The moonlight in the northwest in May is very beautiful.
The lonelier the person looking at the moon is, the more the moonlight will blend into their heart.
Dujuan sat at the door of the cave, stroking a small hand drum in his hand, and looking at the moon with his head slightly tilted back.
Cave dwellings are mostly found in Shaanxi Province, but some still remain in H County in the northwest.
The H County Cotton Reclamation Company occupied a large area of old cave dwellings as staff dormitories.
Dujuan was a little uneasy tonight. She didn't even wash her clothes and just sat at the door of the cave in a daze.
It has been five years since she came from the south to work in the countryside in H County in the northwest.
She has grown from a naive seventeen-year-old girl to a twenty-two-year-old working young woman.
Dujuan was recalling what it was like when she first came here.
But sadly, she can no longer remember what she looked like before, and the unfulfilled expectations year after year have almost exhausted her energy.
The hand drum was a gift given to her by her older sister who worked at a youth cadre training camp when she was eighteen.
When the news came a few years ago that she could return to the city, she and several of her friends who were educated youth were ecstatic.
Dujuan returned to her hometown with endless joy and anticipation.
Although the house is small, it can accommodate my parents and their five children.
She stayed at home for more than a month.
The encouragement from brothers and sisters and the smiles from parents diluted the requirement that each person could only take two chopsticks of the dish without oil or water, and made us overcome the meagerness of having only two meals a day.
But she is not the only one in the family waiting for a job. Four of the five adult children are living off their parents' savings.
When Dujuan accidentally saw her old father kneeling down at someone else's door with a smile in order to help his children get a trial job opportunity, all her persistence was shattered.
She climbed onto a coal train heading northwest overnight and cried wildly at her hometown that was gradually getting farther away.
Dujuan returned to H County with a lonely heart. She chose to stay and settle down. She wanted to farm and harvest food and send it back to her family...
But she was always unwilling in her heart.
She rejected several candidates introduced by the village and worked while preparing for the college entrance examination.
Unfortunately, her foundation is really limited, and she faces failure again and again.
A ray of light appeared last year amidst the gray days.
Zhang County came to H County.
He concentrated all the educated youth who settled down in the cotton reclamation company.
Although the Cotton Reclamation Company was a makeshift team and the employees who joined would not be regular staff, Dujuan and many other educated youth who had not given up chose to take a gamble.
They returned the land they were allocated to the village and came to the cotton reclamation company to work as temporary workers with an uncertain future.
The night school affiliated with the Cotton Reclamation Company is Dujuan's last hope.
The reason why Dujuan was uneasy today was that she started to worry about gains and losses again.
Many of the educated youth who came to the Cotton Reclamation Company to bet on settling down tomorrow have disappeared.
Several skilled workers were sent to the thermal power plant earlier and were the first to get formal positions in the county.
Then the winery started recruiting workers, and more than 30 educated youth went there to settle down.
The opportunity to recruit employees at Zhengjiayu Railway Station caused a sensation among the educated youth, but the county gave priority to the older educated youth who were over the age of taking the college entrance examination.
Two years after returning to H County, Dujuan, still a floating duckweed, has completely lost sight of the direction of his life.
I want to cry but I have no tears.
"Don't overthink it," her roommate finally pulled her into the cave. "Zhang County said he wouldn't ignore us. And there's this year's college entrance examination..."
Dujuan sat on the kang with her legs hugged, comforting herself according to her roommate's words.
Yes, County Magistrate Zhang is a capable man.
It has only been a short time since I arrived, but the once lifeless H County has changed so much. Everyone's morale has improved a lot.
My roommate whispered his plan while changing his clothes.
"If I still fail the exam this year and the county can't arrange for me, I'll go south..."
Before Dujuan could recover from her shock, the sound of a lonely guitar was heard again in the yard outside the cave.
He was the male educated youth who lived across from their cave, a lone goose abandoned by his lover, and also a fool who voluntarily gave up the job opportunity to return to the city.
"I came from the mountains~~with orchid grass~~."
Hearing the singing of the male educated youth, Dujuan sighed softly.
This group of people seemed to have been completely forgotten by the rapidly changing world and left in a corner where no one cared.
......
After entering late May, Zhang Hongcheng became busy again.
The railway station is still under construction, and except for Guquanshan Liquor, the other joint venture projects have not yet officially started production.
But he has set his sights further afield.
The Beijing University Student Legal Aid Group, which has been expanding year by year, has now grown stronger and even has two independent private law firms.
At the invitation of old relative Zhang Hongcheng, a team of more than ten law professors and students came to H County.
Zhang Hongcheng is now the county magistrate and concurrently the county deputy secretary, and is actually in charge of all work.
He pushed through a training program at the meeting.
From May to the end of June, the county organized retraining for staff in the public security and legal systems, especially the staff of the county's two courts.
Back then, the only people who could enter this system were considered based on their background, and there were many who lacked business skills and professional knowledge.
Everyone must attend training courses for further study.
Only those who pass the assessment can return to their original positions, and those who fail will be transferred to other units.
Everyone in the county thought that Zhang Hongcheng was just taking the opportunity to consolidate his position, but with his current prestige, no one said anything - if the leader wants to light the fire, the subordinates naturally have to follow suit with firewood.
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