Liancheng, known as "Little Nanjing" in history, once entered the largest rice market and medicine capital in central and southern China.

As an ancient city with a history of more than 1,200 years, after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Liancheng has been an important industrial base in Nanhu Province and has been strongly supported by various national policies, and is an important industrial base in the province and even the whole country.

Liancheng has the world's largest fluoride salt production enterprise, Liancheng Aluminum Plant, the country's largest electrolytic manganese dioxide production enterprise, Liancheng Electric Machinery Factory, the earliest and largest electrical equipment production enterprise in China, Liancheng Ferroalloy Factory, the largest manganese mine in China, and the largest manganese mine in China, Liancheng Manganese Mine......

However, with the continuous deepening of China's reform and opening up, these former advantages have gradually become extremely heavy and huge burdens. Almost all of the country's heavy industrial cities have been hit hard by different forms in the process, and have been left far behind by the economically developed areas of the eastern seaboard.

Liancheng, originally occupied a relatively important position in the blueprint of "Huaxia Industrial Nationalization Process" formulated by Yang Weiping after returning to China, and belonged to one of the heavy industry bases that needed to be built in the second echelon of Huaxia's industrial nationalization process.

However, Yang Weiping was forced to reluctantly interrupt the overall upgrading plan of this large-scale national industrialization before the upgrading of the 16 industrial cities in the first echelon was completed.

An industrial city like Liancheng, which is located in the hinterland of central and southern China, could have taken advantage of the policy of large-scale development of the western region to embark on a high-speed development track that is different from history. It is a pity that after the large-scale development of the western region was halted by the central government, the city did not burst out of its potential vitality and once again became a pool of stagnant water. Even the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, which had just begun, came to a standstill.

Just in China, the relevant departments and the Oriental Union Intelligence Agency joined hands to spread the eyeliner on the mainland of China. While secretly actively looking for Su Hongmei's family, in a seemingly inconspicuous scrap collection shed located in the suburban area of Xiacheng Township, Liancheng City, Su Changgui was very strict in taking a political and ideological lesson with a young man who came to sell cables.

"Young man, I advise you to return these more than 30 meters of cable wherever you got it. Your cables look genuine and not scrap, and you must have secretly cut them from the factory. If you have done this kind of behavior, you will be severely cracked down on in the past few years. Enough to convict you of theft of public property and sentence you to at least three to five years in prison......"

"Your old man, where did you get so much nonsense, hurry up and say how much these scrap copper are worth, I still have something to do, hurry up! The tall and thin young man with a shaved green skin urged impatiently.

"I only collect scrap copper and rotten iron, I don't accept this kind of genuine product here, you go to other scrap collectors to try it." Su Changgui returned the bundle of unpeeled 4.5mm copper core cables in his hand to the young man, and his face was full of righteousness, and he almost drove the customer out.

"I'm cāo. Why do you have so many broken rules!" The young man was obviously a little weak by Su Changgui's old eyes, picked up the bundle of cables and walked out, scolding and shouting as he walked: "You don't want to accept it, I don't want to sell it yet! ”

When the green-skinned young man walked away, Su Hongmei, who wore an apron around her waist, canvas labor gloves on her hands, and a blue-and-white cloth headscarf on her head, came out of the room and looked at her white-haired father with a very helpless look. He complained softly, "Daddy, you can't be like this all the time. Since everyone else can accept this kind of goods. We can collect it, and it doesn't matter where we got it from anyway. They've always been just based on the price, you know, you're like this, we're making a lot less money every month. ”

"No matter what kind of money you make, you must earn it above board!" Su Changgui glared at his daughter with a stern face. He said earnestly: "We absolutely must not indiscriminately collect such dirty things of unknown origin because we are greedy for a small gain for a while! Although we earn less now, we live a down-to-earth life, and we don't have to worry about being suddenly approached by the public security organs one day." ”

"Hongmei, don't grind your teeth with this old thing. If you tell him this, you might as well go and play the piano to the cow!" Tian Cuifen, who was helping her daughter pick up the waste in the room, shouted loudly in the house: "He only knows what organizational principles he is talking about, and he doesn't want to think that he is no longer a state cadre. ”

"Drink rice soup without malt cream!" Su Changgui said with a straight face: "I think back then, Hongmei couldn't even drink rice soup, and she was still alive and healthy. ”

"Grandpa, Grandpa, Bao'er doesn't drink rice soup, and my mother says that rice soup is not nutritious. A child about three or four years old poked his little head out of the room and said softly: "Mom also said that when you earn money, you will buy milk powder for me and my brother." ”

"Okay, okay, let's not drink rice soup, grandpa will use the wine money to buy malt milk essence for our baby granddaughter to drink. Su Changgui walked over with a smile and hugged his granddaughter in his arms, "Let's go, grandpa will take you to the commissary at the corner of the street to buy it." ”

Seeing her father hugging the child and walking out while humming Qin's tone, Su Hongmei couldn't help but sigh softly.

This path was chosen by herself, no matter how hard it was, she could only choose to bear it silently.

Walking slowly back to the "warehouse" full of all kinds of waste products, Su Hongmei's eyes became tough again.

Seeing that her daughter was so serious about picking up and placing all kinds of items in different categories, Tian Cuifen turned her head to look at her little grandson who was quietly playing with blocks on the bed in the back room, Tian Cuifen turned her face away and sighed secretly.

For more than three years, their family of five left their hometown in Jinnan, Longxi, and traveled north and south of the river for almost half of China, and finally decided to settle down in Mao Taizu's hometown of Liancheng.

This is also thanks to Hongmei selling the high-end bicycle that the man gave her for $3,000, otherwise, the little savings in her and Su Changgui's hands would not be enough to toss like this.

Tian Cuifen and Su Changgui can understand their daughter's decision, and they also give the support they deserve for their parents.

If it weren't for Xiao Yang Zhiqing who stepped forward to help Su Changgui, maybe the pillars of the old Su family would have collapsed a long time ago. (To be continued......) I1292