jdhmnovel Chapter 557: This kind of happy event must be known to the whole village!
Chapter 557: This kind of happy event must be known to the whole village!
At noon on December 12, Zhou Jiahua, Zhou Jiafu, Zhou Jiaguang and their wives and children returned to Zhoujiawan.
As soon as Zhou Qingze's group of children got home, they were attracted by the color TV and stood in front of it motionless.
Zhou's father and mother didn't expect them to work, and they were very happy that their grandchildren could come back.
Zhou's father instructed Zhou Jiahua, Zhou Jiafu, Zhou Jiaguang, Zhou Qinghong and others to borrow tables, chairs and benches from various houses, and then to post couplets and hang lanterns.
Xie Cuilian, Chen Moli and Xiao Jingjing helped Zhou's mother to make the beds in each room so that everyone could rest at night.
No one assigned Zhou Rong any work, so she just stayed outside chatting with the kitchen helpers.
There are many men in Zhoujiawan who can prepare big banquets. Whenever there is a wedding or funeral in a family, they will help out. All they need to do is give them a few packs of cigarettes afterwards. The host who knows how to entertain will also give them some red envelopes according to their own conditions.
We are all relatives, so no matter how much is in the red envelope, no one will say anything. But if a family is too stingy, we will have less contact with them.
The kitchen helpers are usually women who have a good relationship with the host family, or their own daughters or daughters-in-law.
Zhou's father and mother are popular in the village, and the villagers also benefit a lot from Zhou Rong. It is rare to have a wedding at home, so everyone comes to help.
Zhou Rong, Xie Cuilian, Chen Moli, Xiao Jingjing and others, who should have been busy all the time, ended up having less time because they had too many helpers.
Zhou Rong bought a lot of cigarettes and candies from the provincial capital. She gave a pack of cigarettes and a handful of candies to each helper, regardless of whether they were male or female. Everyone benefited from this and worked even harder...
In the afternoon, a film projectionist came to Zhou's father's house on his bicycle and said that Zhou Gui and Zhou Cai had entrusted him to show two movies to celebrate the completion of the new house.
Zhou Gui and Zhou Cai have to go to the municipal government for a meeting today and can only come back tomorrow. Knowing that Zhou's father is very concerned about his reputation, they discussed and contacted the township government in advance, hoping to arrange for a projectionist to show a movie in Zhoujiawan on the evening of December 12-19, and the fee will be delivered by the postman.
At present, the cost of showing a movie in the countryside is 120 yuan. Zhoujiawan has made good profits in recent years. During the New Year, projectionists are invited to show movies. The same is true for other villages in Shengli Village.
Villagers in those villages that don’t have the money to show movies will run to villages that can watch movies. At the end of every year, the entire Shengli Village is the busiest.
Zhou's father didn't expect that Zhou Gui and Zhou Cai would arrange people to show movies. This kind of happy event must be known to the whole village!
Zhou's father instructed Zhou Jiaguang, who had just returned with an octagonal table, to inform the villagers that their family would treat everyone to a movie tonight and tomorrow night.
Because the power supply is unstable now, Zhou's father is worried about a sudden power outage at night. His daughter and grandchildren are not used to it, and it will also affect the movie playback effect.
When the village was showing a movie before, there was a power outage in the middle of the show. The projectionist used his own diesel engine and it took him a long time to get the screen lit up again, which caused a lot of complaints.
Zhou's father didn't want his daughter to spend money and be blamed, so he asked Zhou's mother to get 200 yuan for Zhou Jiahua and asked him to go to the township government and book the Zhoujiawan route for two days and two nights.
In order to meet everyone's demand for electricity at certain times and generate income at the same time, the township government has formulated a rule that if you want to ensure that there are no power outages, you can pay to reserve the entire line.
For this electric line from the township government to Zhoujiawan, a payment of 100 yuan can ensure uninterrupted power supply for a day and a night.
