Chapter 7 seven

The so-called "send off" refers to the banquet held by the natal family when a woman gets married.When did this custom begin in this town?How many generations has it been passed down?No one has ever studied it, not even Han Xuanzi knew about it.However, most people in the mountains do not know that this is a big event: people who treat guests are respectable, and those who are treated are honorable.Slowly, this matter evolved and became an opportunity for people to communicate with each other.Needless to say, old relatives and old friends, three friends and four friends, neighbors in the neighborhood.Whoever comes and who doesn't, can distinguish people's status, high and low, seriousness, closeness and distance.The Han family did not plan to reserve seats for Wang Cai, Baldy, and Gou Yu when they entertained guests this time.The rumor soon spread throughout the town.Supporters applauded Han Xuanzi's actions loudly; opponents kept sighing that Han Xuanzi's actions were too damaging.After Baldy and Gousheng found out, they panicked.They were scolded by their wives respectively, complaining that their men were looked down upon by others, and they couldn't get ahead of others.The two were disturbed, and naturally they still played at home, which caused the wives to suffer a lot.The wife had been beaten, but the panic was still there. She wanted to go to the Han family to explain the situation and get an understanding, but she was afraid that Han Xuanzi would not be able to step down on the spot, which would make the villagers ridicule.The two of them got together, and they met each other and talked about their distress, and then they became angry and said through gritting their teeth:

"Okay, his family's hospitality is called this, please that, he doesn't treat us as human beings, and we don't need to curry favor with him! We're just like this, can he still kill us?!" After that, the two turned to Wang Cai more and more.As a result, the bald man also asked for a share. Although Wang Cai recognized him as a god-in-law, he understood this person's temperament in his heart. With the power of kindness, he threatened him, so he stammered and said that he didn't want him.Later, Gousheng came to intercede, and Wang Cai said: "Brother Gousheng, do you want Baldy to come so that I can give you more companions?"

Gousheng said: "That's what it means. To put it bluntly, your brother is capable. In this village, even Everyone in this town knows about it.But having said that, none of us brothers are powerful figures, if we can't get on the serious table, who would favor us?Now that the processing plant is set up, you buy shares here, and recruit people, but how many people are there in our village and town?There are no relatives of a hundred years, but neighbors of a thousand years; since he is bald, why is he turned away?The bald man is the same as me, didn't he offend the old man of the Han family because of you, otherwise, who would dare to turn to you in the future? "

Wang Cai said: "I'm not afraid to say ugly words. Some people are like this. They can't see other people are rich. I, Wang Cairen, have not been a hero for several generations. I used to be poor or poor, but I am not a stealthy person. In the past few years, thanks to the good national policies, I have a few dollars of money, and some people hate me. Can I not know about this? As for the old man of the Han family, he is an elder, and he has been a teacher for me , I have always respected him, he has some prejudices against me, I am not to blame, well water does not disturb the river water, I think he can't do anything to me."

Gousheng said: "You're in trouble, let me ask you, Erbei's sister is on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to see off and entertain guests, and they will nominate you to go!" Wang Cai said: "Not at all. No matter how the old man of the Han family treats me, we can still talk about Erbai and Baiyin. When I started the processing factory, Erbei gave me a lot of ideas." In the end, Wang Cai firmly believed that Han Xuanzi would not reject him when he entertained guests. Since ancient times, "it is reasonable not to call a door-to-door guest", not to mention that the neighbors in the same village have no grievances or enmity! As for the bald son's shareholding, Wang Cai finally reluctantly agreed .

The processing factory recruited four more men and women in the town one after another.Wang Cai then demolished the original courtyard wall, built a new wall, surrounded the four newly purchased public houses, set up an oil pan, installed a tin chopping board, and filled it with noodle boxes, sugar boxes, and oil drums. And rows of food shelves, food processing and production are carried out with great fanfare.He has almost no time to ask about everything that happened in the village or town, and his mind is full of technical issues, management issues, procurement and sales issues.The business turned out to be very good! In order to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm, on the fifteenth day, they paid the checkout. The most person got 28 yuan and 50 cents, and the least one got 16 yuan.

