Chapter 234 Extra 3
To put it bluntly, Fang Mingfeng and Xu Sheng are not familiar with each other at all. They can do business together, in addition to being each other's upstream and downstream, they both trust Fang Mingche. Fang Mingche is rich, reliable, and familiar with them.
They thought about it and said, "If Teacher Mingche can sell our own products at the counters and stalls in the capital and Shanghai, we can discuss the distribution ratio."
Fang Mingche's stalls and counters in Dashilan and Xidan in the capital, and the stalls in Chenghuang Temple in Shanghai, all have formal business licenses. The business scope is special handicrafts. But if the goods imported from Guangzhou can also be put on the shelves, it will naturally be a very good sales terminal.
As for the specialty stores in Guangzhou, forget it, because they can't sell at the local wholesale price.
And Hong Kong and abroad, it will be even more difficult! I dare not think about it at the moment.
Fang Mingche nodded, "Okay, let's get rich together!"
Not participating in the management, sharing 20% of the profits is already good. If it really gets big in the future, it might be the prototype of the logistics industry and supermarkets. He didn't put all his eggs in one basket.
Xu Sheng was quite busy. After they had discussed it and each of them had done their part, he left. He even settled the bill before leaving.
Brother Mingfeng went back to check on the business of the video hall. It was rare for him to come back, so he must check the accounts. Fang Mingche
went to the county town to find the mother and son. Fortunately, there are only a few main streets in the county town now, so it was easy for him to meet them at the crossroads.
Lin Yan held Changchang in her arms to prevent the boy from running around with his short legs and being hit by vehicles or pedestrians. Changchang was holding a small sweet potato and eating it deliciously. The sweet potato was cushioned by his mother's handkerchief to prevent it from getting burned.
Seeing Fang Mingche standing at the crossroads as a conspicuous bag, Lin Yan came over with a smile, "He also asked me to buy him a small spoon. I was afraid that it would poke his throat while walking, so I let him eat it like this. He was not very happy at first."
He didn't use a spoon, just held the sweet potato and ate it. At worst, he would brake suddenly or get hit, and bury his face in the sweet potato. But it would be terrible if he poked his throat with a spoon.
Fang Mingche took Changchang in his hands and said, "You look so sad. Do you feel that things have changed?"
Lin Yan said, "A little bit. What I longed for most in the past was to ride a bicycle to visit the county town on Sundays and have lunch at a state-owned restaurant at noon. At that time, Yanyan always came with me, and she smiled happily. Now I feel that this county town is really backward and lacks everything."
The last sentence was said in a low voice.
Fang Mingche laughed, "How can it be the same? We used to stay in the village school. Even if you are from the capital, you are used to staying in the countryside. But now, you have been to the capital, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and even New York and Tokyo. In fact, the county town has not changed at all, it's just that the reference is different."
Lin Yan said, "Let's go. Before I come back, I specially exchanged various bills used throughout the country. I will go to the supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores in the county town to weigh more food and cloth to give back to people."
Those food and daily necessities, bottles and jars, are very inconvenient to carry on the road. She went to exchange bills specifically, and she must not come back empty-handed.
Fang Mingche said, "I'm too lazy to take it, so I will just distribute the candies I brought back. For the rest, just give the bills and money to people, and they can buy what they need! Let my mother go to distribute it, she likes this job."
Lin Yan thought about it, "That's fine!"
The two took their son and took the minibus back directly, and got off at the mechanized farming road and walked back.
Fang Mingche held his son in his arms, while responding to the greetings of the villagers, he asked Lin Yan: "Have you regained some of the old feelings?"
Lin Yan smiled, "A little bit."
In the past few years when they were dating and just got married, they must have walked around the county town and walked on the tractor road a lot.
When they got back, there were already many people sitting in the main hall of their house chatting with Fang's father and mother. They also brought some little kids, saying that they were here to play with Fang Chang.
Fang's mother had already taken out the White Rabbit milk candies she brought back, and opened malted milk to mix for the guests. She is not stingy at all now!
Seeing the two adults and one child coming back, she said: "Here, you are back. Early in the morning, I followed Mingfeng to the county town to find someone to discuss business."
Fang Mingche and Lin Yan greeted people one by one, and taught Changchang to call people.
Fang Mingche said to Fang's father, "Dad, we'll have a buffet in the ancestral hall later. Please tell my second uncle that I'll give 50 yuan pocket money to everyone over 60 in the Fang family. 30 yuan to everyone under 14. No matter male or female, everyone gets it. I've been in trouble this time, so I didn't bring anything for the uncles and aunts. In addition, there are the five-guarantee households in the village, 40 yuan for the old and 20 yuan for the young."
