The Era of Hard Work

On the first day of the new year, it is inevitable to visit the house to pay New Year's greetings. Lu Dong put on new clothes and ran around the village with Lu Chun and Fang Yan, followed by Lu Lanlan, who also joined the team, presumably to help the new sister-in-law get red envelopes.

For the new daughter-in-law in the first year, New Year's greetings are a harvest day, and neighbors, relatives and friends in the neighborhood will give New Year's greetings money to the new daughter-in-law according to the custom.

Those who are close are more, and those who are farther away are ten to five yuan. Walking around the old street, Fang Yan has received a thick stack of red envelopes.

Lu Lanlan, who said she would help to get the red envelopes, put pumpkin seeds in one pocket and candy in the other pocket of her new clothes.

As for the red envelopes, there is no such thing as delicious fragrance.

Nail ran over from behind and said, Sister-in-law, you earn a lot of New Year's Eve money. Brother Chun, can you earn this much money if you take a new daughter-in-law?

Fang Yan couldn't help laughing.

Lu Dong flicked his head lightly: Tail, tell your father to find you a wife quickly, so that next year you will bring the lucky money with you.

Nail said: My father said, the white lady under the big pagoda tree grows up, so she will take her home to be my daughter-in-law.

Lu Dong, Lu Chun, and Fang Yan couldn't help laughing, and Lu Lanlan laughed so much that sugar spewed out of her mouth.

What's so funny? Nail was puzzled: Isn't the new daughter-in-law just to make money?

No one explained to Nail, so Lu Dong patted him on the back: Hurry up and pay New Year's greetings.

The new daughter-in-law's New Year's greeting money seems to be easy to earn. She ran down the first day of the new year, let alone thousands of dollars, but this is a debt of favor owed by others in the past, and a debt of favor owed to others in the future.

I can't even explain it to children.

Lu Dong quickly fell behind in the line, mainly due to the many phone calls. On the first day of the new year, it was inevitable to call out to greet others. Often, as soon as the phone was hung up, someone called him to greet him.

In the morning, I answered more than 20 calls alone.

At noon, Lu Dong called Song Na for the second time and said that Liu Linlin wanted to treat her. At first, she thought that Song Na had many relatives and she was not familiar with Liu Linlin, so she might not be able to go. Unexpectedly, Song Na agreed immediately. down.

They're all classmates from No. 1 Middle School. There's nothing wrong with me on the fifth day. Song Na offered to pick me up, You come to pick me up on the fifth day. The motorcycles are all in the university town.

Lu Dong said, Okay.

I ran all morning to pay New Year's greetings, and after lunch, a bunch of people got together to play poker. In the evening, Li Jiazhu invited Li Lin to come and call Lu Dong for a treat.

When I came to Li's Hutong, because Li Jiazhu was busy earning money this year, after Ming Langu passed away, he never looked for him again.

But he was in his prime, earning a lot of money, and remarriage was a high probability event.

Li Jiazhu didn't invite many people, except for Li Lin, Lu Dong, Li Wenyue, and Seventh Uncle.

During the Chinese New Year, the food and drink are ready-made, and there are no outsiders. Fried vegetables and various stewed vegetables are placed on the table, and the wine is ready to drink.

Lu Jianren drank, looked at the child who was taken out by his grandparents, and said to Li Jiazhu: Second brother, we brothers have been together for decades, and I don't say anything else. It's unrealistic to tell you not to take a wife, and I can't care about it. Wide. But one thing, if you find a wife, if you don’t care about my nephew, I’ll come here every day to smash the door for you.”

Li Jiazhu said: Lao Qi, what kind of person am I? How many women are there who dry-paint the decoration? If I want to find someone casually, I have already looked for it, so I have to wait until here? Isn't it because I want to be responsible for the children?

Li Lin worked with Li Jiazhu all day long, understood the situation, and said, Seventh Uncle and Second Uncle are telling the truth.

Lu Dong thought of the deceased Ming Langu, picked up a glass of wine, and had a drink with Li Jiazhu.

After Li Jiazhu finished drinking, Lu Dong said, I trust my second uncle's vision.

Li Wenyue smiled and said, I believe it too.

Lu Jianren seemed to be thinking of Lu Minglan, so he picked up a piece of fried hairtail and gnawed on it, but didn't speak.

Lu Dong changed the subject: Seventh Uncle, haven't you caught anything recently?

The rabbit is not harnessed. Lu Jianren said: Two big voles have been harnessed, and they will be raised by Nail at home until they are fattened up.

Li Wenyue persuaded: Uncle Qi, don't eat these things indiscriminately, some of them are plagued by plague.

Li Jiazhu also said: Lao Qi, you have to correct your habit of eating indiscriminately.

In life, eat and drink are two words. Uncle Qi will always have fallacies.

Lu Dong said: You'd better pay attention, don't touch this thing if you can't touch it.

Several people ate and drank, talking about the changes in the village over the past year, and Li Jiazhu also talked about what he was doing.

Dongzi, I have something to do for the staff. Li Jiazhu invited Lu Dong over for dinner, but he actually had something to say: I've been in the decoration industry for a long time, and I finished my work in Wenyuan, a school last year, so I won't do work for the third company Since then, I have been working alone, mainly doing home decoration and store decoration.”

Lu Dong said: Well, the houses of my elder brother and I, as well as Song Na's store, were all renovated by you, Second Uncle.

Living in Lujia Village, Li Jiazhu was inevitably influenced by Lujia Village's company and factory: My biggest business here is to decorate the storefronts of the village companies, and then Xiao Song's store is like a guerrilla. I plan to transfer to the regular army. , open a formal decoration company.

