Li Yuan recalled the first half of his mother's tragic life, and unconsciously walked to the vegetable market.

The vegetable market is in the center of the four sections, about the size of half a football field, and in the center of the field is an open greenhouse made of cement pillars and asbestos tiles, and there are rows of half-person-high cement platforms in the greenhouse, which are the stalls.

A large supermarket would later be built here, and the current wet market is primitive and rudimentary in comparison.

Although the stalls are simple, there are many kinds of vegetables and fruits, and there are four or five that sell meat.

Most of the vegetable sellers are farmers in the countryside around Yingzhou, and they are dressed very Yingzhou characteristics, such as fat black trousers with white socks tied into white socks, as if they can become Michael Jackson by wearing them like this.

These people look stupid, but they are actually very sophisticated, and they know that the oil people are rich.

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The oil people are really rich at this time, and they are willing to spend money.

Since last year, the four departments have ushered in a wave of layoffs. The units under the four ministries together originally had tens of thousands of employees, but when the tide receded, less than one-third remained.

With so many people, it is naturally impossible to lay them off, so in order to avoid causing social turmoil, they used the method of buying out their seniority.

What is buyout seniority?

Buyout of seniority refers to a form in which the enterprise pays a certain amount of money to the employee in a lump sum according to the employee's working years, salary level, job position and other conditions, so as to terminate the labor relationship between the enterprise and the surplus employee and push the employee to the society.

To put it bluntly, it is to give you a loose fee, where to go cool.

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Unlike other small enterprises, although oil companies have lost money in recent years, after all, they have a thick foundation and are quite generous in their casual fees.

This made many people's pockets bulge all at once.

Suddenly I have a lot of money and time, and all I can do is eat, drink and have fun.

In this era when the pressure of life is not too great, the oilfield workers who are accustomed to comfort lack a sense of worry, and they are dreaming of returning to work while spending money lavishly, and they are not living comfortably.

Of course, not everyone is sitting on the throne, and after smart people get the money, they start looking for a way out.

So a row of bungalows was built on the east side of the wet market, and barber shops, small shops, bookstores that rented DVDs, novels and comics, Internet cafes, billiard halls, etc., sprung up like mushrooms.

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Pang Tao's father is a smart man.

Pang Tao's father's name is Pang Jianguo, 93 years ago was a boiler worker in the bathhouse of the unit, and later every household installed a water heater, the bathhouse was closed, and then transferred to the plumbing boiler, at the end of last year, the staff was laid off, the plumbing was seriously overstaffed, he took the initiative to apply for layoff, and took the money to buy out the seniority to open a non-staple food store in the vegetable market.

It is said that it is a non-staple food store, and it sells everything from oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tobacco, alcohol, sugar, tea, hardware, miscellaneous goods, and daily necessities.

Around 98 years ago, the four people usually went to the department store next to the hospital to buy things, but there were not many things there, and they were all placed behind the glass counter.

In contrast, Pang Kee Grocery Store not only has a complete range of goods and warm service, but also sells goods in a fresh way. The shelves are all open, the goods are picked up, and the payment is made at the door, which is no different from the convenience supermarkets of later generations.

Later, Li Yuan got acquainted with Pang Tao and his father, and asked why he thought of doing this, and his father replied: The store is small, and the glass counter can't be opened, and he can't afford to hire so many salesmen, so he has to put it on the shelf for customers to take it themselves.

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Li Yuan walked into Pang Kee's grocery store, found Pang Tao helping in the store, and said hello to him, so he came over with a fart, glanced at the wine bottle in Li Yuan's hand, and asked, "Vinegar?"

Look at the eyesight.

Li Yuan thought to himself that everyone's success was justified, and it was no fluke that Pangjia Supermarket later became the largest private supermarket chain in Bozhou.

He said that Pang Tao would become a millionaire in the future, or took care of the fragile imagination of Mr. Wu and his classmates, and that Pang Tao would be a real billionaire in the future.

Looking at Pang Tao's concentration on pouring vinegar, Li Yuan's heart was full of shame, he had lived for more than 30 years, and he was not as good as a junior high school student, and thoughts such as buying lottery tickets and getting rich overnight completely disappeared.

If you want to succeed, you must be down-to-earth.

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Taking the vinegar bottle handed by Pang Tao, Li Yuan said seriously: "Thank you." ”

Pang Tao grinned and said, "It's all classmates, what's polite with me!"

Li Yuanxin said that this is not polite, but thank you for teaching me a valuable lesson.

Li Yuan glanced at Pang Tao deeply and asked, "By the way, do you have kitchen knives for sale?"

