Chapter 2 Tongguan Town
Su Jingzhen's home is in a small residential building a few hundred meters away from the school, since the reopening, Tongguan Town has been densely packed with large and small factories and workshops, and Su Jingzhen's family has also opened such a small workshop.
"Ah, Jingzhen is out of school, and the last semester is quite nervous, right?" got out of the car in front of the house, and the landlord on the first floor saw that it was a tenant who rented his house, so he opened his mouth to say hello.
Su Jingzhen followed the voice and looked over, found that it was the landlord, the footsteps of the cart stopped, nodded with a smile and said, "Aunt Huilian, my grades in reading are just like that, there is nothing to be nervous about." ”
"Don't lie to me, you kid, my family Aqing said last time, your foreign language is very good, and she can't do the winter vacation homework assigned by her teacher, and you will know the answer when you ask." ”
"That's so powerful, she is just in junior high school now, I'm in my third year of high school, if I don't know the topic of junior high school, then I'll be miserable, and I will definitely be punished by the teacher. Su Jingzhen smiled and denied his claim that he had good grades in foreign language classes.
Jiang Huilian just mentioned it like this, used to say hello, she didn't think that the young man in front of her could have any good grades, Tongguan Town is not big, who has good grades in school and who has bad grades, you can know with a little inquiry.
"Aunt Huilian, I'm upstairs, help take a look at my bicycle, it's not long before I bought it......"
"Okay, you go in and close the door, you make sure you don't lose it. At this time, a customer came to the door to select parts, and Jiang Huilian didn't bother to continue chatting with a student, so she waved her hand and stood up to see what the person who came to the door wanted to buy?
Speaking of which, Su Jingzhen also admires the landlord's family, not only invested money to build his own building to five floors, but also bought sewing machine parts on the first floor, in Tongguan Town, there are hundreds of garment factories, the demand for sewing machines is really not small, plus daily consumption damage needs to replace parts, this kind of business is much simpler than doing a garment factory.
On the second floor, it is the rented place of Su Jingzhen's family, about 100 square meters, densely placed with more than ten sewing machines, and a long large table on the side, which is used to cut materials.
"Mom, I'm back. Before going up the stairs, Su Jingzhen shouted loudly to the kitchen on the side, because he saw his mother squatting under the faucet to wash vegetables.
"Wait for your dad, stir-fry when everyone is ready." Su Jingzhen's family opened a small garment workshop, rented the second and third floors of this house for a total of 230 square meters, and 40 sewing machines were all their belongings.
In the past, Su Jingzhen's family ate with female workers, but in the third year of high school, Su Jingzhen's mother didn't know where to hear the little knowledge, saying that it was necessary to provide enough nutrition this semester, so that her son could get good results in the college entrance examination, so she opened a small stove.
"Where did my dad go, and he hasn't come back from dinner yet?" Su Jingzhen walked to the kitchen, washed his hands and helped his mother wash the cabbage, and asked where his father had gone.
"It's not that he's busy with his small business, but he heard that a modeling studio is going to open, so he went to inquire about it. Jiang Xiuxia pursed the corners of her lips and said with some disdain.
Su Jingzhen saw her mother's expression, and knew that her mother was a little dissatisfied with the business that her father did in partnership with his companions, and in her mother's heart, it was better to go home to help and make the garment workshop bigger and stronger.
Su Jingzhen glanced at her mother and found that she didn't really have a grudge against her father, so she hurriedly opened her mouth to help her father: "Dad was originally a science student who studied machinery, if you want him to stay at home and work on a sewing machine, he will definitely not be able to sit still, don't force him." ”
"Cut, I can't look down on my forty sewing machines to be real, right?" Jiang Xiuxia put the cabbage sum in the water again, put it in the bamboo basket, and waited for Su Jingzhen's father to come back.
"Definitely not, he usually takes care of the sewing machine at home before going out. Su Jingzhen didn't want to provoke the conflict between his parents, so he quickly came back to the conversation.
