Chapter 96 Chapter 96 Year After Year
Liu Mianmian originally planned to stay in the Northwest for a while, ten days or half a month, no more than a month, to accompany Shen Weizhuo and take a look at the customs and practices of the Northwest at that time.
But plans cannot keep up with changes.
When she was about to return to South City, a sudden snowstorm hit the northwest, burying the roads and halting train service. She couldn't return. When the roads finally cleared, Liu Mianmian unexpectedly discovered she was pregnant. So she stayed in the northwest.
On September 3 of the following year, Liu Mianmian woke up on the obstetrics ward bed of Yecheng Hospital.
Yu Wan and Aunt Liu were standing by the window. Seeing her wake up, they hurriedly asked, "How's she? Do you want some water or something to eat?"
Liu Mianmian blinked tiredly: "Where's the child?"
Aunt Liu picked up the child from the bed next to her and brought him close to her. "Look how beautiful this child is, with long eyeliner and a perky mouth. He's even prettier than Wei Zhou was when he was a child."
Liu Mianmian was confused for a moment: "Is it a boy? The nurse clearly said it was a girl before."
"It's a girl, it's a girl. She has a bad temper and cries loudly." Aunt Liu said hurriedly.
Liu Mianmian looked at the child carefully. To be honest, she couldn't see what was good about the child. He looked like a red-skinned monkey, ugly.
But I heard that children change every day, so they should be fine in a few days.
There was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and the door of the ward was suddenly pushed open. Shen Weizhuo, covered in dust, walked a few steps to the bedside. He wanted to go forward and shake his wife's hand, but quickly realized that he was covered in dust and could not come into contact with a woman in labor. He had to stand two steps away, nervously looking at his wife who looked extremely weak because of childbirth.
"Mianmian, how do you feel?" Shen Weizhuo's voice was a little hoarse.
Liu Mianmian rolled her eyes: "I feel so painful and exhausted."
Shen Weizhou was unusually at a loss: "Then, then I'll ask the doctor if there's any 100% safe painkillers. And, there's chicken soup. I asked Chef Fang to make some..."
He turned and was about to leave when Aunt Liu quickly called out to him, "Hey, I brought the chicken soup a while ago. Don't take painkillers. They're all poisonous!"
Liu Mianmian burst out laughing, muttered "idiot", and said, "Go wash up first, then come and hold the baby."
Shen Weizhuo went to take a shower, change his clothes, and then returned to the ward.
He almost held his breath when he took the child from Yu Wan.
This is his and Mianmian's child.
She is so small, so fragile, and so beautiful.
She was sleeping soundly, with the corners of her mouth slightly upturned, as if she was smiling sweetly.
If before this day, Shen Weizhuo researched weapons out of his responsibility as a researcher and his responsibility to the country, after this day, he seemed to have another reason, which was his responsibility as a father, the responsibility of a father to protect his daughter's happy growth in a peaceful environment.
The newly born Xiao Yueyue didn't know that on the day she was born, her father successfully tested the latest surface-to-air missile, whose technology was far ahead of the world. In the following decades, any research project her father participated in would shock the world.
At the end of this year, Shen Weizhuo finally returned to Nancheng with his wife and daughter.
Over the past year, the projects invested by Liu Mianmian have developed at an incredible speed.
The Western restaurant opened a branch. Although it is called a branch, its scale is actually similar to that of a restaurant. It occupies a larger area and is more luxuriously decorated than the old store, and it has become a landmark building.
The number of fried chicken shops has increased exponentially, and Xu Haitang is no longer satisfied with opening only shops in Nancheng. She listened to Liu Mianmian's advice and turned the fried chicken shops into a chain franchise brand. Currently, franchise stores have sprung up in surrounding provinces and cities, Shanghai, Guangzhou and even Beijing.
The cannery and oil mill managed by the Yu brothers have already expanded, but as the market continues to expand, the factory building is still under construction. Driven by these two factories, Qianjin Township has quickly transformed.
Oh, Qianjin Township is no longer called Qianjin Township, it is now called Fumin Town.
Because there were too many things to do in the factory, the Yu family had already sold the fish ponds and mountains left in the village to relatives and friends with whom they had a close relationship.
Nowadays, villagers either work in factories or grow peanuts on their own land. Some, seeing that more and more people are coming to the town, simply go to the town to set up stalls and sell things. In short, no matter what they do, their income is much higher than before.
