During the Spring Festival of 1991, Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu spent more time at home than in previous years. They rushed back from Xizhou after holding the group company's annual meeting on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. Last year during the Spring Festival, the two of them drove home so tired that their backs and backs ached, and they were even exhausted. They complained to each other that they would never drive home again, but a call from their junior sister Liu Xia said that they wanted to practice driving, so they had to drive obediently again. Return to Wenzhou. However, compared with when I came back last year, the national highways in various provinces are much easier to travel, and the roads in many provinces have been renovated. They run very smoothly. They can drive up to 100 miles in sparsely populated areas, but to be safe, the two of them rarely drive that fast. , the whole journey took almost two and a half days.
The main road into Liunan Village has been repaired, but the road after entering the village is narrow due to the accumulation of soil and pipes after digging sewers. Yang Liufang drove carefully until he reached the door of his house. The family's new house has been completely built and decorated. It has the same house design as Oujiang Garden. The three-story white-walled and blue-tiled building is equipped with large black-framed broken-bridge aluminum floor-to-ceiling windows. The only difference is that the fence extends from the wall on the first floor of the house. , and the walls are also covered with blue tiles that are the same as the house, making it look natural. The two of them parked the car at the door, and as soon as the whistle blew, the junior sister hurriedly came out of the building in cotton pajamas, crossed the yard, opened the grille door, trotted around the front of the car and hugged the person who had just got off the car. Yang Liufang's back.
"Agu (brother), where is my gift?"
"Oh, you're a big girl, why don't you be more reserved." Then the four old people came out to greet them, and the master's wife said dotingly at the gate. The junior sister then let go and reached out for a gift. Yang Liufang turned around and took out a black leather bag from the central storage box, opened it and took out a bundle of brand new banknotes, and gave it directly to his junior sister.
"Take it, ten thousand. Buy whatever you want. If it's not enough, I'll give it to you."
"Afang, she is still a student, why did you give her so much?"
"Oh, grandma." The junior sister held up the money with both hands and put it under her nose, making faces at the four old people. "Thank you Agu, Brother Afu, what have you prepared for me?"
"Oh, we came back in a hurry. We didn't buy anything for our family except some souvenirs. Besides, we are an inland city in the northwest, and there is nothing fashionable. In this way, I am the same as A Fang, and I also have ten thousand. What do you want for yourself? Buy it." After saying that, he turned around and took out a black handbag from the car, took out a bundle of money and handed it to Liu Xia.
"Haha, make a fortune." Liu Xia took the money and ran into the courtyard.
"You're such a money addict, you won't even let our eldest brother go. You ran so fast, and you're back to get something." At this time, the junior sister had already run into the building, and there was no reply. Only Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu were left carrying large and small bags of northwest specialties and struggling to walk into the yard. His parents and master wanted to help, but they refused. Li Tongfu hung two gifts on his arms and a slaughtered sheep wrapped in plastic film around his neck. He grabbed the sheep's front and rear legs with both hands and entered with a squeak. courtyard. There was a pile left. Yang Liufang locked the car and asked his father and master to hang them on his arms one by one. Then he hugged the remaining ones with his arms and ran into the courtyard like a Japanese prisoner entering a village. When we got to the stairs, I couldn't hold it anymore so I put it on the ground. At this time, Li Tongfu and his junior sister came down to help him get some of it, and everyone went upstairs together.
When they got to the living room upstairs, they discovered that junior sister had already made tea. Yang Liufang picked up a bowl filled with tea, took a sip, and then drank it all. He simply poured all the tea from several tea bowls into a fair cup, picked it up, and drank a full cup.
"Oh, Agu, you are not drinking tea at that time. What you drink at that time is a horse's drink. What a pity for my West Lake Longjing."
"Phew, I'm so thirsty." Yang Liufang drank too fast and felt a little depressed. Only then did he let out a sigh of relief. The junior sister had already washed the fair cup and came out. She poured the second brew of tea into the fair cup and then divided it into tea bowls. Then everyone sat down to drink tea and chat.
Yang Liufang held up the tea bowl and looked around, nodding his head, very satisfied with the furnishings and furniture at home.
"Agu, how much did this house cost?"
“It’s probably less than 700,000 yuan including decoration and furniture.”
"So many!" The four old people were also shocked. Because Yang Liufang could not be contacted at ordinary times, he contacted Li Tongfu when he built this apartment. The four old people only handled the work and materials, totaling less than 400,000 yuan. Unexpectedly, half of them were spent on decoration and furniture. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the average monthly salary that year was about 170 yuan, and their family spent 700,000 yuan to build a house. For most people, it is an astronomical figure. But the old people don’t know that the deposits in the Yangliufang Group’s company account have long been More than 100 million.
During this year's Spring Festival, there were more people in the family and it was more lively than in previous years. The three siblings set off a trunk full of fireworks and firecrackers. On New Year's Day, Yang Liufang also put the remaining fireworks and firecrackers in the yard for the villagers who came to pay New Year's greetings. The smell of gunpowder smoke filled the entire yard, and even the room was filled with this choking smell.
When building the house, the village secretary helped a lot. When the people who came to pay New Year's greetings at home left, the three of them went to pay New Year's greetings to the secretary. When he walked to the half-built senior citizen activity center in the village, he saw a marble monument erected at the door. The donor's name was engraved on the monument, and there were also the words "Eternal Fragrance". Yang Liufang felt guilty when he saw it. , he remembered that only the tablet carved in the cemetery of the dead in the village had the words "Eternal Fragrance".