During the contract period, as long as the villages share this line, there will be no power outages, and other villages will have to rely on luck...
Today's living standards are much better than in previous years. Whenever there are weddings or funerals at home, there will be a 1-2 day banquet. Guests will stay overnight and everyone will gather together to play cards to kill time.
If the host family does not want their house to suddenly become "dark", they will usually contact the township government in advance to book the lines so that their relatives can be in a good mood.
Some children want to do their homework under electric lights or watch TV. They wish there would be weddings every day so that they can buy power lines so that there won’t be power outages at home.
After drinking a glass of water at Zhou's father's house, the projectionist began to set up the equipment for showing movies. Zhou's father's yard was limited in area, and the screen was not easy to fix, so he could only show the movie in front of the ancestral hall as usual, where there was a large space and people from the whole village could go to watch. The movies that Zhou Gui and Zhou Caiding showed were "Shaolin Temple" released in 82 and "Furong Town" released this year.
As soon as Zhou Jiaguang spread the information about the two movies, some children brought their own stools to the ancestral hall to reserve seats.
"Shaolin Temple" was shown once in Zhoujiawan, but the children still like to watch it. "Furong Town" was just released not long ago, so everyone hasn't seen it yet and is looking forward to it.
After dinner, all the men, women, and children in the village gathered at the ancestral hall, all sighing that Zhou's father and mother were lucky to have three filial and promising daughters. The eldest daughter helped the family buy several thousand yuan worth of home appliances, and the second and third daughters treated everyone to a movie. It would be great if they could share a little bit of such blessings...
On the morning of the 20th, Jiang Yiming drove a jeep and took his parents and Zhou Cai back to Zhoujiawan.
Jiang Jiacheng is in the army, Jiang Jiaxin is in Pengcheng, Jiang Jiawen and Jiang Lijun are studying in other cities and cannot make it back.
Since Shen Shanqi and Shen Shanrui were working in other places and had no time to attend the banquet, Zhou Gui rented a taxi and went back to Zhoujiawan with her husband and parents-in-law.
Xu Man, Wang Chengnan, Chen Zhan Ning, Nini, Zhou Qingping and others brought their children and chartered three taxis back.
Shen Qingran, Zhou Xiao, Zhou Qin and Zhou Wei also returned to Zhoujiawan with their husbands and children.
Jiangcheng's summer is like a furnace, and the winter is cold and windy. Xu Hanqi didn't want his wife and children to suffer, so he bought a Santana for more than 18 yuan. There are cheaper cars now, such as Jiefang brand cars for 6.4 yuan, Jeep 212 for more than 5 yuan, and sedans for 8 yuan.
Xu Hanqi felt that the more expensive the car, the more it reflected his love for his wife and children, so he bought the most expensive Santana...
Zhou Xiao, Zhou Qin and Zhou Wei only earn a few dozen yuan a month and cannot afford a car. Even motorcycles worth thousands of yuan are something they covet.
They, their husbands and children, came back on a truck that was carrying vegetables from the village to the city.
Zhou Xiao's husband Xue Quan saw that other people went out either by taxi or car, but they had to hitchhike.
He whispered to Zhou Xiao: "Ask your aunt later whether we made a profit or loss this year on the money we invested. If we did, can we withdraw all the money? I want to buy a motorcycle."
When Zhou Xiao and Xue Quan just got married, they didn't know the importance of saving money. They just went to experience anything delicious or fun when they saw it. Later, two children were born and the expenses increased, so it became even more difficult to save money. They only had 200 yuan of spare money to invest in Zhou Rong.
Zhou Xiao glared at Xue Quan and said unhappily, "Last year's profit was 70%. Even if it doubles this year, plus our 200 yuan capital, we still can't buy back the wheel of your motorcycle!
If you want to buy a car, just quit smoking and save the money. If you save for a few years, maybe you can buy one.”
Xue Quan: “…”