Ever since her last best friend Yao Xiuning got married, Xiang Lili has not had anyone to go home with.

At the beginning, we were still chatting and laughing and walking together, but gradually we disappeared.

They started their own families and gradually shifted the focus of their lives to their husbands, or even their unborn children, and could no longer go to and from get off work with Xiang Lili.

Although she felt disappointed, she could also understand why her best friends were drifting apart. The topics of being single and married were no longer the same, so it was normal for them to become estranged.

But at this time, Xiang Lili felt that she was already 18 years old, young and strong, and nothing would happen to her, so she went home alone.

Xiang Liguo recently encountered his daughter's continuous low-grade fever. Fearing that it might develop into pneumonia, he stayed at home to take care of the child.

Xiang Meimei is pregnant. Pregnant women don’t have as much energy, so she rests at home after work.

Xiang Lidang wanted to be promoted to a leadership position, but he didn't have enough academic qualifications and had no time to attend night school after work.

At first, her father Xiang Hongqi would come to pick her up, but seeing her father working the night shift and running to pick her up with red eyes after just a few hours of sleep, Xiang Lili couldn't bear it and refused.

In addition, the methane plant was not far from home and had street lights installed. There were many people coming and going on the road after get off work, so her family let her go home alone.

Xiang Lili went home alone for a month or so, and nothing happened, so she no longer took her own safety too seriously.

Not long after the textile factory received a large number of orders, the methane factory also began to receive a large number of orders for lighters. Without enough time to recruit new employees, it arranged for old employees to work overtime.

As a result, the ongoing blind date plan had to come to nothing.

I'm so busy, working overtime every day, and having to work on weekends. Who has time to go on a blind date?

Xiang Lili saw the busy schedule and said to her younger sister, "With so many orders, they'll definitely have to expand their enrollment. If you had known, you should have chosen the Chemistry Department."

She rubbed her arms, which were sore from working overtime.

The job of gas mixing seems easy, and there is no heavy work in the office. But in fact, even a wrong step is scary, and it is very tiring to concentrate.

Xiang Mianmian hadn't expected lighters to be so popular at that time, so she could only smile and say, "It's worth a fortune if I had known earlier. Now that I've read it, there's nothing I can do."

It is impossible to change majors. It is not like a modern university where you can change majors at will.

Besides, repairs are fun.

If she initially went to study maintenance because after the deterioration of relations between the Soviet Union and China, the Soviet experts withdrew and China was short of maintenance personnel, she went to study maintenance.

Now she has experienced the joy of repair. It feels wonderful to give a broken thing a new life after adjusting it in her hands.

That sense of accomplishment is very satisfying.

Xiang Lili couldn't do anything about the youngest sister: "You, you always give us something new."

Since studying maintenance, Xiang Mianmian would pick up some junk from the garbage station, and then use her skillful hands to make these machines work again.

There is also a clock that Xiang Mianmian repaired in the living room of the house. The clock is very clever. When the time comes, a bird will pop out from the middle and call cuckoo.

The family members were so surprised by it that Xiang Hongqi even painted the clock, making it look like new.

There are too many other small things to list. Anyway, the family has become accustomed to Xiang Mianmian's repairing skills.

There are even some people who will specifically bring some broken electrical appliances to be repaired. Xiang Mianmian usually only charges a labor fee, and if the problem is simple, they won't charge any money.

The most common item should be watches. These things are very delicate, and there are very few people in the county who can repair them.

This is usually a clockwork problem, which can be fixed with a simple adjustment, but if a part is truly broken, it is indeed difficult to repair.

Because these are basically imported products, the precision of parts made in my country is difficult to match theirs.

Finding the corresponding parts from the garbage station is like a blind cat catching a dead mouse, it depends purely on luck.

Fortunately, Xiang Mianmian has a system mall. Except for arms and illegal items, anything available in this era can be bought there, which is equivalent to overseas purchasing in 10 seconds.

So Xiang Mianmian repaired things quickly and well, and soon became famous in the neighborhood.

When the neighbors received the repaired items, they all said that the girl had a pair of skillful hands and praised her highly.

Gradually, the Xiang family felt that maintenance seemed to be a great way to go, and Zhang Jidi was already planning when to build a street-facing shop for Xiang Mianmian.

Without the turmoil of the past ten years, society has been developing steadily, and individual businesses have gradually increased.

The most obvious thing is that there are more tailor shops on the street, helping people sew and make clothes, and there are also some shops repairing old things.

But people still think that working in a factory is the best, as you can get a guaranteed income regardless of the weather, and the factory takes care of everything. If you open a shop yourself, you will have to take on a lot of risks.

That's why Xiang Lili said that with Xiang Mianmian's superb skills, it would be better for her to go to the chemistry department, as the factory would be more stable!

People's mainstream ideas are difficult to be overturned by emerging things. Even if Xiang Mianmian earns over 100 yuan a day by relying on his repair skills one day, they think that this is only an individual case and cannot be generalized.

Xiang Mianmian did not argue with anyone about this.

She just likes maintenance, and it is still unclear whether she can make a living from it in the future. Anyway, her mother's job can provide her with a safety net, so she can spend money recklessly.

Seeing that my sister was rubbing her shoulders and arms, I went over to Mianmian to give her a massage to relieve her fatigue.

Xiang Lili sighed: "It feels so good, little sister, your skills are good. If someone marries you in the future...Pah, pah, pah, it would be great if you were a boy, I would marry you!"

Scoffing at the sight of her sister getting married, she began to imagine the wonderful life after her sister became her lover's brother.