Perhaps because life has become busier and people have more money, the atmosphere in the village has become much more harmonious, and quarrels over trivial matters have become rare.
Wang Zhiyuan's farm expanded the fastest. Shortly after Liu Mianmian went to the northwest, he called Liu Mianmian to solicit an investment, and then expanded five farms to the surrounding villages with Liuxia Village as the center. Even so, there was still a shortage of supply.
There was no way. The fried chicken shops and canneries were developing too fast. It was hard for him to supply them with raw materials, not to mention that the town gave him a certain pig production quota every year.
We had no choice but to invite comrades from all over the world to come and expand the farm again and again.
The video parlors Wu Heng managed hadn't changed much. The only difference was that after the Metropolitan collapsed, he took over all the other parlors, effectively monopolizing the market. This guy, having been around in Guangzhou for so many years, was a quick-witted and daring individual. Not content with just running a video parlor, he'd recently been planning to open a movie theater.
In the early 1980s, there were private film crews, who mainly carried equipment to show movies in the countryside. Now it was the late 1980s, and Liu Mianmian really didn't know whether private cinemas could be opened, at least in South City.
This is normal. Regardless of the policy, the investment in opening a cinema is not small.
As Liu Mianmian expected, Li Yaoming's "Liu Niang and the Scholar" opened to huge success immediately after its release, with the box office reaching over 30 million in Hong Kong alone. Together with the box office in Taiwan, the mainland and other countries, the total exceeded 50 million.
Even though Wu Heng's investment was not large, he still made a lot of money.
Perhaps because he discovered that the entertainment industry was so profitable, Wu Heng not only wanted to open a cinema with Liu Mianmian, he was even planning to continue investing in movies and TV series.
Liu Mianmian felt that if this trend continued, Wu Heng would become a big shot in the entertainment industry in the future.
As for the clothing factory and clothing store that Jiang Hongmei and Liu Anmin are in charge of, it goes without saying that, with the right time, place and people, after more than a year of development, they have already surpassed the Dinghao Garment Factory.
This is partly due to the rapid development of Hongmian Garment Factory, and of course partly due to the continued decline of Dinghao Garment Factory.
Sales channels have shrunk, and the market response to clothing styles has been mediocre for several consecutive quarters. It is said that Dinghao Garment Factory has simply given up and copied styles on the market this season.
Since most of his attention was spent on the garment factory, he simply changed the clothing store into a directly-operated store of the Hongmian Garment Factory. By the way, he followed the footsteps of the fried chicken shop and opened direct-operated stores in other provinces and cities.
Every partner was working hard, and Liu Mianmian suddenly found that she could almost lie down.
"I don't think Dinghao can hold on for much longer. Once morale is low, they can't even guarantee quality. Under current market conditions, they shouldn't suffer such huge losses no matter what they do, but they keep losing money." Jiang Hongmei complained about Dinghao Garment Factory on the phone.
Originally, they had nothing to do with Dinghao, but after Huo Yingyu joined the company, he poached a lot of people from Dinghao, so Dinghao naturally regarded them as thorns in its side.
Over the past year or so, Ding Hao's own business did not develop very well, but he continuously dug a lot of holes for the Hongmian Garment Factory, so that Jiang Hongmei and Liu Anmin were fed up with that group of people.
No wonder this factory is getting worse and worse despite having a good situation. Everyone inside is busy fighting for power and infighting with each other. No matter how good the situation is, it has nothing to do with them.
Liu Mianmian held the microphone and responded incoherently. Xiao Yueyue in her arms opened her big watery eyes, looking curiously at the things in her mother's hands, and kept saying "woooo, woooo" with her little mouth.
Liu Mianmian wiped the child's saliva with the bib stuck in her clothes. When she heard Jiang Hongmei change the subject on the phone, she said, "Sometimes I don't know what's wrong with your brain. Why did you just sell all your stocks? I heard that the Hong Kong stock market is changing every day. Many people are losing so much money that they want to jump off the rooftop. For example, the brother of the son-in-law of our old factory landlord, Grandma Achun, I heard he sneaked into Hong Kong a few years ago. The stock market was doing well in the past two years, so he returned to Guangzhou and bought a house for his parents. Now he's lost so much money that he's about to come back and sell it."
