How Should I Choose?

2020, Blue Star, Crane City.

(Brain storage place!)

Looking at the score card of the Black Provincial Civil Service Examination, 27-year-old Mingyang fell into confusion.

This is already the third year, and he is getting older year by year, but landing is far away. People who are familiar with Mingyang know that he is preparing for civil service at home, and it is reasonable for him to spend three years at home.

But this year's results were not satisfactory. Thinking about the age when I was running for San Zhang, I had to face reality. Nowadays, finding a way out is the most important thing. Some people are born in Rome, and some people are born as cows and horses.

Unfortunately, Mingyang is one of thousands of horses and oxen.

I graduated from Mingyang High School in 2011. With my grades that year, I was able to attend Lanxiang Technical School and majored in hydroelectric welding and beauty and hairdressing. However, there are only two ways for ordinary people to counterattack, either to join the army or become a civil servant.

Thanks to his parents' connections, Mingyang joined the army at the age of 18. With his cleverness and diligence, he was selected by the army leaders and became a small bus driver. He didn't learn his skills, so he boasted and drank, but it was hard to find an opponent. He also slowly began to swell. .

A man should have high ambitions. In the fifth year, Mingyang declined the leadership's invitation to stay and resolutely chose to retire and go home.

But the achievement he imagined did not come to him, but reality gave him a heavy blow.

At that time, photovoltaic power generation was in the spotlight. Mingyang joined the photovoltaic power generation industry with his comrades. It happened to catch up with the policy adjustment. He did not make the money he imagined, but lost all his retirement pay.

"Hey, let's give up. I can't roll anymore."

Mingyang's mobile phone has been used for several years, and the ringtone keeps ringing.

I looked at my phone and saw that the note read "Mother Queen."

After hesitating for three seconds, Mingyang still chose to answer.

"Hey, Mom"

"Son, Mom looked at the circle of friends and the city GA Bureau is recruiting auxiliary police officers. You will definitely be admitted.

If you pass the exam, you can work first, and you can still pay social security, but the salary is not much, more than 2,000 yuan."

In the first two years, Mingyang would definitely have refused, but now, it is better to bow to reality.

"Okay, Mom, I'll take the exam some day."

Li Sufen held mahjong in her hand and kept saying to Mingyang: "Sign up today and take the exam next Monday. If you pass, you can do it first. It won't delay your preparation for the exam. The registration link will be sent to you later. No. I said, I’m playing mahjong, so I’ll hang up first.”

Mingyang's father, Ming Zhonghe, is an ordinary employee of a local state-owned enterprise. His mother, Li Sufen, works as a logistics worker in a state-owned enterprise canteen. The two of them met when Li Sufen was cooking with trembling hands. Ming Zhonghe fell in love with this young woman with trembling hands at a glance. It was supposed to be a tense atmosphere, but in With Ming Zhonghe's piercing eyes, Li Sufen still gave him half a spoonful of food.

In this way, Ming Zhonghe, who fell in love at first sight, launched a violent pursuit of Li Sufen. A girl in her prime, she couldn't help but dislike this greasy man, and her parents were urging her to get married. They got married that year and had Mingyang the next year.

The WeChat prompt sounded. Looking at the link shared in Li Sufen's WeChat dialog box, Mingyang clicked on it and filled out the registration form.

After touching his stomach, Mingyang, who was a little hungry, came to the kitchen and felt troubled when he looked at the empty refrigerator.

Thinking about the balance of my bank card, WeChat and Alipay, it is less than 1,000 yuan.

Just save it if you can, since you are already older anyway.

I looked at Ming Yang on the reflective surface of the range hood and took a closer look at myself. Hey, hey, he's 1.85 meters tall. 160 pounds, so handsome.

After returning from the army, Mingyang lived alone. The house I live in now is a wedding house prepared by my parents for Mingyang. It has an area of ​​120 square meters and three bedrooms and one living room. It is enough for this fourth-tier city.

It can also avoid the embarrassment of living with your parents when you become an adult, and you can usually have friends over and have fun.

He dug out the last bag of instant noodles from the back of the refrigerator. Mingyang put the noodles into the pot and kept moving his hands, squeezing in seasonings, pouring water, and lighting the fire.

Mingyang, who was waiting for a familiar face, took out his mobile phone and scrolled through the WeChat Moments. Looking at the people in the WeChat Moments who were showing off their cars, famous watches, and luxury homes, Mingyang silently gave them a like.

If you see someone posting about your girlfriend, just set it up so that you don’t see his friends.

This is a huge blow to a single guy.

In this society that is obsessed with money and money, Mingyang still maintains his integrity. It is not that Mingyang's moral sentiments are noble, but that he is cleaner than his face. Taking the little girl out to eat requires money, and going out for fun requires money.

If the little girl is unhappy, she needs to be coaxed and she has to buy gifts, which all cost money.

After he retired from the army, Mingyang had a girlfriend, but at the time Mingyang was young and his main focus was companionship, and the relationship only lasted seven days.

Even after several years, Mingyang still remembers what the little girl said to Mingyang.

"I've never seen you like this. You don't pay for the points."

From then on, Mingyang decided that if he had no money, he would not find a partner unless he met a high-quality woman who lacked companionship, even if it was a gold nugget or a gold mountain.

Put the noodles into a bowl and bring it to the computer desk. Looking at the games on the computer, Mingyang said to himself: "This is the spiritual food that has accompanied me through countless dark nights. Goodbye, brothers."

Mingyang reluctantly uninstalled and deleted them one by one.

This also means that Mingyang's youth has completely gone.

Slurping noodles, I opened iQiyi and rummaged around, trying to find Mingyang who was interested in movies.

I found a recently popular movie, a familiar prelude.

Look at the noodles that have been eaten.

"Hey, it's another boring day."

Throwing the dishes and chopsticks into the sink, Mingyang stood on the balcony and looked out, watching the people coming and going on the street, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Mingyang's daze was interrupted by the ringing of his cell phone. The caller was his best buddy, Ma Rong.

Ma Rong: Brother, we are recruiting auxiliary police officers recently. Come here. If you pass the exam, come to the police station in Tianhua Street and let’s play together.”

After listening to Ma Rong's words, Mingyang smiled helplessly.

Ma Rong joined the army a year earlier than him. Although he was not a soldier in the same year, he was a fellow soldier and took great care of Mingyang in the army.

There was a resettlement card before 2011. After working for two years, Ma Rong was discharged from the army. He was placed in the urban management department. In the past two years, equal pay for equal work has been implemented. Except that there is no establishment, it is no different from the official one.

With the adjustment of policies and the decline of law enforcement force, he was assigned to the street farthest from his home.

Whenever we are drinking together, we can always hear Ma Rong complaining.

I have to leave the house thirty minutes early for work, which is incomparable to the five minutes I used to arrive at work.

"Okay, Tiezi, then I'll go to your place," Mingyang said.

In fact, when he signed up just now, the position Mingyang applied for was the police station in Mayong Street. After all, he had an acquaintance, so it was easy to open up the situation when working.

"Then if you pass the exam, I'll buy you a drink and you can choose whatever you want in the city." In the past few years, Ma Rong can be said to be an expert in eating and drinking. Whose food is delicious, whose food is expensive, and whose food is unpalatable, has a good reputation. This also led to the weight from 140 kilograms after retiring from the army, to 200 kilograms quietly.

The two of them hung up the phone without talking too much.