Chapter 7 Going to the Sea
The Hu family and his son chatted for most of the time. It was not until it was dark and the sound of unlocking sounded in the gate of the yard outside.
"That's great, we can have dinner when your mother comes back!" Hu Jiefang cheered, stood up neatly and ran outward.
Poor, the third generation of the Hu family, only one woman can cook in the whole family. If Xiao Yeqin didn't go home one day, the family would definitely be hungry for a whole day.
"Wife, come on, I'll get you a bag. Is it hard to work? Why, the institute is working overtime again today?"
Time has almost left no trace on Xiao Yeqin. If you really want to say it, it has only faded away the youth and dyed the charm of a mature woman. In this era, ordinary people do not have so many dazzling skin care products, but even just friendship cream and bee flower shampoo are enough to embellish her charm.
Although she is over 10 years old, Xiao Yeqin seems to be in her early thirties. No matter when, her waist is always straight, just like celery growing vigorously in the wild. The Xiao family is a scholarly family of generations, and Xiao Yeqin is a college student in the 1960s. She has the temperament of a woman half of the sky as her name suggests.
Being able to marry such a woman is the most proud achievement that Hu Jiefang has been in his life.
Xiao Yeqin handed the canvas bag in her hand to Hu Jiefang's hand, and there seemed to be nothing to say. However, after walking a few steps to the kitchen door, she took off the wooden cloth shoes on her feet, changed into slippers, and sighed, shaking her head, "The work in the institute is really not going to be done..."
"Why, what are your new directors? What are your thoughts?"
"The superiors want to promote Hua Luogeng's optimization method, which is a good thing, and it is somewhat helpful to research work." Xiao Yeqin pointed to the sink in the kitchen at home, asked Hu Jiefang to wash the vegetables first, sighed and continued: "But our new director is an impatient person. He came up with results in a few days before the promotion was promoted. This is not the beginning of the results statistics in each laboratory again, and each laboratory needs to issue reports and communicate with each other. In order to hurry, we left the research work at hand for a day, and no one will be allowed to go home today."
"This, the leader must have his own considerations..."
"Don't you have your own considerations? You are in a hurry to get promoted! You leaders only have your own future in your heart, no matter whether our subordinates have family members going hungry!"
Hu Jiefang smiled bitterly and had no choice but to say anything. Some things are like this, it has nothing to do with right or wrong, and everyone just shows their position. And when he is both a "leader" and a "family", the two contradictory identities are integrated, Hu Jiefang is really wrong no matter how he says it, and he doesn't know what to say.
"Mom, let me tell me that you might as well quit."
"Go away, what are you talking about? "Hu Jiefang turned around and found Hu Wenhai leaning on the door frame of the kitchen, waved his hand and drove him out and said, "Your mother is not at work, what you eat and drink, and you don't need money to go to school?"
"Do it yourself. Now there are people going into the business everywhere, and there are more people who make money in business."
"Going into the sea? You just watched the thief eat meat, but not the thief get beaten. What if you lose money? The whole family drinks the northwest wind? It's great to work at the unit, the wind cannot blow, the rain cannot be wet, and the country will be accustomed to you for the rest of your life."
"Dad, just your thoughts, no wonder the situation in the 501 factory is getting worse, tsk——"
"Boy, isn't your skin tight again?"
Hu Jiefang was trying to beat him, but Hu Wenhai curled his lips and ran out of the kitchen.
However, when Hu Jiefang drove Hu Wenhai away and looked back at Xiao Yeqin, he found that she was holding a kitchen knife in her hand, but the person was in a daze.
"Ha, my son has grown up and is no longer the obedient child." Hu Jiefang shook his head helplessly, took out the washed vegetables in the pond, and asked worriedly: "Wife, are you okay?"
"I? It's okay. But, in fact, what Wen Hai said may not be unreasonable." Xiao Yeqin said thoughtfully.
Hu Jiefang said meaninglessly: "It makes sense? What can he say, just a child, make sense."
"Our son is different from other people's children. You see, he has never made any wrong decisions since he was a child."
Hu Wenhai was reborn for more than ten years. At the beginning, of course, his words were like ordinary children. He was regarded as fart by his parents and forgot after he gave it. However, he could not resist the correct "fashion" he persisted in for more than ten years, and then he gradually gained a little bit of the power to speak in this family.
Although the decision-making power for major events is still in the hands of Hu Jiefang and Xiao Yeqin, Hu Wenhai does not need to seek Hu Wenhai's opinions when making decisions. However, long-term experience has given the two subconsciously aware that once Hu Wenhai expresses his opinions on something, it is best to treat him as an object to communicate with.
