Reborn back to 1984

Chapter 96

As winter went to spring, not long after the boom in ski jackets fell, a new fashion trend emerged in the fashion industry, which was the bow-knot printed shirt with neckline that Zhang Xiuqing once wore at the engagement dinner.

As we all know, due to the backward economic conditions in the 80s, there were very few styles of clothes. Even the most beautiful women spent more than half of the year wearing shirts with the same style - lapel, single-breasted and multi-buttoned, straight, and the length just covered them. Ass, loose and fat.

No matter how skilled the tailor is, the fabric is the most comfortable, the print is the most beautiful, and the buttons are the most exquisite, if everyone wears such a shirt, which looks like work clothes, not only women will feel bored, but men will also experience visual fatigue.

The shirts launched by Xiuqing Garment Factory have made two major changes. The first is to make a big fuss about the collar, abandoning the square collar, round collar, and lotus leaf collar, and replacing it with two belts, about [-] centimeters in length. The width is about two centimeters, and it is tied into a beautiful bow; the second is to tighten the waist. In short, four darts are sewn on the waist to make the clothes more in line with the curve of the human body, achieving the effect of slimming and slimming.

As expected, as soon as this shirt was launched, it immediately caused a wave of panic buying. Xiuqing Garment Factory became an instant success in Shanghai and made a lot of money.

Seeing this situation, many garment factories followed suit.This year, in the streets and alleys, and in the fields of the countryside, you can see slim girls everywhere with bows fluttering on their chests.

In autumn, when the leaves were falling, Zhang Xiuqing took Shao Han and Zhang Xiaosen to put aside what they were doing, and drove to the small town where Shen Anlin's family lived.

It's not to trouble Shen Anlin, but to repay the kindness owed to Grandpa Zhu.

In her previous life, Zhang Xiuqing was a countryman who married Shen Anlin from the city. She was disliked by her husband's family, excluded by her colleagues, and isolated by her neighbors. Only Grandpa Zhu, who lived across the street, sympathized with her experience and extended a helping hand twice.Zhang Xiuqing was grateful to this kind-hearted old man from the bottom of her heart. After being reborn, besides changing the fate of her own family, she also wanted to change the fate of Grandpa Zhu.

Grandpa Zhu did good deeds all his life, but he had no good rewards, especially in his later years, his life was extremely bleak, which once again proved the sentence: good people have no good rewards!

The story started on October 1985, 10. On that day, Grandpa Zhu went to the kindergarten to pick up his little granddaughter. On the way home, he encountered a hooligan pestering the little girl. She was severely beaten and lay on the bed for more than a month. In the chaos, her granddaughter was also pushed to the ground, a bag fell on her forehead, her face was disfigured, her arm had five stitches, and her calf was trampled off.

She was originally a beautiful little girl, but because of this incident, an ugly scar like a centipede was left forever at the corner of her eye, and she became a limp walking with a limp.The urchins in the neighborhood stopped calling her by her first name, and all called her nicknames: "Little lame, ghost face, big and small eyes..."

The little girl refused to go to school anymore, and was bored at home all day. After a long time, she became mentally troubled. She didn't know how to dress when she was cold, and she didn't know how to eat when she was hungry. She didn't respond to talking to her. She often urinated and defecated in her pants. inside……

Grandpa Zhu's daughter-in-law couldn't accept this fact. She couldn't find the culprit, so she blamed Grandpa Zhu for all this, and forced her husband to sever the father-son relationship with Grandpa Zhu, or else divorce.

Grandpa Zhu's son didn't think long before making his choice.He left the town with his mother-in-law and daughter, and never came back during his lifetime.

Grandma Zhu was distraught, and died of depression a year later. It is said that her eyes were still open when she died.

Grandpa Zhu's waist, which had been straight all his life, suddenly bent, his white hair was full of tears, and he stood alone, with only an old dog as his companion.

Even so, he still does not change his nature. If anyone in the neighborhood is in trouble, as long as he can, he will definitely lend a helping hand...

There was a small shop selling fried dough sticks and tofu flowers next to the cinema, and the three of them found an empty table and sat down, eating and waiting.After waiting for more than an hour, Grandpa Zhu appeared in sight of the three with a half-eaten lollipop in one hand and a five or six-year-old girl in the other.

At the same time, a man and a woman also walked over, followed by a few boys and girls in fancy dress.

The girl was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with round face and big eyes, red lips and snowy skin, shiny braids, and a slim figure: "Please let me go, I really didn't mean to step on you..."

"Stop talking nonsense!" The man is not very old, wearing sunglasses, curly hair, sloppy, he is not a good thing at first glance: "There are so many people on the street, you don't step on anyone, but you step on me, I think you did it on purpose!"

"No, they pushed me..." The girl pointed at the boys and girls who were obviously a gang, and she was so anxious that she almost cried, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have stepped on you..."

"I don't care, anyway, if you step on me, I will settle the score with you."

"But I've already apologized to you..."

"My foot was almost broken by you, do you think an apology can offset it?"

Although Curly tried his best to look painful, the spectators were not fools, they couldn't tell the truth from the fake, and they all accused him.

