Chapter 42: The Birthday Gift (I)

Lin Xiaoxiao was wondering, Dad Lin also came back, and when he entered the door, he was also stunned when he saw that Mother Lin had arrived home.

After dinner, Lin's father and Lin's mother were lying on the bed chatting, and Lin Xiaoxiao understood what was going on.

"Our unit wants to get a tertiary industry, and we want to transfer me over."

"Three productions?" Dad Lin was stunned, now many state-owned enterprises are opening tertiary industries, and I heard that some tertiary industries are very profitable, but Lin Ma's unit actually wants to transfer her over? "When? What should you do for the tertiary industry of your unit? ”

"I just don't know yet." Mother Lin was also a little apprehensive, although this was also an opportunity, but she didn't grasp it, who knew that the benefits of the three industries would definitely be good?

Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly said, yes, although I don't know when Lin Ma's unit changed the third industry in my previous life, it seems that it has been a matter of the past few years.

After Lin Ma went to the store department, the benefits were indeed quite good, but the problem was that this was the tertiary production of state-owned enterprises, that is to say, if the enterprises in the back were not strong, the small stores in front would be useless.

In the first few years, because the efficiency of the department was very good, Lin's mother's salary also rose, and a lot of household appliances and furniture were added to the family, and the Lin family bought two TVs on this basis. But when Lin Xiaoxiao was in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school, Lin's mother's unit became bankrupt because the burden behind it was too heavy.

In order to relieve the siege of the original unit, the store with the best efficiency was sold, and Lin's mother was idle until she was laid off. During this period, there was not a penny of salary, and the unit did not solve the work problem.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiaoxiao was a little worried, although she knew about this problem, she didn't know how to solve it. In the short term, there will be no problems with Lin's mother's work, but what about later? When Mama Lin is unemployed, how can she keep the Lin family from being too difficult?

How to help my mother want to make money? Or is there some other way out?

Lin Xiaoxiao has a good talent in art, but everyone has strengths and weaknesses, and her shortcomings are naturally economic.

Although arithmetic is not bad, but a person who can do arithmetic does not mean that she can do business, and she has no business experience in her previous life, so she can't come up with any good ideas at all.

The sound of Daddy Lin and Mom's discussion came from his ears again, and then he finally made a decision, "Go!" If you have the opportunity, you have to seize it, and if you don't have the opportunity to create it, you have to seize it! Maybe the Lin family can be better off because of this? It's always better to go to that kind of store than to eat a big pot of rice now, right?

Lin Xiaoxiao laughed, and shook his head like a little adult - what do you want to do now? It's still early.

Sure enough, after Lin Ma returned to the unit, the decision of the unit to officially prepare for the establishment of the third industry also came down, and within a few days, the new company was established, and the address of the unit was on the same road as the Lin family, about half an hour to the west.

Now, Mama Lin's place of work is suddenly closer, and she can even go home for lunch at noon every day, and Dad Lin doesn't have to pick up Mama Lin nervously when it comes to getting off work, which is a great joy for everyone.

Seeing that the days are in September, the living conditions of the Lin family have indeed improved slightly because of Lin's mother's work, at least the chance of eating meat once a week can be changed to twice a week.

It's just that Grandma Lin still maintains the habit of spending money lavishly, which makes Lin's father and Lin's mother very headache, and wants to seize power, right? I'm afraid that the old man won't be happy, but don't take it? This old lady spends money and is not sure.

Fortunately, now Aunt Lin can't even eat and take it, but the number of times she comes to Lin's house to eat has not decreased.

The time entered September, and Lin Xiaoxiao pondered it.

September 24th is Grandma Lin's birthday, this year's birthday is very special, it is Grandma Lin's sixty-sixth birthday, this is a big day, Lin Dad Lin Ma has notified some relatives who have a good relationship in advance, although the Lin family is small, but what should be prepared still has to be prepared for the elderly.

In addition, the efficiency of Lin's mother's unit has become better, and the Lin family is ready to give Grandma Lin a big deal.

As a granddaughter, Grandma Lin brought up Lin Xiaoxiao since she was a child. No matter how she usually handles people, she cares for Lin Xiaoxiao at all, so Lin Xiaoxiao decided to prepare a birthday gift for Grandma Lin.

Embroider something?

Looking down at the handkerchief that was just embroidered a few days ago, although the appearance was okay, Lin Xiaoxiao always felt that there was still some short, after all, her embroidery method was not a clever embroidery method.

Or...... Write in big print? That's a good idea.

Since it's a birthday, let's write a picture of longevity, right? Thinking of this, Lin Xiaoxiao hurriedly turned out the pile of stickers she had spread, she had practiced all those stickers, and knew that there were a lot of various forms of longevity characters in them.

