Chapter 277 Uncle Nine has a grandson, and the whole world celebrates [Wishing all the big guys a happy Year of the Dragon]

The next morning, the matchmaker Aunt Lin San brought Lin Qinghua's birth date and horoscope.

Asking for birth date and horoscope was just an excuse for Deng Shirong. This way, there was at least a reason to refuse without embarrassing either party.

Next, it took Deng Shirong only two days to investigate Lin Qinghua's information thoroughly through Zhang Guangzong's connections.

The result has both advantages and disadvantages.

His advantage was that he was a decent person. Even when he went hungry three times a day, he never stole even a cucumber from the production team.

He is a very filial person and has never said anything contradictory to his parents since he was a child.

He is also grateful and repays the kindness he has received. Over the years, because his family was implicated by his grandfather, they have had a very difficult life. Many people in the village have helped them, and he has always kept this in mind and often goes to help other people with work.

He has a good temper and is always kind to others.

When treated unfairly, he does not complain or become cynical.

Being kind-hearted and not holding a grudge are the qualities that Deng Shirong appreciates the most.

The shortcomings are also obvious, the first of which is the lack of culture.

When he was seven years old, his grandfather had an accident and it was difficult for the family to survive. He had no conditions to go to school. Fortunately, he knew a lot of words at that time, and his parents were educated people, so they used their free time to teach him common Chinese characters.

After learning to read, I read some books by myself.

Therefore, his cultural level remains at the stage of being able to read and write and have read a few books.

Whether in his past life or this life, Deng Shirong attached great importance to culture. He allowed his children to read any of their books, and as long as they could continue to study, he would pay the tuition.

Now, Lin Qinghua’s cultural level is not good, so he will definitely lose a lot of points in his opinion.

Another shortcoming is that Lin Qinghua is not tall enough. It may be because he has had a hard life in the past ten years and his nutrition has not been sufficient, resulting in his height being only about 1.68 meters, which obviously does not meet Deng Shirong's standard for choosing a son-in-law.

Of course, this height is not considered too short in Guangxi at that time.

The advantages and disadvantages were very obvious. After careful consideration, Deng Shirong finally chose to refuse.

In addition to the shortcomings mentioned above, another important reason is that Lin Qinghua is the only son in three generations. His parents must have hoped to have more children in his generation to expand their Lin family. This is a very normal idea.

However, the eldest daughter does not want to get married in the short term, and the earliest she can get married is two or three years.

By then, the eldest daughter will be twenty-four or twenty-five years old. If she only has one or two children, it won't matter. But if the first few births are all daughters, she will have to keep giving birth, which is obviously what Deng Shirong doesn't want to see.

Rather than having both parties be unhappy later, it is better not to give each other a chance from the beginning.

After making the final decision, Deng Shirong passed the message to the Lin family through Aunt Lin San, naturally using the fortune teller's excuse.

After listening to what Aunt Lin San said, Lin Qinghua couldn't help but sigh silently. He didn't know what he had missed. He just felt that he had finally taken a fancy to a girl, but it ended before it even began. It was inevitable that he would feel a little regretful.

Although Zhu Ying felt a little regretful, she was mentally prepared after all: "Aunt San, please help me think about which girl is more suitable for my Xiaohua?"

This question hit the nail on the head, and Aunt Lin began to introduce the things with great enthusiasm.

…

The fourth day of the tenth lunar month.

Maternal and child health care, Zhang Xiuping was sent to the delivery room.

Deng Shirong, Deng Shilan, Deng Yuntai, Deng Yunzhen, Zhang's mother and Xiao Dong'er were waiting outside the delivery room together.

With previous experience, although Deng Yuntai was still a little worried this time, he finally did not pace back and forth nervously like the first time.

Everyone knows that giving birth to a second child is much easier than the first, so when everyone was waiting outside, they were more relaxed and started chatting casually.

About half an hour later, accompanied by the cry of a baby, the people chatting outside the delivery room were suddenly cheered up.

Soon, the midwife came out with the good news, saying that the mother had given birth to a boy, and both mother and child were safe.

