Reborn back to 1984

Chapter 97

Even if there is no prize promotion, Zhangji Roasted Seeds is still very popular because Zhangji is the first company in the country to launch a machine for stir-frying melon seeds.As soon as this batch of machines that can automatically stir-fry melon seeds just need to be plugged in, they immediately attracted countless people to watch curiously.

All the stores were surrounded with water, and people rushed to buy. Many people did not ask the price, but only took pride in buying it.As the Spring Festival approaches, all the machines are running day and night, and the supply is still in short supply.Ma Tao wanted to raise the price, but Zhang Xiuqing disagreed, so Shao Han naturally stood by Zhang Xiuqing's side.

Every day from morning to night, there is a long queue at the door of the store. Yu Fei sees that this is not an option, so he makes a suggestion: each customer is limited to two catties.

Zhang Xiuqing also set up two fried son machines in her hometown in the countryside. Every day, villagers come to her house to get the goods, and then go to the village to sell them. Although they only earn a dime for the price difference, during the Chinese New Year, almost every household buys a few catties of melon seeds. It is used to entertain guests, so it can earn more than ten yuan a day.In order to get more roasted seeds and nuts, some villagers got up in the middle of the night and lined up at her house. Zhang Lingen refused to listen to her dissuasion, so he had to follow the example of the store and limit the purchase of [-] catties per family.

Years later, when the weather got warmer, the promotions with prizes became more and more intense. Finally, one day, Chinese publications were stopped, and the deployment of many companies was disrupted. The roasted seeds and nuts company that competed with Zhang Kee was also hit. Returns trend.

Looking at this frightening scene, Ma Tao secretly rejoiced that he had listened to Zhang Xiuqing's words and did not engage in promotions with prizes, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

This winter, Zhang Ji's roasted seeds and nuts business was booming, earning 100 million in just three months. Shen Heying and Ma Tao both experienced the feeling of counting money until their hands cramp.The workers all received generous red envelopes, and the group of people following Shao Han all became households with ten thousand yuan.

With money in hand, Zhang Xiuqing's family looked at the three broken houses as an eyesore, especially Shao Han. Every time he visited Zhang's house, he would go to a relative's house to stay overnight, and squeezed in with Zhang Xiuqing's cousin or cousin. On the same bed, I can't wait to tear it down and rebuild it immediately.

For rural people, there are three important things in life: building a house, begging for a mother-in-law, and having a child.Compared with the latter two, building a spacious and beautiful house is a major event that many rural people dream of all their lives.

Under Zhang Xiuqing's strong persuasion, Zhang Lingen decided to build a building.

This time, Shen Heying did not strongly object, because there is a popular saying in many places in southern Jiangsu: one house, half a woman.It means that a young man with a house at home is more popular than a young man without a house, and begging his wife is half the battle.

Zhang Xiaofeng is still young now, but in five or six years, he will be a young man.In rural areas, young men can say goodbye when they reach the age of one.

Knowing that his family was going to build the first building in Xindong Village, Zhang Xiaofeng was so happy that he almost jumped up.

"Upstairs and downstairs, lights and telephones!" For people living in the 21st century, these things are not surprising at all, but for people in the 80s, living in a building that can only be seen on TV is simply amazing. It's like entering heaven.Things that Zhang Lingen didn't dare to dream about before, now have the opportunity to realize, that kind of feeling can only be felt and cannot be expressed in words.According to the words of an elder of the Zhangjuzhang family, Lin Gen's waist finally stood up.

In the anticipation of the whole family, the main structure of this two-story duplex small western-style building designed by Zhang Xiuqing was finally completed.

This day is the day when the beams of Zhang's new building are erected. "Liang" is a homonym for "grain". In rural areas, we often hear old people say, "There are beams on the roof, and there is grain in the house." , will also bring a piece of pork.

Zhang Xiuqing's aunt and aunt seemed to have made an appointment, they all carried rice and meat, accompanied by several elders, they came uninvited.

Zhang Lingen's heart was extremely complicated.He has not seen these two people for many years, and all the memories left in his mind are the scene where they pointed at his nose and cursed: "Zhang Lingen, you have a short life, why don't you die?" "Zhang Lingen , you are a bastard with no descendants, you will have retribution..."

