Chapter 228

Song Peifeng came to pick up Jiang Ning and Grandpa Jiang.

Jiang's mother thinks Jiang Ning is too lovesick. In fact, in the eyes of the Song family, Song Peifeng is no worse. However, because of Jiang Ning's own excellence, no one says anything. Instead, they are happy to see it happen.

By the time school started on the 15th day of the first lunar month, Jiang Bai's main scenes had all been filmed, and all that was left was to shoot some scenes of the lotus pond in spring and summer. Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning started school, and Jiang Guotai's contracting procedures were finally completed. Not only was he relieved, but the Shijian Township Government and Wucheng County Government were also grinning from ear to ear.

Jiang Guotai always does things in a way that aims to attack from the east and strikes from the west. His main goal is actually to take over the river beach in his hometown and the mountain stream in Shijian Township. The mountain top is just a hook.

But when he went to the county party committee and county government to discuss this matter, he never mentioned the vast and deserted river beach in Linhe Brigade, nor did he mention the mountain stream that was washed by fast-flowing water all year round and prevented the villagers from the two townships from leaving the deep mountains and ravines. Instead, he said that he wanted to develop "Wugong Mountain" into a tourist attraction and wanted to contract "Wugong Mountain".

From the perspective of the county party committee and government, if they want to develop a tourist area, only Wugong Mountain is a promising area. For other places, either the roads are blocked or the transportation is inconvenient.

So I discussed the contract of Wugong Mountain with Jiang Guotai.

Wugong Mountain is a real historic site with a rich historical heritage, and there are still many legends circulating among the locals that are familiar to them. Therefore, the contract fee for Wugong Mountain is not a small amount.

Even Jiang Guotai kept bargaining, and finally when he saw that the price had been pushed down to the lowest and couldn't be lowered any further, he simply said, "Okay, if you can't give me a discount on the price, then give me a few more."

The person in charge of this area in the county committee was so angry that he almost laughed: "This is the first time I've heard of someone who contracts a mountain and gives them a free ride!"

"What's the big deal? When you go to buy vegetables, people know to give you a few green onions. Why can't I give you some when I buy the mountain? Let's put it this way. We all grew up together. You know, I came from Linhe Brigade. To get from Linhe Brigade to Wugong Mountain, you have to wade through a mountain stream. This mountain stream is connected to this mountain. How about giving me both?"

Jiang Guotai said with a smile: "Give me this mountain stream and I will build a bridge here. In the future, when going from the outer river brigade to Wugong Mountain, you don't have to take a boat to Shuibu Town, and then take a one or two hour car ride from Shuibu Town to Wugong Mountain. You can just cross the bridge and save more than half the distance. How do you think?"

The county committee member and Jiang Guotai were old classmates. They knew that their old classmate had hair on his face and was smarter than a monkey. When they heard him say that he was willing to build a bridge, they couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "Are you so kind? Are you willing to build a bridge?"

Jiang Guotai slammed the table in displeasure on the spot: "Who do you think I am, Jiang Guotai? When have I ever betrayed our own people? The Shahe Bridge has been proposed every year, but there has been no progress. How about connecting it directly to Shuibu Town? It shouldn't be difficult to build a bridge at our ferry to Tanshan? In recent years, people in Henan want to go out. They take boats in summer and wade in winter. Which child has not waded through water in winter to study? Now that I have some ability, I want to build a bridge for the people of my hometown. Is this how you think of me?"

Seeing Jiang Guotai's words were so sure, he was really angry. His classmates could only think that Jiang Guotai was a very loyal person. He had treated them, his old classmates, very well over the years. They hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I'll give it to you. This hilltop in Shijian Township is connected to the mountain stream, right? I can give it to you as a matchmaking, but I have to say that the necessary procedures cannot be omitted. The fee can be reduced, but it cannot be completely free!"

Jiang Guotai was really angry: "If you want money, I'd rather not have it. If it weren't for the fact that it's close to our Linhe Brigade, and our Linhe Brigade needs to pass through there to go to Wugong Mountain, I think it's a bit of a favor. Do you think I want it?"

