long. One of them said: "Yuhang, it doesn't matter if you didn't go to college. Graduating from high school is very popular now. Tomorrow your third uncle will come back from the district, and then let your third uncle come back."
Uncle will help you plan and see if you can apply for a job in a government unit or public institution."
The old man who spoke was named Li Cailiang, Li Yuhang’s grandfather. He was just over sixty years old. He had been living in the countryside for a long time and was tired in this era. It was good to have enough food. He wanted to be like Li Yuhang in the second century in the 21st century.
It is impossible to eat meat every day for ten years, so he looks older.
This year is 1993, it is August now, and the soul of our classmate Li Yuhang is a little different.
The college entrance examination is extremely important for high school students in any era, especially during this period in 1993, when the package allocation for college students had not been cancelled, and those who passed the college entrance examination could work in the government or state-owned enterprises and institutions.
After Li Yuhang's test results came out, he fell seriously ill. When he woke up again, his soul had become the soul of decades later.
In the memory of this soul, after failing the college entrance examination, he followed his third uncle to the city and applied for a job in a public institution with a high school diploma.
For decades, due to his personality problems, he has not made a name for himself in the workplace. However, he is fortunate to have a fairly virtuous wife who has always been by his side. The two of them have a lovely daughter.
However, something unexpected happened. During his daughter's freshman year, his wife left him and his lovely daughter forever due to an illness.
In the following years, except for smiling a little when his daughter came home, he was always depressed, and even more so at work.
Now that he is 18 years old, he knows that this is just a different time and space, because many place names here have changed, which is slightly different from the previous life, but the general development is not any different from the previous life, not even his own existence or even his relatives.
Variety.
He didn't know why this happened, but fortunately, his lovely daughter already had a good home. The daughter herself was a famous middle school teacher in the city, and her husband was also a teacher at this school. He didn't have to feel for his daughter in her previous life.
Worry.
Li Yuhang's father, Li Chengze, works as a driver for Guocheng Motor Transport Company and specializes in running the line from Guocheng to Yuzhou. His mother, Wang Bixia, takes care of him and his two younger sisters at home.
Li Yuhang's family is currently doing well in the village. His grandfather is the village accountant, his uncle Li Chengzhi is the teaching director of the town's junior high school, and his eldest aunt is a mathematics teacher at the school.
My cousin Li Yuxuan is 20 years old, a student at Sichuan University, and will be a junior in the second half of the year.
His cousin Li Yujia was in the same year as him and had just applied for the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. She had no problem getting into this university with her ranking first in the city and sixth in the province in science in the college entrance examination.
If Li Yujia is the representative of academic masters, then Li Yuhang is a complete academic scumbag.
His third uncle, Li Chengdong, is 35 years old. In 1977, the year the college entrance examination was resumed, he was admitted to the then Sichuan Normal University (now Sichuan Normal University, not West China Normal University).
After graduating in 1981, he entered Sichuan University to study political economics as a graduate student, and successfully obtained his graduate degree in 1984.
In the same year, he entered Guocheng County in the Guocheng region and became an assistant to the county government chief. In 1985, he became the deputy chief of the Guocheng County government. In 1989, he served as the full-time deputy chief of the Guocheng County Party Committee, responsible for party building work.
In 1992, the Guocheng area was abolished and a prefecture-level city was established. Guocheng County and Guocheng City (county-level city) were abolished and three districts were established. His third uncle became the head of the Jianan District Committee.
Tomorrow his third uncle will be on vacation and will come back with his third aunt and cousin to visit Li Cailiang and them. This is why Li Cailiang said this.
Li Yuhang now knows the future situation of his third uncle. Retirement with a department-level salary is very good for ordinary people, but there are still many regrets for his third uncle. In a few years, he will serve as deputy director of the Guocheng City Government.
Sir.
Then he worked at the deputy department level for many years, and finally became the chief of the Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference just before retirement.
Li Yuhang also knows the reason for this. For a child who comes from rural areas, his father is just a village accountant and his wife's family background is relatively ordinary. It is not easy to reach this point.
Li Yuhang, who has decades of memories, no longer wants to follow the same old path. He no longer wants to hang out in a public institution.
Not long after the speech on the southern tour, another spring came to the land of China. He wanted to use his own efforts to drive the villagers in the village to have a good harvest and become prosperous together, and to make his life more valuable.
The motherland's economic boom is about to take off, and he will use this opportunity to stop himself from being troubled by money, and to help himself succeed while helping his family and fellow villagers develop together.
But he can't tell his grandfather about this now. He knows very well that in the minds of the older generation, the iron job is king, and what he wants to do will be considered as not being enterprising.
He will communicate with his third uncle after he comes back tomorrow. As long as his third uncle agrees, he won't worry about his mother and grandfather stopping him.
He said aloud: "Grandpa, don't worry, I'm fine. Although I didn't go to college, I believe I can still make a career."
Listening to his grandson's confident expression, Li Cailiang felt a lot more relieved. He didn't expect each of his grandsons to become a dragon or a phoenix, as long as they could be safe and sound.
In this era, with the country's good policies, as long as people are diligent enough, they will not go hungry, which is much better than when he was young.
Li Yuhang's second grandfather (Li Cailiang's second brother) smiled and said: "Third brother, you don't have to worry about Yuhang. If Chengdong doesn't work, I'll ask Chengxing to take Yuhang to Yuzhou. As long as Yuhang is willing to learn and work, it won't be long."
You can make a difference."
Li Chengxing, the eldest son of Li Caiming, the second grandfather of Li Yuhang, came to Yuzhou in 1988 and now specializes in making small parts for construction sites. Although he is not a wealthy family, he is now considered a well-off family.
"Second brother, let's see tomorrow. If it really doesn't work, let Yuhang go to Chengxing. It will be a bit tough, but the income will be much more than in enterprises and institutions."
Grandpa Li Yuhang (fourth brother of Li Cailiang) also said with a smile: "As a big family, we can find a more promising job for Yuhang.
Yuhang, if your third uncle's place doesn't work, and you don't want to go to your uncle Chengze's place, then go to your second uncle Chenglin's place. He has a garment factory over there in Rongcheng. With your culture, go in and study for a while.
Assist your second uncle Chenglin in managing the garment factory."
Grandma Yao who was on the side said unhappily: "Li Cailiang, there is Chengdong in Yuhang, why do you need to worry about it? Enterprises and institutions are iron rice bowls, Chenglin is just a small factory, there is no future at all."
Li Yuhang knew the character of such a grandma quite well. It was difficult for the whole family to live in harmony, especially between the sisters-in-law, who always had some conflicts.
This grandma is very afraid that people from other houses will take advantage of her own house, so she is not willing to provide help to other houses.
Li Yuhang's grandma Wu Xiuzhen couldn't bear to hear what his aunt's grandma said, and immediately responded: "Guilan, don't worry, Yuhang's work will not trouble Chenglin. I believe that my grandson can still find him even without anyone's help."
Let’s eat.”
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, the second mistress quickly interrupted the discussion about Li Yuhang's work to prevent the two of them from quarreling. Now that the grandchildren are so old, the impact of a quarrel would not be good.