Shen Heying said "Welcome", but she was extremely annoyed in her heart.The last time Zhang Xiuqing was engaged, Zhang Lingen begged them to come, but they refused to come. Now that their family is better off and hope to live a peaceful life, they have come forward and asked the elders to come forward. What does this mean?If you want to apologize, you should have come as early as the year before last when the truth came out, but it has been delayed until today, because you have money in your pocket, and you want to come to take advantage of it...

Zhang Xiuqing sighed deeply, no one asked if he was poor in the busy city, and had distant relatives in the deep mountains if he was rich, if his family was still as poor as before, would these relatives who had been separated for N years still come to visit?The answer must be no.

After the beam is installed, it is the "throwing beam" that the children have been looking forward to for a long time.

The so-called "beam throwing" is not throwing away the erected girder, but throwing some edible things down while standing on the girder.These meals are generally provided by the wife's parents' home. If the parents-in-law are away, the uncle will provide them. The aunt must not be stingy, otherwise she will be criticized by the villagers.

If Zhang's family is still as poor and poor as before, Zhang Xiuqing's two aunts will definitely complain, and now they only lack the opportunity to please.

Every time Shen Heying returns to her natal home, she is warmly welcomed by her two brothers and sister-in-law.In the past, no one was willing to entertain her. Shen Heying sat for a long time without even having a sip of hot tea, but now they are vying to invite her to dinner. If they don't eat, they will look down on them.Zhang Xiuqing would inevitably be mentioned during the banquet. Shen Heying felt extremely proud in her heart, but she still couldn't say anything good: "This monster said that he didn't want to part with our old couple and insisted on waiting until next year to get married. Help my mother's family to earn more copper coins... In fact, my family is not short of money, as long as she and Shao Han live well, I will be satisfied..."

The attitude of the villagers has also taken a 360-degree turn.In the past, Zhang Lingen would be pointed out wherever he went. Now everyone envies him for having a good daughter; He would always refuse with a smile: "My family, Xiuqing, said that smoking is harmful to health, so I must quit..."

Amidst the loud sound of firecrackers, the onlookers gave way, and Zhang Lingen was at the front of the line, holding a plant of evergreen wrapped in red cloth with soil on its roots.

A small worker standing on the scaffold bent down, took the evergreen from Zhang Lingen, and then passed it to a plasterer with the best craftsmanship and the most prudent workmanship by means of a baton.Standing at the highest point, the man walked carefully to the center of the roof beam, then bent down, and tied the evergreen plant, which symbolizes "thousands of generations", to the main beam with a red thread.

Afterwards, baskets of delicious steamed buns, rice cakes, rice dumplings, deep-fried dough sticks... colorful candies, fresh and juicy red water chestnuts... came out one by one.The last thing that came out was a plaque filled with thousands of coins.

The eyes of the surrounding villagers suddenly glowed green, while the children swallowed wildly.

The food was provided by Shen Heying's natal family, and the coins were prepared by Ma Tao.The idiot heard that there was a custom of "throwing beams" in the countryside, and he was so excited that he didn't discuss it with Shao Han. He secretly prepared 880 coins, and planned to climb to the top of the building on that day. Be a good boy who spreads money.He didn't even think that Zhang Xiuqing was not his mother-in-law. Such behavior was inappropriate. He only thought about what clothes to wear, what hairstyle to cut, what to say, and how to make people in Xindong Village remember him as handsome and unrestrained forever. Handsome and cute appearance...

Fortunately, Shao Han found out in time and stuffed 200 yuan into Ma Tao's pocket before he spoke nonsense.Zhang and his wife didn't know what was going on, and thought that Shao Han entrusted Ma Tao to exchange the large pile of coins. Although they murmured a few words in their hearts, they didn't say anything.

However, Zhang Xiuqing knew that Shao Han was not such a person. Only Ma Tao loved to do such flamboyant things, and he never tired of doing them.

After the things were prepared and the villagers were in place, six plasterers stood on the high beams and shouted loudly: "Everyone, get ready, the beams are going to be thrown!"

The men, women and children standing on the ground also shouted loudly: "Get ready, throw it down!"

As soon as the words fell, steamed buns, rice cakes, zongzi, deep-fried dough sticks, candies, red water chestnuts... fell from the sky like hail.Some hit the ground, some hit people, but no one complained of pain. Everyone opened their eyes wide and bent over to pick up the things that fell on the ground.

