Before, Yu Xiangan had never really come into contact with the problems encountered in the current reform. Now that she has this working environment, she has also written some articles on this aspect.
This is of a different nature from the previous articles. This is a thesis.
She wrote three articles in a row, and others began to pay more attention to her opinions.
She is speaking by standing on the shoulders of giants. She never takes other people's praise to heart and is always very humble. Her leaders and colleagues have a very good impression of her. She is talented, capable, and not arrogant. Who doesn't like to get along with such a person?
Liu Mingyue couldn't understand why. "How did you come up with these ideas? We are from the same university and the same class. How can people be so different from each other?"
Although the three of them were assigned to different positions, they were in the same department and had some understanding of each other.
We also often talk together, such as in the cafeteria at noon, or after get off work in the afternoon.
Speaking of this, what can Yu Xiangan say?
The real reason is that she cheated, but I can't tell you, so the only reason is: "Maybe she has this talent?" This talent is time-limited, and when she has almost used up all the ink, she will use this talent.
"We have been converted to regular employees now. You are one level higher than us, and your salary is more than ten yuan higher. Do you want to bring your child to school here?"
"No, it's not very convenient for a family of four to live here. Let the children go to the primary school over there, which is closer to their father." They have a house over there and it's more spacious.
She can go back when she is free.
The dormitory she was assigned was very convenient for her to live in alone, and could accommodate her family, but it was a bit crowded, and it was not convenient for Lin Chuanbai to go to school.
Liu Mingyue nodded in understanding: "The learning atmosphere over there is better. I'm still considering whether it's better for the children to study with their father or with me. What about you? What do you think?" she asked Wang Haiwen.
Wang Haiwen pushed up his glasses and said, "My son is out of town with his grandfather."
Liu Mingyue suddenly realized: "No wonder I've never heard you mention it."
Wang Haiwen smiled but said nothing.
It seems that you don't want to continue the conversation.
Yu Xiangan naturally changed the subject: "Nowadays, money is not easy to spend. My family bought a TV, and several hundred yuan was gone. If I don't buy it, the two children will always watch it at other people's homes. I just made up my mind."
Liu Mingyue sighed: "Who said it wasn't? I also like to watch it. Whenever I have time, I watch it in front of the TV. It's just that there are too few programs. Sometimes there is no program at all."
Wang Haiwen didn't buy it. He stayed alone in the dormitory, reading newspapers and books.
I heard them say, “There must be a lot of people around your house.”
"It's better now. It was really rare in the past two years. There might not be a single family in the alley who bought one."
The situation is much better now. After the reform and opening up, although these large items still require tickets, the supply has become much more sufficient.
Plus, since self-employed individuals can earn money, buying a big item has become fashionable.
Liu Mingyue sighed. Who said it wasn’t?
Buying things now is not as difficult as before, but money doesn’t seem to last as long as before.
After getting her diploma, Yu Xiangan also thought about how she could make money in an honest way. Since it was not convenient for her to do so, she thought of investing. Her plan to open restaurants all over the country was temporarily postponed. She still had to make money, otherwise it might be difficult to spend it later.
After some consideration and discussion with Lin Chuanbai, she found Zhong Jianqiang.
He had too little capital, and his family had expenses everywhere, so he didn't save much money.
It’s not like he hasn’t thought about doing other things that can make more money, but he’s limited by his capital.
Yu Xiangan asked him, "I'll provide the recipe and 200 yuan of start-up capital, and we'll be partners. You'll provide the manpower and the profit will be split 40% to 60%, 40% for me and 60% for you. What do you think?"
Zhong Jianqiang was stunned and subconsciously looked at Lin Chuanbai, the author standing next to him.
Lin Chuanbai nodded: "Neither of us can spare the time, and after thinking about it, we can cooperate. I want to ask for your opinion."
Zhong Jianqiang was shocked, "I contribute manpower and effort?" In other words, he doesn't have to invest any money and can still get six?
He came back to his senses and shook his head: "Of course I want to, but it would be too shameless of me to do that. The recipe is yours, the capital is yours, it's nothing for me to contribute some manpower and effort, I'm not hypocritical, I know the girl's skills, this business can be done, but the profit sharing should be reversed, 40% for me and 60% for you."
He can now make a living by reselling agricultural products every day, but he doesn't make much. After deducting the money for turnover, he only has a few dozen yuan in his pocket. Yu Xiangan and Lin Chuanbai offered 200 yuan and also provided the prescription. How could he feel at ease if he took the majority?
Yu Xiangan smiled. He felt relieved when the other party said that. "Don't say that. It's very hard. When the time comes, it will depend on you two to run this business."
After the final discussion, they split it in half, and the other conditions remained unchanged. Yu Xiangan also said in advance, "It will be very hard for you, but the profit will definitely not be low. I will teach you how to make the soup base first."
