Chapter 263 Preparing for the New Year
Therefore, she would certainly choose a freer, more comfortable, and quieter way to celebrate the New Year, even if it is just alone.
"Then come home with me! Anyway, my parents know you, and it's boring for me to stay in the village alone. And I really don't want to see my ungrateful cousin. If you come home with me, I'll have company, and it will be easier for you to explain to your third aunt. Otherwise, she will definitely not agree if you say you're going back to Jiangcheng.
Let me tell you, celebrating Chinese New Year in the countryside is so much fun! I'll take you to a pig-killing feast, set off firecrackers, and try the authentic rural buffet. Anyway, every time I go back, I always catch up with someone's family having a business, and there should be some during Chinese New Year too. You can also try different styles of cuisine, and maybe you can come up with a new one! If you don't want to visit relatives, I'll take you hiking to see our spring-like stream, right next to my second grandfather's grave! I can also show you my second grandfather! "Su Yuchen hurriedly held Zhao Xiaojing's arm and talked a lot in a flash, as if he had already prepared it.
"Pfft!" Zhao Xiaojing couldn't help but grinned, pushing Su Yuchen. "Look at your second grandfather. Does he agree?"
"What are you thinking!" Su Yuchen pushed back. "The purpose of Chinese New Year is to visit him and burn paper for him! Are you going? If you go, we can just come back together on the sixth day of the New Year. Anyway, the statutory holiday is only until the seventh day, so you don't have to drive so far alone."
"Drive the car back, don't you still need to bring things? Back on the sixth day of the New Year? What? You don't want to be honest again?" Zhao Xiaojing looked at Su Yuchen jokingly.
Just two days ago, Su Yuchen was still talking about what she wanted to bring back. She also asked Zhao Xiaojing to bring her a portion of marinade so that she could use it to braise things when she returned and let her parents taste Zhao Xiaojing's cooking skills to increase the credibility that opening a restaurant was not a joke.
He also redeemed the 200,000 bonds and converted them into current accounts through the software, saying that after working for so many years, he could finally give back to his parents, and he should be honest with them about what he was doing, so that they could be happy if he made money.
"I was just counting the money we'd earned and getting excited. I got carried away and wanted to make my family happy too." Su Yuchen twitched his lips awkwardly. "I'm calm now. Whether I'll be honest or not, and how honest I am, depends on my parents. I'm not sure if they'll accept it yet, so I'll just keep quiet for now."
I have to see their reaction before deciding how much to give them. I can't transfer so much at once. It will be difficult to explain it later and they will think I'm selling drugs outside.
Hey, I can't let the whole family have a bad New Year just to show off. Sometimes white lies are also for everyone's consideration."
Su Yuchen sighed deeply, looking very serious, and Zhao Xiaojing couldn't help laughing when she saw it.
Over the past four or five months, in addition to the working capital reserved for the store and the wages paid out, each of them has saved some money.
Su Yuchen has saved 340,000 yuan, and Zhao Xiaojing has saved nearly 500,000 yuan.
Apart from the fact that she gets a larger share of the profit shared by the two of them, the system's cash rewards are also very frequent and generous. If things continue to develop at this rate, Zhao Xiaojing might actually be able to buy a property in Jiangcheng within two to three years.
"Come back with me. You come with me. We'll set off early and drive all the way. We can also go to Canglang Mountain for two or three days. It's not far away anyway, and the store doesn't open until twelve." Su Yuchen came over and shook Zhao Xiaojing's arm.
"Okay, then remember to say hello to your parents in advance. It's New Year's Day, so it might bother them a bit." Zhao Xiaojing said helplessly.
"It's not certain who will bother whom! In less than two days, my mother will talk about all your family affairs. By then, she will be able to tell you everything about your three generations of ancestors and my three generations of ancestors!" Su Yuchen sneered.
"Okay, then I won't be polite." Zhao Xiaojing laughed.
The matter was finalized, and the next morning, Zhao Xiaojing went to the market to buy a bunch of New Year's goods. In addition to bringing some for Dong Mei and Zhou Chuyan, she also bought a lot of other things for Su Yuchen and Wen Zhiyi's family.
When Su Yuchen returned to the store and helped unload the things, he was shocked. "Are you going to spend all your money at once? Are you going to end up living like this?"
Not only were various Jiangcheng specialties piled up in four batches in the car, but there were also dried seafood and dried mushrooms that were not produced in Jiangcheng. At a glance, there were more than a dozen kinds, and they were all big and round. Even those who didn't know the goods could immediately tell that they were first-class dried goods, as well as four sets of branded hand creams.
"My home is not somewhere else. If you are shy and just buy something casually as a token of your appreciation, that's fine, but why buy such good things? My mother will scold me if you buy these." Su Yuchen said, stomping his feet.
"There are four of them. I also bought some for my third aunt, cousin's family, and Wen's family. Let's do it together. It's only once a year, and this is my first time to go to your house. Besides, you have to buy it even if I don't. If I buy it, you don't have to make a trip! Can't you come to buy it next year?" Zhao Xiaojing twisted Su Yuchen's arm with a smile.
The only difference between the four families was that she bought two more bottles of white wine for Su Yuchen's father and two more bottles of red wine for the Wen family.
If Zhou Jianye hadn't happened, she would have bought it for him and his cousin-in-law Sun Junwei. But after this incident, forget it. She didn't want to spend money that made her feel sick. Even if she could afford it, the old scumbag didn't deserve it.
As for Sun Junwei, he was simply implicated, so it would be inappropriate to send him gifts together, as it would make people see that we were treated differently, so I didn't buy anything for him.
"What next year? You have to go out with me this afternoon. You are not allowed to spend any money and don't even take out your cell phone!" Su Yuchen raised his eyebrows.
"Huh? I've already bought everything. It would be a waste if you buy more this afternoon. We can't just squander our money. We have to respect the fruits of our labor!"
"Stop talking nonsense!" Su Yuchen looked unquestionable. Without waiting for Zhao Xiaojing to say anything else, he took the things and went straight to the kitchen.
Zhao Xiaojing originally thought that Su Yuchen was just going to buy some local snacks or something and let her take them back, but after lunch, Su Yuchen didn't even help with the cleaning. He just said something to everyone and pulled Zhao Xiaojing out the door.
"Why did you bring me here? I don't need a haircut?" Before Zhao Xiaojing could figure out the situation, Su Yuchen pushed her into a barber shop near where she used to live.
The barbershop wasn't very large, but it was exceptionally neat. Upon entering, two young, energetic men opened the door for the two of them and politely welcomed them. At the entrance, two stylishly dressed women with avant-garde hairstyles were wielding their scissors with a frantic swiftness. Further inside, a customer sat motionless, back erect, beneath the evaporator. At the back, in a horizontal row of four shampooing booths, a handsome young man, Tony, was washing the hair of a reclining customer.
"Sister Hong, Sister Lan, are you busy? I brought my friends here." Su Yuchen ignored Zhao Xiaojing's questioning and greeted Sister T ony with red hair and Sister Lan with blue hair.
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