Fifteen days, this is the number of days that passed in the blink of an eye.Most people just do New Year's goods at home.Or gossiping from door to door; while those in the processing factory put tens or tens of dollars into their pockets.When the news spread, it was like a bomb had exploded, and everyone was talking about it in the streets and alleys. Gousheng and Baldy became proud.Their mouths are more powerful than the propaganda of two newspapers. Wherever they go and talk, they try their best to make this processing factory miraculous.If someone bumps into someone in the village or on the town street, and asks: "What are you doing?" the answer will be: "Go to work!" or: "I just got off work!"The two of them even walked into Gong Desheng's grocery store together to buy wine and drink.Gong Desheng was also taken aback, he couldn't figure out how much money these people who never spend money on drinking put on their bodies?After the wine was served, he asked slowly and tentatively:

"Are you two free today?" Gousheng said: "Come and drink your wine. You have opened the store for two years and haven't contributed a penny to you yet!" Baldy said: "Your business is doing well, I wish you a prosperous financial resources, and you will make a lot of money every day!" The two of them exchanged a few words, so Gong Desheng didn't know what to say.After drinking for a morning, the bald man asked again: "Uncle Desheng, when will you close for get off work?" Gong Desheng said: "What kind of system is this, and we still pay attention to going to and from get off work?!"

Asked again: "Based on your business, how much can you earn in a day?" Reply: "How much money can I drop? Ten or eight yuan, after digging the book, not much." Gousheng and Baldy laughed and said that they would open such a store in a year or two.Baldy also said: "Ha, if you open it for a month, it can't keep up with the profit of Wang Cai's factory for a day. The old man of the Han family often comes to drink, why don't you let him also help you set up a one-person processing factory?" Gong Desheng was ridiculed, and felt very unhappy, secretly cursed: "These bastards who have never seen the world!" He stopped talking.However, seeing the dog left and the bald man enter the shop to drink, the tracheitis wandering around the street also moved in.He had no money to drink, so he just sat and listened to the three of them talking, and finally said:

"Brother Bald, do you still need someone from Wang Cai's factory?" Baldy said: "Do you want to go? Of course I need someone!" When Gong Desheng heard the words of tracheitis, he cursed again in his heart: "This kid also sees that his eyes are open, and he is going to seek refuge with Wang Cai!" Then he interjected: "They want you? They want you to catch bronchitis!" One sentence made tracheitis turn his face, and cursed: "The old man spews dung all over his mouth!" The two sides quarreled, and Gong Desheng took the opportunity to point fingers and scold Huai:

