Chapter 568 Retirement Life
Huanxi Entertainment's development has been extremely stable, with no surprises or breakthroughs.
Ye Qian and Gu Jinyan are ten years apart in age. Gu Jinyan, who officially entered the year 2000, is 60 years old, and Ye Qian is also 50 years old. Both of them have officially announced their retirement.
Gu Jinyan was lucky. The work in their office became less and less busy as people approached retirement. Of course, there was still a chance to be rehired, but Gu Jinyan refused it outright, saying that he wanted to enjoy his retirement life.
Ye Qian is the same, but a little different.
Huanxi Group has always been mostly based on Ye Qian's ideas. Even though Ye Qian had reminded the company long in advance, when Ye Qian officially announced her retirement, it still caught everyone inside and outside the company off guard.
"You are usually so obedient, why do you turn a deaf ear to my words at the critical moment?" Ye Qian took her thermos cup, said goodbye to the people in the company, and officially entered retirement life.
Wang Qiong then realized that Ye Qian had been preparing for retirement for a long time in advance. Today was her last day at work and there was only a thermos cup in the office.
"No, Sister Man Yu retired and came back. Why don't you come back? Aren't you also very ambitious?"
"Bullshit, I'm not Li Manyu. Isn't your sister Manyu still working? Go find her. I'm going to retire and have some rest and fun anyway."
It’s said that the current policies are good. At the age of 50, you are in the prime of your life. You have energy to play and do more things.
After they retired, they booked plane tickets and traveled around the country, having a great time.
Ye Qian also disliked the current mobile phones very much. They were like bricks and could not be used to listen to music or watch TV series, so she never bought a mobile phone.
As a result, once the couple left home, their three children couldn't even find them.
If Ye Qian hadn't called to let them know every time she arrived at a place, the three children would have thought that the two of them were heartless.
During this period of time, the two of them traveled to many places, seeing the beautiful scenery and the various aspects of human life.
Finally, the two recalled the place where they first met and stayed for a long time in the place where they used to live.
Two years later, he returned to Beijing.
The situation at home was just as Ye Qian had planned. Life in old age without having to take care of her grandchildren was quite pleasant.
Not living with my daughter-in-law means fewer conflicts, and not having to take care of my grandchildren means fewer arguments.
Ye Qian is not completely unconcerned. She does her best to do what she should do. She pays the money once a year in full and also hires a good nanny. It can be said that there is no other mother-in-law as considerate as her.
When I miss my grandchildren, I go to see them, or ask them to come over for dinner. Usually, we live our own lives.
It’s not that Ye Qian is heartless, but the children also need to live their own lives and they have their own families. It would be better for old people like them not to get involved too much.
But after the two of them returned home from their trip, without jobs and without having to take care of their grandchildren, they faced another problem.
That's boring.
Yes, it is very boring.
Even if Ye Qian sleeps until noon every day, what should she do in the afternoon?
On the contrary, Gu Jinyan was quite adaptable.
Get up early to do some morning exercises and play with birds, buy groceries, go home to drink tea, have lunch, go out for a walk in the afternoon, have dinner, and then sleep until dawn.
Sometimes when I’m bored, I chat with the old man and woman at the door and watch them play chess. This is really the life of an old man in his later years.
Ye Qian suddenly felt a bit useless. Since she was bored and had nothing to do, she might as well set up a small stall to kill time.
Ye Qian bought a lot of ingredients and got up early in the morning to get started. After lunch, she could go out to set up the stall.
What she wants to sell is very simple. She doesn’t want to make anything too complicated. She just wants the most ordinary, most ordinary, ordinary millet cake.
Speaking of this thing, many people may not have eaten it, but I ate it when I was a child. It is a flat pan with a spoonful of millet cake ingredients poured on it.
This stuff comes in thin and thick varieties. The thick ones have a meaty texture and are topped with raisins, but Ye Qian doesn't like that texture very much. She prefers to make thin and crispy ones, and if conditions permit, add a fried dough stick on top and roll it up. After eating a millet cake, she won't feel hungry at noon.
The purpose of setting up a stall is not to make money, so naturally the food has to suit your own taste.
The ingredients for millet cake are also very simple. First, soak the glutinous rice overnight and wash it clean. Then add cold water and some rice wine the next day, stir it evenly and make it into a paddle. Then add some sugar and ferment it for 2 hours. When you see a lot of bubbles on it, it's ready. Of course, Ye Qian added a little bit of stream water into the bucket in case everyone doesn't like the taste. I think it won't be bad even if it's stirred.
Soak it in the evening, beat it with a paddle, and wait for it to ferment. You can take a short break after lunch and then take it out to set up a stall.
Ye Qian's home is in a good location. It is in the central area, with shopping malls and parks nearby. In fact, she can just buy a storefront and run it herself.
But Ye Qian thought about it and felt that setting up a stall was just a way to kill time. Opening a store was too formal, like going to work, so she was not very willing to do it. If she wanted to do it, she would have to be a freelancer.
The key point is that this freelancer prepared a lot of things for herself, including two small stoves and charcoal, and two small frying pans. One frying pan can make four millet cakes, and each cake costs 50 cents. She really didn't do this to make money, but she couldn't lose money either, so she finally set the price like this.
After burning charcoal at home in advance, Ye Qian went out pushing her mini tricycle.
Her first stop was not a crowded place, but a company near her home, which was only ten minutes’ walk away.
Ye Qian sat next to another vendor selling Wan Jue, and then began to slowly prepare.
She didn't shout, buying things all depended on fate. It didn't matter if she couldn't sell all the items, she could just put them in her space.
The fire on the charcoal slowly burned up. Ye Qian put it on the table, brushed a little oil on the pot with a small brush, and then took a small spoon to pour four small round rice cakes on the small pan. A thin layer was cooked in a short time.
The rice aroma is everywhere and the fragrance is pleasant.
Ye Qian packed one for the toy seller next door and handed it to him, "Here, try it."
The old man was a little embarrassed at first, but he couldn't refuse Ye Qian's kindness. After taking a bite, he took the whole second pot by himself. "What is this? It's so delicious. It's crispy, not hard to chew, and it smells pretty good."
“It’s made from the rice we eat.”
There was no one at her stall or the old man's stall, but they were eating with gusto, attracting the attention of many people around them.
"Sister, what is this?"
Ye Qian put down the millet cake in her hand and said, "It's called millet cake. There are thin ones and thick ones. The thin ones are 50 cents, and the thick ones are 1 yuan."
"Is this thing you're eating thin or thick?"
"I prefer the thin ones. The thin ones are crispier and more fragrant. How about trying the thin ones first?" Ye Qian asked.
(End of this chapter)
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