"My eldest brother, second brother, and third brother all came over, but our family is too small, plus the second uncle's family, and Xiaofang's family...... We can't sit down, huh? There was Mama Lin's voice in her ears, and she was discussing with Dad Lin about celebrating Grandma Lin's birthday.

Second uncle?

Suddenly, the second uncle's reluctance to teach him to paint flashed in his mind, Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes rolled, and he smiled "hehe" in his stomach.

Meow, you don't teach me to draw, isn't it because you see that I have a little talent, so I'm afraid that I will draw better than you in the end? In that case, let's draw another picture and frame it and hang it at the head of Grandma's bed!

Thinking that nature had to be done, early the next morning, Lin Xiaoxiao, who came back from going out, took out two large pieces of rice paper as soon as he entered the door, and held the various colors of "Shou" characters he selected, studying how to lay out and how to write.

Writing this 100 longevity chart is generally divided into two ways to write, one is a big "longevity" word in the middle, surrounded by 99 small longevity characters that are distributed in a rectangular shape or in a circle.

The other is to write all these 100 longevity characters into a big longevity character to form a word.

Thinking about it, I have been practicing writing small characters, I am afraid that I can't write big characters well, and there is no big pen at home, even if I write it hard, I am afraid that I will not become an anti-dog.

After deciding on the direction, Lin Xiaoxiao drew the layout on the rice paper with a very light pencil, and then wrote carefully word by word. This Baishou diagram this time, it is the first time she has written so seriously since she practiced calligraphy, one after another, different shapes, different postures of small characters flowed out of her hands, only that one word, it took her eight hours of time!

After writing, she put the character in front of the wall of the inner room, looked left and right for a long time, and finally was not satisfied, and after finding out what she was not satisfied with, she directly covered another piece of rice paper on top of the previous one, and wrote another one according to the distribution on it.

After hanging up again, Lin Xiaoxiao was satisfied.

The painting she decided to paint was based on several different versions of the ink figure painting, and finally took shape with her own understanding.

The painting took her three days.

Her three days are not ordinary people's three days, every day except for the long-distance running exercise and sketching flute that can't be beaten by lightning for one hour in the morning, in the remaining three hours, even if she goes out to the bookstore, she is rummaging back and forth in the bookstore in order to find materials.

As soon as the two calligraphy and paintings were completed, Lin Xiaoxiao rolled them up, put on his own little family background, and pushed the door out.

Because Lin Xiaoxiao recently either lied that she was going to play in the yard or playing chess with her neighbor Li Ling, Grandma Lin didn't care when Lin Xiaoxiao went out, but where did she think that Lin Xiaoxiao actually took the two pieces of rice paper and walked directly out of the yard and walked towards the East Street behind......

Although Dongdajie is not as prosperous as Renmin Road and Wanshou Street, it can be regarded as a commercial area in the city center. There is a section of the road here is the famous snack street of N City, and at night, those who buy mutton skewers and sell all kinds of snacks occupy this place, and it is very lively.

Lin Xiaoxiao went to a calligraphy shop at the end of the snack street, not far from Lin's house. This is a well-known calligraphy store in N City, which has all kinds of pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, and there are many calligraphy works on display in it.

After going out for a while, Lin Xiaoxiao arrived at the door of this store. In the past, even when she bought ink brushes, she had never been here, and neither did Father Lin and Mother Lin.

Because it looks more professional, this kind of store will always give people the illusion that "it's expensive", but since Lin Xiaoxiao wants to frame his work, there is really no other way than to come here.

"Huh? Kids, what are you here to buy? "The owner of the store is a forty-year-old uncle, who is listening to the book review in the store.

"Uncle, I want to frame the calligraphy." Lin Xiaoxiao was too small to reach the top of the counter, so she had to hold her toes and hand over the two rice paper rings.

The uncle hurriedly got up and took the two pieces of paper, and asked curiously, "Who drew this?" ”

"I painted it, uncle, how much does it cost to frame these two?" Lin Xiaoxiao was very worried, for fear that it would be too expensive and she would not be able to pay it.

"I'll see." The uncle smiled and put the paper roll on the counter and framed the children's works, they don't have a lot of this kind of work in the store, but it is usually parents who bring their children here, and it is the first time they have seen the children come by themselves.

As soon as it was opened, the owner of the store was stunned, Baishoutu?! Although the pen power of the word is weak, how can this word be written by a four or five-year-old child?!

I was about to ask Lin Xiaoxiao how old she was, and the boss swept the signature of this work at a glance, "Lin Xiaoxiao is four years old", four years old...... Four?!

"Little girl, you wrote this?!"

Lin smiled and nodded.

Uncle gasped, this word, where can I practice it without two or three years of hard work? Could this kid be a genius? Little prodigy?

Lin Xiaoxiao has been practicing calligraphy since she was two and a half years old, and she has to spend two times a day to delay the time, and now she has been practicing for a year and a half, plus she has a little foundation in her previous life, so it is not surprising that she writes such words.