"You dog-like thing, what are you doing in my store? You don't even pee on your face! How much money do you have? What kind of bag do you burn? Just wait, there will be someone to clean you up !" Gousheng and Baldy also heard that there was something in Gong Desheng's words, so they stood up to block the fight.When the old and the young moved their hands and feet, Gong Desheng's mute son came out fiercely and beat Gousheng and Baldy as well.These two people took advantage of the wine and went crazy, overturned the table, the wine jug, wine jug, wine bowl, wine cup, dish, meat plate, all smashed into pieces.The jujube stone woman has no strength in her feet, but she has kung fu in her hands. She scratched the faces of tracheitis, bald man, and dog leftovers to bleed, and her shirt was also torn. It was so dark that the mosquitoes couldn't open their eyes. In the end, they cried and howled endlessly.Gong Desheng came to Han Xuanzi to complain. This is the evening of the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.Han Xuanzi was just buying a big pig's head that weighed 13 jin and 2 liang, and was singeing it with a branding iron on the brazier. Hearing Gong Desheng's cry, he immediately dropped the pig's head, wiped it with a pair of oily hands on a rag, and went to the commune compound. That same night, Zhang Wugan from the commune went to the grocery store, and the Zaohe woman showed him broken items one by one.Of course, this woman also took out several broken bowls and jars from her previous home, with snot and tears begging Zhang Wugan, the "Master of Qingtian", to "be the master of the people". Zhang Wuqian asked people to call Gousheng, Baldy, and Bronchitis.After Gousheng and Baldy finished fighting, they went to work in the processing factory.As soon as he heard Zhang Wuqian's cry, he knew that something good had happened, so he told Wang Cai what had happened, but Wang Cai didn't listen, Yixin was startled and angry, and just said "I don't live up to it!" and walked away.When the two arrived at the grocery store, Zhang Wuqian asked and answered, not daring to act unreasonably, and finally judged: All the losses of Gong Desheng will be compensated by Gou Sheng and the other three according to the price.The compensation fee was shared equally among the three people, fifteen yuan each, and the payment was limited to the next morning. An accident caused Gousheng and Baldy to lose 80% of their 15-day wages. They were so annoyed! When they got home, they beat their wives again.The bald man had a good appetite, and even more when he was angry, he ate half a catty of noodles in one go.After the meal, the two got together again and told that it was all due to Wang Cai's loss. Imagine: If Han Xuanzi and Wang Cai were of one mind, how could he help Gong De win like this?So he complained that he shouldn't have gone to Wang Cai's processing factory.But it is already impossible to please Han Xuanzi again, not to mention where did he get the fifteen yuan.After much deliberation, the only option is to go to Wang Cai's processing factory.So I worked in the processing factory for three consecutive days and three nights, and didn't stop until the afternoon of New Year's Eve. There is no place to make money for tracheitis, so he had to cry and find Han Xuanzi again, saying a thousand words about himself, but Han Xuanzi deliberately said: "Don't you want to earn money from Wang Cai? You go there to earn fifteen yuan and pay it to others." bronchitis says: "Han Bo, will people want me? Last time I transferred the public house to you, Wang Cai hated me to death, can I still go? Who is he? Even if I beg for food, I won't ask him Go up to the house!" Han Xuanzi also had nothing to do with this kind of person, and finally said: "You go back, I'll tell Gong Desheng that you're so pitiful, I won't let you pay the money; he also saw a profit of more than ten yuan, and it's all because he didn't open for business for a day." Tracheitis wished that he would say this, thank you very much at once, and on the day he said "send the way", he would definitely come to help divide the firewood. If he couldn't divide the firewood, he would help find a table, a stool, and buy a bunch of firecrackers to fry. Put the fried ground at the gate of the courtyard! Han Xuanzi handled this matter very comfortably.Although he didn't come out publicly, he dealt with people like Gousheng and Bald.The purpose of rectifying these people is Wang Cai, he wants this little man to know how powerful he is.On the second day after the incident, he wore a sheepskin coat and walked around the streets of the town, even deliberately passing by Wang Cai's house.He really wanted to see Wang Cai at this time, but Wang Cai didn't go out. Wang Cai also understood that the handling of this matter was aimed at him, and he was very distressed.What puzzled him was that after running a processing factory by himself, his income increased day by day, but his popularity seemed to decrease inversely proportionally, and people