Chapter 317 Gaodi Street
Today is also Su Mo's last day at work. In the afternoon, the Foreign Trade Center held a farewell party for those who were admitted to universities.
More than a dozen people from the Foreign Trade Center took the college entrance examination this time, and five of them were admitted to universities. Among them, Su Mo has the highest position and the best grades.
Many people don't really understand Su Mo's approach. She
has become a director at a young age, which is the rising period of her career. In the eyes of many people, she should take advantage of this momentum, work hard, and continue to rise.
Instead of quitting at the peak of her career and going to college.
It's not that there have been no college students assigned to the center in recent years. Which one can be directly arranged as a director?
Su Mo went to university for further studies for four years, and the most she can do when she comes back is to be reinstated. But if she had continued to work in the same position for another four years, based on Su Mo's ability and promotion speed, she might have been promoted again.
So, why bother?
But even so, they still admired Su Mo. After all, not everyone could get the top score.
They would also feel proud if they could tell others that the top scorer in science was from their Foreign Trade Center.
After the farewell party, the center leader specifically looked for Su Mo and told her that she just needed to study hard, and the center would always keep a position for her and wait for her to return after graduation. The Foreign
Trade Center is a popular place, and there are many people who want to work here.
In recent years, with the intentional training of the country, more and more people have learned English. When Su Mo graduates, there may not be a position for her in the Foreign Trade Center.
After all, the country's requirement for college students is to "go to the most difficult places, to the places where the motherland needs them most."
If there are no positions available at the time of graduation assignment, and the center does not take the initiative to ask for people, the National Labor and Employment Bureau will definitely assign them according to the principle.
Su Mo has both ability and background, and the leaders are willing to sell her well.
Su Mo is naturally grateful for the leader's kindness, although she is not planning to come back after graduation. She also said that if there is a trade fair, you can always find her if you need her, and she will come to help.
When she came back from work, she was very happy to see Lu Xiaolan had returned. She saw that although Lu Xiaolan looked darker and thinner, her overall mental outlook was much better than before.
She had read some chicken soup literature before, which said that only when people experience suffering can their lives be sublimated, so Lu Xiaolan was sublimated?
Lu Xiaolan's school is a junior college, and the registration time is a little later than Su Mo's. She registered on October 2nd and 3rd, and officially started school on the 4th.
So Lu Xiaolan stayed in Guangzhou for a few more days, and took the two children to stroll around with Su Mo, took a lot of photos, and had them developed urgently. When she was ready to go back, she took them back to show a few elderly people. On
the morning of September 5th, Lu Xiaolan took a lot of bags and boarded the train home.
Looking at the family of her third brother and sister-in-law standing on the platform, Lu Xiaolan's eyes were a little wet.
Thinking back to the beginning, she came to Guangzhou with her third sister-in-law to avoid trouble. In just over three years, her life has changed a lot. Not only has she seen the world and broadened her horizons, she has also become a college student that everyone envies.
Her third brother and his wife are really the noble people in her life.
If it weren't for them, she might still be in the Red Flag Commune, struggling painfully in a hopeless marriage.
After the train left, Su Mo and the others left.
"Dad, will aunt come back in the future?" Lele asked.
"Not necessarily. If you miss aunt, we can go see her in the future."
"Still take a plane?" If he took a train, he might not think so.
"Yes, take a plane."
Previously, airplanes have always been under military control, and plane tickets are only sold to people with status. Recently, internal news has been leaked that airplanes may be under civilian control, and in the future, anyone can take a plane as long as they can afford the ticket.
Coming out of the train station, Su Mo began to pay attention to the situation in the square.
It was only a few minutes' walk from the train station to the parking lot, and Su Mo had already seen three people carrying bamboo baskets, two of whom had successfully reached a deal with others, one selling tea eggs and the other selling big cakes.
These people were not avoiding others when doing business. It seemed that the atmosphere had indeed become much more open.
Su Mo estimated that in two years at most, the country would allow the existence of self-employed individuals. As for privately setting up factories and companies, it would probably take some time.
The next day, when Lu Changzheng went to the team, he took the two little ones away again, saying that an expert in disguise had come there, and asked the two little ones to go and take a class together.
Su Mo didn't have to go to work or take care of the kids, so she rode her bicycle out to wander around. I went to the residential areas of several large factories and found that there were indeed many second-hand vendors. Then I went to Gaodi Street.
Gaodi Street is a very prosperous commercial street in Guangzhou with a long history. Many of Guangzhou's time-honored brands used to have their headquarters here. When self-employed individuals emerged, this place became a gathering place for self-employed individuals.
Su Mo came here, firstly to continue to make friends, and secondly to try her luck. In the past two years, many people have begun to be rehabilitated, and perhaps some people who have been sent back to the countryside will want to sell their shops.
The shops on Gaodi Street are all characteristic arcades in Guangzhou. The first floor is a shop, and the second and third floors are for living.
The arcade is a feature of Guangdong Province, similar to the townhouses of later generations.
All the shops are built together, and then the front part is opened up. The front of the shops is connected into a corridor that can be protected from rain and sun, making it convenient for customers to purchase goods leisurely and comfortably.
Su Mo has been paying attention to these arcades for a long time. In the past few years since she came to Yangcheng, she has come here to see them from time to time. Of course, she was doing it in the name of looking for relatives, and she became familiar with many of the neighbors here.
As soon as Su Mo entered, Grandma Xu, who was enjoying the cool under the archway, asked, "Xiao Su, are you here to find someone again?"
"Yes, Grandma Xu. Is there anyone in the row who came back?" Su Mo said and walked forward, giving Grandma Xu a small half bag of guava.
"Grandma, I'll bring you some fresh fruit."
"You're welcome." Grandma Xu took it with a smile.
Then, she told Su Mo about the family members who had returned recently, "I hope there are relatives of yours among them."
Granny Xu is a local. When she was young, she was also a lady of a capitalist family. More than half of the shops on Gaodi Street belonged to her family.
At the beginning, she also made a prompt decision to hand over most of her property and saved two arcades on this street for living. The first two buildings on Gaodi Street were her home.
When the movement started, her family was also affected, but Granny Xu was courageous and immediately gave up a lot of things to save her family.
The children now have jobs in nearby factories, and Grandma Xu used to take care of her grandchildren.
After the grandchildren went to school, she used her connections to get a public telephone. She usually answers calls at the archway and chats with neighbors about gossip. It can be said that she is the most well-informed person in the entire Gaudi Street.