In the aisle of the obstetrics department of the People's Hospital.

Qin's father, Qin's mother, Xuemei's mother and grandmother, Qin Fan's grandmother, and her sister Qin Ying are all waiting anxiously.

When the baby's cry of "wow" sounded in the delivery room, everyone with a nervous expression stared at the door of the delivery room, and finally the young nurse went out and shouted: "Zhao Xuemei's family, the mother and son are safe, it is a boy, six pounds and seven taels." ”

Xuemei's mother smiled and said, "Okay, it's okay now." ”

Qin's mother also said happily: "The boy is good." ”

Only Xuemei's grandmother wiped her tears and sighed: "Alas, it's hard for my baby." ”

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After Xuemei, who was slightly tired, was pushed out, she saw Qin Fan and beckoned to him: "Give me the phone." Qin Fan, who handed over the phone, didn't know who she wanted to report the good news to.

"I gave birth to a son!" After Xuemei finished calmly, without waiting for the other party to speak, as soon as she raised her hand, the small black mobile phone hit the white wall after drawing an arc, and then divided into two sections on the terrazzo floor, and the "popping" sound made the people present surprised.

Only Qin Fan, who understood what was going on, smiled bitterly, and had to comfort: "Meimei, you have a good rest, but you must not be angry......

Xuemei, who had just closed her eyes, opened her eyes again when she heard this, looked at Qin Fan's delicate face and smiled, "No, I'm angry." After that, he ignored it.

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"Sister, he's so ugly" Ruo Ling stared intently at the baby who was still a little wrinkled in the swaddling clothes, and couldn't help but say to her sister Ruoxin.

"Hehe, you were as ugly as him when you first came out. Ruoxin grinned.

"No, my dad said that when I was born, I was as beautiful as an angel. Ruo Ling rarely said so thoroughly, but the face of the little face became depressed.

"I've seen you when you were a kid, just like him. Ruoxin insisted.

Ruo Ling pursed her mouth, wiped her tears, ran to the living room and threw herself into Qin Fan's arms, crying with tears in her eyes: "My sister said that I am like an ugly monster... Woo..."

Qin Fan put down the newspaper, picked up Ruo Ling, and asked confusedly, "Why do you say that?" You and your sister are both father's little angels, and your sister is joking with you." ”

Ruoxin then ran in and shouted, "I mean, she was born like a little brother." ”

"No, no, no. Ruo Ling put his arm around his father's neck and kept retorting.

Qin Fan smiled and hugged Ruoxin in his arms, kissed one of them and said, "You are both Dad's beautiful little babies." ”

Ruoxin's small mouth said as if it was smeared with honey: "Dad, you are our big baby." ”

The father and daughter laughed and laughed, but when the cry of "Wow, Wow, Wow" sounded in the back room, Xuemei's scolding also flew out: "I want to go out and make trouble!"

Hearing the sound, Qin's mother, who came out of the bedroom, waved her hand at Qin Fan and Ruoxin Ruoling, and motioned for him to take her daughter out to hide first.

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In the compound, a group of children in the courtyard were in a circle, playing a game of throwing handkerchiefs, and Ruoxin and Ruoling also joined in with great interest.

"Why did you get out again?" Tang Yue, who came when she had nothing to do, sneered gloatingly, and the incident of Xuemei smashing her mobile phone that day also reached her ears.

"You deserve it!" Without waiting for Qin Fan to reply, Tang Yue said happily.

"Okay, don't make any more trouble, prepare to go back to Shanghai in the next few days. Qin Fan said dissatisfiedly.

"Can you leave?" Tang Yue asked.

"You go back first, and it's very urging over there. Qin Fan said helplessly.

"I don't, I'll wait for you to come along. Tang Yue replied regardless of it. Qin Fan looked at her as if he was smiling, with a naughty look on his face, he couldn't figure out what she was thinking in her heart, and said that the girl's mind was difficult to guess, but she didn't know her own situation.

The two were silent for a while, and then they saw Ruo Ling running towards them with tears in her eyes. Tang Yue squatted down and hugged her and asked, "What's wrong with Ruoling, who bullied you?"

Ruo Ling only cared about sobbing, and Ruo Xin ran and said, "She can't outrun others, and she is often caught." ”

After coaxing for a while, Ruoling happily followed her sister to play with the children.

"Aren't you annoyed?" Tang Yue asked with a smile leaning against the plane tree in the middle of the courtyard.

"What's so annoying about growing up with the kids. Qin Fan replied in surprise.

Tang Yue smiled and asked, "Meimei hasn't passed the postpartum depression period yet?"

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Xuemei, who exudes motherhood, looks at her son with love, since giving birth to a son, it seems that she has completed the great cause of her heart, and the whole person seems to have collapsed, and she can't lift her spirit for anything except her son.

After having a son, Xuemei obviously felt that the family members on both sides were amiable to her, and even the neighbors in the compound did not have the ridicule of the past, they were all saying that the old Qin family was blessed, and the children were both complete, although she was fined 50,000 yuan by the neighborhood committee and the family planning station in order to give birth to a son, but Xuemei also felt that it was worth it.

