[The 1990s + Laid-off Entrepreneurship + Food Management + Female Group Portraits + Slow Love and Marriage]
In 1998, the third national cotton factory ceased production. On the day Luo Qiuhe, a 36-year-old canteen worker, was laid off, her husband disappeared with the family's savings, and his creditor came to his door with an IOU worth 12,000 yuan.
The daughter wants to drop out of school, the father is waiting to take medicine, and the family only has one dollar and thirty-seven cents left.
Luo Qiuhe didn't wait for anyone to come to the rescue. She bought an old coal stove for 6.3 Yuan and started selling clear soup noodles for 50 cents a bowl at the factory gate.
On the first day, she sold seven bowls and recorded the eighth bowl.
From the factory gate to the bus station, from a roadside stall to a small restaurant, and then to a food factory, the three laid-off women calculated costs, collected debts, and abided by the rules while re-arranging their careers, families and relationships.
This is not a legend of getting rich overnight, but a story of ordinary women earning their lost lives back piece by piece with a pot of hot rice.
