Chapter 251
Every time Yu Qianqian finishes applying a facial mask, she follows a routine, which is to put her face in front of every roommate in the dormitory and ask them to tell her in a positive tone: "Do you think my skin has really become whiter? Is that right?"
How could my roommates have the nerve to say no? I nodded affirmatively: "Yes, it really turned white!"
Moreover, the skin that has just finished applying the mask has been replenished with sufficient moisture and VC in the skin epidermis. Combined with the effects of milk, egg white and pearl powder, it does have a firming and whitening effect. Of course, it gives people a feeling that the effect is particularly good right after washing the face. This is indeed not Yu Qianqian's illusion.
Every time Yu Qianqian finishes applying a facial mask and washing her face, she has the illusion that her skin is moisturized and glowing. This illusion leads her to continue applying the facial mask.
Also persevering with her were Zhang Min and Xi Weilu.
The two people seemed to have similar interests. They were both stirring the pearl powder into a dough, and there was no difference between stirring for one person and stirring for three people.
But because Xi Weilu was not from the School of Mathematics, she did not attend classes with them, so other people could not see her and were not familiar with her, so they naturally could not feel her changes; Zhang Min had good skin to begin with, which was fair, but not as fair as Shen Xinlan and Jiang Ning, so it was not prominent. So she only felt that her skin had improved, but not as obvious as Yu Qianqian's.
When Yu Qianqian's physical effect came out, everyone was surprised: "Qianqian, have you become whiter? You look better and better recently!"
"Haha, you think so too, don't you?" Yu Qianqian touched her face with a bit of satisfaction, feeling that she was on the road to becoming more beautiful. "I use the pearl powder Jiang Ning gave me as a facial mask every week. If she hadn't told me not to use it every day, I would have applied it to myself every day. I also think it works very well!"
Although we have entered the millennium, people's lives are getting better and better, and the speed of technological development is getting faster and faster, but Yu Qianqian and others who have lived through the 1980s and 1990s are still used to saving.
Jiang Ning gave them a pound of wolfberries each. None of the girls in the dormitory were willing to waste them. They either used them to soak in water or ate them dry. The water chestnut rice she gave them was also used by them to boil water to drink in the dormitory.
Gorgon rice itself has the effects of moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, replenishing nutrition, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea. It is a nourishing and strengthening food. Some of the vitamins and nutrients in it are even better than lotus seeds.
They were afraid that the wolfberries and water chestnut rice would go bad, so they had eaten them raw quite a lot during this period. With external and internal treatments, Yu Qianqian's complexion was getting better and better, wasn't it?
Yu Qianqian's skin color is yellow and dark, which is actually mainly due to insufficient Qi and blood. A girl in her early twenties, as long as she replenishes her Qi and blood, her complexion will become rosy, and she will look much better than before.
It is basically difficult for other people in the department to persist in fiddling with their faces like Yu Qianqian does. The main reason is that the studies in the School of Mathematics are really too difficult. They spend a lot of time on study every day. At the beginning, they can still follow the trend and buy some milk and eggs to tinker with their faces. After a few times, they think, since they have good things like milk and eggs, why don’t they eat them? Why use it on your face? The young and invincible academic geniuses who put study first soon gave up on facial masks and devoted themselves to study.
Then the only ones who persevered were Yu Qianqian, Zhang Min, and Xi Weilu.
Xi Weilu was originally dark and thin, but this year, with the feeding from the sisters, especially Jiang Ning, who saw that she was dark, thin and small, and looked malnourished, Jiang Ning gave her two or three kilograms of wolfberries, as well as a large bag of water chestnut rice. Sometimes when Zhang Min and Yu Qianqian sneaked into the dormitory like thieves and cooked water chestnut soup in the rice cooker, they would take her along. The three of them ate happily like little mice stealing fish. Sometimes Liu Yan would also join in.
Every time Shen Xinlan looked at that scene, she found it very funny.
