That year, I had worked in Guangdong for several years and still had nothing. Not only did I not make any money, but my girlfriend, whom I had loved for many years, left me.
I returned to the mountains in eastern Sichuan. After the Spring Festival, I went to the mountainous area of , Dehua County, Fujian Province, with a group of fellow villagers.
There is a famous scenic spot here, Jiuxianshan .
This is where we built the expressway. We followed a small contractor, who is from Fujian and took on some projects. But things are very complicated, and I will do some plastering and other work. So I came with those people from the same village. My cousin had a good relationship with this contractor and had done it for him before.
Most of these people were brought by my cousin, so my cousin is a coach. In order to take care of me, he asked me to work as a plasterer with others. This is considered a big job and his salary can be higher.
Although I had studied at home when I first graduated, after working for a few days, I felt so tired that my back and back were sore. At night, I lay on the wooden building of the local villagers and didn’t want to move. I was sleeping soundly in the morning. Before dawn, my cousin’s wife made breakfast again and called us to get up and start work.
We walked to the construction site on the mountain. It was just dawn, so we did it until noon and continued to do it after dinner until dark.
I am so tired every day, and the two old workers in Fujian still think I am not doing fast enough and not good enough.
At this time, I missed the days when I entered the factory in Guangdong again, and the factory was much easier. This construction is so hard, but there are not much more money, and there are unpredictable safety accidents.
But since I came, I couldn't leave anymore, so I had to grit my teeth and persevere.
It was not until more than a month later that I gradually adapted to this kind of work and my skin became much tanned.
My cousin laughed and said, "What are you afraid of? If you are a little bit dark, you will be masculine. You were too innocent before, and those girls were afraid that you would be in bad health!"
Seeing that I didn't make a sound, my cousin sighed again, "Dongzi, don't think too much. I know you are a talent for doing this, but you also know that if we people in the mountains cannot get into a good university, we can only work. I know that you like to write novels, but this road is not easy to walk. You must make some money first to solve your survival problems, and then do what you like in the future. This is also good."
I felt a little better when I heard him say this. Yes, my girlfriend used to say that I didn’t face reality, and I wrote novels all day long, and even didn’t do my job at all. Sometimes I made mistakes, so I lost the opportunity to get promoted several times.
Finally, maybe she really couldn't see hope, so she left me cruelly.
I felt very sad, but I could not help but feel helpless. After all, ideals still cannot overcome the cruelty of reality.
This time I followed my cousin to do construction, just to make some money, and to have more life experience. After all, I can't write anything good even if I work behind closed doors all day.
The people on the construction site are almost all men, and there are several women, all of whom are in their thirties and forties. Only my cousin's wife is under thirties and is born plump and sexy. She takes great care of me. Always leave me some delicious food. Looking at her, I thought of the eldest sister-in-law's mother. It seems that's true.
Sometimes my cousin's wife would joke with me and said that she would introduce me to a sexy and beautiful wife in the future.
I just smiled. Because I know that no money will make no woman fall in love with me.
This is a mountainous area, and the conditions seem to be much better than my hometown. At night, we had nothing to do, and most of them lie down on wooden buildings to sleep. Later, my cousin's wife arranged an old wooden bed for me by the locals. I got an old wooden table next to me.
My cousin's sister-in-law smiled at me, "Dongzi, I know you like to write novels. Write well. Don't forget your sister-in-law when you are successful in the future."
I smiled gratefully to her, "Sister-in-law, how can you do it? I remember everything you are good to me."
Because of the care of my cousin and his wife, my mood has also improved. I gradually became familiar with my work and my skills became better.
Not far from the house where we live, there is a small river. I like to play there. There are many deep pools in the river, and there are fish in it. Sometimes, during rest, I will go fishing there.
I don’t know when it starts, but I noticed that there is always a young girl washing clothes by the pond water. The girl is tall and handsome, with fair skin and handsome appearance. My eyes were watery again.
