Siheyuan starts to eat the old man

Perhaps Ding Qiunan's prayers had an effect. In mid-February of 78, the postman delivered an acceptance letter from Capital Medical College. (The former School of Medicine of Peking University became independent as the Capital Medical College in the second year after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was later renamed Capital Medical University and returned to Peking University in 2000.)

On the day he received the admission notice, Li Ping'an held a grand banquet, setting up three tables in Bianyifang, and invited many relatives and friends to attend Ding Qiunan's college entrance banquet.

It's quite awkward to say that most parents hold a banquet for their children to enter a higher education, but when Li Ping'an came here, he was hosting a banquet for his wife, so it was awkward no matter how you thought about it.

As the introducer of the two of them, Chen Youfu was bound to be present. After sitting on the bench for more than a year, Chen Youfu also thought about it. He felt that it was pretty good now. Although he had no power in the factory, he could still do it in his free time. If there is more, the wages will still be paid, and it will be a good day to study and read newspapers in the factory every day.

When Li Pingan and Ding Qiunan came to toast, Chen Youfu picked up the wine glass and looked at the couple and said with emotion: "Ping An, you are such a man. You made a promise before marriage. More than ten years later, you have two children. How can you still do it?" Cashing in, not bad, not bad, it’s not in vain that I made a special trip to Sanhe to be your matchmaker."

"Well, speaking of this, I really want to thank you. If you hadn't been the matchmaker, I would have been in Sijiucheng and Qiunan in Xianghe. We wouldn't have been able to get together." More than ten years ago Li Ping'an was really emotional when he mentioned the past events again.

Ding Qiunan also recalled the first time he met Li Pingan. After so many years, Ding Qiunan felt that he had married the right person, and his eyes towards Li Pingan showed even more love.

The entrance banquet was very lively in the evening. Li Ping'an never stopped drinking. Either one wanted to drink from him, or the other wanted to clink glasses with him, that is, there was a cheat. Otherwise, after the first round, people would be confused. Lying on the ground unconscious.

The school term starts on March 20st, so I only have a few days to prepare. Besides, there is no need to prepare. The school is just in front of my house, just over [-] minutes away by bicycle. Teacher Wang also has an acquaintance at Capital Medical College, so he will go to school directly when the time comes. That's great. I go to class during the day and go home to sleep at night. It's easier than commuting to and from get off work.

On the first day of school, Li Ping'an drove a car from his work, and the whole family came together to take Ding Qiunan to school with their children in their arms.

In the first year of the resumption of the college entrance examination, the students who entered the school were generally older, and many were in their thirties. There were really not many fresh graduates. At a glance, the least number of students were in their 23s and [-]s. There are only a few children born in [-], and many of them are freshmen who come to register with their children in their arms.

It is said that Da Ya's grades this year were also good. She was admitted to the Capital Agricultural University, which is also a key university. This prompted Si Zhu to hold two consecutive banquets in the courtyard to celebrate Da Ya's admission to the university.

After the registration process was completed, he took Ding Qiunan to meet with an acquaintance of Teacher Wang and had a brief chat. When Li Ping'an proposed to send Ding Qiunan to day school, the other party readily agreed.

After everything was done, Li Ping'an and Yi Zhonghai didn't stay in the courtyard for too long. They just sent people here. They had class meetings and other things today. They had already seen the campus environment. They didn't want to stay in the school for a long time. It's not interesting either.

From today on, Ding Qiunan is living the college life of her dreams, while Li Ping'an is working conscientiously. Neither of them has time to take care of their children, so they can only leave their children to the care of their aunt again as before.

The eldest mother did not complain at all about taking care of her children. On the contrary, she enjoyed it and walked around the courtyard with her children in her arms every day.

At the end of the year, the news about the distribution of farmland to each household and the responsibility for self-financing spread in Xiaogang Village, which shocked the whole country. Xiaogang Village took the lead in launching internal reforms.

The response from the top was very fast. After more than a month of intense discussions, the policy of reform and opening up was officially announced, and the domestic economy really took off.

Not long after the first New Year after the reform and opening up, Auntie's heart suddenly stopped beating late at night, and she passed away peacefully, finishing her life in her sleep without any pain.

Li Ping'an and Ding Qiunan only got the news the next morning. When they heard the news from Silly Zhu, their jobs fell off their hands on the spot. After so many years of getting along, Li Ping'an had already regarded his aunt as a aunt. Facing the sudden death of his aunt, his real relative, he couldn't accept it for a while.

