After breakfast, Zhang Chaoyang sat on the balcony. His eyes were staring straight at the east mountain of the park, hoping that the sun would climb up and shine brightly for him. However, the thick layers of clouds piled up there, making it impossible for the heavens to clear up. Outside the window, autumn was heavy and desolate. In the occasional autumn wind, the leaves of the poplar trees planted by the roadside gradually turned from green to yellow and fell to the ground. Only in the flower bed in front of the district government office, the colorful flowers were still blooming, bringing a hint of unexplainable brightness to the dull autumn.
The clouds covered the moon on August 15th. This year, it was such a heart-wrenching day!
Zhang Chaoyang looked at the sky and then at his home. The more he looked, the angrier he became.
The house he was living in now was located on a very dilapidated old street. It was said that the stones on the street were paved in the Qing Dynasty. The houses on both sides of the street were all old, and they all looked gray and crooked. The district government had always wanted to demolish this street and renovate it, but due to the lack of RMB, it was difficult to accommodate the many relocated households, so it was left aside. Zhang Chaoyang was born and raised on this street.
This was a house with two rooms and a kitchen. The doors and windows were crooked, and the wood was black. It made one think of an old man in his eighties. This house was built by Zhang Chaoyang's grandfather. It was built in the early years of the Republic of China and could be said to be in his seventies or eighties. Zhang Chaoyang's father passed away the year before last. He heard that Zhang Hongkong Ming died of a cerebral hemorrhage after being laid off. At that time, his mother and brother were still living with them. His younger brother was unwilling to work in a factory and was busy with small businesses every day. Because of this, Zhang Manyang often criticized him for not doing his job properly. However, later on, when he was also laid off, his younger brother congratulated him. You are finally free. Let's do it together!
What freedom? If I had known that this would happen, I would have done it earlier!
Zhang Chaoyang suddenly thought of his father. His father was a laborer under Japanese rule in the old society. After the victory of the war, he still worked in the heavy chemical machinery factory. With his good skills, his father was very popular in the factory. He remembered that his father was a very old-fashioned old man. He believed in the creed of hard work all his life, and he also believed in the maxim that thirty years would pass. For this reason, he advised his son to focus on studying technology. With technology, he would not have to worry about not having food to eat. However, although Zhang Chaoyang had become a technical expert under the guidance of his father, he did not escape the fate of being laid off. Now that his father had passed away, he would no longer gossip about his grandfather, let alone throw a tantrum in the factory. In fact, even if he was still alive, he could only glare at the current situation because the heavy chemical machinery factory was about to be sold by the prodigal CEO. It was said that they would be sold to self-employed people. In this way, these working-class brothers who had been living in the factory for many years would have to go their separate ways and make a living for themselves. They would become strangers to each other.
Just like all state-owned enterprises, the heavy chemical machinery factory was also very popular. The reason for its popularity was not only because it was a century-old factory, but also because it had always started with technology. It was the technical equipment factory of the Northeast Heavy Industry Company. In the past, it was directly under the leadership of the Ministry of Heavy Industry. The minister called it the equipment department of the national economy. Later, the system was reformed, and the ministry became a national heavy chemical company. However, the products of this factory still provided the most advanced technical equipment for the heavy chemical industry in the country. A few years ago, when Xue Jianhua was the factory manager here, he had organized scientific and technical personnel to develop the most advanced heavy chemical equipment," FS01." However, during the test run, for some reason, it broke down. After that, the factory's operations were in a difficult situation. At this time, the factory manager Xue Jianhua was transferred to the Northeast Heavy Industry Company as the vice president, responsible for the layoff of employees. He and his wife, Suhong, were laid off during this trend…
Zhang Chaoyang suddenly stood up and grabbed his walking stick. He shouted at his wife, Suhong, and daughter, Hongye, Let's go!
His wife, who was wiping the furniture in the room, put down the rag in her hand and walked over to persuade him. Hong Yang, let's not go.
Go, why not? Zhang Chaoyang firmly put on the pair of labor shoes. This pair of shoes was given to him by the mayor when he came to the shantytown to help the poor.
The chief already came to visit you and gave you rice and noodles. What else do you want?
I want to work, I want to work! Zhang Chaoyang hit the floor with his walking stick. I'm a national model worker who doesn't have any work to do. How can I still be called a model worker?
You're not the only one who got laid off…Besides, your legs…
What happened to her leg? Didn't he respond to Xue Jianhua's call and get injured during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Now, what right does he have to drive me home?
Forget it, forget it. It was the higher-ups who asked him to split the stream. What could he do? His wife sighed.
Hmm, you're still speaking up for him. The husband snorted at his wife in dissatisfaction. Hongye, come with Dad!
