Rebirth of science and technology to rejuvenate the country

Knowing that Li Baogen was having difficulties in life, Yuan Xia lent him 50 yuan and left him a detailed address, and made an appointment to call him when he started working there.

Li Baogen didn't refuse Yuan Xia's money, because with this money, he didn't have to borrow money from his sister for the New Year, and he didn't have to look at the faces of his brother-in-law and his family.

Coming out of Yuan Xia's house, he felt a bit mixed. In fact, the situation of Yuan Xia's house was not much better than his own. His father died, and his mother couldn't help him. He had more siblings than himself that needed to be taken care of.

But now the situation of the two of them is so different that he has nothing to think about except admiration.

Seeing that Yuan Qiu has been depressed, Yuan Xia reminds her: "Xiao Qiu, put your emotions away. I'm not as pessimistic as you think. Your brother and I are capable. I won't starve to death without an iron rice bowl."

Yu Xingyi also said: "Xiaoqiu, if your brother stays in the Red Star Factory, it will be a burial for him."

Yuan Qiu raised his eyes to look at Yu Xingyi, then at his elder brother, and said, "I just think that if Grandpa finds out, he will definitely feel sad."

"Then don't let him know. If we don't tell, who will know?" Yuan Xia said.

Yuan Qiu pursed his lips tightly, nodded and stopped talking.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Yuan Xia's family was busy preparing the New Year's Eve dinner, while Yu Xing was busy writing and pasting Spring Festival couplets, and it was Chongyang who helped him.

Chongyang raised his head, looked at the Spring Festival couplets that Yu Xingyi was pasting, and said, "Brother Xingyi, your handwriting is so beautiful, how did you practice it?"

Yu Xingyi said: "It came out according to the copybook. By the way, you can write Spring Festival couplets next year in Yangyang. Painting and calligraphy belong to the same family. If you learn painting, you should also practice calligraphy, right?"

Chongyang smiled embarrassedly: "I have practiced, but I haven't practiced well yet. Wait for me for another two years."

Yuan Xia took over the topic: "You will be the one to write next year. I only wrote a Spring Festival couplet, and I didn't let you hold a calligraphy exhibition. There is nothing to be embarrassed about."

Chongyang sticks out his tongue and makes a face: "Okay then." It seems that he needs to practice his handwriting well, otherwise he will be laughed at.

"Yangyang."

Chongyang heard someone calling his name, turned his head to look, and his face suddenly felt a little uncomfortable: "Why are you here?"

Hu Meilian held a cloth bag in one hand and held her little daughter in the other, looking at Yu Xingyi with a little embarrassment.

Yuan Xia came out with the marinated elbow, ready to put it in the pot for frying. Today, he was going to make Dongpo elbow. When he saw Hu Meilian, he froze for a moment: "Why are you here?"

Hu Meilian forced a smile and said: "It's not the New Year, I fried some pasta for you to try. Niuniu, call me brother."

The four or five-year-old girl wore two shofar braids, her little face was a little red from the cold, sucking her fingers, she timidly hid behind Hu Meilian, and looked at Yuan Xia and the others with her big curious eyes.

The few people in the room also heard the movement, poked their heads out to look, and shrank back in embarrassment. After so many years, they no longer knew how to face their mother.

"We are not short of food and clothing, you don't need to bring them here, just give them to Niu Niu." Yuan Xia said flatly, facing the little girl, he didn't want to give a cold face.

Hu Meilian called Chongyang: "Yangyang, here, take it."

Chongyang didn't dare to move, and looked at his eldest brother with some embarrassment: "Big brother."

Yuan Xia said, "If you want to eat, take it."

Chongyang hesitated for a moment, but still took it: "Thank you!"

There was a relieved expression on Hu Meilian's face.

Yuan Xia instructed: "Xiaoqiu, bring some snacks and fruits for Niuniu to eat, and empty her bag for it."

Hearing this, Yuanqiu quickly took the cloth bag from Chongyang, took out the fried noodles inside, grabbed a lot of apples, white rabbits, nougat, peach cakes, etc., and asked Chongyang to bring them to Hu Meilian.

Hu Meilian saw that her son and daughter didn't intend to invite her into the house, so she said to Chongyang: "Yangyang, let's call my brothers and sisters to play at my mother's house tomorrow. Your Uncle Guo also welcomes you to be guests."

