I really didn’t want to be a warm man when I was reborn

Hainan, Thanksgiving City.

In a small rental house in the coastal shantytown, the table fan squeaked and swung back and forth to blow the wind. An elderly man in his sixties, with medium build and dark skin, was lying on a double iron frame bed covered with a mat, sleeping. Snoring and sleeping soundly.

This man is Li Zhe's father, Li Fengqi, from Gangcheng, Beihe Province.

In fact, Lingang was once one of the four provincial municipalities in Beihe Province, and it belonged to the Luanzhou Prefecture together with Luanzhou City. It was not until 1983 that the Luanzhou Prefecture was revoked and the two cities were separated.

Li Fengqi was a native of Jieyang, Lingang City, and belonged to the Li family branch in Longxi. It can be traced back to Laozi Li Er, and further back to Gaotao, the grandson of Zhuanxu.

Zhuanxu is the grandson of Huangdi, one of the Five Emperors, which means that Li Fengqi can be regarded as a descendant of Huangdi.

Of course, nowadays, except for those who were given surnames by their ancestors or changed their surnames and sneaked in, the Chinese are basically descendants of the Yellow Emperor tribe.

Talking about Gaotao, talking about Li Er is too old. The first lineage of the Li family in Longxi is Li Guang.

That is, the air general who always gets lost in battles.

Therefore, Li Zhe's lack of sense of direction and inability to distinguish between north and south are also due to inheritance from his ancestors.

The previous generations of the Li family had been wealthy and were big landowners in the village. In Li Fengqi's father's generation, although the family was in decline, Li's father was also the production team leader of the village. Even in the most difficult times, the family was not hungry. Who has been there?

Li Fengqi is still the youngest in the family, and her personality is a bit spoiled, unable to endure hardships, and not very settled.

After graduating from junior high school, he attended a teacher training class for half a year and taught in a primary school in the town after graduation.

At that time, teachers were not very respected and their wages were very low, only a dozen yuan a month. Li Fengqi worked for more than a year and could no longer work, so he ran to the Northeast to join his eldest sister and brother-in-law.

Before the opening up, the Northeast was a heavy industry base with abundant coal, iron, petroleum and forest resources, and its economy was better than that in Guan Nei. Many people in Guan Guan went to the Northeast to make a living.

After family planning was implemented, some families who had illegal or extra births would run to the northeast in order to avoid punishment.

The economic decline of Northeast China was caused by the southward shift of the country's economic center of gravity starting in the 1980s, coupled with the depletion of resources.

The earliest ones were forest farms that declined. In the mid-to-late 1980s, after the state implemented forest harvesting quota management, many people in the forest farms lost their livelihoods and had to leave their homes. Then coal and iron ore resources were depleted, and finally even oil resources were depleted. .

It can be said that the Northeast was the most severely affected by the layoff wave in the 1990s.

This "eldest son" who tried his best to contribute all the resources in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China was forgotten after the country's economic development.

Li Fengqi has done everything in the Northeast. He has cut down trees in forest farms, farmed in rural areas, and practiced medicine and sold medicine.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the ancestors of the Li family saved a Taoist priest and obtained several prescriptions that could treat some difficult and complicated diseases.

At that time, control was not strict, and there was no such thing as illegal medical practice. Many doctors did not have medical qualification certificates.

Although Li Fengqi has done everything, he cannot bear hardships, is restless, and cannot persevere no matter what he does. Therefore, after wandering around for more than ten years, the man in his thirties and forties still achieves nothing and has nothing, let alone marry a wife and have children. .

When he was thirty-seven or eighteen years old, there was really no way out, so he went down the mine and became a miner.

State-owned coal mines do not always recruit workers. They have not hired workers for the past five or six years. Li Fengqi has finally caught up, otherwise he would have no choice but to return to his hometown in Jieyang to farm.

In that era, it was better to be a worker than a farmer. If farmers wanted to become urbanites, they also needed to buy a household registration.

