Rebirth Ninety's Fat Wife Should Be Self-reliant

Chapter 28 The wave of layoffs

"Uncle Li has just been laid off, don't be like him."

Lu Changqing rolled up his sleeves as he spoke, picked up two piles of briquettes and walked into the alley.

Laid off?

Zhou Huilan was immediately stunned.

She knew about the layoff wave in the 1990s, but that Uncle Li just now was at least fifty, and he was about to retire. How could he still be laid off?

At the moment of confusion, Lu Changqing had already run around and turned back. He picked up two piles of briquettes and reminded Zhou Huilan, "The briquettes won't work in the open space. Come to my house. There is a wooden board in the corner of the backyard. Get some boards and I will help you build them."

A coal shed to keep out the wind and rain.”

"No need to bother!" Zhou Huilan quickly picked up a pile of briquettes and followed them into the alley.

"It's not troublesome, it's just a matter of help from neighbors." Lu Changqing didn't blush and was out of breath. He moved twice as much as Zhou Huilan and walked much faster.

After he put down the briquettes and turned back, Zhou Huilan arrived at the door. Lu Changqing directly took the briquettes in her hand, grinned, showing a pair of neat white teeth, "Isn't it that I still ask for help from others? I have to get my attitude first."

Are you coming out?"

Zhou Huilan was really at a loss when it came to men being attentive, "It's just a few home-cooked dishes, it's not really anything that I asked for, but Uncle Li just now, thank you for helping me out."

Although Zhou Huilan was confident that she could handle it, the other party helped her after all, and she would not be stingy with a thank you.

"There are many old employees of state-owned restaurants on this street. Many of them were laid off due to the restructuring a few days ago. The smell of gunpowder is serious, but they are all good people. You don't want to be like them."

Zhou Huilan asked directly: "Laid off? At an age as old as Uncle Li, do you have to be laid off?"

"My employer compensated me, but I don't know the specific details, but I heard they said that the state-owned hotel could not continue to operate, and most of the people on this street who used to work there have been laid off."

Mass layoffs are the trend of the times and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

When Lu Changqing said this, Zhou Huilan suddenly understood that there were obviously more vendors near the Drum Tower than she had known in her previous life, and 80% of them were laid-off workers. After all, those who used to work in state-owned hotels should have some cooking skills.

Selling snacks is also the easiest way to start a business.

Zhou Huilan is not worried about not being able to sell her soy milk. After all, even though she only soaked a small part in well water, it is still more fragrant than ordinary soy milk, and grinding soy milk is very tiring. If she didn't do it to lose weight, she wouldn't be willing to do it.

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While they were talking, the two of them were so helpful that a cart of briquettes had already been moved.

"I'll go back and get the board." Lu Changqing said and raised his hand to wipe his sweat. A streak of soot immediately appeared on his fair forehead. If he walked out like this, he would probably make a lot of laughs.

So Zhou Huilan pulled off the towel from the rope and wanted to hand it to him.

But Lu Changqing thought that Zhou Huilan wanted to wipe it for him. After all, this was how his sister-in-law wiped it for him when she usually worked at home.

His handsome face moved forward, and Zhou Huilan felt that she was an old aunt in her fifties. She didn't feel uncomfortable at all, so she just wiped him clean.

"Mother!"

Yaoyao and Granny Duan were in the corridor and saw this scene clearly.

The little girl immediately became unhappy. She rushed over like a calf, pushed Lu Changqing away, turned around and hugged her mother's waist, "This is my mother!"

Lu Changqing followed Yaoyao's words and said, "It's your mother." After saying that, he reached out to touch Yaoyao's head, but she slapped her away.

Only then did he realize that the little girl was angry.

He had never dealt with children before, so he subconsciously wanted to please the chubby little girl in front of him.

After searching around in his mind, his eyes suddenly lit up. He snapped his fingers and bent down to look at Yaoyao: "A nest of ducklings just hatched in my backyard. Can uncle give you one?"

Yaoyao was completely confused.

As she grew up, her father Wang Jianye was actually missing in her growth, so that she could handle the relationship with her elders with ease, but she had no idea how to get along with her parents of the opposite sex.

In the past, when she lost her temper like this, those men would always scold her and even taunt her mother, but today this man, not only was he not angry, but he also said that he would give her a little duck?

Yaoyao looked at her mother with expectant and slightly worried eyes.

Although Zhou Huilan didn't know what her daughter was thinking, she remembered that Yaoyao liked these furry little guys.

In the past, I helped her raise chicks that cost a dime a piece at the entrance of the kindergarten, but at that time she was small and fat at home, and later she was accidentally crushed to death. Yaoyao was sad for a long time.

"If you like it, just go get it with your uncle." She smiled and nodded to her daughter, "In a while, uncle will bring the things to build a coal shed, and we can also build a nest for the little duck."

"Mom is awesome!" Yaoyao jumped up and hugged Zhou Huilan's face, kissed her, then dragged Lu Changqing and ran away.

Lu Changqing, who was completely unaware, was staggered by her drag. He was over 1.8 meters tall and seemed unable to keep up with the pace of a child.

Zhou Huilan also laughed.

The materials Lu Changqing brought back were complete, including hammers and nails, and he even brought a cane to Granny Duan.

Yaoyao and Lu Changqing were there working on the coal shed and handing over tools. There was nothing that Zhou Huilan needed to do, so she picked up the hoe and cleared the ground in the yard.

The rockeries and paths used in the garden's landscaping are still there, and we can only dig out small pieces of land following the original trend. However, such natural divisions are also convenient for distinguishing vegetable varieties.

Zhou Huilan only grew beans in her previous life and was not very good at growing vegetables.

But after plowing the ground, she secretly took the seeds into the space and ran them through the well water before taking them out and planting them into the soil. Water spinach, bitter melon, celery, beans and eggplant were planted in separate areas and then watered.

, although the originally bare courtyard is still bare, the tidied up fields have invisibly gained a bit more vitality.

Lu Changqing's coal shed and duck shed are almost finished.

Seeing that Zhou Huilan had tidied up the entire yard in such a short time, Lu Changqing was embarrassed to let Zhou Huilan go to his house to cook again.

Seeing that he was about to leave, Zhou Huilan quickly went into the house and changed her clothes, and walked out looking refreshed.

Lu Changqing even felt that she was a bit more beautiful than before. Although she was still a little fat, she was so dazzling that people couldn't take their eyes away.

"Mother-in-law, I'm going to teach Dr. Lu's sister-in-law how to cook some home-cooked meals. I'll be back in a while." She told her mother-in-law that Yaoyao was making out with the little duck and didn't want to go with her.

When Zhou Huilan took a few steps, she found that Lu Changqing was still there, not moving.

She reached out and waved it in front of Lu Changqing's eyes, "Doctor Lu?"

"ah!"

Lu Changqing suddenly came to his senses and felt that the woman in front of him coincided with the face in his dream.

There was no way that the person in the dream that he had been dreaming about for many years but could not even see his face clearly was someone like Zhou Huilan...

(End of chapter)