Chongyang didn't make a sound, the eldest brother didn't speak, he didn't dare to agree, he just put the bag in Hu Meilian's hand.

Yuan Xia said: "I said it last year, we won't make trouble for you. You don't have to come every year."

Hu Meilian looked at Yuan Xia, bit her lower lip, and said, "Mom really didn't think carefully at the time. After so many years, are you still angry? Are you really going to stop seeing Mom forever?"

The oil in the pot was already hot, Yuan Xia hooked up the sauced elbow with an iron hook, put it into the pot, and made a loud "chi la" sound, he said, "Hurry up and go back, it's Chinese New Year, don't give it to your family Ready for New Year's Eve dinner?"

Hu Meilian glanced at the meat in the pot and said, "You guys come over tomorrow, Niuniu also hopes that you will come as guests."

Yuan Xia ignored her no more, and lowered her head to busy herself with her own affairs.

Hu Meilian had no choice but to turn around and leave with her little daughter. When she reached the stairs, she turned her head and took a deep look.

Seeing that Hu Meilian had left, Chongyang asked in a low voice, "Brother, shall we go tomorrow?"

Yuan Xia raised his eyes and looked at him: "Do you want to go? If you want to go, you can go by yourself. Look at the older sisters and the second brother who is willing to accompany you."

His feelings for Hu Meilian couldn't be reversed, because the hatred was too deep, and he didn't want to have anything to do with her, but his younger brothers and sisters would not have such complicated emotions as they did. In their cognition, it was just that their mother remarried.

Sure enough, Chongyang turned around and asked his sister and second brother, whether it was because of his love of art, he was emotionally rich, sensitive, and compassionate, and he was not disgusted with Hu Meilian, and even had an instinctive closeness.

Yuan Chun said loudly: "Don't ask me, I won't go. Yuan Chongyang, you traitor, she must have gone to school to look for you, right? How many times have you been there?"

Chongyang said, "Two or three times."

"Hmph, traitor. You were bribed with so few things? Your eyelids are too shallow." Yuan Chun despised his younger brother.

Chongyang retorted: "I'm not, I just feel a little pitiful for her. It's not that she didn't take us there at the time, we chose to stay."

Yuan Xia interrupted him: "It's not that you chose to stay, I forced you to stay."

Yuanchun said: "It's fortunate that the eldest brother kept us here, otherwise the stepfather would not know how to abuse us. Our mother is not doing well watching over there. She looks older than Aunt Li now. Niuniu It’s still their own. What do you wear for her? I’ve never seen new clothes. Yuan Chongyang, you’re content, big brother and grandpa didn’t take good care of you? We didn’t treat you well? If you went to stepfather’s place , you can still learn such a costly painting? It would be nice to be able to read to you. His own daughter dropped out of school before finishing junior high school."

Li Yuying was meeting in the corridor, when she heard Yuan Chun's words, she smiled and said, "Chun'er has a small mouth, she can talk too much. Aunt Li is several years older than your mother, how can she look younger than her."

Yuan Chun smiled and said: "Aunt Li looks young, I'm not lying, if you don't believe me, ask my brother and sister, Brother Xingyi, do you think so?"

As soon as Yu Xing, who was named, smiled and said nothing, Hu Meilian did look rather haggard, not younger than Li Yuying.

Yuan Xia asked curiously: "How do you know that his daughter dropped out of junior high school without graduating? You don't know her."

Yuan Chun said: "She used to be in the same grade as the second brother, and the second brother knows."

Yuan Xia raised his eyebrows, it turned out that his younger brothers and sisters were still paying attention to the situation of that family, but he had never heard of it.

Yu Xingyi got off the stool, clapped his hands and said, "The Spring Festival couplets are finished, let's take a family portrait for you."

He went into the room and took out his camera to take a family portrait for them.

Last year he didn't come for the Chinese New Year, so their family portrait was missing. At that time, Yuanxia's vacation was too hasty, and they didn't go to the photo studio to take pictures.

This year is here, and this family portrait is naturally indispensable.

During lunch, Yuan Dehou said: "If Yang Yang wants to go to your mother's place, someone will accompany him tomorrow. After all, it is your mother. She visits you every year. You have never been to her house. Outsiders looked at it and said that our children don't understand etiquette."

Yuan Xia said, "I'm not going anyway."

