Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 1 Return to 2006
"I'm sorry, Li Xunli's family. We did our best."

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"Qingqing! Go back quickly! There's a gas leak in your house!"

"Your parents are both at home!"

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"Ms. Shen Qingqing, these are the ashes of your father, Shen Rongzhou, and your mother, Li Xunli. Please keep them."

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"Sister...we have no home anymore..."

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"Bam—"

"sister!!!"

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The sounds faded away one by one, leaving only a black and white picture. Shen Qingqing was lying in a pool of blood in the middle of the road, holding two urns tightly with an empty look in her eyes. Shen Yangyang and Shen Hong were kneeling in front of her with horror on their faces, crying while talking on the phone.

The picture began to slowly darken and shrink, shrinking and shrinking again, until only a dot remained, and then suddenly disappeared.

But Shen Qingqing was still lying there holding the two urns, trapped in the darkness and unable to move.

"Click."

The sound of the heavy lock being unfastened was like a small hole being smashed in Shen Qingqing's dark world, letting in a faint light.

"Things at the factory don't seem to be going well this year. We've been leaving get off work early for seven days in a row..."

Li Xunli's clear and powerful voice suddenly rang out in Shen Qingqing's dark world.

"It will be nice once this time is over. We can get off work early and buy some spareribs for Qingqing and Yangyang to stew! Isn't that right, Yangyang?"

Shen Rongzhou's tone was cheerful, completely free of the fatigue and hoarseness in his memory.

"Yes! Eat meat!" Shen Yangyang's clear and loud voice exploded.

The familiar footsteps sounded like hammer after hammer, smashing open many cracks that allowed light to pass through in the darkness.

"Yongzhou, go to the kitchen and prepare dinner. I'll go see if Qingqing is back."

"Okay, Yangyang, you can play by yourself in the living room!"

"it is good!"

The footsteps were getting closer and closer. When the door of the room was pushed open with a creaky sound, Shen Qingqing finally opened her eyes from the cold and darkness.

The slanting orange-yellow sunset fell into the room through the side window. Shen Qingqing saw Li Xunli, wearing a white shirt, jeans, and a low ponytail, push the door open. She was stunned at first, and then burst out laughing: "Hahahahahahahaha Rongzhou, come over and check on Qingqing. She came home from school and fell asleep on the table. She left a bunch of marks on her face!"

"Let me see!" Shen Rongzhou came over with the half-washed rice, stood behind his wife and looked into the room. Within a few seconds, he was laughing like his wife.

Shen Yangyang, who was playing in the living room, was attracted by the couple's laughter. She ran over with her short legs, squeezed into the room from the bottom, and rushed into Shen Qingqing's arms like a little cannonball.

Shen Yangyang, who had two pigtails, raised her head from Shen Qingqing's arms. When she saw Shen Qingqing's appearance, she exclaimed in surprise, "Sister has turned into a spider!"

As soon as the 2003 Su Youpeng version of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber was broadcast, it became a national hit. Even in 2006, some TV stations were still rebroadcasting it.

Shen Yangyang liked to watch it after she came home from kindergarten. It happened that the plot these days was when the disfigured Zhu'er reappeared.

So when Shen Yangyang saw the red marks all over Shen Qingqing's face, she immediately made the connection.

Shen Qingqing's cold body had gradually warmed up when her sister Shen Yangyang threw herself into her soft body.

She looked at her lively parents in front of her, her mischievous sister in her arms, and the first-grade textbooks on the desk, and she finally confirmed that this was not a dream.

She really went back to 2006 when she just started elementary school!
Her parents would be laid off from the garment factory in a year and would then experience twenty years of unstable employment.

Thinking about how her mother had cancer in her previous life and could not afford treatment, and finally committed suicide by turning on the gas at home with her father, Shen Qingqing held her sister's hands tighter and tighter.

Now that she is given another chance to start over, she will never let the Shen family make the same mistake again!
After Li Xunli had laughed enough, she said to Shen Qingqing, "Qingqing, Mom and Dad are going to cook. You can take Yangyang to play for a while, or you can do your homework and let Yangyang play in your room by herself. After dinner, we will go to your grandma's house to pick up Xiaohong."

After hearing this, Shen Qingqing suddenly realized, yes, no wonder she didn't see her brother Shen Hong.

When Shen Hong was just born, he was taken away by his grandmother, who said that neither her family nor her uncle's family had a boy, and she just wanted to hold a grandson.

Shen Qingqing didn't feel much about this. After all, she grew up with her grandparents before she was six years old. She only returned to her own home when she started elementary school.

On the contrary, Yangyang was raised by her parents since she was a child.

But her mother Li Xunli was not happy. Li Xunli was a native of Chaocheng, but Shen Rongzhou was not. He met Li Xunli when he came from another place to work. Later, he settled in Chaocheng. He won more than 200,000 yuan in the welfare lottery by chance and bought an 80-square-meter apartment with two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom.

Chaocheng has a serious culture of favoring boys over girls, and Li Xunli has been neglected by her mother since she was a child.

So you can imagine what kind of personality the younger son would develop growing up with his mother.

Finally, they argued hard and managed to get the child to stay at his grandmother's house while the couple went to work during the day, and then pick him up in the evening after get off work and dinner.

The couple closed Shen Qingqing's door and went to cook. Shen Qingqing looked at Shen Yangyang who was still lying in her arms, and couldn't help but think of how she would grit her teeth and work overtime until the early morning twenty years later just to get a few hundred yuan in overtime pay for her mother's treatment.

