◎Second update◎
Xu Shengjie was still immersed in the joy of buying a satisfactory gift for his wife, but was suddenly asked, "...?"
"I won't blame you. Just tell me. I just want to know." Liang Baozhen remembered that this was how her mother Song Chunhua got the secret of her father Liang Zhigao's private money.
It must be said that the Liang family is really good at hiding money!
Xu Shengjie shook his head, "I never hide any private money."
Liang Baozhen snorted, thinking that this man was stingy and didn't even want to talk to her. "Forget it, you're definitely not telling the truth. My mother said that all men have to hide some private money. I'm actually an open-minded daughter-in-law, and I definitely won't care if you hide some private money, so don't worry."
Xu Shengjie smiled, knowing that his wife had misunderstood him, "My money is in the pillowcase."
Liang Baozhen: "...? You put it in the pillowcase too?"
That's her personal hiding place!
"Didn't you teach me this? It's safest and most convenient to put it in a pillowcase." Xu Shengjie used to put loose change everywhere, often with a few bills here and there. Now it is indeed much more convenient.
My wife is right!
Liang Baozhen was determined to touch it, and actually felt something inside through the pillowcase. She didn't expect that Xu Shengjie was just like her, sleeping with money on his pillow every night!
At night, Liang Baozhen fed Shanshan again. The little girl sucked hard, her cheeks were puffy and her little mouth was pouting. After Xu Shengjie finished his work and went back to the room, he closed the door and just happened to see the girl with a satisfied look on her face after drinking the milk.
"You pat her." Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie now work in perfect harmony and directly handed the child to the father.
Xu Shengjie held Shanshan in his arms and patted her back gently. He only stopped after the girl burped twice.
The girl grew up slowly, and her weight in his arms obviously increased. Xu Shengjie looked at this little ball and moved closer to kiss the child's face.
Shanshan's face is chubby and feels soft when you kiss her. She stares at her father motionlessly, making “Ah! Ah!” sounds from her mouth.
"Are you annoyed by the saliva on your face when daddy kissed Shanshan?" Liang Baozhen also came over and waved her finger in front of the girl. One finger easily attracted her attention. Her eyes moved left and right, and she looked very attentively.
"Shanshan is easy to take care of, even easier than Xiaowei and Xiaoya." Xu Shengjie helped his grandmother raise his younger brother and sister. Especially when they were young, the two children would cry together in the house and get hungry together. The family could only cook the most fragile corn porridge for them to eat.
"Of course not!" Liang Baozhen picked up the girl and put her on the bed, preparing to instruct her to turn over. She slapped her tender little butt with one hand, which was very flexible! "Our Shanshan is the easiest child to take care of. Come on, Shanshan, let's turn over."
These days, Shanshan is actually very active, and she likes to play with her little hands and feet. Her favorite action is to stretch her legs up to the sky and lift them high. Every time she tries hard to lift them up, she will laugh and make some sounds that others can't understand to attract people's attention.
Xu Shengwei said that Shanshan was vain and wanted everyone to see her.
Liang Baozhen has been teaching Shanshan to lie on her side and back these days, and she helps her turn over from time to time to get a feel for it. The little girl is tossed around by her mother, and she often thinks her mother is playing with her, and she is quite happy.
At this moment, Shanshan, who had just laid down on the bed, started again, trying to push her two chubby legs into the air. She couldn't straighten her legs very much, but it was already very good. When she succeeded, her eyebrows curved and the corners of her lips lifted, "Ah! Ah!"
"Look at you, my daughter, so proud!" Liang Baozhen patted Xu Shengjie's arm.
"Our Shanshan is amazing! She has been amazing since she was young!" Xu Shengjie thinks no one is better than his young lady.
"Come on, let's turn over again."
Shanshan loves to exert herself, and she is willing to learn how to turn over. Following the strength and direction of her mother's hands, Shanshan thinks she is very good, and she turns over with a snap.
Shanshan laughed out loud with excitement. She couldn't speak yet. She could only make sounds of "hmm" and "ah" and stretched out her little hand to go to her mother, wanting to do it again!
"Okay, this time Mommy won't do it, Shanshan will turn over by herself."
Liang Baozhen lifted the girl's left body slightly and gave her a direction to push. Shanshan's face was wrinkled and she was trying hard with her whole body, especially her left leg, which she lifted slightly to gain leverage. However, her chubby leg just swayed a few times but never got through.
Xu Shengjie watched from the side, with his hands open, ready to catch his daughter at any time, no matter which way she fell.
"Almost there, almost there, almost turned over!" Liang Baozhen encouraged Shanshan, not caring whether the child could understand or not, "Shanshan, try harder."
Shanshan seemed to really understand what her mother said. She made a final effort and flipped over. Just as she was about to fall facefirst onto the bed, she was caught steadily by her father.
"Our Shanshan is amazing!" Liang Baozhen felt a great sense of accomplishment as she watched her child roll over on her own for the first time. "Our Shanshan is amazing, isn't she?"
"Um!"
Shanshan made a sound. Liang Baozhen suspected that she had misheard and quickly patted Xu Shengjie. "Did you hear that? Did Shanshan answer me? She said 'yeah'!"
Xu Shengjie touched his wife's forehead and found the temperature was normal. "Shanshan can only make those sounds. It's just a coincidence."
"Really, just answer me, huh! Our Shanshan can't be a genius!" Liang Baozhen was still immersed in the magical conversation with Shanshan just now.