I don’t know if it’s the effectiveness of the facial mask or the successful feeding by the sisters, but Xi Weilu seems to have grown taller this year and her skin color looks better than before. She still doesn’t talk much and her personality is very passive. But when the sisters take her out, she doesn’t refuse. Sometimes when she is full, she will even smile as shallow and innocently as a little child.
When Zhang Min saw the smile on her face, she couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment. She pinched Xi Weilu's little face and short hair and rubbed them, making Xi Weilu's little face red, her eyes watery, and her head disoriented. With her hair messed up, she looked at her sisters innocently and helplessly, which made the sisters laugh again.
In early March, it is the annual Mingqian tea picking season.
Huolu Mountain and Wugong Mountain in Linhe Brigade are bustling again.
The two low hills on Wugong Mountain are home to new tea planted last year, so the tea trees are still small and the buds and leaves are not many. The main production still depends on the main hills of Huolu Mountain and the Jiangjia Village tea that has been planted for more than two years.
In fact, long after Jiangjia Village started planting and selling tea, Linhe Brigade and even nearby brigades, coveting the income of Jiangjia Village, also began to plant tea in their own fields. However, they planted tea based on past experience and were ignorant in choosing tea trees. They did not know how to select the tea that best suited the local water and soil, let alone classify and observe the tea varieties on each acre of land like the experts and professors from the Agricultural Bureau and Agricultural University, and bring some different varieties of tea back every year to test the content of tea substances. In addition, they did not know how to cultivate tea trees systematically, so many teas tasted very bitter.
In addition, they had no sales channels, so even though they grew tea, they could only watch the people in Jiangjia Village make money.
However, they are not without money, because there are two tea mountains in Jiangjia Village, plus the two mountains of Huolu Mountain and Wugong Mountain contracted by Jiang Guotai. In previous years, the women in the village would go to Jiangnan to pick tea and make money. But this year, they don’t have to do that. All the tea pickers are concentrated in Jiangjia Village, some carrying bamboo baskets on their backs, some hanging bamboo baskets around their waists. The mountains are full of tea pickers.
When we say tea pickers, it certainly does not limit the picking to young girls. In fact, old people or middle-aged women, as long as they know how to pick tea, will come to pick tea.
Because every household in the local area has a few tea trees, there are almost no women who don’t know how to pick tea, and even the men are experts in picking tea.
However, most of the men went to work in Jiang Guotai's sand factory. Working in the sand factory is physically demanding, as the ships carrying sand on the Sha River almost never stop running all year round. After work, they no longer have the energy to do the work of picking tea.
On the other hand, the children in the village who were on vacation had a happy time. They followed their teachers to the mountains to pick tea. Some capable little girls picked tea just as fast as adults, and all the money they earned was their pocket money.
There were also sensible girls who gave the money to their parents at home, but the boys didn't care so much and immediately put the money they earned into the store, buying tin frogs, glass balls, Tang Monk's meat, bubble gum, spicy strips... For a time, spring became the most lively and sweet season for rural children.
Last year, some people hid bricks, soil, and gravel in the tea leaves in order to increase their weight and sell them at a higher price. Some even mixed old leaves and tea fruits in the tea leaves. Not only did Jiang Guotai refuse to accept any of these teas last year, he also refused to accept all the tea from these people's homes. As a result, throughout the whole year last year, other families made a lot of money from tea, and because they sold their tea to Jiang Guotai's tea processing plant and sold them all at the same time, they not only saved trouble but also made more money. However, those who were trying to be clever had to fry the tea themselves because Jiang Guotai refused to accept the tea from their tea fields, and they also lost the channels to sell the tea, so they could only sell it in the village.
But there are only so many tourists in the village. Except for some who buy some inferior tea for their own drinking, they all buy the good Mingqian tea as gifts. Of course, the tea for gifts must be beautifully packaged and printed with the Wugongshan Wugong Tea logo. Otherwise, if they give it to their leaders, who would know what kind of tea you are giving?
So even if it is the same Mingqian tea, they cannot sell it at a higher price. However, they envy other people’s tea for being sold at a higher price and do not want to reduce the price too much, which results in the tea being unsold at home and becoming stale tea.
