Xie Liuyun waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, I was just hit from behind suddenly, so I wasn't careful. Fortunately, it's me. If an old man were standing here, he would probably fall to the ground and be injured."
After listening to Xie Liuyun's words, the middle-aged man who was traveling with the boy couldn't help scolding him again.
The boy stood very nervously, lowering his head and listening obediently to the scolding.
Seeing the boy's reserved look, Xie Liuyun couldn't stand it, so he stepped forward to persuade the middle-aged man to stop scolding the boy.
Seeing Xie Liuyun saying nice things beside him, the middle-aged man couldn't say anything else, so he raised his fist towards Xie Liuyun and said, "This gentleman reminds me that my disciple is a little rough, and I will definitely train him well in the future. Today's collision
Thank you, sir, you don't care about the villain's fault. Not only do you not have the same knowledge as him, but you also speak up for him. You are really a good person!"
Xie Liuyun looked the middle-aged man up and down and thought to himself, "I didn't expect that they are actually master and apprentice? If I didn't say it, would I have thought they were father and son?"
"Where are you going?"
Xie Liuyun felt that the master and apprentice were quite interesting, so he couldn't help but ask.
When the middle-aged man heard Xie Liuyun's question, his face was filled with sadness and he said, "I'm not going to take my apprentice out for a while and let my child see the world. It's time to become an apprentice."
Xie Liuyun was queuing up and communicating with him. At this time, the boy had exchanged places with the middle-aged man, making it easier for them to talk.
"Is this a good thing? Why do I see you looking so sad?"
"Sir, you don't know something! It's not easy to make a living wherever you go in this country that has been in war for years. No one knows what will happen in the future when you are struggling outside."
"Where are you going?"
"Hebei Handan, go there to try your luck."
"Oh! Handan is a good place. Did you go there because you are familiar with it, or for some other reason?"
"To tell you the truth, we have fellow villagers there, and I heard they are doing well, so we went over there and joined them. Maybe we can live a better life."
"Where are you from?"
"I am from our local area. If it weren't for livelihood, who would want to leave their hometown?"
Xie Liuyun listened and felt something in his heart. In recent years, the warlords have separated themselves and fought endlessly, and the people's life has been too difficult.
In these days and months, the soldiers were fighting with their lives "three hundred and sixty days a year, and most of them were fighting with horses", and the common people were living a difficult life "when the country is in the war, how can the people live happily"
, only those in power are busy fighting for power and profit. In such a huge country, no one really cares about the lives of the people.
Every time Xie Liuyun thinks about this, he sighs: When will the world be truly peaceful?
He only regretted that he was a scholar, without the strength to tie a chicken, and without the wisdom and talent. He just "had the heart to serve the country but had no way to support his life."
As a bridge engineer, he had no chance to realize his dream of building a bridge.
He once submitted the bridge plan that took more than two years to be carefully designed and drawn to the bureau, hoping to put it into practice. He also looked forward to contributing to Tonglu's transportation construction and solving the problem of people's travel difficulties.
However, the reply he was waiting for from his superiors was that the proposed plan did not meet the actual social situation, and his plan was rejected by his superiors.
He reported to his superiors several times to seek opportunities to establish construction projects, but every time he was met with failure. He was even criticized by his superiors, saying that he was too ambitious, willing to pursue unrealistic honors, and too obsessed with fame and fortune.
He had no way to serve the country, and he was given several unreasonable labels for no reason, which made him very depressed for a time.
Frustrated, he put all his planning and design drawings in the box and pushed them under the bed, too lazy to move.
What was put in the box and never saw the light of day was not just the drawings, but also his career and dreams. He was heartbroken and didn't want to touch them anymore.
As an engineer at the Highway Bureau, what he does now is to check the usage of existing bridges and count the areas in need of repair on bridges and roads, just like a statistician.
There was a project under construction, and Xie Liuyun was young and a technical backbone, so he would always be sent out to join the project department with the construction unit.
Every time like this, Xie Liuyun is happy. It is better to be on a busy construction site than to be in a daze in a lifeless office.
Of course, the construction units he worked with were all engineering companies established by foreigners. The highway bureau publicly invited bids for road administration projects. Ironically, there were no Chinese companies among the construction units.
This is all because their highway bureau does not have the funds to build new bridges and roads. Facing the weak national conditions, they can only let companies established by foreigners with deep pockets to carry out the construction. I feel angry and helpless.
In the words of Xie Liuyun and his fellow bridge workers, this situation is like, "The highway bureau does not build roads but only looks at the roads; the bridge bureau does not build bridges but only cross bridges." The highway bureau is just a decoration of a government department, which looks good but is useless.
They, engineers and technicians, are completely different from those mediocre bureaucrats who live in a dream.
Those people who are doing nothing will eventually be eliminated. People with real talents and knowledge do not bother to associate with them.
The technicians in the Highway Bureau encourage each other. Although the current environment is not good, the country's difficult situation will definitely change. Even in the dark and no dawn, they have not lost the desire to build in their hearts.
Otherwise, I would not come to work here and stick to it.
As one of these people, Xie Liuyun always reminds himself that since there is no chance to realize his wish to make the natural chasm into a road, he should study hard, reserve knowledge, and accumulate experience. When the opportunity comes, he will be able to flex his muscles and realize his ambitions.
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Xie Liuyun believes that this day will definitely come. After all, he is still young and still has time.
Seeing Xie Liuyun's silence, the middle-aged man asked: "Sir, did I say something wrong and make you unhappy?"
"No, no, I just suddenly thought of something on my mind."
"Oh! That's good, sir, where are you going?"
"I'm going to visit relatives and go back to my hometown."
In order to change the topic, Xie Liuyun deliberately asked the middle-aged man: "What do you and your apprentice do? You still have to go to other places to make a living. Isn't it the same here?"
The middle-aged man shook his head and rubbed his hands, "We are magicians. Traveling around is a must. Whether you are willing or not, you are destined to eat this bowl of rice. Now that the apprentice has learned it, he will not take it out to practice.
After all, it won’t work. Don’t you think so?”
Xie Liuyun nodded, feeling that what this middle-aged man said made sense.