Seeing Sheng Xiping stagger in, reeking of alcohol, Zhou Qinglan quickly put down her chopsticks and helped him into the house.
"Why are you drinking so much? Are you feeling unwell? Shall I make you some tea?"
"Honey, I'm fine. Brother Guo treated us to dinner today, and I met a leader from the ginseng farm. I wasn't paying attention and drank a little too much."
Sheng Xiping leaned back on the sofa, smiled at his wife, and explained.
"You should know your place. You're not a young kid anymore. Don't drink too much in the future."
Zhou Qinglan poured a glass of water, handed it to her husband, and then helped Sheng Xiping take off his coat and hang it on the wall, while giving him some instructions.
"If you don't want to throw up, then you can go to bed on the kang (heated brick bed). Sitting on the sofa isn't comfortable either."
Sheng Xiping took the water glass and gulped down the water.
Then he got up from the sofa, went out to relieve himself, came back, took off his clothes haphazardly, and lay down on the kang (a heated brick bed) and fell asleep.
When Zhou Qinglan finished tidying up and went into the room, she saw that Sheng Xiping was lying diagonally on the kang (a heated brick bed) without even a blanket, snoring loudly.
Zhou Qinglan shook her head helplessly, went over and covered Sheng Xiping with a blanket without disturbing him, letting him sleep like that.
A few days after Guo Shouye hosted the dinner, someone from the ginseng farm called Sheng Xiping, saying he wanted Sheng Xiping's help to get a batch of agricultural rotary tillers, the kind specifically used for turning over ginseng soil.
In addition, we also helped them purchase a batch of polyethylene raw materials for packaging.
When there was an order, Sheng Xiping naturally wouldn't turn it away, so he readily agreed.
Just then, Sheng Xiping had to go to the Heilongjiang branch factory, so he stopped by Heihe on the way and handed over the order to Sun Jinggang, telling him to hurry up and get it done.
Not long after, the polyethylene raw materials were transported back, and Sheng Xiping quickly arranged for railcars to transport them back to Songjianghe, which solved the urgent problem for Bingshan Beverage Factory.
Sheng Xiping stayed in Heilongjiang Province for over a month, accompanying Zhou Mingyuan to inspect the work of various subordinate forestry bureaus and forest farms, and taking the opportunity to discuss timber supply.
When Sheng Xiping returned to Songjianghe, the machinery and polyethylene raw materials he had promised to purchase for the ginseng farm had already been transported back.
Guo Shouye and Xu Shiyan hosted a dinner for Sheng Xiping to express their gratitude.
During the meal, Sheng Xiping and Xu Shiyan had a very congenial conversation.
Sheng Xiping then learned that the ginseng farm also had a beverage factory, especially a natural soda water factory, whose products were exported overseas and earned a lot of foreign exchange every year.
Sheng Xiping suddenly became interested in these things and wanted to visit them.
The next day, Xu Shiyan and Guo Shouye accompanied Sheng Xiping to conduct an on-site investigation at the water source.
At the natural soda spring, someone even drew water on the spot for Sheng Xiping to taste.
"Oh, so this is the natural soda water you've been talking about? I've had it before."
Sheng Xiping tasted the water and suddenly remembered that when he accompanied his father-in-law to Kedong, the locals had led them into the mountains and they had drunk similar water.
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