Zhao Ermei has talked to Dongfang Siyi about He Xiangdong many times.

He Xiangdong is a decentralized educated youth in S City, and during the decentralization, he sparked a spark of love with a local girl surnamed Liu. A boy was born less than five months after marriage, and getting pregnant out of wedlock was regarded as an indecent joke by the villagers.

The story of him and Miss Liu was used as an after-dinner conversation by the villagers for several years, and as long as a local girl fell in love with an educated youth, she would be warned by her parents: "Don't make jokes like them, it will make our family look up." ”

He Xiangdong didn't expect that his love story would become a negative teaching material for the villagers to educate their children, and he thought that he could only stay in the decentralized countryside for the rest of his life, so he named the child He Sihai.

After the national and local governments introduced policies to allow educated youths to return to the city, He Xiangdong struggled for a while, but still chose to go through the divorce procedures with Miss Liu, and returned to S City with the tide of returning to the city. As a result, He Xiangdong has become the modern Chen Shimei in the eyes of the villagers, and the story of his divorce from Miss Liu has become a negative teaching material for the villagers to educate their children.

He Xiangdong, who returned to S City with two negative textbooks, did not successfully usher in the happy time of his life.

At that time, S City was also a hundred industries to be prospered, He Xiangdong had five brothers and sisters, plus elderly parents, a family of more than a dozen people crowded into an old house of less than 50 square meters, after his youngest brother returned to the city, he did not take it for granted that his family should be welcomed, every day he got up from the ground and opened his eyes, but what he saw was a cold face like a stranger.

What he didn't expect was that after a month passed, the boss officially had a showdown with him: "The first month, we owe you." From now on, as long as you live here, you will have to pay for food every month. And this house has nothing to do with you, to live here, you have to pay rent. ”

The eldest is married and has children, and he is the person with the best job and the highest income in the family. This house was also allocated with the help of his wife's maiden relatives, so he naturally had the final say.

He Xiangdong was completely dumbfounded, there was no hope of finding a job, and this family could not accommodate him, he began to doubt his life and asked himself: "Why should I go back to the city?" By the way, in order for children born in the countryside to become urban people, this is the biggest problem, and it is more important than returning to the city by yourself. When he was desperate, He Xiangdong had not forgotten to find a way out for his children left in the countryside and seek a good future.

According to the policy of returning to the city at that time in S City, when the educated youth returned to the city, they could settle down according to the regulations. If the children born after marriage in rural areas want to settle down, they must meet the following basic conditions: each household of educated youth (including both husband and wife are educated youths in S city and one of the husband and wife is in S city) allows one unmarried and unemployed child who has reached the age of 16 or graduated from junior high school or above to study in S city. However, there is also a condition, that is, there must be parents and siblings of the educated youth in S City as guardians of the children of the educated youth, and they can solve the housing problem on their own.

He Xiangdong understands very well that if He Sihai can settle in S City smoothly, become a person in S City, and enjoy the policy of studying and working in S City in the future, he must obtain the consent of the boss. Without the consent of the boss as a guardian and the current address as the address of the settlement, the registration of the settlement cannot be completed.

He Xiangdong compromised, agreed to all the demands made by the boss, and he wrote a letter of commitment. The letter of undertaking confirms that He Xiangdong does not have any rights to the existing residential house of the He family, and that he will solve the accommodation and employment problems on his own after returning to S City. Out of consideration for family relations, He Xiangdong's young son He Sihai can temporarily live in the He family's existing house in order to settle down and go to school. All He Sihai's living needs such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, as well as all expenses for schooling, will be solved by He Xiangdong himself.

He Xiangdong finally helped his son He Sihai settle in S City, but in order to solve the problem of life, He Xiangdong could only temporarily return to the decentralized countryside. Fortunately, according to the development and change of the local situation, the corresponding preferential care policy for the resettlement and decentralization of educated youth was introduced, and He Xiangdong successfully entered the county-owned enterprise Xinfeng Textile Factory, and with his own talent and efforts, he was quickly appointed as the deputy director in charge of technology after entering the factory for one year.

After being entrusted by the factory director to visit Zhao Ermei, who fell ill due to continuous overtime, He Xiangdong and the factory director reported the opinions of Liu Ping, director of the county party committee office, and the factory director thought that this opinion was indeed feasible and nodded: "You are the deputy factory director in charge of technology, and you are responsible for the implementation of this matter." When it comes to setting up a technical team for the factory, you come up with a plan and then study it. ”

He Xiangdong soon came up with a specific plan, after the collective study of the factory leadership team, it was decided to formally set up the technical team of Xinfeng Textile Factory, the technical team was served by the factory director as a consultant, He Xiangdong was the team leader, Zhao Ermei was the deputy team leader, and the members included the technical backbone of the workshop and the relevant person in charge of the logistics department.

In the process of technological innovation, as the deputy director in charge, He Xiangdong provided a lot of help and support to Zhao Ermei. In order to solve the larger technical problems, he also made a special trip back to S City, found a middle school classmate who was a leader in the textile industry in S City, and with his help, he specially visited and inspected several large state-owned textile factories, and obtained the most advanced technology and process information in China at that time.