Hearing this, everyone showed a satisfied smile, especially Zhang's mother, whose heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down.

Although her in-laws are open-minded and have said that whether a child is a boy or a girl is not decided by women but by men, she, as a mother, feels uneasy because she lives in a place like Bobai where boys are valued more than girls.

It’s not a big deal if the first child is a daughter, but if the second child is also a daughter, then there will be real psychological pressure.

Fortunately, the second child was finally born. With this son as a guarantee, it doesn’t matter whether I have more children or not, or whether I can have a son or not.

Suddenly, Deng Yunzhen pointed at the calendar hanging on the door of the delivery room and exclaimed, "Dad, look, today is also the beginning of winter."

Deng Shirong was somewhat surprised when he heard this and walked over to take a look, and found that today was indeed the beginning of winter.

When Deng Yuntai saw the words "Lidong" written on the calendar, he was confused. He didn't expect that the date would be such a coincidence. Xiaodong'er was born on October 11th of the previous year, which was also the beginning of winter. This is also the origin of Xiaodong'er's nickname.

Today is the fourth day of October. Unexpectedly, it is also the beginning of winter. It is really a coincidence for the brother and sister to arrive here.

Deng Shilan and Zhang's mother also knew that Xiaodong was born on the Beginning of Winter. When they heard that today was the Beginning of Winter, they were both surprised.

Deng Shirong couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that these two siblings are destined to be with the beginning of winter. We need to change Xiaodong'er's name."

Deng Yuntai asked, "Dad, are you talking about changing your childhood name or your school name (locals generally call your name your school name)?"

Deng Shirong said: "Of course I should change my name to a new one. Xiaodong'er is a good nickname."

Deng Yunzhen agreed, "It's better to change the name of the book. Deng Changju doesn't sound very nice."

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "Don't worry about it now. We can discuss it slowly when we get home."

…

The next day.

It was still maternal and child health care, and this time it was Liu Aihong's turn to be sent to the delivery room.

Deng Shirong, Deng Shilan and Bu Dashi were waiting outside the delivery room. Since it was their first child, they had a lot of trouble. After six or seven hours, the baby was born successfully, also a boy, which made Deng Shilan, the grandmother, very happy.

The corners of Bu Dashi's mouth were so upturned that he couldn't suppress them.

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "Congratulations to my third sister for having a grandson."

Deng Shilan smiled and said, "Congratulations! Congratulations!"

Bu Dashi chuckled and said, "Uncle, you know how good my parents are at naming. Aihong and I haven't received much education, so we can't come up with nice names. So you, as the uncle, have to help us come up with a name."

Deng Shirong didn't refuse after hearing this. Thinking of the awesome Long Aotian in the online novels he read in his previous life, an idea suddenly occurred to him and he said, "How about calling him Bu Aotian?"

"Bu Aotian!"

"Bu Aotian!"

"Bu Aotian!"

Bu Dashi repeated it three times in a row. The more he repeated it, the more he thought the name was awesome. He clapped his hands and said, "This is a good name. This is it!"

Deng Shilan also silently repeated it several times and thought the name sounded nice. He couldn't help but sigh: "If I had known earlier, I would have let your uncle pick the names of you brothers and sisters, so that you wouldn't always complain that your names are not nice."

Bu Dashi couldn't help but complain, "That's right, the names of elder sister and younger sister are better. Look at us three brothers, Dashi, Zhongshi, and Xiaoshi. Compared with our five cousins ​​Yuntai, Yunheng, Yunsong, Yunhua, and Yunheng, we are really far behind."

Deng Shilan smiled and said, "Just be content. If you had asked your father to name you, you would probably be called Tiedan instead of Dashi now!"

Bu Dashi: “…”

…

After naming his nephew's son, Deng Shirong also had ideas about the names of his eldest granddaughter and grandson.

In the evening, while everyone was together, Deng Shirong expressed his thoughts: "Since these two siblings are destined to be with the beginning of winter, why not just name them after the beginning of winter? Yuntai, A-Ping, what do you think?"

Deng Yuntai asked, "Dad, why is it named after the beginning of winter?"