Yuanchun said, "I won't go either!"

Yuan Dong said, "I'm not going either."

After a while, Yuan Dehou said: "Then Xiaoqiu takes Yangyang?"

Yuan Qiu didn't make a sound, neither agreeing nor objecting.

Yuan Xia said: "Xiaoqiu, don't go. Yangyang, do you have to go? You can think clearly, she will ask you to take care of her in the future."

Chongyang slowly raised his head from the bowl, looked at his family, and said, "I didn't say I had to go."

Looking at the eldest grandson, Yuan Dehou couldn't help but sighed, and he said, "After all, she raised you."

Yuan Xia lowered his eyes, and said after a while: "Dongdong, you can go with Yangyang, and go to pay New Year's greetings tomorrow morning, it's up to you whether you want to eat or not."

When Yuan Dong heard this, he was a little unhappy: "I want to review, the college entrance examination is about to take place."

"Then go and pay New Year's greetings." Yuan Xia said, anyway, he would not let the two younger sisters go to Guo's house, and he would feel that his sister was dirty if he was looked at by the men of Guo's house.

Yuan Dong glared at Chong Yang: "You are the only one who has too many things to do!"

Chongyang lowered his head and did not speak.

When there were only two of them, Yuan Xia asked Yu Xingyi: "Do you think I'm cruel?"

Yu Xing shook his head, looked at him and smiled: "No."

Yuan Xia said: "On the day she got married, Xiaoqiu was dying of illness in bed, and she didn't even look at Xiaoqiu. My father's pension was about a thousand yuan, and she only left us 100 yuan. I almost broke my face with her, and it only cost more than 300 yuan. I sent Xiaoqiu to the hospital in Jianning for an operation that day. Her appendicitis almost perforated. I heard that too. I almost lost Xiaoqiu, she is not qualified to be a mother at all."

It's not that I almost lost it, but I lost it once and was picked up by him.

When Yu Xing remembered that such a sensible Xiao Qiu almost died, he also felt a little scared, no wonder Yuan Xia has been unwilling to reconcile with his mother.

Yuan Xia said: "She gave us life, and raised our brothers and sisters. I will repay this kindness of nurturing. In the future, I will definitely give her a pension, but before she is old, I don't want to talk to her. Now, I will pay for alimony, even if I hire someone to take care of her, I don't want to see her. She raised me young, and I raised her old, so there is no mutual debt."

Yu Xing raised his hand and touched the back of Yuan Xia's head: "I understand your feelings."

On the first day of the new year, Yuan Dong led Chongyang to Hu Meilian's house to pay New Year's greetings, and came back without having lunch.

According to Yuan Dong, Hu Meilian poured them a cup of boiled water with sugar, grabbed some melon seeds and fried noodles for them.

The two boys came to visit for the first time during Chinese New Year, and they didn't even greet them with a red date egg.

Chongyang was inevitably ridiculed by Yuanchun: "Do you think she really likes you? She just watched her big brother and sister go to college and wanted to make friends with us. If there is anything she can ask for in the future. You are the youngest, I don't know if she has any. How bad, I can use you as a breakthrough point. If we are worthless, do you think she will come and take a look? I am afraid that we will not be born."

Yuan Xia can't interfere with the feelings of his younger siblings towards Hu Meilian, but if Hu Meilian stalks, he will come forward to solve it in the future.

For the Chinese, the new year begins after the end of the Lunar New Year.

1985 was a big event for Yuan Xia's family. He started his own business, Yuan Dong took the college entrance examination, and Yuan Chun took the high school entrance examination. These were all important turning points in his life.

Both Yuandong and Yuanchun have good grades, so they should be able to be admitted to their ideal school.

Chongyang's grades are not as good as those of his older brothers and sisters, but he has a good artistic talent, and he has already formally studied fine arts, so he should be admitted to a fine arts academy when the time comes.

After the Chinese New Year, Yuan Xia and Yu Xing returned to Yue City and brought back a pomegranate sapling.They planted it in the yard with the plum blossoms that had already bloomed.

Yu Xingyi continued to do his design work, and Yuan Xia accelerated the pace of finding a factory. This time he expanded the scope a bit, and went to the urban-rural fringe area, but found two suitable places, that is, away from home. far away.