For the old, a thousand yuan will be enough, and the young will be about the same. Can't give too much! So much, now it's affordable.
As for the village library and the student aid, use the dividends from the village rice processing factory. He will keep another 2,000 yuan for the insufficient part. Didn't he tell the secretary to expand the scope of student aid?
Everyone present laughed and said, "Mingche, thank you!"
Fang's father agreed, "Okay, I'll tell your second uncle."
Lin Yan also thought it was good and easy. They sent the money back and estimated that it would arrive today or tomorrow. When you go to withdraw money, you don't have to tell the bank staff about the change. Just be united!
On April 5th, Qingming Festival, the Fang family gathered together to worship their ancestors. First, everyone went to the grave of the ancestor, then they dispersed and gathered again. Finally, they went to the grave of the most recent one or two generations of ancestors.
At noon, they had a buffet, and the Fang family's eldest daughters and young wives all went to help. This was calculated according to the number of people who came back, and they shared the cost equally.
After eating, more than a dozen young men in the village followed Brother Mingfeng to the city to take the train and head south to Guangzhou.
Fang Mingche was invited back by his alma mater junior high school in the afternoon to give a speech to his junior brothers and sisters. There was only one theme: the college entrance examination is the fairest thing in life, and you must go all out! Passing the exam can change your destiny. This was the case throughout the 1980s.
Lin Yan held Changchang and listened in the audience, "Look, isn't Dad very awesome!"
Changchang nodded like pounding garlic, and his sister, mother and other people around him all said the same thing. And so many people listened to Dad's speech and applauded!
Finally, Fang Mingche also left 1,000 yuan as scholarships for his juniors with good grades. He promised to send 1,000 yuan back every year.
When he came down from the stage and saw Changchang giving him a thumbs up, he felt very happy.
Changchang also pointed to the photo on the wall and asked him to look, "Dad, it's Dad——"
Fang Ming took a look, and it was indeed a photo of him when he was thirteen or fourteen years old. I wonder where the school found it from!
Lin Yan also smiled and looked at it, "So you were so thin back then?"
When she came to the countryside, he was already seventeen or eighteen years old. He has more meat than now!
"I'm not fat now. I guess it's because the little boy ate me up and broke my father, so I digested too quickly."
When they got home, Fang's mother whispered, "Let's go quickly. Otherwise, I don't know where he will come to my house next time and it's hard to refuse." You
have to pay for everything! And it's not just a one-year thing, it's year after year. Calculated, every year, you have to remit tens of thousands of yuan to your hometown!
Fang's father smiled and said, "Don't you think it's glorious to return home with your son and daughter-in-law? Are you so close to so many people?"
"Everything depends on money, so I can't be close." Fang's mother's voice was still not loud. It must not be heard by passers-by outside the door.
Fang Mingche said, "Then ask someone to buy tickets. Should we take a plane or a train?"
Fang's mother said, "Since the sleeper berths were fine before, let's take a sleeper berth when we go back. It will save you two from having to take turns carrying each other on the way."
They also went to the city early the next morning, but stayed a few more days. It was a rare opportunity to come back, so they took Changchang to see the Leshan Giant Buddha and climb Mount Emei. Then they took the train directly from Emei Station and took a sleeper berth back to the capital.
This half-month trip back home ended in mid-April.
Fang Mingche took a lot of photos of the two elders, his wife and children, and took photos of the mountains and rivers of his hometown.
On the train, Lin Yan said while making milk powder for Fang Chang: "Speaking of this landscape, I didn't really feel it when I was there a few years ago. Now I look back and it's really beautiful."
Fang Min, who was hugging Fang Chang and coaxing him, said: "Aunt Jiu, I still don't feel anything."
"That's because you are still young, and your heart is still yearning for the sky outside, so you can't feel it." Fang's father said with his own thermos teacup.
Fang Min has decided that when Changchang goes to kindergarten in September (it's called a kindergarten here in the Overseas Chinese Apartment, and it's not just finding a few people to look after the children. There are formal teachers to teach children to learn this and that), she will study and work in a travel agency at the same time. Try to go abroad to sell handicrafts in the future!
They bought a total of five hard sleeper tickets. Basically, the whole family took up the beds, which was very relaxed and leisurely.
It was Fang Mingche who said he would go to the dining car to eat, but the two elders refused to go after going there once. A bowl of shredded green pepper and potato costs 5 yuan! It's better to have a box lunch, anyway, it's just the difference between a big pot rice and a stir-fry.
If you don't want to eat something that has been stored for a long time, just buy it the first time the flight attendant pushes it to you. There are both meat and vegetables in a lunch box.
