After the exam, it is the winter vacation, and the day is on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and the last month of the year will almost pass.

Chen Xiaoyu lived in her grandmother's house, and was woken up by the sound of firecrackers early in the morning, sitting in the quilt with sleepy eyes, rubbing her eyes and asking her grandmother, "What day is it, and you will start setting off firecrackers?" ”

Grandma knocked on her head, "Oh, this kid, Nong, you got confused in the exam a few days ago?" It's twenty-three today, and it's a new year. Don't hurry up yet. ”

When Chen Xiaoyu heard this, she was stunned, but she made a "bang" and lay down in the quilt again, biting the pillow towel, thinking about things in a trance.

It's going to be another year soon.

It's been the third year since she's been reborn.

In his previous life, in 1983, he was still living in a daze, his mother died, his father remarried, because he fell in love with a student, he had a bad reputation in the unit, and his career was in a slump; The stepmother named Wu Tong was stingy, and she was lonely and rebellious, not slipping in her academic performance, and she was timid and secretly in love with Lu Chongqing, carefully hiding to the side, peeking at him flying and swaggering through the market.

Now, no matter what, the days are always different, whether it meets her expectations or not, she has to give a thumbs up to herself in the past two years.

It's hard work, Chen Xiaoyu, the revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard.

"Hurry up, little lazy pig, I'm going to worship the god of the stove in the Wenguang store today, and I'm going to help at noon." Grandma was afraid of beating her through the quilt, so she urged her to get up.

"Okay." Chen Xiaoyu crawled out of the quilt lazily, shivering to get dressed, washed, and had breakfast.

"Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, the fried rice is here, let's go fry the fried rice." As he spoke, a gust of wind seemed to break in, and he was holding a large plastic basin in his arms.

Chen Xiaoyu became excited when she heard this, and hurriedly took out a bag of corn from the kitchen, held a large plastic bucket, and pulled Liu Lulu to the gate of the yard.

She has loved to eat popcorn since she was a child, and later the microwave popcorn never tasted like it used to be.

......At the gate of the courtyard, a group of children were surrounding a black iron gourd-like fried rice stove, watching the old man shake the handle in a circle.

"Grandpa, how long will it take?" The anxious child leaned around the old man and asked eagerly.

"It's coming, it's coming." The old man replied slowly and methodically while smoking a cigarette while leisurely shaking the handle. It was really enough to erect the iron gourd, and the children who were originally gathered in front of him all covered their ears and ran away quickly, shouting as they ran, "Grandpa, wait a while, wait a while." ”

With a loud "bang", the snow-white fried rice flowed out of the black iron gourd, and the children cheered.

The old man poured the fried rice into the child's rice bag, and the child ate it himself, grabbing a handful of fried rice and distributing it to the children around him.

A small handful of rice can fry a large pot of fried rice, which is sweet and fragrant.

The children grabbed it and put it in their mouths, smiling contentedly.

Lulu and Xiaoyu lined up behind a group of children, the weather was cold, Liu Lulu rubbed her hands and sighed, while stomping her feet, her little face was red from the cold, squinting her eyes and grinning.

Yesterday, she sent out her report card, and her grades improved, and her ranking in the class also went from the bottom ten when she entered the school to the top 30, which is considered a middle student.

Thanks to Chen Xiaoyu, she was busy reviewing in the days before the exam and helped her review.

So as soon as she was on vacation, she stuck to Xiaoyu again.

"Hey, today the second uncle's shop is going to worship the god of the stove, and Uncle Liu will go too, right?" Chen Xiaoyu asked.

Worshipping the god of the stove is the custom of the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and Chen Wenguang's shop is also a restaurant, which is to worship their protective god.

"I don't know, I guess I'll go. He had nothing to do anyway. Liu Lulu's expression suddenly fell a little, and she sighed softly.

"What's wrong?" Chen Xiaoyu asked.

"Alas, my father, their Xihualou restaurant is not as good as before, not many people come to eat, and my father is often idle and has nothing to do."

"If you have nothing to do, you can just rest." Chen Xiaoyu comforted her in her mouth. Now there are more and more self-employed restaurants, good service attitude, pay attention to small profits and quick turnover, and the meals are cheap and good, of course, they are welcomed. The employees of these old state-owned stores still hold iron rice bowls, ignore the attitude, and have no innovative spirit, of course, they gradually lose their competitiveness.

Now is not the most tragic time, in another five or six years, by the late 80s, many enterprises are facing a decline in efficiency, employees are "laid off", a large number of workers lose their jobs, flow to the society.

In his previous life, Uncle Liu was laid off at the end of the 80s, and he was unsatisfied, drinking at home every day, and scolding people when he was drunk.

"What a rest. I heard my mother say that there is no bonus, so she relies on that dead salary, and she has to be deducted from the east and west, and she can't get it all. My mom complains every day that staying at home is really annoying. Our house is small, and it's not soundproof, so you can't listen to it if you don't want to. ”

"Oh." Chen Xiaoyu responded thoughtfully.

"But my mother said that your second uncle still gave him that every month...... Consultation fees, anyway, there is a little extra money to make up. Liu Lulu said.

At the beginning, Chen Xiaoyu introduced Uncle Liu to help in the second uncle's store, when the hotel first opened, Uncle Liu was an expert, and he helped to check the purchase, procurement, and kitchen, so that the second uncle could get started quickly, and the operation of the hotel did not take a detour, and the business was booming.

It is rare that the second uncle has done a good job at this point, remembering Uncle Liu's goodness.

The second uncle's restaurant business is getting better and better, and the small store is often overcrowded, and he has already muttered several times to expand the business.

However, the conservative grandfather has always given him negative energy, and taught him every day, "You can earn some money for food, don't be greedy, be careful of making a big move, and you will be regarded as the tail of capitalism in the future." ”

"Lulu, one day you ask your father, if one day my second uncle's shop expands, will he do it with my second uncle?"

If Uncle Liu really thinks about fending for himself on the day of "laid-off", it is better to give some hints now so that he can be mentally prepared.

"Your second uncle's shop is going to be expanded?" Liu Lulu asked curiously.

"Probably, I've heard him say it a few times. However, my grandparents disagreed, they said that now my second uncle is busy earning money and does not talk about a girlfriend. Chen Xiaoyu smiled bitterly.

For these parents, their children have to worry about falling in love, and they have to worry about not falling in love.

"Yes, I heard my grandmother talk to my mother a few days ago, your grandma asked my grandma to introduce you to your second uncle, and my grandma asked my mother to inquire."

"Really?" As soon as Chen Xiaoyu wanted to say something, he heard the person behind him urging, "Don't patronize and chat, two children, hurry up and go to the front row." ”

The voice sounded familiar, and when they turned around, they saw Deng Yinan also holding a biscuit bucket in the back of the line.