"Okay, don't talk to your dad, I know that neither your father nor son likes to stay at home, one or two are like having ADHD, and they like to run out all day long. ”
"No, my mother is the Dinghai God Needle, with you at home, my father and I can go out, otherwise who will stay at home?" Su Jingzhen flattered Jiang Xiuxia with a dog's face.
"Hey, your mouth is so sweet today, you're short of money?" Jiang Xiuxia reacted, her son was a little wrong today.
"No, I can't spend all my pocket money......"
"Hmph, you kid must have been scolded by the teacher today, right? Do you want to invite parents?" My own child has been raised for more than ten years, looking at his big one, I know that he wants to and pee as soon as his tail is cocked, Jiang Xiuxia is not so easy to be fooled.
"Also, it's not to invite parents to ......" Su Jingzhen smiled wryly, his mother was really so clever.
"What is that? Reading novels in class?" Jiang Xiuxia didn't want to let go of her son, so she continued to ask.
"Exam, something went wrong during the test today. Su Jingzhen didn't want to hide it from his mother, so he told him about being scolded by the teacher today.
"You, you're all going to take the TOEFL test and you're going to take the ST or something, and what kind of college entrance examination are you going to take? Wouldn't it be better to go home and prepare to go to Hong Kong to take the ST test?" Jiang Xiuxia didn't understand her son's thoughts, but her son, who was relatively independent when he was a child, didn't listen to his own persuasion, is this what others say about adolescent rebellion?
"The SAT, the national test of American imperialism. Su Jingzhen saw that his mother couldn't remember, so he opened his mouth to explain.
"According to me, there's no need to have so many books, you see your father, just a secondary school student, isn't it enough to deal with it, the big and small things in the family are not repaired by him?
"Mom, if it weren't for my cousin's relationship, I wouldn't have bothered to read so many books, but this is going abroad, something that others are dreaming about, we have such conditions, we must fight." Su Jingzhen saw that her mother was useless in studying again, so she quickly changed the topic to going abroad.
Sure enough, when she heard it, Jiang Xiuxia's face suddenly had a smile: "This is also, your father and I have relatives abroad, and it was something that was not allowed to be mentioned before, but now it is different, we must get back the losses we have suffered, I heard others say, there are people on the other side of the window who came back from overseas to start a business, and the government doesn't even collect taxes. ”
"It's a foreign hukou, and I didn't think about getting a foreign hukou book. "Three exemptions and five halves, Su Jingzhen knows what his mother said about not collecting taxes.
In the past few years, people from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even Europe and the United States have come to the window to open a factory and start a business, and Tongguan Town and the window are dozens of miles away.
"Hey, your dad is back, I'm going to stir-fry, you move the small table to the window, and prepare for dinner. Downstairs sounded the sudden jet sound of Jialing motorcycle, Jiang Xiuxia was very familiar with this motorcycle, and when she heard the sound, she knew that her husband was back, and hurriedly instructed her son to run into the kitchen to stir-fry.
"Dad, are you back?" did the model studio talk about it?" Su Jing only walked up to the second floor, and found that his son was moving the table and asked himself at the same time.
"It didn't work out, the factory had an injection molding machine. Su Guo shook his head, his face a little depressed.
"If the machine is not completed, then talk about repair, I found that there are more and more model factories in Tongguan Town, and there are many electronics factories and plastic factories in several nearby towns. Su Jingzhen quite understands the situation of those factories, who dares to open a factory rashly without talking about the machine, since they have come to the step of opening the factory, the machine must be talked about, at this time the father came to talk about business, it is strange to be successful.
In the kitchen of "nourishing ......", Jiang Xiuxia leaned her ears to eavesdrop on the conversation between her husband and son outside, and after listening, she found that the pot was about to burn red, so she hurriedly poured in peanut oil, put in garlic paste, and put the cabbage sum in easily.
"By the way, son, when I came back, I met the family of your childhood sweetheart, and I heard that their family is going to build a big garment factory?" Su Kuang helped put the miscellaneous wooden stool on the side on the side of the table, and teased his son casually.
"I hadn't heard her talk about it at school, but it was true that she was bothered today. Su Jingzhen ignored his father's ridicule, in this small town, you can meet acquaintances and relatives on the street casually, which is nothing to be embarrassed about.
