"Go home often, take a look, wash the chopsticks and wash the dishes for your parents..."

A familiar classic melody came from the brand new 13-inch black and white Panda TV. Every word seemed to fall on Tang Tianci's heart. The warm pictures that only existed in his memory suddenly appeared in front of Tianci, and a certain suffocating sense of happiness filled him.

However, it was born.

When he reached middle age, he opened his eyes and went back to 1998, the most beautiful and lush years. Although this was not a good year in his memory, Tang Tianci was still overjoyed.

That year, my father's hair on the temples had not yet turned gray, that year, my mother was still alive, and that year, although the family was poor, it was complete.

That year, he was only eighteen years old.

In 1996, his father, Tang Zhongyuan, took the initiative to lay off his job due to poor performance in his work unit. With his skills as an eighth-level electrician, he worked in a private company. With his excellent craftsmanship, his salary was quite high. He occasionally took on private work and earned a good income.

Cai Fenghua is an employee of a state-owned enterprise and her income is not low. The family lives a relatively prosperous life.

In 1998, the Southeast Asian financial crisis caused a major economic adjustment in the country. A large number of laid-off workers began to look for jobs, and fewer companies approached Tang Zhongyuan to do private work. The factory was also affected. The promised increase in wages for Tang Zhongyuan was not fulfilled, but instead

He cut his salary.

At the same time, my mother Cai Fenghua also caught up with the layoff boom without exception.

Relying on less than 10,000 yuan of laid-off resettlement allowance, Cai Fenghua, a diligent and capable person, just opened a video store and rented out various pirated CDs from Tang Tianci's cousin in Zhongguancun. Unfortunately, she was usually very popular, and among the people in the neighborhood

Without help, business was so-so.

But over time, when everyone saw Cai Fenghua making money, they all followed suit, and video stores sprouted like mushrooms after a rain in Old Factory Street.

Under such vicious competition, this video store seems to have lost hope.

"Son, why are you crying?"

Although the current situation is not good, being able to return to this era is extremely exciting for Tang Tianci, who is reborn in middle age.

In his previous life, he lived in confusion for more than 40 years. He accomplished nothing and failed the world. He couldn't live up to his parents. You must know that his parents didn't study much, but they insisted on sending him to college. The whole family's hopes were pinned on him alone.

But he is not sensible at all. Because he was doted on by his grandfather since he was a child, he developed an unruly and willful temperament. When he reached adolescence, he became more and more rebellious, often doing ridiculous things to make his parents angry.

After graduating from school, Tang Tianci learned to be an electrician with his father, to repair computers with his cousin, and also tried to be a mason... He did everything for three minutes, without beginning or end, so that even at nearly fifty years old, he was still doing nothing.

When he thought about his mother worrying about him all her life and frowning before leaving, he was heartbroken and couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Mom, no, I just think... this song is really nice."

After wiping his tears, Tang Tianci took a deep breath and tried to calm down, his eyes gradually becoming firm.

Since God has given him a chance to be reborn, he must not make the same mistakes again this time!

"Is it that exaggerated?"

My mother joked, "Our college students are different, they can also taste the depth of the lyrics."

When Cai Fenghua mentioned that her son was admitted to college, Cai Fenghua's brows relaxed a little.

However, my son needs money to go to college!

Nowadays, her video store is basically no longer making any money, and her husband is on the verge of collapse. She is thankful to be able to keep her job.

When other brothers and sisters were in trouble, Tang Zhongyuan, as the eldest son, always helped whenever he could. The family never had enough money for two days.

We had some savings left, but the house leaked and it rained all night. Years ago, our father-in-law became seriously ill, and the family's savings suddenly hit the bottom.

Nowadays, there is no hope for this day at all.

Under the multiple pressures of life, Cai Fenghua's negative emotions have become increasingly common. Although she has been trying to control them, they have become increasingly depressed.

"I joined the Youth League first and then the Party. I was on the honor roll three times. The director of the factory paid special attention to me and was about to promote me as deputy team leader. The boss talked to me and said that the unit was downsizing and wanted to merge the factory. At that time, I expressed my position that we workers should

Thinking about the country, if I don’t get laid off, who will get laid off…”

The Spring Festival Gala program is still going on. The current skit is called "Cheer Up". Tang Tianci has already memorized the classic rhyming lines by heart because it is so deceiving...

"Turn it off quickly, what the hell!"

Cai Fenghua is not a lover, nor does she eat pua. As soon as she heard it, she knew that this line was meant to boil a frog in warm water.

As an informant, Tang Tianci could understand his mother's resentment.

"It sounds decent and rhymes with it, but in fact it is punishing the laid-off workers' hearts. It sincerely prevents people from having a good year."

Tang Tianci cursed secretly.

"Son, that's well said!"

Cai Fenghua resonated and echoed with indignation.

"Tianci, come to my house to play for a while?"

At just the right moment, the door of the bungalow was knocked open, and a big head with few hairs stuck out.

"Dong Keping?"

Looking at that familiar and precocious face, Tang Tianci's thoughts fell into memories again.

Dong Keping and Tang Tianci are classmates. In the local dialect, they are old friends and best friends since they were young. Both parents came from Henan to the Northeast to make a living in their early years.

Dong Keping was five years older than Tang Tianci. He wanted to pass the college entrance examination and had been in high school for five years.

Dong Keping's parents were laid off at the same time as Tang Zhongyuan. Unlike Tang Zhongyuan, who specialized in technology, Dong Keping's parents used their laid-off wages to start a transportation business. Their development was unexpectedly good. With the help of the two large trucks that the family purchased, they lived a peaceful life.

With good living conditions, Dong Keping naturally lost the motivation to work hard. He spent all day eating and waiting to die, dragging Tang Tianci out to fool around when he had nothing to do.

"Go ahead, go ahead."

As soon as she saw Dong Keping coming in, Cai Fenghua stuffed twenty yuan into Tang Tianci's hand.

Tang Tianci didn't want to go at all. He had just returned from rebirth and was eager to reminisce with his late mother.

But seeing that his mother was in a bad mood aroused by the lines of the skit, he knew that his mother did not want to express her resentment in front of others, so he went out with Dong Keping very wisely.

"Who's back? Do you want to see him?"

As soon as he left the yard, Dong Keping tightened his scarf and suddenly looked at Tang Tianci with a half-smile.

"who?"

Tang Tianci saw that he was still trying to pass things off, so he urged him again, "Hurry up. If you fart, hurry up and stop whining."

"Who else could it be? Your wife."

Dong Keping was puzzled as to why Tang Tianci couldn't guess this. He was either stupid or had lost his memory.

"Lu Qing?"

Tang Tianci was stunned when he heard this.
Chapter completed!