Go back to 1980 and enjoy it

The next morning, Aunt Lin, the matchmaker, sent over Lin Qinghua's birthday and horoscope.

Asking for the date of birth was just an excuse for Deng Shirong. At least there was a reason to refuse in such a way that neither party would be embarrassed.

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

As a result, there are advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that he is a decent person. Even if he is hungry three times a day, he has never stolen even a cucumber from the production team.

He is relatively filial, and he has never contradicted his parents even when he was growing up.

And he repays his kindness. In recent years, due to his grandfather's involvement in his family, the family's life has been extremely difficult. Many people in the village have helped his family. He has always kept this in mind and often went to help other people's families. Work.

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

Even if he suffered unfair treatment, he would not blame others, let alone be cynical.

Having kind thoughts and no hostility is what Deng Shirong admires most.

The shortcomings are also obvious. First of all, there is no culture.

When he was seven years old, his grandfather had an accident. It was difficult for the family to survive, and there was no condition to go to school. Fortunately, he knew a lot of words at that time, and his parents were both educated people. I used my free time to teach him common Chinese characters.

After I became literate, I read some books by myself.

Therefore, his cultural level is still at the stage of literacy and having read a few books.

No matter in his previous life or in this life, Deng Shirong paid great attention to culture. His children all read books casually. As long as they could continue reading, he was responsible for paying the tuition.

Now, Lin Qinghua's cultural level is not good, and he will definitely lose big points here.

Another shortcoming is that Lin Qinghua is not tall enough. It may be that he has lived too hard in the past ten years and his nutrition has not kept up. As a result, his height is only about 1.68 meters, which is obviously not as high as Deng Shirong. standards for selecting a son-in-law.

Of course, this height is not too short for Guangxi in this era.

The advantages and disadvantages were 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 a single descendant of the third generation. His parents must hope to have more children in his generation to expand the branches and leaves of their Lin family. This is a normal idea.

However, the eldest daughter's attitude is that she does not want to get married in a short time, and it will take two or three years at the earliest.

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

Rather than making both sides unhappy when the time comes, it would be better not to give them a chance in the first place.

After making the final decision, Deng Shirong passed the news to the Lin family through Aunt Lin, using the excuse of a fortune teller.

After hearing Aunt Lin's words, Lin Qinghua couldn't help but sigh silently. He didn't know what he had missed. He just felt that it was hard to fall in love with a girl, but it ended before it even started. It was inevitable that he would be a little regretful.

Although Zhu Ying was a little regretful, she was mentally prepared after all: "Third Aunt, please think about it, which sister is more suitable for my Xiaohua?"

This question seemed to get to the point, and Third Aunt Lin started to introduce it energetically.

…

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.

With the previous experience, although Deng Yuntai was still a little worried this time, he was finally not as nervous as the first time.

Everyone knows that the second child is much easier than the first child, so when everyone was waiting outside, they felt more relaxed and chatted casually.

About half an hour later, along with the cry of a baby, the people chatting outside the delivery room suddenly became energetic.

Soon, the midwife came out to announce the good news that the mother had given birth to a baby, and that mother and baby were safe.

Hearing this, everyone showed a satisfied smile, especially Zhang's mother, whose heart had finally settled.

Although her parents-in-law are open-minded and once said that it is not women who decide whether to have a boy or a girl, but it is decided by men, but living in a place like Bobai that favors boys over girls, her daughter did not give birth to a son, and she, as a mother, was not happy in her heart. Be practical.

It doesn't matter if the first child is a daughter, but if the second child is also a daughter, there will be real psychological pressure.

Fortunately, the second child was finally born. With this son, the capital was saved, and it didn't matter whether there were more children in the future or whether I could still have a son.

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

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

When he saw the word Beginning of Winter written on the calendar, Deng Yuntai was also confused. He didn't expect that the days would be such a coincidence. Xiaodong'er was born on October 11th of the year before last, 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. What a coincidence for the siblings.

Deng Shilan and Zhang's mother also knew that Xiao Dong'er was born on the day of Beginning of Winter. When they heard that today was Beginning of Winter, they both showed surprised expressions.

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

Deng Yuntai asked: "Dad, are you talking about changing your baby name or your school name (local names are generally called school names)?"