in the village were not so close to him.At night, he often sleeps on the kang to check himself: Is it because he doesn't pay attention to the relationship with the masses, has he mistreated the villagers in any way?No.Is it a violation of national policy to run this processing plant by yourself?It was clearly written in the newspaper that this kind of work was encouraged! He was very distressed, and felt that when 80% of the people were not yet rich, how great the resistance would be for one person to get rich first! "Why should I run this kind of processing plant? Is it just for me?" He Ask his wife, ask his children, "Just for our family, I have enough money to eat and drink. There are so many people in the village who don't do anything else except farming; if they have food to eat, they must have money." Flowers! Setting up such a processing plant can relieve a lot of people's money, but why do some people hate me so much?!" He began to think that if he had money, he would do more good things for the villagers and townspeople.He even imagined that one day, he could subsidize a sum of money and give it to commune schools, or pave the roads of the town streets with cement.But this idea, he has not been able to do it for a while, he has to buy more factory equipment, and he has to have capital turnover.The only thing he can do is to set up a Shehuo core by himself during the Spring Festival.But this request was rejected.On the evening of the New Year's Eve, he planned to arrange a movie at home and show it in the west field of the town street to congratulate all the villagers on the Spring Festival.this, he can pass Anyone can deal with it directly by negotiating with the film projection team of the commune. What else can he say, Han Xuanzi? As soon as Han Xuanzi was mentioned, he couldn't figure it out: such a prestigious old man, why can't he tolerate him as a king!?However, in this town, Han Xuanzi is Han Xuanzi, and his king has no power to contend with him; he still has to try his best to get close to him and win his sympathy, understanding and support.Therefore, no matter what, he would not argue with Han Xuanzi face to face. He still firmly believed that people's hearts are made of flesh, and one day Han Xuanzi would know that his king is not a wicked person. However, on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, when Er Bei Niang went door-to-door in the village to ask everyone to "send the way", he had already prepared food and wine at home, and he would treat Er Bei Niang warmly when she came.But it wasn't until midnight that Er Bei Niang didn't come, that he realized that they really didn't invite him. He never drank alcohol, so he couldn't fall asleep in the middle of the night, got up and drank a couple of ounces, and was so drunk that he vomited all over the floor.When I got up at dawn, I took 30 yuan by myself, went to the film projection team of the commune, and asked for a movie, and watched the projectionist write the posters with my own eyes. As soon as the poster was posted, Bai Yin saw it first, ran home and shouted to his mother in the yard: "Mom, there's a movie tonight. Let's eat dinner early. I'll get a stool for us to occupy the space!" My mother is illiterate, but she is interested in watching movies. Of course, she also likes to say to her little daughter: "You go to Baigou, call your sister and your brother-in-law, let them come and see it, it's rare to watch a movie in that place." Han Xuanzi heard about it in the hall and asked: "what movie?" Silver says: "Look at This Family!" Han Xuanzi said: "A toothless movie! What's the point of watching it again?" Silver says: "Look at the cheap ones. They were bought by Wang Cai's family." "Did he pack it? Does his family have any weddings and ceremonies? Do you want to book a movie?" Han Xuanzi said, "Don't go at night, I like to watch cheap movies so much! If you don't have money, I'll give you the money, 15 cents, you buy a ticket and sit down." Go see it in the cinema!" Bai Yin didn't dare to reply, but whispered: "A movie is a movie, and Wang Cai is not the protagonist in it! Besides, if we don't go, no one will watch this movie?" Fortunately, Han Xuanzi didn't hear this.He sat at home for a while and then went out. He went straight to Gong Desheng's shop.Thanks to his great efforts, Gong Desheng punished Gou Sheng and Bald Zi, and when he saw him, he was so courteous.Han Xuanzi said: "How about it, in the past two days, is the dog left and the bald man still disturbing?" "No." Gong Desheng said, "As long as he has money, let him come. If he breaks another wine cup for me, I will break a wine urn myself!" Han Xuanzi laughed: "Shouldn't you be celebrating?" Gong Desheng said: "Of course, half a catty." Han Xuanzi said: "I don't drink your wine. If you want to be serious, you can enlarge your hands and arrange a movie for everyone in the town to watch, so as to promote your reputation." Gong Desheng was in a dilemma: "Include a movie? Thirty yuan a game!" "You're just picking