Chapter 252
The fixed idea of the elderly is that when children reach a certain age and have a partner, the next step is marriage.
Moreover, the two children have been dating for so many years and have always had a good relationship. They are also very satisfied with Qiu Zeming and the elders of the Qiu family. There is nothing wrong with it.
Then when Jiani graduates, it will be natural for the two children to get married.
Besides, Jiani will graduate at the end of next year, which means it will take more than a year and a half. I guess he said this now because he wants to prepare for the two children earlier.
The Zhou family also had an idea of this and started making preparations in advance.
So, although Jiang Xinfeng felt a little reluctant, she still nodded with a smile. Looking at Qiu Zeming and Zhou Jiani sitting next to her, she said, "They're both good kids. As long as they don't mind, we as parents don't mind either. Let's prepare everything for them."
Qiu Zeming stood up and respectfully offered Jiang Xinfeng a cup of tea instead of wine. He said seriously, "Grandma, you and your uncle and aunt can rest assured and leave Jiani to me. I swear in the name of the Party that I will treat Jiani well for the rest of my life."
He put down his teacup and saluted solemnly.
The old lady was very happy.
It’s just that Qiu Zeming’s vacation is short, so he doesn’t have time to personally go to his future father-in-law and mother-in-law to formally discuss his marriage with Zhou Jiani. He can only wait until the next vacation.
But the next day, Jiang Xinfeng went to the post office herself, called the factory, and told her son and daughter-in-law.
Du Yunxin was also a little reluctant at first, but her daughter had no objection and she was very happy for her. Comrade Zhou Wanli was a little silent, muttering, "Isn't it too early?"
"She won't graduate until the end of next year. It's not like she'll graduate today and get married tomorrow. Counting from now, it's already two years later. How old will Jiani be by then? Is it still too early?"
"We're not one of those families who keep their daughters at home to work and earn money, and then hold on to them until they get older and all the good young men are picked up, leaving only the ugly ones..."
The old lady held the microphone and chatted about the daily life back home, talking about how someone in her hometown kept their daughter from finding a husband, earned work points at home, and didn't let her go until she was almost 30. In those days, where were there any good families? Besides the dead wives, there were also old bachelors.
Is someone who ends up being single a good person?
Zhou Wanli was scolded by my mother and she didn't dare to say anything against it. She changed the subject and asked about her daughter opening a shop.
The old lady also had something to say, and she vividly recounted what happened that day. The Zhou couple regretted not being able to be there.
Yu Huifang would say: "When Jiani opens her second store, our whole family will be there."
Jiang Xinfeng was happy: "That's a good thing to say. I won't let Wanli answer the phone anymore. I find his voice disgusting."
After hanging up the phone, the old lady happily went back to the store to look after it.
Zhou Jiani reluctantly saw her partner off, and when she returned to the store, she received pictures and quotations of bamboo products from Zhejiang Province.
She used her spare time to call there and discuss the parts she didn't understand and also negotiated the price.
If she were selling the goods through a group sale, a few cents more would be fine, but if she were selling the goods in a store, she would have to factor in the market price and the shipping costs in addition to the payment, and she would still have to make a profit.
Besides, this is not her store alone. Bai Haoyang has invested in it. She can't work in vain just to enrich the product range, right?
After finalizing the required style, quantity and price, both parties communicated again on the issues of payment of deposit and payment.
The mail was too slow, so Zhou Jiani decided to contact the transportation team to see if there was a vehicle going there. She could ask someone to take the payment directly and have the ordered goods shipped back.
After the matter was settled, Zhang Lihai also came back from outside.
Zhou Jiani and Bai Haoyang came together to help count, weigh, price and distribute the goods, and the store's merchandise suddenly became richer.
Some items that require tickets are not available, and most of them are agricultural products and dry goods.
But the store had a few pieces of defective cloth, and because they were cheap, they sold well even with invoices.
The garment factory agreed to their cooperation request of buying tickets on credit, but they allocated them a small amount of goods, only twenty backpacks, and also allocated them more than twenty sets of spring clothes, the latter being an unexpected surprise.
The shipment is not slow, but the factory cannot supply the production, so once they are sold out we have to wait anxiously for the goods to come.
Although Aunt Zhang and her partner were still processing, no matter how fast they were, they could not match the production speed of the factory. Moreover, they were not doing the final process, and the factory would not agree to put the products on the shelves directly after processing. There are procedures.
Zhou Jiani and Bai Haoyang used their spare time to look for goods. Bai Haoyang went to local and surrounding textile factories, and Zhou Jiani contacted her old connections in Qi Yang, trying to get as much defective cloth as possible. They could save some cloth coupons and buy more ready-made clothes from garment factories.
They don't have the confidence to keep selling on credit.
Anyway, her small department store doesn't have a complete range of items, and there's no guarantee that the items sold this time will be available next time, but there are a few rare items that make customers who enter the store feel like they're shopping on Taobao.
Especially old customers.
For example, I bought dried shiitake mushrooms and dried black fungus from the store this time. A few days later, I brought my neighbors or relatives over. When they asked if they were out of stock and when the goods would arrive, Jiang Xinfeng would smile and say, "You never know."
Due to certain restrictions, the purchase of goods cannot be fixed yet.
But after the shop opened, there was income every day. After deducting all costs and expenses, I could earn about 1,500 or 1,600 yuan a month.
Jiang Xinfeng was very happy.
Zhou Jiani was also happy. Apart from being busy with school affairs, she racked her brains to find things that could be sold in the store. After the Canton Fair started this spring, Zhou Jiani still asked Li Jingdang to help her find things from the south.
I had saved some coupons during this period. After discussing with Bai Haoyang, I gave half of the cloth coupons to Li Jingdang and sent her to buy some beautiful fabrics from the south.