Deng Shirong said: "Of course I have to change my school name. Xiaodong'er's nickname is quite good."

Deng Yunzhen agreed: "It's better to change the name of the book. The name Deng Changju doesn't seem to sound very good."

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "Don't rush now, we will discuss it slowly when we get home."

…

The next day.

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

Waiting outside the delivery room were Deng Shirong, Deng Shilan and Bu Dashi. Since it was their first child, they did not have to worry about it. Six or seven hours later, the baby was successfully delivered. It was also a baby boy, but Deng Shilan was regarded as her grandmother. I was so happy.

The corners of Bu Dashi's mouth were so raised that he couldn't press them down.

Deng Shirong said with a smile: "Congratulations to the third sister for adding a grandson."

Deng Shilan smiled happily and said: "Same joy! Same joy!"

Bu Dashi chuckled and said: "Uncle, you know how good my parents are at picking names. Aihong and I haven't read many books and can't come up with a nice name, so you, as an old uncle, have to help us pick one." Just the name.”

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

"Bu Aotian!"

"Bu Aotian!"

"Bu Aotian!"

Bu Dashi recited it three times in a row. The more he recited it, the more awesome he felt, so he clapped his legs and said, "This name is good, this is it!"

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

Bu Dashi couldn't help complaining: "Originally, the names of the elder sister and the younger sister are better. Look at our three brothers, Dashi, Zhongshi, and Xiaoshi, and Yuntai, Yunheng, Yunsong, Yunhua, and Yun Compared with Heng’s five cousins, they are really far behind.”

Deng Shilan said with a smile: "Just be content. If your father had asked you to get it, you would probably be called Tiedan instead of Dashi!"

Bu Dashi: "..."

…

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

In the evening, while everyone was there, Deng Shirong expressed his thoughts: "Since these siblings are related to the beginning of winter, let's just call them Lidong. Yuntai, sister A Ping, what do you think?"

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

Deng Shirong said: "For Xiao Dong'er, the homophonic word for Li is Li, and his school name will be Deng Changli. My younger brother's nickname will be Dongzi, and his school name will be Deng Changdong."

Zhang Xiuping immediately applauded after hearing this: "Dad, you got the name well, you perfectly integrated the beginning of winter into the names of the siblings, and it sounds very good."

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

Bu Dashi gave a thumbs up and praised: "It must be my uncle who chose the name!"

Others also applauded.

After choosing the names, they discussed making full moon wine for the two little guys, Deng Changdong and Bu Aotian.

Deng Shilan asked: "Brother, when do you plan to book Dongzi's full moon wine?"

Deng Shirong thought for a while and said: "Then let's do it at the beginning of next month, so that you can finish drinking Dongzi's full moon wine and still have enough time to give Gou Liu (Bu Aotian's nickname). In the Shuangwang realm, there are many ways to give children nicknames. The word "dog" is probably for the sake of making a living)."

As I have said before, the rules for holding full-moon receptions in Bobai County are that if a boy is born before a boy is born, the full-moon reception can be held in advance, but for a daughter, the full-moon reception must be held after the child is one month old, so Dongzi will do it in advance. There is nothing wrong with having a full moon party in three days.

"Okay, then our Gouliu's full moon wine will be on the third day of next month."

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

Generally speaking, when Deng Shilan's eldest grandson is celebrating his full moon birthday, he would not invite Zhang's mother. After all, this is her brother's biological mother, not her biological mother. But since they meet, they must send out an invitation, otherwise they will look down on her.

The father-in-law's only sister sent out an invitation, and Zhang's mother couldn't refuse, so she nodded and said with a smile, "Okay, then I'll go ask for a drink."

…

Beijing.

In a restaurant near Peking University, Deng Yunheng was treating Li Haibo, chairman of the student union, to dinner.

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

If Deng Yunheng is a well-known social master of 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 of university, and then successfully became a member of the student union in his sophomore year. He became the president of the student union and was one of the most awesome students in the school.

According to rumors, Chairman Li’s family background is unfathomable and he is one of the most powerful people in Peking University.

Originally, Deng Yunheng and Li Haibo had not had much 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 with each other.

