Working at the tutoring station, I walked into a cultural unit. Most of the people who live here can be regarded as the "stinky old nine" in the "Cultural Revolution" movement. Before the central government proposed the college entrance examination, it was like a pool of stagnant water, everyone had nothing to do all day, and there was a chance for everyone to talk and talk about jokes, and if they didn't have a chance, they sat in their own rooms, maybe to read a book, or to deal with their own business. This kind of work without any task has developed the lazy living habits of these "stinky old nine".
Since the spring breeze of the college entrance examination blows, the national education system has been like a chicken blood, and it has immediately become excited. The tutoring station is the first to bear the brunt, he wants to guide and help all candidates in the county, how to review, how to prepare for the exam. Sometimes, it is necessary to organize specialist teachers to conduct mock propositions, carry out examinations, and check the review situation. In short, everything serves the college entrance examination, and everything opens the way for the college entrance examination. Don't underestimate the group of people who seem to be idle in the tutoring station, and later they are all the pillars of Suining education, some became the director, and some became the principal......
The workshop where I make filing cabinets is in the cafeteria of the counseling station, and I live in the reception station of the counseling station. One day, someone came into the cafeteria carrying an organ, a technique that I had never heard of, and had never seen before—the organ-builder.
I saw that he first tested the organ that he had brought in, and listened to the scale and pitch. Then the wind compartment is dismantled here, repaired there with glue, and then the reeds on the keyboard with pronunciation problems are hooked out from the back of the keyboard with an iron hook. I saw that he divided five by two, and one day he repaired the organ that he could not use. After dinner, I asked the guy how much it costs to fix this organ, fifteen yuan! Everyone has to think about it, we work hard, tired for a day, we can only earn three or four yuan, and we feel amazing, it's really arrogant. People can easily earn more than ten yuan a day, and don't sweat a drop, I was surprised for the first time, there is such an easy way to make money.
That night, we were in the same room, and I gave him a cigarette to open the deadlock. However, at some point, he went out to buy wine and braised pork head meat, and warmly invited me to drink with him. Both of them are old rivers and lakes, and they have been running around for many years, and through drinking, they really feel a little sympathetic to each other, and they smell the same, and they have the meaning of seeing each other late. In the wine room, I knew that his name was Luo Yong, a native of Longhui Liudu Village, who ate commercial grain, was slightly older than me, and was married and had a child. He has been engaged in organ repair for many years. Many of the organs of Hunan normal schools are regularly repaired by him, this time passing by here, is to receive a letter from the Guangxi Conservatory of Music to do organ maintenance, there may be two or three months, only feel that a person is very lonely, not fun.
I asked him how much it would cost to repair the organ he repaired today. He said to pick up Wu Yuan. How much did it cost, less than two dollars, only a new reed, a repair of the bellows, and a little worthless glue. Because it is the first time to come here, in order to take care of the future business, I don't want to shout high prices, so I just have to play for more than ten yuan a day. If you are in the conservatory of music, in fact, it will only cost a few dimes to buy a reed, but the maintenance will be calculated according to three yuan per reed, and other repair costs will be calculated separately, not twenty or thirty yuan a day, don't even think about it for you, and in the whole of Hunan, only me and another master are doing this industry. The master only listened to the teacher at the conservatory, but he had never met, and he didn't even know his surname.
When I heard him say that he didn't even think about making it for him a day, I was really frightened by him. I also think he's drunk and talking or pretending to be big. Seeing that his face was kind and sincere, he did not look like a person who bragged and boasted. Since I walked the rivers and lakes on my own, my highest is to order cardboard, and I have made a lot of money for a day, just like picking up a cellar. The other three yuan a day felt excited enough, and the lowest one even took two yuan and three cents a day's pawn. It's really more human than human, and it's infuriating.
After a few days of dating, Rayong and I became friends who talked about everything. Seeing that I was also active, playful, and carpentry, he sincerely invited me to go with him to the Guangxi Conservatory of Music to repair the organ, and promised a much higher salary than I do now. To tell you the truth, the invitation he gave me was too tempting for me. Not only did he enable me to see and master a new technology, but he also gave me the opportunity to enter the higher education institutions of my dreams, and to smell the aura of higher education institutions to satisfy my longing for them.
