To the north of Tan Ling City is an industrial zone with more than 20 factories built since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Among them, the Nanjiang Diesel Engine Factory, which is close to Qinshan Lake www.biquge.info is the largest, with more than 2,000 workers, including their families, and 6,000 or 7,000 people, living in a few new villages on both sides of Qinshan Road.

At the beginning of the reform, state-owned enterprises were still the units with the highest status and income in society, and working as a worker in a state-owned enterprise was one of the most enviable occupations. However, within the same enterprise, the situation of each household is not the same, and the one that Feng Xiaochen brought Feng Lingyu to visit is one of the few difficult households in the family courtyard of the diesel engine factory.

"Sister, I'm here. ”

Knocking on the door, facing a girl who came to open the door, Feng Xiaochen called him affectionately.

The girl was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a slender figure, a delicate face, and a thick braid tied at the back of her head, which was easily reminiscent of the poem "Treat your long hair to your waist." She was wearing a blue cloth overalls from a diesel engine factory, the color was already a little white, but the pulp was clean, and she could vaguely smell the fragrance of the sun. When she first opened the door, she still had a bit of haze on her face, but when she saw Feng Xiaochen standing at the door, the haze immediately turned into a warm spring breeze. While she was busy inviting the two into the house, she asked in a loud voice:

"Xiaochen, why are you here, don't you have to go to work today? This is your brother, I want to think about it, is it called Feng Lingyu? I have seen him in your photo, but he was still young at that time......

"Ling Yu, this is Sister Chen, when I was in the Zhiqing Point, Sister Chen treated me better than my own sister. ”

Feng Xiaochen took Feng Lingyu into the door, sat down on the bamboo chair in the living room, and solemnly introduced his younger brother.

When Feng Xiaochen graduated from junior high school, he was not yet 14 years old, and according to the policy, he was directly arranged to be an educated youth in a place called Qingdong County in Nanjiang Province. His grandfather Feng Weiren was still a reactionary academic authority at that time, and he was under surveillance for labor, and his father Feng Li taught in the countryside and belonged to the stinky old nine who had no status, plus he was too young to beat others in a fight, so he belonged to the role of being bullied in the educated youth point.

The girl in front of him, named Chen Shuhan, was eight or nine years older than Feng Xiaochen, and she was considered an old qualification in the Zhiqing Point at that time. Because she and Feng Xiaochen are the only two people from the provincial capital Xinling, she regards the new Feng Xiaochen as her younger brother and takes care of him everywhere. When someone bullied Feng Xiaochen, Chen Shuhan would scare at the other party like a lioness protecting the chicks. Educated youths live in poverty, and Chen Shuhan often leaves the delicious things he brings from home to Feng Xiaochen to eat. When Feng Xiaochen first arrived in the countryside, he couldn't do any farm work, so Chen Shuhan taught him the same, and often helped him complete those tasks that could not be completed.

After the end of the movement, the educated youth point was revoked, millions of educated youths returned to the city, and Chen Shuhan and Feng Xiaochen returned to Xinling together. However, after coming back, the situation of the two was very different.

Due to Feng Weiren's implementation of the policy, the Feng family turned over all of a sudden, and Feng Li was transferred back to Xinling to work and entered the No. 2 Middle School, which was still somewhat famous. Feng Xiaochen also took advantage of his grandfather's light to enter the metallurgical hall, although he was only a temporary worker, he could be regarded as having a job.

Chen Shuhan is different. Her father died of illness the year before last, and the eldest brother replaced him in the factory, which was officially established. The temporary jobs arranged by the factory for the children of workers have also been occupied by the younger brother, and she came back late, and there is no place for her to use, so she can only stay at home indefinitely, like many other educated youths who have returned to the city.

The two younger brothers got married one after another, and in order to make up the popular "forty-eight-legged" furniture in society, some of the family's original savings were exhausted, and they also owed a lot of money to the mutual aid association in the factory. Both new families have a lot of infrastructure to do, and household appliances such as "three turns and one button" have not yet been completed, so it is impossible for the two younger brothers to pay their salaries to the family. As for repaying debts and supporting her sister, it can only fall on the shoulders of Chen Shuhan's mother alone.

A younger brother was about to arrive at the dormitory in the factory, and moved out with his brother-in-law. Another younger brother and sister-in-law occupied Chen Shuhan's original room at home, and Chen Shuhan could only live in one room with his mother Luo Xiulan. The little brother-in-law who lives at home is pregnant, and is thinking about handing over the child to the old man after birth, and is quite dissatisfied with the space occupied by the eldest sister-in-law living at home, and there are thorns in and out of the words, and she says that the eldest sister-in-law is not too young, and she has become an old girl, but it is really not good, find a divorced or dead wife man to marry out quickly, and save the eyes...... Ah no, it also saves my mother-in-law a piece of worry in her heart, doesn't it?

Feng Xiaochen had already heard that Chen Shuhan had an unforgettable emotional experience when he was a young man, and after that, she seemed to be sad and indifferent to many suitors, so she was still alone at this age. Feng Xiaochen is also very clear about the situation after Chen Shuhan returns to the city. Although he is not a motivated young man, he has a clear conscience, and he has always been grateful for this eldest sister who once took care of him like a sister or even a mother.