After the technical team carried out its work, it did make some achievements. Because of the participation of front-line operators, dozens of improvements were put forward in terms of refining the operation process and the personal safety protection of female workers.

Practice has proved that after adopting these new methods and processes, the quality and efficiency of production have indeed been significantly improved, and the safety accidents of female workers have also decreased significantly. It has been well received from the top and bottom of the Xinfeng Textile Factory. Zhao Ermei was also rated as a county model worker and "38 Red Flag Bearer". At the commendation meeting, Liu Ping, who had been promoted to deputy county magistrate, personally put on a big red flower for her and awarded her a certificate of honor.

Zhao Ermei noticed He Xiangdong's good impression of her, but she didn't expect him to woo her, because she knew that he would have to return to S City sooner or later.

Before He Xiangdong courted Zhao Ermei, he didn't think about returning to S City, but he felt that his current situation was far better than going back, and he didn't know when it would change. Before the change, he only wanted to decide everything according to the current situation, not because he was short-sighted, but because he was a realist, or rather an affordist, who always lived according to the rules of reality.

"He proposed to me three times before I agreed." Zhao Ermei looked at Dongfang Siyi and shook her head: "I shouldn't have promised him, I had a feeling at that time that we would not be together until we grew old." Alas, why should I marry again, why should I marry such a selfish man as him? ”

Zhao Ermei and He Xiangdong got married. After receiving the marriage certificate, they jointly applied to Xinfeng Textile Factory for two dormitories in the name of husband and wife, and simply renovated them to make their new house. Because both of them were married for the second time, they only held a simple wedding and lived together.

In the second year after marriage, Zhao Ermei and He Xiangdong had a daughter, and they named her He Siyan. The arrival of their daughter He Siyan made them regain their happiness as parents, and at the same time, they also began to worry about their daughter's future together.

If life goes according to the envisioned track as always, they may grow old with affection and affection. But imagination is just imagination, and there will always be changes in life that you don't expect. Some changes will catch you off guard, and some will completely change your life. In the face of those unexpected changes, you have to make new choices with difficulty.

In the face of marketization, the optimal allocation of factors of production depends on the synthesis of various factors that are constantly changing. The so-called butterfly effect is the effect of this synthesis. What Zhao Ermei didn't expect was that a crisis in the textile industry was quietly approaching, and this crisis would undoubtedly change the fate of some practitioners in the industry.

With the cyclical development and change of the international economy, the competitiveness of the domestic textile industry has begun to decline. Among them, the important reason is the disappearance of labor cost advantages, the impact of rising prices of raw materials and enterprise electricity, and the improvement and restriction of environmental protection requirements, resulting in unprecedented pressure on the operation of textile enterprises. The impact of the foreign economic crisis has caused the market demand to fall into a downturn for a long time, which in turn has affected the domestic competition to become more intense.

In the face of unprecedented difficulties, textile companies are trying their best to reduce costs and try their best to survive by opening up new markets. Some enterprises with strategic vision and resource advantages have won high added value with core competitiveness in the market segment by avoiding homogeneous and low-end competition, re-energizing the vitality of textile enterprises, and successfully breaking through under many resistances. However, more low-end enterprises are slumping, falling deeper and deeper in the predicament, some choose to be merged and reorganized, some choose to go bankrupt, and finally be eliminated by the market.

In the face of external pressure, Xinfeng Textile Factory has also encountered the biggest difficulties since its establishment. The price of raw materials has risen, orders have decreased, products cannot be sold, a large number of backlogs are in the warehouse, finances are tight, and wages cannot be paid.

After more than a month of suspension of production, the helpless factory director came to He Xiangdong to discuss and said: "I know that you still have some related households in S City, so you will think about the employees of the whole factory, go on a business trip in person, and see if you can find a relationship to think of a way, sell these inventory products first, solve everyone's wage problem, and keep everyone's job." ”

He Xiangdong knew that Xinfeng Textile Factory had reached the point of exhaustion, and he was also thinking about whether he could find a new way out for himself as soon as possible. He Xiangdong's keen sense of smell made him feel that an unprecedented crisis was approaching, and he couldn't sit still, he had to take the initiative to find a way out. As one of the leaders of the factory, he will naturally say that it is for the fresh wind textile factory, but he thinks more about himself in his heart.

Half a month later, He Xiangdong finally came back from S City with a paper contract, and according to the conditions written in the contract, all the inventory products found buyers. He Xiangdong also told everyone that the contract was identified with a trade agent, and if the contract can be performed for a long time, there is hope that in the future, there is hope to directly get the contract for export trade merchants, so that you can earn foreign exchange.

Everyone was very excited when they heard it, and felt that He Xiangdong had made a great contribution to the factory this time, and praised him for his shrewdness and ability. After all, S City is an international metropolis, and people who come out of S City are business-minded. After the collective meeting of the factory leaders, it was decided to deliver the goods to the door in accordance with the conditions stipulated in the contract.

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