The train was moving at a steady speed on the rails. There was a bunch of brightly colored osmanthus flowers placed by the window. The branches trembled slightly as the train moved forward, shaking off the rich fragrance that filled the carriage.
Ruan Xi woke up from a not-so-deep sleep, opened her eyes and looked out the window, "Are we almost there?"
Ling Yao said, "We're almost there, probably another half an hour."
Ruan Xi raised her hand to cover her mouth and nose and yawned for a long time, stretched her shoulders and neck to relax her muscles, softened her bones again and leaned back on the chair, turned her head to look at Ling Yao and asked, "Are you nervous?"
Ling Yao couldn't help laughing, "Shouldn't you be nervous?"
It is undeniable that Ruan Xi was indeed nervous. After all, she had never experienced meeting her parents-in-law in her two lives. Fortunately, she already knew Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun, so she was not particularly nervous, and everything was completely under control.
After getting off the train at the station, Ruan Xi followed Ling Yao from the train station to his home.
Ruan Xi knew that Ling Yao's family used to be relatively wealthy, and she had her own imagination in her heart, but when she saw his house, she couldn't help but blinked in surprise. Because his family didn't live in an ordinary house, but a single-family old Western-style house!
This kind of well-preserved old Western-style house, if put on the market later, the price of one set would be hundreds of millions or even billions, and it is basically impossible to buy it even if you have money! Because this house, like the Siheyuan, is a historical legacy, and it is valuable because it is rare!
Ling Yao saw her surprise and asked her, "What's wrong?"
Ruan Xi cleared her throat and whispered, "Your family is very rich."
Ling Yao held her hand, "Now it's just a very ordinary family."
Ruan Xi smiled and said nothing more. Which very ordinary family would live in such a house? They all lived in the alleys and the whole family squeezed into a few rooms. The families with worse conditions were like living in a box, very crowded.
When they walked to the front door, Ling Yao took her and knocked on the door and went into the house, "Mom and Dad, I'm back, and I brought Xixi back with me."
As soon as the voice fell, Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun came out of the house. When they saw Ruan Xi, their eyes lit up and they came up to greet her with a smile on their faces: "Oh, we haven't seen each other for so many years. Xixi has grown up."
Because they were no longer stressed and their lives were relatively comfortable after returning, they looked much better than when they were in the countryside. But after all, they had suffered both mentally and physically, and the traces of time on their faces were still very obvious.
Zhou Xueyun was relatively better, because she dyed all her white hair black and curled it. Ling Zhiyuan
looked even more haggard and old with his white hair. After
a few pleasantries, Zhou Xueyun pulled Ruan Xi into the house and didn't let her stand at the door.
Ling Yao carried a suitcase and some gifts bought on the street, and followed Ling Zhiyuan in. Both father and son were smiling happily, looking very happy.
Such a lively and festive atmosphere had never happened to the three of them in all these years.
Although their life became better after they returned to the city after being rehabilitated, and although Ling Yao said nothing after returning, was obedient and studied hard, and did not cause any trouble for them, Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun knew that he had always had something on his mind.
And they all knew that the knot was Ruan Xi.
Originally, they thought that Ling Yao was just lonely and bored in the countryside, and that he couldn't leave Ruan Xi because he had so much fun with her. When he returned to the city and resumed his normal life, and had new classmates and a new life, he would slowly forget about Ruan Xi.
The feelings between children are indeed very deep when they are deep, but once they are separated, they will slowly forget about them. After all, life in the countryside can only be regarded as a small episode, and he and Ruan Xi have only been together for two years. But
what they didn't expect was that Ling Yao has always kept this matter in his heart, and is still unwilling to open his heart to accept other classmates and friends, let alone get along with other girls emotionally after growing up.
After graduation, many girls like him, but he is unwilling to say a word to others.
As parents, they were naturally anxious, but they knew Ling Yao's character very well, so there was no point in being anxious, and they could only keep it to themselves. Then when Ling Yao came back for the New Year, the situation suddenly became clear.
And after all the twists and turns, the person Ling Yao could open his heart to was still the girl from that year.
Ling Zhiyuan and Zhou Xueyun felt very surprised, but not surprised at all.
What was surprising was that the two children met again after being apart for so many years. What was not surprising was that, besides Ruan Xi, who else could make Ling Yao so happy that he came back to say that he had found a partner.
