This is the Spring Festival scene of Guangzhou Railway Station in 1997, there are tens of millions of people working in Guangzhou, and when they return to their hometowns during the Spring Festival every year, they are often overcrowded.
The train was crowded with people, there was no gap, in order to be able to get on the train, some people came in through the window, and even some people were squeezed to the head and bleeding, Chen Fengying's three sisters were lucky to squeeze on the car, and they who did not go home for three years of part-time work were finally reunited with their families this time.
Three years ago, 19-year-old Chen Fengying, with her sister Chen Qiufen and cousin Liu Yongfen, came to Dongguan to work and became an assembly line female worker in an electronics factory in Dongguan, working more than 12 hours a day in the factory, only ten minutes to go to the toilet, and if it exceeded the time, she would have to deduct money. But staying in the hometown can only farm, with their own dreams, three young girls, just here spent three years of youth, hard to survive for three years, and finally in this year's Spring Festival, the three sisters went home.
On the train, all the migrant workers, thinking of going home to reunite with their families, everyone was very happy, and sang on the train.
In Wusheng's hometown, Chen Fengying's mother would lead her granddaughter to the village every day to wait for her daughters to return, there was no mobile phone in that era, and she could only wait day after day, looking forward to the family reunion.
After a day and a night of train, the three sisters finally arrived in Chongqing, most of the migrant workers from Sichuan transited here, and then they had to take a bus for 2 hours to rush to Wusheng County, arrived at the county seat, the sisters bought some New Year goods, and finally got on the bus back to the village.
But from the road to the village, but also to walk 2 hours of mountain road, Sichuan winter rainy, the village dirt road muddy, the new leather shoes bought in Guangdong, has been mud mud, once heard that the family is still waiting for them to eat Chinese New Year's Eve meal, the three sisters jumped up happily,
Home is ahead, no matter how far and tired the road is worth it, finally, in the far mountain, they saw the figure of their mother,
This is the first time in three years that everyone has a new year's dinner, and everyone is very happy.
After dinner, they also sent gifts to their parents, high-grade razors brought by Guangdong, and new styles of sweaters, parents felt very pleased, but the happy time is always very short, after the Spring Festival, they have to say goodbye to their families and return to Dongguan to continue their working life.
In 1999, the sisters reached the age of talking about marriage, they bid farewell to Dongguan, returned home, sister Chen Qiufen first married, the next year gave birth to a son, shortly after giving birth to a son, Chen Qiufen found a new way to make a living, this time she did not choose to go to Guangdong to work, but with her husband to the west, came to Guizhou Huaxi, opened a tailor shop, began a new life.
And the sister Chen Fengying, has not been able to find a sweetheart, the blind date object is a guy in the same village, the two are still junior high school classmates, but also a door to door, after a beautiful wedding in the village, Chen Fengying with his own part-time work earned 10,000 yuan, and her husband borrowed 20,000 yuan, embarked on the road to entrepreneurship.
Like their sister, they did not choose a more developed part of the east, but chose to go to a more remote place: Tibet. At that time, it was the great development of the western region, and the couple wanted to take this opportunity to start a business, and the place they were going to was on the border of Tibet, a small town called Ridang.
It takes three full days to drive, the road is far away, not to mention very dangerous, they have to cross more than 5,000 meters of Tanggula Mountain, but also through the coco Siri no man's land, the road is not only often piled with snow is difficult to drive, but also often may collapse, more serious is the altitude sickness on the road.
Husband Liu Jinwei fell due to altitude sickness, resting for a long time at a slightly lower altitude, Liu Jinwei finally eased up, originally planned to arrive in three days and three nights, but due to her husband's physical discomfort, coupled with the old car on the road, it finally took seven days and seven nights to arrive.
After arriving at Ridang Town, next to the highway, Chen Fengying pan the next façade, at this time she still has three yuan left in her pocket, this town, the population is less than a thousand, but due to the development of the west, there are many construction vehicles every day, which also makes the town lively, Chen Fengying and his wife are here, opened the town's first Sichuan restaurant, named "Traffic Restaurant".
