Text: It’s fate
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Qingqiu said: Life is short, and living in the present requires both hard work and enjoyment. As long as you work hard to pursue the goals you set, there is no need to regret even if you fail to succeed. Perhaps the path Qingqiu has traveled is a true portrayal of our generation.
Qingqiu’s mother, my aunt, went to the commune hospital with stomachache on National Day. After persisting for more than 20 hours, she gave birth to Qingqiu the next day.
I don’t know whether it was the Gengwu Year or the Xuhai Year. Anyway, it was the National Day one day before and the Mid-Autumn Festival the next day. Qingqiu's father is an electrician in the brigade and also drives a tractor. His conditions are much better than those in our family. The key is that Qingqiu's father is literate and is said to be in junior high school.
At that time, we were in a brigade, with only a few junior high school students in total. We could have chosen to be teachers or study medicine. However, because his family was a middle peasant, he failed to pass the political examination and was expelled.
His father had originally planned that if he gave birth to a baby on that day, he would name it National Day, which would be fashionable and elegant. But his mother didn't give birth to him until the next day, which was the Mid-Autumn Festival. His father had an idea and named the baby Qingqiu (National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival), avoiding common names such as Bing, Guo, Dong, Jun, and Min.
Because of this, on the full moon day of Qingqiu, his father drank three more glasses of wine. Everyone praised his father for being highly educated, discerning, and unique in his name. In the end, his father got so excited that he drank too much, leaned under the table, and kept chanting: Son! This is how I am, now it’s all up to you!
Everyone tried their best to help him clarify the eternal law of "a tiger father has no dog son", but the more he got drunk, the more drunk he became. Later, he simply fell asleep and woke up after a day and night.
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lives up to expectations, Qingqiu is smart and naughty. When the village asked his father to plow the fields, repair electric switches or install lights, his father liked to take them with him to celebrate autumn. He would eat well every day and occasionally bring them back home. Qingqiu is not stingy and secretly shares food with us every time.
In the early summer when Qingqiu was ten years old, four of us children of the same age dug a smoke-exhaust earth stove on the steep slope by the river behind our house, commonly known as a "wild pot." We boiled green broad beans in river water, caught river shrimps, and four local eggs that Qingqiu brought from home. We held the river water in our hands and swore to God that we were sworn brothers in Taoyuan, and we would never leave each other since then.
In the blink of an eye, we were all in junior high school. I scored 21 points in the math test, and got a glorious 6 points in the six multiple-choice questions in English. So I was assigned to study in the first and second grades of junior high school for two years each.
and celebrate autumn, making great progress all the way. At that time, there were fast and slow classes. Qingqiu not only entered the fast class, but also ranked among the top twenty in his grade. Qingqiu never did any homework, and always created opportunities for his father to interview the head teacher and principal.
In the classroom at that time, there were many students, the space was small, and the desks were tight in front and behind. At the table in front of Qingqiu, a girl who was born bald was wearing a low-quality wig. Qingqiu used medical tape and just put the girl's wig on his desk. Unexpectedly, the girl was called on by the teacher to answer a question. The girl stood up and the wig was pulled off forcefully. The whole class couldn't help laughing. .
Qingqiu was severely beaten by his father for the first time.
White bell-bottoms were popular at that time. Once, a female classmate in the class had her period, but she didn't know it. Qingqiu saw the cherry red behind the white pants, and immediately organized a dozen male classmates to circle around the girl, as if they were watching orangutans in a zoo, and everyone laughed while spinning.
For this reason, Qingqiu got another beating from his father.
and so on, in short, Qingqiu did not make parents and teachers worry.
Speaking of the high school entrance examination that year, our school's three junior high school students, more than 150 people, passed one technical secondary school (technical secondary schools were very prestigious at that time) and nine ordinary high schools.Qingqiu, who had never even done his homework, was naughty and mischievous, and suddenly squeezed into the ranks of the nine people.
Qingqiu has always had many stories. He is an open-minded person and has good family conditions. After entering high school, except for Qingqiu's academic performance deterioration (because he firmly believed that learning is useless), everything else was improving. He became obsessed with badminton, table tennis, and falling in love (Qingqiu's wife later became the school beauty at that time).
Qingqiu often hums songs such as "A Fire in Winter", "Naruwan Love Song", and "Blood-Stained Style", which makes him feel very happy.
His family has excellent conditions. Wearing a thirty-yuan Zhongshan watch and riding a model 28 Phoenix bicycle. Qingqiu was not late for class for a few days. Every time he entered the classroom, he used his shiny leather shoes with nailed soles (an iron bump was nailed on the heels) to beat the drum beat on the ground. The rhythm was bright and exciting. Everyone is envious.
Qingqiu is also good at handwriting. Any font, whether running script, official script, , or regular script, can be used in everything. This has become a beautiful scenery in Qingqiu. Qingqiu is the target of many girls, so he has no motivation to study hard. Qingqiu lived a prosperous life, and our other three adopted brothers learned trades one after another after graduating from junior high school. I learned bricklaying.
After three years of high school, Qingqiu barely obtained his diploma. His father asked him to repeat the studies, but he firmly refused. After graduation, Qingqiu stayed at home every day with nothing to do. He has visited almost all of the video halls in the city that have four entrances, east, west, north and south, and tickets cost 50 cents each. He told us that he was really tired of playing.
