Li Yunhai took Shen Xiulan into the Yinyuan Restaurant.

Business is surprisingly good, and bicycles are parked in front of the door.

The door says business hours, and it's open from six p.m. to three a.m.

Li Yunhai sighed twice, thinking that the people of the provincial city really like to spend the night!

Regular restaurants close at nine p.m. at most.

The night market is open until midnight.

"The food in this shop is very expensive." As soon as Shen Xiulan saw the decoration of this store, she knew that the grade was not low, and said softly, "Yunhai, let's just go to Yang Yuxing to eat noodles." ”

She has been frugal since she was a child, and she just spent ten yuan on lipstick, feeling very extravagant and wasteful, and she is unwilling to spend more.

"Come to the night market street, of course, you have to eat something different!" After Li Yunhai finished speaking, he saw her standing still, so he pulled her hand, came to the store to find a place to sit down, and ordered a lo-mei platter, a crockpot pork ribs simmering soup, a spicy snail, and two fried rice noodles.

The meat dishes here are all one dollar per serving, and the egg fried rice noodles cost three cents and eight cents a bowl.

Shen Xiulan shouted vigorously: "Enough!" That's enough! You're ordering too much! The food here is so expensive, it's a few bucks! Just order two bowls of fried rice noodles! ”

While waiting for the dishes, she asked Li Yunhai: "When will you go back to the county to work?" I didn't even dare to tell my parents, if they knew that you were still setting up a stall in the provincial capital as a self-employed person, they would even object to us being together. ”

Li Yunhai was silent for a moment, and said slowly but firmly: "Xiulan, I don't want to go to work in the machinery factory anymore. ”

Shen Xiulan rested the elbow of her right hand on the table, supported her chin, looked at Li Yunhai, and said, "I know you want to stay in the provincial capital, but it is difficult to find a job in the provincial capital." I was able to enter the business bureau, and my parents had already found all the connections. The main thing is the issue of policy, the distribution of graduates, where to go back and forth. Unless there is a unit in the provincial capital that can hire you exceptionally. ”

Li Yunhai said calmly: "Xiulan, I don't look for a unit anymore, I want to be self-employed." ”

Shen Xiulan seemed to have heard some incredible news, her eyes widened, her right hand was put down, she couldn't help but grab Li Yunhai's hand, and said eagerly: "No! Yunhai, how can you not work? Don't you want to be a national worker? ”

Li Yunhai turned his hand, held her soft and slender little hand, and said, "Xiulan, look at this hot night market street, and then look at this full restaurant, what does this mean?" It shows that the individual economy is on fire! I just saw a sign hanging in front of the store, and the opening hours have been changed to 3 o'clock in the morning! The former state-run hotel closed at 9 p.m. What does this mean? It shows that society is becoming more and more open! ”

Shen Xiulan just shook her head and said anxiously: "Yunhai, those who are self-employed are all done by people who don't have a proper job. Don't you just want to get ahead and become a national worker after reading so many books? ”

Li Yunhai patted the back of her hand and said, "Xiulan, let me tell you, even if it is this group of self-employed people who set up stalls outside, they will all become the ones who get rich first!" The purchase price of a piece of clothing in Huacheng is more than ten or twenty yuan, and it can be sold for 50 to 100 yuan on the night market street here! The lipstick we bought just now may only cost a few cents for the purchase price! ”

Shen Xiulan was dumbfounded when she heard this, she had never done business, and she had no business brains and ideas, and her thinking and habits of buying things were still in the stage of planning distribution and state-run sales. In the state-run stores where you buy with tickets, all the items are clearly marked, and the common people have to look at the face of the salesperson even if they pay for a thing.

She never considered, how much does an item cost? How much money can I make?

Li Yunhai told her that in this era, as long as you dare to go to the sea to set up a stall, you can make money and become the first person to get rich. In fact, the first people who set up stalls in Xizhou Night Market Street have made money, some of them took advantage of the east wind to go abroad, and some of them held a lot of money, and they began to speculate in stocks in the nineties, and entered another golden outlet.

Shen Xiulan said sincerely: "Yunhai, you can make money as much as you work, and you can support your family as well. Both of us have jobs, just like my parents, and we can live a good life without worrying about food and clothing in the future. What's the use of making more money? ”

In the era when houses were distributed and electrical appliances, grain and oil, and bicycles had to be purchased with tickets, no matter how much money there was, it was impossible to buy a house or a car. In Shen Xiulan's opinion, it is good to have enough money, and no matter how much money there is, it is indeed of little use.

Shen Xiulan wants to live a life that is the kind of stable life of her father's generation, the husband and wife are both state workers, and they receive their salaries, food stamps and various tickets on time every month, and then carry a basket and push a cart to go to the designated grain store to buy three cents a pound of grain, and buy nine cents a pound of pork to eat several times a month, which is already a happy life.

She couldn't imagine that in a few years, this society would be turned upside down!

The social productive forces will be further liberated, the material will be further enriched, all kinds of indispensable vouchers will be withdrawn from the stage of history, houses and cars can be purchased with tickets, the iron rice bowl of workers will no longer be iron, and the status of self-employed people will be significantly improved. The happiness of the people is measured by the weight of the banknotes.

Li Yunhai has been through all this.

When a person has suffered a huge setback, he will start his whole life from the beginning.

If you had to do it all over again, you would of course have to make a different choice.

Li Yunhai said with a stirring mind: "Xiulan, this is an era of fireworks and poetry, an era of openness, inclusiveness and feelings, and an era of free and unrestrained thoughts. We are fortunate to be born in this great era of peace, and the society has experienced more than 30 years of Haiyan River Clearing, and has encountered a great opportunity for reform and opening up. I don't want to stay in that small broken factory in the county for the rest of my life, I want to break out of a broad world and make a career that lives up to the time. ”

Shen Xiulan was stunned, as if she didn't know her, she looked at Li Yunhai in front of her.

This man has become different!

He's so radiant! There is a kind of self-confidence that in life for 200 years, there will be a heroic spirit that will be 3,000 miles of water and excitement, there is a kind of heroic temperament that the sons and daughters of Huxiang dare to be the first and dare to be the first in the world!

But, but!

Improper state workers?

Can it really be?

Shen Xiulan frowned at her slender eyebrows like willow leaves, her plump chest rose and fell because she was too excited, she couldn't understand Li Yunhai's thoughts about the vast sea and sky, she only cared about the small world of two people, and said: "Yunhai, you don't have a job, you are not a national worker, so what should we do?" My mom and dad would definitely be against us being together! Don't you want to be with me? ”

Li Yunhai smiled slightly: "Xiulan, I did this precisely to be better with you." If I go back to the county to work, then you and I will be separated. The loneliest people are often not single men, but the kind of men who have wives but live a widowed life. I have a home but I can't enjoy the warmth, and I can't sleep with a wife. There is no porridge cooked in the morning, no lamp left in the middle of the night, no care when you are upset, and no comfort when you are wronged. ”

When Shen Xiulan heard this, she was like hearing thunder and lightning and a sudden storm, and she couldn't react at all, she was shocked and helpless. She pitied Li Yunhai, but she couldn't imagine that if Li Yunhai was really not a national worker and was with him, the future would be a good or a disaster!

She felt like a leaf, floating on the mighty sea, not knowing where to go.

Li Yunhai saw her hesitation, and asked with a hint of anxiety: "Xiulan, if I really become a self-employed person, don't you want to be with me anymore?" ”

He dared to ask such a question, and he was ready.

No matter what Shen Xiulan's answer is, Li Yunhai will not change his decision!

The road of life, after all, depends on one's own choice, and it is up to oneself to complete every step.