Now that we have reformed and opened up, there are not so many restrictions, and the eldest mother has no son. Li Ping'an and Lele put on filial piety clothes and knelt in the mourning hall to keep filial piety for the eldest mother.

The funeral was held with great splendor, and Li Ping'an was there, with many people coming and going to see Auntie off.

After his aunt was buried, Li Ping'an thought about taking Yi Zhonghai from the courtyard to live with him, but Yi Zhonghai was unwilling to leave the house where he had lived all his life. Li Ping'an had no choice but to take Yi Zhonghai away so that he would not be so lonely. Lele was sent there to stay with Yi Zhonghai for a while.

As time went by, foreign businessmen appeared on the streets of Sijiucheng. That day, Li Ping'an and Ding Qiunan, who had just finished school, took their two children to eat in Donglaishun and met Lou Xiao'e who had returned from Xiangjiang.

The two parties who had not seen each other for many years naturally wanted to have a good chat when they reunited by chance. The two parties sat together and chatted about their situation over the years.

"Speaking of which, I would like to thank you. If you hadn't notified us in advance to let my family leave Sijiu City, our family might not have been able to do well in these years." Lou Xiao'e was very grateful when she thought of what happened back then. She said seriously Thank you to Li Pingan.

Hearing what Lou Xiaoe said, Ding Qiunan was very confused. At that time, she only knew that Lou Xiaoe's family had escaped early, and she did not know that Li Ping'an had revealed the news to her family. However, Ding Qiunan did not ask in detail in front of Lou Xiaoe.

Li Ping'an waved his hand: "We were all neighbors at that time. Sister Xiao'e, you are a nice person, and I can't just ignore death. This happened so many years ago. Don't mention it anymore. Let's talk about your life over the years. How's it going?"

At that time, the Lou family ran away early, and the family property did not suffer any loss. They took a large amount of gold to Xiangjiang. With the help of overseas relatives, they quickly established a foothold in Xiangjiang. Xiangjiang has developed rapidly in these years, and other Not to mention property, the properties the Lou family bought in Xiangjiang are now worth a lot of money.Lou Xiao'e married a Xiangjiang businessman in Xiangjiang just like the original drama. However, this time Lou Xiao'e did not have such a relationship with Sha Zhu. This time the marriage was still very satisfactory. She had two children with the businessman, plus her natal family The power of the two parties is not small. Even if the relationship between the two parties broke down, due to the involvement of interests and children, the two parties did not divorce as in the original drama.

Knowing that Lou Xiao'e only came to the mainland for inspection first, Li Ping'an quickly came up with the idea of ​​selling the goods purchased from Xiaori for zero yuan through Lou Xiao'e in Xiangjiang.

Although I have come into contact with many Xiangjiang merchants during this period, after all, I don’t know the details of the other party and I dare not hand over the goods in my hand to them.

Lou Xiao'e was different. Not to mention Li Ping'an's great kindness to the Lou family, Li Ping'an also believed in Lou Xiao'e's character and did not believe that the Lou family would ignore this batch of supplies.

After dinner, Li Ping'an called Lou Xiao'e out and found an excuse to talk about a batch of home appliances made by Xiaoni in his hand. As for the car, Li Ping'an didn't say anything about it. It was hard to get rid of it.Li Ping'an planned to erase the engine number and use it as a smuggled vehicle in coastal areas of the country. This would be safer, and even if something went wrong, he would not be traced there.

After hearing what Li Ping'an said, Lou Xiao'e was surprised as to where this batch of supplies came from, but she was sensible and did not ask. Instead, she agreed and promised to sell all the supplies.

Li Ping'an is naturally not someone who makes people work in vain. This batch of goods was produced in 77 and is still a mainstream hot commodity in the market. After learning about the selling prices of these Nissan home appliances on the market in Xiangjiang, Li Ping'an directly quoted the selling prices. [-]% of the total was sold to Lou Xiao'e.

Lou Xiaoe did not sell the goods directly in Xiangjiang after receiving the goods. This thing did not come from formal channels. Lou Xiaoe was also afraid of getting into trouble by shipping goods directly in Xiangjiang. Instead, she found some smuggling traders and added [-]% to the price of Li Ping'an's goods. Successfully, he dumped the goods directly to them.

This batch of goods was very popular in the market. Even if Lou Xiaoe added [-]% to the price, it was still lower than buying it directly from childhood. The smugglers joined forces and directly ate all the goods in Lou Xiaoe's hands, and a small part was sold in Xiangjiang. , most of which were resold and shipped to Southeast Asia for shipment.