Xu Shengjie felt that his wife was really thinking too much. How could a three-month-old child still be able to speak? He picked up Shanshan and held her in his arms and joked with her while listening to his wife talking about work.
"By the way, what do you think will happen to my job quota?"
Liang Baozhen was going to school, so she had to think carefully about this job. In fact, if it was her own, she wanted to sell it directly for money, but since it belonged to the Xu family, she naturally couldn't be so casual.
"It's all right. If you want to find someone to take over, you can look at Aunt Ding. If you sell it..."
"Have you ever thought about selling it?"
Xu Shengjie immediately understood what his wife meant. His parents had been gone for many years and even their faces were a little blurry. He could only recall them through the only yellowed old photo.
As for this job quota, he had no particular concerns.
"That's what I think." Liang Baozhen had an idea in mind, but she didn't know if Xu Shengjie could accept it. After all, the job was from the Xu family. "You can see that the movement is over and the college entrance examination has been resumed. There may be many opportunities in the future. Now is the time for change. It's better for us to keep more money in our hands so that we can buy and do anything we want."
Liang Baozhen sat cross-legged on the bed, looking at Xu Shengjie and trying to convince him little by little. After all, now, and even in the next decade or so, stable jobs in state-owned factories are the most anticipated and envied jobs. No one would have thought that starting in the 1990s, these large factories that were as solid as century-old trees would encounter crises, go bankrupt, and workers would be laid off one after another.
"I know you still think working in a factory is better, but I still want us to save some money so that I can earn money after I graduate from college, and my life won't be difficult in the future."
Soon I will be able to start some business, and later I will be able to buy and sell houses privately. Liang Baozhen mainly wants to buy a house, as the current family of six is too crowded.
Xu Shengjie listened carefully to what his wife said. He could tell that his wife wanted to persuade him to just sell his job. Now, selling a job could earn one thousand yuan, which was a huge sum of money, but no one would sell their job because a job was a stable job and a lifelong guarantee. No matter how much money they were offered, they would not be willing to sell it.
"You have a point." Xu Shengjie has also noticed some changes recently. The black market guys he knew before have obviously become more active, and many of them are preparing to go south to do something big. He has the habit of reading newspapers, and he always feels that some changes are coming from the speeches of leaders.
"Why don't you listen to me this time?" Liang Baozhen calculated that her family had a savings of more than 2,000 yuan. If she sold her job, she could get more than 3,000 yuan, which should be enough to start a business or buy a house.
Of course, if she didn't know how things would turn out, she probably wouldn't have been willing to just sell her job.
"Okay." Xu Shengjie is not a indecisive person. His wife's words are one thing, and his own intuition is another.
However, Zhou Yun didn't quite understand why she had to sell her job. As she got older, she wanted stability the most. "Baozhen is going to college now, and someone else can take over her job. There's no need to sell it right away, right?"
Zhou Yun didn't want to sell his job. After all, it was a stable job. What difference would it make if he traded it for a thousand yuan? A job can last for decades and can also be continued by the next generation. Zhou Yun felt that this job could last for several or even ten generations of the Xu family. This was not something that a thousand yuan could compare to.
"Besides, Xiaowei and Xiaoya are almost adults, so it doesn't matter who they choose. They will have more confidence no matter who they get married."
Liang Baozhen understood Zhou Yun's concerns. She was indeed thinking about future development, thinking that Xiao Wei and Xiao Ya would definitely have better prospects and would not regard a job in a state-owned factory as their only hope. However, it has only been seven or eight years, and no one knows that the seemingly stable iron rice bowl will eventually turn into a huge wave of layoffs in more than ten years. On the contrary, those who have become rich by taking advantage of the spring breeze of reform and opening up have no worries about food and clothing and live a rich life.
But how could Zhou Yun have thought of that? She was old and looking for stability. She definitely hoped that her children would work in the same job until the end of time and pass it down.
"Grandma, I understand what you mean." Liang Baozhen felt that she had been thinking too simply before. "How about this, let's find someone to take over the job first, and then we'll take it when Xiaowei or Xiaoya wants it."
Anyway, there will be variables in the future. When our family really develops with the spring breeze of reform and opening up, grandma will naturally be able to see clearly.
"Okay, that's it. I can't sell my job!" Zhou Yun insisted on this. He held his grandson's and his wife's hands and confirmed it with them again and again.
If the job is not sold, who should be found to take over? Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie discussed it and decided to consider Ding Xiaoxia.
At first, Ding Xiaoxia had been filling in for many years, and even though Chen Siming used threats and bribes, she did not cause any trouble and returned the job. Both of them trusted her character, so they had to find someone reliable to fill in for her, so that when she returned in the future, she would be happy.
Liang Baozhen was still grateful to Ding Xiaoxia. After all, she often left food for her, and every time she and Xu Shengjie went to the cafeteria to get food, she always got very good food, which made Hong Saner jealous.
Liang Baozhen went to the National Cotton Mill. After reading the radio program at noon, she went to the cafeteria to eat. She also went to ask Ding Xiaoxia about her thoughts.
As far as she knew, Ding Xiaoxia had a son who was old enough to support the family, but it was difficult to find a job in the city, so he had no idea where to go.
The author has something to say:
Congratulations to Shanshan for learning to roll over^O^
Thanks to the cutie who irrigated the nutrient solution: Zhai A Zhai 1 bottle; Bu Er Frosted Glass 1 bottle;
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