One accidental afternoon, the loudspeaker of the commune suddenly sounded, announcing the recruitment. Qingqiu was not calm anymore, so a few of us secretly went to take a physical examination together. That winter I joined the army with him.
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The green stuffy tank train carries our infinite longings. After more than 70 hours of bumps, we arrived at the foot of the Tianshan in the northwest border, a powerful engineering force that opened roads in the mountains and built bridges in the water.
Qingqiu is always so excellent and outstanding. After more than three months of arduous military training, during the recruit competition, Qingqiu won the first place in the regiment's rifle live ammunition shooting with a score of 50 rounds with five bullets; the regiment's hard-pen calligraphy competition won the first place one. Qingqiu has almost become a celebrity and the pride of our fellow villagers.
Qingqiu directly started working as a clerk and an ordnance officer. He was the squad leader in the miscellaneous class at the company headquarters, but we were still training hard every day.
In his second year as a soldier, another good news came. Qingqiu won another runner-up in the military zone 's combined weapon decomposition and combined competition in lightless conditions. For this competition, Qingqiu trained hundreds or thousands of times every day while blindfolding himself. The hearts of his ten fingers were all bruised and bleeding. He put on band-aids and continued to train unremittingly. After his hard work, he got results.
At that time, with his unparalleled artistic calligraphy (there were very few computers at that time, all artistic calligraphy was written by hand), he won the championship in the military blackboard newspaper competition, achieved third-class merit, , and joined the party, leaving us fellow villagers behind. It's more than half a street.
Qingqiu's glory has reached its limit, and the group must focus on training him, but Qingqiu does not take the ordinary path. Each company has one quota to apply for the military academy every year. Based on the company's performance in all aspects, the company will consider giving this quota to Qingqiu.
Qingqiu was stunned and gave it to a health worker in the class who also performed well, because the health worker was a Sichuan soldier and an orphan. Qingqiu said that health workers should be trained and promoted. Qingqiu is always like this, thinking about others, putting the rest of us to shame.
Qingqiu women are very popular. But Qingqiu is very sensible and practical. During a chance encounter, two girls from Frontier University fell in love with Qingqiu at the same time. We grew up in the Yangtze River Delta, and the two girls are from the northwest. There are quite a few differences in customs, habits, and food culture.
Perhaps it was because Qingqiu had already fallen in love with the school beauty when he was in school, or perhaps because he was unwilling to hurt either of them, Qingqiu reluctantly left his beloved military camp. So many years later, when we talked about this topic, his answer was that people have to face reality.
Qingqiu loves to drink and lives a free and easy life. No difficulties can trouble him. This will always be a mystery to us. He is careless and seems to be undisciplined and lazy, but as long as it is something he wants to do, no matter how difficult it is, he will do it well. As he said, if you work hard, even if you don't succeed, you will never regret it. This is what he asks his soldiers every time at the squad meeting.
His results speak for themselves. He smiles every day. No one knows what he is thinking or why he is always cheerful and never seems to be worried about anything.
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In a blink of an eye, we are all married.
I have been working in a rural enterprise assigned to me by the army, working eight hours a day, and my life is neither salty nor boring. When Qingqiu was demobilized, he was assigned to do secretarial work in the township government, but he did not obey the assignment. He said that he could not serve an official. We have never been able to understand his behavior.
At this time, the driver's license he obtained in the army inspired him to do self-employed transportation. So, he took out a loan to buy a Dongfeng Cummins , and it was affiliated with an electrical equipment factory in the county for transportation. After two years of hard work, the factory went bankrupt, and only 20% of the more than 200,000 yuan in freight was paid. Qingqiu suffered a loss, but he did not cry. He said it was God's arrangement.
For many years, Qingqiu traveled around, worked in several professions, and encountered many obstacles. He didn't want to go to work in the factory, saying that he was too wild and couldn't stand the eight-hour restraint.
Later, Qingqiu set up a business with his friends, making handicrafts, bamboo ornaments and the like, all of which were exported to Japan. But the good times didn't last long. The Southeast Asian financial crisis broke out. My brother Qingqiu suffered a loss, so much that he couldn't find the north, and it was very miserable.
None of this troubled Qingqiu. He worked in freight transportation, drove a taxi, and worked as a teacher in a training class...
Qingqiu's wife was very beautiful, virtuous, and considerate. It was she and Qingqiu who encouraged each other and spent that extremely difficult time together.
Their daughters may have inherited their intelligence! I passed all the tests, went to a key high school, went to a prestigious university, and finally went abroad to study at a world-class university of finance and economics . Everything was provided by Qingqiu and his wife. No matter how hard it was, Qingqiu was always happy. In addition to the high expenses for her daughter's study abroad, Qingqiu finally had a surplus.
Maybe fate is always playing tricks on people! Three years ago, Qingqiu was diagnosed with malignant tumors. He was transferred to many hospitals and spent more than 400,000 yuan that he originally planned to buy a house, but he was still optimistic.
He was undergoing chemotherapy that day, and I called him to inquire about his situation. On the phone, he was still laughing, as humorous as ever, and I could never figure him out.
A few years have passed and now all of us are almost over fifty. Qingqiu is still the same Qingqiu, always happy and carefree.
Although his life is not very refined, it always lives up to his youth. He never felt arrogant because of success, nor did he retreat because of failure. His mentality is so admirable and unbelievable.
Maybe, this is what we all should have!
