Cheng's father approached her and wanted her to take over a state-owned hotel. After returning home, she also mentioned it to her husband.
Li Huai was naturally curious as to why it couldn't be done. In the past, when Zhao Qinglan told him about the future, he only mentioned major events that came to mind, but didn't say much in detail.
This time, she explained to her husband the general trend of economic development in the next ten or twenty years.
Hearing that many large state-owned factories and public institutions would go bankrupt and close down, and that countless workers would be laid off and lose their jobs, Li Huai felt very complicated.
"Although the road is tortuous, the future is still bright and bright." She could only comfort her husband in this way.
Li Huai also knew that even if he knew this, he couldn't do anything to turn the tide. He just felt depressed and uncomfortable for a while, and then he had no choice but to accept it.
As soon as the new semester started, Xiaoduo was promoted to the first grade of junior high school, the second child became the fifth grader, and only the third child in the family was still in kindergarten.
Zhao Qinglan does not have to pick up and drop off her children every day. Apart from some housework and cooking, she has free time the rest of the time. She continues to read books to enrich herself.
At the end of September, the Iron Lady from across the ocean came to visit our country, which also aroused a lot of enthusiastic attention among the people.
Everyone was just proud of the friendly visit of the Western powers to our country, but Zhao Qinglan was reminded of the big event.
If she remembered correctly, the return of Hong Kong City was negotiated during the Iron Lady's visit, but it would probably take some time to announce it to the public.
However, this could not stop her from feeling happy. She knew that the motherland would become stronger in the future, but it felt very different to experience it personally again.
When she secretly shared this with her husband at night, Li Huai became excited because of the depression he had learned about before.
This time, Zhao Qinglan will not only be a witness to history, but will also bring her husband, her closest person, to witness it.
After the National Day in October, Zhao Qingju and her partner in Beijing were officially engaged.
As for the wedding date, it will be set after May of next year.
Mrs. Sun began to slowly prepare a dowry for her daughter. Now she had quite a lot of money in her hands. After all, Zhao Qinglan had already given up the dividends from the snack bar.
In the past, the Zhao Qinglan sisters had their own properties in this area, but no one expected that they would meet their uncle Sun Guangming, nor did they expect that Zhao Qingju would marry in the capital in the future.
The preparation of some dowry is different.
After Sun Guangming learned about his sister's dilemma, he invited his sister to live in the capital to prepare for this.
When Zhao Qinglan and the others were not going to the capital, Sun Guangming lived in the house assigned to him by his rank.
If his sister comes, she can live with him. Anyway, he lives alone there. Occasionally, he will have an aunt to help with housework, so the house is quite empty.
Mrs. Sun didn't hesitate much and rushed to the capital. This time, she wanted to find a house in the capital for her little girl as a dowry.
The husband's family is from the capital, and if it weren't for his brother's position, they might not be able to think highly of their daughter.
Although the future son-in-law looks good overall, who knows what will happen in the future. She will prepare more dowry for her daughter, and she will feel more confident after her daughter gets married.
It just so happens that Mr. Dou has been looking for a house for Zhao Qinglan. Now he has found several houses. When Sun went there, he could choose from them.
The children at home are all grown up and do not need Sun to take care of them. Zhao Qinglan also hopes that her mother can walk around while her legs and feet are still good.
The renovation of the house in the provincial capital was completely completed by the end of October, but it could not be occupied for a while. Zhao Qinglan felt that at least it was necessary to wait until the Chinese New Year before moving in.
I don’t know if it was Zhao Qinglan’s initial comfort that eased Song Yi’s psychological pressure, or it was fate. Zhao Qinglan had just finished renovating her house when she received the good news from Zhang Yu.
Song Yi found out that she was two months pregnant. Calculating the time, she was pregnant not long after Zhao Qinglan and the others left.
Not only were the couple happy that Song Yi was pregnant, the elders of the Zhang family were also extremely happy.
Zhang Yu is already in his thirties, and he is finally going to be a father. Zhang's mother cried with joy.
Perhaps it was because both Song Yi and Zhang Yu mentioned to the elders of the Zhang family the role that Zhao Qinglan played in going south to Shenzhen City, and the elders of the Zhang family were also very grateful to her.
Originally, Zhang's mother had a good impression of Zhao Qinglan because of Li Huai's relationship, but now it's getting even better. She even sent Zhao Qinglan a lot of things as thank-you gifts, which made Zhao Qinglan both funny and helpless.
However, the relationship between the two families is getting closer and closer, and she has no choice but to accept it. But when she has something in the future, when she sends it to Grandpa Dou and her uncle in the capital, she does not forget to send a copy to the Zhang family, and the two parties start to communicate like relatives.
Zhao Qinglan's life was originally peaceful, but she didn't expect that she would be shocked when her children's midterm exam results came out.
The eldest child has always had excellent self-discipline. Even if he doesn't live with them, he is always at the top of his grade in the middle school in the area.
Xiaoduo doesn't need to worry about Zhao Qinglan, now he is number one in the class as expected.
The second child, on the other hand, only got below average in the class when his results came out.
In fact, Zhao Qinglan does not necessarily require the children to have excellent academic performance. It is just that although the second child was not as top-notch as his elder brothers and sisters in the past, he was still considered a good student in the class. Now he only got a middle or lower grade in the exam. Can Zhao Qinglan not be worried?
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I don’t know whether it’s because the elder brother is no longer around and no one is restraining him, or something else happened, but the second child’s performance has declined a bit alarmingly.
As a mother who cares about her children, Zhao Qinglan naturally wants to understand what is going on.
Afraid of the negative impact of going to school, Zhao Qinglan planned to have a good chat with Erwa.
However, the child didn't know whether he was guilty or afraid. He didn't even come back for dinner at night. He ran out to play as soon as school was over and didn't come back until it was time to go to bed.
After waiting for two days, Zhao Qinglan felt that she could no longer spoil her second baby.
Erwa sneaked to the door of the house, leaned against it and listened for a while. There was no movement in the house. Thinking that everyone in the family must have gone to sleep, he took out the key hanging around his neck and opened the door.
I opened the door and entered the house. The second baby was about to slip into his room when the light came on.
"Where are you running?" Zhao Qinglan sat there with her arms folded and looked at him.
That was all. Li Huai also stood at the light switch and watched coldly. He was the one who turned on the lights in the room.
"Go over and sit down." After glaring at his son, Li Huai walked over to his wife and sat down.
Now the second baby didn't dare to resist at all. He walked to his parents and sat down with his shoulders hunched.
Zhao Qinglan and her husband looked at each other, and then she spoke.
"Tell me, you don't go home after school recently. What do you do all day long?"
Erwa said in a low voice without raising his head: "I went to play with my classmates."
"Where did you go to play?" Zhao Qinglan asked.
"Mom, didn't you say that we have our own freedom when we grow up?" Erwa didn't answer.
"Heh." Zhao Qinglan sneered. "The freedom I give you is not to let you let yourself go."
She began to reflect on whether she had been too tolerant of her children recently.