There is no other restaurant competition nearby, the flow of people is large, the restaurant is often full, Chen Fengying just started to do business, it is very red-hot, a day's flow account is four or five thousand yuan, such an income is eight times that of Guangdong, because the past construction vehicles are not timely, the dining time is not fixed, so the traffic restaurant must receive guests every moment, there is almost no rest time,
Under such difficult conditions, they used their hard-working spirit and industrious hands to exchange for business success, and sister Chen Qiufen's tailor shop, the business is getting worse and worse, the money for renting a house is almost impossible to pay, I heard that my sister opened a hotel in Tibet is very profitable, she closed the tailor shop, also went to Tibet, started a hotel business.
Because the couple did not learn to cook, there is no experience in hotel operation, a year and a half later, the hotel is always losing money, it closed again, sister Chen Qiufen is not so lucky, the second entrepreneurship also failed, not long after, they still returned to Guizhou, this time they left Huaxi, came to Majiang County, here is farther than Huaxi, Chen Qiufen wants to find business opportunities here.
She put down a façade, because there are not many clothing stores in the county, so Chen Qiufen opened a shop selling trousers, because of the affordable price, she can buy more than a dozen a day, although she can't make any big money, but the stable income also makes them steady.
A year and a half later, the sister's business gradually stabilized, and the sister Chen Fengying's hotel income suddenly became less, it turned out that the project next to the town was completed, and the "traffic restaurant" became extremely deserted, but at this difficult time, a phone call made them hope, Liu Jinwei's sister called and said. In Laibin City, Guangxi Province, large-scale development is under way, urban construction is to be carried out, and in order to attract foreign investors, the local government has promised to exempt tenants from taxes for five years, exempt from water and electricity bills and other benefits.
Chen Fengying heard this news, excited, immediately closed the hotel, ready to go to Guangxi to discover new business opportunities,
Before going to Guangxi, Chen Fengying and his two sons returned to their hometown.
Due to the underdeveloped communication at that time, the news of Chen Fengying's return could only be transmitted by the village radio to relatives, telling them to come to the family for a small gathering, and Chen Fengying returned this time, in addition to visiting his parents and children, there was another purpose, to buy a house in the county town.
This nearly ten years of hard work, let the couple save some money, so they came to the best community in the county, bought their first apartment, at this time they also had a change of identity, because in the city to buy a house, from a rural person to a city person, but in order to make money, they can not settle down in the county, but also have to go out to do business to support their families.
Staying at home for less than half a month, Chen Fengying's two sons are anxious to leave, at present, the restaurant in Tibet has closed, and bought a house that needs to be renovated, the two children are about to go to primary school, they have to hurry out to make money, the parents who have not seen each other for several years have just come home to leave, the children are very reluctant, when the parents leave the old house, they follow inseparably, and they cry because they are unwilling.
Bidding farewell to a family, Chen Fengying and his wife came to Guangxi, but soon after arriving at the guests, their dream of starting a business again was completely broken, it turned out that investing in Guangxi was a scam, Liu Jinwei's sister was engaged in pyramid schemes, and in order to develop the downline, they even pulled their brothers and sisters-in-law in.
After all, working in Dongguan for many years, Chen Fengying has also seen a lot of the market, she immediately found that something was wrong, persuaded her sister to return, fortunately only invested 10,000 yuan, the loss is not large, with the frustration of the second entrepreneurial failure, they returned to their hometown again to consider the next plan.
Soon after returning to their hometown, the uncle of Tibet told them that the 318 National Highway should be paved with asphalt roads, the amount of work is very large, and the construction team in Mangkang needs someone to contract the canteen, on the condition that the contractor temporarily advances 400,000 yuan in food expenses, and the uncle alone can't raise so much money, so he wants to pull them into the partnership and contract this business in a joint venture.
Hearing this good news, the couple immediately rushed to Mangkang, ready to contract the canteen with their uncle, but when everything was planned and ready to sign a contract with the construction team, the 400,000 that had been agreed before suddenly rose to 800,000, and Chen Fengying, a migrant worker, how to get a huge amount of 800,000.
Helpless, had to go home, Chen Fengying's third entrepreneurial failure, just when the two sisters of the Chen family embarked on different entrepreneurial paths, what was Chen Yongfen, the cousin who worked together, doing? And the business path of the two sisters of the Chen family, can it still go smoothly?
The story of the three sisters continues in the next issue.