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In the same year, Ah Lin appeared, and then the situation mentioned above arose. If Ah Lin confessed to Ah Yin, perhaps Ah Yin would really break up with her boyfriend. But when Ah Lin asked Ah Yin how she introduced their relationship, Ah Yin understood that she was not Ah Lin's girlfriend.
Ah Yin and her boyfriend had a tumultuous relationship. Every day at work, Ah Yin was brainwashed by her leaders and mentors, mocked by her colleagues. It got to the point where whenever this was mentioned, Ah Yin would uncontrollably burst into tears. After work, her boyfriend would promptly appear at the bus stop to take her home. Once home, there would be a hot meal waiting for her. Every time the words "break up" reached Ah Yin's throat, she forcibly swallowed them. After all, this was the person she liked, and apart from being a bit poor, he had no other faults.
At the same time, Ah Yin's brother would occasionally ask her for money. Perhaps from a young age, they were taught that siblings should help each other. Ah Yin always responded to her brother's requests, giving him one or two thousand each time, even though her own income was not high, only about five or six thousand. Her boyfriend remained silent every time she gave her brother money.
In this way, the two of them dated for nearly a year amidst Ah Yin's hesitation. In 2009, various policies to boost the housing market were introduced, and Ah Yin decided to buy a house. At that time, Ah Yin had 60,000 yuan in savings, and her boyfriend had 10,000 yuan. The down payment was nearly 120,000 yuan. Ah Yin told her boyfriend, "If you can contribute half of the down payment, then we will stay together. If you can't, then we will break up."
Through relatives and friends, Ah Yin's boyfriend managed to gather 55,000 yuan and handed it to Ah Yin. Ah Yin made a request that the house should be registered in her name alone (at that time, there was no concept of premarital property). In fact, Ah Yin was just testing her boyfriend. After all, she had contributed a solid 60,000 yuan to the down payment, and her boyfriend had contributed 10,000 yuan. The remaining money would be repaid jointly. If her boyfriend agreed to such an unreasonable request, it would prove that he truly loved her. After thinking for a few days, her boyfriend agreed. So, in a remote suburb of the provincial capital, the two of them bought a house using Ah Yin's housing provident fund for the mortgage (which was more than enough).
With the house, Ah Yin also bought a car through a loan. The car and house, which she had always thought were impossible to achieve, were now a reality. Ah Yin felt settled, and the two of them began discussing marriage. Because both of them came from poor families, and Ah Yin had always been very independent.
No dowry, and both a car and a house have been provided.
The couple's savings are not enough to have a decent wedding. Ah Yin decided to have a grand wedding in the provincial capital, while keeping it simple in their hometowns. Here are the details of the wedding in the groom's hometown.
Because the two hometowns are far apart and the wedding is meant to be simple, Ah Yin did not have her parents go to the groom's home. She went alone. It was a very simple wedding, with only three tables set up, mainly for the groom's relatives. The dishes were simple, and Ah Yin wore a big red down jacket without any makeup, and thus married herself off.
Now I can still remember the words the leader said when I was going to the man's hometown to have the wedding: "Ah Yin, if you were my daughter, I would slap you awake; if you were my daughter, I would definitely drag you back from the man's house. You are too careless about your own marriage."
After the wedding in the hometown, Ah Yin arranged the wedding in the provincial capital, including wedding photos, wedding rings, and other matters, all taken care of by Ah Yin alone, and the money was also provided by Ah Yin. When she was tired, Ah Yin thought to herself, "I've found myself a freeloader." But Ah Yin's husband is also working hard to earn money. It's just that his platform is too low. He graduated from a technical secondary school and obtained a bachelor's degree through self-study. He earns a few thousand yuan a month by teaching or training students. It can only be said that his ability is indeed too poor.
The reason why Ah Yin was determined to marry her husband is because her husband said a word: "Your parents, I will take care of them as my own parents." Ah Yin's older brother is not successful, similar to the older brother of "Ode to Joy," causing trouble almost every year. Every time he causes trouble, it is Ah Yin who helps to clean up. The so-called cleaning up also involves giving more money to subsidize the family. From childhood to adulthood, Ah Yin has been the hope of her parents. In her memory, when she was still in elementary school, Ah Yin listened to her mother nagging every day, "When you go to college in the future, you must take good care of us." At that time, Ah Yin was very distressed about her mother because she had seen her parents quarrel since she was a child. Every time they quarreled, her father would beat her mother black and blue, and the house would be in a mess. Therefore, in Ah Yin's heart, she was very distressed about her mother. So, whenever her mother nagged, Ah Yin would say, "Don't worry, when I go to college, I will bring you to XX to live." When Ah Yin married her husband, she thought this wish could be fulfilled.
