In October 1991, I went to work at Tangyang Industrial and Commercial Office. Opposite the unit is an electromechanical company that sells a variety of electromechanical products. The M&E company also has several young staff members. One of them is about the same age as me, named Wang Zekuan. Wang Zekuan is not tall, slightly chubby, with a high flat head, small but bright eyes, and wears popular pointy shoes. Competent, spiritual! This was my first impression of Zekuan, and I still remember it vividly!
We are all young people and neighbors, and we have come and gone, and Zekuan and I have become good friends who talk about everything. How many years older is I, and I call him brother.
It was a time of barren entertainment, and we had little entertainment except for watching movies in the theater and watching ** shows on TV (and sometimes there were power outages). But it was also a period of spiritual enrichment, we read by candlelight, and we talked all night long: talking about ideals, poetry, life, history, and the future, ......Talk about everything.
It was a period of hormones, everyone was young, single dogs, inexhaustible strength, inexhaustible strength, after work, we ran 5 kilometers every morning, did 100 push-ups, drenched in cold baths, and practiced rings ......
It was a time of hard work and positivity. At that time, units only had a household registration, and the regular workers recruited by the unit had to be a quantitative household registration, and the rural household registration could only be contract workers and temporary workers. We are all rural children, and we are all contract workers (temporary workers). Brother Kuan is a secondary school diploma, and I only have a junior high school education, but we are not inferior, not discouraged, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, we love to read, through spare time serious study, positive progress. Through the self-study exam, I got a high school Chinese certificate, a secondary school diploma, and then passed the ** college entrance examination to get a college diploma and undergraduate diploma. During this period, I loved writing, and published many "tofu blocks" in newspapers and periodicals such as "Dongtai Daily" and "Miscellaneous Daily", and was hired as a correspondent by "Miscellaneous Daily". The leaders of the unit also value us very much and praise us.
It was also a good time for prices to be stable and inflation to be balanced. Although our wages are not high, because the market is not completely open, the main items are subject to ** regulation: rice 08 yuan catty, pork 4 yuan catty, Bu page 1 yuan catty ......So we live a good life, and my main consumption is to buy books, and most of my salary buys more books.
It was a time of poetry. We ate meat, drank wine, and discussed poetry when we met. Wang Guozhen, Xi Murong, Haizi, Shu Ting ......It's our idol. I talk about poetry, talk about poetry, and write poetry. It was really an era of material simplicity and excellent spiritual outlook. There are no cars, and it is a bus for business trips. It's amazing to have a motorcycle, and a leader in the unit has a Chongqing Yamaha 80 motorcycle, we are very envious, and we often beg to drive it!
All good things come to an end. A few years later, I returned to my hometown town to work, and Brother Kuan was still working at Tangyang Electromechanical Company. During this period, he came to my house to play twice, and then his unit was withdrawn, and at that time the communication was not smooth, there was no mobile phone, only fixed **, and we lost contact. Later, I went to Tang Yang twice to look for it, and asked a few people, but I couldn't tell clearly, so I gave up.
It's been twenty-seven years, and I miss Brother Zekuan very much!
I also miss that distant youth!