Yu Xiangan first taught them how to do it, without reservation. If they were strangers, all their efforts would be in vain if they met a scammer. However, they have known each other for such a long time and know each other's character. Besides, the monk can run away but the temple cannot. The other party has a family, so the possibility of doing this is very low.
So Yu Xiangan didn't keep it to himself.
If something goes wrong, the loss won't be big. This is just one of the many recipes she has tested, and she is reluctant to give out the good ones.
She first taught them almost everything before she started to work on it. She modified a cart, put a coal stove underneath and a pot on top. The cart cost her one hundred yuan. She also bought a coal stove and a pot, plus the materials, and two hundred yuan was enough.
When Zhong Jianqiang and his wife first started selling vegetables, they were a little overwhelmed and business was not very good. Later, Yu Xiangan gave them an idea. He asked them to offer free tastings and use those inexpensive vegetarian dishes to attract customers. This opened up the situation and things got better after that. After the customers tasted the vegetables, they realized that a bunch of vegetables cost only one cent. Who couldn't afford it?
I can’t stop trying this.
When it is in season, you can buy a pound of vegetables in the countryside for one cent, but when it comes to the pot, there are only one bunch or two of them.
If you are not satisfied with the vegetarian dishes, there is meat, which is a bit more expensive, two cents a string or five cents a string. The most expensive is the chicken leg, which costs twenty cents each.
If you want to fill your stomach, you can buy a small portion of potato vermicelli for two cents. The potato vermicelli will absorb enough soup after being soaked for a long time, and the taste is amazing. Add one cent and order a vegetable and you will have a bowl of noodle soup.
In the first month, the net profit was 34.8 yuan, in the second month, the net profit was 46.3 yuan, and in the third month, things got better with a net profit of 123 yuan!
This is simply huge profit!
It paid off in three months.
Maybe the income will be better in the fourth month, as long as they go to crowded places and prepare the materials in advance!
This income allowed the couple to focus all their energy on this aspect, and they saw hope of buying a house.
Now they still have ten people squeezed together in this house of more than 20 square meters, and have to endure the contempt of their sister-in-law. If they can make money, they can buy a house and move out, and no longer have to live like this.
The couple arrange their time reasonably. Their two children are in primary school and can help with the housework. It is no problem for them to help wash vegetables and skewer them after school.
By the fifth month, they bought a new cart, and the couple worked together to double their income.
With this, if someone asks her why she has so much money, she will have a reason.
Yu Xiangyan would occasionally bring his family over, bring some food, and chat and reminisce about the past, and also let the children play together and bond with each other.
Being in a foreign land, they are each other's only relatives, so naturally they have to visit each other more often. When they were still students, they only had subsidies and were not well off. Yu Xiangyan did not dare to come more often, as if he came, he would be taking advantage of his sister. Now that they have income, they bring their own food, so they can visit each other more frequently.
He is doing well in the Foreign Trade Department now and has good benefits.
He also expressed satisfaction in his words: "No wonder so many people want to get into college. If I were in the paper mill, I wouldn't be able to see the scenery now. When I was in the Red Star Brigade, it was hard to make 20 yuan a month. Now I make two or three times more, and it will increase in the future. The future is good. If it were in the past, I wouldn't dare to think about it. If I stay here, I will be a citizen of the capital, under the feet of the emperor."
Wen Ruzhen was laughing beside her.
Her life is very leisurely now.
She is pursuing a master's degree, and if nothing unexpected happens, she will stay on as a teacher in school. This job is leisurely and decent, and the benefits are not bad.
She likes this peaceful life.
Yu Xiyi is the oldest and misses his hometown the most. He watches TV and listens to his parents and aunt and uncle talking. When he hears them say this, he responds: "Life here is much better than in my hometown. It would be nice if my great-grandparents were here too. I'd take them to see ***."
Yu Xiangyan glanced at her with a smile on his face. This was the child thinking about her.
This shows that the child is filial, which is a good thing.
"You, as a father, didn't you tell me? They are old, and the journey is long. What if something happens? Even your grandfather is unwilling to come, let alone your great-grandfather and his family."
They all attach great importance to returning to their hometown after death. They want to come, but if something happens along the way, wouldn’t they just die in a foreign land?
This is a very taboo thing.
So they are only willing to listen to them talk about things here, but they themselves don't want to come here.
Yu Xiwan is the youngest, one year younger than the twins. Children forget things quickly, and she only remembers her great-grandparents.
Before the three siblings came to Shou, they were mainly led by Yu Changyou and Zhang Chahua, and they had a deep relationship.
It’s not the same with twins. If we didn’t have photos at home, we would have almost forgotten what they looked like.
