The days when I sold coal in the coal mine

Chapter 1 Graduation means Unemployment

Zhang Xiaobei, 24 years old, from Hebei Province, was admitted to Forestry University of Tang Province in 2000 when the university enrollment expanded.

Dangling 4 years of college life, 3 and a half years have passed, and now it is time to graduate, with a beautifully crafted resume and a thick stack of honorary certificates, strolling around the talent market in Tang Province After several laps, no decent unit accepted him.

Inexplicable fuck came to my heart.It is said that graduation is equal to unemployment, Zhang Xiaobei really understands this sentence now.Looking at the chapter in his hand covered with more than a dozen red-stamped certificates, which he thought was highly valuable, Zhang Xiaobei felt unbalanced and unconvinced when others almost dismissed it.

Squatting on the side of the road, Zhang Xiaobei lit a cigarette.Fuck me, you can be considered a "man of the hour" if you have been in Nima University for four years. You are the chairman of the student union and you set up a club yourself. You talked to two girlfriends. One is more beautiful than the other It's a girl from the city, how can she become such a virtue now!
Although my parents are honest farmers, I don't seem to be short of money in my hands.It is because I have a good head and a lot of courage. In the past few years at school, with the living expenses provided by my parents in advance, I opened a copy shop with a few fellow villagers.

As for the income, for a student party, it is considered so-so, at least living together with a girlfriend, eating and drinking with a bunch of brothers is enough.

"Go for a ball!" Zhang Xiaobei put away the certificate, flicked out a cigarette butt, stood up, opened his hand, took a taxi, and drove towards the train station.

It's already 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and I have to go back to school tonight, or where do I live!Just the two dollars in my own pocket is really not enough to cause trouble in this provincial capital city for a few minutes.

But the school is still 6 to [-] kilometers away from the talent market, there are no more cars, and the last train is at [-]:[-], so please ask!

If you don't leave, there will still be units here who want you to do something?

Forty to fifty kilometers away, the train took him an hour and a half before arriving at the train station near the school.

This dilapidated school has a sign of Tang Province Forestry University, but it is located in a small town, so desolate as hell.Every time he thought of this, Zhang Xiaobei always felt that he was in a panic.

Junior high school and primary school are in the countryside, and high school passed the county seat. If you have to take the college entrance examination, why not go to a prefecture-level city or something?But I went to ask for it, and I returned to the countryside. I rented a house with my girlfriend and lived together in the bungalows of ordinary people in the countryside.

Feeling in the dark, Zhang Xiaobei finally returned to school, hastily pulled a large bowl of Lanzhou ramen, and walked towards the dormitory.

His girlfriend is two grades lower than him and is taking elective courses.My own graduation must have been a lot of breakups, and there is nothing I can do if I can't bear it.Go back to the dormitory, every day is a mess.

Walking downstairs, I saw that the curtains of dormitory 312 were drawn tightly. "These grandchildren, why don't you watch the big action movies of sister Chao!" Zhang Xiaobei smacked a few words and walked upstairs.

Pushing the door open, Fatty Ma turned his head first: "Hey? Mr. Zhang is so rare tonight! Don't want your harem empress to accompany us poor people?"

"Get out, take the instant noodles and look at that thing, can you eat it?" Zhang Xiaobei threw the satchel on the bed.This satchel costs 20 yuan each, and I got an outstanding student myself, and the school gave it to me.

"I'm already immune! Let's pass the time!" Fatty Ma finished his sentence, took a sip of the instant noodle soup, and continued to watch the passionate scene on TV.

"Fatty, I said you don't have to worry! You're graduating soon, and you don't even have a place to go." Zhang Xiaobei fell on the bed and lit another cigarette.

"Worry, but there's no use in being anxious? I'm graduating soon. I calculated that I didn't have enough elective points. Our school gave me a degree certificate with 45 points in CET-44. I got [-] points at the highest exam. I don't have any "Graduation Certificate" or "Degree Certificate", so why am I so anxious!" Fatty's words were also full of helplessness.

"Shangyanger, why don't you play double promotion tonight and watch video instead?" The 21-inch TV and this VCD are both nicknamed "Shangyanger", and their real name is Sun Yang.

This guy earns living expenses by renting out these 21-inch TVs and VCDs. The school is like this. No one thinks that the money is not enough, but he is not a rich second generation or something, so he can only find a way by himself.

"There are not enough people, those two guys have gone all night..." Sun Yang replied slowly, "What's the matter? Mr. Zhang, you are not feeling well today!"

After Sun Yang finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Xiaobei, and then clapped his hands, meaning a cigarette.

Zhang Xiaobei took out a 4 yuan red camellia and threw one to each of the three people watching the video: "How do you know I'm not feeling well?"

"If you're in a good mood, can you think of going back to the dormitory? You've already gone out of your way with that little pony of yours! What's the matter, haven't you found a job yet?" Sun Yang lit a cigarette, blinked his eyes, It seems that the eyes have been smoked.

"That's right. I used to think I was an onion, but now I don't think so." Zhang Xiaobei flicked the cigarette ash and said melancholy.

"It's normal, it doesn't matter if you don't have money, what kind of job are you looking for! Look at our employment opportunities. In our school, the best way is to take the postgraduate entrance examination, then go to a Ph. D., and finally enter a research institute."

"I've also read the recruitment examination for the official ape. The one who meets our major is the Veteran Cadre Administration Bureau. The premise is that there are no major majors. How many people in the country will take the exam for this quota? Exam, exam!" Sun Yang said angrily.

But hearing this, there is no material to find a job.

"What are your plans?" Zhang Xiaobei asked casually.

"Go back to my hometown and take a step at a time. Originally, I was a student of a coal mine. I asked my father to tell the coal mine that it would be fine to get a job as a child compared to going to work. But this year my father is gone, and my filial badge is still hanging on my arm. Now, there is nothing to hope for now." Sun Yang said something, and then stopped talking.

After listening to this sentence, except for the two who went to the Internet cafe all night, the other four people in this dormitory were collectively silent, only the humming sound from the VCD disc came from time to time...

(End of this chapter)