When Aunt Lan received the call, she and Erya were the only ones at home. They hurriedly packed their things and rushed to the hospital.
After arriving at the hospital, Song Jin asked Erya to help send Lin Lanshan home. She was also pregnant and must have been frightened today, so she was a little worried.
After all this back and forth, it’s getting late.
It was already noon when Erya came back from sending Lin Lanshan back. She didn't have time to go home to cook and send lunch over, so Erya went out to buy lunch.
The three of them had lunch in the ward. They bought a special hospital meal for Song Jin, but the hospital meals outside were no match for what they made themselves, and pregnant women also needed nutrition.
So Aunt Lan planned to stay until four o'clock and then go back to make dinner and bring it over.
In this way, no one would remember that they left home without leaving a letter.
By mid-1980, there were already many private businesses in Beijing, and with the support of the Ji and Shen families, all of Song Jin's original arrangements had been put into practice.
Her original plan was to open a grain store and a fruit store, but after discussing with Chen Liang, she decided to directly open a large supermarket. However, due to various reasons, she was unable to apply for the site.
Although reform and opening up had been proposed and everyone was allowed to do small business, the site for the large supermarket they had their eyes on was located near the central station of Metro Line 2, which was about to be developed, so they were unable to secure the site.
In 1971, Beijing officially put its first subway line into operation, and Line 2 is now under preparation.
They used their connections, and although they haven't been able to complete the formalities yet, they can be sure that once this place is operational, they will be given priority.
Song Jin liked this place and didn't want to look anywhere else, so after discussing it, the two of them decided not to open the business for now, and to set up several small shops according to the original plan.
So in the past two years, with the support of Song Jin's funds and procedures, Song Ming and Song Zuo opened a grain store and a fruit store near the vegetable market. Although they were called small shops, they were actually two courtyards. There were three rooms in the backyard, which was spacious enough for people to live in. The front door was converted into a shop.
Especially Song Ming's grain store. He introduced flour milling machines himself, bought a large yard next to it, used it specifically for flour grinding, and set up an oil press. The bigger the scale of the store grew, the more people would come to the Song family for grain and oil.
The two shops were not too far from the courtyard. Although the two had moved out and lived in the shops, they had to go back almost every two days.
Song Da is still staying in the Housing Authority and is now considered a small leader. Song Jin asked him to continue working there. It would be convenient for them to do things there. For example, when buying a shop, they could buy a good shop at a cheap price without any effort.
Xue Chenyang also stayed in the machinery factory. After graduation, he was not asked to do something else. Song Jin planned to let him manage the department store, but now he has to wait.
When he graduated last year, Song Jin let him choose for himself: stay in the factory and wait for the formalities to be completed before taking direct charge of the department store, or go out and start a small business like Song Ming and the others.
He chose to wait.
Song Jin knew that he was a very focused person. Ever since they told him about their plan, he had already made several plans for the construction of the department store in the past year. He didn't want to spend his time on other things to distract his attention.
So now, in the whole family, only Song Da and Xue Chenyang go back every night.
And it just so happened that both of them came back late tonight. Aunt Lan and Erya went home to cook, left food for the two of them in the pot, and then took the lunch boxes back to the hospital.
So when the two of them got home from get off work, no one was home.
Although they were surprised that Aunt Lan and the others went to bed early tonight, they didn't think much about it when they saw that there was food left. They just thought that everyone else had eaten and returned to their own courtyards to rest.
They lived in the front yard, so they didn't go to the back and naturally didn't know that they were the only two people at home.
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