After the gathered crowd gradually dispersed, Huang Guobin chatted with a few workers, and then hurriedly rode his 28-lap bicycle that rang everywhere except for the bell, and threw it on the side of the road without stealing, and rushed to the Baijia Trade and Wholesale Market in the northwest of Wuxi, a distance of more than ten kilometers, panting all the way, and his body was soaked with sweat.

Baijia trade wholesale market is the largest comprehensive wholesale market of commodities in Wuxi, the goods here are dazzling, large to household appliances, small to needlework matches, it can be said that there is everything, the whole Xicheng, and even the neighboring Huachuan, Zhezhi and other provinces of many merchants are here to buy wholesale goods, every day before dawn, here is already crowded, traffic is weaving, lively and extraordinary, but also gave birth to and drove the surrounding catering, accommodation, logistics and other industries are unusually prosperous.

"Why are you here," just left the car, and before he had time to take a breath, a dark and thin middle-aged man said with an anxious face: "The boss is here, and he is angry,"

Huang Guobin's heart couldn't help but sink when he heard it, although he had asked the boss for leave in advance, but according to the boss's personality and temper, he had delayed time, he was definitely unhappy, he was sure to be a burst of scolding, he was not afraid of being scolded, anyway, he would not be less meat, but if he was deducted money, it would be difficult to accept, this is when the family is in a hurry to use the money, he can't wait to break a penny in half to spend, and the deduction of money is really more uncomfortable than beating him and scolding him.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Huang Guobin smiled reluctantly, and said to the black and thin middle-aged man: "Brother Chen, I'm really sorry, I asked you to substitute again,"

"It's okay to substitute for the shift or not, you should think about it, how to deal with the boss, he is not in a good mood today, if you say something ugly later, don't take it to heart," Brother Chen said with some worry for Huang Guobin.

Huang Guobin nodded and walked in.

Brother Chen sighed, although Huang Guobin rarely talked about his own situation, but he usually looked at his usual life, he was well-read, well-read, and wore a pair of glasses, he must have read books, but such a person, but he came here to be a porter and a coolie, and he must have his unknown hardships, therefore, in his usual work, he always helps him a little more, and every time he loads and unloads goods, he also tries to let him carry it lightly, but there is only so much he can do, and he has to be sneaky, and he can't let the boss find out.

was sighing, I heard the fat proprietress like a pig shouting at the top of her voice: "Lao Chen, stunned there and waiting for the corpse, don't hurry up to move things, the old lady invited you to work here, not for the elderly......" The voice was like a broken gong, dry and ugly.

However, Brother Chen seems to have been accustomed to it for a long time, after answering, he wiped his sweat with a towel, and then walked up in a hurry, this boss and the proprietress are extremely bitter and mean, and their speech is also very difficult to hear, and they have never had a good face for these porters under them, which makes everyone complain, but what can be done, it is not easy to find a job these days, it would be good to find a place to eat, and the rest, if you can bear it, bear it more, just don't hear it.

When he and the others finished loading the goods and came back breathlessly, they happened to meet Huang Guobin coming out of it, with a gloomy face, and couldn't help but ask with concern: "What, I'm scolded again, don't think too much, if you don't get scolded when you work here, you just treat him as a fart,"

Huang Guobin barely pulled a smile on his face, sighed lightly, patted Brother Chen's shoulder, and said, "Brother Chen, thank you very much for your care during this time, but I ...... it."

Brother Chen's heart tightened, so he lost his voice and said: "Why, they don't want you, how can this work, you wait, I'll go and talk to the boss," and then turned around and walked towards the boss's office.

Huang Guobin hurriedly grabbed him, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Chen, I understand your kindness, but I really don't need it, I've been here for so long, don't you know who the boss is, don't go to make fun of yourself, if it affects you, it won't be worth it, it's okay, in fact, I don't want to do it for a long time, it's hard and I can't earn a few dollars, I believe that I can find other better jobs soon after I go out,"

Brother Chen couldn't help but sigh, and he also knew that even if he went to the boss, in addition to angering the boss, he couldn't eat and walk around, it would be useless at all, but after just a few months of getting along, he felt that Huang Guobin was very good-tempered, and sometimes he took a meager salary to invite Huang Guobin to drink, Huang Guobin was really reluctant to leave like this.

