The changes that happened at the age of eighteen made the girl who should have been high-spirited fall into a trough. During those difficult days, beer became a soluge and contributed to many life-changing decisions after "drinking it all". A few years later, the light boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains, and the familiar wheat fragrance in the memory blooms on the tip of the tongue, which is the taste of happiness.
Despite his father's opposition,Make the first decision
At the age of eighteen, I should have been full of longing like the morning sun, but fate seemed to play a joke on me - my mother died of illness, and I lost the person who loved me the most in the world.
For me, the spring of my eighteen-year-old year seemed to have never come, my world was full of snow, and my heart was extremely cold. With endless thoughts about my mother, I walked into the examination room in a daze, and the result can be imagined.
Eighteen-year-old June is black and sad. Seeing the elated faces of the other students when they got their admission letters, I could only cry silently alone. I was so devastated by this tragic result that I locked myself in my room all day in silence, unable to see the direction of my life.
My father persuaded me to repeat my studies for another year, but when I saw my father's gray hair on his temples, obvious wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and a slightly curved back, my heart was filled with inexplicable sadness, he had sacrificed too much for this family.
"I am an eighteen-year-old adult, and I am no longer a weak child, not to mention that I have younger siblings at home, and it is time to do my duty for this broken family. "I told myself this when I was young and vigorous.
So, despite my father's opposition, I made my first important decision at the age of eighteen: to go out to work. Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, my father could only sigh helplessly, smoking inferior cigarettes one after another.
In the parting wine, it is all reluctance
Before leaving, my father took out a few cans of Tsingtao beer from the cabinet, washed two wine glasses, and poured one full for me. The two of them have their own hearts, and they are not good at expressing themselves, thousands of words are melted into Tsingtao beer, we just bow our heads and drink the wine sullenly, eating a wordless lunch, and the parting wine is full of reluctant taste.
I drank the remaining Tsingtao beer from my glass, picked up my simple bag, strode out of the house, and waved my hand reluctantly to my father"Dad, I'm leaving, take care of my body at home alone. ”
"You wait!”My father suddenly grabbed my clothes, quickly stuffed a stack of money into my pocket, and said earnestly"Poor families are rich, don't suffer yourself outside, buy what you want to eat, and remember to add clothes when it's cold. Come back when you're homesick, Dad can support you. ”
I listened to the sour nose, held back the tears in my eyes, and hurriedly put my bag on my back and boarded the long-distance bus, for fear that I would cry. The car started, my father stood at the door of the house like a sculpture, raised his arm to say goodbye to me, the car gradually moved away, my father's figure became smaller and smaller, and finally shrunk into a point, but the arm was still raised, seeing this, the tears in my eyes still flowed down very uncontrollably.
After drinking it all, go home and repeat it!
At that time, in order to survive, I had to find a small restaurant and take up the job of serving dishes with a pitiful low salary, and I was also responsible for washing dishes and cutting vegetables. From early to the end of supper, after more than 10 hours a day, my body seemed to fall apart, sleeping in the dormitory, and I was so tired that I didn't want to eat dinner.
The chef of the restaurant is an enthusiastic Shandong uncle, who often secretly stir-fries one or two side dishes for me after closing, and a bottle of Tsingtao beer per person. After a few glasses of wine, the uncle opened up the conversation and told me about his hometown Qingdao, his home in a seaside fishing village, and his daughter ......, who was studying at university
For him, the familiar taste of Tsingtao beer can soothe his nostalgia. For me, Tsingtao beer can relieve my physical fatigue and make me forget the ups and downs of life for a while.
The hardships of part-time work are "like a fish drinking water and knowing its own warmth", and it is difficult for people who have not experienced it to understand. Faced with a hopeless future in addition to the work I can't finish every day, it makes me wonder if my reckless decision is this: is this the path I have chosen, and my life will be spent in torment?
One time when I was chopping vegetables, I accidentally cut my finger, and the wound was very large, and the blood was gushing out, and I couldn't help but cry in pain. I wanted to ask my boss for leave to go to the hospital, but it was a weekend and the store was very busy, so the proprietress impatiently threw me a band-aid and asked me to put it on and continue working. Because of the injury to my hand, the efficiency of my work was much lower, and the white eyes of the proprietress did not stop for a day, and she spoke sourly to vent her dissatisfaction with me, and I could only endure helplessly.
After closing in the evening, the chef fried two dishes as usual and brought two bottles of Tsingtao beer. This time, he was surprisingly silent, didn't say a word, just drank Tsingtao beer to himself.
After drinking a bottle, the uncle looked at me and said seriously"Go home, you are only eighteen years old, it is the age when you should struggle, listen to your uncle's words, repeat your studies for another year, this is not the place you should stay!”
After speaking, the uncle went back to the dormitory with his hands behind his back, and looking at his departing back, I seemed to see my father. I drank all the wine in my glass, put all the clothes in my dorm room into a canvas bag, and made my second decision at the age of eighteen!
Read all the sails and drink the taste of happiness slowly
The next day, my uncle took me to the boss and his wife and gave me my salary back. The uncle put the money in the back of the backpack for me and patted me on the head: "Go back and study hard, knowledge can change your fate!."I bowed deeply to my uncle and stepped on the bus back to my hometown.
When I came back, my father was overjoyed and hurriedly cooked a table of dishes. I poured my father a full glass of Tsingtao beer and toasted him: "Dad, I want to repeat my studies for another year." It's not that I can't suffer outside, but I want to make the future brighter. ”
Father patted his thigh happily: "This is the path I want you to take the most, wow, the only thing that can change the fate of our rural people is to study." After you left, your high school homeroom teacher even made a special trip to the house, saying that you have a talent for reading, and it would be a pity to waste it. If you want to repeat it, just look for him. After eating, we'll go to your homeroom teacher!”
After a year of repeating my studies, I entered the ivory tower as I wished, and became a college student praised by everyone in the village, and looking at the smile on my father's face, I realized how the right choice was for the second time at the age of eighteen. After graduating from university, I went to the beautiful Gangnam and became a white-collar worker in the bustling city.
After work, I like to sit on the balcony with my father, blowing the cool summer breeze, drinking our favorite Tsingtao beer, and looking at the night view of the city outside with the bright lights.