On March 5, 1992, Jiang Che's neighbor Uncle Zhao saw 20,000 yuan in cash for the first time in his life in more than 30 years.

He guessed it should be a bit heavy, because the money was loud when it landed on the table.

"Smack. ”

Then he listened to a story of wealth that was a bit incredible for these villagers, participated in some opinions, and got the approval of the protagonist of the story.

The expansion of desire ignited in an instant.

About an hour later, he went out and made a phone call and came back saying he wanted to go to HN.

Moved by him, he planned to go together, as well as one of his younger brothers and two friends. That is, a line of four people. This will be the first people in the village to really go out into the world in the early 90s.

Because there is no shortage of fertile fields and forests here, the difficulty of food and clothing is not high, so compared with other places that are forced to no place by life, it lags behind for many years.

They asked Jiang Che, "Xiao Che, what do you think, can you make money?"

Jiang Che asked rhetorically, "What are you going to do?"

Uncle Zhao spread out a pair of rough and powerful palms, and said confidently: "I heard that houses are built everywhere over there, and I have studied masonry, so I can always make money, right? ”

In 1992, HN real estate boom ......

In the outskirts of Quanbei County, Shuichang City, and Quanbei County, a farmer who had not yet stepped out of his house said that he wanted to go there to build a building.

Jiang Che thought about the relevant information about this wave of real estate fever in his memory, and said without nonsense: "Just help people build it, don't buy it, don't let people owe you money, this is my opinion, Uncle Zhao." ”

This is equivalent to Jiang Che's approval.

Uncle Zhao had actually made a decision, but Jiang Che's approval still made him happy, he nodded excitedly, stood up, hurriedly and then arched his hands in all directions: "I, I'm leaving...... Go home and pack your things and leave tomorrow. Chinese New Year, come back for the New Year, there is something at home, everyone help more, please. ”

With a deep slam to the ground, he left in front of a room full of people......

The whole room was a little stunned, and they couldn't react...... The last time someone in the village left so suddenly, it seems to be the time of the Republic of China, right?

At that time, one day, a young man was chatting under the big camphor tree at the entrance of the village and said that he was going to be a soldier and carry a gun.

The old people laughed and scolded: "Carry your mother." ”

The next day, he left the village and is now said to be in TW.

Now another, a farmer in his thirties, has made a decision that seems too hasty and hasty, and even words like vagueness and ignorance are not excessive.

But in this era of closed news and more closed thinking, most of the people who dare to go out are blind at first, but it is these people who have created one wealth myth after another.

Jiang Che can imagine that on this day, at this moment, there may be a person who will be powerful in the future who is tossing and turning and can't sleep, hesitate for a long time, and finally decide to go to the sea, he may be a section member, a section chief, or even a bureau chief...... It may also be a farmer like Uncle Zhao, who has a pair of powerful palms and an ambition, or a worker who is actively and passively laid-off.

This is the tide of '92.

……

The crowd gathered by the Jiang family finally dispersed and each went home.

Dad Jiang stood at the door and looked at the alley in the distance, and was stunned for a while before closing the door, turning around, looking at his son, and saying, "Go and ask your mother to get you something to eat." ”

He is right, and he knows Jiang's mother best, because of cooking for her son, Jiang's mother, who was originally immersed in sadness, gradually recovered.

While Jiang Che was eating, his parents sat left and right again, watching.

"Thirty-five, thirty-six......" Jiang's mother cleaned up her mood and counted the money again, she could see so much money for the first time in her life.

Dad Jiang seemed to hesitate for a while before making a decision, and said solemnly: "Che'er, Dad will ask you something later, in your words, you have to have one to say and two to say." ”

"Thirty-one, thirty-two...... Three......" Jiang's mother twisted Jiang's father's arm, "What's the matter, you're one, two, and I'm messing up again." ”

Suddenly, Dad's serious aura collapsed, and Jiang Che smiled and said, "Mom, why don't you go back to the room and count?"

Jiang's mother nodded, glared at her husband, and went back with the money.

Jiang Che put down his chopsticks and sat upright, "Dad, I've finished eating, you can ask." "He actually felt it a long time ago, and his father didn't fully believe him today.

Dad Jiang looked at his eyes first, "Che'er, do you have anything to take the initiative to admit to me?"

The matter of stocks must not be recognized, this is gambling in the eyes of my father, Jiang Che hesitated and shook his head.

In this regard, Dad Jiang was obviously a little disappointed, pointed to Jiang Che's left chest, and said, "Take it out." ”

"What?"

"The one on the left. ”

“……”

It was still discovered, and it was likely to have been discovered a long time ago, Jiang Che was helpless, lowered his head and bit the thread, and put another paper bag on the table.