money!" Han Xuanzi looked down on him, "If you lose your reputation, everyone will come to bully you, let alone thirty yuan, you won't even be able to run a store. Do you know? Wang Cai suffered a loss this time, so he even booked a movie, look at how vicious he is! Tonight when his movie is shown, everyone in the town speaks well of him, and in turn, he will send you out!" Gong Desheng pondered for a long time, and followed Han Xuanzi's idea, just worried, Wang Cai made one, and he made another one. People will not come to watch this pair of Taiwanese movies! Han Xuanzi said: "As long as you make bread, I guarantee that your audience will be more than his!" Han Xuanzi went to the screening team in person to ask if there are any good films out there recently.Seeing that it was Han Xuanzi, the projectionist said that there was "Shaolin Temple", which was fiercely fought. It was originally planned to be screened on the third night of the first lunar month. If you have an evening package, please be sure to show "Shaolin Temple". result.For Taiwan movies, one is on the west side of the town street and the other is on the east side of the town street.The people in the town first learned that Wang Cai's family had arranged for the movie, and they sat in a crowd at the Xitou venue in the middle of the afternoon, but then they heard that Gong Desheng's family had arranged for "Shaolin Temple" to be screened at the Dongtou venue. After ten rumors, most people carried their stools to Dongtou venue again. Erbei and Baiyin knew that their father was behind the scenes, and they were very dissatisfied.When it got dark, we naturally went to watch "Shaolin Temple" for a while. Taking advantage of the chaos, the young couple went to watch "Look at This Family" again.As soon as he arrived on the field, he ran into Wang Cai. Wang Cai was so excited that he grabbed Erbei's hand and said: "Good brother, it's good that you're here! It's good that you're here!" Just took out a good cigarette and handed it over. Er Bei felt very sympathetic to Wang Cai, and the two left the movie set, squatting in the shadows beside the set and talking.Er Bei said: "Brother Wang Cai, my father is old and has a lot of old ideas. Some places have gone too far. You don't mind?" Wang Cai said: "Brother, where did you go! I, Wang Cai, dare to get angry with Han Bo? I can think about anything, and I can think about anything. When is the date for the girl to 'send off'?'' Er Bei said: "The fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Originally, I advocated that no one in the village should call, but my father likes to be lively and save face, so he insisted that anyone who can come should come. No, it cost a lot, and all the money I saved was spent, but then The money for drinks and cigarettes is still there!" Wang Cai said: "I didn't see my aunt tell me, I'm so embarrassed, should I go or not? Don't go, I'm sorry, go, and I'm afraid that Uncle Han will be unhappy, but it's meaningless. If I say this in front of you, I won't do anything." That's it." Er Bei said: "As people get older, their thoughts are different from ours. It's fine if you don't go. How is the processing factory recently?" Wang Cai said: "The daily output is not bad, and the market is also good. Some of them are in short supply. What worries me now is that it is difficult to purchase oil, sugar, and flour. It has been hard for me these few days. I rode my bike and ran around in the dark." Er Bei said: "You should make a report to the commune and ask them to report to the county. There are not many individual processing factories like yours in the county. Can it be included in the national supply index? That way, it will save a lot of trouble and guarantee production." Wang Cai slapped his thigh and shouted: "Good brother, you are really a teacher! Why didn't you say it earlier, what a good idea! I will have to ask you for advice in the future! But will the commune submit my report?" Er Bei said: "Go to my father, don't worry about what he says, we just want to get things done. I'll beat the side drums at home. If it doesn't work, let's find a way." Wang Cai said dejectedly: "Okay, I'll find Uncle Han once." Before they broke up, Wang Cai gave Erbei 40 yuan, saying that he knew that Erbei's family was going to entertain guests, so he spent the same amount of money.Er Bei was determined not to accept it, so Wang Cai said: "Brother. I'm not flattering you. It's all because I lent it to you. If you don't accept it, my king is not a decent person with you! Take it and don't let Han Bo know." In the movie theater in the distance, there are some audiences sitting sparsely.It's midnight, and a few stars are shining in the sky.The appearance of the stars seems to indicate the darkness, and the night is getting thicker and darker.However, at about this time, the sound of firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new rang out from people near and far. Beep! Beep! There was a deafening explosion. Soil bombs. Erbei took the money.