Rebirth 1989: My Unlucky Career

Chapter 58 When ideals and reality collide

Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo chuckled:

"Lucky lucky."

The two brothers hadn't seen each other for a long time. They chatted at the door and even forgot to go in.

It was Zhao Zhuo's aunt who saw the two of them chatting in a lively manner and pulled the two of them in, dumbfounded.

"Jianjun, you too, why do you let Xiaozhuo stand outside the door like this!"

Aunt Zhao Zhuo said to Li Jianjun with some complaints.

When he heard this, Li Jianjun didn't refute, he rubbed his head and smiled:

"Didn't I forget it as soon as I said it?"

Zhao Zhuo also smiled and nodded:

"Yes, auntie, it's really not my cousin's fault for this. I also forgot to enter the door as soon as I started talking."

"Okay, okay, you two brothers can chat slowly, and I'll wash the fruits for you."

Aunt Zhao Zhuo smiled and went to wash the fruits.

Zhao Zhuo asked:

"Brother, what have you been busy with recently? I heard from my mother that you found a job as a driver?"

When Li Jianjun heard this, he subconsciously smiled bitterly and nodded:

"Stop talking about it, I'll give the tasks assigned by the army to others.

Then I dragged my friend to find another job, driving for some boss. Although I didn’t have much work every day, I was very angry.”

Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be a little surprised:

"It should be a good job to drive for the boss. It's easy and the pay is good. Tell me what makes you angry."

Li Jianjun sighed:

"Hey, you don't know, I wait until the boss gets off work every night and pick him up on time.

Seven days a week, if people don’t take them home every day, do you know where they go?”

Zhao Zhuo shook his head:

"I really don't know, where are they going?"

Li Jianjun clapped his fingers and said one by one:

"First, the high-end hotels. Let me just say this, there are no high-end hotels in Fengtian that I don't know about!

After dinner, there is either a bathing center or a chess and card room.

Anyway, let me just say this, he doesn’t come home until two or three o’clock every day.”

After hearing what Li Jianjun said, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be curious:

"Then he doesn't do anything else?"

Li Jianjun shook his head:

"He drinks so much every day that he can't get up before noon, so what can he do!

Sometimes if it’s too late the night before, I won’t go to the company in the afternoon!”

After hearing this, Zhao Zhuo was also eye-opening. He never thought that such a thing existed.

After hearing this, Zhao Zhuo also understood what Li Jianjun meant.

"So, cousin, do you think you can't stand this kind of thing?"

Li Jianjun nodded heavily:

"That's right! Actually speaking, the money I make now is not bad, and the boss treats me well, and he is not the type to boss me around.

However, when I see bosses like them, relying on the spring breeze of reform, they became rich first, but they have no idea of getting rich first and driving wealth later, and I feel a little sad."

Zhao Zhuo nodded lightly.

Li Jianjun has been a soldier for so many years, and he knows very well what Zhao Zhuo is thinking about, and he also knows what the depression in his heart is.

Li Jianjun's thoughts are not about hatred against the rich, but about his helplessness and sigh after the collision between the great ideal of protecting the family and the country and reality.

I saw Li Jianjun becoming more and more emotional as he spoke:

"Xiao Zhuo, you don't know that I have been a soldier for so many years and have seen too many embarrassing things.

I worked for a recruit who was 18 years old when he joined the army. Once when we went to fight a flood, he was carrying a sandbag that was almost as much as his own weight and jumped into the flood outlet without any hesitation.

But none of us expected that the water was so strong that he lasted only a few seconds before disappearing into the flood.

At the time of his sacrifice, he had just celebrated his nineteenth birthday."

Zhao Zhuo stood silently and took out a cigarette and handed it to Li Jianjun.

Li Jianjun took the cigarette, took a long puff, then slowly exhaled the circles under his eyes, sighed, and then said:

"I also have a comrade who happened to see a child crossing the road while he was on vacation and was about to be hit by a car.

Without thinking, he rushed forward... The child was fine, but he was hit by a car, and even though he went to the hospital, he could not be saved.

That comrade’s daughter has just entered elementary school.”

At this point, Li Jianjun's eye circles were already red:

“After I came back, I kept thinking, what are we doing as soldiers?

I have always felt that isn’t it just for the peace of the country and the people, so that everyone can live a good life?

But after I came back, I discovered that not everyone’s life is as we wish!

Some people are drunk and dreaming every day, while others have to work hard for three meals a day. This phenomenon is really shocking."

Listening to Li Jianjun's words, Zhao Zhuo was silent for a long time, then slowly raised his head:

"Brother, do you believe me?"

Li Jianjun was stunned when he heard this:

"Xiao Zhuo, what do you mean by this?"

Zhao Zhuo was not in a hurry to explain, but asked again:

"Brother, answer me first, do you believe me?"

Li Jianjun was anxious:

"Aren't you talking nonsense! Although the two of us are not biological, we are still the same as biological brothers.

If I didn't believe you, how could I tell you so much?"

After receiving a positive answer, Zhao Zhuo said:

"In that case, listen to me once. If you don't want to do your current job, then quit and come work with me."

After hearing Zhao Zhuo's suggestion, Li Jianjun couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

When Zhao Zhuo saw this, he didn't rush to speak, but let Li Jianjun think about it on his own.

After a while, Li Jianjun slowly spoke:

"Xiao Zhuo, the reason why I dare not give you an answer right away is not because I don't trust you, but because I'm worried that you don't have any work that I can do."

Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but smile, shook his head and said:

"Cousin, you are really wrong! I urgently need someone like you now."

"Oh, what?"

"It's your old job as a driver."

Hearing this, Li Jianjun felt relieved:

"Hey, you could have just said no! What did I think I was doing!

I don’t dare to say anything else, but I definitely have no problem with the driver’s job.”

Li Jianjun looked relaxed when he said this.

After all, a veteran car soldier like him knows how to drive.

According to Li Jianjun, let alone a car, even if he gets a tank and asks him to study it, he can still drive it.

Zhao Zhuo looked at Li Jianjun's relaxed look and felt moved in his heart.

When Li Jianjun heard that Zhao Zhuo wanted him to work as a driver, he agreed directly without asking about the salary or the job content.