As the president of the student union, there is no doubt about Li Haibo's social skills, and Deng Yunheng is also a well-known social terrorist at Peking University. In addition, both parties are willing to make friends, so naturally they quickly became friends.

This is not the first time we have eaten in private like today.

The two chatted casually about school affairs. After they had finished eating and drinking, Li Haibo asked: "Yunheng, with your ability, you should have joined the student union long 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 didn't think about joining the student union to gain experience. But this summer I went back to talk to my father about my future path. He asked me to find an opportunity to join the student union or youth league committee for a year to see if I was interested in politics, so I chose to join the student union at this time.”

Li Haibo suddenly said: "I see, with your talents, whether you choose to go into politics or business in the future, you will definitely make a difference."

Deng Yunheng smiled and said: "Thank you, Chairman Li. You are far behind me. I will learn more from you in the future."

Li Haibo said: "Don't be modest. I'm telling the truth. I have a good eye for people. Although those who can get into our Peking University are all true elites, people like you are the elites among the elites. The future is definitely promising.”

Deng Yunheng put a smile on his face and said, "I hope you will give me more support in the future, Chairman Li."

Li Haibo smiled and said: "To say support is an overstatement. Let's make progress together. It's been more than a month since you joined the student union. How do you feel?"

Deng Yunheng said: "It feels pretty good. It's not as difficult as I thought."

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

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

Li Haibo said: "Okay, when you think about it clearly, just tell me and I may be able to give you some suggestions."

Deng Yunheng's eyes lit up, he picked up the wine and said, "Chairman Li, don't say anything anymore, everything is in the wine."

The other party's background is unfathomable, and there must be many high-ranking officials in politics in his family. With his political wisdom, it is more than enough to give him guidance as a rookie. He also really regards him as a friend, so he would give advice on such a major life choice.

No matter what the final result was, he had to accept this love.

Li Haibo smiled, picked up the wine glass and clinked it with Deng Yunheng, and then the two drank the wine in the glass together.

…

The first day of the eleventh lunar month is Sunday.

The leader of the Yedeng clan was hosting a full-moon banquet for his eldest grandson. Basically, all the prominent clan members from each village were invited to drink.

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

Of course, in terms of lively scenes, the full moon reception held for his eldest granddaughter two years ago must have been even more lively, because at that time Deng Shirong also specially invited the county theater troupe to perform "The Legend of the White Snake", a highly influential folk drama. People from all over the country came to watch the show.

But this time, Deng Shirong did not invite anyone from the county theater troupe to perform at the full-moon banquet held by his eldest grandson.

The main reason was that his third sister was also organizing a full-moon banquet for her eldest grandson. The time was too close, and it was really not appropriate to invite the county theater troupe to come and perform a play.

The process of Full Moon Wine has been mentioned before. After completing the process, the banquet can begin.

The people at the table with Deng Shirong were naturally the respectable members of the clan.

At first, everyone's conversation centered around today's protagonist, Dongzi, and everyone was congratulating Uncle Ninth (Gong) on ​​his grandson. After a few sips of wine, the conversation naturally turned to the passenger transport company that everyone was most concerned about.

Deng Changbao, who is second only to Deng Shirong in terms of shares in the passenger transport company, was the first to ask: "Jiu Gong, how is the clan's passenger transport company doing now?"

Other tribesmen also looked at Deng Shirong. It was not convenient to contact him in this era. They really didn't know how the passenger transport company was doing.

Deng Shirong said with a smile: "Not bad, the current revenue and expenditure can be maintained in balance. When the Spring Festival comes this year, the company will start to make money."

Deng Yungui said in surprise: "Are you able to break even so quickly?"

Others were a little surprised when they heard this. After the company was officially put into operation, they also made a simple statistics. Currently, there are ten experienced external drivers, twenty drivers from the clan, and twenty official conductors. position, plus the company’s management.

The wages of so many people, plus the biggest gas cost, the damage and repair costs of passenger cars, and road maintenance fees (there are no expressway tolls in this era, but motor vehicles are required to pay road maintenance fees on an annual basis, which is currently paid by the county) The traffic supervision station is responsible for collecting road maintenance fees (the road maintenance fee collection station was not established until 1985). Calculated, the monthly expenditure is at least about 30,000 yuan.

