Wenzhou, Zhejiang to Quanzhou, Fujian, the whole journey is 498 kilometers. Every night, a young girl born in the 1995 who is less than 1.6 meters tall has to drive a 9.6 meters express truck back and forth on the expressway between the two places.
The truck is holding her favorite song. When driving at night, the most difficult and dangerous thing is sleepy . The whole journey takes 8 and a half hours. At three or four in the morning, it is the most sleepy time.
Before leaving the car, the little girl will prepare the pepper noodles. When sleepy comes, she will grab a handful of pepper noodles and throw it into her mouth. The spicy energy is not only so spicy that tears flow, but also instantly becomes energetic and has no sleepiness.
In order to save money, eating and sleeping are solved in the car. I never want to stay in a hotel and wash it in the bathroom on the server. The girl is Zhang Lin, who is an ordinary truck driver.
People often advise Zhang Lin, you are a girl, just take care of the children at home. And why should a girl choose such a dangerous and hard-working truck driver?
Zhang Lin, a girl born in the 1995, has her own stubbornness and a spirit of not admitting defeat in her bones. She is willing to endure hardships and does not care about other people's opinions, because she has her own dreams and the insecurity brought to her by her original family. Only by working hard and achieving financial independence with her own hands can she bring a sense of security.
Zhang Lin was born in a small mountain village in Yiliang County, Yunnan. Although the village is surrounded by mountains and rivers and has beautiful scenery, it is a poor village. The people in the village are also conservative in their thoughts and have many bad habits.
Zhang Lin's parents also have the concept of favoring boys over girls. The family is not in good condition. If your parents have any delicious food, they will give it to Zhang Lin's brother first.
Zhang Lin’s turn to do good things. Housework and farm work cannot be lost. When Zhang Lin was a child, she had to help her parents chop firewood, cook, wash clothes, and feed pigs. Even on weekends, Zhang Lin had endless work.
Girls are just money-losing goods, and raising them is also for others to raise them. This is a saying that Zhang Lin’s mother said. Just like that, Zhang Lin graduated from elementary school and didn’t even go to junior high school.
Because Zhang Lin's parents were unwilling to support her in school, they told her that the family had no money and could not afford the tuition. Zhang Lin knew what her parents meant, so she could only obey.
Next, Zhang Lin’s parents’ approach directly changed her destiny.
Zhang Lin was 15 years old, a matchmaker came to her family. The matchmaker knew Zhang Lin’s parents’ thoughts very well, and she said that if the little girl didn’t marry, she would also be an idle meal at home.
As he said, the matchmaker also took out a 6,000 yuan betrothal gift. The moment he saw the bride, Zhang Lin's father made the decision at that time, echoing the matchmaker's words, "Yes, girl, I'll get married sooner or later."
Zhang Lin's parents married their daughter to a man ten years older than her for a bride price of 6,000. The parents' orders of matchmakers, and a marriage was decided hastily.
Compared to life at home, after marrying into her husband's house, Zhang Lin's life was even more messy, and she still had endless housework and farm work. In addition, there were also mother-in-law who had no good face and a drunk husband.
On one side is the mother-in-law's accusations and abuses, and on the other side is the husband who beat her up after being drunk. After being beaten for the first time, Zhang Lin chose to call the police and went back to her parents' home to seek help.
Seeing Zhang Lin being beaten, no one in her family felt sorry for her. Her brother sent her back to her in-laws' house directly. Her family didn't help her, and Zhang Lin's husband became even more unscrupulous.
Zhang Lin lives in dire straits, but is isolated and helpless. She was beaten the most seriously by her husband. Zhang Lin lies in bed for more than half a month and cannot get out of bed.
Such a life is dark, and Zhang Lin slowly woke up. She wanted to escape from here, escape from this warmthless home, and walk out of this poor and backward mountain village.
With the 500 private money she saved for frugality, Zhang Lin quietly ran out of her husband's house and boarded the train to Hangzhou.
The first time he went out alone, the simple Zhang Lin did not favor her from the goddess of luck. The thief who favored her was the stolen. On the train, Zhang Lin's wallet and luggage were stolen.
has no relatives and is penniless. Zhang Lin wants to find a job quickly. In the past four days, Zhang Lin not only hasn't found a job, but hasn't eaten a meal, and she walks lightly.
When she was most desperate, the owner of a noodle restaurant saved her. Faced with Zhang Lin's plea, the owner of the noodle restaurant not only cooked a bowl of noodles for her, but also agreed to temporarily take Zhang Lin in as a waiter in the noodle restaurant. In the days after
, Zhang Lin entered an electronics factory and did housekeeping services. It doesn’t matter how hard he worked. As long as the salary was high, Zhang Lin was willing to do it. In her spare time, she also has the hobbies of a post-95 girl, watching videos, watching handsome guys, and sharing her beautiful life.
Just during this period, a truck driver appeared in the comment section of Zhang Lin’s video. After a while, the two met, and Zhang Lin was directly fascinated by the truck driver’s handsomeness.
The young man was named Chen Xun. The two chatted very well and quickly confirmed their relationship. They got married after two months of knowing each other. Zhang Lin did not hide the past and told Chen Xun that he had married in his hometown and had a son. Chen Xun said that he would let it go if he had passed, and he didn't mind.
The wedding of the two is very unique. The wedding car is a team of big trucks. After the flowers are decorated, it has a unique flavor. This special wedding also opened the happy life of the two.
