Chapter 149 Chapter 149 Xiguan salty pancakes are crispy, fragrant and delicious...
Su Tianli and Cheng Yu went to the guest house together and showed the marriage certificate they had just received yesterday to Old Lady Xu.
She was also grateful to Old Mrs. Xu for having informed all the departments, so she and Cheng Yu were able to do their work very smoothly.
Old Mrs. Xu denied it, "I don't know!"
Su Tianli and Cheng Yu just smiled and said nothing.
However, Old Lady Xu held Su Tianli and Cheng Yu's marriage certificate in her hand. Her fingers were shaking uncontrollably, but she pretended to be calm. She sat on the sofa and looked at the marriage certificate carefully.
I couldn't help but walk to the balcony with my marriage certificate and look at it against the light;
I put on my reading glasses and looked over and over again...
Finally, she wiped away her tears with joy, "Great, great!!!"
Xu Wenmei pulled Su Tianli aside and whispered, "Come to think of it, Cheng Yu is the first one in our generation to get married, so grandma is very happy!"
Su Tianli nodded with a smile.
Xu Wenmei then said to Su Tianli, "...cousin, why don't you arrange some work for me? Otherwise, I'll just sit here and eat and wait for death every day, which is really boring."
Su Tianli thought that Yao Meiyu and Ajuan were very busy, so she nodded and said, "Okay."
Old Madam Xu returned the marriage certificate to Su Tianli and Cheng Yu, and then told the children, "Your grandfather has gone to work in Beijing, and I have to leave tomorrow, so Wenmei will stay to help you."
"Your grandfather and I will come back on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. We will take a flight on the evening of the sixteenth. Then Wenmei will come back to Beijing with us."
Su Tianli, Cheng Yu and Xu Wenmei nodded repeatedly.
Xu Wenmei asked Su Tianli again, "Cousin, can I stay at your house over there? If so, I'll cancel my room here!"
She feels uncomfortable living here alone.
Su Tianli thought for a moment and said, "There's no room for you over at Shaou Street. Why don't you live with Qianqian near the chemical factory? Qianqian lives alone in a house now."
Xu Wenmei just likes being with Su Qianzi!
She nodded immediately.
Old Madam Xu then instructed Xu Wenmei, "…You are here to help your cousin and his wife with their work, so don't slack off. If you don't understand something, ask more questions!"
Xu Wenmei looked impatient, "Oh grandma, I know, I know!"
Old Mrs. Xu shook her head helplessly.
At that moment, Su Tianli and Cheng Yu said goodbye to Old Lady Xu.
Xu Wenmei also packed her luggage and followed Su Cheng and the others.
After leaving the guesthouse, Su Tianli went to the Housing Management Office to talk to someone about her company's plan to buy land before the New Year.
Cheng Yu first took Xu Wenmei to Shaou Street. After settling Xu Wenmei down, he went to his and Lizhi's new home - he had to clean up the house as quickly as possible so that he could use it as his and Lizhi's wedding house on the 16th day of the first lunar month.
When Su Tianli rushed to the Housing Management Office, the person in charge had already gathered all the village cadres from several nearby villages because they had been notified yesterday.
Su Tianli formally met with these village cadres and held a meeting to tell everyone the purpose of her company's purchase of the land.
She made three phases of planning:
The first phase was to buy land and build a large restaurant mainly for wedding banquets, while also operating a snack street.
——To put it bluntly, Su Tianli wants to be a high-end restaurant with high consumption.
At the same time, she plans to build a shopping and food pedestrian street about 800 meters long. Her company will be responsible for building the shops, providing management, and opening leases to the public.
During this stage, the construction period is one year and the operation period is two years, a total of three years, depending on performance.
In the second phase, we will expand the restaurant that specializes in wedding banquets, and at the same time extend and expand the shopping and food pedestrian street.
——In other words, she wanted to expand the big restaurant into a garden-style leisure area;
At the same time, she wants to extend the first phase of the 800-meter shopping and food pedestrian street to about two kilometers.
During this stage, the construction period is one year and the operation period is two years, a total of three years.
In the third phase, she requires all villages to start planning the planting of ornamental plants or fruit trees from now on.
If we start planting now, six years will have passed by the time we reach the third period.
No matter what plants you plant, you can see the prospects for economic development!
