Xu Mei can be quite a character at times. She arrived at Liang Liang's house in a carefree manner and immediately spoke to Liang Liang's mother upon entering.
"Auntie! I've come to your house for the New Year. Have you prepared the red envelopes?"
When Xu Mei was at home, she would visit Liang Liang's house more than ten times a day, and the Liang family didn't treat her like an outsider.
"Great! Auntie has prepared a ten-yuan red envelope for you!"
"Ah! Ten yuan! Auntie, you're too stingy. Other people's wives should be given at least a hundred yuan. You should at least add a zero to the end."
Even Liang Liang laughed this time.
"Alright! You stay here tonight, and I'll give you a thousand yuan."
"real!"
Liang Liang got a headache just looking at Xu Mei's jubilant expression; it seemed this woman might really not be leaving tonight.
"Go play with the eggs!"
Whenever a young man in the village brings his wife home, all the villagers who haven't seen her before will rush to see her.
Xu Hebin called his girlfriend back, and Liang Liang's mother also went to Xu's house to see her daughter-in-law.
They praised it highly upon returning.
"Beautiful! Well-dressed and poised in her interactions with others, sigh!"
Liang Liang understood the meaning behind her mother's last sigh.
"Mom! Why are you sighing? We have a wife in our family too, Xu Mei is right here, just treat her like your wife."
"How can that be the same? If you really want to..."
"Shh!" Liang Liang quickly stopped his mother from continuing when he saw Xu Mei and Liang Qiuqiu come in from outside.
On the evening of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, a significant number of young people had left the small shop.
The guys loitering around in that little shop are all eighteen or nineteen-year-old single nausea boys.
Liang Liang is probably the only one among twenty-two or twenty-three who hasn't called his wife home yet.
He acted as if he were the leader among these custard beets.
The topics of conversation among those who are single are naturally about who has a beautiful wife and who has an average-looking wife.
These guys are typical examples of sour grapes.
However, they all agreed that Xu Hebin's wife was the most beautiful girl to have come to Liangshui Bay in recent years.
"There will be a lot of teams coming to Liangshui Bay tomorrow to do Yangko dance and stilt walking. There are quite a few pretty girls there. If you don't pick a few to bring back, you might as well lie down on the main road and let the cars run you over a couple of times."
The custard-like creatures immediately perked up.
How do I slice it?
"Ah! You guys don't even know how to flirt anymore? If you see someone you like, just go up and ask. Ask if they're taken. If they are, that's fine. But if they say no, then boldly state your opinion..."
"What's your opinion?" someone asked naively.
Liang Liang wished she could smash a can of snot on the other person and kill him.
"Tell them I've taken a liking to you, how about you come and settle down in Liangshui Bay?"
"What does it mean to settle down in Liangshui Bay?" It's still that silly guy.
This guy should stay single forever.
Those who don't go out at night are the ones whose wives are at home; if their wives are at home, they naturally won't go out.
However, there are also oddballs like Xu Hebin who bring their wives to the small shop.
Xu Hebin and Xue Jing sat in the small shop for half a day.
He didn't come to the small shop to show off his beautiful fiancée; he came to consult the shop owner about his factory site selection.
The original shop owner was his uncle, and the current shop owner is also his uncle, just not a blood uncle.
Although the shop owner wasn't Xu Hebin's biological uncle, he and Xu Hebin got along very well. Xu Hebin would always talk to this uncle about anything when he was at home.
Isn't this a weird thing?
During the Spring Festival, Xu Hebin had obviously revealed his idea of starting a business on the village road.
"Isn't Xiao Liang right here? Why don't you ask him?"
“He didn’t participate in choosing the factory site. He said that the places he liked might not be the ones I liked, and that I should choose for myself.”
Liang Liang did not intend to participate in their discussion about choosing a factory site, but he did offer his own suggestions, such as that the location should be good and sunny, because you can't choose a shady slope as a factory site.
Basic issues such as electricity and water supply also need to be considered.
After much deliberation, Xu Hebin finally decided to locate the factory at the foot of Xiaotangshan Mountain, west of Liangshui Bay.
Xiaotangshan is about 800 meters away from Liangshuiwan Village. It belongs to Xiangyang Team of Pingshan Village. It is a small hill with a height of no more than 30 meters. In front of the hill is a flat plain.
To the south, near the county road, there is a small stream at the foot of the hill.
The transportation is very convenient and the natural conditions are excellent.
Xu Hebin decided to build his business here.
His next step is to apply to the village and township authorities, and once the application is approved, he can start construction on the factory.
The village and township will resume work on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, so he will have to wait two more days.
After submitting the application report, he still needs to go to Lianwan again.
Since he's no longer working at Haiyun Audio-Visual Products, he naturally needs to hand over his work.
Only after the handover is complete can he return with a light heart to develop his own career.
These wives who are invited to their husband's family home for the Lunar New Year usually stay for two days and then return home on the sixth day of the new year.
Of course, a few people get so addicted to staying that they stay until the seventh or eighth day of the lunar new year, but by then their in-laws should send them back home.
The sixth and eighth days of the Lunar New Year are the peak days for businesses to open for business.
Many businesses in Liangshuiwan Village choose to open on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.
On the morning of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the area in front of the Pingshan Village Committee was filled with the sounds of gongs, drums, and suonas.
Pingshan Village is now the wealthiest brigade in Gaobao Township. Every year during the Spring Festival, when people eat Meihui (a local dish) and go to work, it is a time when the Yangko dance teams from nearby villages gather.
If you visit someone for the New Year, the Pingshan Village Committee will give you a red envelope containing 200 yuan.
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, many businesses in Pingshan Village opened for business. After paying New Year's respects to the village committee, visitors could stay at the businesses that had opened and make a fortune.
If they're lucky, a team can make a thousand or eight hundred yuan in a morning.
It was amidst this boisterous atmosphere that Xu Hebin entered the village committee and submitted his application for leasing a factory site.
At the same time, Liang's Guitar Factory also opened. After the opening firecrackers went off, the open space in front of the guitar factory was occupied by Yangko dancers and stilt walkers.
Holding a stack of red envelopes, Liang Liang shouted, "Twist them all neatly! A good twist will get you more money, a bad twist will get you less. Young men and women, be spirited! If a girl twists well, she might catch the eye of a young man in our village and be married to him; and if a young man does well, he might catch the eye of a young woman in our village and be married to her too..."
A chorus of boos erupted.
Are all these single young men and women in Liangshui Bay stupid? What do you mean by booing me?
I'm doing this for your benefit, okay?
They're bringing back men and women, regardless of gender, because Liangshui Bay is in dire need of people right now.
After a Yangko dance team, whether it's the stilt walking team or not, finishes their performance, their captain will run up to Liang Liang and his brother and say auspicious words like "Wishing you prosperity and good fortune," and Liang Liang will give them a red envelope containing two hundred yuan.
Of course, he would give a 300 yuan red envelope to the team that twisted the ball particularly well.
He said last night that his advice about finding girls to settle down with was actually effective.
Some young men from the village actually took a liking to the girls dancing the Yangko and mustered up the courage to go up and ask them questions.
One of them actually succeeded.
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