The atmosphere at home was good at the beginning of the year, and it had been good for more than half a year, until this day when Ling Yao brought Ruan Xi back, and this joyful and comfortable atmosphere reached its peak.
Zhou Xueyun took Ruan Xi to the living room and sat her down. She brought her food and drinks, and her face was full of excitement. She said, "I asked Yaoyao to bring you back a long time ago, but it was delayed until now."
Ruan Xi still felt a little strange, and said with a smile, "I haven't found the time."
However, this kind of strangeness after not seeing each other for a long time disappeared after she talked to Zhou Xueyun and Ling Zhiyuan for a while. After all, Ling Yao was beside her, and after all, she had talked to Zhou Xueyun and Ling Zhiyuan on the phone in the past six months.
After quickly regaining the sense of familiarity, Ruan Xi naturally stopped being polite and did not regard herself as a guest. She was busy with Zhou Xueyun, Ling Yao, and Ling Zhiyuan, although they did not let her interfere too much, just let her eat, drink and have fun.
After dinner, Ruan Xi and Ling Yao stood on the balcony upstairs, holding the railings to look at the moon.
The moon on August 15th was as big as a round disk, hanging in the sky, illuminating the smiling faces of the two people.
Ruan Xi and Ling Yao returned after spending the Mid-Autumn Festival at Ling's house. They arrived home at sunset in the evening. The gate of the house was locked and no one was there. Ruan Dabao and the children in the alley were playing with spinning tops next to the stone lion.
When he saw Ruan Xi and Ling Yao coming back, he shouted from a distance: "Big sister, big brother Ling Yao."
Ruan Xi responded to him, and before she and Ling Yao reached the front door, Ruan Changsheng suddenly rushed to their side on a bicycle. Ruan Changsheng panted and stopped the car to greet them: "You are back."
It was obvious that something was wrong. Ruan Xi asked: "What's the hurry?"
Ruan Changsheng paused for a while and said: "Nothing, it's just that Xiaojie is about to give birth and has gone to the hospital. Your fifth aunt went there first, and I came back to take care of Dabao. Do you want to go? If not, Dabao will be left at home."
Ruan Jie was about to give birth, so how could she not go? Ruan Xi hurriedly took out the key to open the gate, "Of course I have to go."
After opening the gate and putting down the suitcase in the house, she and Ling Yao pushed the bicycle out and followed Ruan Changsheng to the hospital. Ruan Dabao was taken away by Ruan Changsheng without even putting down his schoolbag.
When they arrived at the hospital, Ruan Jie had just entered the delivery room. Because there were other women giving birth in the delivery room and men were not allowed to enter, Chen Weidong waited anxiously outside the delivery room, while Qian Chuan was taking care of her inside.
Qian Chuan had experience in childbirth, so she was relieved to have her taking care of her inside. Ruan Xi did not go in to make trouble, so as not to disturb Ruan Jie's delivery. She could not help much if she went in, so it was better to wait outside.
After standing outside the delivery room for a while, she heard the hoarse shouts coming from the delivery room, and Ruan Xi felt a layer of cold sweat on her back. She was really panicked when she heard it, and her fingers unconsciously clenched together.
Ling Yao could see all the subtle reactions on her body, and reached out to silently hold her hand in his palm.
After waiting for half an hour, Ruan Jie still did not come out.
Ruan Xi raised her wrist to check her watch from time to time, and her anxiety was no less than Chen Weidong's.
Ruan Changsheng seemed calmer because he had experienced Qian Chuan's birth.
After waiting for another twenty or thirty minutes, the door of the delivery room suddenly opened.
As soon as the door opened, all the family members waiting outside crowded around to ask the nurse if their child was born.
The nurse shook her head and said she was not pregnant, then looked at Chen Weidong and Ruan Xi and Ruan Changsheng and said, "You are Ruan Jie's family members, right? Ruan Jie is having difficulty giving birth now. Please discuss whether to have a caesarean section."
After hearing this, Chen Weidong subconsciously wanted to rush in, but was stopped by the nurse.
The nurse looked anxious and said, "It's no use being anxious. You can't enter the delivery room. You should make a decision quickly whether you want to switch to caesarean section. We will also explain to you first that caesarean section is risky. If you decide to switch, the family must sign."