In just half a year, except for more than 200 cars, all the goods Li Pingan purchased from Xiaoli for zero yuan were sold through Lou Xiao'e, earning Li Pingan more than 2000 million Hong Kong dollars. At Li Pingan's request, Lou Xiao'e sold this one More than [-] million Hong Kong dollars were converted into [-] million U.S. dollars and deposited in the account opened by Li Ping'an in Xiangjiang.

When it was confirmed that the money had arrived, Li Pingan was completely relieved. More than 2000 million US dollars was not a small amount in this year. How much were the domestic foreign exchange reserves?Faced with such a large amount of money, Li Ping'an was also afraid that the Lou family would have some unwanted thoughts.

With money in his hands and no worries in his heart, Li Ping'an doesn't care about the hustle and bustle outside and works conscientiously in his unit every day. It's not a good time to go to work outside now. As the educated youth returned to the city starting the year before last, they can't get a job. , the current social security is very chaotic, and people are blocking roads and robbing people in remote alleys in broad daylight. In two years, directly stopping trains and robbing will become a normal phenomenon, and Li Ping'an will not take this risk.

Li Pingan can be stable, but others cannot. In just two years of reform and opening up, there are already signs of rising prices. The inflation rate in the past two years has exceeded 5.00%. In the past, it was still possible to feed the whole family. It was obvious that the remaining salary was not enough to spend, so everyone in the courtyard began to become restless.

With the opening of the first individual restaurant in Sijiu City, Xu Damao took the lead in losing his identity as a boss. He used the money he secretly earned in the black market over the years to give gifts to business people. After getting the business license, he I knew where to hire a cook, rented a front room in the neighborhood committee, bought a refrigerator with full payment, and opened a large private restaurant in Nanluogu Lane.

Compared with other individual restaurants that only sell ducks for free, the dishes in Xu Damao's restaurant are much richer. After all, he has been in the black market for so many years and has a wide range of connections. There are all kinds of chicken, duck and fish, but There is no limit to duck, but you can only order one other meat dish per table.

Xu Damao's restaurant has gained a reputation as soon as it opened. Although the taste is average and not as good as the taste in state-owned restaurants, the advantage is that the service is attentive and everyone is greeted with a smile. It is not as domineering as in state-owned restaurants, so every day when it is time to eat , there are many people lining up in front of the hotel.

Since Xu Damao's restaurant is large and has a wide variety of dishes, after deducting all expenses in just one month, the net profit was as little as 2000 yuan.

Xu Damao, who has money, naturally wants to show off. After all, he has been ridiculed for so many years and suddenly turned over. How can he walk at night in fine clothes?So Xu Damao invited everyone in the hospital to have a free meal at his restaurant. Even Li Ping'an and Ding Qiunan were invited.

It was noon on the weekend. Early in the morning, Li Ping'an dragged his family to the courtyard to meet the people in the courtyard and prepare to visit Xu Damao's restaurant.

Silly Zhu looked at the people gathered in the courtyard happily discussing about going to eat, and couldn't help but snorted: "Huh, what's so good about it? The craftsmanship in Xu Damao's restaurant is so good. I don't know where to find it. A bad cook might as well cook it at home."

The people in the courtyard knew about the situation of Sha Zhu and Xu Damao, so they pretended not to hear Sha Zhu's cynicism. After all, the free meal would be in vain if you don't go.

Just when Li Ping'an was about to talk to Shazhu, Yu Li came over with Yan Jiecheng: "Director Li, are you free now? I want to talk to you about something."

Yes, Li Ping'an has been promoted and is now a division-level cadre in the Materials Bureau. Now that the cadres have not started to get younger, a 35-year-old division chief is already very impressive. If he does not go to work, he will be one of the future ministries and commissions. star.

"Yu Li, we have been working together for many years. If you have anything to say, just say it. Anyone who can help me will definitely help."

Seeing the embarrassment on Yu Li's face, Li Ping'an could probably guess what the other party was planning. Yu Li was a very ambitious and decisive woman. Seeing that Xu Damao had made money by opening a restaurant, she definitely wanted to open a restaurant overseas. , came to borrow money from myself.

Sure enough, what he said next was what Li Pingan guessed. Yu Li just wanted to borrow money from Li Pingan to open a restaurant. After listening to Yu Li's story, Li Pingan nodded and agreed to the loan without any hesitation. A subordinate of so many years can help. I will definitely help. Judging from the current situation, you can make money by doing anything, so you don't have to worry about her not being able to pay back.

Li Ping'an is also considering whether to open a few restaurants in Ding Qiunan's name. Li Ping'an will naturally not make a fuss, and the land must be purchased before opening a restaurant. (End of chapter)