Chapter 260: Three-Year Plan
"Xiaoyue, do you know that your sister is coming back for the New Year this year?" When making the bed for her future son-in-law with her daughter, Jiang Cuilian asked her youngest daughter coldly.
"Mom, when I was in the car during the day, when my sister called, I asked her, and she said she wasn't sure!" Knowing her mother's concern, my sister has not been at home for several years. Qin Yue didn't want to make her mother sad, but she had to tell her mother the truth. This scene made her feel very sad.
"Alas, your sister, you know that you are busy, busy, busy all year round, and now your father's previous medical treatment has paid off. What about all the money she sent me back for her? Added up, the dowry should be almost enough. I don't know why, why is she so dissatisfied? I haven't come back for the New Year for so many years, and I'm alone at home......"
In the dim light, Qin Yue seemed to see a string of shiny things flashing in her mother's eyes.
Qin Yue understands her mother, and at the same time, she understands her sister! After all, she's home alone, and it's hard enough for her! Similarly, as she grew up, Qin Yue herself understood more deeply that in fact, such a thing as fate is often an unpredictable life. Once you've chosen a certain path. In fact, it is very difficult to turn back.
Therefore, although she can't experience her sister's "trapeze-like" hard life, she knows that it is the real involuntarily. As my sister occasionally complained to her on the phone: it seemed that she just felt that time was not her own at all, and she used to just want to make a little more money and make the family live a little better. Later, I don't know how much money I need. In other words, it will become difficult to give up and let go of things that you have won with great difficulty.
"Mom, don't be sad, I believe that my sister will definitely squeeze time to come back for the New Year!" Qin Yue comforted her mother. But for a moment, Qin Yue found that her mother's words of comfort seemed so miserable and powerless.
"Actually, don't blame your sister, don't rush her, she's working hard outside, and flying now will definitely cost a lot of money. It doesn't matter, try not to waste money! ”
Qin Yue listened to her mother's broken thoughts on the side, and did not continue to answer. Although the mother's words are inconsistent, after all, what the mother said is also the truth!
At the same time, Qin Yue, who has grown up and is sensible, is more able to understand and understand her mother's complex feelings at this moment.
The next morning, in order to entertain her prospective son-in-law, Jiang Cuilian used her landline phone at home to call the contractor early in the morning to ask for leave.
Since Qiao Bang only had a total of three days off, after breakfast the next day, Qiao Bang rushed directly to Linshi by car.
In order to entertain this future son-in-law-to-be, her mother Jiang Cuilian even used her own strength, and it can almost be said that she cooked all the yes that could be cooked at home, cooking sausages, killing chickens, and frying ham, and poured a large table full.
"You can come and join us for the New Year!" Before Qiao Bang left, his mother enthusiastically tried to keep him.
"Mom, Qiao Bang works on the train, and he has to be on duty during the Chinese New Year!" In fact, Qiao Bang suddenly felt embarrassed when he heard the words of his mother-in-law-to-be. Fortunately, his girlfriend Qin Yue came out and relieved herself in time.
"Yes, Auntie, there are no holiday regulations on the railway, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and every day the railway must ensure normal operation!" Qiao Bang went on to explain.
In hindsight, though, he felt that his explanation was somewhat self-defeating.
"Hey, this person is not a machine, and he is not even allowed to have a reunion for the New Year, this is really inhumane!" Unexpectedly, as soon as Qiao Bang's words fell, his mother Jiang Cuilian muttered in a low voice.
Qiao Bang didn't expect the mother-in-law to react like this. So, he had to smile awkwardly and didn't continue to answer.
Qin Yue on the side wanted to help Qiao Bang continue to explain something, so as not to embarrass Qiao Bang. Qiao Bang stopped her with his eyes, so that she didn't have to say more.
In fact, Qiao Bang chose to let Qin Yue stop explaining because he was worried about unnecessary conceptual conflicts between Qin Yue and his mother.
"Xiaoyue, you said that this young man named Qiao Bang, why didn't his boss even give him a holiday during the Spring Festival? It's really not humane at all! After Qiao Bang left, his mother Jiang Cuilian continued to mumble to her daughter about Qiao Bang's New Year's holiday.
"Mom, don't you grasp this problem and don't let it go, don't you think my sister and I also have time to join you at home for the New Year?" Qin Yue didn't want her mother to have any inner estrangement with Qiao Bang.
"You two sisters are different, you are abroad, you come back for a lot of tossing, and it is a waste of money, he is in China! His boss didn't even give him a holiday for the New Year, so he could only say that it was too inhumane! ”
Qin Yue couldn't figure out why her mother was so stubborn about such a concept? In other words, over the years, the concept of motherhood has quietly changed.