Ah Yin got married and took on the responsibility of the mortgage and car loan, while her husband was in charge of daily expenses. Ah Yin was like a man, often getting drunk when accompanying others for drinks. Once, she got so drunk that she had to be sent to the hospital for gastric lavage. At that time, Ah Yin only had work in her eyes. She wanted to work hard to make her own family and her parents' family better. Her brother still asked her for money from time to time, and her parents still needed her financial help occasionally. This pressure caused Ah Yin to develop acne, which kept getting worse.
The fact that Ah Yin married her husband without a lavish wedding caused quite a stir in the comm the company y. Everyone thought she was a good girl who was not greedy for vanity, and they believed that her husband must have accumulated great virtue in his past lives to marry such a virtuous wife. Once, when the grassroots organization where Ah Yin worked invited the headquarters leaders for dinner, Ah Yin accompanied as a grassroots employee, and Ah Lin accompanied as a headquarters employee. This should have been the second time Ah Yin met Ah Lin after she helped him buy a washing machine, which should have been about a year apart.
Ah Lin: How did you become so ugly?
Ah Yin: ...
One night, around ten o'clock after that meal, Ah Yin received a text message from Ah Lin.
Ah Lin: I miss you.
Ah Yin: Have you had too much to drink?
Ah Lin: Even if I drink too much, you still don't come to take care of me.
Ah Yin: There are many people who can take care of you, right?
Ah Lin hasn't replied. Ah Yin thinks that Ah Lin must have had too much to drink and is just talking nonsense.
Ah Yin and her husband have had a bumpy time after marriage. Whenever the pressure becomes too much for Ah Yin to bear, she regrets her decision, and her brother occasionally asking for money adds to her husband's grievances. Divorce has become Ah Yin's mantra. The most dangerous thing is that they often argue while driving, starting from a trivial matter and then dragging in Ah Yin's maternal family.
Ah Yin's husband: Your brother is the root of all problems. I don't have the ability, don't drag down your family with me!
Ah Yin: What did you say before we got married? Didn't you say you would treat my parents as your own and take care of them? Now it's my money, I didn't ask you to contribute!
Ah Yin Husband: Isn't your money our money?
Ah Yin: Then let's get a divorce!
Then, Ah Yin's husband would steer the car towards the roadside embankment and make an emergency brake when there were only a few centimeters left.
After a few times, Ah Yin started to fall silent, and she was already disappointed in her husband.
Perhaps Ah Yin's efforts made the leaders feel sorry for her. In 2010, she was promoted to assistant sales manager and was sent to the grassroots for training. After about half a year of training, there was a major reorganization, and the original area was reassigned. The grassroots point where Ah Yin was located was taken out of the original jurisdiction and became a grassroots point of another branch. For some reason, Ah Yin didn't get along with the new female leader, so she decided to get pregnant and have a baby.
After giving birth, the leader of the higher-level organization had a conversation with Ah Yin, saying that they were taking care of her by transferring her to a backstage position. They claimed it was for Ah Yin's benefit, but in reality, it deprived her of many years of hard work. Previously, Ah Yin was an assistant sales manager, but in the backstage role, she no longer held that title. Instead, the backstage work was essentially odd jobs, such as file and document management, rendering Ah Yin's years of networking useless. Additionally, the income was significantly reduced, although the work pressure was indeed lighter.
Ah Yin did not want to spend her life in such a relaxed position, especially since the heavy financial burden did not allow her to retire to the backstage at such a young age. Therefore, she considered changing jobs, which led to the earlier conversation with Ah Lin. With Ah Lin's persuasion, Ah Yin did not resign. Coincidentally, at this time, the headquarters began a system-wide competition for the position of Head of the organization's grassroots. Ah Yin met the competition requirements and felt that this was her chance. However, considering that the leadership seemed biased against her, Ah Yin decided to wait until the deadline to apply.
Office Director: XX, for this competition, you should apply for the position of office director of the higher-level organization.
Ah Yin: Director, I haven't done this job before.
Office Director: It's okay, just apply for this position.
Ah Yin: ...
Ah Yin opened the registration app and found that only two employees had signed up, far from reaching the required number of participants. Ah Yin immediately called another colleague who also met the requirements.
Ah Yin: Has Director XX called you?
Colleague: Yes, he did.
Ah Yin: Which position did they ask you to sign up for?
Colleague: Office director at the higher-level organization.
Ah Yin at this moment understood. I guess there were too few people signing up, so headquarters pressured them to require all eligible employees to sign up. That's why the higher-level organization came up with this "accompanying the prince to study" tactic. Ah Yin was extremely angry.