Even if he knew it in his heart, Dad Jiang opened it and took a look, but his body still couldn't stop trembling a little......

Forty thousand, he read it right, Jiang Che really still has a bag, the Jiang family's wealth is not 20,000, it is 40,000.

Because of this number, euphoria has turned into fear.

"How did you earn it for just over a month?" he asked, his voice a little floating, a little shaky, and his expression a little stern.

"That's what I just said. Having made up his mind not to tell the truth, Jiang Che said calmly.

Dad Jiang suddenly stood up, sat down again, and repeated it twice, he seemed to want to get angry, wanted to question, and tried his best to restrain himself, he was just a simple farmer in the nineties, he was already in chaos, thought for a long time, and finally said: "For so many years, I only know one thing to make money so fast." ”

There was still a way to make money so quickly, Jiang Che asked curiously: "What's the matter?"

Dad Jiang lowered his voice: "Smuggling, you tell the truth, did you smuggle it with others?"

Dad actually knew this, Jiang Che was very curious, but the first task, he had to clarify first: "No, it's the method I said to earn." ”

"Then give me your hand. Dad Jiang pulled up one of his son's arms, rubbed it on it, observed it carefully, and then said confusedly: "Really not?"

"Not really. And Dad, you forgot? I called home in Shenghai. ”

"It's true, but this New Year's goods are ...... Really that profitable?!" He frowned for a moment, unable to understand, but finally decided to believe his son.

After the crisis was resolved, Jiang Che asked in turn: "Dad, how do you know about smuggling?"

Dad Jiang's expression was wrong.

Jiang Che took advantage of the victory and pursued: "I know, Dad, you said a few years ago that you would do some small business with people, and you broke up quickly, but you never said what you did...... It turns out that you smuggled. No wonder I said you didn't go long, you made a few thousand and built a house......"

Dad Jiang was anxious, as if he was arguing with someone, and said eagerly: "I don't know...... Wen City, Wen City, Wen City, you know, right?"

Jiang Che nodded, thinking to himself, next door, the Jiangnan Tannery closed down, well, there is a direction for rebirth, and the Jiangnan Tannery will be opened in the future, and if it goes bankrupt, you can still run away with the money and your sister-in-law.

"In the early years, when I was a teenager, Wenshi was still very poor, because of the lack of land, when the poor couldn't survive, they would come to our side to work for a few months and earn some food to go back...... At that time, there were two people about my age, who helped cut bamboo in our house, and your grandmother was as good to them as your own children, and later, we worshipped them. ”

You must know that at the most serious time, the smuggling in Wenshi accounted for 80% of the country's volume, and then it was not until the fleet intervened that it was transferred to southern Fujian.

"Later, a few years ago, they said that they had broken out, came to me, and said that they would take me to make money, but they were really poor at that time, and they thought about how to give you and your mother a good life...... So I went along. ”

"You went to sea to smuggle?"

Dad Jiang hurriedly shook his head: "I didn't go to sea, I lived in the seaside village with many people, and a boat passed by in the middle of the night...... After a while, someone will come to collect it, and they will give the money. I didn't know until I was chased by the police on two hills with the crowd that it was a smuggling offense...... I haven't slept well for half a year when I got home. ”

I didn't expect my father to have this experience, he didn't say it in his previous life, probably the original me, in my father's eyes, it was not suitable to listen to this.

"It's okay, let's just don't touch it, it's been a few years, there are a lot of people who break out like this, more serious people go out, many of them go abroad, so the capable people are actually forced out, you see that in the past few years, our Shuichang City has good mountains and good waters, but it has begun to can't even catch up with the heels of Wen City......"

At this time, Jiang's mother walked out of the room.

See the money on the table.

"Huh?" she ran back to her room, came out again, and finally made sure that the two stacks were not hers, and then, putting the money together, she just sat blankly, looking at the four stacks of blue hundred-dollar bills in front of her.

Jiang Che thought that he probably wouldn't be able to get the money back.

……

When Jiang's father took the initiative to say that he wanted to go out to do business, Jiang Che was actually very happy, but he still asked why.

Dad Jiang said with a complicated expression:

"I can't stay in this place and get stuck in some bullshit all day. ”

"Also, I feel like I have to grind, it's stupid today, so I want to go out and do some small business first, learn to do it, step by step. ”

"Che'er, do you think it's okay?"

He was a little too cautious about this last question.

There is no doubt that this is a happy thing, Jiang Che had such an idea before, although there are many lovely people here, but there is no shortage of bullshit, and going out is good for the vision and knowledge of parents, and the Jiang family will have a big business in the future, and they also need to grow.