Yuan Xia called Shang Yu Xing to go together to choose the factory site, and finally the two discussed and selected an old warehouse in the east of the city called Raojia Village.Because it is closer to the railway station, there is a national highway passing by, and the traffic is more convenient.

This warehouse was originally used to store grain and grass during the collectivization period. Now that the land has been subcontracted to households, the collective warehouse is no longer needed. It is suitable for them to rent it as a factory building.

The warehouse area is not small, there are five rooms, more than 1000 square meters, and there is a large open space in front of the door. Yuan Xia bargained with the village officials, and finally rented it at a price of 450 yuan per year. He signed a three-year contract and paid one year's rent in advance.

Yuan Xia originally wanted to rent for two more years, but the other party was also more savvy. When it came time to see the market, he was unwilling to sign a long-term contract, so he probably had to increase the price as appropriate.

Yuan Xia thought that if the scale expanded, the houses here might not be enough, so he didn't insist.

After signing the contract, Yu Xingyi said: "We haven't bought the equipment yet, so we just rented the house. Wouldn't it be a bit wasteful?"

Yuan Xia said: "It's better to waste it empty than to buy good equipment and have no place to put it. Three are used as factory buildings, one is used as a small office, and the other is used as a dormitory. The workers live here and can help out by the way. Look at the factory."

Yu Xing nodded: "This arrangement is really good."

I looked at another place before, the house is made of red bricks, which is better than the half red bricks and half earth bricks here, but the area is a little smaller, it is not easy to use my fists, so I gave up.

Yuan Xia said: "The factory has already been rented, let's register the company, I have already thought about the name, Xingyuan Machinery, how about it?"

Yu Xing looked at him, then laughed: "Our names?"

Yuan Xia nodded: "That's right, each of our names has a word, Xing and Yuan, which means that we can go further."

Yu Xingyi nodded in satisfaction: "Okay, let's call it this."

Yuan Xia said: "Then we will go to register the company tomorrow. The registered capital should be [-] first, and we will add more when we have money. I am the legal representative, and you are the investor. Let's start the company together. Let's go back and prepare the materials." .”

Yu Xingyi said, "It sounds like you understand it very well."

Yuan Xia giggled: "Of course, I plan to start a company, don't you know it well in advance?"

The next day, Yuan Xia and Yu Xing went to the industrial and commercial office to handle company registration.There are many people who come to the industrial and commercial office to do business, but most of them are self-employed business licenses, and there are very few registered companies.

As soon as Yuan Xia and Yu Xing filled out the information and submitted the materials, just wait a few days and come back to get the license.The advantage of early company registration is that you don’t have to worry about duplicate names, and you don’t even need to prepare alternate names.

After finishing these, Yu Xingyi almost started school.

Yuan Xia went back and called Li Baogen. Li Baogen didn't expect to start work so soon, and seemed a little excited.

But after he came, he found out that he was still far away from the factory, and the factory was still an empty shell. At this stage, he was mainly doing preparatory work.

Li Baogen was arranged to live in the factory, and Yuanxia prepared a bed and pots and pans for him, and they cooked for themselves.

The conditions were a bit difficult, but Li Baogen was also a person who had endured hardships, so he didn't say anything.

Yuan Xia bought the materials and carried out a simple renovation of the factory building, painting the walls, laying wires, and paving the front of the factory building with cement, so that when it rains, the yard will not be muddy when vehicles come over.

When paving the concrete floor, Yuan Xia also paid attention to leaving space, made two small flower beds, and left a few gaps for planting trees. Even though it was only a temporary factory building, it still wanted to be clean and beautiful.

When the decoration is almost done, the business license of the company registration is also down.

Yu Xingyi looked at the newly renovated factory building and said, "Everything is ready now, the only thing we need is east wind."

Yuan Xia smiled and said, "That's right, the only thing missing is the machinery and equipment. I'm going to visit Ningbo. Senior Sister Hongjin said that their factory has eliminated a set of production equipment, and it seems that we can use it."

Yu Xingyi asked: "How much money do I need? I'll take the money out and give it to you."

Yuan Xia said: "Okay, you can take all the money from me."

"Is it enough?" Yu Xingyi was a little worried. It was not cheap to buy equipment, he only had a few thousand yuan, and although Yuan Xia had more, it was not much.

"I don't know either, but it doesn't matter. I'm going to borrow some money from Si Haibo. He said before that when you need money, you can find him. It's not a problem to borrow tens of thousands of yuan." Yuan Xia said.