"Did she help you copy your homework again?" Su Kuang also knows a little about his son's childhood sweetheart.
"It's even more serious than this!" Su Jingzhen thought of going to school in the afternoon, how to coax the little girl?
"Shhh...... You don't really bother others, it doesn't matter if you take the college entrance examination or not, others are different. Su Guo didn't ask any more questions, but warned his son not to hurt others.
"It's not like that, her grades have always been good, she is in the top ten in her grade, and I've been classmates with her for more than ten years, okay, I don't know what her personality is, and I won't take these things seriously at all. "For Chen Hua, Su Jingzhen really knows a lot, whether it is personality or body.
"What are you talking about? It's time to eat. Jiang Xiuxia came out of the kitchen with a plate, the garlic stir-fry cabbage was fragrant, Su Jingzhen hurriedly smiled and said to her mother: "It's nothing, I'll help pack the rice." After saying that, he hurriedly fled to the kitchen.
"Hey, wife, I just met the guy on the fourth or fifth floor downstairs. When Su Kuang saw his wife come out, he remembered what happened downstairs.
When Jiang Xiuxia heard this, the expression on her face immediately changed, and she asked her husband impatiently, "What did he say to you?"
"It's not the things I said last time, let's think about it or something. Su Guo said with a flat face.
"Dad, Mom, upstairs said that they were going to rent our second and third floors?" Su Jingzhen walked out of the kitchen with a plate of steamed salted fish with garlic pork ribs, and when he heard the conversation between his parents, he asked curiously.
"Don't ask, kids. Jiang Xiuxia pulled out the miscellaneous wooden stool, sat on the edge of the table, and completely handed over the matter of loading the food and serving the food to her son, and sat and waited for him to serve it.
"What a child, my junior high school classmates are now in charge of a factory by themselves, deputy factory director!" Su Jingzhen pursed the corners of his mouth and took out his classmates as a case.
Jiang Xiuxia was speechless immediately, her son's rebuttal was really sharp, in Tongguan Town, there were many people who helped the family take care of the factory and workshop after graduating from junior high school, and Jiang Xiuxia knew several of them.
"You pack the food first, you're hungry!" Su Jing on the side also sat down, saw his son standing still, and urged.
Su Jingzhen took a breath and went back to the kitchen to load the food first, he had made up his mind to interfere in this matter, because it involved a turning point in their family.
If he did go back to the way things were, if that wasn't a dream, the residential building would have had an accident a few months after his parents turned down the tenants upstairs.
It's not that the tenants upstairs are angry, it's not that they are careless, but that something happened to the landlord's shop downstairs, and the wires in the house were short-circuited, and then lit the sewing machine lubricant stored in the store, and the whole building was set on fire.
The forty sewing machines in Su Jingzhen's house plus the dozens of pieces of fabric stored on the third floor were all destroyed, and this is not the end, it is good that there is nothing to do without people, but if it is not delivered on time, it will cost people's lives.
Now Su Jingzhen's family has three contracts, all of which are negotiated by Jiang Xiuxia and others, and how many ready-to-wear clothes need to be paid every month are in accordance with the contract.
Although the family has some family background, but after such an incident, Su Jingzhen's going abroad is completely in vain, the family can't afford his tuition fees for studying abroad, and he has no special preparation for the college entrance examination, he can't go abroad temporarily, and he fails the college entrance examination, which has become the most important turning point in Su Jingzhen's life.
Therefore, either his parents will sublet this place, or the wires on the first floor will be re-laid to save his house from fire, otherwise, he will not want to study abroad in peace.
Loading up the meal, Su Jingzhen also sat on the edge of the small table and said to his parents: "Actually, you vaguely mentioned this matter a month ago, and I have some ideas. ”
Su Jing calmly sandwiched the green vegetables, Jiang Xiuxia frowned, didn't say anything, and continued to eat.
Su Jingzhen saw that his parents were indifferent, and said more: "I went to the library to check some information, as well as the factory in the town and the factory of the same school, I have visited and asked, I think our family's workshop-style garment factory will not last long." ”