Our protagonist Zhang Yanyan is the mother of two children.
Zhang Yanyan was forty years old that year. Because she got married early, her children grew up. The eldest girl was already a freshman. Her second had just finished the college entrance examination. She really had no source of income at home. She was anxious when she saw her husband who was not making money! The two children had no tuition fees to go to school, and they saw that their families had no income. The apple trees were planted several years later than others. Others were happy to sell money. Her eyes were red and she couldn't sleep all night. Looking at the starry sky outside the window, she decided to go to the city to work during the slack season. She took her son who was on summer vacation and went to the provincial capital to work to earn tuition.
Zhang Yanyan only thought that the mother and mother would go home after working for two months. Her son's tuition fee was almost enough. Who knew that there would never be a chance to look back again when she went there.
She and her son Chen Yuxin came to join her classmate Wang Lili. Speaking of which, Wang Lili and Zhang Yanyan were impressed by her. She went to work in the city very early. Over the years, her family has built a new house. Her mother-in-law often sniffs in the village and praised her daughter-in-law for being capable and being filial to the old couple.
Wang Lili is three years younger than her. Both of her children are in her hometown and her parents-in-law take care of her. The couple is not worried about it and are devoted to making money. Wang Lili is engaged in purchasing in a canteen of a unit in the Railway Bureau. She has a decent job and can easily make money on weekends and control it. I heard from Wang Lili’s mother-in-law that she would get money at home every year, and the whole family relied on Wang Lili to have a delicious meal. Her husband is a carpenter and has a high salary. Their family is a good family that the whole village envies. Especially Zhang Yanyan dreams that she will have such a good job, so she will let her son go to a good university, and she will live without judging her husband's expression.
Zhang Yanyan and her son went to join Wang Lili.
As soon as the bus started, she was confused. She couldn't tell the difference between the south, south, west and north. Looking at the crowds in front of her, she immediately realized that she had nowhere to put her. When she was at home, she wanted to use Zhang Yanyan's intelligence and ability to go to the provincial capital to pick up money, but now her mind was buzzing and she felt helpless.
Looking at the tall buildings and the women in fashion walking around the streets, she suddenly felt her insignificance, inferiority and incompetence. She wanted to have her own foothold in this strange and seemingly cold city? She regretted coming to the city a little.
What will she do? Nothing can be done! Nothing is! Looking at the women, or men in suits and tied with a fluttering long skirt, looking up, coldly walking past them, or the elegant men in suits and ties, Zhang Yanyan felt for the first time that she was either a human being or a shadow on the roadside, a vague shadow that no one would pay attention to! "Oh! Is this what others say so that they can't fit into it?" Zhang Yanyan said to herself.
The son is different from her. Everything is fresh and curious about everything. He doesn't care whether he can or can't. He doesn't care about them, or how beautiful they look, or fear them. He only saw magnificent and dazzling everywhere, and there were everything he wanted to play and eat.
Zhang Yanyan didn't know how to find the unit where Wang Lili worked. She felt that the word "unit" is amazing. What an honor to be able to work in the so-called unit. well! If she had a unit, her relatives and friends would curry favor with her, and she would be able to speak between them, and she would not have to worry about her children going to school.
Son Chen Yuxin pulled her excitedly and said, "Mom, don't look at us now, we are both black-faced dolls. In a month, our faces will be white and bright, especially if you become a big beauty Zhang." The son smiled while talking, while leaning on her fingers one by one. She saw many people looking at enviously, and Zhang Yanyan suddenly felt that she was still getting rich from her son. She was very confident that her son was very likable, so she suddenly became less timid and couldn't help but imitate those city women, raised her head high, walked with light steps, holding her son's hand in the endless stream of people.She thought to herself: "I am also a human being! Why don't you elevate yourself?"
The son took her to find her classmate Wang Lili's unit quickly. Wang Lili stood at the gate of the 20th Bureau and was waiting for them.
When he saw Wang Lili, Zhang Yanyan lost her confidence again, and suddenly felt that she was half short of Wang Lili.
Wang Lili wore a black dress, and the roots of the sandals held her half a foot high. The short hair of inequality flagrantly demonstrates Wang Lili's arrogance, satisfied and individual appearance. She bought her own sneakers, cropped pants, , and she bought her T-shirt specifically for going to the provincial capital, but at this moment she felt so shabby! It's so low again.
The son didn't care about those things that were not a problem. He called his aunt and ran into the door.
The first time the girl and the girl lived in the dormitory of the unit for one night, Wang Lili took them to find a job the next day:
"We are going to make money, and we have to endure hardships to make money. Yanyan, we are just suffering. What do you think we can do when you sit in the office?!" "We do whatever work we can do as long as we can make money." Zhang Yanyan continued Wang Lili's words. Wang Lili is still very realistic. She knows very well that Zhang Yanyan, a rural woman, is the first time she has to do the most tiring and lowest-level jobs when she goes to the city.
Wang Lili brought her mother and mother to the roast duck restaurant. She had already agreed to the manager of the roast duck restaurant in advance. The manager is waiting for them now.
Zhang Yanyan looked around a little timidly. Such a big roast duck restaurant is so magnificently decorated. In her opinion, this is the most beautiful place in the world. I wonder how much it costs to eat here? She thought to herself, how rich people can spend here? Wang Lili seemed to see through her heart and said with a smile: "There are restaurants like roast duck restaurants everywhere in the city. It is actually very cheap here. Our family often comes here to eat."
Zhang Yanyan still admires Wang Lili and envies her for living the life she wants like the people in the city.
The manager fell in love with the mother and the mother at first sight. First, he asked Chen Yuxin, who was looking around, "Are you doing a holiday worker?" "Yes." The son didn't look at the manager, but just looked around, looking away. Zhang Yanyan pinched him, and then her son looked at the manager seriously and said, "Hello, manager."
The manager's surname is Chen. A fat woman in her thirties with a melon-shaped face, double eyelids and small eyes, pointed lips and double chin. Her voice was in her left voice, and her forehead was bare, her hair was sparse on the back of her head, and she wore a black plate of flowers on it. Zhang Yanyan didn't feel like this female manager very much, she felt that she was a strong and mean woman.
Manager Chen is so frightening about Chen Yuxin. He said that he is a good seedling in catering management, but Zhang Yanyan doesn't like to listen. Her son wants to go to college and enters a large company and doesn't know how to work in a roast duck restaurant. She glanced at Manager Chen.
Manager Chen didn't even look at her, and said to Wang Lili, "Let this elder sister go and wash dishes! There is no work she does."
Although Zhang Yanyan doesn't like washing dishes, she doesn't know what she can do besides washing dishes? She agreed and thought to herself: Let's do it first! Anyway, it's only two months, so it doesn't matter what you do.
The two of them started working.
The son soon became familiar with other children and would not pay attention to her. But she found it difficult to get along with the few people in the dishwasher. There were three people in the dishwasher, an old man who was almost sixty years old, who was almost dying. An old man in his fifties, a short winter melon-like figure. The woman in the supervisor looked like a yaksha, tall and big. The slanted eyes were slanted, one eye was big, and the eyelids on the other eye drooped, covering half of the eye. I suspected that her eyes could see half of the figure. With three monster-like partners, she felt a little unhappy at all, but she still endured it.
This story is purely fiction (to be continued)