Yu Xiyi told them about her hometown, "I like going to the creek very much. The water is not deep. Don't worry, adults. We can catch small fish and shrimp there. If we catch a big one, we can find dry firewood on the spot to grill the fish. When we get home, we dip it in a little salt and it tastes delicious."
The twins were curious: "How do you live?"
"Bring your own matches."
The twins said, "Sister, can you grill fish?"
"I can. The ones I bake taste really good. Some people are clumsy and burn them, which is such a waste. I have also baked bird eggs..."
Speaking of bird eggs, Yu Xiangyan remembered something: "Now society has changed a lot. I heard something that others said was true. The man selling tea eggs at the street corner where we work makes more than 200 yuan a month. Our total monthly income is less than 100 yuan now."
Wen Ruzhen also knew about this and smiled helplessly, "I heard from them that if this is true, graduating from university is useless and you might as well be selling tea eggs."
Yu Xiangyan shook his head: "There's nothing wrong with being a self-employed person. The country allows it, but it's not that easy to sell tea eggs. We graduated from college, and everyone looks up to us when we go out. But now self-employed people don't dare to speak out in the crowd. I sent my child to school before and heard other children bullying another child just because his parents were self-employed."
Yu Xiangan: “This won’t go on like this forever.”
Wen Ruzhen: "This is because I listen to adults talk too much at home."
Yu Xiangyan: "It's not good to say that self-employed people are doing this, but they are making a lot of money. Some people buy clothes wholesale from the south and sell them without coupons. Did you see the price? It's really cheap. I have a classmate whose brother does this. Now his family has all the four major items of clothing."
Yu Xiangan refilled their teacups with tea. "That's right. Shopping is not as difficult as before. There are more choices and people are more willing to spend money. Second brother, were you willing to buy this pearl flower for your child before?"
Yu Xiangan compared the exquisite clips on the heads of sisters Yu Xiyi and Yu Xiwan. Such clips used to be very expensive at supply and marketing cooperatives or department stores, costing several yuan, but now you can buy a very beautiful clip for just a few cents.
Yu Xiangyan laughed, "That's true. Manwu is in the Special Zone. I wonder if he knows where to buy those cheap clothes. I've written to him and asked him. If he knows, ask him to send me a telegram and I'll ask him to buy some for me and send them back. There are many of us, and if we buy a lot, we can still save a lot of money even with the postage."
Yu Xiangan thought of Manwu and smiled: "Isn't he settled down now?"
Yu Xiangyan was helpless: "It's not like I've settled down. I heard I can make a lot of money, but I tend to get into conflicts with others."
When Yu Manyu went to the Special Administrative Region, he started out as a porter, then worked as a waiter, and later went to a construction site.
The brick kiln of the Red Star Brigade is there, and every young man of this generation who has grown up is capable of some simple house-building skills.
After working for a while, Yu Manyu wrote a letter back home, saying that now there were 20 to 30 people working with him, and he could now tell others that he was a contractor.
In this period of rapid development, they will definitely make a lot of money with this skill.
"My aunt shouldn't be so worried now."
…
Sometimes, Yu Xiangan would feel a sense of time and space confusion in a trance.
After the reform and opening up, movies and songs from Hong Kong were introduced here, creating a wave.
More and more things are being brought inland through various means.
When you walk on the street, you can often see people wearing clothes similar to those of today's movie stars. Some are very avant-garde and even have their hair permed.
Perming your hair at this time is very damaging. Some people go home and heat up the iron tongs in front of the stove, and then curl their hair themselves. When you get closer, you can smell a burnt smell.
When Yu Xiangan saw this kind of afro for the first time, he thought: "..."
Dreaming back to the non-mainstream.
The past is hard to recall. Although she didn't have such an eye-catching hairstyle during her rebellious period, she did have some more eye-catching outfits.
Of course, Yu Xiangan and his colleagues in the department cannot do such outrageous things, but some people have already done so, such as Ke Manyun.
Ke Manyun is good-looking and popular, and Yu Xiangan has always known this.
Plus, she is shy and speaks softly, which is something many gay men are attracted to.
She was assigned to work in a pharmaceutical factory with good benefits. Now that she had money, she paid more attention to her appearance than before. Paying attention to her appearance is not a bad thing, but when she asked them out for dinner, Yu Xiangan knew when he saw her current outfit that she asked them out this time just to get them to praise her.
The part of her hair below the ears was curled and fell on her shoulders in scattered pieces, making her look particularly charming. She seemed to have put some powder on her face, which made her skin tone whiter and more even. Her lips were the most eye-catching because she had put on bright red lipstick. With her slim goose yellow dress and black high heels, she looked like someone in a movie.
Liu Mingyue said with a sigh: "You haven't changed in a while, Manyun, you have changed a lot. If you were walking on the street, I wouldn't recognize you. You look really good in this outfit."