Several accomplices rolled up their sleeves one after another, and one of the tall and burly accomplices pointed at the crowd and yelled: "Meddle more and eat more farts, less meddle and less lax! If you don't want to be beaten, shut me up!" Mouth……"

Everyone was frightened by his tyrannical appearance, and they all backed away.

The girl turned pale with fright: "I'm sorry, I lost money, can I pay you ten yuan?"

"Who do you think I am?" Curly put on a look of being unmoved by money, and patted his chest hard: "I don't want you to lose money, just go to a movie with me. Take you home, otherwise... Hehe, don't blame me for being rude! I know you have to pass by here every day when you get off work.

These people are not honest people at first glance, the girl is not willing to go into the movie theater with them, she shook her head desperately: "No! I don't know you, you want to go to the movies, don't come to me, go to someone else!"

Curly laughed loudly, and after laughing, he said boldly: "The first time is a stranger, the second time is an acquaintance, after seeing this movie, don't you know each other?"

"No... I want to go home. My mother is waiting for me to go home for dinner. She will be anxious if she doesn't see me. Please, let me go!"

"That's all right, let's go to your house for dinner first, and then come back to watch a movie after eating..."

The boys and girls following behind made booing one after another, some whistled, some screamed strangely, and some clapped their hands in applause.

The girl burst into tears.

The onlookers were afraid of getting into trouble, so they only dared to whisper, but they didn't dare to criticize loudly.Grandpa Zhu endured and endured, but he still couldn't hold back, and was about to speak, when a person rushed out from the horizontal stab, grabbed Curly's wrist, and with a little force, Curly let out a scream of "ah", and immediately Tears and snot all over my face.

Zhang Xiaosen cursed "trash", pushed the curly hair to the ground, and stepped on it.

The four teenagers uttered a strange cry and rushed forward.

Two fists are no match for eight hands, everyone thought that Zhang Xiaosen was going to suffer, and they all sweated for him, but in the end, Zhang Xiaosen beat them all with his bare hands.

The onlookers clapped and applauded.

Shao Han frowned, and said to the girl who was still in a daze, "Hurry up and leave!"

The girl just came back to her senses, and ran away in a panic without thinking about thanking Zhang Xiaosen.

Zhang Xiuqing forcibly suppressed the excitement in her heart, slowly squeezed behind Grandpa Zhu, and stuffed a cute plush cub into the little girl's hand.

The little girl turned around and called out, "Sister..."

Zhang Xiuqing was filled with emotions, reached out and stroked her hair, then looked at Grandpa Zhu, and said softly "Thank you!" After speaking, he took Shao Han's hand, turned and left.

Shen Anlin hid in the crowd, staring at Zhang Xiuqing's beautiful face without blinking, until she was far away and could no longer be seen, then turned his head and subconsciously walked towards the Xinhua Bookstore not far away.

That was the place where the two met for the first time, and every time he went there, he was always in a very uneasy mood.

It's easy to hate someone, but it's hard to forget someone, and what you can't get is always the best, and no one can replace it. This is love, which can't be explained clearly, can't be explained, can't be shaken off, can't be forgotten...

Lin Shuyun looked at Shen Anlin's distraught look, and jealousy ignited in her heart, and she couldn't calm it down...

When Ye Luodong came, the number of employees in the clothing factory changed from the original twenty to two hundred, and the number of employees in the food factory also changed from ten to one hundred.

Zhang Ji roasted seeds and nuts originally only opened one shop in S City, but after a year, it has become three in Shanghai, two in S City, and one in J County.

A major event happened in the commodity circulation industry this year, that is, promotion with prizes.

Many consumers think that anything that can be advertised on TV is a good thing.As a result, many merchants advertised on TV and at the same time carried out promotions with prizes. One company also made the most money in roasting seeds and nuts. The special prize was a car worth up to 20 yuan.

Consumers went crazy and bought this company's roasted seeds and nuts one after another; dealers went crazy, and orders flew like snowflakes from this company;

Wu Xiaofei and the others were all excited, clamoring for promotions with prizes.The so-called three cobblers combined into one Zhuge Liang, and a few men who wanted to stir-fry melon seeds to the whole country of Z got together, drinking and discussing, and after spending a long time, they finally concocted the most amazing one in history. Advertisement - You buy melon seeds, and I also buy melon seeds. Let's go to Zhangji to buy melon seeds.Zhangji roasted seeds and nuts, a conscientious enterprise, a grand prize of 30, don't miss it!

Zhang Xiuqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry. As a reborn person, she knew that this wave of promotions was not going to last long, and the central government would soon stop all promotional activities with prizes.Since the prizes could not be cashed out, dealers from all over the country offered to return the products one after another, and the roasted seeds and nuts company would lose everything in the end. How could Zhang Xiuqing dare to follow suit?

She agrees to advertise on TV, but firmly disagrees with promotion.In order not to discourage Xiao Ma's enthusiasm, Shao Han invited him to his home, and Zhang Xiuqing personally cooked some special dishes.The two brothers choked up while drinking and talking. When they talked about excitement, they all choked up.

