Chapter 4 second quarter

Most of the cadres who changed jobs in 1984 were assigned to the frontline of the public security department, but I was assigned to the Publicity Section of the Xizhimen Grain Depot. The comrades-in-arms learned that they laughed and called me the "prefect of Xiliang". The warehouse is located on the north side of Xizhimen Railway Station. I paced along the wall of the warehouse, full of thoughts.Then he made a decision to decline the kindness of comrades in the military transfer office, and did not take up the post. The days that followed were lackluster. In addition to asking people around to find a job, they just wait for news.Fortunately, two of my friends in the infrastructure engineering corps are also facing unemployment, and they have collectively transferred from the entire corps.We live in the same sympathy, so we just hang out together every day.

The sense of superiority that has always been a military artist is gradually disappearing. At that time, there were no decent big money in China, at most they were second-hand dealers.Although the cultural revolution is over, people's values ​​still regard money as dung.At that time, the favor received by an army literary and art worker was by no means inferior to that of the current TT elite.Not to mention the high salary, it also shows that it is outstanding and coquettish.The difference is that today's IT elites don't have a uniform dress, and if they don't hand over their business cards to show off, they can easily be confused with ordinary people.The requirements for appearance are also quite tolerant.The CEOs of several well-known Internet companies sat on the TV and made a collective appearance, which seemed to be uneven.In contrast, the literary and art workers in the army at that time looked much neater and more decent.Yishuier's three-joint leather shoes and leather gloves, the military uniform is made of woolen material with shoulder pads, the overcoat is breeches, with a tufted collar, and there is a horizontal bar on the back waist with two August 1st military buttons.Except that there is no bullet clip on the waist, and there is no bayonet gun in the hand, it is roughly similar to the guard of honor in the Mao Zedong era.Although there are some sands mixed in, such as me, who looks a bit like a Vietnamese, but after all, the flaws are not concealed, and the proportion of good-looking people is much higher than that of IT elites.

The few of us walked the streets wearing military uniforms every day, and we often attracted the envy and respect of passers-by for the soldiers, but in fact we were unemployed soldiers who had not returned to the field after being disarmed. In addition to going to Zizhuyuan to bask in the sun, they also go to the free market in Weigong Village to buy vegetables and get together to cook.At that time, my cooking skills improved by leaps and bounds, and I could cook a table of dishes for 10 yuan without heavy samples. Later, when I got tired of cooking, I started to make combination cabinets.At first, it looked very simple, just connecting a row of bookcases together, but later it was not enough, and added a row of top cabinets on top, and added a writing desk if it was not too complicated, and finally it turned out to be able to emerge from the cabinet door like magic. A single bed came, amazed the viewer.This kind of time has passed for about half a year. Winter has passed and spring has come, and it has come to the end of summer in a blink of an eye, and the work is still not settled.I haven't painted all the time, and I feel uneasy.I don't know if I can continue to be a professional in the future, and I don't know how long this kind of life will last.Originally high-spirited and unknowingly began to become decadent, let the time go by, like water passing by.Many years later, looking back on the past, I found that it was from then on that I embarked on a colorful and beautiful life.