"What are you buying kitchen knives for?" Pang Tao was a little nervous.

In the past two years, there have been frequent violence in the school, and every three or two months, some students have been injured and disabled because of fights, and in the second year of junior high school, there are two students in their class alone, and Li Yuan wants to buy a knife, so he can't help but be nervous.

"The handle of the kitchen knife at home was broken, and I didn't have time to repair it, so my mother asked me to buy one first. ”

"Oh, yes, you wait a minute. Pang Tao breathed a sigh of relief.

There were few people who bought kitchen knives, and they were all piled up in the small grocery room at the back of the small store, Pang Tao got in, and after a while, he asked, "Do you want to cut vegetables or chop meat?"

"Chopping vegetables. ”

After a while, Pang Tao walked out with a kitchen knife.

"Let's see, okay?"

Li Yuan took it, checked it in his hand, the weight was not heavy, and the handle of the knife was strong, and asked, "How much is it in total?"

"Seven dollars for a kitchen knife, and the vinegar won't charge you. ”

Li Yuan glanced at the mouth paper on the handle of the knife, and the words ten yuan were written on it.

"Not in accordance with the rules. ”

Li Yuan took out eleven yuan and handed it to Pang Tao. It is people's business to make more money and less money in business, and he can't take advantage of it.

Pang Tao insisted on refusing to accept it, and the two of you pushed me to refuse, and led Pang Tao and his father over.

"Your classmates?"

"Classmate, Li Yuan, we have a good relationship. ”

Pang Tao explained briefly, and Pang Jianguo rewarded him with a shock: "If you have a good relationship, you can still collect money from others!"

As he spoke, he turned to Li Yuan: "You take the money back." ”

"That's not going to work. Li Yuan insisted: "Friends belong to friends, business belongs to business, if Uncle Pang doesn't take my money, I will never come again in the future." ”

said that he stuffed ten yuan to Pang Jianguo, "Otherwise, the knife is still ten yuan, and I won't give the vinegar money." ”

Li Yuan's words made Pang Jianguo's eyes light up, he patted Li Yuan's shoulder with a smile, and said to Pang Tao: "Your classmate can talk and be angry with me, so please have a meal at home one day." ”

He said to Li Yuan again: "Taozi mentioned you to me, you have good grades, you usually help him more, come over if you want to eat snacks, if you don't have it, uncle, go out and buy it for you." ”

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Uncle, don't worry, Pang Tao's study is wrapped up in me, I take your words seriously, one day I am greedy, I am really not polite to you." ”

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After Li Yuan left, taking advantage of the fact that there were no customers in the store, Pang Jianguo asked his son: "I remember you told me that there is a person named Li Yuan in the class, who is always bullied, is he?"

Pang Tao nodded.

Pang Jianguo slapped Pang Tao on the head: "Make up nonsense to fool you Lao Tzu, what kind of classmate of yours looks like being bullied?"

Pang Tao was a little aggrieved and said, "He wasn't like this before. This afternoon, the teacher asked us to choose a class committee ......"

After listening to his son's story about what happened in school, Pang Jianguo smashed his mouth, looked at Pang Tao suspiciously, and asked, "Didn't fool me this time?"

Pang Tao couldn't cry or laugh: "I haven't fooled you any time." ”

Pang Jianguo thought for a while and said, "Your classmate is not simple, he is Liwei." If you want me to say, he used to be timid and scared, and he probably pretended to be it. In this way, go back and wait for your aunt to come back from his hometown, find a day to ask him to go to the house for a meal, and make a good relationship in advance, maybe one day he can use the ......"

Pang Jianguo said, thinking in his heart that he was so scheming at a young age, and his parents must be leaders. With Pang Tao's brain, there is no hope of going to university, and now that he is being laid off, he is making such a fierce scene, and if he wants to find a good job in the future, he must find help from these heads.

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Pang Jianguo is pondering Li Yuan, and Li Yuan is also pondering him.

He knew the changes in the hearts of laid-off workers, and knew that what they were worried about now was not that they had no jobs, but that they had money to spend, and they were ready to ask their mother to open a store.

To open a store, it involves many issues such as handling various procedures and renting a house, and it is indispensable to ask Pang Jianguo for help.

It's not difficult, I usually have a good relationship with Pang Tao and help him pull up his grades, and it's done.

The difficulty now is where the money to open the store will come from.

Li Yuan knew that his mother still had a sum of money in her hand, but it was not much, and he didn't want to fight her idea of this money, otherwise what was the difference from her previous life?

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Li Xiulan is the technical backbone of the factory, and she didn't have to be laid off, so she chose this path in order to repay her debts.

