Travel back to the 1970s and start as a female textile worker

"Sister Gu!"

Gu Chun turned around and saw a young girl looking at her.

She was wearing a fashionable dress and had curly hair, looking very fashionable.

Gu Chun looked at her for a while before recognizing her: "Yu Meili?"

Yu Meili smiled and nodded: "It's me."

Gu Chun still remembers that the last time he met Yu Meili was when she was "catching a mistress" on the street.

At that time, she was hysterical and disheveled. She looked as aged in her early twenties as she did in her thirties.

He looks much younger now than he did then.

One can tell at a glance that she is only in her mid-twenties.

Yu Meili wanted to chat with Gu Chun, but Gu Chun had nothing to do. He planned to go home early, so he went to a nearby coffee shop to sit with her.

(ps: In the 80s, there were two songs that made Chinese people who were accustomed to drinking tea become interested in coffee. One was "Wine and Coffee" sung by Teresa Teng, and the other was "Walking Through the Coffee House" sung by Qian Baihui)

Gu Chun didn't like drinking coffee very much, but he followed the crowd and ordered one.

I heard Yu Meili sigh with emotion: "This stuff is expensive and tastes bad. It smells like Chinese medicine. I don't know why so many people like it."

Gu Chun smiled, thinking that she was so fashionable now and that she was following the trend.

"It turns out you don't like it either."

Yu Meili had bought instant coffee before and didn't like the taste, but she thought that Gu Chun, a big boss, would definitely go to the coffee shop to sit in a more stylish coffee shop.

Both of them thought they were accommodating each other.

With this little episode, most of the unfamiliarity between Gu Chun and Yu Meili disappeared.

Yu Meili took the initiative to talk to her about her current situation.

Three years ago, after being reminded by Gu Chun, she observed her husband when she got home, and then she realized that something was really wrong with him.

He doesn't like to be near women, and is quite alienated from his female colleagues. As for the woman whom she treats as a mistress, in fact, they are not familiar with each other at all.

But his attitude towards men was quite different. Yu Meili had seen the way he looked at a male colleague.

It gave her goosebumps.

"If you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have thought there was such a person in the world."

Gu Chun sighed, in fact, every era, from ancient times to the present, has this kind of thing.

As long as they don't cheat in marriage, there is actually no need to discriminate.

But Yu Meimei's husband just wants to get married!

Even after getting married, he didn't give up and roasted his wife on the fire.

It's really not what a good person would do.

In this era, there was a bit of discrimination against divorced people. Unlike later generations, people divorced when they were not suitable, and the divorce rate was extremely high.

Terrible.

So Gu Chun originally thought that if Yu Meili hadn't divorced, she would understand.

Unexpectedly, her next sentence was: "I'm divorced."

Gu Chun was actually a little surprised. She thought that people in this era would be very conservative, but she didn't expect that she was the one who was conservative?

It is a good thing to stop the loss in time and get an early divorce. Gu Chun said to Meili sincerely: "Congratulations!"

Yu Meili smiled brightly: "I knew you would agree with me. When those people heard about my divorce, no matter what the reason was, they all accused me and said I was wrong."

After the divorce, Yu Meili returned to her parents' home and suffered a lot of looks and cynicism.

But she didn't care.

The moment she got the divorce certificate, she felt that the whole world was beautiful.

The sky is blue and the grass is green.

Her world suddenly transitioned from black and white to colorful.

Gu Chun comforted her and said: "Everyone in the world is ignorant and always puts moral shackles on women, but we women ourselves must know how to make ourselves live a better life."

Yu Meili nodded: "Well, the family was afraid that I would divorce and gossip, so they asked me to promise to keep it secret, so I asked for a sum of money."

She had never been a messy person at Meimei. In the past, she only listened to her mother and married such a person because of a temporary distraction.

Once her mind is clear, no one wants to let her suffer.

In the end, she left her former husband's house with a sum of money, and did not tell anyone about the existence of the money when she returned to her parents' house.

"When you are down and out, you can clearly see whether the people around you are humans or ghosts."

Her brother saw that she was divorced and came back with only a few clothes, and was very dissatisfied with her.

Even her mother kept blaming her for impulsively divorcing.

Even her room had long been used as a room for her brother's children.

No one remembers that she went to work in a clothing store when she was a teenager. All the money she earned during that time was used to build these three houses for her family.

No one remembers that she didn't get a penny from the high betrothal gift when she got married.

Yu Meili only stayed at home for half a month before she decided to move out.

Only then did her mother realize that she still had money, and started to use her tears offensive.

But Yu Meili was already chilled.

"Didn't she say that I was just throwing away the water after getting married? Didn't she say that I was eating and drinking for free at home? Then I'll leave. Anyway, I have money, so it's not a problem to support myself."

Gu Chun also lamented, why are there always parents who favor sons over daughters in this world.

Isn’t the daughter their biological child?

But this is not a good thing to say to Meimei. It is tantamount to adding salt to her wounds.

So Gu Chun just asked: "Where do you live now? What kind of work do you do?"

Yu Meili is in very good condition, and her living conditions seem to be very good. She probably can't do it with the divorce money alone.

Yu Meili told Gu Chun that she opened a shoe store.

After moving out, Yu Meili lived in a large courtyard. By chance, she learned that a neighbor in the courtyard worked in a shoe factory.

They have a batch of shoes that were rejected by the customer and are now backlogged in the warehouse.

Shoe factory workers have always regarded themselves as "iron rice bowls" and would never do "self-employed" work.

No one wants to sell it.

The neighbor was in charge of the warehouse and felt that those things took up a lot of space.

I also bought two pairs from the factory for my family to wear.

Yu Meili has seen that pair of shoes. They are semi-high-heeled sandals. The style is relatively ordinary, but they are enough for daily wear.

It would be summer, so it would be perfect to wear shoes like this.

Yu Meili thought about it all night, and finally decided to go to the shoe factory to get the goods and set up a stall.

If someone can help solve the backlog of inventory, the shoe factory will of course be very happy.

Then he sold all those shoes to Meimei at a very low price.

They have a lot of inventory, so even if the price is low, Yu Meili spent almost all her savings on this batch of goods.

She felt that she was already crazy at that time, like a gambler who put all her chips on the table.

She sets up a stall every day, changing her outfits and setting up stalls at different factory gates.

The previous experience she learned in Gu Chun's store helped her a lot. She has a warm attitude and unique views on dressing, and she quickly captured a large number of customers.

In two months in the summer, she sold out all the shoes, and the money in her hands quadrupled in one fell swoop.

After tasting the sweetness, Yu Meili continued to sell shoes. She heard that the leather shoes in Wenzhou in the south were good, so she went to Wenzhou to get the goods.

"It was so brave."