Chapter 219 Return Gift
Therefore, Aunt Song came back to her parents' home two days earlier this time and brought some generous gifts.
Aunt Song gave each of her brother's and younger brother's families ten rice dumplings, a bag of noodles, and two defective enamel teacups.
He also secretly gave Chu Hong a bag of dried red dates and a bag of brown sugar, and said something very nice: "Brown sugar and red dates are good for replenishing qi and blood. Your cousin asked me to bring them to you. Eating them is good for your body. You will give birth to a big fat boy next year."
He whispered, "I heard from your aunt that you have a way to get defective cloth. If you can get defective cloth again, remember to send me a message."
He patted her hands and said, "Don't worry, grandma won't ask for it for nothing. Just give grandma the same price as you gave your aunt."
"Then your aunt will cook you some sugar-water eggs."
"Okay, I'll send it to my aunt in two days." Chu Hong naturally agreed. In fact, the village could consume another batch of defective cloth.
But this will give people a feeling that there is too much fabric, and they will doubt whether they are so active because they have made money.
She feels that hunger marketing is the only way to make everyone more grateful to her.
Therefore, Aunt Song’s words were like timely relief.
For the sake of the brown sugar and red dates, she even peeled a meat dumpling for Aunt Song: "This is the leader of the steel plant, asking us to help make some nice-looking meat dumplings."
"Grandpa and grandma said that my aunt misses her parents the most and loves us little ones, so she asked us to make more rice dumplings, which she saved especially for you."
"I'm going to the city tomorrow, and I'll give my aunt a few meat dumplings on the way so she can have a taste of it."
Originally she was not planning to visit her cousin.
As the old saying goes, if you can’t recognize your first-generation relatives, second-generation cousins, third-generation and fourth-generation relatives, your cousins won’t come to bury you.
Because my aunt's daughter married well, she became a little neglectful of her relatives and sometimes did not even show up during the holidays.
If you see each other less often, naturally you won’t be that close.
Chu Hong also had a sudden idea and wanted to know whether the leaders of the enamel pot factory would support her in starting her own business.
Anyway, if they can order seventy or eighty dumplings, she wouldn't think it's too little. If they can order two or three hundred dumplings, she wouldn't think it's too much.
Who can blame me for having so many people in my family knowing how to make rice dumplings?
Moreover, her rice dumplings are so expensive now that she is worried that she won’t be able to sell them even if she goes to the black market.
Only those leaders who earn high salaries and want to eat good food can afford to buy it.
But Aunt Song didn't know that Chu Hong was thinking about finding a buyer for the rice dumplings, so she smiled from ear to ear: "Good boy, your aunt is also looking forward to you visiting her often?"
After lunch, Grandpa Song knew that Aunt Song had come on foot carrying a load on her shoulder, so he simply drove the ox cart to send her back.
By the way, he said hello to his younger brother and brought the return gift he was going to give to Aunt Song.
The return gift from Grandpa Song’s family was five meat dumplings and five red bean dumplings.
Although the size of the rice dumplings was half the size of the ones brought by Aunt Song, it was the first time Aunt Song had eaten a meat rice dumpling. Knowing how precious meat is, she was still very satisfied with the return gift from her eldest brother's family.
Besides, Chu Hong would also give her daughter rice dumplings, so she wouldn't think this gift was not generous enough.
The return gift from Grandpa Song was a piece of bacon weighing about one pound and a bottle of wine.
Anyway, the price is about the same as what Aunt Song brought.
However, after seeing it, Chu Hong couldn't help but open her eyes wide. If she was not mistaken, the bottle of wine was a New Year's gift from her family to her second grandfather's family during the Chinese New Year.
She was worried that during this year's Chinese New Year, Aunt Song would send the bottle of white wine to her home as a coming-of-age gift.
The only consolation is that the shelf life of liquor should be relatively long, right?
After all, Moutai liquor can be sold at a sky-high price in a few decades?
On the morning of the fourth day of May, Gu Ci drove the ox cart and accompanied Chu Hong to deliver the rice dumplings ordered by Aunt He to her.
After that, the two of them went to the enamelware pot factory.
Chu Hong was in a good mood: "Guess how much we earned from this order?"
Gu Ci, who was driving the ox cart, smiled and said, "It must be more than ten dollars."
"That's right, a net profit of twenty yuan." Chu Hong said, and then sighed: "It's a loss that I don't have to pay the workers."
Then he leaned in close and whispered to him, "It would be great if we could make some money at the enamel pot factory. Then even if we don't open for three months, we can still have enough food to eat for three months when we open."
Now all kinds of tickets are in short supply. If you want to eat good food, you can only go to the black market.
But they are too far away from the black market and it is impossible for them to buy food here often. The advantage of being far away is that they don’t spend more money.
If I could earn thirty or forty yuan, it would be enough to cover my expenses for three months.
Gu Ci said to her gently, "Don't worry about not having enough money. Shencheng will continue to send me money for the time being."
Chu Hong smiled and said, "Actually, I think our life is pretty good now."
When she arrived at the enamelware pot factory, Chu Hong not only gave her cousin four meat dumplings and two red bean dumplings, but also gave four meat dumplings to the director of the teaching team whom she had beaten before.
She did not look anxious, but just said that she had made some nice-looking rice dumplings for the leaders of the steel plant, and had always been thinking about the wedding gift the director had given her, so she took this opportunity to send a few dumplings to express her gratitude.
She was afraid that these cunning people would figure out what she was thinking.
After saying that, he didn't stay long and left quickly.
Afterwards, I reported to the municipal government, received my assignment, and took a tour around the city government before leaving.
Now both she and her father can be considered half-civil servants, and the father and daughter take turns to inquire about the news.
In this way, we can know some movements, and if there is any targeting Lao Chu and others, we can also know the news in advance.
Fortunately, those people prefer to look for targets in the city, where there is more money to be made.
Besides, even if you go to the countryside, you will find a place closer to the city.
They don't want to go to places like the valley where their Lingxia Village is.
After Chu Hong finished asking, when she was about to leave, the young clerk stopped her and said, "Comrade Song, please ask Comrade Song to come over tomorrow. It's the summer harvest time, and the leaders want to ask about the types of grain in various places."
Chu Hong agreed immediately and chatted with him for a few more words before leaving.
After Gu Ci sent her here, he went to the post office first and said he was going to the scrap yard. So when Chu Hong came out and didn't see Gu Ci, she simply waited for him under the shade of a tree.
Although it is already May, it is still a hot summer.
Maybe it was because there were not many tall buildings, cars, and many trees, so she didn't feel uncomfortable with the heat.
The hottest time of the day is from noon to three or four in the afternoon.
But she should be at home by then, so there's nothing to be afraid of.
It’s just a few days of summer harvest, and we can only hold on while wearing a bamboo hat and a towel.
Just as she was daydreaming, she heard someone calling her.
Chu Hong came to her senses and saw that it was the director of the enamel factory. She felt very proud: Jiang Taigong fishes, and those who are willing will take the bait.
She even pretended to be surprised: "Director, what a coincidence, you are also here to do business in the commune?"
It was worth the four meat dumplings she gave away, and it was also worth it that she specifically said before leaving that she wanted to come to the commune to do some business.
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