Zhang Liushun ushered in the first Spring Festival after being released from prison.

In his eyes, this old New Year is very different from when he was in prison.

Although the streets were still the same dilapidated streets he had seen a few years ago, and the houses were still dirty bungalows and tube buildings covered with smoke and dust, he could always sense a spirit that he had never had before, and as a poor person who had passed through the ups and downs of the old society, he knew that the spirit was brought about by the increasing affluence of life after the earth-shaking changes in society.

Look at the streets!

Small restaurants, small shops, clothing stores, these private economic behaviors that were regarded as flood beasts in the past have long been embraced on the streets, and the small vendors selling along the streets are like ants walking through the streets and alleys, I don't know when there are more and more people wearing flowers and greenery, and the streets are full of fashionable foreign gadgets, eating, wearing, using, playing, dazzling, as long as you have money, it seems that all material needs can become the reality of your life.

When he first came out, Zhang Laohan wondered for a while about the changes in this society, wondering if people now don't need cloth stamps for food and clothing? When he asked, he learned that when he was still in prison last April, the cloth stamps and food stamps that had accompanied him for more than 40 years had been cancelled by the state, symbolizing the end of the "ticket era" in which the Chinese people were poor and the people were poor.

You must know that in his old era, tickets were the lifeblood of life, and it was difficult to move an inch without tickets, such as meal tickets for meals, cloth tickets for dressing, meat tickets for satisfying cravings, and oil tickets, sugar tickets, cigarette tickets, bath tickets, soap tickets, cotton tickets, and bicycle tickets...... For ordinary people, tickets are as precious as "second currency", but now, he wants to eat a fish, or knock a handful of melon seeds and peanuts, and no longer need to wait until the Spring Festival comes, as long as the purse in his trouser pocket is thick enough, flying in the sky and swimming in the sea, there is nothing to eat.

The speed of transformation in this era is really fast!

It seems that in silence, those gray monotonous dead old things and the old society have been abandoned by this new era, and then the people cheer and jump, recasting the new hope of life on the ruins, and accepting the new trendy and straightforward foreign ideas.

As for his family, the changes are even greater, at least the change, no less food and lack of clothing, in the past during the Chinese New Year, it is not easy to weigh some pork dumplings, the children are always wearing patches of tattered clothes, now what? chicken, duck and fish have everything, the children are expensive and scary, the electrical appliances and furniture at home are high-end foreign goods that he can't name, and the life of the family is rich and beautiful, prosperous and harmonious.

For Zhang Laohan, the life in front of him is really as incredible as a dream.

In the eyes of the retired old people in the community where he lives, he is also a happy and carefree old man, with fine clothes and food, and his life is very leisurely. What's more, his son is a rich man who drives a million-dollar car!

Zhang Laohan has never been so decent in his life.

Walking in the community, the neighbors he knew smiled politely at him, greeted him cordially, and even stammered him, and flattered him. If he came to the community gossiping among the old men and women, of course he would become a central figure.

However, he also has his unspeakable suffering.

People are always contradictory. When you are busy, you will feel that life is heavy, and when you are free, you will live a depressed life.

Under the leadership of Lao Sanyunqi, the old Zhang family has created a big or small career of their own, the boss Yunfeng is riddled with everything, walking with the wind, either planning to open a new store, or falling in love with Guorui's old Xiaonan.

The old three clouds are rising, so it goes without saying that they are busy all day long. This New Year alone, he stayed at home and visited relatives and friends on Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. In the second year of junior high school, as soon as her daughter Zhang Qiulan and son-in-law Niu Fen came, the three of them pulled a cart of work.

In the third year of junior high school, he was no longer there.

He heard his wife say that the canning factory was going to start on the eighth day of the first month, and there were a lot of affairs to make up his mind, and he had to work overtime with the employees of the production department of the canning factory to develop new canned food. This boss is not easy to be, he is young, he is still studying, his body has not yet developed, he has no work in the dark, he always drags his tired body home in the middle of the night, pulls some hot cold rice and cold dishes, pours it on the bed, and the next day when he polishes it, he disappears again.

