night.

The lights are dim.

Walking all the way to the city, the lights are getting brighter and brighter.

Sometimes, extremely fast vehicles whizz past each other.

I slowly pedaled my bicycle and walked on this road, and I had already felt that everything was glimpsed and I had already seen through everything.

However...that is for ordinary people.

For an old guy who has lived for more than a thousand years, he only feels that he is integrating into the world little by little and into this prosperity.

In fact, he feels that he has been doing well in the past half month.

Eating, sleeping, class, reading, playing football, and riding a bicycle are all very good.

So no matter what you do, you will easily have a smile on your face.

It is no worse than the state of being in seclusion after hundreds of years of practice in the previous life.

As he gradually moved farther and gradually arrived in the city. After turning a corner, he was getting closer and closer to his home, but suddenly stopped the car at some point, hesitated for a moment, smiled freely, shook his head, turned around, and rode over to the more urban area.

After nightfall, Suyang City will not lose its prosperity.

Especially the most prosperous area in the old city.

I passed all the way without going around. The road was very familiar, so I easily turned to the entrance of the old textile factory's resident courtyard. The old textile factory was about to be demolished. It is said that a company from Guangdong was going to acquire the whole, and it should be a lawsuit now, because the other party was obviously unwilling to take on the resettlement of so many old employees.

But this burden is too big. Once thousands of employees are laid off, they, as well as the thousands of families behind them, will become social instability factors in an instant.

The city is still unable to accommodate so many laid-off workers.

Zhou Pingping and his family have already seen the opportunity early and are more able to recognize the status quo.

It is mainly because in the past ten years, whether it is nationwide or Suyang alone, there are too many factories that have gone bankrupt and have been acquired. There are many laid-off workers one after another, and they have already gained a lot of experience ahead.

To be honest, there have been too many stories that cannot be told in the past ten years.

If Yuan Liyang's family is about to retire, the older generation is on the verge of retirement, and his parents are basically hard jobs. So, in fact, when he was young, he did not have any pain in this regard. Among his relatives, his aunt was laid off, but he hated his aunt very much, so he felt very happy about her laid off.

It was not until later that when he left college and started working, and later when he got together with Zhou Pingping, he heard her talk about the years when her parents were laid off, that he suddenly realized that the pain of the reform was real pain in countless families like the Zhou family.

It's all a pain to the skin.

In fact, according to Zhou Pingping, the old textile factory was not able to pay much wages in the years before it went bankrupt and was acquired.

Many workers have to look forward to the factory’s resurrection, while looking for channels to make a living for life. Many young female workers even...well, if you say too much, you will be harmonious.

In short, in recent years, many people who have been working in dilapidated small houses on the roadside for 50 yuan per hour, and they are around 30 years old. They are half of them, but about 20% or 30% of them are laid off female workers in textile factories.

If Yuan Liyang's memory is not wrong, Zhou Pingping's mother should have entered a local textile factory opened by a Zhejiang boss last year - that factory specializes in canvas, because Yuan Liyang was particularly impressed.

As for Zhou Pingping's father, he set up a snack stall and went to the gate of Suyang Normal University during the day. After dinner, he returned to the gate of his old family resident yard, mainly selling egg-filled cakes and leek cakes.

According to Zhou Pingping, her father was beaten by a group of hooligans because he went to the teacher's specialty to sell snacks, and later he was allowed to sell it there for a monthly payment.

It was not until a few years later that her father finally opened a small shop, and her mother quit her job and went to work together. The business was pretty good, and her life gradually improved. When Yuan Liyang and Zhou Pingping discussed getting married and wanted to buy a house, her parents could even pay hundreds of thousands to sponsor it.

A particularly hard-working family.

It can even be said that all the good and bad qualities of Zhou Pingping almost all come from this family that struggles step by step.

Of course, who is qualified to really judge whether it is good or bad?

Zhou Pingping married herself and ended up in a sad divorce, but it was already somewhat romantic.

Her sister is three years younger than her. After graduating from college, she came back to teach. She had many suitors. Her admirers in college even chased her all the way to Suyang City. Even Yuan Liyang and Zhou Pingping were moved, but she shed tears while driving them away, insisting that she would not marry someone who was not a civil servant.

Because she feels that only civil servants are the most stable.

Later, she married a civil servant. Her father-in-law was a small official and her mother-in-law was in the banking system. It can be said that everything was as good as she wished, but she felt that she was a dwarf and her life was not very happy. Every time she went home for the New Year, she always felt a little timid and wanted her husband to glar at her, and she was frightened. According to Zhou Pingping, when they chatted at night, she was often silent.

It's all your choice.

But in fact, what choice is there that is not affected by the environment?

Zhou Pingping later sighed and asked Yuan Liyang cryingly: Zhou Yanyan’s school is not bad, she is not stupid, she is not ugly, and her English major is not difficult to find a job. If she stays in the Magic City after graduation, or goes to the imperial city to find herself, or, if she doesn’t have to find a so-called iron-based family, what would her life look like? Will it be worse than now?

Yuan Liyang had no idea how to answer.

I could only hold her tightly and remain silent.

…………

The lights are dim.

At the entrance of the old textile factory's resident courtyard, many snack trucks were lined up.

Although the old textile factory has declined and is on the verge of bankruptcy, the family resident courtyard is already very old. It will be demolished in about ten years in the future, but such a small community has been stuffed into 20,000 to 30,000 people.

Therefore, even though the shadow of layoffs has actually completely enveloped the community, there is a strange moment at the entrance of the community, and it is almost a bit deformed in prosperity.

The weather gets warmer, and after dinner, many people will come out to walk around, helping the elderly and young.

From a distance, Yuan Liyang stopped the car.

A big light bulb was raised high in a snack car not far away, but it was not too bright. Under the light, a middle-aged man who looked a little oily all over his body was busy nervously, taking care of the large pan under the light while talking to the guests waiting for the cake.

On his left hand, a girl kneaded dough and rolled cakes quickly. Her handsome face was a bit smoky and greasy, and was also covered with some white flour.

On his right hand were another girl with a shorter head, as beautiful as her sister. At this moment, there was a dirty, greasy, square cardboard box in front of her, almost all of which were one, two, five or ten yuan banknotes - but at this moment she was skillfully grabbing an egg, skillfully breaking it, pouring it into a bowl, stirring it quickly with chopsticks. Then the chopsticks in the man next to her lightly put them around the cake and picked it up. She immediately skillfully took the small stainless steel bowl and poured the egg liquid evenly in.

Cooperate with tacit understanding.

The faces of the three people were all the same red.

In the evening of mid-March, at more than ten degrees, their faces were covered with sweat.

But there were bright smiles on their faces.

On the roadside more than ten meters away, Yuan Liyang stopped there with one foot, watching the scene in front of him.

A few minutes later, a relieved smile suddenly appeared on his face. After turning the front of the bike, he turned back and looked back, shook his head as a self-deprecatingly, smiled, and started to pedal his bicycle.

It's getting farther and farther away.
Chapter completed!