In the distant year of 1993, it was my third year of college. Since most of the courses had been completed and I had plenty of time, I tried to work to earn money and slowly enter the society.
That was when I was in love with a beautiful girl who was working in Xuchang People’s Service Housekeeping Company. I go to her sometimes. Once, I went to see her. Unfortunately, she went to the countryside to find a nanny, so her manager received me. His name was Wang Xiangli. He was very tall, with a height of more than 1.9 meters. His skin was dark. He smiled at me and said, "You are classmates, right?" I said, "How do you know?" He laughed again: "Experience. I'm about to get off work. Let's have a drink tonight. It's nice to meet you!" I didn't refuse and said happily: "Okay, thank you."
He is a veteran, He is a kind person and has the courage and determination to start a business. I admire him very much for this. We also have the same hobby, which is playing basketball.
From then on, we kept in touch and gradually became good friends. He generously gave me a set of high-quality sports shorts, which I still have until now.
He set up a demolition team and invited me to help out and do some management work in my spare time. During that time, we were often together and dreaming about our respective ideals. Once, he brought up the idea of starting a construction business. I said how could we do it since we had no money and no technology. He said that he was familiar with the Fourth Construction of the City and that as long as we found projects, it would be fine.
At that time, the No. 8 Technical School in the city wanted to build the road in the family courtyard into a cement road and was inviting bids. The two of us worked hard to tackle the problem and were determined to stop this project. Xiang Li said: "If we can win it, we can make a lot of money, and we will have a foundation for our business."
At that time, my father was the principal of the Eighth Technical School. I told my dad how important this business was to us. But my father has always been honest and prudent, so I had to ask the school secretary and the vice principal in charge of infrastructure to ask for permission. They both kicked the ball back to my father, saying that the final decision rested with him. Due to various reasons, my father did not agree to us in the end.
I was very angry with my father about this matter and decided to leave home and go to Shenzhen to work. Before leaving, Wang Xiangli said to me: "You can go out and watch. Come back and see if there are any projects and we will continue working on them. I will give you 700 yuan, of which I will lend you 300 yuan."
< p> In the spring of 1994, the Xuchang Municipal Labor Bureau recruited staff. I was admitted with the first place and became a government staff member. I have never cooperated with Wang Xiangli again. Later, after he got married, he went to Luohe to develop his career, and the contact was lost.He never asked me for the 300 yuan he lent me. When he first started working and got married, life was difficult and the money was not returned to him in time. Later, when life got better, I wanted to find him to repay the money and the favor, but I never saw him.
I don’t know where he is now, but I believe I will find him, fulfill my wish to repay the money, and say thank you.