Deng Shirong said: "For Xiaodong'er, we'll use the homophone "li" in the character "li" so his school name will be Deng Changli. And his younger brother's nickname is "dongzi" so his school name will be Deng Changdong."

Zhang Xiuping immediately praised when she heard it: "Dad, you picked a good name. You perfectly integrated Lidong into the names of the siblings, and it sounds great too."

Deng Yuntai also nodded and said, "This name is indeed good. From now on, the two siblings will be called this name."

Bu Dashi gave a thumbs up and praised: "It's my uncle who should give the name!"

Others also applauded.

After choosing the names, they started discussing the full moon celebrations for the two little ones, Deng Changdong and Bu Aotian.

Deng Shilan asked, "Brother, when do you plan to schedule Dongzi's full-month banquet?"

Deng Shirong thought for a moment and said, "Then let's do it on the first day of next month. This way, after you finish drinking Dongzi's full moon wine, you'll still have enough time to prepare for the full moon for Gou Liu (Bu Aotian's nickname. In Shuangwang Realm, many children's nicknames contain the word "dog", probably to make them easier to raise)."

As mentioned before, the rule for holding full-month banquets in Bobai County is that boys should be celebrated first and girls should be celebrated last. The full-month banquet for a son can be held in advance, but for a daughter, it must be held after the child is one month old. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with Dongzi holding the full-month banquet three days in advance.

"Okay, then our dog six's full moon banquet will be held on the third day of next month."

Deng Shilan nodded, set a time, then looked at Zhang's mother and said with a smile: "Dear relative, you must come and drink then!"

Generally speaking, Deng Shilan would not invite Zhang's mother to the full moon celebration of her eldest grandson. After all, she is her younger brother's mother-in-law, not her own mother-in-law. But since she has met her, she must invite her, otherwise it would be disrespectful to her.

Zhang's mother had no way of refusing the invitation from her father-in-law's only sister, so she nodded and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll go and ask for a glass of wine then."

…

Capital city.

At a restaurant near Peking University, Deng Yunheng was inviting Student Union President Li Haibo to dinner.

Li Haibo is from Shanghai and is in the same class as Deng Yunheng.

If Deng Yunheng is a famous social figure in Peking University and one of the most active figures in the school, then Li Haibo is even more popular than him. He joined the Student Union in his first semester in college, and then successfully became the president of the Student Union in his sophomore year. He is one of the most awesome students in the school.

According to gossip, Chairman Li's family background is unfathomable and he is one of the most powerful figures in the entire Peking University.

Originally, Deng Yunheng and Li Haibo had no friendship in the past two years, but this semester Deng Yunheng joined the student union to gain experience, and the two sides had more opportunities to interact.

As the president of the Student Union, Li Haibo's social skills are beyond doubt, and Deng Yunheng is also a well-known social terrorist in Peking University. In addition, both parties are willing to make friends, so naturally they became friends quickly.

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This is not the first time we have had a private meal like today.

The two chatted casually about school matters. When they had almost finished eating and drinking, Li Haibo asked, "Yunheng, with your ability, you should have joined the student union a long time ago. Why did you wait until your junior year to join?"

Deng Yunheng smiled and said, "Chairman Li, please don't laugh at me. My previous plan was to go into business after graduation, and I had never thought about joining the student union for experience. But this summer, I went back and talked to my father about my future. He asked me to find an opportunity to join the student union or the Youth League Committee for a year to see if I was interested in politics. That's why I chose to join the student union at this time."

Li Haibo suddenly realized: "I see. With your talent, whether you choose to go into politics or business in the future, you will definitely achieve great things."

Deng Yunheng smiled and said, "Chairman Li, you are too kind. I am far behind you. I will have to learn a lot from you in the future."

Li Haibo said: "Don't be modest, I am speaking the truth. I have a good eye for people. Although those who can be admitted to our Peking University are truly elites, people like you are the elite among the elites, and your future is definitely promising."

Deng Yunheng smiled and said, "I hope you, Chairman Li, will give me more support in the future."

