Railway Daughter: My Mom Knelt and Begged Me to Give Up High School

Maybe it's because I'm a railway kid and I seem to have a unique feeling. My family is from the Iron and Steel Bureau, headquartered in Taiyuan, but the place where my mother works has never been in Taiyuan, Baotou, Hailar, Qi County, or Dangshan. My mother is a middle school teacher. Unlike the author, I went to Jiaotong University. After graduation, I did not go to the Ministry of Railways. To be honest, the workers in the Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Railways are really hard-working. I know a sister who lives two rows in front of our house and lost one eye at the construction site. That sister has been clever and handy since she was a child. She can embroider and hand it over to the neighborhood committee to help support the family. I also know that a brother who is more than 10 years older than me had one of his hands broken and has been left one-armed ever since. Also, Aunt Ma from the house next door to me suddenly became a widow. She was raising three girls by herself, and the youngest was only three years old. She behaved all kinds of ways and never left home to go back to her hometown. Later, the company had no choice but to give her a temporary job. I also experienced that in the early 1990s, the performance of the unit was not good, the entire department could not pay wages, and so many knowledgeable people were laid off. In the past, eight windows were opened in the office canteen during dinner, and it was bustling with people. In the end, there was only one old cook, and he was enough to cook. That scene was really shocking. My mother met an old ophthalmologist at the local hospital. He didn't know that it was a good thing that none of her children were in the Ministry of Railways. It was all thanks to her children who gave her money. That day, my brother also said that he was on a business trip. Because there was no high-speed rail, he took the green local train. He suddenly passed by the former camp and saw that the house was in tatters and was no different from before. In the past four residential areas, two have been built, and two have remained unchanged, including coal yards and rows of dilapidated houses.

Reading this book makes me feel a little sad