Contributor: Anonymous Life Ruyi (Disclaimer: This article is not my own experience, it is the real experience of the contributor)
No matter what the relationship is, you always feel a little timid, even if you are not very satisfied with this job, you don't dare to tell your relatives, for fear that when the time comes, you will not be able to endure hardships or something.
Although I didn't feel this way, but I was working with my uncle for many years, I still had some worries in my heart, although I was in charge of eating and drinking, but I never saw the salary in my hand, until that day when I was ready to muster up the courage to resign, my uncle suddenly found me!
01
I grew up in a small village in Henan, and my family conditions were not poor, just an ordinary family, and there was no problem in supporting my family.
My father has a younger brother who is two years younger than him, and my uncle is a relatively good man at home.
Although my current family is not poor, it does not mean that my father did not have to worry about food and clothing when he was young, at that time they were a problem of food and clothing, and few people in the village could feed and clothe the family, and we should be glad that our living conditions are more than 100 times better than they were at that time.
At that time, my grandparents had fewer children, and some families had three or four children at once in order to be able to share an extra piece of land.
Fortunately, my father has two brothers, and he has never been hungry in this area, and my grandparents bought new clothes for my father every time in order to save some money, and then my uncle wore clothes that my father had put down.
I heard my father tell me that when I was a child, I would often fight over clothes, and my uncle would ask me why I couldn't buy my brother or not, and how long it had been since I had worn new clothes.
But my grandparents can't help it, just this family condition, how can this be saved?
Since getting older, the two brothers have not been so careful, but have a good relationship like siblings, and after elementary school, my father's academic performance is very different from that of my uncle, one in the top five and one in the bottom five, and my father likes to fight with others in school.
When I was in junior high school, my father came up in a rebellious period, and he didn't want to go to school, so he wanted to go out to work, which was normal in the past, and there were very few people who went to school.
My grandmother can't help it, if the two children continue to go to school, but the tuition can't afford it, it's better to let the eldest son go out to work to subsidize the family, and let the second son go to school with the extra money.
After dropping out of junior high school, my father went to work in a coal yard not far from home, and he was a little tired, but he could still subsidize the family, so he didn't think about it so much.
Anyway, since I was born and can remember, my parents planted greenhouses in the vegetable patch next to their home, and their annual income was just enough to save a little for the family's expenses, while my uncle rarely came home all year round.
I also asked my father, "What the hell does my uncle do, why is he so busy all the time, and he doesn't even come back during the Chinese New Year, and the last time I saw him was when my grandmother died."
The father replied: "Your uncle is very capable, he is in business outside, and his annual income is much more than ours, if it weren't for your father and I didn't study hard back then, our family might be like your uncle."
But what's the use of saying this, let him go back to the past, or just do what he should be, he can't learn if he doesn't learn that material.
It is precisely because of the reason that my family grows greenhouses, I rarely go out with my friends during the holidays, and I go to work in the shed with my parents early in the morning, which is not boring at first, but after a long time, I feel sad when I watch my friends play together and I am confined to the field.
Who doesn't want to play when they are young, they all want to have a good childhood.
One of the things my father said to me the most since I was a child was: "If you don't study hard, you will come to the family to inherit the family business, and in short, you will not be unemployed."
Of course, I knew that I would not be unemployed, but I also did enough farm work, and I also knew how hard it was, how difficult it was, and what I earned was hard money.
But I'm also glad that no matter how hard and tired my parents are, they haven't let me go hungry or cold.
But in terms of studying, even if they repeatedly urged me, I just couldn't study, and after I finished high school, I chose to drop out.
At that time, my father was very angry, he wanted me to continue to go to school, but I just didn't, he thought that he could afford me to study now, but he chose to drop out.
At that time, I also quibbled with him: "Then you didn't drop out of school when you were young, why can't I drop out of school", this sentence spoke to my father's heart.
He suddenly said helplessly: "If the family can afford it at that time, won't I continue to go to school, your uncle is better than me, and besides, I am my brother, such a good opportunity, then I won't give him such a good opportunity, and in the end, we both have to work as coolies"?
Then he said: "Forget it, if you really can't learn, then you can come to your home to learn to grow tomatoes, and you can earn more than you do odd jobs outside." ”
But I very firmly refused, I definitely would not farm at home, even if I didn't earn much money a month outside, I didn't want to do farm work at home.
During the time I dropped out of school, I thought a lot about it at home, and finally decided to go to work with my uncle.
My father didn't agree with this at first, thinking that I wasn't good enough to cause trouble in the past, and that I might as well honestly find a job in the local area.