It was because she was willful and incompetent that her younger brothers and sisters had to shoulder the heavy burden.

Shen Qingqing's eyes were hot, and she quickly let go of Shen Yangyang: "Yangyang, play by yourself for a while, sister needs to do homework."

"Okay!" Shen Yangyang stepped back and walked to the small mat in the corner to play by herself.

Shen Qingqing took out a blank notebook from her schoolbag and quickly wrote down everything she could remember.

1. A year later, my parents were laid off from their jobs by the garment factory because they were owed wages. They decided to open a small shop with their few thousand yuan left, but they lost money.

2. The shop was unable to make ends meet, and my parents started using handmade shoelaces with strong pungent smells, which posed a hidden danger;

3. My father developed a severe lumbar disc herniation due to sitting for long periods of time making shoelaces.

4,……

Shen Qingqing was buried in her writing in the room, sweating profusely. It was still so hot in Chaocheng in early September that it was almost scorching hot.

Shen Yangyang hadn't been playing for long when she secretly went to her sister's desk to watch her write. However, she was only in kindergarten and didn't know how to read at all. She just felt that her sister who was writing had a lot of energy.

Just like, just like dad, he can pick her up high in one go!

"Qingqing! Yangyang! Come out for dinner!" Li Xunli's voice was so penetrating that it shot straight into the room.

Shen Qingqing was thinking about how to solve the next problem the family would face, but was startled by Li Xunli's shout. Her nose felt sore and she almost cried.

She missed that loud voice so much. She hadn't heard it since her mother was diagnosed and hospitalized...

It happened just over a year ago, but she acted like she hadn't heard about it in many years.

"Sister! Let's go! There's meat today! Dad bought it!" Shen Yangyang was already used to it. Her eyes lit up and she grabbed Shen Qingqing's hand.

Shen Qingqing closed the notebook, threw away the pen, picked up her four-year-old sister and left the room.

Guangdong and Guangxi are good at stewing soup, and Chaocheng is no exception.

Pork ribs, corn and radish soup is the most common soup. The aroma of soft and tender meat with the sweet aroma of corn and radish will make you salivate.

Shen Qingqing has never liked eating rice since she was a child. She only liked eating whole grains. In her previous life, she couldn't even afford rice, so she bought some instant noodles that were about to expire and stored them for herself.

"Have you washed your hands?" Li Xunli saw the two sisters coming out and wanted to sit at the dining table, her voice deep.

Li Xunli has always been the one in charge of the Shen family. The prestige accumulated over more than 20 years is not so easy to disappear. Shen Qingqing shrank her neck and turned around and ran away.

Shen Yangyang, who was left behind, was stunned and immediately ran after her: "Sister! Wait for me!"

The two sisters washed their hands and returned to the dining table, where they saw that Li Xunli had already prepared a bowl of corn for each of them.

But Shen Yangyang was not like Shen Qingqing. She just loved to eat rice. When she saw the corn soup in her bowl, she pushed it away and said, "Mom, I want to eat too!"

Li Xunli poked her head when she heard her shouting, "Eat, eat, eat. You're just like your dad, only caring about that bowl of rice. You don't know how to eat anything nutritious!"

Shen Qingqing silently lowered her head and began to drink the corn soup, trying to reduce her presence so that her mother would not remember her.

But unfortunately, she didn't dodge it.

Li Xunli placed the cooked rice in front of Shen Yangyang. Seeing Shen Qingqing drinking the soup, she couldn't help but say, "I really don't know why you two sisters are so extreme! One only wants to eat rice, and the other treats eating rice like death!"

The two sisters were scolded like two quails, one slurping down the soup like crazy, while the other worked hard to shovel rice into her mouth.

On the contrary, Shen Rongzhou felt a little sorry for his two daughters and intervened: "Hey, the children can just eat more of what they like. It won't hinder them from eating enough and growing up!"

"How dare you say that! Every time we cook a huge meal at home, you just eat the rice and don't even take a bite of the vegetables. In the end, I have to clean up everything. My stomach has become so big from eating so much!"

Li Xunli's fighting ability is not to be underestimated. Shen Rongzhou was defeated without even saying a word and became the third quail on the table.

But this did not stop the two little quails from secretly looking at each other and laughing while eating.

After eating and drinking, Li Xunli washed the dishes and called the two children to go out to pick up Shen Hong from her grandmother's house.

Before leaving, Shen Qingqing looked at her father lying motionless on the sofa, and thought of her father's physique in his previous life. She ran back quickly, grabbed Shen Rongzhou's big hand and pulled him out.

"Dad! You're coming with us to pick up your brother!"

Shen Rongzhou was pulled up by Shen Qingqing and said helplessly: "Didn't you go with mom before? Why do you need dad to come too?"

Shen Qingqing understood why her father didn't go, because her grandmother thought he was a "foreigner" who was not only poor but also had kidnapped her daughter, so she always looked down on him.

However, grandma was just being stubborn. In her previous life, when my mother was hospitalized, my uncle's family kept giving them money, but grandma never said a word and even always asked her to live with my uncle.

However, Shen Qingqing would not say these things. Some things can only be said after they are done, otherwise no matter how much she says, it will be in vain.

"It's all in the book! You can't sit down right after eating, or you'll get stomach cancer!"

"After eating, walk a hundred steps and live to be ninety-nine!"

Shen Rongzhou couldn't persuade Shen Qingqing and was forced to drag her to his mother-in-law's house.

(End of this chapter)