Fang Mingche let them do whatever they want, he can't pay and then be criticized. As for him and Lin Yan, it's only three days, there's nothing they can't bear. Before, on the top of Mount Emei, the rice was half-cooked and they still ate it. I can't believe that it's 1983 and there are still no pressure cookers on top to steam rice.
Brother Mingfeng is now based in Guangzhou, and he should also expand to Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the future. Next year, the chief designer will tour the south. Shenzhen speed is also starting to show its power!
Seeing Changchang holding the "ear" of the straw cup to drink milk, Lin Yan said, "I miss Yanyan so much that I miss her."
Changchang moved the straw cup away and said, "I miss my sister!"
Fang Mingche smiled and said, "Don't you often complain about my sister?"
"I miss her too."
As for Yanyan at her uncle and aunt's house, Lin Yan and Fang Mingche are not worried now.
Sister-in-law Yuan Shufen's personality will definitely take good care of Yanyan if she is given benefits. She just feels that she can't repay them. As for the eldest brother|eldest uncle, he will definitely not treat Yanyan badly for no reason. Fang
Jian, Fang Fang and Kang Kang all have a good relationship with Yanyan and can get along well.
Therefore, Yanyan's food, clothing, housing and transportation must have been well taken care of in the past half month.
However, I still miss her after not seeing her for half a month.
In fact, when they were in the countryside, Ma Xiaodan's father came to see Lin Yan. He asked how Ma Xiaodan was doing in the capital.
"Xiao Dan is doing well. She lives with her grandparents, and Wu Dan brings money home every month to support her."
"That's good, that's good."
Ma Xiao Dan's father also asked Lin Yan to bring 60 yuan to Wu Dan. He said that now that the household contract responsibility system is in place, life is better than before. This is the private money he has saved in the past two years.
When they return to the capital, Lin Yan will give the money to Wu Dan.
Wu Dan took it and exhaled for a long time, "It's hard for him to remember that he has a daughter even though he has a son. It doesn't seem so bad. But if Xiao Dan stays in the countryside, life will definitely be hard."
Lin Yan said, "Far away, it smells bad up close! Okay, I won't say more to you. I'm going to pick up Yan Yan from school, and Ming Che is waiting for me in the car."
After she came back, she drove out of the courtyard with Ming Che just to pick up Yan Yan. Detouring to Wu Dan's place is just on the way.
Yan Yan came out with her schoolbag after school. Seeing her father and mother coming to pick her up, she happily ran over, "Dad, Mom--"
Fang Mingche touched her head, "Let's go home."
"Which home?"
"First go back to the courtyard, have a reunion dinner with grandpa and grandma, uncle, aunt, brother, sister, and Kang Kang, and then go back to the Overseas Chinese Apartment. Your sister Min has gone back to clean up first."
As for Changchang, he followed Kang Kang to roll the iron ring in the courtyard and had a lot of fun. They didn't call him when they went out.
Yanyan asked, "Has Changchang lost weight?"
"No, he likes to eat sweet potatoes after going back. He's been letting out gas all day!" Fang Mingche is always more careful about what he says in front of his daughter.
But Changchang is much more down-to-earth when he goes back. Now he won't take the spoon if he's given it to him. He says it's more delicious if he eats it directly.
When they got home, they saw Changchang standing alone at the side door holding the door frame, tiptoeing and looking in their direction. The main door is for guests to enter and exit, and their family goes through the side door for their daily life.
When he saw Yanyan getting off the car, he ran over, "Sister——"
Yanyan hugged him, "Sister is here, sister is here!"
Fang Mingche and Lin Yan came over, each holding one, "Let's go in!"
Fang Mingche turned his head to look at his children. He would let them receive the best education and take them to see the world. In the future, they would have more choices for what they want to do. They would not have to squeeze on a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops!
In 1983, the early days of reform and opening up, this was the best era! What's more, he had already laid a preliminary foundation.
However, it is not enough for the elders to work hard. If the son does not feel sorry for selling the father's land, he will lose the family very quickly.
Yanyan is a person who does not need to be whipped to work hard, and does not need too much supervision. As for Changchang, people say that you can tell a person's future from the age of three. But Fang Mingche thinks it is not easy to tell.
"Changchang, what do you want to do in the future?"
Changchang looked up and said in a clear voice: "Graduate student, Peking University."
He has heard people around him say that this is the most amazing!
Fang Mingche laughed. When he and Ayan were admitted to university, Yanyan's ambition was to become a university student.
"Okay, Dad and Mom will take care of you and your sister as you grow up. You have to work hard too!"
The siblings nodded together: "Okay!"
(End of this chapter)
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