This is Zeng's short story, which was selected in the series of "Intelligent Reading for Teenagers". The original text is attached as follows:
Father put an egg in the bowl and said, I found you a job in an Internet cafe. Do you want to go?
He looked at his father in surprise and said nothing.
I don't know what possessed me. The second semester of Senior Two begins. He is addicted to online games because of his excellent grades. At first, he kept it from home and had a good time. Later, I plunged into the Internet cafe and played in a daze. The longest one was that I didn't go offline for two days and two nights, and my grades naturally plummeted.
The head teacher came to the door three times and five times, and my mother's tears seemed to drown the whole family, while my father's roar was like dry thunder in a hot summer day, enough to shake the bowl off the table, but in exchange, it was his words-me.
I don't want to study. Reading is boring. The whole family immediately fell into an ice hole. However, my father, who hates Internet cafes, said he found him a job in Internet cafes. Will he believe it? Until my father said just now, he
Convinced that his father was not being sarcastic, he hesitated and nodded.
The next morning, his father sent him to the Internet cafe. He found that it was the Internet cafe he used to go to. My father seems to know the people here very well. He said something to a middle-aged man and left.
When the middle-aged man asked him what he could do, he blushed for a long time and could not speak. He knows nothing about computers except playing games. The middle-aged man saw his embarrassment and said, You don't know anything. How can you work here? I wouldn't accept you if it weren't for your father's sake. Let's start with the simplest accusation.
It's the first time he's heard such harsh words in his whole life. He felt his pride was hurt and almost turned away.
However, he finally nodded.
In this way, he began his first job-hunting trip. But he found that even a simple thing like charging is not easy to do. According to the instructions of the middle-aged man, he will smile and tell the truth about the money.
Fake, then punch in. If you move a little slower, you will be scolded by your customers. Sometimes he stands all day, his back aches and he just wants to sit down and have a rest. Middle-aged people will come and say, stand and serve here. He first used
In order to work in an internet cafe, he goes online when he has nothing to do. Now he finds that he is wrong. Even if nothing happens, the middle-aged man is not allowed to leave his post, let alone play games. He felt that middle-aged people were too hard on him and made a little mistake.
If you make a little mistake or act slowly, you will be reprimanded, and even you are welcome to tell him in front of many people that next time you do this, your salary will be deducted. Whenever this time, he will miss his teacher. How much is the teacher?
Be patient and never talk to him in such a tough tone.
When I got home at night, my mother had prepared a sumptuous meal. Father specially opened a bottle of wine to celebrate his first job. Looking at his mother with red eyes and his father who tried to smile, he didn't hold his father's hand.
Glass buries his head and steaks the rice silently. Maybe it's because he's a little tired after standing all day. For the first time, he thought his mother's cooking was so delicious. He had been complaining that his mother's cooking was not delicious.
One day, all the people were surfing the internet quietly, and only the sound of electricity could be heard in the internet cafe. He stood bored. At this moment, he found an old lady coming in. She walked around the room and stayed with him for a year.
A teenager with similar age stopped by. Because the teenager was so absorbed in the game, he didn't even realize that someone was standing beside him. Then he saw an incredible scene. The old lady watched the teenager for a while, and even gave it to her crying and joking.
Years knelt down. Aunt's crying alarmed everyone, and everyone stopped surfing the Internet. In the intermittent crying of his aunt, he learned the whole story. The aunt is from the countryside and the teenager is her son. She went through all kinds of hardships.
Earn money to send my son to study in the city, but my son uses it to surf the internet. She hasn't been in the classroom for almost a semester and has been in the dark. Aunt came to beg her son to go to school. He saw the bean-sized sweat on the boy's face.
His forehead rolled down, his aunt's heartbreaking voice hit his heart, and he felt his eyes moist. I don't know why, at this moment, deep down, he began to get tired of Internet cafes. Doing the same monotonous thing every day is far from it.
The rich campus life is delicious, but the stubbornness of the teenager makes him not want to talk to his father.
A month has finally passed. On this day, he asked the middle-aged man if he could settle this month's salary.
What happened? Want to back down? You can't suffer from this. What can you do in the future? Middle-aged people are not polite at all.
I want to continue studying. He mumbled something.
The middle-aged man thought for a moment and said, according to the regulations, wages can't be paid until the end of the three-month probation period. This is what I talked to your father at the beginning. However, your situation is quite special and you can consider it.
In this way, he took the first salary given by middle-aged people-500 yuan money, and went home.
The next day, he gave the money to his father and told me to go to school. ...
Now, when he is sitting in a tall office building, reading his favorite books and doing his favorite things, he often thinks of his first salary. Of course, he only learned afterwards that his so-called first salary was actually paid by his father himself, but his father, an artist, gave it to him artistically in another form.