He shook Huang Guobin's hand tightly and said excitedly: "Lao Huang, even if you leave, don't forget your brother, remember to come and see me when you have time,"

Huang Guobin smiled, but some tears flashed in his eyes.

After coming out of the freight company, riding aimlessly, Huang Guobin didn't know what he was going to do now for a while, as if he had lost the direction of his life, and his heart was also up and down, and he didn't have any bottom at all, and then smiled bitterly, his heart was very desolate, thinking that he was also a top student of South China University of Technology.

In the years when he arrived at the steel plant, he also won Chen Jiagen's attention and training, and soon became the youngest engineer in the factory, and the future was bright, but Chen Jiagen retired, and Zhou Qiang gradually took up the management position, his good days came to an end.

Of course, if this is the case, he is only disheartened at best, but in the past two years, after the steel plant has become more and more difficult, he, an engineer who graduated from a famous university, was the first batch of laid-off, with a meager amount of money in his hand to buy out his seniority, looking at his daughter who is in middle school, and his frail and sick old mother, he can only put aside his face and dignity and look for work everywhere.

But in this era when college students are unemployed as soon as they graduate, he is a college student who is over forty years old, it is really difficult to find a job that suits him, several times, he was even much younger than himself interviewer like a gorilla onlookers, they asked many questions, such as computer composition software, English level 8 certificate, etc., all made him red-faced, ashamed, his college students of that era, where did he have the opportunity to contact the computer, until now, he has mastered the simple operation and input method at most, And it's the kind of person who can't type a few words a minute.

After touching a number of nails, his psychological bottom line is to drop again and again, but he still can't find a suitable job, and in the end, there is really no way, he, the proud son of the former genius, has to be reduced to the point of being a coolie in order to make a living, which is really embarrassing to say.

After going around in a big circle, Huang Guobin's irritable and depressed mood was finally relieved a lot, and he was about to go home, but he suddenly saw a store selling Walkmans, and he couldn't help but think of his daughter who was just in the second year of junior high school.

Daughter has been very well-behaved since she was a child, and her academic performance has always been very good, she is the treasure of his heart, although her life has been unsatisfactory over the years, but she has watched her grow up healthily every day, he is also very satisfied, the only thing that feels sorry for her daughter is that she can't give her a superior family background, but she has suffered a lot, two days ago when eating, her daughter Ai Ai said about the Walkman at the same table, you can listen to English, and you can record and practice speaking, a yearning face, Huang Guobin knows in his heart that his daughter wants one, asked for a Walkman like her tablemate, but she was well-behaved and sensible, and she knew that the family didn't have much money, so she didn't open her mouth at all.

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a faint pain in his heart.

The speed of the car gradually slowed down, his eyes have been looking at this small shop, his heart is entangled, the car has passed the store, he gritted his teeth, pinched the brakes, turned a corner, returned to the front of the store, pinched a few thin bills in his pocket, this is his salary this month, fortunately, this evil boss has not deducted his meager salary, otherwise, even if he goes to the court to accuse, it will not help, this kind of thing is too much, in the country to defend rights, the cost and price are too high, he can't afford to delay.

"Boss, show me this Walkman, is it with a recording function, and how much does ......it cost?"

On the way home, the money in his pocket was much less, but his mood was inexplicably high, he seemed to be able to foresee, his daughter's surprised expression when she saw this walkman, to a father, what could be more joyful than this, as for tomorrow, then let's talk about it tomorrow, he believes that there is no endless road, there will always be a day when he Huang Guobin is transferred.

Like most other workers, Huang Guobin also lives in the family area of the steel plant, but he does not live in a cadre building, but in the same tube building as other ordinary workers, and the area of the whole house is only thirty or forty square meters.

But even so, he is also very satisfied, compared with the previous snail house that even turned around and touched the wall, now the place where he lives is already a paradise, although originally according to his rank and position, he should live in the cadre building, and the smallest cadre building is a two-bedroom house, and a balcony, he also went to find the factory leader and the house, but this pushed over, that pushed over, are playing ball, and now he has accepted his fate, this world, unfair things are still less, Who said that he and Zhou Qiang didn't deal with each other very well, Zhou Qiang became the factory director, so he naturally wanted to give him small shoes to wear.

"Jiajia, look what Dad brought you back," as soon as he entered the door, Huang Guobin said excitedly and loudly, but when his eyes suddenly saw the person sitting on the sofa, the whole person was suddenly petrified, and the expression on his face was as wonderful as it was.