Besides, although the wages in state-owned coal mines are lower, they are much safer than private coal mines.

After working in the mine for less than a year, Li Fengqi was introduced to Li's mother, who had been divorced for three or four years and was raising her children alone. The two got married after getting along for a few months.

After more than a year of marriage, Li's mother became pregnant with Li Zhe.

Next, Li Fengqi worked in the mines for several years, while Li's mother grew vegetables and sold them to support the family.

In the 1990s, the wave of layoffs broke out, and the economy in the Northeast became increasingly bad. Unemployed workers were everywhere. Many school teachers were unable to pay their salaries and were often in arrears with wages. The teachers could not make ends meet and had to go on strike.

The coal mine where Li Fengqi worked also often delayed wages. Seeing that the situation was not good, his restless heart became active again.

Hearing that Li's mother had a relative working in the Luanzhou City Health Bureau, he had the idea of ​​taking a leave of absence without pay and returning to Luanzhou to open a clinic. To this end, Li's mother also went to the advanced training class run by Jiashi Medical College for a period of time. Obtained the rural physician qualification certificate.

In 1995, Li's mother returned to her hometown of Luanzhou with 9-year-old Li Zhe, hoping to open a private clinic. Unexpectedly, Beihe Province happened to be implementing a crackdown on individual clinics. Individual clinics without medical licenses were all inspected and temporarily suspended. Got a medical license.

The medical license was suspended and the clinic could not be opened. Li's mother chose to stay in Luanzhou temporarily to wait for news and see when the medical license would be issued. Li Zhe also stayed in Luanzhou to go to school.

But after waiting for nearly a year with no news, Li's mother prepared to take Li Zhe back to the Northeast.

At this moment, Li Fengqi applied for a leave of absence without pay and suddenly ran back.

My job has been suspended, so I can't go back.

Li's mother and Li Fengqi worked in a rural hospital for a while, but they didn't make much money.

After quitting working in a rural hospital, Li Fengqi went to Harbin and contracted a department with a friend for two years in a private hospital. However, he still didn't make much money, so he returned to the mountain city and continued working.

Li's mother, along with Li Zhe and Li Zhipeng, stayed in her hometown. After waiting for four or five years, she finally obtained a rural medical license and opened a small private clinic in the village.

Not long after Li Fengqi returned to the mountain city, he met a woman named Qi Lina through medical treatment. She worked in the finance department of the mine, and her husband was a deputy director of the mine.

Taking advantage of the relationship with the deputy mine manager, he was transferred from underground to above ground and found a job as a water house keeper.

Although the salary is small, the work is extremely easy and there is no danger.

Within two years, the deputy mine manager died without being cured, but Li Fengqi, the healer, hooked up with his wife.

In the second year after Li Zhe was admitted to college, Li Fengqi retired and took Qi Lina back to his hometown of Jieyang.

His nephew, who worked in engineering, found him a job looking after a liquefied gas station.

Li Fengqi looked at the liquefied gas station, while Qi Lina was responsible for cooking for several workers working at the gas station.

Before Qi Lina met the deputy mine manager, she worked in the canteen of the mine.

The two worked at the gas station for more than a year. A relative of Qi Lina contacted her and said that there were many people from the Northeast in Hainan, so it was easier to make money.

Li Fengqi followed Qi Lina to Thanksgiving City in Hainan.

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Li Fengqi finally woke up after sleeping until after 10 o'clock, yawned and sat up from the bed.

After sitting on the bed for a while, he got up and put on his clothes, went to the faucet in the yard and washed his face. He planned to go to a small restaurant outside to eat something, and then wait until it cooled down at two or three in the afternoon before going to the beach to set up a stall.

He will come to Thanksgiving Market with Qi Lina. He heard that it is very profitable to do Sha Sha and cupping at a stall here. You can earn at least two to three hundred a day.

After arriving here, Li Fengqi observed for a few days and found that it was indeed very profitable to set up a stall here to do scraping and cupping. On a good day, he could even earn five to six hundred.