There's no other way; Qianchuan and Dajianchang only have this one main street that's wide enough for large trucks to drive on, so they can't stop here. There's nowhere else to park.

The forestry team hasn't started their holiday yet; they're all working on the mountain, but there are quite a few people at the headquarters.

They noticed a large car parked outside and found it strange, so someone came out to check.

"Hey, it's Xiping! When did you get back? What's all this? Come on, lend a hand and help carry it down."

Sheng Xiping was well-liked in the forest farm, and most people got along well with him, so everyone pitched in to carry the large boxes down.

Sheng Xiping didn't have time to talk to everyone, and first went around to the driver's cabin.

"Master, come with me home. We can have lunch at home."

On the bus, the driver quickly waved his hand, "No, no, I still have a lot of work to do at the company, I can't be late."

This is the bureau chief's son-in-law. He's just delivering some things; he shouldn't have stayed at their house for a meal.

No matter how much Sheng Xiping tried to persuade the driver to stay, he wouldn't listen. In the end, Sheng Xiping took out two packs of cigarettes, slipped some money into them, and gave them to the driver.

"Look how embarrassed I am! It's so cold, and I didn't even let you come in for a drink of water."

Well, I didn't prepare anything else, but you can keep these two packs of cigarettes.

The other person noticed, thanked Sheng Xiping, and put the cigarette in his pocket.

By this time, everything on the vehicle had been unloaded. The driver glanced at the rearview mirror, honked the horn, and everyone moved aside. He then drove to the front, turned around, and drove back to Songjianghe.

Meanwhile, everyone helped Sheng Xiping carry the four boxes back home.

As soon as they entered the Sheng family's gate, someone shouted, "Auntie, Aunt Sheng, come and see! My brother Xiping is back, and he brought back a refrigerator and a color TV!"

These days, very few families can afford to buy so many home appliances at once; Qianchuan Forest Farm is the first to do so.

Everyone was happy for the Sheng family, and they entered the courtyard noisily.

With all this noise outside, how could the people inside not hear it?

Sheng Yunfang, Sheng Yunfei, and Zhang Shuzhen put down what they were doing and hurriedly opened the door to come out.

When Zhang Shuzhen looked outside, she was dumbfounded. What was going on?

Seeing the group carrying large boxes over, the mother and her two children quickly stepped aside, and the young men carried the things directly into the house and placed them in the outer room.

"Mom, quickly boil some water and make a pot of tea." Sheng Xiping casually tossed the two bags into the west room and turned to Zhang Shuzhen, saying this.

They helped us carry our things back; even if they didn't ask for anything else, we could at least have a cup of hot tea.

"Okay, okay, I'll go right away." Zhang Shuzhen was very happy to see her son return and hurriedly went to find tea leaves and wash the teapot.

In winter, there's always a kettle on the stove, the water is always boiled, and you can just make tea directly from it.

"Quickly, everyone come inside and sit on the kang (heated brick bed)," Zhang Shuzhen said, bustling about as she called everyone inside.

"Auntie, we're going home now. We still have a lot to do. Once we're done, let's get together sometime."

The Liu brothers couldn't stay; they had quite a few family members to spare. So they told Zhang Shuzhen and Sheng Xiping, and the two left first.

"Brother Xiping, I heard you're doing really well out there? Making a fortune, is that right?"

Everyone in the room looked at Sheng Xiping and couldn't contain their curiosity, so they asked him a question.

"Is there any need to say more? Just look at all the things Xiping brought back—this huge refrigerator, this big color TV. Tell me, which family in our forest farm has this kind of extravagance?"

Even our Secretary Zheng's family just got a 14-inch color TV a while ago, didn't they?

I just checked, and it says on the box that it's 17 inches, which is quite a lot big.

The Songjianghe Forestry Bureau has exchanged home appliances with Sheng Xiping quite a few times.

Of course, this amount of money is nothing to the nearly 20,000 employees of the Forestry Bureau; it's not even enough for the bureau's own staff.

Fortunately, Zhou Mingyuan was thoughtful and distributed some shopping vouchers to various forest farms, so at least a few cadres in the forest farms managed to snag a television in their homes.