Ma Tao is a person who is more emotional than rational. In his opinion, brothers are more important than money. Since his brother's wife is not willing to part with the small money, then forget it. He is a manly man and does not care about women...

Ma Tao doesn't drink a lot. Usually, one drink is on his face, two is dizzy, three is red all over his body, and four has double shadows in his eyes. Today he is happy, drank more than one bottle, and asked Jiang Caiyun to introduce him to a beautiful girl. Things have been repeated countless times.Shao Hansheng was afraid that he would get drunk, so he reached out to snatch his glass, but Ma Tao refused to let him go, instead he loudly asked Zhang Xiuqing to pour the wine.

Zhang Xiuqing was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so she poured him a glass of cold water.Ma Tao raised his wine glass, stood up unsteadily, and said drunkenly to Shao Han: "Good brother, cheers!"

Shao Han was afraid that he would fall, so he quickly helped him to sit down, then raised his glasses to each other, and drank it all in one gulp.

The next day, Shao Han entrusted some trustworthy friends to secretly inquire about the situation of the girl.

Ma Tao is 22 years old this year, but his temper is as innocent as a child's. To put it bluntly, he is the kind of fool who will count the money for others when he is sold. Not only the Ma couple are worried about him, but Shao Han is also always Be vigilant, for fear that he will be deceived.

In this era when late marriage was not the mainstream, people like Ma Tao belonged to older men and young people. Many of his age were married, and some even had children, but he was still alone.

It's not that Ma and his wife don't care about their son's lifelong affairs, but that mother and child disagree.Jiang Caiyun’s choice of daughter-in-law is based on family status first, and the workplace second. Appearance and so on are all floating clouds;

After picking and choosing until now, I finally found a girl with a good family background, a good job, and a very beautiful appearance. It was Ma Tao's wife Shen Qizhen in his previous life, or to be precise, his ex-wife.

Shao Han couldn't help lamenting the wonder of fate. He already knew about Ma Tao's past life from Zhang Xiuqing, and knew that Ma Tao and Shen Qizhen didn't make it to the end.

It's not that Ma Tao has a bad temper, but that Shen Qizhen has a big temper and gets angry when something goes wrong.At the beginning, Ma Tao always gave way to her, thinking that he was a big man, and he would make his wife cry, and it would be embarrassing for him to speak out, so no matter who was right or who was wrong, he would apologize to Shen Qizhen.

Ma Tao wanted to calm things down, but it was a pity that Shen Qizhen didn't know what it meant to be one and two, so she became more and more angry and had more and more attacks. Finally, one day, Ma Tao couldn't stand her bad temper and told her There was a quarrel.

As the saying goes, bedside quarrels and quarrels end with each other. Many couples are earth-shattering when they quarrel, and after the anger subsides, the clouds and rain turn upside down, and they reconcile overnight.

Ma Tao has a straight temper, even if he quarrels.Shen Qizhen was not an ordinary person, she was very angry, she went back to her mother's house crying, and complained in front of her parents.Shen's father and Shen's mother felt sorry for their daughter, and immediately called their son, daughter-in-law, daughter, and son-in-law, and the whole family rushed to Ma's house, forcing Ma Tao to kneel in front of everyone and swear that he would never bully Shen Qizhen again.

Shen Qizhen won, thought she had gained face, and returned to Ma's house contentedly.Ma Tao lost face, and from then on, he was never willing to let her go.

The young couple had a small quarrel for two days and a big quarrel for three days, and their relationship plummeted.

Every time she quarrels, Shen Qizhen must win the upper hand, otherwise she will go back to her mother's house to rescue soldiers.As soon as the Shen family arrived, they immediately forced Ma Tao to admit his mistake, kneel down, apologize, and swear, otherwise they would divorce.

How can Ma Tao bear this, he would rather divorce.Mrs. Ma and his wife joined the battle group, and the two families were arguing in the dark, and I don't know how many people laughed at them...

Whoever marries such a mother-in-law is unlucky.Shao Han didn't want to break up the marriage at first, but it was about Ma Tao's lifelong happiness, so he asked someone to inquire. As a result, Shen Qizhen was as arrogant and domineering as she was in her previous life, and she didn't change at all.

A week later, Shao Han asked Ma Changming to drink and chat. During the meeting, he didn't mention Shen Qizhen at all. He only said that Ma Tao had a simple temper, valued loyalty, despised money, and didn't understand human affairs. A submissive mother-in-law, if there are brothers and sisters in the family, it is best to find the eldest, not the youngest, a spoiled girl is not suitable for Ma Tao.

After hearing these heartfelt words, Ma Changming felt that it made sense, so he went back and told Jiang Caiyun to listen.Jiang Caiyun didn't give up, and asked relatives and friends to inquire about Shen Qizhen's temper and temperament, but the result naturally made her discouraged.

Seeing that Ma Tao was going to be one year older, Ma Changming couldn't sit still any longer, so he personally went out and asked someone to introduce a girl from a middle-class family, a middle-class job, and a middle-class appearance. After meeting, they both felt good.

The two started dating and Ma Tao soon fell in love.

(End of this chapter)