On average, the expenditure is about one thousand yuan a day.

Of course, this is just a rough statistic, and the numbers will vary, but the difference shouldn't be too big.

In terms of income, current fares range from 14-18 yuan depending on the city.

Calculating based on the middle price of 16 yuan, at least 70 passengers are needed every day to break even, because taxes are still required.

Divided into ten vehicles, one vehicle requires seven passengers.

It doesn't sound like much. There are only seven passengers in one car. Even in the era when passenger cars were not easy to make in later generations, it would not be possible to have only these few passengers, let alone the current passenger transport company that is engaged in exclusive business.

But times were different. In later generations, there were more than 700,000 people working outside in Bobai County, and more than 500,000 people in Guangdong alone. If you add people who go to Guangdong for business or to visit relatives, the number will be even greater. .

But in this era, the wave of working in Guangdong has not yet come, and there are not many people going to work or visit relatives. On average, there are seven passengers a day (including coming and going), which is really good.

Deng Shirong said with a smile: "It is normal to maintain a balance of income and expenditure. Our company is now doing exclusive business and has no competitors. There are millions of people in the county. Except for Shenzhen and Guangzhou, there is a bus every day, and other cities only run every other day." If there aren’t even a few passengers on one trip, then what kind of business are we doing?”

Deng Changxiong said excitedly: "Great, Mr. Jiu, your vision is really good. The passenger transport company has just started operating and can achieve a balance of payments. It can make a lot of money during the Spring Festival. It will definitely be in the future." Just like what you said, Jiugong, you can make a lot of money.”

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. Then we can just wait at home to share the money!"

Deng Yun started to pick up the wine and said, "Uncle Jiu, let me toast you. You took the lead in starting this business, and we all benefited from you."

Deng Changshou also picked up the wine and said: "Let's respect Jiu Gong together and thank Jiu Gong for creating such a good money-making opportunity for us."

Hearing this, others also raised their glasses to Deng Shirong.

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

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

"Mr. Jiu said it well, cheers to get rich together!"

“Cheers to common prosperity!”

"cheers!"

…

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

It is true that the development of the in-laws' side has been so rapid that they spent more than 300,000 yuan to open such a large restaurant in the county. How long has it been since then? They also took the lead and spent 360,000 yuan to establish a passenger transportation company in the clan. This courage made Zhang Zhenfa's family, who had been guarding the shop, ashamed.

With such an awesome in-laws, it’s natural to hug her.

Therefore, allowing Zhang's mother to stay and continue to help take care of the children was the result of the Zhang family's unanimous consent.

After drinking Dongzi's full moon wine, two days later Deng Shirong's family, including his mother-in-law, came to the third sister's house in Baoshan Village to drink Gouliu's full moon wine.

It was a rare trip. In addition to drinking, Deng Shirong, led by his nephew, went to the mountains contracted by the third sister's family to see the growth of sugar cane.

Obviously, the third sister's family took good care of the sugarcane and the growth was very good.

After only seeing the sugar cane on one mountain ridge, Deng Shirong came back and said to his third brother-in-law: "Third brother-in-law, the sugar cane is growing very well. The Bobai Sugar Factory is almost ready. You can definitely catch up with this batch of sugar cane."

Bu Erzhu said with an honest smile: "It would be great if we can catch up. I don't know what kind of price other sugar factories can offer."

Deng Shirong comforted him: "Third brother-in-law, don't worry. The pricing of the sugar factory must have been investigated and guaranteed to make you sugarcane farmers a profit. If you don't make a profit, who will be willing to plant sugar cane? Where will the sugar factory buy it?" Go to sugar cane?”

Bu Erzhu nodded and said: "That's the truth, then I'll be relieved!"

Deng Shirong warned: "Third brother-in-law, don't work too hard. When you need to do things, ask more people to help. Don't be reluctant to give money. Give what you should give. This is also considered the cost of planting. Don't do everything by yourself as a family." , If your body is exhausted, it will be meaningless to make more money.”

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

Although Bu Erzhu didn't have much ability, he had one advantage, which was that he listened to advice, especially from his capable brother-in-law.

Seeing that the third brother-in-law had taken in what he said, Deng Shirong said nothing more.