Full Moon Wine
Li Cuilan was sent away quietly by Li Waishan the next day. Everyone knew about this, but they all tacitly agreed not to discuss it. No matter how bad Li Cuilan was, it could not erase the hard work Li Waishan had put in for Shanghe Village over the years, especially this year when the village opened a brown sugar factory. The factory was booming, and after a year, every family could get a lot of bonuses except for the ones that were handed over to the government.
The days passed slowly, and Xie's mother felt that it was unlucky that her grandson had almost met with disaster before he was born.
In order to ensure that Xie Zhengyang's child would have a safe and smooth future, on the tenth day after the child was born, Xie Zhengyang took the child from house to house to ask for a piece of cloth and made a patchwork quilt for his grandson.
Xie Zhengyang's son asked Tian Po, the midwife who delivered Xia Xiuzhi, to give the child a name. When Xie Zhengyang took the child to beg for cloth, he also brought ten red eggs as a naming gift.
Mrs. Tian didn't expect that she would have to give herself a name. She was at a loss for a while and finally gave herself a nickname "Ping'an". She felt that the real name should be given by someone from the Xie family.
Xia Xiuzhi didn't want to continue confinement after 3 days. When she gave birth to her previous two children, she started to go to bed when she felt nothing was wrong. It was Su Li who stopped her when she went to see her. She suffered a lot during childbirth this time, and Su Li warned her very seriously that she must sit still for the full 30 days.
All the members of the Xie family have agreed with Su Li's opinion since childhood.
Especially Xie Laifu and Xiangzhi, they felt that if Second Aunt hadn't been looking for them, she wouldn't have gone to the river. The two children felt very guilty, and Xie Zhenghe also felt sorry for Xie Zhengyang and his wife.
Xie Zhenghe bought a lot of things for the family to nourish the body and increase milk production. Xie Zhengyang knew what his elder brother meant, so in order to reassure him, he accepted all the things he brought, and he even gave some snacks to the children in private.
This was Xia Xiuzhi's third child, and she was extremely nervous during the confinement period. Every day, things were sent to her room like water, and she was not allowed to do any work. She just stayed in the room to nurse Ping An. She was very panicked.
Occasionally, when Xie's mother saw that she was too busy to sit still, she would ask her to help carry dishes or sweep the floor or something like that. Xia Xiuzhi would be very happy if she did any small job.
The black market business has become stable. She goes to the county town once every half a month. She has given up the house she rented before, and the yard where she is trading now was found with the help of Wang Hong and his wife. The environment is good.
Su Li was on her way to the black market to deliver goods that day, and she was also sending something to Su Huai. Her younger brother and his wife finally got their wish of having a little girl. When Su Li went, she brought a small silver lock. The couple could not refuse and accepted it happily. Su Huai even said, "This is a big gift from our aunt. You can use it as a dowry in the future." Su Li did not know whether to laugh or cry.
The Su family built a beautiful house. Before building the house, Li Ruiying even went to the village chief to apply for several residential plots and divided the family.
Housing plots in rural areas are very cheap, and Li Ruiying had enough money, so she asked a carpenter from the same village to make several sets of furniture for her. She tidied up the house inside and out, and when Su Li went to take a look when the main beams were being put up, she saw that the families lived quite close to each other, especially her eldest brother's house and her parents' house, which were connected by the wall.
The sisters-in-law were grateful to Su Li from the bottom of their hearts. When she came back from the Su family, they stuffed a lot of things into her hands. One gave her a piece of cloth, another gave her a few eggs and dried vegetables. In the end, a bicycle was filled to the brim.
Su Li decided to meet with Grandpa first. After all, he always ordered large quantities of goods. However, when Su Li met with Grandpa this time, he looked very worried.
"Brother, what's the matter? What problem have you encountered?"
Grandpa is indeed very worried recently. He recently received news that the policies from above have been relaxed a lot. There is news that the land subcontracting system may be implemented next year. Moreover, when he went to Hai City some time ago, he saw hawkers selling things on the street, and the roadside patrols did not care.
This made him aware of the crisis.