"Then I can't go to this mountain top. The river beach and river dike below our Linhe Brigade can serve as a gateway." Jiang Guotai looked like a rogue.

His old classmates were so angry that they laughed: "You are already forty years old, can you stop being a scoundrel like you were when you were little? If you don't build a mountain, you will be given a river beach or a river embankment. Can this river embankment be used as a building or left to you? It was taken away by someone else to raise fish."

Jiang Guotai said angrily, "We don't know how much money will be invested in the development of Wugong Mountain, and we may not see a return even if we invest. With such a huge investment, you don't even want an unwanted mountain and a broken mountain stream as a bridge. I also promised to build a bridge for this mountain stream, and you are still talking to me about these nonsense!" Jiang Guotai slammed the table and said, "Just tell me whether you can give me this river beach?"

His old classmate was also frustrated by his acting and said, "The river beach is fine, but the river embankment is really not. If you want the river embankment, you need to sign a new contract. In this way, at most I can give you a discount on the price. As for the mountain top and the mountain stream, as long as you can really promise to build a bridge, I can also contract it to you."

This mountain stream is about 20 to 30 meters wide, and as wide as 70 to 80 meters in some places. The water is turbulent and is used by nearby women for washing clothes all year round. In summer, it is a swimming pool for nearby children. The water is natural mountain spring water, clear to the bottom. Below is all pebbles formed by long-term erosion of the stream. The deepest part of the water is as deep as an adult man's chest to neck, and the shallowest part is as deep as the thigh.

If you want to build a bridge here, you will need at least 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.

Although their salaries have increased a bit now, asking the township government to spend 10,000 or 20,000 yuan to build a bridge that is useless in promoting the economy and that the leaders above cannot see is purely a thankless job. Who would do it? Only a local like Jiang Guotai who cares about his fellow villagers would be willing to spend money to build a bridge here. Apart from the nearby villagers, who else can cross this bridge?

Apart from making it more convenient for people from Linhe Brigade and those brigades west of Linhe Brigade and Lin County to come to "Wugong Mountain", it can be said that the economic benefit is extremely weak. This is also one of the reasons why the government is unwilling to spend money to build a bridge here.

Hearing his old classmate say this, Jiang Guotai's expression eased a little, and he said, "After all, we have been classmates for so many years, do I have so little credibility in your heart?"

The old classmate was so pestered by Jiang Guotai that he said with a smile, "Okay, okay, Jiang Guotai is the most trustworthy, okay?"

Jiang Guotai's credibility is naturally fine, but he is too shrewd. Sometimes he appears to want A, but the final result may be C or D. Anyway, he has never suffered any loss. Now he suddenly says he wants to lose money to build a bridge, so they can't help but be a little suspicious.

However, there seemed to be nothing to doubt, and they quickly completed all the formalities. By the beginning of March in the Gregorian calendar, when all the formalities were completed, Jiang Xin led the villagers of Jiangjia Village and nearby villagers who were idle at home and did not go out to work, and they all ran to the riverbank to plant lotus roots.

For those who live by the river and see endless lotus flowers, planting lotus roots and raising fish are like skills engraved in their genes, which they can learn just by looking at them.

Jiang Guotai spoke nicely, saying, "I can't make money by myself alone. It's only true when everyone makes money. I'll teach you how to grow lotus roots on this river beach. When the lotus roots grow in the future, you can dig them as you like in winter, but in summer, I want to grow lotus flowers as scenery. I won't say anything if people from our team pick a few lotus flowers and lotus pods, but if outsiders pick the lotus flowers and dig the lotus roots that our Linhe team has worked so hard to grow, I'd like to ask you to keep an eye on them for me!"

The people in the village who were jealous of Jiang Guotai's wealth all cheered loudly, "Guotai, don't worry. If any fool tries to pick your lotus, I will be the first to break his hand!"

"That's right! We'll help you get rid of him!"

