Time flies, and winter vacation is here in a blink of an eye.
This year's winter vacation is different from previous years.
During last year's winter vacation, she was busy preparing to build a bamboo weaving factory, and she also spent the Spring Festival at Huang's house.
This year, the Shao family has joined the party. The Shao family is not only a large family, but also has countless relatives behind it. Needless to say, she will definitely spend the Spring Festival at the Shao family this year, but she doesn't want to ignore the Huang family, so she can only make arrangements in advance.
In addition, she also has to go back to Jiang City. She didn’t celebrate the New Year in Jiang City last year, and she won’t celebrate it this year either. She doesn’t know how to explain this to Ling Jiang.
As the daughter-in-law of the Ling family, I haven't spent the Spring Festival at my husband's home for two consecutive years. It would be unreasonable to tell others about it.
Well, just split her into three halves, so that all three parties can be taken care of.
Shao Mo was feeling melancholy, but at the same time she was busy preparing various holiday gifts.
Cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, and tea were all brought home in boxes. Ginseng, matsutake, cordyceps, donkey-hide gelatin and other precious medicinal materials were also purchased in kilograms.
The money in her wallet flowed out like water, but Shao Mo didn't feel sorry at all. Instead, she felt an indescribable sense of accomplishment.
Isn't the purpose of working hard to make money to honor the elders during the holidays and let them have a comfortable and prosperous New Year? After purchasing the necessary gifts in three days, Shao Mo started visiting relatives.
She is the one who starts visiting relatives on the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Shao Mo went to Anshi first.
Because Ling Chuan had to take care of the business in the store, Zeng Fang also returned to Jiang City. This time she returned to An City alone, so it was convenient to take a plane.
This trip to Anshi was not only to pay early New Year's greetings to the Huang family, but also to participate in the Tonglu Festival.
The road she donated on behalf of the bamboo weaving factory has been completed. It runs from Huangan Town to the Huang family's gate, with a total length of 12.3 kilometers and cost nearly 60,000 yuan.
To thank the Huang family, the town named the road Huangan Road.
The "Huang" is taken from the "Huang" in the Huang family, and the "An" is taken from the "An" in Lu'an, which also implies that the highway can keep everyone safe.
After the opening ceremony, Shao Mo took the opportunity to publicize the bamboo weaving factory's plan to recruit bamboo weaving workers and apprentices.
The town highly praised the bamboo weaving factory's practice of training apprentices and made an exception to allow the Huang family to hold a job fair at the town's high school after next year's college entrance examination, together with other factories.
The college entrance examination failure rate is extremely high these days, especially in remote mountainous areas like Lu'an Town. It is good enough if 5% of students can be admitted to university, and very few of the other failed students repeat the exam. Most of them go out to work or even return home to farm.
The bamboo weaving factory recruits apprentices, provides food and accommodation, and teaches bamboo weaving skills for free, which undoubtedly provides a way out for these failed students.
After the road was opened, the Huang family's new house was almost completed.
The courtyard is square, with the main house having three floors, and two floors on each side. Excluding the living room, kitchen, bathhouse and pigpen, there are a total of 12 rooms.
From the living room to the rooms, everything is paved with shiny tiles. The furniture, beds, tables, chairs and benches are all custom-made. They are made of camphor wood, and they give off a faint woody fragrance when placed in the room, which is so comfortable to smell.
After the housewarming dinner, Shao Mo went to Anshi and bought three cars.
A four-wheeled truck, a three-wheeled motorcycle, and a two-wheeled motorcycle.
The small truck was driven directly to the bamboo weaving factory and was usually used to transport bamboo weaving products. The two motorcycles were sent to the Huang family's processing workshop.
The two-wheeled motorcycles are usually used to go back to my hometown, while the three-wheeled motorcycles are convenient for going to the countryside to collect bamboo.
After doing all this and visiting the Zhao family, Shao Mo set off back to Jiang City.
The night before returning to Jiang City, Bai Xue found her and took out a signed and sealed share transfer agreement.
"I've thought about it. I have no one to rely on in the provincial capital. I may not be able to keep such a large territory as the beauty salon even if it is really revitalized. I will transfer 60% of the shares to your name based on the funds you lent. From now on, you will be the major shareholder of this beauty salon.
I am considered the operator, and with the investment money, I don’t take a salary, but I have an extra 6.6% of the shares. Do you think that’s okay?”
Shao Mo did not refuse Bai Xue's shares.
Money is a small matter. Bai Xue's worries are unfounded. With the marketing plan she has developed, coupled with good products and unique techniques, the beauty salon will sooner or later stand out and become the No. 1 in the provincial capital.
By then, competitors in the same industry and other forces will all set their sights on this sweet commodity.
With her as the major shareholder behind the scenes, anyone who dares to take over the beauty salon must think carefully about his own capabilities.
The next day after receiving the share certificate, Shao Mo asked Xu Lixue to spread the news that she was the behind-the-scenes boss of the beauty salon.
Shao Mo did this just to repel the villain with ulterior motives, but she didn't expect that it would bring miraculous effects to the beauty salon instead.
After learning that she had invested in the beauty salon, Luo Xuelan immediately went to apply for the first Black Diamond membership card in history.
With Luo Xuelan taking the lead, other wealthy ladies were not to be outdone and came to apply for cards.
In just a few days, the beauty salon gained more than twenty members.
The beauty salon has four levels of staff, namely Black Diamond, Gold Diamond, Silver Diamond and White Diamond.
The requirement for Black Diamond membership is a one-time recharge of 8,888 yuan, and all consumption will be 30% off.
The recharge requirement for Gold Diamond members is 6,666 yuan, and all consumption will be discounted by 20%.
The recharge requirements for Silver Diamond and White Diamond are 3888 and 1888 yuan respectively, with discounts of 15% and 10% respectively.
In addition to these new members, the beauty salon's former members have also returned to consume.
With the support of Shao Mo's fame and Bai Xue's good management, the beauty salon soon became the No. 1 in the industry, and chain stores were opened all over the country like mushrooms after a rain. In just three years, it became the leader of domestic beauty salons. This is a story for later.
After Shao Mo returned to Jiang City, she first had a small gathering with Zeng Fang and her former classmates, and then followed the brothers Ling Jiang and Ling Chuan to visit the tombs of the Ling family's ancestors.
It is worth mentioning that Wei Qiaolan also went to the tomb sweeping this time.
Although on the surface, Ling Jiang and Wei Qiaolan have not made any substantial progress, but when Wei Qiaolan suggested that they go to see Ling's father and mother together, Ling Jiang did not refuse, which is enough to explain the problem.
Just when Shao Mo and Ling Chuan were planning whether to hold a wedding at home next year, Li Li unexpectedly came to their door.
Li Li came to the house, saying that she wanted living expenses, but in fact she came to gather information.
The two brothers Ling Jiang and Ling Chuan returned to their hometown to visit their ancestors' graves with great fanfare. Shao Mo was fine, but what was the point of Wei Qiaolan following them?
The speed at which rural women spread gossip was quite astonishing. In just one day, it spread to Lijiagou, dozens of miles away.
Li Li came to visit Ling Jiang not because she couldn't forget her old love for him, but because she was worried that Ling Jiang would marry a new wife. After the new wife took charge of the household, the 20 yuan monthly living allowance and 10 kilograms of rice that she had originally promised would be withheld.
Therefore, after getting the money and rice, Li Li called Wei Qiaolan out for a talk on the pretext of something.
(End of this chapter)