When you arrive at the secretary's home, after paying New Year's greetings, you ask the secretary to remove your name from the monument, or remove "Eternal Fragrance".
"Uncle, I just donated a small amount of money, which is not worthy of those four words. It won't be too late for me to donate a lot of money in the future and be famous forever."
"Oh, it's all ready to stand now. How grateful are the villagers!"
"In that case, I'll pay for the re-engraving of the monument, and you can arrange for it to be re-engraved." Now that this was the point, the secretary had no reluctance. When Yang Liufang left the secretary's house, he put down 10,000 yuan and asked his elder brother to leave his cell phone number. He said he would not call again if it was not enough.
Yang Liufang's family didn't have many relatives. In the second year of the new year, Li Tongfu practiced driving with his junior sister for a day. In the third year of the third year, besides practicing driving, he also played cards. The old people were playing mahjong at home. The three of them fought against the landlord. Yang Liufang was not interested in this witty game. He never won and lost several big unity cards. On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, my master's cousins came to pay New Year's greetings, and the family ate and drank. On the fifth day of the lunar month to welcome the God of Wealth, the village held social fires and dragon lantern dances. Yang Liufang and his elder brother danced the dragon lantern with the villagers for a while, and each spent 100 yuan to carry a section of the God of Wealth.
After lunch, the three of them met to go fishing together. After these two days of practice, Liu Xia was able to drive on her own. Yang Liufang was worried, so he asked Li Tongfu to sit in the passenger seat and watch them. He asked them to drive to the river with buckets and bait. He carried two slender bamboos behind him. When he arrived at the river, he found many people of different ages here. fishing. People who knew each other came up to say hello to their brothers. Yang Liufang didn't smoke, so he didn't even bring a cigarette with him when he went out. It was Li Tongfu who offered cigarettes to everyone and said New Year blessings. The kind-hearted villagers showed them the old fishing spots. After making the nest, they hung up the bait and started fishing. Li Tongfu caught the fish first, but Yang Liuxia and Yang Liufang didn't catch anything for half an hour. He felt that the fish float was blurry until his junior sister shouted from the side: "Brother, the fish has escaped!" He didn't even see it clearly, and he was in a hurry. Lifting the pole, he bent the moso bamboo into a large bow, and then the fish frantically pulled the nylon line and began to string it around in the water. After several struggles, Yang Liu finally pulled the fish out of the water. It was a crucian carp weighing about two kilograms.
"Oh, this fish is good. A wild crucian carp weighing two kilograms needs four or five years to grow." said an old fishing friend next to him.
"Brother, are you selling this fish?" Some people also came up to join in the fun.
"No, no, let's go back and make soup tonight." Li Tongfu came to the rescue. Everyone gradually dispersed, and Yang Liufang continued fishing, but found that the float was still invisible.
"Brother, can you see my float?"
"Yes, it's quite clear. Three or four eyes."
"It's broken, my eyes are broken and I can't see." This sound frightened Liu Xia, and she quickly pulled his shoulder and stretched her face to meet his eyes.
"Can you see it?"
"Go, go, I can't even see such beauty, I'm not blind anymore."
Li Tongfu was also startled and hurriedly threw down the fishing rod and asked him to stand up and look at the license plate number parked on the shore. Yang Liufang only saw a blue plate and the numbers on it were unclear.
"Hey! What did I think was wrong? I'm short-sighted."
"Ah, how could I be short-sighted? I never went to college."
"But you studied."
"Oh." Yang Liufang seemed to understand. Li Tongfu saw that the catch was about the same, so he urged them to pack it up and go home.
In the evening, the family drank fresh crucian carp soup. During the dinner, they joked about Yang Liu's reading of Fang Shu and his short-sightedness. It happened that on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Fang made an appointment with Mr. Liu from Wenzhou Furniture Mall to pay New Year greetings and thank him for his help in building a house for his family. Mr. Liu didn't know from which source he learned that the president of the Chamber of Commerce had attended Yang Liufang's negotiation meeting last year, so he made an appointment with some Wenzhou businessmen from other provinces and cities who came back to celebrate the New Year. At noon, a banquet was held at a restaurant owned by a chamber of commerce to welcome Yang Liufang.
Li Tongfu drove Yang Liufang into the city, and first went to the hospital for an optometry test, where he was fitted with a pair of gold-rimmed myopia glasses. Yang Liufang looked even more refined and elegant with the glasses on. Because of his young age, his business has picked up in the past two years. He doesn't have to sleep out in the wind and sun. His skin is fair and fair, and he looks like a college student. The two of them went to the banquet together. At the banquet, Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu exchanged business cards with everyone, introduced their business, and paid their membership fees at the time to become a board member of the Wenzhou General Chamber of Commerce. The president said that they would wait until the general election in June. , along with plaques and certificates. Facing all the big guys, Yangliu got drunk early again, but Li Tongfu performed extremely well and did not get drunk until the end. But driving was definitely not possible, so she called home and Liu Xia took the bus to the city to drive them back.
Early the next morning, Yang Liufang was woken up by the sound of his mobile phone. He turned over to answer the phone.