"Girl! I feel like our business will soon be difficult to do because the policies from above might change." Grandpa said after taking a puff of his cigarette.
Su Li's heart skipped a beat when she heard this. Could it be that the market economy was coming? Then she could show her talents. Thinking about the courtyard house in Shangjing, the land in Haishi, etc., she was excited, but she tried not to show it.
I tried to be calm and said, "Brother, no matter how the higher-ups change, people still need clothes to wear and food to eat, so let's just do our business. Besides, our products have always been priced very low, and we are true to our conscience. We are not afraid that no one will buy them. If things really go wrong, we will have other jobs to do, and the boat will naturally be able to get back to the bridgehead."
Grandpa also felt that it was true. He was indeed a little paranoid. For now, he could just do the business in front of him. He had made a lot of money over the years, especially in the past year when the supply of goods was sufficient. This girl could get all kinds of goods, and he had enough money. If he really wanted to change his career in the future, he would not be afraid of not having the capital.
"Sister, the money for today's shipment is in the basket on the back of your bicycle, along with some small things I found for you."
"Thank you, big brother." Su Li's thanks were sincere. Over the past year, thanks to her partner, Grandpa, she had nearly three hundred thousand in cash and a large box of gold and silver jewelry.
She knew that money would depreciate more and more, and she would spend it all when it could be traded freely.
After receiving the royalties, I traded with Wang Hong again and earned more than a thousand yuan.
She packed some things and sent them to Su Huai. When she met Su Huai this time, he seemed a little listless. After asking him in detail, she found out that the steel plant's efficiency was not very good recently.
Su Li knew that many factories would go bankrupt in the future, not to mention that this was just a small county town. After comforting Su Huai for a few moments, Su Li went to Shanghe Village.
On the day of Ping'an's full moon, the Xie family was full of guests. Old Man Xie set up ten tables for the feast. Su Li dragged out a pig from the space and killed a sheep at the Xie family's house.
The pigs and sheep were very fat. Su Li lied that Wang Hong's husband helped buy them. Wang Hong's husband had delivered a coal stove and a sewing machine before. Everyone knew that the man was from the county slaughterhouse, so no one thought there was anything wrong.
The ten tables of banquets were very sumptuous, but not all the pork and mutton were used for the banquet. Of the more than 200 kilograms of pork, 10 kilograms were kept and divided into 12 portions of pork, which were wrapped in red paper. Another 24 kilograms of mutton was prepared and divided into 12 portions. These were all for the families who had built fences for Xia Xiuzhi and sent clothes. Those people were her lifesavers.
In addition, Mrs. Tian, Xie's mother and Xie's mother prepared ten pounds of pork and a pound of mutton for her family, a batch of Dacron white-bottomed floral cloth, and a pound of brown sugar, all of which were bought by Su Li.
There were pigs, sheep, and a lot of other things for the wedding banquet, most of which were bought by Su Li. Xie's mother gave Su Li a hundred yuan, but Su Li refused to accept it, but Xie's mother insisted.
She and her husband were old, so the banquet was basically organized by Su Li, Xie Zhengyang and Xie Zhenghe. She couldn't let her young daughter-in-law pay for it, so she estimated the price and gave Su Li the money. She also made a small Dacron gown for Su Li in private and even figured out the style.
On the day of Ping An's full moon banquet, Su Li wore the small gown made by Xie's mother. Xie's mother thought her daughter-in-law looked really good in it.
The gifts from those who came to the banquet were recorded in a red gift book, one cent at a time.
The cooking stove was an earthen stove built in the yard. The mutton soup next to it had just been made and was being poured into a small basin. Those who had initially thought that the amount was too much now felt that it was well worth it, looking at the large basin of pig-killing dishes, mutton soup, braised pig heads and offal, potato ribs, mutton noodles, and piles of corn buns.
Su Li was asking people to sit down when she saw her brother Xie Zhengchuan coming over carrying a handmade crib. He had been thinking about the crib since he got off work the past few days. He originally wanted to buy something, but later decided to make one himself as a gift for his little nephew.
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