Su Tianli said: "We must seize the opportunity before the reform and opening-up policy is implemented-"
She imitated the participants and asked questions, "Of course, I know everyone will ask, why open such a big restaurant, ordinary people are not very rich, what if no one comes to eat or spend money, then your big restaurant will be closed down? Besides, the brand of state-owned restaurants is much better than yours. Even if ordinary people want to find a restaurant to hold a wedding banquet or a birthday banquet, why would they come to your place? Are you better than the state-owned restaurants?"
Then she asked herself and answered, "…So the positioning of our Shiqing Company is to compete with state-owned restaurants! To put it bluntly, we are competitors of state-owned restaurants! We must be better than state-owned restaurants in terms of food quality, dining environment, and service attitude, but in the initial opening, our prices must also be lower than those of state-owned restaurants. When our reputation is established in the future, we will raise prices again."
"At the same time, in order to ensure that our big hotel can't hold wedding banquets every day, I want to build a food and shopping street... We have to carry out these two projects together to ensure that we can make a stable income."
After hearing this, the village cadres looked at each other in bewilderment.
Su Tianli continued, "Maybe everyone will say that now that the country is carrying out reform and opening up, the focus must be on industry. Why don't we follow the trend to develop industry, but develop agriculture? Everyone knows that farming is very cheap. We farmers work hard all year round to grow crops... and we may not be able to feed a whole family. Why are you still farming when reform and opening up have taken place?"
At that moment, several village cadres nodded in agreement.
Su Tianli smiled and asked herself again, "I believe that none of you here will put all your eggs in one basket. So we should develop both industry and agriculture."
"To be honest, we are not experts in developing industry... What we can do is to provide a good working environment, build spacious and bright factories, repair wide roads, and provide complete water and electricity facilities."
"As for the development of agriculture... Honestly speaking, we are farmers and the land here belongs to us. No matter when or where, we can't abandon the agriculture that has been passed down from generation to generation just to develop industry, right?"
"Everyone has to pay grain to the state every year. You know this better than I do. I am an outsider, so I won't teach an expert about this."
"What I want to say is that on the basis of maintaining agriculture, we will apply to the state to plant economic plants, and then seek help from the Agricultural University to plant suitable economic plants... One day, we will build a good village."
After a pause, Su Tianli continued, "By the third phase, our Chemical Avenue will become a famous tourist destination because of the Bailihua trees!"
"Just think about it, Guangzhou is a big city with millions of people! If everyone came to visit us... then our pedestrian street, our locally grown longans, lychees, and yellow-skinned wax apples... would be so popular!"
"Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong, and the entire Guangdong has a population of tens of millions! If everyone comes to the provincial capital for visiting relatives or traveling, and our Chemical Avenue is so famous because of the Hundred Miles of Flowers... Just think about it, how many customers we will have!"
"Besides, the current reform and opening-up policy favors us in Guangdong... I'm afraid half of the migrant workers who come to Guangdong to work will stay here. Their families will also come... Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever thought about this passenger flow?"
At this point, Su Tianli said in a sonorous and powerful voice: "I can say responsibly that—"
"Everyone, just for today's meeting, if everyone takes it seriously, starts planning from today, and puts it into action, then we have already won!"
"Now we are taking bold steps towards reform. Ten years later, when we have grown trees into a forest, we will be able to make money even if we do nothing!" Su Tianli said loudly.
The village cadres were frightened by Su Tianli's huge plan.
Everyone was stunned.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
After a while, a village chief named Chen spoke up, "Sister, your plan... is really amazing."
Su Tianli smiled and said, "Uncle Chen, I am only responsible for our company's purchase of land to build restaurants and pedestrian streets. As for whether your villages want to plant economic crops on a large scale, you should make your own plans... I am young, and I am only responsible for daydreaming. Whether it can be realized depends on you."
The village cadres began a heated discussion:
"What Lizhi said makes a lot of sense... Have you noticed that Lizhi actually has two plans, one is to build a big restaurant, and the other is to build a pedestrian street and become a landlord. Well, a big restaurant can definitely make a lot of money! But it's easy to lose money... So the way out she prepared for herself is that pedestrian street, and she can collect rent after it's built! It's really a guaranteed income... So we can definitely learn from her."
"You mean, we should repair the factory and plant the flower forest?"
"Yes! There is no conflict between building a factory and planting trees!"