Ah Yin: Are you there?
Ah Lin: Yes.
Ah Yin: I want to sign up for the grassroots Head of the organization of XX organization.
Ah Lin: It's not easy to do business in this organization.
Ah Yin: Regardless of whether it's easy or not, I want to give it a try. If I don't get the job this time, I plan to resign.
Ah Lin: The competition for this position is just a formality. In fact, it's all predetermined.
Ah Yin: Whether I can compete or not, I want to give it a try.
Ah Lin: Alright, I'll help you find out.
Ah Yin always remembers a certain day in July 2012. It was around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the setting sun made people feel very comfortable. Ah Yin was swaying on the bus on the way home. If it weren't for the heavy financial pressure, maybe this odd job would be quite good. At least she wouldn't have to socialize with all kinds of men like a social butterfly, at least she wouldn't have to force herself to go to work the next day after drinking and vomiting, at least her skin was starting to return to its previous fair and clean state. Just as Ah Yin was enjoying this comfortable feeling without the pressure of performance, the office director's call came.
Office Director: XX, I've noticed that you've been working very hard lately. As a special employee benefit, I'd like to send you on a trip to Xiamen to relax and unwind.
Ah Yin: Oh, thank you, boss.
At that time, Ah Yin was puzzled. In her mind, she felt like she was just an ordinary person, and good things like this wouldn't usually come her way. But the thought of traveling to Xiamen made Ah Yin very happy. In her heart, the best places to live in China were the provincial capital cities and Xiamen. The name "Gulangyu" in Xiamen made her feel like she could hear the sound of waves, and there was also Xiamen University, which Ah Yin longed to visit. To be honest, Ah Yin didn't like traveling; she was a typical homebody. If she had to choose a travel destination, she might choose places with water, like Guilin or Xiamen. "The wise enjoy water, the virtuous enjoy mountains," perhaps Ah Yin was a wise woman.
Stayed in Xiamen for five days, and on the second day, I have to return to the provincial capital. Ah Yin is thinking of bringing some local specialties back for colleagues, so she called a former colleague who graduated from Xiamen University (currently working in another higher-level organization).
Ah Yin: Are there any local specialties in Xiamen that I can bring back?
Colleague: Why are you still in Xiamen? The job competition is the day after tomorrow, don't you know?
Ah Yin: What? I don't know.
Colleague: They didn't inform you about the the company?
Ah Yin's heart turned cold at this moment. This is a typical tactic to lure the tiger out of the mountains. Where did she offend the leader? Why would the leader treat her like this?
The next day after getting off the plane and returning to my home in the suburbs, it was already 2 a.m. When Ah Yin finished writing the speech, it was already 4 a.m. After a quick wash and dress, Ah Yin took a nearly three-hour bus ride to the headquarters for the job competition.
On the third day after the competition, the leader came to talk to Ah Yin. This leader had a mysterious face and, because Ah Yin came in after the organization split, was not given much importance. It's worth mentioning the leader's despicable behavior. When the organization split, the headquarters intentionally wanted Ah Yin to work at a branch near Ah Yin's home and hinted that the future there would be better than in the current organization. Then the leader talked to Ah Yin, saying that the higher-level organization wanted to transfer Ah Yin to work as a front-line operator and also questioned whether Ah Yin's path to becoming a sales manager assistant was legitimate. At that time, Ah Yin felt that the leader's behavior was extremely despicable.
Leader: XX, I'm really sorry for what happened before. We haven't spent much time together, but this time I want to give you some pressure and have you take on the role of head of the grassroots organization below.
Ah Yin: Leader, have the results of the job competition come out?
The leader, apparently caught off guard by Ah Yin's directness, changed his expression and said, "The results haven't come out yet, but I called the higher authorities and inquired. You performed well in the competition, but you didn't win. Your performance and qualifications are not as good as your colleague XXX's. Technically, it shouldn't have been your turn, but considering your hard work, I'll give you a chance. I don't know if the higher authorities will agree."
The leader seemed thrown off by Ah Yin's straightforward question, and his speech became disorganized and incoherent. He criticized Ah Yin's performance one moment and then said she wasn't qualified enough the next. Ah Yin looked at the leader and couldn't help but feel amused, thinking, "If you look down on me so much, why did you use me?"
Years later, I learned from Ah Lin that it was actually the headquarters' leadership who had their eye on Ah Yin. However, because the candidates for the position had already been internally selected for competition, the headquarters leadership called Ah Yin's supervisor and said that if they didn't use Ah Yin, then the supervisor shouldn't continue in their role. So, Ah Yin's supervisor reluctantly allowed Ah Yin to become the head of a certain grassroots organization.
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