After sending everyone away, Xia Jin and his family did not sit idle, but were sorting out the gifts sent by the villagers today.
Chen Mingmei, nowadays, when giving gifts, some wealthy families will give fifty cents to one dollar, while poor families will just give eggs or cloth.
Some people will also bring some vegetables or other things to the people who host the banquet. The people who receive the gifts will not say anything, after all, they are all thoughtful gestures from everyone.
What each person gave must be recorded in detail, and next time something like this happens in their family, they must give gifts in return.
After all, in rural areas, this kind of thing is a give and take. You send something to me and I send something to you. You can't say that someone sent something to you and then you don't send it back to them when it comes to their place.
If you do that, people in the whole village will talk about it. Then people won't want to call you when they need to do something, and they won't come when you need to do something.
Generally, what we reply at that time is based on their current calculations, with a little more added according to social development, and the rest will be sent to them later.
Just like before, when the village held a banquet, almost no one gave money, but only some items.
For example, eggs laid by your own chickens, or a piece of cloth, or some small gadgets you made yourself that others can use.
At that time, the villagers had little money, so almost no one gave money as gifts, because they didn't even have enough money to spend at home, so how could they give money to others? They couldn't afford it.
At that time, every penny had to be spent wisely, so when villagers gave each other gifts, they usually gave each other things that could be used.
But it’s no longer possible now. Society is progressing, and many people are now accustomed to giving money. However, some people from poor families are still the same as before.
No one would say anything about those who sent items or vegetables, because everyone could see what their family conditions were like.
Besides, isn't the main purpose of a party to have fun together and celebrate something? If you get hung up on the gifts others give you, that's not going to work.
Grandpa Xia and the others couldn't read, so Big Brother Xia was awakened. The two of them compared the notebook they had remembered before and the notebook they had remembered now.
What gifts did everyone give to their family just now? They had visited their homes before, so they had to list all the customers one by one.
After using this thing, you must keep it well and take it out to look at it the next time there is a wedding in the village.
When giving gifts, there should also be a basis, according to the family situation of the other party. It is better to give gifts in advance, otherwise if you give too much, the other party will not be able to return the favor.
The two of them quickly finished checking the list of gifts counted for today.
Looking at the things on the ground, like eggs and so on, I asked Aunt Xia to take them to the kitchen and keep them for cooking.
During this period, all the scraps of cloth and other things were collected and taken to the village later to have people make them some clothes to wear in the fields.
I also received some other things and put them all in the storage room, and then counted some of the money collected today.
The money is not much, but it can offset part of the cost of the banquet, although this amount of money is a drop in the bucket for this banquet.
After all, Grandpa Xia used the best and highest specifications at the time, so of course the cost was higher.
The farmers in the village have had extra money for only a few years, and few of them are willing to donate money. Most of them only donate a few cents, so it is of no use at all.
However, when they prepared the banquet, they did not expect to be able to recover the money through gifts from the villagers.
After all, this is a happy event for their family, and of course everyone should come to celebrate and be happy.
Otherwise, if they want to make money from the villagers by holding banquets, then how should their banquets be organized in order to make money?
Not to mention anything else, after the banquet, people in the village will definitely talk about their family affairs. After all, the dishes on the banquet looked like that, who can not complain about it.
People nowadays don’t treat this kind of thing as a money-making business. Most people are relatively simple and honest.
We are all here to celebrate the happy events happening in our family, why do we have to think that way?
Besides, the villagers don’t have much money, so let’s just have fun.
After finishing everything, Xia Jin sat on the chair and told his grandfather about his thoughts.
After all, he thought that people at that time were all arrogant. If he were to say that he was supporting his own father and was still young, they would definitely not agree.
So he always has to find something for him to do, something that can make use of his remaining energy, and let him do it. Then he will be happy and he will be happy too.
After all, when I wanted to take him in, he didn't agree, so I found him something to do so that he could earn some money and be happy.
When Grandpa Xia heard her idea of growing vegetables in greenhouses, he was confused. After all, he had never heard of this concept before.
He only knew that a long, long time ago, before the founding of China, it seemed that there were royal nobles who grew vegetables in hot spring villas.
But he really didn't understand what his granddaughter said. After applying a layer of membrane, these vegetables could grow in Dongtian.
When he first heard about this, he thought that his granddaughter was making trouble again. She had never weighed an address before, so how could she understand farming through the knowledge in books?
It was so cold yesterday. No matter what, as long as the vegetables are being harvested, they will definitely be frozen and rot, and we will definitely lose money.
His granddaughter had finally come to this point, and he definitely couldn't bear to see her money go to waste, so she didn't support this matter.
After all, they had never heard of the method she described. If it really worked, then many people would definitely want to plant it.
But they had never heard of anyone growing vegetables in this way. They had seen fresh vegetables in winter, but they were all grown on the kang.
The vegetables can only grow when the temperature on the kang reaches a certain level. But they can't light a fire in the fields outside, how will they do it then?
But if you don't light a fire, the temperature won't reach the target, and the vegetables won't grow, and they'll die. By then, not to mention being able to sell them, you won't even be able to eat them.
They have such a large piece of land that even if they want to increase the temperature, there is no way.
Grandpa Xia doesn't think that the temperature in the greenhouse can be made the same as summer just by relying on those thin layers of film.
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