When she woke up, Lin Lan, the "flower" in the textile factory, became a laid-off female worker. The iron rice bowl was shattered. Her husband complained that she failed to keep her job. Her husband's family thought she had lost her subsidy. Her neighbors and relatives who used to flatter her turned around and started making sarcastic remarks. Everyone said that Lin Lan's life would be over if she left a large state-owned factory. Lin Lan wiped away her tears and smiled: Is it over? No, my time has begun! She had no money and no background, but she had the most skillful hands in the factory and an aesthetic that was ten years ahead of the times. Starting from the first hawking call at the night market, Doliang shirts are too tacky? She improved the style, tightened the waist and pinched pleats, which attracted girls all over the city to snap up her clothes. Are bell-bottoms considered vulgar? She paired it with a Hong Kong-style white shirt and turned it into a fashion trendsetter. Open a tailor shop, run a clothing factory, create your own brand... The laid-off female workers at that time, step by step, followed the wave of the times and became the envied "ten thousand yuan household" and outstanding entrepreneurs commended in newspapers. Her ex-husband's family was so remorseful that their intestines turned green, and they blocked the door of her factory to propose remarriage. Lin Lan drove by in her newly purchased Santana. Behind the car window was the elegant man who had been guarding her silently since she set up a stall and was now a new business star. With a smile on his face, he said, "Mr. Lin, I helped you bring the fabrics you donated to Hope Primary School today." Lin Lan looked back and smiled, a man of extraordinary splendor. This is a story of a little man's struggle to build a bright future for himself in the wave of reform with his hands and mind. **Tags: Entrepreneurship in the ** era, career counterattack, history of struggle of little people, business war, 1990s