Xiao Yeqin is a mother, and there is no need to maintain the so-called dignity of the father. In this family, Hu Jiefang persisted in trying to gain the majesty of his father in Hu Wenhai, but Xiao Yeqin did not have to do so. He could even be proud of his son's keen vision and mature thoughts.
In other words, compared to Hu Jiefang's innate resistance to Hu Wenhai's suggestions, Xiao Yeqin can think about his suggestions from a more objective perspective.
"I have been working in the 64 Institute for more than ten years. If it weren't for no way, I wouldn't want to take this risk." Xiao Yeqin lowered her head and said, "But look, prices have been rising in the past two years, but their salary has basically not moved. No matter how you say you are the deputy division-level military factory director. Look at what house you live in and what food you eat? It's okay if we suffer a little, but think about Wen Hai, there is no problem in going to college with his academic performance."
Xiao Yeqin spoke, put the vegetables that Hu Jiefang handed over to the cutting board and started cooking. She moved her hands and didn't have any idle mouth: "What should I do if I go to another place to pay for my tuition? Where does my living expenses come from if I get into the imperial capital? And if I get into the university, should I stay in Beijing after graduating from university? In this society, it is hard to move without money."
"I know this, but..."
Hu Jiefang was about to say something else, but unexpectedly Xiao Yeqin interrupted him and continued, "Besides, I'm afraid the 64th Institute can't hold on anymore. Since this new director came, the management in the institute has become more and more messy. In fact, the reason why I am interested in going into the market is because Lao Bai and Huang Er and others have this meaning."
"Old Bai is Bai Shi? He has a serious researcher title, so he wants to go into the sea?" Hu Jiefang asked in disbelief.
Xiao Yeqin nodded and said heavily: "The burden on his family is much greater than that of ours. His second daughter was almost gone last year. She was always sick this year. She was not enough to fill in her family. She could have gone out to do some private work to make money, but she couldn't help but someone was jealous and went to the new director to sue him. A few days ago, the director named him at the plenary meeting, saying that he could go to work at 8:00 and leave at 9:00, but working for other companies was just a traitor..."
"Hey—" Xiao Yeqin sighed and shook her head, "Tell me, what's the matter!"
"Then it's not surprising. People are not forced to do that." Hu Jiefang sighed with her, but said, "But that's why Lao Bai and his family are in this situation. Our family is not much better, so why should you take this risk?"
"What's the matter? At worst, you, the big manager, can raise me." Xiao Yeqin glared at her eyes and snorted pretending: "What, don't you want to?"
"How can that be! I didn't mean that!" Hu Jiefang couldn't help but smile bitterly. In fact, both the couple knew that the other party was not saying what he meant. It was not that he didn't want to raise Xiao Yeqin, and it was not that Xiao Yeqin was counting on him to raise himself.
But sometimes human thoughts are like this. Once certain thoughts take root, they will continue to grow like wild grass.
Without Hu Wenhai's words, maybe Xiao Yeqin just complained. But when she seriously considered going into the sea, she had an impulse to do so.
More than ten years of experience in public institutions made her suddenly unable to endure this lifeless research institute anymore. Xiao Yeqin is indeed a famous person, a person who is only willing to stand and bend down and bend down and tramples under her feet.
If society had not had the road to go into the sea, maybe she could still convince herself to live like this. However, after the country adjusted its economic structure by deflation in the past two years, it began to promote reform and opening up. Senior intellectuals went into the sea, which was even more encouraged by the central government. In the imperial capital and in Shenzhen, many scientific researchers have already started enterprises and embarked on the road to becoming rich.
Besides, there is a more realistic problem. Since 1979, this terrifying inflation has suddenly reduced the wealth of countless Chinese people by at least half. Even families like the Hu family feel very short of money dominance.
It should be said that Xiao Yeqin's intuition is very sharp. By the end of the 1980s, China will experience a second inflation. Inflation-contracting-inflation, this process will accompany the entire reform and opening up.
"Then let's just say that, I'm going to go into the sea!" Xiao Yeqin threw the vegetables into the iron pot, and the stinging sound of stir-frying suddenly rang.
"But even if you want to go into business, it always costs money, right? But with our family's background, what business can we do?" Hu Jiefang knew that his wife was a person who was determined to never look back, so he had to use a side-by-sided strategy.
"Dad, I have a solution to this problem."
Chapter completed!