Her daughter, Hong Ye, looked at her father in fear and whispered, Dad, I'm not going to work today. The boss is going to fire me!
I don't want you to do anything! What kind of work was that? Zhang Chaoyang's mood worsened.'Damn it, you want my daughter, a national model worker, to go to the spa for a massage? What the hell is going on?' Today, we want the government to judge how they take care of me, the national model worker!？
Forget it, forget it. His wife saw that he was throwing a tantrum again and sighed deeply." Hongye, take your dad to the park…
Dad, don't be angry. Let's go! His eldest daughter, Hong Ye, came over to support him. Zhang Chaoyang sighed, put on his clothes and shoes, went to the kitchen to wash his face, and rinsed his mouth with a broken toothbrush. He declined his daughter's company and went out alone. He walked aimlessly on the street. He could not see the prosperity and beauty of the street at all. His eyes were filled with desolation. This was because he was in a very miserable mood. He hated those people who sat in small cars, hated himself for being incompetent, and hated the world for becoming more and more impersonal.
There was a park at the end of the street. It was built in the 1980s and used to be the city's botanical garden. Later, the city finance could not afford the expenses of the Botanic Garden, so it was delegated to the district government. The district government built a few artificial mountains in the botanical garden, built a few flower beds, built a few doorways, and turned it into a park. He walked to the entrance of the park and hesitated for a long time. In the end, he took out a dollar, bought a ticket, and stepped into the park. He hadn't stepped into the park for at least seven to eight years. In the past, it was because he was busy with work, but recently, it was because he was in a bad mood. He remembered that the last time he came to the park, he brought his twin daughters to see the dinosaur exhibition. Through that exhibition, he learned that 140 million years ago, a group of huge monsters lived on Earth, and that was dinosaurs. They had lived on Earth for 120 million years before they went extinct. The earth had been dormant and brewing for 120 million years, and thus, humans were born. The human race's plunder of the Earth was no less than that of the dinosaurs 140 million years ago. Dinosaurs only ran amok on the surface, while humans not only destroyed the surface, but also drilled underground to dig for oil, copper, iron, gold, and so on. Sooner or later, Earth would become a barren desert, and not even a dog would be able to survive. Thus, the Earth would fall asleep and breed new species.
Alas, God created humans, but he did not set up a natural enemy for humans, so humans developed rapidly. There were two-legged naked bugs digging for survival in every corner of the world, cutting down trees or hunting animals. The naked worm was another name for humans two thousand years ago. Our national essence of Taoism calls humans naked worms.
The more he thought about these things, the more boring he felt. Zhang Chaoyang lay on the lawn and basked in the sun. He lay there motionlessly, smoking a cigarette as he looked at the adults and children strolling in the park. He felt that the world was getting colder and colder. Everyone was running around for money. Everyone he knew was worried about their income, and money had become the value that measured everything. He remembered that his generation was really wronged. When she went to school, she met with a suspension of classes and a revolution. After graduation, he would go to the mountains and the countryside. He had finally returned to the city to arrange a job, but he had to be laid off again. Thinking back to the stories of the dinosaurs, he felt like he was at the end of the century. Things that shouldn't have happened had happened. He remembered that in 1975, he and Suhong were sent back to the city to arrange work. On their first day at the heavy chemical machinery factory, they were so happy! At that time, there was a chrysanthemum exhibition in the park. After work, they held hands and visited the chrysanthemums together. At that time, he was twenty-five years old, and Suhong was only twenty-one years old. At that time, the two young workers were full of passion. They felt that the sky was blue, the trees were green, and the ground was full of chrysanthemums. The world was really beautiful. Chrysanthemum was beautiful, but she was even more beautiful. He had a lot of beautiful feelings for her, and he had also poured a lot of youthful energy into her. He remembered the first time he kissed her, the excitement on her face and her body trembling. That kind of trembling was like a shiver, and his body had goosebumps. Ah, ah, don't be like this. She was scared. She was afraid that he wouldn't stop kissing her, but she was also afraid that he would do something else. Thirty-five years had passed, and that wonderful feeling was just a memory. Memories were painful, but he really wished that he could go back to the past, or even to his youth, but he knew that he could not go back.
He sat on the grass in the park for a long time. During this period, he felt hungry, painful, and shy because he only had a little more than one yuan in his pocket. He could not even afford a bottle of Wahaha mineral water. His stomach began to grumble against him. It first barked like a hungry dog, then let out a coo like a frog. He remembered that today was the Mid-Autumn Festival and it was almost time for lunch.
He walked out of the park and strolled along the streets, looking around. The noon sun dyed the world bright. In this bright world, he saw cars and pedestrians flowing on the road to welcome guests. The noise was like a jungle that wrapped around his body. He felt even more lonely and desolate…
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