This dress is nothing special in later generations, but now, it has become prominent.
Ke Manyun pursed her lips and smiled, her face also blushed: "Really? This lipstick and this skirt are both from Hong Kong, they are very expensive."
She turned around in front of Yu Xiangan and Liu Mingyue.
Wang Meng couldn't help but roll her eyes secretly because she was assigned to a steel factory not far from the pharmaceutical factory and they had been in the same class and dormitory for four years. They became close after graduation, and when Ke Manyun wanted to find someone to show off to, she was the first one she looked for.
Because she was facing Yu Xiangan and Liu Mingyue, they both saw Wang Meng's expression. Liu Mingyue held back her smile and gave her a look.
If Ke Manyun saw this, she would definitely be angry.
Isn't it just that the little girl wants people to praise her? What's so difficult about that?
However, this might be difficult for Wang Meng, who is also unmarried, as she is younger than Manyun.
So she continued: "Who bought this for you?"
Ke Manyun lowered her head, her fingers unconsciously twisted together: "A colleague brought it to me. He has connections in Hong Kong."
With this expression, Liu Mingyue cast a questioning look at Wang Meng.
Is this a date?
Wang Meng spread his hands: How should I know? I haven't heard of it.
Liu Mingyue: "Then your colleague is pretty good, I guess you owe him a favor."
Ke Manyun's voice also became awkward: "No, he was very kind and he asked me on his own initiative."
Liu Mingyue: Look at this, it seems like there is hope.
Yu Xiangan also spread his hands: Who knows.
Ke Manyun raised her head, and all of a sudden, the three people's winking expressions disappeared.
Ke Manyun: "Do you want to buy two pieces of Hong Kong products? They will make you proud when you take them out. The clothes there are just better looking than ours."
The voice was not loud, but it was full of praise.
Ke Manyun continued: "Although your salary is not as high as mine, it is not low either. If you are determined, you can buy it."
Yu Xiangan: "..."
Did she hear it wrongly? Why did she sound a little proud in this sentence?
Then she saw the look in her eyes and realized she had heard correctly.
Ke Manyun was indeed proud and was looking at her with great pride.
Targeting yourself?
Yu Xiangan was a little confused?
Is she trying to find a sense of superiority?
She was a little amused.
Ke Manyun is getting too proud. If she knew that she was almost ready to retire and become an "unpromising" self-employed business owner, wouldn't she be even more proud?
Thinking of this, she shook her head. He was just an ordinary classmate. It didn't matter as long as he looked okay. What she thought was not important.
Yu Xiang'an resigned in 1982.
When Liu Mingyue knew that she was going to resign, her eyes almost popped out of her head. "Did you take the wrong medicine?" she blurted out. She was about to get a promotion and a pay raise, but she was resigning?
Yu Xiangan explained seriously, "Of course not. You have seen me lose a lot of hair during this period. And I have always liked cooking, as you know. To be honest, this has always been my dream. I don't think you will look down on self-employed people. Self-employed people also make money with their own abilities. Last month, remember, one of our classmates quit his job and went to the special zone."
Liu Mingyue stared at her, "You like to cook, so who's stopping you? This is different from being a self-employed person. You have to know what people think of self-employed people now. Everyone will look down on you, and you will be looked down upon and heard a lot of sarcastic remarks."
Wang Haiwen pondered for a while. After being surprised, he quickly calmed down and asked, "Have you thought about this carefully?"
"Yes, I have been thinking about it for a long time. I am not suitable for this path." There are too many intrigues in politics.
She now says she wants a promotion, but in fact it is not confirmed. She just doesn't know who spread the rumor. She has been tried to make trouble for herself in some way, but she has no way to fight back effectively.
The other party was too cunning, she couldn't find any evidence against him, and he had a deep background.
If she continues down this path, such miserable days will likely become a daily occurrence.
"Does your family know?"
"My husband agrees." Yu Xiangan didn't mention anyone else.
Naturally, most others were against it.
Wang Haiwen and Liu Mingyue could not help but smile bitterly at her. "Your man agreed. Sigh, it's really true. He didn't try to persuade you. Have you ever thought about failure? If you fail, it will be difficult for you to come back."
"I thought about it. I can take another path when the time comes."
At this point, as friends, what else can Liu Mingyue and Wang Haiwen say? They can only send their best wishes. "When you decide when to open the store, remember to call us. We will definitely go to support you."
"We know your skills, and we will definitely bring our relatives and friends along when the time comes."
"I will definitely not forget you guys when we set the date."
She has already renovated the place, which is where they live now. She tore down a section of the wall next to the main road and built two bungalows.
She has almost completed all the preparations. The house has been renovated, people have been hired, and the individual license will soon be issued.
Just waiting for her to show off her chef skills.
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