02
But I still called my uncle and said, "Uncle, I don't go to school now, I don't want to follow my father at home to do farm work, can I go to your side to help you, it doesn't matter if the salary is less."
The uncle was silent for a while, and then said, "It's okay, anyway, I'm going to go home in the next two days, and I'll take you with me then."
I was instantly excited, I didn't expect my uncle to really agree to take me with me to earn money, and I felt full of strength in those two days, and I woke up laughing even in the morning.
My mother saw me giggling and thought I was sick: "What have you been smirking at all these two days, why haven't I seen you so happy when you are working?"
Time passed by, and my uncle came home and visited my father with a bunch of nutritious products and fruit in his hands.
As for the father, he smiled and said, "Brother, let's eat at home at noon today, I'll ask your sister-in-law to buy some good food, and let's drink a little."
At that time, I went to play with a child in the village after dinner, and I didn't know what they were talking about, but my uncle came in a hurry, and he just stayed for two days and took me away.
On the day she left, my mother's tears fell, after all, it was the first time she had gone far away, and even though my uncle was around, she was worried that I would not eat well and that I would be hurt by my work.
As if I had no conscience, I said to my mother, "You and my father take care of your health, and wait for your son to come back with money," and followed my uncle with a smile.
When I first arrived in the field, I asked my uncle like a curious baby, what is this, why is it so high-end, it is really a long insight.
My uncle answered my questions at the beginning, and my uncle was silent when I asked and asked, and he almost asked everything.
Soon, I arrived at the place where my uncle worked, and I realized at this time that my uncle was in a dry warehouse, and there was almost everything in it, whether it was alcohol, drinks or snacks.
As soon as I got out of the car, I asked my uncle, "Uncle, what can I do here?"
My uncle replied to me: "What about you, you don't know anything now, just sort out the goods every day, remember all the big and small goods of ours first, and then explain your next step."
But when I look at it, there are so many goods, and it won't take me a long time to remember it, but I can't back down, because I asked to come here at my own request, and if I am repulsed, will I not be laughed at at that time?
There are thousands of kinds of goods in the warehouse, and I get up early and go around the warehouse every day, not only to remember the name, but also to remember what the goods look like.
During that time, my uncle was very relieved to see me studying so hard, maybe he thought that I couldn't endure hardship at all, and just throwing me a job could make me eat and wait for death.
I did this for half a year, and I remembered the things in the warehouse, big and small, so I found my uncle and wanted him to arrange my next task.
When my uncle came, he was shocked and asked me, "Have you memorized everything?" Are you sure I'll give you a name that you know is everything?"
I said with great certainty: "You can take it, I haven't served anyone in this regard."
My uncle asked me about nearly 100 products, and I told him all of them, and I completed the assessment with ease.
At this time, the uncle said: "Yes, yes, a little bit of a businessman, so let's start to go out every day to run business, every time you buy goods, you have to go to the site to check the list, you go there to see if there is any indiscriminate filling."
This job is my uncle's affirmation of me, because he said that during his entrepreneurship, he was the one who ran around every day to see the scene, and if some things were not paid attention to, let them get involved, and then he would lose money!
I have been doing this job for 5 years, and in these 5 years, my uncle has not paid me a penny, and every time I ask my uncle when he will pay me, he will answer me for any reason.
03
It wasn't until that winter that my father called me and said that my mother had accidentally fallen on her head while clearing the snow and asked me to come and see it.
As soon as I heard the news, I hurriedly told my uncle and booked a ticket home, all the way my heart was worried, praying that no accidents would happen.
When I arrived at the hospital, my father briefly told me about my condition, that is, there was congestion in the skull, and surgery was needed to clean up the congestion.
But I don't have any money on me, my uncle hasn't paid me a salary for the past 5 years, and I don't dare to tell my father, I'm afraid that the two of them will quarrel again, how inappropriate, so I told my father that I will go out and make a call and come back later.
I wanted to call my uncle to see if he could get me some money to pay for my mother's medical bills, and just as I was about to go out, my uncle unexpectedly appeared in front of me with a thick envelope in his hand.
Then he said to me: "You take this money to pay for your mother first, and then I will give you the rest of the salary in batches in the past two days to the card, the reason why I haven't paid you all these years is because you are still young, and I am afraid that you will spend the money indiscriminately, so I will save it for you first, and now your age is almost enough to talk about marriage, and I will return the money in full."
I was shocked, it turned out that my uncle didn't pay me a salary for my good, I blamed my uncle, but I was really afraid that my uncle wouldn't send me, I think it's normal to have this kind of thought, after all, it's 5 years of salary!