rebirth gossip

After the Spring Festival, Zhou Hongmei and her sister-in-law Zhang Weijuan opened a bakery.The Weimin Hotel where Zhou Hongmei worked suffered too much loss and could not continue to operate. The superior ordered the closure of the restaurant.

Suspended without pay was the original name for laid-off workers. It was not until 1998, when China carried out large-scale industrial restructuring, that the word laid-off was officially used.

The family has a huge sum of 20 yuan, so being laid off and waiting for a job is no longer so scary for Zhou Hongmei.However, Zhou Hongmei is not a person who can live at leisure. After the fifth day of the new year, she asked her sister-in-law Zhang Weijuan to inquire about it, and wanted to work with the private owner of the store.

"Mom, don't work for others. You don't have a salary. Let's be your own boss." Yang Xiaoge was the first to object, because the wages for part-time jobs were too low.

"Mom doesn't know anything, what can I do?" Zhou Hongmei struggled, she felt that she had no special skills except serving dishes and cleaning.

When Zhou Hongmei said this, Yang Xiaoge also felt a headache.What can my mother do?Neither can do high-tech, not too complicated, nor too tiring work.It seems that there are not many eligible industries except for the civil servants of the units on leave.

"Hongmei, why don't we rent a counter together to sell clothes?" Zhang Weijuan suggested. The state-owned store she works in cannot compete with private individuals, and the wages are not high and there are no bonuses.Due to the lack of start-up funds and the timidity of borrowing money to do business, Zhang Weijuan reluctantly stayed in the unit.

"Now the streets are full of clothes sellers, isn't there too much competition?" Zhou Xiaofeng also came over to offer his own opinion.

Yang Xiaoge believes that a good clothing business can make money, but when he saw the birthday cake box on the cabinet, his eyes immediately lit up.

"I think we can open a high-end cake shop! Now who doesn't buy a cake to celebrate their birthday? Even if it's not a birthday, there are a lot of people who buy it as gifts during the Chinese New Year."

The cake was given by Yang Guoxin. Yang Guoxin is a petty bourgeoisie and always buys the best. This box of cakes was bought from the most high-end cake shop in Luhai City.Among the three boxes of cakes that Zhou Xiaoyu received on her birthday, the cakes were of the best quality and taste.The Zhou family didn't pay attention to which box Yang Guoxin was carrying, so they took all three boxes of cakes home.That night, to celebrate Zhou Hongmei's divorce, the best cake box was swept away by Zhou's family.Mrs. Zhou thought the cake box was pretty, so she didn't want to throw it away, and planned to keep some odds and ends.

Yang Xiaoge suggested this because he has a certain level of understanding of cake technology.In his previous life, he had worked in a cake shop for half a year, and he knew that birthday cakes were very profitable.

At that time, high-end cake shops had just started in Luhai City. There were only a dozen high-end cake shops in Luhai City with a population of more than 200 million. The market prospect was broad and the potential was great.

"Xiaoge is right. Opening a cake shop will definitely make money. The cake shop near our store has customers waiting in line during holidays." Zhang Weijuan is quite interested.

"As long as you have good equipment and raw materials, you can make a good cake." Yang Xiaoge has not forgotten the steps of making cakes.

"Are we going to open a cake shop?" Zhou Hongmei seemed to ask, but actually agreed.

"Listen to Xiaoge, Xiaoge has vision." Zhou Hongjun cheerfully praised his nephew.

After making the decision to open a cake shop, Zhang Weijuan led the sister-in-law to act immediately. First, she went to the unit to file a report of suspension without pay, and then went to the city to find rented shop locations.The quality of the store location has a great impact on the business, and the place with a lot of traffic is the suitable address.

In March 97, Xiyangyang Cake Shop opened on the downtown street. Of course, the name of the shop was chosen by Yang Xiaoge. The name was similar to the name of the main character in the anime 13 years later. It was refreshing, easy to remember and festive.

Zhou Xiaofeng tasted the sweetness of selling ginger. After the beginning of spring, he rented a shop at the farmer's market and started a wholesale business of agricultural products.Running a farmer's wholesale business is hard work.

Zhou Xiaofeng worked in a state-owned factory in his previous life, and he was laid off after three years of work.After being laid off, he followed Zhou Hongjun to learn how to repair cars, and then worked in auto repair factories and 4S shops.

Yang Xiaoge changed Zhou Hongmei's fate and his aunt's life trajectory, but Yang Xiaoge couldn't think about Zhou Xiaofeng's insistence on selling agricultural products at the farmer's market.Zhou Xiaofeng is an adult, Yang Xiaoge can only give him advice, it is impossible to hold hands or order his cousin to do something.In addition, the farmer's wholesale business is hard work, and the money earned must be more than that of workers in auto repair factories and 4S shops, so he agreed with Zhou Xiaofeng's decision.

After changing the lives of his mother, aunt, and cousin, Yang Xiaoge didn't want to change the lives of his uncle and cousin.

Four years later, Zhou Hongjun will be laid off.Different from many laid-off workers, Zhou Hongjun's layoff is a good thing. His auto repair skills are excellent. As soon as he was laid off, he was invited by the owner of the largest auto repair factory in Luhai City to become a master master, specializing in guiding apprentices and guiding apprentices in repairs. , high pay and easy work.

As for Zhou Xiaoyu, after graduation, she passed the civil service examination and got a job. The salary is good and the job is easy, so Yang Xiaoge doesn't need to worry about it at all.

