Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 100 Grandma Hu's Labor Reform Class
Tong Xiaoyan's life has been very hard lately.
For some unknown reason, her father suddenly began to make very high demands on her and her brother.
Originally, she and her younger brother Xiaojun had privately agreed to go to their grandmother's house to see their mother together next week.
Her parents divorced suddenly, and her mother had a bad reputation. Although the siblings were embarrassed, she was their biological mother after all. How could Tong Xiaoyan and Tong Xiaojun not be worried?
Tong Xiaoyan took out all the New Year's money she had saved over the years, intending to give it secretly to her mother so that she could live a better life at her grandmother's house.
Who would have thought that on Saturday evening, his father would come to pick her up on a motorcycle.
Tong Xiaoyan's performance in several subjects was seriously unbalanced when she took the high school entrance exam, and her total score dragged down the whole school. She failed to get into the county's No. 1 high school and could only attend a regular high school. Tong Zhiyuan was afraid that his daughter would learn bad things if she lived alone in the school, so he simply transferred his son who was in junior high school to a nearby middle school. Both the siblings lived in the school, and they could take care of each other if something happened.
It is also convenient when picking up the children .
I first went to the junior high school next door to pick up my son, and then came to the high school to pick up my daughter.
On the way, Tong Zhiyuan arranged work for the siblings.
"I've thought about it. The reason your mother went down the wrong path is because I spoiled her too much in the past. She stayed at home and did nothing. Even a good person would become ill from idleness."
"So, starting from this Sunday, you two should not be idle."
"Xiaoyan, your grades are so-so, and you're still in a regular high school. You probably won't be able to get into college in the future. You might as well learn a skill as soon as possible."
"I've already said hello to Jiang Tian's grandmother, oh, that's Grandma Hu who rented a piece of land next to my house to sell rice balls. Xiaoyan, starting this week, you can go home every Sunday. In the morning, you can learn how to make glutinous rice balls with Grandma Hu, and do your homework at home in the afternoon."
"I see Jiang Tian from Grandma Hu's family helping her mother make and sell lunch boxes. She can do anything. You are a few years older than her, so why can't you do it?"
"And Xiaojun, you should learn from Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng is a few years younger than you, but he always gets first place in school. He also helps his mother pick vegetables and wash dishes when he goes home. I don't expect you to help me with my business. Starting this Sunday, you can sell motor oil in the store. Bring your schoolbag too. You can do your homework when there are no customers."
He has thought it through and decided that he should not spoil his wife or children too much.
It's easy to act weird when you have nothing to do. You're exhausted every day and so busy that you don't even have time to eat. How can you have the time to act weird?
Boss Tong reflected on it seriously and realized that he and Hu Qiongfang had both made a fatal mistake: they were too fond of taking on things.
Hu Qiongfang is virtuous and capable. She takes care of everything at home and outside, and she wants to take care of everyone in the family meticulously. Her husband is useless at home, so of course he can go out to work without worry.
If Hu Qiongfang could be a little lazier and not take everything on herself, as the family cannot do without a man for a single day, would her husband dare to abandon the family and go to work in the mine?
If you think about it carefully, isn't he the same?
If he could be a little more ruthless and not arrange everything for his wife, but let her do business with him and build a career, and pull her forward, with endless things to do every day, how could his wife be bored and go out to cheat on him?
This lesson is really painful.
Tong Zhiyuan was too embarrassed to go out recently. Every day, he would either watch the store or buy lunch boxes. If he still didn't realize his mistake after suffering such a big loss, then the loss would be in vain.
Tong Xiaoyan thought her father didn't know about her and Jiang Lesheng, but she didn't expect that after he had doubts in his heart, Tong Zhiyuan turned his daughter's room upside down without hesitation.
At that time, there was no such thing as "respecting children's privacy" for Chinese parents. What's more, Jiang Lesheng's actions really frightened Tong Zhiyuan.
As expected, he found the letters between his daughter and Jiang Lesheng!
After opening the top few letters and reading them, Tong Zhiyuan slumped down in his chair, his head buzzing and it took him a long time to recover.
My daughter is young and ignorant. The little girl has almost no resistance to boys like Jiang Lesheng who are handsome and have good grades.
But as a man, how could Tong Zhiyuan not know what kind of dirty thoughts were hidden in Jiang Lesheng's seemingly serious words?
He advised Tong Xiaoyan not to think too much for the time being, to focus on studying, and to wait until she was admitted to university. On the surface, he was advising Tong Xiaoyan to study hard and not fall in love too early.
In fact, a carrot was dangling in front of Tong Xiaoyan.
Think about it, Tong Xiaoyan’s biggest motivation for reviewing and preparing for the exam now is to try her best to get into the same university as Jiang Lesheng, or go to the same city. If she really gets in, then the next step would be to fulfill their agreement and "develop from classmates to lovers" in college, right?
If Tong Xiaoyan fails to get into university despite her best efforts, the situation will be even more troublesome.
By then, Jiang Lesheng, who has already been admitted to university, only needs to show a little bit of his "old love" for Tong Xiaoyan. For a college student to take the initiative to pursue a girl who failed the college entrance examination, wouldn't it be easy to get her?
Tong Zhiyuan was extremely grateful to Grandma Hu when he thought that if he had not discovered these letters, his daughter might have been taken away by the evil-minded bastard.
For this purpose, and also to ask Granny Hu to accept Tong Xiaoyan as his "apprentice", Boss Tong specially bought a pair of large pig's trotters, a pair of large carps, and a pair of large roosters, and respectfully sent them to Granny Hu's shop.
If Grandma Hu hadn't insisted on not accepting a disciple, he would have wanted his daughter to pay homage to Grandma Hu as her teacher.
Don't underestimate the skill of making rice balls.
Tong Zhiyuan has already tasted the glutinous rice balls made by Grandma Hu. Jiang Tian really didn't brag. The glutinous rice balls made by her grandma are so delicious that they can't be bought anywhere else in town.
The rice ball was as big as three taels of rice, and it also contained a large piece of pork belly, a braised egg cut in half, a handful of braised bean curd sheets, two large spoons of hot and sour potato shreds, and half a fried dough stick. With so many things wrapped together in a bulging rice ball, Boss Tong finished it all in one breath.
I didn’t feel it while eating, I just couldn’t stop eating one bite after another, and after I finished eating, I couldn’t help but hold my stomach and groan.
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In short, with Boss Tong's extraordinary business acumen, he felt that even if his daughter could not get into college, she could learn Grandma Hu's skill in making rice balls, and then open a shop selling rice balls in her own gas station, and she would never have to worry about food and drink for the rest of her life.
Tong Zhiyuan had an agreement with Grandma Hu and asked her to help teach Tong Xiaoyan how to make rice balls. And her teaching was not in vain - he also returned the 50 yuan rent that Grandma Hu had given him.
Just like that, Sister Xiaoyan, a young girl in love, was left to Grandma Hu by her own father before she had the chance to say goodbye to the boy she secretly loved.
From then on, a long and painful period of labor reform began.
