"Shit!" Lao Liu shouted angrily: "You are lazy when you are at home, how can you be expected to be diligent outside? Is it possible? If you don't even do your own work, how can you still be good at other people's work?"
Liu Xincheng blushed and hesitated: "That's because my mother was at home, and she helped me do everything. I got used to it, so I did less. But when I was outside, I did a good job. The newspaper office
Although I quit my job, you can ask around or ask your old friends. I have never slacked off for a day. As long as it is my work, I will complete every article and manuscript seriously.
It’s true. When people hire me for money, I have to do a good job. This is the basic principle of my life.”
"If that's the case, then why don't you keep working hard?" Old Liu frowned and smiled bitterly: "Son, do you think it's easy to get into an iron rice bowl unit like the Provincial Capital Daily? Your father, I licked my face and asked for help, plus you
You still have a college degree, and it took a lot of effort to get this job. Fortunately for you, you resigned as soon as you turned around and became unhappy. Behind your coolness are the countless blood and tears of your father and your mother. How can you be so free and easy?
ah?"
Liu Xincheng became quiet and whispered: "It's not that I don't understand how hard it is for you to raise us, it's just that I... I don't like the same job. Dad, I really can't imagine working in a job for thirty or forty years - I
I can’t imagine! I’ve been doing this for less than three or four months, and I’m almost going crazy! You know? I don’t like it, but I have to force myself to do it, and I have to do it. After three or four months, I can’t stand it.
If you let me do this for thirty or forty years - then I might as well kill you!"
Old Liu sighed and shook his head: "Why should I kill you? Why should I raise you? Your brother is a man, and I like him to be stable for the rest of my life, not to mention you are a woman. Go out and ask, who
Don’t you want your children to live a peaceful life?”
At this point, Lao Liu whispered: "Your mother and I are not great parents, we are just ordinary, ordinary parents. We don't expect you to be rich and wealthy, just live a stable life. You
A girl, twenty-three years old, of an average age, is wandering around outside. Can your mother and I not be worried? How big of a heart must we have to feel relieved? "
Liu Xincheng was a little afraid to continue, but still stiffened his neck.
"I'm just temporary. I will find a job soon... When I become rich and famous, you and Mom will believe that my choice and decision are right."
Old Liu sighed tiredly and paused with the chopsticks in his hands, feeling that the delicious dishes on the table were a bit too much to eat.
"Xiao Xue, did you hear that? This is called youthful and frivolous. In fact, it can also be called 'youthful and ignorant'."
Xue Ling smiled softly and slowly ate the meat soup.
"You, don't be too excited, your children will have their own blessings."
Old Liu sighed: "Think about it, when you came to the newspaper office, you were probably in your twenties. You were younger than she is now, but why aren't you crazy?"
Liu Xincheng was dissatisfied with her father criticizing her like this, and whispered: "Didn't Sister Xue resign in the end? If she had not quit her job, she would still be living with a job worth more than 200 yuan, let alone such a big building, even this one
Even small stores can’t afford it.”
Old Liu was angry and glared: "What nonsense are you talking about! Xiao Xue is down-to-earth in doing things, are you? Can you compare with her? You can't even compare to a hair on her feet!"
"Okay." Xue Ling patted Lao Liu's arm and said with a smile: "Don't always blame her. If you think she made the right choice, then give her a chance to face life properly. That's fine.
Okay. She has her own way, she has her life, and you have the responsibility to raise her, but you can't help her live her whole life, and you can't arrange her life for her, right?"
Old Liu let out a long sigh and said weakly: "It's not that I don't support it, it's that she is too ambitious. If she can stabilize and earn some savings, and then do whatever she wants to do, I might not stop her. But look at it.
, she doesn’t even have a place to live now, so she can talk about ideals and the future. If ideals are based on empty talk, can they be considered ideals? If you don’t have bread, you can’t live, and if you starve to death, what ideals can you talk about!
"
"What your dad said makes sense." Seeing that the father and daughter could not stop, Xue Ling had to think of interjecting the topic, "Xiao Liu, don't just see the beauty of pursuing your ideals. The sadness and hard work behind it are immeasurable.
. You just used me as an analogy, but you actually don’t understand the hardships of my entrepreneurial process. When I met your dad, the newspaper happened to be recruiting an English editor. I was not an editor, but your dad really lacked
I was anxious to hire someone, so I nodded and let me stay. My salary was 180 yuan for the first month, and only 200 yuan for the second month."
Thinking of what happened back then, Xue Ling couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
"Every day I set off early in the morning, come home in the evening, and work part-time as a translator at night. My husband goes to the supply and marketing cooperative to sell things during the day, and goes to the dock to do odd jobs carrying goods at night. At that time, we were all full of ideals, but we never dared to quit our jobs easily.
Because without a job, we couldn't live on. As we did more translations, our life began to stabilize. Slowly, I invested the money I earned from doing translations and earned other money bit by bit, accumulating it piece by piece.
If you choose to start a business, you must have some guarantees and cannot be divorced from reality.”
Liu Xincheng didn't dare to refute, and whispered: "I know... I was quite impulsive when I resigned. But I really didn't like that job. I just suffered."
Xue Ling smiled slightly and explained: "I didn't like the editor's job at that time, but in order to make a living, I still persisted until the beginning of the next year. I resigned. For life and bread, sometimes I really have to bow my head and have no choice but to
I can’t stand it. Your dad is right, you can’t be willful. Fortunately, you don’t have a family behind you and you don’t have children, otherwise everyone else would have to suffer with you."
Liu Xincheng became quiet and did not dare to refute again.
Xue Ling smiled and asked: "Can you tell me what your ideal is? Or should I ask - what kind of job do you want to do?"
Liu Xincheng hesitated, glanced at Old Liu secretly, and finally said: "I want to... make money by selling audio tapes."
Xue Ling was slightly stunned, never expecting that her ideal would be to sell things.
Old Liu held his forehead and sighed, speechless.
Xue Ling couldn't help but ask: "Do you want to sell something?"
"Yeah." Liu Xincheng whispered: "Although I keep saying that I am ideal, I really didn't know what I wanted to do most at first. But every time I pass by someone else's store, I always stop unconsciously and make guesses about such a store.
Can I make money? What is the approximate cost, how much is the selling price, and how much profit can I make? As long as I think about it, I feel very happy. After I came to the imperial capital, I found that the business of selling audio tapes was very hot, so I... I just
I want to sell tapes."
Lao Liu asked back: "Do you have the capital? Do you know where to buy goods? Do you know where to sell them for the best profit?"
"I know!" Liu Xincheng said sarcastically: "Except for having no capital, I have already figured out everything else."
Old Liu said "haha" and smiled sarcastically, "Then what else is there to say? You are a college graduate and you don't want to do a good job. If someone introduces you to work in the company, you don't want it. You would rather do sales.
If the sales of a really big company are good and they set up stalls and open stores like others, then do the books you read still need to be used? It would be better not to read them in the first place, we can still save some money!"