In 1997, for the people of many countries, it was a disaster year, a year of economic storm.For Yang Xiaoge, this is the beginning of happiness.In addition to keeping the old house, the smooth divorce of the parents also eliminated the possibility of being dragged down.The successful opening of the Xiyangyang Cake Shop brought profits, and at the same time gave Zhou Hongmei and Zhang Weijuan a sense of professionalism.Seeing the lucrative profits of the cake shop, the sister-in-law and sister-in-law opened a branch near Yang Xiaoge High School at the end of the year.

Yang Xiaoge had nothing to worry about, and devoted all his energy to his studies, and finally raised his grades to the top [-] in the school at the end of the last semester of the second year of high school.After the winter vacation, Yang Xiaoge called Jiang Fengwei and asked Jiang Fengwei to eat cakes at his cake shop.

The high school students in Luhai City are all under the spell when they reach the second year of high school. For the sake of the university admission rate, each high school tries its best to let students make up lessons.Whether it is Yang Xiaoge in ordinary high schools or Jiang Fengwei in key high schools, there is no Saturday, only Sunday is the holiday, and it is only during the day, and at night they have school night self-study.In this way, Yang Xiaoge and Jiang Fengwei reduced the chances of meeting each other, and the two basically communicated through mobile phones.Jiang Fengwei brought Yang Xiaoge a mobile phone as a gift when he came back from New Year's Eve in Hong Kong City.

"Auntie, your chocolate cream cake is delicious. This time it's a holiday, I want to eat it every day." Jiang Fengwei's face has turned into a big face.

"Eat more if you like it." Zhou Hongmei smiled and packed some freshly baked snacks, ready for Jiang Fengwei to take home for Jiang's father and mother to taste.

Most of the cost of selling ginger at the beginning came from the lucky money of this fat boy.Zhou Hongmei is very grateful to Jiang Fengwei. Every time Jiang Fengwei comes, she not only warmly entertains him, but also prepares some pastries for Jiang Fengwei to take home.

"Fengwei, be careful not to see your feet." Yang Xiaoge patted Jiang Fengwei's belly with his hands.

"I can't see it. After one semester, I have lost five catties." Jiang Fengwei likes to eat greasy food.

"Will you go to Hong Kong City to celebrate the New Year this year?"

"No." Jiang Fengwei approached Yang Xiaoge with a little mystery: "My grandma may come back next year, and I won't go to Hong Kong City in the future."

"Oh, Aunt Hong doesn't need your grandma's company anymore?"

"It's not unnecessary, but Uncle Ming Yi will come to Shencheng to invest and start a company next year, and Aunt Hong will come with Uncle Ming Yi."

When Aunt Hong came to the mainland, of course Grandma Jiang came back with her.

"Oh, it's a good thing, you can see your grandma more often in the future."

Yang Xiaoge has figured out the relationship between the Jiang family and Yuan Mingyi's mother and son.

Yuan Mingyi's grandmother, Xiaoxin, lost contact with the Yuan family when she returned to her hometown in Jiangbei. When she found out that she was pregnant, she hid at the distant relative's house in the countryside and made up an unfortunate marriage experience for the distant relative.

The rural people are simple and take good care of orphans and widows. Jiang Fengwei's family and Yuan Mingyi's grandfather take care of them the most.During the Cultural Movement, Grandma Yuan Mingyi's past was exposed by her natal nephew. The young revolutionary general in the county wanted to pull the mother and son out for a fight, but was deftly resolved by the captain of the local production team, Yuan Mingyi's grandfather.

Yuan Mingyi's grandfather insisted that spies and capitalist puppies belonged to the local production team, and they were the production team's resources for criticizing and fighting. defeat.At that time, the sky and the earth were big, and the proletariat was the largest, and the young revolutionary could only return home in a feather.

Rural people are uneducated, and their ideological consciousness is not high. They believe in the folks who lived here with their ancestors, and believe in the captain who does things fairly.When the form is fighting with Xiaoxin's mother and son, the meeting is like gossip and chatting.The only difference is that the members of the commune are sitting on the ground chatting, while Xiaoxin's mother and son and Grandpa Yuan Mingyi are standing in the middle of the arena chatting.

Xiaoxin is timid. Even though she is taken care of by her fellow villagers, she is still afraid of getting sick. Before the movement was over, her fire of life was extinguished.Xiaoxin's natal family cut off contact with her daughter at the beginning of the movement. The conditions of the distant relatives were not good. Yuan Mingyi's father became an orphan and had nowhere to go. Yuan Mingyi's grandfather took him home to raise him, and later married Yuan Mingyi's only daughter. , Jiang Hong, who is a little out of his mind.The house of Jiang Fengwei's grandparents and Jiang Hong's house is wall to wall. Every time Jiang Hong gets sick, Grandma Jiang helps to take care of her.This is why Jiang Hong relies on Grandma Jiang.

Yuan Mingyi's father went up to the mountain to catch mountain treasures to supplement his pregnant wife's nutrition, but unfortunately fell down the hillside and was seriously injured.The level of medical care at that time was very poor, and he died after being carried to the town hospital with a bottle of water.After Yuan Mingyi was born, Grandma Jiang took care of him for one-third of his time.When the grandparents passed away one after another, Yuan Mingyi's mother and son basically relied on Jiang Fengwei's grandparents to take care of them.

The relationship between Yuan Mingyi and Grandma Jiang's family is equivalent to that of relatives. For Jiang Fengwei's family, as long as they ask for something, they will definitely be satisfied.It's just that the Jiang family is very responsible and never asks for more, except for Jiang Fengwei who is not sensible.The two new mobile phones Jiang Fengwei brought back from Hong Kong City were gifts from Yuan Mingyi.

Yang Xiaoge didn't have much thought about Yuan Mingyi's investment in the mainland.Capitalist Yuan's investment location is Shencheng, which is more than 200 kilometers away from Luhai City. What does such a long distance have to do with him?