Okay, old seven. Lu Jianren couldn't help but said, Are you ready to start a company?

Li Jiazhu ignored Lu Jianren's words, and said to Lu Dong: Dongzi, do you think this business will be successful in the future?

Lu Dong smiled and said, Second Uncle, how many years have you been in this industry, ask me this layman?

Li Jiazhu said: You have a good vision, you can see far, and you can judge accurately. The current situation in our village is at least half of your credit.

No, I'll just say it's okay. Lu Dong quickly waved his hand, and then asked, Second Uncle, what do you think of this job?

Li Jiazhu thought for a while and said: Most of the work I do is in the university town. In this university town, building after building is built one building after another, and residential areas are built one after another. There are basically no formal companies that do decoration. Some of them are private guerrillas. Those who buy a house or open a company in a university town are people with a little money. This is what I think. Setting up a formal company with outstanding grades and designs should be welcomed by a group of people.”

Lu Dong smiled: Second Uncle, you don't think about it comprehensively, you know a lot more than a layman like me.

Ah... Li Jiazhu was stunned, and then said: Dongzi, if you don't talk about it, I have no confidence or confidence.

Lu Dong could only say: I don't know much about the situation in the decoration industry. Second uncle, I often deal with people in various units, so I can only talk to you about the policies above. The real estate industry will definitely grow more and more in the future. There must be more and more people going out to buy houses in the city.”

Li Lin muttered: Those people who went out from our village are all eager to come back.

Li Wenyue interjected: Li Lin, how many Man Qingzhao can share dividends like our village.

Li Lin pondered for a while: Only three or four?

Lu Dong continued: Li Lin, Second Uncle, you have a lot of contacts in the university town for decoration. Why are these people buying houses?

Home improvement is the main business of Li Jiazhu, and he has a lot of dealings with customers, so he naturally knows: It is for the children to go to a good school.

Li Lin asked Li Wenyue for a drink, but Li Wenyue pointed at Lu Dong, who didn't drink for the time being.

He found what Lu Dong said very enlightening.

Let's not talk about it, let's talk about our Ningxiu Town. Since Lu Dong opened his mouth, he made it clear that although the real estate industry is a headache for ordinary people, it is a good channel for those with a little money to preserve their assets. In the future, the depreciation of the currency in free fall, and the savings of the small rich will only make themselves poorer and poorer.

Lu Dong said specifically: The primary school in our town has the best school building in the town center, and the one with the most highly educated and award-winning teachers is the town center primary school. The first place in each grade in the town is basically from the town primary school. .”

If you want to go to a township primary school, you have to have a household registration in the county. Now the county follows the university town school, and you have to go to the county to buy a house to get a household registration. In the future, this will be a trend. Just for children to go to good schools in the city, it will Inspire people to buy a house enthusiasm...

Li Jiazhu understood: This group of people alone can prop up the real estate market.

Lu Dong nodded: Almost. Second uncle, will you buy a house so that your child can go to a good school?

Li Jiazhu smiled embarrassedly: I already bought it in University City.

Lu Dong continued the topic just now: Urbanization is a trend, and real estate will be a hot topic in the future.

I understand. Li Jiazhu picked up a glass of wine: Dongzi, I respect you.

Lu Dong hurriedly picked up the cup, lowered the cup, and touched Li Jiazhu: Second Uncle, you are an elder, I respect you.

Li Lin asked suddenly: Brother Dong, according to what you say, we all have to go out? Isn't there no one in Lujia Village?

If you have money and ability, go out and buy a house.

All the people here are from his own family, and Lu Dong said directly: But buying a house is an investment, it is to preserve the value of assets, not to let you leave Lujia Village, Lujia Village is our root!

He wasn't acting emotionally: I'm not afraid to tell you that after the 15th day of the first lunar month, our village will be labeled as a provincial-level civilized village. The village primary school in the rules will be built as a model project for new rural education with a large amount of funding from the superior. From teachers to hardware, it will soon become first-class!

There are people on the top who are good at handling things, they are all from the village, and they know that Lu Dong's words are all reliable.

Lu Dong continued: Our village has just started, and when it really develops... I can't say anything else. You know Dongwang and Weiqiao, that's our goal.

Li Wenyue had a lot of knowledge and said, Huaxi Village?

Don't dare to say it, and it's hard to say it. Lu Dong clinked glasses with Li Wenyue: Wen Yue, I just thought that Lujia Village could become a well-known wealthy village in the whole country.

Because Li Jiazhu has a child, everyone didn't eat or drink until it was too late, they left at eight o'clock, and tomorrow was the second day of junior high school, most of them had to visit relatives, the older ones went to see their parents-in-law, and the younger ones went to see their grandparents.

At noon tomorrow, there will be more wine waiting to be drunk.

Many people may start getting drunk at noon tomorrow, and when they fully sober up, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year will have passed.

Like Uncle Qi, maybe the fifteenth day is over.

Lu Dong had few relatives here, and although Hu Bin didn't dare to come to Lu's Village to make trouble, he still talked about it in Ma's Village, so it was all on Lu Dong's head.

My uncle's family will not come back in Xijiang, and Lu Dong and Hu Chunlan don't plan to go to Majia Village again this year.

In the next few days, Lu Dong went to participate in a game from time to time. If he had nothing to do, he would get together to play poker with people of similar age. He contacted Liu Linlin in the afternoon of the fourth day of the new year to confirm the meeting at noon tomorrow.