Fate is often such a magical thing, in 1975, childhood sweethearts ran away with a rich boy in a city because of a college place, I didn't force it, I know that the twisted melon is not sweet.
Later, I met my current wife through introduction, and my wife was a contract public security reporter at that time, but I didn't expect our fate to change.
I was born in 1959 in a rural village in the south, my parents were local farmers, and the people in the village were simple, and everyone went to the fields to earn work.
Because the primary school is in front of the village, it is convenient for me to go to school, and it takes less than half an hour to go back and forth every day, and there is a large field behind the primary school.
Xiaolan, a little girl from the next village, was very cute when she was a child, with a fat face, and her cheeks would bulge when she was angry, because the way home was a little farther, so her parents prepared some food for her, so she stayed at school at noon and went home after class in the afternoon.
So I often find that after school, Xiaolan doesn't pack up and go home, but takes out a sweet potato, sometimes an irregularly shaped steamed bun, from a cloth bag, and then prepares to eat.
Once I was curious to ask, I learned that she didn't go home at noon, when she was a child, she took unusual care of her friends, and warmly invited her to go to my house to eat at noon.
So when I was in elementary school, Xiaolan would go home with me for dinner at noon, and she would eat what she brought with her every time, and at most she would eat some side dishes.
Parents also like Xiaolan very much and treat her as if she were their own child.
When I arrived at junior high school, the school was in the town, because the distance between the two of us to school was about the same, so Xiaolan and I didn't go home at noon, and I was like Xiaolan Elementary School, bringing lunch boxes to school at home to eat.
There are still a lot of people who stay at school at noon and don't go home, but I always eat with Xiaolan, and sometimes when I'm tired, I lie on the desk and squint, otherwise I go to the town to play.
Speaking of grades, Xiaolan is much better than me, she is still the class representative, and I am because I am more active, I became a labor commissioner, although there is also an "official" as a "official", but my grades in the class can only be said to be above average, Xiaolan is the top five.
Finally got to high school, Xiaolan and I came to the county seat to study, but unfortunately, Xiaolan and I were not assigned to the same class, but we still often play together and go home together during the holidays.
It wasn't until the sophomore year of high school that a transfer student came to Xiaolan's class, and I heard that the family was quite rich, and even heard that it was a very small "10,000 yuan household".
Since this transfer student came, he has been eyeing Xiao Lan, and he has nothing to do with Xiao Lan, so I am a little jealous, Xiao Lan was not very happy to contact that person at first, and the transfer student saw that Xiao Lan was unmoved, so he began to give gifts, from time to time to send some strange things, at first Xiao Lan will refuse, but it is still inevitable that the transfer student's cheekiness, after receiving a gift, and then send it later, Xiao Lan will accept it.
Xiaolan often shares these things with me, although I know that it is a simple sharing, but I still feel a little uncomfortable, maybe because I can't give these things.
Soon high school will be over, because there is no college entrance examination, and the university quota is to be recommended, no accident, transfer students have already booked one, often boasting to their classmates, envying their classmates.
I must have no hope of going to college, so I don't have delusions, thinking about going home and finding a job after graduation, when I asked Xiaolan what his plans were, Xiaolan was very hesitant, Xiaolan originally studied well, but after meeting transfer students, her grades declined, although she was still ranked in the upper reaches, but other conditions couldn't keep up, and it should be difficult to be selected.
In fact, over the years, I have grown up with Xiaolan since childhood, and I also have some feelings for her, although I don't know what she thinks, but when I was about to graduate, I still confessed to her, Xiaolan heard it, and was not much shocked, she did not refuse, nor did she agree, just let me give her some more time.
I understood that she was making a choice, so I didn't force it and started planning my future path.
Time came to the day of graduation, because there was no college entrance examination, so everyone looked very open, happily ready to pack up and go home, I packed my luggage early in the morning, and waited for Xiao Lan downstairs in the dormitory downstairs to go home together, not after a while, Xiao Lan also came down with her luggage, but she didn't come to go with me.
She said to apologize to me, and then said that she wanted to stay in the county seat temporarily and not go back with me, at this time the rich kid (transfer student) came over and helped Xiaolan with her luggage, and then Xiaolan followed, the meaning was unclear, and I just sighed, so I could only go home by myself.
When I got home, my parents asked about Xiaolan, and then I told them about it, and they also understood that they didn't say anything, so I didn't think too much about it, and I was asked to get a good daughter-in-law in the future.
Then I asked around if there were any jobs, but unfortunately there were too few jobs, so I had to work in the production team first.
One day, I heard that the commune was conscripting, and I heard that there was an allowance for joining the army, so I told my father that I wanted to join the army, and my parents also supported it.
After a while, I followed the recruits to the army, and came to the army, because I hadn't exercised much before, and my physical fitness didn't keep up.
In the army, I occasionally wrote to Xiaolan's home, but unfortunately, I didn't get a response, and I don't know if she went to college.
Time flies quickly, I have been in the army for four years, although I have worked hard to become a squad leader, but unfortunately in the end I did not pass the cadre assessment and was not selected, otherwise, I can continue to stay in the army, so in the fourth year, I was demobilized and returned home.
After returning to my hometown, my parents wanted to arrange a marriage for me when they saw that I was not young, and I did not reject this, after all, children of the same age could walk.
In several rounds of blind dates, either most of the girls saw that I had no job and the family conditions were not very good, so they didn't look down on me, or I didn't look at them and refused, after all, marriage is a big event, and I can't make a hasty decision if I have to live a lifetime.
The last girl named Xiaofang, I am very like, her family is also a rural family, but she has a job, is a contract scribe, at that time the contract public security unit work, because the salary is not high, plus it is not a formal system, so people are willing to go to work in factories, such as those positions in fertilizer factories, but it has become an iron rice bowl.
At first, Xiaofang may have seen that I didn't have a job, so she didn't agree, but I often went to her and launched a fierce pursuit, and finally she felt that I was honest and dutiful, so she stayed with me.
Later, Xiaofang's unit recruited people, recruiting contract police, so I was asked to go for an interview, so I went to try, because of my status as a veteran, and I was still a squad leader, so I was selected, and after becoming a policeman, I can also meet Xiaofang from time to time.
A year later, in 1980, Xiaofang and I also got married.
Speaking of which, Xiaofang and I were also very lucky, in an accident a few years later, we were originally contract staff, and we were directly converted to full-time staff, and basically the original employees in the entire unit were established.
The factory positions that were previously fragrant in the eyes of others have also ushered in a wave of layoffs due to rectification and other reasons, and many workers have lost their jobs.
Later, I met Xiao Lan who came to do business, and saw that I was a policeman, Xiao Lan was very surprised, and then I learned that she did go to college and is now teaching in elementary school, but the rich kid was unlucky, and the family crossed the line because of business, and finally my father was arrested, and the family was gone, and even was collected for debts, and now people don't know where to hide.
And Xiaolan also started a family, her husband is an honest man, he opened a bun shop in the town, and when I learned that Xiaolan is doing well now, I am also happy for her, and I have long been relieved of what happened at the beginning.
Later, I became the director of the police station, and worked in this position until retirement, although my wife Xiaofang was not promoted to any position, but also has been working diligently, after our husband and wife finally retired, they also have a lot of pensions, the second half of their lives are basically not worried about food and clothing, and they can usually bring their grandchildren, and their lives can be described as happy and complete.
This story is purely fictional, if there is any similarity, it is really a coincidence, please read it rationally