Even in big cities, the medical conditions in hospitals are not very good, especially in obstetrics and gynecology departments. There are many doctors who can deliver babies, but there are really not many who can use a scalpel to cut open a child.
Ruan Xi herself had never given birth to a child, so she looked at Ruan Changsheng and said, "Fifth Uncle."
Ruan Changsheng knew nothing about it. Qian Chuan and Ruan Cuizhi were both born at home, and they directly hired a village midwife. He didn't even know what a caesarean section was, so he didn't dare to make a decision.
Chen Weidong asked the nurse anxiously, "Can the baby be born without a cesarean section?"
The nurse was used to these things, and she didn't look anxious. She just said, "It's very likely
that the baby won't be born." Chen Weidong asked again, "What will happen if the baby can't be born?"
The nurse said, "
What do you think? Something bad will happen!" Chen Weidong's eyes suddenly filled with blood. At this time, Qian Chuan also came out, with an anxious and nervous face, saying, "Xiao Jie can't be born. What should we do? The doctor said she needs a cesarean section. Is a cesarean section okay?"
Ruan Xi didn't have much confidence in the medical conditions of this era, but things had come to this point. Could they just drag it on? It was obvious that Ruan Jie couldn't give birth. If it was dragged on, there would be only one result.
So she opened her lips and said, "Let's do a cesarean section..."
Chen Weidong seemed to have reacted, "I...I'll sign."
While Chen Weidong signed, the nurse had already pushed Ruan Jie to the operating room.
When Ruan Jie was anesthetized, the nurse came out and asked Chen Weidong, "Dangers may occur during the operation. We have to confirm in advance. If an emergency occurs, should we save the adult or the child?"
Chen Weidong was anxious to begin with, and he shouted, "You still have to ask this! No matter what happens, the adult must be safe!"
The nurse rolled her eyes at him. If she hadn't seen that he was worried about his wife's difficult labor, she would have scolded him a few words.
The nurse rolled her eyes and went in, leaving Ruan Xi and the others waiting outside the operating room.
Chen Weidong slid down the wall and squatted at the foot of the wall. He held his head tightly with his hands and burst into tears.
Ruan Xi's eyes were also red, and her heart was extremely panicked. If this was in an era of advanced medicine, cesarean section would be a very common and safe operation, and it would not make people so scared and panic.
But even in an era of advanced medicine, there are many people who lost their lives during childbirth.
Ruan Xi sat on the chair, bent her waist, covered her forehead with her hands and closed her eyes, and did not wipe the moisture that oozed out.
This time she did not even look at her watch, just waited.
I don’t know how long I waited, it felt like a long lifetime, at the end of the dark time and space, I suddenly heard a baby crying. Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan turned their heads to look at the operating room, while Chen Weidong and Ruan Xi also raised their heads.
After a while, the nurse opened the door holding a child and said, "It's a boy."
Chen Weidong hurried over, and this time he didn't break into the operating room. He asked the nurse with tears on his face, "How is my wife? How is my wife?"
The nurse handed the child to Qian Chuan, then looked at Chen Weidong and said, "Congratulations, mother and child are safe."
Hearing this, Chen Weidong suddenly laughed again, and then he cried and laughed at the same time, which was particularly funny.
Ruan Xi breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't hold it back. He turned his head and buried it in Ling Yao's arms. His tears soon soaked his clothes. Just now she was holding back her tears, but now she was letting them out without caring about anything.
In the ward, Chen Weidong held Ruan Jie's hand, and continued to cry while lying beside the bed.
Ruan Jie looked at him and smiled, then said weakly, "I'm fine."
She had used up all her strength when she gave birth to the child, and she was forced to undergo surgery before the baby was born, which further damaged her vitality. So she looked very weak, and her lips were all white.
Qian Chuan put the child next to Ruan Jie, and said to her softly with red eyes, "Xiao Jie, you're going to be a mother."
Ruan Jie turned her head to look at the child, whose little face was wrinkled, curled up in a red swaddling cloth, and whose eyes were not yet open. Her heart instantly became very soft, and she smiled and said, "Little boy, welcome."
Two years later.
Ruan Jie was holding her son Chen Xu and standing beside the date tree. Ruan Xi picked a few dates and washed them in the sink, then brought them to Chen Xu and teased him, saying, "Xiao Xu, call me auntie and say that I am the prettiest."