Over the years, she was exhausted by her husband's debts.

It took several years to save money, and at the beginning of the year, there were still 60,000 or 70,000 yuan in debt, and the creditor urged her every day, and even went to her work unit to make trouble.

The hole was filled, and the dark clouds that had been pressing on her heart for many years finally dispersed, and the smile on Li Xiulan's face increased, and in order to celebrate the arrival of a new life, she specially bought a new TV set from Yingzhou.

She rode back the TV, and she was reluctant to charge money for delivery in the mall.

Over the years, Li Xiulan has been a mother and a father at the same time, doing laundry and cooking, buying rice and noodles, changing liquefied gas tanks, and doing all the work.

Such a strong woman finally ushered in the dawn of life, but was ruthlessly pulled into the abyss.

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Li Xiulan's layoff was hidden from Li Zhenhai, but in a place with a big slap in the four departments, it is not difficult to know if there is something going on in someone's family.

Li Zhenhai knew that the debt owed was over, and he swaggered home.

Li Xiulan talked with him all night and persuaded him to live a good life from now on, but he didn't listen to him at all, but instead came up with the idea of the rest of the money.

Li Xiulan refused to give him any more money, he rummaged through the cabinets and didn't find it, so he took advantage of her to go out and sell the newly bought TV.

Li Xiulan went home and found that the TV was gone, and chased Li Zhenhai to the place where he was playing cards and questioned him, not only was he not ashamed, but beat her up.

This incident hit Li Xiulan very hard, she couldn't bear it anymore and chose to commit suicide by drinking medicine. However, in the end, she couldn't let go of her son, struggled to open the door and called for help, and was taken to the hospital by a neighbor.

The man was saved, but he was injured.

In her sophomore year, Li Xiulan went to Li Yuan's school to see him, and she didn't say hello in advance, she found someone downstairs and asked if she knew Li Yuan, Li Yuan's roommate happened to meet him, and shouted upstairs: "Li Yuan, your grandma has come to see you!"

went upstairs and saw Li Yuan's roommate, and his mother said that she was Li Yuan's grandmother.

Probably because I was afraid that I would lose face in front of my classmates.

That time, Li Yuan endured it from beginning to end without speaking, thinking about it carefully, he was really an unfilial son.

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Some people will not think that they are wrong until the day when everything is irreparable.

Or they know they are wrong, but they don't repent.

Li Yuan may have caused more harm to his mother than his father.

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If he is not reborn, he will leave Yingzhou next year and go to Renxian to study in high school.

Li Yuan remembered that except for the winter and summer vacations, he never returned home for three years of high school. Whether it's escaping or being cold-blooded, he doesn't want to go back to that home, even if he still has a mother at home.

Li Xiulan works in a private company in Yingzhou, and she only has two days off a month, and whenever she has a holiday, she will go to Ren County to see him.

Li Yuan later had a rebellious temperament and didn't want Li Xiulan to see him, so he said a lot of ugly things.

"Don't you always come in the future...... You will not mind my business in the future...... If it weren't for the fact that you didn't divorce him back then, how would our family be what it is now......"

Cold-blooded words, but in exchange for warm advice.

"Be sure to eat on time...... Remember to wear more clothes when it's cold...... When you're tired of studying, you can relax and don't be too playful......"

In retrospect, behind my mother's smile, there must have been a stabbed and bloody heart.

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Mother and father eventually divorced, but they separated and reconciled, and lived together until death.

After Li Yuan went to high school, he didn't know much about what happened at home, only that Li Zhenhai finally stopped gambling and found a job as a gatekeeper in a factory.

Li Yuan never forgave him, his wings hardened, and he no longer lowered his voice in the face of the man who was originally afraid, and even once the two had a quarrel, Li Yuan kicked him to the ground, beat him hard, and walked away.

Li Yuan became more and more rebellious, learned to smoke and drink, learned to fight, and in his words, he was venting the resentment that had accumulated over the years.

He began to fall in love, and in order to show that he was different from his father, he was very kind to women and was very willing to spend money.

But he was only a high school student and had no financial resources, so he began to frequently ask his family for money.

He didn't want to deal with his father, he only asked his mother for money, but his mother didn't give it to him, so he complained about all kinds of things back then, tearing open her healing wounds again and again.

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After that, Li Yuan didn't want to think about it, he squandered his mother's love again and again but was obsessed with it, he made mistakes again and again, and finally he didn't succeed, ending his life.

In the previous life, he did not fulfill his filial piety, and did not repent until his mother died, since God gave him the opportunity to reform himself, he will firmly grasp it, cherish it, and love her with all his might, without regrets.