Jiang Guotai smiled and said, "That's not the case. It's just that the lotus roots on this riverbank have all been drowned this year. I, Jiang Guotai, paid the money and you did the work. Outsiders don't pay the money or the work, but want our riverbank and dig up the lotus roots we worked so hard to pick. Do you agree?"

The villagers' emotions were aroused at once: "We disagree!"

"That's right! Why should the lotus flowers we worked so hard to grow be dug up by others?"

Jiang Guotai said: "Why did I spend so much money to contract this useless river beach? Why did I spend so much effort to grow lotus roots? Isn't it because I want to make our hometown more beautiful, attract tourists from outside, boost the economy of our Linhe Brigade, and let everyone make more money? When people from outside see this stretch of river beach and the endless red lotus, everyone will say that the scenery is beautiful?"

The villagers who always thought their hometown was the most beautiful were immediately aroused and shouted excitedly: "Beautiful! Linhe Brigade is the most beautiful!

"I also think Linhe Brigade is the most beautiful! Our hometown is the most beautiful! I will work hard to make it more beautiful! Just like Nanhu Lake in Hangzhou, when everyone can sit at home, people will come to us to buy lotus root powder, water chestnuts, and eat fresh fish and shrimp. After eating, they will not want to leave! Let everyone sit at home and make money!"

The big picture inspired the villagers to work hard. No one was lazy and they worked hard like crazy. It took them more than ten days to plant lotus roots on the entire river beach.

We just have to wait for the lotus roots to sprout and grow, and grow into the appearance of 'the lotus leaves are endless and green connecting the sky, and the lotus flowers are exceptionally red in the sun'.

Once the lotus roots are planted, it is time to plant wolfberries.

Since no one had ever grown wolfberries and didn't know what their yield would be, the villagers didn't blindly follow the trend and planted them. Instead, a few families like Aunt Jiang who were willing to take the lead and give it a try planted a few acres of land first.

Aunt Jiang decided to give it a try because the idea was proposed by her niece herself, and since she was good at planting, she wanted to give it a try by planting two acres of land.

After the experts came and led the villagers to plant suitable varieties of wolfberries, as the spring rains fell one after another, it was almost time to pick the Mingqian tea.

Not to mention the new tea varieties planted last year, even the tea leaves from the old tea trees on Huolu Mountain are ready to be picked, and all their tender buds must be picked before the Qingming Festival.

Mingqian tea is top grade tea, with less insect damage, tender buds and leaves, green color, subtle fragrance, mellow taste and beautiful shape. Therefore, there is a saying in the market that "Mingqian tea is as expensive as gold".

Jiang Guotai attaches great importance to the Mingqian tea picking activity, because after the picking of the Mingqian tea is completed and the tea production is completed, it will be almost time for the CCTV people to come and shoot for "The Legend of White Snake".

In order to promote "Wugong Mountain", Jiang Ning, as one of the screenwriters, quietly added a scene about the "Wugong Mountain" temple to promote "Wugong Mountain". Of course, the premise of all this is that it does not affect the overall completeness of the plot.

All the gg backgrounds are to serve the plot. Only if the plot is good, these publicity will be effective, otherwise everything will be in vain.

Therefore, Jiang Ning attaches great importance to the plot and will never make any random changes.

Besides, it is impossible for Producer Li and screenwriters Yuan Feng and Tang Jiang to let her make random changes. The plots after she makes changes have to be polished and reviewed by screenwriters Tang Jiang and Yuan Feng. After Producer Li and the director have read and reviewed them, it is up to them to decide whether it can pass.

Anyway, it looks like everything has passed the review now, and the post-production editing still needs to be personally checked by the director.

In the spring of 1990, Jiang Guotai was so busy that he had no time to spare. He made use of all his relatives and friends, and even brought his laziest lover Shen Hongyun to the company as the financial director, in charge of all financial affairs.

The bad thing about their family-based business is that there are all kinds of complicated relationships within it. In the initial stage, with the help of these relatives and friends, they can get off to a rapid start, but it also usually lays the seeds for many disasters.

But Jiang Guotai couldn't care less at this time, he was really too busy.

In addition to arranging aunts from all over the country to pick tea, we also customize various tea packaging gift boxes.