Li Haibo smiled and said, "It's too much to say that you're helping me. Let's make progress together. You've been in the student union for more than a month. How do you feel?"

Deng Yunheng said: "It feels pretty good, not as difficult as I imagined."

Li Haibo said: "You can adapt quickly, which proves that you are suitable for politics. My family hopes that I will choose politics after graduation. I also have this idea. I hope we will have the opportunity to move forward together in the future."

Deng Yunheng nodded and said, "I will seriously consider it."

Li Haibo said: "Okay, when you have thought it through, tell me, and then I may be able to give you some advice."

Deng Yunheng's eyes lit up, and he picked up the wine and said, "Chairman Li, there's nothing to say, everything is in the wine."

The other party's background is unfathomable, and there must be no shortage of high-ranking officials in his family. With his political wisdom, it is more than enough for him to give some guidance to a rookie like him. He also really treats him as a friend, which is why he gave him advice on such an important choice in life.

No matter what the final result is, he has to appreciate this favor.

Li Haibo smiled and raised his glass to clink with Deng Yunheng, and then they both drank the wine in their glasses.

…

The first day of the eleventh lunar month, Sunday.

The head of the Naye Deng clan was holding a full-month banquet for his eldest grandson, and basically all the prominent clan members from each village were invited to come and drink.

Two years ago, when Deng Shirong held a full-month banquet for his eldest granddaughter, his prestige in the clan was far from what it is now, so naturally, he did not invite as many guests as he does now.

Of course, if we talk about lively scenes, the full moon banquet held for his eldest granddaughter two years ago was definitely more lively, because at that time Deng Shirong specially invited the county drama troupe to perform "The Legend of White Snake", a very influential folk drama, which attracted people from all over the country to come and watch the show.

However, when his eldest grandson held a full-month banquet this time, Deng Shirong did not invite people from the county drama troupe to perform.

The main reason was that his third sister was also going to hold a full-month banquet for her eldest grandson, and the time was too close, so it was really not appropriate to invite the county drama troupe to perform.

The process of the full moon banquet has been mentioned before. After completing the process, the banquet can begin.

Those sitting at the same table with Deng Shirong were naturally the prominent members of the clan.

At the beginning, everyone's topic revolved around today's protagonist Dongzi, and everyone was congratulating Uncle Jiu (Grandpa) on the addition of a grandson. After a few sips of wine, the topic naturally turned to the passenger transport company that everyone was most concerned about.

Deng Changbao, whose shares in the passenger transport company were second only to Deng Shirong, was the first to ask, "Jiu Gong, how is the passenger transport company of our clan doing now?"

The other tribesmen also looked at Deng Shirong. Communication was inconvenient in this era, and they really didn't know how the passenger transport company was doing.

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "Not bad. Currently, the income and expenditure are able to maintain a balance. When the Spring Festival travel rush arrives this year, the company will start to make money."

Deng Yungui was surprised and asked, "Can we break even so quickly?"

The others were also a little surprised when they heard this. After the company was officially put into operation, they had also conducted a simple statistics. Currently, there are ten external experienced drivers, twenty drivers from the family, twenty formal ticket sellers, plus the company's management.

Add to that many people's salaries, the biggest expense of gas, the depreciation and repair of buses, and the road maintenance fees (there were no highway tolls in that era, but motor vehicles had to pay road maintenance fees annually, which are currently collected by the county traffic supervision station, and the road maintenance fee collection station was not established until 1985), and the total expenditure would be at least 30,000 yuan a month.

On average, the daily expenditure is about one thousand yuan.

Of course, this is just a rough statistic, and the numbers will be different, but the difference should not be too big.

In terms of revenue, the current ticket prices range from 14 to 18 yuan depending on the city.

Based on the 16 yuan in the middle, at least 70 passengers are needed every day to break even, because taxes have to be paid.

Divided into ten cars, each car needs seven passengers.

It doesn't sound like a lot, with only seven passengers in a car. Even in the later days when it was difficult to make buses, there would not be only these few passengers, not to mention that the bus companies nowadays are doing exclusive business.

