Chapter 255 New Year’s Eve

Author: cool beauty

Xiao Hong didn't know that Xiao Fang was now very good at dealing with her own father.

She also encountered some trouble here. Yesterday, the driver said that it was more than 20 miles away and it would only take ten minutes for him to drive back.

But Xiao Hong was not very familiar with the road here. She encountered a fork in the road and realized she was driving the wrong car when someone asked for directions.

After this delay, it took her half an hour to find the place.

Maybe because the soil in this area is suitable for building a pottery factory, the ground is dug lower than before.

The wooden signboard of the state-owned clay pottery factory is already dusty, and the iron gate is rusty.

She did not rush to the state-owned factory, but drove her car slowly around the dirt road.

There are several small private factories not far away, and they look like they were recently built. There are enamel factories, printing factories, and plastic equipment factories. On the other side is a small village, and you can see a few children chasing each other there.

There is a long river behind, and there are thin bamboos on the other side of the river. When you drive across the bridge, you can see some farmland of different sizes.

Although it is the twelfth lunar month of winter, wheat is being planted in the fields. The wheat seedlings are now almost half an inch tall, and the green color is particularly pleasing.

Behind it are rolling mountains and forests, guarding the eastern part of the provincial capital like a curtain.

Xiao Hong is still very satisfied with the state-owned clay pottery factory.

It's a pity that it's too big. It needs at least thirty acres of land. She doesn't have the financial ability now.

Even though the location of this area seems a bit far away from the provincial capital now, Xiao Hong is sure that in a few years, this area will become prosperous and lively.

This is simply like a hungry person who sees tempting cakes in a cake shop but has no money to buy them, not to mention how painful it is.

The current solution is to encourage Liu Haibo to partner with him.

It just so happened that he also wanted to build a cold storage and needed space to cut up the chicken.

After that, Xiao Hong went to the state-owned clay pottery factory. She originally wanted to find someone to inquire, but she saw a middle-aged woman knitting near the gate. When she saw a car coming in, she immediately looked over.

Xiao Hong simply drove over slowly and asked. Sure enough, it was the driver's brother's wife. He was worried that she would not be able to find a place, so he waited here specially.

Those three large wine tanks were really big, at least one and a half meters high. Xiao Hong felt that three of her could stand in them.

The driver's wife was still there and assured her that as long as this big tank didn't get bumped, it would definitely last for twenty or thirty years.

Xiao Hong also really feels that the price is very conscientious.

Anyway, he had to ask a tractor to help transport it back. Xiao Hong saw a flower pot with flowers and plants, and bought more than ten large and small ones. By the way, he asked her about what he was interested in.

Xiao Hong soon learned that the state-owned clay pottery factory had been taken over by government departments after it suffered losses.

After that, the government will first compensate the workers and let them find other jobs and a place to live.

And the government also stipulates that they must leave at the end of the year.

Several groups of people had come to urge them to leave.

Now that Xiao Hong has bought all their big tanks, the driver's wife said that she will move to a new place when her husband comes back, so as not to be urged to leave again.

Xiao Hong spent another five yuan, and the driver's wife went to the nearby village to find the tractor driver and his brother to help transport the tanks back.

Of course these can only be piled in the yard of the old house first.

Xiao Hong originally wanted to talk to Liu Haibo about buying a house, but when she thought that the government department was expected to celebrate the eighth day of the first lunar month, she was not in a hurry and was ready to have a good New Year first.

With Grandpa Zhao and the others here, Xiao Hong didn't have to worry about anything at home. He cleaned it early in the morning, put up door couplets, and hung red lanterns on every floor.

I had a simple meal at noon, and then started preparing a sumptuous dinner in the afternoon.

For major traditional festivals, flower growers will prepare pig heads and whole chickens for sacrifice to thank the gods of heaven and earth and repay the kindness of their ancestors.

As for Liu Haibo, he has already said that the ones he prepared this morning will be on holiday as soon as the ones he prepared this morning are sold out.

Therefore, at around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the employees also received red envelopes and went back to celebrate the New Year happily.

But Liu Haibo is preparing to open for business on the second day of the new year.

Because employees are given double wages before the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, everyone is very willing.

Xiao Hong also left Fan’s mother and daughter to have New Year’s Eve dinner together.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, firecrackers started to sound one after another, and suddenly there was a New Year atmosphere.

Xiao Hong and the others also started to offer sacrifices, which was about putting the gods first and then the ghosts.

First welcome the gods, then offer sacrifices to the land, and then worship the ancestors.

Even though Xiao Hong is now with her mother, the Zhao family still asked Xiao Hongxian to worship the ancestors of the Xiao family, and then the ancestors of the Zhao family.

After that, there is a sumptuous reunion dinner.

Chicken, duck, and fish are all available. Xiao Hong also specially bought off-season greenhouse vegetables, including bright red tomatoes, tender beans, and purple eggplants.

Wu Julan first asked her daughters to eat glutinous rice sausage: "Eating glutinous rice sausage will help you grow taller. You will all be taller from now on."

Grandma Zhao ate the beans and said with emotion: "In the summer, I was injured after eating beans, so I took them home to feed chickens, ducks and pigs. Now I eat beans and they taste pretty good."

Grandpa Zhao also rarely agreed: "Eggplant with just some garlic is also delicious."

Zhao Yanyan did not accept the rebuttal: "Obviously, eggs fried with tomatoes are more delicious. The tomatoes are sour and the eggs are particularly fragrant."

Xiao Fang laughed and said, "Why don't they taste delicious? The price of these vegetables has caught up with the price of meat."

"What are you talking about? The best pork belly now costs two yuan and a half a pound." Grandma Zhao widened her eyes in disbelief: "You mean the beans that used to cost five or six cents a pound now cost

Two yuan and a pound?”

The pain in his flesh was really hard to ignore.

Xiao Hong suspected that if her old man hadn't been worried that today was New Year's Eve, he might have been unable to resist scolding them as 'wasters'.

All she could do was tell a white lie: "Grandma, these off-season vegetables are grown in greenhouses, and they are expensive outside. But I go to the Agricultural College, and the outside price inside is only eighty cents a pound."

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In fact, the Agricultural College does have greenhouse vegetables, but the quantity is not large. Some are provided in the cafeteria as a welfare, and the teachers distribute some, but there is nothing left.

Besides, there have been greenhouses since ancient times, and there is also the saying that mallows can warm leeks. Of course, people today are not left behind. Some people have been doing greenhouse cultivation for a long time.

Their agricultural college only set up greenhouse cultivation for the purpose of testing and letting students practice their skills.

However, although the off-season vegetables on the market are expensive now, many people are willing to buy them, some for the sake of appetite, and some for the sake of face.

Xiao Hong felt that if her stepfather was still farming at home, she would also suggest that they grow greenhouse vegetables. Although it requires a little investment in the early stage, the benefits in the later period are really good.
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