"You can plant flowers and trees to attract tourists, or you can plant fruit trees... mangoes and lychees are both fine!"
“I think this is a good idea!”
"I think so too..."
…
Su Tianli said with a smile: "Everyone, I want to say one more thing——"
In an instant, everyone stopped chatting.
Everyone looked at her with burning eyes.
Before they knew it, everyone had begun to look at Su Tianli in a different light.
Su Tianli said: "Most of the people present here are related to me, right?"
Everyone nodded.
yes,
Everyone has lived in this area for generations, intermarrying and becoming relatives.
Most of the people present were within the fifth degree of kinship, and even if they were, they could still be considered relatives in some way.
What's wrong with that?
Su Tianli said: "Then everyone must be making money together?"
Everyone nodded again.
Is there any need to ask?
After all, once the "reform and opening up" policy came out...
To be honest, I don’t have any guidance.
It seems that the superiors are silently condoning it, as if they are watching with their arms folded, with a feeling of "Let me see what you can come up with."
So what excites them is that the special economic zone is in Guangdong;
What makes them at a loss is how to reform...
So everyone looked at Su Tianli eagerly.
Su Tianli said word by word: "Since we all share happiness and difficulties together——"
"Of course we have to unite!"
"Think about it, how much land does your village have?"
"Now you have the task of growing grain, and you have to hand over rice to the national treasury every year. You also have to grow grain for your own consumption... and you also have to grow vegetables! How much land do you have left to build factories and plant flowers?"
For a moment, all the village cadres present looked at each other in bewilderment.
Su Tianli continued: "But if you unite and make a unified plan——"
"Even if each village only offers three to five acres of land!"
"As long as we use the spaces between villages... we can create a huge piece of land!"
“In addition, the location and direction of the factory and flower forest must also be planned.”
"Logically, the factory should be close to the national highway... Normal people would think so, because it is convenient for factory transportation."
"But I just think that we should plant trees next to the national highway! Flower trees and fruit trees are fine! That way, everyone will know that our Chemical Road is covered with flowers and trees... This will be the living sign of the future flower forest and sea of flowers!"
"As for where to build the factories, they can also be concentrated in areas that are relatively far from national highways."
"Just build a connecting road from the factory area to the national highway!"
After a pause, Su Tianli continued, "So the question goes back to the question I asked before - should we all share the good times and the bad times?"
"Since we share the same ancestry, it should be, right?"
"So you can't be too concerned about which village has an extra piece of land for road construction, or which village's most fertile land is used to build a factory... Everything must be negotiated!"
"Of course, brothers have to settle accounts clearly! So, if a village has an extra piece of land, or a village has been taken advantage of... everyone can discuss the compensation conditions calmly."
"Once everything is discussed, we can work together to build it!" Su Tianli said with a smile.
All the participants were stunned.
How to say it?
Today, we are here to sell the land to Su Tianli.
But after listening to what Su Tianli said,
Everyone's favorability towards her is increasing rapidly!
——This little girl has great insight!
The village chief Uncle Chen couldn't help but said, "Lizhi, do you want to come to our village to be...an accountant? You can sign a long-term contract, the salary is 20 yuan, and you don't have to work every day..."
As soon as these words came out,
The village cadres from other villages were anxious, "Lizhi! You can also come to our village to be an accountant. We will pay you 22 yuan!"
"Lizhi, our village will give you 25 yuan. We don't need you to do anything. You just need to give us some ideas for the development of our village."
"Lychee, lychee, our village will give you thirty yuan..."
…
Su Tianli was both amused and confused, "Thank you for your kindness, uncles and aunts."
"But I also have my own things to do... so I'm sorry, I don't have the extra time and energy to do anything else."
"But you don't have to rush."
"Well, after you sell me the land and I build a big hotel and a shopping and food street here, I will be tied to you all!"
"I definitely hope that everyone is well, that we can plant good flower and fruit trees, and make our Chemical Avenue more and more famous. If more people come here to travel, my hotel's business will be good...right?" Su Tianli smiled with her eyes curved.
Only then did everyone stop arguing.
Then--
They looked at each other, all trying their best to give Su Tianli a big discount!
Only by letting Su Tianli buy the land in her village,
Only then can you really keep her!
At this time, Uncle Chen couldn't help but ask Su Tianli, "Lizhi, you are so young...how can you understand so many great principles?"