We are familiar with each other after a while, but I am a little shy and still feel embarrassed to chat with her. She just smiled at me when she saw me, saying hello.
I know she lives in the village here. I probably came back from working outside.
This day is May Day, and our construction site is also on holiday.
The weather is sunny, so I went fishing by the river again. I was wondering if I could meet that unknown girl, but she really appeared not far from me with a bucket of clothes.
She saw me looking at her and smiled at me. I smiled at her, too.
Then, she began to squat by the pond and wash clothes.
I sat on the stone by the water, looking at her from time to time. She squatted there, brushing her clothes with her brushes one by one, and her long hair was also shaking. She occasionally lifted her hair with one hand. Seeing me looking at her, she smiled shyly. Still didn't say anything.
I felt a warmth in my heart and said to myself, does she have a good impression of me? Yes, if not, how could she smile at me? Shouldn’t she be called a pervert?
I was thinking about it there, but I heard a scream beside me.
I quickly turned around and looked, but saw her falling into the water. The person has fallen, it is the thundering in the water.
I rushed away and saw that she was almost sinking. The pool of water was green and quiet, but I wonder how deep it was?
I didn't have time to think too much, and I couldn't reach her even if I reached out to pull her, so I looked into the water.
She was struggling. When she saw me, she hugged me. I immediately hugged her and swam to the shore. Fortunately, I knew a little bit of water. Soon, I finally sent her to the shore.
She spitted out a few sips of water and looked at me in a daze, still a little scared.
Seeing that she was wet, I said to her, "Let's go, I'll take you home!"
She looked at me embarrassedly, and I said without saying a word, "Let's go, I'll take you home, your whole body is wet, don't catch a cold."
I put the clothes she wanted to wash back into the bucket, and I didn't think about it anymore when I lifted the bucket, and helped her walk to the river bank.
She looked at me embarrassedly, but she did not break free, but instead let me gently support her to her house.
When she arrived at a small courtyard in the middle of the mountain, her mother saw it and ran over immediately. After hearing my daughter explain the situation, her mother thanked me repeatedly. He also asked her husband to come out to accompany me, saying that he would keep me at home for dinner.
I wanted to leave, but they insisted that I couldn't leave, so I had to stay.
Soon after, the girl changed her clothes and came out to express her gratitude to me.
Her parents also thanked me again. After
, her mother asked me to watch TV in the living room and asked the uncle to chat with me next to me.
Only then did I realize that the girl’s name is Lin Xueqin. He is one year younger than me and has just returned from working in Guangdong because his father is sick.
Uncle Lin asked about my situation again. He heard that I didn’t have a girlfriend, and there was a hint of joy on his face. That day, Lin Xueqin and her mother cooked a full table of dishes for me. His father also asked me to drink some wine with him.
His father was obviously drunk later and looked at me and smiled: "Young man, how about my daughter? Isn't it still beautiful?"
I saw Lin Xueqin looking at her father shyly, while her mother looked at me with a smile.
I had to nod and smile.
"Then do you like my daughter? If you like it, you can do it everywhere?" Her father looked at me.
I looked at Lin Xueqin, and her face turned red. I nodded again.
Her parents laughed. After
, Lin Xueqin and I officially dated. Later, his father asked me to move to her house.
At first, her father wanted me to marry into her house because she only had one daughter. But later Xueqin knew that I didn't want to, but she convinced her parents and stopped forcing me.
During the Chinese New Year, I finally took her back to my hometown. After
, she and I went to Shenzhen to work. She supports me in writing, and I also work hard to persevere, and finally my writing has achieved certain results. The situation gradually got better.
After we worked in Shenzhen for two years, I became a free writer and took Xueqin home to get married.
We are as loving as before. Live happily, now we have both children and our lives are so happy.
Looking back at the past, I feel that all of this is the best arrangement. As long as you don’t give up your hope in life, life will always get better and better.
