As soon as Zhao Qinglan came home after get off work, she turned on the radio first and even turned the volume to the maximum.
Mrs. Sun invited them to eat together, and she didn't forget to take the radio and put it aside.
She has been like this these days, and everyone in the family is used to it.
Zhao Qinglan became obviously anxious as she could not wait for the exact news.
If it weren't for the fact that her well-informed husband didn't always comfort her, she would have been afraid that she wouldn't be able to hold on any longer.
As I was eating my meal uneasily, a news report suddenly came from the radio.
"From December 18th to December 22nd, the third meeting of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing. The comrades who attended the meeting were..."
As soon as he listened to the beginning, the chopsticks in Zhao Qinglan's hand stopped and he looked at the radio with intense eyes.
Because of her reaction, everyone in the family also paid attention to the report on the radio.
Except for her, Li Huai, who was looking forward to confirmation, seemed a little excited.
"Gather all our energy, pool our efforts, and embark on a new long march to build our country into a modern and powerful socialist country in this century."
Zhao Qinglan's eyes became brighter and brighter.
"We made the great decision to shift the focus of the work of the entire party and the attention of the people across the country to socialist modernization and propose reform and opening up."
"Did you hear that? Reform and opening up!" Zhao Qinglan said excitedly as she looked at her husband.
The words his wife said came true, and Li Huai couldn't hide his joy. "I heard it, reform and opening up."
My wife said that it is precisely because of the reform and opening up that the country has undergone earth-shaking changes. There is no doubt how important this matter is.
No one else at the dinner table heard very clearly, nor could they understand their excitement.
Sun asked doubtfully: "Qinglan, is this good news in the news?" Those words about Zou Zou were connected together. Forgive her, she remembered the names of the leaders mentioned at the beginning.
"It's a good thing, it's a great thing, Mom, from now on, we will be rich in the future." Zhao Qinglan said happily.
"Get rich?" Are they not rich now? This means how rich they will be in the future. Sun's family is a bit fantasy.
"To get rich, Mom, with this policy, the business environment will get better and better in the future. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can make money. In the future, every household will be able to use various electrical appliances."
She couldn't help but describe it.
Sun smiled. "It's not as mysterious as what you said." She obviously didn't believe it.
Zhao Qinglan couldn't provide any evidence to her mother, so she was just happy.
This joy lasted until she went to sleep.
But Li Huai obviously didn't look so happy.
Just because he remembered another big event that his wife had said was about to happen.
Zhao Qinglan finally noticed something strange about her husband. "What's wrong with you? You look very serious."
"Qinglan, since the reform and opening up has happened as scheduled, then the counterattack you mentioned is coming soon."
Zhao Qinglan's heart skipped a beat, yes, the counterattack happened in early 1979, when the weather was still cold.
At that time, everyone had just celebrated the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and before the New Year spirit had completely dissipated, a war broke out on the southern border.
Because after the founding of the People's Republic of China, except for a few battles to suppress bandits, such large-scale battles rarely occurred, so the whole country paid attention to it.
Newspapers and radio always broadcast various developments of the counterattack.
This kind of big event is simply not something they can stop.
"Since it is destined to happen, let's make all preparations."
They didn't know whether Li Huai would go to the battlefield when the time came, but they had to be mentally prepared for him to go to the front line.
From that day on, Mrs. Sun discovered that her daughter and son-in-law no longer watched the radio, but her son-in-law didn't pay much attention to the house.
Speaking of being busy, my son-in-law Jinsheng often comes over for dinner.
Even if we know there is going to be a war, life has to go on.
The snack bar finally moved after its expiry date. The new store is spacious and better decorated than before.
After all, they didn't have much start-up capital at the beginning, so they all relied on Zhao Qinglan's money to support them.
The new store opened. Except for Li Huai, Zhao Qinglan and the others also went back to the city.
Although the reform and opening up had begun, Zhao Qinglan knew that there were still two years of ups and downs in between.
At least in the 1980s, there really weren’t so many policy risks in doing business.
Therefore, she has no plans to expand her business before then. For the time being, the family can rely on such a snack bar.
Because in the past, Zhao Qingju always promoted the store's relocation to regular customers.
When their new store opened, business was booming from the beginning.
The main thing is that there are preferential benefits for opening a business.
Now the chef is basically supported by Zhao Qingju, also because the ingredients need to be kept secret.
It's not that Zhao Qinglan is selfish, these are the basis for their small family's current livelihood. Besides, they were all slowly figured out by her in her previous life.
The two hired clerks are responsible for cleaning up, serving guests, washing dishes and chopsticks.
Zhao Qingzhu went to the city to go to the store and was mainly responsible for the cashier.
Occasionally, Mrs. Sun would go into town to replace her daughter in the store.
They had just moved out of their previous store, and the original landlord started doing business in the store only two days later.
Zhao Qinglan and the others had specially renovated the store before, which was very convenient for the landlord. They only needed to tidy up a little and add some things, and they could open it immediately.
A few days before the snack bar was moved out, the landlord would always pretend to come to the door, inquire about business matters, and even directly ask Zhao Qingju if their secret recipe could be sold.
How can this be sold?
Zhao Qinglan and the others spent a lot of effort to buy the flour and meat they needed to buy wontons and spicy hotpot.
They have few competitors around here, also because most people can't handle a large amount of ingredients.
Even if they sell food, they can only sell seasonal or common items.
For example, sweet potatoes brought from the countryside, roasted sweet potatoes, boiled edamame, and tea eggs.
The landlords thought that doing business would be simple at first, but when they really got started, they realized that everything was full of troubles.
No, we can only run small shops selling our own local products. These local products are bought from relatives' houses in rural villages.
It can be said that food stamps, meat stamps and other things still restrict most people's motivation to do business.
The time-honored snack bar has a lot of customers every day. Has no one ever doubted where all the food and meat in their store come from?
Some people with evil intentions also reported it. Fortunately, Zhao Qinglan took this into consideration from the beginning.
The meat and flour are all obtained from regular state-owned factories. Some of the ingredients they occasionally buy from the black market will not be noticed as long as they are careful.
Only due to these limitations, Zhao Qinglan and the others cannot expand much.
The new store opened smoothly and was on track. Zhao Qinglan and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
In the blink of an eye, it’s the twelfth lunar month, and the new year is almost here.