Su Tianli smiled and explained, "Uncle Chen, I am a returned educated youth. I went to the countryside to work in the production team in 1973, and was assigned to the 109th educated youth farm in the northwest..."
Hearing this, everyone gasped.
——The 109 Educated Youth Farm in Northwest China?
It’s very Babei (Cantonese: very amazing)!
Su Tianli smiled and said: "The 109 Youth Farm was first built in 1967, and I went there in 1973... I guess I contributed to the construction of the 109 Farm!"
“I am really happy working at Farm 109!”
“Perhaps the only regret is not starting from scratch with the first generation of builders.”
“Now, I really hope to have such an opportunity.”
Everyone stared at Su Tianli blankly, and then quietly looked at the other "competitors".
Everyone was ready to sell the land to Su Tianli.
certainly--
This is also Su Tianli’s little trick.
After all, her company's initial capital was only 50,000 yuan!
If you buy land, you will spend most of your money...
Then the company will not be able to develop!
Now?
Su Tianli also understood everyone's looks.
That's good.
Well, I look forward to everyone’s response in the future.
Su Tianli smiled and said to Sister Cai from the Housing Management Office: "Sister Cai, I'll trouble you to help follow up on the follow-up matters. I have something else to do and I have to leave first."
Sister Cai said sympathetically: "Okay, okay, go and do your thing..."
When everyone heard that Su Tianli was leaving, they got anxious, "Lizhi, don't be in such a hurry to leave, let's chat some more!"
Sister Cai gestured for Su Tianli to leave first while comforting everyone, "Lizhi is busy with her wedding recently! Don't bother her! Didn't I tell you? You should discuss among yourselves and see which piece of land in the village is suitable to be sold to Lizhi's company..."
"Even if we want to talk to Lizhi, we have to make progress!"
Only then did everyone stop thinking about it, and they started clamoring to go back quickly to hold a closed-door meeting to discuss which land to sell to Su Tianli and how much to sell it for.
At this time, Su Tianli was also rushing towards Shaou Street.
After all, it’s dinner time now.
She is a little hungry.
Sitting on the bus, she saw a little child eating a salty pancake.
That rich aroma of oil...
It's simply torturing Su Tianli!
Su Tianli began to regret.
Because this morning, Grandma Su and her family not only made rice rolls, but also salty pancakes.
It's just that Su Tianli has never had a big appetite.
After eating a plate of braised sausage, I couldn't eat any more salty pancakes.
Salty pancakes are also a specialty of Guangzhou.
It is made with flour, fermented bean curd, water, sugar, yeast powder, etc., which are kneaded together, left to ferment, formed into circles, and then fried in a pan.
After frying, it needs to be fried again.
So it has a very crispy skin and a soft honeycomb texture inside.
The combination of crispy and soft texture is simply unbeatable!
Its taste is even more unique.
It has the salty freshness of fermented bean curd, the sweetness of sugar, and a slight sourness after fermentation. After being fried, the aroma of the oil further enhances its aroma and deliciousness.
Su Tianli swallowed saliva wildly.
She decided.
When she gets home, she will eat a whole fermented bean curd pancake in one go!
Yes,
The most you can do is eat one.
Because this thing is fried, eating too much can easily cause diarrhea.
So, after the bus arrived at the station, Su Tianli got off the bus excitedly and hurried back to the Coal Bureau’s family compound.
But for some reason, the entrance to her courtyard was surrounded by people.
Faintly, I seemed to hear someone crying.
Su Tianli was in no hurry to go back.
She stood at the outermost edge of the crowd, listening carefully to the conversation of the onlookers:
"What's going on? Why are there so many people gathered at Lizhi's door?"
"Someone is here to cause trouble!"
"You're crazy! The New Year isn't even over yet, why are you making such a fuss?"
"Who is causing trouble? Lizhi is such a nice person, why would anyone come to cause trouble for her?"
"That's right, Lizhi's in-laws are very powerful! Who dares to come here and cause trouble?"
"Well, it's Zhang Wei's family that's causing trouble... Didn't Lizhi open a company? Zhang Wei and she are together! Today it's Zhang Wei's parents who are here to cause trouble, saying that Zhang Wei should withdraw his shares!"
Hearing this, Su Tianli sneered.
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