This year, the tea pickers are extremely well-behaved and no longer dare to have any evil thoughts or cause any trouble.
Other villages didn’t know that when they received their tea baskets, they were also warned by the village supervisor: “If you are found to be selling inferior products as good ones, you will not be hired from now on. If you don’t want to pick tea at home, you have to go to Jiangnan to pick it!”
Picking tea in one's hometown is completely different from picking tea in other places where one is not familiar with the language. Many people are afraid to go out and face the outside world. After hearing the warning from their supervisors, some people who think they are smart not only dare not tamper with the tea leaves, but also carefully check their tea baskets after picking the tea leaves to see if there are any old leaves and tea leaves accidentally mixed in, or if someone takes the opportunity to stuff a handful of tea leaves into their tea baskets while they are not paying attention. This kind of situation also happens. '
Sometimes, some people's malicious intent is even a little inexplicable. You simply cannot understand why a person who has nothing to do with them would sprinkle some soil or old tea tree leaves into your tea basket when you are not paying attention. Even if you ask them, they may not even know why they do it, they just do it out of convenience.
In short, after Jiang Guotai's strict crackdown last year, this year's tea picking went very smoothly.
Mingqian tea is the first tea harvested every year. After a winter of storage, the tea is rich in substances and has a sweet and refreshing taste. Because of its plump buds and leaves and low yield, it has become a popular tea lover and a great gift.
After Jiang Guotai harvested the best batch of this year's Mingqian tea, he sent it to his son who was studying at the provincial university, Jiang Ning, Mayor Jiang and others. He even did not let it go and sent a few kilograms of it to Jiang Bai, asking him to give to his teachers and professors.
Mayor Jiang has been the township head and town head for so many years. He has always taken one step at a time, worked steadily and honestly to move up the ladder, and has never thought about giving gifts or anything like that.
The main reason is that his salary is low, he has never done anything corrupt, and he really has no money to give gifts.
He had known for a long time that Jiang Guotai was smart, but he didn't expect that Jiang Guotai was so smart that he would ask him to deliver Mingqian tea to the leader.
This made Jiang Guoding blush: "This, this, this... How can this be so embarrassing?"
Jiang Guotai spitted on him: "You are not as good as Ningning!" He said: "Ningning knows to give good things to the higher-ups when she gets them, no matter if they are useful or not, she just wants to get closer to them first! If you don't take the initiative, do you expect others to give them to you?" Jiang Guotai said speechlessly: "These are free things produced by our family, and you don't dare to give them away. No wonder you are only a mayor at the age of 40!"
If Jiang Guotai had not failed the exam, he felt that with his cleverness, he might have become the county magistrate now.
Of course, if he really gets into the system, he will have no problem doing practical work, but he probably can't help but go astray. The so-called crooked path is not corruption and bribery, but bribery.
He understands his own character, and his goal is to do good things and make money together.
Jiang Guoding just smiled and said nothing, and took a sip of the rice wine that Jiang Guotai brought.
Jiang Guoding was not very good at giving gifts. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Should I just give it to County Magistrate Chen, or should I give it to Secretary Song as well?"
The reason he asked this question is that County Magistrate Chen is actually the local boss of Wucheng and is in charge of the local economy. When Secretary Song was first sent down, he went against Secretary Song and competed with him for power. Later, he was unable to win the competition and was suppressed by Secretary Song. This led to the rapid development of Wucheng.
Jiang Guoding is naturally County Magistrate Chen's man.
Jiang Guotai was speechless, and slapped Jiang Guoding on the thigh: "Fourth brother, you are really not as good as Ningning in this respect!" He also took a sip of wine, lowered his voice and said to Jiang Guoding carefully: "Now Wucheng is developing so well and so fast, how many years do you think Secretary Song can stay in Wucheng? He has been here..." He held up four fingers: "Four years."
