Chapter 1: Rebirth, 1996

"Zhang Chen, wake up, get up quickly, sister-in-law and the others will be here in a while."

　　"Get up soon! The sun is basking, I can't afford it, I am lazy every day!"

　　Zhang Chen opened his eyes in a daze, seeing his mother wake him up again and again, and tidy up his desk with a rag.

　　Wait, how did my home become like this! ? And didn't I live alone long ago, how could my mother show up? And how could my mother be so young? He looks only in his early 40s.

　　Zhang Chen looked at the place he was in a daze, and was surprised to find that he was actually in the old house that he moved out 20 years ago.

　　The vague memory is constantly clear. Yes, this is my home when I was in junior high school 20 years ago.

　　I was born again? Or is it just a dream now? I couldn't help pinching my thigh, it hurts.

　　"You kid, what's the matter, you just slept in bed just after the Chinese New Year, and hurry up when you wake up. Your sister-in-law and his family will be coming soon." Su Wenjin couldn't help but feel a little angry when he saw that his son was still in a daze.

　　"Oh, good." Zhang Chen quickly put on his clothes as if waking up from a dream, and looked at his mother while putting on the clothes.

　　The mother in my memory is more than 60 years old, and the green silk has started to have a lot of gray hair. And the mother in front of her, although she is middle-aged, she still has the charm. Just because of the pressure of life and neglect to maintain, there are some crow's feet in the corners of the eyes, and the statute lines on the lips are not so deep.

　　There are many red window grilles on the window of my room, and the word "Fu" is on the door of my room. It seems that it is still during the New Year.

　　Yes, it is the mother and home in my memory.

　　"What are you looking at? Brush your teeth and wash your face." Su Wenjin felt a little hairy when Zhang Chen looked at it.

　　"I didn't see anything, mom, what you are wearing today is really festive." Zhang Chen asked her mother casually while putting on her pants, "Mom, what's your day in the morning?"

　　"Are you confused? Yesterday on the first day of the middle school, today is not the second day of the second day. Soon your sister-in-law will come to see your grandmother. Hurry up. Other people's houses are here to see what you are like!?" Said to Zhang Chen.

　　By the way, grandma.

　　Zhang Chen hurriedly got dressed and went to the living room. He was agitated when he saw his grandmother sitting on the pony in the living room peeling shrimps.

　　Zhang Chen's grandmother had passed away almost ten years before Zhang Chen was born again.

　　Since his parents first worked in another city, he grew up with his grandmother and has a deep relationship with her grandmother. Among several grandchildren, because he is the eldest and the eldest, and living together every day, he is also the one that grandma loves most. When grandma passed away, Zhang Chen was on a business trip. Because of her sudden death, Zhang Chen didn't even have time to come back to see her for the last time.

　　Seeing grandma crouching and throwing the peeled shrimp into the small bowl next to her, Zhang Chen felt a sore nose and tears seemed to be left behind. Owning grandma had already hunched back due to the hard work of her youth, and the joints of her hands were also distorted due to rheumatism.

　　"Grandma" Zhang Chen called out with a cry.

　　"What's wrong with Chenchen, why are you still crying." Grandma still looked at herself so kindly.

　　"It's okay, but the eyelashes got into the eyes in the morning." Zhang Chen hurriedly covered up and went to the bathroom next to the living room to wash his face.

　　Looking at the familiar, unfamiliar and rudimentary bathroom, there is only a squat and washbasin. There is a sprinkler on the wall, which is a simple solar water heater that my uncle made for my own home.

　　Looking at the young face in the mirror, there is only a circle of not so thick hair on the lips, and there are one or two growing pimples on the cheeks. Keeping the four-six-biased distribution type that was particularly popular at the time, it looked like a fool, without the eye bags formed by staying up late, and no fine wrinkles at the corners of the eyes. Zhang Chen has mixed feelings.

　　Is this a dream, will I return to 2017 tomorrow,

Zhang Chen didn't know.　　But now, he is undoubtedly home in 1996. The new calendar on the wall of the living room explains all this.

　　This year, there was nothing special in Zhang Chen's life. This year, he was 15 years old, in the second year of junior high school, and his academic performance was in the top ten of the class. It is not the best time or the worst time.

　　This year, Zhang Chen's parents' work was in a downturn, and both stayed without pay. His mother worked as an accountant for a decoration company. His father was forced to be helpless. Although he was a senior engineer, he could only go to the wholesale market and buy some vegetables in the free market. Because of the lack of commercial savvy and the stall fee for the food tyrants in the market, they can only make some hard money.

　　It wasn't until 1997 that my father's work established an engineering service company, and my father asked to be transferred there, and the living conditions gradually improved.

　　Looking at himself in the mirror, Zhang Chen was both excited and anxious. Silently made up my mind, if this is really rebirth, not a dream, then God has given me another opportunity, a chance to change my life and destiny.

　　I can definitely hold it!

　　Although Zhang Chen was not bad in his previous life, he joined a foreign company after graduating from university. After working for a few years, I became a manager, but because he didn't buy a house in the first time, when Zhang Chen's income could afford the down payment, the house price had already skyrocketed. Zhang Chen also took a huge loan.

　　As a house slave, it is too difficult to stand up.

　　Until the night before his rebirth, a colleague was laid off by the company,Zhang Chen and a few good colleagues gave him a farewell party. After dinner, they drank in the bar again, and they got drunk. Everyone can't see their own future, and no one knows whether they will be the next to be laid off under the current economic situation.

　　Zhang Chen also drank a lot, went back to the house he bought and fell asleep, but found himself reborn after waking up.

　　After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Zhang Chen silently made up his mind. At this moment, the doorbell rang and the sister-in-law's family arrived.

　　Zhang Chen hurriedly went to open the door, and received a New Year's greeting gift from his sister-in-law, a box of Coke and two boxes of Guishunzhai's pastries. In the mid-1990s, these two were mostly popular during New Year's greetings.

　　Aunt Zhang Chen is a worker at the Bincheng Agricultural Machinery Factory. As an old state-owned enterprise, the situation at the Bincheng Agricultural Machinery Factory is also very poor. According to the memory of later generations, Zhang Chen will also be a member of the tide of laid-offs at the end of 1997. Fortunately, my brother-in-law works as a technician in Binzhou Port. His work is relatively stable and he can maintain this family. However, my sister-in-law's cerebral infarction in 2012 made the family worse. My sister-in-law's only daughter, Chen Ting, was also deceived by an old man who was more than 20 years older than herself. She suffered from depression and suffered from depression a year before Zhang Chen was born again. Suicide by jumping off the building on the 25th floor.

　　In 1996, Chen Ting was a 6-year-old girl.

　　Zhang Chen's parents have always lived with Zhang Chen's grandmother, and his mother has a gentle and kind-hearted character. She is also very filial to her grandmother and has a good relationship with her sister-in-law.

　　Zhang Chen's father has four brothers and sisters, in addition to sister-in-law, Zhang Chen also has two uncles. Except for the second uncle, Zhang Chen's family has a good relationship with several other relatives. As for the second uncle, because of his bad personality and the demolition of his grandparents' house in the past few years, he desperately wanted to take advantage of his house, so he had a bad relationship with several other families.