Many people were slow to pick up something, so they shouted at the throat: "Ah Zhong, I live next door to your grandmother's house. You called me elder brother when you were young, throw me two steamed buns..."

"Xin Hua, I am the nephew of your uncle's aunt's cousin, throw me a piece of cake..."

"Shuisheng, I'm your mother-in-law's little sister, my child wants to eat candy, throw down the candy..."

Because there were so many people waving and yelling, the plasterers standing on high places couldn't hear what they were yelling at all, so they threw a handful here and there as they wanted.Some people yelled for a long time, but found nothing, so they yelled: "Ah Zhong, you are a pig, I told you to throw me two steamed buns, but you didn't throw any of them, Ah is deaf?"

Everyone standing next to him burst out laughing.

Someone made a start, and more people followed suit immediately: "Xinhua, you are a short coffin, are you a human? You only stare at the little girl, and only throw the cake around the little girl, be careful of the pink eye disease... "

"Shuisheng, you are thirteen o'clock, and I told you to throw some candy over here, it seems to kill you, you keep all the kind, don't throw any..."

But soon they had no time to swear, because countless dimes fell like rain, and the villagers hurriedly picked them up. (Southern Jiangsu dialect, coins are called dice)
Shao Han had never seen such a lively scene before, he couldn't help but jumped up, stretched his long arms, caught a fist-sized rice dumpling and a white meat bun, and handed them to Granny Li next door.The vigorous posture and beautiful movements caused many young girls to look sideways, and the silver-haired Grandma Zhu narrowed her eyes when she smiled.

Ma Tao had already disappeared without a trace.

This bastard originally wanted to follow the plasterers to the beams of the house to show off, but he was stopped by Shao Han, which ruined his plan. Don't mention that, but when the plasterers started throwing Things, immediately put the unhappiness behind, and couldn't wait to join the crowd of people rushing to throw beams.

After a while, the throwing was over, and Ma Tao happily ran back with a pile of spoils.

As he wished, Zhang Xiuqing gave a thumbs up and made a gesture of "you are amazing", and Ma Tao laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.

Many old people and children walked to their homes while eating.

Those things were all covered with mud, the white steamed buns turned into gray steamed buns, the rice dumplings were rotten into a mess, the deep-fried dough sticks were horrible, only the candies remained the same, but no one disliked them, they all stuffed them into their mouths.

Ma Tao gave away all the things he managed to grab.The old man who took his things thanked him a thousand times, as if he had acquired some great treasure, which made Ma Tao feel very sorry.

A month later, the house was completed, and after some simple renovations, the family moved into the new house.Not long after, Zhang Xiuhong received an admission letter from a normal university in the provincial capital, and became the first female college student in Xindong Village as she wished.

Now that Zhang's family is not short of money, Shen Heying will naturally not mention the words "not allowed to study", instead discussing with Zhang Xiuqing, planning to make some new clothes for Zhang Xiuhong, so as not to go to the provincial capital and be laughed at as a country bumpkin.

Zhang Xiuhong couldn't help but her eyes turned red, and once again apologized to Zhang Xiuqing for her mistakes back then.

In the winter of this year, Zhang Xiuqing passed all the exams and got a college diploma, but she was not proud and complacent, but continued to take the undergraduate exam by herself like in her previous life.

After Zhang Lingen settled the first major event in his life, he immediately decided on the second major event, which was to marry Zhang Xiuqing.

If you walk too much at night, you will inevitably encounter ghosts; if you climb too many windows, you will inevitably bump into people.Since Shao Han graduated, the two of them slept on the same bed every night. The young man was full of vigor, so he couldn't bear it.Zhang Lingen had heard the gossip a long time ago, and he was once young, so he didn't believe that Shao Han would be Liu Xiahui at all.

This era of family planning is very strict. If a girl is pregnant before marriage, the director of women will find out and arrest her directly for abortion.Even if it is well concealed and hidden from everyone's eyes, in order to obtain a marriage certificate, one must first obtain a medical examination report issued by the county's No. 1 civilian hospital, and pregnancy will not be registered at all.

Girls don't want to stay in the university, and if they stay, they will become enemies. Before their stomachs grow, let them register for marriage early... Zhang Lingen resisted the urge to beat Shao Han, and gritted his teeth to make this decision.

(End of this chapter)