Jiang Miao also commissioned someone to design the LOGO of "Wugong Tea" and the brand name "Wugong Tea". All of them were processed and produced in factories. As a perfect gift, it must give people a very expensive and high-end feeling.

The current "Wugong Tea" is actually divided into several varieties. The first one is the original "Huolu Mountain" specialty, "Wugong Tea", and the second batch is several new varieties planted from August to the end of November last year.

Yes, the new tea trees planted last year were not just one variety. Instead, they became the experimental fields of professors from the Agricultural University. Because the land plots, light, water and soil in each field were different, these professors and experts named them "Wugong No. 1 Tea," "Wugong No. 2," "Wugong No. 3," "Wugong No. 4," and "Wugong No. 5."

Yes, the names given by these experts and professors are so simple and crude. They want to select the tea varieties that are most suitable for growing in the soil here and have the same taste as the original Wugong Mountain tea and higher content of nutrients such as amino acids from these new varieties of tea that are suitable for the local water and soil.

Therefore, to pick tea in these experimental fields, we have to invite professional tea pickers who go to the south to pick tea for a living every spring to come and pick tea.

Professors from the University of Agricultural Science and Technology and experts from the Agriculture Bureau also came to Huolu Mountain in Jiangjia Village early before the Qingming Festival to observe the growth of these teas, record their data, and ask people to pick some, fry them, and take them back to check their content of various amino acids and other nutrients to compare with other similar teas.

This year, what they are going to give to the people coming from CCTV is the old "Wugong Tea" they picked. The old "Wugong Tea" is more guaranteed in terms of taste, color, and nutrition, and will not fail.

This Qingming Festival is still the Qingming Festival that Jiang Ning did not go back.

Nowadays, the Qingming Festival tomb sweeping in my hometown has completely shifted from Grandpa Jiang, Uncle Jiang and Father Jiang's lineage to Uncle Jiang's lineage.

What is rare is that Jiang Guoan returned to Jiangjia Village with his wife and son during the Qingming Festival this year, even though it was raining. As soon as he returned to the village, he asked everyone: "Hey? Where are Ningning and Baizi? Ningning and Baizi didn't go back?"

His younger brother Jiang Guoliang couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, and said sarcastically, "You don't come back every year, so isn't it normal for Ning Ning Baizi not to come back once in a while?

Jiang Guoan, who was scolded, didn't mind Jiang Guoliang scolding him. He smiled and greeted Jiang Guoliang's other wives: "You are my sister-in-law, right? Guoliang sometimes has a childish temper, you should bear with it."

He is six years younger than Jiang Guoliang. In Jiang Guoan's eyes, isn't Jiang Guoliang just a child?

Among their generation, apart from Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning, Jiang Guoan is the whitest. He didn't have to work since he was a child and only needed to study every day. He was not a naughty child since he was a child. Others would scold their mothers and make troubles everywhere, but he would read at home if his uncle and grandmother Jiang told him to. He would read at home obediently and never run around. Therefore, he has never done any farm work and is very white!

He had short hair, wore gold-rimmed glasses, and a white spring shirt. He spoke slowly and leisurely, looking like a beast in human clothing.

Jiang Guoliang's wife, who is obsessed with looks, looks at Jiang Guoan and then at Jiang Guoliang.

Jiang Guoliang is a primary school physical education teacher. He is completely different from Jiang Guoan's fair, clean and gentlemanly appearance. He is very healthy and energetic. There are no math and Chinese teachers taking up classes in primary schools, so he has never missed a physical education class. Jiang Guoliang has no other hobbies except playing basketball. Although he is not tanned, his skin is honey-colored.

Jiang Guoliang was so angry at the look in his wife's eyes that he quickly turned his wife's head back to look at his face.

This year's Qingming Festival was particularly lively. All the hills and fields in Wucheng, big and small, were dug up by groups of students and their parents, because this year's teachers assigned a task that everyone had to bring a wild flower back to school after worshiping their ancestors on Qingming Festival, and go to the flowerbed outside the moat to build and beautify our beautiful and ancient Wucheng.