"I heard the news. The people behind him fell, and he was implicated and demoted to our Wucheng. It is estimated that he will be able to go back in two years at most. Wucheng's economy has developed. By then, County Magistrate Chen will be promoted. By then, as one of the mayors of Sanba Town, won't you be promoted as well? County Magistrate Chen, Secretary Song's ready-made thigh, you don't know how to take advantage of him, what are you thinking? You are so shy when you send him some tea, just like you..."
Jiang Guotai clicked his tongue.
It can only be said that everyone has his own personality. Jiang Guoding is a more serious and upright person who is good at doing practical things. If he wanted to be as active as Jiang Guotai, it is hard to say whether he could enter the county committee now.
After Jiang Guotai's advice, Jiang Guoding actually took the Mingqian tea prepared by Jiang Guotai for him, some wine brewed by Jiang Guotai, local specialties from his hometown, etc., and entered the house of County Magistrate Chen.
When County Magistrate Chen saw that Jiang Guoding had actually learned to give gifts, he couldn't help but laugh and pointed at Jiang Guoding, "I haven't seen you give anything to anyone in all these years. What did you bring today?"
Jiang Guoding said a little embarrassedly: "Isn't this the latest Wugong tea picked in our hometown? My family, my daughter and I each got an acre of tea land. We can't finish the tea we picked. So, I know the leader likes to drink tea, so I brought some for you." He said with some shame and anger: "Although it's all our own products, it's on CCTV after all. CCTV and the leaders above are drinking it. This is the best tea, so I have to send some to the leader first? Otherwise, how dare I drink it?"
"And this wine. Last year, some old oxen in our village got old and got some good stuff to make wine..." As he talked more, Jiang Guoding simply threw away his shamelessness and said fiercely, "Do you want it? If not, I'll take it away and drink it myself!"
"Oh, that won't do. Old Jiang, how can you take something back after it's been delivered?" County Magistrate Chen is a few years older than Jiang Guoding, and is nearly fifty years old. He knows that Jiang Guoding is a straight-laced guy, so he is really close to him. He just got some good stuff, so he gave it to him eagerly, but still reminded him: "I'll take the stuff, but don't forget Secretary Song's stuff."
Secretary Song will eventually leave, and Jiang Guoding's direct supervisor is still County Magistrate Chen. Upon hearing this, Jiang Guoding deliberately hesitated and said, "This... this is not good, right?"
County Magistrate Chen was so angry that he wanted to hit him: "I thought you had finally become smart, but you haven't changed at all. Hurry up and go!"
Jiang Guoding then pretended to be honest and walked away with a smile. After coming out of County Magistrate Chen's house, he wiped his face and hair. It was the first time he did such a thing as giving a gift, and he felt embarrassed. Then he took the things and gave them to Secretary Song.
Secretary Song had a very good impression of Jiang Ning's uncle. Although he was County Magistrate Chen's man, he was a real man who got things done. He had seen what he had done in Yaoba Town and Linhe Brigade in the past two years. He had considered transferring him to the county committee after a while, and then putting him in the position of deputy county magistrate after he achieved some results, specifically in charge of developing the local economy.
Jiang Guoding was originally County Magistrate Chen's man, so County Magistrate Chen would not object to the person who promoted him.
If he had not parachuted into Wucheng, Magistrate Chen, as a local tyrant, had deep roots in the local area, and he would not have needed to compete with Magistrate Chen for power or profit. But the social structure in the past few years was like that, with the local people sticking together. If he did not fight, he would be completely marginalized by the local people and would not be able to do anything. He was here to do things, not to retire.
It was only after Jiang Ning unexpectedly helped him several times that County Magistrate Chen retreated. He completely took control of Wucheng, which led to the rapid development of Wucheng's economy in the past two years.
As the Wugongmingqian tea is being picked on Wugong Mountain, Wucheng has also started broadcasting live on nearby TV stations, promoting the Dragon Boat Races that will be held during the Dragon Boat Festival since last year.
Dragon boats from all over the country were pulled out of the water, rested and oiled. The men who usually had nothing to do started practicing dragon boat rowing at home, waiting to win the first place in Wucheng this year.
