The counterattack begins with Fan Shengmei in Ode to Joy

Chapter 324 The Magic Clivia
On New Year's Eve in 1979, CCTV launched a "1979 Spring Festival Gala". For the first time, tea seats and ballroom dancing were used in this party. Due to technical reasons at that time, it was recorded and broadcasted.Immediately after the show was broadcast, it was widely welcomed by people across the country.

It wasn't until 1983 that the official CCTV's first Spring Festival Gala was unveiled, and the whole process was broadcast live to meet audiences across the country.This year's gala gave birth to programs and stars that will be talked about by later generations, and it has also become an unsurpassed history on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage.

Unfortunately, these are not attractive to Zhuang Ziqiang.

After the Spring Festival, the taste of the new year fades away, and people return to normal work and life.

During this time, Zhuang Ziqiang discovered a strange trend in the market.

In the past two years, people's material life has been improved beyond people's original humble expectations, and more and more household appliances appear in urban shopping malls.

A few years ago, the three major items in a newlywed family were "bicycles, sewing machines, and watches", and now they have become the "new three items": TV sets, washing machines and refrigerators.

But in Jichun City, the most in-demand commodity here is not those TVs, refrigerators or washing machines, but Clivia.

It may be difficult for people to imagine how a pot of ornamental plants with tall shapes and elegant smells can become worth a hundred times overnight?
Jichun City has always had the custom of planting Clivia, but no one has ever regarded it as a valuable item.

When Zhuang Ziqiang was chatting with the people around him, he inquired about it. It is said that it was also a gossip that first spread.

Everyone is saying that last year a group of people made their fortunes by raising Clivia.

I heard that there is also a Clivia raised by a peddler who is valued by foreign businessmen and bought it for [-] US dollars.

It was also heard that a Hong Kong businessman wanted to exchange a Crown car for a pot of Clivia called "Fengguan", but the owner of Clivia refused on the spot.

There are countless other such rumors.

As if overnight, Clivia became a priceless treasure.

This kind of obviously fabricated news is extremely attractive in this era when information transmission is generally not smooth, especially in Jichun City where there are still a large number of workers who are living in a predicament due to the reduction in unit efficiency.

Who in Jichun City doesn't raise a Clivia?Ordinary objects that are usually placed at home suddenly become opportunities to win a fortune, who can not be envious?

Originally, the price of a pot of gentlemen who cost a few cents and at most a few yuan changed day by day and skyrocketed.

Hundreds of yuan, thousands of yuan, tens of thousands of yuan, when the wages of ordinary workers are only about 40 to [-] yuan, if you can grow a pot of Clivia with good quality, you can sell it for hundreds of thousands of yuan, which is very important For ordinary people, it is undoubtedly a windfall.

There has always been no shortage of speculators among Chinese people, and money is so attractive, how can those "smart people" be willing to see such a good opportunity to make money slip away before their eyes?

One day in June, Sun Xiaoning brought back a pot of Clivia when she came home from get off work.

Zhuang Ziqiang gasped. Even housewives like Sun Xiaoning began to participate in this game of "Drumming and Passing Flowers". He really didn't know how this game would end.

Zhuang Ziqiang told his mother and Zhou Bingyi more than once when he went home for dinner on weekends, and they also discovered the weirdness of this trend.

It seems that overnight, the ordinary Clivia lily raised by countless people in Jichun City has become a priceless thing.

But regardless of how much opportunity and wealth this thing contains, Zhuang Ziqiang would never touch it.

Scamming people's money, giving birth to a son is useless!
Under his suggestion, Zhou Bingyi spent a month visiting large and small flower markets and flower growers in Jichun City, wrote a report with tens of thousands of words, and handed it in.

This can be regarded as doing one's best and obeying the destiny.

By the way, I can give my brother-in-law some points in the hearts of leaders.

Zhuang Ziqiang couldn't remember when the "Clivia Incident" was thundered, but this kind of thing that was only hyped based on rumors and a false fire was destined to be short-lived, at most one or two years, sooner or later there would be a thunderstorm.

As a cadre of the Political Research Office, Zhou Bingyi, this kind of social incident is also one of the contents of his work.

Predicting this event in advance will benefit Zhou Bingyi after Clivia's thunderstorm in the future is self-evident.

Not only that, but Zhuang Ziqiang also passed on this information to everyone he knew around him. As for whether he listened to it or not, it was their business.
The world is going downhill, and people's hearts are immortal.

Reform and opening up is a big river, and it is also full of mud and sand. There are advantages and disadvantages.

For ordinary people in Jichun City who have not experienced marketization, this incident may become a lesson they will never forget.

Regardless of the hype or not, life has to live.

Sun Xiaoning listened to Liu Mei's words and raised more than a dozen pots of Clivia at home.

Zhuang Ziqiang didn't stop him. It is indeed a good thing to grow flowers if there is no utilitarian purpose.

At the same time, he is also constantly instilling in Sun Xiaoning the idea that Clivia is only worth a hype.

Sun Xiaoning accepted his idea, but did not give up raising Clivia. Are there too many examples of seeing is believing?
Anyway, it doesn't cost much to grow flowers, at worst, you can enjoy them at home.

Sun Xiaoning's mentality is also the mentality of most flower growers.

One morning in August, Sun Xiaoning felt weak after waking up. After resting at home for a long time, she still didn't get better, so Zhuang Ziqiang took her to the hospital.

After some examination, the doctor told them.

Sun Xiaoning is pregnant!

Zhuang Ziqiang felt a little unbelievable at first, and then a burst of ecstasy welled up in his heart. He hugged Sun Xiaoning and turned around on the spot several times, scaring her into beating Zhuang Ziqiang to let her down.

Then the two couldn't wait to return to the government compound.

(End of this chapter)