Cheng Ran woke up to a slight rustling sound in the kitchen. It was still dark, around six in the morning, but chickens from somewhere in the apartment building had already started crowing. The sound in the kitchen was Xu Lan getting up to make breakfast for Cheng Ran. She put the honeycomb coal into the stove with coal tongs and used a hand-cranked blower to help light the fire. Although she was very careful with her hands and feet, Cheng Ran would have been completely unconscious at this time in the past. But the reborn Cheng Ran, perhaps, had the living habits of his previous life engraved in his soul, and he would wake up immediately at the slightest movement.
In fact, he still had some aftertaste of the unreality of his rebirth, but now, after waking up on the bed he had slept on more than ten years ago in his memory, he completely accepted the result.
He went to bed late last night, and he vaguely heard his parents arguing. At this moment, he got up, put on his clothes in a few seconds, opened the door and came out. Xu Lan was a little surprised, "I, I woke you up?" In her memory, her son had never gotten up so early.
"No, Mom, I'm watching you cook."
Xu Lan was so surprised that she was frying eggs. Cheng Ran saw that his mother's eyes were a little swollen, obviously because she had cried last night.
Some things came to my mind like a tide. My father was an engineer of the older generation. There were three sons and one daughter in his family. He was the eldest. After graduating from junior high school, he enlisted in the army to reduce the burden on his family. Later, he studied on his own in the barracks and was admitted to the military academy.
In the words of my father at the time, their troops were in a coal mine, and there was a layer of coal slag on the quilt, making it impossible to sleep. He lit a lamp and read on the table, and he gritted his teeth and studied on his own and passed the military exam, which changed his destiny.
After entering the military academy, he studied computer science, digital technology, automatic control and other majors. After graduation, he was assigned to the Engineering Corps. However, the country later abolished the infrastructure engineering corps, and he transferred to the headquarters of the state-owned enterprise Huatong Company in Rongzhou. Because of his strong technical ability, Cheng Feiyang also served as a senior executive in this field. As a result, because he was not good at the bureaucratic system, he was eventually marginalized in the internal struggle. When a leader above Cheng Feiyang fell, no matter how capable Cheng Feiyang was, he could only be "exiled" and arranged to the branch company in Shanhai City as the director of the technical institute. The so-called technical institute is actually a department with dozens of technicians.
Later, Cheng Feiyang met Cheng Ran's mother here, got married and had children. To be fair, with Cheng Feiyang's technical ability, he managed to run the branch company successfully, and it was once well-known in Shanhai City. However, with the changes of the times, the entire bloated Huatong system began to gradually collapse in the market. When the nest is overturned, the eggs will not be intact, and the branch company will naturally be affected.
In this era of general recession in state-owned enterprises, a wave of layoffs has also arrived... The company is considering the issue of restructuring and splitting up, and now it is difficult for it to survive.
The state-owned restaurant where my mother works is also negotiating with its employees about buying out their years of service.
In Cheng Ran's memory, his parents often quarreled over the future, various trivial matters, and the pressure of life. He even became their punching bag for a while. Even if he was not wrong, he would be scolded if he was disliked at home. As the old saying goes, poor couples are sad about everything. In fact, happiness is wonderful in different ways, but unhappy lives are basically the same.
So much so that for a long time, Cheng Ran chose to blur and fade away this memory, because most of the memories were too painful to look back on, filled with intense frustrations in the first half of his life and endless quarrels in the family.
Youth is a poem of time, which should never end. But for Cheng Ran, it was a movement full of pain and sadness.
Now Cheng Ran doesn’t want to go through this again.
Xu Lan prepared the fried egg noodles, and Cheng Feiyang also got up. He scooped a bowl from the pot for him and a bigger bowl for Cheng Ran.
Cheng Feiyang was a little surprised that Cheng Ran got up so early. "Today is Saturday, so early?"
Usually I would sleep until eleven or twelve, around noon.
"Get up early and review. Make up for what I missed." Cheng Ran was speaking the truth. His hands were still burning with pain from being whipped by Butcher Li yesterday, which made him more motivated to defeat Butcher Li.
In the current situation, no matter what they do, it is better to successfully pass the high school entrance examination and bring happiness and pride to their parents. Because of the inherent domestic examination-oriented education system, the inertial thinking that only good schools can lead to a good future and a good life has been deeply rooted in their minds. In fact, this is understandable. The college entrance examination is already a rare and fair channel for this social class to advance.