Even sometimes in the communication on the phone, Qin Yue felt that her mother was a little unreasonable. But she attributed it all to her mother's limited education, her relatively backward environment, and the fact that she was surrounded by a group of people who were just as backward as her.
And now, she suddenly felt that she suddenly had a sense of helplessness about these concepts and inner contradictions of her mother!
"Mom, I can't come back!" At noon on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, when my sister Qin Yang called, Qin Yue specially turned on the hands-free of the landline at home!
Qin Yue noticed that when her sister Qin Yang said this, her voice trembled!
Because, she was thinking that she could go home, and the mother and daughter would be reunited together for the Spring Festival! But it is always because of the uncertainty of time, and I dare not make any promises!
At that moment, her mother Jiang Cuilian was so shocked that she couldn't say a word, and her words seemed to rumble twice in her throat.
In the end, she still didn't say a word, Qin Yue knew that her mother had a thousand words she wanted to express to her sister!
Qin Yang was the one who made the phone at the airport in London on the landline towards his home. Since Beijing time in China is seven hours faster than London time in the United Kingdom!
In a few hours, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve in China will begin. But in London, it's only five o'clock in the morning!
Here, except where the city lights can shine, it is completely dark.
Thinking that after more than ten hours, the hometown in China would be a scene of family reunion, but when he was still alone in this foreign country and he was running around endlessly because of work, Qin Yang felt that his nose was sour!
Finally, after talking to his mother and sister on the phone, Qin Yang's tears could no longer be suppressed, and they rushed down frantically! A well-wisher next to her took the initiative to hand her tissues.
It was also at the beginning of this Spring Festival that Qin Yang decided to make a "three-year plan" for himself. That is, in these three years, if he earned enough money to go home and take a small house and open a small clothing store in the town, as well as the money to support his mother, he immediately proposed to the company to resign.
From then on, he said goodbye to his professional career. It's just that in this "three-year plan". Qin Yang never knew how much money she needed to earn to achieve her three goals.
The reason why Qin Yang said that his three goals were three-year plans. In fact, it was just that according to the current way of working, she decided that she could last for another three years at most.
However, she also knows that she doesn't know what tomorrow will come.
But in many times of life, people are just a carriage pushed forward by fate.
In the past, when Qin Yang was working as a flow worker on the assembly line, he always felt that the kind of life with a dead salary that could not be fed and starved to death, and he could see his head at a glance was simply purgatory on earth. But now, although everything seems to be more glamorous than before, Qin Yang feels that his life seems to be beginning to seem confused.
The idea of studying on her own again and taking another undergraduate diploma was only for a short time when she first arrived in the United States.
Since then, there has been no more. After all, I am also hungry for my current qualifications, although I am not very old, but if I want to find a job in China that is basically the same as my current job, it is impossible to be harsh on my academic qualifications.
Even, according to the advantages of living abroad, Qin Yang can even find a job in the import and export of foreign trade in English-speaking countries.
This dual advantage of having both domestic work experience and overseas market operation experience is not available to all returnees.
With the festive atmosphere of the New Year's reunion, my sister Qin Yang just called to inform her that the sorrow of not being able to go home for reunion seems to have been covered by the thick sound of fireworks and firecrackers from various dogs.
On the day of the 30th Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar month, Qin Yue and her mother Jiang Cuilian mother and daughter worked together! Qin Yue is responsible for removing smoke and dust from the house and cleaning.
Since ancient times, the Chinese have paid attention to the people's food. Therefore, her mother Jiang Cuilian was responsible for the delicious dishes on Zhang Luo's Chinese New Year's Eve.
In addition to the fact that her sister Qin Yang is not at home, it has become a strong longing and concern. Others, there is no difference from the ordinary Chinese New Year when I was at home in previous years.
It was around six o'clock Beijing time on Chinese New Year's Eve, and Qin Yang's plane landed at the airport of another city in a foreign country.
This time the work is very simple and straightforward compared to dealing with all kinds of troubles. Because she only needs to sign and seal a marketing cooperation document by providing a power of attorney from Gifrey.
Therefore, except for the halfway trip and various insincere greetings with the partners, it only took a few minutes to complete.
Therefore, Qin Yang's plan is to hurry up and take a flight back to Los Angeles.
Because, even if you may arrive at home, the New Year will have already passed.
But Qin Yang still decided to rush home once as much as possible. After all, I haven't been home for so many years.
When the mother's words when will you be able to go home rang in Qin Yang's ears every time. Qin Yang's desire to go home deepened again.
Fortunately, the concept of Chinese New Year is not as strong as that of Chinese.
Therefore, transportation and air tickets are still the same as usual, and there is no shortage or prices that have been inflated.