Yu Xing said with a smile: "Si Haibo is really generous. Why is he so rich!"

Yuan Xia said: "He used to earn 10,000+ a year, and now he has obtained an agency processing agent for an American shoe company, and is still negotiating OEM business with a European leather bag brand, all of which are hundreds of thousands to millions. For business, tens of thousands of dollars is nothing to him.”

Yu Xingyi exclaimed: "Then he is really powerful."

"Of course it's amazing. It's estimated that you can earn hundreds of thousands or millions a year. It will be great when we can earn so much money." Yuan Xia said.

"Come on, this day will definitely come!" Yu Xing and Yuan Xia were full of confidence.

"Well, let's work together!"

Yuan Xia didn't tell Yu Xingyi that Si Haibo was actually able to get the agency processing business without his own advice, which is why Si Haibo offered to lend him money.

Carrying a bulging luggage, Yuan Xia asked Li Baogen to go to Ningbo together.In the luggage bag, except for the clothes, there are bundles of great unity.

At this time, the fourth set of renminbi has not yet been issued, and the largest denomination is only ten yuan, which takes up a lot of space. People on business trips with bulging luggage are easily guessed to be money.

For a long time, business trips and long-distance driving have been very dangerous jobs, because it is easy to be targeted by thieves and robbers, and it can cost you money or your life.

Fortunately, the aftermath of the crackdown in 83 has not yet passed, and the penalties were severe, and the deterrent effect was not small, and the law and order improved a lot for a while.

Even so, Yuan Xia still bought a sleeper ticket, just to be on the safe side.

Li Baogen was a little excited when he went out for the first time. He felt that it was right to follow Yuan Xia. If it wasn't for this, he would never have had the opportunity to gain such insights.

After arriving in Ningbo, Yuan Xia went straight to Si Hongjin's house.

When Si Hongjin saw him, the first thing he said was: "You guys are a bit late, some machines have already been taken away by others."

Yuan Xia said: "So fast, I came here as soon as I received your letter, and someone bought it? What machines are left?"

"There is still a head machine that works, and the others seem to be useless. You can see if it can be repaired. I know you are quite capable." Si Hongjin said with a smile.

Yuan Xia also smiled: "It doesn't matter, as long as there is something to gain. What price?"

Si Hongjin said: "I heard that someone bought a tooth rubbing machine before. That machine seems to be pretty good, and it seems to cost 3 to [-] yuan."

Yuan Xia said, "Let me see the machine first."

Si Hongjin said, "Okay, I'll take you there tomorrow."

Yuan Xia smiled and said, "Senior Sister, can't you take me there now?"

Si Hongjin said: "It's late at night, and everyone in the warehouse is off work. You just arrived, why don't you take a break?"

Yuan Xia smiled: "I'm not afraid of night long dreams."

Si Hongjin said, "It's okay, I'll call the warehouse director." She said she got up and went to make a call.

Yuan Xia said, "Have you installed a telephone in your house?"

"Well, my brother pretended that it was convenient to have a phone at home." Si Hongjin said with a smile.

Si Hongjin opened the phone book next to the phone, found a number, dialed it, and then said something that Yuan Xia and Li Baogen heard were encrypted. There was no way, the Ningbo dialect was really difficult to understand.

Not long after, Si Hongjin hung up the phone and said, "I've already made an agreement with Director Fang, and I'll just go and see it tomorrow morning."

Yuan Xia hurriedly thanked: "Thank you, senior sister! Is there a phone installed on Hai Bo's side? I want to call him."

"Fake it, call, the number is on the first page." Si Hongjin opened the phone book.

Yuan Xia dialed Si Haibo's phone number, and Si Haibo was very surprised when he heard his voice: "You came to Ningbo? At my house? When will you come to Wenzhou?"

Yuan Xia explained his situation and planned to borrow money. Si Haibo said, "No problem, how much do you want? I'll send you the money. Are you still coming to Wenzhou?"

Yuan Xia smiled and said: "No need to send it, I'll go over there to get it from you, and bring some goods back by the way. It's hard to come here, how can I get empty. If you can bring it back, you will earn money."

Si Haibo laughed: "That's right. Then come over quickly and show you my new factory."

"Okay! I'll come after I have settled with my senior sister in the factory." Yuan Xia said.