Lin Guodong grabbed his hair in annoyance, "Mom, what's the point of living a good life? You've even set up a stall at the entrance of the alley. If you want to go home and remarry my dad, you have my dad's salary of more than 100 yuan to support you. Do you need to go out and show your face in public and flatter others in order to earn a few dollars?"
"You think it's embarrassing, we all think it's embarrassing!" Lin Guodong's tone became heavier.
"What's shameful?" Li Shuping raised her voice. "I earn money by selling dumplings with my own hands. What's shameful about that? The leaders all say that working people are the most glorious. I also earn money by working with my own hands. This is glorious!"
Those who say that setting up street vendors is bad are simply prejudiced, or they still retain the old ideas of the previous system of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, and think that those who set up street vendors are at the bottom of society.
Only Li Shuping knew that those who said they lost money by setting up stalls would eventually become a joke.
All the young families have moved into high-rise buildings by setting up stalls, while those young families of more than a dozen people are still crowded in large courtyards. They start to say that only fools buy houses. Why should they spend so much money and take out loans to buy commercial housing when they can already live in a workshop?
"What's glorious about this?" Lin Guodong frowned. "You're talking about the working class, the peasant class, but you're just setting up a stall to do business, which is not business. You're trying to restore capitalism and engage in speculation. If you get caught, we'll all be implicated by you!"
"Bah." Li Shuping spat at Lin Guodong. "You are still a formal worker in the machinery factory, but you don't know as much as an old woman like me. Now that reform and opening up have been implemented, many people in the south are doing business, and the government also encourages unemployed educated youth who have returned to the city to start small businesses. In your opinion, this government is taking the lead in capitalist restoration?"
“……”Lin Guodong was stunned by the question.
How come my mom, a middle-aged woman, knows so much? It makes sense.
"Besides, reselling things is called speculation. I bought flour, eggs, and vegetables, and made dumplings to sell through my own labor. How can this be considered speculation?"
Now it is not like before, farmers go to the city to sell the vegetables they grow and engage in speculation.
There is a free market on the outskirts of the city. During the big market, many farmers bring their own vegetables and chickens and ducks to the free market to sell.
Lin Guodong: "Whatever you do, you can still run this stall! Mom, I have never relied on you for anything. I found the job myself, and I also negotiated with Zhang Jiao myself. Now I want to ask you for one thing, please save some face for me, I want to run the stall again."
Li Shuping looked at Lin Guodong in amusement. She raised him up, helped him find a wife and raised grandchildren, but in the end he said he had never relied on her for anything?
"Lin Guodong, have you never relied on me? Did you jump out of a crack in a rock? Did you grow up drinking wind?"
Lin Guodong scratched his head in annoyance. It seemed that what he said was somewhat right. "You gave birth to me and raised me, but I got my job by myself, right? I didn't rely on you and my dad."
"You gave Lao Er a job. Although you got angry with Lao Er and asked for money later, you still helped Lao Er with his job."
A job in a garment factory is something that money can buy.
"When we were young, you always gave the second child the delicious food. When the second child grew up and left home, you were so distressed that you sent gifts to him every month. The second child dated Liu Qin, and you gave him so many gifts to satisfy him. To put it bluntly, you liked the second child more and were partial to him since he was young."
Li Shuping looked at her eldest son, Lin Guodong, with disappointment. She didn't expect that in her heart, she actually felt that she had been partial to the second son since childhood, and it started when she gave her job to the second son.
She thought she treated her two sons the same. When Lin Guodong was her and Lin Yongnian's first son and they were the only ones, he enjoyed their unique love and attention.
Even though her attention was divided by the presence of the second and the youngest, she never neglected 놛. However, 놛 felt that she was biased.
Suddenly she remembered what Lin Guodong said about why she had favored the second brother, Lin Jianshe, since she was a child.
"When my second child was little, I always grabbed the delicious food. Why?" Li Shuping patted his chest.
"Could it be that because when 놊놆 was three years old, I followed you out to play and fell into the water and hurt my body, and I have been sick and coughing for the past two years, so in order to take care of 놛's health, I gave the good things to 놛 first?"
"You don't remember anything more than eating a bite of meat, your own brother was sick and didn't recover, and your own mother didn't even drink a sip of soup in order to let you eat more meat. Don't you remember anything?"
"..." Lin Guodong's expression froze. Is this the case? I really remember it.
I only remember that our family cooked lean meat soup and my mother scooped most of the meat into my second child's bowl, leaving her own bowl with much less meat and soup than my second child's.
"You also know your brother. He is diligent and good at physical training, and he earned a few work points in the village."
"I thought I could earn work points and feed myself, but after only one month, my father called me at the factory and said he was starving to death and was staying in the countryside."
"What can I do if I send you something? Will I let you starve to death in the countryside?"
Li Shuping looked at Lin Guodong and asked questions from the depths of her soul.
"And your job." Li Shuping pointed at her and said, "Do you think you really got the job at the steel mill through an interview on your own?"
"Originally, I interviewed and got in on my own!" Lin Guodong said loudly.
The proudest thing in my life is that I got a job at the steel mill through interview without any help from others during a time when work was very busy.
This is something you can brag about for the rest of your life.
"Hehehe..." Li Shuping laughed.
Lin Guodong: “…”
I think my mother's smile is inexplicable.
Li Shuping stared at Lin Guodong and patted her chest, "If I had known from your father in advance that the steel plant was recruiting apprentices, I would have taken leave to take care of the deputy director's mother-in-law who was hospitalized, and waited on her for a month. Do you think you would have been able to get the apprenticeship?"
"Maybe." Lin Guodong was horrified, shook his head and took two steps back. He was willing to believe that the thing he was most proud of was that he actually relied on himself and his mother.
"Don't believe it. Go back and ask your dad. He will know about this, too."
Lin Guodong leaned against the wall with his head in his hands, blaming his mother in his heart. If she wanted to hide it, why did she hide it for her whole life and reveal it at this time?
I always thought that I had a lot of potential, just like those people of my age who found jobs with the help of their families.
But now I tell you that you are just like those guys. You even have to wait on your boss's mother-in-law for a month to get this job.
This made 놛늀, who had been complacent and proud of having found a job on her own, look like a clown.
"Why didn't you say that? Why didn't you say that at that time?" Lin Guodong asked with gritted teeth.
When 놛 proudly boasted to 그 countless times over the years that he had found a job on his own, she thought it was particularly ridiculous?
I laugh at my son in my heart!
When Lin Guodong learned that his mother's job was obtained with her help, he did not express gratitude, nor did he misunderstand his mother's regret. Instead, he questioned her in a blaming tone.
Li Shuping looked indifferent, "Your father saw that you were so happy and proud to have entered the steel mill on your own, so he asked me to hide it from you."
At this moment, she suddenly understood Lin Yongnian's intention of asking her to keep it secret from her eldest son.
Maybe it was to erase her efforts as a mother to her children and make them think that this father is the best.
In his previous life, Lam Kwok Tung was very filial and respectful to his father, Lam Wing Nian, and would even scold her for not taking good care of her.
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