Aunt Feng's sister-in-law and nephew never returned, and the dispute over her inheritance was finally declared over.
After the beginning of winter, the weather in the capital became increasingly cold, and the first snow of the winter soon arrived.
In mid-December, a conference that was enough to change the entire course of national history was held in Beijing. This conference made a major epoch-making decision, namely, reform and opening up.
When the reform and opening-up policy was first issued, not much seemed to have changed in society until the Spring Festival a month later, when numerous vendors appeared on the streets, selling fashionable clothes from the south, discs imported from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and various smuggled small electronic products.
There are many people with a keen sense of smell. When the wind blows, even the pigs that stand on it first can fly.
This is the opportunity Ye Lin wants Pan Zhiyuan to seize.
But Pan Zhiyuan was too conservative. Although he knew clearly that reform and opening up was a great opportunity, in the early stages of a policy release, there were no clear clauses to support it, and everything was done by feeling the way forward.
Even the Commerce Bureau didn't know what specific policies to implement. The street vendors were busy setting up stalls from one day to the next. Pan Zhiyuan felt that they were "insecure at any moment", so no matter how Ye Lin advised him, he still refused to go into business.
Ye Lin was so angry that she pointed at his nose and scolded him for being a stupid coward.
Business is all about eating too much and starving the timid. With so many people hoping to get rich, how could you possibly be the boss without some guts?
But Pan Zhiyuan didn't realize how great it was to be a big boss. Being a big boss was tiring, running around all day long.
He felt that his job at the Railway Bureau was quite good: it was respectable, stable, and leisurely. Moreover, his salary had risen to 10 yuan a month, which was enough to live on.
Ye Lin was so angry at Pan Zhiyuan's attitude that she didn't eat for several days. She couldn't sleep at night and lay in bed crying every night. She felt that the eight years she had been married to Pan Zhiyuan were a waste of her life.
She had long been extremely disappointed with Pan Zhiyuan. The only reason their marriage had lasted until now was because she believed that "Pan Zhiyuan would become a big boss in the future and let her live the life that only a rich wife could live."
What's the result?
You tell me, Pan Zhiyuan doesn't want to do business anymore in this life, he just wants to live a life of idleness and wait for death in the company with a fixed salary?
Ye Lin was so disappointed that she felt her life was ruined.
He spent the New Year in a daze. When visiting relatives after the New Year, Pan Zhiyuan jokingly told his relatives at the dinner table about Ye Lin's advice for him to quit his job and start a business. After Pan Zhiyuan's mother found out, she came to scold him, saying that Ye Lin was a troublemaker who couldn't live a simple life and instead instigated her son to engage in speculation and profiteering, and wanted to put her son in jail.
Ye Lin tried her best to explain that now that reform and opening up have taken place, the policies are different from before.
But no one listened.
Pan Zhiyuan didn't listen, and neither did his mother.
Pan Zhiyuan's mother also took Pan Xiang away, saying that Ye Lin was mentally retarded and would corrupt her eldest grandson. She made Pan Xiang live in the Railway Bureau's staff quarters from now on, and only allowed Ye Lin to visit him on Sundays.
Ye Lin was forced to separate from her son and developed severe separation anxiety. She began to cry every day and every night. She was so exhausted from crying that she had no energy to work at the pastry factory. When the pastry factory was not profitable and had to lay off employees, she was on the first list of people to be laid off.
But even so, Ye Lin did not have the idea of starting her own business.
She was used to being a dodder, and the only thought in her mind was to rely on men.
Even if the man she relies on is hopeless, she has no sense of independence.
The word "independence" does not exist in her life at all.
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