After getting married, Chen Xun wanted Zhang Lin to prepare for a life of taking care of her husband and children at home. However, Zhang Lin knew the importance of women's independence, and she wanted to make money even more by working.
Zhang Lin secretly applied for the B2 driver's license, and also got the driver's license very smoothly, and got the stepping stone of the truck driver. However, it was not until she was looking for a job that Zhang Lin knew how difficult it was to find a female driver.
Hard work pays off. After several job searches failed, Zhang Lin received a call from one of the express delivery companies. There was something wrong with the driver who made an appointment and asked Zhang Lin if he could try it out.
opportunity was in front of him. Zhang Lin agreed without thinking and successfully ran the trip. The express company was very satisfied with Zhang Lin's skills and personality, so she hired her.
Zhang Lin and Chen Xun are two truck drivers. Most of the time they spend traveling on the road, and they can only meet once a week. However, life is still very promising.
A year, the hard work of the two has brought joy to harvest. They saved money to buy a private car, which is an Audi . Chen Xun also joked, for my Audi, your Dior work hard.
Sitting in the Audi car, Zhang Lin also smiled happily, with a dream-like expression on her face, and she couldn't believe it was true. They drove their own Audi, and they went to the beach together, and celebrated their birthday for Zhang Lin. In front of the cake, Zhang Lin made a wish to buy a house. At that moment, Zhang Lin was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Having a stable income and a happy family, Zhang Lin finally mustered up the courage to take Chen Xun home to see her parents. After a few years of coming out, Zhang Lin only went home once, but she secretly ran back to get her ID card.
No matter how his family treated her, after all, it was her parents. Zhang Lin chose to forgive her. The couple bought a lot of gifts for their parents. After the reunion dinner, Zhang Lin took her parents to the city to go shopping and personally selected new clothes for them.
In Zhang Lin's heart, there is another person she can't let go of the most, that is her child. Her son is already in elementary school. After Zhang Lin finished shopping with her parents, she ran to school alone to see the child.
When Zhang Lin arrived at the teacher's door, she was already very excited. After the bell rang, Zhang Lin asked the other students to call out their son. I haven't seen each other for many years and I only contacted me by phone. My son did not recognize that the woman in front of me was his mother.
Zhang Lin hugged her son and said, "I am your mother!" Zhang Lin said sorry to you, mom, looking at the mother who suddenly appeared in front of her, familiar and unfamiliar. The child did not react for a moment, and just let Zhang Lin hug her expressionlessly.
class bell rang, and Zhang Lin was reluctant to let her son go to the classroom to attend class. In this class, the teacher took the students to read the text. Zhang Lin's son pressed the book with one hand and began to wipe his tears with the other hand. Only then did the child realize that the one who came to see him was his mother whom he longed for.
Zhang Lin could no longer suppress her emotions. She walked to the edge of the corridor and started crying. No matter how hard or tiring life was, Zhang Lin always faced it optimistically, but when she saw the child, Zhang Lin felt too much in her heart.
After crying, Zhang Lin took advantage of the lunch time to call Chen Xun and asked him if he wanted to accompany him to see the child. Unexpectedly, Chen Xun not only refused herself, but also asked Zhang Lin not to go, and to completely break up with the past.
Zhang Lin hung up the phone, calmed down, continued to go out to the streets, first went to the mobile phone store to see the phone watch his son wanted. When he learned that he could not open the card at that time, Zhang Lin decided to buy it for his child from the Internet.
Then, Zhang Lin went to the supermarket to buy a lot of delicious snacks, and bought another children's bicycle . He came to his ex-husband's house to see the children with a large bag.
The former mother-in-law listened to Zhang Lin’s conversation with the child, and had no expression on her face. Zhang Lin turned on the jelly for the child and started eating it. The mother and son finally seemed less strange, and the child also started chatting with Zhang Lin happily.
In the yard, the child rode the children's bicycle bought by Zhang Lin in circles. Zhang Lin also sat on the bicycle like a child, landed on the ground with his feet, and started playing with his son.
On the other hand, Zhang Lin and her son spent several hours of happy time, while on the other hand, Chen Xun, who knew the situation, was full of anger.
Zhang Lin returned home, and Chen Xun had a big fight with her. Zhang Lin asked Chen Xun, don’t you care about my past? Don’t you mind that I’ve been married and have children?
Chen Xun said, I don’t mind your past, but I can’t accept your past. Raising other people’s children will be looked down upon. Chen Xun wanted Zhang Lin to completely cut off relations with her past family, including her son.
Zhang Lin was not willing to give up her child. She already felt that she owed too much to her child. She lacked love in her childhood, and she didn't want her child to experience her own pain.
Zhang Lin works hard to be independent, have the final say, and can keep the happy life she wants. The two quarreled several times, but no one could convince anyone. Three months later, they divorced.
Life continues, Zhang Lin is still driving a big truck and her hard work has earned a monthly salary of 15,000. In addition to spending 5,000 on her daily expenses for herself and her children, Zhang Lin can save 10,000 a month.
Zhang Lin works so hard, hoping to buy a car and a house through her own hands and have a happy small family.
Zhang Lin's experience was made into the documentary "Under the Firewood, Rice, Oil and Salt" by Oscar-winning director Covings. This is one of the episodes called "Lin Bao".
90s have become the main force in all walks of life today. They have less exaggerated as young as they were and have more fighting spirit. They have new ideas different from those of the previous generation. They pursue independence and freedom more and know how to create a new life with their own efforts.
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