However, when I consulted with my father and my fellow men, they said that they did not approve of me going to repair the organ with him, and that although his salary was high, he was afraid that he would fish for three days and dry his nets for two days, and there were so many organs there. Of course, my parents didn't know much about Rayong's industry, and they didn't believe that there were so many organs in music academies across the country that needed to be repaired. They think it's a reason, but I think they're a little bit of a lonely person. Because in China at that time, the piano was a thing played by the upper class of music professionals, and it was considered a luxury, and only when the rich and noble families were described in novels, there were occasional opportunities to appear in the living rooms or rooms of those noble ladies or ladies. But they didn't expect that any school that has a teacher training will have to take music lessons, and it will also have to train music teachers, and if you want to train music teachers, you must have an organ, so I believe that what Rayong said is true. However, my parents did not agree to let me go, and I had no choice, because the work of the counseling station was not completed, and I could not settle the account, so I had to die of this wish to travel all over the world.
In order to fill the food gap, my father had to buy a grain stamp of 2 dimes a city pound every year, and sometimes he had to buy several hundred catties to supplement the family. This kind of transaction is not allowed to be traded publicly, it is all underground trading, or it is traded between acquaintances and friends. I talked about this matter with Rayong, and he said that it was easy, they all ate food from the residents, and there were many people who sold food stamps, and they only needed one dime and one city catty, and sometimes some people wanted to sell it urgently as long as one dime and one city catty, which was very easy to buy.
Before leaving, I handed him three yuan and bought it and sent it to me if it was not more than one pound of two corners. However, he also said that he would not be able to do it for me until he returned from the Guangxi Conservatory of Music in three months. After three months, there was no news, and it was not until six months later, when my father wrote to him and received a reply and a bill of exchange for three dollars. The letter said that after he returned home from Guangxi, he encountered that his house was burned by fire, and he was burned in his sleep, and he had just recovered and been discharged from the hospital when he received the letter. Judging from this incident, although Rayong replied late, after the catastrophe, he was only a friend of one side, and he could return to Zhao completely, and he could be regarded as a sincere gentleman. Life may be like this, one side of the friendship is due to true feelings, can be a gentleman. Some people who make friends for a lifetime know people and faces, but they don't know their hearts, they are wary everywhere, and they have to be careful everywhere to rest assured.
During the life of Nagabuko, sometimes the work was too long and I felt bored. Once I went to my old classmate Fuliang to play, chat, and drink, at that time the two of them couldn't drink, he was worse than me, and he was red face when he drank wine. He drives a tractor and is responsible for buying groceries for the canteen, and his work is leisurely. He is more than a year older than me, and because of his relative Yan Xun, he was recruited to Wuyang No. 2 Middle School early to engage in logistics work. That year, Wuyang No. 2 recruited more than a dozen logistics personnel, and only paid more than half a year's investment to the production team, but in the second half of the year, all of them were converted into regular workers by the unit. There are four of them in my yard, and people jump out of the dragon gate at once, as if falling into the mouth bucket. Soon after he became a regular student, he was transferred to No. 1 Middle School, first driving a small tractor, then driving a big car, and finally transferred to the Education Commission to drive a small car and partner with the official.
One day, when it was getting dark, a call came from home saying that my mother was sick again, and that the materials for the second coffin that my father had bought were still in the Qianqian School, and that I wanted to find a way to transport them to Changbuzi, and at eight o'clock that night, I could take the tractor from the agricultural technology station of the Loess Mining Commune to go down. There was no other way, it was too big to call Yutang or Master Zhou to go to the target, and finally I found Fuliang's tractor, and he didn't say a word, he shook up and left. Taking advantage of the moonlight, the two of them broke through the Jiangkou forestry checkpoint and drove to the Changbu State Hotel, where the tractor was waiting, and after we loaded the car, it was just after a little more than eight o'clock in the evening. The next day, I don't know who informed, the logistics Jiakun also said that he went to drag smuggled goods last night and asked him to pay the freight of Wu Yuan, and he told me that he didn't pee on him, he was the oldest.
Let's just talk about Yutang, we haven't had much intersection since we separated, but once my eldest sister was at a life-and-death juncture, he did help a lot. Here's the thing, my eldest sister gave birth to the first child, it was a difficult birth, the child's feet were exposed, the township hospital could not receive the delivery, to send to the Lixi District Hospital, at that time there were few transportation, and to hurry, my father saw this fire eyebrows, like ants on a hot pot on the road to watch, then met Yutang driving a car, he knew my father, thought he was going to Changbu, stop and ask, to know the reason. Fortunately, the leader of the car was also from the courtyard, and at this 100,000 urgent moment, he immediately moved into the car, sent him to Li Xi Hospital, and then turned around and left. With the help of a skilled doctor, she was able to turn the corner and give birth to a baby girl within minutes.
There are countless unforgettable acquaintances and intersections in life, which may be a collision of fate. There are also countless regrets in life, which may be an extension of the smile of looking back and smiling in the past and present lives.
2019.4.30. Yuwuling Yuanxibu Street