Author: Zhang Xuerong
When Lao Wang was young, his family was very poor. In winter, four or five brothers huddled on a bed and pulled a bed of torn quilts. He often woke up in the middle of the night to find that the quilt had been pulled by his brothers. It turned out that he had been frozen awake. The clothes are worn by the eldest and the second, the second is worn by the second, and the third is worn. Lao Wang was the fourth in line, so he dressed like a flower child, patched and patched, and dressed in a hundred clothes. In Lao Wang's memory, in his childhood, he did not wear a new dress.
Their mother always taught them: Xiucai is not afraid of torn clothes, as long as there are goods in his belly. Therefore, Lao Wang studied very hard when he was a child, and his grades have always been far ahead of the class.
At that time, Lao Wang's dream was to be admitted to a military school or to become a soldier, wear a military uniform, have a decent scenery, and never wear patched clothes again.
However, the sky did not go according to people's wishes, and after the college entrance examination scores came out, they did not reach the admission score line of the military school. Lao Wang retreated to the second place, chose a textile school, the picture is to graduate in the future, enter the textile and garment industry to work, dress without worry.
When he was about to go to textile school, his family bought him cloth, went to the tailor shop on the street, and made a new dress. This was the first time Lao Wang had worn new clothes since he could remember. Lao Wang changed out of the patched clothes, and he even felt a little self-cherishing. He folded his clothes neatly and carefully stored them under a wooden box.
When he graduated, Lao Wang was indeed assigned to the garment factory, and really lived a life of eating and wearing without worry. Ten years, from the workshop technician, to the workshop director, step by step, when to the factory director.
After another ten years, Lao Wang became a local official at the first level. The cameras, the applause, the flowers, surrounded him all day. He became a public figure, a political star. Of course, at this time, Lao Wang should pay attention to the image, and the costumes must be exquisite.
Clothes are often changed and new, different occasions, with different clothing. Every day, there are several meetings, and every time you change the venue, you change your clothes.
The clothing style is also very fashionable and high-end. Of course, you don't have to spend your own money.
Sometimes on business trips, his men will run to the big shopping malls to buy clothes for him.
However, bad luck led Lao Wang to be involved in an economic case. Went to the detention center, shaved his head, and put on a yellow vest.
After a few months, it was hard to wait for the verdict to come down. He was sent to a labor camp, changed into a gray prison uniform, and numbered.
Breaking his fingers, he lived like a year, bitterly endured, and finally completed his sentence. The prison informed Lao Wang's family in advance to pick him up, and specially conveyed Lao Wang's request: let the family bring the set of patch clothes.
Lao Wang took off his prison clothes, changed into the clothes he had brought at home, walked out of the prison gate, and hugged his family. Looking at the bright spring scenery outside the prison, looking up at the birds flying freely in the sky, and looking at the patch clothes on his body for a long time, Lao Wang sniffed his body and sniffed out the smell of the octogenarian mother sewing and washing.
Lao Wang couldn't help but burst into tears.
【About the Author】
Zhang Xuerong, male, from Lianshui, Jiangsu Province. When he was a student, he began to publish novels, and successively published more than 300 short stories and miniature novels in newspapers and periodicals across the country, such as "Hundred Gardens", "Short Stories", "Small Stories Monthly", "Spring Wind", "Dianchi", "Youth", "Youth", "Contemporary Novels", "Small Novel Readers", "Jinshan", "Short Stories", "Writers' World", "Young Writers", "Xinhua Daily", "China Business Daily" and other newspapers and periodicals across the country, with more than 800,000 words. Many of his works have been reprinted by newspapers and periodicals such as "Selected Small Novels", "Selected Miniature Novels", "Digest Newspaper" and won many awards, and have been selected into various anthologies such as "China's Best Miniature Novels", "Round Squares", "Chinese Miniature Novels You Should Read" and so on. He has won the title of Top 30 Miniature Novel Creators in Jiangsu Province. He has published 3 miniature novels "All the Way to the Wind and Dust", "Burning Fat", "Beauty Has a Date", and 1 novel "Walking Direction". He is a member of the Jiangsu Writers Association, a representative of the 8th Congress of the Provincial Writers Association, a director of the third session of the Huai'an Writers Association, the first chairman of the Lianshui County Writers Association, a director of the Jiangsu Provincial Miniature Novel Research Association, the vice president of the Huai'an Miniature Novel Research Association, and a contracted writer of the Huai'an Literary Association and the Hundred Gardens Magazine.
Source: Industrial Culture Media
Editor: Peng Ling