In 1979, I was given the opportunity to be promoted because of my excellent performance, but just when I was about to succeed, my aunt's malicious evaluation of me in a behind-the-scenes investigation led to my failure to pass the promotion review.
In desperation, I returned to my hometown and was met with cold eyes and rejection from the villagers. In order to change the situation, I had to leave my hometown and go to the south to work. After several years of hard work and hard work, I finally succeeded in gaining a foothold in the south.
When I returned to my hometown, the people in the village expressed their deep apologies and remorse for me, and my aunt took the initiative to apologize and sincerely apologize for my previous misunderstanding.
My name is Chen Zhu, and I was born in 1956 in a small mountain village in the south, and although my family only has my parents and two older sisters, my parents are committed to educating our three siblings because they believe that only through learning can we live a better life.
However, due to the poverty of our family, our three siblings did not get very good grades, and our two sisters only went to junior high school, while I dropped out of high school. At that time, it was the time of military recruitment, and in order to reduce the burden on my family, I chose to take the initiative to sign up for the army, and my cousin signed up with me that year.
My cousin's grades have always been very good, and I have a good relationship with him, but he didn't continue his studies in high school. His mother, my aunt, had a strained relationship with our family because she was a comparator and couldn't see others doing better than her.
Our family is often ridiculed and looked down upon by her, and she always relies on her son's excellence to show off everywhere. For example, before signing up for the draft, she boasted that her son would definitely be elected, while a thin person like me certainly wouldn't.
It turned out that after the results of the physical examination came out, my aunt saw that my cousin failed the physical examination, but I met all the standards and enlisted in the army, and since then I have become a thorn in her side, and I come to find fault with my family from time to time.
In my days in the army, time flies, and I have already been given a chance to be promoted because of my excellent performance. However, before the official notice can be issued, the relevant authorities will also need to conduct a background check on me.
I thought it was just a formality, but I didn't expect to lose the opportunity to do it. I heard that when the visitors came to my house, my parents were not there, so they visited my relatives first, including my aunt.
I was deeply disappointed and disheartened that my long-awaited road to promotion was temporarily put on hold due to the failure of the review, so I chose to leave the army and go home. Later, I learned from the village officials that my aunt had said something unfavorable to me, but she was reluctant to elaborate.
I also questioned my aunt, but she just looked at me with one hand on her waist, pointed to my nose with the other and said, "I just said it, what can you do to me?" "As angry as I was, I knew that being rough didn't solve the problem at all, it just gave her a chance.
So, I returned home disappointed, feeling unmotivated to do anything and having lost hope for the future.
When I realized that staying at home wasn't a long-term solution, I started helping my parents with farm work. However, the people in the village began to misunderstand me, and rumors spread that I was not voluntarily retired, but was dismissed from the army for violating discipline, and even that I was useless and that I had lost the opportunity to be promoted.
These gossips made the people in the village prejudiced against me and did not want to have too much contact with me. Although I thought about explaining, I finally gave up. After all, I can't achieve anything now, no matter what I say, no one will believe me, and it's in vain to say it.
Later, under the arrangement of my parents, I married a girl from a neighboring town, and a year later we had a lovely daughter, and our life gradually became stable.
With the dream of starting a business, I was not willing to be ordinary, and coinciding with the rise of the tide of migrant workers in the south, I decided to bravely embark on the journey to the south with my comrades-in-arms who were discharged from the army.
I said goodbye to my relatives and took a long-distance bus to the bustling city of Shenzhen. Unfamiliar with the environment, we found a job on the construction site with food and shelter, and we had to do manual labor every day.
In today's terms, we are typical migrant workers.
Although the job is full of hardships and fatigue, the pay is quite impressive, and it is several times more than the income from farming in the hometown. My comrades and I spent about half a year on the construction site, and because of my excellent performance and helping the foreman solve many problems, he began to regard me as his right-hand man, and often invited me to dinner and wine.
Soon after, he started his own company, and he brought me and my comrades-in-arms to the company as soon as possible, and gave us very generous treatment and let us be responsible for managing the workers.
When I'm not busy, he also takes me to meet clients and teaches me some business negotiation skills, which I am very grateful for, and I can see that he intends to train me.
After five years in the foreman's company, I became proficient in various situations in the business field and accumulated a certain amount of wealth. So, I resigned from the foreman and planned to start my own company.
Although I felt a little uncomfortable when I said this decision, because I had a sense of betrayal. Even though my position in the company was important and the foreman gave me a good salary, I still wanted to have my own business and feel a sense of accomplishment when I returned to my hometown.
This has become an attachment in my heart. I thought the foreman would be angry, but he smiled with satisfaction, patted me on the shoulder and said, "I expected this day."
Go ahead, carve out your own world, and don't let me down. "Soon after, the building materials company I founded opened and complemented the foreman's construction company, and we would recommend the other company's company to the client whenever they had a need.
With my good reputation in the industry, a large number of regular customers came soon after opening. After being satisfied with our service, they introduced new friends to us.
That year, although I was so busy that I was dizzy, my heart was happy, and who doesn't like the feeling of making money? Even though I only slept two hours a day and woke up at 7 the next day, I still felt refreshed.
During this time, I also booked a Santana in full as a reward for myself. It's not that you can't afford a more expensive car, it's that Santana is more well-known in the village. For several years, I never went back to my hometown, and each time I asked my wife to come all the way with the children to see me.
She understood the obsession in my heart, so she never complained. I also told my wife that if anyone asked me how I was doing, I told her that I was doing badly, just so that I could see their deflated faces in the future.
Now, with the car keys in hand, I am ready to return to my hometown in a frank manner, so that they can see that the Chen family boy, who was once despised by them, has achieved extraordinary achievements.
On the 28th day of the Lunar New Year, I drove into the village in a private car and immediately attracted the attention of all the villagers. At that time, private cars were still rare, and the big families in the village could not afford one.
There was a lot of discussion on the sidelines, speculating that it was a big boss or leader who came to inspect the village. In this group, I saw my own parents. I didn't tell anyone about my home this time, even my parents thought I wouldn't be coming back for the New Year.
Therefore, they did not expect that it was their long-lost son sitting in the car. "Mom, Dad! Hearing my call, they were confused at first, then surprised.
The mother's eyes were moist, and tears were almost falling. I quickly helped them into the car and kicked off the gas pedal towards home. Listening to the whispers of the villagers around me and looking at their envious eyes, the resentment in my heart finally dissipated.