Chen Xu said incoherently, "Auntie is the most frivolous."
Ruan Xi laughed and stuffed the dates into Chen Xu's palm.
Chen Xu put the dates to his mouth and started chewing them. Ruan Jie put him down and let him go to play with Ruan Dabao and Ruan Yue.
She also picked a few dates, washed them, and ate them while talking to Ruan Xi, asking her: "You and Ling Yao have been married for so long, and you still don't want a baby? Were you scared when I gave birth to Xiaoxu?"
Speaking of this, it was true.
When Ruan Jie gave birth, Ruan Xi was so scared that she broke into a cold sweat. If she hadn't been in a hospital in the city, where she could have had a caesarean section, but had been in the mountains, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Ruan Xi took a date from her hand and said, "I don't want to give birth yet, let's talk about it later."
The two of them stood by the date tree and talked for a while, while Ruan Cuizhi and the others prepared dinner. Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie went over to help serve the dishes, and put the dishes on the round table in the main room, set aside the bowls and chopsticks, and started eating.
During the meal, Ruan Cuizhi asked Ruan Xi: "Xiaoxi, how is the recruitment of designers going?"
Ruan Xi replied: "I interviewed a few today, but I still don't think they are that good. Let's wait and see."
This year, the first batch of college students majoring in fashion design graduated, and Ruan Xi has been recruiting designers for some time. She successfully recruited several designers to join the factory, mainly to design affordable clothing for Rose Pavilion.
Now she is recruiting designers with better abilities, because she is preparing to start a mid-to-high-end brand. As the business grows bigger and bigger, she can't do it alone. To open a fashion company, a design department is naturally indispensable.
Now that the living standards of people in the city are gradually improving, she should try to open a mid-to-high-end brand store.
In the past two years, besides marrying Ling Yao, she has also done a lot of other things.
Because there are too many unemployed young people in the city, many educated youth cannot find a job after returning to the city, and have been unemployed and idle at home. In order to solve this problem, the country passed the "Decision on Economic System Reform" in 1984.
The historical event that passed this decision was the convening of the Third Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee.
The decision clarified the necessity and urgency of the entire economic system reform with cities as the focus.
① This meeting marked the beginning of the reform from rural areas to cities and the entire economic field, and thus China's economic system reform entered the second stage, that is, the stage of reform development. ②
After the start of urban reform, the development of cities in the past two years has naturally been even greater. More and more people followed the trend to do business, and more and more people from rural areas went to cities to work, and they were no longer just going to the south.
Every time there was a policy change, Ruan Xi was the first to respond to the policy.
After the reform policy was implemented, she immediately prepared to register a company and applied to establish a factory.
Before that, due to various restrictions, registering a private enterprise was not allowed, so she, like others, only registered for a business license for an individual business owner and had been doing business as an individual business owner.
But if you want to develop bigger, you can't keep doing it as an individual.
Individuals have regional restrictions and can only engage in business activities locally, and cannot open up markets outside.
Of course, it's almost time for her and Ruan Cuizhi and Ruan Changsheng to split the bill. Since we need to do business in partnership clearly and keep clear accounts, we naturally need to establish a company and divide the shares, because individuals cannot form a partnership.
Ruan Cuizhi and others split the accounts to establish a company and build a factory, which were all completed in the past two years.
After the factory was built, more workers were recruited and trained.
As all members of the company's marketing department, Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan went to countless places in the past two years, explored the markets in many places, and successfully opened several stores in other places.
As far as the current clothing industry is concerned, the markets in other places are all big cakes. As long as you open a store there, you can make a lot of money without much effort, and make people remember the brand of Rose Pavilion.
Of course, the premise is that the clothes are beautifully made and of good quality, so that word of mouth can spread and gain reputation.
After the funds came back, Ruan Xi recently applied for the construction of an office building in addition to recruiting designers. She plans to build a three-story office building, and all the company's affairs will be carried out in the office building in the future.
Because she made a lot of classmates and friends in the four years of college, and everyone is scattered in various departments, and because she worked in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau for half a year and got to know a lot of colleagues, it was relatively easy for her to apply for these things.
The office building has just been built for a little while, and Ruan Xi is not particularly anxious about the designer. After all, she has accumulated a lot of designs in the past few years, and it is not difficult to open the first store with some simple styles.