Secretary Song not only contacted the county TV station, but also the Wujiang City TV station. As for the neighboring city, because of Jiang Guotai's presence, he persuaded the leaders of the neighboring city to join in the effort and even gave them bonuses.
Jiang Guotai also formed a dragon boat team in his hometown, and will represent the Linhe Brigade in the dragon boat race.
For a moment, my hometown was extremely lively.
Many young men from Xujia Village who had tried to force Jiang Guotai to compete but failed at the end of last year signed up for the dragon boat race when they saw it.
The people in their village have nothing but brute force.
On the other hand, Jiang Ning also received the dozens of kilograms of well-packaged Wugong tea that Jiang Guotai sent to her. As soon as Jiang Ning received it, he sent it to his master and his mistress. Together, he sent about twenty to thirty kilograms of tea, big and small.
This made the master's wife very happy, because Jiang Ning's intention was too obvious. She did not hide her idea at all. She just wanted Director Li to help her send out all the Wugong tea so that the leaders could also taste the Wugong tea, and increase the fame and status of Wugong tea from top to bottom, starting from the core areas.
Director Li was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, but this was not a big deal. He was the one who promoted the local tourism economy in Wucheng. If it developed well, he would have a share of the credit in the future. His apprentice had already delivered the tea, so what could he do? Of course I would help her!
So Wugong tea once again appeared in the homes of some leaders of the core class.
April was the birthday month for Grandpa Jiang and He Xiaofang. After Jiang Ning sent a birthday present to He Xiaofang, she and Song Peifeng rushed back to Shanghai and had a simple birthday dinner with Grandpa Jiang.
Grandpa Jiang kept saying, "You came all this way, come back and have a meal with me. I can eat whatever I want. You are already old, and you still want to celebrate your birthday? You only celebrated it once last year. You should go back quickly. Don't do this again in the future. Your studies are more important!"
These are truly Grandpa Jiang’s true feelings, without any falsehood.
Although he was happy that his granddaughter and grandson-in-law came back to celebrate his birthday with him, he was also worried that his granddaughter's running back and forth would delay her studies. His grandson had been admitted to the East China University of Science as a graduate student this year, and his supervisor was a junior of his teacher in the science department in Shanghai. He is now very busy with his studies and has no time to film.
His granddaughter is still so young, she should also take the postgraduate entrance examination or something.
Although he didn't know what a postgraduate student was, he felt that he was better than a college student, so he had to take the exam.
You are so young, why not study more?
Jiang Ning looked through Grandpa Jiang's medical report and said to him with a smile, "Grandpa, don't worry. I know everything. Don't worry."
Grandpa Jiang sat on the recliner with a smile on his face, and said with pure relaxation and satisfaction: "I'm not worried. I'm not worried at all now. I know my eldest granddaughter is smart."
As he said this, he couldn't help but grinning, wanting to brag to his old buddies. Every time he went back and boasted about his two grandchildren, only old fellow Zhonghua could brag to him.
When talking about his eldest granddaughter, he could never finish bragging. He got so excited that he even boasted about the day his eldest granddaughter was born, the sky was filled with morning glow, a flaming phoenix rose from the clouds and landed in his yard.
When Jiang Ning was born, it was just dawn, when the glow of the sunset was breaking through the clouds. It happened to be a sunny day in winter. Because Jiang Ning and Jiang Yanyan from Jiang Guoding's family were born one at night and the other in the morning, two girls were born on the same day, one was the daughter of the village chief Jiang and the other was the daughter of the chicken farm director, so many people still remember the scene of that day.
Now it blows differently.
But the group of old men and women in the village listened to the story with great interest. If Grandpa Jiang forgot or made mistakes, these old men and women would automatically fill in the gaps for him. They didn't think that Grandpa Jiang's exaggerations were outrageous at all.
Even Grandpa Zhonghua, who thought it was outrageous, couldn't help but doubt when they spoke in affirmation. Could it be that they were the normal ones, and he was the one who thought they were exaggerating too much?
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