But times are different. In later generations, there were more than 700,000 people working outside the Bobai County, and more than 500,000 of them in Guangdong alone. If we add those who went to Guangdong for business or to visit relatives, the number would be even greater.

In this era, the wave of migrant workers going to Guangdong has not yet arrived, and there are not many people going there for business or visiting relatives. On average, there are seven passengers a day (including those coming and going), which is really good.

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "It's normal to be able to maintain a balance between income and expenditure. Our company is now doing exclusive business, and we have no competitors. There are millions of people in the county. Except for Shenzhen and Guangzhou, which have one bus every day, the rest of the cities only run every other day. If there are not even a few passengers, what business are we doing?"

Deng Changxiong said excitedly, "Great! Jiugong, you have a great vision. The passenger transport company has just started operating, but it has already achieved a balance between income and expenditure. We can make a lot of money in the coming Spring Festival travel rush. In the future, we will definitely make a lot of money as you said."

Deng Changbao also said excitedly: "As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. Now our passenger transport company has made a good start. Next, we just need to wait for the money to be divided at home!"

Deng Yunfa raised his glass and said, "Uncle Jiu, I want to toast you. You were the one who started this business, and we all benefited from you."

Deng Changshou also raised his glass and said, "Let's toast to Jiugong together and thank him for creating such a good opportunity to make money for us."

Upon hearing this, others also raised their glasses to toast Deng Shirong.

Although the passenger transport company has not made any money yet, they are all elites in the tribe and naturally know that it is only a matter of time before the passenger transport company makes money.

Deng Shirong clinked glasses with the clansmen one by one and said with a smile: "We have the same ancestor for several generations, so there is no need to say more polite words. Let's work together and get rich together!"

"Jiu Gong said it well. Cheers to our common prosperity!"

“Cheers to common prosperity!”

"cheers!"

…

Although Dongzi was already one month old, Zhang's mother, as his grandmother, still chose to stay and help take care of the child.

It's really that the development of my in-laws is too rapid. They just invested more than 300,000 yuan to open such a big restaurant in the county town. It hasn't been long since then, and they took the lead in investing 360,000 yuan to set up a passenger transport company in the clan. This courage makes Zhang Zhenfa's family, who have been guarding the small shop, ashamed.

With such a powerful in-law, it is natural to curry favor with him.

Therefore, the Zhang family unanimously agreed to let Zhang's mother stay and continue to help take care of the child.

After celebrating Dongzi’s full moon, two days later, Deng Shirong’s family, including his mother-in-law, came to the third sister’s home in Baoshan Village to celebrate Gouliu’s full moon.

It was a rare trip here, and in addition to drinking, Deng Shirong, led by his little nephew, went to the mountains contracted by his third sister's family to check on the growth of sugarcane.

It is obvious that my third sister and her family took good care of the sugarcane and it is growing very well.

After looking at the sugarcane on one mountain, Deng Shirong came back and said to his third brother-in-law, "Brother-in-law, the sugarcane is growing very well. The Bobai Sugar Factory is almost completed. Your batch of sugarcane will definitely catch up."

Bu Erzhu smiled naively and said, "It's good that we can catch up. I don't know what price the sugar factory will offer."

Deng Shirong comforted him, "Don't worry, brother-in-law. The sugar mill's pricing must have been investigated and it is guaranteed to make money for you sugarcane farmers. If you can't make money, who would be willing to grow sugarcane? Where will the sugar mill buy sugarcane?"

Bu Erzhu nodded and said, "That's the truth. Then I feel relieved!"

Deng Shirong advised: "Third brother-in-law, don't work too hard. When you need to do something, ask more people to help. Don't be reluctant to spend money. Give what you should give. This is also considered the cost of planting. Don't do everything by your family. If you exhaust yourself, it will be meaningless no matter how much money you make."

"Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll ask the villagers for help when I need to do something later."

Although Bu Erzhu doesn't have any great abilities, he has one advantage, which is that he listens to advice, especially from his capable brother-in-law.

Seeing that his third brother-in-law had taken his words to heart, Deng Shirong didn't say anything more.

(End of this chapter)