Jiang Che thought that he would not be persuaded, thinking that even if he did business, his father would choose to be in the local area, after all, in these years, leaving his hometown is still a big deal, but he didn't think about it, and his father suddenly had such an awareness.

Jiang Che smiled and said, "Of course it's good, but, Dad, there are also people who are stimulated by me and Uncle Zhao, right?"

Dad Jiang smiled and didn't speak, the position of the pillar of the family was suddenly subverted, how could this strong man be willing? And the opportunity was already in front of him.

Jiang's mother put down the money, "Then what should I do? I have to go too, but there is still one day a week in the factory." ”

Dad Jiang smiled and said, "If you give work to others that day, they must be very happy." ”

"But I heard that I was going to be laid off, do you know if I am going to be laid off? If I leave and don't go to work at all, then I will be the one who has been laid off?"

"It's because I'm afraid of this that I have to find another way as soon as possible", Jiang's father said, "Just look at your factory, you don't need to lay off anyone, and the whole will be yellow in two years." ”

He is right, in fact, this wave of layoffs spread throughout the 90s, late is better than early, the early batch later many broke out, compared to those who have been spent in factories until the end of the century even if they are underpaid, and it is really difficult later.

Mother Jiang was determined to make it difficult, stroked her forehead and said, "I want to think about it." ”

Dad Jiang whispered in her ear: "By the way, so many people have seen it today, aren't you afraid that many people will come to ask you to borrow money next?"

Mother Jiang sat up straight, "Go." ”

Jiang Che watched with interest from the side, he didn't understand whether it was interesting for a man to know his wife very well, but at least this kind of relationship between parents and parents, in later words, was very beautiful.

"By the way, let's go to Linzhou, will we be able to meet Che'er's girlfriend?" Jiang's mother suddenly reacted, making a fuss about "human life" is fake, but girlfriends are always real.

Sooner or later, there is no need to avoid what you have to say, Jiang Che smiled and said directly: "Actually, it has already been divided." ”

Jiang's mother was stunned, "...... Why?"

"She stayed in school, I didn't, and she still wants to go abroad, it's a different way. Jiang Che calmly narrated.

Dad turned his head to look at Jiang Che's eyes, a little worried, afraid that he was hiding his emotions.

Mom tilted her head and thought.

Jiang Che felt that his mother should be thinking about how to comfort him, but his mother said faintly: "It's really unlucky, I'm so good." ”

……

At the end of the conversation, Jiang Che returned to the room after washing up, and found that the red envelope for the New Year was pressed under the pillow, and the two banknotes were quite new. Well, 40,000 for two, but it's so happy.

Jiang's father and Jiang's mother were lying on the bed, you turned around for a while, and I turned around for a while, but I couldn't fall asleep. The money has been sewn separately, the few clothes sewn with the money are resting on the bed, and most of the luggage has been packed, but the emotions are still to be packed.

"Che'er Dad, let me tell you, I'm a little flustered...... This is about to leave suddenly, the work in the factory is gone, and the land is no longer planted, it's scary to think about, what are we going out for?"

Dad Jiang turned sideways: "No, I want to invest a little less, save the rest of the money and leave it to Che'er, and I will touch the business slowly by myself, and when I settle down in the past, I won't always drag Che'er." First, so that I can learn, and second, Che'er is still studying, and she will have to eat public meals in the future, so we can't start now, and we all count on our son to top the door......"

Mother Jiang laughed softly twice in the dark.

Dad Jiang panicked and said, "What are you laughing at?"

"I laughed at a person who couldn't get over it. ”

Dad Jiang smiled bitterly, "Who made Che'er grow up suddenly." ”

……

The next day, the two aunts came again and coaxed Jiang Che's honest uncle, Jiang's mother's eldest brother, to help talk.

In Jiang Che's hometown, his uncle's status is very high.

However, the Jiang family has already been empty

Old man Jiang opened the door, but only invited Jiang Che's uncle in, and the two of them had a drink together, and Old Man Jiang told him what was going on.

"Che'er told his parents that you must send Che'er's little cousin to study, and what is the daughter...... Oh, baby, high school is better than technical secondary school, if you can't get into college, you will take the exam for another year. The old man spread the three hundred yuan on the table, and said while the wine was a little fluttering: "Uncle, take it, you are a responsible person, just don't give people calculations, your nephew is good." ”

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Two sentences: 1. Okay, good, the plot of relatives is over, don't worry;2. Let me tell you, my transition chapters tend to be rough and jumpy, because the transitions are also delicate, which is not right.