In the winter of 94, in a small county unit building in western Shanxi.

There was no need for an alarm clock, so Chang Juemin woke up on time as usual, picked up the slightly old Tianying brand mechanical watch on the bedside table, and sure enough, it was a quarter of an hour after seven o'clock.

Chang Juemin put on his coat and sat up from the bed, this year's winter came relatively early, and before December, it was already too cold.

Chang Juemin rubbed his hands, and while his hands were still hot, he reached into the cradle next to the bed and gently pinched the white and tender little baby in the cradle.

The sudden touch made the little baby feel a little uncomfortable, squirmed his little mouth, and continued to immerse himself in sweet sleep.

Looking at the baby in the cradle, Chang Juemin always couldn't stop rejoicing, it was his daughter, just five months old, and going to work every day was the most reluctant time for him, because that meant that he would not see his daughter for a whole day.

"The child is sleeping well, don't wake up again, you went to work with a slap on your buttocks, and you have to coax me for a long time."

This is his wife Ai Meifeng, a counter salesman in the county supply and marketing cooperative, with a bit of a pungent temperament, before marrying Chang Juemin, he also experienced a marriage, divorced due to her ex-husband's domestic violence, and has a son.

It stands to reason that Chang Juemin is a young man, and he graduated from college and works in the county tax office, so it is unlikely that he will marry a second marriage, but when Chang Juemin saw Ai Meifeng for the first time, he was attracted by this beautiful, strong and kind woman.

After the two got married, Chang Juemin regarded Ai Meifeng's child as his own, and when his daughter was born, he was even more ecstatic, he always felt that his family would live in such harmony and beauty.

"Xiao Qiang, get me back to dinner, after eating, I will send you to the Children's Palace to learn Go, every day, I know that I am naughty, I will pay you so much money to learn Go, and I don't know how to study hard, if you want to be heard by me again, the teacher will sue me, you will be careful of your ass."

As she spoke, Ai Meifeng copied the little boy who was about to sneak into the room to see her sister, and began to think about it.

The little boy struggled to break free from his mother's clutches, and shouted loudly:

"I want to see my sister, I want to see my sister, I don't want you to send it, I want my dad to send it, and my dad said to buy me candy."

"You buy a fart, you look like a candy man."

"And you Chang Juemin, there is no door on your mouth, you can give whatever the child wants, eat candy and eat what your teeth are, and buy it! Hurry up and put on your pants and go out to eat, who will walk the birds in the early morning! ”

Chang Juemin felt a little noisy, but his heart was warm, because this was the breath of a home.

After eating, Chang Juemin pushed his 28 bars and sent Xiao Qiang to the Children's Palace, and then went to the unit. Then don't eat it tomorrow.

The working hours of the supply and marketing cooperatives are relatively relaxed, so Ai Meifeng still has time to clean up the housework, and then take her daughter to work, although taking children to work is not very in line with the regulations, but Ai Meifeng is also an old man in the supply and marketing cooperative, and the leaders are also sympathetic to her situation, and they all turn a blind eye and do not affect the work.

Because Chang Juemin's parents died early, there is no old man at home to take care of the children, as for Ai Meifeng's parents, if they are good to Ai Meifeng, how can they let Ai Meifeng be bullied like that in her ex-husband's house, it is too late to bring her grandson at home, let alone help bring her granddaughter.

Originally, Ai Meifeng planned to resign for the sake of her children, but she was really reluctant to work now, so she could only insist on taking her children to work, and when the children were older, she would sign up for a nursery class.

Because of the fear of freezing the child, Ai Meifeng has always taken the bus to commute, and I don't know if it's because it's too cold or what, today's bus is a little later than usual, Ai Meifeng is almost late for work, and when she got off the bus, Ai Meifeng pushed the stroller and hurried to the supply and marketing cooperative.

As soon as she entered the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative, Ai Meifeng found that all the salesmen were not in their posts, and they were whispering around a counter.

"What's the matter, early in the morning, the leaders are not here to hold a meeting without you? What national policies are being discussed? ”

Ai Meifeng untied her scarf and leaned over.

"Yo, let's Xiao Lele, it's still so cute, I know my aunt, I'll say hello to my aunt, when you're older, my aunt will give you chocolate candy to eat, imported."

Sister Wang, who is the oldest in the supply and marketing cooperative, was so happy when she saw the child that she stopped the topic just now, leaned out of the counter, and teased the child.

