The gifts in the car were taken into the house by several young people from the Zheng family and placed in a pile of jars and cans in the middle of the floor, which was very eye-catching.
The Zheng family is not a big family in the local area, but it has several branches, and there are about 20 to 30 people including the big ones and the small ones.
Therefore, everyone present today has the surname Zheng or has a close relationship with the Zheng family.
In Zheng Yongjiu's words, his mother served Liu Shiliu, which meant she served the family and not outsiders.
Therefore, if the people in the Zheng family were to take turns, it would more or less be a relative.
Jiang Wei's group arrived late. It's already nine o'clock, and others have already arrived earlier.
The birthday boy was sitting on the kang, chatting with a few old men and women, and he was in good spirits.
After entering the house, the people from Jiangwei expressed their blessings to the birthday boy sitting at the head of the kang one by one.
First came Wan Feng’s mother, then his second aunt, eldest uncle, youngest uncle, and aunt.
After Wan Feng's aunt expressed her blessings, Luan Feng took off her shoes and got on the kang, which scared Wan Feng.
You tigress! I told you to come in and warm up, so why did you get on the kang instead?
There were a few elderly men and women sitting on the kang at the time, and this guy jumped on them...
"Hello, Auntie! I wish you a life as long as the Southern Mountains and happiness as vast as... the East Sea."
Wan Feng was frightened by this guy again. What should he do if he said that he was blessed as much as the South Sea, North Sea and West Sea?
Aunt Wanfeng, who was sixty-six and had clear eyes and ears, looked at Luan Feng and laughed heartily: "Who is this? She looks like the person in the painting."
Zhu Min introduced her from the side: "Aunt, this is my son's daughter-in-law."
"It's my grandson's wife, so pretty!"
Luan Feng groped in her pocket and took out a flat jewelry box. Then, in front of everyone's shocked gaze, she took out a pair of dazzling bracelets from the jewelry box.
"Aunt, this is a little gift from your grandson and me. You must wear it."
After saying that, he put the bracelets on my aunt's hands one by one.
Wan Feng's great aunt was stunned. She raised her hands like a flag and didn't even blink.
Such a big bracelet, made of gold! It gleamed so brightly in the sunlight that it was dazzling.
"This, this, this...what should I do?" He said and was about to take it off.
Luan Feng held her aunt's hand and said, "Don't take it off."
"This is too valuable, how dare I accept it?"
"As long as you are healthy and live happily until you are ninety-nine, these are just small things. When you are eighty, I will give you something bigger than this. When you are ninety-nine, I will give you a gold this big."
Luan Feng gestured with her hand to make a washbasin.
Wan Feng almost fainted. How could he wear such a big bracelet? It could be used as a belt. When did he learn to cheat?
Wan Feng couldn't believe his ears and eyes.
Is this his clueless, careless person? Did I bring a fake wife here? If this was Zhang Xuan, it would be fine, but Luan Feng...
Wan Feng looked a little disheveled.
The aunt grabbed Luan Feng's hand and said, "Good, good child, thanks to your blessing, I will live to be ninety-nine and see what such a big bracelet looks like."
There was laughter all around.
"We'll have dinner here later and sit at the same table with Auntie?"
"Okay, I'll do it with you, Auntie."
Luan Feng was obviously very much in favor of the old lady, so she was left on the kang and not allowed to get up.
The look the Zheng family gave Luan Feng was indescribable.
Giving such a big bracelet as a gift, how generous is that!
After Wan Feng greeted his aunt, he walked out of the house because there were too many people in the house.
My elder uncle, younger uncle and Zheng Yongjiu also came outside.
"Brother! What are you doing now? Aren't you somewhere here?" Zheng Yongjiu gave Zhu Yong and Zhu Ping a cigarette each, and the three of them stood by the water pump at the door and chatted.
"I came back a long time ago. I moved back last summer. Wahou is so good now, so of course I came back. I'm currently working for a few people in my nephew's small factory."
Zheng Yongjiu slapped his head and said, "I remember now. Your Wahou is said to be very prosperous now. Businesses and factories are scattered everywhere, and the market is packed with customers. The people's living standards are also rising. Wahou may be the richest place in Hongya now."
"It's okay. Wahou is really okay now. At least the people here have something to look forward to in life."
"Second brother, what about you? What are you doing now?"
Zhu Ping smiled shyly: "Become the captain in Wahou."
Zheng Yongjiu was surprised again: "Ah? There are so many companies and markets in Wahou, and you want to be the captain? Great!"
"That was done by the previous captain. It has little to do with me. The foundation had been laid when I took over. I just made some minor repairs." Zhu Ping was very humble.
"I'm very curious about you, Wahou. I remember that Jiangwei was a poor place back then. How did you develop so well? As the captain, you should know everything, right?"
Zhu Ping thought about it. "It didn't seem like anything special. Initially, I set up a small brick and tile factory, selling red bricks, cement tiles, and other things to earn some money for the members. Then I built greenhouses and fish ponds, but nothing really worked out. Later... I can't remember the exact year, but I got a set of rubber shoe machines that a factory had abandoned after closing down. Once the rubber shoes were working well enough, I started an industry, making things like seed drills and corn huskers, and eventually tractors. Then I started thinking about opening a market."
Zheng Yongjiu took a deep breath and said, "Isn't this simple? This was all done by your former captain. What a talent!"
Zhu Ping shook his head: "Actually, he did it."
Zheng Yongjiu looked in the direction Zhu Ping pointed and saw the eldest sister's boy outside the gate. The guy was chatting excitedly with two other boys from the same family who were about his age, as if they were bragging.
"It was him? You said he did it?" Zheng Yongjiu asked doubtfully.
Zhu Ping nodded.
"How is this possible? How old is he this year?"
"Seventeen this year."
"That's impossible. I don't believe that a 17-year-old could have built such a big business."
"Brother, I didn't believe it before, but now I think what a person can do has little to do with age."
"That's ridiculous. It has a lot to do with a person's age. What's his name?"
"Wanfeng."
"Wanfeng! Wanfeng!"
Wan Feng, who was blowing the conch, turned around when he heard someone calling him.
Then he saw Zheng Yongjiu waving at him.
Wan Feng walked into the yard and came to Zheng Yongjiu: "Uncle, you called me?"
"Your uncle said that the development of Wahou was all caused by you?"
Wan Feng immediately shook his head: "It's not me, I just gave some advice, I didn't do the actual work."
"Your uncle said it was your idea to build the brick and tile factory. I think you were only thirteen at the time. How did you come up with something that even adults couldn't think of?"
Is this a preparation to get to the bottom of things?
This question is difficult to answer. If I don’t answer it well, will I be regarded as a monster?
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