The rest remain in the shop.
Li Jingdang was also asked to buy some small accessories for the headband.
After finishing her final exams, Zhou Jiani received good news from the Qianjin Brigade: a bumper grain harvest after the distribution of production to each household!
Zhang Baosheng didn't even care that the person transferring the call might hear him, he shared his joy with Zhou Jiani on the phone.
"...The wheat was harvested a long time ago, and I've been wanting to tell you this for a long time. Liu Tong figured you'd be taking exams soon, so he held back until now."
Zhou Jiani was also happy and said, "I was a bit busy recently. Our department is planning to arrange practical investigation tasks for the second half of this year. I think I will be assigned to the topic of rural reform and household contract responsibility system. I heard that the investigation area is determined by the school. I wonder if I can apply for it myself. If I can, I will apply to go back to Bin County to conduct the investigation and see if I can fully launch the rural reform and household contract responsibility system at the same time..."
Zhang Baosheng said excitedly, "Don't you need to study in school anymore?"
Zhou Jiani: "Nian, practical research is also part of the course. It lays the foundation for next year's paper..."
Zhang Baosheng asked two more questions: "You should graduate next year, right?"
Zhou Jiani: "The end of next year."
Zhang Baosheng asked her a few more questions about her shop, and when he learned that business was good, he felt relieved. He added, "The goods you ordered at the end of last month are almost finished. And there's also the cooking brooms you asked the villagers to make for themselves, and the old loofahs from each household... What do you need the loofahs for? What else is there in the city?"
Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "After a little processing, it can become a commodity."
Peel the old loofah, remove the seeds, cut it with large scissors, spread it flat and fix it along the edges with a sewing machine, or make it into a palm-sized oval dishcloth, or splice it into a steaming cloth. Even if it cannot be sold in the store, she will post it in the group and it will be very popular.
At the beginning of this year, she had agreed with the Qianjin Brigade that they would purchase a large amount of dried cowpeas this autumn, but the quality had to be up to standard and they had to be produced strictly according to the procedures she specified.
Those who are willing to cooperate can help everyone make some money, and those who are unwilling to cooperate will not be forced.
Zhang Baosheng admired Zhou Jiani's intelligence and thanked her on behalf of the villagers.
Those things are not expensive, but every penny counts. Jiani opened a store and still thinks about the villagers. This kind of affection alone cannot be measured by money.
After chatting for a while, he finally asked Zhou Jiani whether she would return to the Qianjin Brigade during the summer vacation.
Zhou Jiani said: "Go back, go back in a few days..."
Professor Fu will not go to Bin County this year. He has a new goal and plans to take his students there.
She returned to Qianjin Brigade early to visit the weaving factory and conduct an on-site inspection of the household distribution of production, make some detailed records, and write an application, striving to allow her to conduct practical investigations in Bin County.
After that, my parents will bring the twins to the capital to stay and play for a few days.
The couple coordinated a vacation this year to visit the old lady and their daughter's shop.
Qiu Zeming will be returning to Beijing for further studies in August, and she wants to meet up with him...
Zhou Jiani counted on her fingers and found that she was quite busy during the summer vacation.
She arranged a schedule with Bai Haoyang. She would leave for a few days, and when she came back, Bai Haoyang would go to Qi Yang.
This guy was going to the Xiao family to propose marriage. He would first mention it to his future father-in-law and mother-in-law. After Xiao Min's parents agreed, their family would formally visit and propose marriage.
The two of them could only manage the store in their spare time during classes, so now that they were on vacation, of course they had to work seriously.
Zhou Jiani bought some snacks, candies and tea from the capital, and then bought a train ticket to Qi Yang. Instead of going home, she bought a ticket and took a bus directly to Bin County.
I first went to the Bin County Weaving Factory to take a look, urge the orders, and help the factory adjust the sizes of several products. I stayed there for two days and took the early morning bus back to the Qianjin Brigade.
The wheat has been harvested, and the corn seedlings in the field are already more than two feet tall, a pleasing green.
After entering the village and passing by the threshing ground, every household was drying wheat.
Unlike the previous division of labor, this time each family left a child to watch over the site, and occasionally use a rake to rake the crops to ensure even drying.
There were also groups of adults standing barefoot on the wheat spread out to dry, rake- ing it back and forth.
Someone with sharp eyes saw Zhou Jiani coming over and greeted her enthusiastically, "Jiani is back!"
Zhou Jiani smiled and called people one by one. She waved to a group of children to come over and grabbed a handful of candy for them to share.
An old lady approached and whispered, "Jia Ni, my dear daughter, we have to thank you again. We all heard that it was you who suggested the village implement the household distribution system. This has brought real benefits to the people..."
Everyone was ready to fight at the beginning, but they were also very nervous. Even now that the wheat has been harvested, no one from above has come to blame them.
As for the so-called confidentiality?
How can we keep everyone silent? The news might have already spread.
This is a big deal, how could the commune leaders not know about it?
But there has been no movement, which shows that the commune leaders also tacitly approve of this form.
But everyone guessed so, but did not make it too public. And if someone heard the news and came to inquire about it, and asked directly to their face, no one would pay any attention.
Zhou Jiani quickly waved her hands and said, "Auntie, please don't say that. The real credit goes to the village cadres. If it weren't for their support, what would be the point of me saying more? The real pressure is on them."
The old lady patted her hands, tears welling in her eyes as she nodded, "I know, we all know what's going on, but you're also a good child, thinking about us all the time..."
Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "Don't be so polite. As long as everyone is happy, it's fine. It's also because my fellow villagers respect me and are willing to listen to me. We are mutually beneficial."
After chatting with the villagers who came over for a while, Zhou Jiani went to the village.
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