Xu Lan and Cheng Feiyang looked at each other, and it seemed that Cheng Ran's sudden change made them feel a little relieved. But they didn't really care. Because this kind of situation is not uncommon. Sometimes Cheng Ran will suddenly change his personality and study hard because of some stimulation in school, but this kind of enthusiasm usually does not last long, and at most a week, and then his true colors will be revealed.
Now, they just regard Cheng Ran as having an occasional craze for learning.
"Dad, I heard that your subordinates in the technical institute are willing to work with you. As long as you all agree, the company will reorganize the technical institute and carry out shareholding reform. The head office will hold a part of the shares, and the rest will be employees of the technical institute, and they will be replaced."
Cheng Feiyang waved his hands proudly, "Don't worry about adults' affairs, kid, just study hard now!"
My father is still so overbearing and has the final say. But Cheng Ran really wants to say, can I just ignore it? This is a matter that concerns my immediate environment...
Before the 1990s, installing a telephone was a huge project. At that time, installing a telephone in a household or even a unit was a big deal. Even after that, the initial installation fee of 8,000 or 9,000 yuan for a telephone was not affordable for ordinary people. There was no other way. The program-controlled exchange technology was monopolized by foreign countries, which divided the domestic market and made it very expensive. By the 1990s, China had begun to produce mid-range program-controlled machines, which greatly reduced the initial installation cost and brought fixed-line telephones into thousands of households.
His father's company, the state-owned Huaneng Enterprise, was one of the earliest companies in China to develop program-controlled machines. It was very glorious in those days, with revenue of over 100 million yuan. Later, with the increasingly fierce market competition and the bloated system, it became worse and worse every year. In fact, as an old technology, based on experience and sense of smell, Cheng Feiyang has discovered that traditional program-controlled switches are outdated, and the future development direction is high-capacity digital switches. It's just that the company stubbornly follows the old path, and elimination can be said to be inevitable. Cheng Feiyang saw the decline of the company at a glance, but it was a pity that his influence was not enough to change the will of the upper level.
On the front line, my father had already led people to conduct research in this area a long time ago. The theory of the "Fulong" high-capacity switch they developed was close to maturity, but at this critical moment, the company could not hold on, and the state-owned assets had to be sold or reorganized.
When the company was restructured, it gave the technical institute a choice of either buying out all the employees who had been laid off, or reorganizing itself into a company to survive on its own. Cheng Feiyang originally wanted to choose the latter, because he had confidence in his own views and technology, and was unwilling to see the results of his previous struggles and hard work go up in flames with the turbulence of the environment.
But what influenced his judgment at that time? The answer is Cheng Ran.
He failed the high school entrance exam and was not able to get into a good high school. Of course, he didn't even think about getting into No. 1 or No. 2 High School. The score gap was too big at that time, and he couldn't get in even if he had the money. In order for him to attend No. 4 High School in the city, his family urgently needed a high fee. But where could they get the money? They had to borrow from relatives. This was something his father, who had been a soldier and had never asked for help from anyone in his life and was extremely proud, would never agree to. Therefore, Cheng Feiyang gritted his teeth and rejected the request of a group of subordinates who wanted him to lead everyone out to work. He chose to buy out his years of service and took the 30,000 yuan that might seem extremely funny in the future...
But Cheng Ran knew what his father had missed. The 1990s were roughly the same as his previous life. The penetration rate of fixed-line phones was extremely low at that time. The national information industry development goal was to achieve a telephone penetration rate of 6% by 2000. However, in fact, with the upgrading of new technologies, the telephone penetration rate in the Republic has skyrocketed, and even by that period it had far exceeded the prediction of the national information industry. As time went on, fixed-line phones entered and then disappeared from thousands of households, replaced by a small screen that people carried with them. The advancement of science and technology was no different from magic.
What his father missed was not just a chance, but an opportunity where a few million investment could rival billions of R&D machines abroad, a market with huge potential. He also gave up his dream and "Fulong" for Cheng Ran, breaking his own wings.
Thinking of this, looking at the angular, square-faced man in front of him, Cheng Ran felt an indescribable warmth in his heart. He said, "Dad, just choose what you want to choose and go your own way. I will get into high school!"
As a person who has been reborn, his words have resounding power, and he can even feel the strong confidence and self-confidence radiating from within.
Cheng Feiyang nodded, pointed a finger at Cheng Ran, turned to his mother, and said in a deep voice, "It's better to buy out his years of service! Leave some money and pay for his tuition when the time comes!"
Cheng Ran was speechless. Wasn't it said that the aura of a reborn person could calm everything? Why is he so hopeless? Hey, are you listening to me? As a reborn person, I don't want to lose my self-esteem!
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