Chapter 1: Rebirth 1996
"Zhang Chen, wake up, get up quickly, sister-in-law and they will come in a while. ”
"Get up quickly! The sun is drying your buttocks, you can't afford it, and you're lazy to death every day!"
Zhang Chen opened his eyes in a daze and saw his mother waking him up again and again, and cleaning up his desk with a rag.
Wait, how did my family become like this!? And didn't I live alone for a long time, how could my mother show up? And how could my mother be so young? She looks like she's only in her early 40s.
Zhang Chen looked at the place he was in a daze, and was surprised to find that he was actually in the old house that he had moved out of 20 years ago.
The vague memory is constantly clear, yes, this is the home I used to live in junior high school 20 years ago.
Was he reborn? Or is it just a dream? I couldn't help but pinch my thigh hard, it hurt.
"You kid, what's the matter, you just got in bed for the New Year, and when you wake up, you get up quickly. Your sister-in-law and her family will be here in a moment. Su Wenjin couldn't help but be a little angry when he saw that his son was still stunned.
"Oh, good. Zhang Chen hurriedly put on his clothes as if he had just woken up from a dream, and looked at his mother while getting dressed.
The mother in my memory is in her 60s, and her head full of green silk has begun to have a lot of gray hair. And the mother in front of him, although she is middle-aged, still charming. It's just that due to the pressure of life and neglect of maintenance, there are a little crow's feet at the corners of the eyes, and the nasolabial folds on the side of the mouth are not so deep.
The windows of his room are pasted with red curtains every year, and the door of his room is pasted with the word Fu. It seems that it is still in the Chinese New Year period.
Yes, it is the mother and home in my memory.
"What are you looking at? Brush your teeth and wash your face. Su Wenjin was a little hairy when Zhang Chen looked at him.
"I didn't see anything, Mom, you're wearing a festive outfit today. Zhang Chen pretended to ask his mother casually while putting on his pants, "Mom, what time is it today?"
"Are you too confused? Yesterday was the first day of junior high school, isn't today the second day of junior high school, your sister-in-law is going to come to see your grandma in a while, you hurry up, other people's houses have arrived to see that you haven't gotten up yet, what has become of!?" Su Wenjin said to Zhang Chen angrily.
That's right, grandma.
Zhang Chen hurriedly got dressed and came to the living room, and saw that his grandmother was sitting on a small horse in the living room and peeling shrimp, and his heart was excited.
Zhang Chen's grandmother had been dead for almost ten years before Zhang Chen was reborn.
Since his parents originally worked in other places, he grew up with his grandmother and had a deep relationship with her. And among the grandchildren, because he is the eldest son and eldest grandson, plus they live together every day, they are also the most beloved by grandma. When his grandmother died, Zhang Chen was on a business trip, and due to the sudden death of his grandmother, Zhang Chen didn't even have time to come back to see his grandmother for the last time.
Seeing his grandmother bent over her waist and threw the peeled shrimp into the small bowl next to her, Zhang Chen felt that his nose was sore, and his tears seemed to be about to remain. His grandmother was already hunched over due to the hard work of her youth, and the joints of her hands were also distorted and deformed due to rheumatism.
"Grandma" Zhang Chen called out with a crying voice.
"What's wrong with Chenchen, why are you still crying. Grandma still looked at herself so kindly.
"It's okay, it's just that the eyelashes are in my eyes when I wake up in the morning. Zhang Chen hurriedly covered up and went into the bathroom next to the living room to wash his face.
Looking at the familiar, strange and simple bathroom, there is only a squatting toilet and a washbasin, and a sprinkler hanging on the wall, which is a simple solar water heater made by his uncle for his own home.
Looking at the young face in the mirror, there was only a ring of not-so-thick hairs on his lips and one or two pimples on his cheeks that were thriving. With a four-six partial hair style that was particularly popular at the time, he looked like a fool, without eye bags formed by staying up late, and no fine wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. Zhang Chen had mixed feelings.
Whether this is a dream or not, whether he will return to 2017 tomorrow, Zhang Chen doesn't know.
But now, there is no doubt that he is at home in 1996. The new wall calendar on the living room wall says it all.
This year, there is nothing special in Zhang Chen's life, this year he is 15 years old, in the second year of junior high school, and his academic performance is in the top ten of the class, not counting his best grades, nor the worst time.
This year, Zhang Chen's parents' unit was in a recession, both of them were suspended without pay, his mother worked as an accountant for a decoration company, and his father was forced to be helpless, although he was a senior engineer, he could only go to the wholesale market to wholesale some vegetables to sell in the free market.
It wasn't until 97 that my father's unit set up an engineering service company, and my father took the initiative to ask for a transfer, and the living conditions gradually improved.
Looking at himself in the mirror, Zhang Chen was both excited and apprehensive. Silently make up your mind, if this is really rebirth, not a dream, then God has given you another chance, a chance to change your life and destiny.
I'm sure I'll be able to grasp it!
Although Zhang Chen was not bad in the previous life, he joined a foreign company after graduating from university. After working for a few years, he also mixed up with the management, but because he didn't buy a house in the first place, by the time Zhang Chen's income could afford the down payment, the house price had already skyrocketed. Zhang Chen was also saddled with a huge loan.
As a house slave, it is too difficult to turn over.
Until the night before he was reborn, a colleague was laid off by the company, Zhang Chen and a few good colleagues held a farewell party for him, and after eating, he drank in the bar and got drunk. No one can see their own future, and no one knows if they will be the next to be laid off in the current economic situation.
Zhang Chen also drank a lot, returned to the house he bought and fell asleep, but when he woke up, he found that he had been reborn.
After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Zhang Chen silently made up his mind in his heart, and at this time, the doorbell rang and his sister-in-law's family arrived.
Zhang Chen hurriedly went over to open the door and took the New Year's gift from his sister-in-law, a box of Coke and two boxes of Guishunzhai pastries. In the mid-90s, these two things were mostly popular during New Year's greetings.
Zhang Chen's sister-in-law is a worker in Bincheng Agricultural Machinery Factory, as an old state-owned enterprise in Bincheng Agricultural Machinery Factory, the situation is also very bad now, according to the memory of later generations, Zhang Chen's sister-in-law will also become a member of the laid-off tide at the end of 97. Fortunately, my brother-in-law works as a technician in Binzhou Port, and his job is relatively stable, and he can maintain the family. But my sister-in-law's cerebral infarction in 2012 made the family even worse, and my sister-in-law's only daughter, Chen Ting, was deceived by an old man who was more than 20 years older than herself, suffered from depression, and committed suicide by jumping from her home on the 25th floor a year before Zhang Chen was reborn.
In 1996, Chen Ting was a 6-year-old girl.
Zhang Chen's parents have always lived with Zhang Chen's grandmother, and his mother is a gentle and kind character, and she is also very filial to her grandmother, and she has a good relationship with her sister-in-law's family.
Zhang Chen's father has a total of 4 brothers and sisters, in addition to his sister-in-law, Zhang Chen also has two uncles. Except for the second uncle, Zhang Chen's family has a good relationship with several other relatives. As for the second uncle, because of his poor personality and the fact that he desperately wanted to take advantage of the demolition of his grandparents' house a few years ago, he had a bad relationship with several other families.