Of course, Zhang Laohan is not complaining about his son, Yunfeng Yunqi These two brothers, can run from their poor and remote mountains to the city, and lay down such a remarkable career with their bare hands, he, a father who only eats rice, is full of pride and pride, just looking at his two sons so busy, he can't help anything, he is bored all day long, and there is something wrong with his heart.

As for Chunlan and Xiaoxiao, these two female dolls are swimming in their youthful years, how can they have the leisure to accompany him, a half-aged old man, every day. Even his wife, who has been running the fishmeal shop for a long time, has heard others call her boss all day long, and now she gradually has the style of a female capitalist, who is in charge of everything in the family, and is busy managing the affairs of the opening of the Zhangji fishmeal shop in the first middle school of the city.

Usually he stays idle at home alone, don't do anything, his daily task is to eat, drink, sleep and take care of his body, but he lives really lonely, he is only in his early fifties, at this age, the pampered family is far from retired, he is a mud leg who is used to staying in the countryside, and he really can't stand such a blessing.

If he was in Yunxi Village, he would be full of acquaintances as long as he carried his head and walked to the fields, but now that he was stranded in the city, he felt like he was locked in a cage made of reinforced concrete. He didn't know any of the people on the street, and most of the old men and old ladies in the community were retired cultural people, and they spoke with a strange smell, and they were really awkward and uncomfortable in conversation, unlike in Yunxi Village, where after he finished working on the crops, he sat on the ridge with those old men who couldn't read big characters, lit a dry tobacco stick, spit and splashed stars, pointing to the sky and scolding the earth, very happy.

Now only Chu Dapeng spits on him.

This newly-met old boy is a little slippery, but it's very interesting.

Chu Dapeng also knew his distress, but he always laughed at him, an old man, who didn't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings, and said: "Isn't it easy for you to do some work?

In fact, Zhang Laohan didn't think about this, but after thinking about it carefully, he dispelled this idea.

The third child in the family is so young, it is not easy to break into this career, and he does not want to get involved and cause trouble. Of course, it may not be a problem for the third child to arrange a position for him, but how to arrange this position is a headache! If it is high, he is a farmer who does not have that ability; if it is low, such as a guard and so on, let alone lose the face of the third child, the leader in charge of affairs above is also difficult to behave, how dare they command the boss's own father? Everyone is not embarrassed or embarrassed to look back, and he is not a white idler, and he is not without that mouthful of food, so it is better to stay at home.

It's just like that, and the days go by.

After a few days of lively Spring Festival, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Lao San Yunqi and his son-in-law Niu Fen talked about things at home, and it was rare that they didn't go out.

At first, Zhang Laohan, who was sitting in front of the TV watching "Desire", didn't pay much attention to it, until later, when he heard his son-in-law say that the planting cooperative that Yunqi had run in Yunxi Village was about to hold a general meeting to elect the chairman and vice chairman, an idea suddenly popped up in his mind.

Yunqi engaged in this joint-stock crop planting cooperative, Zhang Laohan heard from his wife a few days ago, when he patronized and sighed that the third child's method is good, so that the people in their village can make an extra lot of money on the basis of the crops of previous years. Not to mention anything else, if this project can really be implemented, the bitter haha people in their village will at least have enough to eat in the future.

Now, Zhang Laohan suddenly thought on a whim, can he also join the cooperative in the village and work together?

Anyway, isn't this planting cooperative just planting crops, he is not good at anything else, he is good at it! And don't make any arrangements for him, during the Chinese New Year, the filial sons and daughters give him red envelopes worth several thousand yuan, and this savings is enough for him to become a shareholder of the cooperative.

Zhang Laohan's heart became hot.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this thing would work, that is, he supported the great cause of the third child, found a job for himself, and contributed to the development of the village.

But he didn't immediately consult with Yunqi, but thought about it repeatedly in his heart, and waited until his son-in-law Niu Fen had eaten lunch and left, and then pulled Lao San Yunqi to open the idea.

Who knows that after Yunqi listened, he was stunned for a while.