"I was preparing to give birth and was in confinement at that time. How could I care about these things? Of course I would throw away whatever I could and put the money in my pocket." Liu Mianmian said casually.
She called Hong Kong City just a few days before her daughter was born and asked her broker to sell all the stocks.
In fact, there was still more than a month of market activity left, and the Hong Kong stock market would rise to incredible heights.
Even when the situation is going well, stock brokers still can't understand why selling stocks in this market is no different from losing money.
However, Liu Mianmian made it clear that she was about to have a baby and had no time to manage the stocks. Although the broker felt that it was too strange to sell off the stocks just because she was going to have a baby, he naturally couldn't force her, so he slowly sold all the stocks.
After the Hong Kong stock market plummeted, the agent called again and said that the little girl was a lucky star who helped her mother keep the wealth.
Jiang Hongmei couldn't help but sigh again, Liu Mianmian really knows how to make money, whether it's investment or stocks, she has never failed.
It is hard to imagine that a few years ago, she was a poor little girl who had just returned from the countryside to the military industrial compound. She was tricked by her parents into marrying Shen Weizhuo, who was said to be almost terminally ill... Now, the father and son, and the husband and wife of the Liu family have almost become enemies, and things are getting worse and worse. On the contrary, Liu Mianmian and Jiang Hongmei know each other well. Sometimes, when they secretly calculate, it is simply unbelievable.
Liu Mianmian's net worth has already exceeded tens of millions, and if this continues, it seems that it is not impossible for it to reach hundreds of millions.
hiss.
"Wouldn't it be troublesome to have too much money?" Jiang Hongmei joked.
Liu Mianmian kissed her daughter's chubby face and joked, "When I first learned that Shen Weizhou was terminally ill, I decided to make a lot of money. I'd make tens of millions or even hundreds of millions first. Then I'd be a wealthy widow, find a young, handsome, considerate, and gentle husband, and live a comfortable life."
Jiang Hongmei often heard Liu Mianmian comment on this little puppy and that little wolf dog, so she naturally knew what she meant and couldn't help but burst out laughing: "You are so ambitious, I wonder what Shen Weizhou would think if he knew?"
Liu Mianmian changed her position while holding her daughter: "How could he hear..."
Suddenly she found her daughter struggling, "Wuwuwu, wuwuwu". She raised her eyelids and saw a thin and tall figure standing at the door.
The light was against me, so I couldn't see the expression on his face.
She quickly said "something happened" and hung up the phone.
Shen Weizhuo walked in and didn't say anything. Instead, he bent down and picked up his daughter. He even smiled at her, then turned around and left with her in his arms.
Liu Mianmian was stunned for a moment, and inexplicably felt as if her husband had run off with their daughter. She quickly stood up in her slippers, "Shen Weizhou!"
Shen Weizhou carried his daughter into the east wing. As soon as the little girl was in her father's arms, her eyes like black grapes blinked, her eyelids began to droop, her chubby little hands curled up, and she soon fell asleep.
Shen Weizhuo looked at the little guy in his arms tenderly and carefully put him into the quilt.
Liu Mianmian followed him in, sat beside him, and asked softly, "Are you asleep?"
The little one is always energetic in her mother's arms. No matter how she is held or patted, she refuses to sleep. But once she is in her father's arms, she will miraculously fall asleep in minutes.
Shen Weizhou didn't respond.
Liu Mianmian moved closer to him and tilted her head to look at him: "Hmm?"
Shen Weizhou glanced at her calmly and said, "Are you planning to wait until I die before finding someone younger and more handsome?"
The voice was gentle, but Liu Mianmian sensed a hint of danger in the tone. She quickly shirked responsibility, "I didn't do that. Don't talk nonsense. It was Jiang Hongmei, yes, that Jiang Hongmei. She said I was making so much money that many young men came up to me. She's been in Guangzhou for two years, and her mind has been corrupted. She actually said such things. It's too much."
Shen Weizhou turned his head to look at her and smiled helplessly: "You!"
He put his arms around his wife, kissed her forehead, and whispered, "Don't worry, I will live forever and will not give you this chance."
He finally had the chance to be reborn, so how could he not cherish it?
What's more, now he has a lover, a soft spot, and expectations.
Liu Mianmian leaned comfortably on his shoulder.
"There seems to be firecrackers outside."
"Yeah, it's almost Chinese New Year."
Another year has passed without me noticing.
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