Ruan Cuizhi and the others didn't know much about design, so they just asked a few questions like chatting about family matters and then stopped asking. Of course, when chatting about family matters, they would ask whatever came to their mind, so she asked Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan: "Are you going to recruit people?"
Ruan Changsheng and Qian Chuan had also discussed it and just said: "We can still cope with it now, and we will recruit after the office building is built."
When the time comes, we will also strengthen their marketing department and strive to expand business to all parts of the country.
Ruan Cuizhi's side is currently the most stable. She and Yue Haofeng are managing the factory. There are workers, machines, equipment, materials, designers, and everything else. Production has been on track for a long time. Ruan Cuizhi is the factory director and Yue Haofeng is her deputy factory director.
They chatted about the company and the factory for a while, and Ruan Zhigao suddenly waved his chopsticks and said, "You are not allowed to talk about work at home. Oh, it's true. We don't understand a word you say, and we can't get a word in."
Liu Xinghua, Ling Yao, Ruan Jie and Chen Weidong agreed and nodded.
Ruan Xi and the others laughed, "Okay! Then let's make a rule that you are not allowed to talk about work when you go home in the future!"
After finishing the meal and cleaning up, Ruan Jie and Chen Weidong took Chen Xu home. Ruan Cuizhi and Yue Haofeng took Ruan Yue, Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua away together. They now live in the city and bought a courtyard house.
Chen Weidong helped to find the courtyard, and Ruan Cuizhi and Yue Haofeng spent money to buy it.
After everyone left, the house was clean. Seeing that it was getting late, Ruan Xi and Ling Yao washed up and went to bed.
After getting married, Ling Yao was assigned a house by the company, but Ruan Xi didn't want to bother with it. After all, all her things were in this yard, which was convenient for work, so she and Ling Yao didn't move to the apartment in the community.
Originally, Ruan Xi lived alone in the main house, but now she lives with Ling Yao, and the west wing was naturally empty again, returning to its original purpose - a guest room.
After getting on the bed and covering herself with the quilt, Ruan Xi put her legs on Ling Yao and asked him, "Do you want to have a baby?"
Ling Yao said without a second thought, "No."
Ruan Xi turned over and pressed directly on him, kissed him on the lips, and whispered deliberately, "But I want it."
His fingers rested on her waist and reached into the corner of her clothes. Ling Yao whispered, "Just have fun for a while."
He was also scared by Ruan Jie's having a baby at the time, and he has no intention of having a baby until now.
Ruan Xi looked at him and smiled, her voice even lower, "Then have fun for a while."
After saying that, she bit his lips lightly and reached out to turn off the light...
In the next few days, Ruan Xi interviewed several graduates who applied for design positions, but she was not satisfied with any of them. She did not require them to have a high level of skills just after graduation, but at least she had to see that they were in this business.
What she was going to do next was mid-to-high-end brand clothing, so the design could not be casual.
As for the clothing design under the Rose Pavilion brand, she no longer did it herself. She only did the final review work, looked at the design drafts and samples and gave opinions, freeing up her energy to take care of other things.
In addition to recruiting designers, she also had to supervise the construction of the office building.
Today she came to the construction site for another inspection, because this project cost the company a lot of money and it was a large engineering project. She managed to understand all the construction drawings and learned a lot about architecture.
After taking off her helmet and leaving after a round of inspection, she looked at the time and decided to go to the restaurant for dinner.
She had an appointment with her friend Jiang Suyun tonight, who was her best colleague when she worked at the Industry and Commerce Bureau. At that time, Jiang Suyun had helped her a lot in finding a partner, and when she resigned, Jiang Suyun also advised her for a long time.
Ruan Xi took a taxi to the restaurant, and when she got off the car, she saw a blue sedan parked in a parking space not far away.
The sedans of this era are naturally not good-looking, they are square like boxes, and there are not many of them.
Ruan Xi has thought about buying one, but she hasn't found the time yet.
After looking at the car, she turned around and headed for the restaurant. Before she reached the glass door of the hotel, she suddenly heard two words: "Master Xi?! Ruan Xi!"
Ruan Xi was stunned for a moment, stopped and turned around, and saw a young man with a familiar smile walking towards the car. The man was wearing a black suit, a black leather bag under his arm, and his leather shoes were polished to a shine, with a full businessman's style.
After a moment, Ruan Xi said: "Xie Dongyang?"
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