Now this Feng Xiaochen has inherited the body of the previous Feng Xiaochen, and also inherited some of his feelings. When he saw Chen Shuhan, Feng Xiaochen couldn't help but feel a burst of warmth. In the past, his ability was limited, and his self-protection was still insufficient, so how could he give Chen Shuhan any help. Now that he has been reborn and become a newcomer, before going to the capital, he decided to help his predecessor but had a wish.

"Xiaochen, why are you here? Aren't you working in the Metallurgical Hall? By the way, or ...... Well, I'm going to pour you some water to drink......"

Chen Shuhan instinctively wanted to say that he would invite the Feng brothers to eat at home, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back stiffly. Now she doesn't have any income, and she belongs to eating white food at home, so how can she be qualified to invite guests to dinner. If it was just her and her mother at home, she would barely be able to call the shots, but the little brother and daughter-in-law who had to compete would not tolerate her generous behavior, and if she saw the Feng brothers eating at home, she might drive them out with guns and sticks.

Feng Xiaochen has the experience of being a human being in two lifetimes, where can he not hear what Chen Shuhan did not say, and where can he not see the melancholy in Chen Shuhan's eyes. He waved his hand and said, "Sister, don't be busy, I brought Xiaoyu here today, I have something serious to talk to you about, so let's say it, I want to ask you to do me a favor." ”

"Help, how can I help you?" Chen Shuhan asked in surprise, and then sat down on the chair next to him, waiting for Feng Xiaochen to speak.

"I got a self-employed license and want Xiaoyu to open a small restaurant, sister, can you come and help?" Feng Xiaochen said bluntly.

If you want to be self-employed, you can't just get a face, you also need to apply for something called "self-employed license". Although the state has said that it will support the development of self-employed people, it still has reservations about the issuance of licenses, fearing that the blooming everywhere will bring unforeseen consequences. Luo Xiangfei invited Feng Xiaochen to work in the capital and asked him if he had any worries that he needed to help solve, and the only request Feng Xiaochen made was to ask Luo Xiangfei to help him get a self-employed license, so that his younger brother Feng Lingyu could legally start a business.

A license is of course very difficult for people who have no way, but for Luo Xiangfei, it is just a sentence. Feng Xiaochen persuaded his family with big reasons and small reasons, and then took Feng Li and Feng Lingyu to take the approval slip that Luo Xiangfei got from the Provincial Economic Commission, and went to the omnipotent "relevant unit" to get the self-employed license, and the matter of opening a store was officially launched.

According to Feng Xiaochen's plan, Feng Lingyu will first start from the catering industry and open a small restaurant as the foundation of the start, as for how to develop in the future, Feng Xiaochen did not tell his parents, but revealed a thing or two to his younger brother, saying that Feng Lingyu was enthusiastic and eager to start implementing it immediately.

At that time, the number of individual restaurants was still very small, and state-run restaurants had a notoriety of "difficult to enter, ugly face, and unpalatable", which made people respectful. Opening an individual restaurant, as long as the service attitude is good and the taste is acceptable, is basically a business that makes a lot of money without losing money.

Feng Li and He Xuezhen both have some common sense in life and know that opening a restaurant is a good deal. However, let Feng Lingyu give up the opportunity to replace himself in the Metallurgical Department and become a self-employed person full-time, this bold proposal was not approved by Feng Li and his wife. After a complex and fierce ideological struggle, the two finally accepted a compromise plan, that is, Feng Lingyu still went to the Metallurgical Hall as a temporary worker to open the store in the name of He Xuezhen, and Feng Lingyu used his spare time to manage and accumulate experience. If the policy is stable in the future, and the restaurant can really make money, then consider Feng Lingyu's resignation. As for the day-to-day operation of the restaurant, you need to hire someone else to take care of it.

This plan is different from Feng Xiaochen's original plan, but the deviation is not far away. In fact, Feng Xiaochen planned to introduce a partner from the beginning, because he knew that his younger brother Feng Lingyu could neither stir-fry nor cook, let alone have business experience, and at such a young age, he could not handle complex interpersonal relationships. His idea is that Feng Lingyu will be the chairman and chief financial officer, and then hire another person to be a professional manager, and this person in his mind is Chen Shuhan.

When he was in the educated youth, Feng Xiaochen knew that Chen Shuhan was proficient in cooking, and at the same time, he had the life experience he had trained as an educated youth, which was enough to do such a thing well. What's even more rare is that Chen Shuhan is kind-hearted and has a good character, and he is definitely a "Chinese partner" who is difficult to find with a lantern.

Feng Li and his wife are no strangers to the name Chen Shuhan, and know that she once took care of Feng Xiaochen and can be regarded as Feng Xiaochen's benefactor. From what Feng Xiaochen told in the past, Feng Li and his wife also had a very good impression of this girl. Feng Xiaochen accepted his parents' plan to let Feng Lingyu replace him as a temporary worker in the Metallurgical Hall, while taking care of the small restaurant, and proposed to ask Chen Shuhan to take charge of the daily life of the restaurant, which led to the visit of the Feng brothers.

Hearing Feng Xiaochen's words, Chen Shuhan was a little surprised for a while, and a little excited. In fact, she was already desperate for the work arrangement of the unit, and she really once moved the idea of opening a restaurant to support herself. But she didn't have the ability to get a license, let alone the means to raise start-up capital, so the idea was stillborn. At first glance, when she heard that her little brother, who was like a sibling, was going to open a restaurant and ask her to help, she didn't know what to say.