Chapter 1: Rebirth in the early nineties
"Cauldron, cauldron, wake up and eat!"
Zhang Xuebing was shaken awake in his sleep, hey, like Xin'er's voice, she obviously died of illness more than 20 years ago, did she dream of her again?
When I opened my eyes, I saw a girl of seventeen or eighteen standing in front of her, dressed in a blue gown full of patches but very clean.
The slender braids lined the thin and beautiful cheeks, and the big eyes were slightly green, but it was Su Xin'er, who had been dead for more than 20 years!
That's right, it's her, this girl has bitten her tongue since she was a child, and she can't tell the difference between brother and pot, but what's going on?
The dim sunset shone in through the dilapidated window, staining the small room with a dull color, which felt old.
There are a few coarse porcelain tea bowls on the earthen walls, brown trampolines, a table with a missing leg, and the only household appliance is a light bulb!
The walls are plastered with dark yellow newspapers, and the latest headline is clearly printed with "Warm Celebration of the 11th Asian Games"!
It was one day in 1991!
I actually returned to the old house in Zhangjia Village, my hometown in Ludong Mountain, thirty-two years ago!
The hometown is in a deep mountain ravine, the grain production is very low, and it belongs to the bottom of the poor county, and the villagers rely on relief grain to make a living every year.
The Zhang family only has two brothers to live, but it is considered to be rich in the village, contracting a few acres of hillside land, and raising ploughing cattle, goats, and chickens.
In the fourteenth year of Zhang Xuebing, his brother married a beautiful sister-in-law who was famous in all towns and villages.
But on the day he passed the door, his brother accidentally fell off the cliff and returned to the west.
In this era, it is rare to remarry, and it is even more impossible in the mountains, the uncle and sister-in-law plus the sister-in-law Su Xin'er, the family of three has made do with it.
My sister-in-law became depressed and became a medicine jar, and in order to make ends meet for treatment, she sold cattle and sheep a few years later, and her family became poorer and poorer.
At first, the production in the fields and the relief food were barely enough to make ends meet, but after 90 years, the relief food from above is getting less and less, and the whole family is about to go hungry.
I didn't know what the reason was at the time, but many years later, Zhang Xuebing overheard a fellow villager say that it was because the village chief Zhang Yongzhong deducted relief food.
In front of me, a few acres of land will definitely not be able to feed a family of three!
In the year of Su Xin'er's college entrance examination, Zhang Xuebing gritted his teeth and said goodbye without saying goodbye, and entered the city penniless.
In order to make money, he went to the construction site to move bricks, worked as a security guard in the city, was deceived by pyramid schemes, did all the low-level work in the past few years, and suffered all the human sorrows.
But he endured it, worked hard day and night, and in order to save expenses, he didn't even go home once in three years, bent on letting his sister-in-law and Xin'er live a good life.
Three years later, he earned more than 30,000 yuan, which was a lot of money in the early nineties in the mountainous area, enough to build a new house and marry a daughter-in-law!
He rushed back to his hometown with all his savings!
What I saw was that the house collapsed, the land was barren, and my sister-in-law and Xin'er became two graves on the barren mountain!
I learned from my neighbor that Xin'er had excellent results in the college entrance examination two years ago, but she had no money to go to school, so she had a heart attack and was sent to the county hospital without rescue.
It didn't take long for my sister-in-law to relapse and her body deteriorated, and she passed away in a cold winter.
Zhang Xuebing sat on the grave without eating or drinking for three days and three nights, and the whole person looked like he was more than ten years old.
Three days later, he thanked the kind villagers who helped take care of the afterlife, left them some money, and resolutely left his hometown and never returned to this sad land.
Since then, he has used his savings to start various small businesses, and he has lived frugally without distractions, making his business bigger and bigger.
But the lost youth and relatives can never come back, every night he falls into deep self-blame and guilt, if he didn't go for three years without news, his sister-in-law and Xin'er would not have had an accident.
How many times he saw them in his dreams, only to wake up with a pillow soaked with tears!
This time, is it another dream?
I pinched my arm, it hurt, it's not a dream!
Today, my dream has come true and I have been reborn!
Zhang Xuebing got up from the bed with a bone, holding the little girl's face as if he was holding a treasure, his forehead against her forehead, and whispered: "It's good, it's good to see you again!" ”
"Cauldron are you stupid?" Su Xin'er picked up her little pink fist, gave him a brain breakdown, broke away from her blushing face, ran to the door like a deer, pinched Xiaoman's waist, and pouted!
"Hmph, I won't call you a cauldron anymore, Zhang Xuebing hurry up and eat, our sister is in a hurry!" After speaking, he shook his long braid and ran into the small courtyard.
Her figure was very long in the sunset, and she looked even thinner, Zhang Xuebing couldn't help but feel distressed!
"Eat, cough, cough, Xin'er, wash your hands!" Sister-in-law Su Wan'er coughed violently and came out of the smoky kitchen.
The earthy yellow clay pot full of gaps is bubbling with heat and the fragrance of sweet potato porridge, and the enamel plate with unclear color is a few black pickles, these are the dinners of the three members of the Zhang family.
In front of Zhang Xuebing is a wooden bowl specially filled with sweet potatoes by his sister-in-law, as a strong laborer in the family, he has the right to eat dry, while others are thin soup and little water!
His heart ached.
When Su Xin'er was still growing her body, her sister-in-law's body was also weak, how could she just eat these?
The Zhang family is almost unable to afford to eat, and Zhang Xuebing remembers that the family still owes the village chief's family grain, and when the autumn harvest is harvested, he will have to pay back a few hundred catties with interest!
Thinking of this, his eyes were a little hot, and he hurriedly raised his head, looked at the dusty beams, clenched his fists, and silently said, "I want to make money, make a lot of money!" ”
With the experience of the previous life, the information that is more than 20 years ahead of others, I will definitely make a fortune and make a lot of money, so that my sister-in-law and Xin'er can live the best life.
It is now the beginning of the 90s, just 10 years of reform and opening up, and it is about to usher in a wave of layoffs.
The real estate industry is not yet on the rise!
The manufacturing industry has not yet started!
The financial aspect?
I remember that the Shanghai Stock Exchange just opened in December last year, and now the market is in a downturn, and now it is not a good time to speculate in stocks.
What exactly is a good thing to do?
At this time, China was a big agricultural country, and agricultural products accounted for a large proportion of exports.
It's just that agricultural products can't be sold at high prices, so the rural economy is very sluggish.
In later generations, some agricultural products were indeed sold at sky-high prices, such as garlic and green onions......
There are also things that South American pigs don't eat through the marketing methods of masters, and they are sold for hundreds of pounds of sky-high fruits in China.
The key to this is not the product, but the marketing method!
With proper marketing, even garbage can be sold for a good price.
But you have to have the capital to do everything, and now I'm afraid that I don't even have a hundred yuan at home, and I can't do anything!
If you follow the path of the previous life, go to work first to earn enough capital, even if the cucumber vegetables are cold!
Suddenly, he thought of those wild pools and ponds in the mountains behind the village, and his heart suddenly brightened, and the opportunity to make a fortune came, and the first pot of gold depended on them!