Zhou Lanchu came to the former residence of her father and mother alone. She had just completed the funeral of her father and mother two days ago.
Her father and mother died on the same day, less than two hours apart. It was a coincidence that she remembered that her grandfather and grandmother also passed away on the same day.
In fact, it is good to die on the same day, but the one left behind is the one who suffers the most.
Today she came to her parents' former residence to sort out her belongings. Looking at the small courtyard in front of her, Zhou Lan had a trace of reminiscence in her eyes.
She had lived in this house both as a child and as a young woman.
She didn't move out of the house until she got married.
Her parents had three children in total, two boys and one girl. Zhou Lan was the eldest in the family, and her favorable family background meant that she did not have to worry about life.
After graduating from university, she chose to stay in school and became a classroom teacher. Later, she continued her studies and obtained a master's degree and a doctorate.
Now she is a professor at Jichun University. She is fifty-seven years old this year and will retire in two years.
Although my parents haven't lived in the house in front of me for a long time, someone comes to clean it every week.
Therefore, the house is well maintained and clean.
The courtyard gate was also replaced with the latest AI automatic recognition gate. As soon as Zhou Lan walked to the door, the courtyard door opened automatically.
When she stepped into the courtyard, the fragrance of flowers and plants hit her face. Zhou Lan remembered that her mother did not like flowers and plants when she was a child.
On the contrary, as I got older, my mother became particularly keen on planting flowers and grass.
For the sake of my mother, my father specially hired a well-known domestic garden designer to build a private garden for my mother. Various rare varieties of flowers can be seen everywhere.
It is spring, and the spring scenery in the yard is particularly charming. All kinds of blue, white, and red flowers are in full bloom. A gentle sniff will fill your nose with the fragrance of flowers.
After standing in the courtyard for a long time, Zhou Lan entered the house. She first went to her parents' bedroom.
The bed in the bedroom is covered with a thick dust cover, which also means that this house has been occupied by Director Mei for a long time.
After my mother became seriously ill, my parents moved to a nursing home. After that, the house became vacant.
Today Zhou Lan came here mainly to sort out the relics. The old man has left, and they, as children, want to take away some things, not for anything else, just to keep them in mind.
Although there are many antiques in this house, many of them are worth more than ten million.
But Zhou Lan really doesn't care much about these things.
It's true that she is a university professor, but no one stipulates that a university professor's income must come from his or her job.
After the three siblings came of age, each of them received some shares. At first, these shares were not particularly valuable, only tens of millions.
However, after so many years of development, the value of these shares has increased countless times.
This amount of money will take more than a few lifetimes to spend.
And Zhou Lan doesn't have any special hobby of spending money. Money is really not that important to her.
She came today just to pick up some photos.
Where are the photos?
After entering the room, Zhou Lan looked around. She hadn't been here for a long time and she couldn't remember clearly.
Not long after, the chest of drawers placed next to the dressing cabinet attracted Zhou Lan's attention.
This chest of drawers was one of the few ordinary objects in the family. She remembered that her mother had mentioned it to her, and it was one of the dowries when she got married.
Walking to the cabinet, Zhou Lan opened the top drawer.
'Sure enough, it's here.'
A smile appeared on Zhou Lan's lips. There were several photo albums in the drawer. Just when she was about to take out one and look through it, a dark brown notebook suddenly attracted her attention.
'What's this?'
Seeing this notebook, Zhou Lan looked thoughtful.
This book doesn't look like it contains photos.
After a while, Zhou Lan took out the notebook and turned to the first page. She was stunned for a moment.
On November 15, 1969, the weather was cloudy.
Today is the first time I write a diary. Recently, my mother sighs less and less often, and my brother is also very happy.
And all of this is thanks to one person.
If he hadn't introduced us to the job, qingkuang would definitely not be what it is now.
I calculated carefully and found that I can pick up more than 100 cartons a day. My younger brother has bad eyesight and can only pick up 50 boxes a day. My mother has other things to do, so I can probably pick up more than 50 boxes a day.
The three of us make 200 boxes a day, and three cartons cost a penny, so we can earn more than 6 cents a day.
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Seeing this paragraph of text, Zhou Lan couldn't help but show a hint of astonishment on her face.
Three cartons for a penny?
Did your mother have such a hard life in the past?
Although Zhou Lan was born in the 1970s, she had never lived a hard life since she was a child. In her impression, she had never lacked anything.
She has everything that other children have, and she has everything that other children don't have.
Their family has never been short of money.
She couldn't remember much about what happened before she was five years old. She only remembered that her father went to college at that time.
At that time, my father was already the director of a large factory managing hundreds of people, and his monthly salary was more than 100 yuan. If you include the bonus at the end of the year, you would have at least several thousand yuan in your account every year.
Their family should be among the earliest households worth ten thousand yuan.
After graduating from college, my parents resigned from their positions as factory directors and used their family savings to start a new factory.
It is the predecessor of the current Rand Group, a factory specializing in the development and production of diapers.
Zhou Lan was still young at that time, and many things were told by her mother later.
My mother said that when my parents resigned, no matter whether it was my grandfather, grandmother, second aunt, or uncle, they all opposed it.
At that time, unlike now, the status of state-owned factories was unshakable.
A director in charge of a large state-owned factory is simply more prosperous than the current boss with a net worth of over 100 million.
My mother was the only one who supported me. My mother mentioned that she supported my father not because she believed that going to sea would have a better future.
I just support my father alone.
Speaking of which, my father should be one of the first people to go to sea.
Facts have proved that my father's choice was right. The first product developed by his father was a diaper with a water absorption capacity of more than 1500ML.
Nowadays, this value is not impressive, but in the 1970s, this product was definitely a step ahead of the times.
Because of this product, Rand diapers became an instant hit, quickly occupied the international market, and even entered NASA's supplier list.
Compared with the hot sales in the international market, the domestic response is slower.
There was nothing we could do about it, because the domestic economic conditions were not particularly good at that time, and many families would not buy such expensive fast-moving consumer goods.
Diapers are a more economical option.
It was not until the 1990s that the domestic diaper market experienced a blowout.