The wind of the 1990s swept away the dust of state-owned enterprise restructuring and also stirred up the infrastructure construction boom in the south.
Chen Tiehua, a laid-off female worker, grabbed 200 yuan in severance pay and went south to Haicheng. She moved from building bricks to building materials dealers, polishing rusted steel bars with sandpaper, and breaking down market barriers with steel pipes. She hoards goods, fights for money, and annexes small factories in the reinforced concrete jungle, crushing the fate of "the iron rice bowl is broken" with her body as a woman.
When the director of a state-owned enterprise planned to embezzle assets, and when the old fox in the market suppressed the monopoly, she and her brother Liu Zhuzi welded the banner of "Iron Flower Building Materials" and smashed the strength of 200 tons at the hydraulic press test site, which also created a hot trajectory for grassroots counterattacks. This is not a heroic epic, but a true footnote of a woman tempering her calluses and hard work into steel in the Pentium era.