"Really quiet, really obedient, I will definitely be a person who knows how to feel sorry for my parents in the future."

Sister Wang looked at the child with uncontrollable envy in her eyes.

She is also a poor person, because her husband was injured in a mission, resulting in the loss of children, although because she feels sorry for her husband, she has never cared about the child, but when she sees that others have children and daughters, she can't help but feel pantothenic acid.

"That's how obedient you are, you haven't seen the excitement yesterday afternoon, you can't coax it."

Knowing Sister Wang's situation, Ai Meifeng didn't dare to bring the topic to the child, so she quickly pulled away from the topic and said:

"What did you just say, tell me quickly, you made my heart itch this morning."

"It's itching, I'm looking for you to go often, but don't look for us, hahaha."

A group of women got together, and the topic was much more open than the men, and they all laughed as they spoke.

After laughing, Sister Wang whispered:

"I just heard that our supply and marketing cooperatives are going to be unable to do it, and we are going to privatize it, just now I saw a few people in suits, and I went up to find Director Wang, you didn't see Director Wang's appearance, it was like seeing my father."

"How is this possible? How can this good supply and marketing cooperatives be privatized if they are privatized? This is the country ... Ai Meifeng was very surprised, how many years has this supply and marketing cooperative, more than ten years ago, when the public and private reforms were carried out, they didn't say that they wanted to be privatized, how can they now say that privatization is privatization.

"Why is it impossible, I heard from our family, now that society is changing, how to say that, the change is changing with each passing day, one day at a time, self-employed households, private shopping malls are mushrooming after a rain, what market-oriented competition is becoming more and more fierce."

"That's good, how many years have our supply and marketing cooperatives, every day is such things, it used to be fine, you can only come here to buy anything you want to buy, and you need a ticket, you see the shopping mall next door, what you want, it's all new tricks, as long as you have money, you can buy anything."

"That is, I heard that the supply and marketing cooperatives have been losing money year after year, if it weren't for the annual financial support, even the wages of our employees could not be paid, according to our Director Liang's statement, every New Year's holiday, he had to carry the cover to the Finance Bureau to turn the fate, and lay the floor for a few days before approving the money, otherwise, we all have to drink the northwest wind."

"What's this, what's this?"

Whether Ai Meifeng wants to believe it or not, the current situation can't help but believe it.

Positions like theirs, although the salary is not high, the position is not high, but the treatment is good, it is commonly known as the iron rice bowl, don't look at 300 yuan a month, the grain, oil, rice and noodles sent every month, plus usually take some things at a low price, or distribute some expired products are also common things, this time and again, those wages of 1,000 yuan a month can not withstand their 300.

Not to mention anything else, Guang Changle is now drinking Dashan milk powder, this is a brand-name milk powder, it normally costs more than ten yuan a bag, and she can drink half a month's salary in just one month, and as an employee of the supply and marketing cooperative, the internal price is six yuan a bag, as long as it is not sold outside, the director will not say anything if he knows.

What this means is not to say how good their welfare is, but to say that once the supply and marketing cooperatives are changed from public to private, then their iron rice bowls will be smashed.

Individual bosses are all profit-oriented, but no matter how many years you are an old employee, you must be engaged in competition for posts, once this happens, then their good days are over.

They all understand this set too well, once the individual boss takes over, it is related, and the relationship is diverted and transferred, and continue to eat public meals, as for the okay, either be laid off or re-apply, as for Ai Meifeng now taking the child to work, it is even more unthinkable.

"No! I have to go to the director, and the unit can't ignore it for us. ”

As she spoke, Ai Meifeng threw the scarf in her hand on the counter and rushed to the office area upstairs.

"Alas! Alas! Miho! Miho! Why are you in a hurry when you talk about it, hey, this powder keg temper, it will explode at one point, don't run, you wait for us to order. ”

As he spoke, a group of people followed behind and passed by.

Xiao Changle was lying in the small cart, staring at the big ignorant eyes, and he didn't understand why his mother and these aunts suddenly left.

"Bully! What a bully! Say that we should take into account the overall situation, what sacrifice the small self to complete the big self, and think about others, we are not worthy of being individuals. ”

Ai Meifeng left with anger and returned with anger.

"Alas, Meifeng, you dissipate your anger first, isn't this matter undecided, wait a minute, I'll come soon!"

