Chapter 1 Prelude
In this world, there are many things that prove Xueqi's existence and record Xueqi's growth.
For example, the thick photo album on my bedside table is full of photos of me and Xueqi: the photo of me and her in the Central Park, she is wearing a white dress and a sun hat, sitting on the lawn, Xueqi and I are in the pigeon square, Xueqi sprinkles corn kernels into the air, and a flock of white doves soars into the sky, flying into the blue sky, and I take a photo of Xueqi and Xueqi in my hometown, with the verdant hillside in the background, and you can still see the house of my hometown faintly...... There are many more, photos of the villa, photos of Xueqi's life, photos of my life, and of course, photos taken by Xueqi herself.
Photos, which is one of the witnesses that record Xueqi's growth.
Of course, there are many others, such as the swaddling clothes that I always leave in the basement, the worn-out baby bottle that I hide in a cardboard box, and Xueqi's colorful clothes and the mountains of cartoon CDs...... Many, much more.
There are so many that I can't remember.
Almost every inadvertent little detail in the home can let me see Xueqi's cute appearance at different ages.
Of course, the best record of Xueqi's growth is the calendar hanging on the wall of the living room.
It was a brand new calendar, and in the background of the calendar was a majestic snow-capped mountain, covered with snow, and the porcelain blue sky on the top of the mountain seemed so vast, like a sea across the sky.
The calendar was personally selected by Xue Qi in the supermarket, and she said, this calendar is so beautiful, papa, I want this.
As a result, the Snow Mountain Calendar has also become a piece of evidence to record Xueqi's life.
The year shown on the new calendar is 10 years.
That year, Xueqi was 10 years old.
And the story of Xueqi's 10-year-old began with this calendar.
In 2010, I was 26 years old, and I had already gone through a third of my life, and my youth was coming to an end. At that time, more than a year had passed since Tang Mengyan's departure, and three full years had passed since Ma Yike's departure.
After more than a year of precipitation, my state of mind is very different from a few years ago. When I first entered Sanxin Company, I was just a hairy boy who did not hinder the world, but in the past few years, the fluctuations in the business world and the emotional twists and turns have made me see through a lot of social laws. The shady scenes that I know are also increasing, in fact, many times, society is more complex and dark than anyone thinks.
A few years ago, I was hot-blooded and impulsive, but after these years, I rarely feel that kind of emotion. When people reach a certain age, they start to think about the past, and 26 years old may only be considered a young man, but for me, it seems like half a lifetime has passed.
Because of the sharp decline in foreign trading volume caused by the financial turmoil in 09, the development of Sanxin company has encountered a lot of obstacles, the international market is difficult to expand, the global situation is not optimistic, and even the company's listed shares have fallen all the way.
During that time, because of the company's operation, I was under a lot of pressure, and many people in the company had doubts about my ability, saying that I was too young to be capable, although they didn't say it to me on weekdays, but when the company's development encountered obstacles, I could always hear all kinds of dissatisfied voices with me through various channels. That period of time is one of my most difficult days, because Sanxin company has exported a lot of drugs in recent years, strong dependence on foreign demand, the company has lost a lot in the short term, customers have jumped a lot, new orders have not been placed, and the problem of wage increase raised by workers under the threat of job hopping, my position as the general manager is almost unstable.
Fortunately, in the middle of 10 years, with the economic situation slightly stabilized, the company's operation was back on track under the condition that the country's support policy of expanding domestic demand and several old foreign customers placed new orders in a timely manner.
And my position as general manager was barely kept under pressure.
In the most difficult time of the company, I did not hesitate to export the cost line of blood firmly grasped a few customers, because I firmly believe that the world market is actually a big cake, the financial crisis is just the size of the cake we are getting smaller, but it does not mean that our company has a smaller proportion of the cake, when the financial crisis passes, with the withdrawal of other foreign competitors, in the cake becomes larger again and our company's proportion remains the same, the final profit will only grow.
It turned out that I was right that time.
With the resurgence of the international economic situation, our company is finally gradually back on track, although it cannot be compared with the export volume of the golden period, but the overall situation is improving.
The mall will always be rough and majestic.
One wrong step is a catastrophe.
One step right is one step to the sky.
During the financial crisis, I had already prepared for the worst, that is, to leave Sanxin Company and bear all the losses of goods. But in the end, I stayed and kept my position. And it turned out that I had won the last victory of that cruel gamble.
Because the story I want to tell you is not my step-by-step journey in the business world, but the emotional story of me and Xueqi, so I will not mention more about the business world at this point.
In a cruel and dangerous world, for me, only me and Xueqi will always be simple and peaceful.
In the first half of 10 years, Xueqi ended her third-grade study career. The third grade can be said to be a turning point in the primary school career, the first three grades of primary school, the curriculum is very simple and basic, all are simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and new words, but after the fourth grade, the curriculum is relatively much more complicated, the first few school years Xue Qi's learning in school is relatively easy, but from the beginning of the second half of the year, she is not so easy.
I don't know how Xue Qi is doing at school, but when I checked Xue Qi's homework book, I noticed that there were more and more errors on it.
Since I was a child, I have been Xueqi's best teacher, Ma Yike has laid a good learning foundation for Xueqi, but I can't come back to guide Xueqi, so when Xueqi goes to elementary school, I am Xueqi's best teacher besides the teachers in the school.
Xue Qi is a very smart child, but she is not a child who is very good at academics, this is her shortcoming, she was just in contact with division when she was in the third grade of primary school, because she slept too late the day before and caused desertion in class that day, she didn't learn how to use the division root number in that math class, but when she came back, she frowned at the homework book and thought about it for a long time, and she didn't even have an appetite for dinner. It wasn't until I asked her why that she was a little sad and said to me, papa, I don't know how to divide.
I read Xueqi's problem, a 42 inside the root number divided by 7 outside, the problem itself is very simple, but Xueqi doesn't know how to use the root number formula, I don't understand the meaning of the numbers inside and outside the root number, so I don't know the rules of operation.
"Qiqi, did you desert in class?" I asked Xueqi in a louder voice.
Xue Qi's face suddenly turned red, she didn't dare to look at me, and after being silent for a long time, she sighed and nodded.
"How can you be so unserious? Do you want to listen carefully next time?"
Xue Qi pouted, blushing and speechless.
Then under my teaching, in less than 10 seconds, Xue Qi suddenly understood the usage of the root number, and also understood the operation of division, and happily said to me, I understand papa, it's so simple.
Since then, Xueqi's math scores have remained stable, although it is difficult to reach the height of the high scores that are often scored in the first and second grades, but it is often around 96 points, and occasionally she can get a full score without being sloppy, which is not a decline.
In terms of math scores, Xue Qi has always scored highly.
It is said that girls are born with no talent for mathematics, but I didn't see this in Xue Qi, maybe because the math problems were too simple in the third grade, but at least compared to many male students in the same class, Xue Qi's math scores are among the best.
In terms of language, because of me, a "father" from a liberal arts background, she has never been left behind. When I was in high school, I was best at Chinese, and my worst skill was math. Therefore, I am very comfortable teaching Xueqi Chinese homework, and almost all the words that Xueqi knows are taught to her. Especially in Xueqi's most hated diary, I interfere more.