After sweeping the graves of the martyrs in the morning, these students went up the mountain with small shovels in the afternoon.

This is a tiring task for adults, but for children, digging seedlings and planting flowers is extremely interesting, especially, they are responsible for planting their own seedlings in the small pits and feeling the joy of nurturing them. The teachers said that when these seedlings bloom and bear fruit, and when next spring comes, they will be able to take a baby seedling home and take care of it by themselves.

Who can resist this temptation!

As a result, these students were extremely active and their enthusiasm for planting flowers reached an unprecedented high.

Grandpa Jiang's birthday has not yet arrived, but the most famous "519 Big Market" in the stock market in 1999 has arrived.

The reason why it is called the "519 big market" is that on May 19th of that year, the National Academy of Materials released great news about vigorously developing the capital market, which led to the domestic stock market starting the most exaggerated wave of rising prices to date. In just one month, the stock market soared from about 1,000 points to 2,000 points. A year later, it soared to nearly 2,500, an increase of more than 150%. Note ①

Jiang Ning now invested all of everyone's savings, house mortgages, etc. into the stock market. The stock he bought was a monster stock that everyone in the future knew about, with a total increase of more than 10,000%.

She has published three books in a row in recent years with sales of over 10 million. Although the total sales of "White Snake" are not as good as "Song Dynasty" and "Jinyiwei", as "White Snake" signed a contract with CCTV to become a self-produced drama, CCTV's influence has not yet exploded in the market, but Jiang Ning has already received eight-digit income from the cooperation with the publishing house.

She did not keep a single cent of her earnings, but invested all of them into stocks at the lowest point of last year's stock market crash, waiting for this bull market and then preparing for next year's earthquake in the semiconductor industry.

What she has may be just a drop in the bucket in the eyes of the entire industry, but she still wants to do her best before the big era comes.

Besides, there are heroes in this era!

The fifth day after the 519 market started was Grandpa Jiang’s birthday, which also happened to be a Saturday. Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng flew to the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Friday night.

She did not come to see Grandpa Jiang immediately, but called Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai in advance, asking Jiang Bai to order a large cake in the shape of a longevity peach, with the words "good health and long life" written on it. This was Jiang Ning's most sincere blessing to Grandpa Jiang. She then booked a hotel location and ordered the dishes.

She did not choose to cook at home. She actually knew that Grandpa Jiang, who had never eaten in a big hotel, would be happy to try new and different things, so she directly booked a room in a hotel with a good reputation.

On Grandpa Jiang’s birthday, Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang closed the store early and brought Grandpa Jiang to the hotel.

Grandpa Jiang originally thought that they were going to take him somewhere, but when he saw the decoration of the hotel, he was so scared that he couldn't move. He said he would not go no matter what and wanted to go home for dinner.

"I'm already old, why would I go to a place like that to eat? I won't go!"

"You have to go, Ning Ning has already ordered the food and paid for it!" Tong Jingang came over and supported Grandpa Jiang, who was not skinny but still frail, and said, "Grandpa Jiang, please come with us~"

Grandpa Jiang was like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking here and there, staring at this magnificent hotel as if he couldn't see enough.

In fact, he was still very nervous and a little timid.

This place looks so expensive~!

How much does it cost to eat here~!

Grandpa Jiang's heart was trembling all the way as he was helped into a private room by Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang on both sides.

There were already quite a few people sitting in the private room, including Jiang Ning, Song Peifeng, Xu Xiuli, Jiang Bai's mentor, his classmates, etc.

As soon as Grandpa Jiang entered, Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng stood on the chairs in a very exaggerated manner and pulled out a banner that read: [I wish Grandpa good health and a long life! 】

Then two more people came up with a couplet: May you be as blessed as the long-flowing water of the East Sea, and as long-lived as the evergreen pines of the Southern Mountains!

Jiang Ning smiled as he looked at Grandpa Jiang who walked in with his fingers still trembling. His curved eyes were full of admiration and a gentle smile: "Happy birthday to my beloved Grandpa!"