"Look, my son is smiling at me. Xuemei said without looking enough. Qin Fan hugged her and looked at her smiling son in surprise.

Since returning home from the hospital, she said to who she was saying at the time, "I gave birth to a son." Qin Fan never asked, and Xuemei never said who she called him every day.

During the confinement period, Qin's mother was busy enough, but she was also very busy, and the agreement with Qin Fan had long been forgotten, and whenever Qin Fan persuaded her mother to take it easy, Qin's mother always pulled him aside.

Sister Qin Ying is still fighting with Qin's father for her boyfriend, and Qin's father never smiles on his face every time he sees Qin Ying and her boyfriend together.

Although Fei Fei is in charge of the things in the store, Xuemei is still not at ease, and the daily inspection falls on Qin Fan, coupled with Ruoxin's daily pick-up and drop-off, and Ruoling's escort, Qin Fan is a little unbearable.

The phone calls from Shanghai basically came back every two days, and although Tang Yue said that he had to wait for him, in the end, he went back to Shanghai in advance under his persuasion.

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"I can't stand it. Xuemei teased.

"What can't stand it?" Qin Fan asked knowingly.

"Taking the children to do housework, trivial things, can you stand it?" Xue Mei shook her head.

"Isn't life like this? firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, wife and children hot kang. Qin Fan said with a smile.

"When the baby grows up, you can take me out to play. Xuemei asked, Qin Fan was stunned for a moment, and then his nose was sore, the two have been together for seven or eight years, and he has not taken her out to play, and he is busy all day long and I don't know why.

Qin Fan hugged Xuemei and said softly: "Okay, when the baby grows up, we will go out as a family, and we will go wherever you want." ”

"Yes, our whole family ......," Xuemei muttered as she leaned her head on his shoulder.

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A large group of people on the street have put up banners, the banners are written "return my work, return my life" eight big characters, mainly a group of 50s and even many 60 or 70 old people, many of them are wearing work clothes, the clothes are printed with Gao'an Knitting Factory, and some clothes are printed with Chaoyang Pharmaceutical Factory.

People help the old and the young to walk on the potholed road, and from time to time some people are helped aside to drink water and rest, and people continue to join.

"Dad, what are these uncles, aunts and grandparents doing?" asked Ruoxin, who was carrying a schoolbag and was about to go to kindergarten, curiously.

"They can't pay their wages because of the poor performance of the unit. Qin Fan didn't know how to explain to her.

"Why can't they be paid?Is it because they don't work well?" asked Ruoxin.

"Uh... You're still young, and you'll understand when you're older. Qin Fan prevaricated.

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"We're going to work!"

"We want wages!"

"We want to live!"

"We're going to see a doctor!"

"The kids want to go to school!"

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The gathered crowd shouted slogans from time to time, and more and more queues filled the entire road, and some were squeezed onto the sidewalks on both sides.

"Dad, don't they have no money if they don't work? If they don't have money, they'll go hungry, right?" Ruoxin asked persistently.

"Yes, if you don't have a job, you don't have money, and if you don't have money, you're hungry. Qin Fan replied perfunctorily.

"Then Dad, do you have a job?" Ruoxin asked after thinking for a while.

"Dad has a job, why does the baby ask that?" Qin Fan replied with a smile.

"If you have a job, why don't you go to work? If you don't go to work, you won't have money, and if you don't have money, your baby will go hungry." The sight seemed to scare her.

Sent to the kindergarten, Qin Fan saw that some children showed confused and panicked expressions on their faces, and the parents who sent the children were also discussing at the gate of the kindergarten.

Qin Fan didn't expect the wave of layoffs to spread to the small city of Gao'an so quickly, and on the way home, he saw a large number of policemen maintaining order on both sides.

Vehicles on the main roads were also blocked, and school-going students carefully pushed their bicycles to avoid the procession.

Qin Fan stood on the side of the road to see if there were any acquaintances he knew, he couldn't figure out that there were only a few small factories in Gao'an City, and "some people" couldn't wait to get rid of the unprofitable local small and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, and get rid of a large number of middle-aged employees who ate big pots of rice in these enterprises.

There are no labor laws, no trade unions, no lawyers, and SOE employees are kicked out like dogs at extremely low cost.

If the American PE capitalists were given the right to do so, they would be so happy that they would not be able to close their mouths.

In the eyes of later generations, the government promoted the reform of state-owned enterprises and the layoff of workers in order to transform the planned economy into a market economy. To put it bluntly, it is to get rid of the burden and go into battle easily.

Enterprises run the society, but they have become state-owned enterprises and the separation of society, and all the burdens borne by enterprises such as water, electricity, gas, housing, and medical care have been thrown on the individual employees.

Medical care, housing, children's education, employment, etc. will be the heaviest burden on the heads of residents in the future, but as long as the requirements for enterprise employees at this time are not too high, the pressure will not be too great, because most of these are borne by enterprises.

In such a stable environment, it is easy for people to lose their sense of crisis. There are people who have been in the class for more than 20 years, and everything is going on in an orderly manner day after day, year after year, and what these people don't know is that the outside world is constantly changing!

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"What's going on outside, what's the fuss?" asked Xuemei, who was holding the child, strangely.