Chapter 4 The sky is falling
Bai Qing was startled at first, and then a smile unique to adults subconsciously appeared on his face.
But soon, the smile on his face suddenly froze, and the long-lost memory door opened for him again.
He suddenly remembered that he had also encountered such a situation in his previous life, but at that time, he was so anxious about what happened in the afternoon that he didn't take it to heart.
Just today in his previous life, his mother Zhang Fang was going to be laid off.
For people born after the 1970s, with the further development and improvement of the market economic system, employment has become easier and easier. Resigning and changing jobs is as easy as commonplace. In their concept, both parties in employment are equal.
If you feel unhappy at work, you can fire the boss at any time.
However, this was not the case for their parents' generation. In that era of limited openness, state workers were the best jobs in their minds. The education they received and the environment they lived in gave them an incomparable understanding of their own units.
Deep feelings.
The unit is where they live.
Since China implemented reform and opening up in 1978, state-owned enterprises have been facing various impacts brought about by reform and opening up. In the 1990s, a large number of state-owned enterprises were inefficient due to backward management and many other reasons, and they only relied on national policies and support to survive.
deficit
Losses and insolvency are the norm. Coupled with the impact of the Asian financial crisis, it became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Large-scale bankruptcies forced rigid state-owned enterprises to undergo bankruptcy restructuring and reform. A large number of workers
Lost my job, lost my job.
Zhang Fang is one of them.
Because of her family's poverty, Zhang Fang, the eldest daughter, dropped out of school before finishing high school at the age of 16 and joined a factory. From then on, her life consisted of running between work and home day after day.
This kind of life lasted for 2 full years, which was close to 2/2 of her life. She had become accustomed to this pattern, but suddenly her days were broken. For Zhang Fang, it was like a bolt from the blue.
Her youth and her faith were all turned into ashes at this moment.
Zhang Fang's salary is only 20 yuan a month. The work unit where Bai Qing's father, Bai Yuejin, works is also in a recession, hovering on the edge of bankruptcy. His salary is similar to Zhang Fang's. Now that she has no job, it means that the family is missing.
half of the income.
The tens of thousands of foreign debts owed by the family for buying a house have not yet been repaid, and there is also a student like Bai Qing to support. This happened when they were asking for money everywhere.
The sky is falling!
That's why Zhang Fang cried so sadly, because losing her job was like losing her backbone. Now she couldn't see the future clearly, and she didn't know what the future would be like, or there might even be no future at all.
In his previous life, Bai Qing, a young boy who didn't know what it was like to feel sad, couldn't understand the despair and hardship of his parents at that time. He only knew that his life was suddenly tight. He was at the age where he loved beauty and dressing up, but he couldn't afford it.
He couldn't afford good shoes with good clothes, so he could only look at his well-dressed classmates with envy and feel sad in his heart. He even complained that his parents were incompetent and could not give him a wealthy family environment, which gradually made him feel inferior.
It was not until he grew up and entered society that he gradually understood the difficulties faced by his parents and became more and more grateful to them.
But, after being reborn, will I have to go through the difficult and shabby life of my youth again...
When Bai Qing was in a daze, the originally closed door of his parents' bedroom opened at this moment, and then Zhang Fang's figure appeared in Bai Qing's field of vision.
Probably they also felt that their son was coming back soon, so they didn't want to expose their weak side in front of him.
Parents are all human beings, and they also have sad times. But in order to establish an omnipotent side in the minds of their children and keep out the pressure, they can only swallow the pain in their stomachs and have to
Smile in front of your children and act as if nothing has happened. Only when your back is turned to your children can you lick your wounds and cry silently.
I pity all the parents in the world.
"If you have anything to do, let's talk about it tonight, don't let Xiaoqing see it..."
Zhang Fang's words stopped abruptly after she saw Bai Qing. Obviously she did not expect that her son had returned home, and she had not even had time to wipe away the tears hanging from the corners of her eyes. Looking at Bai Qing in a daze, her expression couldn't help but reveal
A moment of panic.
After all, women are all born actors. After experiencing the initial accident, Zhang Fang quickly returned to normal. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes calmly, showed a smile, and spoke to Bai Qing in an understatement.
He laughed and scolded: "You kid, why are you acting like a ghost? There is no movement at all when you come home..."
Bai Qing was simply amazed by this skill in changing his face.
If Bai Qing, who now has an adult's mind, wasn't so careless, he might have let Zhang Fang hide it.
Bai Qing opened his mouth, but in the end no question came out. Bai Qing was silent for two seconds, and a bright smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Hey, I didn't eat much at noon, and now I'm a little hungry!"
Feeling her son's bright and energetic smile, Zhang Fang couldn't help but feel absent-minded for a moment. Her depressed mood suddenly improved a lot. She suddenly remembered that she had only been sad since she came back, and she hadn't bothered to cook yet.
, hurriedly pouted at Bai Qing as if to cover up: "The meal is not done yet, you go wash your hands and do your homework first, I will call you later~"
"Hey, okay!" Bai Qing naturally wouldn't touch Zhang Fang's brow at this time, and quickly ran to the faucet to wash his hands. At the same time, he was filled with emotion. Although his mother is already in her forties, she still has
Compared to twenty years later, he is really young.
"Dad, are you back too?" After washing his hands, Bai Qing was about to go back to the room. He happened to meet Bai Yuejin who came out of the bedroom. Although he already knew that he was at home, Bai Qing still acted surprised.
He came to say hello to him, and then slipped directly into his room without waiting for Bai Yuejin to say anything.
I haven't adjusted my mentality from that of an old man in his thirties. If I accidentally choke when talking to my dad, my dad is now in his prime. How can he tolerate it at home?
If you talk back, you probably won't be able to escape a beating, so you'd better hide away.
Seeing his son's slippery look, Bai Yuejin was about to speak, but thinking about his wife's troubles, he finally didn't speak again and just shook his head and walked towards the kitchen.
He carefully closed the door, then slipped to the desk and sat down. He took out books from his schoolbag and placed them on the table, pretending to be doing homework. The childish look that Bai Qing had just deliberately displayed on his face was just that.
He calmed down and put on a solemn look.
No one knows better than him who was reborn how serious the impact Zhang Fang's layoff had on the family. After all, he had already experienced it in his previous life. After Zhang Fang was laid off, he was soon deceived by an acquaintance, almost letting him suffer.
The family fell into the abyss. In order to make a living, she changed many jobs. In the end, the couple
They opened a small shop together, but both of them were kind and honest people, and could not do the deception and deception. Although they won a good reputation, the business could only make ends meet. Until Bai Qing could make a living on his own, plus two more
Kouzi applied for early retirement, which ended the family's decade-long state of poverty.
However, ten years of poverty not only made them age prematurely, but also made Bai Qing subtly become a little cowardly due to his inferiority complex at his strongest age, which did not get better until he was 30 years old.
In his previous life, he was ignorant and could only passively accept all this. Now that he is reborn, will he have to do it all over again? Those missed youth, those painful distances, those humble forbearances, these memories like scars, Bai Qing really
I don't want to experience it again.
He felt that he had to do something for this family. He did not expect to be rich and wealthy. At least, he did not let his parents experience despair again, and he did not let his youth have so many regrets.
Bai Qing secretly swore in his heart.
In this case, we need to find a way to get Zhang Fang out of the shadow of being laid off as soon as possible.
In fact, in the eyes of Bai Qing, a reborn person, although the current domestic experience is a depression, there are also opportunities and wealth everywhere in this economic ruins, which will give birth to more prosperous towering trees.
, just confirms that idiom.
Chapter completed!