My name is Wang Zhipeng, born in a rural family in Gansu, many people may not have heard the name Gansu, in fact, I am not surprised at all, after all, the world is very big, I don't know it is not surprising, many friends from other places, when talking about Gansu, it will be associated with poverty, and even someone has asked me some questions that sound very panicked, so that I don't know how to answer for a while.
We used to be very backward and poor, but after decades of development and construction, every family has lived a life of abundant food and clothing, but compared with some rural areas in the south, there is still a certain gap, my family has a total of five people, I have two sisters, the eldest sister and the second sister got married earlier.
My eldest brother-in-law and second brother-in-law are honest and loyal people, the eldest sister and the eldest brother-in-law both work in the coal mine, the eldest sister cooks in the mine canteen, the eldest brother-in-law does machine repair in the mine, and is usually responsible for repairing some of the mine's mechanical and electrical equipment.
My second sister and second brother-in-law opened a restaurant in the provincial capital, bought a house in the provincial capital and settled down, the family life is prosperous, the second sister has also helped me and the eldest sister, since the eldest sister and the second sister got married, the three of us sisters can rarely get together except for the New Year's holidays.
In 1995, after my second sister got married, I signed up for the army and came to the army as a soldier, in fact, my college entrance examination results were not satisfactory that year, my parents wanted me to go to a technical school, learn a technology, and it would be easy to find a job in the future, but I didn't want to go to a technical school, I wanted to go to the army as a soldier, because my cousin also graduated from high school and went to the army to be a soldier, and later was admitted to a military school, my academic performance is much better than my cousin, I want to go to military school like my cousin.
Before enlisting in the army, I asked my cousin some things about the military academy examination, and I was already prepared in my heart, after enlisting in the army, I trained hard to improve my military quality and professional skills, while reading books to improve my knowledge reserves, and preparing for the military academy examination, in addition to the indicators for the military academy, but also to see the enrollment scope and specialty of the enrollment college, I was an artillery soldier in the army, and my professional skills and military quality are very good in our company, and finally I was admitted to my ideal military school as I wished.
After graduating from military school, I returned to the original army and became a platoon leader, after being promoted, I took the time to go home, visited my parents, and by the way agreed to my marriage, my object and I were high school classmates, the next day I went home, my parents arranged a blind date for me, but I didn't expect to meet my high school classmate Liu Xiaodan.
When I went to school, although I was in a class with Liu Xiaodan, we usually don't have much contact, but I have a good impression of Liu Xiaodan, I know that Liu Xiaodan is also working in my city, Liu Xiaodan learned that I was admitted to the military academy in the army and also did it, and I was really happy for me.
After I returned to the army, because of work reasons, although I and Liu Xiaodan are in the same city, but we rarely meet, every time Liu Xiaodan comes to the army to see me, in 2003 I was promoted to the company, planning to go back to my hometown and my first girlfriend Liu Xiaodan to get married, because of the heavy snow, I was stranded in the field for half a month, I stayed in the field for a few days, but there was bad news at home, my father was sick and hospitalized.
My father's illness came very suddenly, and he was very sick, because I was in the field at the time, I couldn't rush back in time, and when I returned home, my father had passed away, and I didn't have time to see my father for the last time, my father's sudden death hit me very hard, my father was a very strong person, when he was young, he suffered a lot in order to feed our family, I remember when I was 10 years old, when my father came back from working in the field, he bought me and my sister a box of candy, and my father kept it in his arms, The candy was still hot when I ate it.
I heard my mother say that my father has carried the burden of the family alone since he was fifteen years old, has fed cattle, worked as a lumberjack, worked as a miner, and worked hard to raise the three of us sisters.
In 2006, I disregarded the retention of my comrades-in-arms, I chose to change jobs and returned to my hometown to work, my wife also resigned from her job in the city and returned to my hometown to develop, I was assigned to work in the township after I changed jobs, my wife opened a supermarket in my hometown, we are a family of four, although life is ordinary, but the family is together, I feel very happy.
Now I have been returning home for more than ten years, although I am still a grassroots cadre, but I have never regretted it, life has to give and take, each of us has their own life path, maybe everyone's choice is different, but they are doing their best to pursue their own happy life.