After lunch, Liu Yumei took the initiative to help Aunt Lian clean up and was pushed out of the kitchen by Aunt Lian with a smile.

Ji Qinglan took her to the room and wanted to see photos of the four children.

Liu Yumei couldn't bear to leave her children, so when she left the Honghe Brigade, she took her family to a photo studio to take family photos and photos of her four children.

Ji Qinglan touched the photo and smiled, "Ni'er has grown taller and looks like a quiet child. Nannan is also well behaved. It's just that these two children are as dark as coal."

Liu Yumei followed up with a complaint: "If you slack off every day, you'll definitely get tainted."

Ji Qinglan thought of his own son and laughed, "All boys are black. Xin Cheng is also a black coal ball."

Liu Yumei thought of Ji Xincheng's fair and clean appearance when he was a child, and then imagined him turning into charcoal, and suddenly she burst into laughter.

"Haha."

Ji Qinglan also laughed.

Zhang Jianguo, who was outside the room, heard the laughter of the two people in the room and couldn't help shaking his head.

"Wife, I'm going out for a walk." After saying that, Zhang Jianguo went out alone.

After the laughter and joking, Liu Yumei started talking about what had happened in the past three years.

First, Secretary Zhang retired due to illness, and then Zhang Jianguo got into trouble and lost his job. These two events drained the Zhang family's assets, and life suddenly became very tight.

"I know he knows who fired the gun, but he doesn't want to say it. Those people in the militia were his brothers, and he said he didn't want to rob another brother. Now everyone in the brigade is saying that he was the one who fired the gun. Alas! His life in his hometown is not easy, and he has to put on a forced smile." Liu Yumei sighed.

Ji Qinglan listened in silence. She did not judge whether Zhang Jianguo's actions were right or wrong. He just wanted to calm the feud between the two families.

She just said, "Don't mention the past anymore. We still have to look forward. I'll find a new job after coming here. Life is better now, so we can make a living anyway."

"Yeah." Liu Yumei thought so too. Now her father-in-law has to take medicine every month, and she has four children. She is under a lot of pressure.

Liu Yumei smiled confidently again: "We thought about this before we came here. We wanted to make candies to sell. My mother-in-law passed on all her skills to me."

Ji Qinglan...

She didn't argue that craftsmen deserve respect.

"It's great that you have an idea. Take a rest today. I'll take you to Xiushui Street and Dashilan tomorrow. There are a lot of people there. Go take a look and find a suitable stall."

It would be best if it were a storefront, making your own candy special and attracting more people.

However, Ji Qinglan did not say this. What others give you is not called experience. The experience you gain through your own exploration is what is unforgettable.

"Well, well, we're going to trouble you and Comrade Xiao when we come here."

"That's nothing! I'm so glad you can come."

When Ji Xincheng came back in the evening, he was very happy to see Liu Yumei and her husband. He hugged Liu Yumei and called her godmother.

Liu Yumei couldn't recognize the little black charcoal in front of her. What a pretty and fair child Xin Chengguaibao used to be! How could he become like this now?

What kind of suffering has this child gone through in the past few years?

Ji Qinglan found it very funny. How could he not be sullen when he followed Luo Hongyu outside every day? But now he was also a well-paid person. He learned English and could serve as a tour guide for some foreign tourists and earn a share of the profits.

He has a sweet mouth and many foreigners fall for his charm.

"My godson! You're so dark that I can't recognize you." Liu Yumei finally reacted and wailed while hugging Ji Xincheng.

She made her godson suffer.

But when Liu Yumei learned that her godson earned nearly 300 yuan a day, she couldn't shed any tears.

Oh my god, her daughter Ni'er is three years older than Ji Xincheng and doesn't speak a word of English because English classes are not yet popular in rural primary schools.

Ji Xincheng, at a young age, was already able to communicate skillfully with foreigners and earn foreign exchange.

Is this what it means to lose at the starting line?

On the next day, Ji Qinglan took the two of them to Zhang Jianguo for a walk outside, looking for a suitable place to set up a stall. The first choices were Xiushui Street and Dazhalan.

However, Ji Qinglan took the two of them to Xiushui Street.

Shen Chang bought a store here last year. At the beginning, he had little capital and just set up a stall on the street. Later, he gradually had enough capital and with his relationship with Wan Bin, he started to buy goods from him for wholesale.

Now he has bought a house and a storefront and is a small business owner.

As for Wan Bin, he is even more amazing. He has made a fortune by traveling to Guangzhou in recent years and has long stopped doing business on the black market.

Now, the materials subsidized by Ji Qinglan's system are all purchased from buyers in the county, and they go out once every two months to clear out the stock.

The development speed of China's capital today is no longer what it was when Liu Yumei and her friends came here a few years ago.

Tall buildings were rising from the ground, and people were working on the construction sites everywhere. When Liu Yumei and her companion walked out of Chengfu Street, it was as if they had stepped into a new world. They were stunned by the towering buildings and luxurious hotels and could not stop looking at them.

When they entered Xiushui Street, they saw that the clothes here were of styles they had never seen before. The shoes alone came in many colors and styles.

There were a wide variety of goods, all very novel and something they had never seen in their lives.

Liu Yumei pulled at the corner of her clothes, facing the gazes of passers-by, and thought to herself: This time, they are really country bumpkins coming to the city.

Sure enough, Secretary Zhang was right. People need to go out and see the world.

Look! What's that look you give that woman across from you?

Ji Qinglan walked slowly so that the two could look around more easily.

I finally got to Shen Chang's store, where several sales clerks were busy as a mile.

One of the young girls took a look at Liu Yumei and Zhang Jianguo's rustic clothes and then went to greet the guests who came in later.

Shen Chang was not in the store today. He has now handed the store over to one of his former juniors to look after.

When the younger brother saw Ji Qinglan, he hurried over to greet the three of them.

"Sister-in-law, you are here, please sit down."

"Hello, I'm looking for Shen Chang."

"Brother Chang is in the teahouse across the street. I'll go call him right away." The younger brother said, and asked a salesperson to help pour tea, while he trotted to the teahouse across the street.

When the young girl saw the store manager personally entertaining the three people, her expression changed and she continued to greet the guests.

Soon, Shen Chang ran back.

"Sister-in-law, why didn't you tell me you were coming? I'll pick you up!"

"I'm not a distinguished guest, so there's no need for you to pick me up in person. Besides, you're so busy, I'd just be disturbing you if I came." Ji Qinglan said with a smile. Now that Shen Chang has become a big boss, he's still so polite to her. She knows it's because of Xiao Yi.

"Sister-in-law, you are making fun of me. What kind of business is this? You are my sister-in-law. If Brother Yi knows that I don't take good care of you, he will beat me up."

Ji Qinglan smiled and introduced Liu Yumei and Zhang Jianguo to him.

"This is my sister, Comrade Liu Yumei, and this is her husband, Comrade Zhang Jianguo." Ji Qinglan introduced Shen Chang to the two of them.

"This is Comrade Shen Chang, Xiao Yi's childhood friend."

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