At this time, there were already a lot of customers buying things in the supply and marketing cooperative, and none of the salesmen were there, so they had already begun to be impatient, and Sister Wang couldn't care about comforting Ai Meifeng, so she hurried back to her counter.

Ai Meifeng also knew that it was not a matter of being so noisy, and she still had to go to this class, so she could only go along with it and go find her own stroller.

"Alas! Lele! My child, my child! I'm gone! ”

Chang Juemin took a cigarette, smoked one after another, called the police, and mobilized neighbors, colleagues and friends, and searched for a whole day, until midnight, before there was a news that a woman pushed a stroller onto a train, and when he checked it, the person didn't know where to get off the train.

Chang Juemin, who has quit smoking since he got married, can't stand the despair and grief in his heart, and can only smoke one after another to numb himself.

Ai Meifeng, who has always been strong, couldn't hold on and fell, didn't say anything, just pumped her mouth vigorously, and muttered that she blamed me, like a crazy woman, her face was swollen and bloodshot, and there were some blood stains that had been dried up at the corners of her mouth, and the young Xiao Qiang wanted to stop it, but he couldn't stop it.

"Dad, my mom is going to beat herself to death, Dad! Please, let my mom stop fighting, I'll go find my sister, I'll get my sister back, woo woo. ”

"That's enough."

Chang Juemin grabbed Ai Meifeng's hand, but the strength of that hand almost brought him to a stumble:

"Enough Meifeng, enough, even if you are killed, Lele will not be able to come back."

"Ouch, my granddaughter, my poor granddaughter is lost, my old woman is pitiful!"

As he was talking, there was a sound of crying and grabbing the ground outside the house, and I saw an old lady who sat on the ground and began to cry after entering the door.

This is Chang Juemin's mother-in-law, who has never seen two sides seriously since he got married, and it is his brother-in-law who glares at him angrily behind him.

Seeing her mother, Ai Meifeng, who was originally blank, flashed a cold light in her eyes, and scolded in a vague voice:

"I bullied my ex-husband, and when I begged you to help me, where were you? I have no one to take my child with me, and I beg you to help me bring it, where were you? I'm in confinement, and I often run back and forth home three times a day, where are you? I'm not dead, my Lele isn't dead, who are you crying for? ”

When the old woman heard the scolding, she also stopped crying, and scolded angrily:

"You are an unfilial daughter, how can you talk to your mother, I have seen since I was a child that you are useless, the son is better than the daughter, I tell you, I came today to take my grandson away, don't let my grandson be lost by you again, phew, lose money."

"You try!"

As soon as she heard that she was going to take her son away, Ai Meifeng, who had not yet come out of the grief of her daughter's loss, immediately went crazy, rushed to the kitchen and picked up the kitchen knife:

"I, Ai Meifeng, will start today, there will be no mother like you, if you dare to touch my son, I will hack you to death here today, I will pay you a few lives for one life, and I will also earn it!"

"Chang Juemin, you educated your wife like this?"

The old woman looked back at her son, but found that her son saw that his sister was really desperate and had already escaped, and he was a little panicked.

"My wife is not used for education, I don't need you to interfere in my family's affairs, get out!"

Although Chang Juemin has always been a good person, after all, he has been an organ cadre for so many years, and when he is really angry, the power on his body is also very scary.

"Okay, you're all good."

The old woman couldn't make a fuss, and she was a little bored, so she could only look at her grandson with a smile, but when she saw that her grandson was also looking at her with hatred, she could only scold Chang Juemin's family and leave.

Chang Juemin snatched the knife from Ai Meifeng's hand, put it on the chopping board, and his body suddenly fell down, and said in a deep voice:

"Tomorrow I will go to the unit to resign, and you will withdraw all the money from the family for me."

As soon as she heard Chang Juemin's words, Ai Meifeng endured a day's tears, and she couldn't stop it anymore:

"Lao Chang, you are the pillar, you stay at home, I went to find Lele, I lost her, I went to find her."

"Dad, Dad, don't you want us?"

Xiao Qiang hugged Chang Juemin's leg with tears in his eyes.

"My son hasn't grown up yet, I still need you, and it's not easy to go out, how can you reassure me when you go alone, you take care of the family and bring up your son well."

As he spoke, Chang Juemin took Xiao Qiang into his arms:

"Dad went out to find my sister, it's not that I don't want you, Dad will come back when I find my sister, Dad is not here, you are a man in the family, take good care of your mother, don't be bullied by others."